Gives Birth In A Plane
Mr. Darinka Parker. Yugoslav wife of U.S. Army Master Sergeant James C. Parker of New York, is seen in Ennis County Hospital.. County Clare. Tegland, with the baby son born to her 400 miles off Shannon Airport in an American Overseas Airlines Constellation bound
from" New York to Frankfurt, Germany, where her husband is stationed. She was aided at the birth by a fellow passenger, Dr. Fred Henschel, of New York, and the stewardess, Mary Jane Hinckley, of Melville, New Jersey. Mr Parker will name the baby Mindṛag~~~~(Asso- ciated Press Photo).
BRITISH CONSUMER ASKED TO ACCEPT LESS VARIETY
London, October 31.
British consumers are to be asked to accept less variety in the goods they buy to help the export drive.
A top-level team representing British industry, reporting today on a study tour it made of United States industry last summer, called on British manufacturers to stop worrying about giving the customer a wide choice Concentration
on a few ferentials. Advertising and sales i Standardised
products. the method was directed to boosting team reported, will boost total the standardised product. production and cut costs, giv ing ultimate advantage to pro- ducer and consumer.
The team was sent to Amerien by the Anglo-American Council on Productivity ló study how far simplification and Standardization
queressful there.
bad been
was headed by Major-General J.
S. Crawford, Vice-President of the Society of
Ample Scope
The team believes that the American public likes this way.
"We believe that the con- sumer appreciates and expects the advantages of lower
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and greater availability so ob. tained," it stated.
And it believes that the Bri- Mator Manufor-tish consumer can be persuaded turers and Traders, and the Give to appreciate standardisation. other members included the tech. "We are nical director of the Federation levn home market offers ample of British Industries.
scope for similar development.
convinced that
our
Its report describes the team's "The consumer benefits through findings in New York, Washingtower prices and readier avail- ton. Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleve- ability of supplies." land, Pittsburgh and Schenectady. At a diesel-electric locomotive plant it found that simplification had contributed to holding prices stable between 1939 and 1945. when material ests jumped 41 per cent, and labour costs 111 per cent
The team reported that in the United States there was co liberate discouragement of any demand for variety by price dif-
EGYPT PLANNING SHAKE-UP
Cairo, October 31.
Egypt is planning changes among her diplomatic repre- sentatives in Europe, the well informed "La Bourse Egypt ienne" reported.
It quoted informed sources as saving that planned changes in- clude:
Appointment of Aly Chawki Bey, Counsellor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to be Minis ter Plenipotentiary at the Egypt- ian Embassy, Paris.
Promotion of Albert Mansour Bey, Counsellor to the London Embassy, to Minister Plenipoten tiary.
Nomination of Adly Andráss Bey, former Director of the European Administration of the Royal Cabinet, as Minister Pieni- potentiary in Greece.
Transfer of Iskandar el Wahabi Bey, Minister to Holland, to
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imilar post in Austria
Transfer of Mohamed-Aly el
al
where he
Sadek, Charge d'Affaires Vienna, to Holland
would be. Minister Plenipoten tlary
Transfer of Anis Azer Bey, Minister to Athens, to a similar post in Moscow."
Nomination Bey, Counsellor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to be Charge
of
d'Affaires at Lisbon
Appointment of
*
Hassan Aziz
Charge
d'Affaires to the legation in South Africa. He ・好き not named.
Transfer of Ahmed - · Fathy Plakkad Bey Minister to
tugal, to Belgrade
Por-
Transfer of Aly Fahmy el "Amroussi" Bey, Charge d'Anaires in Saudi, o Bucharest.-Associat-
ed Press.
The team states its belief that in Britain. "there are fex, if any. firms which cannot benefit from simplification." It urges each in- dustry to launch a survey of the extent to which effort is being dissipated on undue variety" and to organise a constant exchange of information on how simplifica- tion and standardisation har led to greater achievement.
Controversial Section
One section of the report may prove controversial here.
It points out that Britain ex- ports a far greater proportion vi some products than does
the
United States, and "the demands of export markets are, therefore, of much greater significance in considering reduction of variety
France Not Making The Atom Bomb
to-
Paris. October -31...... The French Atomic Energy Commission announced night that it iz producing plutonium, an artificial cle- ment which
made can be from uranium and used in atom bombs, but the Com- mission denied that it intend- ed producing enough to make 10 atom bombs a year.
The announcement - from the office of Professor Joliot
Atomic Curie, the
Energy Commissioner, followed a re- the evening news- port in paper, "France Soir," that "plutonium factory" was to be set up South East of Paris and that an
output of 10 bombs a year was planned.
"All reporta concerning the ulterior plans of the Com- mission' are entirely without foundation," the Commission declared-Reuter.
THE CHINA · MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1949.
BRITAIN ATTACKS
RUSSIANS POLICY This is
Lake Success, October 31.
Mr. Hector McNeil, the British Minister of State, today accused the Soviet Union of making Greece "tool of Soviet föreign policy with a cynical and an immioral disregard for the sufferings and aspirations of the Greek people."
Speaking in the United Nations Political Com~ mittee on the Soviet proposal for "settling" the Balkans issue, Mr. McNeil made these points:
PREMIER RECEIVES REPORT
London, October 31. The Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, has received the report. of a special com- mittee which has been in- General amnesty: "This is } "It cannot be imposed it can vestigating the activities of at the incontact men," it was learned very desirable but it seems enly be undertaken
vitations
Government the
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to me that it is primarily a concerned, Now the Greek Gas-today. matter for the Greek Governement may And it desirable to The Committee was set up as ment to decide when they are have international approval for a result of last year's judicial en- in a position to grant such re- any new clestions, but it is not quiry into allegations of corrup¬ laxations of security measures for me nor for Mr. Vyshinsky to tion in Government departments.
a course 愆 25 are consistent with securi- suggest such
the at which Sydney Starley, now in Greek Government"
Israel, was key witness. 13"
"I doubt i Mr. Vyshinsky would appreciate the Assembly recommending to the Soviet Gov erment that they should want an amnesty to some of the politi cal prisoners' which, for doubt- less the best reasons, he has been instrumental in committing prison."
to
Joint
A Violation
Commissione There was, already the United Nations Balkans Commission, designed to control the frontiers be. tween Greece and her Noc- thern neighbours.
The Soviet Union and Poland
Mr. John Belcher, former Par- liamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, who, also gave evidence at the enquiry, resigned his Government afice during the proceedings and later his seat in Parliament
discover
The Prime Minister's special committee was told to how far outside people Meetings: "I am sure that the had seats on the Commission, but making a business of acting as Greek Government will, in due refused to participate in its work intermediaries between Govern course, announce 1 intention of
For all these reasons the So-especially in submitting applica- ment departments and the public, holding free elections." Mr. Moviet proposals regarding a Bal-tions for licences and permits. Neil, however, emphasised that kans settlement were unaccep-
owing to the hostilities the pre table. Mr. MeNell declared. They It was asked to report on whe- sent Greek electoral rolls were were a violation of that article}ther such activities were liable to "hopelessly out of date" and of the Charter which forbåde { give rise to abuse and to make
would be re- interference in the domestic recommendations.
affairs of States.
serious revisions quired, before genuine elections could be held.
Dealing with the Balkans Com- On the Soviet demand
that mission's report on border in circles" should beeldents, Mr. McNeil said that it "dercocratic included in the
Greek contained ample evidence of the electoral body. Mr. Me- Nell moral or material aid given to sald that it Wis obviously the Greek guerillas by Bulgaria,' the intention of the Soviet Union Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Ru- to put into "Tegal opposition" mania and, particularly, Albania. those rebels who had failed to Reuter- overthrow the Greek Government Illegally.
Not. Entitled
"Their record of illegal op- position does not entitle them to their place in legal opposi tion," he declared,
Mr. Vyshinsky had also asked that the elections be supervised ly representatives of the Great Powers, including the Soviet
Union.
Mr McNeil said that in 1946
THEODOR HEUSS IN BERLIN
Berlin, October 31 Professor Theodor Heuss, Pre- sident of West Germany, on bis first official visit to Berlin, today told a cheering crowd of 100,000 that Berlin would again be the capital of a united Germany some day.
which
Mr. Attlee has yet to decide whether or not to publish the report of the committee. included former and a trade union representative. -Router.
"civil”. servants'
SOUTH AMERICA WANTS AID
30
New York, October 31. Dr. Maurice Nabuco, the Brazilian Ambassador to Wa- shington, today urged the United States to grant finan- aid to Latin American cial countries.
Addressing the American Na- Foreign tional Convention Trades.
Dr Nabuco · described Latin America as "about the anis Professor Heuss, addressing a part of the world which is now rally outside the City Hall, in stable". the United States sector, said, He said that the United States "We have all sorts of difficulties and Brazilian Governments were in the West. We have the occupavery near to a satisfactory solu- tion statute, economic problems; tion of plans for reciprocal agree- and the Ruhr problem but we ments guaranteeing loans The reason for that. attitude have no concentration camps exchange of investments.”—Bou-
ter. was that at that time a different Reuter. kind of election”. was to take place in Bulgaria and Rumania and Mr. Vyshinsky did not want Allicl'observers to see what went
the Soviet-Union was invited to supervise the Greek elections but had-refused-to-participate on-the- grounds that it was opposed in principle to the supervision of national elections by foreign States"
Mr. McNeil said the "imposed supervision" of elections wa new precedent in the diplomatic history of free independent coun- tries."
Bethlehem Steel Strike Settled
Cleveland, October 31.
CIO President Philip Murray tonight announced the settlement of the steel workers strike against Bethlehem Steel Corporation on the basis of a $100 monthly pension agreement for 80,000 workers.
Mr. Murray said an agree-fdustrial peace in the steel indu
in the products of British indusment had been reached but by generally at 2. very early
try than they are in America."
suaded export customers to take But the Americans had per- the standard "home" product by "hard selling" of the advantages of such a course and the team suggests that, British exporters might follow this course.
details of the terms. delayed an explanation of the
date.
Mr. Ching said that Bethlehen and the steel workers have de- He said he would give the demonstrated that in a free' indus- tails at a news conference later, trial -society employers and
It was the first break in the unions, using voluntary proce month-old walk-out in the na-dures and avoiding the necessity tion's steel industry.
of their Government employing
Hitherto, exporters here have been urged to style their pro-
In Washington, the Govern- coercive measures, can settle their ducts specially for the exportment mediator, Cyrus S. Ching, own disputes, however wide the markets, particularly when these expressed hope that the Bethle- differences between them · may are in North America.-Reuter. hem settlement would lead to in- be-Associated Press.
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