BRITISH DIPLOMACY FOCUSSING ON EAST Policy Decisions To Be Made At Colombo
COMMONWEALTH TALKS
London, November 14.
The focus of British diplomacy moved further toward the Orient today with the announcement of a projected meeting of Com- monwealth Ministers in Ceylon.
The Foreign Office said an invitation was received from the Government of Ceylon for the Foreign Ministers to meet in Colombo early next year.
A spokesman added: “It is receiving sympathetic consideration here.”
CLASH IN
DANUBE MEETING
With the Paris conference! He added that the Foreign on Germany behind it, the Secretary and the United States biggest questions of foreign Acheson, had agreed in their
Secretary of State, Mr. Dean policy for Britain now lies in cent Washington talks that *He the Far East.
time had come for this.
These include
Comizu-
(a) Recognition of nist China, expected within a matter of weeks, to protect British investments and normalise rela-
re-
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1948.
Speculation On General Election
London, November 14. Specslation on a February or March general election de- minated discussion In Parlia« mentary quarters tonight. reports of a proposed Gov- ernment "deal" with the House of Lords, postponing operation of the Bill to na- tionalise keel.
it is generally believed that the Government will agree to defer the Bill until the next Parliament only if this helps to advance election pre- parations.
The War Minister, Mr.. Emanuel Shinwell, generally regarded as one of the La. bour Party's shrewdest 'semors of election probabill- ties, estimated in an Inter- view tonight that Labour should get a majority of from 60 to 100 seats at the next election.
"I think the majority will be quite safe to carry us on for another five years."- Reutes
ECONOMIC FIGHT WARNING
RECOGNITION
OF REDS MAY
BE DEFERRED
London, November 14. Recognition of the Peking Government may be de
ferred for a considerable time despite general agreement among interested powers that the Communist regime is in to stay and will eventually dominate all of China, This is according to well-informed sources" today.
From the British view. point the most significant feature of the past few weeks in Peking was the openly acknowledged spread of Rus- sian influence since the ar- rival of the Soviet Ambas- sador, General Roschin.
Informed sources said there ap pears to be little likelihood now that the Peking regime will do viate from the orthodox Soviet party line with extreme principles that could make unconditional de jure recognition not only in effectual but probably costly te
the Western powers.
is in
in prospect.
is
TALKS ON GERMAN SHIPPING
London, November 14 A Foreign Office spokesman disclosed this evening that the three-power Allied Expert Committee on Germany's merchant marine met in Lon- don today for the first time for more than two months. The conviction is said to be According to a usually reliable growing that the Peking regime source, the Committee has receiv- has a definite policy of driving ed fresh instructions from the Big foreign industrial and trading Three Foreign Ministers follow- projects from China. Pro-Russian ling their Paris meeting last week. elements are said to be in com- The ministers are understood to plete control thereby directly in- have broken the deadlock in the Buencing policy from Moscow.
Experts Commillee, so that an Informed sources also believe overall agreement on the shipping that a new Sino-Soviet alliance question is expected soon.
Earlier the Committee had cut pointed
that the failed to agree on the choice of a Secretary of the Dairen-Port Ar-date by which the West German thur Communist Party recently Federal Government might be al- said in Harbin that the Chinese lowed to start the construction of
ship of chairman Mao Tse-tung 7200 tons for cargo ships. sign garrisons under the leader agreed limits of 17 knots and must work together with Rus-
5- ja merchant fleet conforming to the
These considerations, informed sources said, all have a direct In Washington the State Depute with India by peaceful' partment is actively considering a
the Russia
the big question whe- tlement could only be made i
will co-operate in In London as another Parlia-the framework of the existing Further, they said, it is necessary making a settlement with Japan. mentary question made clear to policies of the two Governments to ascertain whether the Chinese day, there is no draft. But diplo-
"We shall not devalue
The experts had also been ask- Our Nationalist or Communist regime led to interpret the speed and ton- matic observers here think that
rupee", Ghulam Mohammad de-is to be included in the Japanese nage the 1947 Canberra Conference clared
limit to indicate whether at which Commonwealth repre-
peace conference. "We are fully alive to the efforts
trials were to be carried out with discussed and sentatives
the Far
Meanwhile, it is said that all vessels fully loaded or not On enable of the Indian Government to gang interested powers settlement will present Eastern
will continue this point the Committee had Britain to produce detailed views up against us."
to explore all aspects of a pos- failed to agree-Reuter. Pakistan was a free country sible peace settlement for Japan at very short notice.
able to decide its own economic which might be deterred for a policy and would not be coerced few months yet to give Russia [by my country, he added.
join in-United
Questioned as to whether China would be represented at Karachi, November 14. the conference, Mr. Mayhew
The
Finance Pakistan said, "it is our policy that all the countries which took part in Minister, Ghulam Mohammed, the defeat of Japan should be said here tonight that if it represented.
came to an economic fight be Commenting on Mr. Mayhew's
hew's tween India and Pakistan then statement, a Foreign staleman said that Britain and Pakistan would not be found
(b) Negotiation of a
the United States are indepen- unwilling. peace dently studying the possibilities treaty with Japan, with or withof a Far Eastern peace settlement, the Karachi Chamber of Com Addressing a public meeting of out the concurrence of Russia. but at this stage are not negotiat-merce he said Pakistan wished to Most of the Commonwealth ecun- ing directly with each other. tries are actively interested in this matter, and it is expected to be placed high on the Ceylon cou- ference agenda.
(c) Planning of a campaign to halt Communism in South
Belgrade, November 14. Yugoslavia and Cominformtions with the regime which now delegates clashed at the first holds most of China's important meeting of the new Danube arcas. Commission which opened in Galatz, Rumania, on Satur- day, it was learned here today.
The Belgrade newspaper "Bor- ba" reported that the Yugoslav delegate, Ardosh Yovanovich, des- cribed the way Commission on- cials were being elected as a “vio- lation of basic democratic princi- pies."
M. Yovanovich voted against a Bulgarian proposal, carried by the Sve other members. that the Commission's President, Vice- President and Secretary should be elected by
a show of hands.
He also objected to the election of the Rumanian, Theodor Auden- 20,
as president. He proposed himself instead.
He argued that the greater part of the Middle Danube flowed, through Yugoslavia and that Yu- zostavia
was responsible for ad-! ministering the important Iron Gates near the Yugoslav- Ruma- alan frontier.
Asia.
East
(d) British policy toward the new Indonesian Republic Indo-China, past and trouble spots in the Far East.
Talking It Over
Speedy acceptance
of
the
peace treaty.
Foreign Office Silence
Ceylon Invitation is predicted, Earlier today, the Foreign Office beth in London and in the Com-spokesman refused to comment on monwealth capitals. It will be a Press report that the Foreign the first such meeting of Cam-Ministers of Britain and the monwealth Foreign Ministers United States had agreed to call a cutside London...
conference of all the members of
settle the present economic dis-
bearing on methods, but any reasonable set
He protested against India's action in withholding payments. which was "a lever against un to make us devalue”,
a
chance Press.
to
Paris, November 14. Gerard Silvestri, arguing about) Wales with house-painter boss, Marseilles his
He wamed businessmen present Pite Chetu
the Far Eastern Commission, into be prepared for a time of ten-hair-dresser's shop, drove
in a Both the Foreign Ministers and cluding Russia and Communist the Finance Ministers of the Bri- China, to negotiate a peace treaty advised them not to be scared and slicing off
sion, a time of uncasiness" but point home by seizing a razor tish Commonwealth nations have with Japan. M. Ljubemla Linhart, that the invitation of the British treaty for Japan must be nego
met in London in the past, usually
¡Reuter.
Reuter. The Soviet view is that a peace Czechoslovak delegate, cald that M. Yovanovich was "demanding
tiated only through the Council of
ticipated"
Linhart
M:
Prime Minister.
leaders
special privileges" and was re- Government spokesman said Foreign Ministers. turning to the old convention in such meetings were in line with London observers believe the which the Imperialista had par- the current policy of "talking announcement that Colombo has things over" with Commonwealth invited the Commonwealth powers on maiters of policy to a Far Eastern conference means affecting the whole British Em that no major step either in
calling a pire.
Japanese peace It is not yet certain that theference Dr recognising the Foreign Secretary. Mr. Ernest Chinese Communists will be
President and was cliccted Vice
and M. Morozay of the Sodet. Union, Secretary.
The members of the Commis- sion are Russia, Rumania, Hung- ary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia-Reuter.
CARNIVAL QUEEN THREATENED
Dijon, November 14. A crowd threatened to strip the local carnival queen here. claiming that she had been specially imported from another district and that her election had been "frame"
in
COD-
Bevin, will be able to make the taken before the Colombo session. trip to Ceylon, a Foreign Office The latest date for this men-
tioned in informed
is spokesman said.
the quarters Mr. Bevin is a senior planner second or third week of January. of the British Labour Party and
If it proves possible to convene he may have to stay close to the Colombo conference it is as- London during the carly months sumed here that British
Japan Treaty
f:
recogni❤
of 1950 to help work out general tion of the Feking Government election strategy and keep the will be deferred until after then. The Foreign Office spokestan party's supporters in line. “
refused to comment on press re- conference ports that the recent of British diplomats at Singapore The Foreign Under-Secretary,f Communist China before the recommended British recogation Mr. Christopher Mayhew, told end of the year. Officials succeeded in hustling Parliament today that a krēm "It is believed that Field Mar- the queen to safety but the car- examination of the possibility of a hival broke up in disorder.peare settlement in the Far East" shal Sir William Slim, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, will
aspects of the Far Eastern peace settlement when he visits the
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The three Foreign Ministers | had stipulated that an adequate coastal fleet must be construct- ed before Germany was per- mitted to build ocean going ver- sela.
MacDonald Mission To Indo-China
Saigon, November 14 Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, British Commissioner General for South East Asia, who ar- rived in Saigon today for talks with French fand Indo-Chinese officials, refused to say whether ne had brought a message from the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, to Bao Dai head of the French-sponsored Indo-Chinese Government.
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Diplomatic
speculate that if Mr. MacDonald brought a message from Mr. Beyin, it would
Sources
New York, November 14. Mrs. Vipaya Lakshmi Pandit, India's Ambassador to the United States, told on audience of over 2,500 here today that the "seething mass of humanity in Asia and Africa," needs more urgent attention than any problem in Europe.
be an oral one. She was speaking in the "It is our privilege to work for will meet on Tuesday with the Mr. MacDonald and M. Pignon Town Meeting of The Air democracy and peace," she said. Britis
Consul-General, Mr. lecture series on "India infiet, without seeking any
"We shall keep aloof from con- Daniel Hobson, General Maurice Carpentier, the French Comman- Transition."
porary advantage from one side or der-in-Chief in Indo-China, and the other. We shall throw our political and military experts. On of opportunity through which we see Bao Dai-Associated Press. inquence on the side of equality Wednesday Mr. MacDonald will believe a just and lasting peace can be established". Reuter
are on the march," she said.
The people of Asia and Africa They want to know their goal Unless they are helped to improve their material condition, they will take the law into their own
xchange views on the military today we see tragic happen- |
ings in China and there is a similar threat in India, although
United States later this - Bot, on the same scale. In India
Sir William has special
"We must do more practical wark for peace rather than merely talk of peace, Mrs. Pandit con- tinued
ESPIONAGE IN ITALY
tem~
Milan, November 14.
The police announced today
NÉPAL ENVOY
SEES BEVIN:
London, November 14. Nepalese The
Ambasador,
ledge of Far Eastern defence we were forewarned and took mea- problems gained as Commander sures of agrarian reforms in ad that they are investigating a General Shankar Shamsher Jung of the 14th Army in Burns and yance. If there is equality of "Communist progaganda-network" Bahadur Rana, called on Mr. later as Commander-in-Chief of opportunity Zor all and an end of in the Italian Army but they re- Mr. Ernest Bevin at the Foreign the Allied Land Forces in South discrimination there will be no fused to comment on newspaper Ofice at his own request.. East Asia-Associated Press and threat of Communism
reports that 24 men had been ar- It was understood that he de- Reuter.
rested for espionage.
sired a general discussion of the Milag newspapers claimed that situation in Central Asia resulting one arrested man had confessed to from the Communist, victories in entering the Army as a spy on China. Nepal, a mountain - State 75% "The Idea that the best death the orders of the Italian Com- between India and Tibet, has a Is that which comes on the bat-munist Party." He said that he strong interest in any change in Befeld must give place to the was promised "a big job after the the relations between Tibet and idea that the best death is the revolution," It was stated-Reu- the new regime in China--Reu- one that comes in flvlag for ter ptate. We must have a few more monuments to the living. like those we have for the dead."
NEW UK ATOMIC ENERGY PLANT
London, November 14. The Ministry of Supply an- [nounced tonight that it had: selerted a site at Capenburst, near Chester, in North West Eng- land, for a new atomic energy establishment.
Mrs. Pandit, whe spoke, ex- temporaneously, said that the coming of representative govern
Construction work on the plant will start next year and employment for feudal India formerly
{ several thousand men. It will oc- ruled by the Princes was 20
cupy 126 acres. Reuter. event of the greatest significance. AIR
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