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PARO 11
Hague Debate
WISDOM OF COMING TO TERMS WITH ASIAN NATIONALISM
BATAVIA SIGNING CEREMONY
Batavia, December 0. The new Indonesian constitu- Hon will be signed on the spot where the Nationalists pro- vintmed ther In Hependence froth the Dutch four years ago.
The Hague, December 8.
The Dutch Minister for Overseas Territories, Mr. Johannes Van Maarsevoon,, fold the Lower House today that it was wiser to come to
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than to drive nationalism into the arms of Communism.
Speaking duting the continued debate on the Bill for the transfer of sovereighty to Indonesia, Mr. Van Maarseveen said that only Russia, would applaud if the results of the round- table conference on Indonesia were rejected. "These results"; he said, The National Prépatatory Com- mitter sold the erremony will be "are our last chance of co- held next Monday tr President operation and friendship with Sukar's home here since it was here on August 17, 1945, that the Indonesia and the outside
Indonesian world.
Independence of he
The Dutch people had believed people was proctimes, Indepen-:
A kanal! tainarily in lence was granted by the Dutch that "only
and Indonesia were against 18 after bitter warfare
vast majority were wailing the antor us," the Minister said.
The Cematter at that
electorul, he dy curposed of Re The Dutch people did not have publicans and Federalists wil much unterstondling of nation- leave next Thursday for Jog- alhm jokarta to elect the first President
States of the new United indorte est
Vlucht lathe of
"Now, however, their are large
sections of the Dutela population who understand the Rituntion and 27-1 kubw that we enn no longer do-
minate Indonesia,"
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that Minister said Darul Islam (mitant Mosleme 1
its independence on December
Dr tle doubt tant There is Sukarno will be the first
teni
Pro
The new Presidèn thê, will soloot a three-man group which in turn will select tho Bra Choidet
fhr
two
wo Defeats For French Government
the
Paris, December B. The French Government. twice defeated today on lekule of ingresting pentiona tor World War I ax-service. aix-vola men, tanight won a
the post. victory to secure ponement of a debate on the
копа
matter.
The
Increase le demanded
by the Commusicth.
By
299 votes to 293, The A mction Accombly parted
Inviting the Finance Commit
with the te to collaborate Government to increase the 1950 Яudget.
and the Communists were a grena
rankter danser
In dunesin. But a vapid of sovereignty Watili! reduce the danger
pensions in the "We must equip the Repubbegn Indohetlah armed forses and [able them in maintain law nħd
order," he said.
The Confinittee's annoncrment Tied that 12 Dutch-sponsored Federal states have approved the draft constitution miel ratified
Threat To Resign the Huge greentet under which the Yutch in render their ruke.
Referring to members' QUES - self and The Hepublic
five to 1924
the reported stalenienil other Federal toḥritories are exelby
Republieb the Indonesian pected 15 rasty the Hague gree-Prime Minister. Dr. Mohammed meat within the next few days. Hattu, that the Netherlands-in- -United Press,
donesian Union could be given
Athem, December 8,
Fifty-three
Reuter.
Mine is a plain case of taxa-but more money de tong na durjisenhower will be Republican of the Presidential candidato tion without representatlan. Socialists stay in power. For years I have been paying Instead, everyone leaping next national election. American taxes and rates, eagerly on the "United Europe Business along Broadway hus hobby horse, which is a well-sot boen, affected by business at subscribing to the Truman whipped nng.
polling dooths. doctrine, the
Plan, Americans are shying to Euro- "Alfred Lant and Lynn Fon- gifts to Grecke hie loans upeane "Look at us. We have tontie have opened triumpllantly Latina, and now it is cction 48 Staten, every are under the in "I Know My Love," Critics
phical barrier, to unity yet, we deling tram
hài thêm đã the worlds uncatel ballot
A plly. I should like to have are one nation prosperous, free, voled for William O'Dwyer for Und getting tanker and richer ile ring opening hát puit Mayor, and Herbert Lehman for all the time, N
resources, have thôn United Stag Schloroth are good friends of Britain, firm rains, and, dblil y wlly don't Delievers in the Anglo-American you form & United Sintos of Europe and, tith your own living histead of accepting. handouts and doles from us?!
partnership.
"You
I expect both men to win. Their Republican opponents,
It is to popular. It naive, tall Newbold Morris, the Fusión (con- fusion) candidate for Muror, and to action. And, two are warned to John Fester Dulles, the globe- quick we eliljer form, this girdling, foreign affairs expert, Unitet Europe. by next week, who wants the Senate seat, have working out the details over the not distinguished themselves in week-end (and getting the entire the election campotgri.
business hid had By Christmas, For face the eonsequences.
Britain's Friends They are trying to put back the American clock. They
The old suspicion that Britain is the, chic obstacle, to the economic integration of Europe areds bed, révived.
and glamour Into the, season. anu, the play itself is delectable. Leslie Banks, too, is wearing a laurel wreath. He has won a great personal success in "Lost in the Stars."
British achievements in. t10 duplicated before the alm cameras. theatre hpparently need to Be The Adiericans are all but bury- the out film industry.
And Ralph. Hall Calne, who nursed the original Film Quota Art through Parliament, any
The British Government, have gabe crazy on the subject. They ave gone farther than any of us contemplated. The present 40 per echt. quota, la much too high. Efforts, neat the quota have out to kill Presladit Truman's Fale And no one here or In White Broved disastrous, and by, turn- Gail, seems able to erase. this out volume production we This is no ordinary local elec-readful doubt of British Inten-have got back to a modified forth
inte tion. The issue is the Administions. tration's entire Welture State programime.
Deni.
It is noi that we are getting angry with us they very weary,
Á hostile Preis. No ɑnë lë very are Just The United States
of the quickie,"
* Unwise Attacks
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If O'Dwyer and Lehman win, President Truman will have been flashed the green light, to march
sh fired, of Cripps and, crisch I cannot believa "dur, predien- down farther and more quickly
Say business men and brokersment is as bad as the calamity the rond built by Roosevelt, It Britain an'i make dollars howlers suggest Arthur Rank it the. Repúblicans win it will now, when the United States is, whom 1 Know Has, never, struck be a sign that the votera
are booming and overflowing." with me as a'than who wolla: lose his turning against "Statism."
money, what on earth is she go-shirt on wild financing or reckless Britain has not guted promin- ing to do during ith American and extravagant projects. ently in the election. All the slumb candidates, except the Com-
think Englishmen, Think it dyer. I've thought it whether Hall Caine or anyone
1.do not ruunist-tinged Vilo Marcantonio,
over and 1 do not like it. de else, should come here and run who is also tunning for mayor, Hot like any sort of ultimatum, down British erorlá. It in
ont are in favour of close ties be-and there seem to be quite a few thing to alther the Sociallet Gov- "We do not know exactly to
tween the United States and around just now.
ernment in Britain, or to cable whom
transferring Britain; but O'Dwyer, and Leh- we Bre
· The fact Mist New York is sovereignty. he
articles attacking, it in British aald, adding man seem to want to embrace us holding its that it was
élection today hus newspapers, but it is quite an cuch a disordered more ardently. Thele, record of prompted our partner's
(mus*uther "to, issue wholesale con- political
In Indonesia, help, and comradeship that the sovereignty could not proved. If the people turn them) voice to ask why we are demnations broad for freigh
not holding.ow
election consumption.
Churchill never be traneferred to it in the cum- down it could mean that the
now. ing works. Mr. Schouten's
Bet up
Party ho
Arenm of dollars to Europe Is eginning to dry
could
up; it
13 votes in the serund | mean further austerity and sacri- by either party at will, Mr. total of
Katch that The Chamber
Vanter nicht cont
Union boliral parties stipulation on this point,
have already announced their in- tention of contesting the Greek general election next Apríl- AŠ. shelated Press.
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The Minister
that
of
Catholic
Catholic Support warned the
The leader Government
The House
the could
take no responsibility Party. Professor C. P. M. Romme. with whatsoever for the fatal and rid that he had listened ostastrophic
of pleasure to the Overseas Terri- rejection of the B and that, fories Minister's remark that by the Gov. I hoped that the Chamber would should this happen,
cantequendes
ernment would draw its bon-pu the draft. Hill with a lurge Ejulions Immediately.
in view of the imprès-
majority
Mr. Van Maadseveen sale aston that would make in Indo- new military action under a new nesin. Dutch Cabinet
would
make international position
Roming sa:) that Professor those voting In favour of Use Bil should do so to prevent dis- astron condition in Indonesia and to save the only possibility co-operation between for Netherlands and Indonesia.
Holland's unteríable.
"The situation that would then Brise in indonea would bleed | ast our people to death and the bl that would be presented by the new Cabinet would be terrible.
The new register
in Indonesin yould
be established even
ted the results of Parliament rejected
the
They should not vote in tavour for Party politics reasons,
A suggestion by one of
the
the round-table conference but in members that a new round-table a very different way.
The Foreign Minister, Mr. Dirkenference should be convened,
Professor Remmu callest un es Stikker, said that foreign in cape from reality-Reuter. fuences had exerted pressure on the Government in Indonesian
policy. He clied as Examples the Australian waterside work- ers Boycott of Dutch shipping. of a similar Aineri-
the
ung
Pact Approved
The Hague, December 6, The Lower House today up- 71-29, the Indonesian can boycott, the threatened cut-proved,
off of Marshall Ald to Hoi-, transferring sovereignty da
tip, and the Indian and Paki. January 1, 1950
stiu
hah on planes
Royal
Bid Dutch
utmost,"
Dutch Airlines
Government re-. foreign pressure to the the Foreign Minister sald. "But I can now say with conviction that the international consequences of the rejection of the Bill before the House would be disastrous for us."
Disastrous Effects
The world.
would be able to compel Holland to recognize the
The vote was five more than the necessary two-ilirds-United Presa.
BAXTROL PASSES TEST
Stockport, December 8. Baxtrol, a new motor fuel indelendtner of Indonesia on invented by a British firm term more unfavourable thop tope reached after bborfous Hore, has passed its first road negodations, he mid The effects test as a reasonable substitute of resellon would no less, di for petrol bit is unlikely to
andshela fécit
add much to the rationed mileage of Eritain's 2,000,000 motorisit, vel
He pressed the House to
Lon of Ble de the
The cost of astro) is Os. Odr'n Fallon against 24. 30, a gallon, for
1 rogol unt even at lidt přile 11:15. mper, that anger of being controlled. -
Board bi Trayle live warne would not p
that the two ingredientit of the. actively or passively,"
Asuje frat bpeaker, the reply. Bow (Ugk melnajon, and aceton
art. needed in Industry, and that hing to the Government's states production is limited,
ments, earlier in the day, Mr. In the test, Bastrol was used in Schouten mild that his conscience the prescribed ratio of three parts did not allow him to take the to one of petrol.
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responsibility to support tho. Bill. The results showed that, engines ** Hg, sojd, hy, supported trans- were sluggish in acceleration, but fer, of sovereignty, even an early cruiced comfortably at 30 miles un
such a responsibility hour as on ordinary fuel. coftalis, Condition being: British, gtorists are allowed.
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Footriple; Some Britta peli- ticians in their letters to me ap- GIFTS FOR MEN- Got your cicction
and poor to Be standlig agdist this Column is not a There is no great, pubija en- then we can get down to bust-Diary. The
the dollar Daisipsin, nýway, for shellingness, say
donors, candidate. Until you do there is bound to
lack be weakness, uncertainty, of action, grid confusion in your Governmentca,
Japs Want Materials From China
a
Are you listening, Mr. Attlee? These serious suggestiona might Etern merely be due to the sobriety of New York today, All bars, satoons cocktail lounger, closed. and beer joldts, use Liquor stores are, locked, and American throats are dry,
1 And the town tame. There is no election fever or fervour, !
Tricky Question Avoided
'Bonti; December 8 The Western Allied High
The rest of the country, not so Commissioners today met the
SHIRTS, PULLOVERS, CARDIGANS, SOCKS, ETC.
GIFTS FOR LADIES-
SIDES, COATS, DRESS LENGTHS; STOCKINGS
Tokyo, December 9. Japan wants to import raw materials on a large scale from
concerned, with, the polling and German Chancellor, Konrad GLAMOUROUS GIFTS OF- Communist China and on
New York, is Adenauer, and at the last, mo- |-~- private basis, the Business the poisters, es
wide-eyed with optimism about Managers Association, an or-the, American future, now that ment decided not to broach, the ganisation of leading business the big strikes are being settled. subject of a executives, has told the Econo- A fully fashioned booster cam- according to reliable sources. mic Adviser to SCAP, accord-paign has everyone talking of h
German army, Informed quarters said the
the to the Kyodo News Agency. $300,000,000,000 national Income Commissioners had intended to At present it is about $200;000,- all the Chancellor to task, for In a mestago addressed to Mr. 000,000,
his recent statements that h Anyway books and pamphlets would not be averse to Western flood the
bpokatalis forecasting German participation in an in- two and even three, motor-cars ternational army. }
Harold Sheet, the, Association in- dicated dissatisfaction with the scale of Japan's present trade
with Chino,
for every inlly swimming pools. The Comtalssi-ners are reports for most wages twice as big as to be reluctant to undermine the I urged: () Adoption of 1.0.0, now, and working week only Chancellor's prestige, among the import and c.i.f. export" systém | half as long
Germans by Interfering unduly
the quods.
for trade with China and the use Limitless vistas of refrigera with his authority and indepen of Japaltese bottoms to transport torp, television sets, air-confil.lence of action and they believe
tioning Apparatus, butomatic the furore about, rearming, Ger washing machines, electric stoves, many will die down I' the ques-
ng devices sireich tion is ignored. United Press, and labour-lgeing/ before, the housey
Cyos.
(2) A trade agreement
China,
with
(3) An Increase, in raw mater Jal imports from China, Even if the telling imposed on the maxi- mum,quantity of such goods to be unported increases, the Aso elation, believes that China will not buy Japanese textiles Or marine products in quantity, but will Jouy heavy Industry goods and chemicals,
Nouing unfortunately, is pro plesled phout Europea fate. Apparejuly the American of the next generation is to have overy- thing, and everyone can nothing.
CHURCHILL MAY
VISIT MADEIRA
Funchal, December 8. Hoard around town: Baltal Mr. Winston Churchill is ex- should not be ubse by her tapected to, arrivo, in. Madeira n lure to rato, goundhuis in East January 1 for, a fortnight's visit.
Great ways raise
enthusiasm has bech Afrika-she can. Something in die. Un
aroused, by reports of Mr. Chur States, and chief chill's intended visit (It was ex-stated at: Mit: Churchill's London the next home, today, that such. &.lalt has been surgested bat, no definite plans for going abroad have bech made)-Bouter:
Japan; in turn, needs soya Marina beans, peanuts, cotton seeds, rabo peg
beari seeds,
takes, tun oil threp tholilus. Re leather, coal and salt, the Asso-Truman h
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