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CHURCHILL CHALLENGE ON THE STEEL ISSUE
Government stand by the Liberal
supported leader
London, March 7.
Mr. Winston Churchill today chollonged the Labour "Government to post-
pone nationalization of the steel industry.
He asked for, the date for taking over steel to be not less than nine months
after the next General Election.
Otherwise, he said, the Conservatives would vote in-strength for their
amondmont,
LITTLE BLOCKADE ON AGAIN
Berlin, March 7. The Russians resumed their little blockade of Ber- lin today while Communist
Expressing regret that. nojin a year and that the steel in- inention of steel was made industry should be thus put in a the King's Speech, Mr. Church-position of uncertainty.
unid that such an end- ment, if
passed, could topple the Government.
Earlier in his speech Mr. Chur- chill surprised the House of Com- mons by suggesting that a Par- Hamentary committee should in- vestigate electoral reform.
The Deputy Prime Minister, Mr. Herbert Morrison, promptly rojooted thin.
He said that such a committee
unconstitutional.
youths voiced their deter-would be un-Parliamentary and mination to demonstrate in West Berlin on May 27-30 despite the Allied ban,
Trame piled up again at the East-West burder point of Helm- stedt, held up by rigid Soviet in- spections of papers and cargo.
Sir Brian Robertson, the Bri tish High Commissioner in Ger- many, has no concern at the pos- sibility of a threat to publie order through the four sectors of Ber- lin.
He told reporters today that the Allies will give help If the Ger- mans ask for it.
"I do not consider it serious that a lot of young Germans should be encouraged to kick their heels up in the streets, dress- ed in uniforms and parading' in military formation. This is a re- version to the Hitlerlie formula.
"I know, of course, that the great majority of these young people will not have the slightest idea what it is all about, but it is a pity that they should allow themselves to be fooled in this "way.
Sir Brian also said that the situation in Berlin cannot be
said to be satisfactory. The city is subject to propaganda about peace and German unlly which concoale quite different tives. -
mo.
What Berlin needs more than unything else is business for her factories.
come
"I think the timo has when merchants in other coun-
tries outsides Western Germany
should be brought to understand the importance of sustaining the Berlla economy and be encourag- ed by practical means to place their orders there." He suggested that this should be done through the machinery of the Marshall Plan-United Press and Reuter.
U.S. PROTEST TO
BRUMANIA
Washington, March 7. The United States today pro- tested to: Rumania against ita order closing: the, American in- formation office in Bucharest, and, the State Department hinted that the United States might re- tallate by suppressing, Rumania'a States,les in
propaganda
*The American
the
to the
note Bucharest Foreign Office said the United States is astonished at Ruhinna's action. The note dc- manded that Rumania state in writing whether it objects to diplomatic missions carrying out. information and cultural activi ties and if so, whether Rumania intends to cease these activities on the part of its 'diplomatic re- presentatives in the United States. -United Press.
COMING TO THE
LEE THEATRE
ROD CAMERON
浸得拔煙斗
Mr. Churchill said, "We must not be blind to the anomaly that has brought to this House of Commons 186 representatives who are returned only by a minority of those who voted in their con- stituencies,"
Liberals attacked
Mr.
Churchill, who nowy heads the strongest British Parlimentary Oppositon for many years, attacked the, Li- borata.
He said it had been too readily assumed by the nine Liberals that they would have a position of undue influence.
wisli
"We don't
10 emulate some foreign Parliaments where smal Parliamentary parties and able, by putting themselves in the considerable events", he said. balance, to sway the course of
Incans certam
was by no that another election held within a few months would remove, the
conditions of deadlock which now prevail, Mr. Churchill stated,
Mr. Churchill went on to say that there also a danger that further devaluation may become necessary.
"The restoration of the Pounci Sterling at home and abroad and the re-establishment of confidence and credit will not take pince as long as there is a Government in office which is known to be an:- mated by bitter hostility to ac- cumulated wealth declared enemy of the capitalist system."
and
"Unfair debts "
Is the
Mr. Churchill described the Sterling balances as unfair Bri- tish wartime debts.
In a brier reference to these balances, he said, "I do not at tempt to argue.now the merits of so-called Sterling balances or the repayment of unfair British War-
time debts, as they are in fuci,
Liberals back labour
LI-
Mr. Clement Davies, the
Churchill's suggestion of a meet-
beral leader, supported Mr.
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 9, 1950.
SWEDISH
SHIPS CAPTURED BY REDS
Princess expecting
a second child?
New York, March 7. Reports received here from London today said that Prine còn Rinaudth in axpecting a second child.
Stockholm, March 7, The Swedish Government
While Buckingham Palace may issue, a routine denial, res takes an extremely serious
ports reaching here said the Princes will probably gives birth to her second child in later summer or early autumn, 5 3 mon view of the capture by the' The 23-yourlold Princes" reported to Have started shop- Russians of Swedish fishing
ping for now wardrobe
clothes. Her first child, of maternity ships in the. Baltic, the
Prince Charlas, was born in Buckingham Palace Just 6 months Swedish Foreign Ministeri.burgh; The approaching birth of her first child was announc go the year after Elizabeth's marriage to the Duke of Edin Geston Unden, sald today. ed by the Palace five months before Chaties was born. If the new announcement follows the same time-satile,it,should come spop.
The statement came amidst. mounting claims among Swedish dshermen for: naval escorts lo prevent further seizures of their ships:
The Foreign Minister told Elof Hallstrom, head of a deep 100 fishing organisation that tho Swedish Government is especial- ly embarrassed by the lack of Information from the Russians on the purported extensión of Rus- sinn territorial waters.
"The Soviet Union
seemk to
Princoss Elizabeth left her baby far the first timentality to, Malta to be with; her husband, la naval officer, on their second wedding anniversary on November 20, United - Frank,
PEKING ATTACK
ON THE USIS
San Francisco;~March 17.
ing of Britain, Russland the desire to apply the same 12-mile The Chinese Communist radio today described
United States on the atom and hydrogen bombs.
He asked why the Conserva- tives had brought the fron and steel issue: before the House at this moment. the Nationalisation. Act until Nothing could be done under next August and effective matter could be undertalcon un til January, 1951, he said.
20
(This indicated Liberal support of labour).
Election immediately or with The holding of another. General
the next two or three months was unthinkablo.
Mr. Davies also thought that the time had come that many powers now exercised by the over- worked flouse of Commons should be transferred to the local pat laments-Reuter.
FRENCH STRIKE POSITION
Paris, March 7.
The strike situation in France, with 300,000 to 400,000 men estimated to be idle in different industries, shows no worsening today.
More men returned to work. In the Paris hus and underground strike in which only the Com
is munist union officially.
participating
In the dispute of 150,000 Park metal workers with thek agreed to accept conciliation ma monogoments, both sides have
chinery.
The textile industry, is not af fected on a national scale. Lille, only 7,000 'out' of 'n total, number of 27,000 employees art
-out.
limit as along its Asiatic coast. unwarranted in the Baltic," Mr. Such a wide limit is historically Unden sald.
"lt Is especially outrageous to pass before we get that such a long time is allowed any In- formation regarding the fate of the ships," he said.
being left in the dark for weeks. too," We will take up that question
"The relatives of the crews are
The statement of the Foreign Minister wal caused by the Russian capture and subsequent detention for two weeks of the two Bwedish trawlera Marlon and Larox.
The Captains of the two ships told reporters yesterday. upan their refense that they had been boarded by a Russian mine- sweeper some 30 nautical miles dutside Russian-held Prussia.
Eastern
They had been forced at pistol point to take their ships to a Russian harbour and had been questioned day and night for two weeks on Russian charges of espionage.
United States Information Service establish- ments abroad as Trajan horses.
STRACHEY WARNING ON ARMY
From these offices, it said, espionage is organised, and every sort of malicious stander fabricated. Commenting on the $30,560,- [ 000 iter for international in- formation and educational activities. ch the United States budget, the radio said the car- marking of this sum is merely a very thinly veiled mothod of strengthening America's inter notional espionage activities.
"Mr. Acheson made it clear
when he spoke to Senate Appropriations Committee: Cubruary 28, that this sum would be used to counter growing sentiment of the peoples of various countries opposed to America's aggressive are
alins.
who
very
the
the
"And he described these dollars as some of the most productive funds spent in foreign relations," the broadcast; said,
It continued: "It has been observed that during, the recent past, the so-called information services of the 'State Departmelt have had very little to do with what is
London, March 7, John Strachey, today warn
The War Minister, Mr.,
ed that Britain will find it tain an efficient army in 1951 increasingly difficult to main-
and 1952 unless recruiting can be increased.
In a memorandum on the Army estimates, Mr. Strachoy said that only 18,400. volunteers were ch- listed on normal engagements during '1849.
Owing to the lack of realars
making new enquiries' following infor2". understood to be it had been essential to use Na-
The Swedish Foreign Office is reports of the disappearance of two other Swedish
ships. also claimed to have been captured by lho, Busslera-Assopluted Press.
Claims by Ex-POW's
Washington, March 7.
The Philippine: Former Poli- tical Prisoners Association re- vealed today it is asking at least $35,627,000 from Con- gress for personal injuries and personni property losses ita members suffered in the Japan-
But a strike threatens the gas an electric power industry. These invasion. authorities on the whole do not expect prolonged nationwide in- dustrial trouble at present,
Thousands of Parisian workers'
|
are centres from which tional Bervicemen in all theatres esplanage t organised, and overseas, every sort of malicious slander fabricated."
The Army estimates, totolling £209,000,000 showed, anot de- orcasa of £8,000,000 for the year. The reductions were partly counternoted by additional costs arising out of the situation Hong Kong and Malaya.
The radio cald: "The know ledge that the State Department Intends to spend, publicly, further $38,500,000 on such ser vices, will only serve to increase the vigilance of the peace-loving peoples everywhere, and put them still more on their, guard against these Trojan horses of the State Dopartment."-United, Press.
DEPORTATIONS FROM MALAYA
an
sa:Singapore, Borch- 7. The Malayan authorities' de- ported 188 people, including 10 British subjects last month under Further claims may be pre- the emergency regulations, scated for damages to real estate. official announcement stated,
The
Association Aubmitted claims to the War Claims Com-regulations now total:0,082 allans Total deportations under theso
included in the scope of Claims Commission payments now being orders of banishment have been In the past two months 86 made.
issued, bringing the total to 950, the announcement added. STATEHOOD FOR
HAWAI
though I should be quite prepfred "work"apdin though the mission.The Association is not and 116 British subjects.
Tc-
cycled, walked and hitch-hiked to to do so on a suitable occasion." Paria Transport
British labour, he said, had to ported an overall improvement in ves the same imports, as before French capital's trade unionists work one-third longer hours to the strike which is crippling the
public because of, these balances.
Non-Communist Pointing to the Government are trickling back to work and scornfully, "You call yourselves services in the motorcar indus- benches, Mr. Churchill aid the Metro (Paris underground)
are almost normal. the Labour. Party-and that does ** not even strike a poto in your try and at the, Paris .airfields of Le Bourget and Orly are un.. changed.
With airfield ground workers out, trans-Atlantic ant other Tong distance lights werd dan celled.
breasts".
Morrison's reply
on Wood, said -31,548 members The Association attorney. Har were detained or gaoled by the Japanese for a total of 5,224,107 days.
Washington, March 7... The House of Representatives, with only a few dissentients, to- Facile Island, Farade, the fiftleth day passed a bill to make Hawail, State of the United States.
able to comploto the report.
The Commission feels 'it is un- off these and other categories of result, Congress is being asked to claimants, by March: 81. As extend the time by nine months. Mr. Morrison, rejecting. Mr.
If the Commission falls to re- Churchill's suggestion that, there
wommend that Association mem be an Investigation on electoral The three non-Communist bers be granted damages, Mr.inst Friday reform suid, I the electoral transport unions are making a Wood will take the case directly. system is to be reformed there, Anal effort to agree on wages and to ought to be a mandate for that a bonus with
Congress Associated, Press. from the electors".
the Government. Bouter.
"In my view, the system of mathematical representation.. has proved a great evil to countries
Mr. Morrison de In Europe clared.
He condemned the efforts of Tory (Conservative) loaders to
BAD. NEWS FOR BRITONS
London, March, 7, The Board of Trade announced:
deny the Liberal Party the right tonight that the prices for mbst
to fight, tho. Election.
cotton cloth and household textiles
If committes OF Inquiry, will rise five to 10 per cent Jater made recommendations which this month.
would help the Liberals but The increase results from, rises damage, the Conservatives, Mr. in the price the valuation of
of raw materials. Churchill would certainly re- a Forute Ject them, Mr. Morrison con- Sterling. tended,
The Board of Trade announce.
Mr Morrison, described as a ment said that the increases in quaint Idea Mr. Churchill's sug- prices of finished garments should gestion that nothing must be done, be les many cases much less about Iron and steel until another than the increases in aloth General Election has taken place prices. Reuters N
A GOOD PIPE IS AN INVESTMENT
IN DAILY PLEASURE
The 19th would be Alaska for which the House passed a bill
Both blly must now go to the j Senate Reuter.
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The Defence Minister, Mr. Emanuel Shinweli, disclosed that Britain's financial outlay under the Atlantic and Brusela trea- ties is estimated at £119,000, The total includes a new. Diree- torate of Scientifle Intelligence, Reuter,
GENOA STRIKE
Genon, March 7., -Some 70,000 Communist-led metal workers síručk for · two hours in Gerion today, pathy-with-a-number-of-em- The strike was called in sym-
ployees recently laid off by tho Roulated Press. San Giorgio machine plant-As-
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