CHINESE DELEGATE'S ATTACK ON MR. LIE
Lake Success, March 14. Nationalist China today accused the United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Trygve Lie, of bad politics and bad law which destroy public con- fidence in the impartiality of the Secretariat of the United Nations. The accusation was contained in a scathing letterfrom the Nationalist dele-
gate, Dr. T.F. Tsiang protesting against Mr. Lie's memorandum sug- Communist Government gesting that China's seat should go to the of Mao Tse-tung if an inquiry shows that it exercises effective author- ity within the territory of State and is habitually obeyed by the bulk of the population.
ESTATES TO BE SPLIT UP
Rome, March 14. A widespread re-distribu- tion of land in Italy was an- nounced today by the Prime Minister, Signor Alcide de Gaspert.
While thousands of peasants in Southern Italy squatted grimly on vast areas of land they have seized in the last two weeks, the Premier disclosed that the Cabinet had agreed to cut up big estates throughout Italy and
distribute part of them to employed farmers.
The Cabinet
has spent hours in the last .eight drawing up the plans.
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Dr. Talang told Lic. "If you seek to remove the deadlock, the proper place to apply your influence is with the Soviel delegation
Germany, are not formally on the agenda of the Security Council or of the General Assembly,
Later, Mr. Lle said in a state- "I shall continue to carry ment, out what I believe to be my duty us Secretary General and serve the best interests of the organisa- tion as a whole as 1 see them. I reserve my right to answer mis- statements by Dr Talong when the question of Chinese repre- sentative comes before the Security Council or other organ of the United Nations.”—United
"Since the beginning of the United Nations, the Soviet delego- tton has not made a single con- structive contribution to the work of the organisation. The Soviet Union has already a rival organi- sation in the Cominform. It uses the United Nations only for the purposes of obstruction and pro- paganda. Nevertheless you pub-Press. ished the memorandum with the
purpose of appeasing the Soviet delegation by sacrificing the de- legation of the Nationalist Gov- ernment of China.
"It is for these reasons that I have ventured to characterise your memorandum as bad poli- Lies. In the present Instance you have suplied argument against my delegation and in favour of the Soviet delegation. You have destroyed publie conildence in the impartiality of the Secretariat.
"As Secretary Generul your duty is to execute and administer
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1950.
Russians building up ^ Navy strength
Bertin, March 14,
The Russians
are building: up their naval strength by attempting to refloat every ship that was ever aunk, re porta "from"Eastern Europe said today.
Of
The Russians are pressing their. naval salvage campalon In porta In the Boviet Zone Germany, where at losst four huge former German naval vassals have been Гон floated.
The 14,000-ton Deutsche, renamed Asia, is in use by the Rustlana troop trans. port. A report that the 22,- 000-ton Uner Hamburg, scut. tied at the end of the war, is being refloated by the Rød Navy, is not confirmed Unit vd Press.
Parls, March 14. Venezuela has recognised the associated States of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos within the French Union, the French Foreign Ministry announced to
night.-Router.
ATTLEE SNUBS TORY MP ON STRACHEY CASE
London, March 14.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attles, declared tartly today he is solely responsible for deciding whether his Cabinet members are good security risks.
He set forth his view in writing in answer to a question in the House of Commons by the Conservative M.P. Sir Waldron Smithers.
Sir Waldron has been heck-say what steps he takes before ling Mr. Attlee for the last two inviting any member to accept days about the case of the War Ministerial office to ascertain that Minister, Mr. John Strachey, they are reliable persons from a
security point of view?" who has been attacked by the Beaverbrook Press, as a Con munist sympathiser,
Replied Mr. Attlee, "I cannot accept the implications In the question.
Both Mr. Attlee and Mr. "In any case, I would remind Strachey insist that the Minister you that it is established consti broke cleanly with his old viewtutional practice that the Prime in 1940 and was never a member Minister of the day is solely ro- of the Communist Party.
sponsible for recommending Today Sir Waldron Smithers Ministerial appointments to the asked, "Will the Prime Minister
King.
Shadow of the future
versities?
This may be
The British Control Com- and the ancient schools and uni- mission in Germany is in the
harder to cut down its num- news again. It is proving
bers than was at first ex- pected. Meanwhile the West Germans are becoming restive
decisions of Councils and Com-at paying its "occupation
costs. day missions. It is not your duty to
The plans are described by
observers ns the most sweeping social change ever made in Italy without violence.
estates
It is estimated that the reform plan to be submitted to Parlia ment within a few days will top 1,750,000 acres off big
nd distribute them among 250,-
peasant families. The plan
ODG
vast
is regarded as effort to create a major bulwark
Communism by Against reinforcement of the nuinber small farmers throughout the country,
Premier de Gasperi sald that the re-distribution of land will be accompanied by a 10-year pro- gramme to spend 12,000,000 lice on land development.
The poverty-stricken areas of Southern Italy, Sicily and Sar- dinia will be enriched us never before under this programme,
Public works
works schemes
into one of Hannibal
tola
Huge public will Irrigate and drain land. presunt scarcely cultivated, whole populations will be moved on to farmland at present barren and the beginnings of modern civilisation will move aren' which has been Europe's poorest since laid it waste 2,100 years ago.
Premier de Gasperl Press conference that although details of the bills containing the new programme have been agreed by the Cabinet, final details have still to be set- Ued.
Cabinet is expected Complete
discussions tomorrow. and to vole formal and final ap- proval of the measures.
new
#
call into question the wisdom of
decisions of organisations,
"Bad politics
"Today with such bad politics and bad law you have intervened against the interests of my coun- ry, Tomorrow you can do the same thing against the interests of other countries. The organisa- tion of International security in vitinterl by an element of insecuri- y at its very centre particularly
smaller and
for tries."
weaker
coun-
Dr Tilang accused Mr. Lis of appeasing the Soviet dolega. tian. Dr. Talang's 800-word note. distributed by the Na. tionalist delegation, sald he has been instructed by Presi dent Chiang Kai-shek's govern.
Talwan in ment
lodge
to
a formal protest of that govern. ment.
He added. "China's struggle for freedom and national indepen- dence has a number of fronts- Taiwan front, Hainon front, mainland front with a number of sectors and the United Nations
front.
"Your memorandum is a deli- berato attack on China's United Nations front. In time, it will be recognised also as an attack on the cause of freedom throughout
of
thent
fanciful picture, twentieth century is to see the But the penalty of living in the fanciful come true. The writer of this article remembers walking
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By WINDRUSH
were
"It is not customary for him to adawer questions on these mat- tera."
Another question Major Beamish, also a Conser vative-but-in another-question-on- the subject for futuro answer.
He asked, Mr. Altice whether he is now satisfed that no persons
had connections with the British sympathetic with the nima of Communism or known to have Communists or with any Foreign Communist Party hold any pust- tion of trust in the Government.
Lord Beaverbrook's "Evening Standard" and his morning paper, the Strachey Cabinet appointment the "Daily Express", challenged after the spying trial of Dr. Klaus Fuchs, German-born researcher at the Harwell atomic plant.
The 38-year-old Communist, who admitted passing secrets to Russia from 1942 to 1949, was sentenced to 14 years for violat- ing the Ometal Secrets Act.-As- sociated Press.
research
attend their office during these stated hours. But what they did during these hours nobody mind- dimculty or trouble, If they were ed, so long as they did not cause decently somnolent, and read and passed on files without making life more complicated than
they found it, they
considered safe civil servants. Gown the Nevsky Prospect In A
lotally The real Interest of the Con Leningrad one day in 1931. Under amount of the effort of the Con- disproportionate tral Commission to the rest of the Tsars the Nevsky Prospect trol Commission was devoted to the world lies in the fact that had been one of the most elegant administering itself--to arrang-
1 sa horrid warning of the kind
streets in Europe. But in 1931 ing travel, to providing transport, burentterary which Socialist the plaster was peeling from the to providing rations, to adminis- States may sprout if ways are houses and shops; the people in tering pay. At the present time not found of organising
the streets
were down-at-heels there are very better. For this reason, the Con-
nearly as many and ragged. "Windrush asked officers engaged on these purely trol Cominission deserves careful himself whether the same
fate administrative duties as there are siudy, When it was recruited, that could befall Bond Street.
He on genuine control functions vis Treasury aimed at cheapness. It remembered this vividly only 11 1 vis Germany.
years later when, walking down. offered comparatively low salar-
The staff of the Commission les-this will be the trend every- Bond Street during the dreariest forms an elaborate hierarchy. where as bureaucracy grows and period of the war, he saw that it Everybody is very much conscious the cost of government becomes had become alarmingly similar. of his rank or grade. The un- ever more forbidalng. Because of
In the
ancient civilisation of the low salaries, and the snori. the Incas in Peru, the civil ser
touchables in the Commission contracts offered, the Commission vants were
"disentitled per- are known as obtained very indifferent recruits, caste. It is true that they received
a highly privileged | sons."
It must not, of course, be for- But to get even these, it had to no money at all. But they were gotten that the Control Commis- offer additional inducements be
The water is being kept under be-kept entirely by the State. So sides salaries.
ston is a grotesque organisation.control by pumping. Seventeen Thus there grew long as they were acting under 3t is a kind of caricature of a seamen were rescued from the up system of providing the instructions and on government civil service. But a caricature is Cygnet. Four others, of five who Commission staff with free food service, they were housed free, always related to fact. The pro- cigarettes and liquor and lodging, free transport,
and they travelled free, they fed free. blem in Britain is how to develop at artin. The staff of the British Control the Welfare State without creat- Tow extremely low Commission are the Incas of the ing something like the Control prices, (Some of these privileges modern world. It has happened Commission to administer it. have been cut down or abolished before. It may happen again. recently. This is because the Commission is slowly Ilquidating itself.)
cially
the
our traditional ideas. One of the The system is repugnant to all
mal characteristics of British Is this not the shadow of what society has been that the gov nay happen in a Sociallat Britain ernment servant is exactly like in the future? Already in the other members of the community, st few months there was the except for the fact of his speciai
between thecept
occupation. It would be most and Treasury" arrel
the higher
civil understrable servants over the civil service officials of the coal board, off- Whitehall officials, saluries. To raise the salarics cials of the steel board, would be to cause great resent-on, were segregated as a separate and so
casic,
inent among the trade unionists, certain
to
The Premier said that it is theoretically possible for 85 per cent of a big property to be con- fiscated and re-distributed.
Compensation will be paid one- quarter in cash
and
three- quarters in State bonds redeem- able in 20 years, Reuter,
POLICE FIRE ON WORKERS
Venice, March 14. Five striking workmen were wounded-two of them'serious- ly-when police opened fire today on
demonstration
against dismissals from
Breda engineering plant..
the
The police stated officially that they had fired into the air after strikers had stoned them.
Q
The 2,000 workers from the Breda plant had, barricaded bridge lending from the island of San Marghera on the mainland. where the Breda plant is situated. They were protesting against the threatened lay off at about 300 men in the plant.
stoned tho
The workers refused to remove the barricades and police who attempted to dislodge them. Four policemen
slightly injured, pr
word
The shooting then followed. A general atrike of indefinite length has been declared, in Venico city and provinco-Reu-
ADOLF SCHAERF IN BRITAIN
London, March 14. Dr. Adolf Schaert, 58-year-old Deputy Prime Minister Austria, arrived in London to- night to attend an International Socialist Conference at Hastings. He told newsmen, "Before I go to the conference I want to seg London and see for myself what the austerity programme is like". Asked bia reaction to the long delays in the drafting of a Big Four peace treaty for Austria, the Deputy Premier saldWe are still hoping: Theiluation in quite happy
Schaert will remain in Friday, when, an will go to Hastinas for the con
Sat
the world.
"So.
long as the Nationalist to exist," Dr Tslang sald, Government of China continues "and fight the Communists, the latter are in no position to throw their full energles toto expansion in South Enal Asin. It the Nationalist Government of China should cease to struggle against Com- munism-it-China--the-Chinese- Communists would then be able to throw their full power into South East Asia. There can be no question that the spread of Com- munism in Asia would hasten the coming of a world war IIL"
who are being asked to accept a wages freeze.
Bad for efficiency
Can happen again
The result might also be bad for the efficiency of the civil ser- Perhaps the Treasury-in-the vice At least this is a fair in long run will find a way out of ference lis dificulty by copying the Control Commission in Germany.
from the work
of the Control Commission system. Is it The conditions of life in the Con- fantastic to think that in 20 years tral Commission repelled time the civil servants may sill! venturous and the individualists.
the
ad. have monetary salaries which are It attracted, the mediocre.
Once absurdly low-but that they will an officer was in the Commission, Lic's reply
live ut artificially cheap rents in his main concern was Although Mr. Lle appeared to Government-owned houses
draw ag belleve that the Chinese repre-
and ille attention to himself as building
that they will sible. He was brought to his office
pos sentative impasse deadlocked buy their other questions in the United
in civil ser- by
by Government transport at a vice stores at especially Nations, he said, the atomie ques-rates, that they will have special
cheap certain time in the morning, and tion antedated China's problem privileges for travel and holiday, transport at
was taken away by Government by at least four years, and other perhaps even that their children evening. The self-discipline of the certain time in the problems that aflet the world will enjoy a privileged entry to service went just far enough to today, such as the question of Eton, Westminster, Winchester, insist that all its members should
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