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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 1980.
A SNAP ELECTION POSSIBLE
Protest against Seretse case
16.
Johannesburg, March 26. Delegates claiming to present mors than 1,000,000 Transvaal Africans and In. diane today protested against the British Government's ae. tion concerning Baretsa Khama, the Bamangwato chief-designate who has been exlied from his tribe for five years.
The resolution eald that the British action was pandering to the racial policies of auth Africa and Rhodealo.
'The meeting, attended by 528 delegater, was called by the Transvaal branches of the African National Congress (DANTU), African Peoples In- Organisation, Tranvanl dinn Congress and the Johan-
and
Com district nesburg
munist Party, as "Defend Free Speech" convention,
It called for the observance of May 1 as "Freedom Day,"
Demonstrations will
be
started to protest against dis- criminatory legislation.-Reu-
ter.
Forecast of polling
within
six months
LABOUR'S TRUMP CARDS
London, March 26.
The Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, and his Labour lieutenants may decide on a snap Gonoral Election any time in the next six months, political sources predict.
Some observers believe that a new contest might come as early as June~~
six weeks after the annual budget on April 18.
In the present House of Commons, Labour has an overall majority of only
five votes.
The Conservative Opposit Jon, led by Mr. Winston Chur- to see the chill, would like Government remain in office long enough to take the blame for what they call Socialist economic mismanagement in the past five years.
They would use their strength that the in Parliament to kee Government is continuously
Pontiff deplores state of world.
Vatican City, March 26.
The Pope, in a broadcast address at a Passion Sunday ceremony in St. Peter's Basilica today, deplored a world in disorder in which all wholesome principles seem disturbed. "There is no excuse of ignorance to mitigate the sin and the indecency which, spreading in a universality of moral degradation, have con- even those sections of society taminated traditionally free from them, such as country folk," he said.
over
harassed to the brink of the pre- elpice though not pushed the edge.
This prospect does not attract Labour-which has the advant age of being able to dictate the timing of the next Election.
supporters Some Government believe that Labour has the In the present tump cards Parliament and can seare
deci sively If It plays them properly.
They predict that the weeks immediately abead will show
Improvement in Britain's overall économic position, fal- that there aifying suggestions would be a crisis this year,
'Unions' attitude Figures for Britain's gold and dollar reserves for the first
pro Quarter of 1950-showing gress in closing the dollar gap- will be published within a fort- night: They are expected
to ing position. reflect an encouraging
On the other hand, if the trade unione generally stage a ravolt against the wage stabili. Gov. sation policy the whole ernment recovery plan would be wrecked.
Engineering and shipbuilding unlons, who are leading the fight against the wage freeze, will soon held a ballot
to on whether strike for £1 a week increase or take their claims to arbitration.
Sir Ston
Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, will discuss
"The right to exist according the wage-freeze tomorrow the I
the pretext of to crime under
of no- tolerance and humanity fural human weakness is break- ing all the bounds Imposed
The lack of morality, Pope said, had become part of the economic and social life of the people, infilleting the most on mankind serious wounds
false under the pretext of a humanity.
REPLY TO BRITISH COMMIES
ол
man by his sense of respect for public morality and dignity and is causing the breaking of mat rimonial iles, rebellion against legitimate authority, suleide and the taking
lives of the others."
The Pope recognised, "with heart full of tender compassion," that in the present conditions the
misery and loneliness of people are iving in squalid conditions among the main causes of im morallly.
ion.
with
a delegation from the Trades Union Congress, The TUC itself is expected to continue to back Sir Stafford-but it can apply no sanctions to its 8,000,000 bership.
mem-
Eisenhower - to testify on defence
Now York, March 26. General Dwight Eisenhower has accepted an Invitation to discuss with a Senate Ap- propriations Sub-Committee on Wednesday his view that the United States has disarm- ed beyond the safety point.
The Sub-Committee wlshus to know whether the former Supreme Commander in Eu. rope would recommend increase of the military bud- which it is now consider. get ing.
an
The Invitation to General Eisenhower was prompted by ble speech in New York last declared week in which ha "The United
States has at. roady disarmed to the extent -in some directions even be yond the extent-that I, with deep concern for her prosent safety, could possibly advisn,” -Reuter.
Foreign affairs debate today
London, March 26.
MASTER PLAN FOR DEFENCE OF W. EUROPE
The Hague, March 26.
The Atlantic Pact moster defence plan will coll for last-ditch defoncer of overy member nation and no immediate stratégic withdrawal to a Wastern defence line in the event of a Rus- sian attack.
Informed quarters, here for the Chiefs of Staff con-
ference,, said this today.
On the eve of crucial meet- ings of top-level Atlantic Pact millary and political officials, these sources denied the popu- lar concept that defence plans might call for falling back on a line somewhere West of the Low Countries and for sacrific- ing several countries to the enemy in the initial stages of any possible invasion.
There is absolutely no Maginot line psychology Involved in our plons,"
declared one high-ranking Western military official in an interview.
ADMIRAL'S WARNING
war
Washington, March 26. Vice-Admiral Gerald Bogan warned today that Western Europe might quit if started and the United States Navy's first big job would be to carry out a Dunkirk-type evacuation.
Admiral Bogan contended that failure, to build a super aircraft- carrier able to launch atomic bombers may cost the US. dear-
"We are not going to 'write off any member nations and we are not going to retreat if attacked. We will detend every inch of soilly. of member nations."
The Chiefs of Staff, headed by the United States Chief of Staff, | General Omar Bradley, will meet on Tuesday to stamp the defence plan "approved" and "top secret".
No bickering
The Atlantic Fact Standing Committee, permanent body with headquarters in Washington, has already drawn up for the chiefs an agenda which is expected to deal principally with these pro- blems:
nation
can contribute defence pool.
2, Unification o! standardising military
The Navy was not ready for war, he said.
Admiral Bogan attacked the Alr Force's strategic bombing plans and said the Navy should discount entirely the theory of en atomle biltz conducted from sate, secure bases in our own country, The next war, if it came, would be long and hard.
of Speaking European members of the Atlan- tic Pact, he said: "We cannot lean or count on their continued de- termination to resist aggression as our allies. The cankers and ulcers in their bodies are politi- cally moribund now, but esson- tially volatile.
of at
1. Maximum in moules, arms "It may well be that the first and man which each member major task of our Navy In a to the future conflict will consist of re- creating the role frat performed and by an impromptu armada craft operation heterogeneous British
Dunkirk."
Admiral Bogan sald today's United States Navy was not rea- dy to fight a future
war. "We need time badly. Given that, we may prepare ourselves,"
procedures such as communica-
ons and battle orders,
General Bradley is tremen- dously pleased at the progress al- ready made at the conference. One sentor officer said: "There has been no bickering and we all see eye to eye on the principa! problems-how to stop the Rus- Europe." United Press. rians if they ever make a grab at
PEKING SENDING OUT NEWSMEN
Seoul, March 26.
He advocated converting all modern battleships, including the Missouri, to missile launching ships-United Press.
AID FOR GREECE TO CONTINUE
Parliament will launch its Pollitt attacks Morrison first foreign affairs debate in The Secretary of the Commu-four months on Tuesday amid ofnist Party, Mr. Harry Pollitt, to-growing demands for a general day described as a "farrago ot review af foreign policy.、 lies and nonsense" the declaru-
Athens, March 20, The debate will take place as Lion #
last Friday of the Deputy
General Lawton J. Collins, the Mr. Herbert the Defence Chiefs of the Alan-
United Prime Minister,
States Army Chief of meet in The Morrison, who in his statementtic Pact nations
The Chinese Communist Pco-
Staff, told reporters here that the appealed to British trade unions Hague to approve a master blue-
Greek Army" äfter (their victory to get rid of Communists as soon print to cope with possible Rus-ple's Republic is beginning to over the
Communist guerillas sian aggression.
send out foreign correspondents. would continue to receive Amer- as possible.
A broadcast from Radio Wou that Mr. Mr. Pollitt declared
lean old in material and training. Mr. Pyongyang, North Korean official Morrison was the architect of the
Before (leaving for Ankura to- Labour Party's defent
propaganda medium, said "Follow- at the
two-day visit to General Election,
ing establishment of diplomatic Green
Greece,
met relations between
General Collins Chiria (the "Purging the unions of Com-
Peking Government) and North the Greek Army Commander-in- Field Marshal Alexander Papagos, munists does not harm the Com-
Korca, munists: it does harm the trade
Agency has established a branch Chine
the New
China in Pyongyang" No mention
was made of North Korean correspondents in China-United Press,"
and
London, March 27.
He asked his listeners to view Mr. Arthur Deakin, Secre-
the immensity and the gravity of tary of the world's biggest the sins "flooding the earth and Cod," cs- trade union-the Transport spoiling the work of
committed those and General Workers-doclar-nectally
sure against the humble and defence- ed today that he was
less, against the family dockers would not take any
human society." action at the ports in response to the Communists Party's call for a ban on the bandling of war materials for Malaya.
The Party's manifesto today
and urged trades unions
student and demonstrate
operative, youth,
women's groups to
Co-
as part of an all-out, sustained demand throughout the country
to stop the war in Malaya.
one in
The call for the dockers' boy- colt apparently aimed at inclting a British battle of the ports. paralleling the French which Communist-led dockers in the last two months have refused for destined to handle cargo French forces in Indo-China.
country "The dockers of this have refused to become involved In political Issues and I am sure will not want us to do 80," Mr. Deakin said.
The Communist Party's ma- nifesto today accused the Gov. ernment of misrepresenting the Malayan fighting as an anti-bandit drive.
The Party claimed that it was actually a war of major dimen- sions against the well-organised and determined liberation move- ment of the Malayan people.
Deakin asserted:
Dr.
The
clearly
Party statement reveals what I have been saying for the last two years that the activity of the Communists among trade unionista is completely concerned with carrying out the policy of the Soviet Union and
un- related to the real interests of trade unionists."-Reuter.
J
AUSTRALIA AND JAPAN
Melbourne, March 28, Though Australian sentiment is still strongly anti-Japanese, the country cannot forever hold Japan at arm's length, the Conservativo Bydney "Morning Herald"" said in "a" leading article today,
tho
unions as many sections of the
Transport and General Workers Union are beginning to find out," Mr. Pollitt added.
This was at a time when the
Ho particularly stressed the_serloua_nature_of_theas Labour Government had betrayed... Bins which wore "knowingly prepared and coolly axecuted which multiplied until they became crimes against an en- tiro nation."
the principle of internationalism over the Seretse Khama
case, when American bombers and air
and when
forces "are already occupying our best aerodromes" America, "through
Its demand (in Paris) on Britain fully to DC-
in cept its dictate regard to the union, 15 di- | European payments to-" trying to wreck Britain's econo-
my."--Reuter.
Justice needed - The Pope asked whether vine Justice would longer lerate such a "distortion of the true image of man, such abuse of his worth, such regard of God's will." T
dis-
On this Sunday of penitence, everywhere he urged Christians to practise this Christian virtue and, realising their sins, to rc- do better. The Holy solve to Year would give thein ample op- portunity.
WAR WOUNDED DEMONSTRATE
Munich, March 26,
The Conservative leader, Winston Churchill, may repeat the demand he made two weeks ago that Western Europe cannot be defended properly without the active participation of Western Germany. A Conservative spokes- on said Mr. Churchill is not proposing. German
rearmament. -United Press,
PAKISTAN AIR CHIEF IN U.K..
London, March 20. Air Vice-Marshal Richard L. R. Atcherley, Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistan Air Force, atziv- ed here by alr from Karachi today to inspect the training of Pakistan airmen in Britain and to discuss the purchase of equip ment.
"We might be very interested in jet fighters, but not jet bom- berg", he said. Several thousand angry war
Three hundred Pakistan Air injured whistled and brandished Force members are now training crutches to how! down an official at Cranwell and other Royal Air
who tried to answer their grie- | Force centres.-Reuter, vances at a protest meeting of their organisation here today.
of
ter.
Reater.
News
MOSCOW VIEW OF KMT BOMBINGS
Moscow, March 26.
A "Red Fleet" article charged today that the Shanghal bomb- ings by the Kuomintang air force are being personally led by highly placed American officers.
The paper quoted the Chinese Agency Sin Hua as Its authority and referred to the presence in Cook and Taiwan of Charles Major-General Dennis of the US. Air Force Associated Press.
AIRPORT STRIKE
Most of them belong to the Communist General Confederation of Labour-Reuter.
Paris, March 26. Also prevented from speaking The Pope appealed for practi-
was Herr Alfred Loritz, head of
The Hague, March 20. One hundred and fifty Air" cal justice for those who, borne
General Jose. Philippo Rod-France security workers at Orly, West Germany's Economic Ro down by economie conditions,
riguez, the Portuguese Army Chief the largest Parks airport, today sometimes lack even the funda-construction Party. mental necessities.
The Injured had addressed a of Staff, arrived by train here to staged a sit-down strike.
They claimed that about half protest to
He was welcomed by the city authorities night. All Christians should aid the demanding enough money to Major-General W. Bray of the the total number of security wor- poor and under-privileged. He exist on jobs and the dismissal Dutch Army and by the Portu-kers were paid a security bonus prayed that from the contem in their favour of married couples guese Minister to the Netherlands, while they were not. plation of the Easter drama who were both femployed-Reus, Mr. M.EO. de Oliveira Barros divine expiation of human guilt there might arise concord among the nations, peace on earth and eternal blessing.
The Pope was carried procession into the Basilica, pre- ceded by the Crucifix of St. Mar- tho cellus. After the ceremony vast congregation knelt 10 receive a blessing given with the Lance with which, according to tradition, Christ was pierced upon the Cross-Router.
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"Whether we like it or not, the Japanese are our neighbours. In the Pacife. By degrees we have to learn to treat them as such | herd, again, the newspaper, stated, gi
"Trada is being being resumed she had family. troubles.
and its development will - even-
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representatives. Mald banker and insurance man, cloped
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