Wearing the uniform of Commodore of BA Rangers Princess Margaret is seen as she arrived at Waterloo Station on her way to Portsmouth to visit
the
"Foudroyant" (tate Implacable), last of the Royal Navy's calling" frigates. The *Foudrayant Committee. National Maritime Museum, Green- wich, hopes to raise £60,000 to restore the woodan vessel. bulit in Bombay in 1817, and to endow hollday training courses on board for boysland girls. (AP Photo),
Another Russian walk-out at the United Nations
Lake Success, Juno 1.
| Russia walked out of the United Nations Trustee- ship Council today after being overwhelm- ingly dofcated in its latest attempt to expel the Chinose Nationalist delegation: Alexander Soldatov, third-ranking member of the Soviet delegation, walked out after the Coun. cil had voted nine to one against his motion to exclude the Nationalist delegate, S.S. Liu,
its members,
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1050.
U.S. ARMS AID FOR EUROPE
Truman asks Congress. for immediate funds
SURVIVAL OF DEMOCRACY
Washington, June 1 President Truman today asked Congress to provide $1,222,500,000 for a QUERON 10 o second year of the arms aid programmb, marine He said: "Delay in supplying the money might strike a fatal blow at all our efforts to create the kind of peace which the free world seeks, and would lessen our chances of continuing to live and work in freedom." The fund would finance arms shipments to more than a dozen fordign na- tions, including Atlantlë Paet allies, during the fiscal year beginning tirring-the-datel your figgioning hexr July 18ing. Alhaur
The $1,222,500,000 requestd‹l by Mr. Truman is slightly loss than the $1,314,010,000 which Congress appropriated last year to help 13 natlons rearm against Communism.
Mr. Truman made the request in his arst semi-atunual report to Congress on the handling of the first year's programme, which be gan last aufumn:
Bocking up his request, Mr. Truman said, "'The momentum already gained rust, under no circumstances, be lost, because, once lost, it is doubtful that it st any can ever be recaptured cost.
The President gave this break- down as to how the money would be spent:
North Atlantle Trenty nations- $1,000,000,000. This would go for weapons and training pro- grumme and would include $75,- 000,000 for raw materials and
Western
MIL. TRUMAN
He urged Congress to change machinery needed to boost mill-prezent laws to make it possible tary production in
to sell American arma under ap- Europe.
propriate safeguards to nations not covered specifically in the present legislation.
China area
General area of China-$75,- 000,000. The President said that this money was needed to con- tinue and expand upon prasen! the programmes for helping non Communist forces in this area that are now engaged or are in danger of being engage In active conflict with militant
Communist elements.
The President did not specify the exact number of countrios As he left the building, he | Council sessions no long as the re- told photographers: "I hope presentative of the "Kuomintang which would share in the Ameri-
can arms ald programme, you will take as many pleturca group" was recognised as one of
Greece
and Turkey-$120,000,- when I return." But there was
000 to furnish basic cupilai equip. concrete evidence to In-
ment and spare parts and help to dicate the early expulsion of sald no challenge to the Nation-modernise their defences. the Nationalists and the returnalists was raised at the Council's Persia, the Philippines and of the Soviets.
wlutor session in Geneva, which Korea $27,500,000. The
report wild that this would. pay
nu
Replying immediately, Mr. Liu
for
He had in mind nations whose increased ability to defend them- selves against aggression is im portant to the security of the United States,
sought authority to charge such At the same time the President countries less-than-prices cost for used, deteriorated or obsolescent equipment, asserting that the price should be the present zal value.
He also asked Congress to let these nations buy buy American arms on AN Instalment plan Instead of paying the full price in advance as required now.
Grim struggle
In the vote--closely watched the Russians had boycotted with
The President told Congress after Trygve Lie's mission to the out even sending a representative. equipment and training to help that the ability of democracy to world's four major capitals in an He referrel to Mao Tse-lung's tho. Forsian army present a firm stavive now depends
upon the effort to eat the United Nations Peking, Government as a "bogus stand in defence of independence ability of democracy to defend it- impasse concerning Chinese re-puppet regime which today is against strong Soviet pressures wresentation--Britain and Argen, solutely oppoded by the Chinese and help the Philippine and South tina abstained,
Korean Governments to maintain Russia cast the
people
sale
vote to eject the Nationalit The 'United
Republic
France, Chinn,
moment
"There is no alternative course except abandonment of freedom itself because the Soviet Union has no compassion, for weakness. Que hope must, therefore, -llo in creating the kind of defensive strength among ourselves and our friends which the Soviet Union will not dare to, test; ver
"This can be done, and it must be done."-Reuter.-.
Five strikes in London
London, June 1,
Five unomical strikes, in- volving a total of 1,000 men, caused costly delays in the docks and the callway, power, and huling | Industrine,Í London today while two! thirds of the city's taxi dri vom ikroatened to strikan an Friday.
:t;:
"A walk-ous of 200
bargo men, angered by the dismissal
01. 14, cone for Ratuning
to handla
sugar, ahlas.
mente "mund the clook stowed the, dlaçbalps of cars
London.
Five hundred men läft their constructiqk' Jobs' at' tbe- Fer- Lival of Britain albe, because they heard that two monsunion- men were working omia tu! nel: pagnectlug, the site, with the Waterloo railway station. Freight! «piled up' at the Bricklayers Atme gooda de pot where: 260 "truck": drivere and púardo' struck on grounds, that the foreman had... tane seniority than some of hii fallows--Baited Press. -
European effort
to co-operate in trade matters
ti
Paris, Jung 1
European partners in the Marshall Plan meet on Friday to try to inch closer to the full ecang- mie co-operatiam 'Almerica has demonded. Cabinet Ministers from the 17 areas which it get Marshal aid are expected, to spend host. of their one-day, meeting talk- ing about the complex Euro pean Payments Union (EPU).
"The Soviet Union has dedicat internal order in the face of Com-ed itself to the destruction of de|| munlat threats.
mocracy and everything. It To Mr. Truman also asked for presents, and is waging a grim sortie form of limited authority in struggle to make the entire free
to
the event of an emergency, divert a small-portion of money earmarked for any specific area.
No effect on decisions Iroq, As Mr. Soldatov stalked out of the Dominican the
chamber Fradels Surra and Belgium
voted (United States) told the Council: against the Russion motion. "Neither this Courici nor other Mr. Soldatov offered his motion. United Nationa organisations and as soon as the outgoing President; | agencies can for one Roger Garreau of France, opened agree to the doctrine that the the meeting. Mr., Soldatov said wilful absence of a single meth« Russin could not participate in ber een have any effect whatever validity of decisions
He declared, "With the con- cracy is very kcay of demo. timulation of Soviet probings
is acceptance by all of the weak spots in the security struc- will of the majority, undani turo of the free world, emergency system which protedis of the minority,řín, 1, Bituations of this character
SALT TAX HALVED IN CHINA
taken.
the
The
Emergency may
"well arise'
for
may
well arise and require prompt
M. Carreau
remarked that he and positive action by the United considered "indecent," Mr. Solda- States."
Love choice of words in attacking
the Chinese Nationalist delegate
body.
San Francisco, June 1. before the Rusalan staged the 31st Counell hears the outgolag Pre
a United sident's report on the inter- The Peking authorities had Soviet valkout from
nationalisation of Jerusalem. cut the salt tax by 50, per Nations Russian walk-out, Then, at the request of fraq, it cent in relation to the indus the Counell clocked Dr. Max will turn to other subjects on the trial and household use of Henriques Urnea of the Domini-agenda for about a week before this commodity, a Communist can Republic, as President for the debating the problem et Jeru- broadcast from the Chinese current session, Tomorrow the salem-United Press. capital said tònight?'*-
Made by the Committee of Financial and Economic Affairs' of the Peking Cabinet, the.re duction, would bring down
the
price of salt for everyday use. The cut would alsą, reduce the cost of the manufacture of goods containing salt, the broadcast said.
Merchants who had already pakt the tax at the old rate would
work slaves.
This scheme, it is hoped, will dealings and place European trade put an end to most bilateral on a multilateral basis.
Also on the length is a joint Franco-British proposal resulting from the Foreign Ministers Con- ference in London three weeks go to invite the US and Canada to take part in European Mar- shall Planmectings.
Revelation by Yugoslav officers
Belgrade, June 1. Moscow's Military Attache in Belgrade sounded senior. Yugo- slav. Army officers after. The Tito-Cominform split on their reaction if: Russia attacked! and promised that the Sovieta The Ministers, meeting as the Counell of the Organisation for would go "right through to the European Economie Co-opera-end" in the dispute it was tion, also are to discuss possible stated at a treason trial here closer relations with the Council today.. of Europe.
wo partisan officers, 30-year- old Branka Petricovic, who be-
la Auto's wartime resistance 34-year-old Vlado Dapcevic, who became a Colonel; faced trist.for high
military espionage, Committees of both have been working off how to get the disaffection in
in the
Army. two bodies more closely.. 10.
'Both accused, who were arrest-
The Committee of Ministers, or Upper House of the Council ol Europe, convenes in Paris.
on
Saturday It is made up of 19
of the nations which also are in the OEEC.
mittee, made up ef Ministera from Turkey, France and Britain, met on Thursday to finish its port on the problem of collabor-. allon..
"No nation can be neutral, for a serious outbreak anywhere on earth inevitably affects everyone. Consequently, the task of {m The OEEC Committee is creasing the ability of free nations posed of delegates
ates (sam) to defend themselves 13 a matter Sweden and. Switzerland.
The general
of vital and mutual interest to all treedom-loving people,
AURIOL TO VISIT
1.
· UNITED STATES
Washington: June President Auriol of France, will visit the United States next March, the While House an nounced today.
It said that the President and Madame Auriol' are' expected ito come to the United States for a State visit in the second half lot March, 1031Router. -
New security measures taken against guerillas in Malaya
strengthened, Singapore, June 1. The British War. Minister, added. be refunded, it was added. Mr. John Strachey, winds up
At the sa
came a Major-vement, and
desertlarning toTMspread",
me
The Council of Europe's Com-ed-on-the Rumanian border.... August, 1948, two months after the Cominform's denunciation of Marshal Tito, were sald to have confessed to the charges.
indictment - alleged that they contacted ↑ Major
Generel Georgi
Sidorovic, the Soviet Mill- tary Attache
in Belgrade, who commissioned
Yugoslav," Army leaders if Russia aked. Yugo slavia and whether Yugoslav bops were moving towards the Albanian border.
com Italy,
atmosphere for
Friday's: meeting +1 regarded as the attitude of to and rout
more optimistic than, at any time in recept:months.
U.S.
W. Averell. Harriman, Marshall Plan Ambrindar, is ta beat Friday's. metting as an observer-Associated Press
They were also said to be try- ing to get to Moscow to organise an anti-Tito movement there, Reuter.
EXTENSION OF AMAZING CASE IN DRAFT ASKED
SOUTH AFRICA
Capetown, Juno"
A young Malay school,teacher, Washington, June 1. Latiefa", Hehardien, was † found: The Defence Secretary, "Loula guilty here today of contravening Johnson, today asked for an railway "apartheid" regulations by extension of peacetime cor-leaning against -a- railway: bênçã scription to make it clearly reserved for European
Apartheid literally "separated understandable to the worldness the polloy of
that the U.S. proposes to keep Europeans, African, Cape colour, itself strong.
ad persons and
Mr. Johnson
Armed Service 191d the Senate. Behardien adia
Committee that the Magistrate's court and die the 1843 draft law waste of charged.
The prosecutor, said that the the, decisive factors in stopping the spread of Communism in Eu- original charge against Behardien make that manifestation of our
our.mulations had fecedily: beste de- rope He added the need to had been aminded because the ris clear, Iclared ultra vires in the "Appellate
Division: Thefamendoder cus had been framed under new
form the basis of the, Atina Division's decision-Reuser-
the statement the proceeds were finding their
why into the hands of guerillas. Chinese village guards are be Maximum prison terms for this same time the broad-itis tour of Malayu tomorrow in organised and the number offence bavo, gow been extended Government sources suggested cast reported that, since the oe after getting asull as Bembibite of Chinese in the regular police
and special constabularly in that the Malaydi Chinese repre- cupation of Shanghai by the a briefing on the anti-guerilla creased.
sentation to the British Colonial Communists, the city's food super campaign, witch was stennes Bly had beer constant and sun-up gain today with new closest possible flaison between Royal
Other: steps will ensure the Secretary, Mr. Jaraes Grimth Ho
to invers elent. It had not been necessity cecurity measures.
tipole "the. the administration and people, to Import any
Malay fa rico-contrary to NE
Du Play, Ai In the last week Mr. Strachey
statement said, previous practice.
grolips and It was further reported that has scop milltary private factories all over China their contmanders in the States were being helped through a dim af Selangor Nege! Somblian,
Malneca, Pabang”Paraki”. Kadah:
cult period by big orders og Perang. And in athaka placed with them
by State Indus
gone into the position with trial and commercial enterprise.***
The Broadcast said that many police, army and civil beads.
The Malafan Folátil Govern mentat Kuala Lumpur today statement" outlining prica nuatuss
price
thair
tions
ning
not
cam
The
No
* spectacular results can be ex- - posted for the time, being bat it'ls hoped that in due coursi
me shoʻyangita will (moluasiavindas Increased, flavt of Informatigh fromadka taw-abiding, pópula,
"PSP.
Ho asked for
three-year, ex- tension of the law
law due to on way regulations which did June, 24, The House has voted a extension with a pros two year vision blocking mejual, inductions no question of feroing an issue. | until Congress, by wigint' rosqlur
However,
they
thern
If the Malay rulers, desidation, decrees that ion emergency against such commission exists. In effect the Bill would
there will beɛnonej..
The issue sprape from.
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[registration and¦n classificat
ment made by the en publicity. | punaranine for males: Front: chairman of the Miniaran Chi Association, Toni, Sjew:
day followingja
Two more steps. In the - anti- guerilla war ́ become": "effectivd|ference
death penalty, comes falo,
sapla who collect sub-
Xscrivo, supplies, in
miga of the': Com-
ween Mr
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