FRANCE IN DIFFICULT POSITION; RUSSIAN THREAT A REAL ONE
Paris, June 11.
The French, like the inside of a camembert choos v, are often, not all they
are supposed to be,
Australian pound to be revalued?
Canberra, June 10.
The Federal Cabinet dis- cussed the re-valuation of the Australian Pound here today.. but made no firin decision, f was authoritatively learned.
Since the war the dust has hardly had time to settle
on the crash of one Government after another, new Cabinets kicking old ones out of their cradles.
What, to the foreign spectator, could look more
unstable and unhealthy?
Yet it is also deceiving.
the decision .of their policy- For one thing. It hidesį makers, which, of all the Western the fact that France's dealings | Allles, presses them closest with foreign Powers have been in against the Russian side of the the hunds of one party all the time nutcracker. without a break, and that only two inen of that party have been Foreign Ministers.
Central fact
What is the strength of France in her dealings with Britain and Well-informed sourges said that the United States? To what ex- tack agreemerd WUR rachettent is her Foreign Minister hold leaving a decision to the Premiering back or dragging with him the stat to the Treasurer, Mt. Arthur opinion of the French people in William Faden, with the Cabines these great matters? giving intication that it was in favour of Бане measure of re-valuation.
teacher, sald that a certain men- attre of agreement between the Liberal Party and Country Party
Perhaps the only current of jopinion ùgainst the polley-makers which comes anything near to being a positive thing is a yearning for some kind of neutrality.
Some policy-makers, not 80 long ago, were even speculating briety and vaguely on the vision of France at the head vt a European "Third Force," neutral, self-sumclent (with its overseas territories), preserving its own values and one day perhaps be- ellation,
the nucleus of world re-
The central fuet is that since the end of the war-apitet from the Schumas plan-France has not had the material power to be anything period of eclipse, is now reappear- This neutrailty idea, after a Other sources, while dens more than camp-follower of ing among some, private groups. that a tacit understanding was Britain and the U.S. in forelyn But it presents the policy-makers,
policy.
who have abandoned the Iden, Instead of boldly originating with no real problem. At heart policy on its own, France has had the pro-neutrals themselves are
polley to that of the English- speaking world, not being able to Consequently, B revaluation lead and not wanting isolation.
With this goes the fact that at of seven add a half to 10 po cent! becomes a possibility, they said.
no time in contemporary history According to the Melbourne
has publie opinion on foreign **Herald" the Cablist
mecting affairs in France run ahead of the was told that let your's devalua-feial ideas of the polley-makers tion was a major factor in eaus |—not even when Hitler marched ing the price rise the Govern into the Ruhr. ment was trying to check.
members in the composite Cabinet | successively to adapt its foreign about the idea cver being |
- was reached.
Since the groot egression of
has been equivalent to 16 shillings
sferling wonki mean a case of 25 per cent.
The policy-makers in France, have always led public opinion
The comfort to them is that neutrality is an ident about which they can be positive and hold positive about elther side of the world nutcracker, American technical society or Soviet Com- munism,
מה
Contrast
over-comforting
conclusion
Few of the given facts in the The American-style conflict on foreign
the 1930s The Australtun Pound (though ieri rather than dragged. from the lack in France of an because the gap between officia! sterling. Its return to parity with the street has not been so im- policy and the notions of the man possibly wide as to engender large resistance and conflict. (Com
force munists, powerful France, ure here excluded as not being free to reach undictated opinion).
Arcording to the Melbourne "Beak". reports to the Cabinet had sail that devaluation caused price tarreases of many Imported goods and local goods produced terials for which from raw prices were fixed by world parity, Wages had chased prices.
Devaluation had driven the cog
in
In
two
those of the personality
countries are parallel-even of the Foreign Minister himself.
their
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De Gasperi warns
Italy
of nationalism's errors
Morrison on Russia
Mr. Morrison told
a
meeting of women at nearby Huddersfield: "The Russian Government wants. to conquer the world, for the
It would be inept to try to draw Premior Alcide de Gasperi solemnly warned Italy today
Romo, June 10,
the 10th annivor- sary of Mussolini's "stab in the back declaration of war" --to remem- Premier, speaking in the Chamber of Deputies ber the errors of blazing nationalism.
in reply to a charge that his government is pursuing a foreign policy dominated by armis- Acheson is now passing through storm and stress largely because
tice psychosis", did not mention the anniver- Public opinion is often well upgarded as a professorial stranger he is not a party man, but is re-
sary. behind official policy on foreign within the Administration's gates; tory and the passionate judgment slavin-the Premier called för He said, however, that the his- lations between Italy and Yugo- affairs-but probably more often and he
having to woo the
London, June 10, when official policy is defensive Senate and pubile like a doctor of the immediate post-war period calm consideration of the subject. Russia will not dare star! and even negative; though when
The problem, he said, must be war as long as the free coun- Poincare .sent French troops into Trying to persuade a plngue-must be remembered.
"Youth should meditate," he con- considered in its broad aspects. wool "its present fantastic the Rhineland in 1922 the man ridden jungle tribe that he is ontinued. "on the errors we all have
side when he prescribes
conflict between Italy and tries of the West stick together, level" and and so forced up prices the street approved (only to public health measures that violate made and it would be a sin for Yugoslavia cannot be considered the Deputy Prime Minister, of many other farm commodities change his mind two years later
any government-even if it cost alone, he continued, because Mr. Herbert Morrison, declar- that the spending pool of easy and overthrow Poincare, because their own tribal superstitions.
In France there is no important their electoral position-not to should war break out it would be ed today. money has been disastrously in France had isolated herself.)
these errors came more universal.” of stress, that the
from creased."
In France, as in many other Cry (such as Acheson hears)
"Schuman must go."
mistaken theories and ideas Demand rejected than from men." countries only extremely rarely The newspaper cald that ceonus does public opinion try to spur
The Christian Democrat leader Italian Foreign Minister, had dealt Previously, Count Carlo Sforza, mists advising the Cabinet en the policy-makers in a
Unquestioned a positive way.
spoke at the conclusion of a Cham- advisability of re-valtation
Schuman is a party man and, ber debate on the government's directly with the Trieste problem, principles of Communist dictator- to Certainly now the average French-unlike Acheson, is the unquestion- overcome f price crisis, Woman shows no strong desire to
policy on
on Trieste.
rejecting pro-Communist demands believed to be widely divided.-
initiate or force the hand of Gov-polies. He does not, again unlike consequences and the conduct of led spokesman of French foreign
"We cannot forget the errors, the that Italy support Russia's position. ship. We and the United States Jetter.
ernment in foreign relations,
This demand, by Pietro Nenni, and France and the other fred There is very little sniping from Acheson, have to stump the coun-a regime that carried the state to
leader
the pre-Communist countries of Westem Europe have the wings at official polley, except, try making speeches for an im-destruction. Any misunderstand-
Itailan Socialist Party, included Kot together la the Atlantic Pact. Communists and plied popular referendum on his ing of this kind would be a re-
withdrawal of Allied
We are putting together all our course, by
from the Trieste free territory, do form a joint defence that will troops armies and navies and air forces sponsibility tha Gaullists. Even at the present foreign policy.
that the government stage of the East West split (and that the French parties and people
What is doubtful, however, is cannot assume."
appointment of a governor and
be strong enough to frighten off with the Russians only a few
Deputy Pugile!mo Giannini of
establishment of a territory gov. Communist imperialists and the Not binly archaeologists will hundred land-miles away nobody would behave with any more the now almost defunct "Common ernment A provided by the
Italian
would-be war-mongers. regret
damage has ang illusion about what would cohesion if France were in the re- Men Party" bad inspired the Pre- talian peace treaty, caused by
These lative position of the United States mier's spirited reply with his de- earth-happen to the recent
France in a new war,)
provisions have been
"As long as we free countries quake to Cuzco in Peru, once public anxiety does not show it-and called on to lend the cold mand for a militant and aggressive hung up on the inability of the stick together in this way und hil
war, confront Russia with hard
Big Four powers to agree on a the capital of the amazing Inca self in opposition to Government wa
policy.
do our fair share in making our reality and finance much of the Empire-For-Cuzco -is-by-foreign policy.
is necessary for the allies to candidate for governor.
joint-defences strong we`bave"no" remember," he had told the Cham-
Following de Gasperi's speech fear of war. But neither does the anxiety ex-rest of the free world, means a city of Inca ruins only. press Itself in people urging the In the meantime French policy-ber, "that they conquered Fascism and a brief rebuttal by Nehni, Kremlin won't dare to start one The men of the their policy-makers into bolder, more makers are successfully developing and not Italy: that the new Demo- the Chamber relected The Spaniards played
the So- and we shall be sure of peace. part in rebuilding it, and you rapid measures.
and maturing public opinion on cratic Italy is among the con- cialist dermand by a vocie vote. will
It also rejected another pro-. Bad some of the finest This is not necessarily due to Foreign affairs-even on such ex-querors and has full rights under
"And if Moscow should change relations with the new international reality and posal which called for Italy's its line and seek peace and co- examples of colonial architecture apathy among the mosses of the plosive issues as
Germany. The evolution of the within the remains of its ancient here is that the mass of Americans French opinion over Germany in Charter must be respected,"
French people. The conviction
principles of the Atlantic denunciation of the peace treaty operation we shall be ready to unless Trieste were returned. respond most heartily."-United Giannini had also contended Associated Press.
¡Press. The Cathedral--is seventeenth would never have been stirred the last two years has been sur-
prising.
that the war continues. century, its high altar completely from their basle lack of interest
of
Side by side
Inca wall.
the
severe
THREAT TO WAR OFFICE
Scotland
Sharp reply
This concept, the Premfor re- plied sharply, could not be ad- mitted and furthermore it is not i to be admitted that war la Inevitable.
in Europe if General Marshall Europe perhaps this is one of its If there is a future at all for covered with silver; yet almost in President Truman and others had the town's centre stands the │**
best ossurances. Temple of the Sun-he Inen deity Europe. Sold a Frenchman the not made them pay out dellors to un which all depented.
Squatting about the streets you and polemics about Europe among the other day: "The passions will And your i typieni
South
Americans соле from their American Indians stolid, indif-
"It is necessary," he continued, "to pockets." ferent, and apparently indolent,
extinguish in youth the illusion for living at close on 12,000 feet
In now wor
London, June 10,
that war would be a solution to the does not encourage physicul
Yard recelved an problems of the nation." The negativeness of the French fanonymous telephoned threat to- agility.
He said that heroism and sacri- Nevertheless, they will walk an is as though they were trying not would be dynamited and hastily duty of "we men of experience, people's attitude to foreign affairs day that the British War Offee flee did attract youth, but it is the incredible number of miles to to see either side of the giant threw at extra guard of uniform-aged in the midst of war, to in-
their brightly-coloured nutcracker in which their country ed and shawls and ruga and hand-painted is inescapably caught and in which around the Army nerve centre in not only of the majority party but plainclothes officers culcate the love of peace the duty lentherware.
they would probably be crushed Whitehall, As for the Inca ruins them-in a new
all parties." selves, ferry-builders might well
Senior Yard officials, recalling Yet with no Channel no army similar threats
Anti-armistice thinking, when study them. They show perfect or air force worth the nome little building in the past year, did not lead fatally to war thinking," on government not limited to dignity and pride, stonework and a sound knowledge heavy industry and an empty rule out the possibility of a hoax he said. of what we call modern architec-treasury, it is unthinkable to most but took по chances. United ture.
French that they should combat Press.
Referring to Trieste a question which has brought worsening re-
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war
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