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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 15, 1950.
Poland in grip of the Soviet
Warsaw, June 14.
Political geography casts a Red hue over Poland today. She is surrounded on land by the Soviet-allied Czechoslovakia, and Soviet-oc- cupied East Germany,
Her only sea coast is the Baltic, militarily a Soviet lake. A garrison of 60,000 Soviet troops guards vital East-West communications in- side the country. Polish defence ly in the hands of n Soviet Marshal with dual citizenship.
Windows on the Weat Arc slammed shut, on all phases of Poland's to,
The Government and the Com- munist Party are as one. Under the pseudonym. Polish United Workers, the party has 1,500,000 members controls
24,000,000 Poles.
Stalln
The Government halls as "our preat loader." It says of the United States:
"American imperialists, war- mongers, patrons of Hitlerian war criminals and Japanese prisoners and breeders of deadly bacteria, are planning a new slaughter."
of
The Polish-Soviet Friendship Society boasts membership 2,642,000. A Communist-olfleered youth association numbers 1,125,- 000.
Russian planos
Under Red banners, 000,000 Polos marched on May Day in four cities. They were armed, the Communist Party said, "with the invincible weapon of Marx's, Engels, Lenin's and Stalin's Iden, united by alliance atul friendship with the great Soviet Union,"
But they had other arms, too. Polish armen New Soviet-made Yak and lyushin fighters, TU and PE bombers.
Polch paratr ops rode by in Soviet trucks, armoured crews in Saviot tanks, and gunners
on Soviet self-propelled artillery.
The
Polish internal security police are estimated at 200,000, equalling the armed forces, in size.
About 00,000 are plain- elothes agents.
Warsaw's self-doseribed "pro letorian dicatorship" is not satis lied by security conditions, how- Ever.
President Bolesław Bierut
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CLEANING & MENDING
The index figure on banditry is dropping but vie cannot ne gleet it. The special fury of the class enemy Is aroused by the progress In production of en- opuratives (coller Ivisation) in tural areas.
Economic sabotage
"At the present stage, the enemy Increasingly utilises the weapon of economic sabotage. We cannot overlook the damage done
to Industry. This harm also consists of acts of diver. Bion.
"Our task is the rapid detection of agencies and fighting methods of the class enemy, who is mask- ed and perfilious.
OIL AGREEMENT RATIFICATION
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Swiss ordered to lay up extra food
Berke, June 13,
The Bwire Government to- day ordered that the omer. genoy food atacks to bo tald up by every Swles household In case of war, must be au- sembled by the end of Bep- tembar,
For the two-month period which the Government on- timates food Imports would be cut off by a Europann war, each household must hold stocks including saven pounds of sugar, four pounds of cook- Ing Tate and 12 pounds of rice, flour or cats-Router.
Greece wants
wants extension
of the Atlantic Treaty
Paris, Juno 13.
Greece wants the. Atlantic Pact, extended to in- clude Greece, Turkey and Iran, it was dis- closed in Paris today.
Sophocles Venizelos, Liberal Party leader and pro-
The
bably next Foreign Minister of Greece, told the Associated Press that the Atlantic Pact should be extended to protect the Eastern Mediterranean against possible Russian at- tack,
Russia should attack the Dardanelles, he added, "it uld mean a general war, Eastern Mediterranean should be armed and ready." ASYLUM GRANTED Venizelos, who conferred In Faris recently with Nicholas Plastiras, raid that he had agreed lo accept the past of Foreign Minister and Vice-President when he returns to Athens, probably la mid-July.
TO HOUDEK
Teheran, June 13. The Persian Prime Minister, All Mansur, today received the consent of the Majlis (Farlin- ment) to a motion which ho tabled to place on the jagenda
Washington, June 13. The United States granted tem-} a Bill to ratify a supplementary oil agreement between theporary asylum today to Vladimir Government of Persia and the loudek, former United Nations representative of Czechoslovakia, Anglo-Iranion Oil Company.
ou the grounds that if he went When the ratification Bill was
home his life would be forfeit. before the Majls Inst year,
Since Houdek has resigned his minority members staged a four-post but has not openly renounced day fillibuster which prevented a Communism, the State Depart- ment told him in effect that if he engages In Communist propagarvia ho may be deported immediately. lie may remain as long as his behaviour is good.
vote.
Under the agreement, It was stated then, the royalties were te be increased from four to six shillings a tou, and the excise on oil was to be raised from nine; pence to a shilling a ton.
Ali Mangur today appointed Sadegh Voceghi, the presen Director of the Teheran Mortgage Bonit, to the Mininstry of Na- Ronal Eccuomy, left vacant by the resignation of Dr. All Amini
It was considered here that the Premier nus consolidated tals Government's position, recently described by the Persian Press as "totdering."
The leader of the Majlis Op- position,
today Dr. Mossalegh, failed In an attempt to indue the Majlis to cancel the Shah's constitutional prerogative to dis- solve Parliament.—Reuter.
"PEACE ECONOMY IN RUSSIA"
Geneva, June 13. The Soviet delegate, A.A Arutiuninn, told the United Ny- tinns Economic Commission for Europe today that Rusain was too
to have a war economy. busy turning out consumer goods
Mr. Arutintunian said the So- viet had achieved greater succes. ses than any Western European country in inerenaing mechanilga- tion of industry, increasing in- dustrial and -ngricultural produc- tion and increasing the supply of consumers' goods. The amount
of consumers' goods sold in Rus- year than in 1940. sla was 20 per cent higher last
"It is not surprising that the decaying reactionary-Faseist mite is transforming itself into a nest of spies and diversionists, per- furning their dirty work for the tadig fartories of lies, financed by Amerienn or British, Francoist or German-Vatican warmongers. not for public consumption,"
"There is
is necessity for prolee- tion of State secreip."
The Communist Party ordered "richer ideological con- tent" in the Polish Press.
The Government has written a law for a new Ministry of Higher Schools and Science, explaining:
"Polish science can now benefit from
the experience of Soviet sclence,
which is the leading Befence in the world."
In the Warsaw coffee houses, disillusioned leftists of the intel
gentslo qulp: "We live in the half of the world where lying is obligatory. In the other half,
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GRANT TO KOREA
Washington, June 14. Korea today was allotted $1,- 135,000 to buy industrial and mintag machinery in the U.S. and Japan under the Marshall plan, Koren so far has
$112,- received ECA 314,000 in
In
alher
the Netherlands was allotted $5,817,000 to buy Amēriens wheat and flour Austria $300,000 for non-ferrou metals from Canada and Denmark
transactions.
$357,000 for copper from Latin
America.-Associated Press.
Houdek broke with the Czech Government and resigned on May 16. Associated Press.
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He indicated that ns Foreign Minister he would press Greek demands for formul membership In the 12-nation Atlantic Paci He added that Turkey and Iran should also be included to form it steel
barrier in the Eastern Mediterranean against Soviet ex- paisfun. Mr.
Venizelos sakl "Greece hopes that Britain will return the stund of Cyprus to Greece. As it stands now it is very difficult for Grenec to take a active part in representing the Greek people's interests Cyprus.
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"Greece naturally would co- operate fully in grunting the use of any military bates required b "Greek-British relations are very the Western Allies," he added. good and we have hopes
that
Cyprus will be returned to Greece Just as were the Aeolian Islands.”
Strong army
Mr. Venizelos conferred today with the U.S. Ambassador to France, Mr. David K. Bruce, The subject of their talks was nob diaclosed.
Mr. Venizelos plans to leave tomorrow' for London, where ho may confer with British Foreign Office officinis. Ho la due to re- turn to France on Saturday and underge treatment for a liver) ailment at Vichy.
He described Greeec's new Government |middle-of-the-road
ng the strongest since the war. He foresees no new GovernmÓNG eriscs.—Associated. Preas.
STATE HELPING TRADERS
San Francisco, June 14.
trading Intersta in
China's
wartime capital. were receiving practical arsistance to the Stale-owned Trading Company there to tide them
over present difficulties: Peking Radio said tonight.
Mr. Venizelosald that
Private Grocce's army of 200,000 in strong enough now to meet any ¦ Chungking, renewed Communist guerilla warfare. "The Greek army lo now one of the best in Europe, thanks to American training and equipment," he added. He predicted that the military mission would remain in Greece for some nie to instruct Greek troops in the use of new U.S. equipment
U.S.
The private concefas receiving help dealt in a wide range of commodities including cloth, glass, boots, cotion yarn, hog bristles cual, and goatskins, tung oil, alcohol, rubber, towels and knit-
He also predicted a friendly settlement of the long-standing wear. Greck-Yugoslov dispute over The Trading Company had Macedonia, the mountainous re- spent billions of Communist glon separating the two countries. dollars in buying goods from the "Yugoslavia is now on good terms private trading firms, the Radio with Greece," he said,
kald.--Reuter.
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