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SCHUMAN REPEATS INVITATION TO UK TO JOIN IN TALKS
'Paris, Juho 20. .
The French Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schuman, today opened at tho French Foreign Office the six-nation conference on his plan for morg- ing European coal and steel industries. Delegates from France, Western Germany, Italy, Belgium, Holland
Luxembourg were present when he launched what has been called by its supporters the greatest industrial experiment in European his-
tory,
...
and
M.. Schuman, regretted Britain's absence, and hoped that even now British
doubts and scruples would give way in the end.
JAKARTA TALKS ON VIETNAM
"We cannot conceive Europe without her", sald M. Schuman
the "We know that
British Government desires the success of our labours and this reassures
us,
animated by an innovating bold- neas that is too often absent from our international Institutions,
our
"Without losing sight of the in- dividuni requirements of countries we must be conscious of the fact that today the na. tional Interest consists precisely in anding beyond national Himits the means
of realising a more- rational economic structure, 1 more economical Intensive production, larger and more accessible market, which 4
will bè negotiations "Our better and more than the Bar- row
bargginings egotistical which turn their backs alike an the acceptance of rick-and-on the granting of confidence.
"Certain differeneca of view which prevented her from parti- elpating actively, at least at this stage, appeared in the course of an exchange of views which was a frank as it was friendly.
"We preserve the hope that the doubts and scruples, tended reasoning that doctrinal could not overcome, will of Indo-end by giving way before more
concrete demonstrations."
Saigon, June 20.
and well-informed Generally sources today predicted that five South East Asian na- tions will shortly confer on whether to recognise the new
States associate
China-Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia..
These sources sald delegates from Burma, India, Korea, the Philippines and Indonesia will probably meet in Jakarta, Indo- nesia, to examine the Indo- Chinese situation.
All five have, previously stated they want adequate information on the current situation before re- cognising the three States asso- clated with the French Union.
to bo
Britain, though not taking part In the project, in being kept in- formed on the talks.
Solid edifice
M. Schuman sald thot the essential thing about the plan was the substitution of an e- lightened co-operation for the old practices of dumping crimination.
"Our concluslous, as you know, will be submitted to the appre- ciation of nur Governmeals and to the sovereign deeision of our Parliaments.
"None of un here is unaware of
the exceptional difficulties of what and, dis-we are undertaking. Equally Important WAS the eliminating certain prospect of
latent cause of trouble, mie trust and · anguish from the European community.
even
"But a system like the one we are envisaging has never been ex- perienced. In fact the States have never confided, nor visaged delegating in common a fraction of the sovereignty to an It was hoped to build a solid independent supra-national
ganisation." European nations of goodwill, The delegates, he said, would
defended Schuinan
These Include the Vietnamese regime headed by ex-Emperor Bao Dal, which is engaged In jungle warfare against Commu-European edince accessible to all nist-supported rebels led by Ho Chi-minh. Russia and Communist M. China have recognized the Ho regime.
the
palley of haste in getting the plan moving. This policy had been The sources here sald Vietnam described as fast, he said, but, in would send Tran Van An, a for- blunted when, Lefore birth, they fact, the best, initiatives were mer Minister and founder of were held up in preliminary con- Vietnamese patriotle
organisaltations. tion, to Jakarta to plead Hao Dal's cause-Associated Press. {*
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(Continued From Page 8), "Then we have to nag at them
"I. belleve we had the right-
the on even the duty to count strength
of one idea and to profit from the impulse born from the hope aroused by it, and by its instinctive support from
populations, he sold.
Draft treaty
Dur
M. Schuman, statod that French Governmont would talaly he acting with the approvà a bit until they agree to send of the other Ave parties in keen some more," she explained. "On ing Britain informed on develop the whole, they are quite reason-ments in the plan, able about our domnestie require- 1ments."
or.
o con-
work as a tram,, not as ference with its rigid and meti- culous regulations.
U.S. support
in Washington, George Perkins, Assistant Secretary of State for European Alfairs, in a statement
the concerning
conference
oh
the Schuman plan, sald the United States "wishes them suc- cess in their great effort."
He said: "We consider that the Schuman proposal may make an toward a important contribution resolution of the pressing political of economic problems
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 2941050.
Frankfurt peace bridge
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A bridge at Frankfurt, Germany, destroyed by German trospa shortly before the war end. ed, is being replaced at a cost of $1,000,000. It is to be named the "peace bridge." A Maks. shift bridge carried, post-war traffic for a time, but an increase in traffic led German authorities to speed a new permanent construction. When finished, the bildge will be 1,000 feet long and. Photo shows work 100 feet wide. The opening ceremony is due for the spring of 1951.
on the Beldge, plera," The ploure was taken from the roof of a new 13-storey office bulld Ins. (Arenciated Press Photo)
British dollar
reserves show big increase
London, June 20.
Gold and dollars jingled into Britain's Treasury at a record post-war rate in the second quarter of 1950-reflecting steady progress towards recovery.
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Informants in touch with the Treasury, forecast today that the total gold and dollars-which belong not only to Britain but the whole Sterling Area-would top $2,300,000,000.
jump
This would represent a rise This had been due in part to the of around $310,000,000-big-higher prices the United States has been paying for commodities gest single quarterly
such as rubber, wool and cocoa, since the war,
which come from, the British colonies or Commonwealth coun- tries. It is also partly due to big- ger sales of Sterling Area pro- ducts in the US.
The total would easily top the minimum safety level of $2,000,- 000,000, which the Government
1048. get itself
It niso would also show that the the second quarter, has earned
successive
and the Europe cer- The full text of Mr. Perkins' statement reads: "We will of course be following these im Sterling Arca, for portant talks at Paris with great more dollars than it has spent." interest. This Government's post. tion with
the Schuman
Details of the reported rise regard to proposal has been made clear by probably will be given to the
the Secretary House of Commons the President and
by Sir Cripps, Chancellor of of State. We welcome the French Stafford initiative and we
consider
that the Exchequer, carly in July may make when the final quarterly figures
are available.
Britain
the Schuman proposition toward
provide This would with a possibility if not of joining in, "which we persist in desiring". The Yates family are among then at least of making her com- the few British able to travel allments and thereby preparing the
over the Soviet zone of Ger-way for a future co-operation. many, normally, a strictly pro- He told delegates that
A pre an important hiblied arga to all Allied person-Uminary information meeting was -resolution-of-the-pressing..poll-. nel.
to be held tɔmorrow.
tical and economic problems Mrs. Yates is proud of her Rus- M. Schuman asid that the con-Europe. We hope and believe that sian travel permit which is anference would have to establish a in the talks, opening at Paris, "Open Sesame" to
Soviet zond draft treaty which would define the six participating Governments German Communist police. It the broad lines of the attributions will be able to work out solutions a small card about the size of a jof the conimon supra-National to the various problems postcard and it carries her photo- Authority, which would control fronting them. We wish them suc-
uc graph and eight lines of "let the the pooling of Western European cess in their
effort." great bearer, pass" instructions in Rus-coal and steel production, Its The State Department Press sian on both sides.
functioning, the methods of ap-Offeer, Michael McDermott, dia It has enabled the Yates family pealing against its decisions and not believe any American obser- to spend some pleasant week of setting in melimi fa respon-vers would actually beat the con- ends on the Baltic coast, un-aibilities. molested by Russians or Ger-
mans.
CHOU RECEIVES ENVOYS
San Francisco, June 20. The Chinese Communist For- elen Minister, Chou En-lat, today received "the Danish and East German envoys for talks relating to the presenting.of credentials, the Peking Tedio sald.
It said the East German" Am- bassador, J, Konig, was received at 10 p.m. - while the ; Danish Minister, A. March, ":"alled a 0.15 p.m-United Press.
"We shall have to envisage, without however inscribing them in the treaty, the tecanical de- tails which will be Inscribed in conventions to be concluded later once the treaty has been ratified," M. Schuman continud.
"These conventions must be easy to revise so that they can be adapted to the lessons of ex- perlence,
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No egotistical bargainings
"We shall have in common our determination to arrive at resalts, to do constructive work on the basis of the principles that have .1. been defined. We shall be
RUSSIA EXPECTED TO CLOSE BALTIC
London, June 20.
The British naval authorities said today that Russia had hinted that she might close the Baltic Sea, to all but Baltic, shipą to keep the navies |_ of năn-Communist Europe away, from her
/ Becratingval and guided misille bases' there.. The Russian maye followed parts on International Law, pub- Swedish hints that Sweden, falled last week in the magazine might join the navies of West State and Right? ern Europeaft manecuvring continental counte
arcica to
the naval
Sweden"
a) Thais experts said use of the Ballio by sather than Daltic ships had, ng bakla, jo tútočnu». Naval," sushorities sald that if Sweden, Jained the "Atlantic" Pact tindiés" in stine, of war? It would
oke the differshed between foru-a
(entranol; to the
can-
ference but the United States was being kept informed through its Paris embassy.
Tory domand
In Landon, Winston Churchill) tonight demandéd' that the Labour Government participáte In the discussione in Paris on the Schuman Plan. Mr. Churchill, supported by half a dozen Conservative Party, leaders and the head of the Clement Davies, Liberal Party tabled a motion In Parliament to that effect. His motion will be de- boted on Monday. It read:
"That this House requests His Majesty's Government, in the interests of peace and full em- ployment, 10 accept the invitation to take part in discussions on the Schuman Plan, subject to the same condition- as: that made by Netherlands Government namely, that if the discussions show the plan not to be practi- rable. freedom of action is merved.
the
The
motion was slonel he Mr. Churchill. Mr. Davies, the former Forelam Secretory and now. No. ? Conservative, Anthony Eden. the Conservative membera R. A. But- ter. Harold MacMillan and 1.8 Maclay, and J. Cielmond, chiot; Liberal Party whin in the Faroen h Commons-Reuter and United
Press.
US ENVOY. TO
Washingka
Britain's gold and dollar reser ves, which stood at $2,241,000,000 on March 31, 1948, hnd sagged to about two-thirds that amount at the time of Pound devaluation. Stace then they bave rison steadily.
By the end of 1949 they had moved up to $1,088,000,000. In the first three months of this year they jumped to $1,984,000,- | 000.
The Informants named four factors which they said 'were re- sponsible for the further impro- vement expected in the quarter ending June 30,
Firstly the whole Sterling area has been carning more dollars.
Spending less dollars
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* Secondly, the Sterling Area has been spendlag less dellare. Britain fart your "slashed her dollar spending, programma by $400,000,000 annually, the roat of the Commonwealth by $300,000,000 annually.
Thirdly, Britain has been los- ing less "gold" to` · such European countries as Belgium and Swit zerland because earnings through. exports there have risen.
Fourthly, Britain has been get- ting a bigger share of South Africa's gold output through an arrangement enabling her to sell goods to the Union which Dor- mally would have come from America. 22
Britain's gold and dollar res ceipts for the current quarter in cludo allocations made by the European Co-operation Adminis- tration. They amount to about US$250,000,000. — Associated Press,
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Security on
atom secrets tightening up
And
Washington, Juna 20. Britain, tha United Blates
Canada are discussing ways to tighten security on atomic secrets, the Atomic Energy Commission disclosed today. It did not say when the discussions begin.
The conferences follow the
Jast diacovery
winter · that Dr. Klaus Fuchs, British salentiet, passed atomic in Formation to the Ruslane. Since then three Americans have been arrested and accus- ́ed of alding in Soviet spying.
The
Commission's state-
ment cald, "The meeting: Is being, hald under the auspices of the combined Policy Com- mitteo, the organfealian ́ros- gonalble for directing Anglo- Canadian co-operation in the atomia energy flaid."
"Polloles affecting the de. .classification of. Information are not being discussed at the meeting."-Router.
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