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REACTION TO BRITAIN'S POLICY TOWARDS THE SCHUMAN PLAN
idea 13 sound and
Belglum
Tho
word
the Nethez-
I played a big part in talking of the European to the Schuman Payments Union. when It came
as a matter of course,
Marshall Ald.
A choice me that European Union might
Italians have felt for
some
ning
Mr. Gunther has decided not to do a book on "Inside Hong Kong."
Apparently he took a couple of looks inside and then staggered out, calling weakly for smelling
"Bombshelt' by
America also has one. know-lf's son.
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A brilliant idea and a cussion, and a widespread feel-; most of her own reconstruction | arising for her from the economic worthy French 'Initiative tong that Germany is powerless and could have little "direct" union of steel, cost and agricultur-
to prevent this happening. wards European unity and
al resources of nations of Western! If she should join the Schu-Europe. 'Sacrifice' an end to the Franco-German|
man Plan and be told her col- Непса aho must temporise, problem-such is the reaction
is having second teries perhaps also her steel which is just what Italians do not
high-cost pro-like. to the Schuman Plan of the thoughts about International or industry-are a
ganisations.
ducer and surplus to the needs She is learning to talk about of Western Europe, what will be-
Great welcome man in the bistro.
undue "sacrifices." Perhaps when it comes to some first occurred to describe credits what will become of Belgian average American
come of Liege and Charleroi, and Miles above the head of the) xulta.
the of the
though more ileklish
questions, she granted to keep her exports prosperity?
Plan is, the idea behind it is not. especially about the powers of the high authority which is to lands and France,
running to Britain,
Americans are quick to soize expected." on ideas, and it seems to them manage the coal and steel pool, the average Frenchman is not 50
better life that the closer Europe moves and clear in his mind as his overall
the friendlier she becomes the
will enthusiasm would warrant.
be for Europe But he feels that the basic la public opinion accepted have to get along without Bri- and America.
Sign in Nathan Road: tain. General Impression is that Consequently the that, with
Plan- re- The average Belgium is vague the Schuman Plan is forcing Bri- ceived a great welcome.
"Royal Observatory and Radio good will, it should be possible about these "sacrifices." He will tain to make a choice between the British Labour Party Excen-
When omce. "No for the Governments to draft a quote the official statement tint Europe and Empire and that the tive stated its
admittance except no scheme which will really work. the Belgian attitude is much the claims of Empire will win.
Isolationist post business." tion-a position Americans were! So he is puzzled and dismayed at same as the British.
much These chaps have There is sympathy Britain's attitude.
for these quick to see extended for beyond business as they can handle right If he comes from Liego hej difculties, But Italiana are the Plan liscif-the What he sees as Britain's "cus will talk of "back door nationali- irritated in that they feel Bri- "Main Street" were very annoy- people of A CRITICAL WEEK piclon" hus engendered in him a salien;" if he is a Leopoldist he tain pays lip service to the idea ed.
suspicion of Britain.
will quote the King's 1944 dictum) of European Unity while remain- There was sympathy He Ands it difficult to under- that Belgium must accept no ing fundamentally hostile to it.
for tho Man in France fined for biting The conflict in Korea has stand why, if the British want-treaty which gives less than ade-
original suggestion that Britain dog. The Dalton "Brown
Ilo's lucky I wasn't, pet-loving entered its sixth week. Haded to reserve their Anal attitude. quate compensation for what quoted as proof. Man Paper" lat should wall and see, but the pre-
There it might have people be paration clearly visible in every England. lieve also that publication of fine of the Labour Party pamphlet been noose. unemployment. Field Marshal Alexander's harsh has convinced American official- about Italian, wartime dom and public opinion that the mado at this Socialist view is the real Bri-
"Will Joe Louis make history time to create mistrust among tish policy and that Attlee's other in comeback?", the nations of Western Europe attitudes ore cover-ups. Britain's His dazed opponents, say it's who do want to integrate their friends in the U.S. have
been more likely he will continue his economics,
embarrassed in the extreme and contributions to astronomy. Italy certainly is sincere about her enemies exultant. Britain European Union. She feels she har devoted years to attacking
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Ing themselves free to opt out Belgium's coal is costly to win oftion was
the
Frenchman answers that the
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all gone according to the in- they could not have come in on
may take from her. the same basla un Holland, leav- vasion plan, it would all have
Basic fear is been over long before now,
of the Plan in the final stage.
partly because some seams are To the claim and preparations far advanced
that Britain is faulty, partly because there is no for the proclamation of the refusing to give way to pipe though equipment underground. unified Soviet People's Re-dreams but is only being realist, Her steel is expensive, partly be public on the date set before place to be realist is surely nt cause it is made with Belgian coal, partly because the plan! the invasion began. The plan the conference table in conjunc-needs modernising.
with hasn't worked out and will tion
I rather liked a review of a the other Powers. It was a sacrifice when she has a lot to goin both politically U.S. Isolationists. Now the Bri- film starring Elizabeth Taylor not work out. This week will, That, he says, helps everybody. was told that because of her pros-und economically, whereas British have on isolationist rash of and Van Johnson, It ended: As is, he feels chances of perity and her reserve of unem-tain, it is felt, would like to re- their own, and Americans are, to "Miss Taylor is beautiful and however, be the most critical
progress towards European unityployed labour Belgium should ntain In Isolation bul cannot say the least, thoroughly un cannot set. This puts her one up since the border was crossed. have been damaged by Britain's have savings enough to finance | Ignore the manifold problems sympathetle towards it. It will be critical both at Lake staying out. Success, and in Korea itself. There it is a race between the desperate North Korean offen- sive and the arrival of Ameri- can reinforcements.
Hostility dies
West German reaction to the Schuman Plan Is much mure favourable than might have been
expected. prominent German
European survival." For once most
in themselves
Leopold: He faces a nation divided
By
convinced
Daniel Schorr
mus!
agree
on Mr. Johnson."
"Adult stars portrar selves as. childreny."
With the dear little printerys doing their best to provide. atmosphere.
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Britain will vote against Russia if she tries to bar the Chinese Nationalists from the Security Council, but will abstain from voting if Russia tries to get the Commos admitted.
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journalist exclaimed: "Our tradi- tional hostility to the French is
Belgium's austere soldier-commoner and his dealings with Belgium was liberated In Septem- slowly dying, as we realise more King, 49-year-old Leopold III, Hitler.
ber 1944, but the King was not clearly that Franeo-German co- has won his grim five-year charge of collaboration and irre-
He struck back sternly at every freed until the following- May. clear
Meanwhile operation is a pre-requisite of battle for the throne. But, gular conduct, firmly
Regency had been
The Foreign Office siteuld be set up under Leopold's brother, reminded that Humpty Dumpty Germans and back from his Swiss exile, he that it was his mission to get Prince Charles,
back on the throne. "I
Parliament, unable to
at least had a wall to sit on, and Agreement with may not stay long.
about the King, voted in July ook what happened to him. their Bonn Government. Paliti-
1945 to continue the Regency be- cause of the King's "inability to
The KMT is getting no more reign owing to enemy action." It arms from America. was a political expedient; the And just when some lucrative King bad by then been free for deals were being negotiated with 10 weeks.
the Communists, too. Finally, the King suggested that return," became his almost my if an advisory referendum could "Malik branded us, calmost stical slogan.
be held he would be guided by Russian envoy." the results.
Previously he'd had the brand "I want to go back to put
In the 1940 election the pro- of raising Cala, things straight," said the King Leopold Christian Social Party year ago. "Then If the people do came close to winning a majority, British understatement again: not want me, and unwilling to formed, a coalition with the co-operate in a Government, I am Liberals, and held the referendum bombs are dropped, we will have Mr. Chuter Ede: "If atom prepared to go away...ta pass last March. The King obtained a very difficult time." the hand to my son."
almost 58 per cent, but less than
For live years the strong-willed monarch stuck to his guns while proval of the Plan and German, his country raged with contro- versy over his refusal to join his titude caused little surprise.
The British Government's at- Government's evacuation in 1948, To his wartime marriage to a Flemish Germans. Britain is something more than an European nation and British solidarity with the Com- monwealth is accepted ns in- evitable though
whole- rarely heartedly approved.
the
conì-
War on the potato bug
the
a majority in Brussels and Wal- lonia.
It was stated few days ago that from now on a con- tinuous stream, of reinforce- ments in men and material would be arriving from the United States. First among them are the heavily-armed 1st Brigade of the Marines, together with its Air Wing cal Parties, the Press, and people composed of pilots who fought of all classes have expressed ap- in the last world war; and the 2nd Infantry Division, a high-participation. ly trained force of regulars. Both these units have had combat training and are due at any time. It is a case of now or never for the Northw Koreans, who maintain their offensive spirit in spite of The man-in-the-street. heavy losses, and almost com- demns Britain's course as short- plete lack of ait support. They sighted and selfish, but thinking
people consider it understand- While propagandists be- are throwing into actionable, if regrettable.
hind the Iron Curtain accuse practically everything they Britain's Government
Twice in exile is unl-American airmen of dropping| for being 100 possess, but the way in which versully blamed
In April the King offered, if bottled Colorado beetles on doctrinaire and failing to realise
The situation the King faces is restored by general agreement, to the relatively small American
of the situation.
their crops, two urgency
German the division of his country be- delegate his powers temporarily forces originally sent in slow- But many expect qualifled Brl-scientists, a man and atween Flemish adherents and to Prince Baudouin. ed down their advance before tish support for the Plan at a woman, have discovered how Walloon opponents, his reign The three main parties failed to
later date, They only
based largely on Taejon lost them precious will not be too late.
The Christian hope it to make the Colorado beetle Christian Social majority in Far- Social Party forced new elections
slender reach agreement.
time.
some scepticism of literally starve to death. lament.
In June, won a slim majority, Both flanks are holding well, the Plan's bold lines being lost! They hope to use the discovery
It is thought the King will try and called a joint session of Par- formed a one-party Government, and though the United Na-in a weller of international dis- to put an end to the potato pest to appease his opponents, If he Hons' forces
spreading fails, he may be ready to pass lament to end the Regency. which is gradually ground over the week-end in actually had Peking as their Eastwards across Europe, writes the hand" to 19-year-old Crown
Terry from Berlin.
Prince Baudouin. the-centre,-it-is-significant target, in the historic quarrel They are profesor Richard
Two periods of exile, the loss of that are now able to launch of precedence between three Kuhn, a Nobel prizewinnertraut period, and his training as a the King returned to his people. father and wife within a two-year Thus, after five years of battle, local counter-attacks, in a and four centuries ago. What his assistant
soldier all these elements put Lew. After months of experi- their stamp on Leopold's charac- Astrid's three children Princess His household Includes "Queen contest for better tactical posi- was to have been--and might ments they have identified two tions. A front of well over have been-a sort of Eliza- ves
Josephine Charlotte, 22; of potato from the Gran types
They made him cold, unap- Baudouin, 10; Prince Albert, 10- 200 miles is, however, too long bethan period for the then re- Chaco area of South Americe proachable, humourless, wilful, and Princess de Rethy's son, even in mountainous country surgent Japanese, after cen- and from Mexico containing a stubborn, and ready to fight un- Alexandre, eight.
little known chemical substance remittingly for what he considers cither for safety or for strate-turies of turbulent civil wars, which makes the potato beetle als duty.
The King is still as soldierly in bearing as when the Belgians lost gic requirements. The battle ended in frustration, and the turn
away in disgust
The first term of exile was in saw him, but his hair is tinged is not for territory but for isolation of Japan for two and These potatoes are immune to 1914, when the Germans invaded with grey and he suffers from stability-a front that can be a half centuries. A mountain the colorado disease. But they Belgium, King Albert I took his lumbago.
of sons, Leopold and Charles, lo His-must-go-back" mission held securely while the long people, as are so many of the are also inedible on account
thair small size and coarse England. There Prince LeopoldĮ bas been fulfilled. What next? build-up goes on for a coun- Koreans, never quite loses its na
flavour. So it was decided to attended Elon, and during the ter-offensive. Meanwhile, the virility, no matter how long it try cross-breeding the norma summer served as a private with South Koreans seem to be may be a subject people. The potato with the South American the 12th Infantry Regiment.
varloty.
After the war he continued his doing better than ever, and to more confidence they have in
The first results have beer military education. He brought be developing something of themselves, the more deter- outstandingly successful. A new home as his bride the beautiful the astonishing morale of the mined will they be to become, potato has resulted with all the Princess Astrid of Sweden.
characteristica of thr In 1934 King Albert was killed aggressors. How many of
In a fall from a cliff near Namur. them there are is not stated, people. That suits us well cough of the chemical to which A year and a half later Queen and the reference in the re-enough-it is by no means the beetles are allergie is chase ports to divisional units is pro- certain it will fit in so well them away Instead of eating their bably somewhat misleading. with the short-term plans of way through the leaves, But the fact that they are still the Kremlin,, still less with its
have
given
There
and remain, an Independent edible
normal kind, but containing
ter
Asirid was fatally injured in an with accident while motoring King Leopold near Laserne,
Deprived of his father's counsel and his wife's tempering Influ-
the wilful aldo of his nature.
His periodle confilets with the Governrhent reached s climax circles are still daring the German Invasion in speculating whether the United May 1940.
VATICAN
Vatican
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intornod
the
In the field, and putting up so overweening ambitions to use U.S. ENVOY TO THE, the King began to display good a show, is striking in the multitudes of Asia for its view of the long and almost own purposes under the cry continuous withdrawals of world revolution. which they have had to make, But that is looking a good
States will appoint a Minister The King took the field to com- The Koreans appear to be way ahead. The Korean peo to the Holy See. Myron Taylor, mand his army. He surrendered better fighting material than ple's problems will take a long President Truman's personal on May 20, decided to share the had been imagined. Of course time to solve even when the representative, resigned last fate of his troops as a war pri- the picture of the mediaeval distant military decision has January, but a tenuous con-
Fow Belglans disputed, the Korean peasant, clad in white come in its final form. But nection was maintained with necessity for that now historic with conical hat, meandering Korean nationalism is acquir- Rome through Franklyn C. surrender. What troubled thom his way through life as a mere ing a sharp edge as a result of Gowen, Mr. Taylor's deputy, was the issue of the King's right Now Mr. Gowen has been re-to remain in Belgium after the spectator and subject of his this struggle, and it will take called by the State Department surrender, In defiance of his Gov- tory, has not always been true, the South Koreans, a long for service in Washington and itemment's wishes. The Germans The upsurge of fanaticism time to work off their mount looks as if the American mission
King in Lacken Palace, on the and violence in the short-lived Ing anger at the attacks to will remain closed indefinitely.
American Protestants have outskirts of Brussels." Korean Revolution just after which they are being subject- never looked kindly on Any the end of the first world war ed. The Communist aggres-official connection with the Vall-Wed a commoner: was a warning of the fires slon has already inflicted ter- can but President Roosevelt who that lay below the placidity rible damage on the country able to over-ride their opposition his marriage in September 1941 first appointed Myron Taylor was Hls most controversial act 'was and passivity of the surface. The industrial and other gains because of wartime exigenclen to Mary-Lillane Daels, Nor did even half a century of of half a century are being and the fact that the Vatican is beautiful British-born daughter fron Japanese rule and dena- wiped out. The Communists the best Hatening post in the of a Flemish Osh merchant.
This offended many who stil tionalisation quite extinguish are, of course, trying to pass world for the situation in Eastern
Europe.
revered' the memory of Queen these fires, fanned anew by the blame on to the Americans Correspondent Robart, Shearer Astrid, reisin both Communist intrigue and | for this," and are doing their wrilles that the Church would Because the Belgian Constitü- the natural revival of Asian utmost to use what they call like a mon sont from Washington. tion does not provide for shot- nationallem.
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tural aid finandal background right for her, adre conquest of the peninsula by for the tragic conflet that be wouldnt them for the post u In 1944 the Germans Impri- the Tokugawa Shoguns, who gan at dawn on Junie 2014 obviously small
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