NO GENERAL ELECTION THIS YEAR--UNLESS LABOUR IS DEFEATED
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London, September 18,
The Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attloo's aidés today scouted chances of a British gonoral aloction this year—unless the wobbly Labour Govorn- mont lases a major Parliamentary vote.
Mr. Attlee, who presided over a Cabinet meeting this morning, was said to feel that a general election, in the present tense world situation, would dislocate British and Western affairs too much.
Conservative nowapopers during the past few days have credited labour loaders with wanting an autumn election. They have argued that the Government would cash in on the better nows from Korea if they go to the country soon.
Steel
While Labour opinion is by | backing, will then seek to con. no means unanimous, the con- sure the Government for its de sensus is that the government clien to implement the
D time will stay in office as long as it Nationalisation. Hill, at
when the nation needs to be possibly can.
united.
test tomorrow.
It faces tr biggest Commons Best-informed political tipsters are betting the Government will The Conservative leader. Win-win the vote by the barest mar stun Churchill with Liberal Party | glti.
GLOBAL AID PLAN
Washington, September 18.
M. Allee would undoubtedly resign if the Covernment lost.
SWEDISH REDS
DEALT SETBACK
Stockholm, September 18. Swedish voters dealt the small Swedish Communist Party a stinging setback in the city and county council elec- tions. which saw the Com- munists' popular vole cut in half from 1946 and their 62 to be on hand tomorrow night seats reduced to 29 in a total A call has gone out as far as of 1,444.
Call to MP's Anticipating a hairline vote, all parties have summoned their wandering members sick and
A world-wide American pro- Korea, where a Labour journalist
The Social Democratie Premler. gramme of economic aid hasTom Driberg, MP-as been Tage Erlander, whose hand was been proposed here to take covering the war.
strengthened by the voting on offeet when the Marshall Plan ends in 1952.
been
The programine Jas drafted by Mr. Gordon Gray, fure mer Secretary of the Army and now a special assistant to Pre- dent Truman.
servative headquarters
That
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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1950.
Steel Bill crime against the nation
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London; September 10. Lord Salisbury, the toader
the Opposition In the Mouse of Lords, today called the Government's decision to carry on with steal national. isation "a crime against the nation."
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protest vehemently against this putting party be fore nalion," he told the Up- per Chamber, adding that he bolleyed it to Be "one of the most lamentable 'Parliament. his- ary episodes
recent tory."
Viesount Damusi, the Liberal leader, also criticised the decision as against the na- Donal interest.
The Government is setting up Board to run the ateci industry. It will be ready an October 2 to prepare for the taking over of about 100 ma- jor firma in the Industry on January 1, 1951, or as soon as possible thereafter.--Reu- - for
PLAN IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Lake Success, September 18.
The United Nations General Assembly is expected tomor
Another call went from Con-Sunday, said in a dawn radio row, at its fifth session, to set
Sir broadcast today that the Com-up machinery for bypassing George Harvie-Watt, on the high munist defent was the most signi- Security Council, which has seas bound for New Zealand. Sir feant result of the election.
He told the nation that the been persistently blucked by George left his ship at Gibraltar
Government would maintain its Soviet vetoes.. and was flying hom
home today.
Under this plan, much of, the The Government's intention to present foreign policy and ul-
power tempt to stay out of the cold war.
now exercised by the It is being laeussent by Gov-stay in office-unless defeated-The quici voting also dealt a set- Council in international disputes ernment agencies and is still sub-does not rule out an appeal to back to rightwing Conservatives, would pass to the Assembly. jeet to major revision before the country early in 1951,
BS revising the Standing Rules, who had attacked 'the Socialists' is presented to the President.
Welfare pruspect will most likely free-spending
American State the
sponsored pian The draft proposals call for the be discussed on Wednesday night programme cent of the 4,700,000 sembly to meet at a moment's would enable the General As- when the Labour Party's election. and organisation sub-committees eligible voters produced these re-netice to deal with any interna-
aults compared with 1946: Social tionul emergency.
a gain of 0; It would thus remain nominal- Democrats, 744 Liberals, 330, a goin of 103; Conly in permanent session, (servatives, 123, a loss of 62; Agra- Security Council doas now.
The plan also calls for setting rians, 218 a loss of 21; Commu- nists, 20, a loss of 02.
up a permanent Assembly "Watch In voting percentage, the Social dog Commission," which could Democrats received 49.07; Libe-be flown immediately to any rols
11,81; threatened part of the world. 21.6; Conservatives Agrarians 12.42; and the Comma nists 4.98-United Press.
following:
(1) Continued economic aid for Europe for about four years after the end Cl the Marshall plan.
are due to meet.
It will be the backdrop to the (2) An eight-year programme Party's annual conference which sronomie afd and a program- begins in a fortnight at Margate
the Associated Press. me of technken) all for
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world's under-developed areas.
(3) Machineation of American
tarilts.
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(4) Modification
Jaws favouring American farmers und shipowners.
(5) The creation of a singie ! agency with wide powers to ad- minister all American economic aid programines,
(0) The crention of an inter- national agency to allocate scarce
materials. Reuter.
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INDIA TO BACK PEKING ENTRY INTO THE UN
Lake Success, Septembar 18. India,gave notice today that she would introduco o resolution to the United Nations Assembly tomorrow calling for representation of "the Republic of China in the General Assembly,” The resolution seeks to seat the Chinese Communist'
delegation in all United Nations bodies.
ernment
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It says that the obligations, action of the United Nations in of a member nation cannot be Korea, the Prime Minister carried out "except by a gov-fended the Organisation as "the
greatest hope of the futuro.“ which, with a
He also defended the, institu- reasonable expectancy of per-tion of the veto for great powers manence, actually exercises which he said "represents. control over the territory of unfortunate reality.” that member and commands The big powers would hesitate the obedience of the people." freely to participate in the work
It adds that the Peking Gov. of the United Nations if they had ernment is "the only such gov. not the provision of the veto as Re- guarantee for their status, he urnment functioning in the
said, public of China."
It is believed that as soon as the General Assembly convenes tomorrow, Mr, Andrel Vyshinsky, head of the Soviet delegation will protest against the presence of the Chinese Nationalist dele- gation on a point of order
Those supporting the Indian
delegation are understood to feel that the question should be do- cided on à General Assembly re- solution rather than on a point of order.
Meanwhile, the Indian Prime Minister Mr. Nehry, speaking at Gandhinagar, said the admission of the People's Government of
China is of the most supreme im- portance to the future 1. the United Nations and world peace. Vital issuo
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Mr, Nehru declared that the
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the
Korean wor spreading in the near future is for less than 10 weeks ago, when
he assessed it at 30-50,
Ho said: "We have tried our best to prevent it becoming a world war.
"The policy we have pursued has borne soma bitter.fruit,' added-Reuter,
SABOTAGE AT RADIO. STATION
Cincinnati, Ohio, "It is a vital Issue and great thing for the future wall.
September 18. boing of the world
Stallon as woll,"
engineers revealed Pandit Nehru added.
today that the cyclone fence reiterated around the Voice of America The Prime Minister his stand on non-alignment with antenna at Bethey, Ohio, had power blocs" in a 75-minute been cut before the towering foreign policy address to the Substructure toppled from an ex- jects Committee of the 66th seś-
plosion. sion of the Indian National Con-
A blast carly on Sunday top- greas.
"Thla polley s not pasalve pled the 165-foot tower support- neutrality and helplessness in the ing the antenna. Part of the lo-
wer's concrete counterbalance was face of aggression, but only to our deciding issues inde-blown 250 feet. Engineers at sta- ortlon transmitters 25 miles North pendently of other nations groups," the Prime Minister said. East of here said the force of the China, being one of the "Big explosion indicated that dynamite In the past, been blocked in the Five" nations with the power of was used. Security Council by Soviet vetoes. veto, could not continue to be the Crosley Broadcasting Com- Mr. James Shouse, president of The plan. which already has presented by the Nationalists, who the backing of many smaller no-have "not a scrap of a hold. In pany, operators of the transmit- tlons in the United Nations, is the
ters, said there was no doubt in mainland," the Prime
his mind that it was professional Bangkok, September 18.
expecled to be attacked by the Minister said.
sabotage. Soviet He described Dr. T. F. Talang Soviet delegation. The Nationalist guerillas harassing There are 1,500,000 Chinese
Deriln, September 18, Union has already boycotted the
the
The damaged antenna was at of For- The East German Government "Litle Assembly," which was A
Whosentative
position in the Se-the apex of a diamond-shaped Manchuria to Yunnan and from tonight charged the Anglo-Ame-step in the direction now being curity Council as China's repre- series of four and thus was the rican accupation 'authoritles with contemplated by the American sentative "is extremely artificialkey antenna. Mr. Shouse said, it would take about a week to ro- Shanghai to Sinkiang, Patrick planning an "extensive plot plan.
and factually wrong," Pichi Sun, Nationalist Charge against our peaceful reconstruc- This body, the Russians had "It is such cases of
place if to beam Voice of America charged, was "undermining the which make further United na Africa and the Middle East.
"truth" broadcasts to North d'Affaires in Bangkok said in tion." an interview with the Associal- The East German Government Charter."
tions steps go wrong," Pandit
He added that the damaged an- that Information Office alleged
If the Assembly approves the Nehru said. red Press.
tenha would not affect broadcast- He said all these scattered this plan was drafted at a meet-new scheme, the Security Coun-
Greatest hope ing of any of the other broadcasts groups would be rallied together ing in Bonn in August, said to cil's work in the future is expec:-
Replying to criticisms that Into Russia and its satellites.--- for recovery of the entire Chinese have been attended by high-ed to be confined to dealing with
and American disputes--such as the Israel-Arab dia should not have endorsed the United Press. ranking British mainland when the time comes.
or the Kashmir Sun revealed that 2,000 Nation-ocials and Herr Jokob Kalser, controversies alist soldiers who had crossed the West German Minister for Into Burma from Yunnan when All-German Affairs. their communder, General Lu Han, joined the Reds, had now crossed back into China.
the Chinese Communists fron
He sak the troops, remnants of the Nationalist 26th and 6th armies, would now wage guerila warfare against the Chinese Com-- munists in Yunnan.
When in Burma these soldiers had engaged in warfare with Bur- mese army forces, creating anxic-. ty. In many quarters. Fifty Nation-
CHARGE
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"The main point on the agenda of that meeting was planned undermining of our economic Ave-year plan by all kinds of Information criminal acts." the Oce stated. Reuter.
AMERICAN EXPERT
SUSPENDED
Washington, September 18, alists wounded in the border aren Michael Leo, Commerce De were evacuated by the Thallandpartment Far Eastern trade ex- Red Cross and placed in hospital | pert, has been suspended from for treatment.-Associated Press. his US$10,000 a year job follow-
OFFICIAL QUITS
STEEL BOARD
London, September '18.
question-in which there is no overt clash of interest between East and West. Reuter.
·SIAM ADMITS KMT WOUNDED
Dangkok,--September 18. The Thailand Government has agreed to a request by the Chi-
nest Nutionalist government to allow 50 Nationalist Chinese soldiers wounded in fighting with Burmese forces to be admitted Into a Siamese hospital.
The Governmènt” said it would have the soldiers removed to Macsai, in North Siam, in strict Ing an adverse report by the conformity with international Department's Loyalty Board,
Lee has appealed to the Secre- tary of Commerce, Mr. Charles Sawyer, against the ruling. June he was naked by Mr.
In
law.
The Chinese troops are at pre- sent in a Grst aid station, at Thak- hilek, North of the Thailand- Burma border. The ·request, was
Mr. Robert Alexander Mac-Sawyer to resign, but refused, made by the Nationalist Chinese Lean, named last week as a part disclose the basis for the Board's
The Department declined to government.-Associated Press. time member of the Board to run findings against the Manchurian- Casablanca, September 18. Britain's iron and steel industry hom Lee.
Two American destroyers, the In February, Senator on nationalisation, has withdrawn
George Malone
and (Republican) Leary his agreement to serve
the Stribbling, on the on Board.
charged that Lee was associated their way from Tangler to an arrived Mr. MacLean, a director of with subversives and was repon- undisclosed destination, several companies, sald that he Bible in his Commerce post for here today. Two more des- was not in agreement with the delaying shipments to the Chi-troyers, the Soley and the Furst, nese Nationalists.--United Press. are expected tomorrow.-Reuter. WORLD TRAVEL SERVICE policy of iron and steel national-
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