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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1950,
SOUNDING BOARD FOR DISUNITY Churchill Accuses Mr Bevin Of Sabotage In Europe Warning
Mr Churchill Accuses Mr Bevin
Council Of Europe Assembly Their Majesties Interested
Meeting Again
Tomorrow
London, Nov. 16.
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The Council of Europe, which was conceived as way to European unity, still_may_bo. But today it has be- come a sounding board for Europe's disunity on many issues, including defence.
The Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe convenes at Strasbourg, Alsace, on Satur- day to complete its 1950 sitting which was divided into two parts this year. "The word "consulta- tive" is the key to problems which beset the Assembly.
It can only talk and recommend to European member governments. And to date governments
ear a deaf have been inclined to turn Assembly's recommendations.
One of
the key council de- government bates is over defence. Initially, shall decide. the assembly was prohibited legation, from considering defence mat ters, but today" members say that to ignore defence problems is to make the assembly a use- less organisation far removed from reallly.
to the
member of each
The British de- for example, ig Parliament with selected from
and bath Labour, government
Lt. On Opposition members
means cach govern- ment's assembly delegation is a cross section general that goverment's parliament differences that
Thig
in of
The Council of Europe is with all the
paris-Com-exist between government and divided into two
of Ministera mitige
and Con- opposition parliamentary mem- bers added to national sultative Assembly.
differences between countries. The Committee of Ministers This creates
babel at times a is composed of one representa- tive of each of the 15 member of voices with disputes within ** national delegation sounding the louder at times than the dis-
The
Strasbourg putes between nations.
assembly's meeting place, La Malsan de l'Europea cost about $1,000,000.
countries. Normally it is foreign minister. On all im- portant mallers each nation has the veto in the committee, just as the Big Five nations have
the veto in the Security Coun- tife cil. cil,
In the Committee of Minis- ters, however, even Luxembourg has the veto. The Committee considers the Assembly's. re
and commendations
"ARCH SABOTEUR"
In a debate in the House of lost Monday Mr Commons Churchill interrupted the Bri- Foreign Minister, Mr decides tish whether to recommend action Ernest Bevin, to blame him for by member governments. Evon Britain's reluctance to go fas- the ministers recommendations ter toward are not binding governments.
ACTION OR VETO
Mr
Comet Going Into Service
од
London, Nov. 16. Britain hopes to put her record breaking Comet jet airlier into service Commonwealth air routes by next October, Bir Miles Thomas, Chairman of the British Overscan Airways Corporation (BOAC) sald at lunch here today.
The proposed passenger service would put B.0.A.C. ahead of its competitors, he added. The Comet, has a cruising speed of about 800 kilometres an hour.
Sir Miles said i waD planned to open the first
service passenger
from through London
Nome, Cairo and Karachi to Cal catta.Neuter.
TO INQUIRE INTO SOVIET
PRISONERS
Lake Success, Nov. 16.
It was learned today that European unity. the Western powers might their Pointing a finger accusingly at
Mr Bevin,
Churchin request the United Nations charged: "You are the arch General Assembly to ap- saboteur."
It is against such strong feel-point a special investiga- The Assembly is a delibera inks and even stronger preju- tion commission to deter- tive organ of the counell, ees and nationalistic intincts mine the fate of more than Aflor discussion at its annual
of Europe meetings, its recommendations that the Council
unity--United 700,000 prisoners believed ore passed on to the Committee Struggles of Ministers for action or i Press.
Toto. The assembly's member-
ship
is on
a proportional re-
presentation basis.
and
are sporlate members.
Assembly representatives are ments in such manner as the
for
Dangerous 10
Years Ahead
to be in Soviet camps.
war
appolated by member govern-decording to Mr Harold Stassen Roosevelt said such a commis-
In Reconstruction Work
The King and Queen recently paid a visit to Lansbury
On Europe
London, Nov. 16. Mr Winston Churchill warned Britain and her allies today against becom- ing too much pinned down In China or its approaches "at a time when the danger in Europe undoubtedly
should minds."
all occupy
He said this after the
fence Minister,
our
DC-
Mr Emanuel
Shinwell had given the House of Commons a review of the
situation in Korea.
Mr Shinwell replied that he thought that was the sense of nlready he had a statement made. In this he said Bellain was keeping In close touch
the with the Commonwealth. United States and other friend- ly governments on the Korean situation, he added,
The aim was to end the war as soon as possible and estab- lish
a unified and democratic Korea.
Mr Shinwell said that ro- ports of the presence of Chinese in strength troops in Korea have raised issues of interna- and these tional importance were before the Security Coun- cil the proper body for such questions.
British casunities in
51 killed, 60 far were
Korea
150
to watch the work in progress on the Poplar reconstruc-wounded and five missing, he tion area which is to form the "Live Architecture" exhibi-said.-Reuter. tion at the Festival of Britain next year. Here they are seen talking to some children at the Roman Catholic
secondary school site.
Farouk
A
Denounces Treaty
Cairo, Nov. 16.
King Farouk told the Egyptian Parliament today that his Government was demanding the "total and immediate" evacuation of British troops and the unity of Egypt and the Sudan under the Egyptian Crown.
The Liberal
STORMS
BATTER
N. AMERICA
Chicago, Nov. 10.
North the
Two storms battered America today. One hit Pacific coast on a 1,100-mile front with wind up to 80 miles per hour; the other brought snow, high winds and a wave to the Mid-West.
cold
The Pacific storm slugged the coast from Juneau, Alaska,
San
WELLES OPPOSES RECOGNITION
to
Francisco. Rivers 'n Oregon rose swiftly as heavy rains fell with more than four The King, opening the now Parliamentary. session in Inches, drenching North Bend, Oregon. Full gale warnings Cairo's domed Parliament, declared that his Wafdist dew from south-east. Alaska to Washington, and Government now considered that the 20-year-old Anglo-Tattoosh, Egyptian treaty of 1936 is no longer an "equitable basis for storm, warnings were hoisted as Woo A hint to that, effect
relations" and that it would "persistently and unhesitat- far south as San Francisco.
Mid-Western storm, given by Mrs Franklin Rooso-
Wiscon procedural dis-ingly continue its efforts to realise national aspirations." which was centred in velt during Great Britain, France, Italy
sin, spread snow over the upper cussion in the Social Commit-
King Farouk was making his unhesitatingly continue its
Mississippi valley. Thunder are allowed 18 Germany
tee of the Assembly.
first
for efforts to realise national in
public
ashowers hit a vast area арреаганес the cach
from representatives
Great Arkansas to the
Lakes. Turkey has eight, ossembly.
postpone months and had driven from pirations. Arguing against
a heavily "It will not fall to take all Sweden, Greece, Belgium and
ment for a few weeks of the the Royal Palace in
warnings were displayed Storm crimson Rolls Royce measures to full its aim 09- the Netherlands have six each.
Boston, Nov. 18.
debate on the joint British- escorted
on Lake Michigan. Highways that of Norway, Denmark and Ireland
Some 800,000,000 people in Australian
proclaiming were ley, and travel hazardous against through crowded streets lined pecially complaint
soldiers with fixed bayonets, the end of the 1930 Treaty Uplied, Pre have four each. Iceland,
Russia, China and the Balkan the Soviet Union on the latter's three Saar and Luxembourg
nations under Communist rule alleged
constitutional because it is in flagrant con failure to repatriate
leader, Hussein Heykat Pashe. tradiction of the United No- Bach West Germany and Saar will present tremendous
former German, Japanese and
who was deprived of the pre- tione Charter and all the more in the next decade, other
Mrs challenge
prisoners,
of the Senate (Upper so because sidency
the circumstances last The University of
House) by Royal decree Pennsylvania
anla zion might he suggested by one summer, did not attend. Neither
which attended its conclusions have totally changed. said on Wednesday of the sponsoring delegations. president night those people "living
the principal Opposition "All this would naturally
Abdul Hady 1.-,
Los Angeles, Nov. 16, under the dictatorial approach, Later, Western sources con-leader, langhim
The former Under-Secretary "which will make the next ten ceded there was a plan to that Pasha, a former Prime Minis- bring about the end of the con-
of January 10 and of State, Mr Summer Welles, a period of "extreme effect. They admitted it was un-ter years
The speech was read by July 10, 1890, regarding the said on Wednesday the United tension and perhaps tragle
ely Ruta would allow the
of administration war,"
the States should oppose recognition Stassen told a fund-raising United Fations to conduct in- Mustapha el Nahas Paths, the
of the Communist regime in dinner for the Wharton Shcool vestigations on Soviet territory, Prime Minister.
King Farouk then denounced China, of Finance and Commerce, one- but said the Commission could In it King Farouk declared,
He said: "Not only has the and declared third of the world's population shieve much by gathering in- "My Government considers that the "aggression" against "mar-
that "the misery and dispersion of aggression in China, but there present China regime been guilty "detying the decisions of was 63 United Nations and their deformation available outside the the treaty has ceased to be atyred Palestine"
Anglo-suffered by Arab refugees will the Iron Curtain.-United Press. suitable
is much indicatlen that their sire for world peace and pro-
Egyptian relations. It has remain а black
Spo: on
woo not pres."-United Press.
fore become inevitable to decido
until the refugees present government
brought to power by. the upon its cancellation and arrive humanity
have returned to their homes at new clauses based on other and received due compensatic Chine."-United Press,
for what they have suffered,"
EXPANSION SCHEMES He promised intensified moly entorno negotiations with dernisation of the Egyptian the British Government for the armed forces, free medical in conclusion of a permanent or surance for workers and further long-term agricultural expansion including
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U.S. KOREAN WAR Fascist
CASUALTIES
Washington, Nov 16. The Defence Department said en Thursday that 28,881 Ameri- can casualtios had been officially reported in the Korean war up to November 10.
This included 1,283 killed in action, 10,740 wounded and 4,347 mirring in action-United Press.
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Plot In
and
Bomb
did
basis
for
principles likely to meet wild
your approval, namely, total and immediate evacuation and the
Rome unity of Egypt and the Sudan
under Egyptian Crown..
NATIONAL ASPIRATIONS
ventions
joint Sudan."
.
Egyptian a, strengthening currency cover.
"My Goverment will 'short-
which
Rome, Nov. 10.
agreement Two bombs exploded outside
proclaims the headquarters of the Italian "My Government- Republican
right-wing that it will nover depart from the building of four big reser-will rafeguard the rights of the voirs and danis on the River country regarding its Sterling principles. Socialist parties here today in these fundamental
The Angio-Egyptian Treaty what was regarded as a plot by It is profoundly convinced that Nile and the completion of the credits." he added.
of thesoj Aswan dam hydroelectric of 1030, under which Britain. the neo-Fascists. There were British recognition no casualties,
principles would be the surest | scheme.
undertook to defend the Suez maintenance exploded almost guarnatee of the
King Farouk The bombs
announced Canni zone and jointly: the Sudan, -has simultaneously as leaders and of peace and security through-more free education, the orca-cdminister
log of a fourth university in proved a constant source of officials of the two parties were out the Middle East.
Go-Cairo and of a medical facultyFeloton between the two going in and out of their head- "Coing what may my quarters, about 20 blocku apart.
The bombings occurred at time when the Government is
demanding suppression
neo-Fascist
movement
of the
which ant
a series
and
of
has been carrying on a violent demonstrations Government press campaigns. Interior Minister Mario Scelbe and police chiefs throughout the country warned neo-Fascist lea- ders to cease all activities which might provoice disturbances.
In Padua polles discovered a 2.2 pound dynamite charge with ito fuse already burning-United Prc59,
BISHOPS FEEL DISMAYED
Washington, Nov. 10. The Roman Catholic Blahopa of the United States Havo ok- pressed siismoy over "the apathy of Christian Nations and the full- lity of their feeblo. protcels" against the peraecution of Catho lica In the Iron" countriege cal
bishops, holding, their
konungeneral: mentioning
adopted aro
TeBolution;
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