AGREEMENT ON SPANISH BASES WAS NOT RIGHT
-Says Lord Chancellor
London, July 31.
The British Government, said tonight that it had not the smallest grievance" because the United States thought it right to make in agree- ment with the Franco Government for bases in Spain,
Lord Jowitt, the Lord Chancellor, said this in a House of Lords debate on foreign policy. "But frankly we did not think it was right," he added.
The Government did not think the military ad- vantage outweighed the political disadvantage.
Nothing
was more likely to encourage the Communists that dealings with the Fascists such #s this would appear to be, he said,
Considering the position of Europe ॥ Was 1 complete fallacy 10 separute military From political considerations as they were separate things.
Anything which encouraged the Communists and made it probable that they would get recruits from non-Communisi parties in Europe was a mis- fortune.
that But he stressed
The United State was perfectly free to make whatever arrang- ments they liked hast as the British were.
Lory
strente of selected members of Aftante Paet powegen would do
more harm the Rood.
Lord Templewood inter- rupted to sny that such ຕ conference would be pre- liinury to a NATO · meeting.
Lord Jowitt replied that He woutel Canvey Lord Temple- wood's suggestion An ther Foreign Secretary,
KOREA ARMISTICE
Land Salisbury, Conservative leader in the House of Lords,
for asked
information uny about the line to be fixed for un armistice in Korea.
He was doubtful about the proposal that a foreign forces should be evacuated.
Templewood, British Ambassador to Spain during the Lord Jowitt said that the wer, urged talks between British Government had the Britain,
the United States, most complete confidence In France and Italy on the whole General Matthew B. Ridgway Spanish question.
and left the full limitation of line to his wisdom. The
anich they could agree the among themselves on the type tine they thought of drawing! of government they wanted
ON
Spain and then determine what
was
to do to achieve their aim. neighbourhood
انوم
always obviously in the the anth Parallel though not precisely vital to avoid a rift be tween British
American the line. incl
Was
policy.
ABSURD UNTRUTII
Lord Salisbury said that n violent anti-British propaganda campaign, had been started in Erypt. The Egyptians had em The suggested that the Foreign barked on a policy which could Secretary, Mr Herbert Morri-only be described as twisting the son, should try to arrive at
* Don's tall. He believed ́that
common policy on Spain when was the inner meaning of the he went to the United. States
in September to sign the Jafusal to allow British tankers to move through the Suez Canal anese pence treaty.
and the recent unjustified beard. One of the things they could mg of the British merchantman discuss for instance, were Empire Roach, ports in Spain that the present
He suggested that the Govern Jine of Western defence was mout had allowed the situation untenable and that in any war to drift. The Prime Minister, with the Soviets it would be Mr Clemem Attlee had in one necessary to fall back on a line sentence last night (in replying Based on
the Pyrenees,
to a House of Commons debate
Alpa and the Apennines.
on foreign affairs) revealed the This was the kind of dat-real reason behind the "sub- gerous statement that ought emissiveness of the British Gov- be at once repudiated (1 thegrument,
morale
of French and Scan- dinavian alles was not to bel
destroyed, he said.
Lord Jewitt guld
Wi
"SUPINE ATTITUDE”
He had said that if the Gov- it
Excypt to treat untrue and miserumem tried
to -say-that-the roughly, it would have had a bad
Americans would relinquish all effect throughout the Mosleni
help to Europe and resist be-world.
hind the Pyrences.
He
though! Lord
wood's iden
erba!
is good example of Temple-what I might call You must
of a limited con-not say boo to a goose menia-
Ry," Lord Salisbury said. 1 showed a total misunderstanding
PLAN FOR
of the basic principles of for eign policy.
Two explanations ht the "supine anitude of the Govern ment in reern: months werd
that any
ECONOMIC First, it was afraid
SANCTIONS
New York,' July 31.
wan
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1, 1951. ↑
It's not often you see a queen eyeing her stepdaughter like this...
Palace close-up from Teheran.... In a con! toom, wìthˆa cool drink is Shahnaż, daughter of Persia's Shah by his first wife-Farouk's sister Fawzia. That marriage was dissolved. Sharing a chair with her stepdaughter-and taking a sideways peck-is the Empress Soraya. Before her Arabian Nights wedding, a few months ago, she was 19-year-old Soruyu Esfandiari. The Shah's new consort is silm, elegant, polsed. This is her first picture with Shahnuz, who returned to Teheran this month from school in Switzerland.—London Express Service.
Political
Warsaw Trial Beginning
Major Purge?
Of
Warsaw, July 31.
A week after Viacheslav Molotov left War- saw, the Polish Communist Government staged the biggest political trial in post-war Poland.
Having Woman
Trouble
Adelaide, July 31. Latvian Julrus Drafuss, 17-xtone and six-feel-plus, complalaed to the Police that his wife, mother-in- law, three step-daughters, stop-sister-in-law and her twin 21-year-old daughters ani were ruling a life
his financial
They are all living with him in a converted stable, he said. He wanted to ex. tend it to relieve the ten- sion but by the Ume ከሮ fed the women he had no money left.
The Police. decided that there
thry was nothing
Drafuss. could do for Reuter.
EASTERN
ATLANTIC
COMMAND
London, July 31. A new United States Com- mand will
official come into existence in London tomorrow when Rear-Admiral Walter E. Boune will formally assume the title of Commander in the Eas- tern Atlantic at the American Naval Headquarters here.
The new Command has been set up to handle American naval Tunctions and responsibilities in Britain and the Eastern Atlantic following the moving of Ad- miral Robert B. Carney's Head- quarters from London 10
Naples.
Admiral
The purpose of the Soviet Vice-Premier's sudden visit to Warsaw and the meaning of his truculent words about Titoism are becoming clear.
four The
generals, three military und other colonels officers who on Tuesday face the Supreme Military Court in Warsaw on charges of plotting the regime, will join against the long list Bulgerlun,
of Czechoslovak
Hungarian and officers who recently fell to the Muscow-inspired general purge
He retains the title of Cam- of the Eastern European armies,
mander-in-Chief, Unlled States The timing of the purges is
naval forces. Eastern Atlantie Britain faces a serious short-significant, as it coincides with
Wendell Philips, an Ameri-and the Mediterraneat. of all nge of relentists, the Govern- the
build-up Keneral satellite
recan explorer just returned from armies and with
Britain Short Of Scientists
London, July 31.
Explorer Ran
Into A War
Cairo, July 31.
Carney, recently named Cominander-in-Chief ol the Allied forces in Southern European Atlantic Pact post- will remain the overall Com- mander of the American-Navy- in this part of the world.
have
States
the
nsval
United
ment's official advisers warned
The forces to be maintained today. The advisory repert of ports of growing unrest behind South Arabia, left by plane for under the new command under New York today after a trio | Admiral Boone include the the Council on Scientie Policy, the Tron Curtain.
to a tribal war Northern European Task Force, published, today, said that the Almost all of the defendants that took him
trial are officers
in the desert.
a utility air transport squadron rearmament programme would or the Polish
R Philips said under the wartime
battle was based at Hendon, just outside make heavy demands for physi- who served
between warriors of the London, and shore-based alr raging cists, chemists and engineers. Polish Government in London.
But the Indletinent is so con- Beihan State and tribesmen af
the If all the plans to develop the
Sixth groups supporting firm action would increase the
Morib,
ancient capital of the Fleet in the Mediterranean. under-developed of war--but experience
areas of the structed as to Incriminate danger
of Sheba. Queen were realised, Britain number world showed that the danger of peace
additional
will persons, Com- could not meet the demands for including high-ranking
fis expedition penetrated the Admiral Boone arose
an from
over-flaccid
scientific attitude. Second, the Govern-
manpower without punts's out of favour with the little-known province of Beihan general United
responsibility In damaging other commitments. partly influenced by
Kremlin, and Western diplu- and cut across sand dune coun- Kingdom arca, part of North The Council's Committee on
try until It reached Sheba's A United Nations sub-purely domestic party politics.
Atomic Energy for civilian uses mats stationed in Warsaw.
CLEAR INDICATION ancient capital 110 miles cast of Africa and the set areas of the dub the Con-
Eastern Atlantic and the Arctic It from there that Ocean.-Reuter. reported a reasonable prospect
Thus warmongers for
It may be only the Sana.
trekked north Li that atomic power could be de- Its
beginning of a much larger move the Queen veloped on a Inrite scale.
not ultimate cost would
Philips said he different much
trom
power derived from coal.
But it was likely to take at jeast a generation to develon atomle power stations which could contribute substantially to the country's power resources.
Heuter.
115
They wanted to committee tonight recom-servatives mended that they create electoral permanent machinery to
purposes. Lord Jowith, replying.
sald
plan and direct economic that the Egyptian problem was
war against future ag-
gressors.
is
de The recommendation
the major signed to remedy weakness in the United Nations collective security system <x- posed by the Korean war. The proposal consisted of: A continuing committee which would formulate procedure and methods to be used in applying economic sanctions.
no longer a bilateral matter between Egypt and Dritain.
ft
was fundamental to the pence of the world and the defence the of Western Europe and Middle East.
It was satisfactory that Br
bad received toin
assurances that incidents such as that to the British merchantmun Em- not be re-
pire Roach would peated. This matter was coming up before the Security Council the "We are which tomorrow.
with the United the actual closest touch direction and co-ordination of States and other governments," economic mensures as soon as he said. "We shall not take any
A special committee would take
over
the General Assembly or
Security Council decided to ap-
ply
measures save after close ltation with our Allies in the same are affected
Saying he hoped reason would
them to a country.
ro-
Menzies' Appeal To Australians
was
belo eliminate all real or poten- meet King Solemon and temples ?
tial opposition to complete con-
London, July 31. The Chancellor of the Ex- rol of the Polish Army by the of great archaeological impor-chequer, Mr Hugh Gaitskell, in foremost of which FL written reply today to a Soviet General Staff in Moscow, tance, the
question asked in the House of represented in Poland by Mar- was the Temple of Moon Wor-
ship with a
colossal column Commons, sold that he would shal Konstantin Rokossovsky.
allow dollars for British capital until recently Soviet Marshal rislag 30 feet above the sand.
objects showing development in Alberta, Canada, and now Commander-in-Chief He found art
for cél development I am Babylonians satisfied a sufficiently good case exists."-Reuter.
of the Polish armed forces by the influence of the Greeks as
well as of the the will of Stalin.
United Press,
in
Clear indication that the purge Poland will not be limited to officers with records of service with the Western Allies was given in the indictment of the present trial which heavily in- criminates General
Marian Spychalski, a Communist high in the hierarchy of the Party.
General Spychalski was sud denly dismissed from his post off
Minister of Defence Deputy Sydney, July 31.
in 1950 and a few months Carly The Australian Prime Minis- later disappeared without trace.
Robert Menzies, The Mr
of the ter,
Erst pinge
The members of the sub-way." Committee
these making commendations were: the United still prevail in the negotiations appealed to the nation tonight to European armies is n security
with Venc- Egypt., Lord Jowitt sald, Increase production to meet a measure taken by Moscow as States, Egypt, Australa,
"There is no divergence of in- Pallipplacs. zuela and the
grievous
Reneral threat" as
14 any part of the policy of The Independence and They had been assigned their terest.
Hanger we have looked at short rearmament. But it is also clear that the Kremlin is set on bring- dank on advising means to deter integrity of Egypt is the close
of war"
Menzies Mr
told the or repel aggression by the As concern of Britain and we shall
Analing about even greater isolation sembly's Collective Measures do everything we can to bring meeting of a two-day conference of Eastern Europe from the Committee-Associated Press. that about."Reuter.
to combat
that West.-United Press. inflation Australia must build strength, clash coal shortager and "deny
all ourselve
Jourles and triviall.tes" in productivo
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