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PLAIN SPEAKING BY New Resident
MR R.A. BUTLER ON STERLING CRISIS
London, Jan. 24.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr R. A. Butler, said here today that the economic crisis through which Britain was passing was without precedent in her history.
He said that the recent Conference of Com- monwealth Finance Ministers had revealed two important facts:
(1) Strong Sterling was of direct and press- ing concern to the whole Commonwealth;
(2) The Commonwealth countries had re- solved to take early and drastic action to maintain and increase the strength of Sterling with the ulti- mate objective of making it freely convertible.
a sprech to the Anglo- ; let himself be easily impressed American Chumber of Com- by such language," Mr Butler merce. Mr Buller said that
said. few
days ago an American Senator had wold him that there was no more chance of reviving the British conomy than of bringing A dead horse bark to life.
The Chancellor declared al- ly but the Senator was mis- taken. "We are members of an Administration directed by Prime Minister who will not
Praya Reclamation Authorised
A
We in this country have already taken some measures t reduce our overseas spending and to release more resources for export," Mr Butler said. "Further measures are necessary und they will be taken. The road ahead may not be al- together pleasant, but it is clear-
siposted and we shall
hurry along it what possible speed. And we shall be strengthened in the knowledge that we do not travel the road
alone but in company
with
the whole Commonwealth,
CO-OPERATION INVITED
"There is
another source
encouragement.
of
We have look-
ed beyond the immediate ob- stacies and difficulties that
le
in our path to the objective of free convertibility of Sterling into all the main currencies of Final authority to pro- the world. Then will come the ceed with the new Praya time when the Sterling countries; Reclamation Scheme is not will have freer access than they fied in the Government have today to the output of
North
ate America and to adequate Gazette today.
resources of external capital for Definitive
development approval to con
This last is of struct the undertakings is pro-
and I have great importance claimed by His Excellency the
consent of the Executive Council
comed.
General
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M. Jean de Hauteclocque, the new French Resident-General appointed to the new Mediterranean storm centre, Tunisia, escorted by General Garbay in front of the guard of honour on his arrival at Tunis last week. (London Express
Service),
Nine Die In Heat One That Did Not
Wave Scorching
Australia
Sydney, Jan. 25.
The death toll rose to nine today in the heat- wave scorching four Australian States with tem- peratures of above 100 degrees.
The heatwave
entered its ture when the Thermometer
Governor, with the advice and with my Commonwealth tourth day today with little sign | dropped to 98 degrees on Thurs-
colleagues that investment from of relief from the record heat day. outside the area is to be wel- that caused the deaths of eight Citizens of Sydney and Mel- elderly persons and a ten-year-bourne were sleeping on the The reclamation, bounded to Mr Butter continued. "Gener-old child through exhaustion and beaches by the sea through the the cast by the Naval Dockyard | ally, Indeed, Lt was our caused hundreds of others tonight in an attempt to escape and to the west by a pitched; view that the speed and com-
collapse in Queensland, New the stifing conditions. The slope 415 feet long, will be
Stuh Wales, Victoria and South heatwave brought a new menace within a seawall to the north
Australia.
on Thursday as huge bush fires 93é feel log
States sprang up in the four Every major town in western
and ran
Linder- through the New South Wales and northern
dry country devastating Victoria reported temperatures speed. The new City Hall is to be | fact, is of concern to the whole | ranging from 180 to 111 degrees, built in part of this new re- of the free world." France- while Adelaide bad its first day clamation.
Presse
without a 100-degree tempera-
A public pier and a ferry
pier will be bulk out of the seaward face of the reclamation,
the
pleteness of Our BuccESS quired co-operation from non-Sterling world, particularly those roundries currently bless- ed with a surplus.
"The future of Sterling,
COMMENT OF THE DAY
THE
in
The Weakness Of France
HE turn in French politics looks for the moment to be encouraging, The youthful new Premier, M. Faure, gained his vote of confidence with a sound majority and has survived immediate tests with comparative ease. There is no confidence, however, that this will last. The powerful Socialist group in the Assembly, having refused seats in the Cabinet, is holding its hand, but without promise that it do so beyond the crucial meetings connected the with the European Army and Atlantic Treaty Organisation in Lisbon shortly to convene. Yet France, like many others, is in imminent danger- danger of inflation, danger of economic catastrophe, and danger in the sphere of international politics which she has yet to gird herself to meet. She has been lifting her voice on these matters in the councils of the West; the Schuman Plan is hers, the plan for a European Army is hers. And just as they are in critical phases, (the Schuman Plan adopted in principle is not launched, the European Army is not fully shaped even in outline) the Faure Government, as its predecessor was, is subject to averthrow. on a relatively trivial pretext. The weak ness of French Governments, their day- to-day liability to dismissal and their consequent exposure to different kinds of pressure, are features no less- characteristic of the Fourth-French Republic as they were of the Third. The chronic lack of stability not merely damages France but constantly embarrasses her best friends. The roots of the evil run back through the whole of France's modern parliamentary history, Ita
Sa has we been the
multiplicity of
of that must
Underd Hallot
'in the
B
party and parliamentary working live on. Though the Assembly nominally elected by proportional representation, its method appears to have its chief attraction in that the old habits can persist. At the moment there are five main parties, two pledged in opposition to the Centre groups, and numerous other minor parties, whose members sway from side to side as the mood dictates. Four Prime Ministers have contrived to govern in this way for short spells M. Bidault, M. Schuman and M. Pleven (M.R.P.), and M. Queuille (Radical). But all their Governments have been very weak; for each had to perform like a circus-rider bestriding three horses, and the defec tion of any one of the three would suffice to bring him down. For such defections there are frequent occasions in home politics, particularly between the M.R.P., who are bound to give some help to the Catholic schools, and the Socialists, who would lose votes to the Communists if they did not resist such a policy. Thus it would seem impossible to get a strong French Government during the lifetime of the present Assembly; nor do many people "sup pose that, if by the same methods another Assembly were elected, it would be much, if any, better.
The enly remedy is another electoral system. Let French democrats condescend to imitate. Let them note how in Britain and America plain majority election producés two parties, or how in Sweden and Belgium the form of proportional representation there used produces" three, Either of these has demonstrably vielded far better results than the multiplicity of parties which France. What is the alter viblent overthrow of
nation
at
Nearly 200 soldiers and civilians were fighting de sperately to keep one fire away from
the country's largest munitions plant in New South
Wales. Fires ringed three sides of the dump and sparks blowing
over the area threatened to cause a major explosion.
The water
shortage is acute in many areas and if the heat wave continues the water supply may be seriously threatened. United Press.
Gas Supply Without Coal!
Get Away
ALONG SUEZ CANAL British Troops Under Stand-By Orders: Patrol Ismailia
Ismailia, Jan. 24,
Both British Army and Royal Air Force units were standing by tonight and plans to put the whole of Britain's garrison in Egypt on a footing approaching war had already been put into
operation.
British staff officers regard the situation as
the most critical since the abrogation of the Anglo-Knock - Out
Egyptian Treaty in October.
Batteries of anti-aircraft guns, which were
Against Malaya Reds
rushed into position last night to defend Moascar Plan and other garrisons against possible air attacks, have been followed by an increase in armour at strategic positions around Ismailia and other vital British communication centres.
con- to the
road-Sten Gan Alley"-op- Other British troops in the cripple, the Malayan
pits town weapons
least Com-
Singapore, Jan. 25. Infantrymen today
camps and maintaining; Sensational new measures solidated their defences along constant patrols round the peri- to knock oui, or at Ismailia's Quay Mohammed Ali meter.
posite, digging
spread out along both munist gangs will soon be And trenches along the Canal sides of the Sweet Water Canal put into operation. banks and siting scores of mor- and manned a strong-point on iar positions.
the edge of the town, while ar- Three infantry battalions moured car reinforcements were patrolled the town.
stationed beyond the town, ready Throughout the Canal Zone to move at the first sign of an Brush troops were ready to re- emergency.--Reuter, press quickly and ruthlessly TENST ATMOSPHERE any attack by either Egyptian
The atmosphere in Ismaila is regular or irregular forces.
The Forces are now putting tense, with everyone looking the "finishing touches" on One British staff officer sald: over
his shoulder and at night big anti-bandit punch "We are waiting for the gaunt-rearing behin? chuttered win- may coincide with the arrival which let to be dung down. I do not
dows. In the
ance- town's believe that there will be any crowded French Club, a handful High Commissioner.
of General Templer, the new
Fleetwood, Jan. 24. The trawler Jamaica hove into port tonight with AN UNUSER) catch: One brand
The op Ihotor truck.
Charlie Mews, the skip- pet, said the vehicle came up in his net off the Isle of Man on the Irish Sen.
Any lingering hopes that Aside from a cracked in- Egypt might change her attitude
„park 11 was un-qf bate against the British Camaged.
pear to have faded in the minds Port authorities guessed of the military authorities here.
it was washed off freighter's during
מלריסים
deck cargo recent
Sovere storms——Associated Press,
LOGIC OF
EUROPEAN
UNITY
New York, Jan. 24. The New York Times, discussing General Dwight Eisenhower's statement of
half measures after that happens.
of Canal company
employees
*7-".
Though the Army is putting the strictest black-out on the plans it can be said that hitherto untried methods will be used in some of the worst Red areas.
a
Eat strangely silent over their Recent reports from captured drinks, brooding on what to- and surrendered Reds indicate morrow or the next day might a worsening of morale among the hungry harassed and
discased
have guerillas who Been plagued in the past months by non-stop rain in the jungle.
By mid-afternoon now the
Club is nearly members
HOME
deserted "as deave hurriedly for their homes before the Mullahs' wailing call to prayer from nearby marques announces: an- other sunset and apother tense night.-United Press.
- BARRICADES Filmstly-constructed barricades of wood and barbed wire along the perimeter of the occupied part of the Arab town were shored up with sandbags and
EGYPT'S RESOLUTION rolls of barbed wires were strung
Cairo, Jan. 24. between alley ways and street
Farag Pasha, the entrances.
Egyptian acting Foreign Minis- Troops of the 18th Parachute ter today told the newspaper. Brigade completed their evacua- A Balagh, that Egypt would
Ibrahim
The new bid to strike at the heart of Communist powerin Malaya may lead to a vast im- provement In the position, London Express Service.
Tallulah's Maid
tion of the cemetery area early not call off the "Commando On Probation
today.
activities in the Suez Canal
The paratroopers took over Zone guard of the Mouscar Garrison Commenting on reported and airborne men were manning machine-gun posts at entrances
the case for European unity Walks Over
you
that
today quoted the General's assertion that "when finally find something must be done impossibilities disappear and become mere-
ly major obstacles."
New York Jan, 24, Tallulah Bankhead's former British suggestions to facilitate
Mrs Evlyeen the resumption of the Anglo-maid-secretary, Egyptian talks, he said: "The Cronin, was today given a British forces must withdraw to suspended sentence for stealing their camps as a preliminary from the actress by alterb.g step to complete the evacuation cheques for expensĘs. and the only proof of Britain's į Judge Stevens,
a Negro goodwill"
presiding at his first major cage, her to one to two considerable time negotia- years on each of three counts tions with Britain but was still but suspended execution and willing to reach an agreement placed вет on probation "establishing a state of friend- indefinitely. This means freedom. ship on the footing of perfect Mrs Cronin rose to thank him. equality," he added,
"Do not thank me," he said. "Or else Egypt will continue "If she had been a little younger national struggle to the I would have sent her to gaol."
-Reuter.
wasted sentenced had already Half Europe
To Safety
Paris, Jan. 24. The Police today questioned
the
"What General Eisenhower is plugging for is what we believe the people of half a dozen democracies of Western Europe | Jean Paul Picard, 33-year-old bitter end,” he said.”—Reuter, truly want. r. the people Frenchman, who claimed that who want this and it is the he had walked across half of politicians, as usual, who are bringing up the rear."
is
new
Europe after escaping from
#
Soviet labour, camp where he had been since 1945.
He said that he was captured by the Germans during World
Cardiff, Jan. 24. The Wales Gas Board today disclosed the first results of an Though there are difficultles experiment the first of its "there are great elements of kind in Britain-in supplying to unity too. If the immediate householders gas made from aunotivation is the menace from War II and sent to a prisoner mixture of oll byproduct and the East the fundamental driv- of war camp in Frankfurt-on- air.
East ing force comes from something | Oder,
Germany, Red It completely does away much
less negative a strong Army troops who occupied the with the use of oil and contams determination On the part camp in 1945 sent him to a the possibility of immense say-of the free people of labour camp in Odessa, on the ngs of coal.
Europe to
a create
Black Sea The experiment started this political structure out of the week at Whitland, Carmarthen- catastrophie ruin of two world
Picard said he had worked shire, where there is ao coal gas wars."
12-hour days in Russian mines plant serving the town's 240 The Times said that "Euro- and factories. He claimed that pean unity is no longer an idle, he escaped last November and The new gas. is made from dres
dream I is something within walked through Western Russia, butane mixed with three parts our grasp and it can be ac- Poland and Germany
before complished within our time if reaching Liege in Belgium.
Yesterday The experiment being we, the parsers of the Western
completely treated by the Gas Council of world, have the courage and hausted and wearing a tatterad Britain as a pilot experiment patience and statesmanship to French Army uniform,...he for the whole country,
The
staggered into a Liege Police system is already in L18e
The Herald Tribune said that station.
French⠀⠀⠀ policemen France. The experiment is de-
brought General Blaenhower "can boldly scribed as a "complete succes propose a constitutional com him to Paris today to verify his
vention for Western Europe not statements Beuter, because he expects quick or final
consumers.
of air.
Reuter.
accomplish
in
H.R.H's Aid To put because the pattern
from such a gathering
of
history has fallen into such a
not the ultimately, inevitable
War On Cancer form that this is the logical i
inext step."-United Press.. Ottawa, Jan, 24.1
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| to Canada's ; fight against cancer
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