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Paris, Aug. 19.
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Washington, Aug. 19. Mr Paul G. Hoffman, Brat head of the Marshall Aid
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tricity imported from across the Channel.
Governments have before them an ambitious The British and French
(about 25 miles) long sub- scheme to exchange power through a 42-kilometra marine cable laid on the bed of the English Channel.
Its effect would be to boost the British supply with French power when con- sumption in Britain is at its peak and augment the French supply with British power when consumption in France is at ita peak.
Japanese Goods which
Flood Africa
New York, Aug. 19. According to the Daily News Record, textile manufacturers
Johan Cure, South Africa are the Govern- appealing to
ment for better protection against imported Japanese vad.. good! 1
1 despatch Johannesburg,
Nous Necord salu
the
cheap Japanese
were sald
South Press
from
Daily
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textiles
to be flooding
Africa. Untied
Atomic
Scientist Subpoenaed
Washington, Aug. 19. The House of Representatives Com- Un-American Activities milice announced today that it hod subpoenaed Dr Edward U. Condon to testify before it on September 5 in Chicago.
oath that charges made last year by Senator Joseph bitter anti- McCarthy Communist campaigner against General George C. Marshall and the plan were "fantastically false."
President
Was
Mr Hoffman, now of the Ford Foundation, This could be done owing toj Hydro-electric production last giving pre-trial testimony in the totalled 21.200 0,000 $2 million "libel, alander and the different national customs year
and thermal on either side of the Channel, kilowatte
Apat conspiracy" sult that Republican kilowalts-Reu- Senator McCarthy is bringing cause peak periods to 17,138,000,000
Senator another against For ter. different Umes. occur at
Democrat William Benton. instance, when Mrs Smith bas three electric plates burning to prepare porridge, kippers and Madame for breakfast, Dupont in Paris 18 using only one for the morning coffce.
tea
of
AMAZING
CLAIM ACCEPTED
Geneva, Aug. 19.
accepted Switzerland today the claim of a Spaniard and an Hallan that they were making! real false money" and refused to extradite them.
In the Summer, meal Ulmes al- coincide, though the most Frenchman ests a larger-and carlier-lunch and a later supper the than the Englishman. In
are one winter, clocks here hour ahead of Britain, Civing the French
time to finish their cocking before the British start. The submarine line to carry urrent would be the first the
current high-tension electric cable such length to laid_perman
For the tu- ently under wat
The two men, accused in Italy vasion of France, in 1944, the and arrested in Switzerland for Allied Forces laid a
temporary line from the Isle of Wight to making English gold sovereigns,
to French
gold Napolcons the to help supply Cherbourg,
Mexican gold dollars, protested invading armies during the
that the coins have the Initial stages of the campaign. gold conter and weight as the
smaller permament real thing, A much line, only ve kilometres (lust. over three miles) long, links
Sweden and Denmark.
¿
The Channel line, consisting each 10 cent- of four cabics metres in diameter and weigh ng 1,000 tons, would cost 3- (about £3,- 000,000,000 francs 000,000) and the laying opera- tlon another 1,500,000,000 francs (about 21,500,000).
Britain
two
SHARING COSTS Four years ugo a committe
France would and report described Dr Condon,
the cools if their the National chart head then
of
as "the Governments approve the pro- Burrou of Standards,
atomic Jeet, which has been recom- weakest link in
mended in a report drawn up security chain."
This Committee of experts
our
and
Бате
of
Senator Benton's lawyer rend from excerpts to Mr Hoffman' the 6,000-word denunciation of General Marshall and the plan, which Senator McCarthy deliver- ed in the Senate last year,
One passage called the plan "a conspiracy on a scale so im- mense as to dwarf any pre- vious such venture in the his- 11 named of tory General Marshall as "the per- son principally guilty of the alleged conspiracy.
renn."
BC- of
elso Senator McCarthy
Marshall General cused siding with Russia in making decisions which "lost the peace" for the United States in Europe and Asia.
4
DELAY REFUSED Senator McCarthy led his bel suit after Senator Benton's demand to a congressional sub- committee last September that Mr McCarthy be expelled from the Senate for "perjury." and calculated decelt" of American people in pressing his charges that Communists were in the State Department,
frauri the
They have not, therefore, been guilty, they argued, of counter feiting in the usual sense making worthless coins.
This contention was accepted by a Federal tribunal,
Extradition was refused for
Earlier today a court refused the following reasons:
According to the International
enzlar McCarthy a' delay in for Convention
counterfeit on
the suit. He has asked which proceedings of April 1820,
to be held up on money came into force in Switzerland, the grounds that he was too and Italy in 1949, one can only to confer with his lawyers. regard as "money" that which Mr Hofman said today: "T is legal tender.
these charges fantas- consider
Marshall's This was not the case with tically false. General
put in Americanism and patriotiam need any of the gold coins circulation by the two accused ne defence from me, men because gold sovereigns, gold
Dr Condon sharply protested by an Anglo-French Committee. Napoleons and gold dollars art is record of selfless devotion
at the assertion and accused headed by the chiefs of the the committee of denying him electrical research departments been an opportunity to answer the
of both countries, have
sms of problems the charges.
studying the de-scheme for the past 12 months.
ace: Among these problems athe danger to the line from
pear
the did
Last June Dr Condon clined
to an invitation
before voluntarily
tic committee, saying
that. the com feal
could be mittee's past "error" "amended now, more than four yours after the event."
not
He resigned- his Government post in 1951.
the
record speaks for itself.
his country that has been equalled by few and surpassed a traffic in most parts by no one since this Republie
no longer currency in Britain, to France or Mexico. There is a traffic
of the Continent in gold coins. was founded."-Reuter. They are done by people who feel that if inflation should come to their particular coun-
try, gold will always be worth EXTEN ION OF ships'
anchors:
corrosive something and paper money water; and the nothing. Reuter. action of salt material in which to enclose the cables.
plans, According to present
for 35 the line will stretch kilometres under the sea from a point near Calais to some- length where near Dover. A The commitice's hearings in of seven kilometres will be set Chleage are to deal with Com- aside for repairs.
infiltration into munist
thej On the French side, a special defence industry in that area-i cuting be laid from Paris 3,000,000,000, franes will have to Reuter,
to the Channel to Bnk up the no extra central grid but cable will be needed in England as Dover is in the Central net- work.
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TRANSFORMERS Building of 1,500,000,000 frane transformers to adapt the current to national frequencies is both expense which another Governments would have to meet.
The line will carry 100,000
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AGREEMENT
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Manila, Aug. 19. Philippines has agreed
to another three-month exten- sion of the temporary air agree- New Delhi, Aug. 19. The Netherlands-India-Paki-ent with Australia granting tan-Ceylon Society of Holland Landing righis here to Qantas
planes.
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bilateral pact, is of a for distribution in the famine- cena in recent months six "parcels" clusi
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