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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1952. L
PARADOXICAL
SITUATION | Swiss Attempt
IN THE DISPUTE OVER JAPANESE REPARATIONS
Tokyo, Sept. 10.
Defeated Japan paid a token instalment on its reparations bill three years ago, but no one knows when it will make the next payment.
Its victim nations of World War II are pressing their claims but Japan is not ready to pay on their terms. And Japan is legally protected in its stand by the San Francisco peace treaty.
If this situation appears paradoxical, it is no more so than the position of the Finns who this month completed payment of their back-breaking reparations to aggressor-occupfer Russia.
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Gre
paid to each creditor nation. that Present Indications next year would be an optimis- fic guess.
This turn of events is the pro- Since the San Francisco con-
Japan duct of the West's need for anference,
appropriated economically stable Japan in $58,000,000 in this year's nation- Asia and United States al budget for the payment of its
A more likely prospect Is reluctance to see any part of the foreign bond debts and repara- ald it has poured into its anti-tions, and plans to add to the that the United States or per- Communist bastion drained off And in succeeding years.
hops a group of Western nations In heavy Japanese reparations
be called in to arbitrate The $50,000,000 comes to less Tony payments.
than one-holf
claims in the interest of per cent of the Japan's national Income for the improved reintions between fiscat
and its ear 1051. Japanese of Japan Reparations, in short, have
free world In- Asiatic taken a back seat in Asla to the cials claim that Jopar, can
neighbours. -- United Press. need for a strong pro-Weste creose this sum, however, only Japan, and weakening Japan to by cutting down on its contri- build up the nations its armies butions to the United States occupied in the Pacific war does security troops-based here
and not it in with that plon,
the build-up programme of its
both decade
ཐ
your
own securlly forces,
Article
14 has a number of protective clauses for Japan calculated to raise temperatures
capitals resentful of Japon's. occupallon reign.
out
10 countries
were
On Everest
on
A
Khatmandu, Sept. 10. The alx-man Swiss Everest expedition set off today over dangerous and slippery mouniału paths
170-mile trek to their 10,000-foot high base The Namche Bazaro, journey Is expected to take 28 days. The men wore ΣΤΟΥ shiria, bine jeans and while waterproof
on
hals.
A
The party will set up sarch camps in their bid to conquer Mount Everest, spokesman said. They plan to start the climb in the first week in October but it depends on the weather.
Associated Press.
Egyptian
To Head
Israel To
Market
Products and
Oil
The Arab
League
Cairo, Sept. 10. The former Egyptian Foreign Ministers, Dr Mohammed Salah el Din
The United States protected Its position with Article 14 in the San Francisca peace treaty stipulating that reparations in Marila, Djakarta and other payments must not prevent a *viable economy" for Japan.
Abdel Khaler Has- Indonesia and the Philippinès, CLAIMS RESTRICTED
souna are expected to bel occupied by Japan
found this
Tel-Aviv, Sept. 10. It restricts reparalons claims ago,
proposed for the vacant "whose present} A new 50,000,000 a year when they presented Tokyo with their reparations bill this territories"
occupied by agreement for the purchase of position of the Secretary.
of It provides crude oil and refined petroleum General
the Arab your. Japan
by the Japanese forces. stood Literal Interpretation of the that Japan shall pay only in products was signed yesterday League.
a result, both with
services, not foreign exchange cured Israel Fuel Corporation tonight under the presidency of between the Government-spon- The League Council met here peace treaty. As a
or any sured raw materials governments suspended their
Manufacturing servico to be and a threefold finance group: Aly Maher, former Egyptian negotiations, and refused either
by the creditor nation. American Palestine Trading Prime Minister, who is leading to ratify the San Francisce It further stipulates that the Corporation (AMPAL), Ameri- his country's delegation. trenty or to resume normal | * * WILE diplomatic relations with Tokyo, shall not interfere with cau-Israel Petroleum Corpora-
"yiable economy" or
ortior and Though Djakarta and Manila impose additional llablilties un Corporation have extended informal feelers olher Allied powers. Finally,
WR ALSOS early placed to resume the talks, oficials it here seo no prospect as long as wovides that "except as other at the
provided" signatorics Fu
Its first businers was the ac- Overseas Discount ceptance of the resignation of
Dr Abdel Rahman Azzam, who resigned as Secretary-General of the Israel last night, and the choice of a Fuel Corporation for oll and successor. the positions of the reparations- "walve" other claims on. Japan petroleum products, this com-
Both Egyptian candidates for claiming nations and Japan re-
"arising
of ang actions pany will be in a position to out main poles apart.
the Secretary-Genemiship have by Japan and its nationals market about 200,000 tons year- Laken
and Government spokesman International affairs.
wide experience of Arab in the course of the prosecution 15, a
Guid. NOT UNWILLING
of the war.............
Dr Salah of Din was Foreign Japan has "doggedly exercised Crude oil acquired under con- Minister in the Ward Cabinet of This does not mean that Japan Its treaty rights in its dimeult tracts between the Israel Mustafa Nahas, which abrogated is unwilling to pay. The island negotiations with empire shipped machine-tools, victors. It
the Asiatic Government and USA suppliers the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty and opened the repara- is being refined by Consolidated resigned after the riots in Cairo metal working machinery and tions issue in talks with Indo-Reineries Ltd., Haifa, under last January.
here last December and specific arrangement concluded $32,000,000 from Japanese Anny
Recently he had been leading 1951 between the and Navy arsenals to China, the
the
the younger Israeli Government and Anglo- Wafdists against the "old guard"
revolt of Philippines, the Netherlands East Indies, Burma and Malaya be- of Article 14. Immediately after Iranian Oil Company.
and has called for a purge of the Indonesian delegation re- laraci Fuel Corporation, in the tween 1947 and 1940 as advance turned to Djakarta, a new Gov- which a number of enterprises; party leaders and adminis-
tration.
other capital equipment worth in the basic
was
An
interim bent early in
Kas
reparations. The Far Eastern Commission cancelled
into the pro- ernment came power, ro- including transport co-operatives
WAFD COMMITTEE gramme when
to ratify It found the fused to
the peace treaty are represented, was established
Abdel Khaler Hassouna much at the equipment
because
of objection to the about a year ago. being left to must on the docks reparations article and rejected Up to
now 60,000 tons of Education Minister in the Aly Maher Government, which toolt where they were unloaded. the agreement signed in Tokyo. crude oil have been purchased office after the Cairo riots, und Japal tried again with the from Venezuela, part of which Foreign Minister in the succeed. Philippines and did not got that has already arrived and been ing Government of Nagulb far. The Philipplaes presented refined at Haifa, while the bal-Hinly. He retained the position a reparations bill of $8,000,000,- ance Is 800.. Japan refused to accept it, and the tulks were broken oft,
The new agreement will make The Quirino Government, ham-
spcure the Corporation's smooth pered by the powerful Naciona-continued operation and contri- lista Opposition, has never re- sumed the negotiations.
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JAPAN'S POSITION The outlines of Japan's post- tion
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are:
t
1. Japan will not pay repara- tions in cash.
2. It will pay in services, such processing FBW materials provided by the claimant coun- try, salvaging, sending of tech- nicians, and skilled training for Asiatic workers in Japan,
3. Japan will not fix the sum it will pay to any single nation until all qualified nations have presented their reparations claims, and their claims can
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Elephant Born
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Moscow, Sept. 10. Moscow newspapers today
· that
prad Shango reported
Molly, a pair
of 44-year-old Indian elephants, had become the parents of a 200-pound son at the Moscow Zoo,
Į
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was overthrown by the coup that forced Farouk's
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The Word Party Executive to- day announced the formation of [n' three-man committee to draw rules for the party's 10- up organisation in accordance with the new political parties law.
was
numed new The
Members of the committee are Aly Drabi, former President of the Senate, Abdel Fattah el Tawil, former Wafdist Justice Minister, and Ibrahim Farag, former Acting Foreign Minister in the Wafdist Government.
It will hold its first meeting in Alexandria on Saturday.— Router.
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The director of the Zoo said elephants rarely reproduced in be adjusted to Japon's ability captivity. Molly produced her
which first-born, to pay.
Montreal, Sept. 10. Little "abilly 4. Japan's
to pay
Muscovite.
The International Civil Avio- is limited by its baby stands 41 Inches high, tion Organisation will hold reparations obligation to pay off pre-war began walking 60 minutes after
of further hearing of the India- Government bonds hold by birth and cale 200 pounds Pakistan dispute here next foreign bondholders and com- vegetables daily. mitments to the United States Shango, which weighed four month.
claims that Pakistan to pay half the cost of the United and a half tons, remained
will not permit her commoveðal and Moscow
during the war when States security forces here
plants to fly over a prohibited other animals WOTE strengthen Japan's own defence the
area. on the latter's western establishment,
ovacuated. He was too large to
border. be evacuated. United Press.
LIKELY
COURSE
Only indonesia and the Philippines have mado direct- the claims upon Japan under
clause,
Vietnam reparations Indicated last year that it would present a bill for $2,000,000,000. received.
It has never been
B
is also expected to make
hos
dim, though it has
done so. Tokyo antici-
MISSION TO LANCASHIRE
Manchester, Sept. 10.
in India
Dr Nazir Ahmed, Pakistan's
tic | chief expert on cotton research,
pates no demands from Malaya, arrived here today on a week's
Hongkong, Borneo or
New fact-Ending mission.
A Pakistan reply to the complaint has "been received but India has yet to answer, --- Reuter.
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Guinea, all of which were 0. He met the Chairman of the year's West Berlin Industrial cupled by Japanese troops dur-Cotton Board, Sir
10 Raymond Fair from September Strent, and other Lancashire | October 5.
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It is anyone's "uess when texule chiefs. Japan will be in a position to Iater Dr Ahmed will visit mitted every day from a special tabulate, all claims and begin engineering works in the Man-mudio beneath a 450-foot high actual negotiation of sums to be ichester arca.—Reuter,
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