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PART II 10:15 P.M.
PART I 8:30 P.M.
QUO VADIS
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On March 15, Admiral the Earl Mountbatten of BurTIS took over
Allied
Commander-in-Chief, Madlier- rancan, and the new N.A.T.0. command was activated fol- ་- ceremony to mark
lowing a the occasion at Malia. Here the flags of Turkey. Italy,
Greece and France are unfurl- ed at Lascaris, Malia, during the ceremony-Express Pholo.
EGYPTIANS
ON GRAFT CHARGES
Calro, Mar. 31.
A number of civilians will soon be tried in anti-graft courts in Egypt on charges of corruption and abuse of power under pre vious governments. Fund Galal, Minister of National Guidance; announced as a Press conference today.
Galal sold that If, during the civilian trials in the anti-graft courts, charges arise concerning ex-king Farouk, he will be tried
in absentia.
Galal said that all the military accused Errestet after fast January's coup detat have been tried by the Revolutionary Court.
Eisenhower Has
One Of
World's
Toughest
Jobs
Washington, Mar. 31.
President Dwight Eisenhower has found after his first few months in office that the Presidency of the United States is one of the world's toughest jobs.
By normal American Big Business standards,
Japanese Get TV
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Tokyo, Apr. 1. TV has come to Tokyo. Fan-fluttering geishas, hall clad chorus girls, actors, clowns, and Cabinet Minis ters are flickering across the pale blue screens for five hours a day.
The programmes aro proving a sensational success.
The State-controlled broad- casting.... system Is atrendy pushing through plans nation-wide expansion,
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The great Industrial cities
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COMPETITION
trans-
By then there will be com- petillon from commercial tele- vlelon.
The Nippon Television Net- work, backed by millionaire showman Matsutaro Shiriki, goes on the air this month.
Viewers pay 45 a month for a Rcence about the inflated price of a bottle of beer, British TV licence at £2 a year is 35. 4d. a month.
One enterprising firm is de
signing a £13 set with plastic cabinet and seven-inch screen, receiver to be marketed even-
Another has produced a colour
tually at around £75.
The Japanese expect rich
Asia.
export markets to spring up in it is also underpaid. The nation gives its Presi- South America and South-East dent a fixed salary of 100,000 dollars (about £35,714 And, as usual, they mean busi- Sterling) a year. Thousands of American business-ness-London Express Service. men earn more than that, many of them five times as much.
else.
. The present Secretary of, by passing it along to someone Defence, Mr Charles E. Wilson, for example, was getting 600,000 When former President Harry White dollars a year as head of the Truman occupied the General Motore
ro Corporation House, he had a constant before he entered Government minder of this in the form of a little sign on his desk reading: service.
The buck stops here
Swearing-In Of restined.
Marshal Slim
Canberra, Mar. 31. Mr R. G. Menzies, the Prime Minister, announced today that Field-Marshal Sir William Slim will be sworn in
as Governor- General of Australia on May 8.
-some
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More than 230 officials have
and
CONSTANT GUARD
'Playing'
Mean's That They Are Learning
London, Mar. 31.
Yet the Presidency demands thut the holder of the office com-
direct BCCCSS 10 him with Bine the functions of a monarch,
urgent problems at any time. corporation executive, The Revolutionary Court and politician, a diplomat, and
The United States Code has 800 nounces on Monday that Rah Field-Marshal, and at the same more
sections which Impose one or dutics, powers and Mchanaa, a former Regent of
expecta him to shoulder functions on him. Urne 23 Egypt, had been sentenced to
Th President The
If a child comes home from can, und years imprisonment-the equiva-alone tremendous responsibilities
ülive been lent of a dife sentence while affecting the peace and security does, delegate some of these school and says,
duties. three of the world. other Army officers and
But he
cannot dele playing all day," a parent can be certain that the schooling civilians received sentences
ទ The strain of the office has gote responsibility. ranging from one to 25 yeart. killed
going well, said Miss E. R Presidents and To help him
cope with Boyce, an expert in the teach of office, Mr Associated Press.
seriously damaged the health of business
six administrative
of young children, who addressed parents of pupils at others but never in history has hower has n President of the United States assistants, a legal adviser,
alde, personal
Rhodes Avenue Infants School, three secretaries for appointments, Wood Green. the Press and correspondence, showed a very small percentage MissBoyce Bald statistics respectively. He has also three of illiterates, and these included As the President obviously military aldes and a personal those whose mental equipment
ils malory doctor. not live on could
did not allow them to be taught. alone, the nation through Con-
The facts were not ne terrible gress gives him a 50,000 dollar £17,857 Sterling)
as some people made them out To his intimate friends, Mr to be, (about
Eisenhower has confined that
SOME CRITICISM expenso allowance and another (about £14,285 40,000 dollars
There had been some erille- particularly like Sterling) for travel and he does not
the restrictions which his tam, she said, os to whether the entertainment.
position places on his earlier schools today were doing their Sir William Slim was to have But ke any average citizen,
he Ikes job properly. been sworn in in the Senate the President has to pay taxes freedom to do what
had been suggested that at But 24 on his income and buy the and when he likes. chamber on March 25.
Wherever he goes,
outside modern schools boys and girls hours before he was due to family groceries out of his own
his private living quarters, Mr do more playing than learning. leave Britain, on February 24, pocket.
Today the aim was to create was delayed by When he was sworn into office Elsenhower is closely guarded his departure
by hand-picked detall of a child's world, with simple Mr Churchill so that his views last January 20, Mr Elsenhower Secret Servico men, charged to reading material of different on Middle East defence would left behind him the compara-Sec
from the very earliest be available to the Government, tively sheltered life of the Army lay down their lives if neces-kinds,
the days. and of College President and sury in the protection of
his family.
Pupils
were brought Job in President ond accepted cheerfully a
Like Mr Truman and other touch with this material in a which he has to:
of 50-called ploy 1. Perform many of the cere-Presidents, Mr Elsenhower, who variety
a King has given proof of his ability to methods, and they read simple monial functions of without much of the glamorous protect himself in war, does not words linked with pictures.
usually associated with like to be
recognises the Ceremony monarchy.
2. Manage the nation and the need for it since two American the Presidents have been assassinat- Executive Branch of Government like a giant com-ed and several others, including Mr Truman, narrowly escaped plex business enterprise- al-Heath
the death, or injury at the hands of controls the den though Congress money
and lays down the laws fanatics. under which he must operate.
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Mayer On The Way Home
Ottawa, Mar, 31. M. Reno Mayer, the French 3. Lead the armed services as now has to give serious thought their Commander-in-Chief-but to every public statement, no Prime Minister, left Ottawa for
how brief.
New York by air today on his matter a
A few careless words could way back to France after talks cause fluctuations on the world's
in Washington
and Oltown. stock markets or anxious flutter- With han were the French
gs in world capitals.
Foreign Minister, M. Georges Even a short Press release Bidault, and the Finance Minis- Maurice Bourges. must be worded so exactly that for
CAN'T PASS BUCK
On top of this, the President responsible for the conduct of the nation's foreign affairs its meaning cannot possibly be Maunoury. and is the leader of his own, in misunderstood by the 1,700 daily In Ottawa, in conferences with this case the Republican, party, newspapers in the United States Canadian oficials, they agreed Ho is probably the only man and the thousands of nows to establish a committee of ex- In the United States who can editors in other countries who parts to work out a salefactory not "pass the buck" that is, subject it to the closest scrutiny, balance of trade between the two evadé
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