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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 1953,
Anti-Religious Campaign In
No Change Boing East Germany
Contemplatod
London, Apr. 20. Latest speeches by Mr Churchill, the Prime Minis-į ter, and the U.8, Secretary of Stato, Mr John Foster Dulles, make fi elcar nel- thet government contem- plates any major change in NATO defence polley after Soviet, peace moves, dipto matic quarters consider.
Commenting
today on
the
recent change in Russia's a tude in relations with the West.
Mr Churchill said, however: "I is too soon to consider any re- Jaxation of our efforts for collec tive defence."
Reviewing Republican polley to date in Washington over
the week-end, before leaving for Europe to attend next Thurn- day's Ministerial meeting of the NÁTO Counell, Mr Dulles avid: "Nothing that has happened has Induced in us a mood of relnxn- 1lor or any desire to weaken NATO,"
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The most probable effect of a new and more conciliatory pal- tern of Soviet polley NATO military prag:amme ཏྟཱ expected here to be herensed support for a long-term build-up of strength as against a short- term penk build-up.
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Though the 14 NATO govern- mente appear agreed that would be unwise to read into recent Soviet moves more than a change of tactics, at least wish- j out evidence, this would be ground for a shift from a short- tem ko a long-term defence plan, it de thought here.
Observers in London stressed the wisdom of Mr Churchill's view that the Soviet Govern- ment, should not be expected to make an Immediate reply to the considerable list of goodwill
NEARING THE CLIMAX
Bonn, Apr. 20.
The Communist campaign against East Ger man charitable and youth groups connected with the Catholic and Evangelical Churches seems to be reaching its climax.
According to reports from Eastern Germany, every effort is being made to interfere with the work and activities of the Church youth groups and with religious institutions such as the "Inner Mission."
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The Christian Democratic party-which should in theory be the principal defender of the East German Churches-has now been dragged into the Com- munist campaign.
secretary-general, Herr Gotting, has instructed the party that the Church youth executive groups were working against the East German State and word deliberately encouraging poli tical reaction by sowing doubts in the minds of the young.
According to Herr Gotting West German churchmen were This figure takes no ac-
trying to recruit East German count of the work done in reference ilbraries.
the European Army youth for In- formation
and were encouraging the Church bureaux and other special departments.
groups to split from the Com- Yet
munist-organised "Free German ilbrary
Youth." thorities spend 28 per cent of their resources on such services because of the ex-. cepilonat demands made by propie
enraged In academic and Industrial re- search.
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The public libraries of Great Britain and Nor- thern Ireland contain about
53,739,600 books.
tests posed by Mr Eisenhower GROMYKO ON
Included a
last week. These pettlement
of Whe Austrian Trenty and a genuine peace throughout the Far East.
It was noted here that Mr Churchill posed only the establishment of a Korean truce as an immediate test of Soviet
good faith.--Reuter.
Peace
Restrictions Explained
WAY HOME
LEADERS ACCUSED Herr Gotting named several leading East German churclunen whom he accused of surring up strite.
These Included
Dr Dibellus, Bishop of Berlin, Dr Hartmann, president of the Mecklenburg Church Synod, and Dr Muller, Bishop of Saxony.
Herr Gotting is generally re garded
tool of the Socialist Unity party, and the East German Churches mut expect to be per- secuted by him as well as by the Free German Youth and other Communist "mass.or- ganisations
Some years ago the Churches still received some help from Herr Nuschke, chairman of the Christian Democratie party and Vice-Premier of Eastern Ger-
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Copenhagen, Apr. 20. Significant sidelight on Russia's "Big Somersault" has raised
eyebrows in cautious Copen-
hagen.
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valid for travelling in Russia.
Paris, Apr. 20.
When the Iron Curtain clanked M. Andrel Gromyko, retiring
Into Hasition after the war the Soviet Ambassador to Beltain,
Danish People's Holiday Associa arrived by train from London
tion, official representatives of today on his way to Moscow to
the Soviet Intourist Bureau, were take up his new post as Deputy hor need expect this help
left holding nearly 100,000 dollars Foreign Minister,
worth of tickets and coupons Ile sald he would leave by no longer. Herr Nuschke has In train for Moscow without delay, turn deserted his party chief,
The echo of its own plaintive lie was met at the station by Herr Kaiser, most of his old AT. Alexei Pavlov, the Russian party colleagues, and his wife.request was the only answer the Ambassador to France.
He seems likely now to desert
Association got when it asked Russla what to do about the Earlier reports had said that his religion too. M. Gromyko was expected to
tickets eached in a Copenhagen to Moscow from Paris-
box. bank Reuter.
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Exasperated Association offelals were on the paint of destroying the box a few weeks PEO when someone suggested a last approach to Moscow. loy
New Delhi, Apr. 20. The Nehru Government is restricting the number of Indiaris visiting the Iron Curtain coun- tries in the interests of internal
Cosenza, Apr. 20. and tranquility, Home Minister Kailas Nath Katju said. The skeletons of hundreds of coldiers have been Replying to Communist mem- armoured
an 850-year-old that the Govern-discovered in berg
criliciams issue of passports to the "new of excavations Democracies in
STAGE FURTHER DIAG Communist persecution of religious charities moved a stage further when People's Police cleared and took over a home belonging to the Inner Mission in Sa
Saxony.
Church and workers were ejected from the FRONT WAS uiscriminating -in-the mass-grave-here,-in. the course bumber of offein's In
not
on the site of and an ancient Norman castle.
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London, Apr. 20.
cushion is part of the design of a window in By the Queen's wish a Bible resting on a
memory of her father, the late King George VI, which has been installed in the Queen's Chapel of the Savoy, just off the Strand, in London.
The window, presented by the Queen, was seen for the first time on visitors.
Sunday by worshippers and
The inclusion of the Bible will be a constant reminder that the King read portions of Scripture, every day.
are the Commonwealth banners,
In the upper small windows, with Scripturai texts enscretied.
Sections on either side show the Royal Standard with figures la uniform of a Knight King- al-Arms, a Trumpeter and a Усотал
ot! the Guard
In the next few days a second stained glass window will be in- which followed the big somersault Victorian Order. This-is-a- In the plethora of magnanimity stelled in the chapel of the Royal
Association's letter
was memorial to the late Princo The window to the late Duke some Muscovite George Duke of Kent, rescued from
of Kent records his association pigeon-hole. And to the Associa
The King George window is in with the R.A.F. and includes tion headquarters has just come seven sections. One reproduces a representation of the granite the reply: "The question of the famous quotation which he cross erected at Caithness to
for tourists is opening Russla
made in his 1939 Christmas mark the place where he died under serious consideration."
in
crash during the broadcast from Sandringham:
о річно And the final touch. The
"I said to
war. the man who stood letter was in English.
of the
the Year, 'Give that I may, me a safely into the unknown. he replied, 'Go out into the darkness, and put your hand That Into the Hand of God.
Europe
charitable organisations Alla, Mr Katju said: "We do The skeletons are believed to been arrested and the East Ger- A want peo
people to go out to be those of Soracen soldiers man Communist press is calling the castle In a for the appropriation by the learn the techniques of sabotag- who stormed Ing the Government here." bartie around 1,100 AD.-United State of all houses and institutes owned by such bodi Charity Associated Press.
can then be
and nationalised reserved for loyal Communists.
The persecution of the Christ- Jan Churches in East Germany may well be the Socialist Unliy party Government's method of diverting attention from the in- creasingly
economic
London, Apr. 20. position.
While stories of approaching A new safety all lamp which famino-which are circulating not only shows a red light when in the West German pross-maygas is in the area but also sounds be somewhat exaggerated, there an alarm bell has been produced
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EMPIRE BANNERS
U.S. ASSOCIATION Two other windows are to be installed in the Chapel. One will commemorate America's association with it. In the war the U.S. received for safe keeping the beautiful altar plate which the late King and members of the Royal Family presented for the use of
the can be no doubt that the food at Thoresby pit colliery. Notting designer of the window, v. orked
Miss Jon Howton, of Putney Royal Victorian Order. situation will not improve be-hamshire. It is an adaptation of
The fourth window will re- the fore
for a year in co-operation with s next harvests are the normal type of lamp.
of the Eathered.
In the past it has been possible committee of representatives of Present the antiquity SERIOUS SHORTAGES
showing to have lamps
the Duchy of Lancaster, the Chapel. red
When the four windows are According to West German light indicating danger from the Chapel, and officials of the Royal installed they will be unveiled coonamle experts there will be presence of gas, but
Victorian Order. Milas Howson man intent
the Queca serious shortages of bread and on his work was not likely fo native
Flintshire Overian
The Queen's Chapel of the potatoes during, the summer,
eas where it is the. notice It
The upper central section of Savoye Private and these are the only two rare that gas reaches a dangerous seated on the throno surmounted the disposal of members of the window shows the King the Queens also placed at Itehs which have normally been degree the mine-worker does not readily available.
make a habit of looking for the by the Crown of State: below Royal Victorian Ceder. warning light. The new lamp. are the Sword of State and the The quotation broadcast by
late King in 1939 tighter than the ones in use at Sceptre crossed, with the Orb the present, can be carried by the at the junction of the cross written by Miss Mianie Louise miner and on reaching his point Lower central sections display Hoskins, of Crowborough, It comes from hor. of duty he can plug in to a lead the Royal Arms and armorial Sussex. from the alarm unit.
book, "The Desort," ·
The pre-harvest grain short- age has been assessed at 475,000 tons and the potato shortage at around a million tons, Fulling ing substantial imports, the bread requirement would be only 50 per cent and the potato require- iment less than 30, per cent covered,
The East German Government has, however, decided to double allocations of meat, fais and sugar to all communal kitchens in the, factories after May 1. In some quarters
this announcement is regarded as a mero propaganda gesture,
It should, however, be ro- membered that Eastern Ger- substantial many produces a surplus of sugar, and there are indications that shortage fodder may result in increased
It slaughterings of live stock. would require a wizard, or the Soviet Government, to produce the extra fala,
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New York, Apr. 20.
George Humphrey, Secretary of the Treasury, Bald today that the United Stated was "not headed for a depression" whether there was a truce in Korca or even In real pence,
"There is no, reason to fear peate," he declared.
to
Mr Humphrey made his first spooch since taking office in the Eisenhower administration "the annual ́ ́luncheon `of'mem- bers of the Associated Press in New York.
Ilo outlined a fisent policy calling for a reduction in taxes which Government expenses
"are under control."
Taxes must come down," Mr Humphrey said. "It's simply 11 matter of timing geared to re- duction of expense. Both are too high and both must be reduced.
The
roduction of Laxes, moreover, is one of the best guarantees we have against the fear of depression in the event. that peace makes possible cur- tailment of government defence
spending,"
"We are not going to have a depression in America whether we have an armistice, a reni peace, or continue to develop a proper and balanced posture of defence," he declared.
"There is no reason for a de- pression unless wo fail our- selves to do the things we ought to do and lack.the courage and foresight to do them."
Dedaring the tuition must preserve its economie strength, Mr Humphrey maid: "We must not forget that one way of life is threatened,
not dram one,
but from two sources at the same time. It can be lost just as completely by economic de terioration from within os by, aggression from without."
"Peace is what we all want,”: he said.
America could have О
than it had known in many stronger economy based on
careuter.
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Jascha Heifetz In Rome
Rome, Apr. 20. Violinist Jascha Heifetz arrived
by ale from Tel-Aviv today with his right hand still ban- daged as a result of an attack in Jerusalem..
A youth struck Heifetz early ́on Friday with an Iron bar, pre- sumably because he had played music by the German composer, Richard Strauss, in Israel.
The violinist plans to start a two-month tour of Italy with a
tomorrow concert
In Naples. Doctors
night in Tel-Aviv advised him to cancel his final concert in Israel. on Saturday night-Associated Press,
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