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Sterling Area's Gold
And
Gigantic
Dollar Reserves
Stride In Medical
Research
Washington, July 2 A new kind of medical research centre devoted to conquering chronic diseases which all man was opened today by the United States Government.
Congres pruylded funds for the construction of the 14-storey building and will vole money for its operating costs.
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1953.
Show Increase
# (By SYDNEY CAMPBELL)
London, July 2. The sterling area's gold and dollar reserves increased by $16,000,000 during June, the Treasury announced today.
This increase brought the reserves to $2,367,- 000,000 on June 30, their highest level since early in 1952 but still far below the mid-1951 peak of $3,867,000,000.
Juno's increase included $28,000,000 of defence aid from the United States and $10,000,000 from the European Payments Union, in part payment of sterling area's surplus with the Union during May.
tho
The May surplus equalled | 000,000 in April to $1,000,000 in
Juno. $20,000,000, hall of which was payable to Britain
during June,
In dollars Poor figures had been ex-. pected. The summer months are the worst time of the year
both the income and outgo sites. for Britain's dollar reserves on
Treasury The research will cover suve also announced that the surplus
Provisionally, the major fields: cancer, heart] disease, arthritis, mental ail with the EPU for June fell to ments, epilepsy, rheumatic fever only £1,300,000, equal to about
$4,000,000. und dental diseases.
Dr Henry Sorell, head of the National Institute of Health, described the centro as volutionary stride JEL medical research.
"For the first time in history we will be able to Integrale Laboratory and clinical research
no that there can be a complete study of the chronic diseases that kill men,” he said.
All patients at the centre will be volunteers. Its first patients, eight women cancer sufferers, will be admitted on Monday, i Is capable of holding 500 non paying pallents.
The
Centre's Director, Dr John Traian, Bald that only people recommended by playst- sians, hospitals o medical schools would be admitted. They would all full a special re- quirement.
Every step of their treatment would be explained to them as It progressed but they could leave when they wished-Neu- ter.
-FRENCH ATTEMPT ON NUN KUN
Bombay, July 2 Michel de Sorbay, member of the seven-man French taineering expedition to the 23,-
moun-
000-feet 1imalayan Peak of
Colombo cata the liner
from Strathmore,
This will
be settled during July, half of it by dollar pay- ment to Brital and the other half by reduction of Britain's debt to the EPU.
Any surplus being better than a deficit the June Aguros ure still on the right side-but only just.
a
The facts in June are ruther better than the figures. During the month a large loading In | British Industrial concern (A6- Electrical Industries ociated Limited) was bought back from s former United States owners, the American General Electric on the Company. (If it has riot' been June's bought back to Britain it might Continental gone ยาน
10
Thanks only to United States defence ald which increased
May from $13,000,000 in
-and to $28,000,000 in June. EU surplus for May, the payment in Jutie
of $48,000,000 in the have Increase
well hands), reserves, compares fairly with the incrisise of $48,000,000 during May.
But on current accounts June was by far the least gratifying month of this year.
TOURIST PAYMENTS
Payment of about $22,000,000 for this exceptional purchase was transferred during the latter
The surplus with the dollar part of June, area has slumped from $75,- Without it the surplus with 000,000 in Apeli tu only $8,000.- the dollar area would have been 000 in June.
unexpectedly good, $30,000,000 The Surplus with the Euro-instead of $8,000,000. peun payments Union has fallen even more smartly from $42,-
Agriculture Output Up
London, July 2. Britain's Kross agricultura! vulput in 1940-1050 reached £000,000,000 compared with the £291,000,000 pre-war average, showed Government statistics today.
A report said the value has
Nun Kun, arrived this morning risen steadily year by year but started recording the steepest incrences in 1947 when farmers were authorijed to charge much higher prices!
The Jenter of the expedition, Bernard Blierite, and three other French climbers are expeeled to avrive in India this week-end.---- Reuter,
NZ Premier Leaves
London, July 2. Mr Sidney Holland, Prime
Minister of New Zealand, left
London by air today for Amsterdam un his way home ufter the Cortation and the Commonwealth conference London-Reuter.
in
Crop yields continued the up-|
ward trend which began during
the war.
Mille production reached
2,100,000,000 gallons in 1940- 1950 compared with a pre-war
average of 1,781,000,000 gallons.
The surplus with the European Payments Union was also for- tuitously reduced by Britain's payment on June 30 of about $9,000,000 of half yearly Interest, On the other hand tourist pay- ments were probably in Britain's favour in June as they will not |be in July and August.
Eggs output in the same year rose by 6,728,000,000 over the} pre-war figure of 5,414,000,000.-
Reuter.
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June benefitted from Corona- lon spending in Britain, Britain tourists' spending abroad is still to ecme-Reuter.
McCARTHY
IGNORES QUESTION
Washington, July 2.
Mr Doxey A. Wilkerson, an nuthor, refused to tell the Senate
investigations Sub-Committee munist or in the pay of the
today whether he is a Com-
Communist Party.
Senator Joseph McCarthy,
tald
chairman of the sub-committee,
Mr Wilkerson, a writer o Negro problems:
We find that the old State
Department was purchasing your books and spreading them around the world allegedly to Oght Communism.
Forced Over Border
one
War
Three Lessons Learned
In Korean
Re-Emphasised
An amusing incident in the recent East Berlin riots was the misadventure suffered by
ol the East German Deputy Premiers. Otto Nuschke, who was forced over the border line into West Berlin by the demonstrators. Nuschke, who was returned to the Eastern zone lafer by the Western authorities, is shown here being Interviewed.Express Photo
Life
In Hungary A Long Battle For Survival
(Edward M. Korry, United Press Manager for France, was one of a group of correspondents admitted to Hungary for a Communist-sponsored "peace" conference. It was his first visit since 1949 when he attended the trial of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty. In the following despatch, one of a series, Korru tells of life in a Soviet satellite).
MILITARY EXPERT'S REVIEW
New York, July 2
Hanson W. Baldwin wrote in the New York Times today that it seemed justified to say there were three lessons learned in the Korean war which needed re-emphasising.
He quoted the German philosopher Hegel to the effect that "people and Governments "havo never learned anything from history".
Mr Baldwin said those lessons, President Syngman, Rice'a learnet in the early months of actions to baulk the Korean war and underscored || Baldwin said: during three years of combat "Volatility and emotionalism not always associated in Westchi
were:
Joint Inquiry To Be Held
Belgrade, July 2 Rumanian and Yugoslav olcfalu Will meet thin stanth
discuss tho
to
setting up of Joint Inquiry
teams lo Investigate feabler * Incidents, the Yugoslav Foreign Ministry said today.
The Ministry statement confirmed Yugoslav, press reports that Rumania; haw accepted a Vicolay, pro- posal to invesilgäte jolnily some 78 Incidents' which, Yugoslavia otsima Rumanita provoked OVCE the last fivo months- Itouter.
TECHNICAL
iruce MAID PLANS HAMPERED
Geneva, July 2,
The United Nations Techni- cal Assistance Board reported today that lack of funds was hindering the development of the technical assistance pro-
1. "The necessity for a bet| minds with Orienta! proplew ter understanding by Americans have characterised. Korean of the Asian mind."
acilons ever since the first days 2. "The almost complete de- of the war and these character- pendence of the South Korean istics, plus what seems to the Army on United States aid,"
Westerner to be a stubborn lack 3. "The limitations of air of logle, are typified by recent
and sen forces In power
events." severance of enemy communica--
Mr. Baldwin sald the South tions lines and in the control of
Korean army land areas."
dependent The Board's fifth report says forces for the number of countries and In discussing the frat point Mr Baldwin recalled the early
of territories receiving assistance defeats in Korea, the prisoner
rose from 71 to 97 by the end of-war riots and, more recently,
Assistance. continuing from 1952 and requested for 1953,
"ARRIBA” ACCUSES
WDS
upon United States virtually
who "often
gramme.
every necessity combat except manpower.
He listed military advisers of 1952.
havo
acted virtually hus commanders" DrmB and equipment, training, and
ammumtión and fogistics, communications, totals $37,700,000 (about £13,-
405,000) which, with artillery and armoured
expected support
Overhead and air and naval
cost. support.
is more than 75 per cent larger than the "This dependente, despidig funds that can be expected this
of fighting
Rhee's brave alone, is so great that the South year, the report declared.
"As a result of this great Korean army today could not growth in
consolidation and even
long exist in battle against thei a year of and 1553 will be CHURCHILL It adds.
Trying To Sabotage Defence Talks'
ported by the United States," lie said.
"The
question of financing
the expanded programme is one with which the Genoral Asscan- bly has shown concern," the report goes on
REMARKABLE SHOW Finally Mr Baldwin said the alr force and the navy had over and over again destroyed "It is now hoped that the Madrid, July 2.
virtually every bridge in North target figure for 1054 may be The Spanish Falange news Korea, cut roll-fines in thousands announcext_at_the forthcoming paper Arriba sald today that Sirf places, destroyed 6,000 railway meeting of the Economale and Winston Churchill, the British wagons
roud Social Counell."--Reuter. Prime Minister, was trying to vehicles. "sabotage Spanish-North Ameri- can defence talks,"
and 80,000
"The Communists have thus shown a remarkable facility to was adjust their tuetics-and parti- The paper mileged this
their supply system-- rovealed in reports from the cularly
that United States
Gibraltar despite the Allies air and naval
he said. might become naval command domination", centre for the North Atlantic "The combat effectiveness of
their army Treaty Organisation: (NATO).
and its capability for offensive action actually have Increased rather than descreased in the face of Allled sir attacks"-Reuter,
Arriba, which frequently re- leets official opinion, addet: "At the now abandoned Bermuda meling, Churchill intended to mclude
Onco on the agenda again British hostility towards Spain.
By EDWARD M. KORRY
Budapest, July 2. The most difficult struggle of all in Communist Spanish-North American Hungary is the daily battle to exist.
"Churchill was prepared to travel to Bermuda to sabotage
con" versations".
Arriba's is the Arst comment The recent revolts of Czechoslovak and East:
by a Spanish newspaper on the German workers are better understood after ob-reports, though news agency
have appeared--with-headlines
Reuler.
"British Generosity,"
Suspicious Of Benefits From Unesco
Paris, July 2, The United States is making a special investigation and analysis
ARROWS AS of the United Nations Educa-
GREETING
IN JUNGLE
Honal, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) to deter mine whether it should continue to enjoy American support, B was reliably reported today.
The American Investigation. reliable sources said, is being made for President Eltenhower, the State Department and Con- gross. New York, July 2.
It is under-the-direction Primitive New Guinea natives
strangers by Aring Colonel Irving Solomon, head of United States delegation of current Unesco general
The new American adminis- ration has decided to re-examine towards policy
Brrows
serving the daily fight for survival here, after see- despatches from Washington ing the long queues outside food and pawn shops, such as after feeling the shoddy goods with their outrage "Gibraltar offered to NATO" "greet" ous price tags and after learning how real wages have declined 40 per cent since my last visit here four years ago.
As
In 1049 the Government measure of the living_standard? published for the last time the Here is what I found. In a tour average weekly food bill for a of the nationalised "Kozert" food Hungarian worker's family of stores, the still semi-free pensant "May I ask what books of four,
by reported
the markets and the State-owned inine were used?" asked Mr Hungarian statistical office the department stores and small Wilkerson.
He repeated the average for January, 1940 was stores: question but each time Senator 90.30 forints (11.65 forinis to McCarthy ignored it,
the US$1),
Mr Wilkerson involted con- stitutional protection
agains! possible self-incrimination and refused to say whether he
or had been Communist
Reuter.
was
Saigon Port Activity Shows Rise
One ege is 2.50- to three forints. Veal, pork and beef Using the same lists and the are between 22 and 34 forints same quantitles as given by the for 2.2 lbs, and supply is very official Communist bulletin the low because of the drought and same family was spending 128.20 a foot-and-mouth epidemic.
forinis by November," 1051,
BAD QUALITY
Bread, the staple of the
America Expresses Disapproval
how
thef at them to sea they react, according to Aus- the tralia's annual report on New conference. Guinea which
con- is being by the United Nations
Up Council.
J. H.
Vted
the oflebi
Unesco,
Jones, Australia's
Colonel Solomon and his craft who representative,
to the of eight members will ask the report
questions as to what the United Counell, outlined the progress states is getting out of Unesco,
whether criticism
of Unesco is and how which his Justifled, whether
closely the agency is living up to
being made in bringing under control the remote and primi- tive uvc jungle areas country administers
under 1ts original purposes, and United Nations trusteeship. whother other countries, parti- (From Duko Wright) He said patrols sent out by culty tho under-developed the Administering authority nations, ere benefitting from its Colombo, July 2.
with a work-Reuter. usually made contact The latest American expres band
New Guinea of armed sion of disapproval of Ceylon's warriors, but that friendly re continued exports of rubber to lations were established with- Communist China is seen in the! out *United States Government's at-
confilet. Answering to control the uses to tempt
rupees.
ot a
Yugoslav Refugees
Rome. July 2. The Italian Government Inat Mr Jones month granted asylum to 45
questions
by
243.02 by June, 1952, and 278.15
oday..
These gurės more than any brown variety and 3.00 forials] copter she intents to buy from sold the policy
Hungarian worker, is 2.00 the which Ceylon may put a hell- Council members:
of the patrols Yugoslav refugees who said they others explain the disappoint. ment of the proletariat whichsa kilo for the while, Paprikas, America cost of 250,000 was not to fire on the natives fled because they did not want under any circumstances, un- to live under the Communist the red and green pepper, are 95 the Communists have created in forints. a kilo and solam!, that
less absolutely necessary to save regime, it was learned today-- the Eastern nations at such other big Budapest favourite, t
Reuter. Sir Claude Coren, Ceylon's their own lives.-Reuter, terrible price in human and 76-three full working days in Ambassador in Washington, bas value. An alarm clock is, be informed his Government that tween 90 and 100 forints, a the U.S. Government wants a boy's suit. 500 to 700, a man's list of purposes for which the shirt 140 to 200, a woman's cot-aircraft is to be used before she ton dress 194, o rayon print will issue an expórt permit. dress 065, a part wool woman's pullover 165. man's garbar- The Americans also require a
that dine 1,580 and a pair of men's specifie leather shoes 310 to 600.
hellcopter will not be used for spraying rubber plantations.
material resources.
The nation-wide pay increase of 15 to 20 per cent in 1951 which coinelded
with the end
Saigon, July 2. Imports and exports by coastal and ocean shipping in of rationing, has been more Saigon during the first five than wiped out by the ever months this year amounted to rising prices and ever lower nearly 1,000,000 tons, showing living standard. an increase of 60,000 tons compared with the first Ave months of 1952 and 230,000 tons with the corresponding period in 1951.
As
This incresse in' the volume of trade was due to a steady rise in imports. The volume of exports registered a slight decline
DASIC REASONS
tremendous
by
Assurance
the
French Attack On European Army
Paris, July 2.
In addition to such work as The French Socialist Party today began its four. assisting to control illicit im-day National Congress with a motion on its agenda migration from India and air- criticising the "pseudo-European Army."
rescue the new sea
Ceylon
work, however, Intended to use the
This latest American quest is now receiving careful attention from Premier Senana-
Franco's rectal political crisis showed that without Socialist participation no left-wing ma- forlly could be found in the pres
Assembly, scal
The quality is downright bad -unless you got the so-called fast Summer's drought, the "export foods and materials crvation of a 185,000-man army. These are sold in special stores as an elite, the huge at prices which only total treated
investment lu the development elite can afford.
The motion has been put by jalbum" and for the abandonment 12:0 of heavy Industry,
Unemployment was high. In helicopter for spraying rubber M. Robert Lacoste, a former of a certain "party chauvinism
Minister shipments of food
under General do Today the Congress began and fodder to the Soviet Union, -war Hungary and the living crops.
re-Gaulle, and who is expected to debating the question of partie Imports for the first ave the
"co-ownership of many conditions of the small city and large rural proletarlat were the mistak
compete with M. Guy Mollet as cipating in a future contro left months in 1051 totalled 420,000 leading Industries,
Jow. Therefore, tho chances
Becretary-General of the Party. government. tons, which rose to 14,000 tone to these
fll-trained are that Hungarians will not
It says the European Army's in 1952 and to 600,000 tons In
are some of emulate their Czech and East Yake and his Ministers-Lon-
"largest effectives are uniquely more basid "whys" be German fellow-workers who don Express Service. 1063, The greater part of the the
of Frenchmen and was brought imports
in by hind the depressel standard of had already fought for and won ocean-going
Goods living.
important gains in their highly steamers. landed by coastal shipping in- The average working month Industrialised nations decades creased by a less marked degree, hore is 210 hours. The average ago. the 1952 nguro being 5,000 tons wage is about 800 forints with But the continued low living
some office workers gotting 500 standard higher than that of 1051, and that of 1803 8,000 tons more and 1 Stakhanovite skilled demoralisation of the Hungarion than that of 1052,
machinist drawing 2,000 month worker and the Communist hitched litis to work today for The rank and Allo deputies 20 Nook (6).
Exports made through oceanly.
Fress is full of examples of the the second time in a fortnight as
21- are expected to support M. Parliamentary sac hour strike..
motion that the YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD, — Acrósa: 3 Approach, 8 golig vessels for the same period Thus, the average hourly rate fall downs or let downa in fac-city tronwaymen staged a
and
In "Socialist Party
4. stato three
of In between
Told conflict between the rank Umpire, Rebelled, 11 Compiled, 13 Ogre, 13 Larks, 18 Lasts, in 1083 were $4,000 tons, com-
four tory and on the form. And swift and merciless punishment 10 Earn, 22, Limiting, 24 Exploded, 25 Bovere, 20 Lucitless. pared with 100,000 and 190,000 forinta. (20 and 34 US cents).
crisis in a country is a state of and filo deputies and the estab- The Socialist Transwaython's
lished lealers of the party in Down: 1 Bunch, Spumo, 3 Arrival, 4 Peel, 8 Rued, 6 Allege, tons respectively for the corres. What can a Hungarian buy has been meted out by the Union has called the strike in crisis." The
motion calla för: a re-expected, 10 continue at the 7 Hidden, 10 Fecke 14 Rabid, 10 Strides, 10 Reveal, 17ponding perioda in 1952 and for three or four forinta for one People's Courts to workers, support of higher wage demands,
autor
#propagande i four-day dángréndividitz, Trople, 20 Cider, 31 Agreu, 22 Loll, 29 Mass.
1951, France-Presse,
hour of labour, his only true' United Prew:
10 Ceremony (4).
10 Maturo (5).
12 Mentis (5).
13 Treat lightly (B).
18 Prey (0).
17
Smooth (4).
14 Smashes utterly (8).
20
Far (7)
21
Sextiment (4).
23 Bundio (4).
23 Make reparation (0)
24 Gambling-place (0).
25 Colour (4),
contributes
to
tha
Walk To Work
"It will
be practically Franco-German army with the When M. Mendes Franco, Ute Scandinavian refusing
10 left-wing Radical, made his bid tho accept even the idea and
for
Ministership the Prime Brussels. July 2.
British
a purely three weeks ago, the rank and stranting it Brussels people walked alrary association
file deputies of the Socialist group forced their "traders to vote for him.
Lacoste'a
now
of the