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WISE HEADS ARE
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1953.
Pagg. 8
SET NODDING Arnhem Day Campaign By Adenauer
Menzies Gives The Experts Food For Thought Vagueness Of Statement On Test Of Vagueness Of
Empire Ministers' Meeting
Air Force
"Global Mobility"
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)
London, Oct. 4.
Mr R. G. Menzies, the Australian Prime Minister, has no taste for the roundabout language of the civil servant. Yet his announcement last week that the next meeting of Commonwealth Finance Ministers
Manoeuvres By U.S. would be held in Sydney around the turn of the year bore the hallmark
B-36 Bombers
Washington, Oel. d.
The United States Strate
gle Air Command
will de-
ploy two squadrons of its
B-36 Inter-Continental Con- vair bombers to remote corners of the globe this month in a test of "global mobility," was announced today.
One squadron, Iron Walker Air Base, Roswell, New Mexico, will fly to the Arctic air base of Thule, on the northwest coast of Greenland, for a week's training į in the Polar :egion,
Thic OBIT quadron, froen Carswell Air Force Base, Texas, will brod cast to a forward base in North Altea, presumably one of the three new airports now operated by the Unites States in French Morocco.
La
This squadron will stay North Airies for rboul il days, No dedatte ale for departure
of the squadron was disclosed.
A squadron of heavy bombees usually consists of ten pitunes.
of a Whitehall "spokesman.”
MPs May Study Kenya Situation On The Spot
London, Oct. 5.
An all-barty delegation from Parliament in ilkely to leave soon to study the situation in Kenya,
The composition of the be delegation has su to decided but it is likely that the Labour stue may in- clude Mir James Griffiths, former Colonial Secretary, and Miss Margaret Hdrbi- NOJ, A former Juntor Minister.
The possibility 14 not excluded that Mr Attlee himself may take part in the delegation.-Reuter.
FINLAND
Of course Mr Menzies' statement had to be approved by all the governments concerned and this no doubt inhibited his natural inclination towards bluntness.
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conver.
But still one cannot help thinking that if the Finance Ministers intended to inlk about the tibility of sterling Mr Menzies would have said 50.
Yet he did not; and this hug, even further behind expecta- set the wise heats in London tions. nodding.
What Mr Menzies did say was that the Fance Ministers would discuss the progress plans towards a system of freer trade Jond payments covering the
widest possible area."
under
At the time of the last Com- monwealth economie conference a good deal of importance was attached to the formallon of the Commonwealth Development Finance Company.
IMPETUS NEEDED This has the backing not only of the Bank of England but also
stages. The missing component on in their official communique however, wos American co- that has operation-in a form
never been officially specified and this has not been forth coming.
Remembered
Arnhem Day is remembered in Britain as 1,200 Territorial soldiers drop from the skies in the biggest – yet peacellino Territorial Army Airborne exercise, With tho Infantry drop- (ped runners, with 75mm and 25-pounder guns, engineers,
signallers and other units-Express Photo.
This remarkably vague state ment simply r:flects the dilemma of number of Important British in which the Commonwealth industrial and commercial or- governments find themaélves al ganisations. the present moment.
But its progress to date has Last
Commonwealth been ill. year the
It is true that this is not a Prime Ministers evolved a "plan"
which sterling was to
govemmental body but the fact be made convertible
Commonwealth Prime by onay that the
Ministers referred to its forma-
seemed at the last December time to indicate that this was to be an important factor in their plan for Commonwealth develop- Nor is it likely to be until the mant
therefore, would appear, | Randall Commission, which is
the need for "gestures" is that ubout to begin
much-l Its
to the confined
purely publicised review of United not Stales foreign comomie policy. Ministers must give a new im
monetary Held. The Finance reports its findings to Presidents to the uther Eisenhower next Spring.
plans dis- pelus cussed by the Prime Ministers Last year. Helsinki, Ort. 4.
And of these, perhaps none is Finland went to the polla to- The Commonwealth Finance more important
than that for day to elect town
therefore, meet developing the latent wealth of tions that and county councillors.
atmosphere heavily the sterling area. weighted with uncertainty about future American action.
GOES TO
POLLS
A few individuad B-36 bomber, have landed at Thule in recent anonths, but this will be the first time a formation of the Convitej bombers will use the base maj large-scale test of is capabilities,
Only 900 miles from the North
Polling continues tomorrow Pole, Thule could be used as and first results are expected on base for air strikes at Eurasia | Tuesday morning. in a future wor.
oversens
In the
must past exercises of the Strategle Air Comunand have lovulved units of B-20 and B-40 Superforks. Two
600-h B-47 Wings of
jel bombers recently have trained in England and In August B-30 units made ploneering non-stup flights from American bases to the Far East,
Ay
at
HANDS TIED
Ministers will,
in
und
an
when the conditions for. moking
BALANCE
OF POWER IN EAST
Indo-Japanese Link The Solution?
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Cardinal Griffin's Denunciation Of Primate's Trial
London, Oct. 4.
Cardinal Griffin, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, tonight rejected as "monstrous," accusa
of Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, Primate Poland, had acted against the interests of his country
The Polish Primate was reported to have been suspended from his duties on September 28 and allowed to retire to a monastery on the grounds that he engaged in activities against the State.
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In the name of Roman Catholles In England and Wales, Cardinal Grifin declared: "Wo are totally unconvinced by the charges trumped up against him by his persecutors."
He expressed "horror and in- "dignation" at "this mockery of
Justice and truth" and asked:
"Can it be that the Com- of Poland munist Government thinks the free world so gullible as to be taken in by this arrant nonsense?
200 Clocks But
Never Knows
Party Turns Out To Be A Boomerang
Duesseldorf, Oct. 4.
Non-party men consider that the Christian Democratic tradę unionist campaign against the Socialist leaders of the West German Trade Union Federation has strengthened instead of weakened the Socialists' position.
They say the Christian Democrats are now looking for a means to withdraw with as little loss of "face" as possible.
The nan Socialist trade unionista, mainly members of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratie Party, opened their campaign when the Fedoration urged the workers to "ycle a better Bundestag"
(lower house of Parliament, at the last general elections.
Further
Russian
Changes
This was denounce as n breach of political neutrality.
When Uio Christion De mocrata had won the elections Important Position Given To Woman
with an unexpectedly strong majarily, they promptly de manded non-Socialist герге sentation in the leadership of Federation and its 10 am- Ilated unions and in the Federa Lion's propaganda and research branches.
the
London, Oct. 4.
A woman today got the number two food production job in fresh changes in Soviet, Georgia, birthplace towards of the disgraced Russian polities and society in general. Interior Minister, Lavrenti
The Federation said "no" in
They also demanded a changed Federation attitude
spite of a non-Socialist hint that Berin.
the
pre-Hiller "Christian" trade
Broadcasting_the appointment
unions might be revived and the of four new Deputy Ministers, post-war union movement split, Tiflis Radia today named as but softened their refusal nex! First Deputy Minister of die day by offering negotiations on newly-created Food Preduction the future policy of the move-Ministry
ment
J
hidze,”
inke up her new post,
"Comrade Dzhamadz- adding that in order to
sho
had been relleved of duties as De
PRESS CRITICISM Non-Socialist "Moderates' keputy Minister of the Light and Herr Karl Arnold, Premier of Fuel Industries. North Rhine-Westphalia, arid Under Premier Georgi Malen- Herr Jakob Kalter, who was
is top kov, food production member of Dr Adenauer's las: priority with the Kremlin..
There are no women Minis- Cabinet,
Beem willing negotiate and are believed cap-ters in the Soviet Government able of restraining those of their itself,
Madame Dzhamadzhidze will fellow campaigners, mainly in
opinion
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to
the Catholic Workers Movement, serve under M. Zakharli who have renewed hints of Nikolayevich Kataboyell, whosa sccoding from the Federation, appointment as head of the Food Socialists have estimated that Production Minairy twat in- no more than 200,000 workers need last wok I would leave the succed-appointments were announced
Federation
Two Deputy Ministers, whose of a total membership ing six inflion-and Democrats privately admit that her. They work directly under were named as M. this would probably be
Tsenket and M. Kobba. true. Newspapers of nearly all Koben, like his new wordan shades of political
are chief, was formerly a Deputy criticising non-Socialist "bung Minister of the Light and Food ling" of the campaign to re- | Industries,
KEY FOST form the Federation. Even pro- Christian Democratic nows- A further
appointment have joined papers
the announcement today was that of crfiiciam.
M. Arkhmiladze as First Deputy Die Zeit, an Influential weekly Minister of State
Control. owned by a prominent Christian Previously, First Deputy Chair Democrat, cald the non-Socialists man of the State Planning Com- wanted to reform the Federa- mission In Georgia, Arkhnitladzo tion "from the top, working goes to another
key por down to the bottom."
cerned with Brighton, Oct. 4. Its advice was: "Start work- State planning targets. Seventy-nine-year-old Charles ing on the ground-floor and getListing the new appointments. Paxton
has, 200 clocks and your representatives elected to Tifle Radlo quoted "a" Georgian
Government commuarl dent that we in the West, who watches at his homo near here, the leadership the right way." so frequently receive reports of but he never
Die Zelt criticised the non- published in the knows the right
***Socialists, while themselves oc- paper, Zarya Vostolen1 longer likely to be interested in He has collected grandfather cusing Socialist trade unionists the fate which has befallen our clocks and watches, anything trying to use the results of the during the past few weeks, is of being politically Partisan The effect of the step-by-step reshuffle in Georgla, announced heroes and martyrs?"
from the size
Increase that this Republic has a new Cardinal Grifin said that by bit to one six-foot high for 30 general election to
non-Socialist influence In the Premier in GD. Javakhiavill, a different trade unilon movement.-Reuter. two new Deputy Premiera and Cardinal Wyszynski, his Come years, and all tell munist persecutors had aroused
number of eth
other Christian world.
Mr Paxton, nephew of Sir the indignation of the entire Joseph. Paxton, who designed
including a Crystal Palace in Queen WOULD BE TRAGIC Cardinal Grifin said that the Victoria's reign, explains:
"I set them to strike at two- statesmen of the world, in their
"Or is it that they are con-
The Right Time
So far as the plan for con- vertible sterling is concerned What the Finus call left-wing their hands are tied until the Commission completea weather" greeted voters today. Randall Sleet was falling in the North, Its
But it Lask.
would be steady rain In the East and dangerous it they gave the Im heavy intermittent showers In pression that the Commonwealth the West and South.
was merely marking time unti the American Administration Polling officials
bad made up its mint to adopt the weather keeps many right and sort of policies that are generally
parties #upporters
essential centre
regarded as
if the the pound is eve home
but does not deter
ever to be free, Social Democrat und Communist
In these circumstances the supporters who are generally
Finance Ministers have only
only one The August
was ready to brave the elements to alternative to a policy of "wait Inission
London, Oct. 4. laken in some quarters As h cast their vote.
and see.” This, as the Financial An alliance between India show of strength following the] In the communal elections in Times has pointed out, is "to
and Japan would help solve disclosure of Russian nuclear 1951, the Tight and centre make
gestures showing that weapons progress. If the Octo-parties won about 51 per cent various pieces of machinery are balance of power. problems ber exercises are intended as a of the votes. The Social being brought out of storage and in the Far East, according further effort to "show the Democrats and the Communists flag" the Air Force did not say shared the bulk of the rest with Prepared to resume functioning | to the Washington corres- these arrests and trials, are no time.
pondent of the Sunday to officially Reuter and United a slight majority for the Social sterling convertible have bee Times, Mr O. H. Brandon.
"India and Japan are the only The United Kingdom Govern-
of course, already possible anchors for a future ment has, guided the British
economy belunce of power in Asia," be some way along the road back to declared in Conservative freedom of trade and payments. Paper Indo-Japanese alliance, it it could be achieved, would help greatly to establish a long- One by one the free com- term equilibrium.” modity markets have been
Mr reopened. In London.
com Brandon, who has just deep desire for peace and their minule Intervals so that I can Far Eastern tour, efforts to ease international ten- tell whether any need adjust- under discussion for resuming said India's polley of neutrality slon, should not blind them-ing." free dealings In colton on the
was attractive to public opicion selves to this bitter attack upon The most unusual of his Liverpool Exchange.
in Poland. collection is a two-faced calen But what is needed now is in several other Asian countries, religious freedom
"In Japan, neutralism has a some positive move that will
alience were interpreted as and date on one face and the convince world opinion that the great appeal, chiefly among in-theit would be tragic indeed If dar clock which gives the une
World opinion date and year on the other. Commonwealth is not completely tellectuals of the new generation condonation.
and some businessmen.
when Car-China Mall Special. Fre found a real voice hamstrung by the standstill in quently it is a manifestation of dinal Mindszenty was arrested American foreign economie anti-American feeling, however and tried. It was not quite so policy.
superficial, which has reached vociferous when the Archbishop The Finance Ministers are serious proportions," he said, of Prague was imprisoned with-] therefore expected to give more The feeling is spreading in out trint." attention to the policy that began Asis that, after Korea, the test
Pross,
Danocrats-Beuter.
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SATURDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 1 Hermit, 7 Page, p'Fred, 10 Amuse, 11 List, 18 Deterinlod. 15 News, 10 Dra19 Represents, 22 Earn 24 Cadot, 23 Agree, 20 Rise, 27 Sudden. Down: Exact, 3 Molar, Trugle, Opulence, 6 Ages, Aside, 1 Tasks '18 Dodge 14. Encoder, 17 Arms, 10 Grafle, 20 Stald, 21 Nerve, 29 Aclg!!"
falalled."
MORE NEEDED
Plans are
2
the
of a threepenny
Sudan Election Nominations
Josef Mindszenly, (Cardinal
of Hungary, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Candidates
in future will not be military but Primato economic, he observed.
Khartoum, Oct. 4.
for the Sudan
Still Long
Way To Go
to go to ensure
the Art of
(Security), chler,
new Ministers, new
Interior
All these changes, together with a purge of the top lender- ship of the Communist Party in Georgia, have followed Berin's downtall bounced on July 10. two man" In the Kinber
Berla was not only
but
Whoso
also, an "overleed" over Georgia London, Oct. 4.
neighbouring! Trans- Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, and Supreme Allied Commander for Caucasus Republics. the Atlantic, 'sold today that leadership has also recently the Western naval powers still been purged-Reuter. have a
a long
Way our security."
Admiral McCormick, broad- casting over the BBC's European service, added that more ships were required to make "our margin of safety less precarious!
But the Atlantic Pact 'powers
ABACUS SPEED TESTS
Tokyo, Oct. 4. About 220,000 people through-
to take shape when the Prime Ministers held a brief discussion on economic affairs during their The fost market in China-February, 1940, for treason, Parliament, which will make the had made remarkable progress out Japan today took examina London talks after the Corona-though no one knows what it Archbishop Josef Beran of Sudan largely self-governing,
This, briefly, was that more munism beckons temptingly pummer of 1949).
would prove to be under Com- Prague has been held since the must file their nominations by and were in a much better tions for abacus ertificates.
October 12, the Electoral Com-position than were the Allies at In Tokyo aliout 54,000 people atross should be laid during the Neuter.
Cardinal Grimin added: "Now mission announced
the opening of the two world took speed tests át four places; that the Primate of A third The Commission, composed of wars.
Those taking examinations for country has been removed from representatives of Britain, the Admiral
first class McCormick was third; second and
certifiantes Operator offee, let us not appear less in- Sudan, Egypt, India and the broadcasting, at the end of the abscus dignant because we are more United States, is supervising the nocent large-scale naval and air ranged from grammar school accustomed to the unscrupulous elections which will take place manoeuvres known as "Mariner." pupils to people in their thirties. methods of Communism;"
In November-Reuter.
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Ching Mall Special | "Let us show that familiarity Increases our contempt for this mockery of justice."-Reuter,
period until the United States adopted "good creditor" policies on trade within the Common- wealth itself.
Mr Menzies is a strong believer in this line of approach. Shortly after his return from the London talks in June he said that per- hops we would have to accept a dual currenty world for some years.
THE ONLY WAY
Austria Wants Own Army
Mistelbach, Oct. 4.
Herr Ferdinand Graf, State
Secretary of the Austrian Minis
Anachronism In Australia
JI
corner
RADIO MOSCOW LOSES OUT
Q
The new
on.
try of "the · Interior, said today that the Allies ahould permit He suggested that a belter | Austria to form an Anmy soon.
overpowering transmitter, Radio Radio Moscow 'shifted off the Washington, Oct. 1. |iden might be to build up the Addressing a rally of the Con-
American engineers have Moscow used the frequency to frequency.
propaganda: 10 Intra-sterling area to the point servative People's Party in this
Darwin, Oct. 4. whore sterling became so strong Soviet zone towns, Herr Grat said
The tremendous now Munich won an important duel with pour Rod
milions-up to 1,700 miles of the Existence of a group of 70 Radio Moscow for control distant that it could take its pince along the welcome decision
when station took all to itself. the nightm
choleret clear channel in Central a Stone Age of Central Europe's best atmospheries were good. #ido the dollar.
British and French to cut their aborigines Uving
bc. European radlo, coveted But, however the
posed the existence in the desert in the radio airlane, it was dis Finance creupation 'forces
of tho Minipiers
decide
That changed on Aug. 15 when cause of Its long range and ̧ to approach the urgent problem of preventing an south-west
the VOA put the US$5,000,000 larga established audience. problem they
must make one Austrian vacinan which might Northern Territory has been closed today."
security
1,000,000-watt Munich station into operation on VOA oficiais say only reported by Mr D. Trudinger,
the thing perfectly clear-that the endanger pence and
at Hermansburg Mission: Munich transmitter of the Voice the same frequency, military portion of the teach
Reds Commonwealth plan for sterling|
can doinitely say why 'with Austrian State Treaty draft
of America speaks now has not been shelved.
Hmit Austria Armed These primitive aborigines, unchallenged authority on the The American station cut the but they belleve the primary For only thus will they be would
of 178 kilogycica. effective Moscow coverage to reason was the presence of loo able to proverit loss of confidened forces to a land army totalling to anelent tribol is en were users of persons all over about 140 miles, VOA radio strong competition,
Including border guards,
laws and were Europe Isteri nightly, YUA om-experta walch, In the ability of the polind over
The Munich stalloh transmits stand on a own our cavin Barraerts, and river police, completely rikol
15 minutes They were probably the only clals sold, for 178 kilocycles and to an air force of 00 planes Without American support.
for two weeks, they said, seven hours and men... The Blato aborigines In Australia living the most powerful radio bang Rallo Moscow kept blaring out daily in 11 Janguages," "con- But if progress in achieving and 4,000 men...
dila message only, in effect, to have centralingon sufleucos behind convertibility has been painfully Treaty is held up pending wihout Interference from white on the continent.
Before it suddenly backed out pubed back into its own face, the Iron-Curtain. Unled alow, plans for developing Compur-power agreement on other men, Mr. Trudinger sald Chine mbetarealfti renouatica have lagged | Blätter,
Pejllion with VOA new henkhout any ingress,
"Millions