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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1953.
Burma UN Delegate's Sharp Criticism Of JAPANESE Taipei Policy
MISSION
TO PEKING
Provisional Barter Contract Signed
Tokyo, Nov. 6. A provisional contract WOK algned
Communist between China and the recent unoffelal Japanese trade mission to
Pe-
klik bartering £1,500,000
worth of Japanese iron and steet
products for 300,000 or 400.000
tons of Kailan cool January-March
the
next
period year, according to Mr Uda of: the
Works Steel Yodogawa quoted by Jill news agency.
Mr Udo, who returned ea H mander of a Japanese inspection
"NO DESIRE TO SOLVE
TROOPS PROBLEM"
New York, Nov. 5.
Further, debate on the Burmese complaint against the presence of Nationalist Chinese troops in Burma was postponed today while the evacua- tion of 2,000 of the 12,000 troops there was being carried out.
The Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly, which had been discussing this question since last Saturday, voted 50 in favour, three against with six abstentions, to defer further debate on this question during the next two weeks. The
move for postponement
was
made by team to China, said if the ban on Australia, Brazil, Canada, India, Mexico, New Zealand the export of iron and steel pro-and Britain in a draft resolution circulated today.
dusts, to Communist China was not lifted by that time there would be no choice but to canret the contract.
The recotullon would leave thei What hurts Burma hurts us question open pending the equally," he added. "We have no evacuation of 2,000 Nationalist military alliances, but Burma is Chinese troops from Burma. The closely linked to us by rang He remarked that China Unlied States informed the Com- things and it to naturally of great naked the Inspection tearn to un
that thin concern to us that she should Yesterday arrange for the export of 4,000 l
suffor. to begin on to 5,000 tons of galvanted on vacuation was sheet each month, emphasising Saturday by air. It would con- that she was ready to accept a nue until all 2,000 troops and fairly high price.
dependants were evacuated their by November 15,
mittee
Ilave
The resolution would postpone Mr Uda said that an increase in
consideration agricultural production in further
of the China had grently Improved Burmese complaint to a date not prospects for exporting to that inter than November 23, country bleveles and other light- Opening the debate today, Mr type vehicles for the transporta V. S. Krisham Menon of India ved said the real problem flon of agricultural products.
involved
in the question of foreign troopy
whether Wits
Hurma
the
He added it was encouraging i that the majority of techau-evacuation ni 2,000 Nationals logical leaders in China
were Chinese soldiers was the begin- those who had studied engineer-ning of demobilisation of this the
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Jupan.Chion Mal
aggressive fores or merely Special.
consolidation of these remaining
India was concerned about whether an appeal would be made by the Formosan authorl- tles to the 1,000 troops remain-
after the Log
preliminary K evacuation SUALS.
Preparing For
Celebrations
come
British Role In European Defence
-Brussels, Nov. 5,
M. Paul Van Zeelati. the Belgian Foreign Minis- ter, silil today that unlis of the proposed European Army are expreted to be with
"amalgamated"
British forces stationed in Europe.
The Minister sald' that while Dutch troops of the Furopean Army are ex- Decled. to bé **amalga mated" with the British forces in northern Europe, Belgham's three Ulivisions
statiönel
Ger- expected to link up with: the · German forces to be called up when the European De- feneo Community Treaty is ratified.
HOW
many
WAS
M. Van Zeeland, who answering questions from Opposition membera al a special Parliamentary committee for ratification of the European Defence Commanity
Treaty,
Kald
that while no decision hal so far been taken on bow national forces with the EDC should be integrated with each other and with their Atlantie Treaty
Allies, "written agreements to this effect are likely to be concluded shortly."--- Reuter,
Another War Not Inevitable
U.S. Defence Chief Reviews Position
Russian Reply To The West Regarded As Blow To Hopes Of A Better Relationship
London, Nov. 5.
Most British newspapers today saw the Soviet reply to the Western invitation to a four-power conference as a blow to hopes of a new and easier phase in East-West relations.
"The familiar unlovely deadlock is taking shape," the Liberal News Chronicle commented. The Times editorial was headed "Faded Hopes."
The Comervative Yorkshire It added: "The French re- Post zaid: "A further milestone | action to this note is a step. has been reached in the arrange- forward towards the 'European' ment between the East and Defence Community and Is D West,"
serious loss of prestige for Communism,"
,
com- the
QUITE CLEAR French reaction was also the West Beriin newspapers main topic. in the two other menting the note,
on United States High Commission newspaper, Neue Zeitung, and the Liberal 'Independent Morgenpost.
But the Labour Daily Herald said the Soviet reply should 'nol be allowed to end the effort to ret round-table talks
with Russia, It called on the Frime Mintzer, Sir Winston Churchill, to hold his postponed Bermuda conference with President Eisen- hower and press for an early top-level meeting with Russia,,
"If he dons to, 1853 may still become the year when the dead- Neue Zeitung, under the head- lock
this news- was broken.**
Hnas "Nothing but Delay," said paper sald in an editorial,
"The strongest ecerments on the The Conservative Dally Tele-note come from France," graph's Diplomatic Oorrespon- dent, commenting that it was
more
here brusque than any previous note on the subject, said Russian experts thought that, for Die purposes of long-term military planning, Moscow wanted to get a decision one way or the other on whether the Europen Defence
Community Treaty, with a West German centingent,
WOS going to coino into
existence.
Margenpost salt that the cally sharp French reaction made it clear that the Soviet Union could now no longer hope to run the sessions on the European Defence Community.
"We knew it all the time- Moscow does not want an under- standing," Morgenpost said
Two West German papers, the independent leftwing Frankfurter Rundschau of Frankfurt and he independent Die Welt of Essen,
sot
time.
the
note
that
in
Important
Day For Holland
Schouwen-Duiveland, Nov. 8.
Queen Jutlana and Prince en- ECC Bernhard will today gineers close the last remaining breach in Holland's sea defences
operation
Подг a critical here.
Flags will fly from every public building in the land if But a last- the plan succeeds. minute storm could disrupt all the carefully-made schedules.
The 180-yard breach at Ouwerkerk, on the south const of this island, which nearly vanished in the disastrous floods last February, is the only maining ben p through which water pours at every_tide,
Three thousand men have toiled round the clock to pre
for the gigantic concreto caissons which
These caissons, each as big as will close the breach.
seven-storey block of flats were built
for the In Britain Normandy landings of 1944 and 100,000 guilders (about £10,000) bought by Holland this year for
10
In an editorial, the newspaper suggested that the ignoring of the pare firm foundations said the note did not actually roject the Western invitation-It Lugano, conference meant did not even refer to it but the Soviet Uniors wanted to gain Instead the Soviet Union
The Rundschau sold
one of unacceptable conditions.
the reasons for this could be the The Times sold
that Russia have been written by truth in reports might Stalin himself and bore scarcely was suffering from an internal a trace of any change in the¦ Crisis and until this had been | cach.-China Madi Special. old policy.
U Myint Thein, the Burmese told the Committee delegate, that the continued presence of the Chinese Nationalist troops in a part of Burma, adjacent to China, Itself was "tantamount baiting the Chinese people on the mainland to
to themselves
the with grips
troops,
wherever Kuomintang they may be,
That the People's Republie of China has shown tolerance and ferbearance and respect for
New York, Nov. 5. our borders despite the pinprick fornys Into Yunaan from bases The American Secretary
All Moscow newspapers de-cerned." in Burmese territory 15
of Defence, Mr Charles voted a whole, page to reporting mendable." ackled.
he
Soviet rejection of sug- "It shows a sense of decency Wilson, does not share the the
in-gested "Big Four" conference, despair of dividuals who believe that Taas, official Soviet news agency war is inevitable.
The
com-
troops
numerous
Stating this today, he added many thoughtful people had come to the conclusion that war was inevitable, judged by the record of history and their own observations.
which General MI's are incapable of displaying."
ONLY INFERENCE
had not problem
been their solved "beenuse to lay down
the authorities
not wish to that There had been nothing stormosa did In recent malements by the
solve it." tionalls Chinese Foreign Minis- er en Formosa or by the Chinese delegate in the United Nations 10 suggest that such an appeal London, Nov. '5. The official Soviet newss. being considered. agency, Tass. today reported heavy buying throughout the Soviet Union on the approach of the 30th anniversary of the Re- volution on Saturday,
The agency, in a message re- ceived in London, said Moscow shops and stores. had received nearly twice the quantity of goods as at the same date last усаг,
Traditional bazours had been one in almost all cities and workers' settlements. Prices at collective forms in Kiev were 10
THE FACTS
The evacuation of all these
"The only possible inference is that to them the army in Burma constitute a symbol, ineffective though it may be, of a crusade against Communism.
a symbol. towards which contributions flow readily," U Thein said.
"I happen to think the situa- tion Is not so hopeless," he sald.
Mr
a
He added that Burma gave
Wilson added "full credit" to the United States
that the troops from Burma remained a
It was an and Thalland for their "carnest enigma of the 20th Century political problem. Inescapable fact
the illusive, that large- quest for a solution of the prob-
as 'yet unsolved, scale evacuation was dependent lens."
number one problem of our the Insistence of the upon
Dr T. F. Talung, of Nationalist times-was how to achieve Formoran Government. In the China, sald
durable his Government
place after winning Orm meantime, the United Nations would have preferred to see the
victory in war. could not
Formosa
to evacuation start without a num- disavow renity
for the ber having been fixed.
The clear purpose of the Nationalist Chinese
United States was to do every "If the United States or the troops ro- maining, regardless of whether United Nations
thing that could be done to can proceed tvold war 2,000, 5,000 creven 0,000 get more to go, then my Govern-
and to establish ablish guerillas were evacuated.
ment stands ready to receive
peace. them,"
" he declared.
"It would be unrealistic to ask u to accept the fact that the supplies of anns and food could
to 20 per cent lower than last have been maintained without year, while the price of flour the active support of the military had fallen 50 per cent, Tass re-organisation on Formor," M: ported.-Reuter.
Menon said.
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As for allegations that Nation- would disavow responsibility for those remain- Ing In Burma, Dr Talang raid there was nothing sinister about the word itself.
"Disavowal is the, one way in which we can exercise Influence on those who do not want to
he said.
ป
thni
of
"What I am proposing tonight people goodwill throughout the world devote an Increasing amount of their time fundamentals of and effort to identifying the lasting world
10They will be told that they that would be necessary to es- |
do have the support or sympathy of my Government. We expect that sort of dis- ayowal to have an influence on the subsequent course of events."
-Reutor.
ENVOY'S MISSION
Bangkok, Nov. 5, The American Ambassador to Bangkok, General William J. Donavan, will leave tomorrow by plane for Chiengrai in Northern Thailand to be prevent when General Li Mi's troops began their evacuation,
It was reported from Burmese sources in Bangkok that some of Li Mi's forces were moving sɔ fast in the direction of Thachick
might arrive
there that they
the agreed time, Sunday, ember 8
tablish world peace after other world war, the world itself would be averted."
THREE FACTORS
Mr Wilson believed pence could be preserved in the world, He based this on three factors:
AN AGGRAVATION
reported.
The Toss service was do- minated this morning with the offelni text of Russia's reply to Britain, France and the United States.
cleared up "the, men in the Kremlin are surrounding them- selves with armoured plate SO far au foreign policy is con-
PROOF PROVIDED
the But,
Rundschau sold, Western reaction had proved that the Soviet rejection of a four-power conference
had
brought the West closer to- gether than before,
policy decisions,
Die Welt said: "If the West-
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Loudon, Nov. 6. Britain's working population tolled 23,493,000 men and wo- men at the end of last Septem-
ber,
in 115,000
than more
of Labour and National Service September, 1952, the Ministry
stated today.
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EMPIRE THEATRE Two recitals only. Thursday, 12th November and
The Armed Forces strength 'decreased by 1,000 to 804,000-| (00 Servico men and women,
Die Welt said it was probable It began its reports in Ger- that the Soviel Government was still not "frm enough m man, Russian and English by
the saddle" since Stalin's death giving the text of the British
to
make
important foreign invitation sent on October 8. This note was identical to those
The Ministry report added from France and America.
that the number of unemployed In Washington, the influential ern powers in their efforts to Post fald in a leading article oing about a European Defence in Britain on October 12 Inst was 309,005, including 53,800 Community carry on so slowly, that Russia appeared to be if Franca on the Saar question married women, compared with aggravating East-West tension and faly and
a total of 397,893 on October Yugoslavia on rather then trying to relleve #
the Trieste questioni silll stick to 13,1952-China Malt Special "There is a growing bellet
their itudes for some time, here that at this stage of events, and if some other conflicts break the Soviets cannot afford either out in the West--why then
that all is far well within the should the Soviet Union hurry belfie wa
to seck a Lagano conference?" Soviet Union, that its people are
The
Christian growing more and more restive, Kocinische
Democratic Rundschau of and the Communist regime is Cologne said it was noteworthy obliged, in the interests of its that a French-Foreign Office own preservation, to encourage spokesman bad used such strong by every possible means the words in criticising the Soviet illusion of danger. from with note. The note had evidently out," the paper said.
been aimed at those who were still undecided about the EDC, especially France, and it tried to paint a black picture of Ger many's "aggressive vengeful- Suess-Reuter.
war or from
UP TO BRITAIN?
The French provincial newe-
Ceylon Selling China Rice
peace, and that their political paper Paris Normandie leaders start now to put suchgested that the next move was policles into effect in the hope "However disappointing the
to Britain. that. by doing the kind of things
note may be, it would be a an-serious matter to conclude from
it that the doors Dro war
closed, and that we must now without trying again, go ahead with
ment in all its forms, rearmament
"Has cot Britain, which has never been as intransigent as
Colombo, Nov. 5. Washington about China, some Ceylon has contracted to sell thing to say? It may be hoped | 3,000 tons of China rice to a that Sir Winston Churchill will European country, it was an- not give up. His personality nounced today. The country's con siill do much," the paper name was not disclosed. said.
A Food official said the Gov- West Berlin newE-
ernment had decided to sell said the Soviet note 80,000 tons of rice, but negotia- papers
tions were going on for the was "not surprising."
did export of a further 20,000 tons. East Berlin newspapers
from Offers had been received not mention the note.
The Christian Democratic Der Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Mauri-
In
headed tus. an editorial ovlet illusións,” said it was
that the four
1. Respect for the rights of man, a fundamental element of
the American attitude in the world,
2. Scientific
progress, which would permit
humanity to in- crease its food resources as well Ita standard of living without having to encroach upon neighbour's territory,
Three
3. International co-operation and the efforts by the United disappointing States to restore the economies power Lugano conference sug It they would come. In too and productivity of countries rested by the West would not early into the Thachilek zone, weakened by war-France- lake place, but it was no sur with the neutrals
prise. not yet Presse. arriving, trouble might result with the Burmese troops now on the spot. Therefore, the Burmese force at Thachilek has already naked the Thai frontier police to request the Chinese to slow down and to. it into schedule,
the
· AT CAUSEWY
BAY
This report surprised pollilea) circles here, as it was thought that General LI MI's guerillas would be reluctant to come to
"disarmament the
place sote Agenter" Franco-Presso,
flore Kahr EDITIAL. mant Enterprise.
Marshal Paulus
Berlin, Nov. 5. Former Fiold Marshal Friedrich Patilus, who was TỤ- cently, repatriated from Numin to East Germany; la now, resid- Ing in Wesser-Hirsch, a health resort near Dresden, the Ger-
news agency, D.P.A.; re mark w
Quoting an eye-witnces, the pepey said "that" Paulus was living in the Villa Kirchbach, near the Hotel Wombe Riller, Franco-Presso;
CIRCUS
The decision to sell China rice was taken owing to inadequate In Colombo for storage-space
rice imports under contract from China and Burma, he added— Reuter.
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