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arrives in three weeks' time, but so far as it is possible to anseas prospects, there is little reason to belleve that it will produer anything Bensational r extraordinary. The Colony'N Annneeя have remained outstandingly buoyant during a year of marked commercial recession, and monthly progress figures to date strongly suggest that the Financial Secretary will be able to announce a larger surplus for the year ending March 31 than
millions--n estimated $20 Anancial "miracle" which has now become conimon. place in Hongkong. Nonethe-
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less, if there does happen to be something in excess of the catimated surplus. congratulations to the keepern of the Colony's money chest will still be In order. Moreover, we trust will enable the
#L Financial Seerotary to re pent the nigh of relief which he expressed a year he ago when
announced that no additional taxation was contemplated.
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TRADE AGREEMENT DEBATE: Testing A
Opposition's Motion Threatening
Defeated 296-265
LANCASHIRE THREATENED
SAYS HAROLD
WILSON
London, Feb. 10.
The House of Commons tonight, by a majority of 31, rejected a Labour Opposition motion seeking to criticise the Government over the recent £400,000,000 Anglo-Japanese trade and payments agreement.
It voted 296 to 265 against the motion, which complained that the Government entered into the pact without first consulting British industries concerned,
The motion also complained that it did not make certain that Japanese exporters would "not revert to previous unfair trade practices." The Commons then agreed, by 297 to 268, a Government majority of 39, to a motion moved by Conservative back benchers welcoming the Government's action.
The motion acknowledged the "sense of responsibility and impartiality" the Government has shown to the nation and the colonies in taking its decision.
But while recognising that "advantages would accrue to trade of the Em. pire," the motion urged that any further arrangements should provide such safe- guards of the interests of the textile industry as the experience of the coming year might show to be necessary.
Mr Peter Thorneycroft, Presti Mr Wilson, President of the always put a lot of pressure en dent of the Board of Trade, Bourd of Trade in the last other Governments to accept
of Japanese sald the case in favour of the Labour Government, represents favourable_ement
in importe, wil allow hardly any constituency n Lancashire agreement was devastaling."
the House of Commons, Mr on their was markets. Wilson
recalled that despite
The result of these closed pressure from other countries, American markets is that com Britain 'under the Labour petition is more violent in the Government, refused to give colonial markets,
"It will be not only ab- most favoured nation treatment
but actually normally strong to Japan,
There had been a long period | when Japan was running a very substantial surplus but now she hatt a deficit of £180,000,000.
If the Government had not gone ahead with the agreement, Japan would have bought lers from the sterling area and from Britain.
sald
to
Letter Sent To Eisenhower
Philadelphia, Feb. 10.
Max Zalles, 82-year-old taxicab driver, was arrest ed today on a charge of threatening the life of Pre- sident Eisenhower in a letter to the White House.
Zalics was held in $2,800 bat for further hearing- to- morrow after Secret Service agents said he sent a similar Harry threat to . President
the Truman during
Truman administration.
The Secret Service agents said the 20-page, single spaced, by letter, mailed
typewritten Zalles hot long ago", listed in
detail his plans for settling all the world's problems, including aggressivė · action against the Kremlin.
-
"I have SVETY intention of getting you and everyone volved in one way or another, except those who have met their Makur. Esta the letter. "Ap- I have no recourse but to threaten you. Anyone who could afford to ignore what I have offered in the name of national welfare can go to helt." The government declined to Mr Truman several years ago United Fress
prosecute Zolles
&
of
Japanese
threafterting
on the charge
WHY HE MURDERED
AGED POET
info- that
Lancashire
he
Molotov's Proposals Flatly Rejected
Berlin, Feb. 10. The British Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, today bluntly told the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Vyacheslav Molotov, that Britain would never abandon her participation in the North Atlantic Organisation which, he declared, was the foundation stone of British policy.
Flatly rejecting, with the American Secretary of
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Two among a party of British Members of Parliament test out the new Belgian rifle F.N. 9.30, which is to be used by the British Army, in London The Members of Parliament were in- vited to do so by the War Office, and tried out the new rifle and watched of its demonstrations firing power. London Express.
BRITAIN'S
State, Mr John Foster Dulles, and the French Foreign NEW PLANE
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stated that the intringements of be facing violent Japanese com- he stabbed her 10 et four foreign
design would increase.
The colonies and Lancashire | WS
were being asked to pay Japan's
for
action.
London, Feb. 10, ... Britain's first veprone piloted fet plane, an Arminton Whit- worth Meteor mandé its maidon" flight, today.
Router.
he introduced Inst year's Estimates, the Hop Arthur Clarke warned that possibly a large chunk of his anticipated surplus would disappear if, in the first place, the Secretary of State approved of reconi- mendations for a revision of Government HCL allowances and they be came retroactive, and
Minister, M. Georges Bidault, Mr Molotov's proposals for secondly, if
definite any
50-year. European security treaty and the evacuation agreement and financial
He was glad the Conservative unfair In that Japaneso ex-
of Germany by occupation troops, Mr Eden called the commitment were reached
*their dumping aro Government had also refused porters
Soviet proposal h new Monroe Doctrine for Europe, concerning the Queen's
to give it. But unlike the products on markets including lands. In Rond military
It was in the air for Labour Government, the Con- the colonies, making use of a
mations, other than the USSR, 10 Mr. Eden told M. Molotov that Aiso it would not have been
extent the minutes in the Midlinde, Toth the event, neither сол-
servative had not kept in tlose dual pries system," he said, the best way lo
NATO was not an exclusivo | answer. To the encourage
asked what Wilson
ATT8 chief testpilot, touch with the cotton Industry, hus tingency
eventuated
I
military. Instrument and that it United States was interested Japans to "come into
Leader Eric Frank- the fiscal Western comity of nations."
he sal
gubranters the Government had
New York, Feb. 10. said. during the current
permitted the development of
Mr. Dulles said that the pro-lin, lying down in a prone against Mr Wilson contended that the obtained
Harold Weinberg,
cultural
post and economie tles year. Indeed, the only un- Mr Harold Wilson moving, the
posal to evacuate Germany was tion. should not have chumping.
former year-old
mental foreseen expenditure. Opposition motion, appealed to agreement
among its member countries.
in substance, identical to what
The jet with the pilot lying been concluded until there were, He declared that Japan had
confessed today The Molotov plan, he said, could the Soviet delegation had al-
down in a prone position, is n extraordinary with which members to avoid giving any
4 spending spree patient, been
Amircos has the Treasury
expression to "national or racial attractive guarantees against a enjoyed
killed Maxwell not stand as a basis for dis ready proposed before.
spally-adsploš revival of unfair practice by following "monstrous"
cussion and he rellerated that saddled was created by the
Ho recalled the fact that the Whitworth night fighter version Mr Wilson
the event of an attack In was Japanese exporters. He recalled tion, brought about partly by Bodenheim when the jazz- it
of mutual practices before the American spending in Japan poet objected to Weinberg's which the Soviet Union was the pacts disastrous Shamshulpo fire,
assistance of the Meteor. Inevitable when Anglo-Japanese Japanese
being and added: "Now
Britain, America and several and while this calls for an
relations
debated that war and said they were being were
love-making with 35-year- victim, Great Britain would signed between Estonia, Latvia emergency charge against there was a danger of feelings revived. He quoted from the 15 asked to help them out."
observe the obligations impard and Lithuania and Soviet Russia other countries have been for revenue, it is not of suf- being reused by thoughts of report of an economic survey in Mr Wilson asked if the "re-old Mrs Bodenheim.
Welberg claimed that Mrs, cn her by the United Nations in 1039 "strictly stipulated the same years making experiments Charter, which was the only inviolability of the sovereignty In prone piloting. As the speed ficient proportior to upset Japanese behaviour before and which a British official in Tokyo markable Increase in Japan's
referred to
[of the aircraft is pushed steadily the "growing
of the signatory states." purchases of wool from Austra- Bodenheim was agrocable to his the surplus accumulated during the war.
He looked at this debute, he number of imitations of British is meant that Britain's York-love-making but turned on him way.
Mr Dulles added: "What higher and the era of supersonic during the year. Thus we
In the longest scasion of the quickly happened to diese three flight opens, the greatest prob- as "a straight question of textile designs." The official had shire wool industry would soon after, he killed her husband, so imagine
Financial 6110, the
economic dealings
ministers to date, countries has gone on and on, lema confronting designers are but petition.
Ecar-faced Secretary will have some
The Japanese Ambassador, Mr
purely aerodynamic, all three Western ministers and has created the division to not met said he
the
rather how the human body, can figures comforting
Sunichi Matsumoto, was in the
Mr Wilson wanted i know
joined together in a solid block which Mr. Molotov refers," Grearwich i for the twelve diplomatic gallery to listen to
to turn down present
the Soviet, pro The French Foreign Minister withstand the forces Increasingly what protection British menu-
excessive imports of Village only last Saturday. The months just about to end, the debate. Mr Wilson said the facturers had azaleat poor quali-
Mr Dulles said also fally turned down the imposed upon it.
In tight turns, or steep dives Australian wool. Already Lan- derelikt poet and his attractive posals which and that he will be able to opposition accepted the fact that Japanese imports.
were "In a ahow the Colony's finances Japanese payments
Ho cart he realised Lancashire cashire orders for East Africa third wife Ruth said they had would leave West Germany ex-Soviet propomis but, at the
boen sleeping in doorways for posed to any threat of external same time, said that the col at high speed, the tremendous, wanted Nobody
or gravity forces are lective "
security of Europe "G" to must be prepared in face natural had come to a full stop. healthier
than mess". today aro
in the colonica.
are overjoyed The Japanese at a low and fair træde balance world trade they have ever been.
Weinberg offered to give them Joining Mr Eden in stating would be perfectly acceptable if sumclent to check the normal It did not rule out otter circulation of the pilots blood level of restricted imports and He could have made the point of by this agreement, Mr Wilson the past several nights, exports.
flower wage standarda is Japan, said.
place to sleep. The three of
that Molotov proposal called The Opposition's Indlotment of he said, butagainst that was he It would save Japan dollars-
character-France-Presse," which he rented furnished room, he sald, was improvement in the trade union of which she has an abundance them went to Weinberg's tiny for abandonment sue stort arrangements of a defensive and cause temporary blackouts..
Atlantic Treaty the Government,
Organisation,
"failure
Japanese-and trade within the Com- for its
consult movement for the
Mr Duties refuted the Soviet Bodenheim monwealth was being reduced for $3 a week. The 80-year-old objected, he said, big colion worker. the
Minister's Lancashire,
Foreign
suggestion the
making love when district, before the agreement Me Wilson said "We know to bear the brunt of the agree-
that American participation in caused was atgaud."
that the United States, who havement.
не shot Bodenheim with a 22 European defence had calibre,
rific
Weinberg said. the division of Europe. Then Mrs Bodenheim attacked The division, continued Mr him. He
stabbed her with a knife, police
quoted him as kay Dulles, went back "to the date when Soviet control, initially The Japanese had run cur of ing, then heat her. Reginald Maudling. The third was that in the long
Thus Bodenheim, an advocate confined to the Soviet Union In-itself, was extended to a vast to Secretary
free love whose cold fruition this year, requir- Economic
the term it was obvious thero would sterling. If they were rcs to be gal the ing some sort of provision Treasury,
Anglo-be a strong demand for Japanese forced to cut imperts from the of
It sterling area very drastically, difference drove two young girl area which now includes one from revenue. Also on the Japanese agreement was
most important. that it hard to be able to and more poets to nuleide in his heyday,third of the human race."
died arguing about the propric-
UB NOT OFFENDED from the in the sterling area.
Weinberg ties, horizon is the question of tremely important and was in goods in the sterling area.
was ta. buy Japan the new airport--an under the general interest of Britain
and the sterling area.
have sterling area she should
'impossible to say to PreES, and
EL AVENT taking which is bound, in
"We expect you sterling to do it. The fourth the Japanese the due course, to involve the people feared might happen to reason was that if there had not to mordain your purchases, frem
a considerable British Industries would not in been this Colony in
Japan us while we continue to restrict agreement, expenditure. fact happen.
would probably have concluded our purchases deen you in order nmount of Thore is, in fact,
bilateral agreements to keep st to a chromte deficit," Dealing with the background separate
Me Maudling said one should formidable financing to be in which the agreement was with the Dominions. She would
signed, Mr Maudling said the
to force not under-estimate the fact that faced in the future, but we do not believe it necos- Japanese political position in then have been able
Df 1953 lovet
The American Secretary of non-Communist world and the pon the market larger quantithe Japanese had undertaken to
tles of Japanese goods than at maintains the taxation- extra
question of trading
imports.
Stato told Mr Molotov that tha испичи
the moment.
London, Feb. 10.
Carnever Taking wool and textiles certainly not during the policies including good creditor
Oma O'Neill Chaplin, wife United States had.. ahead.
have policies-had to be borne in
would sell There was no change whatever00
together we resources other than current mind.
"But he would rely on the in the principles underlying this textiles in Japon than the of British-born Charlie Chaplin intruded itself as an unwanted icon- who has been barred from the partner in European affairs and revenue to help finance
Japanca would sell for the present agreement.
he United States, tonight in did not have the intention of projecta which Aro In economic agrument that
As a result of the 1951 agree-sumption in this country enounced that she is: renouncing doing so in the future. But he good thing! tended to benefit posterity agreement was
for the sterling area."
ment there was a substantial said.
The Japanese would also not her American citizenship to be reminded Mr Molotov that the American people had a very As well as the Colony of He said the sterling payments development of trade between
Mrs Chaplin
O'Neil Europe. today, and where possible, agreement which has just been Japan and the sterling area and discriminate against sterling oil.come a British subject, these resources should be renewed was signed originally a substantial increase in the im- "As a cult of the arrange
́dled
recently in the~~ United
-Amerkan Joes, be such, tid betwets this country plus over- States,
by plane today
said she been pecki to Bumcpe tor the third Geneva and from
them beoutard many in kruipe was based There was no question then of not only a large surplus over-
interling area was in, dellelt to MVisible trade alone on our sidewamy tomorrow to give up United States to do so. A DUNATA
citizenship. indirect. The Colony has, Japan.
FOUR REASONS
Japm. Japan began to cocumu-Maudling mid Britain her United States cit weathered twelve months
She would admit very small quanti-The comedian accompanied his Its principle was that trade late large quantities of sterling trade recciaion re-. of
"I am renouncing my United markably well, but there should be concluded in sterling, one time £130,000,000,
Wald; Mrs were four reasons for could not ask for dollars and as of Japanese stoods for col Thai G
one year and State that. The first was that the had to hold alerting which subption in Britain, But there
used the amotinted to Fiving Britain quotes was not digiBELES
have taken out starling was more stronger. It became. The second
kina weld that just an The This must be bome in was that the alternative to a mind by Government if it trade in sterling WAS should, by any means, be for credit or payme contemplating new taxation, dollars-neither of the
will have to provide for increased expenditure 10 meet revised salaries, and conceivably negotiations are proceeding over the military lands and may well reach
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Mr Dulles said that the could United States certainly not take offence at the sugge tion of Mr Molotov that the European countries should get, together for their own security without the participation of Amerion.
judiciously utilised rather by the Labour Government. It porte of Japanese goods into ment.... envisöged wo... shall, havo wright' father Eugene play. [doop and legitimate intérest. In
than thrust now burdens on was a good, and sensible agree-colonial territories. the taxpayers by means of ment on which
extra'.levies, either direct or Britain's long-term trade with Japan; bolig in dofielt. The fall but in fact a surplus ; 1945 | would appear at the America” | ware ghyd and; indi nasced the
are still no positive signs that botter and brightor
days are around the corner,
positionis to Britain.-
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