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SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1954.
GREEN LIGHT FOR
IN JAPAN
Man Out Lower House Passes
TWO
WO tiden meel On the
pavements of Soho
in
the early evening. Hurrying' towards the tubes and buses plunge businessmen
shopgirls, whose
and
working
day is over. Threading their
way against the
stream,
through
main
counter - marching
the
crowded
streets, come those others
Bills
To Set
Up Armed Forces
SOME SAFEGUARDS
Tokyo, May 7.
Japan took the final plunge into an American- whose working days begin backed rearmament programme today. at midnight-heavy-footed
walters and players, chorus pretty ankles,
pule: Jazz
girls with and office cleaners with swollen ones.
On one Soho street corner, the named Trevor, who though
other evening, slood a lttle mun
at
of the time he seemed w du nothing more violent than shift
his weight from one fooi le an- hard at actually other, wus work.
THE WATCHERS
their
AND a little way off, * wel dinariness as hardly to be visible
samouflaged
to the naked eye, two other men stood who were nise working. Plain-clothes palicemen keeping on ev un Trevor,
eyo tul Trevor
watched the home- and showed nu going crowds interest in the others; and every an often be thrust out an arm, quick as a lizard's
louch the
tongue, to
e of a passer-by,
arm Then he would say Lu the
"You
nice stranger:
Want u club, mister? Nice band? Nice drink? Nice girls?"
No one seemed to want any of these things, that evening.
Presently a buy in a sporty-
and Banneis cout
camo past. } Trevor felt emboldened by the other's youth and truXPET(ONLC. He ung his arm round the boy's
repeated shoulders und Invitation
RUT
AND THE WATCHED
hie
Then the two policemen broke
cover.
The powerful House of Representatives ap- proved by a comfortable 277 to 138 vote margin two Government bills which would authorise Premier Shigeru Yoshida to build an enlarged three-arm defence force and use it to resist external aggression.
The House of Councillors can disapprove the Lower House decision but it cannot
upset it. The upper Chamber of the Diet is an advisory body with no powers of veto
The bills
the gave ministration legal authority
forn Japan's
with restrictions
A
Ad- Įringed around
to against the use of the military Orst post-war forces in the defence of lund-sca-and-air self defence friendly nation ouleide Japan, forces," expanding the present But I brought one abep nearer 120,000-member National Safe-the day when the United States ty Force by 35 per cent in the troops here could Cnxi Theu process.
back Karrison
duties
and go
REARMAMENT
Churchill Gave Them Cigars
Str
London, May 7. Winston
Church!!! prosented two octogenarian military pensioners with
six and a half inch Havana
cigars hera yesterday
A
they
gave hima portrait of his illustrious ancestor, the First Duke of Marlborough,
The portrait Was colour photograph of kn oil painting by the German artist, John Closterman, recently presented to the Chelsea Pensioners Home. The two petualaners, 39-
year-old Bergeant J.F. Jeno, and 82-year-old
colour
Sergeant
Partiger, Brut
1001
O.T. the
Prime Miolater at the turn of the century,--Chins Mali Special.
Hongkong To Get US Butter
First Shipment Of Surplus Stocks
Washington, May 8. The first 30,000 lbs. of This is for below the 320,000 home. thai United States mullary men The wo defence bills com surplus American butter to wanted.
also plemented WDA
nilkurybe sold overseas under the which assistance pact
Japun
new Agriculture Depart- signed with the United States in Tokyo on March 8.
hey ment programme will go to Hongkong, where it will be set up the defence
structure which would Inake Japan turned back into milk, the eligible to receive the military Department announced last
The
NTATO
The Queen
Visits
the
aid Washington promised under the
treaty, an extension of the night. anti-Communist mutual security
Gozo Island programme
out the
reartis-
CJXI-
Together they filled Goro Island, near Maito,
programme of partial ment upon which Japan May 7. Queen Elizabeth
the barked this year. and
DEFENCE AGENCY Edinburga with their Duke of
bills The
approved children arrived today at this! tiny windswept Island in the would: Malta archipelago and recolved a great welcome from its 30,000
Queen made a miniature laland state drive through the
accept stopping conunually to
"The
for
the
trow he made it sound population more like a threat. Tho youth made off, with frightened backward glances at Trevor, who followed him for a tew yards. bouquets from the Gotitans, who showed great excitement "We're arresting you," despite their reputation one of them said to Trevor, "for reserve.
Queen unveiled using Insulting behaviour....
The "It's a liberty,” cried the little island's war memorial in the man, a touch of Wales in his fading light and stood to atten-
"Lion voice. "It's a diabolical liberty,
as the buy buglers of the Nex: morning, at Bow Street, he artillery sounded the Last Post pleaded not guilty to the charge. and Revellie.
The
police told Mr Frank She had decided 10 come Milton, the magistrale, of their ashore in spite of rough seas for watch in Soho, then Trevor this last visit before Gibraltar, of the the Anal port of call went into the witness-box.
Communwealth tour. She was due to spend only 90 minules un Gozo.-Reuter.
A GAMBLING MAN
66/HAT is your occupation?"
him.
"I'm not
is your occupoked
tout for the club,
I work inside, as a receptionst,“
Trevor answered. "IL Just happened I came out for my tea- break."
"The officers say they saw you speak to these people.
"I just met a friend of mine on the corner,"
The learned clerk looked up two "There were his notes. coloured men you stopped," he said.
friend "Another
mine, of name of Rustler," said Trevor "I just asked him if he knew a 'spieler as was open-that's dicing place. I'm a gambler. Ho didn't know any.".
19 PREVIOUS
"I FIND
Why Some
Singapore Boys
Go To
China
Singapore, May 7.
Poor trade conditions and un- employment were the cause for many Singapore Chinese youths
Church Of England
Would Prefer
A Married Pope
London, May 7.
The Church of England newspaper declared here today that a married Pope would command far more confidence than a celibate one.
The paper was commenting in a leading article on the recent encyclical letter of Pope Pius XII on "Holy Virginity" which said that chastity was a more perfect state than marriage.
would
It quoted tho mcyelkalas, marry, they become for more listing good works done by efficient, more temperamentally celibates and saying that such settled and able to devote more prodigious activity
betime and thought to religion. rendered practically impossible "To imagine that family life by solicitude for the home ad drains away time and energy is family cares,
mistake that a celibate
easily This
is palpable rubbish," inakes. Exactly the contrary Is the articlo declared. "It is the fact," it added.-Chinu Mali correct and proper to feel sorry Special. for the Pope because he has been deprived of the experience
of a happy, married life.
because
"A married Pope would actually command far more confidence then a celibate one, of the greater under- standing he would acquire.
WIDE OF MARK "While it is true that there are some people who for con- stitutional reasons prefer not to marry, but succeed, in spite of it in
integrily of attaining an personality loftier than that of the average, this does not apply to the majority."
The paper said the Pope was wide of the mark in suggesting there was some special merit in foregoing marriage and delibe- rately choosing a celibate life. for men to find that when they
"It is a frequent
Jim Laker Has A
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Dougies at Holl's Wharf from 1. Set up a defence agency
Department said. under a Cabinet-rank Minister
bawk 20-Mandrake. 21-Pepinjay wicket in the drawn match with
10 km, on May 11, 1954, and can- The butter programme is
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Agnoes aro requested to have their who would be responsible
help the United goo 15-Loup trog.
during the Premier the
To co-ordinate the activities of representatives premenst himself. The designed to
Hoy Marshall, the West Indies voluntary welfare organisations, and survey. troops would be called Self-
States unload its surplus butter pige 27-Clotheshorse.
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Hampshire, hit 60 in 44 practice of social welfare work.
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10
2 Authorise the expansion of the new army ("land
force") 10
to 130,000 men, the
Sea Self-Defence Force to 10,800 men, and the creation of a 7,000-man Air Force, plus civilian officials.
3. Provide that the Premier must obtain the approval
uf
the Parliament before order- ing
delence forces into tho action, except in an emer- gency, in which case he must get post-facto Diet approval.
Create 4.
American- an type joint Chiefs of Staff headed by a defence council within the Cabinot.
5. Stipulato that civilian
hoads would always be in the
But it was reported on Thurs- day that Britain, too, might buy
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Russian Plane
Leaves Geneva
With A Corpse
Génova, May 7.
A Soviet plane left hero for
top posts of authority to safeMoscow today with the body of guard against militarist fac- tions seizing power,
a Russian who died at the hotel
6. Set up a Defence Staff headquarters of the Soviet dele College and Defence Academy gation to the Far East confer- for the training of career per- cnce here this morning. sonnel
The Russian, Pietr Youkov, the left-aged 53, of Moscow is believed Stalling tactics by wing opposition parties and the to have suffered a heart attack, storm over the political scandals the police said. threatened at one Lime enbotage the bills.
to
Travelling on the same plane Vladimir Kouznetsov,
SUMA
Mr Yoshida over-rode a non-Under-Secretary-General of the confidence vote by the namow-Soviet delegation hore. to leave the Colony for Red est of margins on April 24, China, according to
a survey however, and won his fight conducted by the Singapore Free United Press, Press.
Many business firms run by
Mr of the Youkoy was a member Soviet delegation.
A death certificate was issued by the Genova authorities after Soviet doctors had reported his
the Chinese, which formerly had Norway's Lead In death. The polico said he died
Davis Cup
from natural
Soviet authorities
Tho refused to give any detalls of Mr Youkov's Ideath or about Mr Kouznetsov's
return to Moscow-Router.
Joba for Chinese school graduates are now unable to absorb any this case proved," more, the survey pointed out.
Helsinki, May 7. It said, "Some of these shop said the magistrate. "Any-
4 Norway took said, thing known?" he asked. There proprietors
2-1 lead 'Unicas tende were 19 previous convictions conditions Improve there is no against Finland here today, in ngainst Trevor.
likelihood of recruiting new the first round of the European we are zone of the lawn tennis Davis "How long have you been a employees. Just now as Cup. They were tied 1-1 yester-One tout?" the magistrato naked planning to cut expenses
much as we can.””.
him.
surly.
day.
Today's result of the doubles: "Three years,” he answered] The survey continued, "Some
Rolf Pape and Nils Hesson Brms are aid to be retrenching (Norway) beat Sakari Salo and You'd better stop it, you unnecessary staff. Generally Curt Lincoln (Finland) 7-5, 6-4,
You there is a gloomy feeling amon 4-6, 6-2.
know," Mr Milton asli.
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can't find a surety,
Stroke Victory For
Bobby Locke
Southport Lancashire, May 7.
A magnificent recovery from bunicer at Southport and Ainsdale's 275-yard 18th hole Locke of. South thrilling.
ono-stroice
Glasgow, May 7 gave Bobby Third Lanark beat Bangers Atrics &
nli goal to
at victory
In the Dunlop 2,000 Hampden Park here today
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Results
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At Lorde, Surrey beat the M.C.C. by four wickels, M.C.C. 120 and 89, (Laker, right-arm offspin, eight for 31) Burrey 130 for four declared (Constable 54) and 87 for six. (Marlor right- arra offspin three for 27))
At Oxford, Oxford Univer- Republiesity
Yorkshire, and
match drawn. Yorkshire 298 for four declared, Oxford University 68 and 289, (Willams 38, Wardin five for 85), Yorkshira did not bat a second time.
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