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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1955.
FOURTH REICH RAISES ITS HEAD Billy Graham At UK Will Go
Others Profit
From Britain's
*
Research
London, May 4.
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Lord Woolton, Chairman of the Conservative Parly, complained here today, that while the British did the research
have let get the
somebody
proill"
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He admitted American
on
criticisms ihai Britain con- centrated 30 much maintaining leadership in pare research that she had not bothered about putting the result into practice.
That does not in- velve that we should rive
up
the fundamental research, but that we should spend more energies In seeing that we get the ad- vantage!" he told the annual
of lunch
the British Electrical and Allied In- dustries Research Associa- tion,
That is what
weare
about to do. This country has become convinced that the we have to develop technology
applied
science.
of
and
"Our › Rocieties learned institutions have to direct their attention in both ways so that we carry
On
in
with all we have done fundamental research time re-
and al the same
cognise the importance of training the technologisis.” China Mall Special.
COMMUNIST
LEAVES U.S.
New York, May 4. John Williamson, who has been a member of the United States Communist Party, feit here voluntarily today raiber than to be expelled. He lett with the agreement of the American authorities, accom- panied by his wife and his
two sons.
Germany Resumes Her Place Among
The Great Powers
By lan Fraser
Bonn, May 5,
West Germany will become a sovereign nation of 50,000,000 people today (Thursday) almost exactly 10 years. after Hitler's Reich sank into smoking ruins.
At noon on "sovereignty day" the Federal Republic," freed of the shackles of occupation, will become an equal partner of her conquerors, and free to put 500,000 men under
arms,
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The occupation will be formally ended when the British and French High Commissioners, Sir Frederick Hoyer Millar and M. Andre Francois-Poncet, deposit documents ratifying the Paris treaties restoring West Germany's sovereignty. The United States, the third Western occupation power, has already done this.
Last obstacle to the establish fence, she could if she wanted,
relations
the with ment of this new era in relations establish between West Germany and the Communist East.
last was removed Big Three
Many
Germans are thinking night when the West German of the future
in terms of a Constitutional Court ruled that
Germany East and one of the key Paris treaties, the United Franco-German pact establish- West-free of military alliances
on any side.
ing a "European statute for the
bordac Saar
territory was It had been constitutional. challenged by Opposition Social
claimed Democrats who violated the West constitution of 1910.
TELEVISED
Allied With abolition of the High Commissions and the end of the occupation, West Ger- it many
of the Allies," with the right to im pose her laws on citizens of the other Allied Powers.
German
Today's ratiscation cere- mony in the Palais Schaum- burg, the Bonn residence of Dr Konrad Adenauer, the West German Chancellor. be broadcast and televised by German net; works.
WLIE
The two Western Commissioners will leave Palais as their countries poseyir Ambassadors Germany.
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High
After "sovereignty day" the face of the Republic will begin to change. As West Germany takes her place alongside the Bis Powers again, only 10 years 'Before sailing in the British after her defeat on the battle-
Elizabeth, Quecti
field.
all' references to "occtipa- Williamson, a British subjects tion" or "Allied" will disappear sald he hoped to return when from official
documents, road the United States had got rid signs, number plates and build- of **Fascism" and real
ing signs. "Democracy" had triumphed.
liner
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Foreign forces will also have to start sending their their own Governments,
bills to
With sovereignty day" will"| launched a plan which has caused much heart-burning in the West raising half a million. German troops for Western de fence...
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One of the first tasks of the Federal Definee Offer here will
be to set
committee to choose same 40 generals, free of Nazi taint, to command. West Germany's forcas.
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The Defence Office will also on machinery for recruiting, housing, clothing and begin work feeding these forces-about 400 barracks will have to be built for example.
One of the first bills prepared by the Defence Office for pre- sentation to Parliament will be une roguliting the status of volunteers who will form the nucleus of the armed forces,
West Germany will have an army of 12 divisions är about 400,000 men. The air force of This will eventually hit the 80.000 men will have a total of places, including jet and American 1,350 British, French
the fighters, and the 20,000-strong taxpayer. In recent years Occupation costs, charged tonery will have 180 vessels, in West Germany, have worked out cluding submarines up to 350 at about 600 million marks tone.. (about £50,000,000) a month.
Under the Paris agreemens
Germany has undertaken not to the The Allied Control Com-make atomic or bacteriological (rst missions have been steadily weapona, long range missiles and West cutung down their staffs in warships of more than 3,000
reduced tons. anticipation of their functions as embassies. The West Germany's Social British High Commission, which Democratic Opposition Party, once employed over 10,000 who have long opposed the people, is down to a staff of 730 rearmament policy. were Britons and 1,500 Germans. believed today to have refused to take over the post of State NEW JOBS
Secretary of the Defence Office.
Herr Erich Ollenhauer, Social Democratie Chairman, called to- Zay
on Dr. Konrad "Adenauer, handing over a letter containing Party's suggestions for future all-Garman reunication
He understood to have called for a renunciation of the so that a united Paris treaties Germany could be incorporated into system of collective European security, without any leanings to East or West.
Allied troops will remain for the time being, but under treaty and not
is
1
Gleneagles
Billy Graham, the American evangelist, conducting a successful crusade in
the famous drives from the 12th fee with an Iron during a round of golf on course-Central Press.
HK STORY TO BE FILMED
Im
Hollywood, May 4.
Somerset
Maughan's
be
Hongkong story
The Painted Vell," is to filmed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer with Ava Gardner the the leading role, studio announced today.
Miss Gardner is to make The Painted Veil" after "Bhowani unction," which is being filmed in Pakistan and England, had been completed.
The film is to be pro- duced by David Lewis, who made the film version of Graham Greene's novel "End of the Affair.”— China Mall Special.
UK AND FRANCE AGREE TO:
Exchange
Of Atomic
Information
Scotland, Gleneagles
Duke Only
Only Missed Strip Cartoons
The
London, May 4.
Ahead With
Anti-Polio
Vaccinations
London, May 4.
The British Medical Re- search Council stated today that "some important ques tions" regarding the Salk. poliomyelitis vaccine "re- main unanswered."
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These included the effects of the vaccino on younger children. the duration of the protection given by the vaccine and the best time and spacing of the Infections.
་ But it agreed that the results of the fully controlled part of the large scale American trial suggested that, the vaccine used was safe and that it substantial- ly reduced the incidence of paralytic poliomyelitis among the 200,000 children aged be- tween six and nine who ceived it..
The Council sleted that it will continue with its arrangements for starting trials of the vaccine in this country.
MISREPORTED
In Sydney Dr J. C. Walters, Medical Superintendent at the Prince Henry. Hospital, said that he had been "most unfortunately misreported on the progress of poliomyelitis research at the
под-
reports quoted Dr Wal- ters as saying that the Univer sity had developed a paralytic strain virus which he hoped would be used to make a "live" vaccine more effective
America's Salk vaccine,
The Duke of Edinburgh told London news-than
Dr Walters said today that in fact the research had pro-
papermen tonight that some problems arising between the Royal Family and the Press would be duced an attenuated live virus
"solved in time while others will always remain a headache."
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The Duke, addressing the newspaper Press
Fund dinner, concentrated on three points.
He said: "In the first place, like to say inadequate here, but members of the Royal Family are I don't want to offend more slightly different from other people than strictly necessary-1 public figures in that they are must confess that I only really public figures for life, except of missed the strip cartoons. course, in certain circumstances..
"But what a relief it without the usual gossip.'
IN PUBLIC EYE
"Presidents, film .stars, politicians, evers TV per. sonalities have their period of obecurity, espedaily while they are growing up- In many casta, it is also very much in their interests to get into and remain in the public eye.
"The second paint is that with ordinary people, which we are, unlike presidents and prime ministers who are usually rather special people, the more one is quoted and reported the tonight announced the less cue is inclines to leave to conclusion of an agreement chance, both what one says and the exchange of un-what one does in public, and the classified" atomic energy in-more jealous me
Britain
London, May 4.
formation
with
one's private life." France, an official statement said,
And the next twó months about one third of the existing staf--200, Britons and 500 GerIANS-~~- will have to find new jobs.
Embassy cars will no longer He will settle in Scotland, where his 84-year-old mother still
fo: as occupiers. And in have Army number plates. They lives. He is 52:
about a year, German troops will have to carry German will begin replacing them-part registration. And their drivers Williamson served a three-year of the German contingent in will be subject to German traffic prison sentence for allegedly the North Atlantic Treaty police, except for a few driving
overthrow the plotting to
cars with diplomatic privilege. United States Government by
For hundreds West Germany will be free
cf Allied force. He was also threatened with legal proceetings for after today to chart her own civilians who have been loosely
to having belonged to the Com foreign policy and, despite her attached
the occupation munist Party-France-PresSSC. current tes with Western de-forces, the change in West Ger- many's status will mean much form Alling and Q ccrain amount of belt tightening.
forces.
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13 Table support (7)
15 Uncommon (4)
17 Dies (7)
16 Protection (7)
20 Makes mistakes (4)
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14 Brings to bear (8)
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25 Kind of tree (4)
EXCHANGE OF LETTERS
Documents ratifying West Germany's entry into the European Union and the North Atlantic Treaty Or- ganisation will also be de- posited today in Brussels and Washington.
People accredited 10 the Occupation in a semi-oficial
France and Germany will capacity; such as airlines staff finalise their Saar agreement by and journalists, now become or-
an exchange of letters between dinary foreigners, with none of M. Rene Coty and Professor the special privileges and con- Theodor Heuss, the two Presi. veniences they have enjoyed dents-Reuter." hitherto,
Above all they expect to lose the right to duty free luxuries In forces shops. Tobacco, wines, opirits, coffee and tea will così them twice to three times as much in German shops. Car owners will have to pay two and a hal times as much for petrol.
REQUIRE PERMITS
Au foreigners will re- quire residence and work
permits, A high commission rubber stamp on the pass-- part will be no longer suffi- cient.
Every time a
becomes of
The Duke added, "The result The United Kingdom Atomic of course is very dull for rews- Energy Authority will papermen and makes us appear furthermore help the French to be rather unenterprising, but remember that our mistakes,
Atomic Energy Commission instead of sending us Into
by
by giving advice and supplying experimental quan- obscurity, are never forgotten although of course they may be tides of various materials.
forgiven."
were inclined to
The purpose of the agreement The Duke said he was aware is to promote and develop that newspapermen who reported the peccetu ATS of atomic
Royal tours energy in the two countries become a little bored sometimes
conforralty with the movement for international by the way each visit followed co-operation in the field of almost exactly the same pattero atomic energy on a world-as the last one, wide scale-France-Presse.
in
Sweeping Victory
For Mr
France
Paris, May
Tough ex-Prémier Pierre Mendes-France won
He pointed out that the Royal Family was most unlikely to visit the same place more often |than about once in five years, usually, at much longer intervals.
GLOUCESTER VISIT ́·
"For instance, the last full Ecale visit by a reigning sovereign to the city of Gloucester was 200 years ago," he said,
"Whether the programme was the same or not the people of Gloucester would hardly call it dreary repetition.
“But this is a real problem
and we are very much alive to
a sweeping victory tonight at a special Radical- Socialist convention which approved his pro-it." gramme for revitalising the Party for next year's general elections.
foreigner changes lodging he will have to report to the police with a form completed in triplicate By a show of hands the 1,800 tory started immediate predic and including a photograph delegates from every part of tions that the Radical Party's and such questions as "where France approved a Mendes-swing to left of centre. * could was your mother. born?" backed motion against his top split the Party-United Press.
And perhaps the biggest political enemy in the Party, the problem of all the foreigner former Interior Minister, Leon will have to join Germans in the Martinuad-Deplat.
hunt for accommodation instead
of living in requisitioned pro- Taking part in tonight's show- down session wak Premier
perly,
Some concessions will continue Edgar Faure, who saw the vote for British servicemen in Ger-taken and watched M. Martinaud- by stme many. They will stil be, oble Deplat, surrounded
To
the Salie
to get, cheap travel for bonafide of his followers, stamp sugrily leave,
at least for the time
wine out.
where, the being. The Americans are not a wrestling arena sure yet whether they will con-one-day special convention is
their tinue getting
being held. unlimited half price forces railway tickets.
British troops with cars willTonight's vote-backed up M. also keep their 3.Z" (which Mendes-France's plea for a once slood for British Zone) wholesale reorganisation of the number plates and will continue Party machine.
to get amy petrol) and duty tonight M. Martinud. « free cigarettes, A
But if they are involved in a tie party apparatus and Bew Deplat was in full control of the YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD Across: 1 Jam far, 5 Geese Level, 9 Cereal, 10 Numbs, 11 Named, 12 Blte, 13 Rests, 18 street accident, they may find Debase, 18 Morsel, 20 There, 22 List 23 Aspic, 25 Discs, 26 themselves in a German count, bservers politicians here believed the Aghting ex-Premier could Solema, 27 Lemon, 28 Steed, 29 Nettle. Down: 1. Jackboot, 2 And if their wives get Maritime, 3 Alan, 4. Relates & General 6 Eludes, 7 Sabot, 14 frouble with the German police buck it successfully Sediment, 15 Sentence, 18 Dressed, 17: Benison, 19 Oracio, 21 they can be sent to German
prison Holst, 24 Cone,
into
But M. Mendes-Trance won the crucial vote thunch his "Vic-
Referring to
the recent na-
tional newspaper strike, the
Duke commented: "I found it a most interesting experience...... breakfast seemed to take no time at all.
"As there were other sources of news and comment I would
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Tickets at Moutries
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Vr Gavin Astor, who presided in the absence through lness of his father, Colonel 1. 1. Astor said that while. newspapermen did not wish to intrude and make the lives of unbearable, the Royal Family they realised that whatever the Royal Family did was of in- terest not only to Brits but, peopic overseas,--Reuter.
which could be
out probably
of
the basis Kve vaccine." Further search would have to be carried United in the States to find out whether the production of a live vaccine from this virus was possible.--- Reuter.
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