THE CHINA" MAIL," "MONDAY, MAY
9, 1955,
REDS CELEBRATE VE-DAY Mountbattens-Admire
Controllers Of Purse Strings
Paris. May 9. Three out of four French workers allow their wives to
control the household purse strings but business- men are more cautious and 19 of every 20 pay their own bilis.
Oficial
statistics Dub-
lished here on the place of women in French its also reveal thai female, exécu- tives are flourishing. There are 3,000,000 with executiva jobs compared with 4,200.000 China Mall Special.
CH.
Duke Arrives
In Naples
VISITING WAR CEMETERIES
Naples, May 8.
The Duke of Gloucester, uncle of Queen Elizabeth of England arrived here today by air to visit- war cemeteries. He was accom- panied by Field Marshal Earl Alexander, Commander-in-Chief of the wartime Allied forces in Italy.
The Duke, who is President of the Imperial War Graves Com- mission, will visit all the war cemeteries on Italian soil, begin aing tomorrow with those at Caserta, Cassino and Minturno. He will then go on. to Rome where he will be the guest of Sir
the British Ashley Clarke.
Ambassador,
On the way to Naples "today. he flew over the Salerno beaches, the scene of desperate fighting when the, Allies landed there, in September Presse.
1943. France.
Pledges Of Peace Mixed With Warnings
To Western Allies
London, May 8.
Communist Eastern Europe today celebrated the defeat of Nazi Germany ten years ago with attacks on the West, pledges of peaceful co-existence and warnings against reborn German militarism.
In the West, VE-Day was honoured quietly and passed almost unnoticed.
Reuter despatches from both
Prague: The Czecho¡ French national patriot sides of the Iron Curtain gave slovak. Prime Minister, Mr Joan of Arc. this picture:
Viliam Siroky, said today that the conference of East European nations opening at Warsaw Wednesday will create a power able to brak, and turn aside any attempt by wie enemy,'!*
⚫ Berlin: Marshal Georg Zhukov, Soviet Defence Minister and "Conqueror of Berlin, declared at an East Berlin cere- mony that the threat" of the Faris treatles rearming Western Germany blocked the way to a peaceful re-union, of Germany and threatened a new war.
LOYAL FRIENDS
This
made it necessary. for East Germany "and lis loyal friends" to "take" the necessary messtres tio guarantee security
and maintain world. prace.. Marshal Zhukov, who led the victorious Soviet annies into shattered Berlin ten years ago,
said the Soviet people wanted good neighbourly relations with the West Germ people as well as with other peoples.
Herr Walter Ulbright, First Secretary of the East German Communist Party, said:
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St
The President, M. Rene Coty, led the mach down, the Champs Elysces,
The French Foreign Minister, M. Antoine Pinay, said at to- Mr Stroky was speaking at a day's anniversary ceremonies at meeting
the St Chamond, near Lyons, that it commemorating enth anniversary of Czecho- was a "nobler thing to conquer slovakia's liberation from Ger. the hatreds that engender war man occupation, Mr Lazar M. than to remember victory.". Kaganovich a. Soviet First Deputy
"We must repay the sacrifices Prime Minister, and of our
heroes with our will other delegates from
East towards reconciliation among European countries were present, the nations," he said.
Mr Siroky said Czechoslovakia"} could not remain silent follow ing the ratification of the Paris treaties...
could
the
Bonn: In West Germany anniversary passed by ni mest noticed.
new phase in re-
The commander of the "We are against the division
Army in Europe. of Europe into two blocs spend-American.
But General Anthony C. McAuliffe, ing one against the other. we could never allow the scenes la, an anniversary message to his of the West bloc to catch us troops, snid
We unprepared.
never lations between Allled troops jallow" 1 new Wehrmacht, And the German people had nourished by hatred of our begun. The sacrifice of those country once more to ravage our who died for victory had not beautiful land."
vain, been in
The former enemy had now. joined the community peoples.
Mr Siroky accused the United States of "provocative actions and, together with other capital- fistic countries, showing lack of
Cloth At BIF
Admiring a lace cloth on the Cyprus stand at the British Industries Fair at Olympia,
Lord Mountbatten per London, are Admiral Earl Mountbatten and Lady Mountbatten. formed the official opening ceremony at the Fair-Reuterphoto.
War Criminals
བ་
· Released
Berlin, May 9. Three German war criminals, gaoled for 15 years for killing war pri- soners, have been released from the Brillsh war crimes prison at Werl China. Mall Special
HOLIDAY
INSURANCE
of freedom-loving j SCHEME
"First the Paris treaties and the treaty of the West European Union must
be abandoned so that representatives of the West German state have the right to China Thanks carry out joint discussions with goodwill towards Czechoslovakia Foster Dulles, the Secretary of Germans spending their holl
Russia For
Victory
Tokyo. May B. MASS rally to bid farewell
representatives of the German Democratic Republic on re- unification and particularly on the preparations for all-German elections"
•
Moscow: Writing in the Soviet Communist Party news- Paper, Pravda, today, Marshal Zhukov sharply attacked the
SAME POLICY
Mr Kaganovich said that "history is repeating itself" because American "Imperi- alists" were conducting the same policy of backing Ger-
man "imperialism" as they
did after the first world war.
new
4.
Washington:
Mr Joha
State, said in a VE-Day icle- vision programme that peace and justice “equire. constant effort and constant sacrifice,”
In a filmed interview, Mr Dulles said there were "good
hopes for the future, because
be con-
"for the first time men are to the departing: Soviet Supreme Allied commanders in
Warsaw: Polish soldiers alising that peace and justice armed forces stationed in the Europe, General Alfred Gruen- in
ceremonial uniforms are goals that must Port Arthur area
embroidered with stantly worked for and sacri- was held ther, and his deputy, Field Mar- with tunics there yesterday when 110,000 shal
blue trousers fed for, and not....assured by Lord Montgomery, and silver lace and people, representing
were cheered some paper agreement." scomed Western defence strategy with red braid sections of the local population as "absurd."
enthusiastically in a big parade took part, the New China News
at Wroclaw (Breslau), Warsaw Agency, monitored here, re-
radio reported. ported
all
The Marshal said Western bases, set up in various coun- A big scarlet streamer hanging tries as part of United States Baross the decorated rostrum defensive strategy, are absurd read:
"Thanks to the Soviet since they are so far from the armed forces
who defeated object which they are supposed the Japanese invades and to be defending that they con helped
our people to wit be destroyed one by one at any liberation."
Thoment." Farewell speeches were made by representatives of the Port Arthur-Darien Committee
of
4
the Chinese Communist Party, and Commanders
the
Soviet armed forces.
banners
gifts-France-Presse,
The rally concluded with the
exchange of
and
BRANDISHING BOMBS
Marshal Zhukov said General Gruenther and Field Marshal Montgomery were "bellicostly, brandishing atomie
and hydrogen bombs."*
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Mr. Boleslaw Bierut, First Com~ Secretary of the Polish
and Marshal munist Party,
De.. Konstantin Rekossovsky, fence Minister, took the salute
• Paris: French troops in full dress uniform paraded to- day to mark the tenth anniver- sary of the German surrender.
Statesmen and diplomats also joined in the ceremonies, which coincided with the feast of the
Doctors Try
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A Sleep Machine
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London; May 8. "RIP VAN WINKLE
which machine people to sleep for long periods by feeding a weak electric current into their brains is being used by Russian doctors, claims Professor O. V. Ker- bikov, a Moscow psychiatrist.
*HIGH HOPES
Ex-President Harry Tru- man. 71 today, said the high hopes held for peace in 1945 were not realised be- cause of the Russians fear, jealousy and suspicion and because Stalin seriously miscalculated in thinking America would tailspin” into a great depression.
Vienna: Today a most im prestive ceremony took place at Mauthausen, in the Soviet Zone of occupation, not far from Linz, 15 when 10,000 people from different nations shouted in their different languages Firever again as they remembered the horrors of the Nazi concentration camp. there during the war..
SEA Fence-Sitters Watch Indo-China
WHAT WILL AMERICA DO?
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Singapore, May 8. Southeast Asia's fence-sitters waited today to see whether the US would withdraw its support from harassed Premier Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam.