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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
Soviet Economy
day,
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the course of his speech to the Auto Couneli yexter- Mr Selwyn Lloyd devoted It considerable amount of attention economic developments within the Hoviet Union. The subject was anything but irrelevant; it has, in fact, been a matter of con-
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SENATOR McCARTHY DEAD
Critic Of Britain, Hongkong --
SUCCUMBS TO LIVER ILLNESS
Washington, May 2
cern for the Kremlin Senator Joseph McCarthy died tonight degree that Mr Khrushchev of acute hepatic failure at the Bethesda has found it necessary to Naval Hospital. work out a new efficiency
plan.
Senator McCarthy, a Republican who repre-
It springs from the realisation sented Wisconsin, was one of the most controver-
that the present structure sial figures in postwar American politics.
ان
un-
the Soviet economic As Chairman of a Senate Investigating Committee he machinery is grotesquely
rose to fame as a determined opponent of anything and inufficient. The
achieve- ments, as Mr Selwyn Lloyd anyone connected with Communism. has said, have been questionably great. But they have been achieved at enormous cost. They have required sufferings and sacrifices from the workers
which the workers cannot be expected to endure in-
His controversial methods of investigating the loyalty of persons in and out of the Government gave birth to a new word "McCarthyism."
Senator McCarthy was 47 years old. He is survived by his wife who was his former Senate assistant and an infant daughter whom they adopted early this year.
Senator McCarthy had been admitted
to hospital five days ago for acute hepatitis,
definitely. Complaints and criticism have been grow a liver ailment,
ing. It has been increasing-
Mrs McCarthy was at her husband's ly obvious that either there | bedside when he died. must be # return to the
WB9 Senator McCarthy a frequent critic of British policy towards Communist China, and on occasions named Hongkong ships and shipping companies in the course of his anti-Communist China tirades.
Stalinist methods of Bup pression-which could it self be dangerous for the regime or there must be drastic changes.
The Khrushchev plan for dealing with the growingly dangerous situation is in essence this: overall plan- ning will still be tightly
centralised under the direc-
tion of the State Planning Commission. But the ad. ministration and control of the actual working of Industry will be taken out of the hands of the minis tries, which will disappear. Instead operative control will be in the hands National Economic Councils, THE Economic Councils will THE
of
The Senator's controversial investigat- ing methods were climaxed in 1954 by his clash with the Army.
Censured
Following lengthy hearings to which the whole of the United States was a wit- coust television, ness through count to Senator McCarthy was brought before the Senate of the United States and was.con- aured by his colleagues for his conduct in the Army investigations..
McCarthy Senator
Was
Senate junior member of the
when in February of 1950 hợ suddenly hit the headlines not United Staton but
only in the
be the cornerstone of the throughout the world with the proposed DOW economic charge that 57 Communists were
system,
Their powers un-working in the
ment.
doubtedly wil! be very creafter the
great. But as yet there is
State Depart-
Senator bc- no indication how they are came a more and more out. to be appointed or con- spoken critic of the administra- stituted and the impression Truman and the State Depart tion of then President Harry S. left is that the Supreme ment under Mr Dean Acheson Soviet is being Invited to
'In The Gutter' take a leap in the dark. Without knowing what the
target of Another Councils are, the Supreme
criticism Soviet is assured that the McCarthy's
General
C. Marshall, George transfer of a large amount who was Defence Secretary and of economie control to Secretary of State under Mr them from the ministri
Truman,
Senator was
J
SENATOR McCARTHY
Beginning In Tomorrow's China Mail
HONGKONG TACKLES
THE DRUG TRADERS
THIS IS A STORY THAT BEGINS FAR FROM HONGKONG'S SHORES IN THE MIDDLE AND NEAR EAST AND IN THE STEAMING. HIDDEN VALLEYS OF THE LAWLESS SHAN STATES WHERE THE FRONTIERS OF CHINA, BURMA,-THAILAND AND LAOS MEET,
It is the story of a trade that winds south to the export outlets on the Bay of Bengal and the Gulf of Siam before It begins its northeastern circuit to Japan and America. →
TORIES GAIN NEW SUPPORT
PM's Popularity Grows
London, May 2.
The Torles continue to win back popu- larity. Mr Macmillan's stock now stands higher than at any time since he became Prime Minister in January.
This is shown by a Daily Express poll of public opinion in the last few days of April.
Here are questions put to A cross-section of the pullit and the results.
A
1. If general clcction него held Immediately for which party would you volet The Poll showed 431⁄2 per cent. would vote Tory. This compares with 42% oer cent in early April and 41% per cent in late March,
The Tories are still a long
Britain's Pledge
To Nato Allies
*Our Forces Will Be Just As Good'
Bonn, May 2. Britain tonight gave a pledge to the North
that Atlantic alliance
its future streamlined nuclear-backed armed forces would be as effective as those of the past.
The assurance was given after The report also said a reduc- criticism by Germany, France, tion of the "still 100 weak" Norway and Holland nt the ground forces at present on the Nato foreign ministers con-European continent was not ne- ference today of British arms ceptable.--Reuter,
Cute
Mr Selwyn Lloyd, the Foreign Secretary, said Britain's forces would be as effective as in the past because efficiency In forces was as important as numbers,
Argumenta against Britain con- tended that it had no right to take unilateral action to cut 119 defence forces and it was in- proper to switch from conven- Donal weapons to nuclear Jequipment without consulting
Nato allies.
DETERRENT
Mr Selwyn Lloyd said Nato's whole defence should be based on the deterrent of both con- ventional and atomic arma- ments.
U.S. Rocket
Expert Off
HOSTILITIES INS SOUTH AMERICA
NOW A SECOND
FRONT
Tegucigalpa, May 2... Honduran and Nicara guan land and air forces are engaged in battle in the vicinity of Las Manos, a town in El Paraiso Depart ment in East Central Hon- duras, it was reported late today.
The outbreak of hostilities in that area means the opening of a second front: In the ghing between the two countries,
The presence of large NicaraR- guan troop concentrations the vicinity of El Espino, in Choluteca Department, south- eastern Honduros, indicated that fighting might break out at any moment on still another front,
Honduran Air Force planes shuttled between Tegucigalpa Los Manos front
To Londonroughout the day.
From RENE MacCOLL
London, May 2. The first big step towards carry- 红 out the Macmillan- Elsenhower agreement at the
Cars Offered
Infantry troops were rushed to El Espino in the face of Niedra-
guan activities in the area. Four
thousand private-car and trick
Bermuda conferenet-whereby | drivers paraded with thkir
affer
Britain is to be supplied with vehicles through the streets of
offensive American
and Tegucigalpa this morning, defensive rocketa and guided | ing their services to move troops missiles fakes place in the and war material to the front. The Soviet Union must know that a real
Thirty thousand workers of next few days. would aggression
the Tola Railroad Confpany, General James M. altack, mean full muclear
Mr Then Lt Lloyd said.
Gavin, Chlef of the United Honduran affiliate of the United He did not belleve that Nato Bintes Army's Research and Fruit Company, asked to be files enrolled in the Army to... fight Development, Division, could defend itself against a
from
Washington for
steret Nicaragua, major tassault by conventional methods. A global war by 'con-
talks will: Britain's top: bruss, Among the dimed forces ventional methods would
be Gavin lithe, elegant and 50 moved to the front today was just as disastrous to the
--- will be talking about supply virtually the entire Tegucigalpa as any other-Reuter.
dates for the missiles, their polies fores Maintenance of A-WEAPONS FOR ALL? types and their sites and order in the capital was 2-
Installations.
trusted to university and high Gavin is one of the
out school students, who went inte simadingmen: In America's special training today.
West
Strasbourg, May 2. A report by
by a commitice of officers the Western European Union Bist Hongkong Police and Revenue take a big enough interest in it to spend about Defence Organisation published 100,000 hours ʼn your following the devastating tonight called for the equipping trail of the drug traffickers through this Colony, of all Western forces with tac-
It is a baming non-stop job involving a grim |tical atomic weapons,
of hide-and-seek with game
somo of the cleverest crooks in the world.
And it is grim because wittingly or unwit- tingly thousands of Hongkong people are virtusily "committing suicide by Instalments” smoking it;
GRIM, too, because it has put more than 5,000 people into gaol in each of the last two years;
GRIM because thousands of Hongkong people -mostly poor are burning up between $1 and $10 a day smoking it—a total expenditure which may
be as high as $100 million a year;
GRIM because Police and Revenue officers have confiscated in the first three months this year the equivalent of more than 111⁄21⁄21⁄2 million doces
GRIM because they have really no idea how much more eludes their painstaking searches;
GRIM because thousands of people are buying heroin as "cure" for TB, to kili pain, to dodge despair and to fight hopelessness of which there la plenty in Hongkong.
UNION CHIEF
ON EVADING
TAX CHARGES
Raw oplum and morphine- from which heroin is made comes to Hongkong by 'ship and by plane, carried by passengers and crewmen.
To find
almost
ont of
endiese
will bring about a gr In his investigation of alleged Increase in eliciency and Communism in Government de- production. That may or pariments and the armed sex- may not be the case, But vices, Senator McCarthy clashed the change is a remarkable more and more often with the confession that the existing Republican Administration, system, for all its achieve- President Eisenhower was ments, has
been on the frequently criticised for falling whole a failure, and must to check the Senator's activ.tics.
morphine means The President publicly main- be scrapped.
searching for tained
complete silence. A re-
tho most costly The new
plan is certainly cent blography of Mr Eisen-
concealed cargoes in the world. decentralisation. It is not hower quoted him as telling a
Is Hongkong the end of the in any way democratiea- White House assistant "I will
line as far as the international tion. The workers will still not get in the gutter with that way from their height of po-
drug traffickers are concerned? guy."
pularity 49% par cent In be completely under con-
Judging by prices alone, this Senator McCarthy's death re- May, 1955, at the trol. The trade unions are duces the Republican member-
general
Japan is Colony in small fry. reconstructed
election. to be
another market but the heroin in ship in the Seate to 40 com- The
Socialist share of the accord with the new atrue-pared with the Democrats 49 current poil slipped one
traders' real aim is the United ture, But they are to be The Governor of Wisconsin, Mrcent from 50 per cent in early in income taxes.
per
A series of articles on
the given no new status and no Venca W. Thompso), a Re March to 40 per cent,
It said the first count of the whole problem of heroin in freedom from the dictator-publican, is prohibited by state
They
etill up
on the two-count Indictment accused | Hongkong begins ship of the Kremlin.
from naming. A successor
figure at the time of the Bock of Bling a false joint in- | metrow's China Mail written by but can call a special election to The period of transition to choose another senator. Such a general election 101⁄2 per cent.come tax return with the collec- ROBIN HUTCHEON,
2. In general, are you satis- tor of Internal Revenue af the new system will be one special election probably would'
fied with Mr Macmillan as of many difleuitics. It may be held in the autumn-Reuter,
Prime Minister? even prove a critical phase
of
jaw
3,000,000
per
ato
Wachington, May 2. The Justice Department aa- nounced today that Teamster President Dave Beek has been indicted by a Tacoma, Washing- ton, Grand Jury on charges of attempting to evade $50,410.40 States,
Tacoma.
The Department said, the F- Fifty-three and a half per turn fled by Beck showed net in the evolution of the
London, May 2.
cent said they were and 20% income for 1950 of $48,398.28 Soviet Union, And that! A Government court at in
disentiated and шето cent
tax due of $15,540.82. may in part explain the quiry today recommended that Those satisfied were up one and Beck's net income for the year,
than the more apparent desiro
British a half per cent from the poll it said, was $135,220.05 and the shipyard and engineering Russian government for a workers, who called off their figure in early April
correct tax was $71,900.22. 3. - In general, are you salle- | Unibod Press, -period of quietude in. the
glant nation-wide strlica for fled dissatisfied with the international field. That, more pay just a month ago,
Government's conduct however, does not mean the should get an unconditional rise international alms of the of up to five per cent (8/6
Forty-five per cent said they Soviet leaders have been a week) in their paste wagen-were dissatisfied as compared abandoned,
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China Mail Special.
In Your Saturday Mail
Here are some of tomorrow's highlight features of the big Saturday edition of the China Mail:
Has Princess Margaret too little to do? Noel Good
and John Lambert answer this question,
Saturday Travel Club - three views of travel from
· Giles, 'Cummings and Donald Wise.
· **Time Out" reviews this season's Softball Junior League: In Hongkong.
Murder in the film studio — our mystery series continues. There are all your regular favourite features as well including film reviews, three parts of local and oversees plslures, cartoons, comic strips --- and the lips for tomorrow's meeting at the Valley - all in the Saturday, “Mail
of
with 47% per cent in early wil hose gausfied jumped April from 12% par cant to 451⁄2 p‡г. cent in the same period.- London Express Service.
AUTHENTIC
to-
The series has been compiled after lengthy Interviews with senior Police officers, Revenue odflours and an official of the Department of Commerce and try, the Commissioner of three doctors in the
Medical Department All ot whom have had experience of Social
POLICE FIRE drug addicts in Hongkong,
ON MOB
senior official of the Welfare Department and senior Crown Counsel.
The series Le fully illustrated Calcutta, May 2 with a number of graphic Polloe in Calcutta's suburb pictures.some from an
of Howrah today opened fire exclusive source and of a kind and used tear.gan to disperso, a never published in this Colony
Hinda refurtes before.
Will It Blow Up? mob 3,000
from East Pakistan, who-at- The author has.
Port Moresby, May 2, tacked them
1
and to drug addicts in The series reported to live boen Is
Is authoritative and attempts to to Fergusson Island, 170 miles injurod, while unofficially it touch on -the --, main rand north of Now Gulner, to inspect was said that 60 refugets were associated problems of heroin, Mount Lamonni, which oficiale injured and. 12 of them, wore The series is writtos and fear
taken to hospital. may explode.
Ded in tha hope that it Officials are waiting for a ro-
clash followed
elfimulate Interest and, to port from Mr Taylor on whe-monsition by the refugees time, produce ideas that will ther it will be necessary to against the quantity of rice help to solve one of the Colony's ovacuato 11,000 natives living in multion supplied to them by most urgent humani the Mount Lamorsai
privato octal
\\ welture - 'Or, } /** (Ogpyright" of^t2id"noclorygina
allen volcanologist, today flowcally
Mr George Taylor, an Aus Thirty policemen wore off-
Chino Mail Special,
now machine army. He was one of the first military men to realise a new 'kind of war- fare, had come to the world. ---London Express Servico,
The City'e Medical Corps was mobilised for milkary, a vice. Women's brigades were organised na Red Cross auxill- aries.Uoiled Press.
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