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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
COLOMBO PLAN A delegation attending t
MEMBER of the British
Colombo Plan conference in Saigon has stated that the next two weeks will be
merely a serion of dull committen meetings. The statement tends to bolittle the efforts of the planners, Looking back
the past over Keven years since the rat meeting was held in Sydney it must be considered that the success of the Plan has been largely due to the fact that, from its first in-
not ception, it has
tempted to do too much. Tho
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CHINA MAIL
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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1957.
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RELAX IN
DAKS Whiteaways
TORTYDNI
"The_Beginning Of A Long, Uphill Economic Struggle" THORNEYCROFT WARNS BRITAIN
Thorneycroft
SATELLITE: Ten
Lays Down Railway Disaster Kills T
Policy
On
The Pound
London, Oct. 8.
At-The Chancellor of the Exchoquer, Mr. Peter Thornoycroft tonight warned Britain that it was at the beginning of a long uphill economic struggle.
"We are at a turning point in our fortunes.
Important
decisions are in train, Events are on the move," ho told bankers and merchants of the City of London at a dinner given to them by the Lord Mayor, Sir Cullum Welch, at his official residence-the Mansion House.
money.
the
this
Plan is not in any way a "supra-national" organfaa. tion and In a sense It hardly an organisation at all: it has no elaborate con. stitution nor has it a central Recretariat or administra- live machinery. There are no Institutions in the modern world which do so much useful work at 80
"Our small a cost--a mere £50,000 | incredze
For a year, The keynote of the Plan is to money will be scancer
provide for the maximum of more expensive to get hold of
"In the year ahead it will be with co-operation
under harder to earn profis minimum of Interference this policy. It is meant to be. and this has been it will be harder to get wage achieved partly because of Increases. They will need 10 the early decision to allow be earned. But the profits and the Asian countries to the wagon will bo pali make their own administra honest Pounds," Mr Thomey- tive arrangementa,
croft added.
The Chancellor Gald the Coverment
not expect clid success overnight,
VOLUNTARY
the
TT is a completely voluntary L'organisation, on a basts of
equality and the fact that
policy is to halt the "I would beg them to belleva supply of that it is less harsh than the The cholec la not purpose alternaltye.
and really between the strength of full the Pound Sterling and employment, for, in the long run the first is the pre-requisite to the second," he added.
"Long_Haul”
in
"We recognise that this is a But I know
there are no formal cotong, stiff haul. ditions of membership and something else besides and be no politieni strings of any|yond all this, I know that this kind has also led to its policy can and will succeed. success.
We are determined to push 11.
added.
Its character springe largely through to that
· from its genesis for the Plan was at the beginning an association of Common- wealth countries, origina ting.
in the meeting of the
jocess," he
Mr Thorneycroft sald that Britain stands at a parity if USZ.80 to the Pound and marghis widened."
"The parity of the Pound
Commonwealth Foreign Sterling is not something which Ministers and Ministers of simply affect the medivin
External Affairs
Colombe held on the initia "It is
pf
citizens on exchange between in this island.
a principal interest among the members of British Commonwealth, as oúr
tive of the late Mr Ernest Bovin.
very
the
The members are accustomed recent talles at Mené Tremblant to the flexible, informal, demonstrated. It is the basis on almost
and unorganised
which half the world's trade is effective yet
co-conducted," he added. operation. This is
especially The Chancellor stressed that so between countries which, Britain was at the beginning of though they have a mutual a very dimeult road where interest in each other's stable currency was of social prosperity and development, as well as economic value, differ so widely from each Nation's Objectives
other in many ways.
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"We are determined to securo
"If we had falled to declare this policy, or if we had wayered in our determination to put it through, everything that we valued in this country full employment, the welfare state, our high standard of living-all would be at risk.
"There is, indeed, little comi- fort that trade unions or em. ployers can tako in higher wades or lager dividends it they are to be paid in con- stantly depredating pounds," declared the Chancellor-Rou ter
He Spied On U.S.
For Russia
New York, Oct. 8, Confessed spy Jack Soble, who gathered U.S. Dá- fence information for Russia, was sentenced to- day to
years in prison on conspiracy chargo.
· Soble Waa sentenced
by
Federal Judge Richard H. Level who took into considera- But, though the founders were
Lithuanian-born imm- tion the all members of the Common- | it, A Bourd currency and migrant's co-operation with their wealth, it was
Buthorities nover Instable prices at home, expand- Federal tended that the membership ing markets abroad these are investigation of the Russian apparatus In should be restricted and objectives for which a nation intelligence that all countries in Asia should be prepared to sacrifice America.
Levet also reduced the sen- would be welcome. It is and struggle he declared.
Soble's Russian-born Saying that he was anxious tence of that the purpose of.. the wife, Myra, from 51⁄2 years Government's measures, such as fu prison to four years, the ruling of the bank rate, Judge trimmed six months from which was a "distinctive and the sentence of Jacob Albam, clearly recognisable signal of another confessed conspirator, what 'wn mean to do," should he who had been sentenced to 5 absolutely clear, the Chancellor years in prison. declared: "We are not bringing
therefore notable that with the exception of Korea, China and North Vietnam all the Asian countries had joined.
ASSESSMENT
10 make any kind of a publie fnvestment to a stand-
To make try kinds of
a
publ
There were some, no doubt,
of the contribution which who might regard their polley
the Plan has made to economic development of its Asian members during the past seven years is clearly
the impossible for
con- tribution has been mainly an Imponderablo one, but nevertheless the achieve- ments have been great and reflect immense credit on. the donor nations.
a harsh doctrine.
Syrian-Turkish Clash: How
It All Began
and
The
A U.S. Citizen
Soble, 53, a naturalised U.S. cluizen, admitted that he was
sent to the United States in 1941 at the order of the lato Lavrenti Berta, then People's Commissar of Internal Affairs in Russia.
He later took over command of an esplanage ring organised by Varill M, Zubilin. third secretary of the Soviet Embassy In Washington..
Soble confessed to conspiring to gather writings, pictures, and -the 1.9. about documents
Forces and intelligence Armed activity. a
The Government clatina the
Ankara, - Oct. 8. Much has been achieved in Turkish authorities sold to
the seven years, but none night the shooting incident be- of the governments con- tween Syrian police
occurred cerned has any illusion Turkish patrol bad about the magnitude of the when a Syrian police chief Soble ring actually gathered to search Turkish this material, transmitted it to problems that lle ahead and wanted
peasants who had crossed the Russla, and was pakl in Ameri
all. are convinced of the importance of greater and closer regional co-operation in solving them.
It is gratifying to record that
frontier.
They said Syrian and Turkish peasants frequently crossed the
neighbouring frontler to visit
can currency by Soviet agents.
United Press,
'A! mistakelin in Ixianal (étâtion: ehused: this(int[way disaster at the... Bad-Capusiats -terminal, near Stuttgari, Germany, recently when 10' passengers were killed and 30 badly injured. Bottom ploture shows an entire coach that was thrown on top of the train by, the impact, — Keystone.
CAN I DRIVE?
.
HE TRIED, KNOCKED DOWN FOUR PEOPLE AND THEN RAN AWAY.
TODAY HE'S FINED $600
On hearing the lorry 'start, the owner ran to the cat and irled to jump in beside the defend- ant who already had the vehicle underway.
A man who wanted to find out,
whether he could drive a car urd who got into a lorry to try was fined a total $600 or Avo months' imprisonment at Kowloon Court this morning, Cheung
Chung-shek, of 48 Shanghai Street, pleaded guilty The to driving without a valid licence, without third party riska insurance and without the owner's consent. Sub-Inspector R. McEwan told Mr Morris at Kowlcon Court that on October 8 s ́comIBer- cial vehicle
was parked out- side defendant's house. After the owner of the vehicle had gone to the rear to unload cargo, defendant promptly ran to the front. of the vehicle, jumped into the cabin and einrted the engine.
It Swung Loft
lorry swung left arross Shanghai Street, mounted the pavement, and finocked down our pedestrians who sustain- ad slight injuries, before com- ing, to a stop in front of a brick wall on the opposito pavement. Defendant jumped out and ran away but was later arrested. Defendant told the Court that he had committed the offence and WR "out of curiosity
anxious to see if he could drive a car,
villages. Yesterday a group of Helicopter's Dramatic Dash To Waglan
all the countries are con 37 Turks, were on their way
vinced that the Plan has to Jarables, in Aleppo Province, la response to an appeal. played, and can continue to north-west Syria, when the valuable role in Jarables pollor direoton naked play, a
co to search them. buliding
that -un
According to the Turkish ac- operation.
polled then That, supraisal was strikingly count the Syrian
opened fire and shooting Insted expressed in the unanimous decision in 1085 that the Plan should be extended at least until 1961. There Is little doubt that when the extension question is raised
for 40 minutes touter,
Oslo Elections
Oslo, Norway, Oct, §. An overwhelming popular again the partner pations | majority swept
Fronter Einar
will look for ways in which darhardren's Labour Party into the Plan can be made more office for its fourth consecutive useful to its partners, term today-United Press.
BAF helicopter flow to Waglan
this
and Island
morning brought back to Kowloon Ho pital, a man who was suffering froni "internal haemorrhage, The marry minion took about half an hour, and the helloop- før, und slak, mán, returbed, to Kowlossi About 11.45 o'clock.. The Department of Civil Avia÷ Bom mjaltitains an internalfo -office as Wartan Wiand, Bhuta ly nflar 12 o'clock this márMÁ *ing, this control tower ut. Kal ak received an urarat Padio
one of the Direcilan Ftuder Operators at the Department, was suffering from an internal haetaorthage. This, moszLEO 19- quested immediafo ̈atlafaneo. Mr Lillywhite, Ofoer-ip-Charge| of the tower, realised at láo: |--time, that an ordinary launch
would tako: about three hours to, arriv» klŊthe derinskibrt.. A, ÉS BAP JEsuch, wuzilä res duan -- the time by half, but (that way will not quick enàngh | When 'z man's life" mighà bu şi stake, he piked for, the
SATELLITE
U.S. AGREES TO MEET
RUSSIANS
Tho
Washington, Oct. 8.
State Department abruptly reversed Its
stand tonight and offered to discuss control of outer space and missiles with Russia without waiting for an overall disarm- ament agreement.
It stood firm, however, on its insistence that any auch plan must include other. Allied `na- tions, and not be imited to tho But United States and Russia.
if they agree, the Department sald, it is ready to go ahead with such talks.
Meanwhile, Moscow DON
Soviet 'the' next nounced that satellite will be launched higher
NO. THREE than the present one, probably
nt 1,500 to 2.000 kilometres, to minimise friction caused by atmospheric density: Moscow, Oct. 8.
Professor Sternfeld, Soviet The Soviet newspaper Pravde neronautics expert, in an inter- sold today that a third satellite view with Radio Moscow, said world the salellie would be able to was moving, round the with the baby moon and
the stay, aloft for years and added: carrier, rocket,
"If we increase this allude further, the satellite could re- volve indefinitely."
The present satellite,
which was launched at 900 kilometres is expected to burn, like a meteorite when it drops-to denser atmosphere where fric, Lion is high-France-Presse and
It was the protective cond
shielded which
earth the satellite as it was rocketed into space,
Pravda also disclosed that the satellite had sent code signals kiying "Lemperatures and other dio là: Freuter-
か
"IONIC DRIVE" ENGINE FOR
A SPACESHIP?
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
A fantastic method of driving space shipa la now being studied by British Government scientista. Call. ed the "lonic "Drive", the. now method amounts to the thrust of a hunn, müobina through apsos by a beam of alectrified particles instead ́of a jot of flame.
This was revenind at the International meeting of BAD space fight experta
"Feasibility studies" an the tanla drivs are being established at Britain's ex» perimental statione.
·
The United States Air Force and the Rusalang ara also studying this method of making all oțectrio space make a ships which can Journey to Mars and brok within weeks.
Visualise Solantista strasm of electrified vapour thrusting from the rear of ships like a violent olentrio wind, and disim that ships up to 600 ́tank would be propelled through space once they have alstrað iha 'earth's atmosphere.
Typhoon Hester
Tokyo, Oct. 9. Typhoon Heater, the latest of the autumn storma to hit the Far East; war' inceted 500 miles south-east of Tokyo at 0a.m. today, by the U.S. Fifth Air Force Weather Wing, and was raportod to be moving in a north north-easterly dregjion at 40 miles per hour-allod Press,
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