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Coalition Cabinet breaks up over housing issue
of the DUTCH GOVT THREAT TO RESIGN
day
Serious crisis Labour objects to THE POPE'S
KENNEDY MEANS looms over
KENNEDY!
the
A* future American
administration takes shape,
one fact emerges Increasingly obvious every day; it is that President-elect Kennedy
going to be ths man who
Affries of his country,
For apart from the Presidency Important
Itself,
the
mont
Netherlands
1
The Haguo, Dec. 23.
matters most In the foreign Dutch Premier Mr Jan Eduard de Quay plans to submit his resignation to Queen Juliana at noon today after his coalition Government broke up aver a public housing issue.
post in the American adminie. tration hes been that of Secretary of State, and all the world waltod and watched. whlie, presumably, Kennedy pondered the problem.
His
10-month-old
It was thought by most people Cublanet--the first of its kind in
The
Protestant
Liberal Leader of
Party, De J. A. Bruins Slot, in n Anal
declaration before the vote cald "the
building pro- gramme is a serious and ur- gent matter, and my conscience does not allow me to give way in the face of threal by the Minister to resign."
Earlier the Liberal leader, Profesor Picter Oud, had pleaded with De
Protestants to realise what a Cabinet"crisis would mean.
In the know that the choice the Netherlands' post-war era would fall between two men, fell unexpectedly Tale last night both with excellent quafi.
when the 150-member Lower fications for the post, Mr
House of Parliament passed by Adial Stevenson And Mr
70-50 a motion the Government Chester Bawien. But the pointing finger moved had veloed earlier.
stopped at the com paratively unknown Mr Dean Rusk
Rockefeller from the Foundation, And nominated him for the post, with the more experienced Mr Bowies Under-Becretary
on,
to serve
of State.
Taking
The Lower House called on the Government-over its veld-
add 5,000 subsidised dwellings to its programme for building
00,000 homes within a year..
Compromise
Cabinet," he said. situation
the vajuo, It seemed
Public Works Minkier Mr at face Johannes Van Aartsen, a right- tried a comTS - strange at wing Protestant,
of 2,500 additional
under the threat of resigning.
Political observetu' general.
ly dismissed any possiblity of a reconstruction of the present
first that Mr Kennedy should | pitmise have relegated the more ex-dwellings, but refused to ko perienced man to the subordin along with the additional 3,000 ate position, but second glance Indicates Mr Kennedy's real Intention, which is that Mr Kennedy himself intende to control foreign affaira, This leave a moal Interesting situation, for Mr Rusk who will hold the office of Sacre- tary of Stato, -once-declared that
Communlas regime
N
cabinet and they. predict a
long crisis.
"You are sending away a That you have endorsed, and it may well be that it will have to make room for a Cabinet the com- please position of which may you much less,"
He blamed the Protestants for making an Issue of 2,500 dwellings.
Mr Van Aartsen had argued Housing has been Holland's there was on almost desperate most serious post-war problem; shortage of labour in the build- according to official estimates ing industry and that boosting the housing shoriage has de- the programme would endanger could never be recognised as creased from 300,000 homes. In the vulnerable equilibrium n ⚫ legitimate government. course, he might have changed 1949 to some 90,000 at present, the price and wage policy of the
but it is estimated that there present government.—AP. are still about 100,000 cases of
of
his mind since he said that.
On the other hand, Mr.Bowles families' home-sharing in the
who will hold the Junior poal-Netherlands.
tion as Under-Secretary, has for years called for a mare enlightened policy towards
the mainland Chinese Gov. ernment.
own?
Urgent matter
Public Works Minister Me Von Aartsen lust night declared The question is, does Mr Ken- that he could no longer carry on medy view the situation in the his responsibility psa Minister fight of the appointmente he even if the motion were reject- has made, giving the sonored. But it showed that the office to the man who holds majority of his own Protestant a view more in line with his Party (anti-revolutionary purty;
were in favour of the motion."
Premier The era when a foreign secre
Mr Jan Do Quay tary more or loss established (Roman Catholic) endorsed Mr
Aartsen's ultimatum policy for his country, and Van merely called upon his chier slating to Parlament vot if minister to endorse it is gone, Mr Van Aartsen resigned the along with such things as the Cabinet would crumble. secret treaties which plagued Apart from the {wo pro- International affairs. At least, testant parties which are re- we hope so.
Government, presented in the But of this we can be sure. the motion was carried by the
speaks on opposition America
Labour Party, the
by
When world affairs, the name wil Paclists, the Communists and a bo Kennedy, not Rusk, and small right-wing splinter party.
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announcement
on
Fighter Command
London, Dec. 22.'
Mr George Brown, deputy leader of the Labour Party, said here tonight the party would find ways and means of bringing the decision to place Britain's Fighter Command under Nato "into the open where the merits or demerits can be probed.",
Mr Brown, who is Labour's parlia- mentary spokesman on defence matters, said: "Without commenting on the merits of the basic decision to Integrate the air defence of Europe, we take the strongest objection to the announce-
J
ment of this far-reaching decision by Mr Watkinson (the Defence Minister) on the day Parliament rose through the medium of a written answer to a atovgo question.
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own
"Nothing at all except his choice provented, Mr Watkinson making a public explanation to the House on Wednesday and indicating to us that ù decision of this immense importance was to be made."
Mr Watkinson's answer was issued yesterday, when Parliament rose" for The Christmas holiday-Router.
RELIEF RUSHED TO
CONGO
REFUGEES
Leopoldville, Dec. 22.
The United Nations is stepping up relief measures in South Kasai Province where refugees-victims of tribal fighting between the Luluas and Balubas are dying from hunger at the rate of 200 a day,
Christmas holidays
There will
be no fue of the China. Nall nor of tho South China Morning Post on Monday, December 20, but the China Malt will publish one edition 다 Tuesday, December 27. Both papers will appear as usuat On Wednesday. December 28. The Sunday- Post Herald will bc published on morging.
The
Christmas
DOWN THE DRAIN
Gn
Of
De Sture Linner, chief of UN civilian operations, told a Preas conference today that 200 tons of food had been flown lato the ares to the past four days.
market
Some 300,000 refugees have crowded into the region where water is as searco as food.
Dr Linner said that at empty places and round un- staffed dispensaries there were hundreds of men, wornch and children "who were no more thon walking skeletons, swollen and putrid with hunger
or
ordina." (Oedema is a disease affecting the glands.)
Concentrated
The refugees are concent- rated mainly in Oikwinta arca. At one 150-bed hospital чете 1,100 at Miabi thero patients, mosily women and children
from anering malnutrition or simple star- vation, Dr Linner fid There were cases of starving children being given raw meat which killed them immediately because of the effects of the ocdema.
The Archbishop of Canter- bury Dr Geoffrey Fisher
London, Dec. 22. emphasised today that the Loarch for reunion among, Christmas firewood gave counelt case of the missing
He added, "We are short of the churches
☐ workmen was
unenviable pre-money, food and medical sup- lengthy one.
Christmas Job in Devizes today, piles, but we are determined to
When Mr Charles Eldridge solve this problem." Was told that his load
The UN is making efforts to three germons he preached on Christmas logs had arrived he supply cools to the people so his recent tour of Istanbul, went down to his cellar to in- that they can start planting in the Holy Land and Rome, the spect them-only to find that February and provide them-- Archbishop sald:
that they had apparently vanished. |selves with some sort of crops search there is much to cu The men delivering the logs | by next July. courage one, but as experience had made a mistake opened the
and emptied ¦ make it difficult at the moment has shown the search makes wrong ruanhole little progress unlesa 1 in their load into the town sewer, to move the refugees to their preceded by the discovery of So down went the council | original homes.
LA
л real unity of spirit: and that unity can only be discovered by Chrisilan people feeling their way towards it.
The growth of that spirit in recent years in all Christian churches has been immense”, ~~Router.
CAVE-IN VICTIM
Memphis, Dec. 22.
A man who sent 20 harrow- bg hours entombed in a cave-in cistern before his rescue, died et a hospital today.
workmen to spend two hour clearing out and some logs were still arriving at the local tonight China sewage works Mail Special.
UK UNEMPLOYED FIGURES UP
Political and tribal differences
Decisive blow Rapor reaching here id there was also a shortage of braid and flour in Stanleyville. Colonel Mobutu, Congo's ("g rong" man", has put a ban on
blow at Stanleyville. When the crisis was over, he added, he would willingly hand over the command of his army to Bay Rovernment to set up a confederation in the Congo. Asked at a Press conference how he could reconcile his-own-
claim to autonomy with a desire
to
end autonomy In Stanley ville, be said that the autonomy of South Kasaf was in the general interest of the Congo →→ but the autonomy of Stanicy. ville would constitute a spring- board of Communist aggression,
-Reuler.
Engineer
stays on ship's stern
Norfolk, Va., Dec. 22. The Chief Engineer of the 10,417 - ton American tanker Pine Ridgo, which was broken into two by mountainous seas off the North Carolina coast yet terday stayed aboard the floating storn section: to- night when 28. other man ware rescued by helicopter. Chief Engineer John Richard stayed on with supplies of hat food, coffee and drinking water
El river and air trofe to the dropped to him so that the
owners could maintain a claim province, which is 'controlled by supporters of the country's first to the hulk, now pitching in Premier, Patrice Lumumba, heavy seas 100 miles of the who is detáinod by the Colonel's coast, troops
Aug was standing by and Troops from South Kasal Pro- the rivy sold the hulk” was vince have been offered to Co1 riding safely and had power and Mobutu who is marching on lights Stanleyville.
London, Dec. 22. The number of unemployed in Britain rose by 13,244 in the month ending December 12, the Ministry of Labour sală today.
Navy, helicopters from the 'The total was then 305,003, of whom 322,011 were wholly and
This WAS revealed at alreraft carrier Valley Force 42,252 temporarily unemployed.
Brazzaville today by Me Albert matched the 28 men from the Expressed as A proportion of Kaloni; President of the "min- Pine Ridgo.
said he had
TO OTHERS the estimated number of people ing state." He
work, the
The survivors will be trans- unemployment made the offer in a letter to
⚫ Harry Miller, 44-year-old Negro, was freed from tons of at
SEM
wet sand by rescue workers who figure risked their lives digging him | December
1.0 per cent in Col Mobulu but had not yet referred from the Valley Forge to compared with 1.9 celved a reply. out last week at Holly Springs, ¦ per cent in December 1950.- Mississippi.—AP.
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Mr Kalonji aald that his froops could deal a decisive
BOB A KISS WAS TOO MUCH
Accrington, Dec. 22.
Five girls who were suspended after they chased malo workers in a colton factory to charge them one shilling" for i kiss are expected to be back at work docOTTOW
After their suspension
Tast
* night 159 sewing room opera-
tires walked out today protest.
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said: "The girls' wera, aliasing ( the men workers all over the `room, and 'charging them - one
·Vahllling for a kiss and the monpy was- tó go to a fecal orphanage“, E
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·rosched‹and the 159 workers were back tonight, The Ave who were suspended lana ex- pected to report tomorrow.
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a destroyer tomorrow morning bad taken to Norfolk,
The tanker's battle with the storm apparently, cost the Ilves of the vessel's hard-luck captain' and seven others,
Ten tankers of the emme type sa the ill-fated Pino Ridge-havo also been broken in half, by heavy o Now York shipping choles disclosed today,
CHRISTMAS
BROADCAST
Vatican City, Dec. 22.
Pope John, broadcasting the third Christmas mes- sage of his reign, appealed tonight to the world's leaders to "act honourably in these days of general danger."
The Pope referred to "the endeavour the conditions for news, ever inore grave, of the better times, healthier, more storms which rage over some just, more securo,” parts of the world."
He appealed to heads of stale and other civic leaders; und to Chose responsible for public opinion which is being formed of deformed by means the Press, radio and television, by the cinema, by meetings and exhibitions of every kind"-to tell the truth.
"Never lend yourselves to eny counterfeiting of the truth. Have a horror of that," he said.
Gifts of God
The Pape wen', on: "Do not
of avall yournves
these marvellous gifts of God, such a light and round and colour, and their applications in techni- cal and artistle forms printing, television-to die- Journalism,
mtural Inclination jort man's towards truth, on which is erect- his nobility ex tho edilteo of
and grainess,
The Pope based his address on a quotation from the Gospel of St John: "We saw His glory.. the glory as it were of the only- begovin of the Father, full of grace and truth,"
Men should think what is true, honour what is true, say. what is true and do what is true, the Pope sald
In conclusion, the Pope said: "We have confidence in God on in His light. We have confidence in men of good will, satisfied that out words may roue in the hearts of all upright men a colo' of manly genero-
ty....
The humblo successor of St not experiencing any Peter 18 templation to dismay.
"We feel strong in faiths andy: in the company of Jesus Christ, we can cross not only the tiny lake of Galilee bat; all the seas of the world.
for
"Christ's, word is enough
Televised
"Do not avall yourscives of safety and for victory." them to drive to ruin selences yet unformed or wavertag
It was the fron time, a. Pope's Christmas message has been Millions of Itàlians televised.
"Have sacred terror, of spreading those Erms which the television broadcast, desecrate love, break
while many more people were the up family, mock, religion, loosen able to listen to the message. linked up with foundations of the social Vatican Radio
radio stations In 10 European countries for the occasion.
the
order....
"Work together to render
The Pope,
who sat in the ever more pure and less in-
study of his private apartment fected the air which is breathed,
on the top floor of the Vatican, of which the first victims are Palace, was dressed in his white always the innocent and the robes with an enning-trimmed weak.
Ted elbow cape, and his heavily- "Know how to build with embroidered stole. He wore a quiet perseverance and untiring white silk, skull cap.-Reuter,
These accidents have cost. 48 Lives -without- counting the casualties of tho.Pme Iudge the [... alavanth ship to founder in the BDO WHY.
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ment to offer on the girls The Fine Ridge and its uns festive season high finka, but lucky alster ships, were "T=2'!
Konkurs -A total of 500 much | Mr Ratcliffa vaid: “As long-høvessels were heality constructed there is Christmas this sort of during World War 11. The Pine thing in hound, to, harpmom Ridge was launched in 1943 Ohlie-Mail-Spesial/
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