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MONDAY, APRIL 14, 1947.
WALLACE WANTS NEW DEAL
THREAT OF
GENERAL
STRIKE IN
BERLIN
Berlin, Apr. 13.
The Berlin City Administra- tion faces tonight a crisis, in which the civil head refuses to resign in spite of an over-whel- ming parliamentary vote of "no confidence" in him and his "ca- binet" and the threat of a general strike which tomorrow may bring out half a million workers in a ten-minute protest against the de-Nazification of the former war plant director, Dr Otto Ostrowski.
After the vote, the "cabinet" pre-
sented a written request for Dr Olto Ostrowski'n resignation. He
He refused to go because the City constitution requires a two-thirds majority of all members of such resolutions. The motion was carried by 85 voles to 20, but there are 180 members, which means that a two-thirds majority re- quires 87 supporters.
His own party has now written Dr Ostrowski osking him to resign. The Social Democrat leader, Dr. Kurt Schumacher,, endeavoured to mediale between the rival factions, whose split is producing a first-class crisis organisation, In the party's Berlin
but he, too, is known to oppose Dr Ostrowski's policy of
co-operation with the
Socialist the Communist-led Unity Party,
A general silke call has been issued by the Berlin Free Trade Union Federation at the request a 100,000 metal workers,
which pre
by the de-Nazification and instatement of Dr Von Witzleben. director of the once vast Siemens
concern.
Dr Witzleben's case his been the basis of persistent criticism of British de-Nazifiontion policy in the Soviet-
licensed German press, and he ap- peared before two cominlasions in The British sector of the city before hls Snal clearance.Reuler.
Strike Holds Up 70 Ships
Glasgow, Apr. 13. Seventy shins twelve of which have cargoes of food-are Im- mobilised here owing to a strike by Glasgow dock inbourers.
MR HENRY WALLACE
KING OF
DENMARK VERY ILL
Copenhagen, Apr. 14. An official bulletin
on the condition of King Christian of Denmark, said today he is suf- fering from inflammation of the lung and gangrene as well as heart trouble.
The bulletin, signed by the King's four physicians, suid:
In addition to the heart plknent which began a week ago, a moderate inflammation of the lung broke out because of the weakening of the circulation.
"The lung inflammation has been bettered somewhat through treatment
"Gangrene
The with penicillin and digitalis, inflammation, however, has not rem- pletely disappeared.
of the right foot, not caused by the King's horseback riding accident in 1942 in which the lett foot was injured severely has caused considerable fatigue which has been aggravated by recent com- plications,
"His majesty the King's genegal condition is fairly good but his strength has decreased somewhat during the last few days."—Associat- ed Press.
STILL IN THE
i
the
FOR WORLD
Stirring Broadcast
Το
Britain
London, Apr. 13.
Mr Henry Wallace, former Vice-President of the United States, called for a "New Deal for the World" when he broadcast to the British people to- night.
"The whole world needs a New Deal and there- will be no peace till it has one," he said. *
"When I became Secretary of Agriculture (in 1933) the abundance of the great livestock and grain producing areas of the United States was being wasted because people who needed food had not the money to pay for it," he said.
"It seemed to me that this ludicrous and tragic situation was the world's root trouble. Here were indus- trial workers of America out of work because the people who grew food-including hundreds of millions of peasants in China and India, the Middle East and South America-lived in abysmal poverty, needed all the things that we were able to make, but could not pay for them."
appor-
tunity of constructive achievement with them could solve the dangerous problem of the Middle East by the same kind of approach peoples of those impoverished coun- tries, whese oil fields are destitute..
to the
"I believe that together, Britain Mr Wallace said that during the war America's vast industrial poten-and Americu, bringing the tial had enabled her not only to wage war and assist the Allies, but also actually to Increase the standard of living and consuming power of
whees of America.
you realise this, you un- derstand what Franklin Roosevelt meant by the Four Freedoms," he said. "America is the home of tical liberty and we have tamed a continent by free enterprise. But It was Freedom from Want
which made President Roosevelt's message a clarion call to the world; Freedom of course, too. But does not war arise more from want and economic maladjustment than from any other cause? Is not the mon man's security first and for
from Fear,
most the assurance of next week's bread and butter? And does not the One World, in which alone there can be security for anyone, demand that
men and nations share the goods and services which we all need and which moder selence enables us to produce?
the
"believe that if that were our opportunities approach quite new would arise of co-operation with the Soviet Union, which would not want to be excluded is as I should like. w
technique of the applied the Tennessee Valley, to the Valley of Jordan, and used the resources of modern science to transform the the #gain
candy desert that lies between
Tigris and Euphrates once into a Garden of Eden.
NEW DEAL ESSENTIAL
"Archaeologists say that that area where there are now two and a half million people once by the grace of irrigation had a population of 22 millions.
Plane Crashes
.
Into Street
London, Apr. 14.
An oxygen bolile buriled like
a bomb
through a
bungalow roof, when Royal Air Force Wellington bomber crashed in a street in Watford, Hertfordshire, early on Sunday.
The
pliot was killed in crash. Two other crew members
parachuted to safety.
the
The oxygen bollin tipped a two foot hole in the bungalow roof thudding into the bedroom of the owners, and other hottes were damaged by falling parts of the plane. No civilians were hurt,
Possible cause of the crashi and other details were withheld) by the Ministry but wit- nesses said that the bomber ap- peared to disintegrate in the air. Another RAF plano crasit- landed in a fog on a farm near Onc Little Drimeld, Yorkshire,
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SOUTHEAST ASIA TO LOSE EXPECTED SUPPLIES
London, Apr. 13.
A serious shortage of rice to add to the unrest in Southeast Asia appears inevitable according toi latest reports, writes Mr O. M. Green, former editor of Shanghai's North China Daily News, in the London newspaper Observer today.
"In January Lord Killearn (acting | requirements of normal timeş.” Grecs for the International Emergency Food said- Council) counted on bavlag. 1,002,- 000 tons for distribution in the first half of 1947; and that, it was em- PANTAÐNUMERATADANANALO umaanció | phasised, is only half the minimum
of the crew of four was injured. ----Associated Press.
Move To Absorb Southwest Africa Into Che Union
Cape Town, South Africa, Apr. 14. Opposing South African political leaders reportedly are preparing a campaign, aimed at strengthening the Union's ties with mandated South-west Africa in a way, which they say, would not flout the UNO.
Don Juan
Makes Clear
His Position
London, Apr. 13.
The claimant to the Spanish throne, Don Juan, has made Il clear that he will accept only "unconditional transfer of at- thority" from General Franco, that he would rule as a consilłu- tional monarchy and that equal rights would be restored those "unjustly debarred from public
Interview with In an exclusive the Spanish affairs special corres "I have said enough to show why I think the death of Franklin Roose-
pondent of the Observer, published yelt was a disaster and why I left "If we brought water and power today, Don Juan pledges himself, in
Government of the
event of his necession, to a United to serve the peoples of these arid the States. For today, it is only too clear wastes no one would grudge us the policy of internal conciliation and that-we-are-drifting towards Two all we need. We would-not-bo regional decentralisation, short of World's
und that the immense power imperialists but technicians, ea-separatism.
"I do not sock Don Juan sold: sed abling these people to develop more and wealth of Amerlan Is being used fitfully and healthfully their own the position of an absolute monarch for strategle and military purposes rather than to ruise the standard of way of life, not in terms of graft or that of a dictator. I am as ever
for the few, but with the aim Milton Reynald's bombshell took living in countries which could be.
ready to pave the way for peaceful, come great markets redundant. The Ministry hos re-off Sunday night for Karnchi, Indin
for American prosperity for all who are willing complote and unconditional transfer exports.
to work, study and learn. fused to adopt the recommendation
authority," In answer to the question as how an the next leg of its around the world Port Regional by
the Glasgow
fight after a delay in Carro of two
The whole world needs a New democracies could hast facilitate a Director and members of the Union
hours
Deal and there will be no peace till change of regime in Spain, Don Juan for refueling and repairs. that an inquiry on the points
The converted two-engine Douglas
it has one," Mr Wallace said.
said: "As a Spaniard above every issue be held.
thing I could brook no "I believe that the British people, interference in the Internal affairs foreign A Ministry of Labour spokesman j invader, trying to set a new global ploughs and tools, rather than guns,
we can blunt the edge of American who know the shortcomings of old- sald today: "The
is in speed record, arrived here this even- Ministry
world fashioned exploitation and Imperi-
of Spain. touch with the Union side and the ing after covering 2.014 miles from depression, greatly enlarge
trade and produce eventually that alism; would
"With every sincerity, I can say with that co-operate offer of the negotiating facilities of Paris in six hours, 38 minutes. With
of prosperity which
the the policy followed by will enthusiasm in a thoroughgoing New powers in the Spanish case has been the department is still open but the clapsed hours since departing from degree question of whether or not there is New York Saturday it has covered make Communism in the Westem Deal for the entire world.
neither wise nor effective, redundancy cannot be reopened." approximately 8,000 miles-Associat-World improbable instead of inevit-
They stopped work three weeks ago because the Ministry of Labour had dismissed 500 dockers as being
Reuter,
EDITORIAL
at
ed Press.
RACE
Cairo, Apr. 14.
Five Months Of Action
FIVE months ago the Labour
now
Kaying
of the
Government Introduced the of Parliament session 1946-47 with a programine set forth in the King's Speech, the progress of which offers an interesting study tiat the session reached the halftime Interval. Government began by that it would seek to pro- mote the
Well-being people and "enable the nation by ils example and leadership to play a worley part in the advanco of all nations in the world to- greater freedom and Britain has since her share of all interna- caken tional reconstruction activities promoted freedom In tands under her
Influence. It can also under
said that Britain has continued to develop the
close working understanding exlating Intimate thi country relations
And
And
notably
British Empire exemplified)
since
members
Th *This is by the Royal visit to South Africa and Rhodesia. She has also uthern steadfastly, pursued
་
A forward policy as regards India grid- Burma, and In general has dis played eagerness 10 develop the economic life of territories for which sho is responalbie, and to: zive them practical guldanes In their efforts to achieyo - self- (goverinsent. Ceylon, Malaya,
are
Coast, Malta Nigeria, the Gold
outstanding and Cyprus
is to be examples. Hongkong given its opportunity this year to start on the read to self-govern ment At home, the primary fask has been to press on with the conversion of national eennny from war to peace and to try to ensure that all resources ATO effectively employed for the com mon good. It was and still is--- urgent to "encourage increase in productivity to industry and, no secure a greally Increaseil flow both
of consumer
and
capiial
goods needed for raising the stan
dard of living and the exovern-
a
of export
trade." The. ment has not been wholly success- fut in this quicat, and its
its methods have caused bitter recrimin
recriminations. But, it has to
to be acknowledged that
exceptional excel and the onset of
of the fuel crisis hindered Industrial pro-
These
factors have KTC$5.
Intense and also led to a more mote fruidul preoccupation of all sections of the people towards the sunintenance and increase of pro- ductivity. The resultant collabo- ration of Government with industrial · ́leaders' and imde unions is already having impor- 'fant offects ́in' this field. The Ölvo-menifa balance slicet of dew siga and achievement can be sald “to be fairly · favourable to ; Me
Attire and hii, coliságTION,
severity Wuler of
PLOUGHS AND TOOLS "By helping these countries with
able.
of
of
"By necessity you understand the
Df
Apparently, their intention is to bring the League mandate 'a step closer to absorption into the Union through representation in the Cape Town parliament and then try to convince the UNO that outright an- nexation is in order.
This is a bi-partisan approach. Observers
SDY Premier Jan Christian Smuts and the Nationalist Opposition leader, Dr D. F. Malon, are expected to tour the disputed territory in Mny The announced purpose of this tour would be discuss with citizens of the former German colony details necessary to Implement the newly-adopted To- solution giving Southwest Africa parliamentary representation.
to
"Now Burmin, Slam and Ipdo- China, the three main spurces are unlikely to yield more than 853,600 tons instead of the 1,396,500 tond ex-i pected from them.
"Negotiations are going on with Braz and Egypt for ice, but what- ever they yield would be far short of making up the deficit.
"Burma's, expected oxport has dropped from 800,000 tons to 532,000 tons Indo-China's expected export has dropped from 125,000, tons to 50,000
tons.
tons; and Slam's expected ex- port from
om 375.000 tons to 271.500 "Dacolty, guerilla wietare, looting and walespre muggling.
(Continue on
rice-
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(per H Telegraph") .$78,034.00 CY.W.A.Hemen South African officials sald grant- Mr and Mrs B. R. could not be construed as defying China Motor Ing of parliamentary representation Club Lusitano the UNO's edict against annexation, H. J.
J. Tebbutt Stan: Chibh Provident, They said France gave similar re- presentation to the mandated
Loan and Mortgage Co., The French agreed
Ltd. Cameroons. "months"ago" to place the Countroona | Mr and Mrs 1. D. “Kilber
under UNO trusteeship.
Chul Tak Loeng & Co. W. F. Gardner The Union of South Africa resolu-D. E. Clark tion provided the Union should sub- David Drufolkorki: mit annual reports to the UNO on K. Caudron & Cu the territory. Premier Smuts cm- The Chase Ba phasised this would not imply any Mrs J. C. Bermey responsibility to the UNO for the 1. N. administration of the area. He has M. S. Fung still to answer another request from The American Express Co., the UNO Assembly a requirement
Inc india to correct treatment of South W. H. L that South Africa negotiate with Mr and Mrs. F. Groves Africans of Indian descent.
Premier Smuts in expected to give u statement on this.
"INDIAN PENETRATION"
Kahn)
Janet (in mentory of the Inte Joseph Hanson-
Alhambra Theatre, Kow-
loon Mary Kwong the political and social of all Spaniards without dis-
Dr Malan's followers tulk of the Chinese Start Supreme uphold "Indian penetration" into the Cape Mrs M. B. Barker tinction of class and will these rights in a way which could province through
reported large N. Lazarus. challenge comparison with that of scale purchases by Asiaties. Pro- Mr and Mrs J. Wakefield
A great national awakening has need for - New Deal for the world cache Spanish monarchy will re-i
the world which we used to think down."--Reuter. of only a colonies. This new no
tionalism will turn to Communism
and look to the Soviet
Bomb Kills Four
Of A Family
Union as their ally if the United States de- clares that this is the. American century of powe the the century of Politics rather than
common man. will tell me that Soviet as Britain
La Spezia, Apr. 13. past and Four members of a family were in the killed and two others critically in-
YOU
Russia
Is
19
in the
was an expt Pacific and elsewherdonist
today. I da jured on Saturday when a bomb
America
not deny it. But I say that it is the wrecked their house near Fosdinove. task of countries which have the The police said the bomb had been atom bomb and which have not, pinced on a windowslil while the Ilke Russia which has been devas family was gathered in the kitchen tated by war and boycotted in for lunch.--United Press. peace, to try a new type of power politics.
"One kind of power politics which will work in the modern world is to use power to create world prosperity and increase abundance.
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evolution in Spain,
"Peace should have dawned on Premier Smuts has halled, that
nel as the "anchor of Matol." He M Spain a long time ago. However, the era of true peuco has not yet said it is essential if South Africa come nor will it come as long as is to prevent Natal from becoming The National City Bank of the Spaniards are not offered the "a second Bombay." opportunity to bury their mutual haireds and feuda.
**This. to my mind, monarchy's paramount duty purpose. Reuter,
MORE SPECULATION ON LABOUR
London,, Apr. 18..
The Sunday newspapers re-
principal change, it said, would be
CABINET CHANGES
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"I pay no attention to those silly vived talk of Cabinet changes' Americans who say that Britain is today, but this time agreed that
en reorganization, of understand how the Cabinet came, to Onished, and I pay even less attenthe Foreign Secretary, Ernest of the Cabinet after the retum of Me bungle things so badly," the Observer
his colleagues tion to certain wealthy English pec- Bevin, and the Lord President of Bevin, who is now in Moscow for said. ple, your worst Ambassadors
conference, Even before the America, who spread the story of the Council, Herbert Morrison, the Foreign Ministers
and of Mr Morrison from his con- debate, the Observer, sold, Red ruin and catastrophe in Britain would retain their posis.
Labour members were because they dislike having a Labour.
The people said the Prime Mini-valescence on the Riviera, Government, dislike paying high ter, Mr Clement Attice, might make The Observer said Labour Party a round robin petition, naking for Mr Alexander's removal, but the idea taxation and
eating the same rations! some minor changes this week, The members of Parliament were centrininter was dropped. us other people.
their
All Sunday newspapers agreed When
I am told that the British he retirement of the 75-year-old ter. Mr A. V. Alexander, mainly as
that Mr Morrison on his return Empire is falling to pieces, I say that Secretary of State for India, Lord a result of Government's decisio Insofar as it
It was domination_over | Pethick Lawrence.
reduce service in the armed forces would resume his dulles as head of the Cabinet's Economic Planning other less powerful people, I am "Now that India has been all but under the conscription bill. from 18
Board, Lord President of the Coun 12 sure that it should come to an end, given her freedom, the People said, to months
cil and Government leader in the but I am glad to ace that what is his main task has been completed It said Mr Alexander from the be House. happening in India and Burma is not and he will now retire from active ginning had insisted on 18 months
Mr Bevin will remain In the disintegration at all, but a new con- affairs."
service and had persuaded loyal Foreign Ministry, they said, despite tract between free Burmese 'and free
The well-informed newspaper, the Labour MPs to inform their con persistent recent rumours that ho Indinna with the tree people of Eng Observer, said there was evidence, alituences that any shorter period would take over the economic plan- land,
that Mr Attlee had been sounding would be useless. "No ono can really ning post-United Press.
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