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THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1947.
"MENACE TO WORLD PEACE"
British Labourites
Labourites Denounce Truman's Policy
London, May 21.
Five divisional Labour parties announced today that they would ask the annual conference of Britain's majority Labour Party to condemn American aid to Greece and Turkey as a threat to world peace..
Lontlon, May 21. The Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee, and the Viceroy of India. Lord Mountbatten, have informed the Conservative opposition of the plan of pro- cedure for the transfer of power which the Viceroy will lay be-
They said they would ask permis-, to reimpose the Party regulation fore the conference of Indiansion from the Standing Orders Com-electing any Labourite who did not
mittee to move the resolution as an hew to Party_policies. emergency mengure at the party con- Margate next opening in
Their emergency resolution also demands United Nations investigation of American policy in, Turkey on the grounds that this policy tends to produce international friction.
leaders at Delhi on June 2.
Mr Allen and Lord Mountbattenference outlined the proposals to the Con Monday. servative loader. Mr Winston - Chur-
The
Thus the Left Wing rebels who denounced Britain's foreign polley will be free to criticke Labour' poli-
all, fils denuly, Mr Anthony Eden. foll text of the resolution was as cles until the end of the current
and the House of Lords Conservative leader. Lord Cranborne, in the Prime
•
room at the House
of
Minister's Commuir,
The Prime Minister will also in form the orthodox Liberal Party lender, Mr Clement Davis, of the proposals for procedure.
It is emphasized that the opposi- tion line been informed and not con- sulted,
"Firstly, this conference notes that President Truman's decision to give military and economic assistance to Greece and Turkey was taken without consulting the British and in disregard of the obligations government of the United Nations Charter;
"Secondly, is firmly of the opinion that the methods and purposca Of this polley constitute a menace to world peace and are a negation of the democratic principles for the pres fices of last war were made;
INVESTIGATION DEMAND
There is no question of the Labour Government Inviting opposition ad-servation of which the grave sacri- vice on the proposals. It will act entirely on its own initiative. Equal ly, although it has been informed of what le proposed, the opposition will be entirely free to take such setlon us it thinks ft.
It is considered unlikely that the opposition, whatever Its reaction, will take any parliamentary action until the resumption of Parliament
Parliamentary session.
The Executive will put forward a recommendation for Party new allegiance before the next session.-- United Pressi,
Stassen's New Idea
Jefferson, Iowa, May 21. Thirdly, believes that American Mr Harold E. Stassen, former policy in Turkey should be subject for. Governor of Minnesota and a investigation under Article 34 of the candidate for the Republican
United Nations) Charter as tending
nómination for President in produce international friction; "Fourthly, urges Government 16 | 1948, advocated that the United propore to the Security Counell that States devote 10 per cent of its national production of
on June 3, after the Whiisun recess. Jaid to Greece be given only in nerer- | total
REPORT DENIED
督
--OMetal quarters today discredited
the report circulated in India that
India,
Lord Mountbatten and General
Lord Ismay, the Viceroy's of-staff, back to New Delhi.
dance with n plan drawn up by the
Food and Agricultural Organisa-
goods and food for the next 10
flot of the United Nations and that years "to building for world
Visit To Monty Postponed
to
London, May 21.
Marshal Alexander Vas- allievsky. Soviet Army Chief of Staff, has declined the invitation visit England in June, be- саяс of
heavy "extremely pressure of work". the War Office announced today.
The announcement saki A message had been received by Field Marshal Viscount
Mont- gomery in which Vassilevsky
conveyed his "very best wishes" but declined Montgomery's in- vitation.
Lord Marshal
Montgomery invited Vassilevsky to visit England when the British Chief of Imperial General Staff was a quest of the Soviet Army in Moscow last January.
Marshal Vassilevsky, the War Omee
advised. Lord said, had
that the visit would
Monsible now.
be
view
niso
of Lord Montge mery's numerous engagements during the summer, it has been agreed that the visit should bo postponed till a later date," the announcement said-UnitedĮ Press.
WAR CRIMES
TRIALS
Progress Report
CRICKET SCORES.
S.African
Bowlers Punished
London. May 21.. Oxford University, declar- ing at 303 for nine wickets, knocked up their highest score of the season so far against the South Africans at Oxford.
seven They declared with only minutes left for play, but the tourists nine played out time and scored runs with all wicket intret,
w. d. Keighley, in his second match for Oxford, hit a faultless 105 and practically ensured himself of a side against place in the Oxford Cambridge. He batted fever and a quarter hours, during which time he showed exceptionally, sound defence, and the fact that he hit 15 foura shows how well he picked out the balls to punish,
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Jewish-Arab Strife Breaks Out
Three Incidents Reported
Jerusalem, May 21..
The British authorities announced today that a number of incidents between Jews and Arabs--the first since the bloody outbreaks of 1939---occurred late last night in the Petah-Tikvah area.
The official announcement follow-village of Feju. The Hagana com- ed by many hours a communique munique claimed from five to seven from the Hagana,
under-Arubs killed and said the leader of credit the Jewish raiding party was wound- ground army, in which full was taken for the rald on the Amb ed fatally.
Jewish
FRANCE'S
CRISIS
The British, announcement sald une Arab was killed and three others wounded after น group of Jews entered a Feja cafe. As they e- parted, the Jews dropped mines which later detonated and wrecked the establishment,
A Jewish watchman was held up and disarmed by a gang of Argba who killed his horse.
The third incident occurred be tween Petah Tikvah and Yehudiya village, when 25 armed Jews fred a number of shots, killing one Arab and leaving a land mine in the vicinity, the announcement said.
The authorities sald special police action was being taken.
NOT POLITICAL
Reports from Tel-Aviv sald the
communique
was accom-
"Enemies of the Jews will try to foster Arab-Jewish clashes after the United Nations Commission leaves, Palestine, but the Jewish resistance movement set upon maintaining friendly relations with the Arabs," the letter said.
4
A United Press correspondent Feja found the villagers "angry and
coming.
Beset With Strikes M. P. Donnelly, captain, bolted in
Paris, May 21. sparkling fastilon while helping
While the provinces of France Keighley to add 84 for the third
with violent anti- wicket and, despite a middly of the seethed innings collapse, more good hitting government demonstrations and rame from Bloy and Torvers.
widespread strikes, Promier Melville's
of giving Oxford policy the first use of a dead pitch, after Paul Ramadier and his Minis-panied by a covering letter to now- winning the toss, did not prove suc-
ters of Labour and Industrial paper editors, which proclaimed that cessful. Until late in the day the Production discussed tonight the Feja attack was "not a poll- ball came off too slowly to give how to meet the gas and electical action of the Jewish resistance bowlers any help.
tric workers' wage increase ulti-movement."
The leiler sold the underground matum, which expires tonight, felt that it was time to eradicate The workers are demanding a 15 the bands of bandits and, murderers In County games,
40-year-old per cent wage increase, plus a pro-who killed Jewish settlers." Tom Goddard, Gloucestershire'sduction bonus. rightarm off spin bowler, was in A point of possible conflict was fine
had the
seen in the fact that the government form at Bristol. He Nottinghamshire batamen in trouble has until now steadfastly refused to from the start and finished with the grant any wage Increases. Britain, the United States and the wide peace, plenty, and free-
London, May 22.
analysis of 21.4 overs, eight maldens, Unless they are given some mea If the indian poitical leaders were Soviet Union should jointly help the
dom."
sure of satisfaction, the workers have Mr Fred Bellenger the War Minis- 41 runs, 9 wickets, not coming to London, it was
Greek people to stamp out Fascism as
they will retaliate by ter sald today that the progress
Centuries by Emmett and Crapp, threatened, nf lieved that Sir Stufford Cripps and the three powers undertook to do at "It should not be a sharp ending war crimes trials at military courts which followed, put Gloucester-causing sporadic tas and current from the Tel-Aviv office who visited the Secretary of State for
**; Teheran and Yolla;
cuts throughout France. Lord Listowel, would accompany
programmie. It should be a prac in Singapore, Hongkong, Malaya,shire in a very strong position.
Denis Compton carried his bat in The cities of Lyons and Dijon were excited". and firm in their Delict "Fifthly, and demands the im-tical, sound, long vision, business Burma and Borneo was being satis- a fine 88 not out for Middlesex at the scenes of violent demonstra that Chief-mediate withdrawal from Greece of like approach to the situation that factorily maintained. By Apr 2 Lords. He batted two and a half tions against government-controlled at Arab reprisals would be forth-
British police and military missions exists in the world today and to 087 Japanese and Koreans had been hours and hit 11 fours, chiefly drives economy and faulty, food supplies. The
Of these 53 had been sen- and leg strokes. He actually made
villago An official spokesman described na well as remaining British troops." what we can foresee in the years tried..
sheikh sald tenced to life imprisonment and 235 37 out of the last 38 runs scored, Adoption of the resolution would ahead," Stassen said. the report as completely untrue,
FULL-FLEDGED RIOT
score of Jews arrive near a direct
the cafe, in which there were sp- This suggestion was adding:
he be
to death. slap at the Labour
He added: "We should request
the outstanding run being from a Eight thousand people demonstro-proximately resurrection of a similar story that Government. The Foreign Secretary.
40 Arab mules... (Un- the views of The Socini and
ted last night at Difon, causing n der Moslem religious laws, no women crept out without the
The latter Agure included senten-no ball. slightest Mr Ernest Bevin, already is on re-
Council of UNO ns to ces not yet confirmed and 108 death Close of play scores were:
full-fledged riot as they stormed are allowed in public places.) possible foundation a a fortnight ago", cord na welcoming American aid to Economic
the manner to which
At Oxford: Oxford University 303 government we should sentences had so far been carried out. for nine declared (Keighley 105, furniture and burning archives.-Tho buildings, smushing The spokesman added: "It may be Greece and Turkey.
ANOTHER RAID taken os
when
administer--this tund- definite that
and-should-
The sheikh said one Arab wan their
was on his way to Paris killed and seven were wounded in continuing advice.
There are now 141 elther on trial Donnelly 45, Bloy not out 45). Prefect Viceroy returns to Delhi from London
welcome
the CRES South Africa sine for, no wicket. tonight to report the incident to the the shooting and additional carunities he will carry with him the clear view
But we must ourselves astually ad- or awailing trial with
At Lords: Middlesex 207 (Comp-government. minister the programune
against them completed, and 1,605 and and authority of the British Governs ment to act on his own initiative in
trol the rate and type of produce are in custody whose cases are under ton not out 88). Worcestershire 67
This morning the great silk-spin- were caused by bomba left by the the immediate future in the light
EMERGENCY MATTER
who tion supplies, so as to safeguard investigation or
are suspects for four..
At Shefeld: Glamorgan 154 (Dying city of Lyons was also gripped raiding party. He said among tho
wave of popular indignation. wounded was an Arab policeman of the agreed British policy They said they were raising the against inflationary effects or diver held pending Investigation,
son 82, Coxon five for 53). York- 'decisions."
Without warning, the Prefect last who was hurt seriously. AUSTRALIAN TRIALS
shire 118 for two (Watson not out night issued an order that all bread Haganah also carried out rald on question as uni emergency matter be- sion from our purposes abroad. causo President Truman did not an-
"We should also require that each
50. Yardley not out 50),
tickets had been cancelled in an Ln.ast gure from the Australian nounce his aid programme until after
Bristol:
Nottinghamshire 129 (Hardstar 01, Goddard nine for 41). of phony bread tickets in the area. effort to prevent the wholesale use steady and unwavering support to had been tried by Australian milltary Attlee's hope to conclude major talks tions had expired, between the Viceroy and the Cabinet Konni Zilliacus, one of the Labour the UNO and its objectives.
should not expect repayment in courts at Singapore, Port Darwin mett not out 102, Cropp 100).
stead, Mission experts by Friday, some Party's foreign policy rebels in the dollars or manufactured goods be- and Rabaul,
At Ilford: Essex 260 (Dodds 67,
One member of the Jewish party quarters
adil
doubt that this
Heame 83, Tremlett
Workers and their wives in the was reported fatally wounded by the Gateshead dele-.
The Cause the rest of the world cannot
six for 84) popular Industrial quarter of Vaise ballets fired by another Haganah will be possible.
Of these 371 had been sentenced to Somerset 98 for five.-Reuter. The Viceroy 15 gate to the conference, sold: holding himself at the disposal of sponsors of the
immediately rose in protest, do not need either one, of them.". Truman's President
142 to death. the
Associated Press,
In Singapore at the end at April Ave accused were still await- until the inst minute before the decision to intervene in Greece and
ing trial by Australian courts, 41 ac- "deadline" for his return to Delhi, Turkey is an event of historic im- which is May 29.
nused had also been tried by the U.S. portance, profoundly affecting
in Japan in cases involving courts British victims. Thirty-four had been sentenced to terms of Impri- sonment and seven to death.
ATTLEE'S TIMETABLE
the
The five divisional parties koon- soring the resolution
are those in Chelsea, Epping, Gateshead, Holborn and Spelthorne.
con.
At
saw a
w
he
Later, it was learned the
the Arab village of Yahudiya, not far from Fein. Three Arabs were -
In spite of official'indication of Mr the deadline for submitting resolu-Kavernment that joins with us gives puthorities showed that 733 Japanese | Gloucestershire 263 for four (Em- Fat tickets were to be used in their reported killed and several wound-
express
We
Prime Minister and the Cabinet point out that ergency resolution i repay in either one of them, and we various terms of Imprisonment and
If the talks keep to the Prime tain's international
Bri- position and
Minister's schedule Anish on policy and the whole world situation. U.S. & GERM
and
curb the Left Wing "rebels" overwhelmingly defeated.
was
Friday, Lord Mountbatten will con- An attempt at today's meeting of tinue to work here with his advisers the Parliamentary Labour Party to over the weekend and in the event of a Downing Street summons, the Anal Cabinet-Viceroy meeting can be held on Wednesday.
(Continued on Page 4)
EDITORIAL
The chairman, Mr Maurice Webb, in a private talk before meeting with Prime Minister Attler, decided not
A Brutal Sentence MANY will be hard put to find
-reflected in the sentence of eight years' hard labour passed yesterday on Gracie the humane justies which is traditionally as soolated with Brilish law. It is brutal punishment, more so be caused
It is supposed to have taken into consideration mitigating pleas and other circumstances, The will seriousness of Gracie's crime. not be denied, 'but there were features about the case which entitled to be treated on its
special merlis. Graele, unable to afford counsel, mado n defence statement which, far_from_being challenged, was confirmed by the prosecution. But his plea appears to have been discounted. ** The
· accused'admitted his offence, but strikingly enough no attempt was made to prove to what extent t had: affected the allied war effort, scores of other trabers and
Unlike collaborators now free, Gracie made to pecuniary gain out of phis settyfiles. He is, in fact, one of Shéamati fry who, It seems, aro "destined " to pay the full- penalty Viwhile others of more influence „inay remain tintonohol None of
the mitigating circumstances dia- closed during the trial relloves Gracte from the burden of acting ∙as an enemy collaborator, but many of them can fairly he re- carded contributing Influences. Är Lonsdale, in is eminently fair address to the Jury, displayed an impressive degree of sympathy with Gracie's story which cannot be said to have found any
the ultimate sentence Danso
Walle fully passed on the man. subscribing to the opinion that traitors and war criminals should pay for their offences, It is also held that the law should be just
ituth- in awarding punishment, lessness should only be employed in bringing
to account there who have transgressed. Whether, ror
WARFARE
Lake Success, May 21. American officials today ruled out any United Nations action against germ warfare unul Russin accepts the United States plan for global control of atomic energy.
ol
States "will"' continue to insist that a
Death Sentence For Deaf Mutes
Vienna May 21.
the order said.
Workers deserted their plants and demons.r
rated in
in the streets. while
3,000 housewives marched on the "No Prefecture building, shouting brend, no work".
was
At nine a.m. the strike in the area was general as demonstrators forced Two deaf mutes, Franz Elend and their way through police cordons and Hermann Riffel, were senkneed to Into the office of Prefect Paul Gre- There were no figures at present denth today for murdering a Vien-goire with cries of "Bread, bread". valable to show how many were nese couple and ransacking their The Prefect
literally awaiting trial in Japan in similar home.
hauled to a balcony and forced to # Ascs. It would not be in the public Interest to disclose the dates when
As the court pronounced sentence, hastily-Improvised loud speaker. To their nurse the war crimes trials by British mill- her breast to
crossed her arma over the accompaniment of angry jeers, tary courts were expected to be com- stand.
make them under hoots and catcalls from the crowd, understood.—United he was forced publicly to rescind his pleted, Associated Press,
order-United Press,"
Press.
They
SMUGGLER DICK RETURNS TO SOUTH
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The days of Smuggler Dick COAST OF ENGLAND
ed.
man during the raid-United Press.
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The American position was made clear in an apparent answer to Andrei Gromyko's new demand for a United Nallons treaty prohibiting atomic weapons and "other weapons mass destruction" without awaiting the inspection and control machinery desired by the United States. are back on England's long
Omelal sources said the United South Coast.
service as minesweepers and trawlers fined heavily for trying to smuggle Mysterious lights flicker in the ary being radar-equipped, to aid the In 100 watches. fool-proof atomic control system Channel mist. Somewhere between operation,
British officials do not like to talk must be adopted before the United the chalk cliffs of Dover, and the Oficial vigilance is being roward-about the rise in smuggling or their Nations tries to tackle the even more rugged red rocks Comwall, a small ed. Early one April morning two campaign, handicapped by limited complex problem of preventing bac- boat gildes ashore.. Crates and mon clambered ashore from a land- manpower and shipping facilities, to
& Co., teriological or chemical warfare.
cases are transferred to a waiting ing craft being used in a reverse check it. But residents of Rye, Has- The differing American and flus- truck. There is the sound of an Invasion day operation. Two other tings and other coastal towns gossip sian positions were stiffened by
Mess, ist. engine starting, and then silence.
were waiting with a truck.freely. men
Batin. The Devonshire Gromyko's latest rejection of the
A week to ten days later, scarce Cases were switched hastily. The
According to thesa accounts, much Regiment United States proposals which con-
Appear in London engine reared, then
of the contraband comes across from Mrs S. H. Ash. fronted the Atomic Energy Commis- French comacs
West End night clubs. American "Hal" came a cry from the semi- Boulogne, France, where a mysterious Es "La louche" nylons go on sale-under the coun- darkness. The truck had no choice ex-Maquis known terin certain smart Mayfair shops, road block scaled off the lonely (the fly) is said to be master smug- Handfuls of jewels from Amsterdam Dorset lane, and his Majesty's Cus-
The inter-Bler. His Engilsh counterport is re- change hands in grubby East End toms Service topic over.
an ex-seafaring mon cepted loot: 1,236. bottles of assorted puted to be
called "The Captain". ca big business, this
postwar spirits, worth a small black market
watchdogs of the South was greater or lesser than that of.
Oficial snuggling-and
profitable fortune. more a Japanese responsible for mal.
than ever before, owing to the Not only landing craft, abandoned Coast acknowledge that only small treating POWs and other innocent
shortage of luxury goods in Great on the Normandy beaches, but pri-operators have been caught so far. people, is a matter of opinion:
Salgon, May 21. Britain and sky-high customs duties vately owned yachts, some of them Customs waterguard auperintendent but it is on record that he has Plague has broken out in Saigon,
The London former navnl launches, are being. H. Jones said in court recently and purchase taxes.. been givena haraber · sentence the city's health authorities reported Dally Graphic recently estimated the used in the cross-channel traffle, that there is undoubtedly a than several Japanese
today. war
smuggler's annual
turnover. at Still other smugglers use the regular organised scheme of criminals found guilty of hideous-
With "We are warning the people to got £1,000,000.
pussenger boats. ly sadistle acts. This seema fo Inoculated at once", they stated in However big this illegal trame, the There the risk is even greater. cutters, authorities are confident they indicate their names In Block deprive the law of its humatio an appeal. "Attacke so far have British Treasury, in co-operation with Customs agents took 10,000 worth can knock some of the main props Letters qualitier,
been few but indifference is danger-Scolland Yard, is out to amash it. of jewellery from a business man froin under the organicallon-As- ous"-Router, ·
Revenue cutters that did warlimolat Dover. Two Belgian seamen were sociated Press.
latively speaking, Gracie's crime
sion as it met for the first time in
exactly one month for another at tempt to whittle down Russian re- sistance-United Press.
Plague In Saigon
a highly
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