SIX-POWER AGREEMENT CRISIS
British And French Socialists Meeting In Paris
London, June 6-The National Insurance Minister, Mr James Griffiths, the Chairman of the Labour Party, who arrived in Paris from London tonight, and the General Secretary of the Labour.: Party, Mr Morgan Phillips, will have talks with French Socialists on the Germany crisis threatening the French Government, informed quarters here suggested tonight.
Mr Griffiths next Friday will sign an agreement with France on reciprocity in social insurance plans, but, mean- while, the French Government faces the probability of a Parliamentary revolt over the six-power London agree- ment on Germany which, according to some reports, here, challenges its existence.
Mr Phillips, who was reported re- called to London from the Interna- tlonal Socialist Conference at Vlonna following telegrams from the Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee, and the Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Devin, said in Paris tonight that he was going to "discuss purely party business with the Chaltman".
Paris also Mr Grifiths tonight in slated that he was going to discuss purely domestle party business with Mr Philips and that he had come to France to sign the reciprocal saclal insurance treaty.
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Mr Phillips is due on Tuesday in London, where Labour, in and out side the Government, present first class dilemma over the national reaction to the proposed abolition of the death penalty,
LABOUR PARTY ANXIOUS
Anne And Michael Off To Athens
Geneva, June 6.-Ex-King Michael and Princess Anne left here at 11.31 p.m. today: on a Trans-World airliner for Athens and their wedding
there on Thursday.
At the last minute, Michael do- no chances in the cided to take private plane, which this morning There was was being overhauled. no official reason for the change in plans. The Labour Party, however,
Unofficial sources said Michael closely concerned with the reaction of French Socialista to the London may have thought it safer to take six-power agreement and in particua roundabout scheduled flight by Iar with their anxiety to safeguard way of Italy instead of crossing the the principle of the internationalisa- battle area at the Northern Greek tion of the Ruhr, industries.
is
The voting on the International Socialist Conference's first amended! text of the resolution on the Ruhr and was postponed until Monday the resolution sent for further revi- sion following the French position headed by M. Salomen Laumbach, in the absence of M. Andre Philip, who was recalled to Paris yesterday to report to the Executive party.
of his
frontier,
The Royal couple's final day here passed quietly.
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Last Minute Fight To Restore Marshall Aid Plan Cuts
Washington, June 6-The United States Ad- ministration and Senate leaders today operred des perate last minute fights to wipe out in the Senate the reductions amounting to more than $1,000 million made by the House of Representatives in the Marshall Plan.
The real crux will come when the House of Repre-
in conferenco to
Senator Arthur Vandenberg, the the cuts made by the House of
Senate Chairman of the
Foreign Representatives, probably that the Relations Committee, the Secretary restoration will be substantial, and of State, Mr George Maraball, and possibly that they will restore the Mr Paul G. Hoffman, the Economie cute in their entirety so far as the
will Senate bill is concerned. Co-operation Administrator, Spreal
cal to the Senate Appropriations Committee in
in open hearings for a 100
per cent restoration of the cute. Senate and the They argue these cuts would re-sentatives meet duce the reconstruction programme draft an aseed bill for the Prest
me, would dent's signature. to a a mero relief programme,
It is acknowledged, however, that shatter the European nations' conf- dence in the consistency of Ama- the most important factor in the into foreign aid crisis for the next few rican foreign policy, and play the hands of anti-American Com- days is neither the Administration munist propaganda throughout the nor the Congressional statements but the reaction of American public world..
opinion.
fow
With the elections only o
ono in Congress themonths away, no
to can afford to be insensitive to the of very real sentiment in support of the Marshall Plan which polls of public opinion have shown to exist throughout the country.-Reule.
VANDENBERG'S ARGUMENT
Senator Vandenberg, who piloted the Marshali Plan through Senate this spring, is expected urge Republican Party leaders boll Houses that it would be folly for the Republican Party to make Southbend, Indiana, June 6.- the Marshall Plan
an issue at Mr Paul Hoffman, European ald next November's Presidential elec- administrator, said today that tions and place the Republican throw Eurot lo the Communlet Premier Josef Stalin will not Party in the position of seeming to fight if free nations stand wolves because of a cheese-paring towards together and are prepared mill- and isolationist attitude tarily to
meet aggression." dollar, expenditure.
According to the best informed He charged that Russia seeks to
some of the Senate will restore share its "slavery and starva-political opinion, it is certain that tion with the rest of the world," while the United States shares its "freedom and abundance.”
Mr
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made .Hoffman speeches to 6,000 persons attending twa sections of commencement exer- cises in Notre Dame University. He
launched Princess Anne went alone to the rald that Russia has
programme free Institutions" Roman Catholic Church for Mass-well-thought out she has said she will never give up destroying all
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her religion--and later enjoyed the which has forced the free peoples sunshine in her hotel garden, where of the world to band together." Michael Joined her.
SOLIDARITY
soli-
THOUSANDS
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London, June 6-Tens of thousands of Londoners braved Michael's mother, ex-Queen Helen,
grey skies and a drizzle today preceded her son to Athens, arriving
"In this growing sense of there supervise details
of the wedding, darity among free peoples in their to cheer Princess Elizabeth in The return of M. Philip coincided super toy from Switzerland, to with the presence of Mr Grimths which will take place in the Greek awareness of the type of conflict in what will be one of her last and Mr Morgan Phillips, and against Royal Palace, home of her brother which we are now engaged lies our public engagements before the and greatest hope of avoiding another birth of her baby, expected in the background of Mr Bevin's re- and sister-in-law, King Paul
world war" Mr Hoffman said. ta Mr ported telegram
Morgan Queen Frederikin of Greece. Phillips, is regarded here as pointing to early Anglo-French Socialist ex- changes prior to the fateful French Parliamentary debate
this week.
later
The British Cabinet meets tomor row, and simultaneously the text of the London sla-power Agreement will be published.
The Cabinet may, therefore, be able to hear the views of the Foreign Secretary, Mr Bevin, and to discuss the agreement in the light of the International Socialist Conference reaction and other fresh factors.-- Reuter.
DE CAULLISTS CRITICAL Paris, June 6-De Gaullists today Joined the French Leftwing-groups in launching a frontal attack against the ratification of the London six- power agreement economic future.
On
Princess Elizabeth looked pale us she bowed slightly from the rear scat of a black Rolls-Royce to the Palace to the cheering crowds that lined the route of Wellington from Buckingham
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Mr Hoffman received an honorary mid-October. Paul's sister and Michael's aunt). Doctor of Laws degree from Notro
Dame. who accompanied Queen Helen from
Commenting briefly on the aims of Switzerland, the Royal Family went ahead with wedding plans, imper- the European recovery plan which vious to the Vatican's announced he said had no precedent in history, disapproval of the marriage-United Mr Hoffman said the chief task of Press.
the United States was to help the people of war-ravaged countries to
GEORGE WHITE'S help themselves. He said, "By the of remembrance for the "Old Com-At 2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. of the Grenadier
"SCANDALS" use of American dollars, American rades" food, American steel, coal and other She is an honorary Colonel of the the re, Guards. promote goods, we are to
of millions of A slight figure in a trim dove- covery of hundreds people in many great nations from grey coat. Princess Elizabeth stond
aftermath
on a wooden platform in front of the disastrous
which surrounds the fron fence
as 2,000 past Washington, June 6. One of world's most terrible war."-United
Buckingham Palace, the nation's top air experts told Press.
and present members of the Guards filed by. Congress that the world was en- tering a new era of flight — the supersonic era. ---------
SUPERSONIC
AIR AGE
Maj-Gen Laurence Cralgie, Al: Force research director, made the Germany's statement before a closed meeting House Appropriations Sub-
The proposals are authoritatively
understood to be:
1. The creation of a
Constituent
Assembly.
of
The
of the
Turkish Cabinet
Changes Likely
1947.
It
As her huge black car appeared, a surge of excllement swept through the crowds.The Princess walked 100 yards from the Immousine to the platform, while the crowd pressed against the 10-foot-high Iron railing to watch-United Press.
HUKS INCREASE ACTIVITIES
The Conference recommendations Committee. His testimony has just will be published simultaneously been avaliable to the press and is
Istanbul, June 6-A reshuffling of tomorrow in the capitals of the six the first official confirmation by the participating
Ing countries (Britain,) the Air Force that man
of sound, speed
cast in political circles here follow- three fly faster than the can probably the Turkish Cabinet was today fore- United States, France, and
The Air Force has consistently ing the resignation yesterday of the Defence, Benelux nations).
National to comment an a report Minister for refused
by Aviation Week Munir Bellsel. published
ex-
0. Junc Three portfolios are now vacant
Manila,
- Increasing Premier, Gorman Magazine that the Bell XS-1
has flown in
Central the Cabinet of the
activities in perimental rocket plane
sound.
Sakas, formed in Septem- Hukbalahap the faster than In
Hassan
Luzon were reported today by the 2. A currency reform
General Craigie made the state-ber. Western Zones of Germany.
was reported that the Turkish Philippine Constabulary authoriile 3-Seven-power (including Wegment in connection with the pro- tern German representation) control posed milllard-dollar air engineering Ambarsador in Rome, Feridin Kemal while amnesty negotiations are re-
Erkin, appointed in May, 1947, and ported to be going on quietly,
Constabulary intelligence Informa- of the distribution of Ruhr pro- development centre.
in Washington, A bill to start work on such a the Ambassador ducts.
4.-Provision for the occupation centre has been introduced by the Ragip Hussein Boydur, appointed in lon from the infested Nueva Ecija 150 "dissidents" are concentrated in of key centres in Western Germany chairman of the Senate Armed Ser-October 1940, would be exchanged. Province discloses that more than
Committee. Senator ChanReuter. after the end of the general military vices
General Craigie said ail the three Western Gurney. occupation, in
existing wind experimental tunnels Zones.
few were, with in the country M. Gaston Palewski, Generni Charles de Gaulle's spokesman, in exceptions, of use only at sub-sonic
speeds. southern n speech at Narbonne,
"We find ourselves faced with-I France, sald. today,
ho testined. ference recommendations were not mean iterally--a new era of fight
ihe be- In
supersonic," un "acceptable compromise".
British "Facilities are Inadequate for that." tween the French and
-United Press. Tween views.
He declared the London proposals the abandonment of were an French arguments for the security of the French State and for the re- construction of Western Europe.
that the Con-
"Under these conditions, their no- ceptance seems hardly possible," he said-Reuter.
To Cross Pacific
In 50-Ft. Boat
Long Beach, Callkomla, June 0.- Three
Australia
Jan
SMUTS ON WAY TO LONDON Rome, June 0.-Marshal Smuts arrived here today in a pri vate plane en route to London.
Marshal Smuts was received by the Italian Foreign Minister, Count Carlo Sforza ot h private residence. He is scheduled to leave for London tomorrow United Press..
Greek Guerillas' Offer Genuine
London, June 6-Greek guerillas
offer is neither "a bluff nor a sign of weakness" the Guerilla Radio snld today.
a village near the municipality of carabaos. Munoz, slaughtering water bufftecs and commandeering foodstuffs to feed the armed group. -Reuter.
Refuses To Take
The broadcast was transcribed in London by the Greek News Agency which represents General Markos Government and quoted from an of the address by the Greek Communist w chief, Nicolas Zachariades.
Up Office
Parls, June 0.-The French News Agency reports from Indo-China that Nguyen Huu Tri, named Minister Interior by decree of the Central French sponsored Vietnam Government, "bas refused reasons of post for to take the dc-health."
ΚΟ The key Ministry will
He denied that a peace offer was made because of any military feals and warned the guerillas here
ihe
to be prepared to continue fighling Lieut-General Xuan, already Pre- morning it the offer was not accepted. mier and Minister of National De-
fence.Associated Press.
United Press.
Foreign Newsmen Protest To Haganah
familica aro bound for Jerusalem,
G.--With June
on 50-foot schooner, the 100,000 Jews under siege Against Non-Accreditation
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A marine engineer, Dwight Al-in Jerusalem, is an "inter-;
developments because of slow commilitary and political action in this water, 31, of Long Bench, weighed national set" of people,
"Whereas our colleagues on the anchor today for Perth, where he They include the consular corps munications, the actual statie mili-area.
tary situation, and the refusal of
in Tel-Aviv enjoy. plans to make his home with his of a dozen countries, churchmen of the Jewish Army to recognize them Arab side and
corres- full accreditation as war wife and with three daughters all faiths, a few British businessmen
as more than "hangers on."
pondents, we Here in Jerusalem, in ranging in nge from 14 months to who remained to keep an eye on
ycara.
Investments and a dozen American,
Yesterday, newsmen gathered in addition to suffering through innde- nre faced On his schooner, to share
ex-British and French foreign corres- Fen Yehuda Street bar opened by quato communications, penses of the 10,000-mile journey, pondents.
the Jewish Agency to keep them with the alternatives of opposing Atwater look. Mr and Mrs Hose Parr They move about with Jewish handy for handouts and passed the authority or of being entirely de-
pendent on the Jews for news of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Mr passes and fare about the same as following resolution: and Mrs Kenneth Harmon, of Las the Jerusalem Jews in the matter of
the foreign corespondents in scanty handout form. Vegas, Nevada.
rations, water and light.
"We demand immediate accredi- Printed and published by FREDERICK The Harmons are bound for Tahiti Most forlorn of the batch Are Haranab High Command against its
And refusal to accredit foreign cor- inllon and consequent recognition PERCY FRAKKLIN for and on behalf of and the Parrs for Melbourne, where probably the newaren, -who
by responsible authorities of our South China Morning Post Limited Mr, Parr will seek a Master's degree themselves "scooped" by their own respondents.
"This refusal is unwarranted and status as bona fide war correspon-at, 1-3 Wyndham Street, City of in Literature at the University of colleagues on the Arab side and in
Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong. Melbourne.--United Press.
Tel-Aviv on the Jewish Jerusalem constitutes a blackout of all Jewish dents."--Associated Press.
"We hereby protest to the
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