THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1948.
NEW BILL SEEN AS A
THREAT TO AUSTIN RADIO
Commercial Stations To
Come Under Control
Canberra, Australia, Dec. 9.-A Labour govern- ment bill proposing radical control of Australian broadcasting is bitterly condemned. by opposition members as "nationalisation of the air."
The far-reaching bill will set up an independent three-man board to cut over-long commercials, see that programmes have variety, allow enough time for religious broadcasts and give "balanced hearings" to political views and controversial subjects.
Crities say this means control of both privately- owned commercial stations relying оп advertising, and government tralian Broadcasting Commission.
stations
A government amendment gives
under
the
Aur
Commented the Sydney Morning the ABC control over broadcasting Herald, "The government is banning
of, political and controversial matter a series of broadcasts which have got
on its stations because "the ABC under its political akin."
has been fair In the past in giving
free time for political parties."
to
Opposition members
the
10 a
board and
SCATHING EDITORIAL
In a scathing editorul, the Sydney charge that the bill gives power Minister Sun said, "Despite all the shuffing suppress explanations the Broadcasting bill smacks of Fascist design. No government can afford to be accused of suppression and it is, a pity wiser councils in the Labour Party have not prevailed.
hostile political brosdeasts. Acting Opposition leader E. J. Harrison predicted that Immigration and In- formation Minister Arthur Calwell will control the Board and "it will fall to his lot to dragoon the broad- casting alitions of Australia to ཕ threatened common pattern, as he
the of to dragoon the frea press Commonwealth."
"COVERNMENT PATTERN
In
"It is not a question of whether the broadcasts are fair or unfair. democratic country, silding tyrannous crittelam, whether by rensorship, by force or in any other way, 1s an analhcina to the people."
Mr Calwell has Batly declared that the board will not stop a person de-attacking a member of Parliament or policy if the person is Identified and takes responsibility for it.
·
Sen. Annabelle Rankin has nounced the bill as MA effort to furco broadcasting into a govern- ment pattern which was a step to- wards a totalitarian state, opening the way for government pro- paganda.
Chifley
Prime Minister Joseph has natly denied this.
Donald Master-General Post Cameron when introducing the bill said the governor-general would Its staff appoint the board, and
He said would be public servants. the board would not have autocratic ABC powers and commercial and delegates would sit in on programme changing discussions.
He claimed some stations had not reached standards listeners had the right to expect, despite checks Ad- poor programmes.. against mitting advertising revenue was the
Mr J. E. Ridley, president of the Federation of Commerical Broad- stolions sold in a statement, casting "My Federation has no objection to Broadcasting the principle of a Board. Indeed, ye ourselves ad- vocated
усать Bome
the ago establishment of a separate board to supervise broadcasting."
of But he said present control
broadcasting was not political clearly enough defined and appeared unduly restrictive.
The Broadcasting Bill follows at- tempted government nationalisation of the private banks-United Press.
life-blood of commercial stations PROFESSOR'S
but bluntly claiming profit mative
public should come after
respon sibility, Mr Cameron accused larger sponsors of commercial ste- tions of often moulding programmes to their own and not the public's interest.
WARNING
San Francisco, Dic. B.The human race may be unfavourably He pointed out the Post oMee changed in future generations be controlled broadcasting in the past, cause of present day use of radlo- but now
concentrating activity in medical treatment, Pro- board
Muller warned In fessor Herman J. that was needed. on solely other countries, including U.S., a loday. specialised body had control,
He said the board would prevent unnecessary duplication of news and
feature ressions.
-Professor Muller..
Receive Prizes Today
CHALLENGES WAR
CRIMES
Here are three Nobel prize winners for 1948 who will receive their awards in Stockholm today. Left to right they are Prof. Arme Tisellus (chemistry prize), Prof. Patrick M. S. Blackett (physics) and T. S. Ellot (terature)—AP Picture.
POCKET CARTOON
Truman Resumes Feud
With UN-American Activities Committee
Washington, Dec. 9.-President Truman and members of the House Un-American Activities Com- mittee resumed their feud today over the Committee's Communist spy investigation.
President Truman repeated his chargo that the Committee investigation of Communisma in the Govern- men is a red herring. Ho also told
investigators ference that he thought the after headlines.
17
news
con-
were out
Two Republican members of the Committee, acting Chairman Karl Mundt and Representative Richard Nixon' countered with charges that President Truman is. "con- tinuing to obstruct the Committee," and his statement constitutes a "flagrant flouting of the national interest of the people."
Sun Fo Has
Bedside Conference
Shanghai, Dec. 10. - Chinese political circles in Shanghai, hinted today that China's new Fremier Sun Fo
д
has been conducting con- ference from his bed, where he is convalescing from a foot operation, on the formation of a new cabinet.
challenged Pre- Mr Mundt also
to
the sident Truman
authorise
secret Committed to publish top Government papers allegedly stolen from the State Department in 1837 and 1938 and handed over to ex- Communist W. Chambers for trans- mission to Mercow,
Later, Representative Nixon said that the Department has cleared '65 of the stolen documents for publica- tlon. He sold they will be made
avaliable shortly...co......
Saying that the Committee mern- sets comprise a dead committee,
President Truman told reporters that
HUNGARIAN
PREMIER RESIGNS
Bows To Criticism Budapest, Dec. 9.
The
LAW
Jap General's
Petition
Manila, Dec. 10. Former Lieut-General Shigenori Kuroda of the Japanese Army, who is scheduled to be arraigned before
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Counsel for the former mander-in-chief of the Imperial Japanese forces in the Philippines, in a petition flied with the Supreme Court yesterday, challenged the constitutionality of the law creating n national war crime office and the legality of the order issued by the armed forces' Chief of Staff appoint- ing a commission to try Kuroda.
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Request Reopening Of Pipeline
London, Dec. 9-Britain, the have
he thought if they were in earnest they would have first token their evidence to the Attorney General so that he could prosecute.
(The Committee did make its evi-Hungarian Prime Minister, M. dance available to the Justice De Lajos Dinnyes, resigned today. During the huddle yesterday Sun partment which is now presenting it His resignation followed criti- to the Grand Jury in New York. cism yesterday by his party, was said to have offered Copinet
The Committee is also conducting the Hungarian Smallholders, United States and France such party government posts to
former
its own hearings in the matter.)
whose Political Bureau said the asked the Government of Iraq to veterans as Chang Chun, Premier, Wu Teh-cheng, Secretary
to REFUSES TO TALK
party "would have be reopen the Haifa pipeline, a Foreign General of the Central Committee of the Kuomintang, Wong Wen-hao,
So far no reply has been received Henry Julian Wadleigh, one-time purged of unstable elements." Oflice spokesman said hero today. former-Premier, Chen-Li-fu, vice-St-te Department--economist, today
Negotiations for his successor
frum
Baghdad. The Government. Yuan, president of the Legislative
Iraq cut off supplies of oil through Aged 47 years old, M. Dinnyes
the pipeline during the fighting in was appointed Primo Minister ont
Installations In Haita fell into May 31, 1947, after the Bight from Palestine last summer when refining Hungary of M. Ferene Nagy, then Israeli hands. Prime Minister.
The supply of oil through Halfa The Smallholders Party was
Nobot Prize winning genetielst at the University of Indiana, sald flouroscopic radlo- Shao Li-tze, one time Ambaszadní refused to tell House of Repre-were going on this evening. active isotope, toms smasher and Sen. A. K. Armour added it might X-my
10 Moscow and Chang Chi-chung,sentatives spy-hunters whether he machines are combining to
ever gave ex-Communist Whittaler the Generalissimo's representative the chances
Chambers secret Government docu- of affect present commercial stations
in northwest China.
ments to pass along to a Soviet He sald injury
even 1 which sandwiched pianoforts solos increase sharply
Genetic
Shao and Chang are understood intelligence agent. woman's rouline examination of a between race descriptions.
to favour a renewal of an effort
Wadleigh, who worked in Issue of abdomen by flouroscopy means The violently debated
Opposition-sponsored
and killing one of her descendants- Henry Austral" political dramatisations. almed against the Perhaps hundreds of years hence.
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session of the House Un-American Minister, M. Miklos Nyardy, who belonged to the rightwing of the whether pro- Activities Committeo
of The professor said if X-my ex-mised, "to help outide the govern- even knew Alger Hiss. He said to party.
M. Istvan Doby, Minister or de- answer might "incriminate
Agriculture and President of the the sary special care should be taken to Conferences were still in progressi grade- me.” shield the glands.
today.
Sun reportedly intends to Representative Richard Nixon sald Smallholders Party, described return to Nanking on December 13 Chambers had named Wadleigh and action of M. Nyardy as "shocking." to assume office on the 15th.
Hiss as two of three former officials "It might well undermine confidence One report emanating from his who allegedly gave him confidential in the party," he said.
! sickroom conference was that if he Government information for Russlan
PROBABLE PREMIER · did not shortly succeed in forming secret agents in 1937-38.
become Wadleigh was called immediately
M. Doby is expected to Cabinet which would include all party
factions he after Representative Kari Mundt Premier in succession to M. Dinnyes. investigators had M. Doby has long been prominent resign-Asso- announced that
run down a Government official, not in the Smallholders leftwing. would immediately
Identified, accused of having fed Dinnyes was regarded by leftwing clated Press.
Chambers Information.
members as a representative of the "kulaks' (rich peasants)-now' barred from Hungarian co-operativo bourds.
Hc sald routine flouroscople examination sends more high energy! They condemn them because they radiation in a person's body than dub in voices of Ministers with he received in an entire lifetime a statements the Ministers allegedly century ago from natural radiation never made. Mr Calwell said one from the earth. Yet this examina broadcast simulated the Army tion may some day mean that a Minister, Mr Cyril Chambers who yet to be born person may be crip was dramatised making remarks pled, sterile or die in his mother's "he would never think of saying." womb because of injury to her genes.
elections United Press. Another during wartime when Labour was heading the war effort gave a German-voles saying the Labour Party would never in- terfere in Germany.
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Asked if he was or had ever been
The entire Cabinet formally re- a member of the Communist Party.signed today but the future Premier to- Wadleigh said finlly, "No." He ad- who is expected to be named Postmastor-General Cameron ad-
mitted he had had access to "some morrow, is not likely to make major mited while he let the broadcasts
when changes kinds of secret Information
when ho continue; he was surprised at his
State Cabinet. Belfast, Dec. B.-A general elec he was employed
in the leniency. Several years ago when
caused at tion in Northern Ireland is
The trado agreements Department's the in- branch,
purge of the Opposition was in power the then least five deaths and widespread but almost certain to follow
but he refused to say Party of "bourgeois Postmaster-General, Mr. A. G.
whether he knew Chambers, either elements, announced Cameron, cut a Sydney Labour estimated damage and destruction, nuguration of the Eire Republic on
according to reports received in January 16.
by his real name or his Communist had already begun, it was learned station off the air for
Manila.
It is known
the Prime
today.
that at least broadcast. ving"
Minister, Sir Basil
It was understood Brooke, plans Party name of "CarL" Beverly cut & Mr Cameron recently dramatically
Representative Mundt reminded wide destructive an early demonstration of Ulster's
eight Smallholders, deputies would vated with the government in support path from the Pacific side of Luzon will-to remain as part of the United Wndlelgh that his refusal to answer
Group Party's Parliamentary bill. I believe there are
to the China Sea side, causing floods Kingdom and Parliament is expected left the, impression, that he did not be deprived of their mandates when some features of the bill which in many areas.
to be dissolved as soon as the pre- care to deny the accusations mude:
met tonight. sent business has been completed. by Chambers, Witness still do should become law, oven
M. Dinnyes told 1 mealing of the Three persons were reported
the Party's Parliamentary Group to- Opposition becomes government.
Elro'z secesalon from the Con-clined to answer and would not "It would be in the interest of drowned in the Cagayat River while monwealth and renewed attacks on identify a picture of Chambers
two others were drowned at La
Wadleigh sold his State Depart night that the party, leadership's
criticism of clean politics if political dramati-
him wat justified accord partition are regarded as making Union-United Press, sations were banned altogether."
job involved laying tho the election the most important groundwork for trade agreements lng to a special communique Issued
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The Unionist Party at present holds 35.of the 52 sents in the House of Commons and has support. on the
ment
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Is majority is 'An increase in anticipated. Reuter.
Fire Destroys 11 Manila Stores
New York, Doc0-Robart Stripl Ing, chlet investigator for the House Committee on Un-American Activi- ties, today testified before the Grand Jury probing Communist spy rings as the Jury raced against a deadline its Inquiry before to complete its December 15the
Mr Stripling said he testifled for Manila, Dec. 10--A fire razed 11 business catablishment an hour or so and added that he had no comment on anything" and in one of downtown Manila's shop would return it once to Washington. ping centres last
last night, causing but was learned four other persons, estimated 200,000 peso loss in addition to Federal Bureau of buildings and merchandise. Nobody Investigation agents, festified during wad: reported injured,
the Fury assion. After Hits and Whittaker Chambers were on hand for questioning for the fourth straight day United From
The origin of the short-lived but spectacular blaze o has not been determinedUnited Pr
the
He was said to have admitted that he had been gulity of lack of conlsel, with the party and, the mass of the working people.—Neutor.
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met the Papal Bethlehem
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