THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1949.
UN To Debate
Hungarian Trials
Blistering
Soviet Criticism
Lake. Success, Apr. 7.--The United Nations today decided to discuss the trials of Josef, Cardinal Mindszenty, the Hungarian Primate, and 15 Bulgarian Protestant pastors after the United States had challenged Russia to "have it out in the General Assembly.”
The Assembly's Steering Committee voted by 11 to 2-Russia and Poland, with Persia abstaining to put the case on the agenda of the present session.
Me Warren Austin (United States) declared that the
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America To
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Mr Jacob MaDR. that! *Wall Street" was behind De "dirty slander" minst Hungary and Bulgaria, made if the more noetssary that the items
placed on the agenda.
istering attack on the Chanted Stats. Australia and
livia br raising the
question, Mr Malik had argued that the discussion of the eares would be a "flagrant contraction of the Charter. The United Nations would become "a diety spot of libels and slanders," he said, "This can lead to nothing but the undermining of the prestige
United Nations of the
and ultimately to nothing but lister- national complications, with all which
the
that is
tries with
Austraila anet Bolivia hadi asked the Assembly to inquire into the
trials conducted
Ly Bulgaria to and Hungary determine whether fundamental human rights were observed.
Bolivia told the Committee.to- day that the case of the Hun garlan Primate was of "symbo- He importance and warrants in- tervention and study by the United Nations."
MALIK'S ACCUSATION Mr Malik, opposing any Az- sembly discussion of the trials, declared that
"the Hungarian citizen, Mindszenty, and several Bulgarians" were
"common
criminals and warmongers."
Mir Malik attacked the United States, Australia and Dollvin Washington, Apr. 7.- for bringing the matter before Plans for Ü $70,373,000 the United Nations. He said trans-Atlantic superliner--the United Nations should not
interfere in the internal affairs the largest passenger ship of States. The violation of this
susceptible ever projected in the United principle
United Nations the paralysing States-were announced to
ultogether and of transforming?
declared.
of
Feather Ski Slide
Erling Wiig, a poultry farmer at Tarzana, Calif., skims down a ski slide on the roof of his barn. Wiig uses chicken feathers for his slide, creating a winter resort atmosphere. Not too long ago Californians had the real ingredients for a ski
slide.—AP Picture.
Western Powers
Request
►
Military
Aid From U.S.
Washington, Apr. 7.-The five Western Union Powers have formally and collectively requested the United States to supply them with military assistance under the terms of the North Atlantic Treaty, it was reliably understood here today.
A formal United States answer agreeing in principle to seek Congressional authorisa. tion for such assistance is expected tomorrow.
Western Union national military experts have already drawn up for the information of Washington a broad estimate of their own military resources and the joint defence mea- sures planned under the defence clauses of the Brussels Treaty.
day by the Maritime Com into the blind tool of one or This estimate gives a rough mission. The new-flagship two Great Powers ag happened idea of the scale of United of the American Merchant in the League
of Nations, he States
which would be Marine will be built by the
needed to implement what they Mr Malik said: "Leading eir- Shipbuilding and Dry Dock eles in the United States
the basic regard an
necurity and Company in Newport News, some other States are attemp-needs of the Atlantic Union. Virginia.
ting to utilise the United Na- The United Slates then ex- lions for the
of purposes
peeled to ask for detailed esti- inimicni propaganda mates of nid required from the
50-
current year.
The
Brussels five
sinnder. The job will take about and the setting of yokes upon various Atlantic Pact states s and a half years. The steam- ship company will contribute the shoulders of other States." as to be able to appranch Con- $20,007,260 of the vessel's con- "Chile attempted to use this
Tigress for appropriations for the for slanders on struction cost. This is about high rostru
Union in the what it would take to build the the Soviet
'bride case." Now the ship in a foreign yard. The called "brid Maritime Commission will con- tribute a $42,285,784 subsidy, part of which will be for the national defence features of the vessel.
fast and
FAST AND LUXURIOUS
The ship will be luxurious. It will carry 2.009 passengers and a crew of 1,000 In wartime it could transport 12,000 troops. The Commission kept the antfelpated top speed
a secret, but said it will crufso at 20 knots,
act as
Upholsterer Fails To
Win Divorce
Eden's Robust Confidence In The Commonwealth
London, Apr. 7-Mr Anthony Eden, deputy leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, in a luncheon address here today, said he returned from his recent world tour with robust confidence in the Commonwealth's future.
His journey, he sak, had revived and restored his hope for mankind. He returned with a strong conviction that the Commonwealth countries could help each other and lead the world for the benefit of all countries.
that not only between the United Referring to the part India and Pakistan could play, Kingdom and a Dominion, but Mr Eden said he was encouraged between Dominion and by the clear desire he had found! minion.
in those Dominions to continue in some form "e other their partnership in the British Com- monwealth if it could be con- Irived.
Do-
Thiey lived in a world at odds, and Commonwealth stability
was of inestimable value to the world. The Commonwealth did not challenge any one people's
Mr Eden was speaking at a luncheon given in his honour by the Overseas Empire Corres-
"The problem is of very great way of life, but maintained its complexity," he added, "but the own and could contribute much closer we eat contrive to be to-to the world's way of life. gether, the happier we in the United Kingdom shall be. It is for them to decide, but I am sure that in the wider perspective of world events, the more general contribution we can make the richer will be the beneft for the world as a whole.
arc
ENHANCED ROLE "Regional arrangements valuable and indispensable, but they are not alone the solution problems. Constant elforts are needed to preserve patice and our Commonwealth with has got to plan it, but Pakistan and India with us, our role will be enhanced."
our
Mr Eden sald it was neces- the sary to be cautious about aluation in Malaya, which was stili serious, but there had been a marked improvement in many respects.
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"This banditry-and that is
it what
la-hus
support among the Malayans," he said, "and provided there is no fur- ther influx of bandits Trol
thia outside, my view is that problem by stages will be re- solved."
STILL CARRYING ON
Mr Edon praised the planters and tin miners who, after years In Japanese prison comps, were still carrying on, he said, be- kind barbed wire and other the conditions which troubled strongest nerves.
As Malaya earned more dol- Jars than all the United King- dom's exports, Britain's debt to Malaya had not been stalca enough.
Mr Eden said that there was an urgent need for such visits os his to the Commonwealth countries not only at the politi cal level but at all levels and
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Tokyo, Apr. 7-The Japanese Government's Welfare Ministers announced today he was pre- paring plans for a national birth London, Apr. 7. A control programme to meet the
"menace" of over-population. Trealy divorce petition in which a The minister, Toji Hayashi. Bolivians and the Australians. Powers-Britain, France, Hol- North London upholsterer told the lower house of the Diet, under the hypocritical cover of land. Belgium and Luxembourg
cited ан co-respondent
a in response to questioning from human rights, are attempting to will continun to
the Welfare doctor born in Ceylon was the floor, that take under their wings certain single group.
Mr Ministry la considering a num dismissed here today, and Hungarian
Bulgarlan
ber
plans for providing criminals, who have betrayed
Nathan Miller, of Stoke effective and proper means of their countries.
had claimed birth control." Newington, damages, alleging adultery-
cation
drive, including radio between his wife. Fanny,
Wis und
though! programmes, Dr Irving Gerald de necessary
for checking the Silva, of Finsbury Park.
and population incrense
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Department The State understood already to be nego- tiating with Norway and Den- WAR INCITERS
the Bul-mark for an estimate of their "Mindszenty and gariaus are not only criminals American assistance. internally speaking. They are the Inciters of a new World war," Mr Mailk added.
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have to be thankful to the Go- Until theso two sets of Euro- Giving judgment. Mr Blanco already has been launched by vernments of Hungary and Bul-pean estimates are obtained and White said Mrs Miller started a the Ministry. The accent is on garia, who caught these inciters approved, little progress can be blouse-making business, while personal responsibility to - Or 48,000 gross tons, the vez. of a new war and put them in- made with the netunl organisa-her husband
the to the clock and showed
the ion of the permanent military and peoples of the world the bluck organization purposes and dark designs of Union. the new warmongers."
was at
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feed the additional mouths is
yearly and imports of food to
an increasingly harassing prob-
Icm.
solve the problem, which the war. American officials have called a sel will be smaller than
of the Atlantic She was a hard-working woman, threat to the American financed British Queens, Elizabeth
but Mr Miller was of a very Japanese self-sufletency
drive. Mary. But it will carry as inany
different temperament. They Japan's population is increas passengers and operate as many
Mr Mailit added: "If the Detalls of the Defence Coun- met the doctor soon after the ag by over 1,500,000 persons schedules. It will be 980 feat United Nations chooses to take cll and its subsidiary planning husband was demobilised, when long.
the road of violation of the and supply committees havo Vice-Admiral iv.
non-interference, hardly figured in the discussions Mrs Miller had a fainting attack. W. Smith, principle of
the here in the past week. Commission chairman, sald, the whether being pushed by
Friendship developed and Dr decision to bulld the ship was.
United States, with Australian
Officials in Washington today de Silva formed the habit of "one of the most important the and Bolivian helpers or not,
described American press esti visiting the house and staying Commission haa, ever made, then, Instead of promoting co- Since the war we have been operation and peace among nates of the actual amounts of until after midnight. woefully short of passenger peoples, the United Nations will the foreign military assistance
Birty.
spot of libels programme, ranging dips under the American flag. become We have not been only short of and slander."
Dr Charles Mailk. of this kind of service, but are in the danger of more serious Lebanon, and Dr. Wellington shortage of troopship tonnage in Keo, of China, supported
of emergency."United | Inclusion of the two Items on
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ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY
+
Erie Williams was awarded the M.C. for his exploit. His story of the bold plan, with its difficulties and the
unaccounted for in his budget that, that there is anything im Philadelphia, Apr. 7-The constant fear of discovery, and, after escape, the harrowing assistance to the North Atlantic proper in that association. Dr Jewish Hospital reported today adventures encountered in trying to get out of Germany,
Johnson drank tea with Mrs the development of a new typb Thrale.
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The kidney, which was de- "No one has suggested that Mr Miller had given ovidence
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The programme, thereforo, has
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In that
CRO
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Congress may possibly re- fuse to give Truman the new alleged incidents, Mr While add-Sclineeberg, is an improvement taxes for which he asks.
ed, but he frankly disbelieved on the existing apparatus, being
tirat much of testimony. 1 one-tenth of the size. tho President think it has been invented by
The kidney is for use when may have to obtain funds for him with a view to supporting patients' kidneys riced rest and tho military assistance pro- the claim for damages which he can be used .only In certain gramme by reducing other ex-makes against the doctor.". Dr types of kidney disease, being penditures, for example on his do 80lva would be dismissed of little effect if kidneys aro $10,000 million defence budget. from the sult and the petition permanently impaired.--United |--Reuter.
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