THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1949.
US Defence Secretary
May Be Given Young Poles
More Power
NEW BILL DRAFTED
Chairman Carl
Washington, July 6. Vinson of the House Armed Services Com- mittee disclosed today that he had drafted a compromise unification bill to give more power to the Secretary of Defence but to "make sure wo never have a military dictatorship.”
The Georgia Democrat said he would put his proposal before the Committee tomorrow. He hopes it will be approved for House action by late this week.
A series of 14 amendments would drafted by Mr Vinson
the unification modify sharply bill already passed by Senate.
the
n
to
Get The Party Slant
Toachers Too.
The Linc
d.-Poland's Warsaw, July Communist Minister of Educn- tion says the nation's school teachers are succesfully putting Across the Leninist line to their pupils.
Minister Stanislaw Skrzeszew. skl told a National Conference ot school Superintendents here that the grent political achieve- ments in Poland are being ac- companied by unparalleled economic feats.
Neterring to the ideological drive in the schools, M. SkrzCB- д ten-zewski and:
Among other changes Mr for a Vinson would provide
clated." of the Joint civilian chairman Chiefs of staff rather than a man £8 top-ranking military proposed in the Senate bill.
Under the Vinson amendment the job would go to the Under Secretory of Defence, the post now held by Mr Stephen T. Early.
Under-Secretary
The would bo retitled "Deputy Secretary.
Another major change would exempt the military establish ment from provisions of D General Bill that allows Prest dent Truman to reorganise government agències almost af will.
BREATHING SPACE
"This is all the reorganisation they will need in the defence establishment," Representative Vinson told reporters. "If this becomes law then we should let
Mr Vinson said this would knock in the hend
The understanding of 10 dency in the military, especial-
build teachings of Marx, Engels, Lenin ly the army, toward Prussian type of and Stalin is deepening in Po armed force to unified it would fand, and the importance in
practical appilention is appre have a single chief of staff.
Meantime, Chairman Milford E. Tydings
the Senate of
The Minister said the govern- Armed Service Commillee,
thement was interested in education said he hopes to send
$303,000,000 for all, but teachers must have House-approved milltary pay bill to the Senate, the right ideological plant.
had been He said changes floor by
21-United July
mude
in the school instruction Press,
system, under which Polish and mathematics were the most im- portant subjects.
Acheson Calls
For Action
On Refugees
Prompt Stops 'By
the military have a breathing Arabs, Israel Urged
spell before further are made.'
changes
He said the measure would give the Defence Secretary, Mr Louis Johnson, all the power Me Jolinson has said he must have to tighten up unification of the army, navy and air force and to save according to Mr Johnson more than $1,000,000
a year.
"At the same time." he said, "we have provided restrictions on this power that will make sure wo never have a military dictatorship in this country."
Chief among the restrictions is the proposal to provide a chairman for the now headless Joint Chiefs of Staff who ofien ogree on the strategy cannot they are supposed to planto require that he must be a elvilian who in the past 10
Years has not served on active mill- tary duty.
SLUMS IN COLONIES
Britain Tackles The Problem
London, July 6-Britain
Is
trying to eradicate the slums in her colonies, Mir Arthur Creech Colonial Secretary, Jones, the told the Commonwealth Tuber- culosis Conference here today.
Many diseases, he said, and tuberculosis in particular, had their roots in, and drew their vigour from, bad social con tions, poor housing,
deficient
diet, ignorance of hygiene and the rest.
"We are tackling things as evils
all these
in themselves, and by doing so are vastly in- creasing the attainable objec tives in
medical the purely feld."
," added the Minister. "In Malaya, public interest In apparent. the disease
ja very Maleria as a result of energetic control measures, is censing to be the main killing disease and attention is being focussed on the other threals to life,
"It is believed that there has been, in late years, an alarming increase in the prevalence
In' Maleya."- tuberculosis Reuter."
of
Iraq Pipeline
Damaged
Haif July. The Ting Petroleum Company's pipeline from Kirkuk to the refineries at Haifa was reported by a here usually reliable BQurco today to have been damaged at a point about nine and a
·tha miles Inside Hashemite Kingdom of Jordon
This is near the spot where the pipeline enters Iarnell ter- ritory. No details were 'nvail- able here.
The report follows recent ru- amours that oil would soon begin to flow through the ine, which was closed in April, 1948. Later that year, the refineries here, belonging to the British owned Consolidated Refinerier, Limit ed, closed for lack of supplies.
Negollations for the reopen ing of the line have gone on för aoine months, with Iraq refusing to allow dil to be pumped Through if any of it was to be. used in Innel Reute
6.-Tlie July Washington, Secretary of State. Mr Dean reiterated the Acheson, today United Stales hope that the and Israel would Arab states take prompt steps ment the United solution
concerning
repatriated perzona.
to
to "imple- Nations re-
He called upon Polish teachers to "strengthen the grow- ing forces of peace by cadres of new fighters for peace."
about 134,000 Poland has
teachers, school
Their ranks have undergone "purges" to eliminate, all those who did not agree with the aims of the "new Poland," or related teaching Marxiam and Leniniem to their pupils.Associated Press.
Drift Towards
Servitude
Arzt
Roses For The Princess
Princess Margaret, in a powder-blue gown geta
a bouquet of red reses. from William Kimber, 77, leader of the Headington, Oxford, Morris Dancers.
Freak Heat Blast Strikes Portugal
TEMPERATURE UP
TO 158 DEGREES
Lisbon, July 6-A freak heat blast, which lasted two minutes and shot thermometers up to central 158 degrees Fahrenheit, ravaged tho Portuguese coastal area today, killing thousands. of fish and fowl and leaving hundreds of per- sons prostrate in the stroofs.
The phenomenon followed a hurricane which tore through Northern Portugal, smashing vint- yards, olive groves and crops in its path, and also flooding the Mirandela area.
fire,"
thousands
ol
Vatican City, July 6.- of December 1948 Pope Pius XII said today the repatriatlon that a materialistic state and resettlement of refugees.
He said the US had urged destroys man's dignity as Free
Residents of the town of should Figueira, on the central Portu all parties concerned to hinsten well as his liberty.
until that was nations, he said, action because done it would be impossible to unite to stem the drift guese coast, said the blast of heat struck "like tongues of eslimate what financial assist- ance would be needed for these towards "violence and ser-
vitude."
It
us Сате ofter Dhirajta Speaking
jammed the market Indian women Mr Acheson said that as far
Phulbhai Desai, UN Palestine refuges Minister
the Vatican, place for their morning shop- to na the
llef programme
the ping. Many fell in the streets. con presented his credentials, was
* sorry Some, fearing the end of the cerned, the administration and Pope said: "It no intention
Con-characteristic of our times that world had come, knelt in prayer of asking
fow to the shade. press authorise any more there prevails in not
of life and the $12,000,000 places the concept. money beyond
The fire-like alr wave swept It had already appropriated as society that is vitiated by an
From on to Coimbra, 30 miles inland. the United States' share. The excess of materialism, total programme calls for con- the painful effects of such de- where similar scenes were ro
and
degeneracy theported. tributions of $32,000,000 from viatlon UN members.
peoplo tiemselves suffer.
The Mondega River, which Unless other countries made is the way they lost not only
alc their empties Into the Aliantle at substantial contributions, Mrelr Bberty but
Figueria, dried up at several Acheson continued, the
pre-dignity.
all the points between Coimbra and the was likely to end "Hence it becomes gramme within the next few months. more necessary and urgent that uccan. At the village of Granja
He pointed
Con rulers of states and peoples who Clmeiro, millions of Osh died in GICSS
cuthorised unrecognise-in-the-supremacy of the mud, which was rapidly be additional $4,000,000
beyond spirit over matter the funda coming a sand bed. The stench the $12,000,000, which could mental laws of their existence of dead sh and of thousands be made available if all other should join their forces of in- of barnyard fowl which suc- went to countries fullified their sub-dividual and collective vigilance cumbed to the heat was so bad scriptions to the refugee reller lo stem the tide of materialism." that many villagers
Mr Desai, dressed in national Coimbra or Figueria to spend welfare fund.
garb, told the Pope in present- the night,
that India jing his credentials
This
Lest
ITALY TO
PROTEST
TO U.N.
SHOWING
TO-DAY SA
Indian Proposal SEE! At Geneva HEAR!
Avoiding Double
Taxation
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Genova, July G-Ela out her views hero today on ways of avalding double taxa- ilan by bilateral_agreements do-i tween governmnculs,
Mr P. Lail Uppal, Under- Secretary at the Indian Minis-
Com- try, tuli the Economic mission of the United Nationa Economic and Social Cinell at its meeting here: "The pro- per basis for defining the fleld of taxation in not by reference to nationality, residence or place of registration, but by ference to the 'situs (location) of, the source of income, the country where the Income, In truth, arises.
re-
Dr
"The revenue interests of the capital-exporting rountries are best served if the income la taxed in the home of the creditor. The revenue interests of the enpital-Importing coun- : tries are served if the income is taxed where the capital lu actually Invested and Bro- duces income."
"Alter
Mr Uppal continued: nll, it may not be an unsound principle tha! the country which consumes the goods und pays the profits is the country which is most entitled to tax such profits.
In
"These arguments also apply to ships and aircraft registered one country but operating also in other countries. ships and aircraft of the under- developed countries cannot, to an equal extcht, be operating in other countries.
"It would not, to the extent the it is considered, impede operation of International trans. port enterprises if the profits, in proportion to the receipts in where the traile the country originates, are taxed, in that country."
The Commission approved a recommendation that Govern- ments should "actively pursue a polley of negotiating, bilateral appro- agreements, wherever priale, for the avoidance double taxation."-Reuter.
China Will
Rise Again
US PREDICTION
Washington, July United States
caplain, Navy E.M. Eller, writing in the as- thoritative magazine United States Naval Instituto Pro- ceedings," predicted that Chlua Rome, July 6-Italy will pro- would emerge again as one of greatest nations, to the United Nations the world's
plight. against Yugoslavia's decision to despite its present
He said the major question tho occupation ciar- reney in the Yugoslav Zone of was not whether China would replace the Trieste Free Territory by recover, but whether its recovery the dinar, the Italian Foreign would come about under Com-
Sforza munist domination. Minister. Count Carlo
"China will experience a re- announced today.
A communique sald that the naissance, once more becoming, Yugoslav currency change was as for the most of its long his- of the tory, a decisive force, in Asia." Citing the tremendous wealth area and against the Interests
As yet un- people living in the
touched In China, Captain Eller amounted-to-incorporation into of raw materials
said that an industrial revolu Yugoslav territory.
This followed other steps to on in the country might not
the Zone into be long delayed. incorporate
had been Ho sald China's latent
Na-wealth denounced to the United
and spiritual strength Yugoslavia which tions, the communique added. would combine to earn it again
u role of leadership However, he
spokesman
bod Count Sforza reminded the | China all the other guaranteed freedom of warship Fiqueira maid the temperature did not believe
of a mysterious this contributions would
The Pope sald: "In
that has bestowed coming. In that event, the $4,-spiritual alliance of those who reached 158 degrees during the Western envoys today of their possession 000,000 could not be
out mude are opposed
of intimate phenomenon. He said it passed Government's March, 1948, de- formula
by after two minutes, but the claration promising support for upon it power to live through available and he said no further conviction and
consciente
by sun was still strong And the the ultimate return of the Free recurring cycles of greatness
and decline."United Press. request would bo made frome domination of
By spirit
said thai violence, temperature generally was over Territory to Italy.
The communique Itely would amplify to the Bri Mr Acheson pointed out that Divine Providence has assigned 100 in the central region.
had so
out that
indicated he
be furth-
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was entirely separate from the lency a position of grave res ed on the Trieste ques- repatriation and resettlement ponsibility but also oho rich in
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and in promise of storms flooded the Mirandela tion "In the light of the recent area, in the North. Two planes elections, which have confirmed declaration at Mirandela airfield were de- that the tripartito stroyed and crops throughout fully reflects the wishes of tho the region damaged. At the town Trieste population."
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US To Keep
Off Irish
Question
To Australia
Washington, July 6.The United States Ambassador- Designate to Australia, Mr Pate Jarman, spent 15 minutes in the Housc today and
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This mall is expected to arrive at London on or about Aurvit 8, It is hereby nollded that all THAII service's The Hengst, Tientsin and North China are temporarily suspended.
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said
that since nominatoin he had heard many Washington, July 6-A State good things about Australia.- Department official said today United Press. that the United States Govern- ment would not intervene In
Bonn Chosen Toronto, July 6 The Hong the Irish partition question and
Frankfurt, July 8.-Western Association of an answer along this line would kong Veterans Canada today felt they had be sent to the American League Germany's politicians today con;
Ireland, which brought to the postwar era the for Undivided
the spirit of co-operation that pre-has been seeking Preldent firmed the selection of Bonn as valed during the war and that man's aid on the Irish question. Bizonia, but passed the issue of The official said the Depart | final approval ta the first they had made some
meht's answer, to the Lengue Federal Farliament.
THURSDAY, JULY'1 Ulosing Times By Air orphans happy as well..
would be undoubtedly along the After the session, the 35-mon States committee of West German
12.30 pm, Canton (CPO) 150 m fines that the United government had taken before Ministers President and dele
pin. 3.20 p.m. (CPO) when the partition to had gates of the Constituent Assem: Noon, 150 mm m
Talpeh, Foochio. Kwellin, Chung- arison-namely that the gov-bly and Bizonal Economic Coun- kluz, Chengtu, Lluchow, Kunming
cil recommended that the decl-walow and Amoy, 330 m. ernment would not intervene.
The offelal recalled that the sion for Bonn bo confirmed.-- issue was rolsed at least once United Pres.-
WAR SOBIE An Immediate meeting was before, when there
whether Ireland called and the parcels which discussion
route to Britain would join the North Atlantic will be in ample time for the pact.
The Association received en urgent appeal for candy from Hongkong veterans in Britain who were organising an annual vente for orphans of ckers who died in the Far East.
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