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VOL. IV NO. 253
Carrying Out Of American China Policy
Washington. Oct. 25. -The Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, told the press today that the actual carrying out of United States policy towards China must be different now from what it was several months ago.
Mr Acheson made that comment when one reporter asked him whether anything conclusive regarding a new policy towards China had resulted from the studies of a special committee headed by Ambassador-at-Large Philip Jessup.
The Secretary of State replied that in one way it
SPY CHARGES had, because the actual car-
DECLARED
TRUMPED UP
rying out of the policy must differ from several months nge. He did not elaborate. Mr Acheson also Kad the find drelaion was not yel mare on whether to read Me Jessup to Chion.
obarsveit that Mr Jessup has not Buished his duties in New York.
Mr Acheson, replying to on-
Washington, Oct. 26.- The US. Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, uther question, cald he could aald today that espionage | not SAY anything regarding charges brought by Czecho-pin for the utilisation of the $75,000,000 which Congress had slovnkin against U.S. Em-authorised for use in Chino. bassy employees are "ob- viously trumped up."
Mr Achazon announced at o
press conference that America has agreed to withdraw two US diplomats accused of spying from Prague,
"FLIMSY PRETEXT**
The Secretary of State katd that the Chinese Communist au thorities, on a "Almsy pretext," had refused permission for o
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Planges CRIPPS OPENS DEBATE ON
Floors
To Death
London, Oct 20,--Peter Beatly, wealthy son of the
famed Jutland admiral
wnd grandson of the wealthy Chicago's de- partment Store owner, the Iate Marshall Field, fell to hh desth from the sixth floor window of London's swank Kitz Hotel today.
Only A few days RIO, doctors told him that he was going blind and there was nothing they could do to prevent
He had suffered from
Heroes eye affliction from birth. Specialista on both sides of the Atlantio Iud treated him without success,
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The tall, dark 30-year- ota son of the late Ad. miral Eart Beatty, had been visiting his brother, the present Earl, at the Ritz Their mother was The
former Ethel Field. daughter of the Chiengo merchant prince-United
Iran.
Bidault Makes Progress
Paris.
Oct.
Bidault
26.
He said the Embassy is high-ranking United States mill-Georges tempting to free a third Ameri-tary attache to leave China. can who lacks diplomatic stars and who was Imprisoned last Friday on similar charges.
He great progress today
forming warned that the United States wards would not stand for It,
The two diplonints whom re- call in demandes are Mr John Heyn, Assistant Attache in the Politlent Department, and Mr Issac Patch, Political Attache,
Mr
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Acheson disclosed today that the State Department preparing what he called a com» munication-evidently & strong note of protest-to be delivered to the Czech Goverunint said that no protest had yel been
Mr. Acheson raid that three American Consulate staff mem- bers in Shunghat also have been prevented from leaving.
French cabinet,
ECONOMY CUTS Reduced Repayment
Of Sterling Debts
T
PRODUCE MORE APPEAL
LONDON, OCT. 26.—SIR STAfford CripPS, CHAN- CELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, TOLD PARLIAMENT TODAY THAT BRITAIN COULD NOT CONTINUE TO REPAY STER- LING DEBTS TO THE SAME EXTENT AS HITHERTO. SUCH CREDITS OR RELEASE ADDED TO THE NATION'S INFLA- TIONARY PRESSURE JUST AS MUCH AS HER OWN IN- TERNAL EXPENDITURE, HE SAID.
The Chancellor was opening a two-day debate in the House of Commons of the Government's £280,000,000 cuts in expen- diture, aimed at balancing the country's economy.
new credits or of releases of
He said a sense of pro- their balances at some time to portion and of responsibility rise that we should be willing to accumulated Sterling balances," allow them at other timen to must be retained, Britain
"Our past policy has enabled draw on them.
us to give most essential help was anxious about her own
in the restoration of the econo- position. But she was also MATTER OF DEGREE
mics of Europe and Asia," Sir about the anxious
"Special considerations," how Stafford continued. - M. most
world
"Viod a different policy been situation, over, prise in the case of the mnado general
wartime Sterling balances, and adopted, both we and the world to particularly that of some the extent to which drawing is would have been worse off. But now of the large, less developed permitted upon these is and has whether we like it or not."
go slower, Sir Stafford
sald that the diversion of exports to
the dollar market was not the only
He won pledzes of support
Socialists frum both the
Ho sald that Brigadier General the moderate Itober! Soule has been refused Party.
He
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been limited by the agreements These should, he said, bg, which we have with the several able to contribute much more countries." than they
the reduction of those**** Sterling Hablilies was like the way of saving dollars. It was granting of now loans and equally important to supply the other countries of the Sterling credlis a matter of degree, Sir Aron with their dollar-saving
of
support and to the general pool world suppites from which Britain could also benefit.
For
this
reason, Colonial
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more
Stafford continued.
requirements And 50 to help "Clearly in our present eltua them
which all were upon saving of his cause of Britain's duties to the tion, we cannot afford to employ som carry through the dollar-
so much of our resources for greed.
hitherto this purpose as has
Briinin lost gold if the did been desirable In our own long not balance her trade with such lerm interests and in the In-hard currency countries
Persia, terests of world development,"
which had not devalued he said.
Its currency.
Many "In Anancial terms that means British exports would, there- that in order to keep Sterlingfore, have to go to Persia, strong. we must not over- In a reference to the need
to provide Sterling
other for exporting more to the dollar countries either in the form of
markets, the Chancellor said he hoped that some of these extra exports would come from the "unrequited exports" Britain had been sending abroad.
The Premier-designate has! An Embassy clerk, Mr Samust an exit visa in Nanking as a
development and Investment Meryn, has been held incom-result of the demand from cer-
stori beers able to must be continuerl bath 10- tain US Government Chinese from the
Soule, count munteado since Friday.
011 the backing employers that General
own Catholic Popular Republi- | inhabitants of the Colonies and remain in Nauklung until nettle-
of her own interests, ment of their demands for ex-
ran Movement (MRP).
When we come to the rest orbitant severance pay."
However, he had to have the of the Sterling Area, the very and nature of the system is that is a serious view support of the Socialiais
should bo able to of the flimsy pretext used by Hadicals before he could even members
coalition draw on the reserves which they the loen authorities to prevent hope mode.Associated Press.
keep with us in Sterling when The departure of an American Cabinet.
they are in need," he said. Washington. Oct. 20. Mroeial from China in contradic-
"It is a necessary consequence While
Inst-minute obstacles Dean Acheson,
to allow of their being willing might arise over the distribu- State, told the press today that
Cabinet posts, It ap- tion of the queston of mending United The U.S. Government does not
Bidault that M States observers to the British romtenance negotiations under peared likely
tho Lower Commonwealth conference
would go before duress and will not authorise its Singapore bare
representatives in Chian to sub- House of Parliament tomorrow to ask a vole of confirmation as to such pressure."--United Press.
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Speaking Of Statues
:IVES of great men used to remind us
L'at of gentes there was no end-which was good for the marble cutters. and the bronze casters. The fashion has no fur fallen out of favour that sculptors engaged in this employ- ment have been hard put to find the jobs that once came easiest. Rather the mode sorias in for memorials of another Institutions In the interest of public This mode welfare, art and education.
is encouraged by the decay of hero wor- ship, promoted by the changed view of history, which makes great men creatures of circumstance rather than creators of the great events with which their names are linked. Involved, also, to another matter---tho difficulty of achieving dramatic effect when the marble or bronze- image is presented in modern dress, and the decline of taste for.the classic which enabled the sculptor to escape from any contemporary costume and achieve the herole by giving his graven image the an ancient Greek or a noble aspect of Roman. It was not considerations of taste, however, but greed for metal, which
prompted the Japanese to ship away our bronzes. Statue Square since the wor has been B0 only in пате. Queen Victoria's statue was recovered from a Kobe scrap heap, but the pulling down of the great rotunda to make way for motor iraffe has left it without a fitting resting Ція statue-that of place. Another Majesty King George VI by Gilbert
ordered before the
war to Ledward, commemorate the Colony's centenary→→ has been lying boxed up in the Govern- ment Stores for over two years, and there is still no indication when it will be put up, if at all, Our Government may have policy regarding statues, If it is against erceting or re-erecting, it will be in line with progressive, opinion.. are other good uses money could be better put; one aug- gestion a publle library. Philanthropists likewise may be wisely guided by the example set by the founders of the Fung. Ping-shan Library, the Tang Chl-ngong School of Chinese, Studies and, the Ruttonjec Sanatorium.
Field Marshal Slim
A DISTINGUISHED British soldier-one
in the tradition of great fighters- arrives in Hongkong today. Field Marshal Sir William Slim, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, loves the Army. From boy- hood he was determined to be a soldier. He became an OTC cadet, and in 1915: went to Gallipoli where he was given a regular commission, but he was wounded eu badly that he was discharged as permanently unfit. He did not take that for an answer, however, for later in the War he fought, both in France and in Iraq-where he won the Military Cross
There
SECRET ATOM TALKS FAIL
CUTS AT HOME
On the other hand, he said, ft must be remembered
that as.
part of the dollar economy
as a whole, Britain had urged
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, gazes into a funny mirror at a London ex- hibition. Yesterday, he opened a two-day debato in
the House of Commons.
BBC
WITH
SAID RIDDEN COMMUNISTS
London, Oct. 26-Viscount Craigavon sald today that he will ask for a government commis- sion of inquiry to investigate his charge that Com- munists infest the British Broadcasting Corpora- tion.
Lord Craigavon is President of the BBC Listeners' Association, which has no connection with the BBC. He said the Association's aim is to break the Govern~ ment-sponsored BBC monopoly of broadcasting here and to substitute sponsored radio....
Concern Over McCloy's Statements
He levelled his charge in a speech before the Radio and Television Dealers' AB- sociation.
Today he told reporters he: would submit his case to Lord Beveridge, Chairman of the Committee which the goverd- nient named last January- to investigate BBC. operations and deterininio whether its
monopoly London, Oct. 26-Britain contract should be renewed. The
Lake success, Oct. 26-The Secretariat of the United campaign for the Sterling Area Nations published today details of recent private talks others to econom'se in dollar has protested to the United contrast expires on December between Soviet Russia and other United Nations membarį imports by switching over to States that statements made 31, 1951,
Both the Government and countries which indicate that the problems of abolishing Sterling or soft currency sources by the U.S. High Commis- the BBC refused formal com-
of supply.
atomic weapons and setting up international control of To supply those extra ex-stoner, Mr John J. McCloyment on his allegations.
porta Britain would have to cut are seriously harming West- Government would not take
atomic energy, are no nearer a solution.
The countries taking part were Britain, the United: States, Soviet Russia, China, France and Canada. The documents bring out. the following basic obstacles to an agreement;
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1The Soviet
as atomic weapons,
CHANGES IN CHINESE CUSTOMS
the a
The two men met during the to discuss various *past week aspects of Western policy lowards Germany. Sir Ivana expressed British concern at tw interviews given by Mr McCloy to reporters tectatly.
A Cabinet informant said the
MYSTERIOUS PASSENGER
down supplies at home.
ern policies in Germany. Sir Stafford declared that {
the charges seriously.
A BBC source said that for the only real solution for Bri-
Diplomatie officials who re- Lord Craigavon, "any stick, no tain's economic difficulties is
ported this today said that Mr matter how wrak, is good more and more efficient pro-
McCloy Is going back duction.
to enough to beat us with." He said that the
Lord, Craigavon said, he had cutting Washington early next week down of imports and the re- for special talks with
list of Communists employed the BBC. He added he could duction of expenditure on Secretary of State Mr Deane several broadcasts which Union pro-
capital Investment and on other
reficeted Communist influence. that
should nations
things was an essential condi-Acheson. They said he is ax-
He said his Listeners Associa continue to DWT explosive
tion for success but could not pected to pass through London,
tion San Francisco, Oct. 26.-of itself bring that success.
wanted to eliminate from atomic materials. The other five
The informants said that the Briush Chinese
radio all disloyal Powers feel that under such Changes in the
British complaint was made to features and policies, particular- conditions there would be no
ARMED FORCES Customs Administration
In his review of the Govern- Mr Julius C, Holmes, Minister ly the broadcasting of Com- ¿ffective protection against the sudden use of these ma.erials under Communist control
ment's economy measures, Sir at the United States Embassy munist views and principles- was tonight envisaged by Stafford Cripps. said that the in London, by Sir Ivone Kirk Ansociated Press.” 2. The Soviet Union proposes Peking Radio when it re-strength of the Armed Forces in patrick, who heads the German. that nations continue, as at preported a recently concluded April 1050 will be more on Section of the Foreign Office. sent, to own, operate and man
already given age facilities making or using meeting of Customs chiefs 20,000 below the figure of 750,000 to which the
dangerous quantities of atomic held in the Red capital.
The Chancelier explained that materials. The other five Powers Mr. Chen Yum, Chairman of the annual saving of £30,000, believe that under such condi- the Committee of Finance and 000 proposed will also accrue in
Munich Oct, 20-4 twin- tions it would be impossible to Economics of the Communist the following felds detect or prevent the diversion Government, which called the 1. A substantial reduction in
engined. Yugoslav plane, stated. to be bound for Britain carrying. of such materials for use in meeting, told the delegates that headquarters staff.
alone passenger who refuses the "new. Customs House" would 2. A reduction in the train atomic weapons.
to give his name, made an 3. The Soviet Union pro-have close relations with foreigning, maintenance and adminis-
emergency landing hero, today: a system of control de- trade and that the People's trailve establishment. posed a
3. Economies in works pro
because of bad weather. pending on periodic inspection Government was willing to
Ic the .first interview, The plane, which had a crow of facilities, whose existence the trade with all countries "on the grammes, particularly overseas.
and of national government concerned principles of equality and Stafford sold that Britain published in German
3,000 pounds of tobac- would
to the interna- mutual benefit," Wonal agency, supplemented by FUNDAMENTAL CHANCE inns or credits to other coun-, Mr McCloy was reported to co.
agency
The Yugoslav Consulate sald special investigations on suspic- He also said that a funda- trips, except in very special have called for an end to "pur ion of treaty violation...
poseless dismantling" of indus-that it could give no information total Tho
le as to the passenger's identity. The other Ave Powers belleve mental change had to be made cases.
to transform what he called
administrative
was quoted as saying that Router. that periodic inspection would "the Customs Houso controlled ravings being made by the trial plants in the Ruhr. not prevent the diversion of by Imperialism" in the last 100 Government should be reckoned "even the British would wel dangerous materials and that years into a "Customs House In terms of manpower as well come an end to dismantling. the special investigations en which served the people."
-money. At a rough estimato Main tusies of the now Cus-the proposals would mean a re- visaged would be wholly In- suficient to provent clandestine tems establishment were set outrtion in civil domstments of
ns follows: activities.
not leng than 10,000 people by cord shows that The record
1. The protection of all logi- the end of 1050, thero fundamental difference Umain foreign trade, between East and West not only on methods but also en alms
The document la expected next to be debated in the General Assembly-Router.:;::
and then went to India, where he became a Gurkha. He took to the Gurkhas and the Gurkhas took to him, and for the men of our Garrison who hail from Nepal his visit will be a doubly important occasion. Field Marshal Slim commanded the victorious 14th Army in Burian. The 14th was once known as the "Forgetten Army” Slim and his men made it the "Never To be Forgotten Army." It was not without wisdom that the Government appointed him Chief of the Imperial General Staff. Hongkong bida... him a hourly welcome.
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could not afford to give further British nowspapers on October fear was also-ainted to be
2 Co-ordination with other EXPORTS FALL
Sir Stafford explained further Government departments in carrying out policles of foreign that exports have fallen, from trade control and the collection 158 percent, of 1988 in the first of tariffs Reuters
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