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VOL. IV NO. 306
Held 12 Days.
Jacobson Returns To Vienna
French Assembly Nears Crucial Vote On Budget
Paris, Dec. 28. The National Assembly wound up its first going-over of the controversial 1950 budget in preparation for a confidence vote showdown with Premier Georges Bidault's coali- tion government some time on Friday.
The Assembly had gone through 48 of the budget's 50 articles by the time it adjourned at 2140 GMT. M. Bidault demander confidence votes on the other two, A and they probably will be taken early on Friday. hostile Asserably had slapped the government down with four more defents today and M, Bidaalt decided Lo gamble everything on a showdown confidence vote.
to accept concessions The Government's position | prepared grew critical on the tight rather than bring about the fall
of the Government. over the record high budget
The Government is trying to neared its cluse. M. Bidnult persuade the Assembly to ratify barely escaped with a slim specie six-vote majority in the pre-
measures
4:31 expenditure
liminary debate on Saturworks-Reuter.
day, and Assembly hostility has been Increasing since then.
During the past 24 hours the Kovertument has been battered four times with adverse votes but significant on non-crucial budget proposals, bu! M. Bidault did not make any of them a confidence issue.
The defeats meant not only
of face but also loss of los neme 43,000,000,000 franes u revenue on which the Cabinet had counted to help balance the budget at 2,275,000,000,000 frants (US$0,000,000,000). - United Press.
taxation
on pubiic
Arms Aid
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1949.
Angus Ward Homeward Bound
Talks To Acheson Urged To Open Soon Review American
Vienna, Dec. 28-urnel Jacobson returned to Vienna from a 12-day stay in n today Budapest prison "really convinced the Hun- garians
1 thought
WILH guilty of espionage."
He said he was treated "fairly
London, Dec. 28.-Anglo- woll after the first five days,"
American negotiations are Before that he was given very allowed only little food and
BOON in expected to open brief snatches of sleep.
Washington to fix Britain's of the
CABINET MEETS The former Director
share of the $1,000,000,000 --American
Distribution Jolut
Paris, Dec.
for Allica" 28-France's "Arma Committee in Hungary said he
questioned Coalition Cabinet met hurriedly | gramme as a result of the continually about his relations with Rebart at lunch time today to discuss instructions now
on their the Briton, | progress in the National Assem- A. Vogeler and
bly's critical debate on its 1950 way to the British Ambas- Edgar Bandera, who have been
andor, Sir Oliver Franks, an held by the flungarians for budget.
said authoritative Nource nearly six weeks on charges of espionage.
Re-here today.
WTLE
They met under the chair- He said he told the Hun- mauship of the Popular garians he did not know ether publican Prime Minister, M. run and was told in return that Georges Bidault, who had this fate of his Vogeler admitted their friend-morning put the
two-month-old Cabinet in the ship.
Assembly's hands.
EXPLANATIONS
Mr JacobeoD was kept at police headquarters in Budapest and not allowed to see anyone from the Legation He was told nothing about Mr Vogeler and Mr Sanders except they being held, sald Mr bbcon
arrested soon after crased the Hungarian
that
he was had ho
border WDS
prison
on December 15. He
taken to the Budapest
and kept there until his re- lease yesterday afternoon, he said.
The questioning centred
on
He
pro-
;
Near East Policy
Washington, Dec. 28. Republican Congressman Jacob Javits today urged- & -reyłów of United States policy in the Near East where he said a "second round' in tho Arab-Israel) was may be imminent. Javiti visited the Near East this year as a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee
Arab states as a buffer against further Communist expansion.
"It is my considered view, however, that the danger of minus of these · arms, for assault against Israel may well prove to be imminent with all Immediate grievous conse
Bl
He wrote to the Secretary of State. Mr Dean Acheson, tonight that British inilitary Before the instructions were shipments to the Arabs aro sent, members of the Cabinet, including the Foreign Secretary, furcing an armis race be Mr Ernest Bevin, approved the tween the Jews and Arabs, terms of the latest AmericanHe said that shipments were
quenses thal would imply. The debate had gone on all proposals as a basis of negotia-being made to Iraq, Hasie- while the effectiveness of their
tion, the source said,
une against Communist expan- through the night and was ex-
mite Jordan, Egypt and after the luncheon
sion, considering the record of pected,
to reach morc These proposals went a long perhaps Syria.
Arab states in World War II. adjournment,
decisions
"Reports way to meet the Bri.ish objec-
of shipments ofis problematteal and certainly important budgetary
the original United naval frigates and jet fighter
not imminent. with more Government requeste tons to for votes of confidence.
druft These States
for a bilateral planes to Egypt are quite openly
the the mutual made. under
"Communist danger to There are also Brous votes on Individual clauses-two agreement
of Near East would certainly in- of shipments taken in suc- so far--will bo
defence assistance programme.
reports cession 24 hours after the end
namoured cars, German tanks crease most in the confusion In- of the debate, probably
rifs. Reports
eldent to the renewal of armed of the
Arab
Israel."- action against morrow night.
United Press.
The to-
secures
VISIT. TO ISRAEL London, Dec. 28.Six British Party delegates, in- cluding two Member of Parlia- Israel ment, left Londor for
source said that most but not all points of difference British Insistence on the free- ! between the two countries had dom to ship arins Overvess oul. If the Government them all a general vote for the been ironed out. It had not yet side of these obtained from us been finally settled under what under the mutual defence assis- whole budget will follow.
Britain might send tance programme would s:cni Labour France's battle of taxes" conditiona
arma and military equipment to bear out these reports too," the alleged espionage activities now 38 days' old and observers
outside the North Atlantic area said Representative Javits. and of Jacobson himself
that the believe
the fate of the Government depends
such as Malaya on the to territories
He added: "The quantity and air today for a visit at the Arub
by and
States bound land talten by the Radicals.
character of arms sold may be invitation of the General Federa- The Radicals are opposed to treaty with the United King-
open to some diference of fact, new taxatlon, but they may be dom-Heuter,
but I ant satisfied there a little ship. question that important ments are taking place. Argu ments mado to support shipments to Arab states from treaty errungements are. of course, that they are neces- sary to establish the morale of
AJDC as an organisation. was also asked about the alleged activities of the AIDC in help- (Continued,on Page 5)
EDITORIAL
Mountain-razing Excitement
THE excitement created by Andrei Y.
Vyshinsky's announcement that the Soviet Union was using atomic energy to raze mountains, irrigate deserts and make people happy has not yet subsided. Much ink has been spilled on the mountain part of the announcement. According to some translators, Vyshinsky said that mountains had been moved, according to others that mountain had been razed. A1 best, "moving mountains" is mere rhetoric. Razing mountains by blowing them up piecemeal undoubtedly was meant. Giving Vyshinsky, the benefit of this slight doubt, the question still remains: Why should Russia, waste atomic bombs, of which she cannot have many, on blasting mountains when high explosives would be cheaper and in the end more effective?
There would be no radioactive rock and earth to endanger lives. An atomic bomb is the equivalent in explosive power of 20,000 tons of TNT, we were told when the historic
Alamogordo experiment of was made in 1945, But this is a theoretical value. In his recently published book, "Fear, War and the Bomb," Nobel Prize. winner Prof. P. S. Blackett cuts this
theoretical value down to 2,000 tons on the strength of what high explosives. accomplished in Germany. The reduction. seems reasonable to observers. It. is for easier to make 2,000 tons of TNT. or any other high explosive than to con- vert enough uranium 238 Into plutonium.
If the Russians are doing any mountain- razing and we have no doubt that they are doing some is more likely that they are making dirt and rock By wh high explosive than with atomic energy suddenly released. The problem presented by radioactive earth and rock is not easily solved. The ground over which the test bomb exploded in 1945 at Alamogordo remained radioactive for months. The which radioactive ships at Bikini over water splashed were so "hot" that sailors who had to go on board remained there for only limited periods. At least one ship. had to be sunk long after the explosion. So would it be with the material blasted out of a mountain by atomic energy. Even though the Russians would not hesitate to use prisoners in concentration camps to remove dangerous radioactive earth and rock, there comes a 'point where not incurred even workers who haYO
must handle the official displeasure material that is hauled away. It is worth noting that no official statement on this subject has come from Moscow. Vyshin. sky relies on a dispatch trom Tass, the Soviet news agency, which, thougn controlled by the Government, is given to exaggeration. The Tass dispatchi to have been embroidered by a -Berlin paper, Nacht Express, with the
result
that has called forth so much comment.
seems
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The
Union
Mr
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Mr Angus Ward, former U.S. Consul-General Mukden, with Mrs Ward just after boarding the ship Lakeland Victory at Taku Bar, China. Ward had been held in gaol for 28 days by Chinese Com- munist officials who claim- ed he had beaten a Chin- ese employee. He is now on his way to the United States. (AP Picture).
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Colombo Conference Problems
LONDON, DEC. 28. THE EIGHT- NATION COMMONWEALTH CONFER- ENCE AT COLOMBO WILL DEVOTE IT- SELF LARGELY TO A CRUCIAL PROPOSI- TION: HOW THE BRitish comMON- WEALTH OF NATIONS CAN PROMOTE STABILITY AND ECONOMIC IMPROVE- MENT IN ASIA, ACCORDING TO A POLI- TICAL SOURCE. ·
This means that Mr Ernest Bevin and his fellow Foreign Ministers will concern themselves generally with four chief menaces, present or pos- sible, to Asiatic peace and stability;
Quirino Summons Congress
1. A Communist, victory In Chíriä, with the prospect of Communist infiltration. southward into India, Pakls- tan, Malaya, Siam, Burma, and Indo-China. The con- ferenco will discuss future- post-recognition - Common- wealth polley towards Com munist China. ·
2. The problem of a resur
The conference
Manila, Dec. 29,--Presl gent Japan.
dent Elpidio Quirino tossed will re-examine Commonwealth the controversial Import terms for a peace treaty with It will most certainly Japan control law into the laps of insist that a treaty be drafted by the special pession of Con- the 11 members of the Thr gress summoned to start Eastern Comunission, and hot. work at the unprecedented as the Soviet Union has so
insisted, by the Foreign Minis hour of 7.50 a.m. tomorrow, conference, of which December 30,
Britain alone of the Commons.
z member. wealth nations la
3. The Commonwealth's own.
as: the internal stresses such
The emergency authority of the President to issue rules and of luxury and non-essential between India
BATTLE TO regulations to control Imports almost full-scale economic war
SAVE
LIFE
to
goods expires on December 31. now revealed by India's déclatori Since Congress can hardly de- bale detalls of a permanent law governing Imports, soma circles expect the emergency
OF PANDA authority will be extended.
and Pakistan,
supplies to suspend coal Pukistan
retaliation Pakistan's fallure to raw jute to India,
OECONOMIC AID
for deliver
4. The menace of incipient There has been sharp criti-
to continue cisms of the import curbs by poverty or how 28. The business London. Dec.
circles which would and expand economic assistance London Zoo authorities to- rather see high tariffs placed so far, Western aid has largely on to Southern and Southeast Asia. day started injecting the so-called luxury items than the
the form of British giant panda, Lien-Ho, with drastic ban instituted a month assumed
balances
released to Vitamin B concentrations 40 which cute entry of some Stering
as DB percent. India and Pakistan. Can me items as much to save her life.
The situation was further
of private-investment. COTT→
Marshall
1100 Ald"
.be. How .pe. plicated foday by an order of
This seems needful,
kind
They now have sufficient sup the Import Control Board which devetly if Britain is to suc
ruled that unfulfilled import aquotas held by many Arma will ceed in scaling down its three billion pounds worth of Sterling be allowed to lapse.
Hablities. balance
these
piles of young bamboo shoots for her diet. These supplies were received in response to broadenst appeal yesterday.
Lien-Ho, now aged five, was presented to the
Zoo by the Government Provincial Szechuan, China, in May 1940, and became It nine days ago. Tho cause of her illness is not known exactly, but it is thought to the shortage of to be due
bamboo shoots sultable young
of
in her diet in recent months.
Her prodecessor, Ming, one of
in 1038, died during the Christ-
President Quirino will be in- augurated four hours after the
session starts Associated Press
Bevin In Rome
Rome, Dec. 28.The British Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, pale but smiling, arrived here by
Reuter,
topics, Mr Beyond Bevin, for Britain, will be seeking to deflate any Common- wealth suspiclon that as Britain to collaboration moves closer with Western Europe via OEEC and the Council of Europe it. will
perfores move away from the Commonwealth.
this
and verse
tion of Jewish Labour
What Air Beyin is likely to delegation comprices Miss
is that EDY
Feore Alice Bacon, Member of Parlia
train tonight on his Commonwealth interests-will-in- ment, and Mr Sam Watson,
five which arrived in England peray to the Commonwealth no way be allowed to become arms representing the Labour Party:
Foreign Ministers conference secondary to those of Western aside Mr J. G. Baty and Mr D, B. mas of 1844. The other four in Ceylon. After spending the Union. But he will also have
Thornycroft, representing the lived only for a short while. Trades
night at the British Embassy he chupler
Tendy to Congress, William
will fly to Port Sald tomorrow illustrate how closely interlinked Coldrick, Member of Lien-Ho was so weak yester- Parliament, and Mr J. 11. Todd, day that she kept falling as she to join a British warship which are the interests of the Common-
to Colombo, wealth and Western Europe presenting the Co-operative tried to walk round her cage.will take him
how their trade is complemen Movement.-Reuter,
Reuter,
tary for instance, and can expand to everyone's benefit.
COMMON VIEWPOINT - The conference, which is A bush fire, sighted early thir
expected to last about 10 days, will make no final decisions morning in the area around Shelter Bay, is believed to have
The aim is to assure that all been started by the pilot who
eight Commonwealth nations Britain
Canada, Austraila, Now bailed out from a Spitfire over Mirs Bay yesterday morning.
taken be-Zealand, India, Pakistan, Cey Spitfires, Sunderlands and
in the dispute be- Company provided the dismissal cattse workers have had no re-lon and South Africa-have the to discuss crticlal Harvards planes with policemente
notices were cancelled,
ply to their demands for 'n $3 upportunity and naval launches were out tween the Hongkong Tram-} This morning an official of day special allowance. When problems and arrive at a until dark last night searching ways Ltd. and their workers, the Company told a Telegraph they met representatives of the mon point of view. Once the area where the Spitfire was and for the second day no reporter that the management Company yesterday morning, it common viewpoint is attained, trams will run in Hongkong and not been approached by the was explained to them that the
workers. following yesterday's etter demanding the increase out its own policies in the light
Tram Dispute Unchanged;
Buses Running As Usual
There are no new develop- to reopen negotiations with the
Tram
are conductors.
workers are still ro-
This action was
each country
com-
ก
can then work
Commonwealth-discussions, does
though. to have crashed due to engine trouble,
They were out again et Orststreets today.
drastic action. The manage- light this morning. and with The threatened go-slow
by meht was not approaching thead been received on December of its own circumstances.
Owing 23.
to the Christmas This non-rigid Ppproach, them were two destroyers,
~mployees of the China Bus workers, he said, although it was holidays there had been no time which characterises virtually all Company, however, is still only anxious to resume services as to consider it.
heoretical. An official of the soon as possible.
to. Today an ultimatum is be not mean that the conference Princess Back
Company said this morning The Company employs about
is not exceptionally important. hat buses were running as 2,000 workmen, of whom 400 sued to the Company demand- In London
Ing a satisfactory reply by The whole Western world is Tsual.
Last night's decision of 100 Saturday. If one is not received coming to realise the necessity 20-Princess London, Dec.
The United "further measures." In Southeast Asia, o take overing from the shock they employees of the China Bus by then, the workers threaten of raising, the standard of life Elizabeth landed at London Air-
xcolved yesterday when the Company to start go-slow tactics what these measures will be it States President Truman has port this afternoon on her re-
dismissed nanagement
sum-'oday does not cocin
discussed the possibilities of to have turn from Malta.
is not stated. Looking very well
narily all conductors for failing been put into effect.
An official of the Bur Com-American, Investment in "back our meeting at
Common- Ata three-hour
areas." The D. collect f res.
pany told the Telegraph this word burnt from her stay in Malta.
Unlon After seeing the notice of dis- the Motor Bus Drivers
morning that they had had no wealth Foreign Ministers may the Princess told Airport official who greeted her that she had missal posted outside the Russell in Queen's Road East it was chance to consider the workers' Indeed discuss what further Economic Esúlstanco enjoyed her stay and had a very Street depot yesterday morning, decided not to drive buses at demands. He hoped to arrange forms of
de than 16 plensant night back.
the workers held two meetings. more
miles an hour board meeting before. Satui- can be provided in conjunction She is expected to slay at They decided to stand by their Following a
comply that
one would take place this off Communism which thrives Clarence House, her London claim for an extra 330 a month they run a heated discussion day, but he could not promise with the United States to fend
on hunger and poverty, 7-3 home, for a few days before special allowance and increased with the fimit of standing pag week
Bus workers are holding an-"
Obviously, if Britain is at any going to Sandringham to join was for drivers to bring thera sengers as not down in the Com her son, Prince Charles the into the sklo rtian clasu. pany regulations and decided to other meeting today, after which time to scale down' lis Bierling King and Queen and Princes At the meetings, however, the work no overtime, even with the ultimatum is to be handed balances-warilma debis owed,
(Continued on' Fare 5). Margaret Reuter,/!:
workers stated their willingness overtime pay.
and sun-
sa | to- tho, managemenL: