China Makes Moscow Headlines
Moscow, Feb. 1.-Tho Soviet press devoted consi- derable space to China to- day, but after seven weeks of Sino-Russian negotiations here, there is still no pub lication of any top-level official statement on what is transpiring.
Prominently displayed
WOH
Une denini from Peking of the Washington story carried by the United Press, which quoted the State Department spokes man, Mr Michael McDermott, States tu buying
the United
Government is inclined to be- lieve that the Soviet Union
heavy demands
Communist China,
15
on
Pravdo carried a dispatch from ency oftelat news China's describing the story of alleged agreements between Moscow vi fabrications Errstn Teking beginning to end. One
dispatch
518
in Pravda entled Mr Acheron's Press Club speech "new State Department fuluiflentions." Onu dispatch
trunchi ro-
was an
port which sold that the forme
Vice-Consul there, American Douglas Macklernan, was deeply involved in spying and to the fighting netivities of local bandi groups.
A dispatch from Peking
Tibetan rujiresen- ported that tatives
demanded there tad Lutonomy for Tibet within the Chinese Communist state,
NOT INDEPENDENT
Foreign
observers
that Sinking and the
Asserted
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1950,
Conversation Piece
WAY OPEN FOR RECOGNITION OF BAO DAI REGIME
Washington, Feb. 1.-Secretary of State Dean Acheson said today that French parliamentary ac- ceptance of the Bao Dai regime in Indo-China-ex- pected in a few days will open the way to recogni«. tion of the French-sponsored Vietnam Government.
At his weekly press conference, Mr Acheson issued a statement admitting that the Russian re- cognition of the rival Communist leader, Ho Chi- minh, came as a surprise. He said, however, that this action should remove any illusions as to the so-called nationalist nature of the Ho Chi-minh
POCKET CARTOON by 'OSBERT LANCASTER
PRIVATI
LABORA
(t's
"Once and for all, Alfred, will you please, realisa practically na comfort to me to be told We've got some thing far. sar nastier up our alecues.**
At the premiere of "The Blue Lamp" in London: government, and should reveal Ho's true colours. BEVIN
Sir Stafford Cripps, (left), Chancellor of the Exchequer, sits in his overcont, Lady Cripps wears a Chinese jac- kel, and the Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee, looks dapper and Immaculate in his dinner Jacket.~(London Express Service).
PROBABLE TORY CABINET
London, Feb. 1.-Mr Winston Churchill will form a Cabinet of experienced but comparatively young men if the Conservative Party, which he heads, wins the general election.
A survey of political sources today listed
there
likely choices for top jobs: SOUTH KOREA
Deputy Printe
Minister and
APPEALS
BULGARIA
CHOOSES
Although Mr Acheson did not say sepecifically the United States would re- cognise Bao Dai, he said |
HAS
CONFERENCE
that. French parliamentary WITH SFORZA
ratification of the agree ment establishing an inde-i
Rome, Feb. 1.-The Bri-
CHERVENKOV pendent Vietnam ander Bao tish Foreign Secretary. Mr
Sofia, Feb. 1. Chervenkov was unanimous iv élected Premier by the Bulgarinn Parliament to- day.
He surveeds the late Vassil Kolarov, who died two weeks
areas,"
specifically
the
muve-
much
must look to a new future in their relations.
"The two countries have so In common. We must in the great together tasks facing Europe.
He congratulated the Italian
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Dai would open the way to Ernest Bevin, told journ- Valko recognition by "countries of alists today. that he had
world whose policies
come to Italy "to try to the support the development of understand the views of the
national indepen- Italian
and Government genuine dence in former colonial people and with the hope that I can explain to them Asked
our views." Unlied States would recognise Mr Bevin suid that Britain Bao Dal, the Secretary of State:
to his statement and and Italy Chervenkov, born in 1900, was referred · elected
Vice-President of the would not comment further.
of Mr Acheson's Council of Ministers Inst August. The lex
follows: Re- £12 An active member of the statement reads Bulgarlan Communist Party cognition by the Kremlin of Ho work
appointed Chi-ninh's Communist since 1919, he was
millee and the Politburo in October 1944.
Moscow-trained, he was sen-
In absentin in tenced to death 11823 for his part in Communist
uprisings in Soils.
He was waxed the Russian Len Medal during the war for Minister of Health; Mr Wal-Washington, taras appeal his part in the struggle against
Fascirm.
be no change in There wit the composition of the Hulgurion Cabinet,
Vladimir proceed Minister Foreign Peptomov, Raiko Damianov Georgi Tralkoy will continue an
with Vice-President.
Man Leader of the Home of Com- churian provinces will remains: Mr Anthony Exten, aged integral parts of
the
Chin
52.
Lørd
Minister of Labour: Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, 49,
fer Elliot, 61.
under no circumstances form in-
Serretary: Poreitni attach dependent statęs
the USSR, what-Salisbury, 56, or Mr 1. A. hit- themselves 10
ler, 47. ever local autonomy they may enjoy in the Chluese federation. sald that These observers Outer Mongolia, now known
"Mongolian People's Res same pubile," was not in the
since its independent category,
the statehood is recognised. by Soviet-Chimse treaty of 1945. whereafter even the Nationalistă abandoned claims to this former Camose territory. It is belleved here, that there is no reason to cxpect any change in Mongolin's status,United Press.
Board of} t President
the Trade: Mr Oliver Lytleton, 5th Minister of fact and Power: Mir Claude Granville Linenster, 50.
''
Mir
Minister of Defence, Brenden Bracken, 45, -
Colonial Secretary: Mr Harold
DARK DAYS McMillan, 56.
AHEAD FOR
DENMARK
Copenhagen, Feb, 1.A leading Danish economist today said that Denmark faced difficult financial days and foresaw the possibility of even a general strike.
Minister
FOR U.S. AID·
Washington; Feb. The South Korean Republic, through its Ambassador in'
Con-
to the United States gress for economic nid.
The House of Representatives fortnight go rejected a $60,- for the 000,000 aid programme Republic, but a new Korean Aid.
is now being prepared for tamissoin to Congress,
The Korean Ambassador, Mr John M. Chang, today sent to Vice-President Alben Barkley, | President of the Senate, the text of a statement of the need for Mr aid received from the Choirman of the National Assembly of the Korean Republic.
of Transport: Peter Themeyernft, 40.
Chancellor of the Exchequer: Mr Oliver Stanley. 53.
Minister of Food: Lord Wool- 4, 66, or Mr William Morrison,
56.
LABOUR FAVOURED
orlds
by
to the
"Since
a member of the Centrul Com- | men in Indo-China comes as "Government on its "good work
110 019
elected to all the vacancy made by Cherventor's new appoint-
int.--Associated Press,
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Country PUBS
The statement read: the liberation of our from Jupanese imperialison, we have been fighting the cominati enemy of all democratic peoples -national Communism,
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TO-MORROW
Count Curio talk with the Foreign Minister, Tyrong Power, Gene Tierney
Sforzh
Surprise,
of reconstruction in the face of ment of this
shouldi movement
enormous culties," remove any illusions as to the
Mr Bevin spoke to about 80 "itionalist" nature of Ho Chi-Italir and foreign Journalisis minh's alms, and reveals Ho in the Hall of Victory of the his true colours as the mortai Foreign Office after un hour's enemy of native independence
tle in Indo-China. Although tited in an effort to cloud the transfer will leave Rome by train for of sovereignty by France to the legal government of Laos, Cam-
POLICY IN AFRICA bodi and Vietnam, we
we have
Anglo-Italian conflicts off reason to believe
that every those
will policy in Africa are understood legal governments will to have been the main subject
In their development towards stable governments re the Italian Pronier and Foreign of Mr Bevin's discussions with parenting the true nationalist
Allister, semiments of the more than 25
Later
million people of Indo-China,
Britain tomorrow morning.
"That Wonderful
Urge"
BROADWAY
AIR CONDITIONED
he told journalists: and Britain must clo "Italy MANY RUMOURS
the door over the past and look The French action in trans- to a new future in their rela- FINAL SHOWING TO-DAY ferring sovereignty to Vietnam. tions, The two countries have 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 P.M.
Lous and Cambodia, has been to
We must work together in the great tasks lug the French ratification that face Europe." which is expected within a few
process for some time. Follow much in common.
days, the way
A Now Irresistibly Funny
Teamed. Both Mr Bevin and Count Granger
with
way will be open for Sforza were smiling broadly as France's Most Fascinating the recognition of there legal they emerged from their one- Star......
Rovernments by thore countries
hour talks to fave
cameramen
of the world whose policies up and Journalists-Reuter
port the development of genuine national independence in for- mer colonlat rens, Ambassador Jessup has already expressed to
Mr G. Gandil, chief of the the thirties and during the war. Kor 19 of the failure of the Palace, wos performed in soleinn established
"Business Information Council," salt that Denmark would not bemeft as much as other coun tries from the Paris decision. for Marshall Ald countries to free half of their Imports.
Countries like Denmark with he state bulk buying and selling" had to free considerably more Hems than where the bulk of oversens trade was done by the state, he salti
Mr Gandil's opinion was that abolition of state buying in Brital and other countries was the only way of effecting real improvement in European trade.
Denmark's general situation was difcutt
3. ARTHUR RANK PRESENTS
STEWART
Keeping Peace GRANGER
In Kashmir
we have election
"In Lastest
this struggle
London, Feb. 1. -- from the great help feading bookmakers quote the received Labour Party-an-ide-onUnited States. We are deeply Board of Green Cloth gave the Emperor Bao Dai our best grateful for this generous help. the five-Royal-pubs their wishes-for-prosperity and stabl favourite ng 4 to 7.
lity in Vietnam, and the hope But
licences for 1950 today. dis- we were grievously Mr Eden a known
appointed when we learned on world generally for his work as
The ceremony at Buckingham that close relationship will be
betweentes"
Vietnuun Britain's Foreign Secretary in
y
United States." the Aki Dill in the
600 years t House observance of a law
Asked for comment on of Representatives, for we re- nit. This gives the King ron- fle L also Deputy Leader of the of Party, acting as its chief in and gard our country as a bulwark trol of drinking places on the long duration of these conter Nations Association pro- ragainst Communism in Asia, "verge" or border of "the Palace ences and of the visit of the out of Parliament when Mr
Communist Chinese Churchill is out of the country, and our fight is not alone for of Whitehall."
Most sources expect that Mr ourselves Churchill, should! he become the demineratic
would world Prime Minister min.
want Mr Eden to handle, 2 Deputy
INCONVENIENT
Lord Salisbury acted as Me Brien's Parliamentary Foreign Anancial Under-Secretary from 1935
because 1930. He has also been Secre
to
year.
London, Feb. 1-A de- United the putation from the
leader,
EDWIGE
FEUILLERETM
that an international police Woman Ha
posed today to Mr Philip for but. on behalf of all
Except for a banquet hall Mao Tse-tung, to Moscow, Mr Noel-Baker, Secretary sald only Acheson
that there Commonwealth Relations. nations of the
which is now a Royal chapel.
Ite volunteered the Palace burned down in 1896, had been a great many rumours
and reports.
force should be formed to "We earnestly appeal to the The tradition lives on.
the comment that the invita- and Congress of the United States Prime Minister
All five of the puus, whose tion to representatives of Sin-keep the peace in Kashmir applied today, have Kiang is an interesting deve while a plebiscite is carried Leader of the House, the day to reconsider the Korean eco-owners
hut would not com-out among 4,000,000 inhabi This would nomic aid programme and we been doing business at the same lopment, by day problems,
free
ourselves leave
to both old stand for 400 years or more. ment further. to pledge Mr Churchil
tunts. policies prulent and wise expenditure They are the Silver Cross, the AUSTRIAN TREATY supervise the emeral
In- if any funds now so sorely Clarence, the Old Shades, the
told the press of the government,
Mr Acheson
The deputation, which needed for the political and Whitehall Court und
the Old
conference he is still hopeful of eluded Mr Price Holmics, Chair- economic welfare of the Ne- | Ship
making progress in the four-man of the Association's General public of Korea.”—Reuter,
The Board of Green Cloth is power
on the Austrian Council, and Mr C. U. Judd. talks a group of Royal retainers who ence treaty. He made us Secretary, suggested that the meet for this purpose BICE comment when fisked whether "Big Five" nations should not
is considerbyt a separate be It is headed by Sir Piers The
the force. represented in DISAPPOINTED
Master of the King's peace treaty with Austria.
Agreement would first have to e also revented that he lis
be reached on the matter be- PENGHULUS "It
tween the Indian and Pakistan a pleasant formality received no reply to his Janu- Mr H. E. Roberts, who re-ary 20 note to Bulgaria threaten-
A Ministry spokesman said One source said, however,
Singapore, Feb. t.-A number presented the Old Ship, once a ing to break off diplomatic re- Governments, they added, time, she received less fur ex- that the Party might decide of Johore
haunt penghulus decided favourite
Admiral lations with her unless she with-
the Minister for the re-later that nd customers, parti- drew the demand
the suggestions "noted porta.
Danish workers were seeking was meonvenient for the For-they would like further educa-Nelson,"
eign Secretary ta sit in thelon In penghuluship
and ap-cularly Americans, love to see moval of Mr Donald Heath as
Ambassador to Sofia before him." higher wages, shorter hours House of Lords rather than the pronched the gate government cur Royal leenee."-Associated U.S..
The United Nations Associa United Press. The incene of the average Commons.
for a grant to proceed to Lon-Press.
PROTEST REJECTED
lion was formed here to ad- Dane was higher than warron-
writes for a course, In such an event, the choice don
vance the interest of the British Sovlet national Income.-- ted by the
would columnist in the Singapore Free
Paris, Feb. 1-The
people in the objects of the Foreign Secretary for Reuter.
Mr Butler, Mr Press.
Embassy here today rejected the probably be
United Nations Organisation. Butler is one of the Party's Penghulus are village head-
French 'protest against Russian chief policy writers. He also hos men who lead Malaya's village
of the Ho Chi ninh Reuter. Parliamentary Foreign communities, boon a Secretary, Minister of Educa- "It was, a brave effort," adds tion and briefly in 1945 Minus the writer, "but met with the ler
Labour-Associated thte they must, at heart, have of
expected."---Associated Press.
Dominions, now Commonwealin
of devaluation, he, anid. Sheary of the Colonies and for the hind to ay more for her im porta from both dollar and Reintions,
the sterling areas. At
Kame
Cyrenaica's Demands
Feb.
1.-
Banghazi, Cyrenaica, the Eastern pro- vince of Libya, which was granted autonomy last year, is now pressing Britain for full and complete Indepen- dongo but in association with ber. ARTSThe British Resident here, Mr AE do Candolo, told Router today that memoranda setting forth these demands had been submitted to him by the ruler of, Cyrenales, the Emir Sayed Mohamed Idriss: Sonial, the Council of Ministers and politi cal parties.
The British Government in London had promised to give them full and early considera- tion, he added.
The delegation of the Tripoll
Nailonal Congrom, zei Lake Success, headed by Rashir, Bay Badawi, arrived here ixday from Cairo. It will, hold talks wifif the Emir Senust over the unity of Tripolitana and Cyren hien under Be the genuss
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The Soviet Embassy returned Bangkok. Feb. 1-To fore to the French Foreign Office
possible stall
Chinese Com-the note of protesi, sent yester munist infltration from Indo- day. It said that I could not China, Sium has banned barder "receive such note." crossings by Chinese except by French diplomatic quarters, Pish.
commenting on the Soviet Thailand formerly had rejection, said: "Soviet procedure
with Bur- ciprocal agreements
not normal trom the very ma and Indo-China to permit start in this affair, but we are border crossings for Trading surprised at such a move from 1 country which is an ally of Violators of the new order, France." which has gone out to polled These quarters declined to authorities in the 28 border
comment on the future course provincts, will be brought to
Government, of the French Bangkok for banishment 10
which "cannot be decided at a Indo-China,~Associated Press.
short notice on such Important Jssues."
purposes.
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