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FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 1950.
Strachey Violently Attacked
Mr John Strachey
ATTLEE
COUNSELS
MODERATION
London, Mar. 21 The
On MI5 Purge Developments
PAC
“AN AVOWED COMMUNISTA.
London, Mar. 2. The Prime Minister, Mr Attles, today ordered a full investigation of Britain's secret service as a result of the Klaus Fuchs spy trial.
The minister he placed in charge of the probe was prompt- Hy-branded "Communist by Lod Beaverbrook's Press.
The Prime Minister gavo direct orders to the!
War Minister. Mr John Strachey, to inquire into LABOUR'S how Fuchs could have passed Anglo-American! atomic secrets to the Russians → even going to the] Soviet Embassy in London with vital information LIUNIOR --under the nose of the War Ministry's vaunted] intelligence service.
MINISTERS
Prime Minister, Mr Attach Lond Beaves broad's Evening i Derus ions between Britain,
London, Mar. -The raid that Mi | the Vettel State and Canada on is peurally believed to have oddard tonight
ww hotak de velange of adonnie research Prine Minister, Mr Clement has given the For- pushed acido Labour's plan - I dan Strachey
Comm-erreds have been srpended in Aftlee. "travogred
for
it
further nationalisation as
-obviously would be definitely forowing the renteneign Secretary, Mr Ernest
yource here truing,
Ficha way
of industry and courts had one of the Ministers called on to efort of Khas moderntion at the first meet- Carry out a purge of M.I. 5,arned from a usually reliable Bevin, a new Foreign Par liamentary Under-Secretary, ing of his new Cabinet to Britain's Secret Servies,
Despite eller official denias He is Mr Ernest Albert John day.
The paper declared, "I be-
from London, Washington and Davies who succeeds Mr! that th Though there was no ufficial jeome known today"
Ottawa, diplomatie
quarters Christopher Mayhew. Mri Clement Ainister, Mr annoucement, the soft pedal: Perme has been in use since the general Attlee, had given the orders though it certain that all three Mayhew lost his seat in the
entries would have to over- haul their security services be-recent Election. fore any further useful discus-
ions could be hell.
election.
# full examination of the The Cabinet meeting was Service. secret. The goverment tradi- |
1.1. 5 is a department of the tionally refrains from running In
vance of the King's Speech War Office directly under the from the Throne which formally War Minister, Mr Strachey, ap
5 to the post
only 24,
ith
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42 an afterwards of the New | TRUMAN OBDURATE
Mr Davies, 48-year-old, la a journalist by profession. If activities of Klas Fuchs, was Editor of the Socialist wild admitted passing vital newspaper, Clarion, from 1939-
for Rusia on formation 10 opens Parliament. King Grorite
hoops ago.
have c'rian. ccasions sinte 1942, VI will deliver the Speech on Monday,
The Everg Standard linken public condidence In The Roy d adiles, the ju the new War Minister: "Ite existing security arrangemente Labour pro ratams will be fure remonts an avowed Cannareet mally thehet.
never publicly British new papers, in indrettet 1 his bef The Labour
pes, and remo? political observer, as Mr Att.
Te-
re-
Lir David was Parliamentary | Private-Secretary to Mr Hector
former Afinster
Oficials here till deny that MNGH
of
in Co-the a om talks in Washingtonotes for Foreign Affairs Mr eeled by a committee you tell was prometed to the
Scottish i anet
made posed of the British and Caun-Cabinet
Sir Ola Secretary. He was replied as dian Ambassadors,
Wront. | Porvin Affairs Minister of State į Franks and Me Hume
Defence by Mr Konnell Younger, for- American and Seeretary, Me feuls Johnson-i nate Pallantentary Secretary
to the Home Office, have broken down.
M: Strachey was th is likely b
hi crer" suspend original plan for his adved in the bit rid of
undoubten
isas sugar, vasaint, widny wenner,
Will Tere and wate meat dirtribution housing under ale ownership now front pressure to
demic from The War immediately.--Ansteinlet 199
Opfer," the Evening Standard
cleared
Rumanian Move
"I WAS
They hint that the committer, which has not met for several weeks, may sit again one
day.
in a painter though no further meetins have
been planned. Bucharest, Mar. 2-Runda: War Minister white Furn (Dr has asked Britain and America Klus Fuchs, intenced to 11 to close the Information Bureou year god here yesterday
bedtavkast Rusia) won remind and al-
committed 1 ready
of their Leilon here, the Rumanian
arency newa
Pounced tonight.-Reuter.
EDITORIAL
36437
ete
The new junior Ministers un- met tonight are as follower Parliamentary and Financial! Secretary to the Admiralty:-
Loonand James Callaghan,
Aidan
But for the moment, and until!
Air Mhry Parliamentary for the dust of the Fuchs case set-j
totles, there seems to be no doubt | Unlo-Seeretary: - Mr that the work has been halted.—| Meryville Crawley, wind". Reuter.
Mindstry of Civil Parliamentary
Crisis In New Territories
sudden appearance
of
Tample of crisis untung farmers
an made has been heartening,, But there is still a long way to go before the Calong can regard itself as self-supporting in vegetable cultivation, and rigid banning of nightsoil without offering suitable substitutes threatens to wreek the whole programate and nullify policy entirely. The proper answer may be found in the offer by a fertiliser expert mentioned in another page today, but whether or not his to Government conform suggestions requirements, something on parallel lines. must be done.
in the New Territories poses à problem likely to fall into the category of a matter It may be of high public importance.
the tirat immediately, and outwardly, people most affected are the farmers, but it follows automatically, if the situation develops seriously for the worse, that the and be widespread consequences will possibly disastrous. Two main issues Bre Involved. Of greatest importance at the mument is rent racketeering, an attempl by wealthy Innd-owners to profit then- selves out of present-day political con
demands have dition, In many enRES, been made requiring the doubling of 1949 reals.
Of an entirely different order is the Government's decision to cease the official Hupply of nightsoli fertilisers after the middle of this month. The reason for this is clear and, of course, neceptable, namely that no precaution can be overlooked which Is directed towards preservation of health It is and the prevention of epidemics.
in the particularly vital at this stage Colony's history, when gross overcrowding forced by political events over the border ja in itself a menace and a worrying headache to those responsible for preven- tive medleine on behalf of the Govern- Accepting that fact, and viewing rient. the official attitude with complete sympathy, does not alter the position of the former, or the public dependence on him to provide vegetables at reasonable As Mr Hurt, the Development prices. Officer, has pointed out, every encourage- ment has been given market gardeners to expand their activities and the progress
More difficulty arises in the matter unless the At least, of landlordism. government is prepared to deal with the Lin- situation on un emergency basis. fortunately, farming sites are not pro- Tenant tected by the Landlord and
The owners of property are Ordinance. legally entitled to extract double income at the expense of the farmer, or fo cause And his evletion if he refuses to pay, mony owners are doing so, or trying very hard. Government servants are powerless to check the practice in the absence of legal machinery. Plainly, its early pro- vision must be serlously considered. AU hinges, of course, on the responsibility of Government's attitude, whether they agree that the future of cultivation in the New Territories is a public concern. For our port, the anxieties alrendy expressed pro- vide all the token that is necessary. It is not merely a question of establishing security of tenure by New Territories farmers; it is also the need to create the must stable conditions possible, for the benefit not of the farmer but the general population. The sooner Government acts the better.
Frank Berwick.
Blank Refusal To Contemplate
Visit To Moscow
Washington, Mar. 2.-President Truman said today that he would never go to Moscow so long
s he was President of the United States.
AGAINST CHIANG
White House Talks
Washington, Mar. 2.
General Li
Tsung-jen told President Truman, the Defence Secretary, Mr Louis Johnson, and the Secretary of State Mr Dean Acheson, today why he has challenged Chiang Kai- shek's right to resume the presidency of Nationalist China.
The 105-minute conversation occurred during a luncheon Mr Truman gave Li. The Chinese ambassador, Dr Wellington V. K. Koo, interpreted for Li
Nobody would reveal Inter{
what happened. Mir Ache-
son told the United Press Grave Libel
that the White House Press Secretary, Mr Charles Ross, would make any announese | ments. Mr Johnson said he wonki defer to "the state-
In English
ment-ninker, Mr Acheson." Novel
Informel sources understood tieneral Ld told Preddent Tru-
for breaking kann his tea on with Chiann, and his hope for
London, Mar. 2-A London publishers today apologised in- the emergence of a "democratiet to Frederico Mandi, Aus- beral China" unter hts (L') ft and ex-husband of the film trian-bora Argentine Industria- undership
Mar Hedly Laniarr, for publishing murder mystery in which an ex-Austrian named Mand! was referred to as head of a gang.
Koo sald the huncheon was "most cordiat", but refused to say anythint further,
Li salt upon arrival that he had noth more to say about the Chinese politieni rituration at
time, but night statement fater.
As Dr Keo and
A substantiui sum" was poid in damages and costs and the haveaffending passages are being ex-
General L
were driven in their mousine
(rom the station, they were followed by a cavalende of about twenty ears belonging to Chinese resident and flying the Chinese Nationalist da
shook hands personally with each member of the Chi- nese community awaiting him at in station. He appeared the
rel tton spicita
exchanged jokes in Chinese with those who greeted him.
pung. fron further issues of the novel, Counsel for the de- teadants stated.
Mr Claude Duveen, represent- ing Mandl, said that his client had been known for many years Fritz Mandl and lived in as Austria until 1837, when he had to leave as he was "prominently Identitled, with the anti-Nazi Party".
defendants The
were the English publickers of a oval, "Front For Murder", with a Son Franelseo setting. Mr Daveen
CAREFUL COURSE American oficials steered t
In areful
nvold - oming entangled in the quarret | In It, the murdered man had been employed by a rang the President of over who la
led by a Fritz Mandi, an Aus- China,
trian ex-munitions manufacturer Informed sources said there in no diplomelic slenitence in the who had been kicked out of the Argenting and subsequently Im- fact that President Truman co- tertained . The methut was [prisoned in Uruguay. arranged at 7's request weeks
The defendants recognised that the statements in the novel Introd by Chlam
might be understood to refer to President.
While I took advantage of the plaintiff, who had not been the Argentine the meeting to exprers his view deported from
when Li was el recor- Acting
In even more categorical terms than on any previous occasion, the President at his weekly press Aviation anference rejected any possibility of his going to Moscow to discuss with Generalissimo Stalin means of ending current American-Soviet differ-n the strength of his personat sent to prison in Uruguay, or
Secretary:---Mc
Colonial Onice Parliamentary Under-Secretary:—Mr Thomas ences,
| Fotheringham. Cook,
Lord Bolden.
At the same time the Pre-
Chinatown
he
Commonwealth Relations Par-sident indicated that he was liamentary Under-Secretary-willing to see Generalissimo!
Stalin in Washington. Ministry of Food Parliamentary said that he would see any- Secretary: Stanley Norman
Lone who was willing to come Eyath.
to the United States.
Porch Office Parliamentary Ur-Secretary: Mr Ernest Albert John Davies.
Home Office Parliamentary Under-Secretary:-Mr Geoffrey S. de Freitas
The President added tirst he would object to nothing: that Iwould conribut. He would | co-operato whoh Wartedly.
anything that would contribute to world penc?. Ministry of Labour Purlis- mentary Secretary:Mr, Fre- The
these President made derick Lee,
staten.nl when he was naked Ministry of National In-1 comment on propaeuls for a Parance Parliamentary Seerc-new effort to reach a setile-
alomte energy try:-Air Harry Bernard Tayn.nt on
trol and
other interan tena Scottish Omce Parliamentary problcins between the Soviet Under Secretary:-Miss Mar-Union and the United States. gart McRorie Herbison.
The President also deuled re- the United States
lor.
Fren.
Alnistry of Town and Coun try Planning Parliamentary parts that Secretary: Mr George S. Lind-defence situation was deteriora- tit te rub that the national defence situ tion of the United States was in better shape than it had ever been at a time when the county was not at war.
Hoard of Trade Parliamentary Secretary:Mr Harvey Rind
Ministry of Transport Parlia- mentary
Secretary:-Lord Larra of Chilwerth.
Fire Tragedy
verre
Montreal, Mar. 2-Potir percons Cird and go Injured when fire swept thrigh a bloc of brick buildings and Chinese ettes in Montreal's China- fown tonight.
Lin Shew, 40-year-old when he Chinese, died Truped with clutires aflam from a third dusr whnlow-ssociated Pres4.
Murder
Mystery
Allegations
Vienna, Mar. 2-The Ameri- can authorities are inquiring into allegations by the Commu- A similarly optimistle pleturenist newspaper Volkstline that Eugene by the Presidem the death of Captain when he was questioned about Karpe, Amerlean Naval Attacke
Financial, Secretary to the Treasury-Mr Douglas Patrietas Blven Thomas Joy.
The other Junior Ministers being taken in the in Bucharest, whose body was are unchanged.-Reuter.
Sir Harry Lauder's
Funeral
United States to examine the found in a railway tunnet near loyally and security of indly!- Salzburg, had been instigated by Turnta working in the State the Amerlean Secret Service.
Department and other confiden
mees.
To support its theory the paper stated that it had made Inquiries about Russell Mc- Rebutting charges that he had Michan, 20-year-old American beca lax in investigating the who said that he was the last Hamilton, Scotland, Mar. loyalty of Individuals working
person sca Karpa alive. the Pre- 2-Sir Harry Lauder was buried for the Government,
McMichan wald that he had totlay beside his mother in the eldent said that he was the only been studying for a scholarship cemetery at Hamilton. Humble one who had taken any conerele in Vienna for three months.
that it Volkstimine claimed miners In shabby raluents helion in relation to such charges rubbed shoulders with Scottish .. that it was under his direc- nut starched the records of all University peers and notables in the parish tion that eases of loyalty and colleges of Vienna church where the funeral ser- rabotage had been investigated and found no trace of his name.
-Reuter vice was heldUnited Press. Bu far-Router.
position to China as contrasted commected (Contd. on Page 5, Col, 1} Reuter,
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