Lord Tedder To Head
Staff Mission In U.S.
of the Royal Air Force London, Mar. 10-Marshal Lord Tedder, wartime deputy to the Supreme Allied become Commander, General Dwight Eisenhower, is to Chairman of the British Joint Services Mission In Washing-
ton.
Announcing the In the House of Commons today, the Defence Minister, Mr. Emanuel Shinwell, said that the new of Britain's Joint post of overall permanent Chairman Staff Mission had been created to mark the "high Imper- tance" the British Government attaches to "cur-represen- tation in Washlapton."
The holder will also become the British representa- Ilve on the Standing Group of the Noril Attantie Military Committee, Mr Shinwell added.
Benides the three neulor British Service ellefs In the Talled Slates, the Mission includes a representative of the Britain's atomic Ministry at Supply, which supervises
energy research and development progranume.
The Mission, which has continued since the early war year, in the Taison, aceticy with the American Services
on matters of joint interest.-Reuter.
Indian Textile
Exhibition
Opens In
London
London, Mar. 16.-An exhibition of some of India's loveliest textiles was opened by the High Commissioner. He took members of Me V. K. Krishna Menon, today. the British Government and Ambassadors from many countries on a tour of the "showroom" at India House containing the greatest display of Indian cottons and silks over seen here,
Squatters Problem
In Malaya
The Mr
London, Mar. 16. Colonial Secretary, James Griffiths, told Parlia- ment today that settlement Chinese of the 400,000 squatters in Malaya was a formidable task which would inevitably take time.
The High Commissioner said that through the ex- 10 hibition they wished make some contribution to 10 the export drive and Indo-British trade relation- ships.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, 1950,
Dutch And Indonesian Ministers To Confer
The Hague, Mar. 16.- Two Dutch Cabinet Minis- ters are leaving here today by air for Indonesia to at tend the first meeting of
the Ministers of the Nether- Union, landa Indoneulan
-
which WRB set up during the round-table conference on Indonesin last winter.
of
They are Professor J.N.M. Van den Brink, Minister Economic Affairs, and Mr L. Minister Without Cinetzen, Portfolio assisting with Overseas Territories.
The two Ministers will form the vanguard of strong Dutch delegation which will include Mr Johans Van Maarseveen, Minister for Unlon and Realm Affairs, Professor Peter Lief- tinck, Finance Minister, and a mumber of economic and poll- lical experts.
An advance agenda for the conference is not being drawn up. Instead, both Governments have exchanged lists of pruh, lems fueing the new Union,
The Indonesian Government is espected to regard the future of be a priority New Guinea to
bject
Other (or discusuton, problems include
nctual the functioning of the Union and its Secretarial, economic and slaan-
jaint cial
diplomalle problems arising the withdrawal of the from Dutch Army and the building up of an Indonesian Navy,
Spectacular results are not ex-
from pected
the conference.
repro mutlet
Later they hoped to hold ex-which will be largely explora- hibitions of raw materials undtory.
will almost Many problems other things so that the manu- facturers of Britain and other certainly he handed
ther study-Reuter. countries would be able to see commissions-of-experls-for-fur- what India produced.
ان
history the Sketeling textiles in India, the High Com missloner said that the art was of such antiquity that its origin alm:ost undiscoverable. The
n. kind of the textile uge was missing link, Evidence in stone and metal showed the hummin
Was
over to
Alluring Feature
Corino Calvet, French screen star of the picture "My Friend Irma Goes West," poses with a bust of herself sculptured by Judith Simmons of New York. The Manhattan sculptress believes that despite all the attention focussed on legs and Bgure, the area between the tip of the chin and the base of the neck remains one of the most alluring features of the body. (London Express Service).
Ingrid Bergman's Husband Contests
Kuo Mo-jo Suit For Child
passage from the non-textile 18 Waxes Hot
in India to have been
In a written reply to a queste 1,000 years ago, flou asking what progress had
Mr Harold Wilson, the Pre- been made in the matter. Mr Griffiths spid:
"The principle sident of the Board of Trade, has been accepted by the Sinte said he was glad to say that
of the varied
and
range of
Over Ban
San Francisco, Mar. 16.
Chinese Communist The exception the Vice-Premier. Kuo Mo-jo, Settlement Governments almost without that, wherever possible, squat-
quat-whole tera should be settled and given Indian textiles on show might has cabled to Mr Clement title to the land in the arens enter the United Kingdum mar-Attlee a strong protest "on where
they tready live, but ftet without hindrance to com- behalf where settlement of this peie freely for the approval of Chinese people" against the kind is not possible they should the consumer.
that
be moved to other areas
Funds have been made avali-
able by the Federation Guvern
DISPARITY
"Naturally," he added.
of the peace-loving
British Government's re- fusal to grant visas to the Soviet and Hungarian dele- Permanent ment for roads, drainage, police wish it were possible to say the
of the other esential services insane of the products of our gates
the World In-Committeo of unimportant textile the
settlements and existing
the Indian market. Peace Congress, according the new areas of resettlement, distry in
Unfortunately Mr Griffiths sald,
position to the Peking, Radio. reversed.
33
materials Reuter.
own
there
that in
the
man
Peter Lindstrom's Hollywood, Mar. 16.--Dr lawyer charged today that film star Ingrid Berg- was "unfit" to have custody of their 12-year- old daughter. The attorney, Isaac Pacht, said Dr of the child, Lindstrom would demand custody who "was apparently abandoned by Miss Berg- man.'
"
India Checks Travellers From Tibet
New Delhi,
Mar. 16.
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The Yemen Min Berg Protests To
He added that the doctor would fight the actress' suit for eustody of their daugh- ler.
The legal battle probably will be long and bitter. Dr Lind-
strom's attorney, the former Superior Judge Isane Pacht, said
London
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Mar. 16. ----
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The Swedish actress left her the alleged supply of arms Street entrance. husband and child for the island by British sources to tribes
to make a $1m
in the Indramaut, Southern Voluntary Organisations, such re
The essential enues
herto Rossellink She divorced the Maluyan Chinese Ar-
of this disparity is
Lindstrom lu Mexico only reliable source today. Prime of India is tightening border D
He left London today by alr coelution, have helped to pro-9
and building | that
15 striving
unjustified controls to check unexplain-February 3, 4 week after pre- transport vide
Kollini with
ason. for home. to solve her action completely runs countered "infiltration" of passport.
been in the squatters.-night and main for
The Minister has neute balance of
She led suit in Superior Court payments
British the to the desire of problem,
less travellers from Tibet. maintainin white
for custody of London for two months and has for peace.
late yesterday people
The Deputy Minister, Mr B.
her daughter and return plies of foodstuffo and row
Peking Itadio sald Kuo sent
ON SALE! "Vegetable Cultivation materiale ersential to the live-two similar cables to ho K. Keskar, sald on the floor of US$154,000 which she charged the frontier dispute with the
in lengkong" by Dr G. A. C India that lihood of her people and their Freuch
Dutch Premiers, Parliament
Dr Lindstrom was holding. Y:men and the British Proice-
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Mr Pachi said Dr Lindstrom Force greatly increased food produc-decision,
violates the what reason."
"yelcomes this opportunity to constructed fort in the disputed Morning Post and Hong Kong WILL FORMS, Power of Attorney tion, on the one hand, and for interests of world peace, be Im- He sald it was impossible to
all the facts in this area. expanded exports on the other mediately cancelled.**
of illegal Present estimate the
Lo California
It is believed that before the courts." Mr Wilhelm Drees was which together can restore the
because case
the doctor had dispute can be settled the prob- Denying that balance
and so
diplomatic re- to leading ex-mountain of payments
that his
pasang
of future act "completely
to threatened
to dispose of the lem onable India to impert
more
are 100 numerous
to couple's the criminal, bellicose India
Mr Pacht lations between Britain and The poses
property, London, Mar. 16.-Bri-enable
freely the goods needed to raise
the patrol thoroughly.
said Dr Lindstrom already had Yemen must be solved. Hitherto, Government has Dutch Government."-Unit:d Military check posts were re- made
mauc complete accounting of The Yemen established cently
key their
assels to Miss Berginan objected to diplomatic relations Himalayan
on through the and her lawyers. Such an ac-being carried and
Governor of of the 25 In Aden. "further steps to see that the Superior Court on March
tuation will not deteriorate."
with an order ob-
The Minister is understood to compliance
he tained by her counsel, said.
be taking back with him British Tibetan traders traditionally
Dr Lindstrom's sole interest
this problem.-- do not need passports or visos to
Reuter, was the welfare of their child proposals on enter India but Mr Keskur in-
the Government und her custody, Mr Pacht de- dicated that believed that the present indux cinred. He added: "He will be
not all Was
traders. United glad to abide by the decision of
the court Press,
COMET'S DOUBLE RECORD
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people.
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told travellers ace
tain's De Havilland Comet, the standard of living for her policy being pursued by the world's first all-jet air-millions
"I hope it is the intention of liner, made a double record
Indin light to and from Rome the Government of between breakfast and tea uther countries exhibitions in GANG ATTACK Kek sald Indla 13 taking ecuating would be presented in a c
Papal Envoy To Indonesia
to
IN ERITREA
those dollar markets
10 which time today.
nre of the With the Royal Air Force's increased exports
Asmara, Mar. 10-A Shifta night-fighter utmost importance to the Come famous wartime
and
gang. 25 strong, last night at pilot, Group Captain John Cun- monwealth as a whole,
the especially to India.Rcuter.
tacked a gokl mine some 20 ningham, at the controls,
miles south of Asmara, The Comet touched down at Hatfield
Is owned by Signor Guido mine Airport, London, this afternoon,
de Rosal, President of the Italo- minutes two hours and nine
Eritrean Association, who is on after leaving Rome.
active Intependentist Earlier today, the Comet set
The gang set fire to Installa- Vatican, Mar. 16-The Pope up a new record for the London
and Monsignor tions
offices valued at appointed to Rome flight in two hours and bus two minutes, flying at 40,000 Georges de Jonghe d'Ardoye, the £17,000.
The Shilla leader
was re- feet at an average speed of 460 Betrian Titular Archbishop of
Mistia, as Apostolic Internuncio ported to have said that he was
Ethiopian. The fight was described by a to the United States of Indone an
Six Independentists De Havilland offcial an "a nor sin, the Vatican announced to- mal routine test flight" to check day fuel consumption
miles an hour.
mance.
and perfor-
fafled
who
to return to Asmara trom The establishment of diplo Tecleban. 32 miles along the matte relations with Indonesia Keren Rond, after meeting the presumed to The previous London-Rome brings the number of countries Commission, are
contact have fallen into the hands of the record was held by Squadron in regular diplomatic Leader Neville Duke, who made with the Vatican to 39.Reuter. Shiftas-Reuter, the trip in 2 hrs, 30 mins, 68-2/5
secs in a Hawker Fury aircraft
in May 1949-Reuter,
SAN MARINO ELECTION
10. The
San Marino, Mar. packet republic of San Marino a 38-square mile sovereign sinto
of 15,000 inhabitants, perched high in the Appennine Moun- tonight elected two Chiefs
tains,
for
of State for the next six months. Known as "the Most Excellent Captains Morcellini and Primo Toddel re- present the Social Communists, who won the elections of Feb ruary 1948,
Regent," Giuseppe
In accordance with the Con- stitution, two members of the or Grand Council, 60-man Parliament, are appointed avery
six months to aci na Regents, who wield the executive power.
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Paris, Mar. 10, --- General Charles de Gaulle today ex- pressed the hope that United made States help would be avaliable for Indo-Chinn.
The General told a press con-
The actress' tuit here claimed that Dr Lindstrom had failed 10 contest her Mexican divorce. Mr Pacht sald Dr Lindstrom had that divorce never recognised nor the jurisdiction of Mexican courts-United Press,
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