CHURCHILL CHIDES AS SHINWELL PRAISES WEST UNION
London, Apr. 20.-The Defence Minister, Mr Emanuel Shinwell, said in Parliament today that Western Union was a "constructive and essentially a pacific conception and not merely a military alliance."
He was stressing the importance of the social and cultural matters discussed at the eighth meet- ing of the Consultative Council of the Brussels Treaty Powers held at Brussels on Sunday and Monday,
Mr Winston Churchill, the adjustments that might be re- Conservative lender, suggested quired until an examination of the military expenditure Ind that Mr Shinwell should not have used the word "merely" been completed, he added. In referring to the milltary alliance.
"It seems to me--I will not Any disparaging-butan adequate term to use," he said.
nt d:-
NO DUPLICATION In further discussion fence problems, the Council took steps to ensure that there was no duplication In the defence Brussela under the
being
Mr Shwell replied that the plannlig
to make Treaty with the work Government wished shundantly clear that the condone under the North Atlantle ception underlying the Western Treaty, he cald. Union defence organisation, and To this end, all information the Brussels Treaty in particu-would be made available to the inilitary Standing Group in Washington regard to coclal with an invitation that it should Propose any urgently desirable existing Wes- miscations of tern Union plans.
not
merely lar, was not une but had considerations also.
He said the Counell discussed such matters as social security, public health, assistance, war pensions and the rehabilitation of the disabled
Mr Churchili commented that he did not feel much wiser after
the Minister's bearing ment.
he
Finte
"He had it fully in mind that
nelded: the maintenongs of economic Amid laughter, atability was a first priority in "We will, however, study it and the
of the defence
Western try to ste what meaning, if any, world," he raid.
can extracted,"
Mr B question, Specific defence projects be- Replying to
Shinwell cald the Council con- fure the Council, he added, in-
the desirability cluded the preparation of head- Esitlered quarter, the installation ofco-orinating or asociating the OF- defence alguals communication,
Trealy the Nursets Development of certain airfields malsation
the North and air navigational aids.
Atlantte organisation.-Reuter.
VITAL PRINCIPLE
Mr Shinwell said he had made it clear that Britain accepts the princips that she must be pre- pared to make a contribution Howards the cost of such pro- leol as were clearly shown to be of common advantage to the five power and to be of high military priority.
"We regard
this principle, which was accepted by all the meeting, as vital," he declared.
with
Belgian Crisis
Compromise
Brussels, Apr. 20,-Social
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, } FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1950, de Stately *Home Open to Pubĺle
Blenheim Palace, the stately Oxfordshire home of the Duke of Marlborough, was opened to the public this month. Thus the Duke is following the examples of a number of Britain's nobility in throwing open their ancestral homes to the public on payment which will go towards their upkeep.
LYTTLETON LAMBASTS:
66
Britain's
debts
have
hardly changed at all”
London, Apr. 20.--Mr Oliver Lyttleton, Conservative war- time Minister of Production, resuming the debate on the Budget in the House of Commons today, said he thought that Sir Stafford Cripps, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, had devoted too little time in his Budget speech to Sterling balances.
In 1949, he said, the overall figure of Sterling balances and debts They stood ut Britain owed overseas had hardly changed at all.
a reduction of only £15,000,000 on £3,344,000,000 at the end of 1919 1948.
But he added: "On behalf of
How long would Sterling] the British Government I had, however, to make plain to our Allies that any ruch contribution Christian (Catholic) mem-Area countries be allowed to could only be found at the ex-bers of the Belgian Parlia-buiki up Sterling balances pense of some other projected ment today said that they on that scale? he asked.
Much of the increase in the Expenditure in our current de-would vote in favour of unrestricted balances fence budget."
He could not be precise at this bill designed to allow King to the actions of countries such stage about the nature of the Leopold to temporarily dele-as Australia, which was popu- Kate his prerogatives to hislarly supposed to have more than £100,000,000 at its disposal 19-year-old KON Prince in Londor, he said.
"It is certain."
Uranium
under Bath Springs?
Baudouin.
was due
he declared,
Tala compromise solution to "that the accumulation of Ster- be on this reale must the nation's live-year-old con-ling
who tiphon deadlber was pro-stopped. One day those
have accumulated it will want posed by the King himself in a
cash or over in be paid message broadcast to the Belgian people at the end of last week. goods."
Following a inceting of the Catholle Parliamentarians today. Bristol, Apr. 20,--British atoma communique announced that experts were toxiny studying at "to permit a Government to be 27-year-old University student's formed whose programme would Uranium deposits be based on the King's mest age", theory that may He beneath the hot springs Catholic members of both Houses of Bath, Somerset, and other would adhere, on the legislative secured a contract in Turkey at watering centres,
place, to a falution respecting about 42 percent of the lowest
allow
Mc
Lirisred
JAP COMPETITION
Lyttleton ako growing German and Japanese competition.
He said he understood that had German
manufacturers
The student,, Mr Ian Ford, constitutional principles which prices quoted eleswhere.
that
studying
Ecolony
Bristol AL
University, said more today that
he had visited
Prince Hauloula
Ic
to exercise
the
of the Crown".
ex
the atomic re- preto catholic decision is
pected to greatly facilitate the
search centre at Harwell, Berk shire, to explain hu theory,
The
Mr Ford said he belleved com- | Cabinet-forming mission of the sklerable deposits of radio- Premier-designate, M. Pian Van
Active ores may le beneath Zeeland. Bath, where the hot springs are used in treating rheumatisin day, and arthritis.--Reuter.
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understood Pakistan Japanese machinery was being offered at from 30 to 40 percent. below British prices. The first Government speaker Loday, Mr Harold Wilson, Pro- of the Board of Trade,
sident
A Catholic spokesman said to continett himself to commercial
"We are more than half matters.
We stream. across the
way
A Rainmaker's
Patience
New York, Apr. 20,-- New York's official rain- makter, $100-a-day Dr Wallace E. Howell, today abandoned 2 fourth al- tempt to make the skies drip for the benefit of the city's depleted reservoirs.
Ic took off with 150 pounds of dry ice-but 30 minutes later he was back on the ground arruli because the plane was un- able to fly above the ligh clouds.
Two of his previous at- Iempts were folled by unfavourable weather, A third was followed by Rome unseasonable snow-Reu-
ter,
Bomb in
another U.S. legation
Beirut.
Apr.
SORENSON MOVES:
Abolition
VICTORIA REVELS
PRESENTS
of corporal A MUSICAL REVUE punishment
in
Colonies
Our Own Correspondent London, Apr. 20-The eventual abolition
of cor-
poral punishment in all Colonial Territories is being sought by the Labour Member of Parliament, Mr Reginald Sorensen. He is the man who some years ngo
was instrumental in securing the abolition of such a form of punishment in the Colonial armies.
On April 20 he wit ask the Colonial Serretary, Me James Grits, why there is such a wide disparity ces
in the Colonies in the
in which согрога! punishment спп or cannot be inflicted; if he will
why this disparity
And if he will seek general abolition of this form ol unishmen will
also be naked what Arc the general views of the native authorities. on this matter and, pending abolition, whether power to in- tlict corporal punishment will be reserved only for the higher courts.
GENERAL STANDARD
Today Mr Sorensen to me that he was anxious to secure a common procedure and obtain a genérol standard for all Colo- nial territories
"At tho moment there
Colonies where corporal cerlola
pre
punishment can be infleted and certain Colonies where is cannot
be,"
he said.
ነ
That doesn't
teem right to
to me. I would like to see it completely abolished. I know there are different soclul conditions in different Colonial territories, but corporal punish- ment has been abolished here and I don't see why it should not be in the Colonies. I anı certain some alternative form of punishment could be evolved."
"Stalin wants to
conquer U.S."
The former Com- munist leader, Louis Budenz, swore today that Owen Lattimore was a member of the Soviet spy cell and he asked for two weeks' time to produce documentary evidence to prove this..
Washington, Apr. 20. --
Mr Budenz also said that, Carthy's
statement that Mr If given time, he could pre. Lattimore was Russia's top spy. sent "documentary evidence" sintement technically is not ac- "Well, to my knowledge, that that Marshal Josef Stalin curnie," replled Mr Budent. of Soviet Russia had "an "From my own knowledge, iron determination to con. would not say he was a top
Soviet ageni." quer the United States."
Mr Budenz acknowledged
that he did not know Mr Lattl- Rumanian
more personally. le based his accusation principally
1037
on the
meeling of Communist Party leaders in New York at
which, he said. Mr Lattimore
Chinese
Lattimore did not.
Expropriation
Bucharest, Apr. 20.-Rumania was assigned the mission of today nationalised alt fixed pro- promoting the
Com-perty owned by rural Innd- mmunist-cause. Mr Budenz at-owners, bankers, big commercial tended the meeting, but Me concerns and other "elements
of the
bourgeoisie." The decree operates at once,
brings He agreed that "the powerful
measure He added that Earl Browder,
The The new then secretary of the Communist under State ownership the lat Itsel are well on the way to a solu-rowth of German and Japanese
Competition is making
20. The Party, attended the 1937 Follt remaining property of any con- nud said that British in-
buro meeting and "commanded"equence in Rumania.
The only dustry was going to need all is authorities believe that the Lattimore for "placing Com-classes atil unaffecter by
and same group
of terrorists, munist writers" on the Tushiute nationalisation Resilience, inventiveness
are urtisans, kill to succeed in this Bght.
possibly Communists, en-of Pacific Relations magazine, mail traders and members of
Affaire," which Mr
some professions such nur doctors, gineered the bomb attack "Pacific THE CORNERSTONE
Lattimore edited.
engineers, architects and small on the United States Lega-
Edward Morgan, chief counsel iraprietors. donation); The Insurance Co. M. Van Zeeland is to report Mir Wikon said he "prafoundly
here and in neigh- tions
for the investigating sub-com. of Nurth America $500.00; to Prince Charles, the Belgian belleved that the fullest de
bouring Syria. IL was mittee, asked Mr Büdenz if he Hongkong
Tramways
tomorrow Ltd, Regent,
his velopment of trade within the
support Senator Me. Reuter. -$500.00; Total to April 19th, Cabinet-forming mission.-Heu- British Commonwealth must be learned today. The incidents could 1050 $11,205.00.
cornerstone Britain's occurred almost simultane- the economic recovery.
ously on Tuesday night,
Donations
received
Denation
Anti-T.B. Association on to our Royal problem.
Unless some last minute hitch loceurs in the three-Party talks, (and the form m of a new Catholic acknowledged) since 1st Jan. [Labical conlition is a matter of uary, 1850 $7,705.00; Mr Wong hours,
same spokesman Sil Kuen $2,500,00
second addet
SIDE GLANCES
ler.
the
On
for
British exports to the Com-
An American Marine was in-
By Galbraith monwealth bind increase from Jured slightly in the Damoreus 43 percent. of her total experts bombing. In Beirut, n hand-
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* plowed undar that nature boy of mine! Walt'll you see
the new flutter `ohum--he really vibrates mei”
in the immediate ilve prewar
grenade tomed to the Legation years to 51 percent. in 1949.
exploded without causing That had enabled Britain to
damage. The authorities In pay not only for a considerable proportion of her imported Damascus blamed foods, but make n great con-munists for the incident there. tribution to capital development, specially in the Commonwealth, peculated
he
Bald
the Com-
There will be no compensa- tion for property taken over......
H. K. S. P. C.
DINNER DANCE
in the
Organlaed by the Women's Auxiliary and under the dis- tinguished patronage of His Excellency the Governor and Lady Granthem. However, nome quarters here that it might have been the work of the extremist
Brotherhood.
They Imports from the Common- Moslem wealth had increased from 30 said members of the Brother- percent in the five prewar hood might have taken violent years to 45 percent last year. measures to show their support
official's -Reuter.
for a Syrian statement that he would prefer to see the Arab nations become Soviet states rather than
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the U.S. control the Middle East.
United Press.
Acheson Speech Forecast
+
Washington., Apr.
20,-The
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