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CHINESE FARMER FARING WORSE
THAN
BEFORE
By BLAKE CEARHART
Yuan Wong is a Chinese peasant farmer. There are about one hundred million Yuan Wongs throughout China. In the last year many things have happened to Yuan, His country's flag went down and the Communist flag went up. His ruler became a Communist named Mao Tse-tung and his former ruler, Chiang Kai-shek, went to Formosa. began hearing When the Communists get .Yuan strange words that originat through with Ytian he Anda he under the Nationalist Govern→ ed in Moscow. A big estate right back where he started was cut up and he received ment. He rets a bare living the ax all the rest. a piece of land that he could for his family, and
collectors CL call his own.
Yuan is not an educated man. ror his ances- but neither he
It was
strange new world that was
At
created for Yuan 11 months tore ever liked Kaslan His- ago. How is he doing to-torically tussin has been a no- tlon that has taken things away day? Not so good.
from the Chinese without glv- And least not nearly as well as ing anything in retura.
today Yuan pees Russia and the he expected.
of Communism
a larger pari
The rosy glow created by the Russian brand Communist promises of new playing freedorn and new way of lifeilte. has disappeared. Yuan Wong is
cold living in a
reality. Thus piece of
grey dawn of
in his
THE BROTHER tuan has a brother Chen went to Shanghai he lo his own Wong, who
his youth and eventually land. But at regular in
officials became a prosperous merchant Communlat
No to Rood intervala
appropriate How is he doing? come around und
Chen Wong does not Dome of Yuna's rice. They also either.
hale Communism as such. levy heavy taxes against him.
does not hate or gel enthusias
political system. tle over any
Communist Junk Seized
He
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World Bank Chief Fails To
To Change
British Opinion
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Dove- London, May 11.Britain's lopment Corporation, which last January broke the off negotiations for a $5,000,000 loan from
talk it over with World Bank, still refuses to the Bank.
Mr. Eugene Black, the Bank's President, who has been trying in London to persunde the Corporation's chiefs to change their minds, is now on his way back to New York, without having been able to carry the matter further.
To
Shah
Forgive Fatima
Prince Abdor
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the ad. Lord Trefgame stuck to his elder brother, the Shah, today
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to Islamic of the Corporation's projects All advertisers purporting t marriage according
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Lo Trefgarne is also on his Fatima
yet
York, and hopes If the wante of advertisers
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the British Corporation is be notified promptly to that Other court sources said the ut
expected going to New York on business effect when a sultabis acknow Shah's pardon
ledgment will be inserted, free Washington, May 11.-President Truman today urged Congres-
It was conjectured here to- of charge. Fovimentsional leaders to speed the approval of the huge Foreign Aid Bill to shortly now the official mourn lainly different from the loan.
inic Int for his father, the Reza Shah, is over. It is be- day that he migh discuss some with New York's aide-trucking the banks, thus strengthen Secretary Acheson's hand at his important meeting in London.”
lieved the Shah originally de-new projects
hla The message came as the Senate and the House of Representatives were
to excommunicate sister
to avoid offending Mosiem World Bank loan.-Reuter. trying to settle their differences over the Foreign Aid measure, which include $2,850 million for European recovery.
clerics, who opposed the mar-
INTELLIGENCE TEST ringe of a Moslem Moslem,
All he wants to do is to carry
on his businers in the traditional
Chinese manner.
That
means he wants
to
practice "querze", a myslan of extracting bribes in return for But the fest business favours, thing the Chinese Communista
they Look hd when
was to eliminate Shanghai
over
It is no longer par-
Saigon, May 11.-French naval forces seized a junk transporting a Chinese Com- munist officer and 22 other ble for Chen Wont to greans a tax bureau or 20 ranks in the Bay of Along the palm on the Tonking coast, the get favourable government rul Frunch Military Information ing on business transactions by placing money in proper hands Service here announced to-But his taxes on and he is a wildered man In a strange Chen do day.
world. What The seizure was made during new an operation which resulted in Wong and Yuan Wong intend the clearing of Vietminh forces to do about 117
Nothing that is, nothing im- from
the coal-mining area of
miles east of mediately. For one thing, they Dong Trieu. 00
are afraid to do anything.
of 4,000,000 Hanol.
The Information Service cald Communist Army that 000 people detained by the has a firm grip on Chian. There in the are lots of discontented through. Victininh were treed
claimed, but the nation, but the discon-
standard ini have no operation which, it resulted in the occupation by tented the French of the Nuyen Basin. which to rally. Vietminh forces lost 350 killed and more than 1,000 prisonern In An operation by French troops with naval, nir and
A
EFFECTIVE FORCE There is an old Chinese axlum
trullery that a "political party without
Truman Urges Speedy Passage Of Aid Bill
TRUMAN AT
GRAND
COULEE DAM
Washington, May 11 President Truman today de ticated the world's greatest
across of Coulee Dam, You hear reports resulted in Averillas fighting in the Honan Columbia River.
mountains and in Kwangs and 10 ment the recapture of Nar Dinh. miles south-cast of Nam Dinh, Kwantung. The only effective
support 25 miles south-east of army is no political party at power generator-the Grand
Hanoi.
Other operations
the
Mr Truman also called for Congressional approval of
$45,000,000 to launch his
"Point Four" Programme of
aid to backward areas of the
world.
"A reduction of the amount." he id, "would not only am per effective work in this field bul
have serious would also
psychological re-
political and action in there is where con
on of the United States is now crucial."
lence in the m determina-
PAKISTAN
PREMIER IN
CHICAGO
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has not
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storm
to a non- However, that seems to have blown over.
SOLUTION:
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The Prime
Mr Truman's message was
of the visit today. the Chairinen sent to
and the Begum Senate and House Foreign Re-Minister
who Khan were re-
Kwantum the Communists the 10,500,000 cubic gard con: lations Committees omise Ald Liaquat Al hago por extension of the French-con-1s on Chiang Kai-shek's island erete
fortress of Formosa.
In the Tonking delta, and the
years' construction,
structure will develop That is more electricity than has ever trolled arca six miles south of ou far away to help Chen and been generated anywhere else
in the world. Hadong.
Yuan,
like In Central Vietnam important The Wong brothers are Vietminh installations were de-polideal voters everywhere ein.
to are inclined
blame by stroyed in the Hue and Tourane They
everything bad that happens on Thus the power.
areas.
an
Daily Worker
Banned
Kampala, May
British Communist Party, under conquerors and
blamed
a
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by Mr Mayer Kestenbaum, President of the Chicago! CROSS-COUNTRY TOUR
Council of Foreign Rela- 11.-Pre- Miny Washington, A storage reservoir created
community in Lake Roosevelt, sident Truman appealed to Con- tions, and members of the the dom,
ness today for "prompt pasage": Pakistani
second largest of the omnibus foreign aid kill America's 151 miks long. In the South, widespread the party
The Grand Coulee, where to strengthen Secretary of Ste
Acheson's hand Vietminh attacks on communfea- Communists are beity!
a "madman" who should be for the foods and famine that the last turbine has now been Dean tions were repo; lea.
President "examined by the Depart-2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. In Cambodia insurgent at present are making life murer-installed, weighs about 21,600,- London Foreign Ministers' m.vl-
etions of the 000 tons. It will have 18 elce- ing
four-engined uir-ment of Health." chiet, with 300 followers, was able for large
trical generators, of which 13
The President also urged ap-Roosevelt's During already in place. reported to have been one over Chinese population.
Ho sald in an interview: "1 to the French-Neuter.
So there is no immediate hops re
war, when installations proval of the full $45,000,000 liner, Sacred Cow, was accum-
United States to of ective
uprising the armed
Incomplete. power authorisation by the Administra-panied by Mr M. Ispuhani,
to the up to the S. against the Chinese Communists, were
care of such madmen take M. the
Mr world's United States. Instead. Yuan Wong and Cher from the plan! helped to build tion for the "Point Four" pro-Pakistan's Ambassador
anime to Rid
framullah, Pakistan's Foreign little sooner than in the case of underdeveloped arem, and hundreds of millions the first afom bomb.
members Forrestal." of other anti-Communist Chin-
Secretary, and other Though the dum has vast
The Soviet press has referred Mr Truman, who is on 11.-Ugandare appear to be resorting
strategic sa~ Hndustrini
to the late United States De- Later the Prime Minister and has banned the importation of China's nie-old strategy. They
to the City
since ne the Dally Worker, organ of the are going to try to obmors their portance, it was originally plan-crom-country tour, telegraphed of his staff.
as a "madman" tal, Fradually re-ed for the Irrigation of lands his appeal to Chairman Tom
Connally of the Senate Forelyn the Begum drove
II. Kennelly,
committed suicide by leaping Relations Committee and Chair-Hall, where they were received fence Secretary, James Forres- on order issued by the Governor.tura China to its old ways. Tin Washington State.
House by Mr Martin'
in the United has never
John Kee of the
from a window President Truman sold at eman
Mayor of Chicago-Reuter. Notice of the decision
Hospital history dedication that
Naval States he was deter Foreign Affairs Committee,
MESSAGE OF PEACE
Bethesda last summer. Imined to develop low-cost public
11-The Power on all the great Ameri-
The two Chainnen made the
York, May
is visiting Ehrenburg, who can rivers and fight against its
refused Lo said here Switzerland to gather material Houses of the legislature con-Prime Minister of Pakistan, Me use "for private profit."Reu telegrams public today as both
the for a new novel," tinued their efforts to hammer Liaquat Ali Khan,
foreign aid last night that he hoped
comment on the visit to Moscow Paklatan Stalcs out a compromise
United
to- of the United Nations Secretary-
Lic. Trygve authorisation bill.
would come even closer
United Press. Mr Truman said the "Point gether to help in maintaining General,
will Four" programme
help world peace.
inizsion Pakistan's underdeveloped countries, "par ticularly those of the Near Eastcarry the message of peace to and to scrve and Southeasthe
Work! Istabul. May 11.--Naz/m
their inde humanity, he added. Hikdet, Turkey's foremost poet Asla, to maintain
The Premier told 200 fellow and Communist, today refused Pendence in the face of grave
that they to give up his hunger strike for dangers, I therefore feel it of countrymen at the New York ambassadors unomical and three poets in the most serious importanes that Pakletant Consulate freedom,
in the full sum of the $45,000,000 were that they Anakam announced
the United States, and hnd would start a two-day fast to approved by the
authorised to carry on
was in a strategy thint published in the official Gazette failed in recorded
today.-Reuter.
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not only that the name of their country send diplomatic representatives
from the great responsibility of seeing independent state of Vietnam t
imprisonment.
this amount would
was not sullied in any way.
and his wife effective work in this
The Premier kdot rejected a plea by his hamper. lawyer to stop his hunger strike, field, but would also have ar
sociological later spent half an hour playing which is now in its 10th day: lous political and The Istanbul prosecutor ruled renetions in those areas where with the children of Consulate
the firm deter offelala-Reuter. that Illkdet's health was not in confidence in
dangerous condition
poet claimed.
as the mination of the United States is
now crucial."
The police today arrested 20
nersons for distributing a leaflet by the Istanbul Students Asso-
United Press
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the bill will greatly advance our foreign polley, and streng then Secretary Acheson's hand nt his important meting in London."
Japanese At Leavenworth
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