THE HONGKONG" TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1950,
Warmongering and lying in Western Press
CORRESPONDENT SAYS, "THE LAST
"" AND RESIGNS
STRAW,
Big Three Conference
In August
12.-The
Berlin, June 12.-Mr John Peet, Reuter's chief correspondent in Berlin, announced today that he "could no longer serve the Anglo-American war- mongers."
He made the announcement at a press con- ference called by Herr Hans Eisler, head of the East German (pro-Soviet) Information Depart-
ment.
Washington, June State Department said today that Mr Peet Uus, in effect, sever- Mr Peet served in the Inter- the Bit Three Western Foreigned his connicetion with the Bri-national Brigade during the Ministers would ineet in Newtish Press, which he had served | Spanish Civil War from 1937 to York, probably in August, fores Reuter contendent in 1930, after which he joined a follow-up conference on the Europe for the past four years, the Palestine results of their recent Loun Speaking in German, he said:
"A FL
Western journalist, have become automatically and increasingly a tool of the Ameri can-controlled war machine. As
force in
police 1039, working with the Crimin- at Investigation Department at Haifa.
meetings,
The Stale Department spokes-
He later joined the public man, Michael McDermott, said fint Mr Bevin, and the French
Information Office in
Jeru- Forelga Maister, M. Hobert an English patriot, democrat salem under the British Man- Schuman, would be in New and friend of peace, I cannot datory Government, where he York for the United Nations continue along this path. General Assembly meeting
Mr Peet said that the "lastos news editor from 1943 to In September. straw
was
and the Kreat
the "lying which convenes The US. Secretary of State, Mr warmongering reports in
of the press Dean Acheson, will join them Western
Whitsun Youth peace demon for pre-conference talks,
in Berlin." stration
Tentative
Arrangements
for
1045, and was in the editorial control of Radio Jerusalem.
He joined Iteuters in 1945 and was assigned a few months later to the Vienna Reuter Office,
where he remained for #The Anglo-American Oc- the meeting were made durlog
in Germany
a year before taking up an ap- the Big Tures talks in London, Cupation policies
at making Western pointment in the Warsaw Office Mr McDermott said the.c had are aimed
the been no effort or suggestion to Germany
off in December, 1046, Ble bring Russia into the conver-ground for a new war." sations-Unile! Press,
Youths Break Up Dusseldorf Gathering
with
Manteuffel
through
heavy pollee escort,
WES
was
The Generation of the Front", in reference
during
war.
Jumping
"COURAGEOUS WORDS"
Mr Peet was in Warsaw until assured the conference that he
the latter part of 1947, when he had not been influenced in his decision by "Russian money or
was brought back to London Central Asiatic drugs."
truth
for short period of duty ou German staff In Reuter's the London desk before joining 122 office were taken by the Berlin staff.
Lil
surprise when Mr Peet rang He returned to Warsaw them up from the building of Februnry, 1940, to marry the the East German Government Countess Chrisil Oudenus, who
then joined him in Berlin Mrs Peet is at present Vienna.
| Information Service to give them
the news of his action.
Hot
11
Mr
thonked
She's got Truman's goat | Stanley has
A very rare species of goat called "Acrimi," captured on a high Grecian mountain, was offered to Mr Truman in acknowledgment of the American Aid programme for Greece. The "Acrimi” was sent to the United States by air. Photo shows: A Grecian girl, Agdiki Piplaki, playing with the "Acrimi” a few days
before its flight to the US.A. ·
RUSSIANS KEEP UP BOYCOTT
interest in Bon Marche
Paris, June 12.-Sidney Stanley, chief witness in tho British government bribery Investigation in 1948,
today sidestepped questions about whether he was negotiating for the pur- chase of France's Bon Marche department store empire.
Stanley was reached pt the Palais de Justice,
he where went to press charges agaluct two men he accused of trying to kidnap him inst
year after
ho had fled England.
Asked about reports that he War representing American businesa Interests seeking to buy the department store, Stanley said: "I have taken over properties in much worse shope than the Bon Marche stores, refleated their stock and made them solvent.
"The Bon Marche organisation is fundamentally sound and un der proper guidance cou
could, be- come one of the greatest com- mercial properties in Europe."
la refused, however, to con- Arm
or deny reports that he personally was involved in the Bon Marche negollations,—— United Press.
CAUGHT!
Munich, June 12-More than ns 4,000 persons were arrested they tried to flee from the So- vict to the American Zone of Germany legally during May, the Bavarian border police ported today.
The police said the Bavarian authorities arrested 340 persons who sought to leave the United States Zone Illegally. Many of the Intter presumably tried enter the Russian Zone to take part in the Whitsun rally in Berlin-United Press.
to
Russia and her Radio Hongkong
Secretary General Trygve Lie, giving full credit to President Truman whose "Point Four" programme provided the impetus for expanding the United Nations project, told the delegates that the General Assembly "has declared that partisan political considerations shall not enter into the conduct of this programme in any way."
sence
At today's press Conference, which Western correspondents Mr Peet resigned his member. described na a "well laid-on shlp of the Society of Friends Dusseldorf, June 12.-Two affair," East Berlin journalists
fa Quaker organisation) several hundred blue-shirted Com-turned up in great numbers and years ago. munist youths broke up a rally an East Germon news-reel A version of the press con- of Free Democrata at which the
ference cameraman was also present.
issued by DPA, the Lake Success, June 12.- former General I von Man-
GRANTED ASYLUM West German news agency, Eastern European partners failed to show up to- teuffel was supposed to speak
Mir Peet told a colleague im-sald that Herr Eisler
Mr Feet for bis Bag made mediately after the press ceen words" and appealed to all the a conference to launch the United Nations expand- "courageous day, as representatives of some 70 nations began a blue
terence that he during the Berlin
"granted asylum" by the East representatives of the Western Whitsuntide demonstration, the German Government, and that press "to break with the war-ed programme of technical assistance to the youths Burged toward the plot-
he would remain In Berlin to mongers and tell the German world's underdeveloped areas. fcrm
when Manteuffel
truth about the zealed.
slugged the speaker work as a journalist under Herr people the
Elder.
dangers lying in Western im- microphone and forced
He said he began negotiations perialism." to himself
fce
Elsler directly after When Mr Pect sald that his under with Herr rear door
the
Whitsun Rally, lie would family in England would not return to "Reuter's Ofice or be exposed to any threats as a The one-time Fanzer generale West side of the town.“ results of his decision, Mr
scheduled to speak on
Later this afternoon, Reuter's Eisler Interjected: "The British chief representative in Germany, have not yet progressed as far to front
lines Mr Alfred Geiringer, spoke to as the Americans."
The the Just
Mr Peet from Frankfurt on the ADN, the East German (pro- a restaurant. telephone. meeting wos
Peet Mr
fold
Soviet) news agency, quoted Mr More than 1,000 persons were Geiringer he had nothing to add Peet's statement in full.
The Chinese Nationalist de- United Nations." "It will mark present, half of whom seemed
to the statement he had made,
the beginning of a new and ex- According to this version, Mregation, whose continued pre- to be members of
the "Free but went on: "My conversion Peet dreinred that
In the United Nations was panded programme of technical "the once German Youth" Communist was a
the a gradual development. I proud and independent British given as the reason for the 21-assistance for
economie organisation, who came to the took some time to mature." Empire
week-old Soviet boycott of the development that can be made now follows the meeting in civilian clothes but
He raid he kept it a "com slightest word from the Ameri- world organisation, was in its the member nations into an in- shed their coats to reveal blue
Plete
secret from everybody. can mouth,”
place
as the conference began, creasingly powerful force for shirts when Manteuffel arrived.
But the Russians and their world peace." even my personal friends.
WIFE SHOCKED They shouted, "Manteuffet,
When asked about his family,'
Communist
were Lie sak "Hang the
colleagues and out." get
1510
American warmongering, he conspic cold;
Poland, conspicuously absent. generals" as they rushed
"It does not muller declared, "threatens not only in demanding last week that Lie United Nations has been giving the
beenuse I Members
Am Separating from the platform.
Soviet Union And the speaker's
Tze-tung's Chinese stort, its aid was on Invite Mao of the Free Democrat Party my wife anyway."
Peoply's Democratic Countries, Communist
had regime, press conference state but is well on the way to to Intervene who tried
were
„scold and fell short of need. ment today, Mr Peet said that changing
dicated that the Soviet states hurled aside-United Press.
had been toid
my country, that Field
would not attend the conference This conference was called England, Into hal Viscount Montgomery.
powerless if the Nationalists were present, ascertain the total contributions the Western Union defence chief, American colony."
It was the 33rd time that the to be made available by the Art John Peet, the former Russians considered that a German Army Counters Christ! Oudenus, and boycott against a United Nations
had exercised their world's gov20,000,000 15 hould be "set up as soon as in Vienna today that she was organ. It followed the me expected to be pledged, possible." and that this would
United States shocked" when she pattern "not Inke very long now."
"terribly
the Kremlin decreed the heard the news of her husband's fast winter when no Russian de- $10,000,000 to $12,500,000. nction in Berlin.
legate showed up for the He went on: "When I bo
Lie said: "The impetus for "So that is why he sent me Trusteeship Council session In Jammu, June 12-One officer came a Reuter correspondent in away to Vienna,"
this expansion was given by she fald, Geneva. of the Kash- 1945. I hoped that, by means ocking:
the President of the United Bre killed of objective reporting
getting a fore:s were
States, Mr Harry Truman, in from divorce anyway."
THE BEGINNING of Vienna, Warsaw and Berlin, I
his Inaugural actress Επ bond of Pakistan could play my small part in parents in
Mra Peet is staying with her
Even though Vienna,
January 1949. together After hearing Mr Lie's open the financial base at the begin- about 50 armed helping peaceful development with her child by her first ing address, the conference - ning will Pakistan civilians who, accord- of Europe and the world.
a comparatively "At first,
marriage She was Mr Peet's animously elected
Dr Herman modest one. reports received
In the immediate second wife-Reuter, here, ing 10
this programme Santa Cruz of Chile as its chair-will develop into an effective had crossed into Jammu Pro- postwar years, this was to some
"MENTAL STRESS" vince near the border village of extent possible, but slowly I
Instrument for progress, toward Gulabgarm to lift umber.
discovered that messages which Berlin. June 12-Mr Alfred Le told the delegates that the higher standards of living and About 15 "raiders" were bespoke favourably about develop- Gelringer, Reuter's chief re-technical assistance
more security for both indivi- ment, for instance, in the presentative in Germany, said "is potentially one of the most dunis and nations."-United lieved to have been killed in the German Democratic Republic, in a statement tonight: "Jolin significent ever called by the Press,
were being suppressed by the Peet had always been a com- The State forces' ofcer newspapers.
pletely objective correspondent leading the patrol returned the
"Every Western journalist, Irlin Berlin and until a few weeks Are and the shooting lasted
he la honest, can only tough had shown 7151 equable about four hours.
Endly at the so-called Western temperament. freedom of the press.
Border Clash
In his
Marshal
Near Jammu "LAUGHED SADLY"
on exchange
and Ave soldiers mir State yesterday in fire with a troops and
encounter, the reports sald,
There
The bodles of the officer and his five men were brought to a freedom only for the war- Jammu and cremated today. monger, and we, the corres colleagues attributed to his
The incident, which is con-nodents, are paid to supply
storles, that they serious sidered here as a breach of the the sort of
Are uke. Indian Pakistani crase
agreement, has been reported
"But we have no freedom to what is, in fact, to the United Nations observers report truly
in Jammu and Kashmir.-Reu- coing on or to fight for peace.
itr,
Germany's First Step
Bona, June
"Recently, however, he had seemed to be under some mental
rers which his
domestic trouble and a recurrence of malaria from which he suffered in the Middle Enst.
"Whatever views he might have held privately, he never and record ob- the Aliled and the Soviet atlitudes every
"I can no longer supply the failed to seek warmongers with
weapons Jectively both Thirteen years ago I went to
Spain to fight as a simple Britime the 'cold war flared up
In Berlin.
tish democrat in the ranks of the International Brigade for peace and a better world.
"Neither in his writing nor democratic forces lost in conversation had he ever
The
that stage of the fight, but we given any sign of sympathy shall win the fight for peace for the Communist regime. He which is now in full swing." appreciated its good poinis bul Peet declared that he never glossed over what seem- to approve this week Germany's had never been a member of ed to him to be bad,
12. The West German parliament is expected
Mr
membership In the Council of the Communist Party. Europe which the government considers a minjor step toward
a return of Germany to
NO LOOSE ENDS
that and
"He was strongly attached to the cultural life of Berlin Mr Geiringer added
particularly -appreciated the when he questioned Mr Feet the theatre and music in community of Western nations about the Berlin Office, Mr Feet Soviet sector, which he regard.
The Chancellor,
ed as of high quality."—Reu- Adenauer, conferred with his said he has "left no loose ends."
the
Dr
Mr Robert Petty, Reuter's Iter.
foreign policy adviser, Mr Her- news editor in
bert Blankenhorn, today on a
stalement he will read to
the 1s
based
Germany--who оп Frankfurt-also spoke with Mr Peet, who
Lower House during the open reiterated that his deci
Ing debate on the ship proposal.
member-
De Adenauer, who has been
decision was
"not a sudden one."
Mr Peet was born at Syden-
at home for two weeks with ham, London, and is
is 24 years of
Governor Goes On Leave
His Excellency the Governor
pneumonia, will leave his sick age. He comes from a Quaker and Lady Grantham left by
bed for the first time to plead for approval against sirong
The
was family,
educated
ut a BOAC piane for the United - B0- Friends (Quaker) school in Kingdom this morning. cialist opposition. The proposal,
Yorkshire, where his father, Mr Governor Is taking his first already approved by the Upper Hubert W. Peet, was for 17 leave since assuming his ap- House I expected to paar by years editor of The Friends,pointment here in 1947, and will a-sweepinggymajority when..... It British _Quaker - wedkiy, from spend some time in the United probably on which he retired at the end of States. He and Lady Grantham Thursday?
**United Fress. **
last year.
...lare' due back in October.
comes
man,
10-
same
conference
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