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Bevin Backs
Acheson Plan
For UN Army
Flushing Meadow, Sept. 25.
Mr Ernest Bevin, Britain's Foreign Minister, today pledged Britain's support for the Acheson plan strengthening the United Nations against aggression,
Addressing the United Nations' General As- sembly, Mr Bevin said, “We must give urgent con- sideration to the plan put forward by Mr Acheson on behalf of the United States Government for strengthening the United Nations machinery against aggression.
"I am in full agreement with " ir objectives and if adopted it will elettre That responsibility is Manred by all of us."
The Acheson plan culls for non; international "palce
force" to keep world peace,
Russians Conscripting East Germans
Berlin, Sept. 25. Fifteen fortner Wehrmacht non-commissioned officers reach- vd West Berlin today after perilous group
flight from the Soviet Zone town of Nostock and said that they fled to evade being pressed into 1471 Eart Germal Aviny."
Suvi-t officers in Rostock are emmering oil former German officers to non-comm a "new armed force", they said. Wages are Kahl to be 300 East
I am sure the United States Government will welcome con- Atructive criticism in discussions of this plan so as to make it ai widely acceptable as possible,“ Air Bevin continued.
On the question of disarma- ment and the control of atomic energy which the Soviet repre- entalive. Mr Andrel Vyshinsky, afted last week here, Mr Bevin' raid that these matters could nt be dealt with merely by a
polullun of the United Nations, na propused by Me Vyshines. NOT SURPRISED
He went on. "Then there is the Soviet proposal for a cales third reduction in armaments. Well, really the Soviet army is greater Than the armies
of:
all Europe and their armaments are greater than all of ours put together.
"This makes it look as though talk of peace petitions and 1 prace campaigns is really a kind at propaganda barrage to wear! on the victim before launching The attack.
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Grim Street-To-Street Battle Through The Night
ASSAULT FROM THE REAR
Scoul, Sept. 25.
American Marines fought by the flickering light of burn- ing buildings tonight as they battered their way into the centre of Seoul, reports Alex Valentino, Reuter's correspondent.
The rattle of machine-guns and the crack of snipers' rifles mingled with the roar and crackle of the flames.
Bevin Bid For
American Campaign Peking Seat
For
Recognition Peking Regime
Of Peking
New York, Sept. 25.
The National Board of "Americans for Demo- cratic Action” recommended today that the United States withdraw its recognition of the Chinese Nationalist Government.
The group at the same time urged American recognition under certain conditions of the Chinese 4**the Soviel Government must not be surprised if we are Communist Government. The recommendations
by it. Brule
were included in “a United States policy for Asia," thre
be a chume theraļ Ins; be a wit
withdrawal
Issued by the National Board. of th 58th column from the countriesį
The draft of the policy pro-1
The baitlention of Korea of our free peop) 5. of an East
submitted to the land early general elections German worker, and is in aridi There munt be
Inter, was
duygulisation by three membera, for
that country, with specifie tion to food, uniform and Vor- fence in any form with other into me Mr J.J. Singh. Pre-assurances to Korea's farmers rock overgnmodation,
Stales in their evolution,
Eradient of the Indin League of | that "any real gains under the there ber
ra sovem ignty America. Mr Singh said that present
lund reforms be pre-
Marks, which is alightly above the average wage
One
ir: the
Kroup, a Sergeant major who lost a leg on the Russian front, explained to a Soviet offices who jotted
he name down for revenitment: Butement be of any help to yumi-l have only one top.""
He was told: "In 10-14 the German Army brought into sex- www all its manpower-whether they had one leg or two, 1 can Hatipen once more,"
'The 15 refugees Tonight aught relief from the American aulinities in Berlin-Reuter,
EDITORIAL
for it
euld be
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The organisation elis peeled to
Flushing Meadow, Sept. 25.
Mr Ernest Bevin. Bri- tain's Foreign Minister. wald in the General A- sembly today, "We slialk have to fry in this འ་སས sembly to settle the ques- tion of the representallon of China."
"I wish to make it clear that we do not intend to break our long established China" friendship with Me Bevin added.
"We FAIL
ussure
Chinese people that
the we to the day look
forward
ly again when they
Lake their proper place as one of the Great Powers-
We shall have forgotten the present difficulties and will be ready to help China fulfil her destiny." ---Reuter.
Yugoslav Prescription For Peace
The shadowy figures of crouching Marines were suddenly outlined amid showers of sparks as
one after another of the Korean wooden huts
lapsed in bursts of fire.
Black-Out
New York, Sept. 25, Hundreds of callers rang newspapers and radio stations yesterday to nak I the third world war had started.
-Over"a brge-nres--of eastern North America the sky had become dark and the sun purple.
Cows In southern Ontario had to be milked hours ahead of schedule, chickenz went to most, motorists drove with blazing head-
Alforaft pilots said that visibility was zero and they could smell smoke.
But weather experis said they believed that the catLEO of the haze was ice crystals, not smoke.-Reuter,
RED PURGE
GERMAN
As the collapsing buildings flared up Com-IN munist sniper fire snarled out at the clearly visible! Marines.
STATES
Fighting their way forward inch by inch, hut by hut, the "Leathernecks" had by tonight forced!
Munich, Sept. 25. their way forward into Seoul from the Han River. Two
more West Germa
Bremen States-Bavaria and Entrenched In the ruins of eight tractors stormed ashore today
Feder President
accepted the Syngnan Thee's and quickly mounted the Government's decision last wed Falact they were attempting to bluff,
to dismiss all Government of binst their way past a Com- Light resistance was over-
cials who munist strongpoint in the town's powered and the Seventh Divi- or extreme right parties. middle school. The school standssion mea struck inland for the on a site near the city centre. high ground.
Communist
resistance WILT strongpolit As one wiped out three others seemed to materialise.
stiff.
wns
They were being overrun slowly and steadily; one, at a time.
The citizens of Scout, at first outwardly indifferent to the American arrival tonidit, cowered in terror 45 homes crashed around them.
There was no safety in the elly tonight, Shrapnel
bullets niger
threatened Marines and civilians alike,
PILLAR OF SMOKE
nnd
Another Reuter's correspon- dent, Roy Macartney, watching
from the wooded slope of Nam-
san hill (dominating Scout's Par.
29 sovetsiinty whigh, a apdion of the policy statue, served and extended." the Rusing claim thy want in met by the A.DA.
2.- was "the
With the alm of pre- mantan It that can be des furent result of the India League venting the spread of wat Ini
Asia egited then we might rench | America's efforts,"
and of convincing Chinn that it does not what war with i dag where that problem of dis
the West, the withdrawai 01 armomment
soon the recognition from Geyera'issime announce With abrolute confidence.
forination of a special com Chlang Kai-shek, and recogni-
liament House and the modern "The fact way. tut
sart of the A.D.A. which will tion and seating in the United
business and residential quarter) during the Led dve yeurs prubably be called the "Asia Nations of Communist Chinn
Flushing Meadow, Sept. 25.
caw a giant pillar of blue grey which we have been 171 laughing Policy Commission,"
Al Singh
The Yugoslav Foreign biinls-smoke blotting out the centre of ent of the thura caused by the said.
only after receiving the most i
wifter. M. Edvard Kardelj. today the exple assurance tun! It wee we have been hemp red at
the city. The statement proposed the
the Soviet Union of Hot intervene
in accusert militarily
"We could hear the crackle of (Continued on Page 5 Col. 31 following major steps:
Korea and will not force a mill-leading an American campaign nail-ums fire from the street tury solution of the Fornasa xainst Yugoslavin,
fighting and the detonations of problem."
155 millimetre shells.
Danish Economic Crisis
TOW that the final figures, are available.
Nit is quite evident that the parish
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political crisis, the result of serin economic difficulties, has not been solvent by the elections to the Folketing, the equivalent of the British Himse Commons. There EN been n mild swing towards the Right ZENE Communists, as in every other country In the Western world. have Just further ground, but the change has not been sa great as
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signiteant difference to the party line-ups. The Social Democrats lost
votes in some ronstituencies, hul the over-all result was n gain of two seats, giving them 69 seats out of a total of 119. The Conservatīven and the Single Taxers recorde i a ndinble gain in votes without mustering more than 39 seats as a combined group. In other words, there is no recɑurse except a coalition to replace the minority govern- ment of the Social Democrats, which had managed to survive for nearly three years, Denmark's problem is very similar to France's. She has a variation of the proportional representation system which promotes the complications which go with too many separate parties. The normal thing, naturally, is that no single party con establish an outright majority over all other part les. This compels com. promise and. offen, weakness, and the time arrives when sharp friction occurs. one or more graups break away from the coalition and the Government is faced in Parliament with a vote of no confidence. The biggest party, the Social Democrats, relied on support from those whose policies were in loose agreement, but collision occurred
the Hedtoft Cabinet's announcement that the Im position of controls on hitherto fres
· Imports was intended, collaboration inded and the Government was compelled `ta
over
resign. A similar coalition arrangement, destined ultimately for a similar fate, wa unavoidable and, in fact, an necommuda- tion typical of proportional representation is already operating. Thut is How demneracy wurks in a free country with a long tradition of civic experience and political responsibility. No dictater, no totalitarian party, whether from Right or Loft, is going to step into power und "restore order and efficiency." However, the crisis behind the election remains to be overcome. Denmark has suffered since the war from un unfavourable balance of trade, despite bacon, butter and beer, accompanied by a severe shortage of dolines. Devaluation of the krone a year ngo, at more or less the same time as the pound sterling was cut, aggravated the situation. A high standard of living in Denmark has been maintained by eating into
and creating 11 closed economy of high internni prices. Faced additionally with the necessity of falling into marching step with other signatories, to the North Atlantic Pact and doubling expenditure on defence measures, the Government sought relief by demanding a period of high austerity and heavier taxation. Except from the Communists there was no resistance in principle; K was the proposed form of taxation which provoked the clash. The new Folkeling is now attempting to discover An ac- ceptable answer, Danes, meantime, musi
reserves
pull in their bells. They will not be able to pass the burden to other shoulders by Import controls, and Marshall Aid is to cease in is present form in 1952. The sliuntion is roughly parallel to the heavy strain on Britain in 1947, when drastic steps to curb inflation and increase experts were faced. The answer is grim, but with their backs to the wall, the Danes will know how to stand up to it.
INTERREGNUM
A United Nations "inter- regnum" should be established
until in Formosa
"inter- 311
On Is made national" decision it: future.
tration of Japan into the
"When Mr Vyshinsky (Soviet Foreign Minister) demands that war-mongering be prohibited in all
countries-n request
"Attack planes went rneing Over with their heavy machine
Others with ng blazing.
added which we are in complete agree. their rockets to the din of bat- ment, he ought, in the first tle." place, to achieve this in his own. Major General Almond had country," M, Kardel) told thetermined that Seoul should be United Nations General Assem-taken today. At a dusty, road-
side conference with his subor dinate commanders in Yong-
bly.
its
forces from
3.--Co-operation with other Asian nations to place the Indo- China ite in the United Nations, with. as the ultimate
He asked the Assembly to dungpo suburb late yesterday object. the end of French rute
the and withdrawal of the as a resolution declaring that afternoon, he declared,
any State which launched mili-going to take Seoul tomorrow" French Army.
He had apparently been afraid 4.The conclusion of a peace ary operations against another treaty
Japan, without State should be obliged to state that the crushing momentum of with
the operation might be lost in Chinese participa- publicly within 24 hours Russian and
and the trades to cease fire and with the face of stubborn Communist tion, if necessary,'
resistance to the Marines' drive draw its anned foreign territory and carry this from the west of the elly. statement Inlo effect provided
INTRICATE OPERATION creating the pattern of Japan the other side made a similar There were raised eye-browa
in Acton economic domination
statement.
ns he outlined plans
for the 5-A strong programme
The resolution
Marints to storm due eastward inrge-scale economie to posed that a State failing to act to a line bisecting Seoul whilic India
the Seventh In-in this manner would place their front with
Division crossed - northward donesia, the Philippines and self in the position of an aggres-thrust from the Han Slam, "boldly tied to the most sor and would be held respon the Namson high ground
River to explicit kind of reform pro-ble for the breach of peace,-
It was an intricate operation to ensure that the advancing
Asian
markets."
picture
Burma,
without
ald
Pakistan,
ot
Over
the
9.-Opposition in the United Nations Trusteeship Council to "anything that Increases or strengthens foreign hold surviving colonies," and espatisal contributes to the swifter and' progressive development | self-government and dependence,”-Reuter,
more
of
Reuter.
further pro-
----------------................ | Marings did not hit the army
troops from the flank,
STOP PRESS of "everything that
1n-
Attlee Election
Decision
London, Sept. 25.
NORTH-SOUTH
LINK
NEARS
Tokyo, Sept. 20.
General Almond Adent
Was
COD:
That the plan woukl work and it did.
Aften a dawn bombardment armoured amphibious tractors packed with Seventh Division troops waddled across a bread
sand bar into the muddy Han River opposite Q bigh bluf about two and a half miles from the triple bridges on the elly's south-eastern outskirts. The prongs of a giant pincer bling that the Communists had General Almond was Kom- cloning on the Communists' Insi
withdrawn forces from route from cheap,
tha south-west main defence line which The Prime Minister, Mr Cle-Korea are now only 24 miles had prepared along
they ment Attlee, intends to defer apart.
the north general electlan until early next
bank of the Han to meet the
The tractors plunged into the
of bombardment dust smoke from
chemical tainers. The en they carried did not know what lay ahead.
GAMBLE SUCCEEDS But General Almond's tam. ble ruccoeded,
Met by only desultory charmssing fire from {umali nitris" the fret wave of
yeer-provided his hand is not The fall of Scout in confident- Marines' attack from the West.
forced by defeat on come con-ly expected in a matter of fidence lasue in Parliament. houra.
Quarters close to Mr Attlee today denied reports that the
Amid, the ruins, Marines and Prime Minister is being prossed infantry are winkling out a last by certain Ministers for an early ditch group of 8,000 fanatical election, mying that the subject Communists during street to of election dates has not been street combat in a darkness in- discussed between Ministers at termittently lit by the flames of all-Reuter.
many fires.-Router.
and the COS-
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support Communis
41
General Almond
This announcement by himself
Bavarian Cabinet and Innded soon after the leading waves.
he skirted Senate of Bremen Gingerly
todd patches of disturbed earth brought the number of We the gravel roads which might German States welcoming indicate and mines..
purge of Government servan The assault from the rear took from all extremist elements the Communists completely by teven. surprise. By noon the aring had}
North Rhine-Westphalia, whic overrun all its objectives and was wailing for the Maries contains the former Communi inching their
forward stronghold of the Ruhr, Han way
Rhineland-Palatinat against the hard core of Northburg, Kerran resistance to link
Wuerttemberg - Baden, A with the left flank,
"Hcase have already announce It is confidently expected that their acceptance.
by tomorrow mopping up will
completed and
There are 1 West Germe
the last 4538pe read will be sealed States.
Army tanks, flouted across the Han River on rafts, have pushed (Continued on Face 5, Cul. 8)
Brazilian Reds
The Bovarion
Su
Cabinet ouncement added that detaile regulations selling down th
procedure purge
would istued later this week.
Shot By Police declared 13 political organis
The West German GovETE ment at Bonn on September
tions-two of which have Men bers in the Federal Parliame
"oul of bounds"
Montevideo, Sepi. 25. Four people were killed and→13
are the
the Socialist
Communi Reic
a number were wounded today Fideral civil servanta in a Em battle between Brazi-
They Nat Comunists and Brazilian pelice in a street witch forms Party, the frontier between Brazit and Party (extreme right), the Fr Uruguay in the joint elties of German Youth (Communis ftivera and Livramento,
[lett), and 10 other Communis All those killed were de sponsored organisations-Rei scribed as Communists-Reuter. ter.
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