THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, "NOVEMBER (9,- (II).
"EDITORS PREST SERVICE, IHC-NUEVA YORK
John Dempsey
"Keep aiming for his safety piņ!”
FOR THE BUSINESSMAN SEN
Reassurances To UK Buyers
Philippines Of U.S. Good Faith
Manila, Nov. 2.
Of Wheat
In Chicago
Chicago, Nov. 2, Soybeans continued strong and other grains were mostly
All deliveries of oats wero
The United Kingdom bought
The Senate president, M. Jesus Cuenco, after higher, especially corn and oats. exchanging views with Senators in Manila, told the cold at new highs for the season. Council of State conferring on the Bell report to- a cargo of wheat. Commission day that the Filipino people should entertain no houses generally bought soy fears that the grant of American aid recommend-beans. ed by the mission would entail an infringement of oats were % to 1% cents higher. Philippine sovereignty.
rye 2% to 2% higher and Senator Cuenco expressed firm views on the soybeans 4% to 6% higher,
Prices closed today as
Wheat closed 4 cent higher,
World Watching U.S. subject in connection with the previously reported followe
Congress Election
By O. H. Brandon
to
shall Plan appropriations will be of greater advantage than disadvantage to him.
attitude of objection by a section of legislators Spot and President Quirino himself regarding the December mission's proposal for American supervision of the May monetary aid programme.
HOW
July
WHEAT
2.10
3.26
March (1951)
2.304-12
2.3014-16.
2.1916
COIN
Spot
1.64%
December March (1851)
1.5516
-4.50%-
May July
100%
1:00 -100%
RYE
1.40-%
1153341
80-asked
sack.-United Press.
This attitude was said to be solutely no reason why the based on fears that such super-great and generous American Philip people should desire to shackle Mr Bevin once said
vision might infringe
or diminish the very inde- one of his assistants at
pine sovereignty.
The older statesman, whose pendence they established and December the Foreign Office who cau-
His Tatt-Hartley Act, how-political
are determined to main- May views carry
great
OATS tioned him not to send Д ever, has aroused Labour, and weight in the halls
of Contain and enhance."
{March (1951) Pointing out that the Philip- New York Flour-per 200 16. certain cable to Washington all unions have been mounting gress, declared in a press
pine economic and financial an impending a bitter and vigorous campaign statement this afternoon because of
situations are "serious, too on a basis of the record ot American election: "Every against his re-election.
serious to give any room for Marshall Plan aid to Europe time I want to send an im- portant cable to Washington I can't because there's an election on
in the United States!"
I would not be surprised if Mr Bevin had been cautioned in a similar vein during the last few weeks again. For on November 7 the so-called Con- gressional mid-term elections take place.
The odds still seem to be in Senator Taft's favour, especially as be is facing a Democratic
candidate who is little known and not even particularly po- pular
in his own State, but some of Senator Taft's or-
ganisers have been getting wor- ried lately, expecting a tougher fight than was originally pected.
-ex-
Taft vigorously opposed the appointment of Secretary Mar- shall to succeed Louis Johnson Undoubtedly, one of the most because he is known to have respect unsettling factors in American neither sympathy nor domestic and foreign politics is for Generalissimo Chiang Kai- the frequent elections-every shek, and his organisers believe that this feud with Mr Mar- two years-required by Constitution...
to shall, who
Americans re- mains the architect of victory in World War II, may have cost him a chunk of votes.
the
DARING DECISION The coming elections do not but involve the Presidency, one-third of the Senate and all House seats will be contested.
4
URGENT BUSINESS
On November 27 the old Con-
once more
the
Quite contrary to traditions, gress, will assemble the President made some dar- to deal with some urgent busi- ing, possibly unpopular de-ness, such as new -appropria- cisions only three or four tions for the relief of Korea and months before the elections-a possible modifications of period. which in the past has Anti-Communist Act, which to always been a policy void for the embarrassment of every- fear of antagonising
public body here is filling up Ellis
Island, detention opinion.
prison for dubious foreign visitors, and President Truman ordered
causing complete havoc in the commitment of American
American Consular offices all could troops in Korea. This
over the world. But for elec- easily have become a very un-
tion expediency, Democrats and had it decision popular
not
Republicans
few alike with been at the same time an act of exceptions, and Senator Lehman great statesmanship now evi-
the, only onc (New York) as dent to everybody.
contesting an election--rushed The President also agreed to into passing the Act. the stationing- of several more This, as well as the question American divisions in Germany who should represent China in and to a rearmament programme the United Nations, will have which has brought many to wait until after the elections. inconveniences and restrictions back Into American dally life.
Perhaps the only issue which the President avoided, with an the eye on the elections, is question whether Communist 'China' should be admitted to the United Nations. American pub- lic opinion is certainly against ,it," and any action favourable to
Peking would have gravely hurt, the chances of the Democratic Party in the elections.
BITTER CAMPAIGN
Among the candidates up for re-elcation interest is focussed on Senator Taft. He is a likely ...Presidential candidate for the
1952 elections.
Taft has been opposed to the internationalism of President Truman's foreign policy, and he
that
he felt no misgivings whatso- vague speculation," the Senate LONDON TIN UP ever with regard to possible president invited people to look at the American record · in ad- sovereignty in accepting aid on aid in Europe. encroachment on Philippine
ministering the Marshall »plan the mission's terms.
ON LINES of Erp
Mr Cuenco said: "I yield to no one in my loyalty to the · It was likely that the Bell enduring reality of our inde-aid to the Philippines would pendence, but I dan see Labs follow lines of Marshall Plan old. If so, it should set all doubts at rest here for "no beneficiary of that aid (in Europe) has been heard to complain about infringements of its sovereignty."
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West
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to 'dummy's A South must not make the mistake of relying on the Heart finesse for his 12th trick. for there. is a cast-iron safety play. After A at trick 2, South cashes &R and & A
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London Express Sartio0.
BACKGROUNDS: : Douglas MacArthur :
VOTE TOR LINCOLN
and curbs
Senator Cuenco ⚫ said that since the purpose of the United States is the same as the Philippine
purpose
habilitate, develop
le saw nothing
to re-
lise this country's economy
and stabi-
unreasonable
London, Nov. 2, Prices of tin jumped today, The turnover was. 75 tons, in- cluding 25 tons for spot.
Prices closed today at the end of the official morning sessioni ac follows:--
1.030 1:035 1,030-1,035
Spot tin, buyers Spot in, sellors Business done at Three-months tin, buyers;, 922 Three months rin, sellors_293 Business'done at Settlement
195-090 1,035 -United Press,
Singapore Rubber
Singapore,Nov. 2.:
Prices in the rubber futures
in the condition that aid grant-market here closed today as
ed should be used for purposes
envisaged in the Bell report.
He declared that no objec- tion should be felt here, to publishing full statements of the use made of Amerinan as- sistance when the United States so requested.
Mr Cuenco advocated the pre- paration of definite and specific projects, to make most boneft- cial, use of American help. United Press.
RUBBER IN NY
New York, Nov. 2. Prices in the rubber futures niarket here closed today as follows:-(sales totalled 82 con- tracts.) Spot
March May
July
6034-70
57.00 traded
49,75
47.50
-United Press.
follows:-
Number 1.-rubber, De-
cember
-†18534-18025
Number 1 rubber.
January (1951)
1724-173
Number 2
rubber
November Number 3
November Number
November
ubber,
rubber,
Spot rubber, unbaled Black crepe No. 1 pale crepe
104-10534 1234-18434
1924-10334 1074-193 167-160
200 -205
-United Press.
LONDON RUBBER
London, Nov. 2, Prices in the rubber futures market here closed today...as follows:--
No
1 rubber, (in per. lb.).
December
January/March (1951)
April/June
July/September
cents
60 61
694-
43. 451
40 tom.
-United Press.
No. 3 By MELVIN K, WHITELEATHER and NORMAN MYERS
Cónturies) of fighting blood Lincoln's campaign for the "I guess Father Abraham But the laughing didn't last
Judge Mac- long. Arthur made them like How's in MacArthur's veins. His; Vis also the originator of the so-presidency stirred the Mac- need's "you," said
Arthur when his son reached 17 him, and thus began a Brilliant Scottish ancestors were wor called Taft-Hartley Act, which Arthur fighting blood in young and off Arthur, went to war as military career that carried him riors under Robert the Bruce entails severe. punishment on striking Labour Arthur. He cheered the torch lleutenant and adjutant of the through the Civil War and the who in the 14th Century fought a half- for Scottish freedom. The Mac- under certain circumstances. light parades in Milwaukee, 24th Wisconsin Infantry. But he Philippine. «campaign
his death, Arthur olan was called the just a stripling with a century later. At
MacArthurs" hand- 11 Campaigning
a and after the Lincoln victory he was in Ohio, largely isolationist part of the listened intently as his father boy's voice and the soldiers Arthur MacArthur was alleu- "Fighting country, hla opposition to the read aloud Lincoln's first in- made fun of him. The Colonel, tenant general, first military the emigres to the United
if too, wanted a man, not a boy as governor of the Philippine is States have lived
reputation of the clan. North Atlantic Treaty, to arm augural address. He asked
lands. aid for Europe and to the Marthere was going to be a wariadjutant.
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