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LIFTS EXPORTS BAN Hongkong To Receive Non-Strategic Commodities COMMENT Agreement Reached
Though world attention still focusses on Korea (despite the lull in the fighting on the main fronts) and on Lake Suc-. cess (despite the return home of the Peking de-
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legate, General Wu Heiu- chuan), the fact remains that Western Europe must still be regarded as the major theatre in any concept of world strategy. There, across the Iron Cur- tain, the forces of Soviet Russian totalitarianism and Western Democracy confront one another, and there, if anywhere, the conflict between them
will be decided. There is reason to
believe
that all possible is not being done in certain European countries to press forward with rear- mament with the energy that the situation de mands. Western Europe's
With America
Ottawa, Dec. 20.
Canada has ended a temporary suspension of non-strategic exports to the British colony of Hongkong, a Government spokesman disclosed today.
was
an-
The suspension of all export permits to Hong- kong, Communist China and Korea nounced on December 9 after United States action to ban the shipment of civilian as well as strategic goods to Communist China and adjacent areas including Hongkong.
The spokesman said that Canada recently held discussions with the United States. Agreement was reached to honour Canadian export permits covering non-strategic commodities earmarked for Hongkong at American ports.
Fighting
Flares Up In
rearmament has been, NW Korea
and still is, lagging, though it has long been obvious that the coun- tries outside the Iron Curtain can only be de- fended by their own efforts.
As for Germany, the pro- posal that Western Ger- many form combat teams, each some 6,000 strong, to be integrated with the other Western defence components and to form
Suspension of export permits.
to the Chinese mainland is still in effect.
(The United States announced a similar relaxation of the ban to meet "essential, requirements" yesterday)-Reuter.
ANOTHER U.S. STEP
Washington, Dec. 20. The United States took an- other step today to keep Russia and her associated countries from obtaining war. potential goods.
The Commerce Department ruled that American ships and a 30-mile front in North-planes must not unload at a West Korea today, breaking Soviet-bloc port any goods the three-week lull since the Chinese Communist counter-
Tokyo, Dec. 20. Fighting flared up along
offensive pushed the United Nations forces below the 39th. Parallel.
and
At one point North South Koreans fought for two hours along, the Imjin River 30 miles from Seoul, the Southern
capital.
part of the unified army
Only units of a strong, re- with an international constituted North Korean buf- General Staff, has been fer force" between the Eighth approved by the Foreign Army, covering Seoul, and the
and Defence Ministers,
great Chinese Communist forces still deployed 70 miles to the north, took part in
with clashes
South and American ele-
American The beleaguered garrison, surrounded at Hung- nam in the North-East, were still holding their own against persistent Communist pressure.
On the German side the re-
actions have been far these from helpful. For the Korean
ments. Bonn Government, in the name of equality of status, to refuse to play its part, or what is worse, to attempt to use the occasion to wrest further concessions from the occupying powers, would be a fatal miscal culation. Those who doubt Bonn's
FULLY PREPARED Carrier-based planes and the big guns, of the Allied warships offshore again and again gave them full support.
With five days to go before Christmas, the United Nations forces in Korea were reported
Must Be Case Of "Pay As We Go"
London, Dec. 20. Britain's rearmament policy must be one of "pay as we go,” Mr Hugh Gaitskell, Chancellor of the Exchequer, declared here tonight. -
"We have got to rearm and rearm swiftly," he told the Institute of Exports at its Christmas dinner.
"But it must not throw recovery ΠΟΥ away our sacrifice the economic in- dependence which we have Just regained. Nor must we, by cutting down too far the supply of new equipment for Industry, weaken the foundation of our future indústrial „pro- gress.
"In tackling the econo- mic problems of defence, therefore, our policy must be as far as we can, to pay as we go. Whatever steps are practicable and feasible to achieving this end the Government must and will take."--Renter.
which were declared to be war ship or plane was on her way potential material while the
to the port.
of
good faith would thereby to be making special prepara- be reinforced and the tons for any Christmas Day only beneficiaries would offensive by the Communists, be its enemies in the who, it was thought, might imitate the Japanese tactics of East. Equality of status attacking when they thought is necessarily a conse- | the enemy might be off guard. quence not a condition, of A North Korean communique
The order applies also to un claimed "the liberation of all loading of such cargoes at the participation in the com-
vital cities and towns north of British colony of Hongkong and mon defence of the West. the 38th Parallel," but that the the Portuguese colony If the Western Germans Communists were still "fiercely Macao. intend, as it devoutly to attacking enemy personnel and The United States has al- be hoped, to join with equipment on the east coast ready banned the shipment of
the presumably the rest of Free Eirope bridgehead.
Hungnam a long list of goods as
potential. in revivifying Western The North Koreans, "fighting Today's action indicated that civilisation, now is the shoulder to shoulder with the the list would be broadened -time for them to show Chinese Communist volunteers," still further. themselves good Euro- peans.
war
had reached the 38th Parallel, The Department said an According to a Peking Radio American ship or plane, could broadcast Reuter.
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Shirley Giving Up Movies
Giving Britain
Faces New Defence
San Francisco, Dec. 20.
Shirley Temple, newly- married for the second time, told newsmen today that she would forsake the movies and concent- rate on "being a good wife and mother."
The 22-year-old star, who marired Charles Black, 31, son of a utilities com- pany president, last Satur- day, said she had been making movies for 19 years "and I feel I am. getting old.”
"From now on I want to be Mrs Charles Black, not Shirley Temple, My little girl, Linda Susan, needs much of me and much of both of us."-United Press.
Margaret Hates Cooking
Washington, Dec. 20,- Margaret Truman, the capi- tal's most eligible bachelor girl, let prospective husbands know today that she hates cooking and intends to continue her singing career even after mar- riage.
Effort
London, Dec. 20. Britain will soon have to consider increasing her rearmament programme be- yond the £3,600 million pro. visionally allocated for the next three years, an au- thoritative source said here today.
The Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, was expected to bring back plans for an ac- celerated defence effort from the Atlantic-Council conference in Brussels
A further increase would probably involve the direction. of labour and other controls which have been lifted in Bri- tain since 1945.
Among the controls which would certainly be imposed would be price control and there would probably be closer supervision over the allocation Miss Truman, said she of raw materials (already con- had no serious romance at pre-trolled to a large extent here). sent.
The Cabinet will probably "He would have to under- meet during the Christmas stand how much it meant to week to discuss boosting the me and not mind my being rearmament drive. away on tours and all that sort
It was pointed out that the *
of thing," she said in discussing proposed £3,600 million RX- a possible marriage. "Therependiture on arms was never
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aren't many men like that." intended to be a fixed limit.
United Press.
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