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MACARTHUR UNDER HEAVY FIRE
State Department Requests Pentagon To Curb Diplomatic Activities Sharp Criticism Of New Step
COMMENT
Let's
talk about the weather, for it seems to be getting important. Enough perhaps has al- ready been said, with differing emphasis, about
In London And Paris
Washington, Mar. 26.
The State Department has asked the Pentagon and the Hongkong's unreasonable White House to curb General Douglas MacArthur's activities in the diplomatic field and the request is said to have been worded "fairly strongly."
fog-drill of the last two or three weeks, but that is not today's point of key interest.
A Bill before the American Senate seeks power to
The State Department acted as a result of General MacArthur's dramatic announcement late last week that he conduct experiments was willing to confer in the field with North Korean army "with respect to methods leaders to arrange a cease-fire.
of controlling and pro- ducing precipitation in moisture-deficient areas."
The wording may be in Reds
tended to confuse hostile agents, but a little study suggests that the Ameri- cans contemplate an at- tempt to stop and start rain at will.
Pale In Blackpool
Blackpool, Mar. 26.
fared padly in
Communists
the national and district elec- tions of the 350,000-strong Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers Union, the results of which were announced at the Union's annual conference here today.
General MacArthur's statement had strong diplomatic overtones and was not cleared in ad- vance by the State Department.
Even before the incident, today. that General Douglas State Department officials had MacArthur's latest declaration wanted General MacArthur to about Korea may have "wreck- eurb his inclinations to make ed" plans for a negotiated peace, public statements which oc- The "Daily Herald" story, casionally border on diplomatic which reflects considerably Go- I proposals.
vernment sentiment, was match- ed by unfavourable comments. on General MacArthur's inde-. pendent moves by most of the British Press this morning.
General MacArthur has been
The intention, in fact, goes farther. Another Bill seems to provide for the "development and regula tion of weather modifica tion." Not just rain, but the weather itself! Washington, it seems, is soaring high. He who is master of the weather has nothing to concern him in aggressive as- pirations. Those who de- sign to harness the skies propose а liaison com- about 200 names on the ballot been in the middle of differences
Washington officials who were trying to negotiate a peace settlement in Korea felt General might andanger their efforts, MacArthur's announcement
The State Department, how-criticised in Britain for months, ever, does not deal directly with but most newspapers have taken General MacArthur, so that ap- the stand that he executed com- peals to the Pentagon and the petently his job as United Na- White House were made to get
tions commander. the General to confine his efforts The Communists failed to the mitrary field. It is not to secure a single success in the known whether the Pentagon election of 26 union delegates and the White House has relay for this year's Trade Union Coned the complaint to gress, although about 10 were MacArthur. placed in the first 50 out of
Only five Communists were successful out of 96 councillors elected in the district council's ballot.
mittee which would paper, develop the "military
A Manchester Communist re- weather tained his seat-his party's only application of modification and control." | one-among the 17 members of Doubts enter in only the National Executive of the
when it is perceived that Union.-Reuter. weather could become a two-edged weapon. The. secrets of its controls must surely be guarded as. closely as--and it is to be hoped more success- fully than -those of nuclear fission.
Will we be permitted the knowledge, for instance?
General
The General has frequently
between the State Department and the Defence Department, sometimes being on the State Department's side and some- times
Pentagon's: In Lendon, the Labour Party newspaper "Daily Herald" said
the on
Wedding Bells For Blind Sweethearts
Castleford, Yorks, Mar. 26. *
A pen friendship between a blind Ceylonese If not, we may develop girl and her blind sweetheart in Yorkshire ended our own private, weather
control of our
in wedding bells today. own
here.
sweetheart that she had never seen and never spoken to. They met aboard the liner which had
to Britain. brought her on the long journey
Publication
Of
The "Telegraph" To Be Suspended
The attention of readers
is directed to the notice appearing. elsewhere in this issue announcing the \\decision to suspend the noon edition of the Hong- kong Telegraph as from April 1, 1951.
As explained, the de- cision has been prompted by further increases in the price of newsprint, plus the growing, difficulty of assuring adequate supplies The Hongkong Telegraph will, therefore, suspend publication after Friday next. Special features will. be incorporated in the China Mail, while unex« pired portions of prepaid subscriptions are being re- funded.
AUSTRIAN
REGRETS
HIS BOAST
Nuremberg, Mar. 26. Peter Martin Bleibtreu, 29- year-old Austrian-born journal. theist, today
to have passed the poison phial withdrew his claim
with which Hermann Goering cheated the gallows in 1946.
But his declaration about meeting
the Chinese. on battlefield for a truce, and his hints that continued Chinese stubbornness might lead to an extension of the area of conflict, is expected to provoke a storm of criticism, particularly when Parliament reconvenes.
"SELF-TAILORED"
Under the headline
"Mac- Fire," the "Daily, Herald" said Arthur Upsets Plans for Cease-
in a dispatch from its Washing-. ton correspondent: A plan for a new approach to Communist China may have been wrecked by General MacArthur's latest move. In the Korean war. General MacArthur, wearing his self-tailored 'mantle of pro- consul, coupled his invitation for a truce with the implied threat of extending the war into Com- munist China itself."
The Times" said that "the
In a statement here befora Mr Worth B. McCauley, the chief attorney for the United States High Commission in Germany, Bleibtreu said he had published the claim to cause the real donor of the to come forward.
He was arrested here on his arrival from Switzerland, and held by the West German au- thorities. on charges of inflict-
ng bodily injury."
Bleibtreu said, that he made use of his story from "experi- ences and observations gathered during the Nuremberg War crimes trial.”
A West German magazine several months ago published an General Assembly becomes em-
illustrated article purporting to barrassed, resentful or merely
show a "repeat performance" of, incredulous when General Mac-
the transfer of the poison phial. Arthur, as United Nations com- It showed Bleibtreu slipping mander, speaks again of carry-into the empty court room and land. Here the point needs no phial under. the ing the war to the Chinese main- using chewing gum to stick the dock in which labouring he cuts across nearly Goering stood.
everything that has been saidi
Bleibtreu will be charged by and done at Lake Success for the American authorities with the past six months"
Illegal border crossing and being The "Daily Telegraph" said it j in possession of confidential was clear the State Department American documents. Reuter, is "once again very annoyed with General MacArthur.**
LAST THING Oil Strike
skies is our inalienable The two lovers, who got to know each other right. We could, decree by letters in Braille sent halfway round the that it rained only when world, were married at the little parish church we were in bed. We could | guarantee perfect holi- day weather-as opposed The girl, 29-year-old Dorothy to our Easter patience Christine Isaac, was orphaned test even were it hard as a baby and went blind when
she was only four. on our forecasting ex- Taken into a Protestant school perts until they had at Mount Lavinia, Ceylon, she
Today, she was given away overcome their natural proved an apt pupil and even-
tually became a teacher there,
by Mr Arul-Natakhan,” the The "Manchester Guardian's” hesitancy to being right.
Her marriage to Fred Stevens, principal of her school in Cey- correspondent wrote: "The last But there are certain dan-a Yorkshire factory worker, lon. Among the messages of thing Washington wanted at this
she gers. Deprived of the totally blind since he was 11, congratulations
received moment was to tickle the sore was a telegram from the edi- | subject of General MacArthur's rigours of our inclemen-crowned one of the world's most
for of the magazine which first battered ego, or revive specula-
Port of Spain (Trinidad). unusual love stories. cies, we might in time
Stevens first got in touch with brought the couple together. tion about what he might and
Mar. 26. Jose our inherent hardi-Dorothy 18 months
ago, when
Smiling with happiness in might not be able to do if only Trinidad oilfields drillers hood. Worse, a subtle his fingers traced her name in a her white bridal gown, Dorothy he was allowed to storm ahead." have struck oil under the sea
Braille magazine. He wrote to said: "To me, coming to Eng- enemy might invade our her and for the next 12 months land has been like
General, MacArthur's state off the island-the first oil coming ment drove the Communist produced in Trinidad under a skies to accelerate that they exchanged letters three home. Everyone has been so "Daily Worker" to profanity, marine drilling licence, process by raining down times a week. ceaseless sunshine. What then would we have to talk about
very kind."
When he proposed and at The couple are to live at Christmas sent her the engage- Stevens' home in the little ment ring. Two months later mining village of Fryston, not she left Ceylon to meet the far from here.-Reuter,
Under Sea
| Speaking of his offer to meet The well is also the first the Chinese on the battlefield under-ses well to be sunk here and arrange a truce, the paper from a shore base. It is pro asked, "Who the hell is Mac-ducing about 150,000 barrels (Continued on Page 4 Col. 1) day.--Reuter...