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THE CHINA MAIL, MARCH 28, 1989.

CLOSED SENATE SESSION DISCUSSES NEUTRALITY ACT: AID TO S. AMERICA

Washington, To-day. The Senate foreign relations committee, in a closed session yesterday, voted to make the proposed new neutrality legislation the "special order of business" at its meeting on March 29. Yesterday the committee heard testimony from

Mr. Sumner Welles (Assistant Secretary of State), Admiral Leahy (Chief of Naval Opera- tion), and General Marshall (U.S. Army De- puty Chief of Staff).

All declared that the manufac- ture by the United States of ships, munitions and arms for South

America, as proposed by Senator Key Pittman, would lessen, any threat of aggression Western Hemisphere.

against the

MEMEL RAISED

The efforts of several commit- tee members to raise discussion of the Memel question were frustrat- ed by Senator Pittman, who insist- ed that they confine themselves to the legislation under discussion.

General opinion appeared. to be that the Memel coup had not materially altered the

European picture.

Meanwhile a resolution

similar

to Senator Pittman's on neutrality Was introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday by Re- presentative Thomas Hennings. → Reuter.

FURTHER

EXPENDITURE

ON ARMAMENTS

London, To-day

BOY REFUGEE'S

PLEA TO KING

Crying, in a state of collapse and tightly clutching a letter to the King pleading for help, a boy refugee, aged fourteen, was found by a watchman on the Team Valley Trading Estate, Gateshead, where the King was due later.

The boy, Leo Levi, who could not speak English, told a German- -speaking police officer that his parents. had been in a German concentration camp, but had been released.

The boy, parted from his par- ents for four months, homesick and heartbroken, had written his letter to the King in an effort to be reunited with his parents.

OPPOSITION BEING KEPT INFORMED

London, To-day.

As is customary at times of external crisis, the leaders of the opposition parties are being kept Captain Euan Wallace, Financial informed of developments, accord- Secretary to the Treasury, yestering to official sources.

day hinted at still further.expendit Mr. Attlee (Labour) and his de- ture on armaments and appealed to local authorities throughout the country to exercise economy.

Captain Wallace was addressing the Jubilee Meeting of the County Councils Association.

He said. It looked as though the events of the past, ten days were going to add to the already great financial burden, to strengthen our défences.

Nevertheless the Government dejl Bired to maintain and if possible

puty, Mr. Greenwood, and also Sir the Prime Minister in his room at Archibald Sinclair (Liberal) saw the House of Commons yesterday afternoon.

Later Mr. Chamberlain had a conversation with the French: For- eign Minister, at which Lord Hali- fax was also present. British Wireless.

CHAMBERLAIN

improve the standard of social seri | AND NATIONAL

vices.

This was essentially the time, however, to ask for, a maximum amount of efficiency to see that they got full value for money ex- pended.

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'NIKS

REGISTER

London, To-day.

The Prime Minister was asked in the Commons yesterday if " in view of the attitude of the German Government In South-Eastern Europe, which menaced the ultimate security of Britain, he would now take immédiate steps to introduce a compulsory National Register.

The Home Secretary; replying for M. ↑ Chamberlain, said "I"" am not satialed that in

present conditions in

a“ com- "add

plete National Register would anything to the steps which already have been taken by the Government for the security of the country. "British Wireless.

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