THE CHINA, MAIL, MAY 30, 1941.
RECONSTRUCTION AFTER WAR
Mr. Anthony Eden Outlines Britain's Proposals
System Of Free NO CHANGE IN
Economic Cooperation
"THE ECONOMIC REORGANISATION OF EUROPE WILL NOT BE EASY BUT WE WILL NOT SHIRK OUR OPPORTUNITY OR OUR RESPONSIBILITY," SAID MR. ANTHONY EDEN, SECRETARY OF STATE OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, IN A SPEECH AT THE MANSION HOUSE IN LONDON YESTERDAY IN WHICH HE OUTLINED BRI- TISH PLANS FOR POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION.
"The British aim will be to free the post-
war world from want.
It will be our wish to
work with others to prevent the starvation
Queen's
period which followed the last war and the Visit To
fluctuation of foreign exchange and market prices.
"We shall seek to achieve this in ways which will interfere as little as possible with the proper liberty and economic system of each country. In a system of free economic cooperation Germany must play a part.
Brighton
The Queen rode in a
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U.S. POLICY IN FAR EAST
The U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Cordell Hull, told pressmen yesterday there was no change in United States policies or relations regarding Japan.
Mr. Hull made this statement in response to questions concern- ing President Roose- velt's omission in his broadcast of any men- tion of Japan.-Reu- ter.
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she visited the South Coast yesterday and in-
make for the betterment of man's spected the headquarters BUENOS
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"BUT HERE I DRAW A FIRM DISTINCTION. WE M NEVER FORGET THAT GER- MANY HAS BEEN THE WOHST MASTER EUROPE HAS EVER KNOWN. FIVE TIMES SHE HAS VIOLATED PEACE
MUST NEVER BE IN A POSI
PLAY THAT TION TO
ROLE AGAIN."
Roosevelt Doctrine
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DAYLIGHT SAVING FOR U.S.?
Mr. Harold Ickes, U.S. Secretary of Interior, at his press conference yes-· terday advocated nation- al daylight saving time.
He also suggested America may have
restricted to resort to the use of electricity and institute to petrolless Sundays in order meet the shortages of power and oil.
Commenting on the restriction of electricity, Mr. Ickes declared: make "It is more important to aluminium than to have night baseball." (Referring to the popu- larity of floodlit professional base- ball games).
Mr. Ickes said the oil pro- blem was strictly one of trans- portation owing to the transfer to British service of one-fifth of the American tanker fleet.
Mr. lckes' comments were made i simultaneously with a statement by an official of the Federal Pow- er Commission who foresaw "per- haps history's most serious" emer- geney in power supply. Reuter.
June 4 to testify in connection with the activities of the Trans- has locean News Agency and
company of the London of Scottish Regiment,
A group of 10 deputies which she is Colonel-in-been requested by the Argentine sures the police have taken
Minister of Interior to be pre-counteract Nazi prepaganda. sent at the Congress session on Reuter. Chief.
The keynote of President Roose- AND SHE vrit's speech was the declaration
Over She rode in the carrier that the national existence of free
lions must ultimately depend country for 10 minutes and dur- well- of the seasing a upon the freedom
journey through a That applied with equal force to known coast village she saw some- thing of the defences, mcluding the British Empire,
heavy tanks on the move.
Mr Eden added that the Bri- tish terms would be designed to prevent a repetition of these Ger- man misdeeds.
The Foreign Secretary began by welcoming President Roosevelt's broadcast which he described AS
that Tic momentous.
the said President had pointed the way to the foundations the serure
of had accomplished world and great act of faith.
Brutally Thorough
it
Returning to Britain's post-war reconstruction plans, Mr.
said:
"There has never been thing brutally thorough
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President Roosevelt's broad-
Visiting Brighton, she carried cast was momentous and by his through several engagements, and words the President had given after lunching with officers, visit- expression to the fixed detered other coastal defences, mination of the most powerful nation on earth.
Eden Iraq. Mr. Referring to said that since the return of the ago Regent to Iraq a few days the Regent had received imum- erable messages of loyalty and support from all over the country
Many of Raschid Ali's follow- ers had already fled.
"I hope therefore that very Soon we shall have rid Iraq of any- this self-constituted dictator ..
us we have no designs of any kind
visited
The King yesterday the "ship" H.M.S. Alfred, which is the Navy's training establish- the candidates from ment for lower deck for the rank of of. ficers.
The King saw everything done Navy fashion" in this dry land more than establishment where 6,000 officers have been produced. Acknowledging cheers from the crowd gathered
his to witness arrival, the King smiled broadly when a woman called out "What about the old Bismarck now?"
Later he inspected a company
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POST-WAR AIMS DEBATE IN COMMONS
SIMULTANEOUSLY with Mr. Anthony Eden's speech at Mansion House yesterday, women's naval the House of Commons, on the motion to ad- journ for the Whitsun recess, debated the question of announcing Britain's post-war
Hitlerism. No country will bagainst the independence of Iraq." auxiliaries-Reuter. safe until this system is smashed. The Nazi is building up against himself a flood of hate unparallel-
the
Syrian Aspirations
ed in force and volume and when Reaffirming the British Govern- dam bursts it will sween ment's great sympathy with Hitler and his gang away; Gestapo, Syrian aspirations for indepen-
MORE KITE aims.
Quislings and satellites and much dence, Mr. Eden said many Arab FLYING
else besides,
thinkers desired for the Arab peoples a greater degree of unity "Every German in his
heart than they now enjoyed. In reach- must know and fear this. We ing out towards that unity they cannot now foresee when this will hoped for British support. come but this German machine may break suddenly and without! warning,
"The reckoning will indeed be wide and florce.
Pooling Of Resources "Only the countries of the Bri- tish Empire and her allies, with the United States
South and America, are in a position to carry a policy of reconstruction. When this comes we will have to make financial adjustments on the widest possible basis and we shall also develop international ex- change and trade
out
"No such appeal from friends should go unanswered."
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BY JAPAN
The principal speaker was Mr. Geoffrey Mander (Liberal) who himself is the author of a comprehensive plan of post-war recon- struction.
Mr. Halifax's
always Europe has re-echoed Lord for which Mander
words in advocating had to fight, and which it would
Britain's help. of utilising the achieve with
the Reuter.
Reports that the Pre- mier of Thailand might the possibility
Commonwealth as of visit Japan are not sub- British
bridge of greater world unity." stantiated in Bangkok.
Referring to the future Europe and to moral and mater- ial reconstruction, Mr. Eden said none should suppose we intended to return to the chaos of the old world.
Social Security
It is understood that while the Premier would like to go abroad for a holiday and to study condi- tions in various foreign countries, he feels he cannot leave the coun- When peace came we should try in view of the present war make such relaxation of war-time situatibay EG financial arrangements, as would A Cabinet Minister told Reuter permit a revival of international in Bangkok yesterday the C trade on the widest possible basis, ernment was not aware of
We should hope to see the de- proposal to send a Japanese Bad- velopment of a system of inter-nomic mission to Thailand.—Reu- national exchange which the ter others will require an initial pool- would be a general feature.
trading of goods and services ing of resources to carry them
be these through this transitional periodocial security must
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THE. GOVERNOR OF CIRAS, GENERAL MUNOZ GRANDES, YESTERDAY MORN- ING RETURNED THE OFFICIAL CALL PAID ON HIM ON MAY 19 BY LORD GORT,"NEWLYS APPOINTED GOVERNOR OF GIBRALTARJE I KANË FIL
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"The” Government spokesman, Developments elsewhere and in first object of our domestic and nature of a machine so rigid -as the German to break suddenly and foreign policy after the war. the Far Fash for example, will be It would be our wish to work with little warning as Mr R A Butler (Under-Secre- affected by the plan for the re-
th there to present the star- In speaking of the reconstruc-tary for Foreign Affairs), wound construction of Europe.
vation of the post-armistice tion of Europe, he did not over-up the debete. briefly, by drawing for the arrival and departare, of "We have learned, our lesson, of period, currency disorders and look the fact that settlement Attention to Mr. Eden's state= | General, Munoz Grandes. the interval between the two wars wide. Buctuations in employment might affect and be affected by mont and then confined himas and we know that there is no markets and prices.
escapes from the curse which has Sudden Bronk ?
fallen on the world except by the creation and preservation "of the and that security which alone can
"None -can-foresee "when- end will come but it is in:
developments elsewhere ; such as, to the statement that it wo
for example, the Far East: Bo a very great mistake
Asulasting settlement and the an
:internal peace of the Continent as f/2mpression that Brita
a whole swas. Qu>ON\Y}alm Roy-security at home, ang.
the world as: also for the ter.
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