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THE CHINA MAIL, JULY 22, 1941.

PREMIER STUDYING SUPPLY COMPLAINTS

(By Reuter's Parliamentary Correspondent)

PARLIAMENTARY OPINION WILL CALL FOR A BOLD DECISION ON COMPREHEN- SIVE AND PROGRESSIVE LINES WHEN THE DEBATE ON PRODUCTION IS RESUMED SHORTLY.

The main demand in the earlier debate, and since reiterated in the newspapers, was that there should be a Minister charged with the special duty of supervising production as a whole instead of leaving it as at present under several ministers.

Without such an ap-| tary opinion remains unruffled by the new appointments announced |pointment, it is argued, a yesterday.

comprehensive production policy to mobilise indus- try and labour fully can- not be put into force.

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It is generally agreed that the take this complex and thankless post is difficult to find. Hence suggestions of some mid- dle course, involving several pro- minent me. A decision is ex- pected from the Prime Minister when the debate is resumed.

Reports Called For

There is reason to believe that the Prime Minister is examining the reports of the Supply Depart ments on the criticisms levelled against them by members of all parties in the recent two-day debate on production.

He is also investigating the wider critioltms that were made on Government's production policy.

On the assumption that Mr. Churchill intends to deal separ- ately and comprehensively with the production issue, parliamen-

TEACHING

AMERICAN HISTORY

New Ministers

Was

The two points on which there is most agreement are that the change at the Ministry of In- formation

desirable and that Mr. R. A Butler well de- serves his promotion from Under- Secretary at the Foreign to full

COLOGNE

RAID BLAZE

A brilliant fire, at least a mile long, among the factories on the outskirts of Cologne, was one re- sult of the R.A.F.'s attack on the Rhineland on Sun- day night.

The Air Ministry, giving de- tails of the raid, adds that else- where ten other fires were burn- ing simultaneously.

The pilots saw high explosive bombs bursting in the midst of large industrial buildings already burning fiercely. Office

Ministerial rank at the Board of Education.

Much interest is attached to the manner in which Mr. Bren- dan Bracken will discharge his duties as Minister of Informa. tion.

At Rotterdam, there was a for- midable fire among the ducks.

Its glow was seen frotp 100 miles on the way back.

A pillar of smoke rose 6,000 feet from a large part of the docks, while the flames lit up the warehouses which were in front of the smoke.

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An unstinted flow of informâ- tion is not usually associated At Aachen, bombs were seen with parliamentary private secre- to burst among factory buildings. taries to the Prime Minister, but After these successful attacks, those who have expressed some the whole of the large bombing apprehensions on that point look jurce came safely home, though to Mr. Bracken's close assvelation the Germans put up a strong bar- with newspaperdom to redress the rage and night fighters were about. balance. - Reuter,

--Reuter,

BOLIVIA'S MOVE AGAINST NAZIS APPLAUDED

(SPECIAL TO "CHINA MAIL")

Opening a course for teachers on the history of the United States at the

THE SWIFT ACTION taken by the Technical Institute for Government of Bolivia ta crush plans for a the Distributive Trade in Nazi putsch is warmly applauded in Wash- London, the American ington, where it is pointed out the German

Ambassador told 275

teachers from London and agents have been working intensively for the Home Counties that months in South America in efforts to disrupt he began life as a teacher pan-American solidarity,

in America of American

history at a secondary General Candia, the Minister of Defence, carried out sharp action at Cochamba, centre

school

They began with Magna Carta

Winant, and when they

and the Bill of Rights, said Mr. of the plot, and his investigations were resi Hiterature they were really study-Ronsible for the order ousting the German ing the literature. of England. Minister.

They had common heritage, both in literature and in most that, was the foundation of what he might describe as the rights of

man.

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Berlin Comment

Additional arrests are expected country. though the Government has an- The Legation replied: nounced that the plot to over-waiting for orders from Berli Inaugurating the course, he throw the government has been said he hoped it would do much completely smashed. Bolivia Is to enable them to understand. his still under a state of siege, but the

In Berlin, the unofficial.com country because, in fundamental authorities insist that the last things, they worked: from a com- vestiges of the plot have been ment was that the whole affair mon denominator and the things stamped, out and that the country was "fantastic and ridiculous," with a hint, that there would held dearest in England were is now perfectly peaceful. held dearest in his country, it Further unfolding of the plot is almost certainly be German re-

He believed that if they under-expected to involve several pro-tallation stood a little more of each other's minent Bolivians, some of whom Semi-official quarters in La government, even in these times have been identified in the past Paz, Bolivia, continue to asso- of stress, they would be able to with the stormy history of Boliv-clate the name of Victor Esten- interpret to each other the pro-lan Government in recent years, soric with the plot, declaring, that blems that confronted them and cooperate and co-ordinate a com? mon policy.

Mr. R. A. Butler, new Prest dent of the Board of Education, presided

Mass Of Evidence

A mass of evidence against Herr Wendler, the German Minister, is expected to be published in a few He said he did not think there days. Wendler went to police was any more important venture headquarters, and demanded to see they were undertaking in the the government evidence proving world of education than that his participation in the plot. The which they were now inaugura! 'ing.

He said it was quite well known how closely the ideals and aspira- tions of U.SA. and Britain were linked. British Wireless.

outwardly the Finance Minister headed the movement as the Germans, figurehead for the though he was not intended to play an important role in the new regime. International News Service.

HIGHWAY BILL

officer in charge-wald that he had The House of Representatives no authority and the Minister left. has passed the US$287,000,000. The Government later asked Defence Highway Bill, which has the Legations when Herr Wendler been sent to the Senate for conal- proposed to comply with the off-deration of amendments. Reu- cial request that he leave the ter.