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Brighton, Oct. 20.

Germany and Greece and the World Russian Federation of Trade Unions will be among the

important international and colonial questions Government

IN FRANCO SPAIN

discussed at this week's Trades-Union Con- gress conference which begins here tomorrow. The whole of Thursday, it is understood, will be devoted to these issues the same day that Mr. Clement Attlee, the Prime Minister, will address the conference. Among the resolutions on international policy will be that of the Fire Brigade Union, which is strongly Left Wing, asking that recognition of In- dia's rights to independence [ should be accompanied by the freeing of India's sterling balances as a means to accele rate improvement of Indians". standard of living, and that of the Electrical Trade Union call- ing for condemnation of the foreign policy of the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin.

Some of the other resolutions wilt call for active support of the Colonial Trade Union move- ment and for a mission of en- quiry into the Colonies and for larger Government grants, for colonial development,

conference.

Foreign Affairs delegates from friendly unions During the weeks fraternal will address the They will include M. Louis Saillant, General Secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions, and Mr. M. P. Tarasov, International Secretary of the All-Union Central Council of the Soviet Union.

Barcelona, Oct. 20.

It is reliably reported that Gen. Franco's police hava ar- rested all five members of the Supreme Council of a Spanish Republican armed forces or ganisation hare (headed by a former Army Licut-Colonel) and 'arized numerous docu- yents dealing with Republi- can forces in this section of Spain.Associated Press.

U.S. Must

Share

Washington, Oct. 21. willing to share its resources with 'The United States must be

Changes

London, Oct. 20.

An expansion of the Russian Government, involving the crea- tion of several new ministries and the appointment of fifteen new junior ministers, was announced by aloscow Racio today.

All ministries with practieni undertakings"rang- ing from food reserves and domes- tic animal breeding to manufac- ture of surgical instruments, geology and the film industry.

are

concerned

At the game time Georgi Malenko 45-year-old, member of the Fresidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S,R1, and one of the fire secretaries of the Cen- tral 'Committee of the Communist Party, has been appointed one of the deputy chairmen of the Soviet Cabinet, of which Generalissimo Stalin is head.

In view of his new appoint- ment, M. Malenkov has been re- leased from his duties as a mein- bey of the Supreme Council of. the U.S.S.R. (Soviet Parliament). Reuter.

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You May See other nations to promote world re- Them Yet

construction and

peace, Under-

Berlin, Oct. 20. Secretary of State William L. U.S. military government HQS. Clayton said in a radio address state that

official photographs' today,

taken at the execution of the 10 "We must share our food, cur Nazi war criminals in Nuernberg Loyalty to the World Federn- clothing, our coal, our construc- on Wednesday will be reveiewed tion of Trade Unions and grea- tion and transportation equipment by the Allied Control Council to- will also be demanded. Special Ten days aro ter publicity for its activitirsin fact, almost everything day to decide whether any shall

the dictionary," Clayton said. be released for publication. issues which may be debated in-

we got emotional Reports from Nuernberg on about meat. To ste the attention Wednesday said clude the position

that an official of trade it got in the newspapers and on Army photographer only took unions in Germany where the the radio one would have thought pictures of the corpses cut of World Federation sent a com- we were starving..

1rom the gallows. Two photo- mission to study conditions ear-

graphs are being made of each, ly this year. A crucial debate

one, with the body clothed and on foreign affairs however, may

the other with

the corpac un- well arise on the section of the

clothed. report dealing with Greece.

Greek Interest The Britisu Trade Unions are pledged to take an interest in the freedom of organisation of

Greek Trade Unions because tlry British delegation supervised

the Greek Trade Union elections which have since been annulled by the Greek constitutional court."

That elected Greek Trade Union leaders have been pre vented from continuing their activities by the Greek Govern- ment which has appointed new provisional leaders is another factor which will make this a controversial issue...

Protests by the World Federa- tion of Trade Unions about this have so far been unavailing and many delegates will want to know what the General Council has done to make the British Government intervene with the Greek Government on behalf of Trade Union rights.--Reuter.

advance by the San Francisco Charter, any hostility to other nations. When M. Molotov has just explained the Slav group's commen attitude on the ground that "the young Slav democracies are defending their national. in- dependence and new methods of national development," countries further west should have

San Francisco, Oct. 20. qualms about defending thein own national independence and clared before 600 delegates at the Congressman Hugh de Lacy de- their old methods of national de China-Far East Conference that velopment by similarly drawing unless United States foreign together.

policy in China was changed, the United States might be involvel

a third world war.

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Perhaps it is only the initiative which is lacking. A beginning might have been made by cement- ing ties between France and Bri- tain 2 year or more ago, had Gen. de Gaulle been as favour able at the time to this grouping as he has subsequently become. To suggest, as Gen. Smuts has done, that the smaller Powers should take up a project which larger countries hesitate to handle jimplies a self-confidence among these smaller States which few of the Governments of the liberated countries may yet feel. But some- one in Europe must surely make action soon if the fabric of our common civilisation is not, for |lack of political and economic cement, to disintegrate.

Reds Back Conscription

London, Oct. 20.

A resolution to light conscrip». Lion because of the Government's foreign policy in Gretce, Indo- nesia and Palestine was defeated today at the, conferenca of the Young Communiet League.

Replying to the proposal. Mr.. Murdoch Taylor, former Recre- tary of the League, said they would be, betraying the men who sarved during the war and those already called up if a real, Aght was made against conscription.

"Bear in mind that the epiriz In a conscripted army is far more progressive and politically con- scious than the regular army, “Ir can be a powerful Instrument for trus democracy" he said-Bea

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WAR-WARNING-

The conference was summoned to demand that the United States should discentive assistance to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. CARNIVAL

"As a matter of fact, we are still eating ever so much more meat than people in England or on the continent of Europe. So far as Asia is concerned, they never see much meat."-Associat- ed Press.

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Previous indications have been that the pictures, labeled "top secret," were to be fi.cd for his- torical and record purposes only. -Associated Press.

WELLES ON PALESTINE

- OPPRESSION IN. Washington, Oct. 21. Sumner Welles, former Under-

POLAND Secretary of State, declared in his

Warsaw, Oct, 21. weekly broadcast that "the first

The Polish Persant Party step towards reestablishment of leader and Vice-Premier, Miko- semblance of peace in lajczyk, alleged last night that Palestine must be the end of the security police had arrested.. military rule" of the British 915 officials and members of his Welles said he believed the Bri- Party in what he claimed was an tish "will attempt to prevent the effort to paralyze the Party be Falestine problem from being fore the opening of the election placed on the agenda of the inter campaign. He also said that 94 trusteeship council," members of the Party had been national when that agency is created by murdered since May and that the United Nations General As others had "disappeared."--AB30-- sembly.-Associated Press.

ciated Press,

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Pandit Nehru Has Narrow Escape

Peshawar, Oct. 20.

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Vice-President of the Interim Government of India, completed his journey from Khyber Pass to Peshawar with a heavily reinforced escort after tribesmen had stoned and fired at his convoy in the Pass. Tanks were deployed as a fire, this time had instructions at the en- to "shoot your way through if security measure trance to Peshawar. His escort, necessary." which during the incident in the Pass, had to await the order to

DONE. TIGA ST MEA MERYER, VIII, 17, 18,

By Dick Turner

"Oh, I beg your pardon!'I thought you were my husband!"

Earlier in the morning, Mr. Nehru bad remarked to presK- men: "These tribesmen are un- civilised, but civilisation could have been brought to them and it can be brougnt to them."

During the incident in the Pass the convoy was in a pre- carious position with tribesmen shooting towards the road from either side. Mr. Nehru sat erect and calm in the car as bulleta sang through the air and rifles crackled and plopped from the mountainside.

It was over in a few minutes. Troops cleared the road and the convoy dasned forward to safe - ty.

The party, which included Dr. Khan Sahis, Premier of Northwest. Frontier Province, and his brother, Mr. Khan Ab- dul, local Congress leader, drove on to. Pesnawar, where they arrived at lunchtime.

The Finance Minister of the Northwest Frontier Province, cur, who was in the leading

Wad said that as the convoy driving upaill it was stopped. by a man who indicated the presence of tribesmen on the hillside. The tribesmen thea came down from the hillside in front of the first car and along.. the roadside and the stone, throwing began. Apart from ̄à· two press correspondents, the whose party escaped injury from both bullets and stones, but there was hardly a car in the convoy with intact windows Reuter.