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CHURCHILL v. MR. ATTLEE Defends His Return To The Gold Standard

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Answers Charges Greatest

Point By Point · Pilgrimage

London, Apr. 28. Of Recent

Winston Churchill last night defended his return to the gold standard in a direct reply to Prime

Minister Clement Attlee's charges that Chur Times

chill was "the most disastrous Chancellor of the Exchequer of the century." --

Montserrat, Apr. 27,

In a formal statement distributed by the Conser- Moro than 50,000 Catalan vative Party's Central Office, Churchill said Catholics applauded frantically Attlee "must feel himself very hard pressed to today as their patroness for have to go back nearly a quarter of a century the past thousand years, a to find excuses for the mismanagement and black wooden image of blunders of which he evidently feels his government guilty."

Churchill launched a bitter de. bate against his Socialist succes-1 sor last week with an attack on It added: "As a prelimin. the Government, and the Prime Phone ary condition to the economic Minister replied Friday in Scot

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In hla rebuttal Churchill slated during my tenure of that office

in the Conservative Government the cost of living declined by at least 18 points while money and wages remained stable."

Of Attlee's charge that return- ing the nation to the gold stan. dard during the Churchill reign In the Exchequer precipitated the present coal crisis. Churchill replied:

Copenhagen, Apr. 27. The police believed today that "mischievous boys" planted the home-mude two-pound bomb "He says that I acted on ad- which exploded on Thursday vlce. Indeed I did, on the advico night in the cellar of the Russian of a committee appointed by Lord Snowden, the Chancellor in the Socialist Government in 1824 of which Attice himself was a mem her."-Associated Press.

Consulate.

Draft Programmes and Entry The amb made so little noise Forms for the Sixth Extra no, one heard it, and fragments were not found until Friday. A Race Meeting to be held 6/11 Saturday, 10th

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ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL

Memorial Service for the late' King Christian X of Denmark will be held in St. John's

United PresS.

The Charges Mr. Attlee's charges and Mr. Churchill's replies, point by point,

follow:

France Is Facing A Manpower Shortage

Paris, Apr. 27.

France was in the position of a drowning man whose head is still above water, “and if we give up we shall sink," the Prime Minister M Paul Ramadier, declared tonight in a speech at Millau, in southwestern France.

"I do not wish to be pesalmis- sion of France into two hostlie tie," he said, "but we have loca. To join one or the other not yet reached the end of our of these two blocs would be to difficulties.

work against civil peace and "Production in our chief un-risk transforming every town xiety. It depends on our re- and village in France into arm- Cathedral on Wednesday, our miners have reached the "Vigilance" (Communist

sources of energy and labour. ed camps in which "Rally" and

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"We shall have to call on all avaliable manpower in Europe,

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but necessarily with discrimina- Pilot

tion," he said, "We shall have to give a warm welcome to those workers who come to help us to rebuild France."

Meanwhile, speaking in Paris

of the National} at a meeting Committee of the MRP (Popular Republican Movement), France's Maryse Bastic,

Honoured

The French

of

Paris, Apr: 27%.

woman pilot, has been named

second largest party, the Presi- Commander the Legion of dent, M. Maurice Schumann, Honour for gallantry during the refused to endotse

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Acting as agent for the French resistance movement, she flew on several secret missions and was

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Attlee; "I remember very wel when Mr. Churchill was Chan- cellor of the Exchequer the most disastrous Chancellor of the een- tury."

Churchill: "During my tenure of that office in the Conservative Government, the cost of living

18 declined by at least. points while money

remained: stable."

Wages

Our

SEEK WAR DEAD

Paris, Apr. 27. Two Royal Air Force offi- cera are touring the Charente Maritime Department of southwest France to identify graves of unknown British oirmen buried in the nauy cometorica in the region.

According to figuręs receiv- ed, 200 British," aitmen of World War II were buried there. Reuter,

German

P.O.Ws. To Strike?

• London, Apr. 29, A warning that German prison- ors, of war working on British

Lady of Montserrat was en- throned on a magnificent gold and silver throne, coating five farms might million pesetas (about 100. 000).

strike ot

harvest

Breeding Ground For War

Washington, Apr. 28.

The Foreign Policy Association said today that the

“Colonial world will remain a breeding ground (?' for war" until dependent peoples are permit- ted to choose their own forms of Government. A report by Vernon Mckay, historian for the As- sociation which is a private research organiza- tion, said colonial powers must spend some of the wealth produced in the colonies on the col- onies themselves if they want to keep the in- habitants from going over to Russia. "Many dependent peoples are Impressed by the record of the Soviet Union," McKay said,

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"Although the elaborate reform programme of Britain, France and the Netherlands gives an im- pression of planned certainty about the future of bolonies, tie fact is that in many areas a most uncertain situation prevails.

"This is particularly true In Indo-China and Indonesia," said and

McKay. "In these French Dutch possessions nationallem la Intense, natives are armed and bloodshed hos aroused bitter feel ings.

Incidents On

Iran Border

Teheran, Apr. 27.

The Iranian Army Chief of Staff disclosed today that "some..mipor

accidents" had occurred recently along the Soviet border in North- ern Iran, but said the situation

informed military Iranian frontier

Ume unless they received more pay and more incentive to workt was given to the Yorkshire Religious and regional fer. branch of the National Farmers'

was now "absolutely calm." vour.mingled in a' richly colour- Union by A. Sellers, a member of

He did not give detalls of the at the famous the Union's Yorkshire executive. fui ceremony

A resolution asking that gov-

Sincerity And Vigour Incidents, nor would he confirma

nationalists "Intransigent Montserrat Abbey, perched 3-1

in reporla German prisoners

among the Arabs in French North | circles that 000 feet high on the mountain-ernment pay side in the northeast corner of more in order to get better work

from them

by the Afrien, Inspired by the moral aup forces last week turned back a was tabled Catalonia. -

port of the

world, force and it was

whole Arab

of 4,000 armed Russians Spain's great shrine, set Pocklington branch

upset French plans for who allegedly attempted to enter among towering perpendicular decided that details of the dif- may

and Morocco. Iran as "refugees." rocks, which in the Middle Ages ficulties which might arise at pri. Tunlala, Algeria

high from Tunis

These unconfirmed reports said Casablanca. could boast of half a million soners camps should be forward- Tension is

the Russians attempted to force pilgrims in one year, today saw ed to the Union Headquarters.

"Whether gradualism is that there was

fás: their way into Iran after frontier It was stated the greatest pilgrimage of re-

considerable dissatisfaction among erough will depend on the sin officials had refused them legal

power in pushing its reform pro- forces were said to have inflicted gramme and on

success of "heavy casualties.”—-United Press,-- The United Nations in promoting an international approach to the problem.

Attlee: "If we had been con- tent to allow industry to proceed nt languid pace: it we had been content to have over 2,000,- 400 unemployed, we should not be finding our coal supplies insulcent times. cient."

under the Churchill: "It was Socialist administration

of 1920 which followed the Conservative Government that the number of 2,000,- unemployed first passed 000.

Attlee: "It was he (Churchill

af the white Chaneuliar

Ex- chequer) that brought us

It was at Montserrat Abbey that Don Juan of Austria came to lay the apolla of the Battle of Lepanto and cover the walle and of the Church with gold, Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuita, left his sword here after, a night's vigil when he back bude farewell to worldly soldier. on the guld standard which led to ing.-Reuter,

industry the crisis in the coal from which we are suffering to day.

Churchill: "I neted on the ad- vice of a Committee appointed by Lord Snowden, Chancellor in the Socialis! Government in 1924, of which Mr. Attleo himself was G member Lord Snowden, on gold the second reading of the standard bill, gald that while Government had acted with un- due precipitancy, he and his So- eialist colleagues were in favour of a return to the gold standi

earliest at the

practicable moment."

...

18 Riots

In Calcutta

to

the prisoners Associated Press-cerity-and-vigour of each colonial entry permits-Iranian frontlar

BOAC's New Far East Manager

of British

"Economic Improvement proceed simultaneously

political educational and vance."-Associated Press.

must with

REPORT DENIED

Baghdad, Apr, 27. Colonel Shakir Al Wadi, ad-Iraq Minister of Defence, to- day denied a report that forces of the Iraq Army crossed the border into Perala during the recent fighting between Kurd- Ish tribesmen and Persian Gov- ernment forcca,

Fair

London, Apr. 28. BOAC announced today that

INTERNATIONAL John Brancker, general manager of British European Airways Cor- FAIR OPENS poration, is to become manager of

Brussels, Apr. 20. the Eastern Division

The Arst International

The Iraqi Army and police Overscas Airways Corporation since before the war was in forces only, closed the frontier, augurated here today by the Pre-watched carefully and detained Brancker, who is 36, is a son of mier and Minister for Foreign anyone trying to erose into Sir Sefton Brancker, former | Trade.

Persia." he added.-Reuter. There is a record entry repre. Director-General of Aviation, who

senting 24 mutions, including the and France. The fair was killed in the R101 crash off 1930. He will be in charge of United Kingdom, United States until May T-Router.

Juno 1.

Calcutta, Apr. 27. The police fired four rounds today in Calcutta where 18 communal incidents were re- ported, the Bengal Government the Far East, Indian and Austra~ |

Man runs of BOAC. Three people said tonight.

in Colro, Kisumu He, served were killed and 14 injured as and Nairobi as area manager for Imperial Air- his speech he a result of these incidents, central Africa of Attlee: "In (Churchill) also attacked the which included five cases of ways. Soon after the formation of Civil Service."

BOAC he became regional direc A 24-hour curfew has been tor for India and Burma-A330- imposed in the Taltolla area clated Press. which was the worst affected

►

No Answer To That One Churchill: "This is utterly un- true and must be deliberate dis- tortion. What I said, and what I repeat, was that we have now too many officials compared with the number of wage earners en gaged in productive industry. it is no fault of theirs if they are now made too numerous. is the fault of this Government, that is constantly heaping upon them fresh tasks, many of which are needless and futile,'

Mr. Churchill concluded: "Mr. Attlee must

himself fech hard pressed to have to go back nearly a quarter of a century to

.very

and excuses for the mismanage ment of which he evidently feela his Government guilty."

He left unanswered, however, Mr. Altice's charge that the Con- servatives had no real detaljed

cialism-United Press.

policy as an alternative to So

Alarm

·

bomb throwing.

in the disturbances. In How- Wodehouse rah, a 17-1/2 hour curfew was five in-

Now In The

imposed, following cidents in which firearms and bombs were used.

A 24-hour curfew was im posed throughout Cawnporn States Industrial city in the United Provinces-following # com- munal flare-up in which seven have been killed as far as known at present.

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Over Ruhr'

Food Situation

Herford, Apr. 27.

Alarm over the food situation was growing in the Ruhr today as reports spread around cities that even the reduced weekly bread ration of 1,500 grammes would not be met in full during the next seven-day period.

The ration, had recently, been and trade union leaders

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Vatican City, Apr. 27. The Brothers Hospitalers of St.! Jcha of God re-elected Father Ephrem Blandeau of France as their Superior General at a meet- they ing on the little isin of Tibering mann the heart of Rome today.

are

once wounded in action-United cut from 2,500 grammes as the, quoted, as saying that result of the gap in the arrival realised that such public of shipments from the United ifestations of discontent could Father Blandeau, born in Rennes States and a breakdown of have no effect on the supply in 1894, has been Superior since local supplies, No confirmation position-Reuter.

King Christian X of Denmark TUC Secretary

to be held at St. John's;

Cathedral on Wednesday, 30th In Athens

April, 1947.

Athens, Apr. 27.

of further cute could be obtala-

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"Workers are growing more

The following rodd will be The General Secretary of the and more desperate as the days' closed, to all traffic from 11.15 British Trade Unians Congress, go by without any sign of fin- a.m. to 1 p.m.:—

Mr. Towson, who arrived here provement," a highly competent from London last night, today Gorman source declared: "The 1. Garden Road between conferred with Greek labour stage has been reached where

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Queen's Road Central and leaders. Lower Albert Road.

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right wing elements and the left House Street,

wing EAM group, Military Government an- Whiether war can be prevent Wyndham Street loft,

The left wing leader have a nouncement today described the ed wyer Russia's polley.

have call food situation as "poor through- Germany will báccine cjsar into Arbuthnot Road,ed for a two-hour generali strike out the North Rhine West summer left into Upper Albert, (right wing) leaders have called include the Ruhr and Rhine- befall Britain'

on May Day, while the Reformist phalta region"-provinces, which Some "tragic Road right into Garden for one-hour stoppage and--and admitted that of the in August, when Rond, or,

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