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CRIPPS APPOINTED BRITISH ECONOMIC AFFAIRS CHIEF

Arthur Greenwood

To Retire

London, Sept 29.

Sir Stafford Cripps was tonight given overriding powers to lead Britain through her economic crisis. The appointment of this persistent advocate of austerity to be Minister of Econo- mic Affairs, a newly created Cabinet post, was announced at midnight by the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee.

Sir Stafford Cripps will take over from Mr. Her- bert Morrison, Lord President of the Council. responsibility for coordinating domestic eco- nomic policy.

He will not have a depart- More than a year ago, at the ment, but will be given à antall cost of considerable unpo- personal staff and have the pularity both from political help of the Central Economic Friends ne well as adversarion, Janing staff, the Economic Se Stafford Cripps was muln- Information Unit and the Econo-taining the urgent necessity for Inte Section of the Cabinet the drastic type of retrenchment

and Secretariat;

export expansion which have now been forced upon the country.

A new Ministerial Committee on Economic Planning will be set up, covering the major issues of internal and external polley, over which the Prime Minister himself will preside in view of the graviy of the present econo-

the mie situation,” statement ached,

Sir Stafford's former post of President of the Board Trade will be taken over Mr. Jones

Wilson. Harald who, at 31. becomes the youn-

Britain) gest Cabinet Minister has had for many years.

Greenwood Goes

Strongly tipped as a successor to Mr. Winston Churchill Prime Minister at a time during the war when the Allled tunes were at their lowent, Str Stafford has been a successful:

and, Ambassador to Moscow

DISCOVERS HIS FOURTH COMET

Bloemfontein, Sept. 29.

¿ meno comet · has been dis covered by M, J. Bester, senior assistant at the Bozden station of Harenrd University, near here, it was announced to-day. The comet, first seen early on Thursday and checked watil lass night, was described as "of the 114 magnitude in the Leput constellation and moving stondly towards the south and west".

The comet to the fourth to he disewwered by Bester-Reuter,

Worthy Of The Rope

of

41

Red Envoy

Returns To Britain

London, Sept. 29. The Soviet, aulende to the pro pored Conference of the Big Four Foreign Ministers special depuner on the future of the Italian Empire Land to us postponement from the (bėginsing to the end of Novemiser will be made known in the very near future, It was believed to-nigtit i In usually well-informed quarters.

The Soviet Ambassador in Jan- dan, M. George Zarubin, deve, to Moscow for consultation on Sept. 201 and was to-day flying back tọ Britala.

He is expected to make known the Soviet views on the proposed Con- ference un bis return.

One of the main purposes of M. | Zarubin's, visit in Moscow, it was

bellevet, 'was to be briefed on the, Soviet attitude to the disposal of the Halian Empire.

M. Zarubin will represent the Soviet Union when the Ralian Em pire Conference meets in London. Reuter.

EXPERTS FOR WASHINGTON

Nuremberg, Sept. 39. Twenty-three Nazi Commanders whose terror munds are accused of laying more than 1,000,000 Jews, Russians and gypsies, were assailed re-day by American prosecutors

all time, greatest killers for the

London, Sept. 29. worthy, only of the hangman's rope.;

Trial of the "Einsatz Gruppen

Sir Oliver Franks, metior British (group)" officers opened with the

delegate at the receit Paris Ecoun that prosecution's declaration

any

Un the Marshall of throughout the Labour Govern- leniency for much en means that nic Conference

the uired offer, is sailing for inent's offer, has been its prin. the world "must live in fear." by

Prosecuier Benjamin Ferencz sald States on Ort. 4 in the Hueen Mary. elpal negotiator with India andi

In the ace party will be dele Burma.

he would prove from the Cientatio's He healed the Cabinet Mis own records that the defendants from France, Holland, Italy, af et fraud 1,000,00 Norway and fireece. They will be were guilty nion to India in 1946 and enrried orders in the planned extermina-

as band to provide information on the plans drawn up by the Confer the famous "Cripps Offer" in on af whole races-Asociated

ence for European reconstruction #f 1942-Keuter.

President Trumaa, Mr. George Marshall, officals or Cangresoneti wish to ask questions arising out of the Coaletynce report salunited to Washington last week.-Reuter,

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A third change annouttei te-| night was the resignation 67-year-old Mr. Arthur Green- wool, Minister without portfolio | since April this year and, he fore that, Lord Privy Sent.

Mr. Altice, in a letter to him dated Sept. 24, paid: "It is in my view essential to k Lise Intare

of The Move

the

ment and to bring an some of the younger members of Party,

"This necessarily involves the redis: gamt of some of the older men who have given long ser- vice to the Movement.

Press.

MONTGOMERY WANTS TO TALK

TO SOVIET DELEGATE

eventually

AND NOW IT'S OFFICIAL

Rome, Sept. 29. The Italian Republic to-ilay for mally eliminated the last vestige of the Faicist Government with a de- cree abolishing Mussolini's Senate.

The act, still to be approved by the Assembly, was the first oficial step to pronounce the Senate dead. In 1944, the High Court of Justice annulled ull

appointments of Senator samned by Mussolini after 1925, the year which marked the real beginning of the Fascint dicta-

orship-United Press.

MAYOR'S NEPHEW

DISAPPEARS

Hamburg, Sept. 29,

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Southampton, Sept. 29. The Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field Marshal Lord Montgomery, said today that he wanted to talk to the Soviet delegate to the United Nations, Andrei Vishinsky. "We have a very fine leader in break out on the right of the Mr. Churchill, who led this no- flank. This plan was, however, "I have very reluctantly come on through times f great frustrated by Hitler.

Hitler, to the conclusion that I should crisis," Lord Montgomery said. "I

who Was include you among the latter. se M, Vishinsky In New York proved to have been a "good to friend" to the Allies, ordered a "You have a great record of the other day likened him

is a very hig

westwards, force to strike distinguibed and devoted ser- Hitler. M. Vishinsky

The German police in the Rus the I and the German Field Marshalssian Zone and the British Zone of but nexi decent chop, zen him I shall have something protested vehemently."

Germany were to-day searching for Thus, as a result of the Falalu | Rudolph Wilsch, nephew of "Mux to say to him."

Hamburg's mayor, criticising aspects of pocket battle, "we destroyed or Brauer, Rooks Field Murshol Montgomery's captured half a million Germans, mysterlously disappeared in

Normandy captured 3,500 guns and 1,500 Russian Zone during a visit to the participation in the campaign werd answered

by tanks, and completely destroyed Leipzig Fair carly in September.

Wilich, a +1-year-old merchiont Lord Montgomery himself when the German military effort in!

from Kiel, attended the Fair and he recommended his

own book, Western Europe for the moment arranged to meet a friend the fol "From Normandy to the Battle." Lord Montgomery said.-United lowing evening, but disappeared.

an presented

inscribed Press and Reuter. ****

vice to the State and to Movement. To make this

Our

ru-

quest is, therefore, most dis

insteful to me, but it is one of the dulles that fall to a Prime Minister".

More Changes

book at the unvelling of a map of the Falaise battle on the new

Mr. Greenwood, who played in continuous port behind the scenes in advancing the cause of Indian and Burmese Indepen-Southern Rallway stepmer dence, will pass his duties over "Fatalse" here today. to Mr. Morrison.

In

presenting

Reutre.

who

the

U.S. Destroyer Hits Mine Off Trieste

book, the It was Mr. Greenwood who, Lord Montgomery commented:

"Various books have been as chairman of the Cabinet's Legislative Committee, perform- written about Normandy and the which things ed the Anal net in Britain's Falaise battle in transfer of power

to Indin have been said, a great many ot supervision of the Indian Inde- which are untrue,

which are true. pendence Bill before it presented to Parliament.

and some of

123 " wrote a book about it my

self, which has the great merit Further Cabinet changes in-of being true. Everything in my has bren checked and volving the retirement of sever- book

al older Ministers are expected rechecked."

at the end of this week.

Sir Stafford Cripps thak in

"Good Friend"

Trieste, Sept. 29..

The United States destroyer Fox reported by radio tonight that three sailors were killed and nine men injured when the ship struck a mine this afternoon, 18 miles outside Trieste.

Of the injured, one is in criti. cal condition, six are seriously hurt und two suffered slight in.

The Fox reparted that the men the were being transferred to

woorddianting economie policy Lord Montgomery did not men. Į juries. will give him supervisory con- tion any of his competitor's books trol over the whole range of by name, but he was undoubtedly economic departments the referring to books written' by Board of Trade, the Ministry Ralph Ingersoll and Robert Ailen, destroyer Owens, to be taken to

Supply, the Ministry Labour, the Ministry of Fuel United States Army, and

of

of both of whom

during the war.

were with

the

the United States Seventh Gen. Two era! Hospital in Triesto. who

are

tow to and Power, and the Ministry of severely criticised his generalship tugboats dispatched to the scene

taking the Fox in Transport.

Venice for repairs since the Trieste drydocks are quate.

The Field Marshal pointed out that the Falaise battle should never have taken place.

Sir Stafford will also have to work in the closcat possible an- Bocation with the Chancellor of The operation plan was, with

The Navy sold

not nde.

the Fox was

the Exchequer, Mr. Hugh the left on Caen, to draw the proceeding from Venice plong Dalton, but this does not mean main strength inte that area and the "regular channel." The route, that he will rank above the Chancellor.

Britain's planning. hitherto,

had been handled by, two Com- mittees one domestic under Mr. Morrison and one overseña un- der the Prime Minister.

Prestige High.

Amphibious Revolution Smashed

Havana, Sept. 29.

not

direct one across Northern Adriatic because shallow waters, forced the vessel Arid to proceed, first southeast then swing. back to northeast. out The Fox was three hours

tho

of

of Venice when, the Navy sald,

it struck a submerged

which exploded."

object

The dead and Injured were in the aft section of the ship, where The effect of the new: nr-i

The Cuban Army -announced crew sleeping quarters are, and rangement will be to combine today that it had smashed a most of them were believed off the two Committees technically million-dollar amphibious ex-duty Explosion damage, could unler. the chairmanship of the peditionary foren, organized not be determined immediately, Prime Minister, bat practically and staged in northeastern but water flooded the aft section. with Sir Stafford usually pre-Cuba to overthrow the 17-year- This crippled destroyer was re- siding.

eld dictatorship of Gen. Rafae porter afloat and not in danger The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Trujillo Molina in the Domini- of sinking."

The Fox's steering mechanism Ernest Bevin, will be a member can Republic.

Co'. Oscar Dias, official was damaged in the blast. The of the Committen,

Cuban Army investigator, who Owens left Trieste Immediately The overall effect of the spant months delving into re- on hearing the report, to escort Crippe promotion which may pests that an expeditionary her sister ship--United Press. be considered the plvotal Gov- force was being organized on

erhment change around which Cuban holl, Mald that most of thond, to be antwunced laden, ships had bea Shortly revolves to sugd at FOR ALCADay: Jalled.

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