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POLITICAL MANOEUVRING Reynaud Says Rumours Wide Of Mark Activity Behind Task Up

The Scenes

Gasperi Attacks Reds

ROME, NOV. 17. PREMIER ALCIDE DE GAS. PERI TODAY DENOUNCED THE ITALIAN COMMUNISTS FOR SERVING FOREIGN INTER ESTA AND CHALLENGED · THE EXTREME LEFT TO HEE]> ELIMINATE THE SPECTRE OF CIVIL WAR" RAISED BY 13 DAYS OF POLITICAL VIO

LENCE WHICH CONTINUED AS

HE SPOKE.

Speaking bitterly and sharply of the bloody violence led by ita. Tion Leftists ngainst "noc- Fascism," he said, "This argu ment of national independence is just protext."

Paris, Nov. 17.

An official announcement is expected this week on the intense behind-the-scenes activity among leading Parliamentary personalities for the formation of a "strong" Government, based on the Centre parties, from Socialists to Independent Conservatives, and capable of standing up to the growing pressure from the Communists and from General Charles de Gaulle.

M.

Paul Reynaud, last Premier, before the fall of France in 1940, is confidently expected in political circles to be a member of the new Government.

it is premature, however, to fore cost whether he will be Prime Minister or whether he will take over the portfolios of Finants and

He said the Lott Wing Socialist leader, Pletro Nenn!, was "Just Economic Affairs and play the rule another anti-clerical" and Com.in France which, in Britain, is play. munist, Moscow-trained Palmiro ed by

by Sir Stafford Cripps. Toglial was "peculating with According to lobby reports, M. national independence".

Leon Blum, the veteran Socialis "But if we could opes the lender, will not be a member of the Enics of these two leaders, we new Government but nothing definite would not find the figure of has yet heen decided un any of these Guribali but, the emblem of thej Red Star."

Points

M. Reynaud told Reuters: "I am

Premier de Gasperi flatly bosedi making no statement today. Some of his whole programme on need the reports of my intentions in the for United States help and the success the Marshall Plan and Press are wide of the mark." (The charged, "The Communists want had agreed after the talks last night report bad id that M. Reynaud to stop me from giving people the means necessary for to take over the Premiership). rebirth."United Press,

Reynaud Sees Ramadier

to our

No official statement was isaded on

MALE STRONGHOLD had transpired at the meeting

FALLS

of M. Paul Reynaud and M. Leon Blum at the latter's country residence outside Paris, but it

was generally accepted that they had discussed how By a two to one majority at to constitute * bew

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EDITOR NOT GUILTY

Liverpool, Nov. 17. Mr. James Caunt, 47- year-old editor of the week-

newspaper Morecambe and Heysham Vialtor, was found not guilty today of publishing a seditious Ubel of the Jewish people in Britain. He was discharged.

Mr. Caunt had been ac- cused of inclting disorder by publishing an article in which he said that Jews were a plague on Britain and that violence might be the only way to bring them to the sense of their respon- sibility to the country in, which they lived-Reuter. []

* general meeting. the long-which could stand up to pressure, Political quarters in París are of rati- from the Gaullist and the Commu- the opinion that if there should be filed a decision of an extraordin-nists and could save France from in a full-dreas" Cabinet crisis Parlis- ary meeting on Nov. 5 to allow flationary budgetary cennamales with went will be asked to elect a new women to use the front en-running into the determined op- Prime Minister,

of the trance and have access to the position

Two Schools ganised labour movement. library on the ground floor

The Prime Minister, M. Paul sultations lies the basle idea of weld- Behind the present political con- lounge.

Ramadler, had been closely associating the so-called Centre parties into Still inviolate Arc the bar d with the bellad-the-scenes and billiard room.-Associated between the political leaders, and M. able of carrying through an unpopu a strong Parliamentary majority cap Ramadier himself saw M. Reynaud.

Press,

talks

"NO WAR" SPEECH BY MARSHAL TITO

Belgrade, Nov. 17%

Marshal Josef Tito, speaking at the ceremonial opening of the Youth Railroad yesterday, at- tacked "coffee house whispers" that war would start tomorrow. "There are enemies in country who are now making use of the international situn- tion to create a psychosis that war will start tomorrow," be said.

**ITA

our

Beersheba they In Arab

coffco houses whisper secretly spreading false news that the United States in the strongest country in the world and will change the present regime, will return

State

to international reaction and THE PROPOSED ARAB

will come here with a powerful army and atomic bombs and wipe out everything.

To The People

LONDON, NÓV. 17.

SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS, IN HIS FIRST PARLIAMENTARY ADDRESS AS CHANCELLOR

MANILA

OF THE EXCHEQUER, TO CONNECTIONS

OF

DAY CHARGED THE BRITISH PEOPLE WITH THE TASK OF MAKING THE SUPPLEMENT- ARY BUDGET ACCOMPLISH ITS DESIGNED TASK WARDING OFF INFLATION,

"In this budget," sald Sir Stafford, "we have attempted to narrow rather than eliminate the potential imlationary gap, rely Ing on the public spirit of the people to cover the rest of the gap, frat, by Increased produc tivity and secondly, by self-res- traint in expenditure."

Tho Chanceller profaced his address with an announcement that the Commons should not in- terpret his remarka an zeneral Anancial polley since it had been impossible for him "to pick up all the threads of financial policy in the space of a day or two."

United Press.

Liquidation Of 'Traitors' Demanded

Budapest, Nov. 18.

A demand, was tonight made by Josep Revia, editor of Szabad, for the complete liquidation of fifth column activity in Hungary, after a Ministry of the Interior communique announcing arresta In connection with the discovery of an unexploded bomb in the Budapest town hall last Friday. Pfeiffer has declared in America Revia explained that "since

intervention against the Soviet that he wanted foreign military Iar policy. This would be a policy of Union and the Communists, this

the dili culties combined with

inherent in allowing indue electoral courts, but for the

Is no longer a question tial prices to rise to level without

their natural Government and Parliament," subsidies, either to agriculture or to coal, gas and other He added that he did not de nationalised industries,

There are, however, two schools of thought inside the representatives of the Centre parties. One led by M. Leon Blum, is looking for a Govern reen which will,

it koper, make the Reuter, return to power of General Charles de Gaulle superfluous.

for

mand the liquidation of all opposition in Hungary, but sald that the Communists would not tolerate "iraltors who plotted with foreign imperialists."

The other is thinking more, in MUNITIONS DUMP

form

of a Government

that will transition between the present! Cabinet

and a new De Gaulle Gov- ernment some time early next year. M. Reynaud is reported to be think. ing along these latter lines.

To complicate the position, friends of M. Leon Blum are pressing him to secept office and have not given up hope of persuading him to do so. -Reuter-

EXPLOSION

Rome, Nov. 18. An ammunition dump explod- ed today at Vigenano, Milan, killing one person and iniuring about 25.

near

such

It WAS the second mishap in that area in a week.

Associated Press.

'Workers' Reply To

Reactionaries

Moscow, Nov. 17.

the

paper

LAKE SUCCESS. NOV. 17, STATE IN PALESTINE WAS TODAY GIVEN, UNDER A DE. CISION OF THE UNITED NA- TIONS, THE TOWN OF BEER- These are fantasies. But SHEBA AND THE SURROUND- the work of these people is very ING DISTRICT

The Soviet trade union paper. Trud, quoted by the Tast TOGETHER Agency, today commented in the recent disorders at Marseilles damaging because they desire WITH A PORTION OF LAND and Milan under the headline "Workers Keplying to Reaction- to create

an Insecure feeling ON THE NORTH WESTERN

FRONTIER.

ary Provocations" among the masses to divide our

The Arab State was given this turbed by

"World public opinion is dis- Communist mayor, disciplinary efforts for the area under the final boundary

recent events,” the added: building of the country and to chungeà approved by the Fales.

paper salu.

"The create the opinion that it is un- tino Partition Sub-Committee.

"The shooting of Marselites Marseilles events coin-workers is a direct rezult of the necessary to work because to- The status of Jerusalem, proof General de

elded with the programme speech policy of the Socialista" posed as an independent elty un-French reactionists. This

Gaulle, leader of On the Italian clashes the der the majority report of the ridence is no accident.

coin. I paper declared: June "War will not be so

Special Committee on Palestine,

France, so. in Italy the provoca engy. was not decided on.

""The unity of French trade tive actions of Fascist organisa- There can be provocations. As The full Palestine Committee is Confederation of Labour, stands tien

ution, united in the for the war baiters, I must meeting later tonight under the across

General tiops, which enjoy open protec. from the ruling Christian underlina that they should be Chairmanship

Herbert caction." Dr.

of French Democratic Party, are the cause afraid of war because war will Evatt (Australia), who is insist-

of the bloody events in Milan, bring hardships to them first. ing that the whole Palestine quesists had vcted with the extreme Milan

Saying that right wing Social- The events in Marseilles and "Our enemies must know, and' tion should. be finished In the right to provent the election of à chain.”—Reuter.

are Unks in the same we will tell them on every oo-Committee stage by Thursday

marrow presumably everything will be destroyed.

sion that we are not sleep- ing. They should not think

Reuter.

of

that we don't know their cri- BOMB THROWERS

minal intentions...

"Today the working masses,

even in capitalist lanes, are

wise enough and don't like war

HANGED

Budapest, Nov. 17.

for strange Interests. That is Two Hungarians, Ivan Jacb why there won't be war."—ko and Karoly Vizy, were hang-

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