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MARSHALL PLAN ENDORSED

Approval Voted By Senate Committee Vandenberg Bill's New Name

Washington, Feb. 17. By a formal vote, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously approved without important reservation today the draft of the European recovery programme legislation. Today's action also gave the title of Economic Co- operation Act of 1948 to the proposed legisla- tion, which would authorise the $5,300 million programme for the 16 European nations for the 12 months beginning on April 1.

The bill is familiarly known tion to review the programme as the Vandenberg Bij.

carly next year after the elec

RIOTING IN PERU

Lima, Peru, Feb. 17. Two people, including a department perfect. were killed in disturbances in the Peruvian

copper mining provinces of Pasco.

The Government has suspended constitutional guarantees for a fortnight throughout the province.

The disturbances

began among shopping queues and later a crowd attacked tho local prefecture.-Router.

Soviet's

New Minister

A Inal minute provision was tions. inserted that US$3,000,000,000 Reduction Talks of the initial US$6,300,000,000 Charles Eaton, Chairman of appropriation be taken from Representatives Foreign Affairs the Government's surplus for Committee strong supporter the current Bscal year.

of the Marshall Pinn-declared The surprise amendment was today that he would accept a sponsored by Senator, Eugene reduction in the European re Millkin Republican, Colorado)covery programme funda if he for the avowed purpose of pro- thought that it was the only feting the Republican tax-cut way to get it through Congress.

Moscow, Feb. 17. increasing Want to see the job done Alexei N. Kosygin was chances for passage of the reight," he said. "If it is needs-appointed Minister

sary to take the amalier amount Finance of the Soviet gna the shorter period to geti ministration sourers and it is through I will be for that Union today.

t

plan

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covery programme.

IL drew protesis from act.

explented to be challenged by the Secretary of the Treasury (Mr. John Snyder), who has been counting on using the sur reiluce the plus to

national debt.

of

Attlee Declines Suggestion

London, Feb. 17.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, has declined a suggestion that Communists should be outlawed in Britain and their funds con- fiscated.

He said the British tradition was to allow all parties to ad- veenth their doctrines su tong: as they kept within the law.

Tune in...

on 'the world!

From the war years there

The suggestion had been emerged amazing examples made by a Conservative Memef man's conquest of time ber of Parliament, Sir Waldron Smithers, who said the Commu-and nists worked under orders from

distance.

A

Into the

in our midst." the Kremlin and were "enemies space of 5 years there had to be crowded the normal The Prime Minister, replying The House Committee

through his Parliamentary

progress tains groupe

Kooygin, an alternate mamber Private Secretary, emphasised to the programme that those in Arsony G. Zverev, who had held "any activities designed to sub-are great examples.

fur more hostile of the powerful Politburo, succeeds that the Government

Aviation... Radio watched the Senate body.

the post since 1938. Zverev now

con-

becomes Kosygin's first assistant, vert the constitution."--Reuter.

The announcemeat gave no res- on for the change. Zverev, as viet budget to the session of the Finance Minister, presented the Supremo Soviet which just endod.

Mr. Eaton said his committee would conclude its open hearings The Committee vole cleared at next week and then start the way for float Senate action drawing op its version of the in the and bill in plenty of time measure. It is not, however. the administration's kely to end its work until af meet

ter the Senate starts a full de-est of the highly placed men in hate on March 1-Reuter and the Soviet government.-Associat- United

ed Prosa,

喜电

April 1 deadline for

starting at. The measure is expected to reach the floor on March 1.

House Move Uncertain

House action is more unecr- Vin. The Honse Foreign Rela tions Committee is scheduled to complete public hearings on Polroary 27 and there appears attle prospert will bring the bill to the door before the mid- de of March.

The administration has in- sealed int. it may demand emergency add if the deadline is not met,

The Senate legislation au- thorizes the full 51-month pro gramme, but limits apending to US$5,300,000,000 for the first

12 months. This permite a new Congress and new administra-

Death Of Sir Bertrand Watson

London, Feb. 15. Sir Bertrand Watson, 69, chief Metropolitan Magistrate since 1941, collapsed and died at the Garrick Club. London, this

afternoon.

euses at the Bow Street Cour!.

Press.

Washington

Kosygin is 44, one of the young- Maintains

Silence

SOVIET EXPLANATION'

·

OF POLAND

Moscow, Feb. 17.

The text of the fourth and final instalment by the Soviet Information Bureau regarding Russia's pre-war diplomacy with Germany declares that 30 divisions of Japanese troops would have been diverted from China to the Philip pines had the Soviets not occupied half of Po- land.

Tass

the

re-

Washington, Feb. 17. The State Department frained from commenting to- day on the reported declaration of independent republics in the Russian Zone of Korea, pending clarification of the situation there.

Meanwhile, Mr. Joseph Inceba, political adviser to Lleutenant General John A. Helge, the United States Mi-; tary Commander In Southern Korea, has arrived in Washing- fun and is examining the new situation with the staff of the Secretary of State, Mr. Georgi Marshall.

Authoritative yources suld

The statement, distributed by "All this would have meant

the government-controlled that the war would have been that press reports appeared to differ in some details from the news agency, questions what dragged out at least for two more

to years and the second world war information available

the would have happened. had

Department would then have ended, not in State

and unti Soviets permitted Germany to 1945, but in 1947 or somewhat these were checked and recon- Decupy all Poland rather than pull later.

eiled, no action was expected.-- up at a line half-way short of the

Reuter. Sviel border.

"That would have given Hit- ler's forces the opportunity to win hundreds of kilometres of space, bringing the Gerpun front stend 200-300 kilometres nearer Lenin- kind, Moscow, Minsk and Kiev, greatly accelerating the Germany'

"That is how matters stood. with regard to the question of front, United

the 'Eastern' Press.

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CONFERENCE ON GERMANY

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The postponement is necessary because the Barcou requires more time for preparations.

Detalled measures for ration

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steep rises In rloc prices the evacuate to Canada while Egypt Intelligent persons have been Economic Police will start an in- and the Suez Canal would have reading about atomic warfare spection of rice shops today. The fallen under Hitler's away, but and other means of destruction retall price of rice yesterday re- that was not all.

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The USSR would have compelled to transfer large parts troops from the Manchurian

of

Prague, Feb. 17. The Polish, Yugoslav and Czechoslovak Foreign Ministers, accompanied by political and military experts, were scheduled border to the Eastern front to to confer here today on "all ques-strengthen its, defences and that| tions concerning relations with would have enabled the Japanese Germany."

Deputy Foreign Minister Vladi mir 'Clementis suld the conference "certainly was decided upon" be- cause cf the Anglo-American French meeting in London

on

Germany's future.-United Press.

to release some 30 divisions in Manchuria and send them againai China, against the Philippines, against Southeast Asia general; and, in the final analysis, against the American armed forces in the Far East.

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