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HOUSE OF LORDS DEBATE ON THE DEATH PENALTY Effect Of Abolition In The Colonies BILL'S REJECTION

EXPECTED

London, June 1.

Lord Llowollin, moving in the House of Lords today rojection of a House of Commons proposal to suspend the death penalty for murder in Bri- tain, cited the ritual murders on the Gold Coast as one of the raatons for retaining it.” Abolition, he said, was bound to have repercussions in the British colonies, "You cannot have one low for those with white skins and a different law for those with coloured skins," he said. amid the cheers of a packed Chamber.

criminals; help to apprehend and carefully premeditated

murders.

Basic Ration

Returns

...London, June 1. The standard "basic" petrol ration for all British car own ers returned today after over sevan menthe suspension, but few motorists were seen on the roads.

The new ration allows 90 miles motoring per month and reports. Indicated most own. ers were saving up their cou- pans for, week-ends or holi. days.

The "baslo" ration WES abolished last autumn as part of the "austerity" campaign. -Router.

CONTROLS TO VANISH

British

Zone Not To Have Minister

London, June 1.

- The changed conditions in the British Zone of Germany made unnecessary the appointment of a successor to Lord Pakenham, former Minister responsible for the British Zones of Germany and Austria, it was considered in well-informed quarters in London today.

If the death penalty was abolished, if would result in the people of some colonies taking

On the other hand, Lord Tem- the law into their own hands. There would be more ritual and plewood, Conservative, wanted to see the abolition of executions tribal feuds, which Britain was The great majority of murder

Lord Pakenham has been up. been ers whose sentences had trying to stamp out.

pointed Minister of Civil Avia- Conservative

had made good, he commuted

Canberra, June 1.

Political tion. Lord Llewellin,

quarters hore penalty

sald. Out of 174 coses, only

Mr. Joseph Chifley, the Prime pointed to the increasing integra- peer, said if the death

Minister announced today that ion of the British and United not a deterrent why keep had been convicted again, and

વધ one was

was guilty of a only It as a punishment for treason?

the Government has decided, in States zones of occupation and the Lord Llewellin's vote

defeat A

sequent murder.

as a result of the that with view of the referendum

prospect no-hanging is dangerous even motion to reject the

theft on Federal price controls, to re- elnuse in a Bill to reform the humna monsters to say

London Conference on six-power British

system

the British Zone will not will penal

lives are hopeless and that they linquish control of rents within secomanendations reached by the

be eliminated," he taken tomorrow. So many pets must

tion of a Minister. wished to speak that the debatet goes for 100 near the totall-three months and land sale con- hard to be extended to two days. tarian argument which eliminates trol within three months.

The state governments, he said, The no-hanging clause, which people and, indeed, races,

to Bet up for this or that reason. I would had been invited Huspends the death penalty

machinery for administering these Lo exterminate murder for a trial period of five hesitate years, was inserted in the Bill by human being." the House of Commons last April. A Compromise

La against The Government

wave the crime abolition in which has followed the war, but granted the House of Commons a free vote because it considered it non-perty matter and one of conscience.

D

The House of Lords, where the Opposition has an overwhelming majority, are expected to reject

B the no-hanging clause. The will then go back to the House of Commons for reconsideration. Government has stated ''The

It is bound to support a de- the Commons. cision taken by even though it disagrees with it, but it has been suggested, writes Parliamentary corres- Reuters

that. 12 compromise pondent,

reached by retaining

that

might be

the death penalty for a second

murder.

con-

Since the House of Commons decision

on abolition, all victed murderers have had their sentences commuted. Two form- er Home Secretaries the Home Secretary has the power to re- prieve a man sentenced to death -took opposite views today:-

Totalitarian

sald, two months, price-fixing within Germaine the full me atten-

for

any

Cantor-

Dr. Fisher's Viow The Archbishop of bury, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, said the Government was propos- ing to legislate against its own convictions. "As in some other Instances, the Government has got itsel! and everyone of un by well-Intention- into trouble ed but hasty, ill-conaldered so- tions," he said.

he spoke for him- Saying that self and not for the Church, the declared that the Archbishop

experience and argu- against abolition at weight of ment was this time.

prove дл

now

On the official side, the present hond of the German Department of the Foreign Office, Sir William controls,

Strang, will remain responsible.

Mr. Voters had been asked to ap- In the House of Commons,

the Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Secre. amendment to Commonwealth constitution, en-tary, retains overall responsibility abling the Federal Government and can delegate the task of an permanently to assume the rent wering questions to either of his Hoctor McNell, and price control powers, taken lieutenants, Mr.

Minister of State, or Mr, Chris- over during the war-Reuter.

topher Mayhew, Parliamentary Inder-Secretary of Stato for Foreign Affairs-Reuter,

CIVIL DEFENCE IN BRITAIN

London, June 1. The Prime Minister, Mr Attlee, told the House of Commons today that the Government was examin- ing all aspects of civil defence in the event of another war.

Mr Attlee said legislation deal- The debate was adjourned un-ing with certain points was being til tomorrow-Reuter.

prepared-United Press,

"Dark Forces" In South Africa

Now York, Juno 1.

The Herald-Tribuno, commenting on Jan Smuts*

election defeat, said

today:

COINS TURNED TO LEAD

Clermont-Ferrand,

June 1. Antoine Marignani, profes- slonal magician, was under arrest here today, charged than with turning more 2,000,000 francs worth of gold coins into lead slugs in à prl- vate performance.

The police brigade of Clermont- Ferrand-arrested Marignant and alections has been to bring Into his friend, Alexandre Gibault, on "For a good many years now

power number of extreme the complatat of the proprietor The hotel nationalists whose stand on the of the Royal Hotel. Lord Samuel, leader of the Jan Christian Smuts has been

racial issue is an index to their man charged that the pair ap- Liborals in the House of Lords, the Grand Old Man of South

reactionary

tendencies in other proached hira lust, month with thought that the death penalty. African politics. And he has

an offer to buy his establishment should be retained for certain been something more than that directions

"Deep-rooted fears and an!- crimes, such as political ass to the world outside he has

which South Africa's They allegedly told the hotel alnation: murder of the police been the vital many-sided per-mosities or members of the public who sonality and symbol of what is checkered history has produced man they had a stack of gold

strong and mature of the com- faster bigotrica which are an an- which they wanted to plex nation he represented zotitesis of the broad gauge of ra- well.

tionality of Field Marshal Smuts. "For the moment these darker "The drama of the career of this Afrikaaner was the drama forces, while they may not domin of his own land. And his defeat ate the new government, are at least showing new vitality. Smuts, at the age of 78 is more than ajet

Czech Arms For Palestine

personal tragedy. Indeed for this philosopher in polities it is doubt ful whether his defeat constitutes

Washington, June 1. Both sides in the struggle in Paliating are trying to buy arms In Czechoslovakia, diplomatica tragedy at all. quarters here claimed ---today, Press reports said some arms may already be on the way to Israel from Prague.

exchange

for banknotes. The gold coins were duly counted out before s bank representative, who handed over paper money,

When the banker opened the out of office, can all serve his sack of "coins," he found only people by continuing the sort of lead slugs which Marignant alle- vided for nearly half a century." thing-in-the-sleight-of-hand intellectual leadership he has pro- gedly had substituted for the real

United Press. ̈

"But "for" his country the ad-block verse verdict is a very grave mat- ter.

The major issue on which the South African election..... was Diplomatic quarters had no con- Armation of this report by Mr. fought was the racial question. Hanson Baldwin, military corres-Smuts programme of reform pondent of the New York Times, racial matters was very mild from as well as clandestinaly from the the standpoint of nations outside

Africa, United States.

The reliability of the latter point is supported by the fact that some men were arrested in New Jersey several days ago-Reuter,

"But apparently it was too radloat for a majority of South "Africans and the result of the

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