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Free And Easy At The Black Palace
In daytime it is not 1
all
est, most topsy-turvy institution of guard, but one of the prisoners
its kind in the world.
work
The city is n
system works
US And India
THE
MEMOIRS OF CORDELL HULL
the
As Secre
Secretary
lantic
of
Вес
State,
Flull
could to mako
clear'
Dropping out of the midnight ja "100 miles of their heads. A Mexico itsolf is nearly the same! sky into Mexico City after an 11- few come begging insistently for size as all Europe put together, hour flight from New York ra- cigarettes.
has 23,000,000 population, pro-
New York, June 23. |it|mately ther gives you the impression of If by any chance you arrive at duces 40 per cent of the world's Throughout World War II the que-view that India should re- being upside-down.
the prison at some slightly un-silver, and is also one of the United States Government under-celve Independence, but we had It is as if nif the stars have isual hour-unusual, that is, by richest all, copper, lead, and other look gentle prodding of Britain also proceeded with great cou been plucked down from the hea- British standards-as I did once mineral territories in the world. o grant independence to India, tion so as not to antagonize either vens, polished up, then trimly at 2 a.m., it is even then possible Local Calls Froa. The repeated diplomatic efforts the British or the Indians. India arranged to form one vast, twinks to gain admis
admission:
The Memoirs continued to be one of the prin Editora
24354 ng
ling pattern on the ground as far)
mixture of ero recounted in little preliminary flashy, gleaming white new ofce of Cordell, Hull;" published by cipal feel of our general policy eye can see.
bargaining over pesos and the
the MacMillan company here on dependent peoples.
And we Reporters & General Omce 32312
It may be due partly to the urgency of the visit. Then one or buildings, mininture skyscrapers,
streamlined American-made axis, A few vague suggestions were had the conviction that, soon atmosphere, for we are 1,500-fi. the guards goes over to a rickety the, drivers of which never drive made before Pearl Harbour. (four Jhes)
up here, but no city in Europe telephone, only just clinging, to fast except after dark, and saks When the US, entered the war and would ended, India must, that, I've ever flown over, before the wall, where he goes through its point of honour to disregard and Americans could
the danced, be granted indepen Subscription Rates:
for since the war, ever seenied the motions of ringing the
contrast in activity
ity between free- Hull believes that if the Japan- The telephone | zulie so thickly, no intensely art "duty" Koyernor, 'always a Metall red traffic, lights after .p.m. dom-bound Fillpinos and the In-ese attack on Pearl Harbour had 11.K.$18.00 brightly, it up.
cnn full colonel, to seek his well and gives a certain number dian people, the example of the come alx months carlier "the Like The Zoo
chande net, meant to in 13 if local calls free on, the cam-Philippines was frequently held whole aspect of the world war [1,K,$36.00
Ja impress. Nor are the lights the only
that targo up
might have changed. In that Then in you go with one of pany, which means 15.K.$72.00 things that seem upside down in
numbers of people are
'Hider permanent-
event.
most likely would Mexico City. The State gaol, for the guards, as guide. The noise. by using them, the luxury hotels, first raired the question of Indian have promptly abandoned his plan instance, is probably the strang-even at that hour, is terrifle have bathroom taps, the hat and independence with Ambassador to attack Russia, Feeling thre Intion to the temperature of the few days later President Roose down in the Pacine and would Kao colds signs on which bear no re- Earl Halifax In May, 1941. A Japan would tie the United States
By British standards, entering
water that comes out of them, velt and Prime Minister Chur-cut off Britain from the the city's "Block Palace" as it is
and the streamlined bars surely chill met at sen to sign the At-of Australia, New Zealand, India known, is rather like a mixture
boost
more brands of Scotch ant
which Churchill
Churchill and possibly South Africa, he June, 1948 of visiting the Zoo and going to
whisky than ever came out of subsequently told Commons did might well have concentrated on Scotland. at St. Therese's Hospital to any of London's main line ratl-
от not apply to India Burma, the reduction of the United VIVIEN, wife af Dr. J. S. way stations at one o'clock on
It is a mixture of long, wide, Hull relateri
that
Ambassador dom by air and submarine war- Berglus, a son, George Confine sun
Saturday,
shady
boulevardes with
Winant tried palm
ried without success to fare, and possibly, invasion, leav- Like the Zoo, because Inside
ornate trees,
Churchill to eliminate Ing Russia to be dealt blue-white-and-persuade certain secti
sections of the massive with good conduét stripes. whol yellow-tiled Castilian pances in this passage from his speech.
There were three methods to rough-hewn stone guol, rebuilt guides you round the stone and deep, private lush gardens, ments Hull belleved that the Cripps meet the danger from Japan. One by the
prisoners themselves at iron-barred maze.
the Spanish hours of 3 o'clock proposals for eventual self-gov- was by preventive attack. PICKFORD-On 23rd Jun 1948, the end of last century, are gated Everything is a little military, lunch and 10 o'clock dinner, ex-ernment were a
in democracies do not engage "far-reaching step ot Kowloon Hospital.
the preventive
except attacks GERTI,
wife of Call, Piekol by 3-ft. tall iron bars that Mexican fashion, and good concept for the "down-town bun-in the right direction, but
stroleh up to second and third duct men
two-ness workers who ent earlier, and Indian leaders turned them down. greatest dimeult. one- and
The second ford, a daughter.
storeys then curve over to form striped corporais, there are three leisurely afternoon siestasi.
Mr. Roosevelt still sought to keep method was 10 agree to Japan matters from reaching an
open demands. Always 'Next Week' giant cage like one of the out-stripers, and even the equivalent door enges and dens at Regent's to W.Os was told.
It is also a mixture of inere-chill to delay Cripps return to with Japan, to convince her that It is even easier A POOR SHOW
And oneself dibly narrow, squalid sireels with Like a railway station on a fine in the Black Palace" as a pri- rickety
Britain."
hor--aggresalons-coat her "one-and- Two-storey
than they were worth. It was of way and forecourt weem always gument with a policeman, strik-of gravity and only remain stand- clearly the inefficiency
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek three, it was the only American crowded with people looking har-ing in exasperation, and in the Ing by leaning against each other, also cabled to Mr. Roosevelt, ask-method-United Press. the Nationalist military assed, anxious. resigned, and heat, a Headers and the poor spirit currying bags, parcels,
more than usually slow and an archaic tramway systerning American help in effort and va- and inefficient taxi-driver, and of the troops than the fall cuum flasks of all shapes and you're rubbing shoulders with that must date back atmost to the to solve the Indian problem. The time when Cortez founded the President replied that the U. S. of Kaifeng, capital of Honan sizes,
before aswindler, a a thief, a, wife-benter city in 1521,
and China did
not (who's wife six days guard who issues pass-in tickets. province, within
But above all is the city's mag-moral right
ournelves plained, for most of them don't nificent electric lighting, not so upon the British or the Congress following a sudden Com- Go As You Pleaso
Any and every day almost any in Mexico), or a murderer, for much inulti-coloured Neon light-party, but that we should make munist raid. Nationalist
there is
is no capital punishment Ing but row upon row of or- clear to both sides that you and dinary white street lights. No- stand in the position of Frienda
BERGIUS on 241h
rad,
Park.
summer
By Richard Greenough
Are
++
King
with
Inter.
The third
But
In
with
break by persuading Mr. Chur- was simply in
simply to continue discussions
more
Nothing could show more Saturday, because the prison gate-aoner than as a visitor. An ne-hovels that defy all normal taws! Chiang's Cable this third that we chose. Of the
queueing up
斟
has
com-
have the
force
headquarters appear to have are apparently unlimited; a pri
hour seems visiting times. Visitors bere now. been taken completely by soner can receive his whole family gaol, this city of 1,500,000 inha- lights here at night.
Apart from the topsy-turvy body ever seems to turn out their who will gladly help if we are surprise. On June 17, for if he wishes, and it seems
called instance, the War Minister. Inften does in order to discuss and reclaimed lake, is more or less between the Mexicans and
in by both sides." bitants, mainly built on a vast} Although the nin difference It was during the Indian mis- direct affairs at home during his what
the sion of Williom General Ho Ying-chin was unfortunate absence.
and the Philling you'd expect from the Spaniards-is-that while in Spain jailing of Mohandas K. Gandhi assuring Honan members of
Central Ameriran it is always "manna" They can bring him in any lux-capital or
1o-that American concern reached the Legislative
morrow"-here it is "next werk." Its peak. Assembly uries he may want to help brigh-Republic,
Hull asked Lord Hall- fax whether "the British might that the Communists could ten gaot life, though it is not never attack Kaifeng. Sub-too bad in uny case, with the Turkish bath, the hairdressing stantial reinforcements are saloon, the prison jazz-band, the now~moving into position weekly boxing matches, the do and they may succeed in re-minoes and chess tournament, and capturing the place: but it the inevitable "buraja de naipes" will be an empty shell as Air-pack of cards.
They can bring him in changes
Beation papers, and my money
GANDHI MURDER
TRIAL EVIDENCE
were
New Delhi, June 22.
tion),
(the
By Dick Turner
What! Too Tough For Malaya?
London, June 23.
in When questioned
the find it possible and advisable to House of Commons today about consider certain
additions to the the possibility of employing Cripps proposals made to the In-fore. Pole in Malaya, the members of the Pales- dian leaders." Soon thereafter
loped
are
of
the
EARLY SPLIT IN ISRAEL'S CABINET
W
these
London, Juno 23. Two Ministers rosigned today from the five-week- old Provisional Government of Israel-loss than 24 hours after a bloody battle between Haganah Jowish troops and Irgun Zvai Loumi forces who ran an arms ship ashore at Tel Aviv and seized the northern beach of the Jawish capital.
Churchill instructed Halifax to Colonial Secretary. Mr. Arthur nake clear to me and to his Creech Jones, said that "staff contacts that the British Govern- requirements
being re- iment would not in any circum-assessed in the light Force reports show that a of suits and underclothing (for
stances alter the course it was present disturbances. Hand grenades, pistols and explosives were taken pursuing about Gandhi." large part of the city has unless he is a convict and wears
"I cannot yet say what the been swept by fire and that the blue-and-white striped. 'py- to Mahatma Gandhi's prayer meeting on Janu Hoosevelt
When Phillips' caustic report 10 total requirements will be, or
leaked out in the Communists have carried tama uniform a prisoner can dress
the what proportion of any new posts as he pleases), bed linen, towels, ary 20, when an attempt to kill the 78-year-old American press, the British re-will be recruited from former out_systematic looting.
a battery radio, cigars, tobacco, "Apostle of Non-Violence" failed, the chief peatedly asked Washington No matter what the causes wine, and beer.
to members of the Palestine Police. disavow the
The U.S. re- who are report prosecutor stated today at the resumed Gandhi fused, and Anglo-American dil of the Government's failure, Į
of course eligible for It is quite the recognised cus-
consideration. the Kaifeng operation istom that as the prison food-is
murder trial:---
eferences" soon developed in an- Mr. John Boyd Carpenter,
other Quilining the events-leading-eused, was being pardoned. All
_direction: typical of this senseless civilscanty and bad anybody able to
Eo:ervative, asked if this meant "When a serious famine deve that no definite offer had
been war which is draining Chinard it has his meals brought up to the successful assassina- have pleaded not guilty.
in from outside, either already tion on January 30, Mr. C. K.
in Bengal in 1943, we made made to a single one of of her few remaining assets. cooked or prepared so as to be Daphtary, the chief prosecutor,
Lost Balance
efforts to secure from the all too men so far. If it did, did the Government forces are con- easily cooked on one of the com- sald all but two of the
The prosecutor sald
stocks that inadequate rice
in the Minister realise that "these ex- stantly losing important munity cell stoves.
men in dock were in New to have fired the shots
nine Nathuram Godse, who is alledged westen hemisphere an allocation tremely experienced and capable For Safe Keeping
which of rice for India. The British re- men
would undoubtedly And points, while the Commun-
Delhi on January 20, when killed Gandhi, batched his mur presentatives on the Combined themselves other employment be----- ists, on their part, are quite Another amenity that is allowed Madun Lal, one of the alleged, der plot at least four weeks, be- Food Board in Washington in- fere very long," he added.
to 'most prisoners fr this 3,000 conspirators, exploded a swab torehand. incapable of holding them
sisted, however, that the respon- Mr. Creech Jones replied that inhabitant State penitentiary, of gun cotton at Birla House Godse for very long, the only effec- nearly half women, is a once-a-where the Mahatma held his tie to the Mahalina's teachings" ments be left to Britain, and we in Introducing people with just.. practical difficulties - was "entirely antagonis- elbility for Indian food require there were tive result being that anweek all night visit by wives...to.
that-Indians should seek peace perforce had to agree.
that kind of experience into Lever-increasing number of husbands and vice-versa, and by prayer meeting:
Arma and explosives
with the Moslems, and he even-
Malaya. Hull's Conclusion towns suffer destruction to sweethearts to sweethearts,
distributed before this attempt tually became so bitter that he
The whole matter, he said, was But there are a few things not
The plan was the ruin of the civil popula-
for Madan Lal lost his balance of mind.
Hull concluded that when he being actively explored and dis (allowed. had for kuistance, tion.
On trial with Nathuram Godse caigned in November, 1994, "we cussions were going on with that to explode the gun cotton, and, when I recently visited the place,
In the resulting confusion, the are Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, had taken every occasion we leg-idea in view.—Router. In North China, the Red to leave behind my keys and a
athers of the group were to the 65-year-old former President threat to Chengteh, the nailile. I was
was also asked to sur-
throw grenades and fire their of the Hindu Mahasabha other Identl- capital of Jehol, has aprender my passport, other
pistola, Mr. Daphtary stated.
rightwing Hindu organ- The plan miscarried und, with
Narayan Dattatraya, parently been beaten back, wallet for safe keeping.
Ramkrishna Karkare, the exception of Madan Lal who Vishnu but the city has again been This, the gaoler explained apo- was arrested on the spot,
the Digambar
Ramchandra Badge cut off from Peiping by large logetically, was in case they were accused left Delhi to meet again (now pardoned), Madian Lal, Communist forces attacking stolen from me while inside, for in Bombay a few days later. Kashichi Pahwa Shankar Kis-
which the officials could take no
Gopal Special Judge Atina Charan, tayya.
Vinyok the-Great-Wall-fortress-
Godse responsibility.
announced-at-the-cpening of the brother of: Nathuram) and Dat- town, Kupeikow. Mean- Prisoners are for the most part session that Digambar
Sadashiv Ram- tatraya
Purchure.- while, the National Currency free to wander around inside and chandra Badge, one of the ac- Reuter. has slumped further to visit each other's cells.. Some 3,000,000 to one U.S. dollar, or squat on the hot stones Shamble around in couples talic- with a
ling, consequent further staring at you from their tiny, soaring of living costs. The squeezed-up eyes, sucking fruit Chinese are a remarkably for playing cockroach races. patient people, but rice riots, Visiting At 2 a.m. signs of irritation in high Others just staro into space as places and the open critic-if they haven't a thought within ism of the administration among the legislators in
conference has been called to Nanking and the merchants discuss future policy: that it in Shanghai,
are clear in- is intended dications that patience has purpose than to provide a.
for any other already worn pretty thread-rubber-stamp for a scheme already mapped out in the Kremlin Speculation-ret garding the Molotov surprise- No special skill in diagnosis packet hints at the creation of political trends is neces of a Sovietised 'Republic in sary to detect that events in East Germany with Leipzig Europe are rapidly working as the capital, at the creation up to a climax. He would of an Eastern Union frankly however be a bold prophet formed in alignment against who, at this stage, ventured the Western Union, even at to predict the course of the possibility of dramaties future events, in spite of the in. the form of a concillatory. ominous moves by the Soviet move to ease the tension. authorities in the Berlin area Of all that may emerge from the complete severance of the Warsaw gathering, the railway communications and third is the least likely, for announcement of a decision the Allied currency reform. to deprive the Western zones has forced the Russians to of light...and power............ Of recognise that we mean busi- greater consequence-unless | ness, and they appear to Sokolovsky is carrying out have accepted it as a chal- the first stage of a coordin-lenge to a trial of strength. ated plan is the appearance From that position anything of Molotov at the head of a can happen and develop- foreign ministers' conferencements in the next few days In Warsaw. None will fina. will be followed with un- gino for a moment that the usual anklety.
bare.
Challenge?
CARNIVAL
"About loving our enemies do you mean cabbage worms and bean besties, too??/
In the meantime, the Israeli Government today firmly enforced a strict curfew "until further notice."
The Ministers who resigned fed for fear the ship would blow from the Provisional Govern-up. -ment-are-the-Minister of Rell In Halla, meanwhile, Lieut. gion, Rabbi Judah Fishman. Gen. G.H.A. MacMillan, General and the Minister of Immigra- Troops in Palestine, was report- Oficer Commanding British tion.Mr_Moshe Shapira.
Their resignation followed the tons representatives that the last
-ed-today- to have told United Na
newa that Count Folke, Ber. British furces in nadotte, United Nations Mediator, would leave Haifa between June the Holy Land was likely to fly to Tel Aviv
from
Đ
General MacMillan has trans-
his noutral island head-20 and June 30. quarters on Rhodes to make personal investigation of the inferred his headquarters aboard the ceuiser Phebe in Halfa Bay, ternecine clash.
the Tel Avly was quiet today un- marking the beginning of
der the first curfew to be clamp-Anal phase of the British evacua-
el down in the Holy Land since.
the ending of the British mandat
on
May 15,
The clly's northern beach war today in the hands of the Irgun Zvai Leumi gunmen who defled the truce, to land 800 volunteers from, the European arms ship,
tion-Router.
SIAMESE MINISTER
、:
TO RUSSIA
Bangkok, Juno 23. Slam today appointed its first-
Altelena, and fought back flerre-Minister to Rússia, Phra ly when Haganah Jewish ro- Bahiddha Nukara, who was pre- gulars shelled the vessel and te vlously Minister to Switzerland. it on fire.
Hotols Evacuated,
This cancelled: the earlier nomi- nation of Phra Sarasan Gholan- hand, former Minister of Econo- mies, to the Moscow post. United Nations truce observers, ·Núkará ‚had' been nominated as correspondents and many Tel, Ambassador'la Durma, but Forma Aviv people had to search foreign Office sources indicated that bedis last night an. hotels along the exchange of envoys between the
waterfront opposite the Buring and Blam "might now bo burning Allelena were evacuat- delayed for,
Reuter
*time."
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