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BRITAIN TO IMPROVE HER DEFENCE, REDUCE DEMOBS
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London, September 15.
The British Government announced yesterday a three phase re-armament programme to prepare itself and other Western powers against the dangers of the present international situation.
For DP's "The world position gives cause for anxiety," the De-
Geneva, September 14.
The Best General Council sí the International Refugee "'Or-" ganisation met today to gone- tion spending in the .current year U.S.$102,000,000 on the resettlement oversens and in Europe of 381,000 refugees and displaced persons.
Ratification by Denmark st
puty Prime Minister, Mr. Herbert Morrison, de- clared in a surprise statement on defence at the opening of a special session of Parliament.
To meet it Britain will slow demobilisation of its troops, speed up recruiting for the armed forces and accelerate improvement of air defence, armour and infantry weapons.
Production of jet fighters will for mur immediate duties, and to month of the organisation's con= |be nearly doubled. 1137 Air provide for the training of cadres. stitution gove it full status as an | Ministry spokesman sod. Bri-Every effort will be mude to ne- agency of the United Nationtain will send jets as quickly acelerate the rate of recruitment,"
membership of 16 nations, preparatory commission had possible, not only to all
organusation's overseas stations, but to which-
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carried 0911 work for 18 months.
Venezuela ratilled today and was repented at the meeting The main problem facing the Council is to find homes quickly 101 800,000 refugees and displac ed persons most of them sl In camps in Germany and Aus- Erla,
of The General Cruel.
The United States is expected in the current your to take 75,000, Canada 60,000, the Argentine 30,- 100, France 25,000, Britain and Australia 20,000 each,-Heuter.
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'WARMONGER' EXPELLED
clio, September, 14. Soviet heensed German
Reserve Campaign
M, Morrison also announced
Levee of the other four western.
European part countri i- that range to obtain these platnes.be The Government said the rate of jet fighter productions is secret.
80,000 More
1
Explaining the reaseas for taining men in the Arty bw an- other three months, Mr. Morri son declared there was hon nhang way in which the loss of traitant men could be me te ap, and pant ¦ flm 'sifgation w
sundel be kept un- der conannt review in tight of |the current situation.
"As a result of these mea aures, the strength of the farcen at the end of this year will be
80,000 about
greater than it would have been had the r mobilisation
Min tinued," sall My Morrison.
The inerens will be an anti-
personnel, whos
The now.
been
con.
tvernment
news agency, ADN, reported to- jed night that the neting Mayor at need Berlin, Dr. Ferdiaånd Friedens- {very much regret taking t burg. had Born expelled! from step." membership of the Communist- The deput dominated "Cultural Udon for the Democratic Revival of der nany."
The reason given was his "pro-
pulitical #illunde vocative
Soviet Union and warmongering, ---Reuler.
wards
Penet
anten
that retention of serviteinen with the forces was not the only
sure being taken to strengthen defence.
In-
He said, "Our first need t stimulate regtidigest for ot Igular toreeg which are constat
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DELEGATES WALK OUT ON DIATRIBE
Geneva, September 14.
The British, French and. Bolgian delegates today walked out of the United Nations special 16-nation committed on non-selfgoverning territories as a protest against a speech by the Soviet delegate. They returned after the Rus- sion delegate had ended his speech,
M. Garreau of France wastically no political progress was the first to leave the meeting being nude in the 74 cutome, in when the Russian delegate, M. the world. Kulagenkov, made u personal attack on him.
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a special campaign would started! 10 bring the KAF
valunteer reserve and the Royal Nayal Volunteer Reserve up
full strength.
to
"All this will have repercus- Insta in the feld of supply," he declared. We must acceler- Mto the improvement nf the Tequipment position, expectully in
The Bedel af air defence."
the
Overhaul of stocks of wartime equipment is being speeded up und manpower is being Increas od for these purposes. Measures wre being taken to double vate of hirerntroduction and oder types of Gihters in store will be recendatsorted,
"The state the world" has of the forced
Government
the
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Security Council To Discuss
Hyderabad's Conflict With India
Paris, September 14.
The United Nations Security Council will discuss Hyderabad's dispute with India at a meeting in Parfs on Thursday afternoon, the United Na- tions headquartors announced here tonight. The meeting was call by Sir Alexander Cadogan, of Britain, the President of the Council, to whom Hyderabad's representatives sent appeals for an early discussion.
since
The Security Council will first have to determme Hyderabad's
The meeting will be in the International Court of Justice
a legal poirit Assembly Hall of the Palais de had raised Chaillot, it was also stated. only an independent nation could
be a member of the Court. of the All the 11 members Council have been circulated with Hyderabad's appeal for an emergency session to discuss status. the entry of Indian troops into the State, a United Nations I spokesman said today. Legal Point The
sald spokest un
that Hyderabad's enriter request that the dispute be dealt with by the
LEBANON OFFERS TO EXAMINE MEDIATION
Cairo, September 14.
change its plans for speedy de: An Arab spokesman disclosed today that the Leban-
mottration, Mr. Morrison said. "HIO Majesty'n
Government had no choice but to take ser- tain precautionary measures."
Mr. Mom rises rande the state- mt in the auxeen of the Prime Mmester, Mr. Alflee, who is ill
Mr.
Moreton "expressed the hope that the moves would not
joi
100 371 a "paneky pirit."
Caught By Surprise
The time Mr Morrison used to arture the programme, which would make Britain ready for the Commons nything, raught
by surprises on the first day of the dat Parliament session
to consideration of
ese Premier Riad El Solh had offered Lebanon's services to explore the possibilities of media- tion between Hyderabad and India.
Easy Way To Write Chinese?
London, September 14.
that
The spokesman, waid both Lebanon's offer and media- tion discussions among mem- bers of the Arab League Poli- tical Committee and the Indian and Pakistan Ambassadors had been of informal nature.
it was discicand in London that Zahle Ahmed, the Beore- tary General to the Hyderabad Department of External Affairs, has sent a letter to Bir Atax- ander, saying that "every hour now counts.
An outline of the case Hydera- bad intends to argue before the Security Council on Thursday was disclosed today by n spokes- man of the Hyderabad delegation which arrived in Paris tonight.
Above Religion
The Hyderabad argument in general is that after the British Teft India, Hyderabad, like the other States, became independent and free to choose to join either India or Pakistan or to remain independent.
The spokesman mald the delegation would tell the Unit. ed Nations why Hyderabad has chosen to remain Independent. "Hyderabad," ho said, "has al ways been independent and the desire of its Hindu people who are Fuled by the Moslem Nizam, is to reinain free. desire is ahovo religious dit.
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A Chinese student of etymology. now studying in Britain but whoj towaste to cut the power of the at present wishes to remain an-f Egypt and other Arab-15tates werei | non-existent in Hyderabad, to the
House of Loria.
Ms Morrison gave no figure fr the total : frength of the arm fed forces, which published figures And set at about 1,300,000 by the op of this year.
However, there was a general agreement aming the Arab dele- tates that Lebanon with her
"The Government of Hydern- Christian majority Was suited bad feels that accession to India among the Arab States to under-would import the internal peaco talte the task.
of Hyderabad and fan the flames According to the spokesman, of the communal issue, hitherto interested and anxious to do any catastrophic and tragic dimen- restore peace slons of the confiagration which nymous, is engaged in writing thing possible to book which promises to attract but hnd not thus far takers initia has enveloped India and Pakistan and which has been responsible considerable attention when pub- tive toward medintion.
for the loss of hundreds of thou- shed. He believes that know-
unfor- Earlier today Indian and Pakis-sands of lives and for ledge of ancient Chinese writingstan Ambassadors to Egypt Issued givable sufferings."-Reuter.
conllicting statements about the
Official flyeres showed, how- ami even earlier texts would en- ever, that the armed forces hadable modern Western scholars to Arab medintion. fallen to 216,600 by the end of learn Chinese script within two July, with the rate of releases
months.
ת
running at approximately 60,. 000 monthly.
Conseripts an British barracks
Mr.
He accused the colonial prowers of deliberately picking utvance be 15 towards self-governawat,,
When
"The French delegate shmild
t
Mr. J. Fletcher-Cooke, of Bel-
M. Garreau protested thin, and M. Ryckmans, a former that the Russim's speech was out Governor General of the Belgian of order, M. Kalagenkov rupiard: Congo, walked out a few minutes later after the committee chair- try to apply here the nethus he man had vainly called M. Kuin used as a judge in Indo-China," genkov to order.
M. Carrenu thereupon walker out, loudly sloming the dor behind him;
"No Progress"
The Soviet delegate urged that
it will be some time yet before
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The Indian Ambassador, Dr. Syud Hussain declared that there was not one iota of truth in the report that the Arab League had offered to mediate,
Abstract Body
ADMINISTRATOR APPOINTED
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London, September 15. speaking considers that it will have to Morrisna placted
Tuesday The Air Ministry on that their length of service would include a full explanation of the
announced the 'appointment instead of mont's
the development of at least usua! year. United Press
and characters, At present he has The Pakistan Ambassador, Mr. Aeling Air Vice Marshal Franels #sinemten Press.
[compiled a description of 100. Abdul Sattan. Seith conceded that Mellorsh, aged 49, as Air Officer (Chinese characters he explains, the Arab League could not make in charge of Administration, Air
not Command
Far East, itch an offer as it was Government but in abstract body, But he asserted that according to Acting Air Vice-Marshal Mel- his Information from rellable lersh served in the Far East as the League's Political Commander of 281 Group during
Le the war and at Bengal and Committee hanon and Syria, to examine lon.-Associated Press, mecliation possibilities.
NZ Territorial Air Force
Wellington, September 14.
are really pictures and thousands of years ago they looked simply [what they were meant to be.
As on illustration he cites the characters for "man" and "ire" A territorial ale force of five The passage of time has brought squadrons, totalling! 2,000 men, gradual change in the presenta- Others Walk Out
To be- and an air forer reserve is to be ton of these pictures. the world's eight colonial powers
Despite an appeal from the established in New Zealand Im-come a Chinese scholar in the submit regular information to the United Nations on the political committee chairinan, M. Kudlagen-diately, Mr. Frederick Jones, normal way today one has to progress in their coronas. Tother continuad-she-attack_o the the Defence Minister, announcmemorise thousands of complete said that it was obvious that prac. colonial powers' political volley, td here today.
Surprise
Visit By
Juliana
London, September 14. Queen Juliana, piloted by her husband, Prince Bernhard secretly visited London for a short time today, reportedly to consult an eye specialist about their youngest daughter, Prin- cess Marijke.
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The Royal couple, in their first trip from Holland since Juliana became Queen last wock, arrived alone this morning, in a red-posed Dakota at Northolt Air- port. Airport ofcials had not un inkling of the identity of the visi. tors prior to their landing,
At noon, the couple visited the
! London County Institution for
sources
had nominated
Because "Pakistan'a good offices hild always available," he himself encouraged Arab delegates |
Alexandria to mediate. Hend of the Moslem Brother- characters which, to the unmitt
hood Supreme Guide, Mr Shelki The nucleus of territorial The British and Belgien delegates
aired appear to bear no relation to lassan El Banna telegraphed to walked out at this point.
squadrons will be established at their meaning.
Mr. Nehru today as follows: "The Mr. Fletcher-Cooke · inter fold [four mam centres with a th
Moslem Brotherhood and Arabs All that is essential is to learn throughout Reuter that the British Govorugter saquadro. later at Auck-
the world protest the changes which have taken against the Hindustans bestial ment, with most of the other enland.
An upper for volunteers is to place in these onlal powers, did not consider the
characters from aggression in Hyderabad. committee competent to discuss made immediately, first to ex- their original form. Anyone who dustan reactionaries will meet this knowledge be the same fale suffered by im political conditions in the colentes, servicemen and then to members has gained
"We have said several times air training corps. After five avers, will be able to read Chi-perialis powers but Hyderabad
easier than their will remale independent that we do not intend is subit vests territorial service the men nese papers to the United Nations information would be posted to reserve, English counterparts. on pollileal or constitutional con-warh would Include netive ditions in the colonies. Nor will general sections liable for con- we take part in debates on this tinuous service in war or in time subject in this committee.minent national dhnger. Reuler.
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