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THE. CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1948.

Soviet Note On Berlin Rejected

RUSSIANS DISCUSS SITUATION

Berlin, September 20. Marshal Vassili Sokolovsky, the Soviet Military Governm. tonight called a meeting of his chief advisers at Karlshorst. the Soviet heatiquarters, to dig- cuss the situation arising

of the reference of the Berlin crisis to the Security Council, German circles in close touch with the Russian Military Ad- ministration slater.

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FOREIGN MINISTERS REFER MATTER TO SECURITY COUNCIL

Paris, September 26. The Foreign Ministers of Britain, France and the United States today rejected the now Soviet note on Berlin as unsatisfactory and announced that they wore referring the whole matter to the Security Council. The decision was made public in a communique

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Foreign Minister. M. Zigmunt Modzelewski, that the Boviet Government competence of any United States to Berlin altustion.

There is

Newspaper Dispute Continues

Berlin, September 20. Berlin's East-West "news- poper war" produced on Sun- day sporadic fist fighting be- tween Germari civilians and issued after the three Foreign Ministers-Mr.

Russian-controlled, police who tried to cónflocate Western- Ernest Bevin, of Britain, M. Robert Schuman,

contest the licensed newspapers from them. of France, and. Mr. George Marshall, of the

organ of the The fights occured on the Handle the elevated railroad system which United States-had met for an hour and a half

the Russians control in all four- in the Quai D'Orsay (the French Foreign Of-

therefore the post-power sectors of the city under fice) here to discuss the latest Soviet reply to

bility that if the matter is an agreement made in 1948. the-Western powers joint note on Berlinpened the vier Gavernment in

'will withdraw from the

The American henced DENA United

nows agency sald violent brawis The Soviet note, handed in yesterday, was in reply Nations. Certain Aios-

had taken piace an Bevarat to one from the Western Allios delivered three that the decision to go to

the Security Council reflects

trains prossing the American and British sectors of the city, days ago to the Soviet Ambassadors in London, elenient of despair. Paris and Washington.

The communique said: "In! trolled Berlin radio station, to view of the fact that the Soviet powers with "forpedoing the Government, in violation of the institution of the United Nations understanding between the four" by their decision,"

powers, have chosen to make unilaterally its version of these Dr. Friedensbterų. the Acting Lord Mayor of Berlin, tonight negotiations, the three Minis-

It was moc-thal Marshat Sokolovsky had already received detlite matructions

COW.

from

The Brat reaction from the Soviet alde In Germany came when Herr Brund Goldhammer,| chief editor of the Russian.com.

night charged

the

Western

ters

authorise the following

called a special meeting of the City Administration (the Magis statement:

"The

United

Hined the course of the Moscow negotiations until the agread four-power oirective was

sont

be

to the four Mitary Governare In Berlin, tased on an agree. ment that thu Suviet "black. ado' of Berlin should серве

Boviet and the

Soviet mark. four-power control, should the only Berlin currancy, Governmenta of the The agency suld the statement, traf) for tomorrow at 10.00 am

Kingdom, The United which did not mention the latest to discuss The new situation

States and France are in agree-Soviel pole, ves authorised bo- created by the Western powers

ant that

the Soviet inent

note of satise Air. Bevin's specel in the decision to refer the Berlin crista

September 25 unsatisfactory, House of Commons on September to the Security Council.

"The Soviet Government falls 22 "did not curvey a correct idea The full Berlin City Assembly to provide the rssurance request of the situation and not infre- will meet at 3.00

tomorrowed in the notes from the three quently misleads public opinion for the same reason.

Governments of September 22,

The Soviet inalience on the Dr.

Illegal blockade control of air trame into Berlin mocralle, chuirman

measures will be removed,

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Otto Suhr, the Social De-1948, that the

of the Berlin City Assembly, tonight welcomed the Western powers decision, des cribing it o exactly what City desired,

the

Dr. Wilhelm Pleck, chairman of the Socialat Unity Party, declared in an Interview this

on movement nerosa boundaries

as

far-reaching

the

quarters' here

Contradiction

an

The

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communist allies

Responsibility On Russia

Whington, Geptember 27.

The United States, Britain- and France early today placed sola responsibility on the Bovist Unlos for the failure of the four powers to reach agreement от the Boriln blockade,

in identical notes, deliver- ed to the Soviet Ambassadore in Washington, London and Paris, the thres Western powers charged that RumlA had clearly shown it was-at- tempting by "illega and coercive measures" to secure political objectives "to which It is not entitied and which it could not schlova by percaful moang." w United Prosa.

AMOY MIGHT

BE EXCLUDED

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Shanghai, September 20. The exclusion of Amoy as an stop on the nir route is

Lo

the

da an

These quarters argue that it is

On some trains, the agency Intermediary neheeely conceivable that the So-

snak, vict Government will

passengers resisted when | Shanghai-Manila agree to told they would have to turn over lift the Berlin blockade in res- ponse to a decision by the United their newspapers to the Russian-being proposed at government level to break the deadlock in Nations, if it has already failed controlled police.

war. newspaper

China- to do so as a result of quadri-when the Russians and their Get-Philippines

began the negotiations for a

bilateral airline partile discussions.

banned agreement, according This viewpoint may be a sound

from Chinn Press today. one. but not to refer the matter Western Berlin newspapers under

to the Security Council when dithe Soviet zone.

Berliners Thun for Western

The important Dir service be- reet contact between the parties concerned-08 recommended here retaliated

in

only with a coun- tween Shanghai and Manila was German suspended some weeks ago after Article 33 of the Charter-had for boycot with most failed, would amount to a gesture dealers in the western sectors re-the Philippines Airlines protested exclusive use by of no confidence In the United fusing to sell Russian-controlled against the

Chinese Nations by the Western powers.

planes of Amay newspapers and periodicals.

American authorities saldintermediary halt. that if violence continues it Airlines quarters here believed

༄ས་ This would be contradiction may ba

to take over that the Anal draft of the bilateral necessary to of their repented decisions to base

control of the elevated railway fuir ogreement w1}] probably stations in the western sectors, specify. Tolio and Canton as the furelan polley on the United Na- Ilons.

"That will be done only it jrespective intermediary airports the Berlin

formalised. Shanghai- the things get rough and such action on situation brought before

. Security ly necessary to maintain public Manila run-Reuter. Courell under Chapter 6 of the order," an official said. "The Rus- Charter, none of the big powers slons have a hard and fast agree-

hat

old that they would have the right to vote. ment three years This would mean

to operate that the are

this transport Ukraine, which would hold the system,

"There in nothing we can do decisive seventh vote, could, by abstaining, exercise kind of about what

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happens

trafas, on but, as a last resort we could take however, the Issue is over elevated stations and put brought under Chapter 7, then them under local. German ad. all the big powers wi have ministrations in our sectors."— their marinat vate rights. In Associated Press;

Zones

was based on the Moscow agree- "In addition, it demands that ment that control over the Berlin commercial and passenger traffic currency and trade between the

Western and the [between the Westin Zones and | city

Berlin, by air as well as rall, wa- should be established, the agency

er and road, he controlled by Bald. the Soviet Command in Germany,

que issued to Moscow.

Security Council Western

Berlin

No Comment

Officials sald

the

the

to

veto,

the

circumstances,

was

United

theer Nations circles do not expect the Beaurity Counali to be able to lake any practical measures.

Observers believe the only

value will be in bringing the dis- putę before world public opinion. Officials of the Western powers

FOOD MINISTER THREATENED

Churchill's And Eisenhower's Art

New York, September 20. Paintings by Winston Chur- | chill and General Dwight D. Eisenhower will be displayed at an exhibition which will open in New York tomorrow night in aid of charity.

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The General's canvas shows the head of an Indian in a broad- Perth, September 20.

brimmed hat against a blue sky. Mr. John Strachey, Minister of On the other

side is his first in Paria tonight predicted that an Food, today carried on with his

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'Eisenhower disclaiming any merit described it as the work of a rank amateur,

Reuter's, diplomatic correspon "This demand of the Soviet dent wrote that the agency's Government is re-stated with statement represented Soviet in- evening: "The Boylet Union, emphasis in the official communi-sistence on the Interpretation of the Tape declaration proves,

tire four-power directive to the prepared for

Military Governera which led to compromise, but the

the breakdown, of their talks in "Moreover, in regard to cur- Berlin when it war outlined by powers are not interested in a

evades Marshal Vassili Sokolovsky, de facto understanding with the rency, the Soviet note Soviet Union

and does not answer the clear Soviet Military Governor. ол the question,"

position stated by the three Gov- ernments. Accordingly, the three Lerners generally regarded to-

Governments are transmitting day's decision by The Western note in the Soviet Government In Washington today, State powers as ending any bope of a fully setting

position Department offclols declined old their Anal settlement by four-power and informing it that in view of comment on the Soviet version negotiations before winter sets in. the insistence of the Soviet Gov-on the Berlin crisis, but regarded In fact, the Berlin population ernment upon intaining then the outstanding point the So- all had never entertained much hope blockade and upon the institution viel demand for control of that the Soviet restrictions of restrictions an ult communicacianmercial transport to city, urgent request would be sent to four days' series of meetings in work-a landscape dominated by

they regarded the Secretariat of the United Na-his constituency here, not in the large trees nearly obscuring zonat tions, they are compelled, in com-

white house. that control as being a fartons to have the Berlin issue least disturbed by an anonymous reinxed pliance with their obligations un- would be

greater price than the Western placed on the Security Council threat yesterday to destroy him. result

of "friendly, der the Charter of the United Nn-

within the begotiations." Berliners now fear

said that nowers were willing to pay to ugenda-probably tions, refer the matter to the

secretary next few days. that severer restrictions an inove-

have the blockade lifted.

stepm had been taken to escure Security Council

Soviet sein-official statements Well-informed diplomatic cir- Mr. Lewis

for paties

Mr. ments to and from the beleaguer-

Douglas, for the

protection Strachey, United States, Sir William Strang, cles in London today believed and particularly recent articles

The anonymous letter was re- for Britain, -M. Couve de trat the Western powers in their in Pravda, the entelal Communist Murville, for France, were meet-note of September 22 requested Party organ, suggest that the So-ceived yesterday

that if the viet Union may contest the right Communist Party. "We are out ing at 3.30 pm at the French Soviet assurance

necessary, Mr. Foreign Offee to draft a reply to discussions by the four Military of the three Western powers to to destroy, it

Governors of Berlin wero resum-raise a German problem in the Russian Government.

the Strachey and all other madmen, "A second meeting of the three ed, the Soviet representative United Nations by reciting Article such as Communists" it threaten

to the 107 of the Charter, would adhere strictly terms of the four-power directive greed to last month in Moscow.

London Diplomalle circles in believed that the Western For Experts of the three Western eikh Ministers had today frankly powers met this afternoon to faced the risk that Russia might be led to leave the United No- continue

work on their

tho necessary steps for Informing tions Organisation by their decl- the United Nations through its sien to refer the haue of the Ber- Secretary General, Mr. Trygve in crisis to the Security Council. Lle, of the Western powers' In- tention to take the lasue to the

ed city might be attempted by the Russions.-Reuter,

Dewey's

Promise

A

Los Angeles,- September 25

world-wide counter-often-

sive against Communism" la pro- mised by Mr. Thomas Dewey, Governor of New York, if he is elected President in November.

It will be "h" counter-offensive of trust and hope, not of aggres- sive nete," he told an udience in the Hollywood Bowl, He pro. anlaed that his plan of action would be to keep the American people informed-where they (the Communists) were "and what they are up to."

Western

Ministers Forcin

was due to be held at 8.30 p.m. GMT, It was reliably learned tonight -presumably... to approve. this draft.

Becurity Council.

powers.

ed.

Churchlir's picture is entitled "View of the City Gate of Mar-

Iranesh". by the local

The only indication of the so- dera was a reference to "Six Vigilantes."-Router.

This reads: "Nothing in the Charter shall invalidate or pre clude "action in relation to any State, which, puring the second World War, has been an enemy i

SCHUMACHER of any signatory of the Char-

LOSES LEG ter, taken on authorised an a result of that war by the Gov.

Frankfurt, September 26. ernments having responsibility Dr. Kurt Schumacher, for such action."

German Social Democratic leader, Lose No Time

Tho Westera rowers inter- had his leg amputated because Observers expected tonight pretation of this Article is that that the Western powers will lose it is clearly designed to prevent

the

of thrombosis yesterday. First im- pressions of the doctors were that

It is expected that a copy of no time In following up the decl-enemy powers appealing. for his condition was satisfactory. the note, which is to be sent to sign taken at 1cdov's meeting be-legitimate enforcement of armis- It had been hoped that pro- the Soviet Government, will between the three Western Foreign tice or peace agreements and longed treatment would avoid forwarded to the United Nations inisters. It was thought here cannot be used to preclude a die-amputation or confine the throm "If they, or anyone else, break together with a memorandum on that the Western powers would cussion by the United Nations of hosis to the foot, but movement our laws against treason, they the position of the three Western art under the terms of Article differences between the great of the bloodclot in the last few will get traitor's treatment," he

34 of the Untteri Nations Char-

powers which might possibly en-days made immediate action in- údded. "If they engage in sabo-

Two Factors

danger peace.-Reuter. ter, which empowers any mem- tage, or break any other laws,

evitable,. It was stated.-Reufer. we will fall them. If our laws

Earlier today, Tass, the Soviet ber of the Organisation to bring are Inadequate, we will get ones

news agency, had declared that before the Security Council or the which are."-Reuter.

only two funtors Soviet in General Assembly "any dispute or sistence on the control of all any situation which might lead to -traffic, including air transport, in-international friction or give rise

Cripps Leaves For Talks In US

to Berlin and lefusal to consider to a dispute.

any four-power control of cur- The Security Council is then rency in the Eastern Zone-were empowered to determine whe-

over Berlin.

endanger the maintenance of

holding up East-West agreement ther the dispute or situation may

Ottawa, September 28 It now depended on the three world peare. According to The British Chancellor of the Western powers whether the Article 27 of the Charter, the So- Exchequer. Sir Stafford Cripps, negotiations on Germany were viet Union would be debarred and Canadian Finance Minister, broken off or "whether a.satis- from using its right of veto ever Mr. Douglas Abbot, left Ottawa factory agreement will be reach- any matter discussed under this

by air today for Washington fored by the four

agency declared..

powers," the Article.

financial talks with the United The statement, published. In alt Soviet papers today, out-

States Government.

After attending tomorrow's opening session of the annual

of the governors of the

meational Monetary Fund and

World Bank, Sir Stafford will meet the Secretary of the United States Treasury, Mr. John Sny- der,

Later, he will meet other mem- bers of the American. cabinet.

Hell. also make important privato contacts with associates of Governor Thomas Dewoy and perhaps with the Republican pre- sidential candidate himself. Reuter.

COUP PLOT IN PARAGUAY

New York, September 2 25.

A plot to assassinate President Natalie Gonzálna -or- Paraguay has been uncovered, the Trans Radio press agency repo

reported to- night

the

tion was to have been carried

out by political opponents to take

over the Government.

it is aloar from the state- ment made at the Goneral As sombly last week by the Polish

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