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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 1,-1940,

SECRET LABOUR PLANS Unpaid Bill's

FOR 1950 ELECTIONS

Shanklin, February 27.

DELAYS IN Members of the Cabinet and other leaders of the

WESTERN GERMANY

of a

Labour Party tonight concluded their secret study of the Labour programme for the next general election, which is expected to be in June next.

The draft of the Labour second five-year plan is be- lieved to contain proposals for the nationalisa- tion of several more industries, including chemicals, water supply and sugar refining.

Frankfurt, February 27. The formation

West Chemicals might involve the German Government is running Imperial Chemical, Industries into more delays and diflepi-combine, which has a capital of

that

CORI-

Politicni quoėters think the conference revealed a promise between the "mere na- tionalisation", enthusiasts, led by THE TOXSTER CABINET WANT MY- The coming week will flus- The plan is still only tentaAneurin Bevan, and the "can- trale these troubles agd disagree-live, and must be approved by solidation" champions, hended by ments more than ever before. the National Executive Com- Mr. Morrison.

First, there are disputes unmittee and by the National the side

of the United

and France.

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States Conference of the party in May The Deputy Prime Minister, Second, there are disputes be- M. Herbert Morrison, who is to tween the Germans who

chaffe of campaign

strategy tonight: reporters

"he the temper of

conference admirable. There has not

charting the

Government.

fasttre form

of (toll Third, there are disputes be-e

tween the Allies and the Ger-been one row," mans. On top of this, there repented delays and this

are

He refused for diselogo details week about decisions. new ones will probably develop.

Last year, the Western Allies Co-ops Object surt a forget dinte of March 15 Political quarters tonight" pre- for the formation of the new dieled that shipbuilding and In- Government of the Western suance might be dropped from zones. Allied observers now hist of possibles" for think the Government will not be in operation before June and perhaps even later,

The chlof stumbling block between the Allies ha bren the degree Di centralisation which the new German Gov.. ernment will have when it is formed.

na-

Biancitration which, it is under- stood, figured in the original craft.

Mr. Morison,

who wields

est power, would like to nee the Government, improve and perfect is present if re-elected,

nationalised undertaking before entering new Belds-Reuter,

Shipwreck Survivors Picked Up

Tragic Sequel

Geneva, February 27. Two Swedish vieltors, man and wife, were found shot dead in their hotel room here today while the police walted at the door to ask questions about ani alleged unpaid bill.

They were Torolf Hag- mann, aged 54, accountant of Stockholm, and Mrs. Hog. mann, also aged 64.

Who their

A police inspector, was waiting to enter room when the hote out, sald afterwards: mann had asked me to walt while Ho

had dressed.

rang

"Hag:

called on the Hagmanna t the request of the Lucerne police, who were investigat- ing an ungaid bill of 2,000 Bhalla franca-Reuter.

EGYPTIANS PUT ON A PARADE

Tel Aviv, February 27. The crack Egyptian

9th Brigade, trapped in the Faluja pocket in the Northern Neggy for four months, marched out through the Israeli, lines today with the precision of a Sand- hurst parade.

The brigade is being evacuated

London, February 27. The Glasgow trawler, Laura Shipbuilding nationalisation Paton, was tonight making for Is the subject of trade union Granton, near Edinburgh, with to Egyptian lines under the terms differences white Insurance five survivors of the 340-ton of the Egyptian-Israel armistice night involve complications Norwegian motor vessdi. Trap-signed at Rhodes last week.

with big companies with head- quarters overseas. The French have

Flour milling-also persistently

suggested opposed any meusures that for nationalisation- is likely toj would give the Government wile dropped because of objections from Britain's huge Co-operative Movement, which has special in- lerests in this sphere.

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powers,

This has held up for months the issuance of

Occupation statute Fur the Germans. The statute will virtually be an in- terlin peace trenty for the Ger- mans-Associated Press,

A Compromise? Between 20 and 30 industries have been studied for possible nationalisation.

Unions Support Aid To Europe

Washington, February 27.

The Congress of Industrial Organisations said today that the United States should stimulate inter- national trade to establish conditions that will enable democracy to survive.

The remaining two of the Nor wegian ship's crew of seven were

day reported on

the Darat sleamer, Edouard Suenson,

bourd

row.

BRITISH COMMIES

ISSUE STATEMENT ON POLICIES

London, February 27.

The British Communist Party stated today that the. first signs of an impending slump are evident in Britain.

In a policy statement, the Executive Committee of the party, which has been meeting in London, said: "While production has gone up, workers" standards have gone down.

The

abroad war policy means reduced living conditions at home. Prices are still rising quicker than wages, while pro- ilfs coar

"

"It is now admitted that the Marshall Plon cannot solve Europe's problems," the statement Faid.

"Cut-thrust competition in the export market is Intensifying.) Unemployment and short time are steadily Increasing. The Bret signs of an impending slump are evident.

Mounting Opposition To Winston

London, February 28. Some of Britain's worried Conservative leaders are talk- Winston about easing Churchill out of his role as the Party's prime policy maker.

"Already we sed in factory aftern factory how plece rates and of established customs are being at- tacked, at the same time as the the miners, textile workers and railway men are refused."

wage demands of

The Communist Executive made the following points 16 their policy:

The Colonies

Inst

The Conservative defeat week in the crucial South Ham- mersmith by-election was a hard blow to Party leaders.

Mr. Churchill's threat to seek a vote of censure against the Labour Government, because of costs of the popular National Health Service is described by many as a costly pre-election blunder

the Hammersmith War voting.

1. "Fight now for peace." The

2.-Demand that Britain keep pes, according to a message re-evacuation, which began yester-

day, is expected to finish tomor-out of the North Atlantic

Pact." ceived by Lloyds,

Mr. Churchill was also cri- 3-Demand for withdrawal of ticised for his campaign speeches United Nations observers, who all American mollitary forces from In Hammersmith. Usually he re watched today's evacuation, said Britain."

mains aloof from bye-elections. that the Egyptians, despite the prolonged slege, marched out 4.-Demand a meeting of Sta-Some critics said his attack on the Labour government failed with polished brasses and trimlyn, Tranan and Attlee now to pressed uniforms.

concert measures for peace, reduce to suggest constructive counter armaments and ban

the atom moves. bomb.”

One upper level Conservative by lorries in a convoy, spaced

5.-"Demand the reduction of leader remarked that workers along the route like a military National Service (conscription) to and the middle class cheer for manuni, Isracils watching the

they 12 months, with the withdrawal Churchill, but march-out were particularly im- pressed by the bearing and turn-of British troops from Malaya Labour.

and liberation for out of the Egyptian troops.

peoples."

The Laura Paton radioed late this afternoon that bad weather prevented her from making Aber- deen, and that she would land the

Mic

Norwegian sailors, one of whom is be badly hurt, at Granton. SOS messages from the Trappes last night. brought the British

British frawler, the

destroyer Ulster, the Danish ship and the Peterhead lifeboat racing to hid.Reuter,

REFUGEES FROM SHANGHAI

The troops

her

be

were accompanied

A Sudanos brigadier, said to commanding 2,500 Faluje troops, told United Nationa ob- servers that he wished to be the laat men to leave the pocket.

colonial

The Executive announced that the Communists aim to put for- word 100 candidates at the next general elections.--Reuler.

Clay To Be Replaced?

Chicago, February 28.

Over 100 trucks rolled out of Fatula today and it was report- Manila, February 27,

ed that the bulk of the Egyptian About 400 more refugees from force had been evacuated by sun- Shanghat, mostly White Russlans, set. Troops, riding trucks, sat in "The struggle to maintain } The views were stated in the have arrived on board the Inter- rows along the sides with rifles and extend the frontiers of current issue of the Economie national Refugee Organisation's held in line between their knees,

Haven. democracy is more than a poli- Outlook, monthly publication of chartered vessel, Es

Each man stared stiffly ahead tical battle," said the CIO. the CIO Departinent of Educh-

The latest batch. the fourth at the tip of his fixed bayonet. "Economie well-being is pre- United States should do

tion and Research, which said the group to come for temporunt 18- re- three settlement in Guiuan, Samar

The observers added that me- requisite of political stability things to all foreign trade and land, reacted Manila on Satur-tor eyele patrols bringing up the relinquish command of Ameri-l and extension of individual thus bolster worldwide political day morning. The Haven is exe rear of the convoys saluted

pected to sail for Sumar with the Israeli omcers, the Jews snap-30. refugees in the next day or two. ping buck salutes in return.

liberty,"

stability:

1.Continue the European-FeReuter, covery plan.

2. Extend the reciprocal, trade

NEW CHAIRMAN FOR AIRWAYS

Act.

London, February 27.

The Ministry of Civil Avia-1

3. Ratify the

churter for the International Trade Organisation.

The article sald foreign coun- tries supply many raw materials tion announced today that Mar- without which the huge Amer]- shal of the Royal Air Force an industrial machine could not Lord Douglas will shortly re-operate at present levels.

place Mr. Gerard d'Erlanger as Chairman of British European Airways, one of Britain's three State-owned airlines.

Lord Douglas, as Marshal of the Royal Air Force Sif Sholto Douglas, served as Commander- In-Chief and Military Governor

Fo

It added that a sharp duction In American overseas trading would reverberate throughout the entire domestic economy and would make it Import blo to maintain full employment and high living standards In this country.

of the Brlish Zone of Germany Therefore, it said the

CIO

cronomy, It

Reuter

Reform Movement

In Tory Party

London, February 27.

Vigorous action to recast the Conservative Party policy for the general election in 1950 is ox- pected to allow Mr. Winston Churchill's re- -turn from ne European Movement conference

at Brussols.

L

On the other hand, the 'poti- tical columnist of Lord Beaver- brook's Conservativa "Express"! asserted that the Conservative failure at South Hammersmith was due to the general Im- potence in debate of the Torles in the House of Commons.

In the party's "black week- end," after its fallure in Thurs- South day's bye-election in from May, 1040, to November, supports the recovery plan to 1047,

rebulld Europe's

Hammersmith, a general alarm On retiring from that Com-cauilaned, however, that once was sounded. mand, he was elevated 10 the Europe regalns its economic Newspaper commentators, some Peerage.--Reuter.

feet, the Continent will still be of them personally sympathetic unable to sell its goods on world to Mr. Churchill and his markets unless the United States lowers, today questioned the One effect of Hammersmith supplements the Marshall Plan Conservative electioneering tech-may be to increase the pressure within the Conservative effectiveness of from by extending the reciprocal trade nique and the Act and approving the TO the Conservative Opposition in Party for a positive election pro- progressive

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February 27.

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'Both programmes are intend-the Conservative "Sunday Dis- Certain elements have resisted ed to establish trading conditions patch" wrote: Probably it would the idea of committing the party that make for good world mar-be better if Mr. Churchill were to a definite programme too for kets for all nations," said the to confine his electioneering ac- ahead of a general election. article. It discounted arguments tivities on those occasions when The last word in any modifica- A number of residents called that reduced tariffs would cause he dastres personally totion in policy will lo with Mr. the Police Department aa the the United States to be flooded intervena to delivering a half-Churchill, whose dominating role tremor rattled dishes and swayed with cheap foreign goods.-Unit-hour speech on the great inter-in, the party is unchallenged. chandeliers-United Press.

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The undercurrent of criticism of Mr. Churchilt brake Into print, algnificantly, in the Con servative "Daily Telegraph." The

"Telegraph" is owned by Camrose, a power in the Conservative Party

Lord

The "Telegraph's" political correspondent said there is ser- lous unrest among Conservative Members of Parliament,

Edi- terially the newspaper urged a "chief of Staft" for Mr. Chur- chill to dratt Parliamentary and election strategy.

The Chicago Tribune has The "Daily Mirror," friendly learned authoritatively that to Socialists, said: "South Ham General Lucius D.

electors have spilt the Clay will Tory Party from top to bottom.

mersmith

They ve atrengthened the can forces in, Europe by June hands of more progressive Con- servatives who are critical of Mr. Churchill's leadership in Parlia- General Clay, it said, will be ment-and-of-his-intervention in replaced by Lieutenant General bye-elections." Albert C. Wedemeyer, War- ilme U.S. Commander in

The former Foreign Secretary, China and now deputy Chief of No. 2 Conservative in the Com- Anthony Eden, is regarded as the Stall

In charge of Plans

and Operations, or

Mork mons. But Mr. Churchill has in- General

sisled, informed zources said, on Clark, former commander in

running the whole show him- Austria and now commanding

self-Associated Press. The Sixth

Army with hend- quarters in San Francisco.

The Tribune despatch from Washington said; "The shift will mark a change in American the Carthageniun policy from hard peace policy toward Ger-

A Japanese trade delegation, many under the Morgenthau accompanied by an official of plan to a softer peace polley to General MacArthur's Headquar- emphasise Amerleen determina- lers, arrived here today in search tion to halt the spread of Com- of raw cotton and to discuss trado

in textiles-Router. munism."-Associated Press.

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