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WASHINGTON DECIDES TO CEASE CHINA AID

Washington, March 25.

DOUBT ON Sanator Pat McCarron, Nevada Democrat, said to- day: "The State Department has decided to lot China go without any effort to prop up the fail- ing Nationalist Government.”

WHEAT TREATY

London, March 24. Forty-two nations are pected to sign by the April 15

ex-

Senator McCarran said in an interview that that is the general policy the State Department set forth in a report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

The report was made recent-

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1949.

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America's politicians, unshaken by Shakespeare, are ignoring the Ides of March.

Their pens are poised over the Atlantic Pact. Their bank-books are open for more Marshall Plan appropriations.

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shouting against business men who are "planning a depression." Wall Street scorns the charges.

Meanwhile prices continue to shrink, wage cuts are certain in most industries, and personal in- comes are expected to be down 7 per cent this year.

deniling the new wheat agreely in connection with a will by three more billion, K that should } proaches there is not much mis- perous, Almost every other ear

Senator McCarran to give il

ment guaranteeing the export and Import of over 456 million tushels of wheat annually for $1.500.000.000 credit to China.

the next four years.

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signed

The representatives countries have alreadly the agreement, renched in Wash Ington yesterday,

or

British grain Laders doubt whether the International Whenl Agreement will he ratified fully kept. They think the 458 wi21 million bushels mentioned exceed the real requirements of the importing countries.

This quantity excludes all the requirements of Gerainty, Aus- Iria, Japan and the Philippine which are United States respon - sibilities and preserves,

It also excludes all quantifies: of wheat which importers may buy from Argention, a nominally big exporter, and from Russlu, Ruranzia. Yugoslavia, Hungary, North Africa, Chile and any other country which comes out as an exporter, beyond the Ave entries are

ment.

the agree-

On the aggregate, the import- ing countries will thin. have to take for more wheat than they took before the war--at n 10 when they are striving to 10-

and restrict imports to a dom.... Reuter.

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Senator Tom Connally, Texas the bill to the Democrat, sent Secretary of State, Ar Acheson, with a request for State Department comment. The De- partment's reply has been receiv- ed by Mr. Connally but he box not made it publie. The full Committee has not seen it.

of the report Th signifleaner Is than it ix said to outline this Government's

toward policy China for the first time since the victuries of the Red Army.

Stale

One Foreign Relations Com- mittee member said the Department at this time is non. plussed about the China situa. lionand does not favour any positive steps to back the Ne- tionalist forces.

Nothing To Say

prove

" would rather chance two or

necessary. in a genuine effort to save Chinn from Com- munist control even now, than

absolute face the

certainty of disaster five or 10 years hener, when the

Kremlin has namie weapons and is rendy to move,

"Even if the State Department is willing to see China disinte- grate and waits tili the dust set- ties, 1 hope Congress will not ne- quiesce in any such programime. Quite as much as the executiv department, we

responsible for the honour and safely of the Republie."--Associated Press and United Press,

re

Sequel To London Riot

London, March 24, Seven men and a girl, aged 18. were fined Sums ranging

£25 from La to

at North London today on charges aris-

President Truman toki a press conference forlny that he sees no reason for making any statesnent on China polley and therefine there will be na Chinta policying out of last Sunday's march

Staternent in the near future.

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by Inflowers of Sir Oswald Mosley, former British Fascist leader.

des-

This is an historie week. Tho text of the Pact will be made public on Friday, and a 100-year tradition against alliances

and

Despite the accumulating trou- entanglements with Europe will be bles New York, and most of the Eastern seaboard which I have broken.

visited, looks tranquil and pros- As the supreme moment ap

moxiel, on the roads is a new giving, certainly not among the public. Although the unemploy-petrol in limitless and cheap (is. ment figures mount and the a gallon), food is abundant and slumplet grows there is no popu-priced more reasonably, drink is lar demand that the dollars be plentiful and of excellent quality. The sun amiles on the American, kept at home to pay for relief or pump-priming.

Peace Pay-Off

He doesn'i

All that the average American asks is that his Investment paye off by providing pence.

expect 10 make money, or even to get his dollars back. Occasionally he expresses the wistful hope that there will be no bucksliding or recklessnera among the other signatories tu

and the Pact

that

the hard- earned,

free enterprise - evented money will not be spent on fur- ther Socialisation measures.

For instance, an American has 10 pay for his spectneles, his medical and dental cure, his wigs If he's buld, his hearing aid he's deaf--the State doesn't sup- ply these facilities free, and is puzzled that any, tektor State should be doing so,

Pact A Miracle

This is hardly the time for any European country on the recely. ing end to be using cupitalistic money for Socialist purposes. The girl. Iste Stiussny,

Even if there were a great sur- rribed as A student, Wis ined plus of money and arms here, £20 for assaulting a policeman. and the United States had not that she been born and bred in Isolation- She told the court Uniter

officer because Ism, the Pact would be remark- kicked a police

As It is, the Pact I was in a fury to see the Eng-able. fish law protecting people who had killed my parents and ruin- ed my life."

said her The girl's lawyer parents had been in an intern

and she assumed they had been murdered by the Nazis.Reuter.

The President spoke in answer to a question as to the possibilty Chin pultry stalemem in the near future. His reply Is In line with the State Departmeșt policy of making sie statements for utilention on States China

Jolley. Meanwhile, Republican Repre- sentative Rubert Hale, in a House speech Lenty Kondemned The Waited States' policy of silener 21 China. Coples of the speech front the Congressional

record! by

ment camp Washington. circulated

mall in Mr. Hale said: "It ITINE br plam to the House that some- thing is radically wrong when the Secretary of State feels obliged to confine to a closed session his discussion of our policy in China.

"Certainty Of Disaster”

"If par policy to China wer clear and intelligent, the questions propounded to the President in анг letter migh! have been

means DANGER! curly and publicly answered.

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"It is not so much that the State Department has fallad," commented Mr. Hale.. "It UE ceeded in making easy the ad vance of the Communiste."

MR. EDEN ON NW FRONTIER

Peshawer, March 24.

Eden, Mr. Anthony

former Foreign Secretary, today visited the historic Khyber Pakistan's North West Frontier.

Pass

on

Mr. Eden, who arrived here to- day, will leave for the West Pun- Lahore tomorrow jab capital and wilt arrive in Karachi on Saturday next. He will fly to London from Karachi next Mon- day.-Reuter,

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Washington, March 24.

United States does not intend to participate in the foreseeable future in further regional pacts, either for the Mediterranean or Far Eastern areas, to supplement the North Atlantic Treaty of mutual dofence. North Atlantic diplomats here today also declared calegorically that no further regional pacts to back up the treaty ore content- plater, under discussion or plan. hert.

The consensus in North Atlantie diplomatic circles here appears to be that the terms and impllen- tions of the North Atlantic treaty make suchi regional packs un necessary.

Biam or French Indochina lead Britain, France or the United States to the opinion that ita aecurity threatened that

area, they could call a confer. ence of the Atlantic Past

powers.

miracle.

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Clothes for both ingn und women can be bought at bargain prices, and there are sales in most shops of everything by which human beings live.

The new spring styles are free Fashions of fuss and feathers. are crisp-streamlined suits, nip- ped walstlines, 1iny cloche hats.

Our Designs Win

DIARY

Most Hollywood producers pre weary and worn by the recurring What's wrong with question: the movies? They would like the question dropped. The New York Dalty News, however, gives this answer: "If. Hollywood wants to make a comeback it will have to return pretty largely to enteriain- ment, escape stuff, some slapstick comedy, plenty of human interest and good character portrayal, and generous doses of melodrama,“

A lol of ordinary Almgoera agree. The tans think receni movies have been overloaded with propaganda and messages of social signiflennce.

Lent and income-tax commill- ments have slowed Broadway's prce. Audiences are thin at ni pro- but the hit shows. Film grammes are being changed after only a few days' showing.

Plea For Oliver

An unexpected champlon in the person of Elmer Rice, the Ameri- can playwright, has emerged to battle for the British Alm "Oliver Twist." Rice says that American' Our own designs have been get-opposition to the showing of the ting plenty of publicity-evening controversinl picture here is 3 gowns by Digby Morton, dinner form of censorship which he de- dresses by Norman Hartnell, plores. He wants to see "Oliver

Broadway. greatcoats by Charles Creed, suits Twist" on

So dn a by Worth, of Lontton. They stand lot of other objective Americans. up well gulnst most strenuous The other Bank spectaculars, American competition.

"Hamlet" and "Red Shoes," are expected to gross nearly £1,000,- 000 in the United States.

The fashion wiseernek is about the customer who said he'd like to be a mink so he could hang around beautiful he's dead,

women

Footnote: The Pact must spell after Pax to make the Atlantic Alliance

watertight.

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At Atlantic Pact JOHNSON'S

Moscow, March 24.

I have been talking to Ameri- Leading newspapers of the Soviet press today trum-

Communist

Party daclorations

the petod against the Atlantic Pact from Europe and the Far East.

Lengthy

cans about this mirucle, The who services muy" garage mun car, and whose tips have been halved in the past six

months. says: "If Russia knows we will

The Communist Party news-

lespatches reported fight, we won't have to fight."

The elevator man la the spart paper, "Pravda," and the Gov- declarations of Norwegian, Fill- and Swedish Communist ment building where I live, one-ernment organ, "Izvestia," de- pino third of whose 19 salary goes in voter full pages to

protests parties against the pact, rent,

says:

"What's the difference? against the pact and the forth- Pact or no Pact we are up to our coming "peace conferences" in necks, anyway, ain't we?"

The

American Paris and New York. out-of-work newspaper-man trying to place & freelance article, says: "This is America's great coming-of-age- sure it will be expensive, but most 21st birthday parties are."

Leap In Dark

EX-TYPIST CAUSES STRIKE

Salford, March 24.

Nowhere In this great city, ex- cept perhaps in Greenwich VI- lage, where the Communists and Henry Wallace supporters hud- All 180 employees at an en- dle, is there any articulate op-gineering works here staged a position to the Pact. People are lightning strike today after being magifcently munificent about it.

40-year-old former typist at the works arrived to take over the

directorship, governing which she was appointed under the will of the firm's head.

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Not many Americans know, or pretend to know, much about the big leap into the European dark They feel in their bones that was inevitable that destiny would catch up with the rich oasis, and

The new directoc, Miss Mary they're rather proud that they. Dugdale, was also left the bulk the little people and poor peuple, of the £133,000 fortune amassed and struggling, worried people. hy John Anderson, head of the should be present at the rendez- Si. George's Engineering vous with history.

pany. I have never

during all the years here fell greater admira- Within a tion for America and the Amert-arrival, half

The clock strikes for them departments called at her office

and suggested that she and they are ready.

stay President Truman, holidaying away until the legal position has in Florido, is saying little about been clarified. inflation, and his real problem is of the repetition

cuns,

few minutes of her

a dozen heads

Soon afterwards,

of

all the em- Miss

Such consultation does not in volve an obligation to action au- tomatically, but the possibility the North Atlantic powers decid- ing to act is not precluded nor is the possibility of military action and his Cabinet Ministers are lagain if she reappeared-Reuter. under Article 4 through the co- ordinated defence system of the North Atlantic powers excluded.

This, it is believed here, is as for as the United States is able to go for the present in Insuring the security of the world outside the North Atlantic area, apart from is general programme milltary assistance to countries threaterfed by totalitarian ez. Burma,gression.--Reuter.

desh which wiped out his £5,000 ployees stopped work, and crash

a haber- Dugdale was told she was to savings when he was dusher in the '20's. of

blame for the strike. She later Most of the President's domes- left the works, and the employees tic programme is bogged down, threatened to take, similar action

These diplomats have in mind particularly Article 4 of the treaty, which extends the field of consultation between the North Atlantic powers potentially to the world.

This article

is understood to cover threats to the security of any of the North Atlantic Pact powers through developments in any part the world.

Thus,

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"Contents of the pact conceal the cynicism and hypocrisy of Its creaturs," the Norwegian Com- munists were quoted.

The declaration also called on Norwegian workers to begin a struggle against the pact because "you can hinder its implementa- tion."

It said: "The forces fighting for peace are stronger than those trying to unleash a war."

Communist Mariano Baloos, leader in the Philippines, war quoted that in the event of war the Philippines Communists would aid the Soviet Union. Another report in the Com- munlat press anid

anid Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery, chairman of the Western European Union defence committee, will g Washington shortly with West European army comman- ders for secret conferences with General Dwight D. Eisenhower.-- United Press.

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