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LANE, CRAWFORD, LIMITED. The April Distribution of Butter
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDÀY, APRIL 4, 1949,
COLONEL TAKES OVER CONTROL OF SYRIA
Damascus, April 2. Cofanol Husní Zaim, Syrian Army Commander-in- Chief who seized power in last Wednesday's coup d'etat, today took command of the country's administration,
He dissolved Parliament last night by decree after the Deputies failed to form a constitutional Par- liamentary Government.
Powerful Radio For Vatican
He has appointed a Constitu- tional Committee charged with the promulgation of a new Constitution and a new electoral law as soon as possible.
the Speaker of In a letter to the Syrian Parliament, Farls El Khoury, Colonel Zalm said the present Parliament did present the people's real wishes and had been elected under pres- The Hague, April 2. Dutch Catholics have launch-sure by the rulers and by irregu- ed a nationwide campaign to lar incans. present the Vailcan City with a 100-kilowatt shortwave radio transmitter to counteract Soviet brandcasts in Fustern Europe. to dissolve it.
Weighing about 50 len9, broadcast on six wavelengths. The transmitter, which in being built by a factory in Hilversum, will commemorate both the Holy Year of 1950, during which it will be completed, and the 50th anniver- sary of Pope Pius XII.
not re-
A Parliament had become a tool in the hands of the gover- ing group. the letter said, the Higher War Counell had decided
It was expected that the Con- would be stitutional Committee composed of 20 Legislators and would start work soon. A dute for holding new elections will be fixed after achieved its task.
the
Committee has
It was learned tonight that the Syrian President, Shukri Bey El Kouath, had been taken by ar-
The Pope has agreed that Hol- land should contribute the trans-moured car to Palmyra, in the mitter instead of money,
Itadio Syrian desert, after being driven Vatican at present
through the streets of Damascus. has only 17 Ber-kilometre medium winge transmitler and
shortwave transmitter of insufflelent strength. A large
site 12 miles outside Home is to be purchased arra "extraterritorialised,"
A
The new equipment will make Radio Vatican a station of world strength. A special device,make-
inj
would-be Router
jutning stations.
Dutch Citizens Favour Parleys
Iraqi Minister
Jalan Saban, an Iraqi Cabinet Minister, who arrived in Damas cus by special plane today, had a one-hour meeting with Colon. el Zalın,
Colonel Zaim told a press can-
CHURCHILL SAYS PACIFIC PACT WORTH CONSIDERING
Atom Bomb's Effect On
The Skin
San Francisco, April. 2., "Bun tan" effects of atomle warfare and a prodiction that scientific "long hairs" will build the world of tomorrow
the among
subjects discussed on the final day of the American Chemical Society's national meeting.
wore
Two Bolantlets of the Uni. versity of California repact. ed on their research in ma- jantem abnormal blacknese of the akin-mong tha atomic Japan.
Dr. J. DuFranoy and Dr. L. Dufrenoy ald the blasts had upset the chemical balance of melanine in the skin, with the result that it darkened the pigmentation of some Japaneso and lighioned others United Press.
bomb victims Kit
M.
Now York, April 2.
Mr. Winston Churchill said today he believed the idea of a Pacific pact ought to be looked into, but the Western Allios must be careful not to spread their resources unduly,
The British wartime Premier held a press conference on board the Queen Mary just before it sailed for England.
He wore one of his famous "siran suits" and puffed contentedly on a long cigar as he chattered in- formally with the press.
He said it was his dear wish that the Western nations could become friends of the Russian people, "if we could only get to them," and added: "It is a great grief to the British and that the American people
soldiers who valliant Soviet
been fought so bravely have misled into the position their Government has put them in at the present time.
"It would make a great dif- ference if they
their opened borders and let people come in and go out freely like in other
he
"it's countries,"
continued.
Laski's Latest extraordinary to have this Com-
Utterance
Washington, April 3.
N
munist paradise. They are afraid to open the doors for fear all the cherubs will fly out or at least
ns many as have wings."
Asked to elaborate on his de- speech
under
Professor Harold Laski, a melaration in his Boston ber of the executive committee of that Europe would have been the British Labour Party, said Col
and London Communilsed and today he believes prople "who want bombardment but for the deter- ent of the atomic bomb in the to destroy the extreme left" aro more
a threat to democracy than hands of the United States, Mr. extreme left itself.
Churchill raised his eyebrows and beamed.
1 speech at Negro Howard University under the auspices of the Sidney Himan Fondation, Professor Laski said he thought the structure of democratic com- monwealths is in real perl] now.
from those who
指
"Don't you think better in its naked city!" he countered.
it stands
U.S. Awakening
WINSTON CHURCHILL.
ክሮ Asked if
thought Russia might renounce her treaty with simpli. Brikun because of the North At- Churchill re- lante Pact. Mr. plied:
with
an bis
it possible to switch from one ference at Government House to wavelength for another in abonday that the Under-Secretaries of half a minute will, it is consider the Government, which was as it is in less peril from the extreme
Mr Churchill was in humorous eil, present SUST problem to suming the right of the Minister-left than it is
his talk at Council, would study immett want to destroy the extreme leftmood thoughout Intely both Syria's monetary and In urder, so they say, to preserve 23 reporters. He nufferi pipeline agrements in the light democracy.
cigar and, though tired, appear- of the national interest.
A revolution "as wide and deeped in excellent spirits. Be said Hussan Djebara, the as that of the Reformation or the Mr. Churchill said he found Finance Minister in the last Go- French Revolution" is in progress tremendous
nwakening to appointed now, he vernment, had been
aald. "The epoch in realities on the
part of the adviser to both the Finance and American history began in 1933, American
people in
the three National Economy Ministries and The old era of unfettered competl-years that have passed since his
илісян the Fulton, Missouri speech. would continue his economic pro- tion will not return
"I think events are {] teacher few months institutions of political democracy gramme, started The Hague, April 2.
ngo.
are overthrown by some cata far more than the words of men", An open letter to the Nether-
Colonel Zaim added that cen- trophic development."
he said. lands Cabinet today, signed by Tsorship of the local press would
Mr. Churchill added, "I do not Ho said most Americans do not number of prominent Dutch end but threatened severe punish realise how far publle ownership mind being called on anti-Com- citizens, declared that the Indnment of all criticism, copecially for public regulation of private munist. Any rank they give me nesian situation demands
hax of the Army.The curfew was ex-ownership
gone. United in that heirarchy. shall gladly speedy und responsible declaton. tended two hours tonight,
accept," The letter suggested a number or urgent decisions to be taken, including:
Preas.
the Before
conference. press Colonel Zaim held first Minis- terial Council with the Under- Secretaries in the Prime Minister's Representatives of The Ofice for an hour. He then recei- Netherlands and Indonesia (in-
ved local and foreign press rc- cluding the Indonesian Republic) presentatives in the heavily guard- to meet as soon as possible to dis-ed bullding-Reuler.
cuss on an equal basis, the formn1" tion of a Netherlands-Indonesian Union,
moves
Butire freedom at ment be given to all Indonesians without restriction. The sigra- tries Un the Jetter meluded n member of Dutch University pro-| fessory, among then the former Amister of Education, Professor G. van de Leeuw.-Reuter.
NEW U.S. NAVY COMMANDER
BOYCOTT OF PANAMA SHIPS
Baltimore, Aprit 2.
ABANDONMENT OF JAPAN PART
OF U.S. STRATEGY Life Magazine said today that the Army Secretary,
New York, April 3.
Kenneth Royall, was all too right when he in- ferred in Tokyo that the United States is prepor ing to withdraw from the Western Pacific in time of trouble there.
do not think it is of im portance one way or the other." They do not seem to be worry. Ing about it."
Kremlin Mon
Asked if he were expreting an election in Englend soon, he smilingly reptled: "You ought to go and oak Mr. Herbert Mor- rison about that. it can't be much more than a year, you know."
SYRIANS WANTED A CHANGE
London, April 2.
A British diplomat said on Damascus today arrival from that the Syrian military coup was brought on by internal matters-principally the rising cost of living.
The diplomat, who would not permit use of his name, was in Damascus when Colonel Husni El Zaim, Chief of the Army, took control of the Government last Wednesday.
"The people were tired of the dictatorial rule of President Shu- kri El Kouaill," he said," and the army decided to do something about it.
"The coup was so well organis-
ed and carried out that we did not know anything was happen- ing until it was all ever." ·
The diplomat said the intern. al conditiona In the country had been deteriorating rapidly. "Principally the rising cost of living was making things difficult for the average Syrinn."
He declined any predictions on the outcome El Zaim's attempts
to form a new government.-As- sociated Press.
MOSCOW ATTACK ON CHURCHILL
Moscow, April 2. The Soviet press said today that Mr. Winston Churchill was busy in America preaching the necessity of war against the Soviet Union. No reports, how- ever, have yet appeared here on his speech
Asked whether there were not 14 men in the Kremlin instead of | Thursday. the 13 he mentioned in his Bos- ton sppech, Mr. Churchill said, "I thought it was 14 but the press corrected it and said it was 13. Well, that's a very appropriate
number.
Asked to name 13 or 14. Mr. Churchill Bald he could not do that is
but added, "I believe that Stalin one of them.”
at Boston last
Declaring that progressive people in America rejected his "atom bomb policy," the news- papers carried an official Soviet news agency Tass despatch quot- ing Senator
of Dakota Langer denouncing Mr.
Churchill as * "cold-blooded foreign propagan- dist who previously came to the United States in order to start
Mr. Churchili said that he had a cold war and now wants a "lovely" reception in the Unit-announce the break-up
that he United Nations."-Reuter.
ed States, and added
hoped to return.
"
"It's nice to get a square meal sometimes," he said.
Of his siren sult. Mr. Churebill said: "1 wore it to the Kremlin once but it didn't go down very well. They thought it was push- in remneracy a filtle too far,"
Cheered By Passengers From the time the police escort which sireris wailing Whisked Mr. Churchill to the pier until the time the ship sailed, he was the centre of attention on the huge ship.
the
The American Seafarers In- ternational Union, at their Con- vintien here today, voted un- animously to hoycott all ships
ying the Panama Bag, i
Expressing apologies for pre-jof Aria as General MacArthur The Union and other maritime vious criticism of Mr. Royall's so strongly recommended to ver grups claim that many United remarks, Life said: "The United Washington three months ago. Crowds gathered Outside States and foreign firms have
the sundeck grill oo transferred their ships to Pona-States military, with the con- "Our planners have gone much verandah
of knowledge ma registry to take advantage of sent and
the further.
arc They
Churchill instructing where Mr.
appeared after the press conference to be Washington. April 2. the low wage scales and taxes. State Department, has indeed the armed services to regard the President Truman toxiny ap
Mr. William J. Dorehuin, Unit- decided to write off
China as United States West Coast as the photographed. pointed Vico
detence frontier
cheered Admiral Arthur fed States representative on the
They in the
spontaneously total loss! lo maintain Radford to be new Commander- | International Transport Workers
the busie
Pacific which means in Chief, Pacific Fleet, and High Union, which includes dockers as present United States position event of war in or affecting the when, wearing
overcoat over his "stren suit", he that the Commissioner of the Pacifle well as seamen. told the Con in Japan as long as it is cheap philippines and hard-won Oki- posed patiently Islands.
vention that his Unim favoured and convenient but not to in-nawa as well as Japan are now boy, both making the "y" sign the boycolt.
vest further
men, money or to lie beyond the area of pri- for photographers, Asked what form it would
and cffort in strengthening the outer mary United States concern take, he said: "We could stop handling their cargoes."-Reuter, fringe of positions off the coast efforts.
Admiral Radford had been serving an Vice-Chief of Naval Operations in Washington since January, 1948.-Unitted Press.
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"This news doubtless comes
as a shock to those who, in resigned to the agracing or write-aff of China, have assum»
ence
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with a small
followed Mr. Chur- chill wherever he went on the ship with his host, Bernard Baruch, and an entourage of Scotland Yard and Federal Bureau of Investigation men. ad things all would not be After posing on the sundeck, too bad if we maintained our Mr. Churchill made a broadcast positions in Japan and Okinawa from the cinema room of the and the whole ring of peri- ship. pheral Proific bases. "There can be no quarrel with
gest
Europe.
to create the stron-
Cause For Anxiety
Solting with Mr. Churchill was
to
of the
Poland Accuses U.S. Of Sabotage
London, April 3. A Soviet Tass News Agency report from Warsaw today sald the Polish Foreign Minister, Zygmunt Modzelewski, accused the United States of undermining Franch-Polish treaty negotiations nud instigating anti-Polish feeling in France,
The dispatch rald Modzelewski in a speech to the Polish Parlin- were being ment charged Poles arrested, beaten
exlied to and mince German
and plants by that Polish Miners France and were dying in French coal mines because of bad safety conditions. The Tass dispatch, broadcast by Moscow, quoted Mr. Modzelewski as saying that Poland and Franco appeared ready to sign a friend- ship aillance in 1847 when Ame- rican "war mongers" intervened. -United Press
quickly enough in the event of on attack, Mr. Churchill said: "All countries on the continent have cause for anxiety."
Mr. Churchill Bald that Eng-
the decision osition in Western his wife, his doughter Mary and land is very grateful for all what
"But the assumption that this decision required the abandon- ment of so much of the Pacific and Asia is false and foolish."- United Press.
her husband, Captain Soames, America has done for England and his son and daughter-in-law; and Europe but added:"We want Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Chur- to be rid of it (American ald) at chili,
Asked about reports of tears that France might not be armed
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