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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1949.
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Soviet Complaints Should Be Lodged With The UN, Iranian Embassy Declares
Washington, April 16.
An Iran Embassy spokesman said hero today that if
Italy's New the Soviet Union had any complaints against
Land Plan Explained
Rome, April 10.
The Ralian Prime Minister, Mr. Alcide de Gasperi, told Reuter tonight that his Govern- ment hope to break up large estates and distribute at least 3,000,000 acres among land- workers,
Mr. de Gasperi, who was ex- plaining his land reform scheme to be presented to the Cabinet shortly, said, "Our reform plan. ainis at Turning land-workers shure- and small farmers or croppers who have no land into small-holders owning their own June. Where this is not prac- Hicable we hope to give them a Ishare in the administration of large farms."
"
Iran or about the presence of a United States Military Mission in Iran, they should take them to the United Nations in accordance with the United Nations Charter.
He said that it was the opinion of the Iranian Gov- ernment that the provisions of the 1921 Soviet- Iranian Treaty for the entry, under certain cir- cumstances, of Soviet troops into Iran have been superseded by the United Nations Charter arrangements for dealing with threats to peace and security.
Allies In Germany
Face Crisis
The
Frankfurt, Germany,
April 17. Western Allies face
10 days in their plans for a West German | government.
BRANT that Band wwners with large or moderate- by large agricultural estates will crisis have to cede a tart of their land to an organisation for innd re- form and colonisation created by Minister the State" the Prime continuerl
The pervenfage that proprietors must give up will vary from be- tween 20 and 50 per cent of their boldings. Before this percentage is calculated. Mr. de Gasperi ex- phuned, they will be allowed a bante Ladding for themselves of 025 Heres la approximately 250
tien
Opposition
in the next
It was thus superseded be-' enuse of Article 103 of that Charter, which states. that "in the event of a conflict between the obligations of the members of the United Nations under the present Charter and their obligations under any other International agreement, their obligations under the present Charter shall prevail."
Article 8 of the Russian-Iranian
Treaty had stated that, if a third party should desire to use Iranian territory as a base of operations against Russia or threaten the American officials ore
pessi-frontiers of Federal Russia, and inistle on the eve of twp meetings if the present Government should. which may block formation of not be able to put a stop to such German
Republic
and rupture a menace after having been call- plans to substitute civil for milled on to do so by Russia, Russia should have the right to advance froops into Iran.
tary controls.
These meetings are:
First, a caucus in Hanover next Tuesday and Wednesday of the Social Democrats (SPD), one of Western Germany's two big polt- tical parties. Seemilly
a conference the fol- lowing Monday between Western Military Governors and a delega- tion from the Parliamentary Counell at Bonn.
Mic. de Caspert's plan is being followed with close attention, in political circles. Opposition by landed proprietors is foreseen.
added that Mr. de Ganperi
The Parliamentary Council has the land needed for his scheme laboured nearby eight months to would be paid partly in
in cash
fleutta Constitution. Now it is and partly in redeemable certi deadlocked. The SPD and the fications.
bo Conservative Christian Democrats Payment would made by the Reforma Organisa (CDU) are tied in a knot over tion, that is to any ty the
whether the Counstitution should State.
Workers getting land
a strong centralised gov- would be
be given time in which it or a stales rights admin. to pay for
the State istration. would help them with credit
WILH and technicat assistance. "Above that, the State will airn at ernisation of farming me- thods and will sponsor co-opera- tives for the purchase of seed and the sale of produce and for the of machinery," the Prime Minister continued,
Cre
It and
The SPD demands a strong central government. The CEU favours more power for the states. The Military Governors have re- commended financial and taxation powers be left to the states, The SPD has refused to go along
Well informed sources say there pare three ways the stalemate may
be broken.
The SPD might make conees-
This added that led and econo-
would be taken to Tai nesures prevent the new sall-boldingssions. from going back to their original OWDS.
Mr. the Gasperl said that the proposed 3,000,000 avres for dis- tributton WW "no small or if we consider that contrary to po- pular belief
very Bunkerous states are not
Itenter
The GDU, with support from some other small parties, might
between
A little girl kneels to pay homage to Popo Pius XII an other Roman children walt in iino
of hie to make gifts to him in commemoration of the 50th anniversary
into the entry priesthood. The ceremony was held in the Belvedere Courtyard of Vallean City, "whan 60,000
Roman children gathered in homage to the Holy Father-AP Phots.
Paraguay Goes
To The Polls In
Dull Election
Vatican On A Just War
Vatican City, April 18. The Vatican's semi-official
Romano
today declared that, even if a "Just war" broka out, the Church
Observatore hotbed of
would not tolerate it because of the injustices that would result from the use of present war weapons.
A war against Rumia now, even if she ware defeated, would not mean the disap. pearance of Communism, tho newspaper saldReuter,
U.S. Considers Rocket Range, Paper States
Sydney, April 16. The Sunday Herald today stated that the United States Army Department had request- ed Congress for authority to Icase or arrange for the use of a "foreign 3,000-mile rocket- firing range."
. The newspaper's stuff corres- pondent in Washington reported that it
was bellowed that the United States authorities were giving careful consideration to the Woomera rocket range in Central Australin.
Buenos Aires, April 10. South America's revolutions-Paraguay-goes to the polls tomorrow to elect a President, and nobaby appears to be really interested, because The Embassy spokcernan there is only one candidate. made this statement to Reuter
He
is Dr. Felipe Molus Lopez, when asked to comment on re a middle-aged dentist, who seized
from porta
Teheran of
expower during a a four-hour revolu- changes
the
Sovlet them on
February 20. That was and Iranian Governments re- Paranny's seventh and quietestį garding the presence of a small revolution in 14 months. United States Military Mission
Lopez, who Bave the Re- In Iran and Iranian objection publice its first all-civilian Gov- memory, pressure ernment within living
has said that if he were elected he will re-establish the Army's The spokesman emphasised,
reputation as a patriotle, institu- however, that contrary to press reports published here, the Em-
tion at
thef
of the people and of their bussy had not receivert any re-
In his two months of power, ports of these recent Soviet-Iran Dr. Lopez has held off all at- lan exchanges. He said that he tempts to force him from office. was merely explaining the view
of his most of the Iranian Government gen-election moves was
Palermo, Sleily, April 18. The United States Senate passed to relcase Salvatore Giuliano, a noto- en April 11 last a Blf authorising crally on the subject.
more than 300 polliical prisoners rious Sicilian bandit, is willing the Air Force to set up a 3,000- from the notorious Asuncion Jail.
to fight a duel with any 10 mulle testing ranke for guided where they had been held since members of the Italian Govern- missiles at a top cost of $75 the 1947 civil war.
to
continued Soviet against Iran,
Reuter reported from Teheran tonight that a New York news- paper report that Hussla Was threatening 10 invoke the 1921 Soviet-Iranian Treaty
heemuse there is an American
Miltary Mission there
officially
Was
denied in the Iranian capital to- night.)--Reuter.
ram through a Constitution will cling to its present position. which would win approval of and may toy take it or leave it' the occupying powers. Then it to the Allies." would be to the German people to ratify or reject the Council's work.
פון
A Congress of SPD delegates to the Council and Party Chairman already has approved the position of the Party at Bonn. The Hau- over conference will include in Ministers addition the Party's President (Governors) of
the
One
natute Prr
Bandit Asks
Officials For A Duel
of
The request to Congress was believed to have resulted from the present Washington visit of Sie Frederick Shedden, the Secretary of the Australian Defence Depart- ment, the report added,
Bilt nor the wants qualified million. Neither the
foreign Senate Armed Services Committee report on it stated where the range would be located. The Bill had news-already been passed by the House
of Representatives
But in spite of the comparativement But he success of his regime so far, no representatives
powers os referees. body here is willing predlet the outcome of tomorrow's cler- In-n letter to a Palermo Hon.
Few
consider that Dr.
paper, he declared: Lopez, if re-elected, will remain in office for the constitutional term of five years.-Reuter.
Independent Labourites Meet
The
A Defence Department spokes- If he wins, he will be al- man said on March 21 last that lowed to go free.
the United States milltary authorl- ties had given some stady to the 2.- he loses, he will give possibility of using Australia's himself up, provided his impri-3,000-mile rocket rango as its future guided missile test centre.
sened mother is released.
Giuliano. aged 27, recently-Reuter. threatened seven members of the Sicilian Parliament with ferce reprisals against their familles f they did not intervene to secure the release from gaul of his no~
Could Dissolve Council Rome, April 16.
Blackpool, April 16. Summer Franz Paziani, one of The Military Governors could
Labour Independent the judges who
condemned dissolve the Council and ask the
Party, a small left wing pacifist
ther and sister. Mussolini': Foreign Minister. states to convoke a new one. states.
group, today declared its unal- Count Ciane, to death at a a specin) Some officials say public pressure
The "Terror of Palermo Pro- Another official said, "The SPD terable opposition to the capita- triul
at Veron in 1944, has been would force selection of a more has identified itself with a pre-list imperialism of the Western known when he asked President he became Internationally vinee," released from jail at Viterviterbo, conciliatory group. High action
stige position in defying the Al-powers and the totalitarianism Truman to annex Sicily as His sentence was rebed to 12 is looked upon as a last resort.
Many well informed quarters
lins "
49th State of the United States. years on an appeal, of which nine.
He added that such defiance of the Stalinist regime.
The 57th Annual Confererice have now been rescinded under any the SPD will not back down
Last month he sent a letter popular in Germany. the amnesty recently decreed. Ife at its Hanover conference.
Some responsible US, officials Socialist group
of the party, the remmants of a pressing good wishes for a blonde released Immediately since
"I am very pessimistic." one charge that the British are quiet-present
from which the 33-year old Swedish Journalist, Labour (Government) Maria Cyllacus, who was given a three years, Reuter.
WAR
he had already served more than high offelal commented. "Therely backing the Social Democrats Party grew and broke away, de
Here is the New
is every indication that the SPD
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