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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY; AUGUST 13, 1949.

TRUMAN EXPRESSES SYMPATHY WITH ASIAN COUNTRIES

Truman On MacArthur Return

Washington, August 11. President Truman said today that he will sign on order for tieneral Douglas MacArthur's return to this country from

,any lime General Mac-"

Wants to come.

Mr. Truman thus replied news conference to demands on

Washington, August 11.

President Truman today expressed his sympathy for the efforts of Asian countries to preserve their freedom and achiove economic and poli- tical strength.

He made this statement when he commented on discussions he has had here with President Elpidio Quirino of the Philippines, a strong advocate of an anti-Communist Pacific Pact. The statement, approved by both Presidents, said that Mr. Trumon reiterated the desire and in- tention of the United States to render all pos- sible assistance to the Philippine Republic.

It emphasised the importance of the economic situation to the welfare of the Philippines.

Salutement said: ***T**

Capital Hill for the Japanese of the Philippines has Decupation

commander, to return for testimony on the $1,450,000,- GX foreign arms viel bill.

Mr. Truman recalled that when there was previous agilation, as he termed it. for General Mac- Arthur's return about two years go, he made it clear that the Gentral was at liberty to return

I he chose to do so.

expressed

the

determination of his country in pursue with vigour the courses of netion which affer the greatest promise.

The United States will m tinue to watch sympathetically

the efforts of the peoples of Astr

to forge stronger Utes af eennomie and collaboration,

The Senate Foreign Relations-peratuu

to hasten the progress of self-

freedom."

and Armed Servier Committees government, and to preserve their will not consider until Friday, resalution by Senator William F. Knowland, California Republic, ta have General MacArthur return to the U.S.

In Tokyo, sources close to the General have made it clear that unless he rrvolves a durel der from Mr. Truman or his Army superiors, he intends to rein in Japun until a signed.Associated Press.

peate

treaty

Equipped To Meet Depression

Washington, August 11.

The Federal Reserve Bourd satel today that it is well-armer! to combat recession should the need arise.

Its and report to Congress declared

Federal POSETVO system is much better equipped fhan ever before to nel the credit needs of the economy in period of downward of the ad- justment."

Anti-recession listed as follows:

weapons

The two Presidents, the ytide- mont snud, discussed

HPE KITS and de

for the reinforcement velopment of Philippine economy. It adder: "They ure convinced that the economic progress of the Philippines will be not only in the immerite interests of the two countries but will contribute to the determination of free pro- ples to resist those forces which krek their rislavement so long as that menice shall threaten.

"The

High Hopes

two

are

Presidents agreed that this resistance wil

areas

be most effective In where the material well-being of the people allows a ful preciation of the

meaning of freedom.

**It IN

to live

prengnined that the capacity of the Philippine Re- public

hich up to the hopes which events of the past three years have

killed 15 depend in part upon its remo- mle situation.

"As in the past it was the alın of the United States that Bes

Phillippines should assume its [rightful position as a free and are self-reliant member of the world

Stater looks forward to the pre- community, so today the United servation and strengthening the position the Philippine Re-

(1) Virtually unlimited means of supplying the money market with additional reserves If the

uf

situation should call for Auch public has achieved in order

nction.

of

(2) Possession

sufficient Rold certificate reserves-about 23,000,000 by

the 12 Federal Reserve (Central) Banks to enable them to more than double paper money notes and Iouns to member banks,

(3) Further

Truman Evades Issue Of Recognition

Washington, August 11, President Truman albered clear today on any expression on whether this Government

Com will ever recognise a munist government In China.

не

told a news conference that he is not Jo 1 position to answer that question and referred

to Fast reporters Friday's White Paper which he said covered everything he could tell them.

He did say, however, that this country has never been in favour of Communism, when he was asked if there

to any change fh the U.S. at- titude about Communist. dominated areas. Associat- ed Press.

MR. TRUMAN.

400 in the

that it may make its full cons tribution to that community."

President Quirino today receiv» a nditional New York City

City Hall council Ereding. The

police estimated | thamber when he said in reply crowded to Mr. O'Dwyer's remarks that persons that 100,000 the pavements of lower Broari- he hoped he would return here agem as President of the Philip- legal authority way as President Quiring and

pines. He is a the midst ng a pohtical campanga there..

Industry

loans for working capital pur- poses to business und when other credit is unavailable. lian -Reuter.

Wil- the o!

The told'

for the Reserve Banks to make his party rode, in a parade from

the Butters To City Hall.

At the Cly Hall, Mayor

O'Dwyer

presented statesman with

ertificate felistinguished publierŝervice citing him for Inspiring the friends of Democracy in the Far East and in all parts of the world.

President Quirino arrived by plane

where Washington President Truman saw bim of.

BURMA MINISTER

The

TO VISIT U.S.

Washington, August 11.

from

State Department an-He spent four days in Washing nounced today that the Burmese ton at the invitation of Mr. Tru- Foreign Minister, U Moung, will

Man and

Philippines

Mr. O'Dwyer

DON

IDDON'S

Britain As The

DIARY

The 49th State

Here, In mid-1919, Britain Bronx schoolroom, let alone have been based on what Nusala has obviously come to be regard-Madison Square. Garden or does-in reverse. ed as America's 49th Slate, The Yankee Stadium.

But now Russin scarcely makes wrups are off,

or n murmur, and American policy-makers or car- bon copyists are baffled.

Every day in every way Bri- tal is being told what to do, where to go, when to stop.

Our sense of public relations, Anglo-American relations, is inept.

a move

Our British Information Ser: The old tradition of not inter- vices her, our Embassy and fering to the internal affairs of Consular oficials toli mightily, on dependent sovereign nation but without leadership and fu They have not even the reces- has been scrapped.

splention and guidance from Lon-ston to get worked up about. don they are lost.

General Motors report record carnings. United States Steel announce almost twice as big receipts for the frst six months of this year compared with last.

And Charles Luckman, of Lever Brothers. the Prince Pepsodent and the Lord of Lux and Lifebuoy, says the job of supplying. American needs cod Keep American business 'hopping for generations.

This is the price and penalty of accepung all the finanélni ald and then asking foy more. The pall Piper plays the tune as or- dered- else.

Brittin f being ordered to play an elaborale repertoire called rugged indivi- fre enterprise

profit systein, and the American-sol. Jut with slight British ovetunes.

dualism, the

This work I have had a weird

The French, with their merci trains, their gracious thanks, and pellsher · gratitude are showing us their heels.

Even Italy gets a better Press.

Whipping-Boys

We Be the whipping-bays, ne- eused of failure, breakdown, pro- fligate living. dissipation of double-dealing,

16, feeling that the forthcoming Dri-American tish election is to be held here, deanery, and everything else in that the entidates are Aer-the crime calendar. cans, and the reward for -vielory 4 sent in Congress, ne maybe the Larkstep of the White House,

If

Using Flattery

The latest charge is that we are using atornic homb demands as a lever to force an extension of American financial help. In blurter won de-- blackmail.

have any loves the

jt Tak is where our matler I have not read about it.showmen.

፸፰ - our propaganda perts, our Press Agents publicists have landed 185

given a

our

The American Press and poll- teks havf takeaa over Affairs. They are and enjoiery, warnings mud flat- LOTY.

We are being using threats

Both the carrot and the stick are being!

11 unfor- tunate British Lion, new widely regarded as a donkey.

We are being urged by one in- spired American authority or C'onlition, another 147 for throw

out the Labour Govern- merat, gt3 rid of 10,000,000 of our

[mental kicking around.

"The reat job is not to sell the enterprise system but to put some enterprise into the selling system," he says.

But American business is do- ing just that. Worker output in interearing. Big corporations and service and pressing harder sell- small lems are providing better

Ing.

Golden Dream

clerk

Even Wall Street brokerag firms are going into the commen and market places and urging the

small

wage-earner, the Fuel thes artisan, the shop-girl mont-and the farmhand, to buy stocks

and

hares and have an investment in American business,

American dream

4420377

i hope Sir Stafford Cripps und Mr. Bevin know what they are wating into when they come to Washington in September.

They are due to be met by a screaming American eagle rendy 1 use Its claws apd its benk.

By then, of course, the wen- ther should be cooler, and nerves.

population, give up eating ment, will not be as fried as they are unite Western Europe conten- inove. trafe more on the British Com- monwealth.

hand

Over DUT granfuer, dispatch Princess Mar- Karet to the United States, and, of course, devalue the pound!.

It is a large and bewildering protratome.

it

But our reluctance to carry out is provoking critical corn- ment hope.

-

and

The examples of France Italy

Belgium (wanderful little Belgium. the come-back champion) are being laid before

us.

It is an inferno. The breath of hell blows on the land day by hottest, day. It has been the campest,

stupendously scorching July in American his- tory.

most

If Columbus or the Pilgrims or The Folding Fathers had run Info weather like this they would have turned elsewhere.

New York, with all its wealth. food, luxury, air-conditioned re- lef, pleasure palaces, its marvels and miracles, has not been worth living in.

staged their тором They have covers, scrapped their rationing, put their houses in order-why

And bruches

bad.

not US7.

Can

Someone, perhaps, in Whitehall think up ♫ statesmanlike

Icply.

Speaker Needed

"

There must President

be a spokenian he somewhere who can command say that

the countryside

have been

and

almost ba

•

No American has felt much Sympathy for suffering Europeans lately. He would have swapperi his dollars and his destiny for an igloo and the Eskimo's life any diny,

The heat has been so crippling and cruel that business in New York has only Just ticked over. would like to stay longer in American audiente. He has not Many offices, factories, and shops

have shut down. welljet appeared during all the years

Streets and know Mr. Mayor, I am In the that the Labour Government has

(avenues have been deserted. midst of a political campaign | been in power. In my country."

New York "but as you

He referred his political sivals at home as "busy, active, shrewd and penetrating, ond was the ente ef perhaps

Imbasting

hospitality."

4

mc

arrive in Washington on August scries of state and social events while I am here enjoying your

10

13 on an official visit.

The Minister is expected confer with United States officials for a week.-United Press.

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The Mayor, in his welcome sir: "We recognise the new Philippine Republic us a strong- point of Democracy in die Pret- fie. We recognise it as one from which Democracy can flow to all of Asiu."--Reuter, and Associated

Strongpoint Of

Democracy. President Quirino drew appre- clative laughter trom a crowd of Presa.

MOST PRICELESS FIND IN HISTORY

London, August 11.

Dr. H J., Plenderleigh, Keeper of the British Museum

research laboratory, today described the frag ments of the 2,000-year-old Hebrew texts of the old Testament now under his scrutiny as probably the most priceless finds in biblical history.

He said that

Mr.

Lankester, Iragments. I was only after con- Harding. Curator of Antiquities siderable trial and error that wa achieved some success by ex- posing the fragments in a glass vessel with a definite percentago of humidity.

in the Kingdom of the Jordan, had asked him to examine about 150 fragments, scraped from the floor of a cave on the shores of the Dead Sea, where eight bibil- cal scrolls were discovered. two years ago.

The

Identifying them as parchment originating about 159 BC, Dr. Plenderleigh said that they are tuo, fragile to analyse immediate- ly because of their age.

hnd

been stored in

jars in desert country and had become усту brittle. The jars had been sealed with an earthenware top and fluted with what at first appear- ed to be black pitch," be enid

The preservation,

two

"Exposure 'for

about hours made it possible to turn over the leaves quite eally,

but finally the bleak stuff be- came so sticky that it was ten- possible to go further. In the end, We experimented with

tho Tragments..., In refrigerator and this did away with the

the problem of atloki. ness." Dr. Plenderleigh said that when he first started treating the fragments he ́contablad. Rutherford Gettens of the Fong of the frag- Art Museum, Cambridge, Mas

Dr.

ment depends entirely on how It sachusetts, and gave him detalls

is exposed to damp and that is on the process. He did not know

on the

four

the only way to make it sufl- how far, research clently flexible to handle scrolls in the United States had found that exposure at the gone, but he ridiculed the idea.

there had been по

A time caused the black sture) that

Mr. Churchill gets the space and attention, but he is out of office.

The

leaks golden.

1 also have to report from my Intercorched notebook a recur- recording anti-American talk in rence of dispatches from London Britain; the worst paralysis

Infantile

to

epidemie sines 1914: The decline in men's pyjama American males apparently wears sales-only one in every four

pyjamas and the tendency Sleep in the raw is growing.

Heard around town: Women would look more spick sincks If they had less span. Using atomic energy only for the atomie bomb is like using chair. electricity only for the electric

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The

whole business of the Atlantic Pact and now the Arms, Bill to implement it, seems in this None of the men who run the country-not Attles, nol · Lripps,

furnace to be a scheme to hold khosis at bay with buyonets, or not Bevin, not Morrison, not Showeross, no Bevan, not Shin-maybe pitchforks. well- can hold American listeners.

No one has beetf able to drama- tise Britain's urgency.

Most of the Labour

Cabinet

Russian Puzzle

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