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LABOUR GOVT WINS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE Tories, Liberals Abstain

ATTACK ON CHURCHILL

London, September 29. After a hectic three-day "election” debate, the Labour Govern- ment tonight won a vote of confidence in the House of Com- mons on its decision to devalue the pound. stor The vote for the government, war24 to five the negative votes being The Conservatives cast by Communists and independent Labourites ar

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arid Liberals abstained, but. the result, which was a certainty, gove approval to devaluation, to the agreements reached at the Washington conference and to the Labour Government's policy. of maintaining full employment and social services,

Mr. Winston Churchill's motion of "no confidence" was defeated 212 to 350. Mr. Anthony Eden, during the pre-vote debate, had asked the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, to come out. from "hibernation. and give the House more facts. Mr. Eden. criticised the Government for not consulting France before devaluation since the French had done so with the British last year before devaluing the franc.

Church And State In Poland

Warsaw. September 29. The Catholic Bishops of Poland have agreed after talks lasting six weeks to most of the Govern

working ment's conditions for a wo agreement with the Church, it was learned unofficially tonight.

The final meeting between the Church

and Government negotia- törs is due to take place tomor TOW

and an official announce- ment is expected shortly.

Sources to Catholic circles

flose

early end to today predicted an the two-year-old feud between the Church and State.

It is believed that the Govern ment has agreed to the continuance of religious instruction in Polish schools and 10 Auarantee the rights

Catholic. Seminaries which satisfy the legal require- The Church is understood to have given an assurance in con- nection with the Vatican excoro-

ment.

THE CHINA MAU, SATURDAY OCTOBER 1, 1948,

Vatican vs. Communism

New York, September

.

The editor-in-chief of the Vatican newspaper, ObscrvR- tore Romano, wrote in the United Nations World today that the Catholic Church's minimum requirement peace with Communism was *an ability to IVA U

ranted.

to

för

THE editor-in-chief, Count Galla, Torre, who has been for the past 24 years the co

fidant of Pops" and "Gar- dinals wrote: "The Catholic Church has never accepted and cannot accept the sub- ordination the State of human conscience

Count Galla. Torre added: "When Communism arrived, the Church was holding its] traditional place in world affairs. The trouble began when the Church found that' it had to defend itself. against "Commoniak onslaught some

He said that the Catholie Church asks from the Com. munist countries neither more for less than it asks from ether countries where separą. tion between. Church and State exists."-Bouter,

Smuts On Communism

London, September 29. South Africas Opposition leader, General Jan Smuts, de- claret in a broadcast here

*

U.S.-BRITISH COMMERCIAL RIVALRY

London, September 29, There was no need to fear political, resistance to 15. Britain entering the American market. There would only be normal commercial avalry- This was one of the points made by Mr. Aneurin Bevan, the Health Minister, when he spoke in the House of Commons, today on, the third and last day of Parliament's, emergency de bate on devaluation of the 'Pound Sterling.

There was recommition in the Mr. Attee depied, that, the man- United States, Mr. Bevan said,ner, in which, devaluation of the that the economic crisis was not Eound. had been announced.show- due to defects of the British Goved a lack of regard for the inter- ernment &

esis of Britain's European, part- Ders.

Britain had in America the un- deestandings of vay powerful-

cannot And anybody acquain- friends, not only in the commer-ted with these affairs who would cial and financial worlds but in suggest that a change in the ex- the trade union world too, Mr. change rate could have been dis- cussed at a mass meeting long ahead," he said-Reuter

Beyan declared.

Frequently thumping the table before him in the course of his. Mr. Bevan also said that speech Bir the Conservatives' campaign of denigration had made a powerful

on to Britain's exchange |

British Tories were the only people in the world who had used the present sitization to undermine the credit of their own country.

Liability Or Asset

Mr. Bevan declared that there

India Fights Communism

New Delhi, September 29. The government declared to- day that Indian Communists had "declared:fwar against the State" and "all available, re- sources will be used to combat

Labour is due to call a new sight that the Hussians had over was a little disturbance going on Red violence".

general election some time before

next summer.

The Commons adjourned tonight; the kind of a situaion that the until its regular autumn meeting opposition have described, we are a. October 18.

in," Mr. Bevan declared The

Health Minister. Mr. Aneurin Bevan, earlier accused Mr. Winston Churchill today uttering "a bloated bladder of lies" about life in a Socialist Britain.

crucial Commons Resuming a debate on Peund devaluation, the influential left wing minister 're- ferred to Churchillian statements purporting to show that the Bri- are undernourished, tish people fatigued and almost down and cut"

-I welcome this opportunity of pricking this bloated bladder of lies with the poignard of truth, he said.

Mr. Churchill leaped to his feet to protest: "I thought the other day we gave a ruling at the word lie was no more to be used about statements made in this House than was the word "liar","

Mr. Bevan said he referred to Churchillian remarks

Tede in statements to newspapers.

To Churchill's protest.

D. Clifton Speaker, Colonel Brown replied

the

1 thought the right hemour- (Bevan) was able gentleman

quoting a quotation. I do not know that he was applying the

};

played their band in the West, where

Communism was on the wane.. Denying that policies of the

Europe, he said, was resuming Socialist Government were res-its historic movement towards cur. ponsible for the financial crisis, greater nity. The present

rency and trade difficulties, which the Health Minister asserted:

"The last favourable balance were not a long-range basic pro- this blem, would disappear, he pre- of payments enjoyed by

dicted. country was in 1935.

General Smuts saw no serious "In other words we inherited at

of another war, but he bankrupt nation but we managed risk"

criticised the Soviet by the last half of 1948, for the strongly Arst time since 1935, to show a Union, whose "abuse, of the veto favourable balance of £30,000.-had, he declared, made the Unit- 000. United Press and Associated Nations largely impotent in ed Press.

ensuring world peace-Reuter.

Yugoslavia Not Asking U.N. Action

Lake Success, September 29.

inside the Conservative Party as to whether Mr Churchill was 8. liability or an asset. If his repu tation got the Conservatives once more back to power he would not -be in office long.

"They would fling him aside like a soiled glove," he claimed.

Mr. Anthony Eden, deputy leader of the Opposition, said that devaluation could not possibly be the conicera only of Britain.

"It is the intimate concern of the Commonwealth and of every single country In Western Europe", he wid. "Unless we get that fixed in our mind we are going from disaster to dis- aster" he added.

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in a White Paper issued today, the government, detailed scre of cases of Communist violence this year and said

kc Com- munist Party of India has made that in is abundantly clear... their view, democratic rights and civil liberties not only include freedom to munier, maim.

pillage and sabotage, but also exclude and- the the right of the state

prevent such activities public

It said the main Communist activities had been concentrated in West Bengal and Hyderabad. It added that in Hyderabad alone the Communists had, murtiered 400 persons in cold blood. It said the Communists thinnighout He suggested that it would be india had issued wise for: Britain to get together-tructions for the of with the Commonwealth

to guerilla bands and shock brigades Western European countries

-and evidence that their act- discuss

the

trade prospective

well-planned and ivities are sination. A new stability might eliberate is available. In their be, created to give a greater tree-

Ruth- dom of movement to trade within circulars and porphlets,

their plan, they pursting that very large area.

have carried, to death...hundreds of families all over India.

The government cannot and will not Dennit any group to preach, in- cile and organise acts of sabotage and violence."-United, Press, FEW, MALAYAN BANDITS SURRENDER

in

European reaction to the manner of the announcement had been serious. Mr. Eden continued

The French Government had in formed the Chancellor good time of their proposals to devalue the franc last year. What was

for the gander.

munication degree against willing word lie to anything the right A Yugoslav spokesman said today Yugoslavia sauce for the goose should be

Communists. This decree has not honourable gentleman said."

yet been published in Poland.

Colonel Brown's point appear-

The unofficial disclosures sug-ed to be that the Churchill state-

gest that the Government is will ing to modify or rescind recent de- Crees. not so far applied, which could seriously restrict the He of the Church-Reuter.

MACARTHUR ON JAP PRESS

Tokyo, September 20.

Douglas MacArthur said today the Japanese Press has made impressive strides" durica "toward a Press the past year which is truly free and resolutely objective."

General

ment, under discussion, was not made in the House.

the British people had become hopelessly docile, for an elector ate to endorse at the bare-box

would not ask for United Nations action in ber dispute with, Russia. · He explained that this was decided by the Belgrade govemment.

"I would be impossible, unless it was considered significant in view of Russia's renunciation of its treaty with Yugoslavia today Concerning this, the director of the Yugoslav Office of Information, Mr. Vladimir Didijer, stated::

WALLETS FOR PILGRIMS

Vatican City, September 23. The Vatican Holy Year Ofice is printing two million "Pilgrim's He said the progress of the Japanese press towards freedom Wallets, to be distributed free is "fundamental to the building to Catholics in 68 countries who of a society which is free" He will make the pilgrimage to said in a representative democracy Rome sext year. there must be "dynamic and fi- The wallet contains

"This move of the Soviet government shows how right the Yugoslav delegation to the United Nations has been in its

European co-operation means anything at all it means that the partners in it are normal-

lessly

112-

ly consulted before great firian-Kuala Lumpur, September 29.

"modest number of cial decisions of this character are

have bandits taken" Mr. Eden declared.

given "If we are going to co-operate themselves up since the announce-

Only

a

Malavan

in Western Union we cannot meresment of the surrender turpis early. y co-operate on a political level <ais month, the High Commis

and not on the economic or finan-sioner, Sir Henry Gurney, told cial level."

the Federal

ederal Legislative Council here today.

the final "Nobody supposes elimination of trouble from these dense jungle areas is going to be quick or easy," he said..

Referring to the Government's detainees, Sir Henry said: "This may seem to some people a lle unpractical and Idealistic, but it is often because some people. cannot find enough idealism in

criticism of the actions and Marshal Titomatic done to "patch up the broken plans for rehabilitation, camps for

that

Yugoslavia's solo battle with

centres upon its Braken Crockery Russia here

a seat in the campaign for

Appealing to the Prime Minis Security Council in opposition to

Observers gave ter, Mr. Cirment Attlee, to Czechoslovakia.

see -even whether something could not be behaviour of the Soviet Union chance of pulling

with only two the 2 crockery", Mr. Eden sald toward Yugoslavia. In any coup,

Votes

such a meeting could ensure that case, this move of the Soviet important. Latin American

25 little confusion as possible was government will not help the sit considered uncertain.

The success of that battle. was created by the new

range of prices, cause of peace.

reflected in

a move reported. It could also try to make use of On renunciation of the treaty,refects

Latin diple-the

opportunity

improve for mutual the Soviet Foreign Minister, MA under way among

trade. Andrei Vyshinsky, would only tell mais to oppose Byelo-Russia for

re-election the

Devaluation had created an farmed public opinion" which pilgrim's badge inscribed With reporter: "I have heard about

entirely new trade situation. to increase All were trying must be guided by a public Press. the monogram of Christ, a book it but since I have not seen the Social Council Penic, and

sales in the American market That was what the French Finance Minister meant when he spoke of "a

rate war" trade Such z statement from the French was a pretty serious one, Mr. Eden said. Winding

The

Весть

me contend

The

to

the Soviet of prayers and hymns for the full text, I do not care to corn-

seats, with Russia, bloc eas Commander Holy Year, a brief guide to Rome, ment at this sime." Supreme warned, however, that.

block of vouchers for railway The Yugoslav spokesman said Poland

of this Council and modern society the Fress is a

the Byelo-Russian

ssian place. powerful force for good or for and bus travel and entrance to moverents of Soviet troops had embers

museums, and a pilgrim's identity been taking place around the that

tor the Latir. evil.

Yugoslav borders for the last should be given card.

American group, Although there has

specu In addition, each pilgrim will three months”.

holds three seat lation that General MacArthur

*A Yugoslav government spokes-

up the debate the might use this occasion to with-fective as a gift from the Pope

man said today that Moscow's Prime Minister, Mr. Attles, at- draw the remaining restrictions a silver-bronze. Jubilee. Menal placed by the Allies on the portraying on one side the reign

renunciation of the Busso-Yugo-Jacked Mr. Winston Churchill for Japanese Press, he referred to no ing Pope and on the other the

slay treaty of 1845 "comes as trying to impugn the integrity" such action in his statement. Holy Year door of St. Peter's

surprisa" to the Belgrade gor of Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor United Press.

Basilica.-Reuter.

ernment United Press.

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