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Inspired By The Incas

THE CHINA'' MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER” 1, "1945

These youngsters from Charlerol, in the Walleen district of Belgium, are taking part in

a "Gilles de Binche parade. Their gorgeous costumes are tald to have been inspired by the ·

Into the traditional ancient Incas of South America, and to have somehow been absorbed costumes of Belgium. The children are sizing up the spectators for in their baskets they have

(AP Photo). oranges to throw to the favoured watchers

.

U.N. TO CONSIDER CHINA'S COMPLAINT

Union Praises Israel

Washington, September 29.

Lake Success, September 29.

The United Nations General Assembly today voted to include China's complaint against the Soviet Union on its agenda.

Only the Soviet group voted against the Steering Committee's recommendation to include the complaint which was carried by 45 votes to six with five abstentions.

"It may, perhaps, lead to the During the discussion, the So-:

disappearance viet Foreign Minister, M. Andrei utter

of

the

The Congress of industrial Cr- Vyshinsky accused the Chinese authority of the United Nations," ganisation's delegation. which Nationalist Government of "slan- he maintained. visited Israel carlier this year,ders, lies and distortions" against described Israel as a "bastion of

the Soviet Government. democracy in the Middle East" in a 32-page report made public today.

But the report warned that Israel requires extensive financial help in the form of gifts, loans and private investment for ex- pansion and growth.

M. Vyshinsky, as well as other opponents of the Chinese com-

Dr. T. F. Tsiang, Chinese Na-plaint, frequently used the United tionalist Government delegate, States White Paper on China as told the Assembly that China Mad the basis for their arguments. decided to bring her complaint against the Soviet Union "of her own tree choice and decision".

DON IDDON'S

DIARY

King Auto Reigns In The City Of The Angels

Los Angeles, Thursday. Here is a city which hits you in the era literally. A pestilen- tial smog shrouds the town.

It makes the eyes smart and burn. It soils the cream stucco buildings, tarnishes the acres of chromium plating.

It is the great plague of the City of Angels. And though it- creates no health problem, it puzzles and infuriates -the high- pressure city boosters that the curtain shoulpeze leur firs

į

It need not worry. A town that has appropriated · so much wealth in so short a time, amass- ed so much shipping, and been the fount of so many incredible ret-rich-quick schemes, property projects, weird religions and dizy sky-reaching reforms will certainly conquer smog.

There is no other place like this on earth. And perhaps it is as well. It is exciting. stupendous sensational -— and slightly of its head.

It is possible to eat, drink, see a movie, attend divine ser vice, cash a cheque, buy a svit, order the groceries without ever leaving the steering-wheel

Many people seem to live like that Their driving urge is to get somewhere-anywhere apparently will do quickly, and with the greatest possible danger to lite and limb of everyone, including | themselves.

The great design here is to do all things twice as fast and as Los Angeles is at the very peak

The tiny Spanish town has be-flashily as anyone else. of its theatrical career, dead cen- come a mammoth mad metropolis tre in the stage of success. where the bizarre is accepted as Everything else is going beau normal, the queer and outrageous tifully in this improbable city-as routine. The place is growing at five times

the rate of any other community. There has never been such a Fifty years ago it had a popula- staggering success story as this tion of only 100,000. Today Californias city claims: ---- from 3,500,000 people live in its spraw-rags to riches in half a century, Bag 451 square miles.

from a little arid, dozing village to wide-awake vastness, vaunting power, and, T'm sorry to say, vapid vulgarity.

Half of them own motor-cars, Almost all of them have good jobs -dollars in their pockets, bright confidence in their future.

Noise And Light

Los Angeles, the envy and des- pair of its rivals, doing more business than any other city ex- cept New York, and even begin- ning to challenge that giant, is hurt and indignant that the un- kind heavers should have sud- denly decided to shower soot and

Here

Speed, Noise

ostentation, flashiness, screaming noise, blazing light anurish and dower.

Nothing is ever done quietly or calmly.

People rarely walk.

The automobile reigns. You drive in your car to auto-restau-

dirt and taiated air on its won-rants, auto-cinemas, auto-hanks, derland.

auto-churches, auto-bars.

London's View On Yugoslavia

London, September 29.

Today's Soviet denunciation of the Soviet-Yugoslav friendship pact of 1945 was considered by observers in London to carry the cold war between Moscow and Belgrade into a new phase.

summer.

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3. Vyshinsky continuously re-l ferred to Dr. Tsiang as the "re-Official quarters in London took the view that the presentative of the Kuomintang He said that M. Vyshinsky had regime". He denounced the

action was merely one more step in the war The members of the delegation tried to insinuate that China was whole complaint as "this petti-

of nerves which hos continued throughout the CIOstigated by the United States to foggery which has been dished appointed last spring by

matter to the As-up to the Assembly" and · 25 President Philip

Murray were bring this

**That is a falsehood" "his rude and dirty provocation" Maxwell sembly. and

Mr. Tsiang said.

brought in without evidence.-- Reuter, He repeated the statement he gence and democratic spirit of had made before the Assembly's The Steering Committee, about pro Government

the Chinese-Soviet the CIO to support visions

Jacob Potoísky

re-

Brandwen The delete im-

that it was

amera with the vigour, intelli-

the Israeli

Further

of

report instantial loans" by the treaty of 1945 which, he alleged,

United States Government to the Soviet-Union-had-violated

Israel

and

pointed out that in

its first year the Israeli Govern-

has demonstrated a sense to

It declared,

mest

The Assembly was then asked the Steering Com- approve mittee's recommendation that it od responsibility" *Additional United States gov-place China's complaint against ernment loans will be an invest- the Soviet Union on its agenda. ment that is sound both in terma Both Dr. Vladimer Clementis

and Dr. of economics and of international (Czechoslovakia)

Alec goodwill."

a pioneer country in the best traditions of the United States. beginnings." Potofsky eaid the people of Israel were thinking in terms of building civilisation in the Middle East "such as never existed in our times.” :

Great Revolutions

Indian Socialist Criticism

It was defining for the

Erst

Dr. Bebler said that what was time its fourfold foreign policy happening in China was in the in a three-day Bangalore session series of the great revolutions which marked the history of India should not be influenced people such as the revolution in by "Anglo-American

political

or Britain in the 17th century and Democracy Russian Social partially

It was pointed cut that since the bitter exchange of netes be- tween Russia and Yugoslavia the treaty had in any case become a

I confess myself bewildered in

this town.

Standing under the palms at the station, the arst thing I saw was a huge blue neta sig pro- claiming "Jesus Saves."

Much Kindness

This struck me as in odd taste. Now I do not nedice it. It no longer stands out from the glit tering super-markets, the blaz- ingly lit garages and fling sta- tions, the parking-lots, the bright jungle of restaurants, bars, hotels, shops, and apartment houses.

1 am getting used to Los Angeles.

I am also getting out

The man who described it as "New York in purple shorts with its bruin knocked out" was cruel but not inaccurate.

In all of this whirligig. Los Angeles has not much time or in-

to clination think about. the British.

Again, as on all this tour, 1 have met with the greatest kind- ness and help. There are a few professional agitators, extreme radicals, and a handful of Zionists who make ungenerous' remarks about Britain. But that is all.

Los Angeles is too busy making money, too intent upon boosting and building and backslapping to bother about Britain.

The financial, conference pass- ed almost unnoticed. The econo- mic crisis does not concern the city. There are so many dollars here that it seems inconceivable that anyone anywhere should be Fshort of them.

But if there are people who need dollars Los Angeles will remained probably be among the Arst to But the inclination here to consider even this latest scatter a few in the right direc- step simply as form of mounting, tion. diplomatic pressure since it was After all, it is first in practical- still hoped that the Soviet Gov- On the other hand, many diplo-ernment realised that in the wordsly everything else. matic observers thought that with of one of its own famous states- [World copyright reserved] this step the war of nerves ap-men, Maxim Litvinov, "Peace is peared to be reaching a climax.

indivisible."

dead letter.

Observers here felt that only There were few people in Lon- one more step was now possible don today who thought a Soviet In the strictly diplomatic field-attack on Yugoslavia could fail the breaking off of diplomatic to spread into a world conflict. relations.

of

Madras, September 29.

Some commentators were not India's Socialist Party, under Jafprakash Nairain, today criti- convinced that Soviet policy to- Bebler (Yugoslavia) urged eised India's membership of the wards Yugoslavia simply con-

"short ted in all hostility "in-fisted, The members praised Israel as against admitting the complaint British Commonwealth as war".

consistent with the basic policy 2 "bulwark against encroaching to the agenda.

One concrete result of the de Communism." They called Israel

of active neutrality."

nunciation of the treaty, it was stated, was that the Soviet Union was now released from any obliga- tion to assist Yugoslavia against third party attack whether from the regular or guerilla forces of any neighbouring country.

Military Action true but create a third camp of The reference by Mr. Ernest active neutrality," the Party Bevin, the British Foreign Minis- In the course of speaking said.

ter, in his recent speech to the against the placing of the Chi-

United Nations General Assembly to the concentration of troops near Bese complaint on the agenda, It felt strongly that India H. Vyshinsky declared that the should have renounced German the Yugoslav frontier in recent "Kuomintang Government is a and Japanese reparations.

weeks was considered in London indication that the British rinking piece of flotsam." To

2x an admit the matter to the United India had not played a posi-Government did not rule out the Nations agenda would "deepen tive part in the United Nations, possibility that the Soviet Gov- the charm, increase disagree the Party said, but wanted her ernment was contemplating either ment and undermine the Unit- to retain her membership-As-direct or guerilla military action

against Marshal Tito.

The Israeli Ambassador, Eliahu the American revolution in the Democracy, both only Elath told members. of the 18th century.

delegation that he was "proud Indeed that such La report wiza produced about a country I have the honour to represent." He added that the report was out- standing because for the first social and economic analysis of his nation was under taken-inital Press.

time

a

Pakistan To Submit Formula

Lake Success, September 29.

Sir Mohammed Zafruliah Khan, Foreign Minister of Pak- istan. told Reuter today that the Pakistan Government would shortly be submitting to the Indian Government a for- mula "which should meet the main points** of the Indian Government's proposals re- garding the dispute on river waters in the Punjab.

"We hope that we might be able to come to an amicable settlement on the question," he said.!

"We have from the beginning urged that we should make every effort to come to an agree.... ment, apart from the legal rights: of each party.,

"I agreement cannot be reach.

ed by negotiation, we may take measures to have the dispute submitted to the International Court of Justice. For the moment we are still exploring the poesi- Eility of a settlement by negoti ation

"Obviously, that would be the best way in which to settle the dispute Beuter

ed Nations"

sociated Press.

PRESENTING

"

Observers in London took it for granted that East European coun tries allied with Russia would also denounce their friendship pacts with Yugoslavia.--Reuter.

BERLIN DISPUTE

Berlin, September 29.-- The anti-Communist Railway. men's Union in West Berlin ask- ed the Western Commandants to- day to order the police to again take over the railway stations in the Western sector.

A union letter to the Corn- mandants complained that eight been kidnapped workers had stace the six-weeks' which ended in July.

strike,

It declared that the railway men were "extremely nervous. about the formation of a spe cial armed security corps de scribed as a "terror organisation

a leading union" 'official Reuter,

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