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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1949.

ARAB LEAGUE Wage Claims DEFENCE CUTS MAY

CLEARS ITS FIRST HURDLE

Cairo," October 19.

The Arab League Council strode over its first hurdle this morning in the dispute touched off by Iraq on Tuesday night over the League's internal reorganisation.

It started the spadework on the main items on its

agendo.

PAKISTAN TRADE

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Iraq insisted on Tuesday night that the League's statutes amend- ments be taken up before any other item

-

This

was hotly opposed by other member States and the League's Secretary General, Az-

zam Pasaia Iraq's move was an

Azzam

attempt to delay discussion of the

political issues now facing vital London October 19.

To Be Pressed

1. Londan, October 19.

The

em.

to

main British trade

Government union.for ployees tonight refused withdraw or

Its wage reduce claims in response to the Gev crament's "work harder for the same pay" appeals •;

Mr. C. White. General Secretary of the Civil Ser- vice Clerical Association, de- clared. that the Association had no intention of withdraw- ing its claims for, more pay, The Union to claiming 15 per cent Increases for 60,000 clerical officers and equal pay for 150,000 temporary clerks, estimated to cost £10,000,000 together.Reuter.

INDIAN FOOD PROBLEM

The High Commission Teeb NIKE SIA peep toegan

A

SIRA

deadlock at the beginning of this

session,

BE INCLUDED IN ECONOMY DRIVE

London, October 19:

The possibility that the Government may be plan-

vesture

members

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TALKS ON

JAVA NEAR AGREEMENT

The Hague October 19. The round-table conférence on. Indonesia is working in com- mittee today to reach an agrée- ment on all the main points by- the cad of next week.

ning considerable defence cuts wos indicated today by a hurriedly called meeting of the Cabinet's Economic “Crisis“ Committee with the Chiefs of Staff and Service Ministers. Present at the meeting were the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. AV. Alexander, the Defence Minister, Viscount.

·Hall, First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Em- manuel Shinwell, the War Minister, and Mr. Arthur Henderson, the Air Minister. Also called to the meeting wasĮ patriotie

Today's subjects in the Econo- as Parliament should agree to a cut,mkd-Flanell CommiteekS Minister of Supply is responsible in their £1,000 a year salaries, were long leases, concessions and Licences granted by. Dutch

the for Britain's atomic research. Pakistan, Mr. Habib Ibrahim *

Indonesian Cripps Warning

Government after Earlier today. Cabinet leaders Rahimtoola, said here tonight which it is expected will char

London, October 19.

| 1942, and monetixy relations. be- that there are distinct possi- the Arab Nations' common pollerLord Bord Orr, former Diree-were strongly pressed to include

Sir Stafford Cripps tonight |tween the Netherlands and the bilities of greatly increased on the world's imies, was solvex tor-General of the United Na-defence cuts in their new economic trade between Pakistan and by a compromise agreement an- tions Food and Agricultural Or-programme when they faced a warned that Britain would face United Republic of Indonesia af-

secret meeting of the 332-strong increased inflation or new taxester the transfer of sovereignty, European countries.

nounced at the beginning of this

These relations cover, circula- thisganisation, believes it possible to Parliamentary Labour Party. Total if individual savings continue to morning's meeting.

said the raise food production in India to defence costs in this year's es drop.

tion banks and the monetary offset increase in population.timates

her

were £759,000,000-ar Speaking at a National Saving system This would solve one of her advance of about £15 per head rally, Sir Stafford reported that As the end of the conference major problems, he said.

ස් the population.

savings accounts had paid out an approaches, sub-committees was whe- This committee will report to

The great question

Mr. Átilce and the Deputy everage of £7,000,000 monthly at times, holding joint meetings to vital

Prime Minister, Mr. Herbert Mor- more than was deposited since speed up the work. the Council at the end of the curther India could get the

materials.

Surprise has been caused by rent session.

Lord Boyd Or, speaking at a risan, warned the meeting that April 1949. The Government re- The Premiers of Egypt, the Le- banon, Iraq and Hashemite Jordan Joint meeting of the East India the new economy cuts due to be jected the totalitarian way of three groups who have refused to

Association

and the Overseas announced next Monday-would forced loans to the State but de- be heard by a

with significant in- delegates of Syria,

The visiting and the

Indian Gov-be severe. But they were unclared the economy could not af- cealing

terests." This sub-committee, set. Yemen and Saudi Arabia, Tent League, said,

ford the increased purchasing ernment understand the problem avoidable if devaluation was to Karachi ahimtoola told Reuter to into session at 8 am at then they have brilliant men succeed.

resulting from savings up by the Steering Committee, power

had eventually get down to work withdrawals. ismderstood that the leaders night: "Austria has things we Egyptian Foreign Affairs Minis and

among them to tackle it

"You will remember that after a laborious selection ires, steel, paper, and try.

did not in any way commit them- like machinery. capital goods

selves to the Party on the sub- often stated that one of the vital subjects on which hearings could

factors for our recovery and for be based: Austrian manufacturers need our

ject of defence economies.

The three groups are all from leather and που

Authoritative quarters

economic independence

Celebes and say that they have jute, cotton,

that Bri that we should make large in been given no This is a very good basis for

opportunity repeatedly indicated trade.

·tain's present onerous overscas vestments in all sorts of capital take part in the conference "on my preliminary en-

are an imponnected with our the basis of equality" and allege "From quiries in Vienna I am convinced that there is scope for increased

relations between | commercial Austria and Pakistan. It may be useful to have trade missions be- tween the two countries to dis- cuss in detail the possibilities." Reuter.

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Mr. Rahimtool has just re- visit to Vienna and turned from Trieste.

He is likely to go to Berlin continuing his visits to Allied-occupied zones.

SOOD,

A French trade mission is at present in Pakistan. Others, from Belgium, Czechodievalda, Poland and Soviet Russia, have already

returned home

after

Ageing Population In West

The announcement member States agreed that Iraq's proposal be referred to a special committer.

Compromise

not

He said that he had found many of the Indian small-bolders very Intelligent. It was

the "know how they needed. but Sources close to the delega- | the materials

Iraqi Premier, tion said the

India's food problems were just Nurl E Sald Paths. - 26- as important to the whole world. cepted a compromise against a If India could raise its standard promise

other Arab er living and eliminate disease, sub- the great States would support fraq's bid he for a seat in the U.N. Trustee continent would be a great factor ship Counell.

for peace and stability in the Syria and the Lebanon have world. been in line with Iraq to fill the seat.

that

believed

Industry

was going to take and Indla

It

have our

severe econo·

defence commitments obstacle to any mies except possibly in the Ad- ministration,

Conscription.

To do that, we must save enough pay for those new capital works and if we don't, we either have to increase taxation make good the deficit or suffer inflationary pressure,

which nich

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The

sub-committee

to

that they have been "arbitrarily

as significant interests. dubbed

Representatives of these groups were being received in audience by Queen Juliana in The Hague today.

"The present quiet prelude to the climax of the conference is A bringing a crop of rumourt. report that the Dutch Govern- ment had decided to approach the U.S. State Department in connection with the situation In East Java had been authorita- tively denied.

this report, "Nieuwe Rotter- Courant" said: "It may

If the Government decides to forces prices up and so destroys At this morning's session, the people off the land

the agendast not have very little small-cat defence costs materially-and the effect of all our efforts"

are completely

export programme, he delegates. approved

holdings. With new land, India official quarters

reduce the including the Palestine question, had to have either large Govern- silent on this point-it would be pointed out, would Jerusalem's internationalization, ment farms OT co-operative widely interpreted as showing supply of goods available on the refugees, Libya and the

cofarms. He hoped that the un- how ruthless it considers the pre-home market.

to He said: "It is essential that ordinated Arab policy in the UN. fortunate division between Pakis- sent economy cut must be

spending power should fall The conference appointed com-

tan and India would be healed. prove effective. The presence

of the Labour the same time as the supply of mittees to study and report on

Sir John Woodhead, Chair

George Isaacs, in goods, or else we shall merely in- Minister, each of these topics

man of the Bengal Famine in-

dangerous inflationary the quiry, said that India's food the defence talks today is inter-crease

and United damsche

The Council adjourned til October 22.

Paris, October 19. The United States has 23,000,-

The important political com- 000 disabled people, including mitter, comprising all member 750,000 with missing limbs, Dr. States is due to meet on Thurs- Howard Rusk, the United States day to start study of the details issues-Associated medical rehabilitation expert; of political

Press said here today.

·

In both. Britain and America

* are living in an ageing

population," he told the Anglo- American Press Association.

from heart

In the United States, sufferers diseases numbered 10,000,000, arthritis 7,000,000, in

CEREMONY IN RED SQUARE

Moscow, October 19. The ashes of Marshal Feodor Tolbukhin the Russian wartime

some

be

and

FRANCO VISIT TO PORTUGAL

at

be assumed that recent develop- ments in Java and Sumatra. have been reported to the Netherlands Embassy in the United States and that the Dutch Ambassador has passed on all details about Com munist infiltration to the in- terested American authorities " Reuter,

problem

must he attacked preted by some quarters es mean-pressure."Reuter vigorously on all fronts.

ing that the future of conscrip- Press.

is The small size of the average tion was discussed. The issue farm was one of her greatest closely linked with the question difficulties. Until sou

solution of industrial manpower. had been found by increased, insist that there

which the Speculative reports continue to Cabinet split mit could farm unit there was the risk that the in-over the cuts programme wrease production would not be Government changes have been

predicted it so great as was required.

agreement is not

Madrid, October 19. General Francisco Franco's If one could get cultivators to

reached.

Portugal this Ministers named as likely to official visit to join together and pool their land

bere to to cultivate larger holdings as resist the severity of cuts in their week-end is expected

departments include the strengthen both the Spanish and joint units, India had greater own

Health Minister, Mr. Aneurin Portuguese regimes.

The Caudillo will probably Bevan, who is responsible for the

London, October 19. £260,000,000 a year health ser- leave Madrid with Dona Carmen

Mr. Arthur Bottomley, the vices.

Franco and their daughter, Car-

Overseas Trade, Secretary The overall "rich and poor men, by road tomorrow for Vigold Parliament today that the cradle to Krave" social services Spanish West coast port near involve an annual expenditure of the Portuguese frontier. between £800,000,000 and £900,- 000,000.

fantile paralysis 400,000 and ner-commander on the Ukraine front, possibilities, he said.-Reuter.

vous disorders 400,000.

were buried in Moscow's famous full these dis- Red Square Dr. Rusk said that

today with abled people must be employed military honours.

Several thousand people stood

to the maximum of their physi-

cal capacities, even beyond the silently as a procession made its age of 65. "Recent surveys have way from the shown

that

disabled

spid.

Dr. Rusk was

enthusiastic

American Aid Must Continue

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Philadelphia, October 18, The Economic Co-operation Ad- ministration administrator, Mr.

Big Sum

RUSSIAN ORDERS IN BRITAIN

for

Soviet Union was expected to

There they will join the Spanish place more orders in Eritain ide engineering goods and other pro- cruiser which will take them to dusts and to continue to buy raw

materials in the sterling area. whether Though it had not so far been formal trade

on Saturday. Lisbon

Opinion is divided General Franco is likely to meet Any cuts in these services - Don Juan of Bourbon, the Spanish conditions for a

of benefits Pretender, who is now staying at

to agree on certain basic

House of Trade workers Unions, where the tastes had been make excellent workers with a lying in state, guarded by Polit

members he bureau

and Army high production capacity,"

leaders.

In the guard of hooour were M Vyacheslav Molotov, former about long-range medical plan- Foreign Minister, and Marshal ning for limb-less people that he sander Vassilevsk, the Minis-Paul Hoffman, predicted today volving a reduction

that America must continue to would arouse

a labour extery. Estoril, near Lisbon, Some at agreement, he had informed the Soviet trade delegation that the saw during a recent tour eter of the Armed Forces-Reuter spend at least US$2,000,000,000 But severe trimming of costs may archists think that Don Juan may British Government welcomed the land and Austria. "Nine voca-

himmel! year on foreign

from Extoril prospects of these purchases and tional training schools have been

jects for new schools, hospitals, during General Franco's visit-attached importance to continues Marshall Plan ends, even after the be possible on constructional pro-absent

health centres and other public Reuter,

| trade--Reuter. buildings.

built in Poland in 18 months 27-year-old legless Polish sur

he said.

geon who operated from an arm- He said that a children's hos-chair, was one of the finest he pital near Warsaw, directed by a had seen-Reuter.

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The forecast was made in speech before the Fennsylvania State Chamber of Commerce.

Mr. Hoffman said; "Foreign aidi should be reduced as rapidly as possible and ECA aid should be terminated on its due date, June 30, 1952.

But even with ECA liquidated, expenditures for foreign I doubt aid can be held below US$2,000,- 000,000 annually."

He said that that was not be- cause the Marshall Plan is failing but because special situations throughout the world will call for American financial support Associated Press.

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There is as yet no official hint of the total capital which likely to be involved in the Government cuts though" some

speculative reports suggest £400,000,000.

One idea, said to have been considered by the Cabinet, was à cut in the salaries of. Ministers.

HUNGARY MINING

HER FRONTIER

Budapest, October 19,

The Prime Minister and law Hungary officially acknowledged today that it

officers receive £10,000 each a) year and other Cabinet and Cabi- net-ranking Ministers £5,000.

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sent into Hungary by their Im- This smuggling of human be perialist employers and to prevent ings, the Hungarian note mair "similar characters escaping from mained; was carried on with the Hungary."

help of American These disclosures were made in "sometimes with the knowledg a note sent by the Hungarian and consent of Austrian authorit Parliament to the Austrian Gov-les."

ernment requesting Vienna's co- operation la preventing illegal border crossings between the two countries.

*

the note was a reply to a com-

plaint from Austria that" Hun- garian "security measures" pn the frontier were endangering Aus trian lives.

agents and

The Hungarians also com plained that Austrian frontie quards had driven cattle from Austrian soil towards the bor der to damage the fences of the frontier and blow: vi mincz

In other cases, the Hungaria nole added, Austrian frontie guards blew up the mines b The Hungarian note added that throwing stones or detonatio "special reasons" compelled these them with long sleks. ineasures.

It requested the Austrian Gov It said that "smugglers, spies ernment to put an end to the "ex and. Fascists sent to Hungary by cess of Fascists and spies" and t their Imperialist employers at "fight these elements as energe tempted to penetrate Hungarian tically as the Hungarian Govern soli in masses and similar charac- ment does.Associated Press.

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