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MARSHALL PLAN FOR SE ASIA UNDER

Blueprints Now Being Drawn Up In U.S.

PLAN TO BE PUT BEFORE CONGRESS NEXT YEAR

Paris, October 30.

United States experts are working on preliminary blueprints for a Marshall Plan for Asia, an American official disclosed to- day.

Early planning contemplates requests to the U.S. Congress next summer for between $1,000,000,000 and $1,250,000,000 for the first year of the programme to help halt Communism in Asio.

Smaller allotments would be requested for the next two or three years. Under present planning most of the funds would go to South East Asia.

ATOMIC TREATY POSSIBLE

comes on

announce-

The disclosure the heels of an ment by President Elpidio Quirino of the Philippines that a preliminary conference to organise a non-Commun- ist union of South East Asian countries will be called ear. ly next year.

11 comes, also, as the U.S.

state Department is faced with the mask of drawing a policy line on how far Communism will be allowed to spread in Asia.

funds voted in appropriation bills.

Helping Europe

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1943.

Birth Rate In Britain On Increase

London, October 30. Births In England And Wales in 1947 reached the highest total" for 26 years, oficial statistics revealed to- day.

With

881,026 live births, the rate was 20.5 par thou- sand to the population, but provisional figures for 1948 indicate that it fell in that year to 17.3.

Illegitimacy In 1947 con- tinued to increase. - in the same year the marriage rate rose slightly, but there were almost twice

many divorces as 1946.

The most populaṛ age for marrying was 23 for men and 21 for woman.--Reuter.

LABOUR LEADER ATTACKS RUSSIA

Cleveland, October 30,"

AMERICAN NAVY STRENGTH CUT

Washington, October 30.

The U.S. Navy said today that it is taking 77

ships out of active service.

This will cut the operating fleet by 31 warships in

"line with budget reductions.

Of the fighting ships to be put in reserve, 15 will come from the Pacific Fleet-two escort carriers, two cruisers,

BITTER

six destroyers and five sub- ELECTION

marines

By the middle of next year, the US Fleet will be made up of

Marine

that Corps

CAMPAIGN

237 combat vessels instead of the Washington, October 30. 258 it had in September. The Fleet will be reduced by fourmocrat) and Mr. John Foster Mr. Herbert Lehman (De- aircraft carriers plus the craft which support them.

Dulles (Republican), two of American's leading inter- The Navy announcement spelled nationalists, are campaigning out reductions announced earlier. bitterly against each other in It followed the disclosure the Navy and

the contest for New York's manpower will be whittled by seat in the Senate which is $4,590 men by next July 1 to coming up for election next correspond with the reduction in week. ships.

Mr. Lehman, a former Desno- cratic Governor of New York, is The Secretary of Defence, Mr. Wall Steet banker who was Louis Johnson, is aiming at a appointed by President Roosevelt thirteen billion dollar budget for to head the United Nations Re- combined US. Armed Forces in lief and Rehabilitation Adminis

tration (UNRRA) after the war. Mr. Dulles is a Wall Street was to have been lawyer who Governor Thomas Dewey's Secre tary of State if the Republicans had won last year's Presidential elections

peacetime military budget.

Pacific Fleet

4

The CIO President, Philip the fiscal year beginning next Already China and South Korea Murray, today charged that July 1. That is two and a half have been getting some aid from the work of the United Na-billion below the current record

Marshall plantions in many respects was "frustrated by the Soviet Union and the so-called pec- ple's democracies through the misuse of the veto power and Asia, the official said, would also the transformaation of inter- help meet Europe's dollar short- age. Although part of the dollars national conferences into plat- would be spent in the United forms for propaganda and States, others would go to Europe abuse." for goods to restore Asiatic i

Many of the dollars given

The breakdown in Navy cut-out on foreign policy issues. Both The election is not being fought hack orders was coincidental candidates are more or less agreed with the uproar over the dis-in supporting President Truman's missal of its top

officer, Ad-foreign policy. miral Louis E Denfeld, 森富 The Chief of Staff. ...

campaign

systern

issues over which the being fought are the In a 67-page report to the 11th

The possibility grew that other expansion of the social security Con naval officers who fought unifi-Truman, national health insur

proposed by resident dustries and agricultural produc-annual convention of the

gress of Industrial Organisations cation of American Armed Serance, Federal aid or education It was such ald, the infor here, Mr. Murray termed the vices may also be in for trouble, and the formation of a govern

tion.

mant said, that the administra-United Nations "aur best hope Today's announcement did not ment department for welfare

tor, Mr. Paul G. Hoffman, had for peace" and said that in order say how many combat vessels the services-Reuter

summer

there were 97

Lake Success, October 30. Mr. Lester Pearson, the Canadian Minister for Exter- nal Affairs, disclosed in a broadcast interview here that several delegates to the Unit- The American informant, who ed Nations General Assembly preferred not to be identified, are discussing a possible com- said present thinking of the ex- In mind when he said on Wed-to check the threats of Soviet US, would keep in the Pacific. promise on atomic control perts is along the lines of aiding would have to spend about two collective security tour Govern Aghting craft in the Pacific, 274 RAF APPOINTMENT

nesday that the United States aggression in the absence of world Last He said under that compromise chiefly South East Asia, where

billion dollars

year on-for-ment has joined with the West in the Atlantic. the ownership and operational Chinese Communists are on the

eign assistance after the end er mopean democracies in the Aunctions of the proposed inter-doorstep and where native Com-

Atlantic Pact.

Possible shifting between the national

would agency

be di-munist movements are taking en of the Marshall plan in 1952.

London, October 30. "Our foreign economic policy two Fleets during the next six minished in exchange for the new courage Bowever, the ex- Many Europeans believed he

Air Marshal Sir John Baker months makes that Marshall aid

slowly being developed in tois

uncertain any has been appointed Commander right of a continuous, and rigid perts would include some cour-meant

estimate of the size of either uries of the South Pacific, too. Europe would be inspection against violations.

continued accordance with our responsilities

in-Chief of the Middle East Air under another name.

as a world power aiming at world force by next Summer. American

Force as from February, 1950, peace and prosperity.” countries officials here are worried

place of Air Marshal Sir Wil- wha will join the

The New York Times" wrote today oday

that Government principle of change

Ste

these

Ove

in the in-this reaction and are looking for some way to correct what they

Indo-

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25 Council

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the European grumme.

Support In Congress He said

They think United States should be included. the

accepted thevitations- a more liberal ex- of atomic information

India, Pakistan, Ceylon, with Britain and Canada after

Burma, Australia, New Zea- Britain had reassured the United States that she would continue,

land, the Philippines and per-

this organization re-Press. The informant said, the ground-cognised that the basis for world hapa Indonesia and Viet Nam, work is now being laid to shift peace and stability is econtente and if possible, improve ship-

the ments of raw materials for raak-

the focus of American aid from recovery of European nations, ing the

atom babsuch

Europe to Asia. Не predicted and recalled that during the re- pranium.

Methods of achieving the freer

that the move would-wth sup-cently adjourned session of the port in Congress.

Congress the CIO.worked steadTM exchange are being studied, ac-|

"A lot of congressmen do not fastly to insure the effectiveness cording to the newspaper's dip- Er next summer, the effec- like Europeans," he said. "They of the Economic Co-operation lomatie correspondent in Washing-tiveness of Viet Nam in weaning want to do something for some Administration."--United Press,

away nationalist support One method would be for the Moscow-educated Ho Chi Minh in

dent to

negotiate a

Nearly $10,000,000,000 has been Indo-China new North

should be

appropriated so far under executive agreement with cleared. The status of the pro-system inspired by

ton, James Reston

Britain

as

French-sponsored

Chinese state.

China Issue

from

body else."

the

the former

BOATS MISSING

en on

hospital ship.--Associated

BELGIAN TROOPS LEAVE BONN

Bonn, October 30. The last Belgian occupation troops today evacuated the en- clave of Bonn, the West Germar provisional capital Bone has thus become the first Germar area to be freed from occupation farces.

and Canada that would fected new United States of In- Secretary of State, Mr. George C.

Paris, October 30 be placed before Congress.

donesia, created from the islands Marshall This American aid con-boats, with 39

Seven Breton tunny fishing Britain, the correspondent said, of the Netherlands

board, understood

East Indies, sists mostly of dellar to be in favour also may be established.

grants to were reported to be missing today The present

19 West European nations and after the storms in the Atlantic the ex-

By the time concrete planning areas. It enable war-impoverish-carly in the wees been given gian Commanding General, J.

the awkwarded countries to rebuild shattered Hope has not yet

was

of this method.

cement governing

of atomic information is necessary, too,

The Belgian Guard of Honcur at the Belgian Occupation Army Headquarters here was with- drawn this morning.

The Bel-

among the three countries and question of Nationalist China may materials they could not other trawlers were wrecked or sum quarters to Welden Junkersdorf, economies with American up. Nine other tiny boats or Piron, has moved his Head- the allocation of vital raw mater-be cleared. The yardstick will

with a loss of 19 lives-Reuter, near Cologne-Reuter,

jal comes to an end at the begin- ite the military and political suewise afford.-Associated Press. ning of January, the correspon-cess or failure of the Communists

dent said-Reiter.

HUNGER STRIKE

AT AN END

..

→

Mons, October 30,

in swallowing up the huge na-

tion and controlling it.

The basis for large scale aid to Asia was laid by the now famous point four in President

Harry Truman's inaugural address. It called for technical and financial aid to countries whose material development is not up to Western Like the Marshall

Fitty displaced persons living standards.

in Army barracks here have plan, it also calls for self-help.

ended a hunger strike which

The Marshall plan also puts

they began nine days ago, it emphasis on co-operation of the

was announced today.

Three hundred displaced

SOLS had originally joined

strike and holsted black

participating countries in putting

per their economies

the

dags

over the barracks as a sign of protest.

work having

Their two-year contracts for in Belgian coal mines ended,

the displaced per- sons demanded to be sent back .Western Germany, from

to

where they hope to emigrate to Australia or the United States.

The police had to be called last week to restore order when the displaced persons: stormed the dining room. They called off the strike after Cardinal

Bimmer,

the Bishop of Tournai, had visit ed the camp.-Reuter,

REMAINS OF CRASH VICTIMS

stable basis,

free and

Compromise Plan For New Guinea

The Hague, October, 30. The United Nations Commis- sion for Indonesia (UNCI) has made compromíse proposal on New Guinea to the dead- locked Dutch-Indonesian round table conference.

Delegates from-Holland and Indonesia on Saturday signed a provisional constitution for the future United States of Indonesia, Paris, October 30.

However, disagreement over the The bodies of the 48 victims new federation is reported to be status of New Guinea under the of the Azores air disaster are threatening the success of the lying in the tiny hamlet of entire negotiations. Algarvia on San Miguel Island Informants said the Indonesians and will be brought to the are insisting that New Guinea be island "capital" of Ponta Del-he Dutch maintained should have

included

in the federation, which gada tomorrow, Air France an- nounced here tonight.

a special status.

The UN

UN,

Wrapped in white canvas, the is understood to include a one- Commission proposal remains of the French violinist, year suspension of any final solu- Ninette Neveu, former world ton of the New Guinea problem. "middleweight champion boxer. The Dutch

delegation is reported have accepted this proposa

Marcel Cerdan, and others were

mountain tracks, which

were

to

today brought dowa precarious while the Indonesians tunded it made doubly dangerous by rain,

from where the

getliner crashed o

A de May men in Indonesia to the new federa-

the 10-

down Constellation Original plans were for the Dutch to turn over sovereignty 1 Hon in December. Only the spector General French Civil question of New Guinea appeared Aviation, is on San Miguel to be holding any threat to this Arranging for the bodies to be time-table. The conference has brought to France by sea in lead been in session since August 22- coins-Reuter.

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