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UN DELEGATE SAYS:

CHANGE OF HEART

NEEDED FOR

IMMUNITY OF TASS ATTACKED

London, November 23.

Government

The British

an-

nounced today that it might change the law conferring diplo- malte minunity on Tass, the om- etal Soviet news agency,

The Lord Chancellor, Lord Jowilt, made the announcement In the House of Lords after Lord

Vanatlart had asked the Govern inent to curb the activities of the Task agency.

Jast A Court of Appeal ruled June that Thas had diplomatic Immunity and could not be sued

of

unsuccessful

PEACE

Lako Success, November 23, Charles Malik of Lebanon told the UN Political Committed today that the only hope for world poace is not new peace facts but a fundamon- tal change of heart by both Russia and the Western powers.

Dr. Malik said the questions of how war can be prevented, what can the United Nations do to prevent war, is a third world war inevit- able, are misleading and utterly superficial.

"It is not as though we had the situation Is that they Inve a real state of peace danger- been achieved at a frightful hu- ously shivering on the brink man and spiritual cost." Of the of war," he said. "It is rather latter he said, "There are many phases of Western We which are that we have a real state of

repulsively

Ther- materialstie. fundamental conflict and un-is a general weakening of moral rest and have had it on our hands for decades, and the supreme question is how to resolve it, how to bring about a settlement."

of

In a two-hour-long speech be- fore the Committee debating So- vlet and Western peace paci proposals, Dr. Malik quoted ex-

works from the Mark. Engels, Lenin and Stalin in contending that Communistic philosophy demands the

use of war and revolution In ali coun- tries and that the success of Communism is impossible with- -out it.

The Soviet proposes a peace

there is pact. Surely

LL track joke in all this.

for libel. The question arose be-P tensively

bel uction brought against Tuss by a former professor at Prague Uni- vercity,

Dr. Vladimir Krajina. Lord Jowilt indicated that the law might have to be changed. The Government, he said,

bad decided 10 ct up on inter-

to con departmental Committee sider and report on the question which raises matters of very con- siderable difficully interno- tional law.

He declared: "We must remem ber that

we do here that anything must be reciprocal. Until the re- port of this committee has been received and considered, it is not possible for me to make any fur- ther comment, as what is invol ved is an alteration in our exist ing law which had been cstab- lished for many years."

Referring to a recent

case in

which £4,000 damages were awarded

4

against the "Daily Worker." the British Communist Party

opwspaper to

for mer Yugoslav Minister, M. Clein Sain, Lord Vansittart Baid: "I hope

come

"One thing must be clear to Vyshinsky-the non-Communist world is by now fully awake to its dangers. If Communism be- ileves that a clash is inevitable. It must realise that the non-Cum- munlet world is not going to be caught napping.

"If a closh të coming. ns Cam- munist dogma has been teaching for 30 years, postponement will only serve both sides to prepare better. This

the frightful meaning of the present arms race.

Still Hope

"Therefore postponement has algnificance only if it is utilised to Induce those fundamental changes in position which may avert a clash.

that if M. Sain does not get his damages he w] communicato with me and I wi

Going then

into detail about the es- down to this House and propose sential nobility of the Russlan that the Daily Worker should soul, “ጾ displayed in Russian

literature and history, the dele-

be closed, as we closed it during the war for its services to Hitler. gate mid, "The hope of peace is

"We really cannot afford to set

that the Russian soul will assert

of itself."

не

♪

He added: "There is hope bo- caure Vyshinsky is not only Communist, he is also a human being and a Russian, When our

up a new privileged class. I the more universal, spiritual side therefore urge most strongly upun the Government that they should, without further loss of time, in- troduce legislation which will anpul this cynical certificate and make sure that no such brazen trick will ever be perpetrated on un again."

Soviet Organ

Lord Vanaltteri said that the "Daily Worker" was an organ of the Boviot Government

and from its inception had heavily subsoribad. "When was head of the Foreign Office

been

you do not

common

and the deep

Russian spirit get the belter

of the Rusalan rulers, there will be real prospects for peace. But as long as Comununism has the upper hand, with its doctrine of war and revolution, all peace an absolute mirage.

"One reason why sometimer whole-heartedly laugh at speel- fic points in the expoaltions of a Vyshinsky or Munulisky, or a Pavlov or an Arutiunian, is pre-

I had a good deal of informacisely because I see in the words tion on that, but need any Boaret Barvice to tall you about It," he agid.

"There

are

Or

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20,

Flood Danger In Bangkok

Bangkok, November 23, Citizens in the towar-lying arone of Bangkok waded to. wark today and care. "wars stalled 'in the stronta as tho flood waters reached a dipth of 18 inches over' one-twelth of the city.

Irrigation officials predicted that the worst flood, danger would pass within two days. -Reuter,

HOPE OF WHEAT SOLUTION

France Menaced By Threat of A General Strike

Paris, November 23.

The Communists are reported to be planning to try

generál

to drag Friday's nationwide 24-hour strike out as long as possible. The non-Communist "Workers' Force Union, which claims 100,000 members, took the initiative in calling the strike, which is expect ed to paralyse most branches of life in France. The Communist-led Gen- eral Federation of · Labour.

·(COT) has joined the strike'| with its 2,000,000 members.

to

Socialist

*W€ qources said: have learned that the Communist Chief of Staff of the CGT Intends London, November 23.

prolong the

strike beyond Grain traders here belleve | November, 23 whorever- possible,” that Britain and Australia The right wing newspapers

"Furoro"

Parisien

and

مات

labour

bre. Quality is to the cellps, still agree on Britain's pur-rahere" also said that this is the "Quantity and size dominate. chase of wheat under the In-

of the alm of Talk about demoerney, freedom | ternational Wheat Agree- teaders. and representative xovernment la ment, despite a warning of wholly Inadequate It follows

ows quota cuts by Mr. R. A. for the most part the pure form O'Neill, member of the Aus- of sheer external mach nery

tralian does not entisfy man's cravings."

Wheat Board, on Monday.

that

unless

Dr. Malik concluded with an account of the evolution of Com- mwism, the challenge of the (Mr. O'Neill said West, and an appeal to the So-Britain and India decided how much wheat they will buy this year from Australia under the Agreement they would risk having their quotas reduced).

viet to "allow the fussian pro-

ple to assert again their hidden personality,' to open up Russia to full contact with the rest of The world and to abandon its "doctrines of revolution and class struggle without toxing any of their longing and passion for 15 Wetter world."

the Western

world

can show the way in estufleute shome and scundul,

poverty, explolta- tion and

oppression, without re-

sort to social revolution

struggle

at place

on their

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But it is not thought here that Britain is in any great hurry to get the matter finally settled. Negotiations have started and are expected to continue at a reason- able pace.

the.

IWA countries have until end of the crop-year, which ends on July 31, 1950, to full their export and Import quotas.

crop-

dictatorship, it these material values proper subordinate plane Australia, as an exporting coun with mighty spiritual move-try signatory to the IWA, has

undertaken ment which will be revolutionary

sel! to

60,000,000 ind which will

bushels of wheat in draw its

cach Bul stance from the inanite richer year at Agreement prices. of Western positive Tradition If she sold the whole of that then the ressity To Commun- amount to other IWA countries at ism will vanish and the spietr.

maximum Agreement prices be which now walks the earth wit2

tore Britain had made up hor be laid forever."-United Press.

mind, then it would be "jusi too bad for Britain", one trade source said today. But it is not consi- dered certain that Australia will be able to do so.

Ludendorff

Widow Goes On Trial

Munich, November 23. The widow of Germany's first world war Chief of Staff, Field Marshal Erich Ludendorf, went on trial today before a German de-Nazification court.

con,

an

Communist French trains will stop running at 3 am. ONT (11 am. Hong | Kong Time) on Friday, and prac. tically

all other public transport will probably, be hit.. There will be no postal

only service, emergency telephone service, and most schools will be closed.

Only a minimum service will be available in hotels, and

many tood stores will shut Including bakeries, Housewives are being urged to buy two-days' suppites Thursday.

The

Bidault's Call

Minister, Prime

M. Georges Bidault, tonight onlfod for rdaaun and courage by men of

to avert all

the parties general strike. Millions of workers have plan- ned the strike as "a solemn warn- ing to profiteers, bosses and in- competent "politicians":

M. Bidault, broadcast appeal,

in a nation-wide said that tho Government had "this very day" Initiated legislation for the intro- duction of collective bargaining between employers and workers in industrial disputes.

Ho added. "Frenchmen are

protesting not against austerity

beat fraud and

but against the absence of equity. The Government is resolved to

bring

hidden capital into the country's coffers.

"France Apart

has broken with the decadence into which the flagging

her productive capacity threa tened to throw her," ho con- tinued.

IWA countries are free to sell all the wheat they from their export quotas, ot any price they can get.

But wheat sold now to Japan, for examplo, would not count against Australia's export quota, since Japan is not yet a mom. ber of the IWA.

The Japanese and German ap- plications for membership will not be considered until the Interna- tional Wheat Council's meeting next month.

Grain traders believe that The prosecution naked that she Indian and British officials have be sentenced us A major Naz! consulted here about the Austra subject to 10 years internment. tian offer of an option on 60,000,- She Is charged with attacking 000 bushels of her export quota the Jewish and Christian faiths at maximum prices, but that no in Articles and with ardently tripartite discussions between In- supporting the Nazi rulers.

dia, Australia and Britain taken place. Reuter.

Frau Ludendorff, 72, denied from the witness stand that the wan anti-Semitic or that

she rupported Adolf Hitler's aggres- sive war nima.

The aged defendant said she

PROGRESS IN

have

was not against any race, only ATOMIC TALKS

against racial pride.

Os matters of racial pride, she said, the Jews and Nazis were

used or humour resorted to, the parable or anecdote related, or the deep humanity ce 40,000 paid-up the shoer, boundless members of the Communist Party of children, or the inconsistency alike us one ego is to another.

of utter, joyless self-abandon of the spirit, certain authentic fe- tures of

free Russian of the

Noul

your

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in this country and anybody who thicks a paper can be run on 40,000 six-pences ought to have bursting forth through the Marx his head examined.'

(The "Daily Worker" claims it ist dialectie like a volcann erupt. of the earth." owned by its readers through ing from the crust of Dr. Malik added

that he voluntary subscriptions and by shares in a co-operative organisa-

"must say in all humility" that tion).

leadership of the West in gen. eral does not appear adequate to the unprecedented challenges of the age. The world desper- ately needs guidance, for it is only the voice of ponviction”and- faith that is going to save ut, he said.

of

Lord Jowitt snid: "I feel it to bo intolerable that a news agency which sets up to be a department foreign State should lose no opportunity of publishing mater

calculated to discredit His Government in-

or opponents of · Com munism and of fomenting inter- nal strife in this country.

British newspapers really can- not be expected to go on printing samples of the same old melodra- mafie nonsense about Western and Communtat

*

Lort Jowitt added: "It should not be thought that the agency will be left to carry on scurtilous activities without any check- Reuter

JAP BUYING OF GRAINS

Tokyo, November 23,-2- Japan has embarked on a world-wide grain-buying pro- gramme and hopes to got 2,000,000 tons this year. Mr Akira Yodak), chief Govarn ment trade administrator, sald today

She has placed orders with Auxirella and Iraq and is negot dating for more from them. ~ as well ha from Argentinage the United States and Canada. GA

The dose of y food-producing Jareña Nike Roma and Taiwan menna tha Jupan hins to import far more than her, pra-wor yearly average of 600,000 tons of grain,

$700,000 torje.

of wheat but as the country re- trol of her " económý

The man buy from counizion which the has trade' agroenicia.

Talk Inadequate

He praised the achievements of the Soviet, and the West, but of the former: sald," "The tragedy of

WE

"Let

us prove them liars, those who say that the French start and finish nothing. By everything 1952, when Marshall Aid ends,

we must be self-sufficient without

towering our standard of life".

As M. Bidault spoke, more than 1,000 employees of Air France at main airports serving Paris, were Orly and Le Bourget, the two preparing to vote on whether to take part in Friday's stoppage. Associated Press and Reuter,"

JEWISH LEADER'S PLAINT

London, November 23.

Dr. Israel Brodie, Chief Rabbi of the British Common- wealth, said here tonight that "the seeds of anti-Semitism have still to be plucked out of this fair land."

He was addressing the seventh annual meeting of the Council of Christians and Jews, at which Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, the Archbishop nt Canterbury, took the chair.

The resurgence

of hatred of Jews in Germany must not be Dr. Brodia sald. ignored. Dr.

The

Naxis are apparently still unrepentant, and we still hear of despicable

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agalnist the living and the dead.” Dr. Brodle said that assertive Ignorance must be replaced by

ert knowledge. expert

re. The Council. through Its machinery, could play an important rolo.

It should

continue to take ́ the lead in expressing goodwill the State of Israel as well as ad-

to

Yoiroughout its branches.]

ond

a

sympathy for people striving to rebuild and be rebulit in unprecedented circum- stances.

Israel would have to go through stern times and mistakes would be made, but "It should be re- garded with charity and romem- bered in prayers," Dr. Brodie de- clared.-Reuter.

Syrians Going To The Polls

Demascus, November 23. Syrians will go to the polls

again on Thursday to vote for 14 candidates for the Parlia mentary Constituent Assembly majorities in the general clec who had failed to obtain clear

tions on November 16

Two of the candidates will be for Damascus seats and the other 12 are scattered throughout the the general election country. on November 15 the People's Party obtained 80, out of a total of 114 seats and are expected to coalition with

RUSSIAN SECTOR CURRENCY MOVE hold power, in

tribes.

the Syrlan

Berlin, November 23. The Soviet Control Commission Tomorrow's, elections are not today transferred all foreign cur- expected to cause any political rency accounts formerly held by excitement in Syria, in Damas the Soviet Military Administra-cus, candidates, who last wock London, November 23. tion in the East German Noten- falled to obtain a poll of 40 per The Prime Minister, Clement bank to the Now East German cent of the votes cast are expect and her husband wanted to sec Frau Ludendorff said that she

Attive, told the House of Com- | Government.

ed to be elected. Once elections

ret world war, but "we cape-

The transfer was signed by are complated, the Constituent inors today that good progress revival of Germany after the

was made in the exploratory General Vassily Chulkov, Chief Assembly is expected to, meet cially did not agree with Hitler's talks on atomie energy between of the Soviet Control Commission. early in December to draw up R The sum wna not disclosed constitution for "Syria.--United polley of aggressive wars, the United States, Britain and Reuter.

Fress. sociated Press.

Canada in Washington last month.

BUNCHE AS U.S. MOSCOW ENVOY?

Philadelphia, November 29, The newspaper "Philadelphia Inquirer"

sold today that Dr. Ralph Buncho, former United Nations mediator in Palestine, is being mentioned for the post of U.S. Ambassador to Russia-As- sociated Press.

In reply to a question, Mr. Attlee said: "The conferences be- gan on September 20. Good pro- gress was reached and 'the re- sults are at present under con- sideration by the three "govern- menta, Talks will be resumed in Washington on November $28."

Pressed further with questions from the floor about specific progress made in the atomic talks, the Prime Minister said he had nothing to add.-United Press.

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