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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER. 28, 1949.

FRENCH READY FOR UGYE ŞILOR

EMERGENCY ON THE TONKIN BORDER

WARD CASE HANDLING ATTACKED

Washington, November 24.

members of Five Republican the line of Representatives For- Affairs Committee today Figo denounced the State Department's handling of the Angus Ward case Trumillating musi ***

Saigon, November 24.

Tho French High Commissioner for Indo-China, M. Leon Pignon, said today that French troops will fight any attempt by Chinose Communists to pierce Indo-China's border.

M. Pignon told newsmen, however, that he does not think the Communists would risk invading the frontier for fear that such an action could start a general war.

He asserted that French for

are ready, nevertheless, for any emergency.

ces

Observers claim that French troops would be able to hold off Big reinforcements 2021 Invasion

troops, planes and mechanised chapters in American diplomatie ( equipment have reached Indo- history

LA

In joint statement, the legs- lators demanded that President Harry Truum inusedistely dis- charge all State Department off- etals responsible for what they called the Departinem s

Humbers

les peformance

The fler

Congress partiently criticised the fact that State Department could

the not protect the life of one of its without appealing for help to 30 other nations

HWI

In their attentent today, ter Republicans declared

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the loss of face by the Unit ed States is beyond calrulation. The Department's ection was only the cutanation

pleus tul

Ward's

Vent

Laporter

with the Chinese Communists to ol

While Jam Mi die prestige and dignity of the #ted States daily

the eyes at the st Wotic

Thu state

kap Representatives Robert B Chipre - M Vorys Illinois. John

Walter

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the

Siginal

of Oh, Lawrence B South of Jandel <l E Wistuna, Minnesota and Danaid 1. dock-

on of Coliforma.

said in pat Then latement "Firm

action taken months ago would have achieve the results The failure to take soch desired

an unly are by-product of Chine the meredibly botels!

Government whirl poley hac followed for The last Inut

yours.

yeaks belojë

the

"It will he United States recovers from the Department's spineless perform sture in the Ward cases

sturi

"President Hany Tuman cowith make no more pavimDISBEL toward abortening the palty of these years than by administer- Hug a the dough isonase-cleaning in byes redhead faciņiky "

"Only Move"

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mis

"'No.

now

Mr. Juda, who

for in China :tonary youre before he was elected to Congress, told a oporter;

can be done thing much short of military action to pre- the Chinese Communists from committing similar regas

vent

China In the past few months.

M Pignon said that if there attacks, France were persistent would nopeal to the United Nu- Lions

French circles anve wal that the lack of agreement among the democrație

powers would te interpreted us

show of weak-

ess in this area and would prove a great temptation to the Chinese Reds to grab the rich, productive

and of South East Asic

M Bignon raid such i METIJA – on could prove dangerous fur India, which needs. South ESL Asio's re

Serious Crisie M I' cited the Much ageement with the former Em- state of Vit Nam.m whil Fine is pledged to defend the Turkmese

peror Bac

Fanardher

Dul's

ziew

Chinese Comunyuunista. They would be most embarrassed by

such a situation There is anuch anxiety in their ranks over this matter

"There

are very important cards Di Ho Chi Minh to play." M. Pignon declared

"The Viet Minh would ing the Chilnesc a powerful but danger- Dus ally. I do not think the Viet Names will be willing to accept LE position the satelite China,--Associated Press

Campaign For Enosis In Cyprus

of

Nicosia, November 24. memorandum demanding Cyprus with

anion

A

The Greece

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bradeci

The Bri-

People of Cyprus accuse

ฟ ![ was today United Nations General Assen- oly and Security Council by for Cyprio mayors and seven lett wing gainsations. Chi

Among

the hackers Uj LI memorandum, claimed to be on behalf of "the vast majority of the people of Cyprus." were the AKEL Communist Party and the Pan-Cyprint Labour Federation.

Leftist newspapers its Cyprus today announced the beginning of continuous mod hetive rat: • jgn by lett wing Cypriots for Konsts (unon with Greece),

The memorarichat has also been went to the Foreign Ministries of

Me cellmated that the nce Rode will be on the fron hier of Tonkin In

China's within Kwangtung province month or less, "We are reaching a moment of

Merkat ettsta very

not only fo South East Asia but for the en- the world," M Pignon saud

Invasion Unlikely

He does not expect a full dres invasion, but thinks tužbitratuai will be the likeliest Commumist turtle.

Asked what he thinks will be the role of Hu Chi Minh's Na- tionalist troops now fighting the French-should the Chinese - vade, M. Pignon said:

"I do not

VIC know if the Minh will Join forces with the

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.

United Nations members, 441 trade unions and to several British Members of Parliament,

Meetings have been called by the signatories for December 4 k take place in the main towns and Inter In all villages "te in

Erurals systematic augurate cher gapigo Reuter.

Chinese Long Trek

Across Himalayas

Karachi, November 24.

many Several hundred Chinese Nationalist soldiers and civilians with children trokked across the 15,000-foot high passes of the Himalayas to Pakistan before winter snows and Chinese Communist guards soaled the escape route. Among the refugees from but their continued presence in Pakistan is embarrassing the the Communist sweep into Western China were five Na-Government. tionalist generals who fled

out.

"Out only move Fatow 1.4 to blockade their ports unlit they recognise rivilised customs

Like vivilised

behave

ments,

Mr. Jucid said.

aud

govern-

Asked to elaborate on what he and his GOP colleagues menat by "firm action," as mentioned in their stalement, Mr. Judd said: the ago when 1 year Reds first came into

Manchuria, the before they had victory in bag, we should have told them, these peopic 'cluser you allow (such as Mr. Ward; to come out or we will move troops in and slop you from taking other areas where Americans are."

If we had put U.S. Marines In Tientsin and Peiping to pro- legt American citizens and con- sulates, the Communists could not have got farther South than and could not the Great Wall have captured China.

"Instead, we withdrew almost

in a panic, which was interpreted In Chine and universally in Asia

meaning that

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113

the

United Stutes was putting is til be- tween its legs and running.

It was an imominous sneak- Ing off the battlefield. It was on Invitation to insult Americans and twist our tails."-Associated *Press.

Bonn Reaction To Protocol

(Continued From Paps 11

Permission': lo build six, bigger and taster freighters is felt to be

a very limited exception.

The lists of plants reprieved from dismantling will probably borogarded by German publie opinion generally us Dr. Aden- auer's principal gain.

•

- It means that some of the most valuable steel plants in Germany will be preserved; and that Ger- Amany will retain v

what

15' lott of her synthetic oil capacity.

Among reprieved steel plants, besides the famous August-Thy- ssen works now, reduced to 15 por cent of the original annual capacity of 2,000,000 tons,

several medera

and Duisburg

Care

a works at Bochum

«The biggest specialised works for hardened steels, the Deutsche Edelstahlwerka in Krefold, are included.

The reprieve of the Bayor Chemical Works la of crucial in portance for German cheintal renderchester,

mountains before Sinklang Province was overrun at the end of last month.

on

ours

General Wang Kung-an, one

that

DON IDDON'S

DIARY

U.S. Lesson For The

From, whore I sit Britain's Con- servatives look liko America's Republicans. They sound like "mo

too" men-blurred carban copies of the original.

Mr. Eden begins to resemble. Dewey-neal, precise, and proper, but most unexciting-and the party trudges wearily, like the red Republican Elephant.

Mr.

Americans say this in no way to win an

election, and they should know,

Re- Each Umno

the polis publicans have gone to in the last three national elections they have appealed to the voters with a programme similar to that of the Democrats. They

lost,

have

No Victory March

The song "We Can Do It Better Than They Can" got them no- where, and wound up by being a

The dirge.

heard people had that lune before, arut preferred the original composer and the Arst-run company" and band.

Tow

None of the Tory statements during the past

days, not even Mr. Churchill's protestations and proclamations, sounds like a victory march to American cars.

The Impression here is that the Conservatives are toiling vulte-sne, and if they have no- thing more vital and challenging than Inst week's to pronounce

shadow talk they are due for an other besting.

Lord Benverbrook's saxophone solo is considered a sprightly and stimulating effort; but the Ameri- can bellet is that he disagreas with the conductor, and may al time hire his own hall and any stage a rival show.

Nothing has happened to cop- vince Americans that the Torles have hit upon a success formula. There seem to be no burning is- sues, no bluzing crusade to light up the people.

The spark is lacking, the per- bunalities are mediocre, and the duli, Perhaps the Con- neure servativca should study Mr.

Truman's technique and forget about Dewey.

They need to bellow a depart from the Carlton

little.

Club

vies

Events on the American homo-1 The egotism of theatrical pro- Flor- front have been much more an- pie is really wonderful. imating. The conviction of 11 once said: "Have you down over Communist leaders for conspiring specially to see our film?" I said:

have to advocato the violent

boen over-"No,

here 13 throw of the United States Gov-years." ernment has started A rational

debate.

Both March and his wife ana talented, literate, charming peo- ple. The film "Christopher Col- umbus" does not give them abun- dant opportunity for tho exerciso

talents. of their

However, it should make money for J. Ar- thur Bank and Britain, group

To an Englishman the fuss and We handle fury reem excessiva. these affairs much better at Bow- streat

By finding this drab guilty of such a massive charge The court has magnified their im- portance and potentiality out of This sorry lot of all proportion. Communista could not overturn a jug of water, let alone all Wash ington. Their muscles are not

the job.

up

One result of the "Guilty" verdict has been to indama pub- lic hysteria over the Red Menace. Once again apoplexy seizes the rich man, and his condition is made worse by all sorts of lud:- crous statements by naval officers about the atom bomb.

It now appears that the bomb not much more dangerous than a tennis ball, Latest experts ap- parently consider it about lethal as a lollypop.

to

They are willing to stand close well, 6,50011. away.......while it is exploded,

This devaluation of the bomb comes a little too soon after the news that Russia pon.

has

the won

Changed Doys

When it was a sole Americai. possession, completely copyright and with reproduction in part o

whole

strictly forbidden, the bomb was devastating. It could blow up all New York, It could stand skyscrapers on their heads,

make the Grand and

Canyon look like a golf hole or a billiards pocket.

Americans think it strangu that it should have been left to a to make British company the film of the discovery the Americas. Bul they of

and flattered pleased вост

March and his by the result. wife have come back from Eng- land impressed by our strict law of libel, the brains and vigour of the country,

stalwart end the qualities of the plain people,

Sadler's Wella The amazing Ballet gets new applause every day. Night after night the Me- tropolitan Opera House is jam- med.

The critics are humble and en their kneca. They ask why American ballet cannot be of the same superb standard as Sadler's Wells.

Pronounced Snag

пле

tha!

Audiences

puzzled Moira Shearer, the star of the im "The Red Shoes," has not been given headline billing here, or star roles. She is known to millions of Americans for her work in "The Red Shoes," but her name has not been exploited at all.

The

***The

There are rumours that she la

In being kept the background This for company discipline." is stupid. She is a great star. Her name should be in lights,

Terence Rattigan plays Version" and Browsing "Harlequinade" got a fair recep- But now who, it's just an old tion hero. They are not consi- potato.

dered Mr. Rattigan at his best.

Footnote for Conservatīvas: Remember the "E" in Thomas E. Dewey didn't stand for election.

Myself, 1 reserve Judgment. Discussion, anyway, seems out of American place in this golden autumn.

BOTA'

ao

You would like New York just The Indian Summer has departed, and Manhattan

Women have enchanted island. Indignation?

smarter or looked never been phrase-

mare beautiful.

and set up shop at street corners.

Where are the fervour and the age und the hot Al where makers

the аго

They won't blow the Socialleis out of umce with a Republican- type pop-gun. All they will get is a nasty powder burn.

Peking's Imagination Runs Riot

San Francisco, November 24,

Thousands of five-star na- tional flags flew over Macao on November 20 when 200,000

Publicity Missed

Jacques Fath of Paris han sold them something called "wearable glamour." and the Fath Look has displaced Christian Dior's New Look.

Elicen Travis could tell 11 bet ter, but I understand the Folh

Look leaves women's

Agures alone, avoids excessive elegance, and concentrates on perfection at line and novel decorative detail. The only snag seems to be that Fath is pronounced "Fat," with- out the pitch, which may cause some sales resistance.

Colour has put peacock plum-

the American age on

girl, and

The dow,

newest shades are mea midonstope, bisque,

and brandy. But none of them com- pares with the glory of the trees and the leaf-strewn paths in Cen- tral Park.

over the nearly impassable of the five Nationalist generals | Chinese residents in the city to foc, has already loft Karachi held a combined celebration on his way to Hong Kong to for the founding of the People's shock shades are appearing in

Generalleelmo ro join

Chiang Republic of China and the furs, petticoats, and luggage. Kal-shak.

liberation of Kwangtung pro- The refugees-except about 50 Three others are expected to vince, the Peking radio said who have reached Karachi

Iollow hin soon.

An Interpreter their way out to rejoin the Na-

today. attached. to

The broadcast said that more tionalist forces are held up in these generals today denied rum-

citizens in here the tiny irontier town of Glight,

their departure thun 2,000 Chinese

message of now cut off from the rest of the

was delayed because they were Macao drafted A country by giant snow drifts.

carrying over 100 pounds weight rings to. Mao Tse-tung and Chu Tch, pledging to They

dimculties are causing because food stocks are only big export permits. cnough to feed the local po- "Gold pulation.

soon as aircraft are avail-stated, As able they will be down out to Peshawar to continue their Journey to Karachi.

Another

In gold bars and could not get "gupport the people's liberation sperous and full of good will.

not so easy to obtain in China as people imagine," he

war and strive for the building up of our motherland." "T

The city la radiant and pro-

Heard around town: Summing- up of the British political altun-

ไท tion-Cripps eclipse. The Navy-Air Force brawl shows that American admirals believe the only thing the latest bombers will hit is the taxpayer.

"Despite obstructions put up by the Portuguese authorities, the The Afth general, the Moslam Chinese people in Macno man- Commander Ma,, has asked the aged to place the portrait of Saudi Arablan Government, for Chairman Mao Tse-tung in front difficulty for the permission to join hia uncle, of the building of the Chinese Will Earn Money Pakistan Government is the In-General Ma Pu-feng, who resign Chamber of Commerce. Macao ability of many of the refugees ed as the Commander-in-Chief|ritizens also donated more than to pay for their passages back of China's North West area $2,000,000 in Portuguese currency 'I had supper this week with to Nationalist China.

wife. They can- carlier this year and went on the in their gift campaign', for the Fredric March and his not be forced to return over the traditional pilgrimage to Mecca People's Liberation Army," the Florence Eldridge, after the pro-

mountains in the teeth of winter,Reuter

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