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'New Year Honours List:

MR. ALEXANDER, DEFENCE MINISTER, RECEIVES VISCOUNTCY FROM KING

London, January 2.

The big surprise of the New Year Honours' List, published today, was a

Viscountcy for the Defence Minister, Mr. Albort Alexander. Despite his elevotion to the House of Lords, Mr. Alexander will continue in

his present Cabinet job-ot least until the general election this year.. In a strongly political list of awards, four other Labour Member of Par- This will couse fivo Parliamentary by- liament woro made Peors. elections-unless the Prime Minister, Mr. Clemont Attloc, decided to hold a general election soon.

No relief from dollar

crisis seen

meriketak

New York Jatoiary 1 Many American yeat-end surveys farve pre cheted that 1930 will bring no relief from the sterling area's dullar crisis

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Me Bobest William Urquhart, British Consul-General at Shang- knighthood, redvedi 11 Krought Commander of the British Gapore

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Other awards of interest to the Par Eaut are Componius of the

Mabel raci

Mi John Henry Geoage MCT

Managing Duck Tes Jadon Matheson & Company

Comtrasuley of the prey of the

Ab Wit (Barbanda Pampare (PRE)

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soleil on Clara, Mr Thomas Hich- naeus Rovell (Duector of Eura

ismat Krvnt)

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The AL

71-year-old Madama Adelinb Genes, famous as a ballet dan.

Loaner car since 1897.

decora. tions are bastowed on 87 other

women.

Trade Union leaders life also

Vincent honoured Mr.

Towson, firesal Secretary of the Trades Toon Congress, becomes a Knight, in has CHE goes to the former Publicity thief. Ma Herbert

the

Mr Hobert Birley, Headmaster

Eton, is decorated withi OMG to his work as riucational ants Prest

10 Western Germany.

Field Marshol Sir William Slim, hero of Burma and Chief of the langes in General Staff, is made a Koight Grand Cross of the Order

Cater f thur Oster Both Erojure (OBE) bet Frank bn, 201

"I'LAND UNETK Mr. William learn t

Jarun, Hav karas, Bastech subject in

Mi

Terrace. Thomas Burceing of Works and Services is the Pas Past Ah Lo Man win, feus awards for musicians Leon

pastries and the sultrators them of E and Le, for putille services, 10 Но Конк

MBE awards

Member of the

Et Barth

Tabule paid to the Arts in

Goossens and Lionel Tertis, who

THE

ESDAY, JANUARY 8, 1080.

MR, A. V, ALEXANDER

WORLD'S WELCOME TO 1950

New York, January 1. Three-quarters of a million New Yorkers jammed Times Square to roar a welcome to 1950.

of

A ghted ball on top of the tower of the New York ""Times" building fell at the stroke midnight, Mules of ticker tope and paper floated down on their heads from skyscrapers fronting the Square and along Broadway.

Night clubs and enbareta

had

full houses despite their prices,

Diners

ut the

swankiest

were

charged $25 for dinner and en tertainment. Drinks were extra.

Global review of U.S. foreign policy expected shortly

Washington, January 1.

A global review of United States foreign policy will ♫

be asked from the Secretary of Stato, Mr. Doan 'Acheson, in the near future. Chairman Tom Corinally, Democrat of Texrs, told o reporter he would suggest to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee at its first meet- ing ofter Congress convenes on Tuesday that it Invite Mr. Acheson to an early closed door session.

The Secretary of State, review- ing his stewardship for Senators, could be expected to duplicato the report for the House Foreign Affairs Committee,

There are indications that Mi. Acheson will face sharp ques. tloning about Asiatic policles, the course this country intends to follow in dealing with Israel, the possible resumption of full M-

with plomatic relations

Spals, and the extent to which the US.

nay aid Tito's Yugoslav govern-

ment.

The China question will be popping.

Dr. Malan's New Year

message

Johannesburg, December 31.

Dr. Daniel Malan,

South African Prime Minister, said in a New Year message broadcast tonight that Communism and anti-Communism at the open- Re-ing of the country's second half stand opposed to rach other more fully bofore.

༣

Senator Edward Martin, publican of Pennsylvania, anid in a statement that the Truman' administration is close to recogni- tion of Communist China.

Senators Arthur Vandenberg, Republican of Michigan, acut Connally have called for cuta in

armed than

ever

He Bald, "The present world situation seems to offer scants ground for hopes", and welded, "The universal world organisation established for the specific pur- foreign spending. There are In-

pose of maintaining sind ensuring Marshall

plan dications that

world peace is not only standing Innk respectively KITOOR the

funds for the 1950-51 fiscal year by in impotence but is continually will be trimmed about one bli-ecupying itself with an unjusti- world's greatest vjoin players.

lion dollars below the actors Lestle Banks und Donald

current tied and intolerable interference Wolft, and artists Stanley Spen-

year's outinys.

In the domestic affairs of its eer and Charles Gliner.

A hot Senate fight is in spect on the issue of

pra-member states; thereby assisting pire (MBE)

approving to bring discredit upon itself and The King has given the Beltints Third Secretary at the Empire Medal to Young.

the International Trade Organi hastening towards its own end Miss Elizabeth Mr. Huline. British Embassy, Nanking:

which 53-year-old pottery provided an old fashioned milk wallon agreement,

wagon in its parking area to sup- been submitted to both Houses. Au Kwok

clerk leung. cler In the worker, who mukes more than

Government Barvice: 1,000 teapot lids

ply cold milk to celebrants who Republicans may make this the ноли копа Mr Ujager Sin

drank too deeply. Executive in A

in 53 years with the same Arm Officer, Hong Kong: Miss Bybl has made 16 million, Mary Swift, Education Depart-

Mr. Kong; mem Hong

ing Fan, Clerical Omper,

ment.

Mr

Singh,

British Em- Edward

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every day

and

Many awards go to Malnya n W the Honours List. Those honoured Hong

by the King include Mr. Patrick Bruce

McKerron,

Kong: Miss Maud Ward, Nether-Alexander

sole Hospital, Hong Kong. King's Police Medal - Mr. Ken- Testabo's ereditary nets Andrew Ritmead Some

Hard Mr micrond sell part of the sterling | Geoffrey Wilson, both Asustaval balances at cul sates to oblato

Commissioners of Police, Hung According to authorities

dalous

Bram

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The tal rate of $289

Speculator in Europeint mar-

Kar Kris ide

to buy

gods Tarifs the moon for sterling and ship them to rise (nited States i chester price I olara

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Today S Home Lest way the VIS Fergh. 27th of King George The principal awards are one Vis- cutites, five Baronies and there Puvy Councillors A large number

new Knights were created The pay of today's List is that | in past vrats Mi Alexander has [been wremely tipped by political

a Peerage starulator's frag year one toned him,

The turp new Mountbers of the Commerce recently advocated a Puvy Couned, the solert body of constructive i organisation of statesinen appointed by the King the frozen British balancer

The United States Council of the International Chamber of

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sterling

Thus

study Sh Rinald Campbell, Ambassar

A bankers recommended

д

to advise him on high Issues, are

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Colonial Secretary, Singapore,

n

who is created

Knight Com- mmander of the Order of the Bri. tish Empire Ms. Arthur Vincent Asto

Resiml Astop.

Commissioner, Penang, becomes a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St George. Reuter,

Condition of Jannings grave

as very grave.

Mr. Jannings has been suffer-

to appt. Atr

Hollowar cash payment shared equally until recently Master of Labour by

Inflammation of the And tfc United Australia, and Mi Don Stephen ¦ Ing frotn Slates of 30 per cent of these

Senanayak**. Prime Minister of kidneys with complications for halantes and the funding of the renininder.

Proposal supported

L'es bon

The leas luxurius spote charg-

hat thrown in.

ever

$7.50 for dinner with a novelty One night club

Point four plan

has

basis for an attack on the admi- nistration's handling of the rock- St. Patrick's Catholle Catheprocal trade programme, re dral in New York held n Mid-newed by Congress last year. night Mass celebrated by

Car- Francis Spellman, dinal

Archi- bishop of New York-the first New Year's Eve Midnight Mass celebrated there-to Divine Blessing for the 1950 Holy Year.

London, the biggest crowds since the war thronged Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square to usher In 1950 with sirens, songs and cheers. Chur- ches overflowed And many people wars turned away from midnight servicon.

other capitals

In

by

dents were:

his

President Harry Truman's ex- aspected renewal in his personally delivered state of union message "Point on Wednesday of Four" proposals for aid to the world's backward certain to require stout by Mr. Acheson.

correspon-

arens

Seeme

defence

as a greater failure than the old League of Nations could ever have been said 10,

of

"Our only hope, therefore, seems necessarily to be vested in the only alternative, namely, the

the insanity obviousness of war, the fundamental sunity of

educated the human race, experience, and the co-operation with each other of like-minded

world."-Bleuler. nations of the

A

GRUESOME TRAGEDY KILLS FIVE

by

Lutte, Montana, January 1.

Lorraine 21-year-old girl, Knupp, shot dead her mother, her aged seven, and two of "sister,

her brothers at their home, then committed suicide,

The

WBK

Senator Eugene Millikin of Colorado, who heads the confe rence of all Republican senators which meets on Tuesday, told reporter that he intends to fight by Reuter

the "Paint Four" programme.

Senator Millkin sald the pro-

boys were aged 12 and Paris: Parisians celebrated posal for government guarantees

three. The tragedy was discover- Vienna, January 1.

quietly. There were no special of American investments abroad ed by two other boys when they The condition of the veteran decorations, lighting effects, bells would "follow the false

theory returned to

the house from a and screen star. Emilor sirens to herald the New Year. that you can industrialise with a

neighbouring home. The father Stage

For people the tradit Jannings. was described today

traditional checkbook a nation that hos no most

working meanwhile in a celebrated pri-industrial skills

copper mine here. by Dr. Brandstetter, his doctor, revellion" was

"If the foreign governments in-

Lorraine used a 22 calibre rific. vately in their own homes.

Valtean

volved would demonstrate Three thousand City:

the The hoys were killed instantly. Holy Year pilgrims attended New Atability of Investments in their The others died later in hospital. Year's Muss, celebrated by the countries, private Amoricon cap- The surviving brothers told re- ital would rush in and there porters that Lorraine had been Pope this morning in the Bene.

would be no need of U. S. brooding and dietine Hall.

The Pope, carried Into the Halt guarantees," he said. Associated lately, Reuter. In his Papal chair, was greeted he the cheers of pligrims from France. Fra

the Argentine, Western Germany

The

sparkles, Belgium, Holland, morning, Germany,

reflecting the countless electric He is due to appear in the title Switzerland and Brazil. role of Gerhart Hauptmann's Moscow:

of light and the rays of the moon, Twelve strokes Hentschel" at the the Kremlin chimes ushered

has covered "Fuhrmann

in It

the trees, the streets, squares and parks, and Sulzburg City Theatre carly this the New Year. big business

year. He was also engaged to play the part of Pope Bonafacio VII In a film to be produced' in Vienna by G. W. Pabst in April.

-Associated Press.

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The new Labour Flanders [M T W Burden, MI For the Park Divers of Shemed E 1. Aprotesta Urgent, of islimpies – Bartha, supported London, Mi Joseph Henderson,

Cornel! Ards k

Manchester; and Assistant Me Jul fr aver

Wilmot, of Deptford, United States desta a high offeinl

This proposal was

Hussel recently as Ma Lemingwelt,

Secretary of the Terasu stal

of the bandang pert Morgan and Poinquitys

1100

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to Sir

17. A Thorns JP. Steven Batslanel.

(mani and puchte Jigure in Scotland. Three women Three women become Dameɛ]

Empire. One is

Writing

The toagazine "Foreign AffILS, Ma Leffrigwell advocated that the intent Stales

should continue to follow the pre- cedent of Leng-Lanse and May- shal! And past that that problems. of each commits should be realt with practically in the light of its own pecular Degurements Bredd Amerien's own national interest "Botain hos problems different from those of any other enunti y Her currency is a key currenoy, She alone incurred a great ex- tea sal W41 debt - The stealing balances," he wrote. "Those shoulit Bealed down ukt funded. and we should help to arrange if that results in hardship in speclul cases, the United States should lend or graat money direct เป the sterling area countries concerned for urgent needs."

Everything points to the prob lem in the sterling arca's dollar shortage continuing throughout 1050. The biggest complication likely in the United States is that the American public at large, and Congress in particular, must be convinced that it is desirable that the United States should continue to foot the bill for help to Britain and Europe.--Reuter.

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