1950-02-20 — Page 9

THE CHINA MATEMAA

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1950.

skiing accident

Development of U.S. Prince Aly in

defence plans shows big advance

Washington, February 18. Military analysts said today that development of United States defence plans has reached the stage where the most likely spots for Com- munist attacks on democratic perimeters around the world are bel ing pin-pointed on strategic maps and troop dispositions to meet them considered, at least on a hypothetical basis.

Emergency

measures

in France

The .issued

Paris, Feb. 17.. French government

These sources commented will get the strongest troops dis- following the revelation by scerets on which operational om- positions are closely guarded General Omar Bradley, chair-cers are now reportedly working. man of the Joint Chiefs of —United Press. Staff, that a "top secret" re- port had been given to Pre- sident Truman regarding the milltary situation with par- ticular reference to Asia.

General Bradley has decir.ed to publicly specify the geographi- eal points of major vulnerability in that area, contending that to do so would rovent United States

security plans. emergency measures tonight to cope with flowever, sources

whenever

close to the

a mounting wave of com- military said It is no secret that munist led strikes and sabot-good strategie planning proceeds on the assumption that a poten- age.

tial enemy will act with the ma- given stuntion. They said United ximum of intelligence in any States experts therefore had been asking themselves for some time where a Communist

was most likely to strike on either or both sides of the world and mak- ing their own tentative disposi-

necessary

It ordered that troups be used to unload American military ald cargoes to unive nt French Jorts next

Roth.

A Ministry of Interior spokes- 3 said Dent the government was prepared for possible large- seule Aght if troops are rushed in. He said the Communists may use shock troops from the mines and iron and steel plants.

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In Nice tonight, rioting broke

between police and aut them 2,000 Communists who parmed in front of the American Consulate in that Riviera city during a demonstration against the French war on Indo-Chinese rebel forces.

'Twu Communists

were

police officers an 10 were injured and Ave of the demonstrators arrested. Polier used tear gas to break up the demonstration.

Strikes ordered

The government despatched its security orders to prefects and other

officials throughout the country as the Communists ordered two more atrikoa for tomorrow bringing France back Into the frontline of the East. West cold war.

tions accordingly.

force

Adjustment

in U.S. policy seen

Gatand, February: 18.09.

Prince Aly Khan, kon. of -the Aga Khan, bróke bis right leg in a skiing accident on the slopen of Maseongaat here today.

His doctor said it was

-

serious injury with both bones of the fog braken-one bone Is broken in two places.

Eye-witnesses said he fell while travelling t

at a high speed down the straight run- way. Trying to avold wome- one who ran sorces in front of him, he fell twisting hin him and rolling legs under over and over.

He was taken to hospital where, it is expected, his wife, the former dlm étar, Rita Hayworth, will join him— Router.

Knowland calls for new policy

U.S. aid to Britain figures prominently

in Election campaign

London, February 18.

American aid and how it has helped Britain to keep unemployment at the lowest level in its peace- time history is providing much of the fireworks in the Parliamentary election campaign. The Labour Party's election platform has a major "work for all" plank-a centre-plece around which much of its campaign tactics is built. Labour takes full credit for the fact that 98

1 per cent of Britain's employables have been

at work during its term of office.

It goes further and pledges continued full employ ment should it be returned to power in the February 23 election. At the same time, it raises the pre-war.ghost of unemployment un- der the Conservative governments of the 1930's.

Frank Conservatives admit of Labour's appeal, have been- their record between the wara zustained by American charity. handicaps them in meeting this charge.

Des Moines, Iowa,

Their party platform, too, pro- mises full employment as a first land, Republican California, has been playing in keeping Bri. February 17. alm. It accuses Labour of pass- Senator William F. Knowing over the part Marshall ald tonight reiterated his demand thost of its own; what will hap

tih industry going. It raises a

that 'the

United States

Bangkok, February 17. High diplomatic quarters here today predicted a major adjustment in the United Asia following the conference States' foreign policy in East of United States Asian envoys, which ended here yesterday.

the belief that any positive diplo

The basis of the prediction was matic policy recommended by the Lawton Collins, has said publicly East

The Army Chief of Staff, J envoys for halting Communism in that the United States planned to without armed aid, which hitherto Asla would be worthless

Knowland made the proposal keep four divisions In Japan. has been refused. One division of 15,000 men la as-

in calling for a new policy in the The Asador-al-large, signed to Germany and is be-Philip lieved to be the only overseas have let the conference believe China, supervised and to the gove D. Far East, which would include

non-recognition 18 understood to

Communist of division now at as high as 90 per that any policy recommendations crument

of Chiang Kai-shek, forwarded to the State Depart-Stre

strengthening of the United States Discrepancy..

ment would Inevitably call for a Navy in the Far East by the ad- dition of two or three carriers This apparent discrepancy in review of its previous attitude on Far Eastern as compared with military ald for certain Asian and a major shake-up

the Western strength is accountable countries,

Far

Eastern Division for in part by United Staten The Department has

State Department. 80 fur expectation that Its Atlantis | over-ruted the United States

He told Jowa-Republicans at a Pact partners in Europe Will Defence

Chiefs ald programing Lincoln Day dinner that General provide substantial forces to for Formosa. Generalissimo Douglas Mocarthur should be holp Guard the democratie Chiang Kai-shek's last remaining

made the co-ordbator of both perimeters there. No such as stronghold against the Chinese economic und defence phases of Distance

counted оп Im-Communist tide,

the new policy. Knowland said mediately in the Far East.

It is known that un Influenti...] the United States should "monke It clear that this government

Chinese ports if the Chinese blockade Communist-held when American aid ends in

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"The Seciallata claim that their Reds do not release illegally policy have prevented miss un- employment such as followed the held Americans.

tive manifesto said, "The condi- first world war," the Conserva- tons then were wholly different. Under the Socialist Government 1929-31 unemployment TOSC violently and

reached fearful figures."

cent of strength.

These overall area breakdowns section of the envoys at the cop-

of troop information are about as ference belleve it to be essentiat

A two-hour nation-wide rail-Okinawa or the Phillppines which East Asian countries,-Router.

road stoppage was set for tomor

row morning while 10,000 North-

A

ern French miners were to begin 24-liour walk-must. The rail E diss

strike was considered

rehearsal for later larger scale action against the United States military shipments,

Communist-led dockers alrea- dy have tried to block the load- ing of arms for Frenei forces in Indo-China.-Unlted Press.

British envoy's first contact in Peking

-London-February-18

Mr. John Hutchison, British Charge D'Affaires in China, has paid a first call at the Foreign Office of the Chinese

People's Government and established preliminary contact,

a Foreign Office spokesman said today.

Mr. Hutchison, who travelled from Nanking to Peking last week-end called on Tuesday on the head of the West European *irl African Department, Mr. Huan Hsiang.

Was

of the

will not sit back for more than

arc

Problem considered

ployment unition, "But, in

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"It is American aid that has enabled Labour to defy the laws of arithmetic and make two and two come out at five."

Decisive question

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The "Economist" concluded: "What wit Labour do American ald is withdrawn for: the long world-wide post-war boom comes to an end? The Labour Party (evidently wishes the elector to

assume that it has no clue to this, the decisive question of the next five years." The Conservative Party mani- testo, however, did not profess to know

the answer either. "How grave will be the con- cesantion of sequences of the American aid no one can fore- cast," it said. "But if human en. deavour, can avall we shall suc- ceed."

I recalled that the wartime How does Marshall aid figure coalition Government under in the employment picture? Winston Churchill, a mixture Its funds made possible the of present-day leading Social purchase of raw materials which ist and Conservative politicians, financially pinched Britain considered the problem as ap- could otherwise not have afford. plied to the post-World War 11ed and so kept its work benches period and decided the world operating at top speed. demand for goods would, for Between the wars, with same years after the fighting working population around 19,-| far as it is possible to go in dis- for the United States Imredite-a year and do nothing but send

stopped, make

serious unem 000,000, Britain had high and cussing strategie plans without ly to apply, in some form or a series of notes when people re-

steady unemployment record. revealing Information which other, the Defence Chiefs for-

lon," it added, In 1925, under a Conservativo would be

held by ald, orginally ing this government useful to a potential | mula of military

the Communist "we have had nearly 2,000,000,- government, the average nguru Chemy, The points in Japan Pru- intended for Formosa, to the most regime in China. per, in the Ryukyu

pounds given or loaned to us for the year stood at 1,239,837. It Islands; immediately threatened South

"Certainly until they are all by the United States and Com had not improved much by the released we could undertake to monwealth countries. Do not time J. Ramsay. Macdonald form- see to it that no traffic was per- forget that Mr. (Herbert) Morried the second Labour cabinet in mitted into or out of Communist-son, Mr. (Aneurin) Bevan

and English history in June, 1928, Th beld ports," he said. He cited other leading Socialists have de-average number of jobless in that the confinement by the Chinesa elated that without this old we year was (1,230,104. Communists of American Am should have had 1-1/2 to 2 mil- By the following year bassador J. Leighton Stuart, tions unemployed in these last figure had jumped sharply to Consul-General Angus Ward and years instead of the present 300,-1,015,237. With the world still it others as examples of the low point to which

his third gov- formed Chian policy has sunk.

"We need a foreign policy in

ta coalition with strong Conservative leanings, in 1931, the Far East," Knowland said.me when they are boasting that unemployment rose to 2,050,401. "We have none there today." He they have cured unemployment." said General MacArthur should The Labour Party manifesto In 1932, it reached a peak be named co-ordinator of Far makes no mention

2,144,788. American Eastern policy "go that in that or other foreign aid in

American pleads guilty, asked for mild sentence

Budapest, February 18.

Robert Vogeler, self-confessed spy and American secrot agent, pleaded guilty to sabotage and espionage against Hungary before the Bud- apest People's Court today.

He

apologised to the Hungarian people and asked for a mild penalty. With a British business- mon, Edgar Sanders, and five Hungarians, Vogeler was indicted as an economic saboteur and a leader of a spy ring for the American Intelligence.

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this country's These are strange confessions Macdona depression when

for public men to make at

of

connection

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The Conservatives returned to power in Inte 1035 with unem-

area of the world the right hand with weekly "Eco-ployment still more than 2,000,-

will know what the left hand is doing."

Tho

000.

nomist," often friendly to the Ald to the legal government" Labour Government, Belzed on in

dongested by

incredible

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The

The

It declined slowly, then until just before the war, there

jobless. of Chiang Kai-shek now holding his point in a critical analysis of werely swallowed up i out in Taiwan should be given Labour's manifesto.

in_the_same way as given to the

dible though it is," the Britain's manpower. By 1944, un- legal governments of Greece and journal said, there is no refer employment was down to 69,608. Korea which have also been ence, not even a passing allusion, The end of the war.

the lowest figure in two decades. threatened

marked a by Communists." Knowland said.

to the fact that, throughout La-gradual increase, but in the Ove bour's term of omce, full Но

supervision beployment and the wage earner' above 468,540. That was in 1947 Cm years of Labour rule it never ross mission headed by standard of living, the two pillar, when a winter freeze caused con- man of the calibre of General

siderable temporary unemploy- Wedemeyer, Ho said the "addi-

andment. The latest guro available tion of at least two carriers and the spread of Communism The other defendants, pleading Vogeler, Vice-President of the possibly three to guilty, declared that they acted International

this country's the threat of atomle war, Know-for December last year was 330,- Telephone and Far · Eastern naval forces would land said that such as Vogelèr's agents.

Telegraph Corporation, said that do much to restore confidence "might deter All

barbary today's can receive the death one of his tasks was to find and penalty for their nelivities.

In that part of the world.

pirates for a time. It will not smuggle into America atomic The

In apparent reference to the change their determination adjourned until scientists. court Monday morning, after the last

recent proposal of Senator Brien | destroy human freedom in Bu- the

McMahon defendant,

with Sanders and

for a black-haired,

"Western US$60,000,000 rope, Asia" or on the comely Baroness Edina Dory, had held in prison since last Novem-

of global aid to stop Hemisphere."—United ¡Press. confessed that she carried outer Vogelar told the court that Intelligence assignments while

companies he represented working as a bar-maid.

maintained close connections with the Allled Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Arrested

The apokesman said that he

program courteously received, and there would be further inter- views.

Mr. Hutchison is negotiating the establishment of diplomatte relations between Brital and China, following Britain's re- cognition of the Chinese People's Government on January 0. ...In diplomatie quarters here, it was not expected that foal ar- rangements for the exchange of missions would be made until the return of the Chinese - Foreign Minister, Mr. Chou En-lai, who left Moscow on his wey home yesterday.Heuter.?

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In a detalled confession Voge- ler involved the heads of the In- ternational Telephone and Tele- graph Corporation of New York and its subsidiary, the Interna- lonal Standard Electric Company, active co-operators with American Intelligence.

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He also implicated a number of American military personnel now in Budapest, and sald that other American business men were also involved in espionage in Eastern Europe.

It was a general policy. he sald.

The Standard Electric Com- The American Legation In pany, of which Sanders was the Budapest had instructions to give local representative in Budapest, faciles for the escape of any was a cover organisation for spy-high personalities who wanted to Ing, he cold.

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