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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1950.

TORIES ON THE OFFENSIVE

Amendments to speech from the Throne 'TOTAL WAR' IN HOUSE

London, March 6.

The ConservativeTM Opposition tonight made a frontal attack on

the slender Parliamentary superiority of the Labour Govern ment by moving two amendments to the Speech from the Throne.

The amendments, proposed by Mr. Winston Churchill, head of the Conser -

vative Party, and other Opposition leaders, con bring about the fall

of the Government if either is passed.

The amendments regret that there was no reference in the address to the iron and stool industry and that no more offactive measures were mon- tioned to deal with the housing shortage.

The move is considered a, United States but also with the warning that the Opposition countries concerned and that will will declare total war on the be done,"

Mr. Attice then turned to other Government on any major issue

toples. and that it will throw in all its strength to bring about the defent of the administration.

The Prime Minister, M. Cla ment Attlee, told the House of Commons today that Britain's Sterling balances will be Rilll further discussed with the United States and the countries concern- ed.

Mr. Attlee also said. ***The amount of releases has been re-

duced, is being reduced and will be reduced".

The Prime Minister was speak- ing during the first day's debato on the Speech from the Throne.

The deb

debate

was opened by Mr. Anthony Erien, Deputy Leader

in of the Opposition, and the course of a review of

Britain's present position he contended that the Sterling balances helping to bleed Britain to denti. Replying to this, Mr. Attice Bald that the question, already discussed at the Washington con- ference, is to be still further dis- cussed with the United Stales

are

and the countries concerned,

These balances, he explained, were mostly money Britain owed to people for services during the war.

"Any idea of repudiating them straight away is quite wrong."

he sald.

Major question. Earlier, Mr. Eden, opening the debate, described Sterling balan- major question.

cos na

Was It not the case, he asked, that the American loan provided for releases not exceeding £42 millions annually whereas they had risen to £275,000,000 in the drst nine months of last year?

"It means that each wurker engaged on production for export is working one day in six on the production of goods for whith no corresponding imports are re- telved," he said.

re-

"Can we continue Indefinitely to carry that burden?"

Mr. Woodrow Wyatt, Labant, intervened to ask how Mr. Eden reconciled this with the Conser- vative desire to help South East Asia,

Mr. Eden sold that these leases had helped South East Aala. The point

whether was Britain, could continue to carry such burden unaided.

that Commenting on a report Foreign Secretary, Foreign

Mr. Ernest Bevin, would discuss the mutter again with tho United Statcs Secretary of

State,

the

shy

Mr. Dean Acheson, in April, Mr. Eden said; "r should have thought that this topic might long since have been removed from the the sphere of discussion to sphere of action."

the

"

Not monstrous thing Mr. Eden interrrupted to that he never, said anything re-

like repudiating motely balances.

Mr. Allee replied, "I agree, but there is a good deal of loose talk about them as if they were kome monstrous thing that hud arisen.'

Mr.

Winston Church111, leader of the Opposition, Intervened "Are not the bulk of the to ask, --Sterling balances Br British

debts

due to countries like india and Egypt which we de fended from invasion by Japanet and Gormany? Are we not on eitled to have a counter-clair for the Immense expense which we were put? -M1-Attlee-replied, “That-is- matter that can be argued, but don't think it would be the best way of approaching the problem of the Sterling balance. The release of Sterling balances

meant-an-immense-incrous stability in those

South East Asia.

arcas

"The amount of releaseS har

been reduced, is being

and will be redungi.

reduced

Attico's review

In his general, reylew, Mr. At- teo anid that the proposis of the Colainho conference of Commons wealth Ministers had not yet cen fully considered. At the moment work is going on on the

Spender Plan."

The Australiang had suggested that there should be a meeting Canberra in May to discuss that plan W

which envisaged consulto ↑tions with the Commonwealth The Government, countries Aral. he added, would consult the United States,

He said that whlie Labour mained the

ment's purpose to the steel industry,

It Govern. nationalio

it

A

vlet Union but 'it is very dif ficult to long as they maintalo

rest an attitude that the

af the world is hostilo and as long as they indulge in worldwide subversive motivities."

nations are

nat

Another attempt on Everest

Bombay, March 6." Five Indian explorers will make an attempt some time next April to reach the sum? mit of Mount Everest—tha highest peak in-the-world-

This will be the first indian attempt to conquer the as yet unconquered · Mount Everest after 14 German and British.. expeditione.

had previously Failed.

The expedition, sponsored by the Himalayan Mandal of Poona, in beljeved to be part of MA

Mandal plans to make a detalled study of the Hima- Таула

Before the five-man group takes off on its expedition its members will be briefed in meteorology, wireless taja-

Braphy and photography. United Press.

BRITISH OFFICES SACKED

Watenstedt-Salzgitter,

March 6.

MISSIONARIES PROTESTING CHINA BOMBING

London, March 6.

Church missionary societies are joining force:with representatives of British commercial interests in asking United States intervention to halt the Nationalist blockada and the bombing of the Ching coast,

A missionary society official emphasised that there is no political implication to their representa tions:

They are being made purely on humanitarian grounds, he Bald.

,י

Missionary, groups in Britain have written to their counter- parts in the United States asking their help and urging immediate action aimed at halting the bombing.

He said, "We intend to take Dil action we can. Individual action will achieve little.

There must be the closest co-operatio? among all who have China's real Interests at heart."

BURMA'S REQUEST FOR AID

Washington, March 6. Burma has asked for econo- mic and military aid as- sistance from the United States, Reuter leamed authoritatively today.

A spokesman for British com- mercial Interests in China similar- ly stressed that there is no poll- tical move in their approach to the British Foreign Office press-Reuter that their Government had ing for United States interven-

tion.

Spare no effort The spokesman said, "We are being careful to avoid taking sides in any political aspects of the China scene. But we intend to spare no effort to bring a halt to the Nationalist bombing which is doing China unimaginable harm. Missionary societies are equally concerned and intend to take all possible action."

He said, "We shall vigorously resist any suggestion new Government in China in- volves permanent loss to free civilisation of the people with whom we have in the post on-

Burmese Embassy officials told

informed the State Department of the kind of assistance they would Ilke to receive from the Unlied States and the purposes for which it was required.

State Department officials re- cently described the position in Burma as unstable in view of the rebellion of Karens, the approach of the Chinese Communist forces to the Northern border of Burma and the fact that Chinese Nation- alist soldiers had taken, refuge in Burma,

The kind of Inspection the So- viet Union had asked for in the United Nations was quite Inade- quate in regard to international

Prime

Minister the contro stated. He did not think that was the method which coun- ted but the will.

United "The majority of the Nations endorsed a plan of con- An infuriated crowd of 1,000 trol and if the Sovlet Uniun German workers tonight comes in we could make the ad-stormed and burned down the vance which the majority of the British Dismantling Commis- sion heaadquarters at the maller," he added" for In

"In the meantime we are de- huge Hermann Goering stdel veloping our plant here at home.

plant herė. that It is not true to say

A crowd trying to stop dismant- have lagged far behind

ling of purt of forge had burst we started behind."

Mr. Attlee decribed the Klaus into the offices of the Commission, Fuchs spy case as a most deplor-smashed windows and made a able and

incident bonfire of radios, telephones, ales, and took full responsibility for maps and technical charts.

They said that they are at pre- Five British officers barricaded the efficiency of Britain's Becu-

Meanwhile, the Foreign Office sent reviewing the question of themselves

of the rooms of rity forces,

has declined to comment on the

both military and economic ald to the building during the rioting,

re-Burma, Thailand and Indo-Chida. but escaped when police detach- British commercial interests ments were rushed to the scene. presentations pending word from

-Reuter. The British Rhine Army Head-the British Charge d'Alaires in quarters ordered troops in the Peking-United Press. arca to stand by after the building was burntd

down, a Britishi spokesman said.

unfortunate

We

though

Mr. Attlee told the House at the Security Servico had declar- ed that the only source of infor- mation for the 1033 statement

that Fuchs was 2 Communiut was the Nazi Gestapo.

"At that time the Gestapo uc- ensed everybody of being Com- munist.'

The Prime Minister entirely denied loose talk suggesting in- effelency of the British Secret Service.

Extraordinary case--

"I am satished that unless we had here the kind of secret police they have in totailtarian noun.. tries and employed their methods there was no means by which we could have found out about this man."

charge

The 1933 Communist against Fuchs was looked into, Mr. Attlee added.

"There was no support for it whatever and from that time onward there was no support."

Mr. Attlee added, "I would say that because it is very" easy when a thing like this occurs it was

pened-I do not think that any blame attaches either 10 the Government of the Rt. Hon.

one

The spokesman said that Bri- tish troops called out from Brun- swick, the local Headquarters, found the rioters had dispersed when they reached the building.

that the

joyed ties of trade association and friendship.

Freak hens in Japan

Tokyo, March 7. The attempted demolition had Japanese newspapers today tonight been abandoned and was gave further details of the postponed, until tomorrow Reu-Hiroshimg hen which on March 3 laid an egg, which in turn had an egg, inside.

-ter.“

Germany is indeinitely to have no armed defensive forces of her own there rests a special respon- sibility on the Westem Powers in respect of that territory and this responsibility, we have to be uble to discharge."

-South East Asiá

Mr. Eden wald that there ought to be no doubt in the Kremlin or anywhare, elsa that the treatment mated-est with Impressing severity to British subjects and officials by the countries behind the Iron Cur- tain hap croated very interse Indignation, British and

Western -

other

Attice also said that there aud been steady progress both in Western-Union-and-the-Atlantan appalling thing to have hap Pact. The flow of essential mt- itary equipment would soon be in to arrive on the Continent

That will have a good physical Gentleman opposite (Mr. Wins- hoeftest and good psychological ton Churchill) nor to this Gov- opinion would never allow

1 of affect on the

the European

defence crument nor to any of the officials self to be intimidated by tactics

for of forces", he declared.

what has occurred. I think of that kind, he added.

Speaking about re you had there a quite extraordin

South East ary case."

Asla, Mr. Eden sald, #If we are Ja the

course of his oddress to to build an effective

power the House, Mr. Eden said that against Communism in South he hoped that the even balance East Asia we have got to show of the parties in the new House that we can provide an effective of Commons would encourage o alternative way of life, that will strong and imaginative

women foreign appeal to men and policy.

Communism these lands Just as __In_a_reference to Germany, undoubtedly appeals to some of 'Mr. Eden"said, “I think many of them,

us have felt that the most realis-

"Few things in

world to- the

the tie prospect of Germany's' penco- day are more urgent than ful development Ifes in drawing South East Asla position. Recent *ber into

friendly partnership developments in Indo-China are Eur with her neighbours In Western disturbing." Europe.

Mr. Altice added," "The whol,

length in the tripartite discussions

subject was discussed at great

tione.

.we

there

nothing to be done in the mat. tor immediately.

which The Steel Corporation

1,

at Washington and will be dis-is to run the industry, could not cussed still further, Obviously, be appointed unt!!

October if anything is to be must not only discuss it with the nationalisation

1050, and the earliest date for was January, 1931, but he insisted, amid Gov- ernment cheers that their put- pose is to give effect to acts pas-

ed by Parliament,

Statements made abroad

FOR ALL

AIR

TRAVEL

Consult COOK'S

that the British Parliamentary posi- tian entailed a

a period of weak- ness and indecision in

Govern-

ment were entirely mistaken.

"The fact that Parliament is almost equally divided does not, mean that the hand of this coun- try in foreign affair should b3 weakened in the slightest do~'. "gree, he said,

Mr.

Bomb control Turning to economics, Attlee said, "We have only two years of the breathing space ne...“ corded us by. Marshall ́Ald be- fore we have to stand, comple-

our own feet," he said.

before us." Resources would have,

to bo husbanded na one of

countering inflation. That. was why Britain must continue to have carefully planned eco- nomy.

tely to always

res

tha

measu-

The Prime Minister said. It was

really no good signing illusory undertakings about weapons of mass destruction like the hydro gen or stem, bombainika

"The public - Is-naturally: con- cerned over they dingay to clel= ilation from these pe

WELpons," he told the Houto

"The hydrogen bomb is same-

thing which – la in the future and

it differs really in degree, more

than anything

also,

atom boinde

Without, mutual

from the

understand

Ing 1. do not believe you cazi go

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Loud Opposition cheers greeted Mr. Eden when he said. In our view the nation has pronounced against any further nationalis- tion, including the nationalsa- clear-ition of iron and steel,”-Reuter.

"Our concern on security is nó less than Germany's but we ap- proach it on the wider basis that of the security of Europe,, ~.

This, at least,

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Today they stressed the impor tance of considering the problem of the threat of Communism to South East Aslan countries as a whole.

BRITAIN NOT TO BLAME

my

Landon, March 6. Britain cannot accept responsibility for delay in con- cluding the Austrian treaty, a Foreign Ofce spokes- man declared today.

State

Commenting on yesterday's

More than three months had passed since Austrian · proposals on Soviet citim had beere mate

phenomenon might be due to delayed effects Soviet note to Austria, blaming of radio antivity newspapers the Western Powers for the delay, described, the poultry farmer's

he said that the treaty had been held up by the direct Soviet-Aus- surprise when he discovered an cgg weighing more than a quar-trian negotiations on the question ter of a pound in the hen cooD. of payment for Russian supplies

On cracking the egg he found to Austria.

size a fully developed formal egg inside.

Newspapers also reported the fiant-withdrawal of their reporters the sealed coop of the Hokkaido hen, which its claimed laid even ezgin one day and 17 over four days,

Newspaper reporters and came- ramen kept a 24-hour vigil on the coop for several days, but finally withdrew, claiming that either the poultry farmer had been tricked by his neighbours, or ho | had himself tried to trick the newspapers by secretly planting foreign eggs in the alleged won der hen's nest.-Reuter.

owner

The Western Foreign Ministers' deputies had originally accepted the Soviet draft agreement on this question but this was later with- drawn by the Soviet Government.

The Soviet Government had frequently been asked to take. part in a drafting commlilée' on the articles' of the treaty which had already been agreed, This proposal had been consistently rejected by the Soviet Govern- mentReuter.

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