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PARTIAL CLIMB-DOWN BY GOVERNMENT IN THE SERETSE AFFAIR

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London, March 15,

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The Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, today modified the hotly, can- troversial order exiling Seretse Khama and his white bride from their Africon tribal, kingdam in Bechuanaland. Pacifying angry Labour Members of Parliament, Mr. Attlee said the Negro chief might live in his British-protected homeland until his pretty English wife bears the child she expects in late June

VENICE

News of the Government's partial climb-down leaked out after angry MP's criticised their leader for pandering to the race prejudices of British Common-

COMES TO wealth nutions in Africa. Mr.

A HALT

Venice, March 15. Red flags flew in St. Mark's Square in the heart of Venice today as protesting strikers paraded through the gondola city against yesterday's shoot- ing of five workers by the Italian police.

Strikers' road blocks also para- lysed traffle throughout the Pro- vince where Communist-led trade unions aro staging a 30-hour pro- test.

cars

ar-

The only trame was the moured

manned by steel- helmeted police armed with rifles and tommy-guns grimly patrol- ling the tense area around the Breda engineering works where the five men were wounded lust night in an angry demonstration against factory dismissals.

This morning the express train from Trieste arrived here an hour late with smashed windows after being stoned by strikers along the line.

All further trains were halted in the area.

Outside Venice, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arablo, Prince Mohammed Abdul, was held up and was unable to continue his Journey to Switzerland,

Later reports said that the strike had spread through 10 Northern Provinces.

In Venice everything is at a stands!), even the gandelas. Reuter,

CHILD ACTRESS MADE WARD

Hollywood, March 15. Lora Lee Michel, nine-year-old film actress, was made a ward of the Juvenile Court today by Superior Judge A. A. Scott, who ruled that her film career was over.

The Judge announced the rul- ing after a half-hour conference with the little girl's foster parents, Mr.

Otto and Mrs. Michel, from whose home Lora Lee ded on Monday night.-Unit- cd Press.

FOR GREATEST

Attice met with the legislators in a private caucus today.

Both he and his Minister for Commonwealth Relations, Patrick

Gordon Walker, stressed that the Government's Ove-year banish- ment order against Sereise Khamo and his wife will not go into ef- feci until the expected baby is

Vorn.

Then the three of them will be

colled on to leave.

U.S.

AID

TO THE

FAR EAST

Washington, March 15.

The United States extended

Japan, the Philippines, Korea and China financial grants credits totalling $874,000,000 Meanwhile, the Chlef himself last year, the Commerce De- will be asked to promise that hepartment reported today. will not stir up tribal antagonism.

This compared with $871.000,- Whether the young African, 000 in 1948. wil note the British terms was ascertainable immediately. Seretse said in an interview earlier this week that he would go back to British Bechuanaland as soon as he got an approval | from the British Government.

Storm aroused

He accused Britain of “double- crossing" him in inducing him to come to London for talks and then introducing Its banishment order.

The Labour Government, with its shaky Parllementary majority, found itself in a tough spot as a result.

First a rash of political, Prem and public criticism of the action burst loose.

;

Then

one or two non-white Commonwealth countries bang- ́ed in informal but unmlatake- Able expressions of concern at a

decision which they thought amounted to British acceptance of the colour bar.

Finally Seretse's own people, the Barengwato tribe, ostenta- tiously turned their back on the British by boycotting meetings called by Sir Evelyn Buring, Brl- tish High Commissioner.

Public anger

The Government's climb-down the seems designed to mollify anger of its own supporters and of some sections of the public.

fact, the Government Is helping Itself by retreating par- tially.

In

shows that from through December assistance to these $4,330,- amounted to

The report July 1, 1945. 31, 1940, this countries 000,000.

For 1049, the report said, Ja- pan received $474,000,000 of which $420,000,000 was in grants and $48,000,000 in credits.

The 1948 total was $408,000,000, of which $388,000,000 was in grants and $20,000,000 in credits, Ja pan's four and a half year total was $1,716,000,000 of which $1,- 453,000,000 was in grants and $263,000,000 in credits.

For 1940, the Philippines TC- ceived $203,000,000 in grants but no credits. The 1948 total was $133,000,000, of which $130,000,-. 000 was in grants and $3,000,000 in credits. The four and a half total was $568,000,000, of year which $488,000,000 was in grants and $70,000,000 in credits.

Koren received $300,000,000 during the four and a hult year period, of which $275,000,000 was In grants and $25,000,000 In credits. During 1949, Korea re- ceived $80,000,000 in grants. bu no credits. For 1948. Korea re- seived $100,000,000, of $06,000,000 was in grants and $10,000,000 in credits.

which

China received $1,756,000,000 during 'tha'four and a half year parlad, of which $1,528,000,000 was in grants and $229,000,000 In credits.

The 1949 total was $111,000,000 of which $100,000,000 was in grants and $2,000,000 was In credits. The 1848 total was $224,000,000, of which $203,000,- 000 was in grants and $21,000,000

Its officials admit privately that the British public would find it most dimcult to accept a decision RECORDING PLEASURE which kept a nan away from his

wife at a time when she was in credits. bearing her first baby,

London-born Seretae's wife,

This assistance to the Astatic Ruth Williams, announced in nations was but a portion Serowe, the mud-hut capital of similar aid the United States ex- Bechuanaland, that she will never tended on a global basis during leave her homeland voluntarily. the four and a half year period British authorities, she said, totalling $25,962,000,000. Of this, would have to carry her out feet the 1949 total

$5,970,- was Aratave

000,000 and the 1948 total was $5,523,000,000.

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The softly spoken tribal leader has told of his intention to fight the legality of the British banish- ment order every inch of the way.

He will challenge how clvitised country can axils any one from his homeland Just as any American, Frenchman or Briton would contest an order expelling him from America, France, or the United Kingdom.

Prestige shaken

Seretse was going to be allow ed to return to the Bechuanaland protectorate anyway by the Brl- tish, but they were going to keep him out of his tribal reserve which is a land-locked Island territory within the protectorate.

That is

Where Ruth is. And that is where the Bamang- wale have begun'a passive re- sistance movement against their British rulers.

Informed political aources suld that Labour MP's told, Mr. Attleb ́and" Gordon Walker" today, that

prestige in Africa has suffered

Hered one of Its worst slumps In is African history over the

Seretse affair,

of

These totais do not include aid extended through the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund.-Associated Press.

ELECTIONS IN. TASMANIA

Hobart, March 15. The Labour Prime Minister, Mr. Robert Cosgroya, dissolved the Tasmanian House of Assemb ly today for an early Election; possibly in mid-April.

Speaker, Mr. W. G. Weed, one of He did so after the Assembly's

three Independents, holding the balance of power in the 'House, had' announced his intention to resign.Reuler.

DEFENCE TALKS

"Ottiwa, March, 15%). hush-hush defenca ;・ con- ference, atiended by Canadian, United States and Brilish exports

They claimed that when a tiny in radar, gas, Arctic, psychologi

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cal and other forms of warfare, like the

100,000-strong opened here today. Bamangwate can flout British

authority [as] they have done this The conference, sponsored by Government to stop and think. ment's Researc Board/Seat) By Mr.) Gordon Walker is dus 40 launched under such, stringen Napaver a series of Commons ques-secrecy, precautions that no one

RUGS week it is time for a Socialist the Canadian Defence Depart

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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, -1950.

Philippines

to deport 100 Chinese

Manila, March 18. The acting Immigration Commissioner, J. P. Bangson, has ordered the deportation of about 100' Chiness nationala whose temporary" permits of stay in the Philippines already have expired.

The Immigration Office has adopted the polloy of not granting any 'extensions of temporary visitors', permite, which are good for only one ¡A few hundred 'more year. temporary Chineks visitors are also likely to be deported as aban as their caksa are in- vestigated.

Temporary visitors will be departed to Talwan, and the Government may ure a Naval patrol vessel to take there-United', Press.

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BRITAIN AND IRAQ OIL

London, March, 15. Mr. Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Secretary, deprecated the linking in Parliament to- day of the British supply of arms in Iraq with the question of re-opening the Halfa-Iraq pipeline.

"It would be far better if Mem- bors wanting on answer about the pipeline would ask questions about the pipeline and not about the supply of arins to Iraq," he said,

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LONDON DIARY

By WINDRUSH

March 10: The oven 'balance in

March 6: The full-dress The laugh at Chiang Kai-shok the opening of Parliament. The "because he does not know

Gov. seat of his own phantom London streets have more ernment." But they are UTI- colour and pageantry today | kindest about El Salvador "and than at any time since, 1939, all because of size. It can only Not only is all the old care with difficulty be found on the map after spending a whole day monial restored for the open with a magnifying glass." ing of Parliament: the 'streets are niso decorated for tomor row's arrival of the French President. It is unfortunate for the Labour Party that this blaze of colour broke out on the very first public occasion mocrats to make the man in the after they came a cropper at street read Parliamentary de- the election. Illogically, | bates, Because the ordinary the people have already begun to reader was bored by them,

focus in politics has been 'shift- feel that February 23 meanting away from Parliament to the end of austerity and the return of old times.

It is odd how a part of the Labour Party jibs at colour and feels that they ceremony. It symbolise the bad old days. Bo- hind the ermine and the scarlet they are unemployment queues and hunger marches. They have developed an instinct against any- thing spectacular. This is dan: gerous for them. The majority of people still love a show.

March 7: London covered with flags for the French President Some of the banners put up by the Ministry of Works look very much as it taken out of store:

and

have lost freshness, they merely remind us of previous and happler times. People are glad enough to see the drabness of London brightened up-but there is curiously little interest in the visitor, or in France itself. People Inayitable and necessary ally on no longer think of France as our

the continent, as they did 20 years ago. We know less about Francs Mr. Somerset de Chair, Con-

and French affairs today than we servative, had urged him, in view

did then. America has cut out Britain's of

Intimate

treaty France in our interests. relationship with Iraq, to discuss March 8: The Fuchs case is still this question because the mere

There is a certain being talked of. hostility of the Arab League to-pleasure at the discomfiture warde Israel cannot for ever close MI 6. Nobody loves + secret the supply of oil from Kirkun to

police. The last thing which is Halfe.

wanted here are witch hunts of the American pattern.

A Labour Member, Mr. Wood- row Wyatt, asked whether. Bri- tain obtained any

undertaking

from Iraq about reopening the pipeline before recently supply- Ing her with arms.

arms

under the

of

Parliament is going to have some unforeseen results. It is going to make Parliament' interesting to the ordinary person.

It has been' the despair of de-

the party meetings, trade union conferences, and so on. But now the House of Commons has be- come a sporting ‘arena.

One of the Arst; resulla will be that the newspapers will have to print much fuller accounts of the debates than has been the 10m recently.

AUAN

Churchill has already shown -that-there-is-to-be-a-long-term battle of wits in the present House. People have begun to watch his moves as if watching a

Churchill is chess board, masterly Parliamentary tactician.

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This is the man of whom the La- bour whisper in the election was that "he is a potty old man at 72."

On the very first day of this Parliament he has put

Labour

on the spot by his proposal for

■ Select Committee on electoral

reform. Labour may splutter that this is a stunt--but it will nothing they can do about it. win the Liberals and there is

Twice in a month Churchill has stolen the Initiative from them.

The first time was when he proposed negotiation over" the hydrogen bomb with Rusele.

The real danger of proportional representation is that in 10 years

let into time. It might

Parlia- ment an uncomfortable number of Communists. Once there are On the whole, scientists today

more than a very small group of are less likely to hand over their Communists in Parliament, par- secrets to the Russians than they liamentary government becomes

The poll really were five year's ngo,

Impossible. They can tical phase among scientists is disrupt the

too proceedings Mr. Bevin replied: "No. Any wearing itself out.

Until quite easily. recent times, scientists were the to Iraq by the Brit-

of any of the non-political ish Government are in fulfilment msional groups. of our obligations

It was in the thirties that a political fever Anglo-Iraqi Treaty."

began to sweep them. Many of them were attracted to Commu

USSR were nism because the claimed to be "scientifically Professors planned"

society. Haldane and Bernal are the best known of the fellow-traveller or Communist scientists, but Now were many more. scientists seem to have become bored with politics. Perhaps the Lysenko affair, was a shock to them.

He had discussed the question with every Arab country concern ed, including Iraq, and the feel- ing was very intense.

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that were used

Mr. Bevin did not reply when Labour Member, Mr. Jan Mikardo, asked if the British taxpayer must go on indefinitely paying for arms to go. to Iraq the to prevent British from getting sterling bil. The pipeline has been, closed since the Palestine war, cousing the loss of an about 4,000,000 tons of oil for the annual output of

sterling area.

The

Korean comedy

Muzahim--Amin-Pachachi, Baid Iraqi Prime Minister,

refuse to reopen the pipeline un-

Korean last December that Iraq would

til the Palestino problem solved. Reuter,

FREAK PLANE ACCIDENTS

Was

New York, March 15. A United States Army helicop- ter's collision with a flock of birds, and an Air Force fighter plane's crash into restaurant killed two people and injured 17 in different parts of the United States today.

In Texas, two men died' when the helicopter crashed and burn- cd after breaking off one of ita main rotor blades in its encoun-- fer with the birds,

there most

FOOD CAMPAIGN IN CHINA

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San Francisco, March 15. The Chinese Communists aro going all-out to produce their own food. Peking Radio indicated tonight, Apart from assigning the and they have army personnel to work

now supported secondary a scheme whereby school and college students wit do the same so that they can grow enough vegetables to meet their own needs.

of

diverted More than 20 per cent March 9: London is

in 70 by the open letter of North students

Peking schoold Intellectuals

undertake to the have volunteered to United Nations Korean Commis productive work. They have ob sion. It seems that they have tained 200 acres of land outside as well as Municipal taken a look at the outside world the city and do not like it at all. This is Government loans for the pur- how they describe the various chase of seeds, implements and countries.

on the fertilisers-Reuter. represented Commission. "India, a beggar in a bumper year, which has de- cided to live off its two masters, the USA., and Britain, selling Its vast territories and abundent | resources;

the Philippines which

have long boasted, of their tradi tion as

as a professional champion hireling of the US. imperialists; reactionary France, which long been a successful broker for the Wall Street merchants, sell- ing itself for the Marshall plan; the dastardly * Kinve Australia. which is running all the rough errands, kneeling before the US. monopolists, leaving the bosom of the bankrupt English, gentleman:

In Las Vegas, Nevada, a Mus- tang fighter plane ploughed into a restaurant at the Air Fores base there, injuring 17 peoplo Turkey, a bandit sitting on the

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