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Shinwell, Johnson denials

of report on Strachey; "Thing is sheer nonsense"

The Hague, April 2.

The Defence Ministers of Britain and the United States today vigorously and categorically ́denied an American news agency, report that the British War Minister, Mr. John Strachey, was to be by-passed on Atlantic Pact defence socrots..

The British Defence Minister, Mr. Emanuel Shin- well, backed strongly by the American De- fence Secretary, Mr. Louis Johnson, in a joint interview, told Reuter that Mr. Strachey's name had not been mentioned, officially or unoffi cially, at the North Atlantic Defence Chiefs' conference here.

Mr. Shinwall, declared, "I vigorously deny this

story-the whole thing is shaor nonsenso.”

Mr. Johnson bruke in. "That whatever to say about him. In is corrnet, . No such polley has any case, his name was not even been discussed by my Governmentioned during any of the ment, and the question has never discussions. been raised here."

Mr. Shinwell had earlier also (The American agency said In | told Reuter that Mr. Strachey cable from The Hague lagi would, as Secretary of State for night that American and British milltary louders had arranged a new system of uxchanging con- fidential milkary information under which top secrets will by pass Mr. Strachey." The cablu quoted extremely well-informed

for the report. sources

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OVER STATEMENT

Amsterdam, April 2.

The U.S. Secretary of De- fence, Mr. Louis Jahnson, said today he had refused to sign a joint official statement on the status of British War Minister John Strachey,

Mr. Johnson's remark was in comment on a story carried by the Associated Press yesterday saying that British and American military chiefs have arranged to keep highly confidential informa- tion from Mr. Strachey, because at his former Communist sym-

War, continue to receive the

10pathies. same information as was mado avallubie to him when he was in Mr. Strachey's position. (Mr. Shunwell was War Minister in the last Labour Government);

Mr. "It is absurd to talk of a new Strachey was recently attacked policy Introduced because of Mr. by the London Conservative Strachey", Mr. Shinwell com- "Evening Standard” for not hav-mented, adding that no country

disavowed JAK

former allegert hud pressed for any such arrange Communist views).

ments.

Before leaving Schiphol today, Mr. Johnson again strongly denied the report anout a new arrange- ment to prevent Mr. Strachey Ketting secret information.

Statement repeated

Asked whether he personally had any objection to Mr. Strachey, he reiterated hla statcinent to Router earlier that under the -machinery ན! the Defence Pact, Information WAL passed on only to the Defence Minister, Mr. Shinwall.

Speaking personally, Mr. John- son added that he did not know Mr. Strachey and he had nothing

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At this point of the interview to say Mr. Johnson Intervened that he wanted to pay a special Iribute to Mr. Shinwell as Erl- tain's Defence Minister.

"I have the greatest confidence in him and his policy". Mr. John son declared, wlding that that was why he deprecated any efforts to undermine Mr. Shinwell's posi- ilot.by such stories as these".- Router.

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what do you know?

Mr. Strachey has been criticised by anti-Government newspapers for his past support of Commu-

nism.

Mr. Johnson fold a group of correspondents that the British Defence Minister, Mr. Emanuel | Shinwell, came to the American delegation hotel in The Hague this morning with 窳 statement that he wanted Mr. Johnson 10 Issue with him.

"I concurred in the first zen- tence of the statement," said Mr. Johnson, "but further than that I was not prepared to go."

What was in the statement re- mained a mystery bocause Mr. Johnson boarded his special plane to return to Washington follow- ing a session of the Atlantic Pact Defence Ministers at The Hague without disclosing its contents.

A British Embassy spokesman said that Mr. Shinwell had never drafted a prepared statement but had merely given an exclusive interview to another news agency in Mr. Johnson's presence and with his approval.

Informed of Mr. Johnson's re- mark at the airfield, the spokes- dan then said that if there had been a statement some it was embodied the interview to the agency correspondent. He would not say what, if any, portion was in the agency story.

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 1950.

TROUBLE IN SAIGON

Violent riots took place In Balgon, Indo-Ching, on the occasion of the visit to the port of two American warships Photo shows debris littering the market square in Saigon after the

Plots. This was the contre of the disturbances—AP Photo.

Rain-making experiment may

point way to new life on earth

New York, April 3.

Somewhere in the wooded wildornoss of Now York State's Catskill moun- tains, a small band of scientists are about to begin an experiment that may point the way to new life for vast areas of the earth. They are trying-for the first time on a day-to-day

basis to produce man-made rain,

Their Immediate, goal is to coax from the heavens enough water to fl New York City's shortage that threatens to bedevil half-empty reservoirs, and end a

the nation's largest city for years to come.

But this may be only the be- ginning.

"In 。 world not producing enough food, there arc many placea suffering from a continu ous lack of moisture and rain," one of the scientists said.

He added that if science helps the New York City problem, its work, might well set a standard for similar problems in other parts of the world.

The group is ignoring scoffers and the usual dull-witted cynics and know-it-all officials, and be-

earnest. ginning the work

Deserta blooming? Forests springing from the world's sands? parched wastelands of the Near

East?

Washington, April 2. Senate investigators to- day called on Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy to

When asked by correspondents hand over the documentary what was in the statement which evidence which he says will Mr. Shinwell wanted him to issue, prove his spy charges against Mr. Johnson said that it paid tri-Grain fields thriving on the now- Owen Lattimore, and they bute to what shinwell had done hinted that they may sub-for American, British ́and Cana- pocna the papers if necessary,

Senator McCarthy promptly re- Asked if the statement made plied that he was ready to pro-any duce "some" amidavits and letters ter, Mr. Johnson said that it did he outlined in his Senate speech not.

·last week but said he would withhold the, names of his other informants even if it meant defy ing a subpoena.

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The acting chairman of the investigating group, Theodore Francis Green, said issuance of a subpoena would be discussed to- morrow at a closed meeting of the Senate Foreign Relations sub- committee, which is investigating Senator McCarthy's charge that the State Departinent is overrun with Communists.

However, Senator McCarthy, who is in hospital for sinus treat- ment, told the United Press he

dian co-operation,

referenco to

any

Minis-

(EDITORS NOTE: Mr. John- son's reference at this point to Sainwell's effort for co-operation was apparently a slip of the ton- que. The agency story referred to by the British Embassy spokes- man deals with Strachey. If no other Minister was mentioned in the statement, Mr. Johnson must hore have bren referring to Strachey.)

•

The original story by the As- sociated Press, based on informa- ion from extremely well inform- ed sources, said American and

was determined to protect fully British officials in private talks had the sources of his information agreed to by-pass Mr. Strachey He said he was quite certain that he would be able, after checking in the future in exchanging top information. . It WILE with the man in question, to fur- secret

nish the sub-committee with the vigorously denied by Mr. Shin- name of the mystery witness who

well. said he was ready to swear that Mr. Lattimore was a Communist

for many yours,

Former Red official

Mr. McCarthy has identified the

witness only as a former high Communist oflelal and has refused to confirm or deny reports that It is Louis Budenz, one-time Communist editor. In New York, Mr. Budenz also declined to dis cuss the matter.

Data withhold ·

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Those

sources sald earlier that highly secret data

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Nobody was drawing such rose- coloured blueprints. But some scientists pointed to the wonders Irrigation has wrought in country, ̄from Isracito -New Mexico. And they watched the New York project for a clue to the future.

Ready to go

The project, a strange now chain reaction, land-and-air operation with borrowed.equip. ment and drugstore chemicals, was just about ready to go. New York's Board of Estimate voted $50,000 to start It. Mr. Wallace E. Howell, newly en- gaged chief of the project. acouted the lonely mountain region to the North for a con- trol station' sito.

When may the first man-made rain fall on the 1,000 square mile watershed? Soon, Dr. Howell sald-weather permitting

It will be, he added, "the first time rain-making has been At- tempted scientifically for a prac- tical

purpose."

"There have been other

at- the

had been withheld from Britain tempts in other parts of because of Mr. Strachey's poal-world, but certainly not informed tion in the government but that or enlightened attempts." this situation has changed· inj view of understandings reached In the last few days.

In Washington, the U.S. Wea- ther Bureau long skeptical of rain-makers-promised the Now In consequence of these, Bri- | York unit full co-operation. fain will get more secrets from the US. In the future, these

Senator McCarthy said that he

·would not give the sub-committee | sources said. two other affidavits from anony-

mous persons which he said There was no connection be linked Mr. Lattimore with John tween this understanding and

This will be more than man has known before--and he has been working at rain-making since the dawn of civilisation.

Primitive man tried magic. In many parts of the world he still does-witness the Hopi In- dlans and their frenzied, rain- invoking snake dance.

In the old days of vampire legend in Rumania, women and girls took off their clathes and walked at night to the edge of their vitage, where they emptied water-filled vessels on the ground.

In Estonia, in olden times, they tried another "rain-making" act:

Three men would climb. .flr trees in

grave. Оле would strike burning branda together, summoning lightning. Another would beat a kettle, calling than- der. The boss would sprinkle water furiously.

Even after science began to re- place magic, the notion lingered that a loud noise would produce

rain. The United States Congress gave it an official try in 1891, sending a 9,000 pound expedition to Texas to set off dynamite and

gas-alled balloons.

Some rala fell, but not enough to convince anybody that the ex- periment was worth repeating:

All sorts of devices-electrified sand particles, among other things -have been tried in recent years. But 'rain-makers turned mostly to dry ice sprinkled from air- planes. It seems to work-some- umes, at any rate.

Silver iodide

They are going to use

dry Ice-the Ame familiar stuff often used to keep ige cream cold-In the New York project. But they will also use the newer technique of “seeding" clouds with allver fodidomand a pratty spectacular trick this Is too.

Dr. Irving Langmuir, the Nobel prize winner scientist, Bays it makes ice crystals form in such vast numbers that the heat ro- leased may be equal to that of en atom bomb blast. It is re- leased gradually, however not in ane deadly whoosh,

To make rain by this method, irst pick your cloud. Usually it will be a big, woolly cumulus cloud a "fair. weather"" cloud. It is made up of tiny waler particles. They are so tiny, In fact, that 200,000,000 of them will | At into a thimble.

Your problem is to turn there billions of little drops into mil- llons of bigger drops big enough

"We are impressed by the im- portance you are placing' on 'an engineering approach with

an impartial evaluation of the sulta,” wrote Dr. F.-W. Reichel- adding The Bureau simply. If, aftor aliver lodide has been wants to get the facts. The 200 impregnated in the cloud all goes or more Held tests we have made | well, a chain reaction develops, in various states show that the and suddenly you have got mow. answer is not a simple one." It falls. If the temperature nearer the ground is warmer, the Rain-maker Howell is a cheer- mow turns to rain.”

Stewart Service, career diplomat, † the Atlantic Pact Defence talks, derier, Weather Bureau Ching to fall..

Mr. Lattimore will testify before The Ministers happened to be the sub-committed on Tuesday. here to examine a joint plan for He Bald McCarthy's charges were common false, irresponsible and libellous, adopted yesterday.

defence which they Senator Green said the sub- committee would also grant an- Faced by a crowd of ager ro- other hearing to the Ambassador portere at the airfield before at-large, Dr. Philip Jessup, if he leaving for Washington, Mr. John-ful, 80-year-old Harvard profes

"directs 20, the "Mount wished for an opportunity to re- ply to Senator McCarthy's latest tion or denial of the story des

son evaded any direct confirma Ho charges. Senator McCarthy char-pite numerous ged yesterday that an organizaciated Press. ... ilon "controlled by Dr. Jesup, re- „colved US$3,500° in 'choques in | 1942 and 1945 from William-Van- ́ ́derbilt · Field, alleged "financial Pangal"" of - Communist - causeES. Senator McCarthy, Identifed, the organisation = as the American Council, of the Institute of Proide Belations, and said it was “molling macommunist Party line" by a taking the Chiness & Nationalist

Apart from salaries, the big- Washington Observatory in Newest Item in this budget is radar. Hampshire. The city is paying it is needed to see what is questions---Arhim $100 for each day ho works happening inside the doctored

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clouds. taxpayers not to expect, miracica

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Some scientists aro skeptical. Some other people are fearful. Mayor, Erastus of Corning....... 100 miles to the North of New York, Mit, in the long run, we, are, has served notice, that he doesn't able to nudge the climate in the want any of his city's rainfall

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BORDER INCIDENTS REPORTED

Calcutta, April 2. A border incident, involving the exchange of fire between ¡Indlan and Pakistan frontier guards, was reported yesterday at Joy anagar, about 80 miles from here.

Reports received in authorita- tive Indian quartëïs hero said Pakistani police entered Indian Union territory firing at random, whereupon fire was returned by the West Bengal border police,

The raiders then withdrew into Pakistan territory.

In a similar incident at Joy- anager on March 31, one person was killed and several injured when Pakistan police and Ansars (Moslem volunteers) opened fire on Indian medical students and others engaged in rellet work ab a refugee camp on the Indian side of the border, these reports Buid.Router.

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