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Paris shocked by British note on steel plan

Paris, June 1. France tonight replied to a new British note, which was delivered carlier today, on the conditions under which Britain would take part in the proposed negotiations for a European coal. and steel pool.

The reply was handed to the British Ambassador, Sir Oliver Harvey, by the French Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schuman, who recently. put forward the plan for international con- trol of heavy industry.

Strict reticence was observed at the French Foreign Office about the contents of the Bri- tish note--which appeared to have caused some consterna- tion here..

In a first noie on May 27, the British Government suggestel that Britain should attend

any International conference on the Schuman Flon without commit-

ting herself to participation in the plan before being thoroughly informed of Its implications.

A French note

note of May 30 anid hat a conference should not be held without a preliminary agree- ment on the basic objective-the creation of a high International authority for European cont and Tonight's reply climaxed a day of Intense top-level activity in Paris. At

B.m. today, Sir Oliver Harvey arrived at the French Foreign Office.

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the wording of the joint com. munique to bo Issued in the name of the participating Gov- ernments before the negotia tions open.

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These changes, it is hoped here, will meet Britain's objections t "prior commitments,"

Bonn statement Five other nations-Belgium, the Netherlands. Luxembour

italy and West Germany-already have accepted French invitations to come lo Paris on June 15 to discuss the pooling plan.

DON IDDON'S

They pay

New York, Tuesday. Can a man who has to pay Bd. for a local telephone call, Ind. for a Fifth-avenue bus' ride, 1a. for a Sunday news. paper afford to send money to Europe?

Can a suburban scerctury whose Irain fares to and from work cost her two guincas a week, whose food bill is £7 10. a week, and whose rent a £300 a year afford to contribute to European needs?

President Truman and most of the politicians say Yes. The man and the woman are beginning to say No.

There is distress

I have travelled all over the United States in the past year, seeing how Americans live." Mil-

DIARY *MA I BU

up; home and away

to New York from Detroit was an aeroplane smoke-writing in the each letter about a mile high. blue sky the letters 'D.O.A.,”

1 said to a policeman: "What does it mean 7" The policeman sald D.O.A. stands for dead on arrival-it's used by patrolmen and doctors when they find some guy picked up in an accident or shooting is dead when he reaches the hospital."

I asked: "But why write it in

sky 7" the

The

cop said: "Search me."

Later I discovered that the sky- writing is part of a campalgai ad- vertising a new film, This I would tux heavily.

Charge it up

But the best method of filling the till would be to charge dis

Illicit gambling ring handiing $34,000,000 per year. City politi- clans are up to their necks In graft. It is the same In other towns,

The bandquarters of the rac- keteers are New York and Miami, and billions are involved.

Jack Lait, editor of the New York Mirror, un expert, since he graduated froen being a crime re- porter In Chicago is the front- page days, reveals thai Jack Greasy Thumb" Duzik, a cum- paratively minor mobster, has $150,000,000 in currency in Chi engo safety deposit vaults.

Mr. Lalt says: "Duzik is, way down in the hierarchy of the Maña. The Mallu, or the Unione Siciliano, is the super government of a nationwide and world-wide crime organisation which now has tentacles reaching into the Cab-

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superficial evidence in the high living standards a car of some sort, a refrigerator, a radio, cen- tral heating but when you dig you find distress.

The New Yorker lives worst of alt. In Manhattan there are hundreds of thousands of people Vader the scheme, first al-

with good jobs who live in one vance on May by M. Schuman roc. The bed comes out of the France and Germany would pool wall at night. For these eranpet their coal and steel industries un-quarters they pay £7-12 0 der # common high authority week. with uther nations invited to take part.

The pool authority in charge of the plan would control produe.

There are others with really big abs who would never dream of having a regular servant and think twice about hiring a baby-

sitter,

These

are the people who

The British reply, it is learned from usually reliable sources, lon, prices, and distribution ma- left the British Government's thods, and would not be answer- position unchanged. It insisted able is any of the member Gov- again that the British Governments,

finance the Marshall Plin. The West German Government my theory, after several thousand It is ment was anxious to participate in the negotiations, but that it could undertake no prior com- mitments and that it wanted its special position recognised,

Last note ?

is ready to publish its declara-mics of travel in the American tion subscribing to the aims of Republic, that large numbers of the Schuman Plan for pooling those who receive aid live better coat and steel output as soon than large numbers of those who it is clear what nations are parti- give aid. cipating. an official spokesman said in Bonn today.

The decloration, which he suht had been asked for by the French would be published simultaneous- Router and Assoclated Press. Westly with the ether participants.

A joint communique, which it is planned to issue shortly in the name of the French, Belgian, Dulch, Italian, Luxembourg, West German and British Governments (If the last mentioned agrees) would define the aims of the negotiations

ations and would include among those aims the constitution of a high nuthority and giving in- dependent powers to be defined in the treatles and subject to rati- fication by the respective Parlia- ments.

MARSHALL ON

U.S. AID

Denver, Colorado, June 1. General George Marshall' said today that the United States It was stated semi-officially to-

should end the European Re- night that the date for the starcovery Programme in 1952, finish of the negotiations would be un-

it and stop.

Asked at a news conference here whether economic ald should be continued to Europe in another form after that, General Marshall replied: do not know."

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nounced by the fift

the French Govern- ment very shortly. This

was taken diplomatic observers as

by Indication that the Free Government feels it can now add nothing useful to the original in- vitation of May 25 and to the explanations it

furnished aloce.

had

The latest French note, which may also be the last, i con- ofilatory in

tone bub firm In aticking to the French___view_ point. While it Inalets that all participating Governments must come in on the same terms, it does propose some changes It.

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cannot

Ko on forever bleeding the American economy." he said.

The originator of the Marshall Plan came to Denver to address a Red Cross meeting-Associated Press,

escorts. New York would either get a substantial sum of money

or peace."

and almost every State capital."

This is Lait, one of America's most important editors, talking. What does the Government say? "We arc investigating the charges." What does New York City say? You can't prevent

At the moment it is gelting neither only Bedlam. All day and half the night there is a hideous screaming of sirens, a howling clamour as some top-gambling," hatted tripper is escorted from Lake Success to a cocktail party and back again.

Every diplomat from Europe [ and Asia is given the full treat ment, the complete encophony, The trame is tied up as the swell sweeps by at 60 mph. In a hurri- cane of sound.

If these visiting Bremen want to travel this way in this car-

for it. splitting hullabaloo let them pay

riders could be better employed Actually, the motor-cycle out- trying to control the crime wave. have written about crime in Cleveland and in Detroit, but it is worse here.

The tip-off is, of course, the new price of locul telephone calls

Rival teen-age gangs are shool- here. When it costs 8. to ringing and knifing each other with someone up there is something such enthusia the hospitals are wrong with the national economy. crowded. There is a pitched There is obvious inflation,

battle every day and" kids who

It has been all right to charge $4 (about 30s.) for a steak only the rich and the tools bought steak but when

you start doubling telephone rates, bus fares, underground railway fares, you are asking for trouble."

kets.

should be in school are being mowed down.

The real menace

Branded men

No, but you can try to prevent murder us a wholesale business and graft as a day-to-day com- increc.

The link between the new-style gangster and the shady politician is the biggest story in America today and its surface has only been pricked by reporters' pens. These are names to watch:

Frank Costello, Joe Adonis, Ralpit Capone (brother of A), Mickle Gordon, Meyer Lansky, Vincent (Blue Eyes) Alo, Cohen, Waxte

If they are innocent, why don't they sue 7 Every newspaper here bas branded, them as rucketeers. It would need an Ernest Heining- way to write the full account, and Mr. Hemingway hus preoccupa- tions of his own;

The current Issue of the New

Yorker magazine, in a devustal-

ing and memorable profile of Hemingway, gives the best, and most

of penetrating close-up America's self-announced greatest living author.

The article is written by Lilian Ross and is superlative journal- isin. I have never read a better piece.

The paychiatrists, who always have something to say about The politicians have asked for everything, declare that the trouble. My trips have taught me crlines of violence are due to the that the Americans are becoming post-war period of restlessness anxious to get the Europeans off and insecurity. their necks and out of their poe-

Pour Well, bullets may cure restless- They think the Unitedness, but they hardly dispense Stales cannot continue contribut-security. ing indefinitely.

Although

the juvenile gang They say it will be beggard and broke if it does.

wars are capturing the headlines, I say, let the real crime menace is the us get out of debt before it costs huge gambling syndicate which the Americans 1s. to say "lullo "

has grip on polities. The boss over the telephone wire and 6d. racketeers, less lurid than the to walk down Broadway.

Capones and Dillingers, control a multi-million-dollar business.

My own plan for raising money in this city would be to put a large tax or fine on lunacy. The first thing I saw when I got back

tors have found since the aSSDSS

In Kansas City alone investiga-

Ination of two local gamblers an

Republican Senators' dramatic "declaration of conscience"

She added: "The nation sora. ly needs a Republican victory,

but I don't want to see the Re- publican Party ride to political victory on the four horseman, of calumny fear, Ignorance, bigo- try and smear." 篆

In addition to Mrs. Smith, the statement was signed by Senators Charles Tobey," George Alken, Wayne Morse, Irving Ives, Ed- ward Thyc and Robert Hendrick- son.

AIR CRASHES

Washington, June 1. added to this confusion in hopes Seven Republican Senators of riding the Republican Party to Roswell, New Mexico, June 1.

victory through selfish pollitenl indirectly An Air Force B-20 Super- today

accused exploitation

of fear, bigotry, furtrees crashed with about 10 Senator Joseph McCarthy of ignorance and intolerance, men on board near Dexter today exploiting fear,

"There are enough mistakes of bigotry, while on a routine flight.

Walker

Base ignorance and intolerance in the Democrats for the Republi- Air Force

cans to criticise constructively spokesman said that it was not an attempt to win a Republi- without resorting to political known any of the crew mein- can victory, and demanded a smears." bers were killed, but that some halt to such tactics.

Senator McCarthy, who had of them were known to have

just won a point when Senate In- bailed out.

In a dramatic "declaration of vestigators decided to question Nine men were killed and two conscience" read on the Senate the first of the defendants in the injured when United States floor by Senator Margaret Chase 1945 America "stolen secrets" Navy

Neptung

bomber

When patrol Smith, the Senators also accused case next Monday, sat silently as plane bound from Florida to the Administration of contribut- the statement was read. He lett Newfoundland crashed in flames ing to dangerous situation that the Senate floor at the end of the today at the Quonset naval airstruck at the very heart of speech and could not be found by base, Rhode Island.

American freedoms.

reporters. The pilot, who was pulled out By. lack of effective leadership nome, It

While he was not mentioned by of the white-hot wreckage witn

was obvious Senator his co-pilot, only slightly injured, and by complacency in face of Smith meant Senator McCarthy sold that the plane, developed the Communist threat, they said, when she said bilingly that the

the Administration had planted Senate has too often been do eugine trouble with one engine on fre. The Navy said that a cross-

the jusiifuble suspicion with the based to the level of a forum of wind upped the plane over as it public that something was wrong. hate and character assassination, made an emergency landing "Certain elements of the Re-sheltered by the shield of Con- Reuter

publican Party have materiallygressional immunity".

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Senator Smith had Onished, Republican Senator Ale- xander Smith rose to say he agreed wholeheartedly with everything she had said,

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read your diary." AI 10,000,000 matter to me.

The entire British and French Press corps in New York turned out for a farewell party for Miss Lena Horne, the gifted singer, who has strong views about racial discrimination. She appears in Paris, and then London.

She regards the British as the most tolerant people in the world. Well, they have tolerated the Government long enough.

Betty Hutton is in town, rush- ing around from night club to night club. She says: "It's no fun being single. Women should be married."

Footnote: Of course the British and American Allies should share their atomic secrets. After all, they failed to keep them from their enemnica.

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