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SLIM MISSION TO EGYPT SAID A FAILURE

London, Jùno. 8.

The Foreign Office today announced receipt of a detailed report from Field-Marshól Sir Wil- liam Slim, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, on his discussions in Cairo, but declined to disclose its contents.

Foreign.Office officials maintained their week-long silence on AnglorEgyptian exchanges, and stated they are in no positiph. as yet to dis- close the nature of the present contacts* ur proposals on either side,

THE CHINA MAIL, BATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1886,"

DON

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The flight to the dollar

What is the South American | parodės. Fifth avenue has re- Sentinel waiting for? - If Bri- sounded to the blare of bands, tish footballers.can command and the tramp of merching men. the rumble of tanks and jeep, fortunes South of the border, I have never seen a more impres British sports-writers should sive show an when the Armari be able to reap richés.

Services displayed their muscles.

I await on olio?, My fee is £1 sterling per word, two finus

yacht, und hak Colombla.

Geoffrey Simpson may wan: more. Perhaps he has already heard from the Bogota Buglė.

The Santa Fe Football Club 1108 started Bomething, which

To cap the parades We have also had "I Am Imou

An American Day," during which people car ried liftle placards or postera which said: "I am proud to bo an American.”

Some wore ribbons In thelr Inpels bearing the sume praise. and motor. American" stickers on their win worthy sentiment, cars had "I am proud to be 012 down,

Britain's talent may be fured by New World gold,

It should not be long before the rich republics are bidding for averyone from Mr. Church!!! down.

But diplomatic quarters here denied today that he had draft-could have gigantle repercussion Insisted that Sir William's mis-nd or presented any note to Field-By the end of the year all sion proved ia failure in the Marshal Slim during this week's face of Egypt's Insistence. on military and political talks in a complete evacuation of the Cairo. Canal Zone by Beltain.

The Government

newspaper New hopes are attached to the "Al Misc" had earlier today pu forthcoming approaches to theblished what purported to he the Egyptian Government by the text of such a note in which, it newly-appointed British Ambis-

reported, Egypt had rejected, a sudor, Sir Ralph Stevenson, who British proposal to unite the leaves London for Calro this Anglo-Egyptian command week-end. Sir Ralph, who was British Ambassador in Nanking until last October, is said to have been given a fairly free hand by the Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, for his mission.

In Cairo, the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Salah El Din

Bey,

JOHNSON MAY VISIT THE PL

Washingten, June 3. The Secretary of Defence, Mr. Louis Johnson, during his coming visit to the Western Pacific, may Include the Phi-" lippines in his itinerary,

The Defence Department de- clined to discuss the Secretary's plans but it was understood that he is considering a visit to the Philippines elther en route to or after he has completed ences in Japan.

confer-

Observers,

President noting Elpidio Quirino's statement this week in Manila that he would Welcome additional American troops in the Philippines, said this may have a direct bearing on whether Mr. Johsonn goes to the islands.

Nothing has been Indicated thus far as to whether General Omar Bradley is planning a Philippine visit, but Pentagon belleve that General Bradley will probably go if Mr. Johnson does.

sources

Mr. John Foster Dulles has no plans to go to Manila.-Associated Pross.

TIBETAN TRADE WITH KASHMIR

Some possibles

The proudest of all the proud Americans throughout the cele fence Louis Jolinson. brations was Secretary o! De

Mr. Jolinson has been the boss of Amerien's Arined. Forces for Just one veny, and has been the target for sistained attack, be- cause of his bluritness ruthless. Noel Coward will murmur.cpl-ness, oversized, ambitions, and

orto- gratus from under-neath an over- ganec, and tactleness, sizod sombrero, Laurence Oltvler.

had insisted that British, troops should leave the Canal zone with- in the two years.

Within that limit, the report sald, Egypt might agree to post- pone their evacuation.

Egyption note

will strum n guitar, and Μοίτη Sitting pretty

Shearer swing her hips In the rumba.

He has the difficult job of co- Our politicians, actors, writers,ordinating the rival Army, Navy, artists, scientists, doctors, sol- and Air Force, and has junked diers, engineers, and architects the big wheris wholesale, may follow the fugitives from Stoke City. After Franklin and Mountford, the deluge

By a strange oversight or pos-

The reported Egyptian note, stated in the Egyptian. Press to have been handed to Field-Marsibly out of pique the fight of shal Silm on his departure from Cairo on Tuesday, is believed, in

the gitted from Britain has not usually well-informed

heet: reported in the Americas quarters

newspapers.

In London to have been an off- cial record of the military con- versations in which he took part.of

The statement of the Egyp: tlan Foreign Minister denying that he has drafted: or despate ohad any note is thought, to make it clear that Sir William Slim has received only, an off- clat record- of the Egyptian standpoint, an outlined, in his defoncé talks, with the Egyp- tian Ganerat Staff."

In any case, the British Foreign Office has no record of any fresh Egyptian note, and the Egyptian Press accounts of the documents handed to Sir William Sum it in well with the known Egyptian view on defence questions.

The United States, which can course, buy up all Central and South America out of its petty east, may feel, that a match has been stolen over it, Pan-Ame rlean unity could be jeopardised by the British Invasion, but bet- ter not bark on this theory,

Watch these men

The baseball season is here and hitters are needed. My advice to the M.C.C., repeal M.C.C., and alt cricket clubs is to keep their stars under lock

and key. England players are seen near an alsport put them in custody.

We have lost enough let us not be beggared.

Already T suspect American evertures. tered and feted.

We are being 1- Life magazine willes owingly of the British camchack and satires its 8,000,- 000 readers that we are Ameri- ca's best, and most loval friend. It is true that Britain regards Fortune magazine says that the world situation and the con- American safety is

precarious sequent need for proper defence until Britain's problems arc arrangements in the Middle East solved, und even the turdily in- an more critical than in 1946 dependent Saturday Evening when the Sidkey-Bevin agree- Post

asket

anxiously: "Where's ment on a treaty revision was Britain going now?""

The answer is: It is going ahead.

The Egyptian wish for the evacuation of British troops from Egypt is not generally regarded here

us an insuperable obstacle to agreement on a revised treaty of alliance.

reached.

Air defence

President Truman has been be- seeched to hand Johnson his hat, but Mr. Truman, remenber- election campaign when ing Johnson's support during the almost everyone else had fted, has stool by the bold and brash Defence lord.

Today it looks as if President Truman' and Louis Jolmson have been proved right. The Armed Services are shelving their bitter feuding and getting, together.

Johnson, a buil who carries his own china, shop with him, is sit- ting protty. His inflated ambi- tions, however, could cause tumble, particularly it he con- tinues to reach out for the Pre- sidency.

Theme song

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Johnson's critics say he sings a tune to himself;

"A. I'm available:

charm;

I've been bountiful; I'm a man who's full of

D, Don't be desolate;

E. I'm election bait;

F. I'm a one-man firealarm" If Mr. Truman hears this nu ber he may change the music and fire the vocalist.

The big build-up is ori and the party's faithful chant A 'song Johnson: which is likely to crown out

.

Here Harry, a broad-shoul-

dered President,

Here's Harry, a good, solid

resident.

H-ho Harry, a real American. Here's Truman who civės

helping hand,

Here's Truman

the way to go.

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Hi-ho Truman from

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Take "Alex" "Fors" HEADACHE, TOOTHACHE COLDS & CHILLS, RHSUMATICRAIN, LUMBAGO, ¿LEEPLESSNESS & PERIODIC BANKS.

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this distinguished poam, but you I will have grasped the thema, In the sound these

songs Mr. Dean Acheson's quiet, ̈ cuf- tured volce has not been heard very distinctly,

America'a Foreign Secretary is now en route from England. He is considered to have done a most able job there and been more British than the British. but his enemies have become ferocinus,

He is accused of global give- away, thrusting Europeans up to their elbows in American inx- payers' pockets, and organising moro hand-outs for "dear

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Bri-

Is America's tending state. mun, and if the U.S. doesn't want him our Conservative could cer tainly use him,

Is a curious feature of the American scene that the public and Press should be so hard on their political servants and 50 lax towards their rocketeers,

At last a round-up of the big- ger gambling czars I mentioned last week has started. The heat Is on, and in the dazzling sprina sunshine the molsters run for cover. New York will be glad to be rld of them The town

wants to talk about other things, About fashion: The rage for cheers and opaque sheath dressca. The new glare-shields for women -lorgette sun-glasses. spectacle frames anchored to bandannas. Razzle-dazzle shoes made linen-like weave and

carrying glittering nailheads.

of

The definition of a modern matron: Just a bulid in a girdled cage.

About sport: John Lardner's description of the leading heavy- the weights-Bruce Woodcock, mutilated lion of Yorkshire; Low mu

bar- Suyout, the expurgatod. tender; Ezzard Charles, the Cin cinnati cardiac case,

About the uneven boom: The buoyant stock market and sour- the sales of refrigerators, motor- cars, shoes, but the sharp drop liquor, lugrons, cigarettes. in purchases of furs, jewellery,

The President has returned, in triumph from

his whistle-stop Displaying all the talents of a tour after entrancing the voters, master politician, super-salesman, bedtime storyteller, and effort less wisecraker, he wooed and About magazines: The gibes at won the Middle West.

the French in the current issu disgruntled Republicans of Life. The sensational success say that in Mr. Truman you find of quick.

The

a touch of Barnun, Will Rogers, Franklin Roosevelt, Cal Coolidge, Harry. Houdini, and the Fuller Brush man,

Big build-up

There are probably more American newspapermen roam- The British agreement, then toing Britain than ever before, and the evacuation of British troops most have a kind word for within two years is not here re-everything, from Buckingham garded

necessarily holding Palace to British bread, good if formal treaty negotiations A Hearst correspondent reports dazedly that the British superlo- are renewed. London,-June-0. But it is also true, as Egyptianity.complex is not vanishing but India is seeking a revival of Press reports suggest, that in the increasing. This I like hear.

To our own selves be true. trado fbetween the province of meanwhile British military au-

thorities have increasingly realis- The Americans are also show Kashmir and Tibet, according of the Importance of air powering a fine conceit of themselves, nlng like a hare to succeed him- to a New Delhi report issued by

and that one of the main issuer It has been a week of tremendous the Indian High Commissioner's to be faced by a revised, treaty of Offer here today..

alliance would bo the air defence

In this context the question of the evacuation of British troops seoms militarily less important. than it used, to be.

The report said that a trade | of Egypt. delegation from Lali In Kashmir will shortly leave. for Lhasa, capital of Tibet, to negotiate ar- rangements for the reopening of normal trade between, Kashmlt and Tibet.

India House officials said that no special Importance should be attached to the reported trade mission.-India was the only coun- try, maintaining diplomatic con- tact with Tibet and whatever may be the conflict of opinion on the international status of Tibet, India's friendly relations will be maintained. If adjustments must be made it will be on terms not only friendly to. Tibet but also friendly to China with whom in- dla bús éstablished diplomatie relations,United Press.

Fmair younger

Diplomatic observers here be Heve that while no solution to the military problems of the alliance seems to have emerged from Sir William's

the resulting visit, position is neither hopeless nor in deadlock.

The next phase in the progres- sive uttempts to re-open

treaty rovision negotiations, which, havo been in progress between, Britain and Egypt since March, is ex- pected open with the depar

ture for Cairo next Saturday of the new Ambassador, Sir Ralph Stevenson.- United Press and Reuter.

movement WALL

Around town

About the increase in inter- racial marriage: Coloured dan- cer Katherine Dunham and dress designer John Prats, novellst com-Richard Wright and Ellen Poplar, Paul Robeson jun, and Madeline no doubt the President is run-Greenberg, Negro leader Walter

White and Poppy Cannon. self.

The people found this bination irresistible.

Disillusionment

of Jewish DP's

Munich, Juna 8.

There's

Heard around town: In the spring a young man's fancy turns. to what girls have been thinking about all year, If allence

1s

golden, Britain's Aneurin Bovan will be bankrupt soon.

New York is very colebrity cpuscious. What needs some conscious celebrities.

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And the old one-politicians would not have to mend their forces so often K、they had not sat on them so much,

Farty disillusioned Jewish displaced persons, among

them about 10 women, who returned illegallybiography to Germany, from Israel, ended a. three-day sit-down strike here today in the office of the Jowish Agency for

Palestine.

The displaced persons had care and subsistence from IRO demanded a return to Inter funds, as at the time before Enational Refugee Office. (IRO) | they left Germany.

The Jews charged that the Jewish organisation had swin- died them into going to Israel. -

A spokesman for the. Jewish Agency said that the displaced. persons ended their strike after coming to an agreement with the Agency. He declined, however. to give any detail of the, agroo- ment.

Many disillusioned and dis- Jatisfied Jowish: displaced per- sorte, FOTO estimates placin their rummber- as -high -- os· 500, have returned illegally to Ger mahy, from Israel; complaining that the opportunitiég therò, hau bein gros misrepresented,

American Intelligence oficiala, salde, that the reverse, under- ground was, in Loperalfön funnel, there displaced.

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