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SENATE COMMITTEES

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 21, 1930.

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Harriman as

successor

RECOMMEND APPROVAL to Acheson? OF FURTHER ARMS AID

Washington, Juna 19.

+ Two United States Senate Committees today recommended Congressional approval of President Truman's second your $1,222,500,000 arms-for- Allies programme.

But they did not sanction a proposal in the programme giving the President

unrestricted power to ship arms to any nation at his discretion. They refused to dip into European recovery funds for part of the cost.

By a vote of 12-0 the Fore- first consult the North Atlantic

ign Relations and Armed Ser- Governments.

vices Committeen-approved the Mutual Defence Assistance Bill, This provided $1,000,000,000 for military aid to North At- lantic Pnet nations: and $222,-- 500,000 for arms, aid to South Enst

Philippines, Asia, the Keres, Persia, Greece Turkey.

and

President Truman had asket Congress for authority, under the Bill, to transfer 10 per cent of the arms aid to any other nations If he dechfed that this was cessary for United

curity,

States

ng.

Designed for emergency

The transfor provision met Instant Republican opponitio on the ground☐ that it would A blank give the President cheque to ship arma to any world part of the

threatened by Communism. Democratic leaders had salt that it was designed to meet any sudden

grave emergency which United States action wand urgently needed,

A reporter naked Mr. Connally Yugosinvin could receive arms nder the new provision,

He declined to comment

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say-

sup-

In addition to European plies, the Bill provides for $131,- 500,000 for Greece. Turkey and Persia: $75,000,000 for South East Asta; and $10,000,000 for Korea and the Philippines.

The Committee had not moved to reduce the allocation, he said. Mr. Connally expected that the Bill would go to the Senate on Thursday,

Nuclear-powered submarine

The Senate Armed Services Sub-Committee today approved United BU authorising the

Navy to Staice

build the world's feat nuclear powered submarina,

the for

The Committees restricted sng that he could not да Into

any those detalls. authority to apply only to European nation whose strategie

The measure, authorising number of Congressman locatiart tunde it important to the

favour the sending of arms expenditure of $350,000,000 defence of the North Atlantic Spain because of her anti-Com- this and other weapons, has al- ready been approved by the munist stand, but the State De- The Commillees decision Wapartment is understood to oppose. House of Representatives. announced by Mr. Tom Connolly, this. (Democratic

arca.

who presided joint session.

the closed

Senator, Texas) Middle East nations The Bill would permit friendly nation whose ability to defend Itself is important to the security of the United States to buy arms and equipment from the United States.

Arnis old under the Bill would be given only if the security of the North Atlantic inca were threatened he told reporters,

And President Trunton would

CRITIC OF SCAP ACTION

Honolulu, June 19.

Mr. Yuldio Ozaki, Japan's

It still requires the approval of Com- the full Armed Services milice.

#

Washington, June 10. Blato Department officiala would not comment today on report that the Marshall Plan Ambassador, Mr. Avgrali Harriman, was likely to sue- cond Mr. Doan Achoon as the Secretary of State before the end of the year.

The Broadway columnist, Walter Winchell, made the prediction.

* Mr. Harriman, statioried - In Paris, is due to take up a new appointment as special mselat- ant to President Truman in August Rsutor.

Malcolm MacDonald in Saigon

Cuba focal point for Communist operations in West

Washington, June 19.

The chairman of the Senato Judiciary Committoo, Senator Pat McCarran, said today that Cubo had become the focal point for Communist operations in the Western Hemisphere. Cubans were streaming into the United States with

practically no check, he claimed."

The Nevada Democrat told "Of the 15,000 Cubans who en-

States the United that

every reporters

ter this Was

10 per cent fade month, about established in a recent inves-into thin air," said Mr. McCarran. tigation by Senator James "That is demonstrated by testi- Eastland (Democrat), a mem- ber of the Judiciary Committee. He added that the Committee had voted to keep continuing theck on the immigration system as a result.

mony before my Committed and before the Senate Appropriations Committee."--United Press.

Senator Eastland's Investigation STORY OF

catablished that there were any- where from 60,000 to 70,000 known Communists in Cuba. Senator McCarran said,

"Cuba is one of the focal points for Communist operations in the Western Homisphore," said Sena- tor McCarran

11 afler closed Committee meeting.

had

with the result that

WARTIME HORROR

Los Negros, June 19. An Australian Army officer The State Department Saigon, June 19.

waived passport requirements for alleged here today that Jap- Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, Cuba nationals.cntering the Unli--anese troops -had-machine- British Commissioner-Gener-ed States, al for South East Asia, today about 15,000 e month entered the gunned 110 Australian and 35 Indian war prisoners in head of the Vietnam State, saw ex-Emperor Bao Dai,

Malaya in 1942, poured petrol though them, and over soon after arriving here by

some of them were still alive and screaming terribly-set them alight.

In addition to the atomle sub-plane from Singapore for marine, the Bill would authorise "10 days' holiday.” the buliding of a large submarine of re- expected to be capable málning under water for periods "Snorkel" far longer than the submarine,

Other vessels involved were a now coastal-type combat sub-

nud but marine

an experimental under-water target

Answering [] question, Mr. Connally said that he supposed Tract and the Arab States could

this section, come under added, " is not contemplated that they will"

high-speed submarine.-Router.

Vogeler, Sanders may be released by Hungary

clder statesman, today criti- cised General Douglas Mac- Arthur's banning of 41 Com- munist leaders from public life. He also urged the clearance of wartime bus-The

ness and Government leaders who were purged after the Japanese surrender.

The 91-year-vid metober of Japan's Diet told news

London, June 19,

United States has agreed tantatively to three Hungarian conditions for the release of Robert Vogelor, an American business man imprison- ed in Hungary on spy charges.

con-Vogeler may be freed soon with his British asso-

ference thal, he felt that Coin- munists should be punished only when they committed erlines.

to outlaw

He also felt that Communism as a whole without definite evidence of crime is not right.

ciate, Edgar Sanders, Vogeler, an executive of the International Telephone and Telegraph Company, was sentenced in February to 15 years in prison. Sanders got 13 years.

said Informants

that the set that an American newspaper Mr. Ozuki said "The Communists United States, to secure the re-columnist broke the story that her still may do something behind lease of Vogeler, agreed ten-husband may be released from a the scenes. If they could be con- tatively in negotiations with Hungarian prison within the next

two weeks. victed on their actions, that is the Ilungary: thing we should do".

closed

1. To permit Hungary to re- She was referring to a report A member of every Japanese open her consulates in the United

on from the U.S. that Drew Pearson Diet and former Mayor of States. They were Tokyo, Mr. Ozaki is returning to American orders after the trial had made the news public

from a visit to the United of Vogeler and Sanders in Budu-night.

Japan States.

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inst

be-

"I do not know anything off- Mr. Ozaki favoured ifting the 2. To release war reparations

clal about the negotiations bans on wartime public gures that Hungary has demander because most of them were inno- from Germany, and German-held tween Hungary and the U.S.," she cent and their leadership is need-Hungarinn crown jewels, includ-said. "I do know that if the nego of St. tiations are going on, they are ed to help rebuild Japan.

ing the historic crown

very deltente. Nothing but harm He explained through an In-Stephen. terpreter that he did not mean To lift the State Department can come from a premature re- militarists but the industrial ban on American travel in Hun-lease of this news,

leaders and officials not directly gary. connected with the war.

The aged statesman also re- Sanders may also be released situation over here would

"Anyone familiar with the Vogeler may be freed this week.

have hell the story until an official an- at the marked, "If the spirits of the U.S. Foon, but probably not

nouncement was made. I do not and Japan could be put together, Isame time,

know any newspaperman in The British authorities are understood to have hedged on Vienna who would have released the Hungarian conditiona for the story the way Mr. Pearson

I think the world could be saved. 1 feel a third world war is coming because the thinking of the world

today is wrong. The world seems to have the nationalistic idea."- Associated Press.

the release of Sanders Railable

sourens in Vienna disclosed that sources in Anglo American negotiations

did.

"I was delighted to hear the

with Hungary have been going news that Rob may be returning on for some time and might be to us. It was given

about to culminate in the re

lease of the two men.

Wife upset

to me In strictest confidence by ¤ news-

nu- paperman and I was certain one would break the story before we had something omola!."-

In Vienna, Mrs. Robert Vogeler United Press and said today that she is terribly up-Press.

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He also saw several French officials but not M. Leon Pignon, French High Commissioner for Indo-China, who had left by air for France a few hours earlier.

M. Pignon is to be on hand for the conference at Pau, in the Pyrenees, at which France will All in the detalls of her latest political settlement with the three new Independent Indo-Chinese States of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos.

Bao Dai is flying from Saigon to Pau tomorrow, for the con-

{erence.

Mr. MacDonald's arrival coin-

U.S.

No checks "There is no way to check who they are or what they are," he continued.

"When they step off the plane in Florida, all they have got to say is, I am a Cuban national," and that is all there is to it."

Senator.McCarron said there were about 250,000 European na- tionals in Cuba, and the United Slates did not check entry to this country from Cuba to determine which were truly Cuban,

WHOPPING VOTE

FOR LABOUR

London, June 10. The Labour Government, with a working majority of only eight in the louse of Commons, scored a whopping 219-vote victory to- duy on a financial issue.

The officer, Lieutenant B. C. Hackney, of New South Wales, who is the only living survivor of the mass killing, told his story. in a sworn document read to a War Crimes Court trying senior Japanese Army officers here.

Investigating offteors sold that the killing was one of the worst, if not the worst, to be brought before a Court since the end of the war.

Lleutenant Hackney's statement said that the prisoners were herded together and then machine-guns belched forth storm of death.

It went on: "After the first burst a few remained standing,

elded with reports from London It was the biggest majority but they were soon hit by further

Arc."

that Britain was still examining since the new Paillament was what old she could provide | elected in February. The Labour- The Japanese then poured pe- French troops fighting the Com-tes have won most previous trol over them and set them munist Vietminh guerillas.

ballots in the House by votes of alight, one to 14.

"The prisoners were screaming Usually reliable British sources The issue at stake this tinte was and yelling terribly," the state- discounted the possibility that his a Conservative amendment de-ment said. visit was a prelude to closer signed to prevent surtaxes. The Franco-British military co-opera-final vole was 200 to 77-Ass the killing are Lieutenant-Genz¬ | tion against Communismi inclated Press, South East Asia,

These British sources consider- cd that Mr. MacDonald would be taking advantage of his holiday to acquaint himself with French Indo-Chinese problems.

HK BUSINESSMEN

IN MUKDEN

Charged with responsibility for

The Prosecutor,

ral Takuma Nishimura-already serving a life sentence imposed by a British Court for. War Crimes in Malaya-and Captain Shogo Nonaka,

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