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Truman's Authority
Washington, Jan. 5.
President Truman had no power to commit American troops to a European defence force without approval first from Congress, Senator Robert Taft, the Republican leader, declared in the United States Senate today.
In his first foreign policy speech of the 82nd Con- gress, Senator Taft said he was willing to commit "some limited number of American divisions" to North Atlantic defence.
But he said that Europe must take the lead in form- ing such a force.
gramme
Senator Taft said: "I do not Secretary Acheson at Brussels think we should force our Bahas undertaken to commit the Fisiance on nations which do United States to any such asaia- not wish to arm themselves.. Itance before or during a war, do not think we should insist they are usurping the authority or even urge that Europeans given by law and their pro- should be submitted form a great international army unless they request us to help to Congress for consideration," them with that project.
Senator Taft said-Reuter. "I do no think we should
the leadership formation of a great interna- tional army by the appoint- ment of
American Commander-in-Chief."
Draume
GR
of the
AUTHORITY QUERIED
President Truman has
al-
STOP PRESS
rendy named General Dwight First VC Of The
D. Eisenhower for the post of Supreme Atlantic Commander, and the Administration plans to send
American troops to more Europe to serve in the combined defence force.
At his press conference yes terday. President Truman said there was no question but that
send
he had the authority to ore troops to Europe. Senator Taft questioned this authority, and said that it was
matter
to which Congress
a
must agree. Senator
Taft
said: "The
President has no power to agree to send American troops to
fight
in Europe in a war. be- tween the members of the Atlantic Poct and Soviet Russia.
"Without authority he volves us in the Korean war. Without authority, he apparent- ly is now adopting a similar
in Europe. phis matter must
be de- bated and determined by Con-
country
Korea War
It has been officially announced that the Victoria Cross has been posthumously awarded lo Major Kenneth Mulr of the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. This is the first VC award of the Korean
war.
England 258-5
After an hour's play Brown and Bailey had
increased the England overnight score of 211 to 258, Brown was then 79 and -Balley 13. Brown scored 43 runs this morning in 60 minutes.
Lunch Score
gress and by the people of this England 274 for 2, Brown, b if we are to maintain | Lindwall 70, Bailey retired hurt any of our constitutional free-13, Bedser out 3. Evans not out doms," he said.
11, Warr not out 2. He
Bald that
before the Atlantic Pact was ratified by the American Senate, "respons afble oficials denied that the United States would be called forces in upon to use ground Europe.
"I the President, in his con- ference with Mr Attice (the British Prime
Minister)
of!
COMMENT OF THE DAY
0
In Paris
Li Gianella, the six-year-old Italian child prodigy Orchestra leader, chats with a Paris taxi-cab driver on her arrival at the Gare de Lyon for a recital she gave at the Salle Plevel, Paris, London Express Service.
Savage Attacks By More Britons 4-Point
Chinese Reds In
Wonju Area
Tokyo, Jan. 5.
Huge Communist forces launched a flerce offensive today to breach the centre of the United Nations' 150-mile defence line across Koren.·
About 200,000 Communists were attacking savagely north of Wonju, key town in the penin- sula's hilly spine, according to frontline reports.
The drive came within two days of the cap- ture of Seoul, the former South Korean capital.
Peking Radio said that North Koreans and Chinese Communists aimed at "completely wiping out the American aggressors from the peninsula.” The United Nations forces were resisting stubbornly north of Wonju, frontline reports said. Tokyo spokesmen would not, pursuing Communlits known verit published reports that to have crossed the frozen Han
the town's airstrip had been River. abandoned.
They Army
Pay Taxes
London, Jan. B.
Income tax figures showed today that Britons more than
aro
earning
they did five years ago.
Flor
the 1048-49 tax years, 15,000,000 persons pald income taxes, com
pared with 13,000,000 in when 1945-40,
the rate
was slightly higher.
Iņ.1039-40, only 4,100,- 000 were paying.
The net income for tax assessment In 1948-49 was -£3887,000,000. ** This yielded £1,338,000,000, according to the report of Ute Commissioners of In- land Revento-Assvolated Press.
Eisenhower Leaving
For Europe
Plan For
Korea
ATTEMPT TO FIND SETTLEMENT
Lake Success, Jan. 6. The 12 Asian and Arab nations met again here to | day and were understood
to have discussed pro-- senting a four-point plan
for a Korean settlement and negotiation an other Far Eastern issues.
This group, which sponsored the original cease-fire proposal and a second proposal-so far not discussed-for talks on Far Eastern issues after a cease-fire, was
believed to have decided not to present the four-point plan to the United Nations Poll- Ucal Committee when it mot later today.
COTL
After visiting the new lines Upiled States Eighth Army toddy, Lieutenant General Mat reports later said that the area thow B. Ridgway, the Eighth around. Wonju
The resolution under was still, in
Commander,
reported
Washington, Jan. 5. Wales Notions bonds.
sideration by the 12 nations, "everything fine up there.
General Dwight Eisenwho met at the home of Bir added that there were no re- The Eighth Army said that ports that United Nations units United Nations patrols skirmish-hower will leave tomorrow Bonegal Narsing Rau, the chief there were threatened with ed briefly with 30 Communists at for his new task as
Indian delegate, was understood to have boen based on the YongdonNKS LOST
mander of West Europe following lines: west of Seoul,
endirèlement, encare
of the day.
com.
Wonju les about 25 miles the south of Kongchon where
The British Brigade, covering forces. He will fly first to Eighth Army had earller TC-
the United ported the
noteworthy “only
from Seat Nations withdrawall Paris, where he will spend a Other tanks and yesterday. Jost "some week conferring with French activity United Nationa troops,
in-ing in action," a few men miss- military leaders. British spokes- cluding the British, consolidat man announced in Tokyo.
Then he will confer with Ing new defence lines "some- An American spokesman cate- Lord Montgomery, head of the where south of Seoul," sent gorically denied reports that a
Western Union Defence Or- patrols north to contact the British Centurion tank Was ganisation at Fontainbleu.
among those lost.
Gen, Eisenhower leaves about noon in an Air Force plane.
Britain Stands Pat On Recognition
Of Communist
China
London, Jan. 5.
Some of the men reported missing were expected to alter the Communist back through lines, a British spokesman sald
There
The Alled evacuation was completed last night
when United Nations, warships vins of Inchon, this port of Seoul took off the rear-guard of the
United Nations troops. were believed to
All United Nations forces be safe be- River south of
Mr Ernest Bevin, Britain's Foreign Secretary, maintained Britain's attitude that a condition of a Far Eastern settlement is a recognition of Communist China when he addressed the Commonwealth Prime Minis-hind the Han ters' meeting here today.
the city including 200 men of the British Royal Ulster Rifles,
But he was at pains to explain that in the British view this did earlier reported trapped. not in any way involve an attitude of appeasement.
was
to ference centered round Far Eastern problems with the main question as the Commonwealth's attitude to China.
His argument, according sources close to the conference, that it is unrealistic to expect the Peking Communist regime to discuss any settlement unless its own status is acknow- ced by all parties to the negotiations.
Discussions of the Common- wealth Prime Ministers on the second day of their 10-day con-
Commonwealth Conference
all the conferences in which the Commonwealth have joined none holds more import or covers such a vast and vital field of subjects than the meetings now being held in London by the Prime Ministers. They are there not merely to debate Commonwealth interests, but are committed to try and find definite means of helping to bring peace to the entire world. In the or- dinary course of events this would be an undertaking of some magnitude, but with the situation as it is in the Far. East, allied with the political ten- sions of Europe, these elected repre.. sentatives of freedom-loving countries are assuming a task which at first sight appears to be hopeless. But they do, at least, start off on this firm, com- mon ground: the whole of the British Commonwealth desires international peace and has the will to seek it in a manner that will guarantee it will be unsullied either by appeasement to ag- gression or concessions to tyranny. The only discernible differences of opinion are in points of emphasis. Mr Nehru, for example, insists that Com- munist China should not be regarded as a satellite of Soviet Russia, a view. point which his Commonwealth col- Icaguca find difficult to accept in the light of recent events. Again Mr Nehru emphasises that the best method of bringing about world peace is for the nations to stop the arma ments race. But in this instance, also, Britain, Canada and Australia can point to their own example of how digarmament has served only to on- courage the hostilo dictatorships to programmes Intensify rearmament with the result that today the freedom-. loving world in threatened by the sheer forcé of the armaments' weight
of the Iron Curtain countries. The conclusion which seems to be unavoid- able is that peace by agreement is not in sight and therefore the Western nations, including the British Common- wealth, must proceed with steps to avert war by building up' enough strength to deter Soviet Russia and her friends from further aggression for which the present Western weak- ness provides the greatest temptation. Mr Nehru, we feel sure, would be the first to concede that the Western nations have done nothing in a war- like mood. In theory and in practice the policy which the Western powers have laid down. is and must remain purely defensive.
to
.
The Commonwealth
is now
The Pacific Dominions-Aus-stressed his
.
· FORMOSA QUESTION
any
waa
Six Chinese
at
"has
1. The establishment uf- a
progressive with- drawal of troops on both sides from Korea.
3.The establishment of a including Com-
commission,
China, to discuss Far Eastern problems.
4.The creation of a Unlied Nations Commission to super- viso elections in Kol.
ISRAELI PROPOSAL`
He sald Field Marshal Mont-
several times gomery offered to place himself at my The discussion Was under- disposal," but there has been stood to have followed the no "special discussion" about lines of a suggestion made at Stting him into the European the last session of the Political Command Associated Committee by Mr Arne Sunde, High Press.
of Norway, that the cease-fire committee of three should con- sider a set of principles as "a possible negotiations subsequent to the cavishized
I
Gun Battle With Reds
basis for
'9-Lond". along an agreed boundary.
2.The start of a conference opposing parties. under the auspices of a United between the Nations Commissloh.
An Israeli delegation
spokes
no plans to present a formal. resolution at today's Political Committee meeting, but consul- ended tations with the Russians, the and plain- Americans, the British and the were Police
lying Indians had led them to belleve wounded, some seriously. Many that "there is still room for fur-, Communista ivere also: hit.
ther attempts to clarify the situation."Reuter.
Reuter.
The Connoisseur comes to
CALDBECKS
establishment of a cease-Dre."
Meanwhile, it WES learned that the Israeli delegation had United Nations guns pounded
consulted the American, Bri- the Han River today to try to
fish, Russian and Indian delc- smash the ice and prevent the
Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 5. gates during the past week on the Communists 2~~TO stand fast by
from walking
The police in Recife, capital the possibility of formally in underlying principles
joint across, Reuter,
of the Brazilian state of Per- troducing
their alage-by-stage. United Nations action in Korea. PLANNED WITHDRAWAL
15-minute approach to the
entire Sino- nambuco, fought a 3-To shape the Common-
Washington, Jan. 5. gun battle with Communists in Korean problem. wealth policy so as to take into
A senior United States Army account both the realities of the officer assorted
which several on both sides The Israeli proposal, made on divided in the matter of United States attitude and the today that the withdrawal of the
emphatically were wounded, according to December.. 13, envisaged. these
mala stops: received here today. reports nising Mr Mao Tse-tung's regime in China, Britain, India, Pakis- Chinese outlook so far as it is United Natious forces in Korea
Press reports from Recife'
establishment of t tan and Ceylon have recognised Mr Bevin is thought to have
& well-planned and said on Wednesday night that the now regime while Australia,
the police surrounded the pre- "It not o roat or a Dun New Zealand, Canada and South outlined to the Prime Ministers executed withdrawal,
mises of the latest Ideas exchanged be kirk," he said.
Communist a local Africa have not.
tween London, Washington and
At the
down. There were hints tonight that Lake Success for handling the
same time he gave closed, which had been Agures to show the over- The staff of the paper, back these opposing attitudes to China next move in the Korea issue.
Mr Bevin urged that the best whelming strength being throwned by a number of ather Com- a tool at werc voiced vigorously by
But road to a settlement in the Far Korean Communists against the
by the Chinese and North munists, attempted to storm several Prime Ministers,
the building, threatening the all quarters kept their lips East is recognition of the Pek- Valted Nations forces.
police with rifes and revolvers. Government as the effective scaled on details of today's dis-ing Govern
A total of 950,000 Communist When the gun-ight representatives of China. cussion.
"He
troops 450,000 of them still in several uniformed is believed, to hive
reserve in North Korea-were clothed argument that, involved in the offensive, he tralia and New Zealand arrived uuder the present cireann-sald. here holding the view that if stances, It is unrealistic to ex- the Commoirwealth as a whole pect Peking to discuss
Communist declared th favour of Chinese settlement unless her own status armies, of about 30,000
men Communist recognition, it would is acknowledged by all parties five are in reserve to the north. each, were at the front, and be effective only If they could to the negotiations.
The Communists had ensure concurrent action by the United States.
equipped and made operational 19 North Korean divisions, Mr Robert Menzies and Mér On Formosa (whose neutra- ranging in size from 3,400 to Sidney Holland, the Australian Usation President Truman link- 9,000 men. and New Zealand Prime Minio-ed with the Korean question at Asked by reporters what be
understood to ters, are
bo the outbreak of the Korean thought about reports that the anxious that the conference fighting), Britain is. understood United
Nations would should not create any impression to favour some form of United driven out of Korea,
be re- that Commonwealth policy op- Nationa supervision pending plied: "I do not get this de- circumstances permitting the featist attitude, but you can poses that of America.
implementation of the 1043 jalways be wrong."-Reuter. Cairo Declaration.
U.S. CASUALTIES Washington, January 5. The US
US Defence Department announced that Ameri- mosa to the Republic of China, can casualties in Korea totalled The real British alan on Far 40,176 up to December 20, In- Eastern questions during the cluding 0,081 killed 27,987
at-wounded and 0,140 missing. Mr Menzies and Mr Holland Prevent conference is
tempt to draw. up broad Total casualties by services: are understood to bavo expressed
all mem-Army, 33,184; Marínes, 6,212; these viewpoints to the other principles to which
bors of the Commonwealth |Navy, 458; Air Force, 322---- statesmen here. Australia anu
could subscribe.
Associated Press. New Zealand would like to see a Pacific Pact defence scheine If the British delegation can brought into being side by side succeed in this, the next step with the Atlantic Pact orgtinian tion. Both countries have point- Commonwealth influence inside ed out that such a Pact could the United Nations to chilst the without Unifett support of the other powers for not operato States help.
a United Nations policy based
Tokyo, Jan. 5. The general opinion at the on these principles.
Ho Ying-chin, conference was said to be that The conferenco coded fts former Chinese Nationalist while the Commonwealth should longest session tonight just be- Prime Minister and Comman- work in close alliance with the fore o
G.M.T”” Plenary ¡der-in-Chief, arrived-In Tokyo United States, the latter poli- scasions will resume on Mon- today from Taipeh (Formora). cies should not be allowed to day.
Tho. Gederal, who is one of commit the Commonwealth: 100 A communique Isrued at the President Chiang Kai-shek'o far, especially in the Far East,' close of today's session sak most trusted Houtenants, bald At their Mr Brucat Bevin, the Foreign maroly
meetings that he had come to Japan to Secretary addressed
and this 'eftes- be at tho nião "of ‹n:relativo today's this morning long session of the conference, noon, the Prime Ministers.con-
on-undergoing medical treatment, outlining the latest British views tinued their review of the inter When.
preated by reporters on i
-the Far Easteca crise,” national situation, (with part-the - denied that he had, any Helt understood to have cular referetion to the Far special mission connected with based his approach on three caller than International praduation,
uzzer, jumala discussion will be con- General". He, Ying-china prachum,
DISAPPOINTED
This Declaration was a decl-
sion in principle to join For today Every effort has
been made to indicate that the West Is ready to explore every road to peace, however uncompromising, and it is in full knowledge of this that the Commonwealth Prime Ministers are meeting to try and find a practical Nevertheless the formula for peace. conference will also bear fally in mind that the free peoples of the world still want to live in freedom and that they are by no means willing to succumb the counsel of discouragement, despair and defent, for which there is nolther political nor military warrant. And the Commonwealth Prime Minis- tera must act on the conviction, which is shared by other statesmen as well as rallitary leaders that as long as the free world does not yield to mutual suspicions and abject fear, and doos not permit the Kremlin to conquer the free nations one by one, there is no ́dangor so great that it cannot be met by the combined resources of the free world, including the Commonwealth, united In actions
Both Australia and 'New Zea- land, feeling themselves isolated in the Pacific, are disappointed at India's "middle-of-the-rond" policy.
be
would be to use the collective HOYING-CHIN
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