1951-06-06 — Page 3

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1951.

British Government Sending

Representative To Way Cleared Iran Capital

For American NEW PLAN TO REACH Aid To India SOLUTION OF CRISIS

SENATE-HOUSE AGREEMENT

Washington, June 5. Senate House conferees cleared the way today for final Congressional approval to speed. 2,000,000 tons of

wheat India.

London, June 5.

A British Government representative, Sir. Thomas Gardiner, will accompany a four-man Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) mission to Teheran-this-week to try to settle the oil crisis.

Informed officials said tonight that Britain hopes in this way to overcome a main stumbling- to famine-stricken block in the way of a settlement of her dispute with

They agreed to Iran. soften Congressional de-

That obstacle has been Iran's refusal to accept manda for strategic British Government intervention in the dispute. materials in return for the "easy" loan of $190,000,000. Representative Jantes

sures youn. The Senate is x-

By sending one of its own royalty payments to fran nominees m the A10C provided Premier Moham- Richards (Domberat). chief of Directorate. Britain hus med Mossadegh's Govern- | the House vanterees. experts found

IL way of getting ment showed willingness to: The House to act on the nearound the difficulty, for Sir reach a fair settlement of! pected to act quickly as well. Thomus will be in a position the current oil dispute.

The conferees

worked

out of acting not only for the Company but also for the the loan and rejected the de- | Government. mand to insist

the differences Betweent House, and Senate versions

ONL

The of

the

i

British sources emitioned that Britain was in to hurry to re- sume" panini vf £2,000,000 sterling a menth in the absence

no

A spokesman for the Anglo- Iranian Oil Company said immediate decision on the re- payments sumption of royalty to Iran could be expected but said due consideration

would

substantial Beltain owns mars than half quantities of inourzite and the stock of the billion-dollar | of prospects for a negollated mangwese in repayment. They | AIOC. It has two representa-; settlement. adopted

instead the House lives on the Directorale. fanguage which would leave the -choice ·nt--- raw-motorial for

repayment to negotiation. of

free do not make The

conferees the raw materials repayments mandatory. They agreed that the United States should lend Job of the mission will be to India needed money from the advise the Iranian Government of the Economic Coon how to conduct the opera-

Administration as tion of the oil industry

The sources said AIOC will announce the full composition mission tomorrow. In- steal of today as

as plantas. The Cabinet today approved the composition of

in the Senate version. its nationalisation.

the

Senat

In-

the team,

after

CLEAR IMPLICATION

its

be given the problem.

or

Ex-Servicemen Protest By Torchlight

We remember

SEINE..

BOOUSKAP

war yours

Banners flying, a section of a torchlight procession through Capetown makes

its way through crowded Adderley Street. The procession, largely composed of ex- Servicemen, was a protest against the Malan Government's new Voters' Bill,'

AP Photo.

Seretse Wants To British Troops

Return To Africa

London, June 5. chief

Seretse Khama, banished

of the Bamangwato tribe of Bechuanaland, today urged the British Government to allow him to return to his people for a trial perlod "to fill the dangerous vacuum created by my being exiled."

So (D1', the oil company's mission which is to negotiate in Teheran has not been select- ed and the start of discussions They modified

in Teheran is therefore not ex- mendment offered by Karl

pected before the week-end Mundt, Republican, to use

Atoc offerett 10

early next week, send din's interest payments on the

to Teheron

em- without Authoritative quarters loan ib educate Indian youths mission

prejudice to its claim-filed last phasise that Britain is living up methods,

month in The Hague Inter-to het financial obligations to The amendment aims to helpational Court of Justice that Iran and continuing to pay her tribal faction over his marriage allowance during

nationalisation Iran's

regular royalties as provided under the 1933 agreement. Pay- ment is made in two instalments yearly, in the spring and autumn. 1951 instalment was The first in-paid in February.

in

modern agricultural

India avold future fainthes.

פורת

conferees limited

thr

educational progranune funds invalid.

to

law is

$5,000,000 instead oľ եր Both the Government and the estimated $28,000,000 that would company have, however, come

the to accept that some sort of like

have been available Senate amendment,

In

In a statement issued here, Seretse, who was banished last the Bamangwato year frum Reserve for five years after to a white woman, said that he had asked for permission to return as chief to help introduce

over of their vast Iranian These quarters said payments James Henderson

Many Congressmen feared, terests cannot be avoided, that The naning of specifie The fact that AIOC is sending being withheld

set hard and a

mission to

affected only

a post-advance payments on royalties. <||scuss materids would fast barter provisions in legisla nationalisation plan of operation Britain puid Tran £5.000.000 in

that the Com- February and £2,000,000 tion and kill off the propaganda clearly imples benefits of the Americanpany has conceded a new busis March, but she stopped further must come into payments in April and also humanitarian gesture-United of operations

declined an Iranian request for payment of the May instalment, i

Unlied Press.

Proszi.

S. Africa May Attend

force soon.

The sources said another member of the Company mission will be the Deputy Chairman of

AIOC.

They will fly to Teheran within a few days,

TROOPS ASSEMBLING

are

Resigns

more democratic government to thern.

in who is living Seretse, Loridon, on a British Government his banish- the recent ment, challenged statement by the Secretary for Mr Commonwealth Helations, Patrick Gordon-Walker, that a adminis- more representative tration could be set up only in

the absence of himself and his

uncle, Tshekedi,

18.

For Germany

~London, Jahe-8- Mr John Strachey, the War Minister, sald today that it was protibsed to have. 4-1/3 divisions ire Germany at or about the end of the year.

Answering questions in the House of Commons, he said that he could not give detalls of the plans for 1082, but the 4-1/3 Brittalk divisions was not a fixed limit of the number which clt- unforeseeable cumstances would be scut to Germany.-Reuter.

Challenge By Tories

Defeated

London, June 5.

The facts are that, bereft of their chief, my people have been left in state of utter сол- Washington, June 5, fusion," he declared, "This has James Henderson, Adminis-been enhanced, as I forestw, by the Philippine Alien direct rule, which has attempted, trator of

Administration, con-among other things, to foist upon Property

The Government defeated a ferred with President Truman my people so-called native coun-Conservative challenge to one of today and afterward told re-

A foreign system of admins its budget proposals tonight by histration that will never porters that he submitted resignation, since the organisa-until its ultimate advantages are 304 votes to 286- majority of tion is due by law to expire by patiently explained by one of June 30.

their own people in whom they Mr Henderson said, that since have Impllelt faith and from It began operations early whom, by tradition, they are 1947, the

has prepared to accept guidance." handled Japanese and German Two recent tribal meetings property seized during the war had demanded his recall, Seretse with a total value of about went on,----- $150,000,000. Claims against this property amounted to $75,- WIFE'S POSITION 000,000 or $80,000,000. The ba- lance had been turned over to the Philippine Repubile.-United

Nicosia, June 5.. A British parachute brigade Meanwhile the Company made and a light anti-tank regiment Capetown, June 5. Observers from the Union of known that about 300 women totailing 4,000 men will arrive; the in Cyprus on June 11 and 15, of As-and children, members of South Africa House

the next familles of AIOC employees in it was officially announced here sembly moy uttend

to today. Iran, are to be flown back session of the Council of

Britain in the next week or two,

The "Red Devils," as the Europe meeting at Strasbourg

They are coming back Just in parachutists

called after parue In September.

case trouble Bares in the oilfields. their unit sign, and their sup Prime The

Minister.

arrived

porting gunners will be housed Daniel Malan, said in the House The first group of 50

in five camps near Nicosia. An today that the President of the yesterday.-Associated Press.

additional infantry battalion is due here on Thursday.

Other units arrived here dur-Press. ing the week-end from the Suez Canal Zone, among them medical and supply services. landing Three

craft arrived

Dr

Consultative Assembly of the

Council of Europe. M, Paul Henri Spaak, had recently ad- dressed

ROYALTY TAYMENT

London, June 5, an invitation to the Informed sources said to Speaker of the Union Parlia- ment and he was giving it his night that Britain might be prepared to resume advance

attention.

Reuter.

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8 Medsure (4)

9 Fragrant (8)

11 Argued (8).

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Puzzle

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of worship (4)

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Conspiracy (4)

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(5)

Shymeuittes (5)

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19. Routes (5).

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24 Small whitipoo) (4)

YESTERDAY'S CROSSITO RD.—Across: 1 Ballad, 4 Depot, Bilksful, 8. Abide, Lassen, 11 Bemetit, 18 Procede, 15 Cintor, 16. Adun, 19 Taghaped 20 Dei, 21 Enduro, Down: 1 ARDALE LARSYEJA Denned, Dilute, Pehle a Talent: 10 Bhakteru, 19 Labrum, 19 Fabad, 14. Exodus, 10 Awked, 12. Ridge.

and

MYSTERY MAN OUT-

in

Administration

NEPALESE ENVOY SEES MORRISON

the

"If Lbe Secretary

of State really wishes to carry out democratically expressed wishes of the Bamangwato, on what grounds tloes he turn a deaf car speelfie demand of theirs?" he asked.

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In the Bama hacer is to wo bacici

This was on the proposal to Increase the tax on petrol by four pence

half-penny an- cuncett in the Budget list April. challenge The Conservative was one of several they are making in a three-day attack on the Budget, which is tonight being discussed in detail (in the. Committee stage).

Defeat of any of the proposals could endanger the Government..

Conservallveg contended that the Increase in the tax on petrol,

The

LUNA@PARK CINEMA HAIR-CONDITIONED

The constitutional position of bringlug the price to three shill- in Famagusta Harbour last night

his English wife, Ruth Williams, ings and seven pence Half-penny had been settled by the tribe's a gallon, would increase the cost more are expected two

London, Junë 5. the week. The craft

acceptance of her, he said, and of fares and transport. during will enable the

The Nepalese Ambassador 10 the question of his successor was be troops to

General

Government said that Slanker "purely academic." as only male Britain, disembarked from their ships as

Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana, heirs could

money had to come from söttle- rapidly as possible.

When

teed. aircraft tanded paid his first call on the For- transport

arose possibly only where to pay for rearmament, Secretary, Mr Herbert after here from London today carry-cign

generation- fribdi Rèuter. ing 85 British troop reinforce-Morrison, at the Foreign Office meeting could settle it.

"Serotse said that he would ments to Korea. Three plane- today.

General Shanker was not in strongly support the setting up loads for Korea have already

200 London when Mr Morrison Arst of an independent Commission passed through. Inaking

took office as Foreign Beers of Enquiry which he was sure men in all. Reuter,

tary, It was believed that he would recommend his return to discussed the situation Negal

where friction between

My one Teheran, June 5. the nominated and hereditary where d belong, confident that 1 The Iranian Foreign Office tonight relieved Calust Sores members of the

Pentent Gulbenkian, wealthy 83-year-

oll financier and Nepalese old mystery shardholder วิทย the Anglo- In year.-Reuter, Iranion Oil Company, of his post as honorary commercial of the Iranian Embassy in

Gulbenkian's son Nuber was Telleved on Monday of a similor past with the Iranian Embassy in London. The elder Gulben- klan, who spends most at his time in Lisbon, hus a fortune estimated as high as $1,000,000,- 000-United Press.

THE NICENT LITTLE Cabinet re- can help to bring my people | THEATRE IN TOWN

threatened to upset the peace, democratic government retched after the and a progressive improvement disorders in their standard of living," he Congress

concluded. Reuter.

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the Trusteeship. body when Council opens its ecsalon

to-

dayne Counell will examinie,

The

among other reports, the first annual report of Italy's ad- ministration of Somation, her tormbé colony.AL

Italy, though not a member of the United Nations, has the right to participate without a Vote in the deliberations riboted with Somaliland

Cón-

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