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British Government Japan Peace Treaty To Be Signed

To Request In San Francisco Supervision Board

London, July 6.

The British Government announced today that it was approaching Persia immediately with a view to setting up a board of supervision for the Persian oil industry as proposed by The Hague Court yesterday.

An official statement approved by the Cabinet said:

inevitable if Persia rejected the World Court's proposal,

"His Majesty's Government Though the Persian Govern- accepts

the findings of the ment is not expected to issue an International Court. They be official statement on the refee- lieve they offer a fuir basis ontton until tomorrow, the Pre- which the two parties may come mler, Dr Mossad and other together

reach under the Government leaders emphasised aegis of the International Court, today that they considered The

satisfactory settlement.

Flague Court ruling to be con- "This will depend on thetrary to nationalisation, readers of both sides to It-

ect the Court's findings.

spect

Thi students

ailing Premier

fold

who visited his bet

His Majesty'a Government, side: "We shall go ahead with for their part, are ready to mation

sationalisation, Persia is not carry them out. They are forth-¦ prepared to recanise the juris- with

World Court to Persian dietion of the appreaching the Goverment with a view to the make a ruling on setting up of a board of super petence."

which is not within its com- vision proposed by the Court and the restoration

of condi-

11014 which will enable oil production necordance recommendat

Informed political, circles in Teheran said that it was not

to be resume: halikely that Persia would ask the Court's the United Nations for a straight

ruling on nationalisation.

FIRST WEEK OF SEPT.

SAY US OFFICIALS

Washington, July 6.

State Department officials confirmed on Friday that the ceremony of signing the Japanese peace treaty will take place at San Francisco during the first week of September,

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These officials confirmed word from aides of the San Francisco Mayor, Mr Elmer Robinson, that the chief United States treaty negotiator, Mr John Foster Dulles, had notified the Mayor of the choice by the United States Government of that city.

They said no official announcement was to be made here for the present because the United States was in the process of notifying other interested governments of its choice.

Gaol For

Millionaire

Instructions were being rent It was probable that she "Shep- would raise the Issue in the tonight to Sir Francis herd, the British Ambassador Security Councit on the basis of in Teheran, to raise with Persiu complaints against the presence the question or setting up the of the British cruiser Mauritius

Frederick off Abadon and of British troops supervision board,

Sir in Iraq. I was thought here that

Shepherd would ap-

Perdan proach the ment on this morrow.

Francis

Persia has already described Govern- this as "attempts at intimida-

to-lon."

United | 000

question

UN ISSUE Teheran messages said that Pertin is likely to bring her oil with Britain before dispute the Untied Nations.

This likelihood increased to-

it became night when that the

Government would

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support the

med Mossadea

elear

the Prime rejected

Minister, that Persla

The decision on a Nations protest had been left in abeyance until the World Court issued its findings. Now it was likely that some early decision would be taken, these sald-Router.

Couri's Hug- the International atation for freeze" in the station nationalisation issue.

Today, armed Persian police cordenza off

of the Anglo-Iranian temporary office

at Khol on the main-

ink

They said Mr Dulles had first spoken with Mayor Robinson by telephone and later confirmed their conversation with a telegram.

No opposition to the United States choice was expected from any of the Allied governments al- though it was understood here that the selection was made after considerable debate within the State Department.

Reports from San Francisco' said Mr Dulles inform- ed the Mayor that the historic ceremonies would take place between September 4 and 8 in the War Memorial Opera House and the Veterans Building, the scene of the birthplace of the United Nations in 1945.

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Mr Morrison Has His Fortune Told

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US Fleet To Stay Indefinitely In Formosa Straits

Washington, July 6.

Informed officials said today that the United States Seventh Fleet was expected to continup its watch on the Formosa Straits indefinitely.

The fleet originally was assigned to prevent any Com- munist invasion of Formosa or Nationalist attack on the mainland when the Korean war broke out in June 1950.

The ofcinis sald: "Occupa-

Satisfactory

Mr. Herbert Morrison, Foreign Secretary, listens attentively as Mrs Vaughan Williams' reads his hand at the Brockham Gree, Surrey, 1851 coun- try fair. No prophesy about a forthcoming, elec- tion was made, but. Mr Morrison was told he had a "good hand which show ed a clever brain." -AP Picture.

Trade Pacts Cancelled

Washington, July 01 The United States announced today that it was cancelling its

trade ngreements with Russia, Rumania and Bulgaria. is The United States also

for amendment in Its

New York, July 0.

Verderbilt

Field millionaire supporter of leftist causes, was sent to gool today. for contempl of court in re-, fusing to tell who posted $80.- bail for four fugitive American Communist leaders.

Federal Judge Sylvester J.

a defence ples Ryan rejected

State Department and United | India alone among the Com- that Flat

should remain on Nations

was said were manwealth countrica atives represe an appeal was sources parole until

expected

arrive in Son to be at variance with some heard this afternoon

at Francisco on August 27 todo aspects of the draft treaty Yale Law School

New!

preliminary work on the con Japan. Offeials appeared con- Haven, Connecticut.

Adent that India's objections ference. statement made Steamer Aground:

Mr Dulles told the Mayor he Japanese rearmament, and Indian Field was sentenced to DO during the day by Dr. Moham-

Panic On Board

days in gaol yesterday for con- hoped President Truman would insistence that Communist Chins Berlin, July 0. tempt

court. The court conclude the ceremony with abe included as a signatory to the treaty, would be cuwoted by the The American-run

major speech. radle stayed execution of the sentenco

Earlier on Friday, Governor majority of the members of the RIAS reported today until today to give him a chanco

Far East Commission. Earl Warren said in Sacramento that un East German passenger lo appeal to the United States

he thought Son Francisco

The conclusion of the Japan-tion of Formosa by Communist carrying 100 persons Court of Appeal.

"would be a fiting place for ese

forces would be a direct threat Condition proce treaty steame

of the Pacific ran uground In Magdeburg as

Field is secretary of

the tha

to be followed almost to the security signing of the Japanese pected the passengers panicked.

Congress Boil peace treaty. He said: "We immediately by a bilateral de-area and to the United States The radio, which is in the Civil Rights

fence agreement posted $200,000 would be very happy.

between the forces performing their lawful American scotor,

the Fund, which quotex

should United States and Japan, and and necessary functions in that Communist-edited

11 Communist the for the

peace conference Magdeburg bail

later by

triangular Pacific area. as the United Nations was born | pact

Use of avert military United development in the dispute other Volkslimme as its source. RIAS leaders convicted of advocating come to our State, in as much later

between of the United could British suid casualties

the overthrow

States, Australia and New by the Communists in Koren Forrest, who was knocked down agreements with Hungary and -will be welcomed into the

these Nations after United

be States policy toward the island after midnight,isatis- the Japan would trealy, and California would included.

bastion of the Nationalist gov factory. She was removed to be a ating place for signing."

axis ernment. Like Koren, Formosa Queen Mary Hospital shbrily A Washington-Tokyo In Washington, however,

considered White House officials sald Pro was thus in prospect to replace before that time had not been after the accident.

essential London-Delhi axis. United States security. peri- the former sident Truman had not yet

meter in the Western Pacific. made a decision about deliver-United Press. ing an address h San Fran-

In his speech at the, National Press Cubs in January last year, and failed to stop was chased by the Secretary of State, Me Dean another car driven by Mr A, Van Acheson, omitted both Korea and der Wal, with Mr R, D. Bethell Formora from the "defensive as possenger. The sports car after perimeter" which he said ran rounding the corner inte Con- the Ryukyus and the Philippine naught Read ran into the harbour Islands.

near the VRC. The driver, said to be a European; was later ESSENTIAL AREAS

crew ploked up by the However, with the decision to launch in the veinity. defend South Korea, the neces-also sent to Queen Mary hospital, sity of enlarging the scope of the

land, opposite Abadan.

There

was

no however,

not be

a

the

force

The condition of Miss Joan asking

Embassy-official-that-a-Brilish.dotermined immediately.—United States Government by violence. here. Japan, in all probabilond-in-which it was hoped | brought a swift change in Unilca / by a car in Garden Road shortly / Poland and threatens to cancel

than a statement by

a

evacuation

of

the oilfields was Press,

COMMENT OF THE DAY

Making

Reuter.

Ourselves Heard

THERE will be not a few who will

mans,

agree with Mr Leonard Gam- the Conservative MP, that Hongkong, particularly at this time, voci- should have more direct and ferous representation in London. It is true that this Colony for some time has suffered from an unsympathetic British Press, which also makes little or no effort to understand our position in regard to trade. Ignorance about Hongkong is no new phenomenon and we could in ordinary circumstances afford to be tolerant of it. But at the moment it is being employed to give to English and American newspaper readers a distorted impression of our functions in this part of the world- to our painful detriment. We are not, of course, without spokesmen and real friends in London. As the Hongkong Government Officer in Whitehall, Mr E. G. A. Grimwood has in the past, well our in- and continues to serve

Furthermore there exists a terests. propaganda channel through the Cen- tral Office of Information. The China Association wields some influence, al- though naturally its interests extend beyond a purely Hongkong horizon.

there Nevertheless

exist sources through which the voice of Hongkong. might be more effectively trumpeted in London and the provinces. The ques- being tion arises whether they are

Tho fully utilised by the Colony. Government PRO is now in England

of conference colonial attending a public relations officers presumably, de- signed to improve liaison between themselves and the Colonial : Office. Here is an obvious opportunity for the Colony's Mcial spokesman to convinco the Central Office of Information, which possesses impressive propagan da machinery, to devote more time to the dissemination of facts about Hongkong, how its economy is main tained, what precisely are our trading

our

relations today with Communist China and other countries, how we are being victimised by embargoes and welfare threatened by the imposition of trading regulations and restrictions. How too, the Colony is making a very definite contribution to the American- inspired campaign to prevent strategic materials reaching the hands of Com- munist belligerents. The Government PRO is in the best position to obtain and and collate the necessary facts figures, and the Central Office of In- the formation has

most effective machinery for their distribution in Britain and the United States. More- over we need a more sympathetic ear from the Board of Trade. It was only under pressure from, the Opposition in the House of Commons that Sir Hart- ley Shawcross recently presented in- formation which went some way to- wurd clearing Hongkong's name of the many scurrilous charges laid against us by uninformed MPs in England and a misted reading public in the United States, Yet Sir Hartley can be kept constantly and fully informed about our position if he so desires. It is up to his department to keep itself in- formed, either through the Colonial Office or the Hongkong Government Officer established in London. For our part we uro only too anxious to pro- vide our critics with all the latest Government Tacts, about ourselves. here hus a business community" will- ing to co-operate in compiling the es- sential data, and in London there are at least threo sources through, which It can be made most effectively pub

Bome lic. In the meantime it is of comfort to know that we have a friendly, interested voice in the House. of Commons: We feel Mr Gammans would raise no objection if we regard- ed him as our unofficial representative in the Mother of Parliaments

els

United Press,

NO OBSTACLES

tha

eventually

MALIK

to

the

HEADS FOR from the Akutlans to Japan to

HOME

the

ecen

vatellite changes,

pacts unless the two

countries

agree to

The action was taken under the new trade agreements ex- A dark coloured sports car which tension act in which Congress that benets of the was alleged to have struck her newly-negotiated

decreed

tariff. cuta be denied the Comi- Congress alto certain Kurs trom China barred Soviet-American trade agreement canot be cancelled on less than six months' notice. The State Department has now of a served this notice and the agrice- He was mant will end on December 23.

United Press.

So

the

ONLY

London, July 0. Official sources said on Fri- day no serious obstacles re- mained In the

the way of Japanese peace treaty and its conclusion was now in pros- pect sooner than anticipated.

The draft

which tiraty emerged from the visit of Pre-

New York, July 6. sident Truman's special re- Mr Jucdb Mailk, the per- presentative, Mr John Fostermanent Soviet delegate to the perimeter became obvious. Dulles,

to London and Paris United Nations, sailed for home far, it has not been the United

has been last month,

made today in

Swedish liner States' policy

to include available to the nations directly Gripsholm with the following mainland areas of Southeast Asla Hvan concerned with the settlement, parting message: "The best of within the line of defence for and officials said their views on luck and good wishes to those which United States

who fight for manpower would be committ tho closed treaty were "very in this country

peace and friendship

between although the US has supplied The next step would be for our countries."

old copious arms and economic

frustrate any. Communist Mr Malik was accompanied by to all countries at war with Japan

and views on

his wife to give their

and their seven- expansion into Indo-China treaty, after which a formal

year-old daughter, Svetlana. He neighbouring countries. Oftshers conference would be called.

planned to be, back in two areas, however, are now regard- ed as essential enes which must Oncials and they were con- or three months. fident the draft treaty, with He criticised American news-be kept from Communist control. Military socurity pacts are now some minor technical changes, reel and television companies for will be approved by all, except "censoring" a 'specch he de- under negotiation which would the Soviet Union and Com-

livered on June 23. In

the keep United States troops in made

for Japan atier Japan regains De specel),

ostensibly munist China. The way will be pe

an'd left open for Russia to accept newsreel

television au-sovereignty and which would an invitation to the conference,

he said that he quoted proclaim a "Monroe Deetrine" for Australia and New Zealand. but a refusal was anticipated. Nelther Communist nor Nation-

of a peaceful co-existence be. The Philippines are under United alist China will be invited, butween the

Slates guarantees of defence. United States and

Tho

United States' security there will be a provision in the

also blanket the freely that Japan can make harusi. He alleged that this plans now

Officials of his quotation from land of Formosa. own post-war arrangements part

here expect the Seventh Fleet, with any "Allied power" which Marshal Stalin was removed,

He agreed, in reply to re- to maintain its defence of that the multilateral did not sign

porters' questions however, that isiand at least until a huge pro tenty.

was reproduced in gramme of military ald to the It appeared, certain from all the speech

Chineso Nationalist forces there avaliable comment that Britain, full in newspapers and said that,

assures that any invasion could United States and France for that reason, he felt he had

bo successfully resisted. determined to press made enough statements,

Admiral Forrest Sherman, One of the biggest contingents ahead quickly with the

and this

chief of naval operatione, said clusion of the treaty and to enot newspaper, reporters

The Seventh week that Communist peace photographers ever to board the Fleet's assignment sure that

would not by any moves in Korca cannot be on-liner walted until eating time

possible

of officials here is that an end Now of fighting in Korea would no: in other parin

New

tho were

con-

die Stalin on the possibility

Its

gineered to block a Japanese for Mr Malik to change his be altered

armistice In Korea, The view

settlement.

OUTDATED SCHEDULE

previously arranged

mind and hold a press

spokesman for

Con-

#chodules for the completion of York Broadcasting "Atution attacka

the danger of Car,” Asia They point, for

The the Japanese treaty have np- WCBS said later that the re-mu parently been outdated by the cording of Mr Mollk's speech of Korean developments, and some was cut by three minutes from example, to several hundred officials believed an initialling 17 minutes running to 14 thousand" Chinese troops £ conference might even be called minutes to At the time limit. The South China which could be this month in anticipation of a spokesman old that this, was used in an invasion of either formal peace conference at Ben the elmlard practice of odsung Indo-China pr Formosa United

Prose Francisco in early September......... recorded addresses. Reuter,

munist, bloc. ordered Russia and Red from the United States.

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