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No. 34955

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THURSDAY, JULY 26, 1951.

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Right Wing Morrison To UN TRUCE DELEGATES TO

:

Win The

Ist Round Setback For Bevan

London, July 25.

The National · Executive of the Labour Party today adopted an official policy statement for the annual conference of the Party to be held at Scarborough, which, in effect, means vic- tory of the policy of the Right-wing majority, led by the Prime Minister, Mir Clement Attlee, over the Left-wing minority led by Mr Aneurin Bevan,

the

The statement, discussed at a special meeting of Executive, drew a barrage amendments from "Bevantie" section of the Party,

of

the

Backing Mr Bevan on the were Mr Tom

Executive

Sign Treaty

London. July 25.

The Foreign Secretary, Mr Herbert Morrison, totd the House of Commons on

Wednesday he I going to Ban Francisco for the Japanese peace treaty signing on Sept

Sept. 8.

talk

The Forelan Omeo ald he presumably with Becretary Acheson the trip, but

on

of Bat

said it was not knowa whether they would

there we

meet only in San Francisco or in Washington as well.

Mr Morrison made the bare announcement of his "plans in the course of a full-dress foreign policy debate in Commana. — As- Bociated Press.

Reynaud Asked To

Driberg, Mra Barbara Castle and Form Govt

Mr Jon Mikardo, all Members

of Parlament.

It was understood that most of the "Bevantte" amendments, which were voted upon, come from Mr Mikardo,

the

But the policy statement was carried by an overwhelming majority. (Decisions National Executive need not be unanimous).

of

PLAIN SPEAKING - Quarters close to the Execu- ilve

were reticent meeting,

Paris, July 25.

President Auriol called on the pre-war premier, M. Paul Reynaud, tonight to try to end the deepening political crisis which has already left France without a government for 15 days in a period of international tension.

to M.

ACCEPT REDS' PROPOSAL

Discussion Of

Withdrawal Of Troops Will Follow Armistice Agreement

UN Advance Base Below Kaesong, July 26.

News of probable peace for Korea came half way around the world as clearing dawn broke over the embattled land on Thursday.

Word came from Washington that General Matthew Ridgway would be instructed to have United Nations negotiators assent to the Reds' compromise proposal when the tenth truce meeting convenes a few hours hence at Kaesong.

Briefing officer Brigadier General William Nuckols said there were indications that the UN capitals would approve the acceptance of the offer made by Communist General Nam II,

It was reported that the basis of settlement was an agreement by the United Nations to place the matter of withdrawal of all foreign troops from Korea high up on the agenda for the peace conference, which is scheduled to follow the completion of a cease-fire.

Iran Wants

Talks To Start Soon

The President turned

Teheran, July 25. about the Reynaud after the former pre- which was under-mler, M. Georges Bidault, re-

Iran called on Wednesday stood to have protiuced much fused tonight to try to form a for immediate reopening of plain speaking

coalition Cabinet the oil negotiations with new centre

Britain. The draft was believed to in- to end the crisis.

warmth.

of

011

and

come

M.

potentia

ed to see the President

SU

He said however it must

DI

The Communist delegation? made a final effort yesterday for an agreement to get all foreign troops out of Korea as o condi- tion to any truce. When the ninth session convened In the morning after

four-day recess, General Nam 11 opened the talks by asking his counter- part, the head of the UN dele. gation, Vice-Admiral C. Turner Joy, If the "newest agenda for conference" proposed a truce

the

and

**

part of Adm.

Why

BARBARA HUTTON

Scientist's Passport Was Cancelled

London, July 25.

Mr Ernest Davies, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, told the House of Commons

SKANDEN

"SWEDISH-MARĖŽU (RECORD SYSTEMS

VERLASHNAHEI PROCES

Lawyer Scoffs At Barbara's Divorce

Reno, July 25. The $100 Mexican divorce obtained by the Woolworth heiress, Barbara Hutton, last weekend from Prince Igor Troubetzkoy Was described today

as "about

na good as last year's bull- fighting programme."

Melvin Belli,. - San Francisco lawyer who represents the Prince, declared 'the' decree was Invalid and said he was trying to decide which course of legal action to take to "blow.it up". The 30-year-old heiress was granted a divorce from Troubetz- köy, her fourth husband, by Mexican officials, who signed a decree based on 'grounds of cruelty. The Prince reportedly

$3,000,000

this afternoon that the passport of an Australian- had demanded £5 Million

Not Enough

For POWS

born scientist, Dr E. H. S. Burhop, was cancelled the price of an unopposed. "in the national interest." He was answering a number of questions on the withdrawal of the passports of Dr Burhop and so far unnamed Foreign Once ometal.

Mr Davies said that the two

separate.

had

Dr Burhop's passport been cancelled, not impounded, Mr Davies stated.

He was asked on July 19 to Omee, Mr Davies added.

"This action WEB taken because Dr Burhop accepted an invitation to go to Moscow, and intended to leave on July 21," Mr Davies sald.

divorce.

Belli commented: "This ia the scientist would be allowed the oddest divorce I ever heard to appeal to a court of justice of. Here's' an American girl who to remove "the stigma made lives abroad and is a Danish on some official file,

cliizen, going to Mexico for a The Under-Secretary naked divorce. for notice of the question.

NO ANSWER

He did

not

She gets it secretly when only her lawyers and the judge are present. This cer- answer when tainly beats anything that ever Major Charles Taylor (Con- happened in à Reno divorce aimilar action would be taken servative, Eastbourne) asked if court, I'll assure you."

in the case of the Dean of Canterbury, Dr Howlett John-

а

"ILL-ADVISED"

Belli said he had no idea whatever?" what Miss Hution's

be got

in

any

by the Reds have been reviewed THREE TIMES AS cases referred to were quite by

The the United Nations. newest agenda stipulated the MUCH NEEDED withdrawal of all foreign troops.

(From Our Own Correspondent) clude proposals on urgent prob- M. Bidault told President Kasem Hassibi, the Govern-

Replying to Gen. Nam Il's lems such as the cost of living, Auriol his own Party was too ment representative on Iran's

London, July 26. the control of prices. and deeply involved in the bitteroll Nationalisation Board, told question, Adm. Joy read from a

The £5,000,000 to be paid further

cuts

should

type-written jn pronts and

get prepared dividends. It asserted that the fight over State ald to Church reporters: "Talks

under way as soon as possible, statement, once again repealing } under the peace treaty as surrender it to the Passport Michael Foot (Labvut: { testimony in her 'divorce action meschools for him to try to

UN position Government's policy on

by on troops compensation

the arms together the badly-spilt Centre There is no time to lose because

Devonport) said that there was amounted to. is right and logical In view of male

majority. His answer came any delay would adversely maintenance.

no definite evidence against Dr: Gen. Nam i listened to the Japanese to former British international after the the

know is that present-day

majority in affect the morale of the people

Joy's POWs in the Far East is

Burhop. These matters should. He said: "All this vital the It is sruation.

National and might lead to a complete carly newly-elected

bo conducted in private if the. Mexican judge says the de- slatement- In a rather tense "grossly inadequate," Bay

possible. It was harsh for cree is good. In fact.it so principle that there is division Assembly divided over the breakdown of further negotia-

attitude, Gen. Nuckols who Brigadier. J. G. Smyth MP, within the Executive.

Church school question

tions."

mán to be subjected to such good ho won't even let us sen early

said. An expres who sponsored a motion on None of the four dissident today in refusing

disclosed that was present Hassibl

(as Dr. Barhop had wh to approve

had what it is. This divorce is about members of the Executive is the Radical Socialist, M. Rene Iran

talk to

tosion. of disappointment and agreed

"It was considered that this processes (as

experienced,

the programme BOTI of reluctant resignation this subject in the Com- Journey, would not be in the

mongood as likely to resign from the Com-Mayer, as Premier.

ht. If Barbara British government representa-

Mr Davies did not' comment lat year's bullfight. face. He re-mons last May. mittee as a result of today's

tives rather than to officials came across his

national interest at the present when Mr Blackburn ankoch if he ever gets married again and laxed

three smoked meeting.

Reynaud, 72-year-old

Anglo-

time." British-owned the

while cigarettes

Adm. Joy

In a letter to The Times to- The ball is now likely to be Rightst Independent, was call-Iranian Oil Company.

Replying to a question from dale-"a scientist with for more will be just as mich

knew that Dr Kathleen Lons-place where the Prince is, th be talked and the statement went day he declares that in view of

ay he would be (In-Information about atomic energy a passed to the annual meeting

the Party which will show soon as M. Bidault had left. understood that the British through two translating pro- the fact that the treaty is gen- Mr Raymond Blackburn

Northfleld) Mr than has Dr Burhopwas with again. I think she was extreme- the full force of Mr Bevan's M. Reynaud, who was premier Government delegates represent cesses into Chinese and Korean. erally regarded as a "soft" on dependent,

Company and not tho A two-hour recess followed, as far as the Japanese are con- Davies said that the unnamed the delegation with which De ly ill-advised in this divorce. I following in the country and in the days when the German the

after which in the aftermoon cerned, Far Eastern POWs are Foreign Office oficiat Had Burhop had been scheduled to think her lawyers should be very disclose whether he feels he armies first swept over France Labour Government

on travel to Moscow.

much concerned about the farti-, has sufficiently strong backing at the beginning of World Previously, Iran insisted that slon, Gen. Nam introduced in particularly pleased that their planned to leave Britain

writion form and in three claim

Dr Kathleen Lonsdale, who ir mony she gave under oath down has been recognised July 18. arnong labour

consti- War II, told

M. Auriol he the British Government had no

she The Immigration authorities Blackbum named as a member there. If she does remarry, luencies to force a showdown would

pro-in principle. reply on Thursday right to represent the Anglo-languages a compromise

posal which Washington ad- with the leaders as a whole. whether he would try to form a Iranian Oil Company-United vices indicate have been found ever, that the sum required to leaving "as-a-precautionary not ay to Moscow with that including

He goes on to point out, how were instructed to prevent him of Dr Burhop's delegation, did puts a lot of things in jeopardy, „Grandpa's. money, acceptable to the United compensate our British POWs measure in connection with party, but flew there a week This divorce, just doesn't exist. Nations.

on anything like the same scale certain inquiries."

carlier with

a group of seven She knows it and her attorneys ALL PREPARED

upon which the Americans Mr Blackburn asked, "As one Quakers. It was apparent, Gen. Nuckols have

paid their POWs | who knew Dr Burhop" whether

Dr. Lonsdale, one of the first now it and they as much as ad- said in response to questioning. | from

Japanese assets

two women to be made a Fellow that Gen. Nam I had his pru would be in the neighbourhood

of the Royal Society, is Pro- Bell said that after he had posal

ready in

thebrushed up on some of the liner English, Korean of

fessor of £9,500,000.

Chemistry at and Ch

Chinese texts in his brief, "T

University

Her points of divorce as expounded of London. time the session

"atom by some of Reno's, experts, he case at the

colleagues rank her as convened. It was evident that convene

She was chair would return to San Francisco woman No. 1:" the Communists had anticipated

man of the Atomic Scientists to map out a legal campaign that the four-day recess would

Association in 1949 and has attacking the Mexican decree. not serve to soften the UN

spoken and written extensively He indicated that he probably position on the matter of main

the atomic bomb and atomle would fly to Mexico City, this

weekend.United Press, taining troops, but they had opened the ninth meeting with a hopeful question, then waited some hours before revealing that they were in effect ready to capitulate.

Reuter,

in the

Cabmet-United Press.

COMMENT OF THE DAY

Press.

Gambling And Lotteries

AMBLING in all its forms has been

WAB

sion in Britain and found not so black a social evil as some would have it painted. In fact it has emerged from a lengthy scrutiny as a very pale-and very usual-falling which costs about 15,000,000 people an average of four shillings a week and brings them some ray of pleasure in this not exuberantly happy world. The only noteworthy reformation recommended elimination of one form of differentia-

between rich tion

and

poor by legalising the opening of ready- and establishments money betting ending the street-corner slip-passing habit. This must give a measure of Batisfaction to those who risk their money on horse-racing and the general verdict, that an element of the gambling spirit which resides in most every man requires to be regularised rather than suppressed, puts the problem on its proper level. For Hongkong, we agree, what happens in the British Isles is of little consequence. Unless perhaps it nguin directs attention to the curiosity that in this Colony, so far from Home, the official attitude towards gambling is far more hide-bound and atiff-necked than it is in England. And more curious still that-except in respect of Jockey Club sweeps the frowning eye is cast on a community which has gambling in its blood to an extent hard to parallel outside Asin Compared with the broadminded outlook revealed by the report of the English investign- tors, it is amusing to recall the day when local action was taken to stamp out the vicious sin of indulging in raffles for charitable purposes or at Church bazaars. The Government, in its Immaculate wisdom, decided that although such a cause as the Society of St. Vincent de Paul was good, the method of procuring funda was not. The

reason

valid only.

attacking for charitable raffles is to be found when the prizes offered tend to be of the sort that elderly aunts present, prob- ably spitefully, to newlyweds and insist on examining when they make their ail too frequent visits, but it cannot be supported by reasonable beings on ethical or moral grounds. When one considers the money regularly changing hands on the racecourse during the season, the Government's action, and the people who sponsored it, can only be described as fatuous. There are, of course, a number of countries, some within the Commonwealth, and one as close as the Federation of Malaya, that have taken a wider view of these things and have introduced State lotteries. As a result they have collected sufficient funds to build and maintain hospitals and other most necessary institutions. Were it possible to organise an effective. straw ballot in Hongkong, it would be safe to predict an overwhelming vote in favour of lotteries, particularly if they carried the stipulation that profita derived would be devoted to increasing the drive against tuberculosis, multiplying the beds available to TB victims, and in other ways intensifying efforts to improve the standard of public health. Any suggestion that the Colony should go ahead and test tho theory would doubtless run against of the high minds in some places, but arguments against lotteries just do not hold water unless the critics are prepared to make all forms of gambling illegal. And they know that in a Chinese community they would be battering heads against a brick wall. Gambling is part of human nature. Accepting that, the introduc- tion of Government lotterica for the general benefit in health services, would have much to commond It

narrow

the am sure that now principle has been accepted a Bum

of £15,000,000 could be provided," the Brigadier says, which would allow British POWs and those of the Do- minions to be compensated on something like the same scale: as the Americans.

who was

COSTELLO

INDICTED

New York, July 24. Lt-Gen. Percival,

Frank Costello, named by the GOC Malaya at the time of the Sennie Crime Committee as the fall of Singapore, said in an leading man in the United Interview that there was hope States underworld, was indicted The long recess had obviously still that compensation would by a Federal Grand Jury today been used by the Reds in checkt-be possible on an

were

and

Individual on a charge of contempt of the | ing with their trio of Communist basis. Five million

Senate. pounds

Gambler Joc Adonis capitals-Pyongyang, Peking and would not permit of the same

confessed Moscow.

generous treatment As the Frank Erickson,

indicted on the Bhortness

paid bookmaker, already of dollar-a-day scheduled half-American Far East POWs. But, the same charge.

The indictments resulted from was whatever sum was finally made at Kacsong it

their

refusal to answer ques believed that another thorny available, individual compen-

tions at the Crime Committes problem would be taken up for sation was what British ex-

herings in New York last debate, namely, the establish- POWs wanted.

March. Costello was indicted The strength of the feeling ment of boundary lines for North and South Korea.

among men who suffered during on nine counts, Adonis on 15

and Erickson on 74. agenda

out, is proposed

put captivity, he pointed

The maximum penalty on forth by the Reds also stipulated reflected" the fact that no that the 38th Parallel would be fewer than 35 Far East POW each was a year in prison and a

|branches have been formed fine of $1,000. re-established as the boundary.

The United States Attorney, from throughout Britain. "Nothing is farther General Ridgway's alm" sald a They support the National Mr Irving H. Saypol, sald that high UN official

to the United Committee formed last year to a warrant would be lsmed for Costello's arrest. Adonis and Press, then to relinquish as part press the compensation claim. Erickson already are serving This National Committee, says

violation of the truce deal any territory Lt. Gen. Percival, who is Chair-sentences for

The

of military importance пож occupied by his forces.

of

man, is likely to continue in the gambling laws, Adonis in The present battle line, while being and its services are avail- New Jersey and Erickson in couth of the parallel at the able for assisting in whatever New York-Reuter. western end in the Kaesong scheme of distribution of funds arco, is deep Into Communist is deelded territory in the central and eastern sectors.United Press, COMPROMISE OFFER

New York, July 25.. The compromise which the Communists were reported to day to have offered in the Korean cease-fire talks provid- that the withdrawal of

ed

Both Lion

Percival and Brigadler Smyllt are particular- ily gratified that the draft peaco treaty emphasises the principle that POWs cannot be treated as they were by the Japanese the last war.

in

foreign troops would not be dis- Their Freedom Was

cussed until after an armistice,

according to Washington Des

poris.

Their proposal would prove acceptable to the United

Short-Lived

Senators Play Truant

Washington, July 28. Senators who have not been showing up, on the floor recent- ly were told today that they botter stick around for Wednes day's business or faba a possible

arrost for truancy?

leader

Benate Democratio Ernest McFarland criticised, his colleagues for failing to appear for quorum calls. : Iwo quorum calls had to be withdrawn yesterday bocative

Indianapolis, July 26. Four prisoners who disarmed two policemen escorting them Nations Command, the reports to another prison yesterday, and stated.

fed in the police car, were back Responsible information 10 | in gaol today.ph

not enough Senators present, Washington, said the reports, -Two were taught within 'an Benator McFarland said that no was that under the new Com- hour and the other two later in quorum calm would be with-

(Contd.'on, biok page, Col. 8) [the daymmilautar.

Kiero" "were

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