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PPOSITION criticism of

the Butler Budget has been relatively mild. Manifestly the Socialists, who have a lively appreciu-| tion of the nation's criticali economie und financial condition,

cannot attack

Mr Butler's main proposals with any conviction. They know, as well

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and

Mr hisi

new

colleagues, that'

burdens und additional

sacrifices by the

entire country cannot be avoided. Mr Gaitskell found enuse to utter one warning: he believes that there will be a general demand among the lower-income workers For

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Gravity 15 Years For Villagers'

Of Situation In Far East

URGES CONGRESSIONAL APPROVAL OF MUTUAL

AID PROGRAMME

Washington, Mar. 13.

The situation in the Far East was "of the utmost gravity", Mr Dean Acheson, United States Secretary. of State, told Congress today.

-It was his "hope and belief that the struggle to restore peace to Korea and Indo-China will be successful," Mr Acheson added, but America could not "close its eyes to the tremendous potentialities for increased wages to make good higher living danger which exist throughout the area."

custa which must result from cuts in the subsidies. Even Hi), Mr Gaitskell expresses his warning more in sorrow than anger. Not no Mr Arthur Horner, the Communist secretary of the National Union of Mine- workers. He Adopts 11 sinister attitude and is arging that trade unioniste should indulge in industrial action to force the Govern- ment to change its policies, į Mr Horner ways: "If the Tories persist in the application of the measures they have enunciated, the workers will soon be ight- ing not with overtime but with normal. time."

IN other words he would

have the workers · down tools altogether in an effort

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our!

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Mr Acheson was testifying before the joint meeting of the Foreign Affairs Committees of the Senate and House of Representatives which today took up consideration of President Truman's $7,900,000,000 mutual aid programme.

Mr Acheson said that during the past year the United States had made "good progress toward laying a basis for long-term security in Asia and the Pacific."

Another speaker was Mr Robert; Lovell, the Defence Secretary, who laid the emphasis on Indo- China and Forinosu.

goal of the Congress, the Ad- ministration and the American people since the war.

"If there were no danger of "This has been the consistent internal subversion we could | probably carry out programmes of technical co-operation in these countries at a slower pate Mr Lovett said that a sub- and would not have

Mr to зpeed

Acheson said that the _stantial. inerente..... __ in .... Indo- them

up with considerable situation in the Far East was "of China's aid

was needed quantities of equipment and the utmost gravity. It was his

from "because if the situation

The there supplies

United hope and belief that the strug- States. But we do not have gle to restore

Korea can be cleared up not only will

ponce to the time. We cannot afford to and Indo-China will be success- Southeast Asia be stabilised but the French position in Europe risk doing the slow way in ful," but America could not

the entire NATO and thereby defences will be measurably im- proved."

There was also a great deal to be done to "secure the in-

The

to coerce the Government. tegrity" of Formosa, he added. "We shall never give up our! right

Arst speaker was Mr withhold Jabour" declares Horner. Aveteli Harrimon, Director of the Mutual Security Agency, who Such right in Buch

wained that "crippling euts" in cause does not exist. Every the foreign aid proposals would man may strike to better his threaten America's own security industrial position, but no and jeopardise the Atlantic Pact man

withhold his bull-up. may. labour in order to reverse

A major cul would be a the verdict of the people at major victory for the Soviet

Mr Horner, in cauers the polls.

in the Kremlin,” Jej fact, is not claiming the declared. right to strike, but the right

FUNDS EARMARKED to get

alternative) · up un Government which would)

He told the Committees Wat rule not by democratic

me than $5,000,000,000 of the process but by dietatorial] proposed funds were carmarked up the planned 56 force. But he forgets that to bulld in Britain sovereignty division Atlantic Pact army belongs not to a caucus but under General Eisenhower his to the people.

M

"close its eyes to the tremendous

these areas,"

ald potentialities for danger which The total enst of such for the, arca

was estimated at exist throughout the aren," he

said. $227,000,000 and $141,000,000 more was requested for refugee relief and re-settlement pro- and the Israel

grammes

Arab States,"

M: Robert Lavelt, the Defense Secretary, who spoke after Mr Harriaan, lald' the emphasis on

Indo-China and Formosa.

that a substantial

He sold increase

Indo-China in

was needed. "because if the situation there can be cleared up, not only will Southeast Asia be stabilised but

During the past year the United States hid made "good progress toward laying a banla for long-term security in Asia and the Pacifle."

General Omar Bradley TC- ported that the United States had shipped more than 2,500,000 of milliary supplies to lons overseas allles within the past two years.-Reuter.

the French position in The French Crisis Europe and thereby the entire NATO defences will be measur-

aly improved."

The straicgle geographical position of the area, as well as the vitally materials such as tin and rubber important Faw

which it supplies, make st Important for us to maintain an

FINANCIAL

MEASURES

year and about $1,000,000,000 effective support of the gallant APPROVED

used for delence effort which would be

the French and

K Horner appears to be support materials raw materials Associated States are making." he

thinking back to 1926

and

machinery-för

when tradu unionists generally.

Europe sald.

FORMOSA'S INTEGRITY

staged their General Strike; Mr Harriman said that mest

There was also a great deal and he probably belleves of the military assistance to

''secure the that because the Socialist Europe would be in the form to be done to Government in 1947 of guts, tanks and planes in the integrity" of Formosa, he added. being made in repealed the Trade Dis- United States. But the Govern- Progress was

place helping to solve the unique also expected to he has

been ment putes Act, given the green light to try about $1,000,000,000 (£357,000.- situation of an island populated 000) of milllary contracts nby only 7,000,000 people called to persuade British workers western Europe's factories in upon to support a garrison of to take new unconstitu-

the next year.

several hundred thousand defen- tional action. It is to the?

ders." credit of the sound Labour Southeast Asia, he said, was lenders that they remain in "immediate danger" and the

programme included

ns - do

new

Paris, Mar. 13. The French National As- sembly tonight voted the first two of a series of finan- cial measures proposed by the new French Premier, M. Antoine Pinay.

New Oil Pipeline

•

Au Azab artisan prepares the end of a length of 30-Inch "pipe for lining up and weldług on the new 560-mile Iraq ̈ pipe- line from Kirkuk to Banian, which by April of this year, and six months attend of schedule, will be ready to go futo opera- tion. Along this gigantle nipe the Iraq Petroleum Company will song 14,000,000 tons of crude all a year to add to the 8,000,000 1053 already being pumped along the smaller lines to Tripull in Lebanon, almost tripling the country's contribution to the world oil supply. Landon Express.

Growing Apprehension Over Likely Effects Of The Budget

London, Mar. 13.

Representative bodies of British working classes all over the country yesterday made an assessment of the cumulative effects of the new budget on their finances.

They generally agreed, according to reports received here, that the proposals would result in a "serious rise in the cost of living and hit harder the lower paid 'workers,"

scale of

T10 General Council of the According to the National Scottish Trades Union Congress, Chamber of Trade, claiming to after a meeting at Glasgow represent about 250,000 traders, yesterday, issued a statement ratafer will lasc between deploring the main provisions of £8,000,000 and £10,000,000 as the budget "which are designed a result of the decision to in- to hit hardest at the lower paid traduc a graduated workers,"

purchase tax 0:1 wholesale It said, "The savage cut in the prices. food

subsidies will not be com- London Transport, who in- (pensated:

creased fares less than two weeks The increased family i to It adopted by 301 voles

ago, said that the new petrol and 101 (Communist) two conven-

The higher bank rate would diesel oll rates would cost them tlong concluded between the mean increasing local rates and

mere thun £1,000,000 a year, Finance Minister and the might also raise rents. It was

Labour circles bound

anticipated an Governor Af the Bank

to cripple many smaller Industrial concerns

Her organised campaign against the France.

and thus budget, both in the House of provoke an Increases in un- Commons and in the country, employment, the Council added. They indicated that the Socialists The 10-man Economile Com- would visit their constituencies mittee of the 8,000,000-strong and explain that the tax relics Trades Union Congress, meeting and other allowances would not in London, branded the budget offset the extra tax burdens

3 "packet of trouble",

placed on household budgets,- Reuter.

of

the

Peace Treaty Proposal

Mr Acheson, who spoke next, $811,000,- sold, "A cut in the programme on the side of the Constitu- 500 for military assistance to this does not mean a shift of the

The Arst will chable tion. The Trades Union

area. Substantial amounts were burden. It means a cut in the Bank of France to concede for Council are well aware that for Indo-China and the Chinese results obtainable. There is no one year $25,000,000,000 worth Mr Horner and his Nationalists on Formosa, and escape from this conclusion,"

of gold to the exchange stabili- The United States had been eation fund. associates are agitating the balance would be used in from sinister motives. Mr the Philippines and other areas working

world!

the vast with Communist minorities forces of unity and cohesion The other convention will

TOKEN" STRIKE Horner udvocates direct: "where

which were developing in grant extra delay to the Trea-

Before the meeting Mr Action not as a trade union are a severe threat"..

Europe, Mr Acheson added. sury for repayment Under the programme, $82,- Eur

of the Arthur Deakin, the Chairman, leader but as a Communist,}

000,000 In military assistance They had now come to the Bank of France's advance of declared that the effect of cast- He speaks with two voices, was earmarked for Latin Ameri point when it was possible to $25,000,000,000 against Trea- ing aside the policy of main

other Rad union cu. Less tin

10 per cent of put aside the destructive sury bonds.

taining subsidies to ztabilise leaders. But there is good the total funds requested were rivalries which had divided

prices must be an increase in reason to feel confident that!

for technical and proposed

Europe for

The repayment has thus been living costs,. centuries.

He added that the wiser, heads of the tesnomic assistance

In the

from March 20 10 this would not be offset by the their place could be Fostponed

suggested increase in State majority of British trade Middle East, Asia, Africa and created a united Europe whica May 15.

enduring would give

made on family allowances.

Washington, Mar, 13. and The advance was unionists will reject them, Latin America.

The United States, Britain and "In nations

Miners at a Scottish colliery France tonight proposed to Bursda when not only February 20

Premier task

of Edgar Faure's cabinet fell when staged, a one day "token" citizens is not to an allen and technical assistance

a short eight-ortiels treaty to pro creating a defence force but to the Treasury was threatened strike against the budget yes-restore Austin's independence. and tyrannical, creed, bul to their own country and mes are of substantial size the European community itself. with the necessity of having to terday.

Twenty-five thousand South Moscow by the Ambassadors of The proposal was submitted in "This is what we have been spend payments. to meet the needs of an urgent

"Speaking before the National Wales miners decided to con- the three Western Governments. people.

situation," he said.

working for," Mr Acheson mid.

Assembly, M. Pinay said that tinue their ban on Saturday the Government was not con- work as on anti-budget protest, over the Austrian peace settle- Russia, in long negotiations sidering any further expendi- according to one newspaper ment, ture but that it had to steady report.

has already agreed military needs and requirements The increased tax on fuel diven of the eight articles... and petrol was considered by various transport interests.

in

The first loyalty of British Pakistan and Tran our economic to

tike India, underlying strength

the Immediate

Kitten Marooned In Tree-Top: Four Days Of Rescue Efforts Fail

Paris, Mar. 3. Polica and firemen today admitted the defeat of their efforts to rescue £. kitten which has been marooned 60 feet above the roof tops of Montmartre since „Monday,

of the Indo-China war

He declared that fresh man

be an-

cini measures would nounced next Tuesday,

end that the organermany, since fares could not

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Reuter.

to

LABOUR TROUBLE ON ISLAND

In London the Motor Cab Proprietors Association and He, alsó nald that an inter Taxi Ficet Operators Federa national decleion was restoring tion described the increase is a ty France. $25,000,000 worth of "mortul blow." They fald that

* Grenada Island, Mar. 13. Bold

from recovered

bo in- A 26-man polico riot party for creased to the public, man was flown 125 miles today to "Micheu", a ́Alny," black_kil-Pelice Commissioner, cald, "Wo | Others threatened revenge 18 It]

European economic co-opera- caba were likely to be taken the neighbouring island of St teo, leaped from the roof of no could not rick a man's life for were harmed.

tion would tomorrow grant out if service.

Tucla, ono of the Windward old house to the topmost branch 9.

The Animals Defence Society $100,000,000 loan to France.

203 TAXIS · · SOLN tiremen of a tree in the courtyard:

the Caribbean Sea, to Mỹ Pinay added that tho now they threatens, anyone who displaced

group in One report said that 200 deal with labour disturbances Then I could not get down could not get their extending Michou with the "Cruelty

To Government was

was taking serious London taxis were sold yester at the Roseau augar factory. and tins cinco mewed continu- ladder into the courtyard. Animals Act'!---

Bicasures to combat temporary day alone to firms in the home About a year ago St Lucia in ourly,

Meanwhile, tenunte of the A.' So the Police and firemen häve, financial ériste.

counties and the provinced and turn rent a Police party to Its owner wanted the Police house split into two camps, passed the problem to the So- It was dealing, he said, with that about 3,000 taxis would Grenada to assist in restoring to holet a man wout of a win- Some wanted to throw things to claty, to tackle themselves price problems and budgetary be for sale in the next three order during etclice disturbances. (dow to bring it down. But the stop Michou mewing at night. Reuter.

months,

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Smuggler

San Francisco, Mar. 13. A. 18-year prison sen tence was handed out to- day to a 67-year-old man accused of helping to bring Into this country $500.000 worth of heroin from Hongkong.

Federal Judze George B. Harris pronounced the sentence on James II. Carroll, alsa known as John R. Brown,

Carroll was convicted of alding in.

of

in the importation Ia substantial amount of the drug in hollowed-out magaalves Customs Col- lcator Leake said the retail value of the drug was half 2 million dollars.

A. J. Hennessy, attorney fer Carroll,

pleaded for probation but Judge Harris denied it and imposed the * sentence when shown records that Carroll had been convicted three times in narcotics cases,—ƒ30- ciated Pres9.

Mass Suicide Pact

Tignes, Mar. 13. The tough lumberjack population of this tiny Savoy village was in a state of undeclared war with France. today, threatening to oppose a steel and cement wall menacing their homes with a wall of human bodies.

The village's 800 inhabitants. stubbornly refuse leave their homes, soon to become the bed

of

huge artificial lake behind a dam which engineers label as Europe's biggest.

The authorities Fald. today that the date for flooding the ares, which would then ceal off a narrow canyon about one

a half miles wide from

Doubts About dnes down to the, iser River

"Miracle"

Photographs

rest have resolved

Valley, was "Irrevocably" set at March 15, With only 40 hours to go only a handful of the villagers have left for what will remain dry ground. The to fight it out with the authorities if it is decided

to evacuate them by force.

Vatican City, Mar. 13..

Sixty of them have concluded The Vatican newspaper a mass suicide 'pact, declaring, Osservatore Romano today "we would rather die thon go admitted the possibility of falsification in photographs allegedly showing the last Mass "greatest miracle in the recent history of the Catho lic Church."

The paper said that two photo- Eraphs it published four months ago тау have shown an atmospheric phenomenon Instead, of the miracle.

-on

FLIEST LEAVES The village priest said the Sunday and celebrated the last marriage, then left for another parish.

show-

But strong hands are ready to awing the church boil and sound the alarm through the covered volley at the first aight of gendarmes.

When they learned that a bull- dozer was rattling down and The photographs were intend- swerving toward the village od to show the sun revolving cemetery on Wednesday a human wildly above

of the Portuguese wall sprang up in front village of Fatima where the Vi machine.

in Mary was mid to have up-

the

The boiles of our dead' are

a spokesman for the

peared six times in 1917 to sacred," "If you wish to level

Three village paper

children. The

said that at the time the off the graves go ahead, but photographs

had been "rigorously only over our bodies," authenticated

The authorities called off the The paper today declared that operation but said that

church will the photographs were handed to cemetery and the

United Press.

it with authentication by accre, soon be 180 feet under water,

dited and trustworthy persons.

"It despite all this the photo- graphs, as is claimed,

are not authentic-something which we could not doubt--it is clear that our good faith was abused."- Reuter.

Where

State Of Siege Declared

Tunis, Mar. 13,

the

A state of slege was de clared on Thursday in Gabes, southern port town, as French oficiais sought tha

persona responsible for bomb blast which killed seven and wound- ed 15 others on Wednesday,

CZECH PREMIER MYSTERY

Vienna, Mar. 13. Is Czechoslovakin's Communist Premier, Antonin Zapotocky?

Has he been purged, is ha in Moscow or merely sick?

Western diplomats in Vienna asked these questions today as evidence accumulated that "At Tebouba a rallway line Zaporocky has disappeared from was sabotaged and at Moknine public life, at least for the time telephone lines and poles were being. Associated Press,

cut Associated Press.

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GILMAN

Other acts of sabotage mark- ed the day in Tunisia, where there have been disorders since January in support of nation- ho:nu alist demands for more rule.

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