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COMMONS DEBATE ON LIBEL

London, Mar. 20,

Sir Leslie Plummer (La- ) bour) urged in the House of Commons today that racial and religious bel and slander should be punished by imprisonment.

A small all-Party Standing Committee was debating it private bill to amend Britain's rigid libel laws so that news- papers may avoid costly court hellona if they promptly published apologies for alleged defamation.

Sir Reginald Manningham- Buller, Solicitor-Genegal, was the proposal and the debate Was adjourned until

nux! week before a vote on it could be taken,

Sir Lesle said that the clause he proposed would make it an offence punishable by up to

Years

imprisoment to

LO

utler, print or publish or dis- Tribute Dyry statement or publication directed against uny body of people in Britain disting ishable as such by race,

colour which creed culculated to bring them into intre, ridicule or contempt.

was

Sir Geoffrey Bing (Labour), supporting the clause, sald that the established Church of Eng- land

protected against blasphemous libels but not the Jewish, Mohammedan or Catho- tic faiths.

was

THOUGHTLESS SLURS

Mr Tom Driberg (Labour) Fakt, "A hostile landlady in Blackpool or Liverpool in 1852 may mean a bitterly unti-British African Prime Minister in 1982."

Thousands of people from the Colonies came to this country

students or U5

to do

either ordinary work,

"The students are probably the future elite in their own country. Slurs and slights to which some of them are exposed from thoughtlessness or wicked people do have a dispropor- Loriately largo and lasting effect," he said,

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Adv

the Committee.

clause, the the Attorney-General, Str Lionel Heald, said that any extension of the law as proposed would restriction of freedom

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of speech should not be restricted beyond what is necessary for the safety of the State and for the preserva- tion of the public peace," he eckled.--Reuter,

GONDOLIERS PAY HOMAGE

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1952.

ACHESON WARNING Aid Would Not BRITAIN KEEPING

Gendailers in Venice pala homage with a funeral, procession on the Grand Canal to Arturo Cucchiere, the city's best-known gondolier, who died recently. He had often won the Grand Canal Regatta.

Service.

Express

UN Commission's Visit To Berlin

Berlin, Mar. 20.

with the

OF GRAVE

SITUATION

Growing Strength Shown By Reds In

In India

Washington, Mar. 20.*

Mr Dean Acheson, United States Secretary of State, told Congress today that the United States believed that it was necessary to stop and reverse

a trend disclosed in the recent Indian elections in

Be Justified

Washington, Mar. 20.

Tho State Department 'Faid in a statement today that could not justify financlat

ald 10 Ferula 10 make un for P'erstan fallure to receive

Клосте from its rich oil industry. Americs It added that had not made financial aid conditional on Recopilar Any pariicular proposals for a settlement of the oll dispute with Britain.

The

the

statement rejected assertion of Premier Moltammed Mossadegh In Teheran two days ago that President Truman had re- fused him a 10 unless the British proposals were accepted.-Router.

Rumours Of

Impending

which the Communist vote increased to a very Red Coup

great extent.

He was advising against any cuts in the Government's proposed $7,900,000,000 foreign aid

programme for 1952-53.

BRAZIL ALARM

He spoke of a "very dangerous situation" that Rio de Janeiro, Mar. 20. developed last year in India, Pakistan and Iran. The Sizable assistance programmes were contemplated for these three countries.

"Within four years we hope going on or threatened to increase the Indian food sup- os supplies to places ply by seven million dans," Mr Formosa, Acheson said.

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Referring

Communist strength disclosed at the Indian

electons, he said, "If the trend shoula continue you would have a growth of Communist strength in India and a very dangerous

Mr Acheson

advised

against the foreign jany cuts in

programme because. it Mould (not be possible or wise to com- promise the security of The United States.

situation in

in Asia"

Police detained several alleged Communist | agitators today'a few hours had as well after the authorities such as denied rumours of an . im- pending Red coup.

EYE ON RUBBER SUPPLY TO REDS

London, Mar. 20.

Britain is keeping a very close scrutiny to see that Russia does not get more than the normal annual flow of rubber, Mr Peter Thorneycroft, President of the Board of Trade, said today.

This amount is Britain's estimate of what Russia uses for civilian purposes. Last year it was 41,620 tons.

Mr John Bevins (Conservn. Kive) had referred in the House of Commons to the "sur- prisingly high level of exports * this year.

for

They were 12,200 tons January compared with 5,203 tons in December, the highest for any month last year.

A Labour member, Mr Stan- ley Awbery, asked if the Minis- ter knew that Russia was gut- ting rubber from Ceylon.

Mr Thorneycroft replied, "I have no evidence to suppose that there has been a great increase of the annual rate of imports into Russlo.”

Mr Beving had earlier asked whether the Minister would put a ceiling on the export of rub- ber to Russia.

MISLEADING

Mr Thorneycroft replied, "I am glad to have this opportunity

Americans Warned of Of

Deficiency

In ARP

乖

San Francisco, Mar. 20, A prominent civil defence planner said today that if atomic war came to Amerien | tomorrow the results would bo disastrous because In- dustry has falled to prepare for such an eventuality,"

Proper civil defonce planning of explaining the position since by management, he added, can there have been recent Press considerably reduce bomb dam. statements which no doubt in-age and casualties, but by and advertently gave a misleading large this programme is stalled. impression" "The danger today derives

(This app from the polley of the Soviet

The Federal Civil Defence De- This apparently referred to The authorities said that the Unien. The hopes which were

Sunday news-puty Administrator, James J. rumours began after a soldier's paper's

report that the increase Wadsworth, said any Soviet A- generally held at the end of the

in rubber exports to Russia bomb sttuck on this country will war, hopes that are built in the had discharged accidentally.

reached newspapers had

the astonishing) be nimed "at-killing and demor- that the Communists and alarming total of 12,200 tons alising "the millions who jam operation between the Great our

might

still attempt demonstra- in'

our great cities": or an uprising. Others believed that

"*1 don't think would consider cutting he said."

Congress them."

An army alert against the rumoured coup was cancelled last night a few hours after it had been issued.

aid United Nations Charter of car feiredor.

It was not possible to make any out at all in the proposed programme of assistance to the North Atlantic Allies.

POINT FOUR

Powers, have not materialised, tions

"That co-operation has not only not materialised. The op- posile has been the result.-

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the Government i expo:is of

"If your ire not prepared be to the USSR

fore an attack with organised might be forced to proclaim from Britain right-wing dictatorship... April of last your have bean civil defence in each chy and

The Police stopped a

a Com- limited by export licences in each plant throughout the "The death munist "nence movement" and quantities related to our estimate country," he said, seized severa agitators

Severin

and

and destruction from a of their normal civilian

masa Almost the entre programme "The Soviet Union has built same propaganda material.

atomic attack could overwhelm sumption." came under the heading of up its armed forces and the

The Conservative newspaper That, he added, was about the us before we could cope with it security, and the vast bulk was armed forces of its setellites. Correio de Manha, for military security, Mr Ache-It has supplied arms and equip campaigned for months against before the fighting broke out in effects of ene

which has same role of export as in 1950 and Industry, would feel the atomic bomb The United Nations Commission on all-German

son said.

ment, and Instruction to people alleged Red Indiitration of the Korea. But the rate was being dropped

strategic in- who are elections arrived here by air from West Germany to-

actually engaged

army, said that the Government constantly under review,

Uušrial centre, hostilities against the free must act

to break

It was true that exports fromsired le immediately night for talks with Allied and German officials,

Bussfans eart Brilon to Russia..were greater They were met by the Mayor of West Berlin, Herrpented before the House Foreign

The Secretary of State ap world, such as in Korea.

up any Communist movement.

The Catholic Journal do than in 1990, he said. with only one atom bomb," ko aldercely hope to knock us out "China has furnished materiais Brazil warned Ernst Reuter, and Western Allied officials.

Affairs Committee to answer and

against

The a pos-

explanation was In another sible instruction 10 The Commission, which is to

questions on the mutual security satellite engaged in warfare in the Opposition Diario de Noll- 33,000 tons direct from Malaya of many of our industrial cities. coup by either site while that year the Russians shipped want on, we can expect with mandaturą building, there was

certainty simultaneous bombing bill And out if conditions in Gor-10 question of it being an

Indo-China. Other satellites in cias said that a Communst up- Mr Acheson said that

cnly if the Eastern

10,000 tons many permit free and democra- Allied Kommaadatura meeting.

from Add to the stom attack the defin Europe are choice were his he would leave threatening gestures

making rising was imminent.

Eritain whereas in 1953, they c RUSSIA'S ROLE the elections, is due to meet the The Western Commandapte

to other

that Russia is now the Western Commandants of did not discuss with Sergei Aho budget unbalanced rather ecuntries such as Yugoslavia.

shipped only 14,000

tons from probability

woll IN KOREA

equipped to use her other than cul defence appropriations.

alalaya and 42,000 tons direct modern weapons as a', combined i Berlin toinspected that the tomerrow's meetin

Dingin, their Soviet colleague, Detailing the various parts of Pasadena, Calif. Mar. 20.

It is not

"That has brought about such

from Britain.

assault-gas and germ warfare, the

There were, of course, fluc-End sabotage en General

ComnireITS Omur Bradley,

Mr Acheson a state of uncertainty that the will hell Commission because the ques- said that a comparatively small only way we can protect our

programme,

Jand-that Chadrian

ship would raise the problems to a of

ition of his attendance had not the American Soviet representative when Joint Chiefs of Staff, said here sees the Allied Commandants.

sum was asked to carry on the security is risen.

to develop our Point Four programme. tonight that the Communists in spokezanton for the Coni-

Vassily Chuikov,

strength." A considerable Korca had been

amount was using Soviet- mission said, before leaving General

chief of the Soviet Control matie equipment for more than Bonn, that it was to meet the Commission in Germany,

included in the bill for Palestine has 20 mouths.

which Allie Komunandatura in Ber-

refugees for to reply to the United The

intervention fin and for us that means the Chinese

requested assistance. Nitions Commission's request Sizable assistance programmes would have fallen apart if they representatives of all four Oc-

for permission to carry out its were had

not been sustained by cupation Powers,"

contemplated for India, Soviet industry and munitions,' A Westen Allied spokesman Investigations in East Germany. Pakistan and Iran. General Bradley sald

MAYOR'S in an here said that though the Com- address to the Pasadena Junior mission's meeting with the

The Commission has Clumber

Western of Commerce.—Reu-

Commandants might|nounced its intention of leaving take place in the Allied Kom-Berlin by air for Geneva on Sunday unless a reply from the Soviet authorities justified

a last-minute change of plans.

The East German Government has so far publicly refused to have anything to with the United Nations body, on which Brazil, Holland, Iceland und Pakiston are represenic

ter.

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LETTER

to da

RII-

Friedrich

la accordance with this policy of treating German unlly as a purely German affair, East Ber- lin's Mayor, Her Ebert, has sent a letter to Mayor Reuter suggesting joint talks on the

reunion of Berlin. Her Reuter told the West Berlin Parliament today that no such talks were needed.

"Berlin could be reunited to morow if there is a chance for free and democratic elections," he said.-Router.

Japan And Yugoslavia

-Washington, Mar. 20, Japan today accepted Yuge- slavia's proposal to end the state of war between them and to re- sume normal diplomatie rela- tions. The oficial Tokyo repre- sentation here handed the Yugo slav Embassy the letter of ac- ceptance-Beuter,

Congress had

NECESSARY ACTION

"These are larger than what we have done before because we are attempting to telescope into four years a programme which normally would be spread over a much longer time," he said.

"This is to meet a very danger- ous situation which has developed in the last year in India. true of Pakistan and

"Within four years we hope to help increase the Indian food. supply by seven million tons.

We believe this is necessary to stop and reverse a trend dis closed in the recent Indian munist vote increased to a very clections in which the Com-

great extent,

The latter publication warned against rumours which created a state of confusion and sald that rightist coup would be a fight agamist

Democracy. Some observers here believed that the Communists have no hope of staging a successful coup Mr Acheson said that the aim or trying to cause a stunton of United States foreign policy which would force the Govern~ was to prevent war. The United ment into a right-wing dictator- States and Western Europe were ship.-United Presz. building up strength to make it absolutely clear to the Soviet

Union and her satellites that they Debt Claims could not count on an casy attack Debt

and achieve a cheap victory.--

Reuter,

GROUNDED IN CYPRUS

A

Studied

tuations in the monthly

ments, he added.--Reuter.

Investiture

At Palace

London, Mar. 20. The Queen will hold an In- vestiture for Royal Victorian Order awards in connection with the funeral of the late King George VI at Buckingham Palace on April 2.

war unknown to mankind." Associated Press.

Meningitis Epidemic

In Sudan

Khartoum, Mar. 20.

An Egyptian medical mission London, Mar. 20.

arrived here today to help fight a Swiss claims were examined

meningitis epidemic which has in committee here today at the

In addition to those names, killed 677 persons in three international conference dealing which have appeared in the months, Nicosia, Mar. 20, The Marquess of Rending, with Germany's $6,300 million London Gazetic for awards .There were 4,020 cases of

within the Royal Victorian arch

corebro-spinal meningilis rê- Parliamentary Under-Secretary external debts, of Slate

for Foreign Affairs. They went before the commit Order, more than 350 Warrant ported during December, January tee handling the commercial officers and men of the Royal and February end It fcored was among 31 passengers in

discus- Navy and Army who have been that this is only the beginning British Argonaut

Overseas Airways debts involved in the

awarded the Royal Victorian since the epidemic usually hits airliner Grounded alons.

Prussian debts were studied Medal will attend the Investi-Its peak during the dusty months here today with engine trouble

ture to receive this media). on its way

to separately by another of the four

of April and May. from London

specfallocd committees set up

The Egyptian Government sent Tokyo.

when the conference opened They will include the naval eight doctors with emergency The passengers will have

last [0 month. No further plenary gun crews who pulled the gun supplies to help the Sudan health "In some provinces the Com-wait in Nicosia until the engine yet been fixed but the Steering members of the King's Troop,

sessions of the conference have carriage bearing the poffin, authorities.

Last Summer 6,944 diel from munist Party had only a little has been repaired In Beirut. less support than the Govern-

Committee is to meet shortly to Royal Horse Artillery, who per- the disease. There were, then

Easter ment. It is very important for tain's delegation to the Colombo

Lord Reading is to lead Brl-armange the

formed a similar task at Sand- 30,000 cases. rocess. Some 150 representatives are ringham, members of the House- The eplenie strikes at its recurity reasons.

Plan Consultative Committee's taking part in the talks, which hold Cavalry and the bearer, hardest in the westem provinces Ministerial Conference opening are expected to last until the party of the Grenadier, Guards.—l of Kodofan and Dartour. United on Monday--Router.

l ́ond of Äpril-Router.

Rouler.

Press.

THE DANGER

of

"If the trond should continue you would have a growth Communist strength in India and a very dangerous situation in: Asia,"

Mr Acheson said that most of the funds for the Far East were for military assistance to areas where hostilities were elthor

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