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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1958,

Unique Debate In House Of Commons On Queen's Titles

London, Mar. 11.

A "free" debate in the House of Commons produces many strange alliances. The debate on the Royal Titles Bill was no exception.

Here was a chance for the "rebels" of both major political parties to speak their minds without fear of incurring the wrath of their respect- ive "whips".

Thus

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National as well as political inhibitions were thrown aside.

had Mr Egyscouraged. They would be Hughes, the Welsh son of a thwarted and stunted if an at- Welsh clergymani, objecting tempt were made to impose a eloquently on Scotland's behalf single concept of the Crown to the "historical, inaccurney of upon the whole Commonwealth the Queen's title-dererilsing her, to the annoyince of many Scots, as Elizabeth II of Great Britain-and Home Secretary Sir David Maxwell Fyte, truc son . of Scotland,

with Sas- siding serachs on th sides of the House in defence of the Bi].

Ande from this lively und,

at times, amusing-controversy,

BELONGS TO ALL

a

declare that the underlying evil of thin was that we were doing it for the sake not of our friends but of those who were not our friends-those to whom the very names "Britain" and "British" were repugnant.

The Bill would usher in

This outburst brought another period in which there would Conservative Member, Mr God- be a steady rise in the dignity, frey Nicholson, to his feet to the sinture and the status of beg Mr Powell to measure his the

un, Mr Gordon Walker words and to remember the naid. Because the Queen was vast sacrifices and the oceans of tho same time, Head of the It the past, and to recognise the Commonwealth, she would have deep affection and feeling that ranged about her in a new

way exist throughout India towards Ministers not only in the United as country. Kingdom but in other countries

and a diverting intervention by use of all her realins and, otf blood that India had poured out

the

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of the Commonwealth. She would not be advised only by one

an Irish Nationalist, Mr Cahir Healy, the debate was chiefly concerned rarith rahat M Patrick Gordon Walker, Who welcomes the Bill on behalf of Opposition, called "the of the divisibility of Crown." The basis

of his argement { ***** was that, whic the Crown meant something very real and important in ali parts of the Commonwealth, it also meant different things In different places, and the

Crown could only play its full part if those differences were recognised, One danger of trying to pro- whale," pose the doctrine uf in- It would be in keeping with divisibility of the Crown was

new concept of "divisi- that it was though attempt to

DIFFERENT STAGES

This was the second time dur-

set of Ministers, and certainly ing the debate that Members had not in any special or

preuliarjected to references to India's way by U.K. Ministera,

We, in the U.K., had to abon-Beresford Craddock, a Conserva- loyalty to the Crown. Mr don

any special genge ofitive, had previously expressed

in the Crown, for his property

aversion to the idea "the Queen now, clearly, (x- India, a republic, not swing title, complete allegiance to the Hoad plicitly and according to belongs equally to all her realms of the Commonwealth-a matter and to the Commonwealth as u which he thought worthy of re- consideration at the next Prime Ministers' Conference.

this

of

to be anbility. Mr Gordon Walker conterruptions, that if any country He continued, amid noisy in- impose upon other cluded, if the Queen's persona

staff were drawn front all Com did not wish to accept the rules, monwealth countries

then "we might be better with- und not out that country." only from the UK, and if she "spont periods of time" in her other realms.

Commonwealth peoples a feel- big which was appropriate only to those of British stock. To day, however, those of British #tocic represented minority

the Commonwealth, whole, and also a minority in countries like South Africa and Canada,

as a

Socialist Members joined in the cheers as Sir David Maxwell Opposition to this viewpoint Fyfe, replying to the debate, at-

came frum

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Debt Agreement Signed In London TWO MORE

The impresive scene at Londonderry House, in London, when Britain, France and the United States signed an agreement with Western Germany, under which the Federal Re- public agrees to pay some. 27 Kons about £25,500,000 annually on her pre-war external debts. The signing of the agreement brought to a conclusion the negotiation of

one of the most comprehensive debt settlements of recent times.Express P to.

Role Of Women Queen Follows

In Development

Of Community

London, Mar. 11.

Women have an important part to play in community development and it is only through the development of a local community that education of the majority becomes possible.

This was the view expressed by. Miss Freda H. Gwilliam, M.A., Assistant Educational Adviser to the Secretary of State for the Colonies in an

A Tradition

London, Mar, 11. Queen Elizabeth held a Privy Council at Bucking- ham Palace today to solvet with traditional ceremony the High Sheriffs for the Cowitics of England and Walen

Each county submitted ikree

naines - gonersliy landowners and the Queen picked the namo of her clipice with gold-headed bodkin-Reuter,

MOSCOW

Conservative tacked Mr Powell's conception address to the Institute of Rural Life at Home and RETURNING

Member, Mr Enoch Powell, of Commonwealth. It was easy, WhoNJ appointments have in- he sud, to make difficulties,

luded the Professorship

verbal especially

dimcullen. Greek at Sydney University.

Mr Powell and the whole House Briefly, his argument was that

would realise that the concep

of

within the unity of Die British realm, achieved by the Acts of Union, there had grown up in British Empire, and that Empire

LATENT FEELINGS Again, Mr Gordon Walker went on, what was always true and is even more true today is that the role of the Crown as a unifying factor could be em phasised only it, as in this Similar B which were being.***..* passed in our other Common- Sevemezorul development, the wealth countries, the

Crown' was set free

Sovereign began 10 fo that its owne national and emotional levels different parts of that realm upon throughout the Commonwealth. the advice of different Minis- ters, but that, in itself, did not constitute a division of the realms.

"I think that will strengthen rather than weaken the Crown, said the former Socialist Seere- tary of State for Common- wealth Relations.

"On the emotional plane, if the Crown Is set

free in this way to find different levels in

emotions of a

the

the in-

was a unit because it hus one

In the course

overn

*BRITISH' OMITTED Now, however, by recognising the, division, the why was being

opened for the last unity of all

that of the person-to go the way of the rest.

M: Puwell also objected to the

habitants, it will

it will be found that

That i on the grounds that it

AL WILL encounter and call forth

anitted the word "British" both latent personni feelings of in-bofore the words "Realms and terest, respect atel affection Territories" In the Queen's title, which are much. more--wide-where it is replaced by the words spread throughout the Common-"her other", and before the word wealth than is often thought. "Commonwealth". The New all deeply moved formula "Head of the Common-

"Wo were

by the very real expressions of wealth," he asserted, was a shum, grief that marked the death of invented to blind durselves to the the late King in countries like reality of the position.

India, Pakistan

and

These feelings

must

Ceylon.

Mr Powell was assailed from be en-all sides when he went on to

A British Crossword Puzzle

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3 Stays for a white (8).

B Habit (5).

Harkened to (8).

li Livena up (8).

12 Lake

Like (4).

13 Lukewarm (5).

18 Portion (6).

109 Vegetable (1),

22 Travel document (8).

24 Sympathises with (8).

to Drinic of the Gods (0).

20 Disagrées (8).

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1 Fight (5).

DOWN

On the move (5).

3 Consoles (7).

4 Fall to include (4),

5 Grain (4).

6 Washed out (6).

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7. Unexpected (0).

10 Pigment (6).

1 Small bottle (5).

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Garments (7),

10 Calm (0).

17 Ball gamo (6).

20 Plunder (5),

21 Tale (G).

22 Allitude (4).

23 Despatched (4).

tion of great and far-flung collections of people must take the world moved on. He would. different stages as the history of

not allow that this great operation of rations could be made, by verbal analysis, to ap- pour in the eyes of the world as nothing.

Co-

"It is something far greater than that," the Home Secretary concluded to the accompaniment of loud cheers. "I is the On conception of co-operation. that I believe that not only our children but

children's children will be able to make a still greater contribution to the

World.

Our

Naguib Visits

Polish Ship

Alexandria, Mar. 11. Generai Mohammed Naguib. the Egyptian Premier, walked at the head of a three-mile- long funeral procession here today for the 52 afcers and men of the Egyptian Navy patrol ship Sollum. which sank in heavy seas off Alexan- dria lost Saturday.

Later

General Naguib b2- stowed the Order of the

Nile Third, Class on Captain Edmond Ruszezinsky, Master of the Polish ship Czech, which pick- ed up survivors.

General Naguib visited the Polish ship and was entertained- in the wardroom, where a pro- minent feature, was a large portrait of Stalin draped in black.-Reuter.

ISMAY CALL

ON “IKE”

Washington, Mar, 11 Lord Ismay, the British Secre- tary-General of the North Atlan- tic Treaty Organisation, will cal on President Elsenhower' to- morrow, the White House an- nounced today.

The White House Press Secre- tary, Mr James Hingerty, gave no reason for the visit except to say that Lord Ismay was a personal friend of Mr Eisen hover.

Observers assumed Lord Ismay would brief Mr Eisenhower on defence developments in the Aantic Pact countries.---Reuler.

General Divorced

London, Mar. 11. General Sir Edwin Lane Morris, 63, wartime head of the General Staff In India and

Overseas.

Delining community develop themselves," Miss Gwillian de ment as "helping people to help

not be

Tartas

clared that it should confined to backward alonc.

And what were the Incentives to such development, she asked?

where

Sometimes the incentive came from one person alone - us in Kenya, fur instance, Mrs F. Aubrey had founded a home-maker's club which met

--- classes in home- regularly for

never

land, where There, help already

great inßuence is wielded by wives. was only accept- able from a married woman, 30 the wife of the Director of Education organised groups and taught homecraft, with the

a demand result that

for literacy grew.

TO NORMAL

Moscow, Mar, 11. Moscow showed louches of its old self today with the end of the official period of national mourning for Stalin, two days after his funeral, མ་ Billboards Gwilliam

again with advertisements the capital's theatres, cinemas and circus.

Sometimes, Misa went on, the people were jolted into action. This was true In the case of Pakistan which had been shocked' out of its normal way of living into action.

the

of

were

coloured for

Some proclaimed the daring Cossack horsemen In a riding act called "On the Don," star attraction at the circus.

Newspapers appeared com-without a binck

today border round the front page for the first time since Stalin died.

A

craft. Mrg Aubrey's Dyn This moved women into efforts to bring people together

new field of activity which now had infused i new life into

induences the community by revealing a

whole marty," which had copacity

efore been tapped.

Then there was the indirect Sometimes,

approach, by which women from however, more

Spart, too, is coming back, Overscus "pushing"

trained in homecrati with an ice hockey match in the by

outsiders was

and, in turn, taught others the Dynamo Stadiurn needid. Miss Gwilliam cked.

tonight be- art. as example, an area near Jos,

tween 3 Russian and Northern Nigeriu, untouched by One such person was Mra E, Norwegian team." European progress. A woun Ominde, the first Kenya Afritan Even the weather has changed. education officer sent out there woman altend Makerere Snow melted on the streets, gradually Instilted into

the College.

successfully warmed by the sun. local women the desire to learn running a Marriage Training But thousands of people cooking, sewing School in Kenya, Mrs Ominde massed in the Red Square, gazing at the Mausoleum where and the art of home-making.

came to Britain, and was now Stalin is buried, Yet another

with wreaths approach had studying social welfare been needed in British Somali domestic science to equip her for one end of the square

and and flowers banked solidly from the task of training other women. other. Reuter

PURELY VOLUNTARY.

about health,

Amnesty For Supporters

Of Petain

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After

and.org t

lead

to the

British Losses

In Korea

Miss Gwilliam went on to emphasise that the actual pro- gramune of community develop- ment should be progressive.

"People must first learn, then practise what they have learnt

London, Mar. 11. earn the right to

British casualties in Koren in sho stressed.

1952 were 1,081. Mr James The older generation should be Hutchison, Under-Secretary for won over, too, and leam to pro-War, told the House of Commons Paris, Mar. 12. gress with the others.

today. Former French Prime Minis- There should be no large-scale ter Pierre-Etienne Flandin and organisation of

or died of wounds. other veteran French politicians development, Miss Gwilliam con- wounded, 105 prisoners and 83

mising. who supported Marshal, Petain cluded.

community it. They were made up of 197

in 1940 after the collapse of For the role of women in such France may stage a political development would be most fully

of an carried out if done by the valuntary basis.

comeback

a result ns amnesty bill passed National Assembly.

to

The bill, passed by 390 votes 210, with Socialists and Communists opposing it, allows about 400 Deputies and Senators who voted Petain in- to power to play a part in the political life of the country again.

They were banned at the end of the war from standing at ony loent or national election.

The bill silll needs ratification |

by the Council of the Republie, the French upper house, and it is not thought it will be opera- tive in time for the municipal elections-Reuter.

BRITISH CAR EXPORTS

May

Cardiff, Mar, 11. Britain exported more than 2,600,000 motor core and come mercinl vehicles, worth £882, 000,000, since the end of the British Society of Motor Manu

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Acress: 3 Diverted, 7 Leave, former ADC to King George VI, Mr Cooke, director of the

8 Ambition, 10 Nestle, 13 Startie, 16 Dose, 17 Endured, 18 was divorced by Ruby Morris facturers and Tradera, mid in Minaret, 20 ̊lood, 20 Secedes, 20 Rodent, 27 Careless, 28 Trust, 20 in London today on the grounds Cardist Darkness. Dawn: 1 Plans, à Massa, 3 Dealt, 4 Evil, 5 Tallor, 0 of his adultery with a Min

This was a litle under 50 per Dumps, Melcos, 11 Ethic, 12 Tread, 14 Enters, 15 Duped, 18) Sinclair at a London West End cent of the total national output, Bayen, 19 Minces, 19 Neuger, 24 Costs, 34 Debut, 24 Sięto, 25 Clan, Hotel--Briter."

-Reuter.

on

676

He told a questioner that 110 of the killed and 413 of the wounded were conscripts dolog their two years service-Reuter.

MP Expects Split

In Russian Bloc

Margate, Mar. 11. "

A Labour M. P. forecast a split in the Soviet bloc today if the West sits back and waits for it,

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Mr Patrick Gordon-Walker, former Secretary for Commonwealth Relations, told a Labourite rally here that Soviet Premier Joseph V. Stalin's death was likely to have more effect on the Soviet empire than on Russia itself.

chink in the Soviet, Taunching a progaganda cam- armour is Titolam," he said. "It paign that might defeat its own cannot bo permanently sup- purpose. J pressed because nationalism cán- not be suppressed."

Mr Gardon-Walker said Tito was only depanding the right of national independence.

can

"Aggressive propaganda you want to divide," he said. easily bind together those whom "Stupid propaganda has helped "It is a demand," he added, to consolidate Franco in Spain that will find a continuing echo and Peron in the Argentine. in the Western and Aston proof a dietnut radio studio are easy

"Colle

to revolt from the safety vinces of the Soviet mipira

"The mantle of Stalin will and

fall not upon Malenkov but on Tito and Man The-tung.

The do

firmness and will involve a major shift in the pence of the world this is what to preserve the it is called for today, and our power of the world.” that Britain and the United port que policy."Argociated Mr Gordon-Walker warned propaganda must echo and sup-

States should beware. AR

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Telicran, Mar. 11.

Two Italian tankers are ex- pected to arrive at Abadan on Saturday to carry oil cargoes to Italy, Dr Francisco Mortilaro, President of the Italian Fucl Combine, told reporters today.

Dr Mortilaro arrived In Teheran yesterday afternoon. He plans to go to Abadan to receive the tankers on Saturday.

Dr Mortilaro explained the tankers nte cach 18,000 tone und one is the Miriella, which already has carried one cargo of oll to Venice.

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Dr Morilaro said the tankers are already in Iranian waters. It was announced in

Teheran

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