THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 1,5:1953.
Coercion Ruled Out
In Stopping China Trade STASSEN'S TESTIMONY
ON US. POLICY
Washington, Apr. 30.
Mr Harold Stassen, the United States Mutual Security Director, said today the United States would not use coercion to make friendly govern- ments halt trade with the Chinese Communists.
He told the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Representatives "The plain fact of life is that we can get helter co-operation by negotiation and persuasion than we could ever get by attempt- ing at coercion."
Mr Slaven was testifying on maritime countries not to per- East-West trade problems.
their ships to trategic goods to the
mil
He said the job of trade con- | Communista. trols at be done within the
was
carry Chiarne
context of international co- Mr Stassen said the Govern-
alko operation
constantly effectivement ตอน altr system
In Impossibility alvocating the expansion of the Wus without the Co-operation of embargo lists as they applied other non-Communist nations. to the Chinese mainland
Was also recking stronger mcusures against smuggling on the China const.
terial
The United States, he rak. had out off all experts of every description to Communist China
Mr Stassen said co-operative but "we cannot and we should not coerce the friendly govern- «fforts in the International trade ments of other sovereisn na-control programme were steadily and that interna- expanding tions."
were
le raid rumputrian in ththunal groups farmed for trade matter of trade controls woulit control purposes
parti- be an "unacceptable and imeipated in by the United States. practical method of getting the Canada, West Germany. Japan and most of the North Atlantic Job accomplished.
treaty countries of Europe.
If we were to block off some trade
wilateral threat or coercion, but thereby
Mr Slassen said big rubber shipments from Ceylon in China were a major problem, but the
valuable friend and military ally, we would not be making United States was not contem- Rain, but would have shipped plating outbidding the Chinese a step backward down the hill to prevent the rubber rouching towards disunity and the dan- ger of war," he said.
NO
EXCEPTIONS
them.
Tir.n
Congress would make available
Ancient And BRITAIN TO BUILD
Modern
to celebrate the occasion of Ancient and modern contrant at London Airport where, the first passenger flight of British European Airways' Vickers Viscount propeller-turbine nie- Iner, passengers were driven to the wailing plane in a stage couch-while overhead files a Express Phole. helicopter. The Viscount is on the Cyprus route, via Rome and Athens,
For Round-Up In
Spain Waits
U.S. Move On Defence Bases
Madrid, Apr. 30,
Spain is waiting for Washington to make the next move in the defence talks between the two nations which have been in progress since April 1952.
mild Except where national or international events concerning Spanish government policies are concerned, the press and radio have a fair amount of liberty,
Spanish sources here make it clear that the He said such action would final agreement depends on United States willing- raise prices and expand produeness to supply equipment for Spain's armed forces.
gically, and it was doubtful.
Spaniards believe that Britain "The net advantage of such a nove would be with the Com the substantial sum required to has put pressure on Anierica to munist side of the Iron Curtain." buy it up. It might also set a delay arming Spain until other European forces are equipped. He polr{rd oul
the precedent, that countries of the Western world
He agreed
that more liberal Even a denial by a spokesman without exception had already merchant tariff policies would the
of British Foreign Omee Opponents of the regime are unconvinced that in the main ignored as long as refused to ship one, sumuni- iulu
leaves them Western Europeans to this is not the case. tion or atumle energy materials trade
they are merely vocal, though more with the United.
Generel France, appears to they seon lind themselves lock- to the Soviet bloe and Innri-
States
with Communist
be in no hurry. He apparentlyed up they pars from words tion the Important industrial
countries-Reuter.
considers Spain indispensible to to positive_action. countries denied shipment of wide range of ather producers that might make a significant- contribution to the Soviet bloe's potential.
These controls
already had
hnd match
accomplished pinched The Soviet bloe by withholding materials that could have been used 11 Industrial military expassion.
But he added: "There is much
yet to be done in the impreve
trols."
Claim By Red
Scientist
spot,
Tunisia
Tunis, Apr. 30. French Follen wunounced today the arrest of a group of Tunisians on charges of terrorism and nabotage.
A Police spokesman sald that Othman Ben Brahim, secretary of a Neo-Destour (New Independence) Party cell at Atenzel Temine, friends and seven of his were arrested and will face trial on charges of destroying telephone lines And attempting to murder a Post Office night guard.
United Press.
Childhood
Essay By The Queen
An
essay
London, Apr. 30.
by the written
when
ATOMIC POWER STATION
London, Apr. 30.
Britain is to build a new expérimental "atomic power station — the first ever built -the Minister of Supply, Mr Duncan Sandys, announced in the House of: Commons today.
It will be acrosa the River Calder from the Ministry of
Supply's atomic energy C3- tablishment at Sellafield, Cum- berland, In North of England.
Work on preparation of the site
will start in a few days'
Mr Sandys maid. Construction 1. is expected take about two years.
Linc.
to
A Ministry spokesman said: "It will be the Brst, atomic power station ever to be bullt.
"It will produce electricity for industrial purposes, but it will also be able to produce the explosive plutonium to be used In the normal atomic energy programme.
The Americans have pro- duced a small amount of electri. city from an existing pile but they have not bullt a power station as such,"
Mr Sandys today Inspected the site of the new plant which will be the eighth atomle energy establishment in Britain. Reuter.
Senators Want To
Know More
Washington, Apr. 30.
The Senate Foreign Relations more Committee has asked for information on the Air Force's and money offers to Chinese North Korean pilots if they bring their MIGs to Allied lines, it was learned today. ►
Republican Senator William Langer told the United Press that the Committee yesterday asked the Secretary of State, Mr. John Foster Dulles, a clused session to explain
the
Air Force's action.
The Senator declined to elaborate, stating that the group still does not have all the in- formation.
Western defence and therefore General Franco dislikes nation-Queen at the age of 11 feels that If America is serious-alisation and trns of Spain's she saw her father and mother crowned has been photographed Ty Interested in defending banks and major Industrial con- Western Europe against possible
cerns are privately owned. Al-and reprinted in a new Curona- Her Majesty Queen Communist aggression she can- though only one
labour union tion book, not afford
to leave an unpreis permitted, very radient social Elizabeth II. published today.
written in The cray, pared Spain as un obvious weak legislation
been pushed
exercise book wills a red pencil. through to sugar the pill.
The Air Force recently on- A Spanish strategist has
in sull held together by Its pinit THE MONARCHY
ribbon and is now preserved in nounced that it would reward stresset that Spaniards least of
is generally General Franeo is
the Royal library al Windsor the Arst Communist pilot to anyone want to see the front believed to with to restore the Moscow, Apr. 30.
bring a MIG to Allied lines with Castle.
for in-moving down towards southern monarchy in the person of the Huss's zientists have
"The $100,000 and give $50,000 page reads: fair-haired Prines ment of international_co-opera-vented a cheap synthetic petrol France and the Pyrenees in the handsome.
Carin Ihr 15-year-old Coronation, 12th May, 1937, to every subsequent enemy MIG tion in the enforcement of cou for cars and a process for pre-event-of-any-new-war-But Juan
mummy and pupa in memory 601 of the main venting corrosion by sea water. they emphasised that prepara-schoolling
United Press.. Alexander Nehejanov.
Pre- tona to ensure that Spain is in aimant to the Spanish throne of their Coronation from Lilibet Pilot who flics"li`to`surrender-·
of by herself," to deferti herself the 30-year-old Don Juan of position Academy sklent
It begins: "At five o'clock in worst adequately if the
come Bourbon.
I the morning.
Was Sciences, sold his today.
CIRCUS THE ile
Some monarchists now seem
the band pleaded for International to worst must be made now, collaboration among rele
relentista, Chaotic attempts to improvise He said that the Soviet Union the defence of Spain at the last prepared to fall in with General
Franco's wish over this provided Royal Marines striking up just
outside my
IS ANNOYED my window. I leapt cut we can report a very subslantini was sending a delegation to at-1 minute could aute easily lead that he brings the legal age for of bed and so did Bobo (her
And, they world physiological disaster.
If the ascendin tend the
the throne down from Peninsula were
nursemaid).
Singapore, Apr. 30. congress in Montreal, Canada, Iberian
"We put on dressing gowns
The refusal of Thailand If General Franco sives the He told the Committee the this rumuner and to the inter-cupied by Soviet Russia, the the present one of 30 to 21.
shpes and Bobo made me allow the entry of a and
German congress of chemistry West's entrance to the Medl-
succession problem this year, leading 1053 looks like being a within Stuckholm-United Press,
eing a big year put on an siderdown, as it was
that they were of so cold and we crouched in the troupe of circus performers on the
the ecunda signature for him. For
cold window looking on to a
Communist suspected of being an agreement with the United
that is misty morning.
brought anguished protests to- Боте There were already
the members of clay from
He saki devices such as the re-routing of strategic goods in free ports to Soviet destinations were employed to evade the conR- trols of exporting countries.
"I hope that before very long
advance in the control of goods
in transit," he added.
United States Government was national negotiating cgrcements
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bedn The circus, which has performing to sell-out Singapore past two crowds during the werks, was refused permission to enter Thailanck
States and a Concordendship. Ieople in the stands and all the Berlin Busch circus. So the Spanish strategists con- clude: "Give the Spanish anay with the
my, a treaty of
both seem time people were coming to them some equipment to chillkoly before the end of this
Occasional stream with the one million
million tough fighting
year, durin
walch General in " men we can mobilise can do a
Franco will celebrate his Gist pauses in between. Every now real fighting job, if and when birthday and the 17th anniver-and then we were hopping in and of bed looking at the bands and the soldiers."
The circus will perform in Beverley Nichols has written
for another six the foreword to the book, which Singapore
anxi will then go lo contains 79 photographs of the weeks
Lumpur, Ipoh Queen through the 27 years of) Kuala her life-Reuter,
Penang-Umited Press.
zero hour arrives".
URGENT NEED
Apart from Spain's key post- tlon astride the vital communca- tions line between Europe and Africa and Atlantic and Medi- terranean there are other con- siderations.
The United States air force badly wants bases available in the clear dry climate of central and southern Spain.
The American,navy wants to be able to use Cadiz as a naval base handy to the Atlantic Mollterranean ocean and the pes, and it needs to be able to use the Spanish east coast ports as shelter and supply based to naval units In the event of an outbreak of hostilities.
Orio
sary of becoming head of the State.-Reuter.
HUNGARY TO HOLD ELECTIONS
Budapest, Apr. 30.
May 17 will be poiling day in Hungary, with Magyars electing their new deputies in Parlia
ment.
Hungary had an "ad'Interim". thing which General parliament in the Spring of Franco, had made quite clear 1943, when war was still going on in the western parts of the during the contagia lie has had
with Americans since the United country. States first began two yearg ayo Its members were not elected, to try to find some way of pre- but appointed by resistance leaders and their underground
venting Spain from beeming a weak link in Western defence, ts parties. that he is not prepared to sacri- fioe his political principles,
Elections were held In the Autumn
ot 1945, then in' General Franco has insisted August, 1047, and again in May, that Americi or anyone else who 1940, when members of parlia signs up with Spain as a future ment were elected for a four- wartime ally must accept Spain year period."
and as she is today, complete with This term has expired Falango principles; corporate Hungary's presidential council, stylo Parifemend: single labour the highest governing body of! movement; and, supervised press the country, ortiered new elec- and radio.
tions for May 17. PLAIN-SPEAKING..... All signs indicate that apart To Amerleun senators who from minor changes in the have tried to argue the blessings electoral law, procedure will ot a return to democracy, be very mueli the same os in General Franco replies that he 1949.
The changes affect sure that they knew what
the
vollng best for their country dad that age limit, lowered from 20 to he is so that he knows..what 18, and the right of nominating.
candidates, which has been is best for Spain. Reme
Compared with the dictatorial given to the mass organisations methods of Iron Curtain notlosia, of workers, co-operative farmers Epain's dictatorship is fairly and soldieri-Unied Press.
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