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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER - 20,

Daladier Adamant In Opposition To

Ratification

Of EDC

Paris, Nov. 19.

Former Radical Premier, M. Edouard Daladier, told the French National Assembly today that he would not vote for ratification of the European Defence Community Treaty. He bitterly accused Germany of adherence to the integration policy in an effort to regain her lost areas

SOVIET

BEATING

SAME DRUM

M. Daladier received loud applause from right-centre and extreme-left benches at the end of his speech.

M. Dalodier sald that M. no offlelai texi before it As a Schuman, who had spoken car-j rule, fier in the debate, and Preshient Eisenhower had, both in their Ume, shouted down German re-

Armament.

he sald, instruction% given for international negotia- ilons were kept sceтEL. The

on agenda which would, howevér. he adopted at the end of the prevent debate, would show New York, Nov. 19.

tue direction French Dolley The United States delate to He asserted that when Mr Dean was to take, It should not the United Nations, Mr James Acheson nuggrated the principle however,

make the govern- Wadsworth, said here 10lay Mr of German rearmament, France's mer

prisoner, bound to Vy: hinsky,

the Soviet delegate, ncceptance of that principle rigid formulas The constitu- nl voiced the "saine well worn

had been disturbing. At that tion provided that the govсTI- of prancais reiterated for time, he said,

it was thought ment should have every power that only a few German batta- several years,'

to negotiate. lions would ur scattered My Wadewrth

wes replying

Ainer)- 16 Soviet charges in the Polit throughout the British, cat Committee of the Generalean and French armies. "After Assembly

Bermuda the developments which follow- conference could only serve to" he continued, "we suddenly found the European Defenco Intensify International tension

Community." instead of reducing H.

that

the

The Committee was debating

He admitted that France had

SAAR QUESTION

M. Schuman said the Sunr

never be solved questa coy!! by force. "We don't want the Saar to become stake be- tw:en two neighbours. On the

contrary E. could be the means

a Soviet "package proposal" Inade an effort to saften or of

嶺 reconciliation between

entitled "prepisure to averteutralise some of the more France und Germany," said the

the threat of a new world war "dangerous articles" of the pro- | former Foreign Minister,

and to reduce tension in Inter-posed treaty, nailonal relations"

Mr Wadsworth Auld there

why "no sign of any

tion which seem to us sincere-

tension

ly designed. to avert

A world war,"

He added that even If tha?

But he would not vote for treaties at present under con-

even

sugges- | ratlfention of the European De- | sideration by the House wee: to

fence Community,

If be subordinated 10

Sapr additional protocols were passed arrangement, that arrangement by various parliaments,

should not be used as a pretext for delaying tactle: which would

France and of Europe

Only yesterday the Political Commitice had adopted solution on disarmament of which the Sovlet

abstained).

"Liller

today, the

He said that the Star ques-be contrary to the interests of

tion remained to be settled and

the Wos

problem of re-unification. "What of E.D.C. then?"

group

Soviet

there German would beome the asked.

TWO SIDES

Uulon offers us no encourage-

ment on this score."

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Mr Alexiz Kyruu, of Greece, asked how "so clever a man Sir Winston Churchill, ho.de- Mr Vyshinsky" „Pepented | elured, had asked France to agam and again worde

and take Germany's hand. France which no une can would certainly hold Germany's attach the lightest importance." | hand-if Britain held the other.

He said the Soviet proposal for the immediate prohibition of The Allied-German contractual and unrealistic" and the call fr gerous than the E.D.C. einse they u une-third reluction in the formulated a joint policy to re- anned forces of the five grout establish Germany's 1937 frentier. powers was "equally pointless He cloned that there was no and could be humful.”

penseful way to achieve Ger- Barber

Mr Vyshinsky said Jeeny's re-unification under the Western statements that the re-terms of the Borm Treaty. duchon of teusion depended

Speaking before M. Datatier, etely on the Soviet Union were entirely fallacious."-Reuter, the former Foreign Minister, M.

Robert

said the Schuman, present debate on E.D.C in the

atomic Weapons was "trusuuling agreciments were even more dan-

lost

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Turning to East-West rela- tions, M. Schuman id the ques tion was to know whether the gains inade by the cause peace for the West through the European organisation would not

simultaneously Do where. He pointed out that the had put forward same the lanterner une into being. Shortly after, neverthe lesa, a four-power conference in of the Berlin blockade. He at serted that the European policy was not a show put on as on answer to Soviet polley.

when

Paris had resulted in a raising

INTEGRATION

M. Schuman claimed that in- tegration was the best solution to the French security problem, Acceptance or rejection of the present treaty would determine

Judicial Reform Assembly was being held under France's future.

In Morocco

Rábat, Nov. 19. The Sution of Merteep signed four new decices today pro- viding for judicial reforms in Morveco.

"We must back our allies. We must show that we are capable of following through the policy which we ourselves defined.”

Several members of the Gaullist R.P.F. breakaway group today tabled a notion opposing the European Defence Community in

Emir Said Ibn Abdul Aziz, the new King of Saudi Arabia, following the death of his father, King Ibn Saud, at the age of 73. The Saudi royal family is one of the richest in the world. (Express photo).

Genman Liberals Offer New Saar Proposals

Bonn, Nov. 19.

Three Liberal members of the West German Bundestag (Lower House) proposed today that the Saar territory be incorporated as a "land" (state) with the German Federal Republic, but that economically, it should continue to form a single unit with France.

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Germany

1059.

McCARTHYISM HOUNDING BACK TO ROBIN

HOOD!

London, Nov. 19.

Englishmen. from the High Sheriff of Not- tingham down, lifted amused eyebrows today at án Indiant woman's proposal tỏ bản the story of Robin Hood from schools because it was "Com- munistic."

"We're very proud of Robin Hood," said Sheriff William John Cox of Nottingham, whose predecessor of long ago followed Robin Hood and his merry men on many à chase,

Mtrs Thomas J. White of the Indian Textbook Commission, stuck thiết. Cho Canntmils's wait

to stress. Robin Hood because he look from the rich and gave to the poor. That's the Com- munist line."

Said the Sheriff of Notting- ham: "If he were alive today we'd probably call him 11 gangster, and I'd have to do my duty and go out ofler him. We've Hever minded cur children learning about Robin Heed and Maid Murian and rest Little John and all the 11's our heritage. And, mind you, I'm no Communist. I'm a member of the Conservative Party."

The Duke of Portland, Lord Lieutenant of Nottinghamshire end thus a succexor to Guy of Gu'sborne, Robin Hood's Im- piocable enemy, could not be roschet for comment. He was out hunting.

Campaign Against

Apartheid

United Nations, Nov. 19. Two resolutions attacking South African racial policiest were being prepared today for Introduction In tio special Fontical Committed when it takes up the apartheid problem, probably tomorrow.

Incil, with help from the Asian-African group, has a draft (resolution that the Indians res gard as a comparatively mlid censure of the Soul African Goverment. Its main purpose Edgar Tucker, the forester ofis to apply moral pressure and certain the question Sherwood Forest, could not be to make reached either. He was out comes up again in the next

General Assembly. forest hunting patrolling the modem: day poachers.

The Secretary of the Robin Hood Country Society at Mans- deid, in the heart of Sherwood Forest, exploded.

A Latin American resolution? in the making has been labelled "considerable

stronger" than Indian draft and some win question whether it can general approval In the ruz-

the

"What!" he said, "I know sted form,

The South African delegation Robin Hood robbed the rich to has been working on a state-

give to the poor, but I think it

Its racial views the 60-

Д ridiculous suggestion. ment Communist in those days. The member lady is talking out of the back of her neck."

There was no such thing as a for Presention to

In London) Stephen Potter,

The

Committee.

The apartheid debate will be the third and last round in the Asian-African blog's fight in this otssion against South or Africa's racial policies. author of "Gamesmanship",

General Assembly on the art of winning without ac-

11 overwhelmingly tually cheating," said that Mrs November

a resolution acking white is quite right, but isn't adopted she taking a rather negative at South Africa to suspend her. Utude? Perhaps the story should segregation laws and to com cast of operate with a Commission try- The proposal was presented by Max Becker, be re-told with a new

characters super-Hood, super-ing to settle the Union's Indlan Heinrich Schless, and Hubertus zu Loewenstein.

problem. John and super-Maid Marian minority

The Trusteeship Committee, The plan suggested by the Thirdly, Western

That way it might have a more

by a similar, yote,, asked South familiar ring." Liberals included the following would continue to contribute to

Africa to permilt United Nations peints:-

the creation of 11 European Angus Wilson, Deputy Super-supervision over the mandatc

community. Firstly, France could purchase | polliica

France intendent of the reading room territory of South-West Africa. a certain quantity of Saur coal, would thus have a

guarantee and could sell to the Snar ก

that Germany by itself would in the British Museum Library and the author of such novels not launch a way to recover its the Wrong Set" and "Suels lost territories in the cast.

Darling Dodos said darkly, "E Fourthly, the West German you oppose Robin Hood, you're republie would groni extra-putting yourself on the side of Seendly, Western Germany

territorial privileges to the Sour King John, beenuse Robin Hood 'would buy back through if and when a European polll! stále from him.”

paration; payments the Star al community designated a city

which have bten factories

In the Saar as its copital,- # reparations. Franco-Presse. sequestered Mines which belonged to Prussia- or to the German Reich would go in part to France, in part to die Western Germany, and In part to the Saur itself.

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the most unusual circumstances. How was it possible, he asked, for the Assembly to elicuss the European Defence Community, without

F2 previous thorough investigation of its terms by the appropriate committees?

He pointed out however, that decrees provided for the Assembly should under its present form. The metien fundamental Kubrantees of stand the Impalicrec with

that the goverment suggests modern justice, such as the right which other countries were does not give is final agreement of parties to be assisted by waiting for France's decision. to the ED.C. treaty unless it was counsel before a trial, and the

sure that the honour, interest right to ball when the sentence

the political and unity of France and the to be imposed would be of u minor nature-France-Presse,

The

Referring community.

to

stipulated quantity of its agri- cultural products. These trans- actions would be paid for in French francs.

guarantees on the part of beals sugge.ted the follow-

M Schuman French Union" were safeguarded, Western Germany, the three pointed out that parliament bad-

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YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD-Across: 3 Implicit & Book,

The Grullist group expected

the

Boan govern- would place 113 m litary. and Bermuda talks dictated by continginis unite the communt national requirements. The of the projected Erzepran de- Ination salt the House wanted fenen community as provided in to preserve, as much as the Treaty of Paris. possible, any chonce of negotia- Secondly, if the European de- tion between East and West, feae community is no: ralife. from which a lasting peace Western Germany would estab- could emerge,-Franco-Pres30.. lish no garrisons in the Star.

government to have its

position at the coming Han the

These Things Are Imponderables

Karachi, Nov. 19.

Another Hold Up To

"And that way you tend to make nonsense of Mogna Carta, which the nobles forced_King John to sign.". .1

The Sheriff of Nottingham agreed that "King John was n tyrannical old fils, and, I can't soy I blame Robin Ho But If Robin Hood robbed the rich to give to the poor, he probably cornered his own nest 100. I expect he made a pretty good thing of it. We wouldn't want to take Robin Hood out of English history. We're very proud of him around here." United Press.

New Regency

Act

Signed