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Scraplay by RENARD NGABAUM and FUKOL MUGENT

George Somers, adapted from hit, kyk, “The Bad Meet"

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PICTURE A CAPITOL TOWN BOOKING OFFICE:

East Africa

To Ban

Jap. Cloth

Manchester, Feb. 18. Lancashiro cotton leaders were told yesterday that East Africa is to extend its ban on imports of JapanesO cloth which should have ended on May 1 to the end of this year.

Mr A. D. Campbell, who ind the United Kingdom cotton in dustry export team to East Africa lost July, announced, ho had received official confirmé tion of the extension of the ban. Only

unbleached sheet and idkols-womeys undergarments

are excluded from 1.

"Comes at Д timo when Anglo-Japanese payments agree- ment has

has cast some gloom over the industry, the announcement will be doubly appreciated," Mr Campbell sald

"Shane Expected To Get Award

Hollywood, Feb. 15, To Academy of Motion Plature Arts and Helences tonight

#NDOWNGG new ingil,ge for this year's academy awards. ***

Films such as "Shane' "From Here to Eternity" and

Holiday" "Homen were expected to get many preliminary honours.

British

Among performers, Buri Lancaster as the rough Sergeant of "eternity" was considered a favourite while

actress, Audny

Hepbur of Roman Hoilday," was * leading centender among QUÍTEREOS, * Ching Mail Spectat.

SINCE

1939

Now Controls Four Times

As Many People

Berlin, Feb. 15.'

A survey of postwar Russian - gains. com- pleted this week by Western officials show that Communism now controls nearly twice the area and four times the population it had under its control before the war.

The prewar Communist area of some 8,000,- 000 square miles has been extended to well over 14,000,000 square miles, and the population from some 170,000,000 to more than 750,000,000.

the

The Unlied Siates Secretory recognised by mast pf of Slate, Mr John Foster Dulles, Powers, Including Soviet Russlo, told the Soviet: Foreign Minis- in the Ticaty of Moscow of ter, Mr V. M. Molotov, last July 12, 1920.--France-Presse. week that Russia, had extended

US Asked To her power from her own borders

Help Project

In S. America

Washington Feb. 16. American rubber MALLOC- turers who are meeting govern- ment officials here are urging

The British cotton industry was conscious that in reaching their decision, East African Governmenis must have taken into account the large volume of orders How booked by East African Importers with Lan- cshez fums and of the cffe the government to find some upon economic stability of mar- way of continuing its support heis through the impact on this of a programme to develop trade of a sudden large influx natural rubber Industry of Japanese goods.

Latin America.

|

D

in

Somo $300,000 a year has been coming from the Foreign Opera- tions

Administration but the authorities

announced that its budget for the

coming fiscal year will provide funds only for that part of the programme iti which Latin American govern- monta contribute matching funds, a relatively small part

Mr Campbell said: "The in- dustry as a whole le very urate- ful to the East African Govern- ments for adopting this

con- siderate policy, und whl con Unuo efforts it has made to meet the needs of East African peoples to tho fullest extent possible."-China Mall Special, SOME BALANCE

London, Feb. 16. Purliamentary Secretary to Ministry of Labour, Mr

Ono suggestion is that the Hure Watkinson, said in re- Omica of Defence Mobilisation ference to th recent Anglo-designate the programme

Anglo necessary to Unlied States de- Japanese trade part: "We must fence, in which case addiilona) trade where we can, so long ** funds might be forthcoming there is some balance of advan-|from Congress.

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"Japan can only pay for goods For over a decade technicians she wants to buy from us with throughout Latin America have the sterling she earns from her been attempting to combine the sulcs.

herdy bught-resting rubber belleve in the trees, nutive to Brazil, with buds "I personally balancing of trado at high tak: from the higher yielding levet rather than at a low level." trees of Southeast Asia, through

Mr Watkinson,

who was bui grafting. speaking at a dinner of window blind manufacturers, called for the creation of "a new industrial democracy" that would give the flexibility necessary for adapting Industrial arrangements quickly

are encouraged under economic pressure.Neu- by the progress made so far,

tex.

It is said to take anything up to eight years to bring Buch

trees to maturity.

Technicians

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A Frenchman's View Of The Berlin Talks:

"No Table-banging And

No Shouting"- A Return To Diplomacy

Berlin, Feb. 15.

The Big Four foreign ministers have met and have disagreed-but it has all been so polite: no table-banging, no shouting, no unseemly brawling, the France-Presse correspondent said today.

And though the West and the | casa, and has made quite plain Soviet Union still remain poles the Soviet idea of the future of apart, at least d'plomacy has Germany and of the world been resurrected ngain after so many years in the limbo of

a bitterly divided world.

of

ם

NO

BITERS

until she dominated one-third of the human rack."

The survey shown that the process thich started in the early stages of the war and was resumed full-blast after the war ranges from the Baltic to Tibet..

Soviet expansion Includes the following gains, according to the survey.

July 1940---Russia annexes the three Baltic Republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

In 1946-dusola annexes rize able parts of East Poland and Fast Prussia as well as Bessara bla.

August 1945-Russla occupied South Sukhalin and the Kuriles. October 1945-Mongolia is set up as a People's Republic,

January 16 Albania ij pro- claimed a People's Repubile.

CZECH COUP

US Official

Supports

Randall Plan

Washington, Feb. 15. The Deputy Director of the Slate Department's Office of Economic Defence and Trade Polley, Mr Ray- mond Vernon, told a Con. gressional committee today even a slight drop off in United States business would have a sharp impact on the economies free world.

of the

best As the

way to avoid such a decline he recommended the long range programme of November 1448 →→ Rumaria

tariff reductions outlined in the tre Communist,

recont Randall Commission re- November 1946-Bulgaria is port. taken over by the Communists. Mr Vernon opened a discus- January 1947--Poland comes sign by a panel of economic under Communist control.

experts before the Joint Con- May 1947-Communists take gressional Committee on

President's economic report. over in Hungary.

the

The panel differed over the In 1948- Communist coup in merits of tariff reductions with North Koren becomes a People's convertibility Czechoslovakia in February, some members arguing that free Currencies Republle in May and in October should precede tarlit reductions. Manchuria went under total Communist control,

Bir Vernon epic purchaseg by the free world countries of In 1980-East Germany be United States goods essential to came a Communist puppet stato | their economies were about two In October

and a half

times the prewar lovel,

In 1951-In January the Com- munists swept China and in May Tibet

under Chinese Communist control, United Press

NO RECOGNITION

BOMEWHAT GREATER

At the same time, these coun- tries, mostly in Western Europe, had started to ship Increased volumes of luxury goods to the United States di un effort to Mebuild level trade balance, he

London, Feb. 15. The Minister of State, Selwyn Lloyd said today the said. British Government was not

But when business recoded in which ready to take any steps might imply or constitute "de the United States, Mr Vernon jure recognition of the Soviet pointed out, the first cutbacks annes tion of the three Balle imports.

would hit these non-cssential

States.

"As a result," he explained, Mr Lloyd made this state-"foreign countries rim the risk ment in the House of Commons of losing dollar earnings in any in reply to a question by a demestic slump at a rale some- Conservative member of Parlia what greater than the size of mont.

the slump. Russia incorporated Lithuania, "And if that happens foreign Latvia and Estonia into the countries will simply have to Soviet Union in August, 1940.

from cut back their purchaseS American Government this market, whether or not. has adopted a similar policy they need our goods at the towards the three States same accelerated pace." Franco-Presse,

The

*INDEPENDENCE”

Washington, Feb. 15. The U.S. Under-Secretary of Stone, Mr Welter Bedell Smith, said today the US, would con- tinue to

Lithuania's recognise

ECONOMIC AID ENDING

Mr Howard S. Piquet, senior specialist in international eco- nomies in the Library of Con- gress, pointed out that economie ald was now coming to an end. "The question that faces us Perhaps it la a hopeful sign bring the West in, line-anit | Government believed that the now is the extent to which it is Ho has tried every artifice to Independence because, the U.B. bettor

world to come. has falled, He has given way

Baltic States had been In necessary for the United States Clausewitz stated that war was on doigile and has offered a corporated into the Soviet Union to open its marketa to foreign the extension of diplomacy

"by direct aggression."

merchandise in order to make another form. For the last five empting belt but no biters

functioning Inter- from the West,

Speaking on the eve of the possible Ca

national economy," he said. years, practically the only kind

800 of diplomacy that existed, was

in- If tarifs were suspended, Mr aware not a hot one, but a still remain diametrically op dependence, Mt Smith acting Piquet maintained met

posed and there is little hope of

Stato in Mr John

of American, industry, There is the war in Indo- any binding agreement coming Foster Dudies' absence, said that agriculture and minling would. China. There was the blockade | befora Thursday,

the peoples of the Baltic states not be directly affected. of Berlin and the war in Korea,

nover freely accepted

their

cold one.

In

The blockade has been lifted.

of the pro-

The views. of East and West (clamativersary tania's

But it has not all been in vain. incorporation Into the Boviet He pointed out that about 20- The war in Korea is at an end. Diplomacy has come back into Union.

per cent of the grom national It does look ap if the fires its own and the talking has be^ion Empire, Lithuania - pro-' and' that.: not more than four. A Grand Duchy under the product was consumed at home diminishing and it la gun again..

ara

'worthy of note that the only No more (cold war? Well, ire | dalined independence on per cent of the nation's con- agreement visualized this.OD the cards now-France- February 16, 1918, after the sumption was in imported goods. conference at the moment con-Presse.

[Communist coup d'état." It was ! «United Press. corna an Aslan conference At which Indo-Chine will be dis

cussed.

HOPEFUL SIGN

brt no

This return to the formula of diplomey-agreements agreements is a hopeful sign.

There have been no illusions about the conference on any elde. M. Molotov's acceptance of the final deadline for the closing of the conference on Thursday made this point clear. He has lost no opportunity to

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