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Britain's Budget
URST impressions of Mr
FS
Butler's budget are that
It is somewhat stereotyped
unimaginative mi
but closer examination revenis that he has compiled 11 remarkably Boend dori- ment. in faet, The Chancellor's well-known
reticence has tended to hide several important dis- closures. To begin with, income tax: „quite nuturally with a budget of the pro. portions presented to House on Tuesday, it would be impossible to grant any worthwhile tax reductiona this year. however badly they are needed, with the defence
estimate
ut
£1,699,9m-n third of the totul expenditure. Yet there is un implication in Mr Butler's speech (not, of course, mentioned by him) that if economic conditions remain relatively stable this year there may well be n revision of the tax question
for he DUKL year,
has promised that "during the coming year we tmt141 He!ཅ that we obtain some definite relief from the defence burden." Obviously as long as the present defence policy
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remains there question of an overhaul of the taxation system. Mr Butler has not granted in
the old-age srenser pensions, another problem needing close attention, yet he announced a concession un "post-war credit" to men over 65 and women over 60. Granted this is only tax- payers' money owing from the war years but some old people will get benefits from the budget after all.
O the budget as a whole,
Butler believes
CHINA MAIL
No. 35786
Established 1845
THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1954.
PACIFIC TREATY
ORGANISATION
PROPOSAL
Designed To Replace ANZUS
US MILITARISTS' PLAN
Washington, Apr. 7. Authoritative sources today indicated that the United States' military experts are in favour of a Pacific treaty organisation with probable headquarters in the Philippines to implement the Secretary of State, Mr John Foster Dulles' "united action" policy as regards Southeast Asia.
They said that such an organisation, if formed, would be known as PATO and would be composed of the United States, Great Britain, France, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Thailand and eventually the Associated States of Indo-China.
They understood that this would, in effect, result in the dissolution of the ANZUS is ANZUS organisation as it would then have no reason for existence.
in defence are linked Australia, New Zealand and the United States. They treaties.
The sources Huld the United States military officials prefer to consider that PATO, it formed, would replace ANZUS rather than broaden it due to the fact that ANZUS has no Asiatic members and these officials are most anxious to do every- thing possible for Asiatic nations to take a prominent part in the defence of South- east Asia.
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for
to be in
TO MARRY IN YEAR'S TIME
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Will Wed Rubirosa Says Gabor
Paris, Apr. 7. Film star Zsa Zsa Gabor announced in Paris today should address a solemn warning, Command had underestimated its
that she would marry Por to the Peking Government.
requirements in aircraft.
Rubirosa, firio
much-wed But the Ministers decided to New factors were Communist
Dominican diplomat, postpone discussion of the pro-anti-aircraft uns manned
un current exchanges Chinese gunners around
the day from posal
year to Phu, us well as the between the capitals concerned Blen
destruction:
now." of of a number had been completed.
planes during the recent Viet- minh raids against French air- fields, he said,
They added that the Philip
be the logical would pines headquarters for such an organi- zation.
General They also said that
is scheduled to John O'Daniel leave Honolulu on April il by Indo-China command of the United States
there. militury aid his
group The sources stressed that the Joint Chiefs of Staff place great China war by negotiation at the unportance on his arrival and Geneva conference this month. nia first reports on the military They are also anxious lost situation as well as his recom-such a declaration might lead to Tendations as to further mui- an internationalisation of the war with the possible risk of a Aus-world conflict,
Mr plans for The 1966 fiscul year, being as they are an extension of !! yeur's budget proposals, should help
promote the healthy improvement 10 Britain's economic picture which became apparent in the latter months of 1968- 54 nancial year te.g. the recovery
the in
*xport surplus from 268m. in the
tary
feel such a Some Ministers warning would be treated as an unacceptable ultimatum by the Chinese and would reduce the chances of ending the Indo-
tary ald.
They added that the tration Minister for External
Another section of the Cabinel Affairs, Mr Richard Casey, ដ
is holda there
a for better Aprit 20 to chance of success at Geneva It expected here on discuss Mr Dulles "united one negotiates from a position policy. He feels that of strength and makes clear to
will be helpful.
Peking from the start the con-
action" such a visit
first half of 1963 to £187m. They indicated that United sequences of a direct interven In the second half). Denling | States ofBetals consider with the question of British Casey's recent coinments on Industry and the Budget, Dulles united action polley
most helpful and as a sign that Mr Butler said he expects the general level of produc-Australia is prepared fully
Lock up.
to
to
by
Dian
The French opposition is also motivated to A certain degree by the fear that foreign inter- vention might lead to the loss of the remaining French privileges Indo-China officially, in French Government
Bill pledged to sock a negotiated settlement of the seven-year-old war at Geneva.
PESSIMISTIC
the
But with the stiffening Ameri- can
which attitude,
virtually rules out Western concessione to obtain a Peking Government promise to stop aid to the Viet- minh, French officials were be- coming Increasingly pessimilatic about the Genova
prosperis.
here Official quarters
felt Geneva conference that if the
out lo be a failure, turned
Mrtion in Indo-China. Mr Foreign Office officials said the as expet formula of the proposed joint stand was still under con- sideration.
Earlier reports that a common
be would believed that declaration These sources
issued Australia may be using a good soon appeared to be "premature" offices in gaining support for Me following the inter-Allied con- France would have to consider Dailes proposals for guarantee.sultations. ing Southeast ABIR against Communist Chinese_aggression,
seriously an appeal for Diplomatic quarters said Bri- | American participation
also tain
seemed uncertain Indo-China war.
tion should be well main- tained this year. But he feels justifiably that the effect of reducing income tax this
year, while it certainly would help
They added that Mr Casey is whether such a move was op- investment W promote
the first Foreign Minister of the portune. industry, would stimulate
interested countries lo comma The United States is also con- purchasing power and
here on his way to Geneva to suiting several Asian countries, would thus enneel out any
discuss Mr Dulles' polley. They particularly Thailand and the bencilia derived from believed that some other Foreign Philippines, about their view of
ต higher production, purti-Ministers might also want
the joint action. including cularly
come here similarly, the export
perhaps the Thailand Foreign industry.
Minister, Irince Won-United
AN important polat was Mr Press,
Butler's most un "conser vative" warning to industry to "beware of excessive distribution of profits" (a recent trend in Britain)
considers
direct. the
A French Foreign Ministry spokesman said tonight there was nothing surprising about the latest American moves on Indo-China.
fortress EDC Ratified opper By Luxembourg
One of the essential aspects of American polley was to URGENT APPEAL
prevent surprises rather than France has addressed an ur have to face them, he said. That given was why warnings were gent appeal to the United States
to Russia and Communist for the rapid delivery of four- OPINIONS DIVIDED
bombers engined
which are China.-Reuter. Paris, Apr. 7. considered essential for the do-
Blen Phu. French Ministers were report- fence of Dien
The ed tonight to be divided overi
Government the, American proposal for the besieged jungle
athe
at all cost which he coupled with his joint statement warning Com- must be held
"to keep hands France
not to plea for still higher pro-munist China duction. The
and parti-militarily inferior at Geneva. off" Southeast Asia recont
radar and other Artillery, cularly Indo-China. Economic Survey issued by
Luxembourg, Apr. 7. The Foreign
Minister, M. supplies were also mentioned
The Luxembourg Parliament Georges
Bidault,
the in the French appeal, told
European spokes- tonight ratified the Cabinet about the American A Foreign Ministry
Community treaty. suggestion that France, Britain, man tonight said latest develop Defence
45 for and four
members the United States as well as ments on the battlefront made Voting was
and Now Zealand it clear that the French High against. Two Australia
only obsent. The notes came from four Com munists in the House.
the Treasury sold that though
profits company were lower in 1963 than in 1961, their financial stronger. position way These
observationa two suggest that the Govern-
ment belleves that expan-6 Months For Corporal Who
sion and modernisation of many sections of British industry does not wholly depend on a reduction of taxation to promote invest- ment but that it lies within the power of many
com-
Ill-Treated Prisoners
months' detention.
Bonn, Apr. 7.
without the use of his The findings and sentence are fours
hands because "you look like a subject to confirmation.
This in the sixth conviction in pig, so eat like a pig"
MacDonald was
a series of Air Force courts martial following allegations of
cleared on
an
were adverse
Luxembourg is the fourth country to railfy the EDC, West Germany, Holland and Delgium havo already approved the treaty with France and Italy still to debate it.
Luxembourg has an army of 22,000 men. Her contribution
of
in
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Third H-Bomb Test
Carried Out Cruiser Sold
Paper Reveals New Life-Destroying Weapon
Washington, Apr. 7.
The Atomic Energy Commission said today that the third test in the present hydrogen weapons series at the Pacifie proving grounds of the Commission was successfully carried out yesterday.
By Admiralty
London, Apr. 8. The British Admiralty announced today that it has Bold the 8,000-ton orulver Nigeria to the In-
dian Navy for sea training. The Nigeria, a six-inch- gun colony class warship, pperated In northern waters from her launching In 1940, helped to rel convoys through to Russia and later to Malta, in the Mediterranean.
From 1944 until the end of the war against Japan, she served in the Far East. The Nigeria will be re- fitted in a United Kingdom shipyard before going to India-Reuter.
"Information of great importance to national defence continues to be derived from this test Police series," said the announcement by Chairman Lewis L. Strauss.
The test area was carefully searched by air- craft and radar for ships that might have strayed into the danger zone.
Bet
The announcement said that the explosion was off yesterday at the AEC's Eniwetok-Bikini proving grounds in the Marshall Islands.
Fight
Communist Hooligans
Berlin, Apr. 7. Approximately 800 West The announcement came The recent bydrogen tests at Berlin riot police beat 800 shortly after President Elsen- Eniwetok virtually proved that{ Communist toughs back
hower said at his weekly news the cobalt bomb conference that the United by
AS
any power
bomb.
States is making H-bombs about know-how ΟΙ
it intends to. big as The President said he knew
The cobalt
able ones.
can be made
the
possessing the across the Berlin East-West hydrogen border today when the Reds
attempted to break up bomb, simply Western rally.
D
Commu-
The police said 40 nists were arrested and several injured.
Miss Gabor made the *c- nouncement to reporters as she stopped from the clipper which brought her to Paris from New York where she said yesterday "Who wants to get married? I am glad to be free,"
She said that Rubirosa, who Jert
New Jersey airport yesterday
for Paris, Shannon airport-he 15 $0 scared
ferred to the experimental pro- except for of photographers and would join her here tonight.
"I am waiting for him with a We have swom heavy heart. love and fidelity for life," she added.
of no reason to make the super-stated, is a hydrogen bomb en- bomb- already capable of cased in cobalt instead of steel.
When a metropolis → knocking out
the cobalt bomb is de- any bigger than it is
tonated the cobalt vaporises and The inference is that in the in transformed into the deadly present tests the AEC is seeking radioactive cloud.
The rally was addressed by not more powerful weapons but Professor Lea Szurd of the former Nazi General Hasso you more effelent and more deliver- University of Chicago told the Monteuffel and was called In Times that 400 one-ton bombs support of the proposed Euro- Yesterday's explosion, brought would release enough radio-pean Army plan which would to at least 67 the number of activity to extinguish all life on rearm West Germany. nuclear, Blasts strice the birth of earth, atomle weaponeering nine years The newspaper concluded The Reds massed outside and ago.
the nature of the weapon incide
the a meeting ball in The AEC's announcement did itself precluded testing it any- French sector, about half a mile not say that it was a thermo-where in the world but that the from Berlin's East-West border. nuclear (hydrogen) explosion. Eniwetok hydrogen tests make They shouted "Down with But Mr Strauss in his White such
and tests unnecessary for the Manteuffel" House statement a week ago re-two
the weapons are
samo Bnti-EDC Icadets, the outer casing.---
The of United Press.
crack Western sector PRELATE'S PLEA
to the riot police were rushed London, Apr. 0.
hall and charged into the Com- The Archbishop of York, Dimunists, swinging their clubs..
Reds until Cyril Garbett, said last night the They pounded the Church must protest with all its they retreated across the City might against the use of weapons border.
was D'
Rubirosa
Miss Gobor won a divorce reecnlly from Georg Sanders, the British flm actor. La estranged from his Barbara Lutton, the Woolworth heiress-Reuter.
granume as "a test series thermonuclear weapons."
estimates No reliable
have been made public of the power
of the second shot on March 20, Some Congressional sources said that it was smaller than the first one, others said it was larger.
All the ABC said of the third for indiscriminate mass destruc- wife
tion. explosion
was this:
He called "Lewis L Strauss, Chairman level attempt by the Big Fowers for another high
agreement on ques- divide them and on
French Army Insulted By Journalists
of the Atomic Energy Commis- sion, stated today that the third to reach
tions that test in the present weapons disarmament.
The
series at the Pacific proving grounds of the Commission was successfully carried out от Tuesday, April 6,
of
distributed
The Reds exploded a tear gas bomb in the hall but no one United Press. was injured, the police said
Stones Thrown Af Cinema
Georgetown, Apr. 7.
10-year-old Archbishop Clubs here told the Authors
tho the question, "What has Church to
to say about the hydro- "As in previous instances, in
was weighing on the gen bomb? tests preparation for the area was searched both visually the minds and consciences
all thoughtful men. and by radar for possible ship
"It is childish to speak as if smashed furniture while a ping.
this was on
the Coronation a par with
was being or shown in a school last night. At discovery of gunpowder dynamite," he said. "It is dif- the end of the show, they stoned
(Contd. on back page, Col. 4) the school.---Reutor.
"Information of great im- portance to national defence continues to be derived from this test series."United Press.
THE COBALT
BOMB
New York, Apr. 7. The most deadly weapon yet conceived by man which could annihilate all Hfe on earth can now be made successfully, a dispatch in the Now York Times said today.
Paris. Apr. 7. The Communist newspaper- men from the Paris daily L'Humanite were sentenced by a Paris
to two court today
with months' imprisonment
Offenders' benent of the First Act, and
50,000-franc fine for having insulted the French Army which fought in Korea,
were Gaston The Journallats Tessier, Director of L'Humanite, and George Sadoul, film critic,
were sentenced for anpassed from the realm of the article published on February 14 theoretical during the recent under the tillo "The aim glorify-hydrogen blasts at the Eniwetok proving grounds in the Pacific, Ing the French Mercenaries in
Now York Times science Korea must not be shown."
William I. the writer
Lawrence sald in a a two-column story in the Times.
The Court considéred articic, a revlaw of the film Creve Coeur, which has not been shown to the pubile yet, Insulting and slanderous towards the Army,
The reviewer called French soldiers in Korea "mercenaries," "scoundrels," "hired murderers," and "imperialist criminals."-
France-Presse.
Want Twice As Much Pay
London, Apr. 7. Leaders of one million Build- ing workers today expressed dissatisfaction with a pay offer from employers and decided to gock twice the amount)-
The cobalt bomb-a hydrogen bomb encased in a cobalt shell
The story said that the ex- plosion of a cobalt bomb would radioactive cloud 320 produce a
than times
more
powerful radium The cloud carried by prevailing winds, could travel thousands of miles, destroying all life in its path.
Professor Harrison Brown, nuclear chemlat at the California Institute of Technology, sald that if a cobalt bomb were set off 1,000 miles west of Cali- fornia "the_radioactive chiat would reach California in about day and New York in four or five days, killing most fe as it traverses the continent,"
to the newspaper.
"the Western Powers
MTA the
Times quoted
A Royal Air Force Police, Corporal Alan George to the North Atlantic Defence panies to effect this in spite MacDonald, was found guilty today of 21 out of 24 Organisation consists
stallations used by the Allied of high taxation. When it
the charges of ill-treating prisoners and was sentenced to alx Air Forces-Reuter. begins operating, "Investment allowance" plan which provides tax frea grants to Arms wanting to modernise plants should be useful in assisting industry
of 'striking
London, Apr. to complete ita post-war
The building employers were could explode hydrogen-cobalt Il treatment at a detention three charges
by Post Office workers, tonight | understood to, have offered an bambe on
A north-south reformation plans. One final barracks at Wahnerheide, near airman, Il-treating one observation; the fears of a
door decided to and a "go slow" Increase of one penny an hour about the longitude of Prague here.
knocking him against a
would destroy all resurgence of German and MacDonald, A 21-year-old and of drilling another till he movement which has delayed per man, which would cost the
of both handling on:10 fell exhausted
home and Industry an estimated £10,- within a strip 1,000 miles wide, convicted the regular, was Japanese trade and
In a last minuto change of oversens parcels.
extending from Leningrad 000,000 a year. American recessions have charges of striking prisoners.
He was also found guilty of plen, MacDonald pleaded guilty Bince Monday, 2,000 workers The offer was redeoted at a Odom, and 5,000 miles 'doop come to a head at an un-
drilling
a soldier till he col- to one charge of fearing the in two London centres have, meeting today of leaders of 13 from Prague to the Ural Moun fortunate time for
lapsed exhausted, of pouring buttons from a prisoner's un- been working to rule in pro- unions in the National Fodera teine.
"Such an attack would pro- Butler and these factora soup over the head of another, form and of slashing his best test against postal authoritier ton of Building Trader Opern-
tives. It decided to press for duce a combed, earth' unpre- tend to make the budget a of injuring a third by throw blue belt. He had pleaded rejection of a claim for, an ex-
and not guilty to all other charges: tra 18 shillings a week per min. at tekst, two pance more ao cedented in history"!! Brown far less attractiva pro- ing a full klibeg at him
-Reuter.
Hour Reular,
told the bewESIDE gramme than it really is. of forcing a soldier, to eat on all China Mail Special'
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