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THE

BLACK BOK

Radio Dept.

SEE IT, HEAR IT.

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GILMANS

COMMENT OF

THE DAY

The Aruba

Gloucester Arcade

HE Finnish tanker, Aruba I may never got its cargo of paraffin to the shores of China yet Peking may claim

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compensating triumph in the new wave of Anti- British

feeling The bargo running bid ใบเฟ stirred up In Washington in the Inst. few days. It is doubtful whether the Com- munists really expected to take delivery of the cargo. In fact everything suggests they had

ulterjor

some

motive in ordering the fuel

by new.

Two years Agen 1

States

Child

k il similar

attempt by the Finnish janker Wilma

paraffin

And the

was sold in Singa-

pore to American interests. A afmilar fate may be in store for the Aruba's cargo, as latest reports expecially Indiente that the ship's crew are not prepared to sail (uto the China Sea.

There

ATC 1,000 tonk of parafin said to be involved.

The paraffin In possibly suitable as high grade jet fuel and as anch it would be enough for 100 Soviet-built MIG to make 100 sorties,

The cargo in therefore big

enough to ensure that every normal effort will be made by the Americans to prevent the paraffin from getting into the handa of Chinese Communists.

the

CHINA

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REVEALED

Roosevelt's Ideas For ROYAL ROMANCE AGITATION

Demand

Korea & Indo-China For Palace

HOW RUSSIA BARGAINED OVER ENTERING THE PACIFIC WAR

WASHINGTON, MAR. 16.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT SECRETLY PROPOSED TO MARSHAL STALIN AT THE 1945 YALTA CONFERENCE THAT KOREA SHOULD BE PLACED AFTER THE WAR UNDER THE TRUSTEESHIP OF THE SOVIET UNION, CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES BUT NOT BRITAIN, IT WAS DISCLOSED. TODAY,

President Roosevelt also proposed a

for postwar trusteeship

instead of giving it "back to the French."

Indo-China

These revelations were contained in the long secret papers of the confer- Marshal Stalin, the British Prime ences in a post-war settlement between Minister Sir Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt at Yalta in February 1945. The State Department released the 500,000-word papers under strong congressional pressure today.

Among the papers are the hitherto secret minutes kept by President Roosevelt's assistant, Mr Charles Bohlen, of a meeting between President Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin on February 8 on the political conditions under which the Soviet Union would enter the war against Japan and the postwar Far Eastern settlement generally. Mr Bohlen reports President Roosevelt as saying that he wished to discuss the question of trustceships with Marshal Stalin.

sary

invite

deirated. forconst was based

on

This

wor

Roosevelt's Proposal

the Briush to main milliary ergast For Hongkong

So why did the Communists

Mr Boblen wrote: "Heeign troops would not be Germany "Was bother to send the Aruba (President Roosevelty said he stationed in Korea tu sea? There could be had in mind fur Korea a trustee- Mr Bohlen continued: "The plans calling for an invasion of motives behind the Peking ship composed of a Soviet, an President then said there was the Japane home lalands. move which may have as American and a Chinese repre- one question in regard to Kores

MAIN EFFORT their ultimate gual some sentative. He felt that the which was delicata, Ho pers-

The US Joint Chiesa atao ad- from 20 to 30ally did not feel it was neess-vised the President that the thing far more mischievous period might be

by than merely causing tem-years."

the porary bitterness

Mr Bohlen reports Marshal participate in the trusteeship of Russians in among a bunch

that they Japan should be:w. of political hothends trusteeship for Korea as possible in Stalin replied that forces in Manchuria.

Stalin as favouring as short a Koica but he felt

Defeat of the resent this. and as approving President Roosevelt's statement that for- they would most certainly pu

operations Alr 2. offended. In fact, he said, the Japan. proper in collaboration Prime Minister might kill us, with US forces to be based in In his opinion he felt that the Eastern Siberia. British should be invited.

in the United States Con-

gress.

Radio Peking speaks of dire consequences to any nation "daring" to interfere with the passage of the tanker. The threat, in itself, appears to be no more significant the spate of threats than and the stendy tide of in- vertive and slander which flowB from that country's propaganda machines.

The Times says the shipment

"consigned Lo

រឹត

kong." Yet the

Hong-

British

Government has announced

Aruba

or

that no bunkering facilities will be given the either at Singapore Hongkong. If the cargo is by some chance off-loaded here, as an embargoed Item it will not get any further.

THE lasuc

THE

•

the Communists will make of the treat- ment "and ultimate fnte of the tanker cannot be accurately forecast. But the Chinese

may have already planned Rome form of retaliation against the West or, more apeci- fically, against the Ameri- cans since every Western action ultimately is held to result from the machina- tions of "American - Im- perialists."

Meanwhile Communist China mRy draw some comfort from the sequence of recent events including their

auccessful duping of Sena- fork Knowland and Mc- Clellan, surely two of tha clumsiest and most Irritat- ing Agures on the Con- gressional scenc today. Senator McClellan, ́in kis capacity of Chairman of the Senato Investigating Sub-committee, shows him- self an able successor · to Sonafor McCarthy by allow» ing himself to be confused by overzealous patriotism in his denunciation of East-, West trade.. Unless there is an end to this passionate crusade of dis- tortion and distrust, found- ed for the most part on ignorance or muddled think-, Ing, how can the Free World expect the people of America: to accept a reason- able and, logical change in the Administration's “pollcy towards Communiát China?, “And surely, this must cómé ff Washington genuinely Fabelos peace, and" an end to

tension in the Far East7

2 Who Talked

At Yalta

CHURCHILL

for

INDO-CHINA

Indo-China,

He

adderi

of this idea as they wished give it back to the French since they feared the implications of

П

Maximum with JupanEST

Burmahip as it might affect out interforing

Stolin

requirked

Japanese

ugainst

interference

seu trafic

be

"The President then sald he twoen Japan and the mainland also had in mind a trusteeship | of_Asia.

The Joint Chiefs hdvised the that the British did not approve President that the United States would "provide maximum support possible" to the flussion campaigns against Japan "with- with our own effort," Marshal

The records

showed that Mr that the

Mr Harriman the British had lost Burns Motocy gave once through reliance on Indo- proposed draft on February 10. China, and it was not his

It called for: opinion that Britain was a Bure 1. Preserving the status qua country

protect this area. He in Outer Mongolia, that he thought Indo- 2. Restoring was a very important Southern Sakhalin and adjacent lends she lost to Japan in the sald Russo-Japanee war. would be "no

difficulty whatsoever" in regard to two demands made by Marshal Stalin in return

added

China

Ident

Roosevelt

to

war

Ceding

the

to

Russia

to

Washington, Mar. 17. President Roosevelt sald- he hoped that the British would

the give__back"

of Hongkong lo sovereignty China

and that it would then become an internation allsed free port" during & mecting

Marshal

with

Stalin at Yalla on February

8, minutes kort by the Pro- sident's

assistant,

1945, socording to secret

Statement

London, Mar. 16. The demand grew more Insistent today for an official | statement from Buckingham Palace on the rumoured Princess romance between

and Margaret

40-year-old Air Force officer Group Cap- tain Peter Townsend.

Even the sober Dally Tele- Conservative news- gruph, a paper, gently joined in the

"Sup- fray-protesting against pression,"

more

con-

"When press inquiries into malters Od national interest meet secrecy and obstruction the editorial said "it is the

and responsible siderate Journalists who suffer. "For they find themselves unable to tell the sober truth to a public which has had its curiosity provoked by rumour End Innuendes.

Most daily newspapers ignored the rumours that Princess Mar- garet, the Queen's 24-year-old sister, was trying to decide whother marry Group Cap- tern Townsend, now 011 Air Attache in Brussels,

not

PRESS COMMENT

Long StretchTRAITOR

For Gaol Breaker

London, Mar, 16. Edward Rice, one of six long-term

who convicts broke out of StrangewaJN gaol

in Manchester last November, was yesterday sentenced to 13 years' pre- ventive detention at the Old Balley.

Bloc, who in 94, pleaded railty to three charges regelving-gellapito and five detonators: receiving quantify of tobacco and cigarettes: breaking and entering premiden and

alcating ever £500.

The sentence passed to- day will run concurrently with one of ten years given to

for

Rioo at Manchester Assizes fast March house-breaking and wound- in, China Mall Speednh

Bevan's

Promise To Party

London, Mar. 16.

SENTENCED

TO DEATH

PRISON TERM FOR WIFE

Renace, Mar. 16. A military tribunal hero tonight sentenced

Rene- Besson to death and his wife, Suzanne, to five years in gaol without beneft of | amnesty on charges of tres-

ton during the war,

Besson and his wife were also charged with informing ‘on French patriots to the German secret police,"

Besson, who

French

entered the Longwy,

£11 police

Eastern Franco

in 1032, was

found guilty of rovealing in- formation on French

counter

espionage to the Germana in

For that offence,

drew a sentence of 20.. years' hard labour from which he was released by the arrival of the German Army in 1940,

HUNTED PARACHUTISTS

to havd

*He then was ille track-

spent some time at

ing down British parachutists and uncovering the hideout of French resistance workers.

But on Monday when Group Mr Aneurin Bevan, Bri Captain Townsend made a state-tish left-wing Labour Party He was said to have gone with ment that Princess Margaret had leader has informed the the German Army in its retreat

made known to him any

in 1044, rubsequently ret

returning decision to marry him, no: that Party's Parliamentary to Franco under the pseudonym he had any reason to believe Group, which voted for his of Debraye." that she had made such a deci exclusion from the group to His Identity was revealed - "in- sion, many fan the story day, that he had no intention 1952 when an inquiry was open minently lines,

under factual

on... page one

explosivès et boing of forming a new party, Ined about

deilvered to the French National The Labour newspaper, the formed sources disclosed Defence Ministry which were Daily Herald, said today that there.

was clearly desirable that there

should be a statement from the Meanwhile, a meeting of the Palace with the least possible | Executive Committee of the Party

has been called for next Wednes- delay

The mass circulation Dallyday. The Executive may vote to Mitror, one of the first news exclude Mr Bevan from the paper to print rumours of a party itselt.

The Executive has 28 mem- royal romance, comumented to- Mr*

day that "this has provoked an bers, of whom 10 are known to avalanche of criticism from support Mr Bevan, while 18 reportedly favour his people who fervently believe in others hushing up important news,

"The public wants to know and is cutitled to know what is happening"-Reuter,

Charles Bohlen, released today,

The president "gaid he knew Mr Churchill would have strong objections to this

Mr suggestion," Bohlen reports,--Reuter,

aid that

would

part,

Lava Flows

Into Sea

Pahoa, Hawati, Mar, 16. A fiery red lava flow about 1,000 feet wide surged through to- lush tropical jungles early day, and plunged into the Pre fic Ocean.

massive stream crept The

shoreline on

B Gorrion: Morne,

Advertiser,

sold the minutes. "He said that he had not been consulted or had he heard of this sub- eat up to now. He under no circunstances he over consent to 40 or 50 na- 3. “Possession" of Dairen and

tions thrusting interfering fingers Port Arthur e lease,

into the life's existence of the 4. Railway rights in Man-British Empire." for the Soviet churia

without interfering in Union's entry into the

Chinese sovereignty,

PEACE FOR 50 YEARS against Japan: the concession of

5. half of Sekchelin

Kuriles

Marshal Stalin; at one point, the southern and Kurile islands

expressed faith that Russia, the to the Russia. Soviets.

Mr Harriman submitted thre Untied States and Great Britain President Roosevelt suggested amendments

with would never engage in aggres- to comply that the Soviet Union be given President Roosevelt's views, One give war so long as he, Roosevelt along the rock the use of a warm water port at knocked out the word and Churchill were alive. This Hawail Island's Pune coast and the end of the South Man- "possession" for Dairen and Fort came during a discussion of vot- tumbled over 10 to 20-foot cliffs churian Railway, at

a mile from the tiny only possibly Arthur and referred to "tease at ing procedures for the proposed Dairen.

village of Opihiko shortly be the port arcas" or making them new world organisation. President Roosevelt said he free ports,

Mr Roosevelt, for his

fore dawn.

reporter had not yet discussed this mat- The

second set up an alter said he felt strongly that all the ter with Marshal Chiang Kai-native to restoring pre-Russo- nations chored a common desire photographer for the Honolulu flow over the scone shek and that one of the dif- Japanese war rights to permit to soo the elimination of war and saldati peninsula of Aculties in speaking to the their control by a Soviet for at least 50 years. Chinese was that anything said Chinose commission.

lava 300 to 400 feet long had no no optimistic as to formed on ho was

the shoreline. He them was K

to the whole The third amendment said, the believe in eternal peace but he repor

90E WIS M reported that tho world in 24

agreement Inyolying the ports did believe 50 years of

mass" "WOULD UNDERSTAND"

and "churning, bubbling" water Marshal Stalin said that if his currence of Generalissimo Chiang

and railroads "requires the con- was feasible and possible."seething yellow-green

Roosevelt and Pre-war sending up a huge column President met 'conditions were not

"it ould be difficult for him and

Kai-shek."

mier Churchill agreed at Malta of steam as high as 2,000 feet. on February 2, 1945, that it No lives were endangered by Molotov. (the Soviet Foreign REVISIONS ACCEPTED

would tho ister) to explain lo

ba impossible to give the flow-United Fress, Russia

either Yugoslavia people why

or Italy full accepted the control of the vital Adriatic sea- entering the war against Japan. revisions. But he insisted that They understood clearly the war only the lease proviso apply to port of Trieste. Churchill said to be a valuable Germany,

which had Fort Arthur because the Rus Trieste ought

a naval outlet to Southern Europe and VOTY existenco sians wanted. It for

to

tho

sovereignty of the Soviet Union, but they base, Mr Roosevelt agreed

question of should be entirely reserved. Would understand why Rus

not

"The President agreed and Marshal Stalin said that he was - unwilling to a country with which they had concurrence.

A Liverpool company director, had no great trouble. He salt said the Chinese · lender, also see either the Yugoslays or the

that however,

these political should concur in the status quo Italians in complete control re-suffering from business worries shot himself in the head, and conditions were met, the people in Outer Mongolia.

ported the record. (The, Tristo then drove two miles dying would undered

Two paragraphs national

In the problem since has been settled printed volumes were inked out by dividing the area between atted of an inquest here today

through the city streets, it documents showed that before they were handed to re Italy and Yugoslavin).

The mon

Edwardt Evans, aged. the Joint Chiefs told President porters. A/ State Department on

one of the, Malta

70, apparently A

fred stiot Recatvelt on January 23, 1945 spokesman, declined to say, why erics, British military chic through the door of his car while the two paragraphs were made estimated that the war again he at Inside to make sure, his before he left for Yalta that:

Thos: dale of the Russian

my night, mustas son pidevolver worked (ihto, the Japanese war)

mid-April the Ruslans con- turning it on himely plug an We of

great importance to the US

tiqued tiple adivatoo in the East,

Then he drove on bleeding Germany taxidered and zigzagiging at a fast speed, supplies**

in planning

May

bumping into care and running ¿CON “MASHINIKKY

on to the pavement before be

against

tho

DEL

Marshal Stalin

Rust for President Chlong's ala would enter a war against As

interests. The

tho

of substance was inked out, in report continued other hihights: U.S. Secretary of State, Edward Stettinium, od "one" meeting," proj A secret report of the com- serbeck in regioet proposing tha bined US and Brillen Chiets of the pleamed United Nationa Stan submitted to President organisation have machinery) to Rodsevelt and the. British "Prime

both in planning and delivery of Churchill blow up when the

eur operations &

SMLARDAN Yalls; forecast that que

against Japan would

Me' Bietiinium, and the British

Man's Dramatic Suicide

Liverpool, Mar. 16.

before

slumped over the wheel abd

A policemen Jumped into 125m | Alimetri) him and "ktopf the car

axclusions

defective in character and some ing from a factory In Sarthe. where Debraye was working. France-Presso,

Planes Crash: Three Killed

London, Mar. 18. Three crewmen were killed to. day in crashes of two jet planes belonging to the Royal Air Force

It was also learned that Mr Bevan will go to his electoral district in Ebbw Vale, Wales on Saturday to explain his position The pilot and co-pilot of a before

Moteor aircraft came down dur- a public meeting. this morning's meeting, ing a training flight az Hampton, Labour Party leader Clement Nottinghamshire, in the Mid- Attlee listed nets by Mr. Bevan lands. They were killed tending to prove his lack of dis- stantaneously. cipline including Mr Bevan's

The other plane, a Sabre nir- opposition to the Southeast Asia craft of American, manufacture Treaty Organisation (SEATO) | crashed onto the landing strip which led him to resign from the at Driffield, RAF Camp, in party leadership last year,-- | Yorkshire, also killing the pilot France-Presse,

outright. Franco-Presse,

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