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Our Limits

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nation like Britain can and cannot do In the field of

foreign nifairs. This because it has committed itself so lonely to a number

of Institutions,

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national

character. which are responsible for co-operation in defence and various economic

spheres. British policy is therefore governed to a certain ex- tent by the obligations it has accepted. Election mani- festors must be seen against this background.

Labour has produced a detail. ed document vallining its views on a variety of domes. tie and international issues, But many of its proposals in the field of foreign affairs ignore the realities of Britain's

present dny

position and the mistake Labour makes is to assume that it can retain all the benefits that

co-operation

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CROWN PRINCE'S LOVE

LOVE SHATTERS A 2,618-YEAR TRADITION

JAPAN'S AKIHITO

PRINCE AKIHITO

He fought the traditionalists

Commoner To Be Country's Next Empress

Tokyo, Nov. 27.

Love shattered 26 centuries of tradition today and made an Asian Cinderella the next Empress of Japan.

Macmillan's Warning

Letter To K

London, Nov. 26.

with our allies has given us Mr Harald Macmillan, Britain's Prime

and at the same time strike off on an independent line of its OWN 4 A self-

appointed peacemaker.

Radical Change

PISSENTIALLY what IL radleal

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change in the policy that has been pursued up to the preacht. Where the Conner- vatives have feared to tread

notably on such questions as the admision of China to th

UN, the offshore islands, disengagiment and disarmament--Labour pro- poses to rush in.

This

not to say that a plan of action in infirior to, or more dangerous than one of in- netion, but there is merit in recognising both limits of what is possible with allies and the value of alliances themselves.

What Britain can achieve by itself is small. Its statue has declined and though there is a wide respect fur its judgment

and opinion these cannot be ex pected to sway the world As they did in the past. It is of course the privilege of a party that has been seven

the in

political yeurs wilderness to ignore facts like these, but they cannot be ignored by the Govern ment.

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ABOUR'S China policy in

a typical piece of folly. {

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manding a UN administra- tion to repince Chiang Kai-

shek in Fermosa will not only not even begin to solve the Far East problem but will create the Kravest Firesses

the Anglo- American alliance. Nor do we trust the Russians sufficiently to put our trust in paper agreements on the Middle East and Europe. Any cold war in better than lusory peace and the West

The Imperial Household an-

nounced that 24-year-old Michi ka Shoau, commoner daughter of flour company executive, h been selected as the bride of Crown Prince Akihito.

comes from MINH Shoda wealthy family, but the selection marked the first time la 2,618 Years hat 0 commont Phosen to sit on the throne.

was

It was a love mateb, Akihito, 24, met Michie on the tennis a fashionable mountain courts at

resort two summers #go. Defying tradition, he chose het n his wife.

'7-Year Search

Minister, has sent Mr Nikita Khrush- Movietone. "A

chey, the Soviet Prime Minister, a personal message which is believed to warn of the consequences liable to follow any attempt to alter the delicate status of Berlin.

HK YOUTH

FOUND IN

US PLANE

A Chinese youth slipped into the park. ing area at Kai Tak al 1a.m. today, and climb- of the ed into one American Military Air Transport aircraft there. Then he fell nsleep.

The 19-year-old boy did not wake up until he was arrested, after a good seven hours sleep. This morning, he gave as his excuse, "I just went in for the walk."

INCREASED U.S.

ECONOMIC AID

Taipei, Nov. 27.

the message

Authoritative sources sald toght that Mr Macmillan sent Mr Khrusbebev over the weekend.

Mr D. Ormaby-Gore, Minister of State at the Foreign Office, oday told a House of Commons questioner that Britain haf sent A direct communication Alcorow aboutl the Berlina

aluation,

UK's Position Slut no similar communica- there has been reported from Prve or the United States.

Mr Ormsby-Gore said the communication left the Soviet Government in no doubt about

naain's position.

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"The Crown Prince." Chlef Supreme Court Justice Kotaro Tanuka told United Press young man of character, took the initiative in this choice. He know Miks Snoda personally and loves Mer sincerely."

Selection of a bride for the 24-year-old Prince ended years of searching, a search that Intensifed nearly Beyon years ago when Akihito turn- td 18.

Court officiais pored over list of 1,000 high-born daugh- tors of the nobility, darrowing li down to 300 and finally to just three.

But in the end, love conquered tradition. Miss Shoda, com- tioner, was chosen

Approval

The man Imperial House- hold Agency, presided over by Prine Minister Nobusuke Kisht, Incl at the palace today and the Anal approved

ENGAGED

Commoner, Michiko Shoda, daughter of a flour mill executive, will be the next Empress of Japan, —— U.P.I.

Photo.

$12,000 Armed Robbery

In Kowloon: Man Shot

selection, An armed bandit shot and critically wounded a which was formally announced to joymis nation over the man, believed to be a shop's cashier before radio and television networks.

escaping with $12,700 in Shamshuipo this Although Emperor Hirohita and Empress Nagako waited morning. six years to marry after their

engagement, it appeared that Police have begun an inten- juoncy in a satchel

Akihito and Miss Sboda would be married some time between May and December.

Their palace, however, still has not been bullt.

After the nanowcement, Akihito paid a formal call on his Parenta to tell them of his engagement

Meanwhile, the statement the Secretury uľ State, John Foster Dulles, today that

The

Western Three

Powers might eventually negotiate with the East Gerinans as agents of the Soviet Union caused ። sensusion in Bonn

A Government

West told the agency that the know nothing u an agreement between the Western Powers and

The bride-to-be and her Weat Germany under which parents then visited the Royal representatives of the Soviet zone could eventually be considered 05 Dgents of the Soviet AU- thorities.

spokesman German press

Governmeal The First Time

Contradictory

Herbert Wehner, Vice- President of the Social Democrat Party, said that Dulles and the

Family for five minutes.

the bag.

when the

A struggle followed and Chan was shot.

sive search for the gun- gunman armed with a revolver a Chinese, who is approached, him and demanded man, believed to be still in the Shamabulpo district.

Chan The wounded man, Kwong-leung, 53, was admitted to Kowloon Hospital in a critical condition.

One Wounded

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one He was suffering from It was the first time the bullet wound in the upper left Emperor and Express had shoulder and abrasions on the mel Miss Bhoda and it was forehead. the last time they would 'do

occurred on the so unt after the wedding.

The attack

in Castle Peak Road The Emperor and the Crown footpath Prince then donned ancient near No. 123.

It is believed Chan was re- court costumes and visited three

U.S. economic aid to Nation-Federal Government had made acred shrines In the palace turning to his shop with the alint China will be increased by contradictory statements on Ber-grounds to report the engage- U.S. $10 million during the tin and that the German people ment to their ancestors.-U.P.1. current fiscal year, the Council had a right to know "what had

for United States Ald disclosed perhaps already been negotiated

yesterday.

The Council announcer! that the US Government will give President Chiang Kai-shek's Government U.S. $70 million la economie assistance during the seni year which ends next June 30-U.P.I.

wants no false security. De Gaulle Returns

faith is to be res

restored it

will only come after

A

period of years when we

Paris, Nov, 20. General Charles de Gaulle his meeting today with West

without its knowledge”.

Dr Konrad Adenauer, West German Chancellor, will visit West Berlin on December 5, a pokerman of the Berlin section his Christian Deinocratic Porty nald today Reuler and France-Presse.

Firing Resumes

Taipei, Nov. 27.

Conscience

Troubling Thief?

Newcastle, Nov. 201

Communist Chinese guns on Newcastle-on-Tyne police

the mainland opened up before dawn today to mark the begin-

have learned to live side by arrived here by air tonight from Ding af odd-day shelling.

A Defence Ministry com- Ride with our hands on our

munique sak that 33 rounds holstern and when necos German Chancellor Dr Konrad | were fired at Quemay between your fingern on the Adenauer it 'Bad Kreuznach 1,55 am, and 8.90 nm. today irlggor.

· France-Presse.

Heuter,

Army Accepts Hitch-Hiking Sikh

London, Nev. 20.

the 21-year-old Pakhar Singh,

Bikh, who cycled, hitch-hiked and walked 10.000 miles from Matnya lo England in the hope of Joining the British Army, parted today with his most prized possession,

Interview After, an

Boulhampton recruiting centre,

at the

he went to a kékrby barbariu

-

shop and had his luxurious black beard removed. There

he naked silly for a short "back and sides." laving brought his personal

tes Briti Appearance naror

10th Kusters. Afterward the

are wondering if there is

a thief with a conscience

on Tynealde. Six months BİZ valuable. fur ago, conts were stolen from various houses on Тупе- alde.

The thief, who left no trace, usually took the coats away in'n travelling, case--and chose the

best,

But now, two of the coats invo turned up again in odd elreum stances.

One was found in a Newcastle commanding telephone kiosk with the address offloer mid: "I have accepted of the hotine from where i war him, subject to War Office ad- i stolen...

The second cont, worth more. proval,"

to a Fakhar took 330 days for bithan £2,000, belonging

found * Ganforth woman, was Journey from Malaya. desire to join the army spurred folded over the railings of New- him ou (breagh awampe, de rastie's swing bridge, where It marknd Jungle" and "över would be easily noticed-Chine this commanding omder of the) ·rocustalon---Tracion-Pr¥004, Mall Special.

Army standards, Pakkor, who hae baén fued with a rull- WAY warrani, went to Tia- worth for an interview, whih

The bandit grabbed the satchel containing the $32,700 and fled.

Wanted Man

BRITAIN TO GAOL HER PROSTITUTES

London, Nov. 26.

The British Government is preparing laws to send hardened prostitutes to prison in an attempt to clean up the streets of London and other big British cities.

Men who live on the immoral į Mr Butler suld before drawing carnings of these women, maz

bill he wanted to what M.P.'s had to say. years im-

the But he rejected, in the pre- f seat state of public opinion, the committee's reconmendation that homosexuality by consent- ng adults in private should no longer be a criminal offence.

of five

get a term prisonment insicad of maximum of two as now.

These changes emerged from a House of Commons debate in which Mr R. A. Butler, the Home Secretary, spoke of the "shume which decent peopl feel at the state of the streets In the West End of London."

Wolfenden Report

up

hear

Last Resort Mr David Renton, Under- Secretary at the Home Office, also spoke about prostitutes,

Mr Buller said he could hard- He said "In our opinion, pro- ly improve on the recommenda visionally formed, the sanction tions about prostitutes made in of imprisonment, even though it September 1057 by a govern is only intended in the last re- raent-appointed committed, head-sort, will, in itself, go a long cd by Str John Wolfenden, way to

because help, partly which studied the problema o grin will be reluctant to enter prostitution and homosexuality into a way of life which will in Britain.

lead them to prison."

These urged heavier fines on prostitutes, with a gnot sentence of three months for a third and subsequent offence.

The Labour opposition said it had no official party policy on all these controversial questions of publie morality, each member

They also recommended allow-spoke only for himself. Ing the police to arrest a prosti.

There was no vote, the House tule on the streets without, as formally agreeing to "take note" now, having to establish that of The committer's report. she is causing annoyance.

Reuter.

Scotch Whisky Scotch Made In Spain?

London, Nov, 26.

to The news that a rich Spanish industrialist intends

bring Scottish experts to Spain to produce Scotch The whisky caused alarm and consternation here,

of Bale of Scotch whisky is one Britain's largest sources of foreign currency.

The Spanish manufacturer has decided to resettle in Spain some Scottish families, specialists in whisky distilling, and give them the same equipment that they se in their own country. He trying to was also reportedly

btain the right to use the name ní a reputable whisky maker.

distillers say-of Scottish course that the Spanish whisky stout would not be as good as their shirt own. But they recall the story of Spanish "Champagne" they wonder and worry.

The wanted man is described

27-29, short, as: aged build, wearing and dark European style trou- sers and rubber shoes.

2 white

Police belleve he may be still armed with the revolver und is still in the Shamshidpo district. Anyone seeing a man answer- ing the description should in- form the noorest policeman or coll 199.

and

A-BOMBER ON FIRE

Washington, Nov. 26.

A jet bomber with a nuclear weapon aboard caught are and burned on the ground today at Chennault Air Force Base, Lake Chartes, Louisiana, the U.S. Air

Force fald.

The plane, a B-47 stratojet Earlier London court deci-bomber, was parked on the flight sion permitted a sparkling wine line when it caught fire.

The Air Force said there was Made in Spain to be labelled

nuclear explo- Spanish Champagne. They fear- "no danger of

no harmful, nuclear ed that Spanish Scotch would rion and be the next step--France-Presse. radiation is present."V.P.I.

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