THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1960.
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MORE TROUBLE FOR GAITSKELL Diana had
WITHOUT BEVAN'S New British
HELP, A BITTER
FIGHT AHEAD
London, Jan. 26.
With the reconvening of Parliament today Hugh Gaitskell faces a long and bitter fight to main-
Mid-East
Command
London, Jan. 20.
Britain has set up a new Mid-Earl Command with headquarters on Cyprus,
officiat Defence Ministry and the new unified command will cover the Mediterranean aren,
tain his position as leader of Britain's opposi-announcement today, tion Labour Party,
The Labour Party often moves | Mikardo Ja another challenger.
Emanuel But the Even
Shinwell. I from crisis to crisis. tune the nuts are larger and veleren member of the party' better defined than unini, modeinte wing, hua suggested it might be a good idea to rotate the leadership to give the move- Lonfent new life.
A storm is gathering around Guitskell for proposing modify the party's basle Socialist
MR HUGH GAITSKELL
doctrine by amending is con- stilation.
And now the 53-year-old Gaitskeli enters the strugle without the massive support of Aneurin Bevan - an old party
who enemy
has become his shield.
If Bevan was at his side this
The move is in line with Exi- al's strategic decentralisation and the desire to have self- contained "fire brigades" ayadi. able for emergency needs in vital areas of its reponsibilities.
The Mid-East Command will control all British land and alr forces la Cyprus, Libyu and Malla-the key points of Bri inin's Mediterranean strategy.
NEW ROLE
Ja the winga Is Frank Con- sins. General Secretary of the Transport and General Workers Union, the largent in Britain. In a showdown it is widely assumed Cousins would throw in with the left. Galtskell returned from a West Tables holiday on Satur-
al- It will supplement the day and went Immediately to the hospital to ask about Bevan's ready existing separate Arabian condition. Then In meetings, peninsula set-up for Unian, with other leaders of the party's Aden and the Persion Gulf,
The newly established Brilish command is to be based on Epis coupl, one of the two enclaves Britain claims in Cyprus,
parliamentary delegation be where planned strategy for the coming
session.
The House of Commons and the House of Lords get back to work this afternoon after their leng Christmas recess.
Labour's
Britain's ol Latercale
are largely concentrated.
The Mid-East Command's tasks will Include emergency support for members of Cento, the Bagdad the successor Pact alignment, which includes Turkey, Iran and Pakistan.
General Sir Dudley Ward has been appointed Commander-in- Chief of British forces in the Middle East with effect from May this year, the Ministry of Defence announced.--UPI and
Wednesday Exceutive Committee will mect to receive a report from secre- Iary Morgan Phillips on recom- mendations for revising the party's constitution. These in-, Reuter. clude Gatskell's proposals.
NO MORE FAITH
That is a difcult insue. At Blackpool Gaitskell
ugersted that Labour had lost three elec-
lons
in a row because
Bros-
leftwing attack could be en perous Britons no longer had tained in the interest of
party any fall in the doctrine of
unity. But Revan, who underpibile ownership. went a serious abdominal opera- tion on December 28, is fighting to regain his health.
In the past week the bulletins from the Royal Free Hospital have alternated between alarm
He said the party constitution, udopted more than 40 years ago, was a handleap. Specifically, Guitskel! wanted clause fou amended. I pledges the party
und reassurance. The 62-year- In classic Socialist languagé to old Welsh orator may be back ¦ serk "the common ownership of to work by Baster or he may the means of production, distri-
bution and exchange."
not return to the House of Com-
mons until next autuan.
NEW ATTACK
.
Bovun headed off a full sale atlack by leftwingers on Galt- skell at the party conference in Blackpool last November. Bui since then the leftists have col- lected thàmselves for # new attack,
Michael Foot leads the Galt- Ian skell-must-go movement.
Galfskell did not define what he had in mind. Ob- viously he wants the party to adopt a less rigid approach. However this could be ob trined by modifying the pledge that the party favours "such a degree of public ownership sa may be necessary from time to time," -AP.
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CYPRUS TALKS
MAY CONTINUE
London, Jan. 26.
The London talks on Cyprus,
which ended in deadlock
Tast night and were
to
have been suspended to-
King Paul of Greece (foreground) and ex-King Michael of Kumaula teaving the spécial stand from which the Arch bishop of Athens and All-Greece performed the ceremony of blessing the waters of the Piraean (the harbour of Athens) pts the Greek Orthodox Festival of the Epiphany.—Exprem Photo.
UK delivers protest to
strong Iraq
London, Jan, 25.
Britain has delivered a strong protest to Iraq against the treatment of Loslie Marsh, a British subject accused
of complicity in the recent attempt to assassinate Premier Kassam.
The British Foreign Office on- nounced this today.
The British Ambassador to Iraq, Sir Humphrey Trevelyan, yesterday made "further strong representations" In a talk with an Iraqi junior minister.
The British Ambassador sald he intended to carry. his repre-
New post for
day. look like going on Mao Tse-tung?
with some chance of suc-
Cess.
Conversations between the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Selwyn Lloyd, and Cyprus leaders Archbishop Makarios and Mr Fazil Kutchuk were to continue this afternoon and probably tomorrow and Thurs-
day.
Their object will be to reach a "package deal" by reciprocal concessions on the question of British basca and military Incities on the island and on British economic aid to the new
republic.-AFP,
New York, Jan 23. Nowoweek Magazine quoted
In a report from Vienna,
Communist Unvoys as saying that they hear Mr. Mao Tec- ung may soon dosume the title of Prime Minister" of China.
"Chou En-loi," said the re- port, "would step down to his former post of Foreign Minis-
ter.
"The move would put Mac, who now holds no government post, in a position to sit in any high-level international con- ference to which China is in- vited?—AP.
Macleod replies on Hongkong refugee problem
London, Jan. 26.
Another 1,500 European refugees from China may be moved through Hongkong during the re- mainder of World Refugee Year.
They will go principally to Australia, Brazil and Chile, the Colonial Secretary, Mr Iain Macleod, told the House of Commons today.
Mr John Biggs Davison (Con-, library service. Other projects servative) had asked him what will be underlaken by voluntary statistics he now had regarding organisations with funds, which the number of refugees of tliey have received direct, European origin, remaining in Hongkong
Mr Macleod replied "Hong- kong is a slaging post for European refuzees in transit from China."
Ho said: "13,343 much re- fugees have ao far been moved through it to new homes in 54 countries.
On December 31, 1950, 478 wero in transit in Hongkong,"
Mr Bio-Davison also asked for a statement about measures for the relief and rehabUltation of refugees in Hongkong, of all Returée Year,
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all may be where to and this (5).
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28 Cr-Bas, 29 Less-on, Dawn!
SPECIAL PROJECTS
"Apart from these special activilles, the Hongkong gov- erment is engaged on increasingly heavy programZINA of Improvements in housing, educational, medical and other social services for the whole population *Including fugrés.
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"About one-third of their total public expendituro each year directly or indirectly bene- fis the ronigoes in Honiging.” –Router.
East German
missile threat
|
Mr Macleod replied: The money, which the Hongkong Government hopes to receive
Berlin, Jen, 20, from the World Refugee Yeor
East Germany will ask, ila campaign will be devoted to as
West many as possible of the follow- alles for missi
Abazidon Ing special projecta, coating two Germany does not and a half million pounds isntomie arms and piti into,ferre
an arms ceiling.
Herr Walter Ulbricht, East "Community centres, schools,
Communitet leader, n tuberculosis Infirmary, a child- German 20 MIL 27 A, 2 Renaden, & Agitato, Dansopaedic horre
hem orthopaedic home the, die in Potter, publisted here are told De Konrad Adenauer lui 14 Dorillas, 18 The down, 10, Testées, 17 Tumbrei, 19 Velax,
Mod ind content schona | tonight-dvoutar, 21 Odour, 24 8100,
sentations to Iraq's Minister of Foreign Affairs particularly cop- cerning Marsh's treatment by the Iraqi People's Court pre- sided over by Colonel Mahdawl.
Marsh, a Jamaican busÍNFAR- man, was also accused by the Iraqis of spying for Britain AFP.
Complaints about living conditions were exaggerated'
Aden, Jan. 20.
An Air Ministry official, who has been investigating complaints about service accommodation here, said today they were "grossly exaggerated.”
a heart ailment
Key West, Jan. 26. Playwright Tennessee Wil- Hams Ball today the late Diana Barrymore had a heart condition.
*
A physician who examined the actress after she was found doad on Monday in her New
Yeile hrortment said she had Felice were Investigating the
no history of heart trouble.
cause of death.
"Her heart just gave out," which Mr Williams mid, "sho was a official terribly troubled gir who had
been 1 and was making a Air valiant battle,
investigation Mr William Johnson Taylor, the spot Parliamentary Undersecretary of was followed by, on State, who arrived on Friday, Parliamentary enquiry), was speaking to a press_con-
Taylor sald the ferente al Khormakar Royal Ministry planned to spend £10 Air Force base before leaving to million in Aden, of which more more return to Britak
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Special.
Mr William and Miss Barry-
were close friends and
He said he found only $1 of than £3 million would be for the starred in several of his
buildings-China Mail pinys 1,200 Royal Air Force families w living in what he thought were sub-standard conditions. but only one family expressed a wish to return home. "All the women sem happy out here," he said.
VISITORS TO BLAME
He believed there Wis no complaint from service familles
and that "anxious visitors" were responsible for all this fuse,"
(Marshal of the Air Force Lord Tedder recently criticised "atun conditions" in which ko said British servicemen were Hving in Aden.
in the
Appeal name of music
The playwright said she "had but no, control. great talent She pushed on too soon in o and tried to go too for without edequate training. All she had was talent, without control. It was like an engine runatåg awny."
"After she had left the stigd,
New Delhi, Jan. 20. | you would ind her standing in A middle-aged mon who her costuine looking as if she played a flute so well that a had been in a shower
followed him like the drenched from the strain of her
crowa
performance,AP. nuisance
pled piper was arrested recently for creating a silence zone.
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But the Magistrate released him with a reprimand after the After his sperch to the quae man, 15-year-old Khandak of Lords he made a personal os
Bahadur, appealed to his sense of justice in the name of music, i Appearing in the court the ac cuses said I'mnuale was a crime he would underge any punish- ment, He appealed to the Ma
China may test A-bomb this year
New York, Jan. 20.
A ranking Chinese diplomat in East Berlin was quoted by Newsweek Magazine as protlo- ting that his country will have an atomic bomb this year.
"He says a small bomb will be tested by the year end in the Gobl desert," the magaalne reported.
It added that "French and British officials in a position to know are Inclined to belleve it."-AP.
Girl sues railway
gistrate to hear him play the $110,000 flute just once before pronounc- ing the verdict.-China Mail Special.
MODESTY
Detroit, Jan. 20. Judy Ferren has' brought a domage suit against the New York Central Railroad for losing her dog Jinty.
The 17-year-old English giri has not
2. seen the dog, year-old Alsatian shepherd,
slice it disappeared from A
Montgomery, Jan. 20.baggage car on December 23. Sen. Stuart Symington (De-She made several trips from St. mocrat-Missouri) refused to Thomas (Ontario), ber ΣΤΗ reveal the mores of a golf game home, in à vain search, for the he played with Vice-President pet. Richard Nixon.
The sultustes $10,000 for "Modesty prohibits me from Jinty's loss and suffering and caid Syming-$100,000 in exemplary damages. answering that,"
---AP. ton.--UPI.
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