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SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1948.

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Singapore Tornadoes

Polling Today

ELECTING 6 LEG.

CO. MEMBERS

Singapore, Mar. 20. Singapore residents, for the first time since World War I.

will today go to

Chicago, Mar. 19.—At least 39 persons were reported killed to. day by a series of tornadoes that battered a trail of death and destruction across the Middle- western United States from Texas to Ohio.. Fully 300 and possibly many more were in- Juged and property damagę ran Into unestimated milflions of dollars.

Schools, churches, factories, stores and homes in the paths of the twisters were levelled .or damaged.

-Tornadoes the polls to elect six of the 22 members

winds

or high struck in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma. Kausas and

of the new Singapore Legisla- | ~ Texas.

be tive Council, which will inaugurated on April 1.

In-

This first step towards self- government has aroused much ferest and is expected to prove a siimulating introduction to Western democratic electoral processen.

Fifteen candidates-seven Indians, five Chinese, one Malay, one Eura- pean and ne Eurasian-pre testing the six sents.

The

Leftwing, made

con-

up of the

Communist Party, the All-Malaya It Council of Joint Action and the Malay Party Putera, have boycotted the elections because of what they believe to be the Inadequate repre- sentation of only six seats out of the 22.

NINE "OFFICIALS"

Nine members of the Council will be "Umcials" nominated by the Governor. Sir Franklin Gimson, and four "Unometal" members will be nominated by the Governor to re- present in

the minority communities Or otherwise unrepresented interests.

One cach will be nominated by the Singapore

ore European,

Chinese and Indian Chambers of Commerce. The Leftwing partles believed they could win all the remaining Elx seats if they contested, the election, but would have no real power in a majority-dominated Council.

So, while

the

other

candidates

have

been busily campaigning, Left- wint meetings have been held, urg- ing registered voters not to vote.

SEPARATE FROM MALAYA

The Leftwing parties demand fully-elected Council, Stogapore';j inclusion in the Federation of Ma- laya, and a wide common citizen- ship.

The colony of Singapore Island is entirely separate from the Federation of Malaya, made up of nine Malay States and the former Straits Settle ment-of-Penang-and-Malacca.---.. Only 23,000 of the 150.000 eligible British nationality, with

persons, have registered to vote,

elected

Council. Reuter,

EDITORIAL

חז

Hinols was bli bard. At least 36 of the dealls were reported in that State and other hundreds were reported Injured. The Red Cross reported that Bunker Iil), a community of 1,500 persatus. was 80 percent tevelled and 14 of 11s Inhabitants killed.-Asso- elated Press.

Means:

THE FILE

HAS

BEEN LOST

London, Mar.

19.-On

a

Suggests Temporary U.N. Trusteeship

PALESTINE SHOCK

Lake Success, Mar. 19.-American support for the General Assembly partition proposals for Palestine has been withdrawn and a temporary trusteeship regime for the whole of Palestine is proposed, the United States delegation to the United Nations officially announced tonight. The American statement was made during a "Big Four" meeting at which Sir Alexander Cadogan (Britain) was present.

Walk Out ··

A group of Hongkong Hotel boys, "Captains," and coolles caught by the camera a few moments after they had gone on strike at midday yesterday. The walls out affects the Hongkong, Peninsula and Repulse Bay hotels as well as the Repulse Bay Lido.-Francis Wu.

Atomic Expert's Wife Detained Then Freed

Washington, Mar. 19-The United States Attorney General, Mr Tom Clark, today authorised the release of Madame Irene Joliot Curie, the wife of Professor Frederick Joliot Curie, leading French atomic expert and member of the French Communist Party. of the past two weeks,

If the Security Council adopts the United States proposal a special session of the General Assembly will have to be called to reconsider the whole Palestine problem. China and France indi- cated that they will support the United States proposal. M. Andrei Gromyko (Russia) said: "It is in striking contradiction with the General Assembly's resolution, but I cannot give direct or indirect consent until I have further instructions." motion for adjourning the Here are the three main points Mr Austin replied that the United House of Commons last night, which Mr Warren Austin, the States was ready to back up any Mr E. H. Keeling, Conservative United States delegate, will pro-United Nations decision. Member for Twickenham, took pose to the Security Council;

Mr. Ausil

Security told the the

when it resumed opportunity to

First: "The plan proposed by the Council attuck

the General Assembly is an integral plan Palestine debate: "During the con- Government jargon.

which cannot succeed unless each of sultations ita parts can be carried out. There the Palestine Commission was asked

Mmé Joliot Curie was detained by stating "In the name of 80 million department says: "The matter is that the plan cannot now be imple-acceptance of the partition plan on authoritics and taken to the detention

to be a general agreement whether it had found sufficient the United States immigration women, we express our indignation under active consideralion," It

the arrest at Ellis Island, New the part of the Jews, Arabs and the quarters on "The Nie has been lost," mented by peaceful means".

Island carller York, of Madame Jollot Curie, give other Second: "We believe that fur-mandatory power to afford a basis today.

wife of the Franch Atomic Energy its examples: Implement for fuifl, ther steps must be taken immediate-for peaceful implementation.

Her detention

announced Commission Director and Nobel Prize not only to maintain peace, but The Commission's answer was 'No.'" ly Un-

for hours three

after she had winner." The telegram asked about also to afford a further opportunity "The Commission observed in this

the immediate release of Mme, Joliot to reach agreement between the in-connection that the Jews of Palestine arrived from Paris.

Professor Joliot Curic is head of Curie-Reuter. terested partles regarding a future generally accepted the plan, that government of Palestine

the Arabs of Palestine generally the French Commissariat on Atomic opposed the plan, and the mandatory Energy and attended the Bikini atom power had declined to take any nction which might be interpreted. as involving an implementation of

He said that if a Government

means: and went

to ots

unilateral for one-sided, favourable weather conditions for

had weather, sabolage for wreck. "Typists do 201

understand hyphens-they are not taught them," Mr Keeling declared,

Secretary to the Treasury, replying, Mr Glenvil. Hall, the Financial admitted that part of it was due to phrasing "hallowed by "lung use"

document: "This

to

is

SCCING

"To this end, we believe that ST temporary trusteeship for Palestine the should be established under Nations. Trusteeship Council of the United

WITHOUT PREJUDICE_

the plan.

Ellis

was

bomb tests In July, 1940.

COMMITTEE'S GUEST

Among the persons awaiting

"Such a United Nations trusteeshin / ARMED-ASSISTANCE Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee Commit-

the

Com

DA

More Killings In Palestine

Madame Joliot Curie's arrival were Dr Edward Barsky, chairman of the

"The Commission has repeated its tee of New York, who said that He quoted Mr Winston Churchill would be without prejudice to the as having written in the margin of right, claims or position of the par- view that it could not discharge its Madume Joliot Curie had been in- Election programmes Issued by # Whitehall

ties concerned, or to the character responsibilities on the termination of vited to New York as a guest of his candidates propose more or less-nonsense, up with which I will not of the eventual political settlement the mandate without the assistance committee.

be which we hope can

Ron-Palestinian achieved of an adequate

The Joint Anti-Fascist Refugee identical reforms, including a drastic put" (Laughter).

without a long delay.

armed force for the preservation of Committee of New York was includ-

Jerusalem, Mar. 19-Five pruning of Government expenditure.

Finally Mr Hall said: "Letters)

ed in a list issued recently by the "In compulsory and free primary educa-

our opinion, the Security law and order.

The Commission does not con- tión,

United States Attorney General of Jews were killed when Arabs Increased

of from departments are shop-windows Council should recommend the esta- employment

classed to sider it possible to implement the organisations

on "subver-opened firo Friday on locally born Government

They should beblishment of such a trusteeship ofcers of democracy.

sive." to the plan by peaceful means, either as a instead of oversens men, improved couched in simple friendly straight-the General Assembly and

Jewish labourers working in The health and social services, and an forward inngunge.

Govern- | mandatory power.

whole or in substantial part, so long Router reports from Paris that a early increase in the number offment is doing is best to see thot "This would require an immediate as the existing vigorous Arab re- demand was tabled in the French Ain Harod quarries in the of Esdracalon, in House the ideals special

Upper Generalsistance to session of the Whitehall conforms

partition representatives on

yesterday by M. Henri Plain operalots. "The Commission considered it- Monnet, suggested."Reuter.

a supporter Assembly, which the Security Coun-

of General Northern Palestine.... cil should request the Secretary self unable, within the terms of the Charles de Gaulle, for a "purge" of General to convoke under Arilele 20 resoluilon of the General Assembly, Communist elements in

the French Police reported that nine Arabs of the Charter.'

to consider whether any modification Atomic Energy Commissariat.

were killed and three injured when Third:"Pending a meeting of the of the recommended plan might

Department of Justice

spokes-two Arab lorries were forced off proposed Apecial session of the offer a basis for agreement among man said here today that Mme Joliot the road and fired on by a party of General Assembly, we believe the the people of Palestine

Curio Security Council should instruct the

"With regard to the establishment by the was detained at Ellis Island about 50 Jews north 21 Acres of

authorities be- | Upper Galllee on Friday. Palestine Commission to suspend its of provisional councils of govern-enuse her entry, into the United efforts to implement the proposed ment In the proposed Jewish and States may

Three Arabs and three Jews were be "prejudicial to the partition plan."

the best interests of the United States", killed in other incidents, bringing Arab states by April 1, 1948, Commission has concluded:

The Department of Justice said the Palestine death toll since De- GROMYKO'S OBJECTION

"(a) That the attitude of the Mme Joliot Curie had been "tem-cember 1 to 1,868. M. Gromyke objected to that part Arab Higher Committee and the porarily excluded" from the United of Mr Austin's statement which said Arab resistance in Palestine

pre- States. that there seems to be general clude any possibility of selecting a agreement that the partition plan provisional council of government] could not now be implemented by for the f

proposed Arab State by In Paris, Professor Joliot Curie though sent to a hospital, his con- peaceful means."

told Reuter there this afternoon dition was officially reported to bo M. Gromyke sald there was not April 1.

the (b)That while the Commission that he had, through French not 'serious.--Associated Fress. general agreement on the part of his can take, and has in fact token, come Foreign Office, lodged a protest with delegation.

preliminary steps towards the selec- the American State Department in

Meaning Of Brussels Pact

THE conclusion of a political,

economio

and defensive

alliance between Britain, France. Holland, Belgium and Luxcm- berg, and the Paris meeting of the European Ecenomit Co- operation Committee to agree on ways and means of applying the nations Marshall Plan to the 10 which, desire to share its benefits have a very definito connection. even though they are not pursuing Identical objects. The Five-

Power. security pact is à natural development. of tho Franco- British alliance signed at Dunkirk a year ago. The necessity of co- ordinating political and economic requirements was recognised long before the Communist coup d'etat In Prague lent special urgency to of the Western Euro- the work pean Union, although it is fair to Assume that the progress made at the Brussels conference might have been less rapid without the Russa Czechoslovakia reminder s that consolidation of Western Europe could no longer be delay- ed. The conaretion between Brussels conference and the Paris mecting of Foreign Ministers is, of course, that the western countries represented at Brussels wish work in collaboration with economic machinery of the Unlic Nailons and with the

the

10

the

Arango-

monis made in Farls for the allot- ment of ald to Europe under the Marshall Plan. It therefore ap- that the pact signed în

DCATS

Brussels is a regional agreement facilitate the opera- destined to tion of the Marshall Plan and also to reconcile Bellish, French and future Benelux views upon the

of Western Germany. It goes fur. ther. The articles of the Western Union pact completed at Brussels are seen to contain the germ of France, a real Union between Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembers from which fuller political consolidation of the Western nations may grow. may not be stretching the imag nation

this too far to see in

R

alliance the foundation. for a unifi- ed Western Europe envisaged both

Churchill and the by Al lories to. the Parliament

Mr

who look for complete restic. Less easy, from this

distance, is to estimate the rank and file reaction' in Britain to the latest developments,

Many there

are, who will vole whole-

Federation, bat

for Fe

It

is not possible to say, at this Ume, they represent majerliy epinion. Even the country's radicals are, at heart, conservative when it comes to action that will, change history overnight. But, there is no reason to doubt that the Brus- sel's pact will meet with general

Britons. approval, and by most

of

will be regarded as a design to create a nucleus for, the promotion and the ultimate extension Europeau welfare., If, in the long run, this means Federation, it will be accepted because its desirabi- lity has brefs tested and proved by experience.

The United Nations had no right to sponsor such a scheme if it could lead to war, he said.

M. Alexandro Parodi

The

HUSBAND'S PROTEST

A British clvilion was injured by shots aimed at a police headquarters in Haifa, the police announced. Al

Norway Makes Preparations

Dr T. F. Tsing (China) said ton of a provisional council of Washington against the detention of was evident that no solution could government for the Jewish State, his wife in Eills Istand. be found agreeable to both parties the provisional council would not be and that a continuation of the situn- jablo to carry out its functions in the bad ten granted by the American i

added that his wife 1 visa tlon might lead to war.

sense of the plan prior to the Embassy in Paris on receipt of a termination of the mandate.

letter of introduction to the Bmbassy "(c)The position of the manda- from the French Foreign Offee. "{ tory power precludes any possibility om expecting a reply from; the State (France) of fulfilling, by April 1, the provi- Department this evening," he added. Oslo, Mar. 19,-Norway announced said that the United States proposalstons of the plan as regards either The

International Democratic today new call-up measures and the wrs in Une with the general think-an Arab or Jewish provisional | Federation of Women, in a statement extension of existing conscription as ing of his Government. The plan council of government.

Issued in Paris tudny, sent telegrams (a final effect of this week's Parlin- should be studied particularly in its

to President Truman and the Secre- mentary vote of an extra 100,000,000 legal aspects, he said, adding that, JERUSALEM ADMINISTRATION tary of State, Mr George Marshall, kroners for defence. ( he required me for instructions.

With regard to the city of Jeru General The Secretary

the salem, the Commission's view is that United Nationis, Dr Trygve Lie, re- the administration of the city of minded the others that the questiin Jerusalem by the United Nations in of a trusteeship for Palestine was possible if the plan of partition with discussed originally by the Special economic union is generally accept-

on-Palestine, but that the ed Committed Idea was eventually dropped because nities of Palestine

by the Arab and Jewish commu-, and peacefully UNSCOP thought, trusteeship would

implemented.

be opposed by both sides, and the Mr Austin' then reviewed the United Nations would thus require |statements made at various times by larger forces to enforce a settlement. the Jews, Arabs and the British

DR, LIE'S QUESTION

authorities. Taking theso stato-

Dr Trygve Lio said he was obliged meats into account, he sold it was to ask whether, if the United States necessary to reflect what the situa». proposal were put into effect, the lion in Palestine would be on May 13 big powers were prepared to see it when the mandate is terminated. carried through.

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CZECHS NEW FOREIGN MINISTER

Communist Appointed

Prague, Mar. 19. Fraguo radio announced on Friday .afternoon that Blado Clementis, a Communist, has been named Czechoslovak Foreign Minister to succeed the late Jan Masaryk.

Clementis, a 40 year old Slovak, had been Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. For several years he was Masaryk's Chief Assistant.

It was announced that the Office of Foreign Minister and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs have been combined. Clementis, a lawyer, will carry out the functions of both.

WORKED IN ENGLAND

Although he has been an energetic worker for Communist couses for many years, Clementis has many associations with western Entions. He speaks English and French fluently.

In 1935 he was Communist De- puty representing a Slovak district in the Prague Parliament.

On the occupation of the country by the

the Germans he fled to Poland, Russin

and

ultimately reached France. There he was interned by the Daladier Government,

After the fall of France he went to England. He became Head of the Slovak section of the British broadensting sections and for several years of the war kept his homeland Informed of world events. For a time he was a journalist in France and

England.

In 1942 Clementis became a mem→ ber of the Slovak State Council in London. Now he is a member of the Slovak National Council,

The composition of the Communist dominated Cabinet is unchanged by. the appointment.

As Secretary of Stato Clementia previously had Cabinet ranke-Asso- ciated Press.

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