1949-07-22 — Page 5

Dunlop Rubber Hits Out At US Policy

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1949.

Chief Elder Statesmen Meet

Gaol Term Demanded For Abetz

"A Lootor And Nazi Policeman"

Faris, July 21-The Prosoca- tion today demanded a sentence of 20 years' hurd labour for former Nazi Am- Outo Abets, bassador to France, calling him

both "a footer and policeman

London, July 21-Americans driving to cut Malayan rubber prices were accused here tonight by Mr F. D. Ascoli, Dunlop rubber chief, of follow- Naxi policeman." ing an "ill-informed and dangerous" policy which was against United States foreign policy, and helping Communism in South-East Asia.

"Combating Communism," Mr Ascoli told

Abetz faces war crimes charges, for which the maxi-

Ini murder, mass deportation, torture and looting Still handsome, he sat In

Court listening

mum penalty is death, including complicity

Q

of

an OC-

Reuter, "is far more important than a suicidal comer of the

nitentively without sign fight between natural and synthetic rubber. And emotion, except for believe me, unless 10,000,000 Malays, Chinese, casional blink, es Captain Paul would up the Pro- Indians, Indo-Chinese and Indonesians in South-secution's cnse before the East Asia dependent on rubber can be kept in a Military Tribunal.

Speaking In a high, emotional state of reasonable prosperity, nothing can prevent voice, M. Flicoteaux said he had a victory for Communism and the collapse of Western democratic ideals on the other side of the world."

Dunlop

Aged 65, Mr Ascoli is Mana- Ring-Director of the

which Planations Limited, holds 90,000 acres of rubber plantations, the largest area under one management in the British Empire.

The parent

company, the Dunlop Rubber Company, em- ploys a capital of £00,000,000 and

13

Mr Ascoli, rece toured

in

different

recently

Malaya, has t

become

warned the that it Communist,

British Calth

Malaya

Australia

and New Zealand

"would not be worth a map of the fingers."

He has also told the British people: "If the Iron Curtata falls on Malayan rubber, ! one meal less a day for

a

an

"anguishing problem, a Gur- den of responsibility" in de- ciding what punishment to ask for "this adventurer who went in for politico",

and operallon of the synthette "I must be. Arm-I owe it to rubber plants and control over justice," he said, but taking into the usage of the product comes Decount all the evidence and the before Congress for revision. fact that Abetz was a German, The advertising campaign is she would ask for 20 years hard form of incubation of ideas in labour. the minds of Congress members.

DEPENDS ON SE ASIA

"Wild production of natural rubber is approximately 1,500,-

Captain Flicoteaux said that Abetz was a man responsible to Berlin for the political situation clearly and was in France

the looting of responsible for

000 tons per annum. Ninety per- Jewish property, mass dermato cent comes from South-East tion of 'Jews and Asia. A total of 200,000 tons workers, the arrest of hostages comes from other areas. Ameri- and the proposals to shoot the

ca requires 600,000 tons, hence former French Cabinet Minis. she is largely dependent on ter M. G. Mandel, M. Lcon South-East Asia, a Înct that 19¦ Blum, and M. Paul Reynaud. never admitted.

"He knew all that was going Captain ****The American attack is fon-and-approved $t," directed at the rubber estate Flicoteaux said. industry.

DEFENCE CLAIM It purposely avoids the fact that more

than half

who

relles for

Tonight, he said that Amert-

the production of South-East In his closing speech for the cans admitted "with some re-

Asia is derived from the small-defence, Maitre Rene Floriol holder the luctance" that there had been

peasant former-alleged that a selection of the tho three-fold increase in

his livelihood telegrams between the German cost of production of Malayan

rubber. Embassy and Ribbentrop wholly or partly on rubber. Why then, he asked,

"The Americans suggest that (former German Foreign Minis- dild they consider the price too

millions of people might ter) had been made in the case these high?

plant alternative crops, but the to be unfavourable to Abetz. majority of rubber-bearing

The missing documents, he lands will grow no nlternative said, reflected Abetz's typical crop of any value.

A claim that the output of of synthetic rubber was restrict- ed by law in the United States wns entirely wrong." he clared.

de-

RED-HOT ATTACK

"The law", Mr Ascoli said, "Insists on a minimum, not a maximum. usage of synthetic rubber. The minimum laid down in approximately 25 percent of the total usage. Usage in 1043

40 Was percent. synthelle and

percent. natural,

60

Enetier-appearing to agreo with extreme proposals, thren watering them down or getting rid of them altogether.

Time: mid-

Scene: Waterloo Station, London. night. Britain's wartime Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, greets America's Elder Statesman, Mr Bernard Baruch (left) on his arrival in London recently. Old friends, they afterwards talked until 2.30 a.m. in Mr Baruch's hotel.

US Urges

Cut In

UN Plan To Aid Backward Areas

Genova, July 21.-The United States, showing its hand on President Truman's "Fourth Point" plan to aid under-developed countries, today urged a big cut in the United Nations' ambitious $36,000,000

plan.

Suit Over Bab

Greek Planes ka

Fired Into Yugoslavia

UN OBSERVERS' REPORT

Athens, Joly 21—A United Nailons Boecial Commission on the Balkans obervallon (cam reported today that Greek Spit- fires and stilllery fred into Türoslavia three days before Marshall Tito announced that the border was being closed.

A Yugoslav frontier post in the Kaimakchalan

Mountains returned the fire.

Reports said that 70 rounds of artillery fired by the Greek |Army fell 500 to 1,000 metres

Inside Yugoslavia.

20

Two rockets and several mm shells from two Spitares

fell 100 motres Nerth of the Greek frontier, the observĒTS reported. It was disclosed that a senior Yugoslav officer and Junior officers told the UNSCOD team the the border had been closed emphasising that it was closed to the guerrillas.

The Incident occurred July 7, the day on which the Greek Army drove the guerillos out of Kalmakchalan.

on

There have been Communist reports that Greek troops used Yugoslav territory to complete the Kalmakchalan operation, but they have been denied by the Greek General Staff.—AS- sociated Press.

CHURCHILL

DECISION

(Continued from Page 1) he did not agree with it. "Bul I can only say that when you are fighting for life in a Berce struggle with an enemy, you fee!

differently towards quite him than when that enemy is beaten to the

the ground and is suing for mercy.

Mr Churchill added: "Now, if the document is ever brought up to me, I shall pay that I do not agree with it and was sorry I put my initials_to_{1,"

Mr Bevin said that the dias now worked mantling scheme

and-based

out

was fair security.

UNEMPLOYMENT

011

To an interruption by a fert

Labour wink

Mr Member

following dis- Foreign Secre- "I must have

Emrys Hughes, about German unemployment montling, the tary retorted: regard not only to unemploy- ment in Germany but to the many children and women killed in my con-

Wandsworth (London), nad I am not going to forget it."

who wero stituency

in

The two leaders also had ex-

Hutton's Son changes about the Council of

Mr Willard Thorp, Assistant Secretary of State For Economic Affairs, declared that his Government believed that no more than $25,000,000 could be spent effectively in the first year of the plan's operation.

Calling for a "careful begin- ning," Mr Thorp told a packed US PROPAGANDA

session of the Economie and Social Council here: "We have. "I wonder if any American

Abelz had always striven to a job to do, and we must Ogura has ever sittempted to revolu-

it moving prompt- tionise the lives of ten million minimise the damage the Nazi out how to get people living in about a dozen extremists were trying to do in ly and effectively."

after Mr Bevin had France, Maitre Floriot said,

The sum of just under $38,- countries by a stroke of the pen.

did not think it was was proposed by Mr Dedham, Massachusetts, July that he a policy, it would

The hearing was adjourned 000,000

LIE, the Secretary 21.--Following

that possible to discuss or settle any reports these people to Communism. until tomorrow,

when Maitre Trygve

went question of the future of Ger- That is hardly In accordance Floriot will continue his speech General of the United Nations, wealthy Barbara Hutton

swimming today at Venice, her many at the Strasborug confer- in a report last May. with-American higher policy. for the defence-Reuter,

former husband protested to ence next month." "Even a reduction in price

"I want to see Germany in The United States, believing Judge Arthur Davis today over would reduce the smallholder to

an "effective and efficient pro- Judge Davis ruling on Wednes- the European Counell, but I the level of destitution.

gramme" of this value could day

giving Barara custody of want to be very careful how "Lucky" Luciano not be carried out by

their son, Lance, until Septem- she is brought in," Mr Bovin United Nations and specialised ber 15.

stated. agencies in the first year, was The Judge set bearing fot "The problem has bo han confident that a minimum of

July 27 at Brookline, Massachu- died with very great care, but ¡if-we-can-succeed at Strasbourg cetig: $15,000,000-would-be-availabic.

in ending that age-long feud bo "I believe it would, indeed, be great achievement if we could

drive

"American propaganda sug- gests that the rubber estates are making excessive profits. I challenge this ignorant pro-

present price of standard synthetic rubber is 18% cents per pound. The price of na- tural rubber is 10 cents. It is admitted that for many pur- poscs-lorry tyre and aeropiane tyre, foam rubber and so on--the-pagunda.--- synthetic substitute cannot bo used.

"Claims and facts are general- ly inconsistant, but they are at present being pressed with a heat that is scorching the advertising columns of the American press. This heat does not, however. olter the fact that 60 percent of American consumption year and this year to date stili takes the form of natural rub- ber."

last

Mr Ascoli said that the reaSON for this "red hot attack" natural rubber was clear.

an

"Early in 1080", he said, "ike existing legislation in the United States regarding the ownership

COMMONS

DEBATE

the

(Continued from Page 5) "At a meeting of some 30 principal

at members Chamber of July 19, called to discuss the Shanghai problem, it was decided to give publicity to our dimeullies by inddress- ing Government officials in Poiping and locally. Secondly, wo wish Shanghai's predica

ment to be raised in Parlia ment so that an echo may come back to the cars of the People's Government.

"Our objective is to bring home to the People's Govern- ment the dangers inherent in Shanghai's economic crisis. Wo

hope for an expression froia H.M. Government slating the Position is causing considerable and Is being studied anxiety most carefully to B20 what action can most usefully bo taken to

to safeguard

our trade

and investments in China.

****It is felt that the best method of tackling the problem is to urge the maintenance

of n

realistic rate of exchange and at the same time to devise means of breaking the block- ado."

this

A full-length article in the Manchester

Guardian morning emphasised that advice from Ministry of Transport om- cials not to disobey the Chinese Nationalist orders for maintain- Ing the blockade was making alicult Insurance and shipping to Shanghat, thus effectively assisting the Nationalist Corres- - theasures, Our!

pondent.

Own

ניי

In Exile Palermo, July 21-Charles "At present prices, not even "Lucky" Luciano, one-time

I Withington fled the action tweens France and Germany the most efficient estate can "vice king" of New York, or spend wisely an amount of on behalf of former Danish great work will have been ac make any profil out of the rived in Folermo with two manufacture of standard rub- henchmen today on his way to

money ranging from $15,000,000 Count, Curt Haugwitz Revent-complished."

oro said. to $25,000,000," Mr Thorp

low, and cited roports from

BROAD VIEWS ber In South-East Asia after exile at his native village of "Even the lowest figure would Lido Beach, Venice. making reasonable reserves for Lercara.

Mr Churchill replied: At Newport, Rhode Island, depreciation and amortisation.”

represent an extraordinary in- Mr Ascoll concluded by Released after 1 week increase to be accomplished in a Count Reventlow merely com- think it would be better for us mented: "I am delighted to hear to wait until we are assembled stressing that rubber was the Regina Coeli Prison, Rome, on single year."

there and see how the Assembly basis of South-East Asia's pros- suspicion of being involved in Mr Thorp said that the United she is well."

Her attorney told the court chooses to act, . I hope and trust perity, which was vital to the international drug smuggling, States was considering legisla Western demoncracies, including Luciano was "invited" by the tion which might remove some on Wednesday she was "crit that Mr Bevin will make sure that if there is a desire express- the United States

Italian police to leave his of the deterrents to the interna- cally ill."-Associated Press.

ed not only in the Assembly but "Unless the rubber plantation luxury flat in Rome and take tional flow of private capital. It

In the Council of Ministers that industry can be be maintained up residence in bis primitive was

studying possible

broad views shall be taken and In a state of prosperity-and for Sicilian home village.

changes in the American tax

good latitute

titute given to the As- that 贝

which might further en- reasonablo price of He stopped in Palermo long laws

prin- rubber is essential-the

"local courage the flow of such capital to take some doors enough are open wide to the spread of colour" movie shots, then left abroad. Communism,” he declared for Lercara in a hired car. Reuter.

SIDE GLANCES

Reuter.

DELAYS LIKELY

Prisoners Exchanged

cinal he will not be the

person to offer resistance. "He might not find himself possessed there, in the Council or the Assembly, of the Jargo Mr Thorp sald that many Mishmar Hayarden, July 31 majority he commands in this delays will be found in expan- The last prisoner of war has House."

SOVIET POLICY By Galbraith ding the supervisory staff of the crossed the lines here near no

specialised

man's land, where the Syrian- agencies on negotia

Mr Bevin' was accused of with Goventarseli armistice was signed on belatedly recognizing the "true ting agreements ments, in recruiting the neces Wednesday. Some 30 Jewish character of the Soviet ‚nima” sary experts, and in organising prisoners, counted and checked when

Harold MacMillan, by the Iranil and Syrian of Conservativo, facilities

earlier necessary training "The shortage of available cers under Red Cross officinis' the debate. technicians and training Lacili→ ties at the beginning of the supervision, against 88 Syrians,

returned programme would alone require

captives. n substantial reduction in the

One Jewish woman prisoner the participating proposals of

gencles for the first year," he added.

COPI, 1949 BY WÉA BENVIĆE, NC, T. MŰ RET, EL B. PÁT, OFF. \,

"But, mother, this would be easier to clean if we'd wait till next winter then a few of us will catch cold and empty some of these old bottles!"

the

after one

opened

The "persistent malignancy year as of the Soviet policy of follow- ing the "expansionist and im- tradition they inherited perinlist from the Czarist days"

com

was

of war still in Damascus was not returned by the Syrians. clear by the end of 1945, Mr

The Jewish prisoners, having MacMillan sald. Mr Thorp aald that the base

· days captivo

Yet, he added, it was not un- here, objective of the United Nations been 144

welcomed by it. the end of 1947 that the plan, which would affect the were heartily

Including truth was acknowledged. compatriots, Ives of some one and

a half their

"For

two and a half years, million people, could. not be some cellmates from Damascus

prison released

therefore, our polley has been some two restated too often.

months ago and returned to hampered by clinging to hopes that were doomed to be frustra- "Clearly the World sema, Israel,

ted." Mr MacMillan declared.-

ready for a major international Amongst the Syrian prl. Reuter

co-operative effort, and the op-soners, it was learned, are some portunity for leadership la ours who refused to return to Syria in the Economic and Social and preferred to stay in Israel. The Israeli prisoners said they Council.

"At this session we should were only told this morning by d'scuss action. If there are ob- their goolers of their release. stacles, we must and ways of Associated Press. breaking through them. If there are jurisdictional problems, we must see that they do not block progress.

"We have a job to do, and we must figure out how to get it moving promptly and effective- ly."

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