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VOL. IV NO. 272

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1949.

CHURCHILL FAVOURS

EARLY RECOGNITION

Recognition

Of Peking

OF PEKING

Subject Of Commons Debate On

Conference

London, Nov. 17,-In- formal consultations between Britain and other members of the Commonwealth are now going on for an early co-ordinated recognition of the Chinene Communist Government in Peking, it was learnt from a usually rellable source today.

of

A conference

Common- wealth High Commissioners was held on November

15 at

the

Foreign Office, at which Cum- monwealth representatives <x-

Foreign Affairs

LONDON, NOV. 17,—RECOGNITION OF THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS WAS TODAY BRIEFLY REFERRED TO BY MR WINSTON CHURCHILL, LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION, WHEN HE ADDRESSED THE house of commons DURING A ONE-DAY DEBATE ON FOREIGN, AFFAIRS.

Mr Churchill said that Britain certainly ought to have contacts with the mon who control the large areas which had come under Chinese Communist rule.

pressed the views of their Go-general grounds, apart from! vernment

vernments on this question

According to n reil ble source, ht Tuesday's conference of Commonwealth representatives, the Indian view was in favour of an carly recognillon, sooner the better.

the

Ger- to the Az-

"We ought to have it on! Mr Churchili urged the Go-

to speed up admission many's sembly of Europe.

the the arguments about protection of British in- tercsts," he added.

"SWAN SONG" Describing Mr Bevin's speech

in all these meetings and was tho only country which was present at all of them.”

Mr Bevin continued: "The machinery of consultation with the Commonwealth is as perfect as we can make it and nothing

which of information

It is epsential to pass to the Com- Eg withheld. I think it is significant

to note that this Commonwealth of bure

"It beerna difficult to justify as his "swan song" Mr Church- having

full diplomatic rela~ill said that the Foreign Secre-

the Soviet Govern-tary had lost a great opportuni-monwealth tions with ment in Moscow and remain-ty.

coun-

Pakistan and South Africa are not known to bave any partling without even de facto con- When he took office Britain cular lows on the question and tacts with its enormous off was the most respected are said to be ready to fall in shoot into China."

try in Europe and the world. line with the general policy of The debate had earlier been His policy had not represented the other Powers.

opened by Mr. Ernest Bevin, the coherent outlook of 50-

Foreign Secretary, who cialists, Liberals or

Conserva-

havo

the

many's re-admission to the European family.

STRONG VIEWS While New Zealand is sald toured the House of Commons lives, and Britain had fallen expressed strong views to be "very moderate" in deal back in the sphere of foreign against recognition of the "Coming with the problem of Ger-affairs. Taunist aggression," Australia was said to be in favour ut re- cognition on conditions based on

BITTER MEMORIES. adequate guarantees of British

"We have bitter memorica interests in Hongkong.

of the 1914 war and what British Government's happened subsequently and the necording to

ja pollllcat feeling

much deeper observers here, was not said t France than it is here," he do include any specie guarantesclared,

The

from the Communist Govern- He said that in relations with ment as the British position the United States, the lack of was well understood in interna-nancial tional law and practice.

and economic equill- brium between the dollar and One serious problem which aterling areas had been a all Powers are conscious of in giving recognition los soon advance of other major Powers

dia.

turbing factor.

In

A

sound relation between Europe,

"We want to bring about 15

is the official position of China the Commonwealth and

as one of the

declared that

of the meet ing of the Council of Europe at Strasbourg, Mr Bevin and other British Labour Ministers "lost all affective contact with their own Socialist comrades Europe.

in

They completely threw away what the British Socialist Party had long greatly desired - the leadership of social democracy in Europe," Mr Churchill said. MANY CONFERENCES

of

is perhaps the greatest unifying force which draws together Asia and the West."

on

NEW CHAPTER Mr Bovin said, that the British Government folt that now chapter should be opened Germany and another policy, or a continuing policy, should be evolved for the next period up to the end of the Occupation Statute-about a year from now.

Reservations

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Thai General Staff In Britain

Members of the General Staff of the Thailand Army are on a visit to Britain to study the organisation and administration of the British Army. This picture, taken when they paid a visit to the School of Infantry at Warminster, Wilts., shows them Inspecting a Vickers machine-gun manned by two soldiers wearing the new combat suit.

U.S. FAR EAST OFFICIALS

TO CONFER AT BANGKOK

Washington, Nov. 17. The White House announced today that top American diplomatic officials in the Far East will hold a regional confer ence in Bangkok in January, with Mr Philip Jessup, the Administration's diplomatic analyst, in attendance,

Mr Jessup will visit Philippines, French Indo-China. THREE YOUNG Tokyo, the Philippines, Nu- Indonesia, Singapore.

FRENCHMEN

ON MURDER

CHARGE

Paris, Nov. young French

" permanent seat on the Security we are aiming to shape one freeren Ministers in Colombo in psychological'," "Mr Bevin said, were arrested today and

anid

that

the Big Five" with United Stater

States, and in that way Council with the power of velo.world," he said. It would be embarrassing for the Mr Bevin

the January, and I hope to be able world organization to be faced bringing together of the Foreign to lead the United Kingdom de "with Д situation where the Ministers of the 12 free Parlia-legation." present delegation of China on mentary democracica in the In a further reference to pre- it would be recognised by some Ministers' Committee of thevious conferences, Mr Bevin by Council of Europe would prove said: "It is significant that the

vital to Europe's unity.

United Kingdom was concerned

of

Powers

the others.-Reuter.

and

EDITORIAL

not

Burmu, India, Pakistani and Ceylon.. tionalist China and other i

China is the big problemt for points en route to the con- Secretary Acheson and his

ference, and later will return aides.

From the by way of India and Pakis

there Was tan. He will start for the that Far East about January 1.

bassador

with the

to

the U.S.

State Department

Embassy at

Nationalist

an announcement

In Chungking.

Tel: 27880

Shipment Of Coal For Colony Diverted

The Chinese ship, Hai Tien, carrying 2,000 tons of coal for delivery to the Hongkong Gas Company, which was originally due to arrive here on November 14, has been diverted on her course and is reported to be heading for Talpeh, Formosa. –

An offein of the Gas. Com- pany this morning stated that he Ha Tien was bringing the coal from Calculia to Hongkong. She was held up for two days at Singapore. She left that port on November 7.

He had been informed by the ship's agents, the China Mer- chan.s. Steam Navigation Co., that the Hal Tien had been to Formosa Apart diverted

from this he had no further authentic information to hand,

The coal was valued at $90, a ton..

NO REPLYN

One of the officials of the China Merchants stated that the Hai Tion arrived on Wednesday and anchored outside the hare. bour owing to heavy weather prevalling at the time, She

alled at. 6 a.m, yesterday,

wire- The Hongkong office lessed her asking her to return. and unload but nt. 11.30. a.m. 10- day they had not. received any reply to the message.

The Company's head office is In Talpeh. The official stated

het reports that the ship wan heading Keelung were incorrect,

for......_Shanghai ...or

FLARES IN

ATLANTIC REPORTED

He announced that' in his re- cent Paris talks with the United States Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, and the French Foreign Minister M. Robert Schuman, that they

"contcm- plated some modification of the dismantling programme."

The White House announce-Chint, is being closed because Hamilton, Bermuda, Nov. "But

I must Mr Bevin opened the debate

say that all tho

ment was made after President of the Chinese. Communist 17-A-B-29-search-plane evidence I SAW бл by recalling

purely

held a 70-minute review army's approach the meny Con-

to the city. has sighted two red flures economic grounds,

United States Far Eastern The Consulate at Kunming has in the Atlantic, about 240 ferences

of particularly at which Britain had been

on the steel side, did represented In

not present recent

policy

ordered to make pro- Secretary of been months and went on to say: "We much of a case," he added.

17.-Three State, Mr Dean

Mrliminary plans to close, Acheson

miles northeast of Bermuda, Nor was he impressed when have accepted an invitation to a

The Embassy Jessup, and other ranking State servicemen the

staff will fol. In the same general area old story 'It in

low the Chinese Nationalist conference

Department policy makers. Commonwealth "told

where 鞲 wherever it goes.

Superfortress help it," he said.

charged with having mur-

Mr J. Leighton Steart, Am-Government

staffs in both crush-landed in the sea yes- The Consulate support the Government on con-

He hoped the House would dered

Nationalist China, a British business- who came home several

towns are to go to Hongkong. terday. months ago, sat in on the conference. The President, at his nowe tinued dismantling of war plantsman, Edward de Muralt. "and that type of thing."

The police said that they had Fosdick and Mr Everett C. Case. tions on the delicate

Others included Mr Raymond B. conference, referred most ques- Chincac want "Wo

an assurancy of accurity," he declared. CHIEF AIM Mr Bevin sald that the chief nim since the break-down of four-Power collaboration had been to consolidate and revive Europe, maintain liberty, try to restore morale and mutual con- fidence and to arrest the spread of Communiam in the Wetsern countries. "We Want to bring about a sound relationship be- tween Europe, the

Common wealth and the United States and

we don't want a

wedge

Israel & The West

Minister, who has gone to America

MR Moshe Sharett, the Israeli Foreign

for

the forthcoming United Nations discussions on the future of Jerusalem, has so far thrown little light on barnel's attitude to the problem. But in view of past Israeli statements it seems certain that

proposal envisaging Inter- any' national control over the whole of the Holy City will be strenuously opposed. In recent months Israel has been taking an -independent stand toward current issues which reflects the political strength the new State has built up for herself. She has shown herself capable of skilful diplomație negotiations for instance, in the by-passing of the United Notions conciliation commission and the making of separate terrliorial settlements with the Arab countries but the extent to which she can afford to be Independent le governed by one important factor: her economic weakness. Israel may be UR- willing to make further concessions to international opinion — on both the Jerusalem question and the admission of Arab refugees--but she may be compelled to by economic necessity. All is not well economically in the new State-largely because of her willingness to accept all the Jewish immigrants who care to seek sanctuary within her borders. It has been estimated that before the end of this year there will be at least 110,000 unemployed Immigrants in refugee camps in Israel. In another year that number is expected to be doubled. The task of looking after" these, people might well prove too great for a much larger and better. established, country. The cost of living in Israel is high, and production Is Low-In the eleven

months up to last July Israel paid £53 million for her imports and earned only £9 million from her exports. She is thus forced to depend on outside help. More than half

of the loan of $100 million which she obtained from the American Import-Export Bank for capital develop. ment has now been spent, hut even with lucal loans, investments, sterling releases and Immigrants' capital, there is still a substantial deficit. Some modification of the original immigration programme thus seems inevitable. Many of the immigrants already in Israel live in crowded tents. and the task of housing them-and pro viding them with work will be tre mendous, even without addition to their numbers. If the task is to be accom- plished at all Israel must somehow attract ́enough foreign capital, to develop indus irles. And it is this need, which will almost certainly modify Israel's attitude to foreign affairs. It has already caused some change in her internal policy: many "nationalisation plans have had to be watered down In deference to foreign Investors. Obviously Israel's best chance of obtaining foreign capital, lies in the United States; Israeli statesmen are shrewd, enough to realise this, and they presumably realise also that to attract western capital Israel must side more and more with the west In International affairs. This necessity may strengthen the position of the more responsible laraeli fenders against those who advocato expansion at the expenses of the Arabi world. And it will almost certainly, affect Israel's attitude toward the United Nations.

راته

As for the Chinese Commu- nist imprisonment of Mr Angus Ward, US Consul-General in think that is an outrage.”—-As- Mukden. De President said: "1

sociated Press.

recovered jewels stolen from Mr de Muralt-who

who have served with Mr Jessup situation to statements hy W33 **** Australian

representing the

as State Department consultants the Secretary of State, Mr Acho- Federation of British Industries.

on Far Eastern policy, Underson. Do Muralt war found dead in Secretary of State James E. He said he was in complete his car on, a Paris street

Webb and the Assistant Secre- agreement with all Mr Acheson Tuesday morning. He was kill-tary. Mr. W. Walton Bulter-hod to say. ed by a blow in the face.

worth The police identified the men

CENERAL REVIEW as-Jean Goisot, 18, Jean Lentiez, The White House sald the 19, both sailors, and Andre Bangkok conference "will have Faury, 22, a soldier.

as its object a general review The police said today that of the situation in the area." they had obtained a "confes-

A State Department spokes- sion" relating to the killing.

man said among those likely to attend will be a political adviser STRUCK ON RIDE from General Douglas Mac- Arthur's headquarters in Tokyo, piso diplomats stationed three young Korea, China, Hongkong,

driven between either if wa tan, The document, quoted by the

police, said that help it," he said, It is in that

way, with the men met de Muralt in a bar solution of the equilibrium in and that de Muralt invited them the currencies, that We ure to take a car ride with him: aiming to shape one free world. around Paris. The young men, That the objzet of our it said, did not know de Muralt policy."

previously, Dealing with the Atlantic The alleged statement con Puct, the Foreign Secretary tinued that during the ride de said: "A vast, fictitious peace Muralt was struck repeatedly campaign has been designed to with the naked fist, after which persuade the peace-loving a blanket was put over his head proples of the Atlantic area, and the beating continued. determined to stand against

It added that de Muralt was uggression, that they are really robbed of 1,500 francs, which war-mongering."

was then divided three ways,

alleged

statement

In the

SWATOW

RAID-RED

VERSION

Ir

the

Scores of civilians in Amoy San Francisco, Nov. 18.-

NOT OFFENSIVE.

and Swatow, including many Nobody capable of indepen-quoted by the police, it was said students and teachers, were dent thought could be convin that the three young men men- killed or injured when Na- ced that the Atlantic Pact was tloned in it claimed that they tionalist planes bombed and offensive instrument, 1e only wanted to teach de Muralt strafed the two cities a lesson" by beating him after

said.

on

We are conscious that de he had made them propel November 11 and 15. the featist elements in Western lon-Associated Press. Union have sought to cast

Peking Radio reported to- doubt about our attitude but I

day in 1 dispatch from am glad to my that does not

Amoy. apply to responsible statesmen holding office in Europe," haf:

ald.

Turning to Italy. Mr. Bevin declared that there had been

Guam Lashed

By

y Typhoon

According to the Redio, four |B-24's dropped more than 50 bombs on the northern shore of Amoy on November 11, directly hitting the Chip Bee School

trouble, in relation to Italian Pearl Harbour, Nov. 17—The when students were attending colonies, but that, I hope, will Facilie's heaviest typhoon of the classes.

Guam all

Hunng

soon be settled."

She year hammered at

Chung-halang, the Concluding, Mr Bovin salds night, doing damage as yet un- principal of the school and Since 1947 we had had difficult calculated, patenka tasks. It looked as it Erg co

Forewarned, the island's many students were killed out- while dozens were in- right would be disrupted, Italy would Intion including hundreds of jured when the school buildings

dand that thero American service personnel and were blown up. would be difficulty in holding the civilian employees, had prepared. Two days later, two Nation- German position.

pad for the blow, and took shelter in alist planes, bombed and strated the daves and the few heavily con Swalow killing and injuring, solidarity structed 4 buldin Associated: 220 civilians, the Communist

Radio: reported in United

"But the comin Brussel Treaty, ot

SC,(Continuad

A Superført from the airbása at Tampa, Florida, sighted the flores. The plane's pilot, was ordered to keep circling round the flare aren,

A special rescue B-17 plane, equipped with a "Flying Dutch"

man" lifeboat, was ordered to speed to the area, drop flarest and seek survivora,

The Brilish aircraft carrier Magnificent, about - 300 miles northwest of Bermuda, was-or- dered to proceed at full speed towards, the spot-United Press,"

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