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Anglo- French Friendship

Cited Cornerstono

Of Policy

For the Propria

HONGKONG TELEORAPH, For ant on behalf of

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD.

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

VOL. IV NO. 279

Paris, Nov. 25.-Several speakers declared in the French Assembly today that while it is right to promote better relations with Ger-

British many,

friendship romains cornerstone of

French foreign policy.

the

10

The Deputies Bwitched emphasis from Germany

Anglo-French relations on this of their

third and final day foreign affairs debate.

Vigorous applause greeted M. Jean Le Bail, Socialist, when he regretted that Mr Winston Churchill's proposal in

June,

1010, for common Anglo-French eltizánship

cnrried wha never

11.

The "necessary" Franco-Ger- minn rapprochement, now under dincursion "must not diminsh the importance of the under- standing with England which is the essential basis of France's policy," he added.

OPPOSITION REGRETTED

M. Edouard Bonnefour, Chalk- mon of the Assembly's Foreign Affairn Committee,

regretted

"British opposition to the erea-

unity."

tion of European

"We hope that our British friends

will pay attention to

our appeal that they will finally be convinced that with

out Great Britain there is no Europe," he added.

Demilitarisation of West Get- mill- many implied unlimited tary occupation, he continued.

"Do London and Washington understand this problem?" he asked.

West German Democrata had no agreed foreign policy but he hoped the Federal Government would ratify the Bonn

agree-

M

The

mont, published yesterday. Minister. Foreign flobert Schuman, who yʻsterility stressed the limited concessiona und the

nobatantial security

embodied in the new arranges inent, was expected to Intervene LET the d-bale again later night to reply to critics.

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The debate was expected to end with n vote of confidence In the Government.-Iteuler,

NO ROMANCE

Washington, Nov. 20-Mar- garet Truman today squelched that she might nn. reports

soon. nounce her engagement The President's daughter made it clear at a press conference that she preferred an operatio romance-United career to Press.

COMMENT

tant

She's Really Smart

Ten-year-old Penny Smart can really claim to live up to her name. The daughter of a circus owner (Billy Smart, Jnr.) Penny stands up on the back of her while pony

na he makes a circuit of the training ring. Penny is under training as equestrian performer at Windsor.

Students

an

EXPRESS

Cherbourg

Flooded

Cherbourg, Nov. 25.--High tides, rains and Channel winds combined today to meroon several thousand Cherbourg re- sidents in three feet of flood

WILTE F.

called City officials gravest flood crabs her year though "oo

nm date danger."

Innt

It the in 40

cutie

41 10

the

The main problem, said Get

Demands

thou-

Rome. Nov 25,--Fly Hand-UNTVersity of Rome stud- ents today won n three day strike for more examinations. They returned happily to class

authorities, is ferding the thou-

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1949. -

Soviet Peace Plan Rejected By United Nations

APPROVAL FOR ANGLO-U.S. PROGRAMME

Lake Succoss. Nov. 25.--The United Nations rejected decisively today a Soviet Russian peace plan which carried a clause accusing the United States and Britain of preparing a third world war. Then, by 53 votes to five the United Nations approved an American-British programme for peaco. The mar- gin for the American-British proposal was the biggest the West has ever received in the UN on a major question,

The Russian bloc of five stood alone against it and Yugo- slavia abstained.

The heart of Mr Vyshinsky's proposal was knocked out 41 to 6 in the 59-Nation Political Committee. Arab Yemen alone voted with the Moscow group in favour of a section call- ing on the United States, Britain, France China and the Soviet The first will be renewed Union to draw up a pact of peace. finally in the Assembly proper, but there was no prospect of a change in the.voting..

Strike, A Near

Failure

sands of people living in lowly- FRENCH WORKERS

waterfront ing have fed to the upper alorica of their homes.

who districts

The food rose when min fed rivers met high Channel tides and ploughed into the streets. Winds of near gale proportions whipped the Channel outside the city and forced more water afier ie Education Ministry into the Inundated areas.

Associated Press.

exura

granted their demands for mid-Winter

to period supplement other flaal examina- tions in June and October.

SOLD OUT The students had protested It was announced this mom-

that all tickets that hundreds of students other-Ing

for the wise seady to graduate in Feb football matches in which the ruary would have to walt until visi ing Swedish leam will play have been June for their diplomas-Asso-Hongkong elevens ciated Press.

Bold,

Peanuts And Politics

an impor- years of effort, but that proper hooks PEANUTS are becoming

political Issue in the pre- apparently had not been kept on the ex- The penditure of £23,000,000, which has been election sparring in Great Britain.

Acheme to of the groundnuts the cost In raise plan to

them ambitious

date:-But even Conservative-critics-are. attempt to increaseTM Tanganyika, in an

of two minds on what should be done, the non-dollar supply of essential oils and fats, has proved considerably less apart from a unanimous feeling that Mr than a success, and the Food Minister, Strachey should be sacked, which they are in favour of anyway. Unless the cost Mr Strachey, has been under heavy lire from the Conservative Opposition in the of production can be brought down, that it might be appenra House of Commons. Both discussed ond

cheaper to buy needed oils in the markets cussed since its inception in March 1946,

instead of trying to produce them. Bul the peanut question really came to 'a boll

against this, there is a widely-held idea with the presentation this' month of the first report of the Overseas Food that the best hope Britain has of closing the dollar gap la to produce within the showed not Corporation. The report

Commonwealth those things which other only that no peanuts had been produced for English consumption after

wise might be bought with dollars.

THE

three

it

Jet Airliners

HE earnings of no one industry, will Bolve Britain's financial crisis, but British-built airliners may well become a noteworthy Bource of American dollars. Jet airliners designed and built in the United Kingdom are now in the air, while in the United States they have reached only the drawing-board stage. American aircraft builders estimate it will take them from five to eight years to produce their first Jet-powered transport for commercial however, the Do use. In Britain, Havilland Comet, a jet-powered airliner with a still air range of 3,200 miles at 460 miles on hour, has been down success- fully, and professional observers. from other countries who have watched it in

fight have remarked that the new hand. built plane is as "clean" as any jet fighter.. In addition, the Avro Tudor VIII Jet airliner recently flew to 40,000 feet in 87 minutes. It appears probable that during the first half of the next decade, pirlines In the United States may be buying British jet airliners when the current 300- mile-an-hour planes seem sluggish and obsolete. While only one · turbo-prop military plane has been produced in the United States, Britain is already offering, several types, for commercial use. How- ever, it should be noted that while jet aircraft are being put into commercial use, an overcoming of weather problems must parallel their development..

STAY AT JOB

Mr Vyshinsky's

attack

on

the

Knowland

Britain and America, in first paragraph of his resolution, was beaten by 52 votes to five! with Yemen and Yugoslavia abstaining.

delegates interpreted Some the Committee-vour "25 a per- mal blow at Mr. Vyshinsky, the who has bitterly attacked British and Americans as pre- paring for a new war and then, almost in the same breath, cali-

In Chungking

ed on them to swear to a new Warmly Welcomed

F

peace pact among the big five Soviet Union. powers-the

Britain. the United States and China.

of

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At the

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Price 20 Cents

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Seventeen

To Boycott Polish

Debate

Lake Success, Nov. 28mm The Soviet Foreign Minis- ter, M. Andrei Vyshinsky, declared in the United Nations

Iolitical Com-

mittee today that Russia would boycott the debate-

China's complaint of Soviet aid to the Chinese Communista.

on

He declared that the Chinese item on the agenda was merely a piece "ot Kuomintang Dettiforgery" and beneath the dignity of the United Nations.

For these reasons, the Dovlet delegation

would

not take part in a discna- ston of this item and would not retard as "blading" any decision made by the Committee.----Reuter

Panama's New President

Subjects Expelled

Paria, Nov. 25,--Seven- teen Poles were expelled from France fast night after police raids on Po- |lish organisations in Paris and in the French pro. vinces.

The French Ministry of the Interior announced to day that documents seized revealed that the activity of the organisations was direct ed towards "economic and social anbotage.”

**These organisations ducted f

Ilv:ly campaign against the Republican institu- tions of our country," the com- munique #İC. Poles

The

con-

expelled work driven to the frontier in a bus last night, it was learned at the Ministry.

The oficial communique added that, in all, 24 Polen were questioned,

The Ministry sald

that the

No Recognition By expulsions followed inquiries at

an- follows: the

The headquarter of the organin- United States otions concerned.

ORGANISATIONS NAMED Washington, Nov. 25.

These organisations were as The State Department

The National Follsh Council; nounced today that

the Organisation of Polos in United States has no diplo France; the "Gaunwald" Polish matic relations with Panama Youth Association; the OP.O. if Dr Amullo-Arias-is-Pre-Association. (Assistance To sident. Dr Arias, an ex- Poland); the B.II.P. Organist- (Folish Scouts); and the President and leader of the Union of Polish Women.

to

tion

Polcs

Revolutionary Party, yester- The expelled Poles included day became the third poll- the following:

Raja Kowalski, Editor-in- tical leader to be proclaimed President of Panama in the Chief of the Gazeta Poland in Paris and a member of the last five days.

O.P.O; Madame Marta Molojec, He was declared President whose task, according to the with the support of the police Ministry of the Interior, was to chief, Colonel Antonio Remon. keep under surveillance

Warenw C.owds acclaimed him in the

hostile to the present streets.

Government; Etienne Earlier yesterday the Supreme President of the National Polish Court of Panama had held that Council; Madame Lucin Bein

the Chungking, Nov. 25. Dr Chants, deposed on Sunday brecht, Secretary-General of United

by Colonel Remon's Police, was Union of Polish Wemen; Eljlaz States Senator

suil confitutional

President of Szurck, employee of the Polish William Knowland and the Panama.

Keptun, Nicolao They saw the heavy vote for CAT

Embassy, airline executivo, Last Sunday Dr Chania was member of the Polish Informa- Paris, Nov. 25.—France's the West as an expression

resign after tion Burenu; and Joseph Czekak, confidence from the small and Major General Claire Chen-persuaded 24-hour general strike ap- melium countries and endorse-nault, arrived late today Colonel Remon and two senior Secretary-General of the Nation

had police officials

defied al Council of Poles in France. peared today to be a near ment of pleas by Mr Warren from the Philippines and

Presidential failure. Workers were in R. Austin of the United States

decreo dismissing Reuter, them from office.

PROTEST LODCED The warna government reception.

Vice-President, Scnor sisting on staying at work, and Britain's Mr Hector Mc-Hongkong and received

Warsaw, Nov. 25-The Polish Neil for the Russians to roll up their

co-Generalissimo Chiang Kal-Roberto Chiarl, was immediately government has formally pro- of the shek gave a dinner in honour swom in as President by the tested to France against the ar- Supreme Court. The Supreme rest of 24 Polish citizens in It was clear that the world.

of Senator Knowland and

Chior! Court ruled that Senor

Paris, it was announced today. For the second time in three wife. strike was far from general..

was coly provisional President. The note said, "According to

Addressing A Socialist Cabinet Minis- days, a UN majority bent down

vinformation conveyed to the a Soviet demand for the UN to

plane arriving cheering Moscow-style, pro-here were also Deputy Premier balcony

the Foreign Ministry since yester approve ter. M. Eugene Thomas,

Presidential day, huge-scale political action who heads the Post Office. gramme for atomie control,

Chu Chia-hua, Mr Cheng Yen-Palace, Dr Arias said that his is being conducted agalast said the strike "is a fiasco." On Wednesday, the General fan, Mr Chu Ching and Mr Government

in Flushing Hung Lan-yu, who had been in friendly The mines and most big in- Assembly meeting dustries were shut down and defeated a Soviet proposal for Hongkong "extending regards" countries and would give ampia dered immense services in tho transport disrupted. However, the 11-National Atomic Energy to the retiring Acting President, guarantees to capital, labour struggle for France's liberation." the effects on normal life wern Commission

L Tsung-Jen not very noticeable,

reports throughout France

showed.

fron

and

curtain

the rest operate with

to resumo work and draw up two atomic conven- Practically all shops were tiens proposed by the Soviet

as well as banks, the Union.

open

Government sources said there TLS clearly no enthusiasm armong the rank and Ale of labour for the strike.

Aboard the

Welcome messages from Chinese

legislators greeted Knowland and the stock exchange, insurance com- The Pollucal Committee, the Senator

Central Daily Newa panies and government offices. main body of the General As-oficial There were few taxis and the sembly, then today beat down a published a complementary edi- government ran buses to 035 Russian statement in the peacetorial. the transport problem.

pact plan saying any further

Chungking is a scene of tur delay in banning atomie bonhomoil and battle today. Some and establishing "appropriate

well-equipped troops under strict international control"

General-Hu-Teung-nan-were- would be inadmissible,

seen rushing through the streets The vote on this paragraph was 38 to 5, with 10 nations for the defence of the capital and the pessimistic citirens brightened somewhat.

Refugees carrying baggage

Trucks travelled in and out of the city. roared over choppy roads day and night. Rick- shaw drivers were asking double or triple price for rides in their ancient vehicles.

In the banking With the Soviet resolution out queues nearly a mile long were of the way, the Committee bo- lined

PARTIALLY EFFECTIVE

There had been no reports of abstaining.

There were only three sections Oghting and government source

Since said "Most factory workers de-of the Russian resolution. cided it was wiser to stay away it had been defeated paragraph no vote on the from the mills for one day rather by paragraph, than risk tangling with militant whole proposal was taken. Unionists."

absence

its

OPPOSITION ABSTAINS

up before

ercii, two

government

In Marseilles, the Mediter ranean port renowned for labour violence, there was com- plete calm.

of gan a paragraph by paragraph banks, seeking to exchange "Only by the

British their

yunn notes into "bly trolley buses and buses and the vote on the American

programme, Every paragraph | yuans"-silver dollars, cles'ng of factories and come big

A Chinese dispatch from stores could you tell there is a of the long resolution was ap-

or more, Wanksien said that Cheng Shu- strike on" reported a corres- proved by 50 votes

with Mr Vyshinsky's blog abchuen, magistrate of Pengshut, pondent, from Marseilles.

the staining on some counts and was shot by Commander Sung Lille reported that in

Hel-lim on # of voting against others.

charge of inem- heavy

industrial North

Supply France the strike was 30 per- The American-British propo- clency in the military cent effective among chemical sal amounts to reaffirmation of service in the area.

More than 100 passengers factory

workers, 40 percent the UN Charter. In its key sec-

Into the water and at least among textile workers, 80 per- ilons, it calls on UN members fell

the gang-plank cent among the metal workers, to take part in all of the work 30 died whim

the broko while refugees were 10 percent among workers at of the UN to restrain use of

steam T. the Security Council rushing aboard the Lille Railway Station,

As far as could be determin (where Russia has vetoed 1 Mimu, this morning United

settle decisions), to

Press most international trains majority and some local trains were run-disputer by peaceful means, to

ed,

velo in

ning throughout France, N co-operate for the regulation of RADIUM STOLEN

Labour Ministry sources in conventional armaments and to

Bari, Italy, Nov. 25,Two Paris estimated the number of give up some of their national striking railway, workers at sovereignty to set up effective tubes of radium were stolen International control of atomie from the University of Bari only 40 percent.

hospital today and the police It is even hoped to get a energy. couple of underground lines goi Mr Vyshinsky regarded his ued a general warning that Ing later in the day. Refuse, was proposal as the most important the tubes lacked protective lead Frees

thousands

from people of the

democratle maintain Polish citizens and would relations with all organisations which have ren-

and industry-Reuter.

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