1950-01-07 — Page 1

DESTRIANT (995, THE FORA-EZLA KOMPLET

British Elections Feb 23?

VOL. V NO. 6

MR ATTLEE STILL SILENT

London, Jau, 6.---Expecta- Lion of British general, election next month harden- ed among all political parties here tonight.

February 23 is the most strongly tipped date.

The Prime Minister, Mr Clie iment Atlee, maintained cum.. plete silence but was known that many of lus followers were on the niert for an Election thay

the

annuancement

future

In

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The Liberal Party. which plan les put forward 400 ca didates in the feld, ninely wamed t rapporters ready for a general election. any time after February !

Parliamentary quarters think that

with eketion fever cuty tinuing at He present height the Government, whotever its inten.

ton, will be obliged to keep the situatiem in hand by an early (METALICEMent --Reuter.

CRASH-LANDING SLAYS FOUR Karachi.

were

Jon. 6. Four bya'anders were killed and 79 injured when # Dueck Bharat Airways Skyninster crash-landed and burnt crowded village market place

the ncDr

East Bengal-Tripura border last Fridny

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Cap'nins Anderson and Retidell, ́záld to be Australians and the radio operator, M. L, Ghose, received burns and other Injuries Ghose's condition was said to be serious-Reu er,

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EDITORIAL

Britain

THE long-anticipated

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U.S. Protest Over Hongkong Handling Of Airlines Dispute Demanded

New York, Jan. 6.Mr Charles Edison. chairman of the Committee to Defend America by aiding anti-Communist China, today demanded a prompt protest by the United States to Britain aver the delay by Hongkong officials in handing over to General Claire Chenanult and Mr Whiting Willauer 73 airplanes and other property they claim they purchased from two Chinese airlines.

Mr Edison, formerly Governor of New Jersey, declared that British recognition of Communist China was its own business, "but it is our affair f American lives or the property of American citizens are to be used as pawns; if planes owned by American citizens are to become available to the Communist armies for use in attacking Formosa, held by the Nationalist governmens, we ourselves recognise." He also blasted the State Department for its "appensement" policy in the Far East which be said constituted an "Asiatic Munich.”—United Press

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The

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SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1950.

British Recognition Of Peking, Latest

No Assurances

Sought

About Hongkong

WORLD-WIDE

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REACTION

BRITAIN'S DECISION

London, Jan. 6.-Before recognising the Communist Government in China, Britain neither sought nor required assurances- from the Com- munist authorities about the British Colony of Hongkong, a Foreign Office spokesman said here today.

Questioned as to whether there were differences between Britain

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London, Jan. 6. Dr Chent Tien-hsi, Chinese Ambassador to Britain ant midday today when th- British Government switched its recognition to the new Communist Re- publie

plans to work

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of the International Court of Justice at The Hague and a judge of the Chinese Supreme Court and sat on r the Comm'ssing which laid the foundation of China's modern

Jurisprudence.

"I have always tried to earn my own living", he Hold Renter today.

His ullimate desire-he Is 65-Is to retlee in Eng- land, where he has already spent 15 years

as student

and Ambassador,

With him in London are two of his three daughters and two sens. One on L at present preparing bis then's for Doctor

DI Philosophy degree at Lon- don University----Renter.

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and Commonwealth Governments about recognition, he said he thought that there were none of principle, though each Government had to decide Clear Water

ou timing.

In reply to another question, he said that Britain's refusal to recognise the Nationalist blockade was unchanged and Nationalist mea- sures against shipping did not become any more legal owing to British withdrawal of recognition.

Syduy, Jan. 6. A complete uke of Svaluey': 0,003 walet side wurkers tonight paralysed ært etivity, bed up 51 foreign and inter-State ships and thien led to spread generally to the whole Australian consiline

Hongkong Tramways Workers wer protesti

dispute shower! 240 new de- ngde the cmployment of men

velopment this morning. of the Waterside

It was not members

learned from the Company that Workers Federation os Örst-aid officers on everreas vesela.

there is no prospects of the re

The Nationalist blockado was Federation talks with

sumption of service this week- ship owners broke down during the

end although a few applications not brought up by the Minister for work from old and now of State, Mr Hector McNeill, day and the last workers were

workers have been received, with Dr Cheng Ting-hst, former ordered to leave all ships and Join 3.500 others

It is learned that the Hong-Chinese Nationalist "Ambassador, whe been on strike'

past kang pumati Ferry Company at their interview Inst night, for the three days.

has no intention of running a the rat.

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That Britain hun extended reunition

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what

Government made, and

can be expected that reactions generally among Britons in the Far East will be of satisfaction, Inasmuch that this action corrects

has

an illogical been situation. Recognition of the Communlat regime must, of necessity, mean severance of official relations with the Nationalist Government now In refuge island of Formosa. From ↓ on the sentimental paint of view the break is painful, but the realities of the moment brook no other course. The important point to remember is that Britain's Intest decision means she is cager and prepared to do whatever she can in the interests of the Chinese people as 11 whole. By direct diplomatic, social, religious and commercial contact, Britain can help to wield a friendly Influence directed towards the welfare of the Chinese nation, despite the presence of n Government whose fundamental cepts of the way of life are in diametric opposition to those of the British people. It will probably be some little time before the real effects of recognition arc discernible. Commercial interests, naturally, kope for new opportunities for expanding their relations with the hinterland, the generally accepted con- viction being that China, no matter what her Administration, must develop · her 'trade, especially in certain capital goods, which only the West

Bupply. Morever, there have been encouraging algns during the past few months; that the Chinese Communists are enger to trade with the outside world, and that when normal commercial relations can- be restored, they will be marked by less irksome restrictions than those which featured post-war trading with the Nationalists. But while British Interests

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Singapore, Jan. 8.

A

MF Mak ulen Commissioner-

Britain did with the politics of not a ree Mao Tee-tung's Governintat any more than it agreed with the ayout the pot of Staliniat Ruska or Franco Spam, Mr have been travether on Mue ne

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val Id, fery service by tieneral in South-East Asia, said

A broadcast here today

Provided

Go- the Chinese verument does not interfer

interfere with th „ffairs of other peoples and- sale China we can only pa rept then ebolce," he declarest

While Mao

e-tung could chung la represent The Clubese people, he added, the Cominu- must leaders In Malaya could make no claim whatever to re- resent the peoples of Malayn

Mr MacDonald added, "Some C'onunumist Governmenta neddle business.

The Step

can hope

for a

square dent from

the

Peking regime and

its provincial this cannot, nt

the

moment, be taken for granted.

Every-

intentions of

administrations,

thing will depend on the

feel they are free

the Communists and whether or not they to place any inter- recognition and It which

pretation they care on

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undertakings

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implies. To Hongkong shipping concerns,

well

Important AN traders,

moment is whether the question of the Nationalists will be permitted to continue to impose their blockade against British ships. It can be assumed that they will merchantmen endeavour to prevent our

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Norway Recognises

Oslo,

Jan.

5.-.-The

Brussels:-Circles close to the Belgian Government said, "Bri- talt's international anderstand- [Ang "Was letter tills time than that of the United States of America"-Router.

SOVEREIGN RICHT Washington,

Bay Road Accident

·Prague,: Jan. 6.—The' Czechoslovak Government has ordered four Western presa correspondents to leave the countrý åt short- notice. Theis how expul- sions were accepted here as a plain warning that pross security arrange. ments affecting the small handful of Western correspondents remaining here may be tightened.

The journalists under orders to levo are: Richard Kastochke, American citizen, chler of the Prague Bureau of the Associated Pread of

of America; Rob Roy Buckingham,

American, second in command in Prague for the United Press of America,

who re

on

Eric Bourne, British.

the Kemsley News

papers and the Exchango Tele- Ruph LeWD

Agency; Modame

Amber Bousoglou, who holds a Greek passport and represents Agence France

Presc

(tha French news agency).

The Foreign Ministry today told Mr Bourne

that .he. could

stay until January 15, though police confirmation of this had {yet to be received. Mr Bourne and Madame Bouroglou had earlier received police notices ...dated Wednesday, giving them

three days grace.

Drivor Killed, Two Boy Scouts Injured

Seven Chinese boy scouts Norwegian Covernment

Jon. 6. The were involved in a serious has decided to give de

only oficiul Stale Department comment on Britain's decision motor accident which caused jure recognition to the

to recognise Communist Chin the death of the driver and Chinese Communist Cov

was made ut newa pinference į injuries to two others On ernment the

Tony seventh

by Mc Michael MrJanuary 2, it was learned Demott, the Department's non-Communist State to

this morning from the Kow- recognise Mao Tse-tung's regime it nounced here tonight

The Norwegian Con- sul-General in Shanghai has been instructed to inform the Communist Foreign Minister that Norway is ready to send a Charge d'Allaires to Peking Reuter.

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ONE MAN LEFT Madame Bousoglou, who has

her mother and daughter here,

appealed for time to clear up. her affairs after a long resl- dence in Prague, and was to night granted a temporary ex- of her permit. tension

The British Ambassador in Prague, Sir P. J. Plerson Dixon, salt that the Foreign Minister, Dr Vladimir Clementis, had told im that objection was taken to Mr Bourne's

Gociation with focal citizens.

The cllect of the latest move Against

foreign currespondents be that the British Press represented by ona

Britain harf exercised "a baste loon Traffic authorities. Sovereign right," he naked

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"It la the United States posi- | day. Non that that

of recognition Karachi: The Canadian government in nu why Minister for External Affairs. stitutes or Impiles approval Mr Lester Pearson, suld on his that government.

This here that be the not :urrival

widely held principle. accord re- *xpect Canada to "Tyrants in Moscow, for ingnition unt!! his return from glance, regard themselves Colombo about February 10.

THE DANGER

Washington: There nothing

"The Governments with whom the driver temporarily lust con We have been in consultation trol of the vehicle. leader of a movement to bring

all seem to have the same ulti-

The car was an Austin. the whole human race under

mate objective of a stable, in- Communist rule. This is the

dependent China, free of foreign official to add to last domination." danger which now threatens night's statement by the Secre- the Chinese.

Willum Senator tary of State, Mr Dean Ache Republican

Knowland, of the champion theson, that any recognition of Mag Chinese

earlier declaration that re- engnition of Communist China Pretoria: As far as is known, would be "as great a betrayal of the South African Government human freedom as was the pact has not yet considered the re-ul Munich." cognition question.

"The

In

Kremlin would dearly love to Tse-tung's Government would Chinese Nationalists, repeated

be premature at present.

South Africa

few has terests and no nationals Chini.

Britain's action would give "aid and comfort" to the Com- inmunists, he cald

Commissars

dominate China, They are al- tempting to do so, exploiting Manchuria's resourceS to 'in- crease not China's but Russia's power.

Mr MacDonald went on, "The Russians would like to extend that threat Lo Southern Asia. They will not succeed

"A DARK DAY" "During the last few years

Senator Kenneth Wherry, Re- great liberating events have oc- Paris-A Foreign Office publican minority leader, curred In this region. Other spokesman said that France that it was "significant" peoples are moving towards could not recognise Mao Tse Britain's action followed by national freedom. Only the

had less than 24 hours President tung until her Assembly Russians

ians view it with bitter dis-

announcement. of ratified the treaty granting in- Truman's approval and apprehension. dependence to the Vietnam State American policy towards For-

"They realise that the creation headed by ex-Emperor B00 of democratic governments in Dal. Southern Asia makes 11 more dimeult for them to conspire to bring these lands under their dictatorial Communist rule.”—

frem using ports controlled by the recognised Communist Government, and a very clear declaration from the Foreign Office in London regarding the new situation created by recognition will be fullest needed. Nothing short of the protection of British shipping 18 demanded. Britain's net of extending recognition to the Peking Government naturally arouses speculation as to how Soon other Western nations and members of the

Reuter. Commonwealth will follow suit. Expediency, rather than political considerations, Is likely to guide a number of countries, and because of, this it, may be some weeks before France, for example, extends recognition. Mr Dean Acheson has reiterated that it is: premature" to suggest that the United States should take the same action Brliain, but this, taken In conjunction, with his insistence' that. Formosa must be regarded as part of China, suggests that American recognition will come if and when the island is successfully Invaded and captured from the

· Nationalists. Thereafter; a Nationalist Government could exist only in exile and could not expect any official relations with other governments.

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have now

CONSULTATIONS

пре the

The Hague-Holland and the new Indonesian Republle holding consultations 'On subject of recognition,

New Delhi-Informed

mosa.

said

that

Unless Formosa were given military aid its loss to the Com- munists was inevitable within few days or wacks, he said. Senator Pat McCarran, De- mocratic Chairman of the Committee, Senate Judiciary

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said, "This is a dork day for quar- democracy."

WORLD REACTION London, Jan. 6-Four British Commonwealth nations, Britain, ters here predicted that the Official circles here said to India, Pakistan and Ceylon, Dritish recognition would be a day that they expected that

Elven

full recogni- lead to other nailons of Western the United States 'wou'd even- tion to Mao Tse-tung's Chinese Europe to tako

follow similar action tually

Britain In TC- Communist Government.

without delay.

cognising China's Communist Others are expected to

follow

| Government-but not, for, somo the conference of Common- Tokyo:-Japanięso tradę quar- tine. wealth Foreign Ministers atters forecast that the Com- Omcials emphasised that the Colombo, which opens on Mon- mundet authorities would ease British and Americans had had restrictions on British shipping, complete understanding of each The Foreign Secretary, Mr and that both Brush and other's position on this subject Ernest Bevin, who signed the Japaneen trado with Com- over since it was discussed Drilish letter according de jure munist Chinn might increase thoroughly by the Secretary of

to Communist as a result. recognition China, is on, his way to Colombo Hagcond-The British and for the confererice,

Chinoco communities hr Reuter correspondents In generally welcomed the British an Army various centres reported world recognition, though reaction to the British decision, spokesman said that no early which caused little surprise, as reduction could be expected in follows:

Hong Kong's 80,000 garrison ·

day.

State. Mr Dean Acheson, and the British Foreign Minister, Mr Ernest Devin, In Washington in September.

The White House remained silent today on Britain's action, but there was. come sharp criticism in Congress-Router.

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tion the United States,"

The Czech Foreign Ministry told the United Press of America that there was no objection to the agency

Ex- as such, but ception

taken to reports written by Mr Buckingham,

spokes- A Foreign Ministry

usked how they know

woo

which reports Mr Buckingham

wrote, replied: "We have tocana of knowing."----Reuter.

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