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VOL. V NO. 51

THURSDAY, MARCH 2, 1950.

First Signs Of Labour Left Wing

"Will Fight And Win"

Attice

-Mir

Indian, MAT. Clement Atlee, the Prime Sluister, toku 2,000 Labour supporters here tonight, "E am not going to suggest au to when Wir schatt have another Election, but vicc- tions com from Ume time".

10

He described. the Bler- tion result as "a remark- able victory" for Labour.

"We are not the slightest bit downhearted, he said,

"Of course, we have a aliteuli jab, tint when have we Bul an Pasy ohr

the Lamor Government? We have to fight and sur will

Reuter.

Aud Whit.**

“SECRET" CHURCHILL

VISIT TO

PALACE

Rebellion

BEVAN DEMANDS

NATIONALISATION MUST GO ON

London, Mar.

Colonel Clifton

Brown, Speaker of the House of Commons, was hustled protestingly to his Chairman's! seat when Britain's new stalemate Parlia- ment met today.

But his resistance to election as Chair- man of what may be Britain's most difficult Parliament drew no sympathy from over 600 members.

The Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee, and the Conservative leader, Mr. Winston Churchill, joined in the enjoyment of his discomfiture.

13:1

or

on the dour Colonel Clifton Brown'sed peremptorily protest was customary and with als slatt.

Arimitled, he advanced to the symbolic-a link with the centre of the Chamber, bowet days when the Speaker was deeply and summoned the Com- to "their Lordships" " The unhappy intermediary moners between the Commons and Home to hear the King's Com-

mission

12 opening Parliament. 1.The angry, despotic kings.

Mr lender.

Colonel Clifton Brown, former- paid a Winston Churchill,

ly a Conservative, was chosen.

he Thrones of the King and Queen visit to by The LabouT Party to surprise "private" King George at Buckingham Speaker of the 1945 Parliament. I were uncovered to indicate the e-elected as a non-Party aan bymbolic presence of the on- Palee Lonight.

the Labour Parly today hon-reh.

London, Mar. Conservative

oured him afresh by choosing him to continue in office.

There

200 new were about faces in the great assembly of

Kola se I the le red Chamber of the Lords the

"EVENLY DIVIDED"

General Blanë, Commaai der in Chief of the French Army arrived in London for conferences with the Western Union Committee on February 16. Photo shows a view of the scene General at Victoria as

by Blane. accompanied Field Marshal Slim, in-

the "pected

Guard of Honour.

Sperial precuations were taken to keep the Opposition leader's visit a secret but it is believed that the King wished to discurs with hitu the Parliamentary situation pelling from wrek's phulo-linish General for the preliminaries of the new Election which has left the Parliament.

with Labour Government majority of seven in the House of Commo:15.

East Members which gathered today accompanied the Lord Chan- Sextuplets

Derp bows and raising of ceremonia hats by the Peers

when eller's reading of the King's message declaring that the Houses were sworn in he The two chief adversaries of wall declaro Parliament open. last week's Election faced cach

Coronet Thre, the The fet that Mr Churchill's Cherr

"Maits," Mr Churchill in a full traced their steps to their own viit today was officially

with a how Chamber, scribed as "private"-and not an blown frock cont

wide the perched below www taken by ohner- vers to sagst that under poli-collar. tiral signißeance does not fach to 1.

meting After in

A lush fell on the Chamber the tradtional ceremonies

Nevertheless, if I umunt for nu fr Opposition leader to be re- Crived by

The Sergeant-at-Arms,

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Mr Atlee, in a contratulatory speceh, sakti that the House was more evenly divided than any use had hem in the last 100 years.

would not said that he like to speculate on the Parlia dressment to come but he assured hin Party

Sir

B King after wh Charles Howard, chief offerr of Election except when a change the Commons, m court

of government is involved. with kure breecher and silken the Speaker that

It was stated nt Mr Chur-huse, deliberately daimed the wild at all times do their best to support the preme authorl- chill's London home tonight that great doors of the Commons in His vir to the King was "purely the face of a high official of the ty of the Chair, private". Reuter,

House of Lords who then rapp-

EDITORIAL

A

(Contd. on Page 5, Col. G)

Attlee's New Government

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PPEARANCES leave the impression

formed has Attlee that Mr "caretaker" Cabinet, which will concen- trate on doing nothing spectacular, but will try to maintain the position of the Socialists as an operative government until what time the "Big Four"-Alliee. Morrison, Bevin and Cripps-deeide 1 is expedient once again to appeal to the nation on a General Election programme. the feature of most significant

· The revamped Cabinet is the retention of Mr Aneurin Bevan as Minister of Health. This leaves Mr Bevan twelfth in Cabinet rank importance, and the fact that he has not been offered a more important position can reasonably be interpreted as meaning that Mr Attlee does not intend to have fur himself embarrassed by demands extreme Socialistic legislation from a top- level Cabinet Minister. The realities of In the the new government's position House

of Commons-21 bare overall majority-diclate that Mr Attlee and his principul lieutenants must tread guarded- ly the path of legislation and applied policy if the Socialists are not to be forced earlier than to go before the country they desire. Nationalisation, it can be ex- pected, will be soft-pedalled, and so lon will any major development of the polley Moreover, both are of State welfare. platforms on which the Labour Party can, quite safely, rest their oars and take a brenther. In both spheres of legislative nction, the Socialists made rapid advances during their previous four and a half years of office, and even the most rabid

the government supporters of likely to worry too much if further pro- Jects within these spheres are forgotten for the time being. In due course, how- aver, a formidable problem will present itsalt to the government; it is the problem

are not

Born-And Well

Brussels, Mar. 1.A native woman la Belgium's African mandated territory of Ruanda has given birth

restuplets-four 10

buys

is reported two girly-1 here today by the news agency, Belga.

Mother aut children are

well.- Lo 14- reported Keuler.

Grim Picture Of Atom War

Washington, Mar.

The Committee said that the review should be made by the top civilian leadership-not he Military High Command.

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LI TSUNG-JEN BITTERLY ATTACKS CHIANG KAI-SHEK

Ready To Fight Issue

New York, Mar. 1.——General Li Tsung- jen today warned Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek that he considered himself the con- stitutional President of Nationalist China and would use every means at his disposal to oust Chiang from that position.

Dr Wellington Koo, Chinese Nationalist Ambassador to Washington, conferred with General Li on the situation late today.

Li said the Generalissimo

was trying to set himself up CHIANG-

we i diemo and warned"

that he would receive the

same fate as other would-INVITES

dictators have received in

China. "People can never

have full confidence in LI TO AID

heenuse he is a dietator."---

Talpel.

Mar.

He asserted that the Na-

1-Generiks- tionalists were defeated on the simo Chiang Kai-shek returned inainland because the people sadly to the Presidency of Na- and the artes hated Chiang tionalist China today declaring and deserted to the Communists, "the gravest catastrophe in the General Li said, he held the 9,000 years of s history" hnd support of liberal and demoera-befalten the Chinese race. tie elements as was shown by

In short eeremony in the Vice-Pre- his section 10 the

former

Governor Japanese sidency over the opposition of

General administration build- Chiang Kai-shek and the "de-

Chiang on- In Generalissimo mocrats and liberals still give

nounced: their support to ine,"

"1 do not have any doubt He also said there were that we will recover the main- munist Party and that his de- In resuming the Presidency,

ituists" in the Chinese Command."

Tiberal policies | Generalissimo Chiang called mocratic and could win them away from Mason his predecessor, Li Tzu-tun

Jen för nid.

The Generalissimo sent Pre- General

13 polog

dent L telegram in New 011 Washington

Thursday to

York, asking him to "pleas confer with President Trunau and General George Marshall.contact American leaders both Sir Hartley recalled extracts from Fuchs's is indicated that he might call in and outside the government

States govern on my behalf."

The telegrora wan addressed confession-already revealed at the police court on the United

to refuse to recognise the

to Li Tsung Jen to Vice Pre- Chang government. hearing-in which he said that as soon as he knew

sident. The two men differed LAMENTABLE TRUTH

sharply of the nature of his research work he decided to

from Excrple from his press Mate. inform Russia, contacted another member of the

ment said, "When Chiang Kai-strategy In #ghting the Com

munia to reforms on had

ritk resigned from office i was government. Communist Party, and from then tinuous meetings with Communist agents who constrained to succeed to were unknown to him.

London, Mar. 1.-The background of the case of Dr Klaus Fuchs, the top British nuclear physicist who was sent to prison for 14 years today for giving British and American atom secrets to Russia, was outlined by the Attorney-General, Sir Hartley Shawcross following Dr Fuchs's plea of- “Guilly" at the Central Criminal Court.·

Was

helping

con-

our

Fuchs said in his confes. | America sion-"At first I thought all Russian ally, that information I would do would be to in- given to Rula would be pres interest of the judicial to the form the Russian authori-State, Mr Curtis-Bennett add ties that work upon the ato-ed.

He said that the indictment mic bomb was going on.

"They wished to have more detalls and I agreed to supply them."

more

the courts

started in 1943.

tw

τα

over

Tsunk

policy,

within the

Chiang sal Generalisalmo newne reason for his resuming office was the treaty of alllanco between Communisi China and Russia signed recently In Moscow.

the vacated post in accordance with

of the the provisions Chinese constitution adopted by the people.

no

Soviet

The word 'acting' is meant in Chinese language to indicate

curing the interre

The Generallesimo called my office gnum from the last to the next this " treaty whereby China's cicction. It can never be con- territory together with her re-

was sold to strued to mean an acting for source outgoing predecessor who

with their possessiona were "Ia my zubmission", he cottonger has anything to do within, and her people together

to be the Presidency. The return

pincel under Russian arryi tinued, he ought not blamed too much it, during the io the Presidency as announced ude."-Associated Press. fighting in the war, information by Chiang is the must uncon

which ritutional act in the history of Russin ceases to be our ally, he den

democracy. giving information.

To combat the rising tas of concepla ces After all, this is is a man who, Communist only true

British subject,

of democracy cant eventually he Russian or German, is entitled effective. In the midst of our to consideration 15

struggle being. He is the other half of this total departure the equation, one half of which mocratle, Institutions

deeply deplored. is the State.

Waa

given and then,

Un

whether

"What he has

inent

to

human

that

against

the

fol-

U.S. STRIKE

DEEPENS

Washington, contempt

1.- Tho

John

Workera

ncross

the

He concentrated at first on the 1.products of his own work. But the Harwell atomde A Congressional Committee later, at of the fron and Steel Bill, summarily re

demanded today that the plant, he began to be converted trout the information he was jeeted by the House of Lords, but due for

United States review itsgiving and started to sift it. implementation in the coming Autumn.

plans for waging aerial ato-

finished Hartley

Communism When Sir It is a major issue and one on which, if

mic warfare

from de- especially

reading from Fuchs's statement the Socialists went to the country at the

is to be

Mar. he went on, "Eventually, after The against big cities.

interviews with moment, they would be defeated.

trial of number of

It is fantastic beyond belief Labour Party today has to decide whether,

done is not amber of prople, Fuchs freely

Lewis Unlted Mine a private citizen cah an- in view of its heavy losses at the polls,

and voluntarily made the state- ment which forms the whole merely to say 'I am sorry, let ma

I announce himself as the President ended today and Judge Rich-

mond Keech doing so,

may decide to- it can consider itself still possessing a

country. By evidence this oft lightily'. He says,

whether the Union In a report on hearings into basis of the

realise I have mandale for this particular undertaking

Kai-shek has morrow General Chiang the so-called "Admirals' levoll case. It is fair to say that he sorry. I

posed the lamentable truth to must pay stiff lines for failing The government's in Nationalisation.

against unification polletes, the has given the authorities, as far wrong and in so far as I can I primary task today is to recapture the

Committee noted testimany as we are able to judge, all the will repair the wrong. I cannot the world that az a dictator be to call off the paralysing coal

conater the сап

nation as his strike, assistance he take back the Information buf Omar Bradley that he information and

The trial ended Gencial

as the coal confidence it lost to the "floating vote"

private property, which he can I will give information"."" the other inembers of the Lould." Jast week. The budget may present an

Joint Chiefs of Staff

"He has backed up his sinteny down and pick up according crisis deepened and new peace

talks ended in failure, fren WHEN STILL FREE Huldes opportunity, for it is through the budget

from ral Li declared that ever alrence of any

Reports with valuable practical to his whim."

General taxpayers' pockets, especially

their civilian supervisors" have that the

the authorities

be had arrived in

country ince

show unemployment The Attomey-General ended assistance

steadily, industries those of the midille-classes, are touched-

art to asume what this exh

his case in the words, "I have which is a much as you cou United States inst December for mounting

can- ev': national objectives are." It is the people's

alcers, treatment for stomach expect any man to do. He elther more or less.

making further cuts and laying The Committee declared that had ecenston before the United

to observe

than not do more than give every in- General Chiang and his aff more men and local author!- sensitivity to taxation, both direct and in-

If this da so, then assuredly Nations

ties desperately invoking new of this formation he can which I hope wers, "taking advantage of my direel, which can most readily contribute

the Seer tary of Defence should once that

National country would not act upon se-will be of use to this country" shrence, conspired to usurp my emergency conservation orders. in the to the popularity or otherwise of a govern-

take nettou

called sinister conte:sions *-

ex-Mr Curtis-Bennett concluded.

pelillent powers."-Reuter and

At Jasper, Alabama, equip- Connell to Security

objalnu

tracted in one way or tier unother

United Press.

ment

in two con mines ment. Sir Stafford Cripps is going to have

principlester à statement of firm if dis-

up,

damage blown

causing a long period of seeret in- impressive surplus which,

upon which the Joint Chiefs of

Marceration

estimated at about US$185,000, and in Incom- tributed in a certain way, might well

Staff may rely".

municado, and by methods one produce popular acclaim upon which could

contention was knows not of which have he Navy's be built a successful election campaign

that existing strategic planning com: a characteristic contemplates the Blaughter of ceedings 1:1 curtain within the following six ar nine months,

millions of non-combatants the countries. In this respect Mr Attlee miny And him-

devartation of vast urban areas self involved in a struggle with his Chan-

virtually the destruction of cellor of the Exchequer. Sir Stafford

the entire social fabric of the Cripps is not an easy man to dissuade from a policy, no matter how stern and austere its effects, once he has convinced himself of the correctness of that policy. His dogged fight over devaluation pro- vileg

and he a characteristic example, cnn be expected to maintain his theme taxation that important cuts in direct

Nevertheless, it might mean inflation,

that the downfall of the new well be government is brought about by the battle about the budget; it will certainly provide the Socialists with a test of great Reverity.

and

ATONEMENT

in

ה

STOP PRESS

HIT ON HEAD IN FIRE

Was

Other mines closed because of roving bands of urined plekets.

-United Press,

OCEAN PRIDE LIMPS I

Lord Chief Justler Goddard, be- who heard the case, then a ked of pro-Fuchs whether be bad anything rentence Wax toren to ray before

presed, and the scientist, speak- fa almost inaudibly "It should perhaps be said

other airo some that this man's confersion was marked foreign accent; stated,

"There are made while he was still a free

crimes which I have committed It added that the decision is man, able to come and go as other than the one with which

to consult with his not one which "should be hap-chore and

am charged. When I asked my hazardly reached er left solely friends and take the advice ut Counsel to put certain facts be

One of the two enrualties in akong tug Ocean Pride, 500 tons, to military leaders to resolve". [his lawyers."

fore you I did so in order to small squatters encampment fire which ran aground on Tuesday This morning was a man who at the entrance to Syble Bay, atone these crimes.

They are not crimes in the was hit on the head by n bucket limped into the port of Manila eyes of the rest of Fuchs's hands of a neighbour helping to after the had been pulled of a of the inw, they are crimes of water which fell from the under her own power yesterday

-Itcuter.

Manila, Mar. 2.—The Hong-

rect.

Mr Curtis-Bennett began his speech for the defence by sub- GOA WON'T GOmitting that "if ever there was Lisbon, Mar. 1-Five mem-a case where it is difcult to

put out the fire. bers of Parliament today pro-assess the proper sentence, this sentences was Inaudible).

11- for Dr Fuchs

The extent of the damage He and a woman who had on Counsel lested in the National Assembly is that ense."

nounced after the trial that the nvm fractured in the excitement cannot be ascertained until after against the statement by the

the was under were sent to hospital.

tur is drydockod, Je said that the first

carried a Indian Prime Minister, Pandit

three question, of tippenl

The Are Tected about six Ocena Pritic, which Nehru, that Gon should join the offences were committed during consideration.

the time that Russia was fight- Indian Union.

14 years' huts in a bombeit.out Alte in Fu crew of 33, was coming here to imprisonment passed on Fuchs Tak Lane, off Third Street. It low nship in Subic Bay to ing as an ally of Britain).

"It would be meat to see was the maximum which could was put out by the Fire Brigade Hongkong when she met with

the accident.-United Press. how in 1043 and 1040, when be given.-Reuter,

Ono of the membent said, "Goa will always be what it is

Portuguere."-Reuter.

.of The sentenco

seen after it arrived.

The

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