FRANCO-GERMAN ECONOMIC UNION TALK PREMATURE
Paris, Mar. 26.-M. Robert Schuman, the French Foreign Minister, said tonight that sugges- tions for a Franco-German economic union were still premature.
An economic union cannot be attained before a certain degree of political understanding has been reached, M. Schuman said in a speech to the National Committee of the Popular Republican Movement.
for France-German While stressing that flere¡ conditions
WH Germany's had been a "rapid evolution"derstanding
the Council of adherence to in French policy towards Europe.
SAAR PROBLEM Germany during the past 18 months, M. Schuman said: "We cannot skip any of the rounds" in Franco-German relations.
Observers here believed that these remarks were a reply to puggestions by the West recent German Chancellor, Dr Konratt Adennur, før n France-German economic unit.
France does not consider the ob- to be a Saar question single to an understanding. The Saar problem will be reviewed
whole Gritana que with the
When prace negotiatums lon are begin. M. Schunnan said.
"We shall then have to tal- of the wishes of the Arronnt
the rights of results whics secured," said M.
It in ton parly perhaps to har population; da away with the barriers be-1 Pruner, and the
adding that in any tween Franer and Germany M. have been Schuman Airl "We cannot Selaman. evade the political problem by case there would be no ulla- talking only ecomanies," he feral deel-lon, titled,
The French Forrith Abstr
of the principal said that one
ADMIRAL SHERMAN
ON TOUR
Bremen, Mar. 26,- Forrest P. Admiral Sherman, Chief of the Operational Staff of the United States Navy, arrived here today for a tour of inspection of American occupation forces in Germany.
Admiral Sherman commanded the Sixth United States Navy Squadron in the Medi- terranean until 'October last year.
Tomorrow he is due to meet Mr John J. Me- United States Cloy, High Commissioner. chiefs in and Service Frankfurt and leidel berg.
On Tuesday he leaves for France. Reuter.
The Colonel Does Not Like Labour
-מין
Referring to the Council of "We cannot Europe, he said:
a transfer at undertake. *l Soveretraty but we can visage it. First we must obtain! for the Europan Assembly that military authority that it needs and prove relations between and the Co- the Assembly
Ministers mittee of
Foreign
Thel
"We must put out the ters in great hatte," the Frenci, "Tot Aloister said, Foreign
does not prevent us from
Forri
that
[ plonolog for
for the future.
we wish a lasting solution of the France-German problem, then the French Union of Na flons and finally, perhaps, the Milante community, would remove from the Atlantie Pet it too exclusive mimary character," M. Schuman said.
"RESISTANCES"
*Whitehi
situation was
Forein. Minis. The French ter said that the present lui! the interntional perhaps due to "rertain resis tances" which the Soviet Union has encountered and also due 16 the difficulties which Russia bad met in China.
endled that he believed ahead the United States were
of the Soviet Union with atomte weapon-Reuter.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 27, 1950.
Wedding Of Kashmir Heir
Tribesmen Await Seretse
Serowe. Mar. 26. The British authorities selzed all arms and ammunition on! the Bamangwato reserve to duy as native drums bent in the jungles the expested re- turn of the banned chief. Seretse Khama.
The British action was.almed among at preventing violence the tribesinen when Seretse re- forms from London, where he was told by the Colonlol Once that he could not rule his tribe. Scelte is expected to arrive at Livingstone South Rhodesin, in a Dritish airlines flying boat
his journey and continue chartered plane fix by However, the dying-boat-was
delayed by engine trouble
Ly
car.
ot
Khartoum,
In the
Anglo-
Egyptian Sudan, and
Sercise
was forced night.
to stay there
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MILLION YUGOSLAVS RECORD APPROVAL OF
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RUTH AT PARTY
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Seretse's spokesman during
to
ENTERPRISE JOEL MCCREA VERONICA LAKE DONALD CRISP DON D.FORE
than stealf.
"RAMROD
his absence, Teto Secoma, left; last night with a truck louded with tribesmen to meet Seretse where he Wils at Gabarones, expected to land in a chartered plane.
Although banned as ruler of the tribe by the British Govern- ment, Seretse has been allowed return to the reservation until the birth of his white wife's baby,
Last
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attended a fure-
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Throughout Inday bra911
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Belgrade, Mar. 26.-Ten million Yugoslavs today had their first waited the chance to record official approval of Marshal Tito's break with Moscow when they voted in their second post war general election. The voting was for 405 deputies to the Federal Council and 215 to the Council of Na-POCKET CARTOON tionalities.
Human Rights Commission To Meet
There were no Opposition tell into which box he dropped candidates, Voters could, if t
blank cust they wished, voles, but whatever the total of dank votes the People's Front candidates greenery would be elected.
Queues formed at
polling
In some villages, where pen- ants were not clear about the procedure, the People's Front! boxes were gelly decorated with
while the
box was left bare.
*blind" i
Marshal Tito himself voted at
station well before they open-a palling station near his villa ed at 7 a.m. Some voters rangin the residential part of Bel- folk dances to grade. As he entered there was performed keep warma in the early morirwave end houts of "Hero
Tito." ing chill.
Lake Success, Mar. 26.-- Com- The United Nations mission on Human Rights to- here is due to meet
Continued Aid morrow to finish drafting an
For Greeks
But the day was sunny, and The Marshal wore the blue the official news agency, Tan-
uniform ot bls rank with had that this
and jug. declared
scarlet and gold hatband the occasion real focinus. With him International Covenant onent to
were the feeling of a national celebra- Foreign Minister, M. Edward Human Rights.
tion."
Kardell, and M. Peter Stam Tilo's bolken, Prime Minister of Ser- Azure bin, Loud-
which
ديا
Gener
Pictures of Marshal
be-incdalled stocky adorned shop windows!
were
de
M. Stambolich drew laugh from the Marshal when he ins look the ballot boxes and ac- cidentally voled against the People's Front.
An
electoral' official, at AL
Put it back at once. Richard-it's nothing to
do with party politica!”
London Express Service.
BROADWAY
SHOWING TO-DAY AT Stambolich's request, retrieved 2.30, 5.30, 7.30 & 9.30 p.m. and gave him another chance tử
the ball from the "blin" box
vote,
embody The Covenant will Athens. Mar. 26.-Gen-the principles of the Commis eral Lawton J. Collins, the 'sion's Brst Declaration of Human
Tights, United States Army chief Assembly approved by an over-speakers boomed exhortations to vote. First reports indicated of Staff, told reporters here whelming majority in 1948.
that the appeals were meeting Union The Soviet that the Greek Army, after
and its
good responsive. its victory over the Com-satellites abstained from voting is as-
Polling stations the Declaration, munist guerillas, would con-on tinue to receive Americansumed here that they will do corated with national flags and flowers. Inside electors found the same on the Covenant. train-
They have argued that the two pairs of boxes-one for the Paris, Mur. 26.-A third faid in material and
documents do not go far enough Federal Council and the other world war would surprise ing.
opposing "Fasciam" and for the Council of Nationalities. him because Marshal Stalin Before leaving for Ankara to-
alleged oppression of colonial
Each pair comprised one box two-day visit to had "very little more to gain day after a
But most Commission General Collins
Western press representatives met member believe Russia also for voter favouring the l'eople and the whole world to Greece.
voler was were given full freedom to ru lose," Colonel Robert Mc-Field Marshal Alexander Papa objects to the Covenant's pro-Front and the uther for ballots
they wished to hibitions of arbitrary arrest, im- ainst it. Each Cormick, publisher
watch the voting. of the mander-in-Chief.
prisonment without tcial, sud given small rubber balls to drop wherever
of totalitarian into the boxes of his choice. Chicago Tribune, said here.
The General expressed satis-other practices
Reuter's correspondent visit-! strccessful co-states. faction at the
several Dolling tonight
station! Covenant's main pro- vaters had to put his closed ed operation between the American and British Miltary Missions visions alm
turn, so that small industrial town about 30 official could not miles away and at several vill- the Greek news agency re-funt rights in every state. They
ages in between. forbid torture, slavery ported.--Reuter,
Ros, the
Com- Greek Army
17:
at protecting
To
secrecy, preserve
the
PRESS FREEDOM
Stalin would want to make war and the Greek Army Command. individual's liberty, privacy and fist containdog a ball into each near Belgrade, at Smedereva, J
"should not think March
and I should think that if
did the whole world would rise
up against him," he said
The Colonel, who is on a trip round the world, replying to a question by. newspapermen
General
about what he thought of the result of the British Election, said: "If the British want to elect a gang of tramps to office it 10 none busineza,"
of my
Mr Winston Churchill's sug- gestion for a new
Colonel
Portuguese cos
At The Hague
"moral Indignity."
the
ballot
bux In
supervising
be
states will Signatory morally bound to observe these
rules.
The Commission is to discuss of Implementing the meand Covenant, including an Austra-
an Interna
The Hague, Mar, 26.Generalian proposal for Jose Philippe Rodriguez, Por-tonal Court of Human Rights to tuguese Army Chief of Staff, hear arrived by train here tonight.
complaints of alleged
violations,
Onc man who omitted to place his st in all the ballot boxng was seen by a corrispon- dis- qualified,
AIR CRASH to have his vote
AT LAE
Melbourne, Mar. 26-A con- He was welcomed by Major- Rusia and some other states verted Lockheed Hudson bom- approach 10 General W. Bray of the Dutch have objected to any enforce-ber, which crashed into a house McCormick Army and by the Portuguese ment machinery, on the ground at Lae, Now Guinea, setting it
· Russla,
to the Netherlands, that it would Interfere in a na-oblaze, commented: "Mr Churchill and Minister I are very old friends, and I am Mr M.E.O. de Ollovela Barros. tion's sure I would not say anything-Reuler,
critical of Mr Cherchl. I have
known him since I was a child
at school
England."
" BEST IN TURKEY
Concerning the
newspapers
of Western Europe, he said: "I have admired the way the Bri-
ish have
carried on
terrible paper restriction.
11
I
would hate to have to try and
do the same thing. that they
He belleved
the best
•
have succeeded in doing."
news-
the
in
read
papers
on this
Atlantic were
Turkey. "I
sido ut produced
could
not
them, of course, but their ap-
pearance is
Outstanding
On the Marshall Plan, Colonel
Baldi: McCormick
"From
my
point of view the Marshalt Plan is a matter of domestic polities and it would take too long to elaborate on it,
"Of course, there is a great deal of corruption in the Mar- shall Plan am speaking of American corruption. We have enormous people who made forlunes out of it”
con-
Some who had passions in !'Africa rot "tremendous
cessions," Colonel McCormicz
· said--Heuter.
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domestic
affairs.Neu-
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a
killed a
raan and woman last night, according to a report received by the evi aviation authorities here today. The pilot, Harold Gibson Lee, of Victoria, was seriously in jured but was believed today to be out of danger. Lee
was
People met casually along the roads were on the whole refue- tant to tell correspondents how try voted. Some sald they thought if they voted against the Government the authorities
would find out pt it would not be healthy for them.
Others took the view that it was not worth risking voting against the People's Front as it would make no differnce to the result.-Neuter,
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which the purchaser is tricked into buying something pre- The dead man was Mr Stan-viously sold to him. 3. Radiolo- ley Flarey, Qantas Empire cator. 3. Iron in oblong bars, as Airways official
It comes from the smelding The bomber swerved into his tarnace. 4. Thoroughbred horse house when It got out of con- racing. 5. Europe. 6. The moon's trol while making acraali- passing between the sun landing-Reuter.
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