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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1950.

Child Noted US Diplomat Killed

Allied And

German Soldiers As

Comrades

In Plane Crash

Mr

FOUR

STAFF

MEMBERS

LOSE LIVES

London. Mar. 28. Winston Churchill told thei House of Commons torlay when he opened the first | foreign affairs debate

in

and that

four months: . "I see no reason why the Germans shouki nut aid in the defence of their own country Western Europe, or American, British, French, and German soldiers should not stand in comradeship us part of a combined system of defence.

There can be

no hope for a United Europe without Germany, and there is no hope for Germany, ex« cept within a free and united Europe."

Mr Churchill said: "France! and Britain, both sorely dis- together tressed, can combine and

this join their superlor

power to raise

rank.

Germany, event

to

equat chattered,

Then. these three countries, helping warh Conscious int

other.

uf

their future united greatness, and forgetting the ancient feuda

deeds and tragedies of the past, or nucleus can make the

core

on which all other civilized demorrarira of Europe, found and free, can rally and com- bine."--United Press

(A full report of Mr! Churchill's speech appears | on Page 5).

New Post For Sir

Ralph Stevenson

London, Stivenson,

ALSO

One Survivor Parachutes

To Safety

Ramsayville, Ontario, Mar. 28.-The United States am- bassador to Canada, Mr Laurence A. Steinhardt, and four mem- bers of his staff were killed on Tuesday when their plane crash- ed 50 miles south of Ottawa,

The plane had just taken off from the Ottawa airport enroute to Washington, with six on board.

Broadcasting

LATE MR STEINHARDT

McCarthy's Accusations Called "Moonshine"

from Kabul to New

but

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Britain Will not Abandon Malaya

The London, Mar. 28. -- Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee, today reaffirmed that i Britain's policy towards Malaya was one of "steady democratic progress towards the self-government within Commonwealth."

He said this in the House of Communs in reply to a ques- tion by Mr Leonord Gaminans (Conservative).

Mr Kammans had asked if the Prime Minister knew that the Puli-bandit" campaign In Malaya

was being hampered

by the lack of a clear pledge that the British Government dick

not intend

from Malaya,

the

withdraw

Reservations

Price 20 Cents

Dacoit Raid

Fails

Calcutta, Mar. 28.-- Dacoits, armed with hand-grenades and re- volvers, made an unsuc cessful raid 011 the Central Bank of India's Burrabazar branch in Central Calcutta today.

the

The gang burst into bank's premises and attacked employees with grenades and gun- fire, injuring six of them, two seriously.

The bank'a watch- min and other cm- the ployees captured dacoits and handed them over to the police. -Reuter..

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Atlantic Dafonco

Master Plan Approved

ZONES ASSIGNED

The Hague, Mar. 28.- The chiefs of staff of the (welvo Atlantic

Pact powers approved on Tuca- day a

master plan for their common defence.

An official communique said they had assigned zones of responsibility to meet any possible attack.

The plan, which will be submitted to the defence ministers' meet- ing here on April 1, Was "unanimously adopted."

"The

plan la based on the agreed strategle concept of the North Allantic Pact countries. It emphasiaca the responsibili- ties nesumed by each nation to partielpate with the maximunt forces it

can provide in assuring continued

of security

Ule territories covered by the North Atlantic organisation," the con

manique stated.

The chiefs of sinf met here under the

u! chalımanship

The

not

of

the

"AT-

naval

of protection

its Juw-

ty among the nations, but in- formed sources said the generul

was: Firstly, clivision our disposal," Mr Altlee said.

A State Department spokes-

respon United States will be Reuter,

man, making the announcement,sible for, strategic bombing, and MP'S SUGGESTION

said that it would not be possi will

play the role of the Lendon, Mar.

20. Able to give the exact date of the renal of the Atlantic." "Second-

the 12-member uliop of the ask the Prime Minister if, in meetings until the views of nity, the United States, Britoin, Franco, antl the Netherlands Commodore A. V. Harvey is tu view of the disturbed situation North Atlantle Treaty Organisa-Inke

for responsibility he will consider tion had been

Thirdly. been received,

Britain superiority. in Malaya, arranging for the Secretary ut

was stated authoritatively and France supply anti-aircraft State for the Colonles, Mr James

but the following subjects and radior

for Western be discussed by the Europe, and carry out tactical Grifiths, to vhit that area would an early date.

Foreign Ministers of Britain. bombing,

In support the reflects This question

forces concern in Purlin

quarters Over the

Malaya. Ira

Many MPS belleve the Government is retting out of touch with the population of Malaya and Sat

11

screens

Mr Attlee replied, I do not see that there can be any rodin The United States Embassy in Ottawa announced that

fur doubt.

Have a clear slatement on the Government's there is only one survivor-Master Sergeant Gwyn Long, a mem-

on Apri Karachi, Mar. 28.-Owen policy to the Ilouse

Washington, Mar. 28.- General Omar Bendley of the ber of the crow.

United States not only to ap- our intention to im- The United States today prove the defence plan, but for "It la On board with the veteran United States diplomat, who was am-

plement the policy then aftirm-accepted that allegations by Senator

invitation what, well-informed quarters bassador to Russia during the early days of the war, and to Czechoslovakia attimore asserted tonight 13 last.

democratic progresa from the British Foreign said, was a comprehensive study at the start of the cold war, were Alan Harrington, 21, son of Julian Har-Joseph McCarthy that he, horrible

rington, United States Minister to Canada, Lt-Col. W. F. Trueblood, an Lattimore, was a top Soviet towards self-government within Secretary, Mr Ernest Be of Burgia's war potential,

We shall not be diverted vin, to Big Three For- ARSENAL OF ATLANTIC from that polley and have no eign Ministers' conference

did communique exchange officer attached to the United States Embassy, Capt. Thomas spy were "pure hallucina-the Commonwealth.

Mr Lattimore, consultant to intention of relinquishing our and

North

the allocation Atlantic | mention Archibald, Assistant Air Attache, Lt. Mark Belanger, also an exchange tion." officer, and Long. Capt. Archibald was serving as pilot of the Air Force the the United Nations mission responsibilities in Malnya and Council meeting in London ground, rea, and air responsibi-

Lt. Belanger was in Afghanistan, landed here on two-engine C-17 transport assigned to the Embassy, His co-pilot. Both were Assistant Air Attaches at the Ottawa Embassy.to fruer Sentor Me-abiding prople by all means at in May.

"I don't know why McCarthy Cur when. It crashed in flames in a In Washington, the Air Force the transmitter station of the port was en route to Washington Carthy's necusations, the chargen, announced it had a report that Canadian

fanny community und charges of pro-50vict sympathies Sergeant

1ng had parachuted poration at Hawthorne, Ontario, field three miles south of this made plane, and had been row the plane, just before the tiny from the

crash. He said it was flying welee miles from Rockeliffe are completely moonshine and

pure hallucination," he sait. taken to an Ottawa hospital.

at about airport. I kurss

Lectie Kipp.

a former who cannot say what sort of hallu- the very low; Soon after the crash,

scene of the etations until I know what sort Bear the Prime

Minister, Mr Louis St500 feet. It seemed perfectly all

its engines were liver

of information he is going on." at if there was erash, and he saw smoke com- anel Laurent

External Affairs Tight then, and

SHOTGUN ACCUSATION Mar. 28-Sir Ralph L

nt from the plane's left engine Mister L.B. Pearson called at thing

Mr Lattimore was shown and he h- former British Ani

He sugtested it had been before the crash.

of the com- news agency dispatch stating bassador to China, will succeed the Embassy to express the re- of the sympathy

in alible after heved the plane was on fire.

zone of any "It looks like at Senator McCarthy had

AK- From Jabl Sir Ronald Campbell as British

Kipp said: Canadian Rovermanent. Ambassador la Cairo as they want to air taking off from Quawa's light-

gressor with fighter planes and trying to gain named him the top Soviet spy" Ifis station is the pilot was well-

medium-range aircraft. Fourth- rogdence, cliffe airport.

in the State Department and the summer ngually

well-established air altitude and couldn't."

v. France and the other con- informed contees in London raid Steinhardt's fleinl

and he Royal Canadian Air Force reply to the charge by his son St Laurent's office said they near the

frum Rockcliffe,

finomul participants provide today.

wol make talents in the ano

come that talege crews - said all bodies - David. when it said planes "hever

(J) called me the

The relation of the three the ground forces needed to of Cammons

were badly mangled,

"Oh, he has

Soviet

har ho?"

to Powers with the Soviet Union, immediately resist on attack, Sir Ronald reaches the normal : Home retiring nge of 00 next Junconvents at 3 pm.

The twin-engined C-47 trans the victims clutched a brief cuce top

which oflents said contained drwiel bir Latinore. "That I mach

strengthen the resolve of the including plans for the interna-pending: full mobilisation of the Nurman Moore, operator of!

Atlantic important United States D-

to shotgun accura Reutter,

reply

by somotional control of atomic energy.

partners across jean't

people on the spot

(2) German questions, In the sea, United Press. partment documents,

tion Kipp sold his attention wass He said he preferred not to demonstration of British deter attracted to the plane when it comment further uut he could mination to stay in Malaya and cluding the economic difficulties In and the proposal for elec- Founded as though it was in study the allegations in detait, night the Communist menace to of the Western sectors of Ber- trouble. He rushed outside his but he did suggest that SennA personal visit by a Cabinet tions in Germany, house, and raw it flying very AcCarthy read some of us ar

Minister would show that the (3) The policy of the three the need Powers in Southeast Asia and close to the ground. He said ittleles for background, was using altitude rapidly, and! If,

"I have been writing on the Government relised

aims in the Far East generally. reafirm British

Japanese (4) The

London, Mnr. 28.-Mr John

the Strachey, he saw Serret Long leap and Far East in rentral for the past to

War Minister, he aid. "And Southeast Asia.-Our Own Cor-

trealy.

in the his parachute open. Long, whose

Year

respondent.

suggestion The State Department spokes-rejected sandy injury wod a sprained Senter McCarthy literate to consult the Senate

GUERILLAS SLAIN.

man

raid that he could not say House of Commens today that andir, tanded about 1,000 yards mough

Singapore, Mar. 20.-Fivo from the wreckage. Kipp mid library, which is easily accessi-

Ministers conference would teglen.

of the meeting

Mr Julian Ainery, Conserva- Segamat area of precede the the pilot was apparently trying ble to him, to find my back-Communist meritis were killed whether the Big Three Foreign Britain should have a foreign

today in the for a forced landing in a field ground."

Atlantic Courell, which tve, urged this in view of the on the farm of Arthur Gould,

of the Foreign continued difficulty of recruiting composed

of the 12 North At-men for the regular Army.-

Reuler. Hantic Powers-Reuter.

this

EDITORIAL

thrath

The Businessmen Speak

THE speeches of Mr P. S. Cassidy and The S. Jorgensen

at Monday's

Commerce annual General Chamber of meeting struck what might be described as an unexpected note of optimism. This renetion is stimulated by two factors: the the pro- willing acceptance of all-too position today that Hongkong is about to be east into the dark chasm of a trade and economie depression, and the expec- tation, declared in the Budget, that the Colony, during the next twelve months, is going to lose millions upon millions of revenue, through roughly

causes.

the same

We prefer Mr Cassidy's perspec- tive. "I think," he said, "that most of us here realise that there be little in be gained by taking the long view where trade with China is concerned and that the best course is to seize opportunities To which ns they present themselves." the majority of people who have been in Hongkong for a decade or more will utter a fervent "Amen," And we believe there is much profound commonsense (certainly knowledge founded on experience) in Mr Cassidy's observation that "the history of the trade of Hongkong clearly shows that the abnormal is the normal." That, too, gues for the Colony's annual revenue, which, as it has leaped up year after year

the War IL before (for

hus, with Increasing) consistently persistent dreariness, been described as "abnormal," or given some other descrip- tlon meaning roughly the same thing. For their level-headed and mature obser- vations

recent past and the on- the possibilities of the immediate future trade of Hongkong, the two principal Chamber of Commerce speakers carn the apprecia- tlon of the Colony. The future of this Colony, like the future of many other parts of the world, depends to a consider- able extent on faith. Not blind faith, past but quiet confidence based experience and known quantities, with a

even

on

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sensible evaluation of both factors.

certain out, Mr Cassidy points recognised Trading areas before the war in the Far East no longer offer the same markets, Hongkong does not have to shut There are shop, nor become panicky. other areas, previously unexplored, but nevertheless still there. Whut Mr Cassidy advocates, if we rend him aright, is resiliency in marketing and trading, and here, surely, Hongkong has a reputation seeund to none. And when it comes to "scizing opportunities" the Chinese of China proper and the Chinese and foreign traders of longkong pussess vast and valuable experience which will stand both areas in good stead. The future, in this respect, is not half so black as the Budget and some people would have us to belleve. On the critical side, Mr Cassidy, and Mr contentious points, raised Jørgensen containing plenty of debating values. There will be Price controls was one.

ol the Chamber Home sympathy for

it is high Commerce when they plend time that controls on luxury goods were Bitted. But it is interesting to note that agrees in Chamber of Commerce the principle to the retention of controls on undeniably necessities-all what are except Mr Jorgensen, who wants to see rice pass into the hands of private enter- prise. There may be a case for this claim, but it is not too apparent. One argument which has been used about Government control of rice is that it becomes n monopoly. But surely this is not the most important consideration. What Hongkong wants to be certain about la that it will obtain rice regularly and in sulfielent quantity. Can private enterprise, at this And if, time, make such k guarantee?

at the moment, it is necessary for Govern- ment to obtain rice on mutually agreed purchasing terms then. It seems proper that Government should still control, its retail price.

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France and the United States and ans

their meeting which might take plaer in the course of the North Athantle conference.

Mr Lattimore is scheduled to Johore, Southern Malaya, when orth

SOUTHEAST ASIA

I said the plane came down leave by plane tomorrow night troops contacted a band of 100.

Two soldiers were injured.-- Ministers in the field, and nosed over into len route to the United States-

ditch. One engine burst into United Press. flames immediately.

Reuter.

Five-Man Gang Preparing

Rounded Up Land Reform

Steinhardt, 57, eatery diplomat, had occupled some of the State Department's hottest in his 17 years of Brainments foreign service. He was Unit States ambassador to Mostow when World War II broke out.

Ankara, Mar, 28.--The police He was transferred to Turkey In 1942.

At the start of the announced the arrest today of a cold war, he was serving as

five-mati gang necused of steal to Czechoslovakin. ing Arearms ambassador He

duties in them into Syria. Dssumed his Ottawa on August 12, 1948,

RINGSIDE SEAT

and

20.

San Francisco, Mar. Peking Radio reported tonight smuggling that vast areas of Central South China-stretching from Canton in the South-East to the upper The arrests followed the pete-reaches of the Yangtse, with a Iration by a member

of the population of 40,000,000 in six Turkish cret police into the Provmees-was shitting its main

And

ammunition

was un

of ammunition

and initial preparallous for land reform.

tasks remain."

In

A

In Prague, the tail, ring midst of the n. The police work to economie reconstruction

a Syrian ammuni- ambassador found himself holds

man posed ringside seat for ing down t

tion dealer who was eager

that added the opening rounds of the cold buy Turkish-style infantry rifles

The Radio war between East and West.

of the type resolution of the

Billitory and For almost four years he wrestl-

to grind problems manufactured at the Kirikkale Administrative Committees for the uren described the territory ed with

the new aggression of, and Mamak plants in Ankara. posed by

The arrests were tnade when concerned as

"having entered the Sovies and the forced con- the first batch

the stuge of peace, with various version of Czechoslovakia froin

delivered along with some spheres of work reaching unit- པ་

Mr Democracy to Communism. military-style fld-glasses.

calion, It was rumoured the five men

although certain military Steinhardt was still in Prague in the summer of 1945, when Jan arrested had been engaged

of industrial Main emphasis im Minister of Masaryk,

amuggling firearms into Pater- Czechoslovakia and son of the tine during the fighting there. restoration this year would be 011 fight industry-textiles, oll, Republic's founder, plunged to The police said they were con-

sugar, tobacco, his death from a window of the ducting extensive investigations cur, paper,

Into the exact nature and scope pottery, leather and fur. Foreign Ministry. Shortly aller

In

industry attention heavy that incident, Mr Swinhardt

of the gang's activities-United

would be concentrated on the was recalled to Washington and Press.

of iron

and steel production reassigned to Ottawa,

and non-ferrous metals.

Agriculturally, there would be an Increase in products such as peanuts, tung all, hemp, tobacco, sugar-cone and slik.

Forcim

Air Services

Grants

A native of New York City. Mr. Steinhardt was born on October

and graduated 8, 1892,

In from Columbia University 1913. Adiniited to the New London, Mar. 28--Britain's York Bar in 1915, ho practiced law as a member of the firm of nationalised air services will re- Guggenheimer, Untermeyer, &ceive reduced grants of £6,500,- Marshall During World War 1, ho enlisted as a private, and was (Contd on Page 5, Col. 5)

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