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Parisian Art Shinwell Linked With
TROUBLES BREWING IN In New Mood
BELGIUM:
LABOUR WARNING
Catholic Leaders Planning
To Force
Issue
Brussels, Apr. 2.--It is learned authori- tatively that the Social Christian Party plans to return Leopold III to the throne within the next three weeks.
The Catholic plan calls for the formation be- fore the end of the week of a one-party minority government solely dedicated to the King's return.
Helinble Social Christian Leopold "in the Interest of na- sources said that the new tional unity."
The offtelot purpose of his cabinet would go before Parlia ment a week later for the trudi-trip in to "acquaint the sover
conclusions of tional voje
confidence, elgn with the of followed by an immediate calling my consultations and negotia
joint ten of both cham- tions" to end the two-week-old of bers to repl the 1046 law overnment crists. which burn the King from his Throne,
The repeal would remove the Jas obstacle To the ending of the fur-year-old) regency and to the monarch's retum.
The Catholic plan con-
FLAT REJECTION Deveze was appointed a week ago and conceited Failure due to the Social Christian Party's nat rejection of his so-called solution of "national concord" to the royal controversy, which entailed the King's temporary return with the pledge to ab
Ungent on a vote of condendiente in favour of his 18-year-
In the House of Representative old now and heir, Crown Prince
the Social Christions
where fuck un absolute majority two seats.
Three Liberal
by Baudoin.
de-
When granting Deveze's
TO-
King
reiterated his pont-rc- ferendum decision to "bow tu Parliament's decision."
puties, however, have indicates iest for a royal audience, the al
support any they will cabinet whose programme pro-rend vides for the calling of Join! session of Parliament to rescind the 1945 law.
Premier-designute, The Albert Deveze will fly to Geneva on Monday where he is expected eleventh-hour appeal to
Inake ahlication
#in
Mr
King
Vienna Shaken By Explosions
A gold pea-pod Trust Paris to think of it.
(London earring whose peas are made of pearls. Express Service).
SCILLY ISLES SEA DRAMA .
Deveze is expected back from Geneva late on Monday night to report to his Liberal Party's committer, after executive which, falling a change in the
he will King's attitude,
hand resignation 10 Pance- Regent Charles.
at a Prominent speakers
Penzance, Cornwall, Apr. 2.--- Catholle party rally in Brussels
tanker, branded Deveze's trip to Swit The 7.447-ton Finnish zerland "a dilatory manoeuvre".
Durango. and three British designed to drag the crisis on.
freighters were tonight battling Finet. secretary-
Socialist-con-mountainous sens off the Scilly 19les in a search for an unknown nation-vessel reported to have sent up
stress rockets.
of
of the general of Trolled Belgian Federation Labour, declared wide radio broadcast that stop- Leopold stries would be newed if Leopold tried to re- turn-United Press.
Vierma. Apr. 2.--The people Augarten district of Vienna Jumped from their beds between this nine o'clock eight and morning in panic as the area Was shaken by a series of ter- rifle
Windows were explations. Shattere n rnin of debris | M. rattled the roots.
STAND FAST
St. Marks, A lifeboat from one of the Scilly islands, was British Dut tup after the When King Leopold promiend
Erex Trade, radioed last stramer, Deveze audience
the rockets week, he said he would stand that he had poen tast by his declaration
fired 37 miles northwest of the
When excited people rang up the police they were told that the Russians had started blow- iny up the ruins of one of the
reported that Lage anti-alteraft towers which formed part of the defences of
Ine they had pleked up the SOS Vienna. Warning
Catholics would have a majority and were racing to the spot. given to the population-tenter of seven-Reuter.
Neuter,
Alarch that he would abide by jstand, the decision of a joint session
of the Upper and Lower Houses The Durangre an the three
EDITORIAL
Α
Was
of Parlament.
In
satch
not
session.
British vessels
Bridging The Gulf
TTEMPTS to get square, to get on to reasonable terms with Soviet Russin, make not the alightest headway. How realistic is Marshal Joseph Stalin? It Is more pertinent to ask, perhaps, what is reality to #Government in which deception is the potent force and insu. lation from the outer world is the ruling principle. Int
Amerien's discussing policy towards Russia the other day, the Mir Dean Acheson, Secretary of State, presenting seven points essential to pro- per relations, declared that Soviet policy- is not influenced by signed agreements, but that it can adjust itself to facts. Mr Winston Churchill, fan stirring speech foreign polfey Inst week. Took
ол
But
Home.
on
n different view. He still insists that there is a possible chance that thing can be done to bridge the gulf between East and Weat by another talk with Soviet Rusain "oh the highest level." Mr Churchill's speech, outstand- ing in its appeal to men of liberal thought, appealed to all those seeking for some assurance of pence. Mr Acheson's premise, too well proved, perhaps, by a long round of futile con- ferences and a long series of discarded agreements, further personal talks between high level personages, will produce results if only Moscow in moved by facts to change its position, such facts as were, for instance, demonstrated by the Chiefs of Staff last week in their approval of the Atlantic Pact Master Defence Plan, The Soviet Government in realistic, Stalin says. But how does ho get his facts to base his decisions7 Does he judge how far he
go
on objective information
20
сд
'on
his own ideas of what the real assessment is outside the Kremlin? An interesting sidelight on this highly important ques tion is supplied himself by Mr Churchill in his war story in which he describes a large stocks Cabinet decision to divert
in
of American lend-lefse September, 1941.
Nairobi Shooting
Incident
Strachey In Revived Smearing Campaign
SHARP RETORTS BY DEFENCE
MINISTERS AT THE
HAGUE
The Hague, Apr. 2.-The Defence Ministers of Britain and the United States today vigorously and catogorically denied the American news agency report that the British War Minister, Mr John Strachoy, was to be by-passed on Atlantic Pact defence
secrets.
Tel: 27880
Saucers Startle London
London, Apr, 2-Soen aller
thunder claps and hailstorms startled Londoneru out of their after dinner Sunday nemnolence today. the Meteorological Offee TVILS busy with telephone calls from citizens who claimed Lo Jave seen 22 shaped object” high in the sky.
"peat"
At first no explanation was offered for what may the first attack
qi
"fying ucer" on tho British capital. Questioned
tho point,
Air Ministry offcial sald that the object was pear-
shaped it could not very well have been a LUCET, Bust it might. lie added helpfully, have been #1 flying fruit dish-Reuter.
The British Defence Minister, Mr Emanuel Shinwell, Union Leader Johnson, in a joint interview, told Reuter that Mr Strachey's Warns
backed strongly by the American Defence Secretary, Mr Louis
name had not been mentioned, officially or unofficially, at the North Atlantic Defence Chiefs' conference here.
Mystery Submarine
Los Angeles, Apr. 2-A modern
"de- submarine, finitely not one of ours," was sighted off the Southern California coast at dawn to- day.
The Navy immediately sent a fleet of patrol bombers to search fort and said Naval intelligence
hos started an inquiry.
whether
nt
Mr Shinwell, declared, “I vigorously, deny this story-the whole thing is sheer nonsense.'
Mr Johnson broke in, "That is correct. No such policy has been discussed by my Government, and the question has never been raised here."
The American agency sale in
from the Hague cable night that American and British military leaders had arranged "a new system of exchanging confidential military informa
top secrets tion under which will by-pass Mr Strachey." The cable quoted "extremely well-
DR JESSUP AGAIN
informed sources" for the report. UNDER FIRE
Mr Strachey was recently al-
Chancellor
TAX RELIEF FELT TO BE IMPERATIVE
London, Apr, 2-Mr Arthur Deakin, Secretary of the world's biggest trade union, the 2,000,- and Gen-
000-strong Transport speaking
erad Workers'
when he
on April 18.
Mr Deakin said that
at Salisbury today, warned the Chancellor of the Exchequer, that the Sir Stafford Cripps, British irade union movement "expected
some consideration" produced his budget
the Ch mealler had been told leat tacked by the London Evening
the of the difficulty Washington, Apr, 2.-Dr. week
were having "in main- unions Standard for
alleged Com-hilip C. Jessup, United in the
restraint which is avowed former
States Ambassador-at-
on us." imposed munist views.
Large, has been granted Before leaving Schiphol to "access to such atomic infor- Government's clay, Mr Johnson again strongly mation as is necessary" to policy, so far supported by the denied the report about a new
prevent Mr carry out his new duties as unions. arrangement to Strachey getting secret informa-Principal Adviser on world politics to the Secretary of tion.
not having dis-
He WVBS
referring to the wage freeze
The Coast Guard station Foint Arguell: Arat reported the submarine heading seaward about eight miles off the coast Natrobl, Apr. 2.—An un-
It was unofficially reported identifled Afclean gunman that one part at the Navy's in- anyone
of British leadership
trades last night shot an African quity 125 Nairobi City Councillor a could have landed from the
Mir Denkin said that trade sul marine. few hours before the lat
lenders and told the union ter
The Navy said the "moderr. due to present Was
Chancellor was nighted
at pre-budget dis- the
type" submarine Duke and Duchess of
Asked whether he personally State, Mr Dean Acheson.
cussions that they wanted the Gloucester with an ad- alivost simultaneously by two
nt 6.20 had any Coast Guard stations of welcome to the
In announcing thin, the State Government "to do something dress
he reiterated .m. They said that operating Strachey,
the of anid that
a very definite character by new city.
11
Department statement WAL
that under With running lights
konly
machinery of the Defence Poel, arrangement had been madeway of giving easement," uavelling at nbjut 13
We don't want a penny off Arother unidentified and ap- information was passed on only with the approval of the Atomic
beer or u Energy Commission.
shilling off a bottle of Minister, Mr to the Defence
sald Mr Deakin, wing," Farently foreign sabmarine was sisted off Northern California Shinwell.
Mr Bourke B. Hickenlooper We want easements of taxa- int wek.-United Press.
Senator, Iowa), on
if it is possible on the Me (Republican
The City Councillor wan wounded in the right hand. -Reuter.
Compromise Predicted Over Dispute Planes At Kai Tak
Washington, April, 2.-Hongkong courts will compromise on conflicting United States and Chinese Communist claims to the 71 disputed Na- tionalist transport planes, authoritative sources predicted today.
The
10
Such
a
to Russin "The Service depart ments felt it was like flaying off pieceN of their skin," he says, to expose "our
security own vital
and projects failure for the sake of our new ally- surly, snarly, grasping, and so lately Stalin res Indifferent to our survival" piled that the offer of 400 fighter planes Ile demanded was totally inadequate.
a second front at once, 30,000 tons of aluminium by Oct. 1 and a monthly minimum of aid amounting to 400 aircraft and 500 tanks, and followed up a few days later by proposing that Great Britain land twenty-five or thirty divisions in Archangel or transpurt them across Iran to the southern regions of USSR. "It is almost incredible," Churchill comments, "that the head of the Russian Govern- ment with all the advice of their milltary experts could have committed himself to such absurdities. It seemed hopeless to argue with a man thinking in termAM of utter unreality." Looking back on well the years since, the world may wonder. If the calculations shaping Soviet policy are stili as wide of the mark as estimate of Britain's meagre Stalin's reserves in 1941. If that is true, it is far from realistic-and more dangerous than if it wero. For the gravest danger of a Government that deceives its people is that it may come to deceive itself.
objection
to Mr
s
the
Speaking personally, Johnson added that he did not know Mr Strachey and he had nothing whatever to say about him. in any case, his name. was not even mentioned during Any of the discussions,
Mr Shinwell had earlier also told Reuter that Mr Strachey would, as Secretary of State for War, continue to receive the Pe information as was made available to him when he was in My Strachey's position, (Mr Shwell was War Minister in the list Labour Government).
"It is absurd to talk of a new policy Introduced because of Mr Mr Shinwell com- Strachey," mented, adding that no country had
for pressed
Guch arrangements,
At this point of the Interview Mr Johnson Intervened to say that he wanted to pay a special
Mr Shinwell tribute Britain's Defence Minister,
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any
tax
for groups.neuter,
on income lower income
a member of the Senate-House purchase tax and
Energy Commitee, Atorfe
Dr Jessup had palested that been cleared without any check record" by whatsoever on tila the Commission.
OFFICE BOY
**1
no crillelem or an making
Mr Jessup," approval of Dr Pickerdooper told reporters.
want to emphasise that STEALS A LAKH
office A 22-year-old
boy, Leung Yuk-kwong, was gaoled for four months this morning "It is the principle to which I for stealing $100,000. He was he was entrusted ly his firm, the On Objectthe fact that formation on him which is into the bank, Mr Reynolds, cleared without getting the In-Tat Company, to pay the money said it was available at the Department and passing sentence,
an office which could have been obtained ridiculous to entrust
bay, earning $40 a month with in 45 minutes," he added.
$100,000. "INDEFENSIBLE"
an
дл
cald,
Many Injured In Quake Panic
2-
In an obvious ailusion to the by Air Josepn charge matto The courts are expected in America eventually
McCarthy, (Republican Sentor, to award 31 planes to the Chinese Communists and
Wisconsin) that Dr Jessup had unusual afinity for Com-
Leghorn, Italy, Apr. 40 to American Major General Claire Chennault.
munist causes"-an accusation More than 40 persons were in- sources conceded that incorporated as a civil company
Dr Jessup had flatly denied Mr Jured here on Saturday night in probably Its planes, authorities here say,
Hickenlooper sottleinent
panic "Without the
a aliar following which caused the would please neither side, and will probably be turned over to
"I have the greatest confidence going into the merits, De Jessup earthquake Chennault, - United the British frankly are General
Mr is engaged polley,"
In a controversy coll In him and bla said
collapse of sevenit bombed-out Etill unresolved, I buildings. Minor earth shocles worried because they realise Press. they
havo
All work was stopped at the Johnson declared, adding that which is complaints wil
workshops that was why he deprecated think it is just indefensible for were recorded at several other either from the Chinese Com- CNAC and CATC
Mr the Commission to have given localities However damage was States Kallak Airport this morning. any efforts to undermine the United
not believed such him clearance on the bans 11 munists or
high. | United Press, did.--Reuter. with both of whom Britain is Police refused to allow any of Shinwell's posl;ton "by the airlines employees to enter.alories as these."-Reuter. trying to get along.
to
The disputed aircraft
Ja
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be
Gen Marshall's Grim Warning: Chips Are
Down In The East-West Cold War
mentioning Without
by name
Marshall
went under China Nationalist lend-lease,
They
were Hongkong when Chiang Kai- shek's mainland cie fences collapsed and he retired to Tho Communists Formosa. claimed they were the rightful government of China and 18
"I feel that if this date is the this struggle is as vital to the such were entitled to all pra-
Washington, Apr. 2-
and clear it will spur the peace perty of the old Nationalist
and prosperity of the selited
work of the European General George C. Marshall, Soviet Union
world as
cam- the General salt, "The debates on
any military government,
leaders
and people to. AC- The British government. It is founder of the Marshall the question of continuing the paign in history."
complish the extremely dimeolt said here, has instructed Hong- Plan for European Re-
Clearly referring to proposals theke ahead of lifting themselve it seems to programme
to me, are kong not to allow either side to covery, .today told officials confused by a variety of motives in Congress to cut take over the planes until the who administer it that they "An appraisement of the re- Pion expenditure, the General above the need for our financial courts rule finally on their
tremendous are fighting a foo "who quirements of the Plan is be-emphasised
are engaged in a perilous, ownership,
to realise importance of carrying through fogged by a fallure
with an implacable struggle Thirty-one of the planes were has designs no less deadly that we are now engaged in a on the scale planned,
fee. We must carry this battle owned 80 percent by the Nation- than those we have ever great struggle,"
We must avoid "We must avoid proposals to to the finish. alist government and 20 parcent
to Imperil the "You here may not be in the Pan
emasculate and reduce ECA. the temptation American
Airways. Faced." These which
formerly
He declared that the "chips same sort of physical danger as were
to a more relief affair," he said.whole Investment--and It
In an investment "At the same time: It is very just that, operated by the China National are down" in the East-West cold troops on the battlefeld, but in a contest
all char to mo that we cannot Laving
thise precious you are engaged Aviation Corporation probably war,
faith and ways of General Marshall was speaking with a foo who has designs no continue this sort of extra-articles of wal go to the Chinese Com munists. The other 40 were at a "birthday party" to com- less deadly than those we have ordinary aid indefinitely. There-Ufo we call Decmocracy. It is operated by the Central Alr memorate the half-way mark in ever faced.
fore, the termination date of an investment in preserving the of men in a clean "Make no mistake about it, June 30, 1982, should be ad-freedom Transport Corporation which the the Marshall Plan's four-year
Winning [hered to.
and decent world,”—Reuter. the chips are down" equrts' discovered "*' were never programme.
by
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