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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 25, 1950.

Tories will vote against Budget-Churchill

AND DEFEAT FOR LABOUR WILL MEAN

A GENERAL ELECTION

London, Apr. 24. Mr Winston

DOCK STRIKE Churchill formally announced today that the Opposition in the House of Commons would vote against the Government on two Budget proposals on Wednesday.

COMMUNIST INSPIRED

- ISAACS

Defeat on either vote would, it is assumed, involve the Government's resignation and a new General Election.

Speaking in the resumed dem, "Somehow or other we must London, Apr. 24-The bate on the Budget, Mr Chur-rech firm ground again and chill said that the Government have a Government that is not Labour Government called and rained "these provocative afraid or unable to do things I nut troops on Monday to sues" themselves.

they are in the national in- crack

the

sincere conviction

" direct

Mir Churchill asserted that

Our

"We have no choice but to terest Communist- inspired wildcat strike erip-express our pling the great port of Lonths of them are wrong in he did not believe in conlitions

and will be harmful int principle

were formed only as the don and Britain's vital ex-ji_praetler," he said.

result of Party" bargainings. The increase in the petrol tax He concluded, "It is wille + port prograin.

n new burden on the deep anxiety, into which may More thin 1,000 Royal Navy was

Artillery travelling public. The Royal

tax onperional feelings do not enter technicians men, and Coldstream, Scots and the purchase price of vans and at all." that I try to read the

of attack | mysteries Irish Gu

Gharda were rushed to the lorries was

Iminedale waterfont upon the ecparing and efficiency future. Thames paralysed

loaded of our production und distribu- 85 klups,

"How deep we shall have to area whers with inbound food and out-ition".

descend the dark stairway that He contended that the newes before us no one can tell bound dollar cargoes, were left

were dirccied towards idle by the grike of almost 13,-taxes

the travelling public 000 stevedores.

on and inditry to use the nation- Additional troops were call

Spring-alised railways and to offset the for "Operation

rises In rallway began while now opending Die," which

frights and passenger fares, was falling

#unit incre workers left their Jobs as troops arrived, and, for the second time in the year, Fear lariin rotting tuma- foc, unitama, and other general

cargo.

STORES FOR MALAYA Labour Minister George Immaer, who labeled the strike "elearly Communist-inspired" after

ex- Inst Wednesday, started platsed the Government's de- the troops, in

vision 1,

..

it

forcing

FUTURE MORTGAGED

Earlier, in an analysis of the Budget, Mr Churchill bad com plained that Government spend

of £9,000,000,000 five

Verra future.

Statue to heal pilgrims

Karachi, Apr. 24. Catholle and non-Catholic slek pilgrims were among the crowd who waited at Karachi today for the arrival of the Statue of Our Lady of Fallmach statue of the Virgin from

Fallma the shrine at Portugal's Lourdes,

The slatur, on a world four, was received by the Catholle Bishop of Karachi, Monatenor Van Millenbers, And was borne in a proces- sion to the airport chapel led by the Royal Fakistan Air Force-bandh

I will remain here for one week. After, the Statue will be flown to Australia and New Zealand,

REBIRTH OF

CARTELS

GERMANY

Washington, Apr. 24.--A former chief United States "trust-buster" in Germany aid today that secret al- tempts are being made to bring American interests into a revival of the pre- war world steel combine.

James Martin, who resigned the occupation job because of nt the lack of reinforcements anti-cartel policies, laid before

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WITH RUSSIA

London, Apr. 24. The United States will oppose any move to reopen direct negotiations for a four-power settlement of differences between the Soviet Union and the Western Powers during the tripartite meeting here of the Foreign Ministers, whose preparatory stage opened today with ex- changes between the experts of the three Western Powers.

This is the conclusion drawn by observers here from Mr Dean Acheson's address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, of which the full text was made available today in London.

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AND

Mr Acheron, after reminding tion of policy between the Dig his audience that the machinery Threo and probably niso in the of negotiation with Russia Council meeting of the 12 already exists in the Ualted North Aliantle Treaty powers. Nations, went on to reject the The Idea which emerges from posability of any approach Mr Achesun's remeks la that ar hegotiations unless the idea of Communist world peace

co uffen- aggression, including "propa- sive nguinst the son-Communist

be matched by inining from within,”

effort by the le done equally away with.

fron-Communist

powers to in- He concludes that only as the form world opinion

of their free world becomes

and not stronger ideals and objectives will the possibility of an agreemerely to

to tell them why they ment with the Kremlin become oppose the ideas propagated by

Moscow

and Cominform If this suggestion is adopted appears inevitable that an intensification of the cold war in the propaganda and infor- motion fields will reach A pitch in intensity with both fides attempting simultaneously to convince world opinion that their

prescription for peace cffers the only alternative to an eventual artnett ronflict between the Powers-Reuter,

cas.cr.

The question of a renewed attempt to find a working agree Iment, with Moscow will, it in believed, he examined during the Acheson-Bevin-Schuman talks in London next month under a general hending 01 relations between the Westem P Wers

and tho Communist bloc.

British officials of a useful

com-

Berlin: In preparation for the great May Day c monstrations, when half a million young Communistsmmentators here see little prospect from the Eastern sector plan to "storm" Berlin, United States military authorities are building up their motor- ised equipment in Berlin by bringing in jeeps from the

United States zone of Germany.

had mortgaged Britain's the Congress herto uveal Commons Statement On Sterling Balances

DEFENCE COSTS

Criticising the way in which

And during this "period of £200,000,000 n

year was being extravagances Britain had en- spent on defence Mr Churchill Joved "upwards of £1.780.000,- that this expenditure (9 of financial aid from, the

Cafeed States and Dut

Do-

needed rearching attention.

.

"I am sure there never was minions,

a time when we got less value

The colossal #gures mark

is fighting power for the im-the most amazing dissipation of mense sum which Parliament rational resources on record in 11:4 utex," he said.

civilized community of our rize," he said.

Taxation, direct and indirect,

"Ou foreign dangers, which Hear of Commons. He said the reem to be sharpening, will not Walk-out spread-it doubled in be

siz on Mondy moming-ondon off by wasteful and had reached its limit.

ed

evidence that American "big steel" participated in the Nazi-fostered combine befow the war.

"Bartin testinest before a come business mitter investigating monopolies. He said that al- the activities of the though

:teel firms did not American violate the law they ran enunter to the Market Plans and Pre- Tour ident Truman's Paint Programme. "Besides," the same, they have brought back to ac Hve work "We have reached in a certain liner in power in Get- the men who put of

reme inality. tration of modern forms of war

So this is Utopia. This is no many." power in un:on

ihe light of

Monitor a deerm of the future.i SECRET MEETINGS matler with which the public is now.edge."

This is 1," he exclaimed amid Linking

the United The dockers

laurhter. voncerned."

American Observing that Britain could are protesting the discharge of not rxist permanently in an Mr Churchill contended that States

| three iten. Mr Oliver Stanley Election ainusphere, air Chur- the doubling of the petrol rationepic-with the Nazi tehene (Conservative) demanded it

chill

netded. Articl ughter, and the the concessions made to control production and divide sweeping investigation of the "Here we are in

pre-war markels, the supreme by the Government had been whole situation.

expenditure

reminded the strikers that money but rather by concen- "the only question

entirely

not

Late on Monday afternoon, fa

ench

our

Arms--the Steel, Bethlehem

Martin Mar

severa

"Repudiation Idea Would Do

Damage

Immense

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London, Aur. 21.—Britain has made it clear that with Marshall Aid declining she will not be able to go so fast in the release of Sterling balances, Mr Tiugh Gaitskell, Minister of State for Economic Afairs, told the House of Commons today,

"We hope to reach agreement on this basis as existing arrangements come to be negotiated #ain." the Minister said.

approach at this stage and the British delegation is expected to support Mr Ache- con's argument that a streng- thening of the Western camp is an essential preliminary to a better understanding with Russia.

LIE'S VISIT

When the Secretary-Genern) nt the United Nations, Mr | Trygve Lie, visits London next Thursday, he will certainly be told the British views on ways of solving the Security Cornell deadlock over China's represen- tation, which has resulted in the virtusi withdrawal of Bussin and

from the

Another strong pointer to the line which the United States whi take in the tripartite talks Acheson's address dealing with ly seen in the passutes of Mr

increasingly

her satellites United Nations.

the

nced for

vigorous publicity by the West-

TH. Powers to counteract the Communist world "peace offen-

This will, it is thought, be with considered in connection proposals for a close co-ordina-

Ships Held Up

crisis of our history watching due to Opposition pressure or the rebirth of the cartel was troops went to work on sight and she like cat and mouse the fear of losing votes lleu under way before he left Europe

Wh can say who is the ter

in 1947. He Bald

Mr Guitskell maintained that that we repudiate there debts Is ships, 72 ships were completely, eat, and who lẹ the mouse?"

agencies

the international Briain of

was heup her own bound to do us immense damn- London, Apr. 24.-The Minta- idle, and work was reduced on

steel cartel were holding strategical iterens by allowing ag

ter 13 others,

of Transport, Mr Alfred countries in South-East As "Nevertheless, with Marshall Darnes, told Parliament today andi the Middle East- the Ald drelining, we have made it that discursions were going front hue of the fight against plain that we cannot go on so on which he hoped would re- fast and we hope to reach agreemove the Causes of the more ment on this basis as existing serious delays to shipping at the arrangements come to be nego-port of Beira, Portuguese Eus! |tiated again.-Reuter.

About 13,000 man, half the stevedores in London, were on strike, and

of the rest most were left without work becaliso the troops were underinanned.

Although foodstuffs took top

The question was how long entit the country afford to be agitated by "this ideological conflict?"

SABOTAGE

IN ATOMIC

unloading priorities, 200. Fun-equally balanced is CENTRE

hers were detailed to load mifi- fary stores bound for Malaya aboard Re treighter Ben Vorlich. The stores included ammualtion, barbed wire, and bomber tirés-United Press,

C.A.T. Pull Out Of Hainan

avy situation there.

Their last two planes left

Sanga

One

by

on the reathern Up of the Inlaid for Taipch yesterday.

was conunanded Captain Wendon Bigy of Bigpring, Texas, and the other by Charles Hayes of Maine.

The two planen air-lifted the C.A.T. personnel id equip ment.

duals.

at 11:

in Brussels meetings

we had Faltendy" reached agreuments

nuls and bolts and steel Falls United Press.

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WITH GREECE

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Communisı... (O ALAWw on their THE GULF

Sterling balances. "This gulf which separates

Mr Guitskell said it was well the two sides ML the flouse zo

known that these liabilities in= reased very substanially dur- of elarg nor does it make a

the war because of overneds breach in fundamental brother.

expenditure and military ex- hour. It is one of theme and Washington, Apr. 24. The slavia charge d'affaires, Sheriffpenditure, but it must be point- doctrine." Air Churchill added, fire which destroyed an Ameri-Schovitch, will leave for Belled out that they existed before The Conservative and Liberal con Atomic Energy Commission grade on Wednesday for con- the war as part of the Sterling Parties stood for a way of life building at Berkeley, California, Suttations with his government Ar

Area capital fund, which at every stage multiplied | last night, caused damage estis on resturing full diplomatic re- Certainly, when adjusted for the choices opened to indivi- mated at $150,000 but lations with Greece, informed postwar prices, quite a large and has been, among other

machinery was lost, Commis- Socialist devotees stand for ion spokesman said here to

quatters rald today.

proportion of the present out-topes, the subject of exchanges The management of the "RITZ" takes the Mr Schovitch called on the standing liabilities would be ni Information and exchanges of the multiplication of rules," the day.

Prime Minister, Nichols Plasthe currency

of the memoranda between the British, Civil Air Transport has com- Conservative leider declared,

He continued. "We are split!

The cause of the fire was still tira, last week in the first auch Sterling Area central banles and Canadian

Governments”. pletely pulled out of Hajnan

unknown Wnight bul the visit since Marshal Tito with the trading balance held here. Island due to the adverse milit-bait and half as I have never

drew

front Antsador

MOVING BALANCE Lhown this country split before. Spokesman said he believed

sabotage was responsible,

Greece in HG. Informed quar

"This matter is extremely flow long have we got to go un

Federal Bureau of investigaters said a

communique an- with neither on sia nor the tion agents (G-Men) and Cout-

would, in any complex and, as pointed out in This balance nouncing the exchange of Am- stare saving the power to do mission ullients were investiga

down in the tripartite communique of beraders between the two chts, move

concerns anything to grapple effectively | ting.

been accordance with the detest September 12, 1919, countries won to have

the countries it merits with the national

con-other countries," Mr McDermot The fire, followed by a series issued today but was held surplus of

cerned in their trading with the continued, aced:"

of minor explosions, broke out because of minor difficulties over

"We are still exploring the re of the world. in a section of the Berkeley the wordings-United Fress.

It was important, he said, that problem and no definite posi Laboratory Keurch

been taken or de- used to

people should realise that Ster-lous have iles 22144 nun-technical

finite proposals made and none pau was work- materials. No

in overseas contemplated the near debts which m in the building at de ume.

countries wanted now to collect future. The fire was trought under

"Mureaver, it is evident that in repayment, it could sprend

with control before

other in "I doubt if there would be a consultations

before any part, and that the required

should eventually headed by Mr Liu Ning, Vice- more than President ot the All-China maller part, of the total abi-plans Federation of Labour, left lities, and possibly much less emerge."

The portion of the communi- Peking this morning to attend according to the movement of

que of September 12, 1940, May Day celebrations in Mos-trade", he said.

Where there had been a de-dealing with Sterling balances, cow, Peking Indio reported to-

ite on the part of these coun to which Mr McDermott night.

agreements had

ferred, was, "This whole prob- The delegation is going to the teles, annual Nicosia, Apr. 24.-The ression here of the United Na-Russian capital on the invitation been made governing the rate of em, in its various aspects, in- nud these had been cluding the necessity to provide tions Food and Agricultural of Mr V. Kuznetsov, President release

goods for development, capital decisions have been Organisation meeting ended to of the All-Union Central Coua-made public,

cli of Trade Unions of the USSR, day.

made to release parts of these was discussed in a preliminary Andrew Sir

Wright, the the Radio added.-Reuter.

balances not in order to main-way, on the basis of prior tech- teat examinallon by the ex- Governor of Cyprus, received

employment here, but be cause of the needs of the coun-perts of the three Governments. "It was agreed that this was tries concerned to rehabilitate themselves," Mr Gaitskell said.

The two planes air-lifted the C.A.T. personnel and equipment.

SIDE GLANCES

"If we go on year after year absorbed. In our internal Party und class fight there may never be another chance for the life store and glory of Britain to show it- self again.

to the University of California's

Peking May Daying balances were not by any

Delegates

San Francisco, Apr. 24. A

means

By Galbraith $9,000,000 atom-mashing cycle deleration of trade unionists, desire for a rapid repayment of terested Government would be

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"My wife transplanted some, shrubbery yesterday and t Máliced, Tribal ʼn house three doors down the êtreat!".

tron, one of the world's mos. poweriul-Reuter.

FAO MEETINGS

IN CYPRUS

first

the delegates from Syria, the Lebanon, Saudi-Arabia, Cyre-

fore

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" connot see how we could Reuter. The second session opens on Solo: 6.30, "Cantonese by Radio Wednesday when delegates from Given by Mia Lee Wei Lan and possibly have justified a refusal France, Israel, Yugoslavia and 15. K. Lee (Studio): 0.50, Echoes of to allow these countries to draw Harlem with Duke Ellington down their balances at a time Greces are expected.-Reuter:

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