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CRYPTIC SCHUMAN

LIE MISSION

"An Unexpected Relaxation Of Tension"

London, May 23.-Mr Trygve Lie, Secretary- General of the United Nations, following his "peace mission" to Moscow, today met the Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee, and the Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin.

The United Nations chief Nor is lelieved to have been arrived from Paris is ming delivered to Mr Bevin or Mr after conferring with the French Hee today.-Houten

f'rin Minister, M. Geurges; Pari, May 23--Reports that Bidault, and the Forve Mian-

the inter Nations Secretary- ter, MT, Robert Schum.

General, Mr Trymme Laé, Bad French Foreign hanske

4 written proposal

The British Foreign_ Office Sinister Plated, "The Secretary-Gegurat | Containing a 10-point programme of the Tnited Nation; called on a 20-year peace wern the Secretary of State, and the categorically denied by A Prime Miner This afternoon, joke man

and n

CU STOTY

present Nation"

of the French

a full and frank die-Foreign Office today. upon the probleins af United facing

the

Asked whether

it

said,

Wh spokesman

"Mr Trygve Le did not hand any | memorandum to M. Rolur Mr Lie hd go for refuse to Schuman when he raw him on m. Le any statement for publica Saturday,"

Mr Lie bar! tion at he fold reporter, In Prin this nuring that he parmitted

peace plan to M might have something to say Schuman verbally, the spokes- when he got back to New York said that he had no infor

mation on this point. or Washington.

M: Schuman sald on Satur- tally well-informed day that his talk with Mr Le Air Lie was thought dealt with the possibility of a to be inking an attempt to meeting of the Security Coun- conviner the Western Govern- ! cíl, which hemis of Govern- Minksters nts that Rusia did not con- jmen

ments of Foreign sister the door to an under-would attend.

aceted that the French

In

quarters,

atauting was closid rather than

He

to be making perille proposals Government's attitude towards for staging a meeting to end the this suggestion would have to

present tension,

FALSE LIGHT

Farly morning reports from Lake Surpres that Mr Lie had presented a 10-point plan for peace to the four Governments are thought to have put his negotiations in a falte light.

Lie had put thought that Mr forward his ideas for breaking the East-West deadlock on paper and to have elvon them con Adentially to the four Govern- ments in the course of his out- ward journey to Moscow.

be condered by all members of the Cabinet.

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Big Three Challenging Soviet On Building East German Army

London, May 23.-The United States,] Britain and France have protested to Soviet Russia against the establishment of armed forces in the Eastern zone of Germany under the guise of the East German police force.

All three Powers demanded that Russia "dis- solve a militarised police force" of 50,000-nucleus of "a new German army"-built up in the Russian | zone of Germany and armed with machine-guns, howitzers, anti-tank guns and armoured vehicles.

Bevin To Go Back To

Friction Developing Drinking Like Hospital

Among Germnnaun Social Democrats

Hamburg, May 23.-Several prominent West German Social Democrats again opposed their leader, Dr Kurt Schumacher, by voting against a policy resolution at the Party Conference here to- day.

A Fish

Chicago, May 23-The University

Men

rr-

nf Chicago. where the faculty Includes

of International nown

the fickin of atomle energy, astronomy, and other erudie fields, announced today that two of its zoologists also have found that Asht drink

water.United Press.

The resolution, which confirmed the refusal READY FOR to join the Council of Europe, was adopted against Despite lodny's dental the the vote of 11 members. Four abstained. belief persists

in political the

relaxation of tension."

Western

It-

Democrats

OPERATION

RAINBOW

London,

May

All three Western - tions sent protests to the Kremlin accusing Russia of violating four-Power agree- ments by establishing this "police

Dredger

Strikes Gold

Bombay, May 23.--Dock workers here today found a 25-16, gold bar estimated to be worth about £10,000

and stamped "Bank of England"

when docks

Discovered during dredg- Ing work in the harbour, the bar was the nineterník geld find since 1944, warehouses on the were destroyed by an ex- plosion aboard an American ammunition ship.-Reuter.

force with the POISON

character of an army."

The American role said that by creating the forec-which "receives basic infantry, artil

arroured training-i 23-Mrry and Ernest Bevin, the Foreign

und

destroyed world Secretary, will return

confidence in the sincerity of its promises,” hospital on May 30 more treatment.

Refering the note the State operated 01

for haemor. Department or available the

10 for He was

rhoids last month.

information The Foreign Office

|"alert units" tonight and at least nnnounced: "Mr Bevin, who was schools."

chliged to eut short the frear-

ment he w's receiving and also

ALARM IN

ENGLAND

Tipton, Staffordshire, May 23. Enough poison to kill 10,000 people has been stolen

probably by children - tram privates from a factory here, it was 11 Meer traing disclosed today.

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extra 39

The polson is in the form of The British note stated that about 100 white balls the Bizo in dispense with any period of a number of former high-rank- of pigeons est. It is, sodium convalescence in order that he in German officers were em-cyanide. mit attend the series of con- versations with

Mr Acheson and M. Schuman and the At

antle Pact Council, tiren advised to undergo further ed.

surgical treatment and rest.

"He will be going into

now

ployed in the force. Britain A chemist sald that if n had not been informed of this child merely licked one of these "militarised force" by the So- .c would probably die im- viet Government, the note add-mediately."

|portance."

B

It was belleved that the opinion as children climber ʼn wall and got

hrough a ventilator.

As loud-speaker cars patroll- ed strecis warning of the dan "In the meanwhile, he is dis-The dissolution

The French protest declared, ger, police visited schools in the charging his normal duties at of militarised police in Eastern children.

of the corps neighbourhood and questioned the Foreign Office and he will Germany would be considered Winnipeg, May 28. A take part in tomorrow after by international group of "shock troop" fire-won's debate in the House of concrete gesture of especial im-

Commons. men and city workers stood all abstaining the puriners in the plan were ready today to be the spear- nursing home on May 30 and head of a giant clean-up job will subsequently take it short

CHAIN OF COMMAND when the Red River falls holday"

The State Department's back from Greater Winn-will not attend the meetings is a direct chain of command

It is assumed that Mr Devin

Local hospitala memorandum also said, "Thre of the Committee of Ministers

Iron General Zaisser to Reuter. of the Counelt of Europe, or

General-Major Petrokovsky of the Council meeting of the the Soviet Control Commission Organisation

European in Germany. Economic Co-operation, which

"Russian supervision are respectively scheduled to units is carried out by assign Inke place in Paris on June 2 and 3.-Reuter.

circles here that

Ainon; these voling against European coal and steel fiovernments were considering were Herr Paul Loebe, veteran sources no a "political proposal" some kini of "pence plan" Berlin Socialist und President of but added ปรit reservations brought back from Morcow by the pre-Hitler Reichstag, Herr must be made about the won- Diplomatic quarters here Mr Lir

Max Brauer, Mayor of Hamburg, omic aspects. This belief as been bolstered Herr Willy Brandt, youthful and The final standpoint of by M. Schuman's remark

energetic Berlin Social Democrat German Social that "there

inexpected and several Berlin Socialists. would depend on whether

One of the four A similar significance is also

Schroeder, equnis Louise Frau Was Given here to yesterday's semi-

EQUALITY offleial report that "Mr Trygve former Acting Mayor of West

Such equality, the resolution Lie worked during the morning Berlin and one of Berlin's 12 with M. Alexandre Parodi, per- non-voting delegoles the explained, was "irreconciliable"

with the Ruhr Statule ensuring Loebe, Brauer aud Brandt, Allied tuanent head of the French West German Parliament.

control of Rufr 111- Socialist Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and

Eugineers mid the vast cam- "at yesterday's | would also hinge en whether paign would get under way in International Dr Schumacher

Conference. He had suggested Germany was being granted the many areas when the official the right fredy to decide whether flood level had dropped to 20 opposing Germany joining

this industry should be social feet above the Council of Europe,

minimum food welcomes ised. Today's resolution

level. This morning the official the Schuman Plan for pooling

The resolution in other points level stood at 20.5 feet. But with the river dropping with agoni-

His return trip, it was thought, was strictly for the purpose giving his personal impressions

of the atmosphere In Moscow and of the posalbilities of re. newed contact.

|

to

M. Vincent

Ministry internet of who is an cultor, all criticised dustry. The

The Conferences Department" Information No

about what Foreign Oce Au a French spokesman said today no e-the three officials were working was available at the Frenchi talled peace plan was delivered on in Paris in the last few days. Foreign Office---Reuter.

FL

EDITORIAL

more

of

Rice Bowl Diplomacy

in the

INCE, the collapse of confidence in the the exile Nationalist ability Government to mount an invasion of the any hope of Chinese mainland with success, rice bowl diplomacy has become of the conspicuous fenture Western approach to the threat of Com- munist adventures in South-East Asia. The Commonwealth conference in Sydney concerned itself almost exclusively with social welfare projects in the form of Assistance to raise living technical standards and big development schemes, Millary efforts to slop a Communist march, were it attempted, hnd no place on the agenda, the basis of all deliberations being the belief that the most effective barrier would be economic stability. No Hounder argument holds water presuming the countries threatened, and particularly Indo-China

bitterly engaged now internecine

survive цап immediate pressures. The United States has engaged herself to lend vital material and financial aid to France in the struggle with Ho Chi-minh, but Washington's long-term policy, too, falla closely into line with that of the Commonwealth. This is an important shift. It is based on the realisation that poverty throughout Asia, the depressing economic levels affecting millions of people from Peking to Karachi, is fundamentally the greatest danger of seduction to Communiat Influence. If the primary wants of Asion peasants are catered for, and their means of livelihood improved, the prospects of defeating Soviet ambitiors must be corres- pondingly better. Should nothing be done, the impoverished villager will have no motive for resisting the advances of Communist Infiltration groups. It is well

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the

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recognised, for instance, that the Peking regime's rapid sweep over China Proper was facilitated by the ineptitude of the Nationalist Government, and corruption. Years of inflation, the snowball deprecin- tion

after The uf Chinese Currency Japanese surrender, together with dis- regard of social discord which

cause, parallel with the underlying meant more often than not that the better disciplined Communist troops were wel- Nationalist comed

open troops, ill-fed and for months unpaid, were similarly infected, mass surrenders occurred daily and no pretence of offering battle was attempted. By the same token, in which Mao Tse-tung tackles the economic criels in several areas of China may determine whether the task set the Western world in opposing the spread of Communiam through Asia will be simplified or made heavier. Unleas reasonable stability is established and the resentments provoked by Communist faxgatherers, particularly in the form of rice Ievies, aro alleviated, any plans directed towards envelopment of Indo- China and Burma must be retarded, perhaps prevented. Mao has, of course, said that China has no aggressive inten- tions against anybody, least of all against India. But that will be taken with a pinch of salt for several reasons. Moscow will, in the first place, have a voice in the matter. Apart from that, placation of prospective Ratellites before the act is a typical Moscow technique. However, the essential prior requirement is stability in China. It would be a mistake to assume that Mao Tse-tung does not realise this and every effort will be made to meet the challenge.

stand

approved of the Party's social programme and policies, sold that "social

peg.

for

Justice" was ring! siowners, the 26-foot mark Jap Peace Treaty

the "basis of eventual German is still many days away.

ity" and "of victory

over

"There is no change. rightist extremism and national

Just Communism.”

slow tapering off," sald the city Earlier today, several Sa-engineer, D." W. Hurst,

Discussed

of the

The police were holding an antidote to the poison should an infected child be rushed to ihem.

and doctors were alerted to stand by for cases."- emergency possible

CZECHS KEEP GOING

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by the mod now

ing a Russian feld officer to Prague, May 23-Czechoslo- cach bereitschaft and officers vnkin today demanded that the school. These Russian officers United States official representa-

reduce to i diplo 'Sefietniks tre called

be reduced Germans

standard and wear German police uniforms when la four or five.

The new Czech demand was - on duty." +

the made In a nato from There is, "a generally low Czechoslovak Ministry of For- London, May 23-The Foreign state of morale" The

in the Rus- eign Affairs to the United clalist speakers approved the opening phase of Operation

ation Secretary, Mr Eriest Bevin, to run-backed force because of States Embassy in Prague this speches of Dr Schumacher and Rainbow, the official name wealth Working Party's findings

day discussed the

Common- pour housing and training laci-

afternoon. ities, of Herr Erich

Devore restrictions Ollenhauer, his the

proposed

clean-up Great Deputy, in which they had said would see the Fire Department on a Japanese peace treaty with personal freedom and lack of that Germany must not enter move into flood districts to clean the Commonwealth High Com- enthusiasm on the part of en- the European Council-Reuter.

"many listed out flooded basements, disinfect missioners here.

personnel He also gave the High Com- homes and check electric wiring.

whom were

the Teams will be assigned to each

missioners a full account of the

Ilsting." major flood area, which will be cent "Big Three" Foreign

stated. Reuter. major Ministers and North Atlantic Council meetings-Reuter.

Kuala Lumpur

Bomb Attack

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PL

the the

Singapore. May 23.-Com- munist guerillas shot dead Sich caretaker and threw hand-grenade into the China Press newspaper office in centre of Kuala Lumpur, Federal Capital, tonight.

The building was

slightly damaged but no newspaper employees were injured by the grenade,

The China Press is the only

Chinese language daily in Kuala Lumpur and is owned by Mr H. S. Lee, Federal Legislative Counellier and one of the biggest tin mine owners in

the

blocked off into three zones.-United Press.

Sterling Pumped Out

To Restore Asia

London, May 23.-Lord Pakenham, Minister

of Civil Aviation, told the House of Lords tonight that with the threat of Communism in Asia the payment of Sterling balances had played a vital part in restoring life in that part of the world,

He repudiated the idea that these credits had Selanger.

been paid without proper care or "thrown to any- The police said that guerklas halted outside the body who happened to want them." building in a car, shooting tho Sikh when he tried to stop them

Discussions on the balances | State for India, sald that if throwing the grenade.

were still going on in Washing-Britain was to keep South-East Arin going as a paying concern The attackers esenped with theton, he added.

Lord Cherwell (Conservative) and enable it to resist Cómmun- caretaker's shot-gun, avolding a immediately cordon

thrown had referred to the subject in om 11 was essential that she round the capital-Reuter.

opening a debate on Britain's should not be "too niggartily In economic position,

putting some resources at their disposal." He said that between June, we are the bankers of the 1047, and January, 1850, over Canberra, May 23 The Aus- £400,000,000 had been "pumped Sterling world," he said. tralian Government's Communist out" in Sterling releases and "It we adopt the policy of Party Dissolution Bill passed further £470,000,000 had been buttoning up our coats and say

the ing that under through all stages in the House allowed to move within

no conceivable circumstances are we going to Area.

Bill Passed

0

of Representatives tonight, and over £900,000,000 had in this pay back a single penny of the

will now go to the Senate,

There the Labour Opposition way been "pumped out into the money they entrusted to us it has a majority over the Govern world in 30 months without any would be the most disastrous ment and is expected to use its solid return", he said.

thing we could 'do. I am glad strength to press for

amond-

Lord Pethick Lawrence (La- the Government has not adopted Ibour), the

last Secretary of such a pollcy.”—Reuter.

menta--Reuter.

on

of

coerced into en- memorandum

was understood

that the note based the demand for the further reduction in American diplomatic and consular staff on

the recent cut in the Czech staff in the United States

on the principle of parity, Reufer.

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