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BRITISH NOTE ON SCHUMAN PLAN CAUSES CONSTERNATION

Paris, June 1-France tonight replied to a new British note, which was delivered carlier to- day, on the conditions under which Britain would take part in the proposed negotiations for a Euro- pean coal and steel pool.

The reply was handed to the British Ambas- sador, Sir Oliver Harvey, by the French Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schuman, who recently put forward the plan for international control of heavy industry.

Strict reticence was observed milments" and that it wanted at the French Foreign Office its special position recognised.

which A Joint cumununique, about the contents of the Dri-

abortly tish

appeared to it is planned to issue some consterna-in the name

of the French, Belgian, Dutch, Italian, Luxem bourg, West German and Bri-

nole-waleh

have caused

tion here.

In a first note on May 27, UCtish Governments (if the last British Government

that Britain should attend

of its

ined in the treaties and sub-

Ausgested mentioned agrees)

would

de- any

alms of the negotia- fine the the international canference on

tions and would include among Schuman

without com- } *** Plan

nuthority and giving mitting herself to partielpation those mums the constitution of In .the plan

before being independent powers to be de- thoroughly informed implications,

lect to ratification by the

clive Parilaments. It was stated semi-officially tonight that the date for the start of the

negollations would bu announced by the French Government very shortly, This was taken by diplomatic obser

2

A French note of May 30 said that a conference should not be held without preliminary agreement on the basic objective -the creation of a high interna- tional Authority for European coal and steel.

Tonight's reply elimaxed o ky of intense top-level activity in Paris. Al 0.00 a.m. GMT this morning, Sir Oliver Harvey are French Foreign

rived at Office

the

The British reply, it is learned from

usually

reliable sources

10~

FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1950.

Regiment Freedom

Of

Receives

Devizes

With bayonets fixed and Colours flying, men of the Wiltshire Regiment march past the dais after the conferment of the Freedom of Devizes. Spectators from all over England witnessed the historie ceremony.

WILDCAT

vers as an indication that the STRIKES

French Government feels it ent now add nothing wreful to the original invitation of May 25

furnished since.

and

IN LONDON

to the explanations it had IN

London,

June 1Five un-

The latest French note, which Inst, is con- may also be the left the British Government's cllintory in tone but firm in omeini strikes, involving a total position unchanged. It insisted tleking to the French viewpoint. of 1,000 men, caused costly de- again that the British Govern-While it insists that all part!- ment was anxious to participate rinating governents must come in the docks, and the rail- way, power, and building in- it does in the negotiations, but that in on the same terms,

dustries in London today, while the could undertake "no prior com-

propose some changes in wording of the joint communi- two-thirds of the city's taxi que to be issued in the name of drivers threatened strike the participating governments Friday.

A walkout of 200 bargenen, before the negotiations open.

These changes, it is hoped angered try the dismissal of 14 recent mucar shipmrats "round"

P.C.s On

Suicide Duty

on

P.

and O.

Decides

Against

Building

New

Liners

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) London, June 1.

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Blunt Language About Soviet Plotting

By President Truman

Washington, June 1.---President Truman to- day asked Congress to provide $1,222,500,000 for a second year of the arms aid programme.

He said that delay in supplying the money might "strike a fatal blow at all our efforts to create the kind of peace which the free world seeks, and would lessen our chances of continuing to live and work in freedom."

Four Planes In One Collision

The Haguo, June 1 Four Daich naval airerafi collided and crushed Into the sea today within full vłow of hundreds of holl- day-makers on the bouch

at Scheveningen. the security

He declared, "With the con- The fund would financo alms shipments to more than a dozen tinuation of Soviet probings for

spals In foreign nations, including At-wenk

the free world' Inntle Pact alls, during the ructure of

situations of this next emergency necal

beginning year

character may way well arise July 1.

and require prompt and positive action by the United States."

Ho urged Congress to change present laws to make to sell American arms appropriot covered

The $1,222,500,000 requested by Mr. Truman is slightly less than the $1,314,010,000 which Congress appropriated inst year to help 13 nations rearm agains; CommunismL

nations not

possible "under

to

feguardeally

in mind

its the present legislation.

bad He sald ho "nations whose increased ability to defend themselves against

The planes were altering their formalion ni the time, Many craft searched for the pliota but found no

trade-Bouler.

BRITAIN'S

WARNING

the United StatesTO E.C.E.

Mr Truman made the request in his firat semi-annual report to Congress on the handling of the first year's programme, aggression is important to the which began last autumn. security of

Backing

At the same time Pre- up his request, Mr Truman said, "The momentum sident sought niready gained must, under no charge such countries less-than- circumstances, be lost, because, prices cost once lost, it is doubtful that Iteriorated or obsolescent equip co-operation improves, Bri- enn ever be recaptured at any ment" asserting that the price should be the "present Zatr value.**

Host,"

The President gave this breakdown as to how the now money would be spent: WEAPONS AND TRAINING]

The P. and 0. Company have decided not to build any new passenger ships This was stated today by the for the present. Chairman of the Company, Sir William Crawford-in Currie, at the annual general meeting.

"The

fend

authority to

de- for "used,

а

Geneva, June 1.-Unless

Mr

tain may atop sending ex- perts to technical, commit- tees of the Economic Corn- INSTALMENT PLAN

mission for Europe, Mr He also asked Congress to let Ernest Davies, the British these nations buy Americas Foreign Under-Secretary of arms on an instalment plan in- State, warned today, North Atlantic Treaty na

stead of paying the full price in t'ona $1,000,000,000, This

Ldvance as required now.

Davies, leader of the would go for weapons and 7

President fold Congress British delegation, told the Com- training programme and would Include $75,000,000

row that "the ability of democracy for materials and machinery need to survive now depends upon mission's fifth session here today the coal, inland transport ed to boost milltary production he ability of democracy to it that

and timber itself.

committees had The Sovie! Union has de-carried out valuable work for Western Europe. General area of China--$73,- dieated itself to the destruction the Commission, but the trade, 000,000. This President said of democracy and everything agriculture and industry and that this money wus nected represents, and is waging

materials committees had to continue and expand upon" trim struggle to make the en-

"achieved nothing" during the programmes for help. ir tree world claves,

"No ut the "non-Communist forces

nation can be neutral past year because of the lack of members among that, are now che

for a serious outbreak anywhere co-operation

altects and no adequate basis of agree- or in danger of being

earth Inevitably

Consequently, the ment everyong, level which could not be ex- engaged in active conflict with a

Mr free nations to defend them-

the Averell Harriman, The

Ambar. pecify the exact number of sclves is a matter of vital and United States roving

the Marshall Plan, which would share mutual interest to all treedom sudur for Countries

said he particularly wanted in

arms the American

alu loving people.

himself "There

alternative associate is no PORT FAILURE

programme.

abandonment | Davies' remarks. except courst building pro- The proposed

Greece and Turkey-$120,000,-

itself, freedom

because asle capital the

. has no than originallygramme had set future require-000 to furnish

Union

This did not mean that Sovirt new vessels; to ments at nine

Our Unitesi States, too, compassion for weakness. to modernise help

sending experts, far only two had been ordered equipment and spare parts and

hope must, therefore, lie in sidering not 1915, there

of kind Moreover, since

dehe said, but ho. stressed the creating the lences. had been deterioration in work

the Philippines and fensive strength among our need for greater production. Persia, In pursuance of the polley at many of the ports served, so oren $27,500,000.

time saved between peris

There were now, he said, fifteen modern cargo here, will meet Britain's obje-colleagues for refusing to handle liners in the fleet, sufficient to meet the require- the clock." slowed the dischargements of the various services until the future trend

London. Five hundred men in their of trade could be seen more clearly.

tlons to "prlor commitments.' Reuter.

GERMAN APPROVAL Bon, June 1-The German Government

of cargoes

in

West is realy construction jobs at the Festival

Present

in this area tacol

turk of increasing the ability of had been lower;pected to show a reasonable re-militant Communist elements."

A Shitung police constable, 132083, Chou Ho-yuen, hot him-

of the pas- The restoration self through the head while on

senger feel street duty in Des Voeux Road

to publish its declaration sub- of Britain site beaute they

of the pre-war Central, near the Central Mar-

of the hear that two non-union men the alms

only eleven cribing to

service, all of ket, about 5.25 am, today. He

Sebum n Plan for pooling coal were working on a tunnel con- ships were in

ien the site with the Water- there having In-

necting to have died

seen over is belleved

revolver and stect output as soon as t Ilis

years of hard work since 1939. stantaneously,

10 railway station. is clear what nations are par

Freight pls up at the Brick Reconditioning had taken longer was found by his side.

nell spokes- Ticipaling, an Recently passed out from the

lavers Arms roarts depot where man said here today. Pollen Training School, the con-

which he

been heavier 250 truck drivers and guards and costs on this account had The declaration,

estimated-in many stable was attached to Central

truck on grounds that the man Police Station, And had beenrad had been asked for by the

cost of reconditioning had been French, would be published made foreman had le uniori- there for about three months,

the other tv than some of his fellow more than the ships original His wife is believed to be in simultaneously with

cost. United Press, participants.-Reuter. *China.

EDITORIAL

TH

Trade

With

THE declared intention of the Peking regime to resume, on a gradually increasing scale, shipping operations from Shanghai to other China ports, starting with the region North, adds grently to local interest in the experimental trips of the Musang and Telann, which have docked in Shanghai from longkong. Everything hangs, of course, on the Cort- munist frame of mind: on whether the grave economie plight inflicted on Shang hai by the course of events has induced the authorities to contemplate genuine As they them- efforts at amelioration. selves admit, there is serious unrest both In the villages, due to heavy taxation, and in Industrial areas among the labouring classes as the result of the spectre of unemployment. Not only in there a raw materials, compelling shortage of many enterprises to work short time or close down completely, but "private capital" has been mercilessly taxed, and In many cases their potential business has been filched from them by State bureaux. Shanghai, because of its historical past, has suffered far more in lis share of “re- form" than any other part of China. It was the epitome of what Communism is ideologically pledged to remove. It was Chinese capitalism; the stronghold of

had produced ils manifold activities scores of millionaire land and property owners; foreign business interests had Invested millions and millions of pounds Settle- in the erstwhile. International ment; it was known variously by auch dubious titles as The Parls Of The East. Over and above those points of ill-wi}} from an Indocrinaire's angle, the city had gurrendered almost completely to Western

Shanghai

но

culture and influence. It was a playboy's poradise as well as the most highly deve loped industrial area in the Far East, outside perhaps Japan. Those days are past. The blockade imposed by the Nu- tionalists for several months, plus the Communist spartan controls, have strained the resources of foreign comI- mercial and industrial interests that un- less there soon appears a radical let-up, a freeing of restraints, British corpora- tions involved have stated frankly that they will have no choice but to liquidate. Pressure, indeed, has been so severe that speculation has been aroused frequently, Htrongly suggesting that stagnation has been part and parcel of Peking policy. Western influences and ideas Bro anathema to the Communists and they appeared determined to curtail them using

For that reason,

the ex- any resort. pertences of the Mausang and Tsina in the Whangpoo River will be awaited with Early Indlentions are extreme interest. that the reports will be favourable and that the prospects of Shanghal becoming once again an important channel of trade, in a selective range of goods, are renson- ably good. It would be futile of course to judge Communist policy by their be- haviour in the one teeming spot on the China Coast, bul encouragement of the restoration of shipping services between suggest Hongkong and Shanghai will that the Peking regime is realistic. It may even be that trading relations be- tween the People's Government and the Soviet have not conferred demonstrable benefits upon China and that the other door is being studiedly kept open.:

cases the

outine it turn on capital been decided not to place fur- ther orders for passenger ships for the present.

President

did

nol

die- their

The

Telves and our friends which

to

with

Mr

the

was con-

Europe's economic problems decided upon at the end of the themes ships would be at port said that this would pay the Soviet Union will not dare

could be solved only by a war of building fewer but faster by

for equipment and traming 10 to test.

of the 23-knot in the ports themselves; wat help the Persian army present

expansion." This can be done, and it boid policy and larger stilps, Himalaya and

had out improvement in port work- Chusan

bu nord for firm stand in defence of in-mun be done."Reuter. been ordered but the costs on ing there would

strong more than both during building had risen

the nine stips en-dependence

and help the formidable of new visaged, a

capita: Soviet pressures s'earlily--and as cost tonnage had now reached the cominitment,

Australia To Send

Crack Air Team

against

and South Philippine Governments

Korcan

to maintain in- face of

in the order

for

ternal Communist threats.

Mr Truman also asked some form of "limited nuthori- ty" in the event of an emer- Kency, to divert a "small por- don" of money earmarked for any specific area.

Canberra, June 1.-The air force squadron Sudden Death

which Australia is sending to Malaya towards the end of June will be drawn from a Royal Australian Air Force wing which provided crews for the Berlin airlift, it was disclosed here tonight.

experienced infan

J

Of Police

Inspector

The death occurred in Kow-

The Air Minister, Mr Righard R.A.A.F. wing from which the Casey, sald that the wing-No squadron was being drawn had "enviable safety record, 86-was highly

It had operat having over 7,000,000 miles in loon Hospital early this morning transport work.

Nell George climatic condillonsof the Australia-varying

Inspector ed aircraft on

and route for more without a fatality,

with Davitt, of the Hongkong Police, Japan courier

at the age of 40. than two years after the war only two major accidents."

was at- The

crews would have to Insp. Davitt, who It had also met aircraft trang-

requirements for the tamiliarise themselves with newched to Police Headquarters, port three Aghting Services in Aus terrain and existing conditions Kowloon,

in the in Malaya. and the islands tralia

were 03- north. The crews peritneed in tropical flying! conditions, he added.

suddenly took ili

ruched to last night and was "That they hare done this so hospital,

Ireland on May D, Born In well on past occasions is ample

squadron will 1910, he was first appointed to proof that the

on Police he Hongkong Te squadron would

ettle down quickly to their new

September 2, 1032. He served prise 100 air crew and ground task," he added. Reuter.

in both the in inany districts On arrival in Malaya 1

uniformed and plain-clothes would operate under the Royal

branches.

staff

Air

com-

Commander-in-

Ferce Chief. For Air Vice-Marshal Francis

Eastern Command. Anxiety In Pretoria

Fogarty.

J.

For Gen. Smuts

the

Prior to his posting to Police In- #feadquarters. Kowloon, spector Davitt was with Air Vice-Marshal John P. Mc-

Pretoria, June 1-A bulletin Marine Follet and for a time

on Tata tonight the was attached to Yaumall Police Cauley, Commanding R.A.A.FIssued

of General Jan Station. For some time before Eastern Area, in Australls, and condition

attached to the *hat he pneu- surering from Wing-Commander John Fuller Smuts,

Wag The Bald, ton. Lush, who will command monia,

General Special Branch.

of the A popular member the Australian

inspent a quiet day but bls con- aquadrons Singapore, are due to leave for dition is still causing anxiety." Force, he was a member of the Singapore tomurrow to confer A specialist, summoned from Pollen Recreation Club.

Capetown, WOB with Genera with the RAF Commander.

Mr Casey wald: that the Smuts tonight.-Router.

Funeral arrangiments will be announced later.

Reuter.

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