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hongkong Telegraph

FRENCH RECOGNITION OF

PEKING REGIME

LIKELY IN NEAR FUTURE

Confound The

Prophets!

London, June 12.-The Food Minister, Mr Maurice Webb, cay forecast leat the Labour Government continue In offer would

"well into the next year." Me Webbs, until recently

Parlia of the

Chairman

mculary Labour Party, told a meeting at Catford,

This London:

Govern

ment in golng to much longer than a lot of people fear. The Govern- meni will choose the 3 ment for the Election, not the newspapers," he said.

"We shall decide when we want another mandate,

the not

Opposition." Regler.

U.S. Rushes

Arms Aid To Indo-China

FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

London, June 12. Reports that France in- tends shortly to recognise the Communist Govern- ment of China in Peking have been circulating recently among diplomats.

The issue gained importance since France would certainly vote in favour of the Communist delegates for China in the Security Council once she had granted recognition.

ti!

Mao Tse-tung his talks

with

The speech of M. Chauvel, Certainly, until

French delegate to the returned from Cited Nations, given before Stail, Soviet Union wanted to Having Paris to take up his be new Chl's only friend.

New

Hence, apparently. pappointment

to prevent re- York, is being interpreted as a manoeuvre

France

will 120

soon capition by France.

BUSINESS OUTLOOK Frecopalce the Peling Govern-

in

the

There have been other According to private infor- In recent interview, M.mation here, dealings between Massignt, the French Ambass the Chinese In Shanghal and u dor in London, was pressed to tearing French bank in the Far

assert that Peking's recognition

East have recently been sud-

f the Vielminti movement denly reopened. Indo-Chin was dieeted agalast

The

501all French

business

France and entirely prevented

the community trading with China

French recognition

ומי!

of optimism as WHE Chinese Communists. Monsieur is now adopting much the same Massign would not admit this aftitue

British business They und said that French reconistiken by the

was another community n year ago, of Peking

want to try their hand in Com- see whether camist China to question to be settled on an- Other plant.

they camel obtain better re- lations than either of the big- fer western powers.

It is well known that France had prepared the way to recog-

is hard to see how France nise the Peking Government almost at the same time as Bri-crn legically losic for the in-

This

lain.

with

recognition

British the

was clusion

of the Communist Washington, June 12-Oficial alightly delayed in order to coin-Chinese delegate in the Security

and Council without formally recog rources said today that Ameri- cide

the is the Peking Government. fact, But France would, in

to operate in that way-at the the sune tane reanimating

Avoiding United Nations an

Phezuragement in

ctn ammunition and other m-American recognitions of tary supplies, sufficient to equip regime under French sponsor- eight Vietnam battalions, whip in Vietnam.

the United leave

"in Indo-China

States for about two

weeks".

ALIENATED

A

her

ving But by the time the Anglo-Communist encanies in the war I is this last It...Go-Cisini Saxon Countries had decided on

deration more than uny this recognition, the Communists

which delays French which of Peking

This will be the second instal- ment of arms aid to Inlo-Chnia.

of China had deliberately alicnother first instal- This week the

ated the French Government by seactition

the Comraunistav not occur brandintely, ment,, consisting of C-47 trans-

recognising port planes. Is cu route to that movement of Ito Chi-mini and country. Ammunition and mill-requisitioned the property of the in Peking it. tary supplies to be sent nex! French Embassy will comprise transport, artillery self. and

ambition. necessary cotamunications equipinent, "and

The reasons

behind this de liberate allenation of French

everything else necessary for opinion are as mysterious as all rigit Vietnam battalions, except Communkat diplomacy. The best upposition is that the Chinese

TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 1950.

"Good

Old

Winnie?”

Mr Churchill at Windsor earlier this month when the first race. Picture shows his Canyon Kid won Winston chatting with his jockey in the paddock before

(London Express Service),

the race.

Central Figure In Amerasia Case

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British Labour Party Rejects Idea

Of European Union

Never Entered Their Heads

Washington, June 12- The State Department sald today Komewhat angrily that it was not using wild parties, to in- women al fluence Congressmen,

Its indignation WAS aroused by a press report the on a party given by State Department, which at-

said the parly was BASC tended by women seeking to cajole Congressional votes was carried on fur-

tively and cost the tax- payers a lot of money,

The Department said it parties, but giving Was

serious affairs they were

foreign polley limited to discussions-United Press.

Pacific Pact Imperative

Oltawa, June 12--The Aus- tralian Air Minister, Mr P. W. White, told the press toxlay that n Pacifte difence pact was im- Asian nations perative because

alone" against cannot stand

of Communism the sweep South-East Asia.

"All the free nations of the it the world must co-operate

in the

murch

of Communism

London, June 12.-The Labour leaders for the first time today openly rejected current schemes for the complete political and economic union of Europe.

1

It turned down any idea of taking part in a European Parliament with legislative powers, and in effect repudiated British participation in any European experiment not founded broadly on Socialist principles.

The polley statement-con- tained in a 0,500-word booklet entitled "European unity" is

expected to create controversy, ANOTHER both in Parliament here and

in the Council of Europe when

its Consullative Assembly meets

in August at Strasbourg.

Close co-operation with Asia und America for the benefit of

ANGLE ON

European peace and prosperity, 70 PLANES

was urged.

The document dismissed the Iden of a neutral European "third force" to stand between the United States and Russia.

Published only a few hours

make

make

From Our Own Correspondant

London, June 12-Mr Walter

before the Prime Minister, Mr Fletcher, M. P., will suggest in n question he is putting to the Clement Altlee,

was able to

Foreign Secretary on Wednes statement of Govern-

Sonday that the 70 planes at Kat ment policy

on the Schuman Tak airport should be held as Plan for

European merging

security for debts owed by the heavy industries, the Labour

Chinese Communist Govern- Party's manifesto greeted the

mont. challengo plan as " critical which the Soclullets will be the Grst to welcome."

"The Labour

Mr Fletcher implies in his question that einca the planes adjudged the pro- have been PUBLIC OWNERSHIP

perty of Peking Government s But It asserted that "any In-rightful Buccessor to the Kuo- Government, the dustries concerned in European mintang planning should be subject to debts of the Kuomintang Gov

In their ernment should also be borne Government direction own country," and later stated, by the Communist Government, In "Joint planning means nothing So that money owing as com

the Britain for In cuch pensation to unless the industries

Canton in 1848 should country are required to At their riots in

into o Investment programmes

now be paid by the Peking Government. Tho planes European plan.

Purty is con- should not leave Kal Tak un- East is to be halted."

for vinced that nothing less thantil the debts are paid. Any arrangements

public Pacille pact should include pro-

le ownership visions for the interchange of this fully!"

humong At a press conference on the personnel Washington, June 12-Philip Jaffe, centralmitory

the Australian Ale Hugh Dalton-who will lead exist between figure in the notorious 1945 Amerasia stolen docu-signatory nations such as now pamphlet, ments case, today refused to answer Senate ques-and British Air Forces, he con- the British delegation in Stras- tinued, Such a plan, if carrried bourg-declared that the pamph- reference to public tions shout the affair and was promptly threatened out also with Canada and the let's

United States, "would tend to ownership" should be taken as with possible prosecution for contempt.

strengthen Empire relations."pplying only to Britain. The Russian-born New York greeting-cardie added that he would discuss The pamphlet said that un- Serreshing clouds manufacturer, who plealed that his answers might incriminate him, also refused to say whether headers. had ever been a Communist.

She Told His Refuses To Talk

Fortune

Russian in- i Paris. Jume 12-Julette Officials here concede they are are acting under

too optimistic about Bansistency in accordance with the Plata, a fortune-teller, sold the Eaglern julge to lay that the read in Dal's chances of rallying suffi- resolution of the Far

the cards a few weeks ago that cient support, even with Ameri- cominform.

would receive u During fest winter, the Rusher husband

That Injury. can, French and British backing!

that serious met eager to develop a prorperous, stable sans were

she ex- vity. feel the China's new government should | probably they regime. But United States must gamble on not find an toy te into in-plained, she struck him with a

the wooden club. national diploney and

ondered held for him as the only available oiler- native in Communist eratrol of United Indo-China-United Press.

EDITORIAL

ADIO

Nations through

head was

She was IC-

1 coraition by Western powers. I examina ion-United Preza.

Penetrate The Veil

Rrected with

Езди Hongkong

Just heen the most singular, though presumably quite unintentional compliment that we can recall. Not that There was anything particularly subile about it. Rather the other way round: the declared resolve of the Communist colerie in Peking to sel up equipment in Canton and other parts of China for the purpose of jamming broadcasting sta- tons, tadia Hongkong being specifically mentioned as among those selected for Interference. What the Colony has done to deserve this special treatment re- mained undefined, and for tliose versed In local radio affairs it is far from ensy to appreciate. Were things

му they nhould be, certainly, it could readily be understood. In fact, it might then be regarded as a welcome contrast to the bitter growls which occasionally emanate from the odd listener-and as a further stimulus to entering heartily into com- petition. Unfortunately, no shade of self- satisfaction can be regarded, even re- motely, ns justified, Gelting back to an old subject, the deplorable inability of the Colony's transmitter at Hunghom to penetrate the veil, not because of jam- ming, but because of its trifling output capacity, places the Communlst threat Into the category of the ludicrous. To stop Radio Hongkong from influencing minds behind the Bamboo Curtain, the Communists do not need a highly expen- Kive Installation in Canton. They can sit · quietly back and hope that these respon efforts to cultivate Mible for deterring effectively the Voleë of Hongkong by assembling a powerful long-range trans mitter, remain in the position to dictate. Existing equipment has a propaganda value outside a fifty-mile limit which varies from negligible to nil. Whether. that state of affairs will be perpetuated

is, perhaps, a different story. Cable and Wireless, today responsible for main tenance and technical improvement of all the Colony's tele-communications systems, presumably have some voice in the councils which guide policy, and en- joy a reputation for keeping pace with the times. More important, there is grow ing awareness of urgency, a keener per- ception of the opportunities Hongkong has missed, of what Hongkong's place In the scheme of things should be if she were doing her job in this particular niche of the globe. No centre can com pure with this Colony In facilities tor knowing what is going on over the border, and where rebuttal of Communist pro- paganda is deemed essential, it is fair to Assume that none is better served by ex. perts in dialectual colloquialisms, Singa- pore is too far away to serve efficiently the democratie cause by putting over the truth at crucial moments. In short, the stepping up of transmission power by Radio Hongkong's station to the region of fifty kilowalls is long overdue, should be treated as a project of the highest priority Now that Peking is talking openly of a scheme, 'nt great cost to it- self, or to Russia which has developed first-class Jamming instruments, seeking to prevent reception of the high-powered stations of the United States, as well as Hongkong, the more reason to make it, shall we say, worth their while. Behind this thought is not weariness in the knowledge that severni Communist radio stations are regularly pouring news and musical programmes Into the Colony, with no prospect at present of our put. ting the record straight, but the convic- tion that the greatest barrier to Com munism is enlightenment. We should be doing our part.

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Cabinet Minister, Locust Plague

In India

Main hesitations

A

New Delhi, June 12.- of locusts In millions over with Canadian defence less industries were under State swarmed

direction a Government which central Indin today in columns and thick iniles long Mr White is in Cannia for had accepted cerinin obligations four

an International organis enough to slow a railway train. the International Civil Aviation

The government, anticipating Organisation Assembly in tion would have no means of

further Invasion from the He said there was carrying them out, He appeared before a Senate such as nams and aktress and Montreal,

west, ordered jeeps, trucks and HESITATIONS for the sale to Foreign

Irains loaded with polson to fan Retalions sub-Com the fact the voted in the little chance

Cannda's twin-

which have Red at election, mitter investigating

He said witness Australia of

through the area to combat the charges against the State De-refused to discuss some 20 per-engined jet fighter, the CF-100. been evident in Lbour approach pests and save crops.

he about whom was The Australian Air Force plan-

to proposals for Integration in

Passengers arriving by rail partment.

Use Britain's

single- Europe are clearly brought out at Jubbulpor said their train The acting Committee chair-questioned, including Professorned to

in the manifestu,

was "buffeted about" by two The Senator did engined Hawkers and the twin- Theoilare Green. who Lattimore.

Canberra bomber.

They are:

swarms three and four miles called the 45-minute session not disclose the nature of the engined

United Press.

(1) That Britain's special long and 80 feet thick. They "most - futile," immediately questions-United Press,

lationship to, and dependency said it look the speeding train urdered, the Committee coun-

on, the Commonwealth and the ten minutes to "tunnel through"

be taken the sel. Edward

Sterling Area must

swarms as the locomotive slipped Into full account.

on the tracks made of the in- "The economics of the Com-slippery by masses

are com sects

beneath crushed monwealth countries

man,

Morgan, to draft report on te possibility Guccessfully pushing contempt Betion

Senator! against Jafte. Green sald sub-Committee would decide whal members nction, if any, to take against Jalle on the basis of Mr Mor- Kan's report.

that Ho added

suy Jaffe had even refused to whether he had appeared be. fore the "runaway" Jury Investigating the Amerasia

Grand

ال

Bombshell Thrown At "Peace" Conference

plementary to that of Britain wheels-United Press.

of which tho

can never

to

a degree Western Europe

equal," it cald.

(2) Any schemes which would retard or reverso Socialist plan- welfare would

to

Darjeeling Cyclone

Calcutto,

the

Vienna, June 12.-Professor Hans Thirring, Austria's leading atomic scientist, threw down a

be difficult challenge to Eastern European delegates to secure ning or achievements In social case in New York.

from their leaders pledges of freedom for their accept on the grounds of political doctrine and would be unlikely

12-Land- Julle was represented by two

June to bring peace or prosperity in for peoples and "practical proofs of their own O. John Rogge, lawyers,

alides caused by a cyclone killed of merly of the Justice Depart humanity" at a session of the Communist-organised practice.

in the tea garden 13 people (3) Arbitrary surrender ment, and Herbert Fabricant.

sovereignty to a super-national city of Darjeeling on Saturday Mr Rogge peace conference here. the bearing, After

In the Sunday, according to wire been ex- When' the full texts of speeches made at yes-authority whether said his clent ad eused to go back to New York"

inter. terday's session were published here today, it Schuman Flon or in the politi-less reports reaching the West be recalled but might Jaffe refused to discuss the case became clear that Professor Thirring, who was Europe-la, both undemocratic Bengal Government today. with newsmen, either before elected a member of the Council's Committee, had and unworkable without its houses had been destroyed and definition of the responsibilities that troops and police were of that authority. dropped a bomb-shell on the conference.

TRADE BARRIERS

Tejected statement The

the sudden

atter the session.

Senator Green said one ques-

tion witness refused to answer Owen concerned

Lattimore, Baltimore professor and prinel-faced

cal field

of the

Counchi of

The reports

Bald that 25

helping the townsfolk in rescue workc. Union to give up its

The atorm cut off all tele- According to these reports he | Soviet

dis-phone- and telegraph communi the Eastern European permanent veto against the con-

Calcutia and an Austrian peace schemes for

of trade barriers.cations between

capital of pai target of the Red charges delegates on the platform and clusion of hurled against the State Depart declared, "You must understand treaty and cald that this would mantling

plendid, practical con- Over a short-term period this Darjeeling, summer

would cause serious dislocation, the West Bengal Government, ment by Senator Joseph Mc-that millions of anxious people be a

know that in the Soviet Union tribution to the peace iden."

unemployment, and loss of pro- 300 miles north of Calcutta NO WAR

duction, it asserted.

Reuter and in the People's Democracies

But military

it declared-"Socialiste strict

Health Czechoslovak The exist and that spokesmen of

a European Josef

welcome Ploihar, would M. Minister,

union which WILS these countries carry on an un-

after a quick consultation with economic

social

Carthy..

"WHITEWASHED" "

organisations

compromising, relentless сала the Russian delegate, declared based on international planning Gen. Smuts Has

Quiet Day

12.-Field-

The Amerasia case involved the theft of hundreds of secret

full employment, milltary and diplomatic papers paign against the Governments

In reply that neither Russia nor of which were found in the New

of the rest of the world

the other Eart European States Justice and stablifly."

"America alone at present York offices of the magazine

one single stop "Further, every first of May would "make

Pretoria, June Amerasi, a publication, now

to support the development of Marshal Jan Christian Smuts defunct, on Far Eastern affairs. the whole world can view, with over their own frontiers for an commands the resources needed

unity in

its early spent a quiet day today, after a Amid cheers he told the de-world Six

persons were arrested, but amazement pletures and reports aggressive war." only Jaffe and Emmanuel Lar- showing indescribable military

Close co-operation with Asia restless night, but his physicians sald his condition remained sen were penalised, the former parades with the most modern legates,: "On the basis of our stages."...

America

to is vital

Korlous. boing fined US$2,500 and the tanks, bombers and frightful so-called Eastern ideology wo

Blame throwers and other wea- are convinced that the now and

Doctors remained in atlan latter $500.

The The Senate Foreign Relations pons taking place in Moscow of Socfallat world does not need Europe's peace and prosperity."

policy statement ha dance throughout the night at a war, and will certainly not sub-Committee,

Investigating all places.

been issued with the authority the bedside of the famous states.

is suffering charges that the CASA

"Is it to be wondered at if the start a war."

The Russian delegate, M of the Labour Party's National man, who

It is sciatica and a pneumonia attabi "whitewashed", called Jaffe in people of the Wert, Intimidated an ecort to clear up the mystery.by this sort of sabre rattling Anatou Safronov, followed him Executive Committee. Senator Green said, however, parades, can place little faith its and said, "The Soviet Army had still to be endorsed in October 3 Emuls the only mistake

and has no aggressiva intent." by the Party's national that witness answered, only peace offers from the East?".

|ference--Router.ja

Was

ia "low elementary questions" Profesor Thirring asked the-Hautar

From

con- of his family permitted to visit

Helckroom, United Press.