1950-11-20 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1950.

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First Disclosures Of Hitler Documentaries

London Reserves Opinion Over Egypt's Action

London, Nov. 19.

In expectation of the arrival here next Wednesday of the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Mohamed Saleh El Din Bey, authoritative opinion was today reserved about Egypt's threat to de- nounce the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty.

The Egyptian Minister is specifically coming to London to discuss Egypt's sterling balances, which total nearly £300 million. But it is expected that his talks with the Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, will naturally include references to last week's Government policy statement in Cairo- that Egypt will denounce the Treaty and demand the complete withdrawal of British troops from Egypt and the Suden.

Today's popular press here did not appear to take the Egyptian threat too seriously. Comment was withheld, but jokes and cartoons indicated a general

that opinion

Britain would stay in the strategic Mid- dle East bases so long as she considered this necessary.

New Peace Congress Canvassed

The widely-read Sunday Ex- press and Sunday Dispatch used personal attacks against King Farouk originating from A an article in the American magazine, Life.

Warsaw, Nov. 19.

new non-Communist peace movement was being

The Sunday Dispatch, in its canvassed tentatively today main front-page story, said that behind the scene of the Peace Congress" the King's speech was a major "World was the only

effort to divent popular dis-

Philadelphia, Nov. 19.

Adolf Hitler believed suicide way out for a military leader who had failed in his mission, records of his war conferences re- vealed today. He also regarded any retreat on the battlefield as "cowardice.”

Direct transcripts of Hitler's high command talks with his leaders at Berchtesgaden during the last two years of World War II were exhibited at the University of Pennsylvania Library publicly for the first time.

They disclosed Hitler's belief that sukide was the logical end

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content in Egypt into nationalist meeting here under Com-

munist auspices. channels, using Britain as a "whipping boy."

It may bring together The more reserved Sunday

-small-but-influential group ou Times and Observer discussed the possibility that Egypt's in- Pacifists, Socialists and others who have remained on the clusion in the Atlantic Fact

fringes of the Communist- security system might provide a compromise in the matter of backed movement. the strategic bases.

: Opinion in Whitehall was

statement created no really new

evidently that last Thursday's

situation or any really urgent need for a new consideration of what had become an old prob-

lem.

The one speech which failed

made by Mr John Rogge, former Assistant United States Attorney

to get a prolonged ovation was

General.

His lead brought like-thinking people together in the ante- rooms of the Congress to dis- cuss a new concerted policy without the Communists.

for a losing military leader. It apparently was the choice himself made in the last hours of Germany's defeat, although it has never been proved con-

NOT SATISFIED clusively that he committed The Egyptian King's speech suicide when his plans for world in Cairo did not itself denounce domination fell through. But the Treaty. It gave notice of records of his talks reveal an an intention already expressed obsession on the subject.

in Egyptian official statements. Mr Bovin is expected to At one meeting, held shortly stand firmly on his promise to Danish, British and Irish dele- after the German defeat at maintain the right of the gates. Stalingrad, Hitler was quoted Sudanese to self-determination. Though the usual' attacks or If bases must be maintained, Egypt wants to maintain them

as saying, "When the nerve threatens to break down, there is nothing left to do but to ad- mit one can't handle the situa- tion, and to shoot oneself."

uncovered

herself.

Mr Rogge said later that

had be

beeri approached .by French sympathetically

"Western" Imperialism" have continued, Congress organisers appear to have adopted a more conciliatory tone in an attemp to relieve the suspicions felt in the West.

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The Observer said that Western military, experts were nat satisfled that Egypt was The transcripts

to maintain with the aid of two Germans, yet in a position

bases adequately without out- It has become clear that thes including Hitler's stenographer side assistance.

have decided while at this Con- at the conference -showed

One difficulty about any progress to attract far more non- something of the Fuhrer's dic-posal for Egypt's entry into the Communists. tatorial and egocentric person Atlantic Pact system might be This changé of tactics wal ality. His choice of words Egypt's current discontent with believed to have followed in

creasing apprehensiveness of the Communist influence by many of the lukeworm supporters. Reuter.

often was vulgar.

Nepalese

the United Nations' policy in the Sunday The records also showed that the Middle East,

Times suggested.-Reuter. Hitler, although

entirely not impervious to rational orgu- ment, was reluctant to change his decisions once he had made them. One army commander, Gunther von Kluge, asked Hit- ler at one conference not to take any tanks from his units for action on other fronts. The tanks were only "junk," he suid. Hitler replied that Kluge thought the tanks were junk, surely he would not mind losing them.-United Press.

State Of Siege Proclaimed

Insurgents

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Retreat

LONDON PROTEST

London, Nov. 19. A "peace" rally of about 1,000- in Trafalgar Square today pro tested against the British Gov- ernment's action

the over "World Peace Congress" due to

have been held in Sheffield.

The Government banned

Birganj, Nov. 19. entry to the country to a num Birganj, the seat of the Ne-ber of foreign delegates for the palese Congress "Provisional Congress, now transferred to Government," will be evacuat-Warsaw.

ed tomorrow unless fresh am- A man and a woman, escorted munition is received, the Press by a police inspector) took the Trust of India reported tonight protest resolution to the Prim from Birganj.

Minister's residence at No 10 The Nopalese Congress today Downing Street Reuter. ordered its forces to withdraw

to Birgan from Parwanipur,

La Paz, Bolivia, Nov. 19. The ..Bolivian Government six miles north-east of the Con- Nepali Congress sources stated has proclaimed a state of siege gress "capital."

The report stated that Con allowing emergency powers to Yesterday they moved back gress forces controlled all the arrest conspirators and mobilise six miles to Parwanipur before town except the district wher the Army to preserve public the advancing Nepalese State the armoury, the treasury and order.

troops. Nepalese Government | Government offices are situated The order, made on Friday, forces today shot down 20, and The crowd gathered afte followed the discovery of a plot wounded 130 Congress troops, last night's fighting in which Involving some Army officers 6,000 of whom were storming State forces red Congres and members of the Falange an armoury in the town of troops butsidewalki treasury Socialista Boliviana.-Reuter. Saur, 30 miles east of Birganj, killing two-Reuter,