THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1951.
ATOMIC INFORMATION EXCHANGE
SHE'S THEIR CHOICE—The men of the 182nd Regi- mental Combat Team of the Massachusetts National Guard voted Edith Roberts, 21, "Miss Federalisation," in Charlestown. Posing with loaded rifles, Edith proves she's a good target for any camera.
Survey Mission On U.S.I.S. Activities In Southeast Asia
Manila, Jan. 2.
Big Three To America Shortly To
].
Consult
Washington, Jan. 2.
The United States, Bri- tain and France will begin consultations very soon on another effort to get Russ Bla's agreement to Big Four talks on world prob. lems, the State Department announced today.
The date of the Three talks to consider Russia's "disappointing"
answer to the Western offer for a meeting has not yet been decided, a De- partment spokesman said.
In the opinion of in- formed sources here, the Insistence of Russia on German questions dodges the Western offer of broader talks, United Press.
FIGHTING
IN KOREA
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several days' lull all along the western front while the Com-
Discuss With States
Other Than Britain
Statement On Russia
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Washington, Jan. 2.
The United States indicated today that it might shortly exchange atomic information and personnel with other States than Britain and Canada.
Mr Gordon Dean, Chairman of the United States Atomic Energy Commission, said that legislation would be placed before Congress in about two months' time to change conditions for the exchange of such information with Britain and other Allies where this is to America's advan- tage.
Recommendations had not yet been crystallised on this point, he told a press confer- ence.
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CHOOSING
munists brought suficient men Dean said, "Russia does have" SITE FOR
and equipment across the Imjin River.
In answer to a question, Mr the atomic bomb.
Exchange of atomic informa- A second Communist column, tion between the United States moving on deserted Seoul from and Britain was restricted after the north-east, was said to passage of the McMahon Act in have swept through Kapyong, 351946. This placed atomic con- milés from the city.
trol under the civilian authority Retreating United Nations of the Atomic Energy Commis- troops left scorched earth be-sion instead of under the mili- hind them, burning every house tary as before.
NEXT UN
MEETING
New York, Jan. 2. Mr Andrew Cordier, United
and all supplies and equipment. They even knocked down' the Mr Dean said that he did not Nations Assistant Secretary walls of houses and gardens think that the proposed legis-General, left for Paris tonight which might afford cover. lation would deal only with the aboard an Air France plane to
United
select the site of the 1951 session Nations artillery United Kingdom and Canada, shelled Uijongbu after the with- It was possible to draft legis- of the General Assembly. drawal but it
Mr Cordier said was not known lation giving **rather wide
no definite whether the Communists had discretion" to exchange informa decision had yet been taken moved in or by-passed the town, tion where it was to the ad- held, but he added that it was where the Assembly would be vantage of the United States, he more likely Paris would be added,
chosen. The Palais de Chaillot, where the 1948 session was held, would be a likely spot for the conference.
ADDITIONAL THREAT
He said
that the legislation
Allied rear-guards threatened by Chinese Communist pene-might also provide for the ex- tration fell back throughout the change. of personnel,
tion". *
he
day but no official information "We may want to exchange Paris overnight and leave was yet available on the extent materials as well as or the withdrawal.
The first Communist armour since the offensive began on "We are rather rigidly con- New Year's Eve was reported | trolled at present by the who destroyed two (McMahon) Act and there are by pilots
situations in which it would be tanks:
General. MacArthur stated to the advantage of the United that an additional threat faced States to exchange,"
the United
Nations
forces
A five-member mission of the United States State Department of international news and publications division arrived in Manila today by air in the course of a survey of United States In-great Chinese Communist forces formation Service activities in Southeast Asia.
Head of the mission, Mr Charles Arnot, assistant chief of the division's information pro- gramme, said the purpose of the survey, is to bring "proper co- ordination, adjustment and co- operation" among all Southeast Asian USIS offices by means of the press, radio and moving picture facilities.
The mission's survey was be- lieved aimed at broadening and unifying the United States anti- Communist- information cam-
in paign
Southeast Asian countries as part of the intensi- fled drive to check the spread of Redism among the discontented
masses.
The mission expects
to stay in the Philippines about six weeks. Others in the party, are Mr Ralph Buter, audio-visual specialist, Mr Marvin Serkin, editor of the press division of
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by consulting CHINESE OPTICAL CO.
following indications that the
released by the evacuation of Hungnam, in the North-East,
been moved to
the
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had now pro-central front.
the Voice of America grammes, Miss Dorothy Boyce, editor, and Mr Robert Clarke, writer. United Press.
United States
Expenditure
For Defence
Washington, Jan.-2.
He said that the initial Com- munist attack against Seoul was pressed "with a complete dis- regard for his losses, which have been extremely heavy."-Reu- ter.
PLANNED WITHDRAWAL
Tokyo, Jan. 3,
on
adding, Mr Cordier will
stay in informa-Thursday for Geneva, where expects to meet the Secretary-General, Mr Trygve Lie, who is on his way from
The Norway.
two men aré expected to study
the pos- sibility of holding the session in Geneva, but Mr "Cordier indicated that League
the former of Nations Palace there was too overcrowded to allow an Assembly session to be held.
After three or four days in. Geneva, Mr Lie and Mr Cor- dies will return to Paris. Cordier said he visit London during European trip..
Mr Dean declined to give any figures or indication of the num ber of bombs in the United States stockpile,
Reporters pressed him to say whether he thought the United States had sufficient atom bombs for use on strategic targets.
He replied, "If we worry, it is not about the number of bombs we have, but how we can get more."-Reuter.
ATOMIC ENERGY PILE
Ottawa, Jan. 2. The Government today ap- construction of a
to
Mr
would also his The decision
session in. last month by the Assembly but the Secretary-General will decide
hold the 1951 Europe was voted
on the site.-United Press.
The withdrawing Eighth proved the
be vastly more designed to powerful than the two others Canada already has.
Army forces abandoned Uijong- $30,000,000 atomic energy pile Israel Able
Wednesday and it
bu, 11 miles north of Seoul, on was believed that the town has been occupied by Chinese troops. A Bill providing expenditure
United Press correspondent of $19,899,911,000 for defence Gene Symonds reported from was passed by Congress today Seoul that Uljongbu. which lies and sent to President Truman along the highway to the South
Korean
from for signing.
capital leading Yonchon, has been given up to It raised to about $43,000 Communist forces according to million the total cash Congress plan. provided this financial year for Symonds said it was highly increased armed
strength-probable that Chinese forces Reuter.
occupied the town during the night which would place them only 11 miles from the rapidly emptying South Korean capital. -United Press.
REQUEST REJECTED
Washington, Jan. 2. The House of Representatives joined the Senate today in re- jecting President Truman's re- quest for emergency power
to reorganise. Government agencies,
The giant furnace will assure Canada of an adequate supply of plutonium, essential nuclear fuel, for the forseeable future.
The pile will be built at the
atomic Government's establishment at Chalk River, Ontario, and construction is ex- pected to start late this summer.
energy
To Defend
Freedom
an
Jerusalem, Jan. 2. The Israeli Prime Minister, Mr David Ben-Gurion, said to- night that Israel would be able The new atomic furnace will
to defend her independence, if enable Canada to continue un-
her neighbours attempted interrupted production of radio-invasion during the confusion of active isotopes. Canada Has
a world conflagration. done no direct work on atomic
Addressing the Knesseth (the weapons since the end of World
Israeli Parliament), Mr Ben- War II.
Gurion said that in the present world situation Israel's problem was not only the wider question of defence but mainly whether her neighbours, rearming, would not attempt to attack her.
If, in their research on peace- time applications of atomic energy the Canadians should stumble on knowledge useful in armament, the information would be turned over to the United States and Britain under the three-power atomic co- operation treaty.
NEW ATTACK
With 24th Division, Jan; 3, Communist troops hit the 24th Infantry Division's new defence It passed and sent back to line in two places just before the Senate a "war powers"
dawn on Wednesday. It was not measure stripped of the rear- ganisation proposals. The BillImmediately apparent whether gives Present Truman only this was the beginning of an The new furnace will use the authority to revise defence allout offensive comparative to heavy water to alow activity to contracts to ensure essential war New Year's Eve attackUnited manageable speeds, United production. Reuter,
Israel will be able to defend her independence in the case of local conflict," Mr Ben- Gurion stated
"I do not hesitate to say that
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