1951-01-10 — Page 2

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Prime Ministers from all parts of the Commonwealth are meeting in London for a conference on world problems. This picture shows Mr L. St. Laurent (Canada), Mr R. G. Menzies (Australia); Mr S G. Holland (New Zealand); Mr D. T. F. Donges (South African Minister of Interior); Sir Godfrey Huggins (South Rhodesia); Mr Nehru (India); Mr Senanayake (Ceylon) and Mr C. R. Attlee (Britain). Central Press,

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London, Jan. 9.

The official rejection by the Chinese Government at the end of December of the cease-fire terms put forward by the Asian bloc at the United Nations brought the British and United States Governments, as they entered 1951, face to face with the same policy decision which they faced a month earlier.

The question, at the beginning of 1951, was what to do if the United Nations forces were finally forced to evacuate Korea.

There appeared then to be no chance of holding the military position while political ap-

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A PARAMOUNT PICTURE.

GLASS FACTORY

EXPLOSION

Hanau, West Germany,

When Mr Clement Attlee flew } By this time, speculation in a common policy which emer- to Washington during the first London as to whether Mr Mao ged from the Truman-Attlee week-end in December, the Tse-tung was fighting the talks would stand the strain Korean issue presented itself in Korean campaign on his own of the new crisis induced by its starkest terms. The United initiative and in the supposed the Chinese Communist deci Nations troops were in retreat interests of his own country or sion to fight on-Reuter. before a full-scale Chinese whether he was taking orders

from Communist. offensive.

Moscow had virtually ended. diplomacy was operating from It was, too, clear that Chinese

strength based on the victories of the Chinese Communist Before the Truman-Attlee

armies and was totally unwill- talks were over, two things had ing made it no longer necessary to but its own terms.

to negotiate on anything

assess the Korean situation in

Since these included an end extreme terms. One was an im-of the American neutralisation portant improvement in the policy in Formosa and: the military position of the United admission of the Chinese Com- Nations troops which made it munist Government Seem likely that a defensive United Nations, the conditions line could be stabilised. The were virtually intolerable for other was the move by the United States public opinion. Asian Governments at Lake Success to put forward cease- fire terms.

Four weeks later, the cease- drawing fire terms urged by the "neutral bloc" had been of-

success,

A

cylinder of

Jan. 9. hydrogen, exploding in a glass factory here, yards radius and caused three broke windows over a thousand deaths all Germans, including a four-year-old girl-and injur- to theed 13 people.

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A column of fire rose over 300- feet high into the air when the 80-feet long steel cylinder exploded. A splinter hit and TWO CONCLUSIONS"

killed a man 300 yards away, the West German news agency said. Observers in London are

German and American am- these two conclusions

bulances took the injured to. from the events of December.

hospital. The cylinder was on a 1-That the compromise pro- ficially rejected by Peking and posals put forward by the neu-truck on a siding of the plant's the United Nations troops were iral governments

own railway--Reuter, of goodwill awaiting the start of a new have, in the present circum- Chinese Communist offensive stances, very little chance of which had been preceded by a token crossing of the 38th The evidence suggests too Parallel.

strongly that the Chinese Com- Any hope that the Chinese munist Government is full of

Berlin, Jan 9, Communists would not seek to self-confidence and believes Students from 38 countries are drive the Western troops into itself capable of maintaining a expected in Berlin next Sunda the sea had proved an illusion Communist regime in the whole for the Communist-sponsored and the only unknown factor of Korea.

International Students Associa was the strength of the new 2-That the Chinese cease- tion's six-day Executive meetin positions facing the Communis! fire terms had been framed.

The countries to be represent- with the deliberate aim of split- ed include Britain, the Uni ting the British and United States, France, Belgium, Cane States policy and in this way, the Scandinavian counters too, of returning the two Gov- South Africa, New Zeala ernments to the position which Burma and Vietnam, accordi faced them at the beginning of to the East German News December.

Agency, ADN.

forces.

CLEAR CASE

Thus,

in four weeks almost to the day, Britain and the United States were again brought up against the policy decision which had faced Mr

Attlee and President Truman

A Soviet delegation to the In spite of all that had hap-meeting, in East Berlin's Act pened in 1950, and in spite of demy of Sciences, will be head the fact that the British recogni- by Mr M. Fominow, Secretary during their Washington talks.

tion of the Chinese Government the Association Reuter It was generally assumed in London that it was the need to on Jan. 6 of that year was still face the Korean problem afresh incomplete a year later British following the collapse of the Ministers remained convinced hopes of the past month which that it was unrealistic to exclude caused President Truman to cur- king's representatives from - The tail his Christmas holiday and the United Nation

Mr Dean Acheson, the US But while there was this Secretary of State, to confer contin

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