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Evening star., 1950-01-29
Red Dean Halls Mao

Dr.. Hewlett johnson, the Red
dean" of Canterbury, said last
night that Communist Mao TIE
tung's victory in China has
struck shattering blow to i'm
perialism in America"
THE United States has spent
$6,000,000,000 and lost in an eff
fort to bolster up the corrupt Ma
tionalist regime in China" DR..
johnson said in his president S
address at the annual meeting of
the British-Soviet Society in Lon
don.
I'm China, a new might force
has been enlisted in the cause of
peace. Coupled with this is the
determination among the colonial
possessions of the imperial world
in the East to cast off imperialiStic
bonds and be free men. In the
new China we see a mighty force
for peace" a
He said Russia ''is on the side
of peace, standing at the head of
the great masses in the Far East
holding up the banner of peace y
-AP
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HeinkeI Calls for Peace

Ernst Heinkel, who built the
airplanes of yesterday, wished
"great success" today to the men
who may build the aircraft of
tomorrow-and fly them to the
moon.
The aging German aircraft de-
signer addressed the leaders of
the German Association for IN
terplanetary Research at the
close of it's first annual congress
at Stuttgart yesterday. The as
sociation's goal is to develop a
space ship" which will reach
other planets.
Heinkel, who built some of Hit
ler's best war planes, turned his
brief talk into a plea for inter-
national cooperation and peace,
He lamented the misuse" OF
rockets for war and expressed
hope that the use of rockets te
fiy through space will lead to-
ward peace.-AP.
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Churchill
Continued From First Page -,

security and independence" said
Mr.. Churchill.
This has been denied us not
only by the incompetence and
maladministration of the Social
ist government and their wild ex-
travagance. but even more by the
spirit of class hatred which they
have spread throughout. the land
and by the costly. and wasteful
naturalization of a fifth part of
our industries"
Mr.. Churchill said the Social
ist conception of the all-powerful
state" is "odious and repellent to
to every friend of freedom
$50: far, we are only at the first
stage in this evil Journey" said
Mr.. Churchill. But already en-
terprise, daring and initiative are
crippled $. Regulations in
creasingly take the place of
statutes passed by Parliament"
Plot For Power Charged.
Mr.. Churchill said the Labor
Party election manifesto-or plat
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Bevin, In Poor Health, Reported
Ready to Resign After Election
Expected to Assume
Less important RyIe
In British Affairs
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, Jan. 28.-Informed
circles believe Ernest Bevin will
give up his post as Britain's For
eign Secretary no matter who wins
the general election February %.
He is sick man.
Those in position to know pre-
dict he will seek reelection to the
House of Commons. But, if he
and his party emerge on top, they
expect he will be offered a less
burdensome cabinet Office. White
hall-the downtown London area
where most government Offices are
located-would not be surprised if
he quits politics altogether within
the next IL months.
Has Heart Trouble.
At SO, Mr.. Bevin suffers from
heart trouble, high blood pressure
and asthma.
Already some jockeying for his
highly responsible post is believed
underway within the Labor Party.
Mentioned as candidates for the
job If the party wins are Sir Stat
ford Cripps. Chancellor of the
Exchequer; Deputy Prime Mini
ster Herbert Morrison; Aneurin
Bevan, who already has announced
he would like to leave his place
as health minister, and Attorney
General Sir Hartley Shawcross, a
familiar figure at many United
Nations Assemblies.
Sir Stafford was prominently
mentioned for the post five years
ago when Labor took Office. But
Mr.. Bevin got the job.
A possible pointer to a change
in Foreign Office leadership is that
two key British ambassadors are
due home soon. Sir Oliver Franks
already has left Washington. Sir
David Kelly is expected back from
Moscow about the middle of next
month.
Because of the impact on for
eign relations, the government
would not be likely to confirm any
plans for MIR. Bevin's retirement
until a successor is ready to step
into his shoes.
Career Has Been Strenuous.
Mr.. Bevin has had long and
strenuous career, topped by the
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legend. The legend says that
when the apes start leaving Glib
raltar, the British empire will
lose it.
In 1943, when the apes began
to disappear, Churchill was so
alarmed at the decline in British
troop morale that he gave orders
to Keep them up to strength" :"
Requirements of new Barbary
apes were rushed in from Rabat
and Tetuan. Gibraltar breathed
again.
But as soon as they discovered
their own Importance the apes
turned on the heat. They would
disappear for a month, as did
Scruff, big chocolate one who is
the Emperor Jones of the Rock
Some even flew away with Amer
lean aviators.
The bipeds are not only bullies,
they're thieves. They skin down
the great cliff, over the gun posi-
tions. and slip into peoples bed
rooms. They steal hairbrushes,
mirrors, toothpaste, baby shoes,
underwear and silver. They take
their loot up the precipice to do
over their own comfortable cave
households, or to trade. If an
honest dog gives the alarm, they
strahgle him.
To wheedle the apes out of raid
ing Gibraltar from its unprotected
rear, the British have tried to
make their robber nest into an
uplift club. using the John Dewey
method of kindly education.
There is a huge cage, but the
door is always kept open. Thick
ship lines have been strung from
rock to rock for the animals to
swing on.
And to keep them from mendi-
cancy, the government has estab-
lished out of taxes an ape fund
OF about $400 a year. From the
stipend they draw the four pounds
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last 10 years in two. tough cabinet
posts, labor and foreign affairs. He
has not spared his health in the
effort to carry out his response
bilities.
AS Foreign Secretary in the diff
ficult years of winding up world
war and fighting a cold war he
has had to do much travelling
often with a doctor at his side.
Last year he went to the United
States twice, to Germany twice,
to France twice. He wound up
the year with a long land, air and
sea trip to Colombo, Ceylon, for
meeting of Commonwealth min
listers.
Before his service as Foreign
Secretary, Mr.. Bevin was Labor
Minister for five years in Win
ston Churchill's coalition cabinet
He had the job of mobilizing
Britain's manpower for the wal
effort. He directed 25,000,OOC
men, women and youth-about
half the population-into national
service work.
For 80 years before that he was
a trades union organizer. In that
career, Mr.. Bevin moulded the
massive 1,0o0,o00-strong Trans
port and General Workers Union
out OF more than so separate labor
groups.
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Britoin's Middle Glass Wooed
AS Key to Victory in Election

ance. He promises to run them
more cheaply than Labor has
done. Some people call this me
tooism."
He would denationalize only
some sections of civil aviation and
highway trucking, and then only
were possible" He would not
let steel naturalization become a
fact, though law for it has been
passed.
He would not attempt to de-
nationalize the basic industries
which the Labor Government has
bought out: Coal mines, the rail-
ways, the Bank of England and
overseas communications.
A Labor victory would mean
more naturalization, the steel
and iron industry, cement, sugar,
all waterworks systems, all min
eral resources, wholesale food
companies and slaughterhouses
would be bought up by the gov
ernment.
Would Mutualize Insurance.
Labor also would mutualize the
insurance companies that sell
small policies to the rank-and-
file, collecting weekly or twice.
monthly premiums. They would
become mutual or cooperative
companies, owned by the policy
holders. The naturalization
idea was adopted as a compromise
to appease labor factions which
opposed outright naturalization.
Labor can count on the vote
OF the working classes as of now,
even though the Labor Govern
ment has antagonized many work.
ers by ruling out pay increases.
One reason is that working peo-
pie blame the Conservatives for
sufferings during the depression.
Another is that many fear a gov
ernment headed by Mr.. Church.
Ill would lead Britain into war
with Russia.
Mr.. Churchill has been more ell
oquently anti-Russian in his post
war speeches than have many
members of the Labor Govern
ment. He is wooing the Labor
vote with all his power.
The detailed application of
workers charter designed to give
security, incentive and status will
be discussed with the trade unions
and the employers" if the Con-
servatives win, he said in the Tory
election manifesto.
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Weather Post Near Pole

Canada and the United States
are going to build their fifth joint
Arctic weather station virtually
at the northern tip of Canadian
soil only a few hundred miles
from the Arctic Pole, officials said
, yesterday in Ottawa.
Prefabricated shelters and sup
plies are expected to be taken in
by plane this year and men will
go in by plane and boat to the
site at the northern end of Elles-
mere Island.
The stations being jointly
operated by the Canadians and
Americans until Canada has
enough trained men to handle
them. They are believed to be
sites for other scientific studies
of the north in addition to the
meteorological surveys.-A.P.
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machination." Mr.. Churchill
added
Liberals Spurn Invitation.
The Liberal Party, Britain's
third largest. has refused an invi-
tation to join Mr.. Churchill's Con-
servatives in united front
against Labor candidates.
At their London conference, the
Liberals came out for:
l. Wider personal freedom.
2. Free trade.
3. Separate parliaments for
Wales and Scotland.
Frank Byers. parliamentary
whip for the Liberal MPs,
answered Mr.. Churchills criticism
that the high number of Liberal
candidates might split Tory sup
port in some districts.
"The Conservative Party regards
our intervening on this scale as
Irresponsible" he told the 1900
delegates at Kingsway Hall.
"No one has right to make
that charge against the Liberal
Party, which has always had the
reputation for sincerity. We are
intervening because we believe 1t
our duty as loyal citizens to
do So"
The Liberals put up only about
100 candidates in 1945.
Search Powers Hit.
Dingle M. Foot, vice president
of the party, declared 10000 gov
ernment inspectors now have
search powers greater even than
those which we concede to police"
He said there is danger Britain
might reach "a state Of affairs
in which the food we may eat,
the clothes we may wear, the
news we may read, the radio pro-
grams we mas listen to, the films
we may see, the jobs we may take
will all be decided for us by some
higher authority, against whose
decision there will be no appeal"
A Labor Party leader declared
in radio speech tonight that Mr..
Churchill's outlook, as expressed
in a broadcast by the Conservative
leader a week ago, Is unreal,
dangerously unreal"
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Soviet Film Hits Churchill

Soviet Russia's newest film epic.
The Fall of Berlin. depicts Win
ston Churchill engaging in anti
Soviet maneuvers during the war.
The picture. in color, is being
shown to record audiences. In
Moscow alone it has been seen in
a few days by more than a mil
lion persons.
The part of Commander in
Chief Joseph Stain is played by
Miknail Gelovani.
Typical scenes include a lavish
setting in Hermann Goering's
palace at which a representative
of British ruling circles" sells
the Germans 10000 tons of
chrome and tungsten necessary
for the Germans to manufacture
tanks to assault Stalingrad.-AP
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Around
the
World
Greece to Reduce Army
BY 1900 Before March
News in Brief

Premier John Theotokis of
Greece announced yesterday in
Athens that the Greek army would
be reduced by $4,000 men by
March and consideration then
would be given to possible fur
ther cuts.
During the past three months
the army has been reduced Is per
cent to 100000. The new cut will
bring it down to $4,000.
Lieut.. Gen. James Van Fleet,
head of the American military
mission here, said the Greek army
reduction was in line with Amer
ican thinking in terms of security
and national confidence. -(P)
Evening star., 1950-01-29
u. S. to Buy Tin Abroad

The United States Government
Is negotiating to purchase tin
metal abroad, mainly from Dutch,
Belgium and British sources, it
was disclosed at The Hague, the
Netherlands yesterday.
Bernard Haffner, strategic ma
terials expert of the Marshall
Plan mission to the Netherlands,
said discussions with the Dutch
are going on now in Washington.
1t would be the first American
contract for purchase of tin metal
from Dutch sources, Mr.. Haffner
said@(AP).
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Famed Apes Are Still Boss on Gibraltar

of vegetables and nuts they de-
mand daily.
Even with this pension, Jocko,
the Rocks oldest, was deported to
a British zoo last year for pilfer-
ing houses.
To deal with the ape Maf1a the
government has an Army Officer
in charge rock apes" and two ar
tillerymen. They try to keep the
animals happy, in simple ways.
Every ape has a name and per-
sonal pedigree in a governmental
Evening star., 1950-01-29

tain hours of the day had prompt
ed Western Allied and West Ger
man officials to speculate on a
possible early end of the partial
blockade.
West Berlin housewives noted
the first aggravating effects of the
week-long Soviet delaying action.
Meat, eggs, butter and other food
items again were getting scarce.
Food prices rose slightly today.
140 Trucks Lined Up.
About 140 trucks were lined up
behind Helmstedt, Western high
way checkpoint on the British
Russian zonal border, awaiting
clearance by the Russians to
proceed to Berlin.
The number of trucks had
dwindled from 200 by some go
trucks during the day as the
Soviets eased somewhat their re-
strictions. At times they let
through up to II trucks per hour,
but frequently. interposed a
tougher schedule by cutting the
passing rate down to three trucks
hourly.
Helmstedt officials said tonight
there is no basic change in the
overall schedule. The average,
they said, "has been six trucks. -
Normal truck traffic before the
Russian restrictions were imposed
was about 80 an hour.
Allied and German railway
traffic to and from Berlin con-
tinued normal.
The three Western Allies-the
United States, Britain and France
have twice protested sharply
the restrictions on truck traffic.
Western commandants demand
ed in a note Thursday to the
Soviet commandant, Maj. Gen.
Alexander Kotikov, the immediate
removal "of these abnormal re-
Strictions."
The restrictions. which included
prolonged examination of papers
and cargoes and rejection of per-
mits for such things as a typing
error, were declared to violate both
the spirit and the letter of the
Big -Four foreign ministers decision
at Paris to normalize Berlin life
after the Soviet blockade of the
Western sectors was lifted last
year.
The showdown started after
American authorities seized a
largely untenanted building of the
Soviet-controlled railway system
in the American sector last week
and turned the empty Offices over
to the West Berlin city govern
ment.
This action. ascribed to the
blunder of "a subordinate, drew
Communist threats Of q new block
ade and a stiff Russian protest.
The seizure was cancelled and the
building was restored to Soviet
control by the American COM
mandant, Maj. Gen. Maxwell D.
Taylor, four days later.
Gestapo Back in East.
Meanwhile, the Gestapo was
returning to East Germany-this
time to protect Communism.
Communists are demanding the
establishment of a Ministry of
State Security at the next meet
ing. February 8. of the volks-
hammer peoples chamber) of
the Soviet zone republic.
The core of the new ministry
will be a secret state police system
r1valling the dreaded Gestapo,
which Nazi Heinrich Himmler
created in the 1930s.
Erich Mielke, an old-time Com
munist who is now an inspector
general in the Interior Ministry,
already has been appointed to
head the new force. He has been
a key police official in East Ger
many since 1945.
Evening star., 1950-01-29
By the Assoeioted Press


LONDON, Jan. 28.-Five mil
lion white collar workers-bank
clerks, teachers, shopkeepers-may
decide Britain's general election
February %.
They are the political fence sit
tiers, middle class folk who vote as
they see fit, without considering
party labels. !
Winston Churchill, rs, is fight
ing all-out to win them for the
Conservative Party, in what may
be his last great political cam
paign. Arrayed against him is the
full might of the ruling Labor
Party, led by another fighter.
Prime Minister Attlee, who does
not resemble a scrapper, but who
licked Mr.. Churchill the last time
out, five years ago.
Middle Holds the Balance.
Working class people and con-
vinced Socialists can be counted
on, as of now, to vote Labor. Con-
flrmed anti-Socialists will go Con-
servative. The two blocs weigh up
about even. The scales should be
tipped, therefore, as the floating
vote of some 100000 wants them
tipped.
This is why the general cleo
ton campaign is largely a cam
paign for the middle class vote,
Under Labor, the white collar
groups have been squeezed be-
tween rising prices and perhaps
the highest taxes in the world.
But many of them still like Labor's
idea of fair shares for all.
The main issues for them to
decide: How much Socialism
should Britain have? How much
freedom can it afford?
Their answers may shape the
future of these impoverished but
freedom-loving islands for years
to come.
Prime Minister Attlee's Labor
Party marches into the campaign
promising still more Socialism if
it wins.
Mr.. Churchill's Conservatives
promise only a bit less, with little
more freedom, a bit more scope
for the free enterprise that made
this small nation great before the
economic pinch came.
Bo0kmakers' Odds.
Bookmakers' odds are 4 to 7 in
favor of Labor victory. This
means a bettor must put f7
($19.6O on Labor in order to win
"a (s11.20).
The bulk of the foreign press
corps, which represents many
shades of political opinion, would
put it's money on Labor as of now.
The guesses of American diplo-
mats here range from "a near
thing" to "a solid labor victory"
About 34,000,O0O Britons are
eligible to vote. Only felons un-
der sentence, lunatics and peers
are barred from voting, the latter
because they are members of the
House of Lords. There are about
1850 candidates for the 625 seats
in Parliament. The present Par
lament has $40 seats, of which
Labor holds $50 and the Con-
servative Party 191.
No one gives the Communists a
chance and the best the Liberal
Party can hope for is to win
enough seats for chance at join
ing a coalition.
The election issue in nutshell
is: How much government plan
ming and dictation are desirable
in a nation that has too little of
the worlds goods to meet all the
needs of its people?
ChurchilI's Outlook.
Mr.. Churchill would eliminate
some dictation, but apparently
not much. He would bring no
more industries under government
ownership. But he would con-
tinue welfare state programs such
as socialized medicine, old age
pensions, unemployment insur-
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Thai Premier ExiIes
Deputy Army Chief
Who Put Him in Power
BY the Associated Press

BANGKOK, Thailand (Siam)
Sunday, Jan. 29.-Premier Mar
shal Pibul Songgram of Thailand
yesterday eXiled the man who put
him in power. possibly to smash
an attempted coup.
1t. Gen. Luang Kach Songgram
apparently no relation) was ar
rested with seven other high
ranking officers. They were ques-
toned during the night, then put
abroad a British plane bound for
Hong Kong. France is reported to
be their eventual destination.
Luang Kach was the strong
arm deputy commander in chief
of the army. A long-t time friend
of the premier. he engineered the
army coup of November, 1947,
that put Pibul in power five
months later. Since then he took
a leading role in suppressing other
ATTEMPTED coups against Pibul.
Apparently he has been working
on his own recently. Pibul in the
past few months has been steadi-
ly picking off opposition within
his own ranks one by one while
keeping the nation in a state of
alarm.
1 Naval Fighting Reported.
This capital of Thailand SEEM
ingly was unimpressed by the in
ner palace Vaccinations. The
city was calm.
There were reports of fighting
between police and naval forces
in the southern naval bases of
Paknam and Cholburi. These re-
ports are unverifled.
The rumors apparently stemmed
from orders in Bangkok for the
police in the south to arrest the
navy leaders. apparently because
they may have been involved in
the purported coup. Little was
done. however, because the police
in the two bases are hopelessly
outnumbered.
Deputy Police Chief Phao Sri
yanon issued a statement saying
Gen. Luang Kach was permitted
to see his family before his plane
left. The general was said to have
divided his estate among the four
wives he left behind.
Can intense propaganda cam
paign against Thailand and
Pibul personally has been
launched in the past week by
the Chinese Red regime.
U. S. Imperialism" Blamed.
(Only Saturday, the latest
Peiping radio blast said that Lii
Ke-nung. Red vice minister of
foreign affairs, had protested
"the maltreatment and killing
of overseas Chinese by the Pibul
government"
(The Red broadcast quoted
Shanghai and Hankow newspa-
pers as stating. "The Chinese
people must settle all these
bloody accounts 1t is Amer
ican imperialism which is the
prop of Pibul The Pibul
regime must bear full respon-
sibility for it's series of criminal
acts against overseas Chinese").
Thailand has contented itself
with denying the allegations.
(The- forthcoming conference
ofrUnited States Far East diplo-
mats in Bangkok February 13
has sharpened attention on. the
Communist propaganda attacks
and on Thailand's uneasy do
mestic situation.
The latest Bangkok develop
ment, mysterious even for Thail-
and, was the arrest of 1t. Gen
Luang Kach Songgram (alse
tranSliterated Songkram and ap-
parently no relation to the pre-
mier).
Deputy commander n-chief o1
the army and leader of the mill
tary delegation which restored
Pibul to the premiership in April
1948, Kach had been reported re-
Gently aligning himself with the
navy, which has been anti-army
Evening star., 1950-01-29
ONLY YOU
need KNOW
YOU ARE DEAF!

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Evening star., 1950-01-29
No Pay for Injuries

The Czech government ruled
yesterday that it can't pay COM
pensation to anyone who gets
injured while being arrested by
the state security police.
Suppose you hurt yourself
making little ones out of big
ones at Pankrac political prison
while working off a sentence.
No compensation said a decree
published in the official Gazette.
The new decree also ruled out
compensation to anyone who
gets hurt while drunk, or
through "the consequences of
meteorological and temperature
influences" or through "active
participation in motor races,
motor cycle races, horse races,
wrestling or performing aero
batics.-(P.
Evening star., 1950-01-29
Lodge to View Film

A new film. Prejudice" will be
shown at $3.50 pm. Wednesday
under the auspices of Argo Lodge,
B'ndl Birth, at the Jewish Com
munity Center, Sixteenth and @
streets NV. The film was pro-
duced by the Protestant Film
Commission and the Anti-Defa-
nation League of the B'nai
Birth.
Evening star., 1950-01-29

The commercial production of
artificial silk, or rayon, was
started in France In 1891.
Evening star., 1950-01-29

The apes refuse to join any navies.
The only thing that a naval
career could offer them that they
haven't got is clothing.
The "a wild apes got the British
under their thumb at least a
hundred years ago, by spreading