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THE MANCHESTER: GUARDIAN, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1946 YUGOSLAV ARMY MOVEMENT INDIAN NAVAL OUTBREAKS Calcutta Involved JOM SECRET INQUIRIES IN CANADA Attache Recalled Actions Inadmissible9 DOMINION ACCUSED OF UNBRIDLED PKSS CAMPAIGN Closing on Trieste? RUHR COALFIELD DISASTER 550 Men Trapped MOST FEARED TO BE DOOMED Herford (Gehmahy), February 20. Five hundred and fifty people, including at least two British officers, are trapped below ground in a coalmine at Unna, near Dortmund, following a serious explosion at midday to-day. Rescuers working in relays BRITAIN AND RUSSIA Mr. Macmillan's Appeal for New Approach DRIFT MAY MEAN DISASTER" Call to Allies for United Policy on Germany FROM OUR PARLIAMENTARY CORRESPONDENT At the same time the Soviet Government deems it necessary to call attention to -the unbridled can.DaiKn. hostile to the Soviet somRf.hinc like tho A Mcscow announcenient broadcast last night, admitted that "individual collaborators" had supplied the Russian military attache in Canada with secret information.

The information, however, proved less advanced than Soviet technique, and in any case was available in published works. Because of his inadmissible activities the attache was recalled. Moscow says that to claim that this threatened Canada's security is ridicu lous. The boviet accuses Canada of conducting an "unbridled campaign" against Russia and suggests that it is in the nature of a retaliation for all the annoyance caused by the Soviet delegates to Mr. Mackenzie King's friends during the U.N.O.

Assembly's session." The Moscow statement reads On February 15 the Canadian Government published a statement regarding the handing over in Canada of secret information to unauthorised persons, including some collaborators of a foreign mission in Ottawa. In presenting this statement tn the Soviet Charge d'Affaires the Prime aic. iviactcenzie lung, aeciarea that the mention of some collaborators of a foreign mission referred to collaborators of the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa. In this connection, after an investigation the Soviet Government deems it necessary to make the following statement The Soviet Government became aware of the fact that during the latter part of the war individual collaborators of the Soviet Military Attache in Canada obtained from Canadian citizens of their acquaintance some information of a confidential character which presented no interest to the Soviet. As has been ascertained, this information concerned certain technical data not required by the Soviet Government in view of the higher technical achievements in the U.S.S.R.

and which could be found in the published works concerning radiolocation, and also in the well-known American pamphlet "Atomic Energy." UNBRIDLED CANADIAN CAMPAIGN In view of the foregoing, it would be ridiculous to assert that the imparting cf such unimportant secret data could create any thTeat to the security of Canada. Nevertheless, as soon as the Soviet Government learned of the above-mentioned activity the Soviet Military Attache was recalled from Canada in view of the inadmissibility of the activities of these collaborators On the other hand, the fact must be borne in mind that the Soviet Ambassador and other collaborators ct the Soviet Embassy in Canada were in no way concerned with this affair. NO SUBSIDIES FOR PRIVATE FLYING Rich Man's Pastime? By a Student of the Air. There is to be no subsidy for private flying in this country. The Government has decided that smce there is, in its opinion, no defence value in British flying clubs the most that can be done is to offer them one hundred old trainer-type aircraft at 50 each.

These will cost the clubs at least 450 before they can be used for instructional1 purposes and the spare parts for them will be extremely difficult to obtain. The Royal Aero Club is determined to do what it can to make flying a poor man's pastime. Without help the chances of success are slight. However, a new association has been formed. It is the Association of British Aero Clubs and the chairman is Mr.

Whitney Straight. So far there are fllty-two flying clubs in this country which have joined the association. They will endeavour to provide the standard pilot's training. The cost of flying at the moment is between 3 10s. and 5 10s.

an hour, which means that to obtain I an "A pilot's licence will cost over 50. Before the war the cost was only some 30s. per flying hour. This present cost of flying is prohibitive, and it is unlikely that anybody except rich men will be able to learn to Twenty-two clubs have hopes of starting again in the near future, but prospects are not bright. The chairman of the new association told me yesterday that 90 per cent of the Fleet Air Arm second-line pilots at the outbreak of war were club-trained.

BISHOP OF LINCOLN TO RETIRE The Bishop of Lincoln. Dr. Skelton. is to retire with effect from May 1 on the grounds of health, it was announced from 10. Downing Street last night.

Dr. Skelton became Bishop of Lincoln in 1942. He had a heart attack last October and was ordered a 1 complete rest. Westminster, Wednesday. To-day's debate on foreign affairs in House of Commons could not jielp being in the nature of a curtain-raiser, since Mr.

Bevin and Mr. Eden are reserving their speeches until to-morrow. But curtain-raisers not infrequently vie in interest with the inain piece, and that was certainly the case with to-day's performance. Bevin looked in from time to time to see and hear how things were goirn. It is said that he decided to speak last in order that he might discover how the wind 'was blowing off the benches behind him; to detect if there was a current from the east.

This is probably all cock and bull. No Minister was ever less susceptible to the veering" winds of party favour when he sees his way clear. The debate so far might be accurately described as being on Anglo-Russian relations rather than on foreign affairs in general. This concern about Russia clearly reflects the concern in the country which Mr. Harold Macmillan went so far as to say is more responsible for the spirit of disillusion abroad in the country than any of our domestic worries.

This was an' admirable speech of Mr. Macmillan's. Almost certainly it was the best speech he has made in the House of Commons judged as a speech. It was in the high tradition. Air.

Macmillan was not afraid of gesture or of a full diction. If he has a fault it is that he is sometimes a little stilted. A FRANK CRITIC Apart from his vehement defence of early British policy in Greece, which sume people might think did not do justice to all the facts, the speech will also command wide praise for its substance. On Russia, much the most important part of the speech, he was balanced, reasonable, and helpful. He criticised with downright frankness the recent London manifestations of Russian diplomacy and the evidence it offered of Russian pressure against British in-icrests in the Mediterranean and Middle East.

Yet he shied at any interpretation of these manifestations. He would not attempt to explain them. They might be accounted for. for example, as an outbreak of the recurrent Russian imperialism of the nineteenth century. They might, on the other hand, be explained by a revival of militant international Communism.

If either of these explanations were correct Mr. Macmillan asserted, amid loud Tory cheers, that we should defend ourselves and our heritage against aggression or political proselytising, so long as breath remained in our bodies. Had the speech ended there it would have been anything but a success. It aid not Mr. Macmillan went on to aomit the possibility that Russia's present manoeuvres, as he once called them, might be determined by her tears, by the recollection of the lour invasions she has suffered in 130 Years VlAi, minht Ut -J i 1 reseive to guarantee her inviolability "cw toraon samtaire or satellite States, partly dominated and wrtiy converted "It may well be," -ur.

Macmillan pursued, "that the ultimate causes of these recent mani-lestations are at bottom isolationist and wt expansionist." All this Mr. -Macmillan agreed was very wrong. It was dangerous, but it should not be ia.al were dealt with in time. And that led Mr. Macmillan to a positive suggestion, which was that an miSht be made begun if pebble by Marshal Stalin to restore VICTORY PARADE i War-Time Ministers to Place of Honour Mr.

Churchill and members of his war-time Government are to be given a P'-ce of honour at the saluting base' the Victory Parade takes place in wndon on June 8. They will be invited the Prime Minister to be there with '-ne King and Queen. Princess Elizabeth Princess Margaret, and other rubers of the Royal Family; Ministers present Government, diplomatists. members of Allied missions. Governments are being that the British Cabinet would distinguished personalities, ci.

as generals who did conspicuous the war, were able to take part addition to contingents UP The mutiny of Indian naval ratings spread to Calcutta yesterday and brought the naval establishments there to a standstill. It also spread to Karachi, where 120 men of H.MXS. Hindustan stopped work. In Bombay, where the mutiny has been in pro gress for three days, another 3,000 ratings of H.M.LS. Akbar, a shore station, twenty miles north of Bom bay, yesterday joined in.

Vice-Admiral Godfrey, Flag Officer commanding- the Royal Indian Navy, who flew to Bombay from Delhi yesterday, said in a communique last night Owine to manv incidents of violence and hooliganism which took place on Tuesday it became necessary lor tne saieiy not only of the general public but aiso of R.LN. ratines themselves to direct the ratings 1 to return to their ships and establishments to-day. Loud-speaker vans were, accordingly sent round Bombay instructing ratings to return by 3 30 this afternoon and warning them that anyone round in tne town aner tnat nour wouia be liable to arrest Large numbers of ratines made their wav to establishments in Bombay and ships in the stream during the afternoon. dui it is not possioie to estimate tne number still at large. The military-were called out to furnish pickets on the gates of various shore establishments.

After a period of comparative quiet during the laze aiternoon ratines in tne castle Barracks tried to rush the pickets. The situation at present appears to be quieter. uiousn it remains exrremeiy tense. GRIEVANCES TO BE REMEDIED During the disorders in Bombay the men assaulted a number of British soldiers Other Indians intervened, however, and stopped the assaults. Later squads of Indian troops of the 18th Mahratta Regiment, armed with rifles and Sten guns, toured Bombay in lorries, round ing up the strikers and returning them to Barracks.

As soon as Vice-Admiral Godfrey arrived in Bombay he opened an inquiry. Last night it was announced that the naval authorities had decided to grant tne mens demands tor oetter iooa on the basis of a menu submitted by the strikers. Other demands remained unsettled, but it is expected that a spokesman of the men will meet Admiral uoorrev snortiv. The "Strike Committee" yesterday decided to ask the leaders of the shipping trade unions to call a one-day svmnathy strike. It was also learned yesterday that a leading telegraphist of the Royal Indian Naw-who has been under close arrest since February 2 has been dismissed the Service after summary trial.

He was said to have written "Jai Hind" and "Quit India on the walls of Talwar Station during a visit by Admiral Godfrey. BRITISH GUARDS POSTED Armed guards of a British regiment were posted at a Royal Indian Air Force camp at Andheri. a suburb of Bombay, yesterday. The officer commanding the camp ordered all ranks to remain in barracks till further notice. Reuter.

"NO REASON TO EXPECT BENGAL FAMINE" Calcutta, February 20. Mr. A. D. Williams.

Civil Supplies Commissioner and adviser to the Gover nor of Bengal, said to-day that taking into account recent crop there was no reason why there should be a famine in the Presidency. At the same time deterioration in the food position throughout India had its repercussions on the situation in Bengal, which should therefore take steps to conserve her resources. Reuter. BUS WAGES Court of Inquiry Into Dispute The Ministry of Labour last night announced the constitution of a Court of Inquiry into the dispute over wages and conditions affecting approximately 80,000 bus employees in England. Scotland, and Wales.

Sir John Forster, chairman of the National Arbitration Tribunal, will be the chairman of the Court, which will also include Sir J. Frederick Rees. prin cipal of the University college of south Wales: Professor I. W. Macdonald, University of Glasgow Mr.

J. E. Green wood, director of ooots. uasn unemists, and a member of the Catering Wages Commission and Mr. A.

Conley. general secretary of the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers and a member of the T.U.C. General council. The terms of reference are "to inquire into the difference which has arisen between the two sides of the national council for the omnibus industry on the union's application for a national wages and conditions agreement, and to report." The Court will sit in London at a date to be announced. DISARMING GERMANY INDUSTRIALLY No New Locomotives From om Special Correspondent Berltit, February 20.

The extent to which the industrial dis armament is to be imposed an Germany is revealed in a statement nublished to night of the industries which are to be eliminated or restricted to domestic requirements. The list of industries has been approved by the Co-ordinating Committee of the Allied Control Council and the Council to-day formally took note or the matter. These agreements apply only to the determination of the permitted level of industry for Germany in connection with the reparations programme; They do not exclude other industrial disarmament measures which can or should be undertaken within the limitation of the level of industry finally agreed upon. No new locomotives are to be built after the existing reparable locomotives nave ucert repaired- "The Times" 'Manchester Guardian SerTtee GERMANS TO RESUME EXPORTS The United. States occupation authorities in Germany have set up.

'export offices at Stuttgart, and Munich, the 1 British hews service in Germany (quoted by Reuter) said yesterday. The -Americans consider 'Ger man exports necessary to pay for. the. import of food, but no exports wul at present.be allowed to Spain or Switzer- land. the report said.

MEN ROUNDED IN BOMBAY ITALIAN FEAR OF AGGRESSION From onr own Correspondent Rome, February 20. For the last ten days the Italian press has been reporting Yugoslav troop movements up through Fiume into "positions" along the Morgan Line. To-day Italian correspondents from the region known as Zone A (Venezia Giulia) report that the movements have been going on, but only by night. Coastal Italian towns. in Zone (like Rovigno, Parenzo, and Firano) are now said to be almost empty of Yugoslav troops while big concentrations are on the inland Istrian Plateau.

One interoretation is that the Yugo slavs would like the commission of in-auirv to find the coastal towns almost emptied of troops, but most of the Italian naoers believe in a forthcoming aggression by the Yugoslavs which will bring them right up to the isonzo. ine Italian news agency Ansa has a report from Trieste to-aay according to wmcn documentary proof has just fallen into the hands of the Military Government of Trieste showing the existence of a Yugo slav insurrectionary plan to oe orougnt about if the Foreign Ministers' deputies decide to award Venezia Giulia to Italy." According to this correspondent the plan envisages an armed rising by the Slovenes in the region supported by a clandestine Yugoslav association inside the Anglo-American zone, the "Twentieth Assault Division," with secret headquarters in Trieste. Within forty hours of the rising the Yugoslav Army would, it is said, be on the Isonzo. Yugoslav emigres say that King Peter is due to arrive here before the end of the month "to visit his refugees in various camps in Italy." There are about 25,000 Yugoslav refugees who are opposed to Tito in camps in Italy. TERMS OF INQUIRY Differences on Council From our Diplomatic.

Correspondent London, Wednesday. While the general terms of reference for the Venezia Giulia Commission have been decided by the Foreign Ministers' deputies, there is still no agreement about the area to be investigated. Russia suggests that the commission should investigate only a small part in the west of Venezia The United States, Britain, and France stand by the view that if the commission goes at all, then investigation should be carried out over the whole of the district, with the possible exclusion, of -Fiume. The issue has again come under review in to-day's long session. THE ITALIAN COLONIES An Italian memorandum has recently been presented to the secretariat of the Foreign Ministers' Council.

The memorandum reflects the views of the Italian Government concerning the future of Italy's former colonial possessions. Special attention has been drawn to various social, economic, and political problems which differ in character according to the geographical position of the territory concerned. The general theme of the memorandum is that Italy should be appointed trustee of her former colonies but without responsibility for the maintenance of security. This responsibility, the Italians feel, should be assigned to other Powers, designated by the United Nations Organisation. FOOD OFFERS Australia Puzzled by Sir Ben Smith From oar.

Special Correspondent Melbourne, February 20. Public opinion throughout Australia, which has been exerting incessant pressure the Government to reduce the meat and butter rations to provide larger supplies for the United Kingdom, has been bewildered and disaeartened by a series of incredible statements by Sir Ben Smith. The latest of these seems to have completely removed the reduction of the Australian butter ration from the realm of practical politics. It is: "If Australia could give me 50,000 tons more butter I would not get one case. It would go to the Com Dined Food Board for allocation on the world pool basis and Britain would get only a proportion." The man in the street does not understand the relation of the Combined Food Board to the Government of the United Kingaom.

The only conclusion he can draw- from Sir Ben Smith's statement is that the shipment of more butter from Australia would not benefit the people of Britain at au. Nothing could be more destructive of the widespread effort to persuade the Government to subject the Australian consumer to a larger sacrifice. There is still a great deal more food in Australia which could be released and transported were difficulties not being repeatedly created by these untimely utterances of the Minister of Food. The Times A 'Mancliester Goardfan Service ELocdc lrtit food, page 2 Sir Ben Smith oa the PkiaUt of HU Job," page CHARLES SHADWBLL (LEAVING B.B.C. To Tour with Orchestra Charles Sha dwell, known to millions of.

radio listeners, principally through the Saturday night "Music Hall" pr- grammes and Itma," has resigned from the B.B.C. after ten 'years as director of the Variety Orchestra. He said last night: "I am leaving on the very best of terms and I reeret enini? but I have received some very attractive offers which I have been considering for, auojB.umc, ana now iraaveaaaea xo -start out on my own and will commence a tour April with an orchestra of twenty-four Z- Mr. Shad well was intended to be a doctor, but the 1914-18 war stopped that. Invalided from me forces he went 'to the Ministry of Pensions, but disliked it.

and continued his musical which he had started "at the age made his flrrt real start when' he cohi ducted a showlcaQedTheBomi'Up of 1923." His radio debutwas l932.y Union, which was opened in, the Canadian press ana an tne Canadian radio sunui-taeously with the publication of above-mentioned statement by the Canadian Government. Despite the insignificance and unimnor- tance of the circumstances which led to the statement of the Canadian Prime Minister on February 15. this anti-Soviet caBnpaign is being supported by many Canadian organs, whue the attitude adonted bv the fV.TinHinn Covranwnt. directly calculated to encourage a cam paign nostue to tee soviet union in tne press and over the radio, is incompatible with normal relations between the two ccvmries. "RETALIATION FOR U.N.O." In this connection surprise is evoked by the unusual fact that the Canadian Government published this statement on February 15 instead of asking the Soviet Government for an explanation as is the custom among countries maintaining normal relations.

Inasmuch ns tho Canadian Government did not deem it necessary to request a preliminary explanation from the Soviet Government, it must be taken for granted that it was pursuing some other objective having no connecuon with Canada's security. It must ne presumed that tne above mentioned unbridled anti-Soviet campaign was part of the Canadian Government's plan calculated to cause political damage to the Soviet Government. It Cannot be accented as a nninriAnnna that Mr. Mackenzie King's statement was timed with the end of the United Nations Assembly in which Soviet delegates cnampionea ine principles of democracy and the independence of small nations. Apparently Mr.

King's statement and the ensuing anti-Soviet campaign in Canada are in the nature of a retaliation for all the annoyance caused by the Soviet delegates to Mr. King's friends during ine Assemoiy sessions. Moscow radio later announced that Mr. Deputy Foreign Commissar, yesterday handed the text of the Soviet Government's statement to the Canadian Charge d'Affaires in Moscow. Reuter.

APPEAL FOR CAUTION New York, February 20. Newspaper attacks on the Soviet Union arising out of the Canadian spy disclosures were to-day described by Mr. Johannes Stee'. radio commentator. as the work of red baiters." Another radio speaker, Mr.

John van der Cook. said. In all likelihood we are also spying on the Russians." while Mr. Ray mond Gram Swing broadcast an appeal for caution amid "the abundance of surmise, speculation, and prejudice." neuter. CABINET MISSION TO INDIA Decision Welcomed Bombay, February 20.

The. leaders of the two chief Indian political parties Dr. Azad. president of the All-India Congress, and Mr. Jinnah, president of the Moslem League to-day welcomed the British Government's decision to send a delegation of Cabinet Ministers to India.

Mr. Jinnah, however, made it clear that this did not imply any weakening of the Moslem League's demand for Pakistan a separate State for Moslem India and that he was also opposed to the formation of a Viceroy's Executive Council representing the two major parties pending the adoption of a new Indian Constitution. Reuter. FRANCO AND THE MONARCHISTS No Restoration Lisbon, February 20. Don Juan's spokesman stated to-night that all heps of successful negotiations between the Spanish Pretender and General Franco for the latter to hand over power have now ended.

The Spanish Ambassador to Lisbon on arriving from Madrid after consultation with General Franco had an interview with Don Juan, during which he informed Don Juan that General Franco is not prepared now to consider a restoration of the Monarchy, The Ambassador is also reported to have said that General Franco is "unperturbed at foreign criticisms, as he believed the democracies' opposition to his regime is lukewarm and merelv to appease their own public opinions, and that they are unprepared to back their words with deeds." Reuter. enough remained to keep the legend of its particular splendour alive, and all the great ballerinas have at one time or other danced one or other of its famous dances. How. then, do the Vic-Wells dancers support all this inherited glory? On the whole, they support it very well. Seeing them for the first time in six years, it was good to find that the general standard had so much improved that even in so exacting a classical ballet as this one there was no dance which was not performed at least adequately.

Robert Helpmann (to-night's Prince Charming) has lost none of bis pre-eminent neatness and his skill in and Margot (to-night's Aurora) has developed from a dancer of great promise into one with all the control and easy fluidity of line which a real ballerina needs. One perhaps, she lacks the ballerina's grandeur, such as Spessitseva had. such- too as Bare nova and which is needed to match the fine, loud blatancies of superb ballet music. That quality, indeed, is still missing in all this fine It has not. as yet, the Russian classical grandeur.

But, cot to-night's showing, it has many other things: "taste, thoroughness, and a host of young and promising dancers. Of all of them none, seemed so promising to-night as Moira Shearer, in her various roles hers was the nauiral elegance of line which makes even easy dances worth doing. To-nighfs performance was an emphatic success a success due -largely to the skill of Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann, but due even more to the delightful, gay, fastidious costumes and designs by Oliver MesseL For its decor, at least this performance was. to. Diaghflev's 1921 for which Bakst did the spendidly garish have so far brought up 22 people, nine of whom were dead.

It is believed that one British officer and two Control Commission officers, all mining engineers, are trapped. The exDlosion has wrecked the main shaft. Rescuers are attempting to reach the trapped men by an auxiliary shaft. The rest of the. trapped men are thought to be doomed, as mine officials are expecting a further explosion at any moment.

British Military Government officers are directing rescue work, and fire appliances and ambulances are being rushed in from all parts of the Ruhr coalfields. Reu ter. NO STATE CONTROL OF PARTIES French Drop Proposal From our own Correspondent Paris, February 20. The Constitutional Commission of the Constituent Assembly to-day decided unanimously to drop from its draft proposals what has been called the statute of parties. This statute placed the narties under State control in certain particulars and gave them the right to revoke a deputy who did not obey the party whip.

These proposals have been approved by the Socialists and the M.R.P. (progressive Catholics), but not by the Communists or by the smaller parties. 'i he obligatory vote was also abandoned in suite of the desire of the M.R.P.' and the Conservatives to maintain it. Perhaps the commission will now propose to give the President of the Republic something like bis old status and function and to establish some form of Second Chamber. The commission has nearly finished drafting a new version of the rights of man" which will include an article forbidding any differentiation between citizens on grounds oi race.

CARDINALS RECEIVE THEIR BIRETTAS The Pope Broadcasts From our own Correspondent Rome, February 20. Four thousand people attended the imposition of the red biretta on 29 cardinals this evening in the Hall of Benediction at the Vatican. The thirtieth the Chilean Bishop of Santiago, has been taken ill and is in a nursing home. The Armenian cardinal as the senior among the new cardinals gave an address of thanks to Pius XII. The Pope replied in a speech lasting nearly an hour, in the course of which he outlined the universality of the Church as quite distinct from modern imperialisms.

He said the family and State were the foundations of human society, but and perhaps this is the most important part of his speech "Even if stability and ancestral traditions are indispensable to the healthy integrity of man and are the fundamental elements of human communities, it would be a travesty of the truth if anyone tried to use these facts in to justify the forced repatriation and to deny the right of asylum to those who I various reasons have decided to make their residence elsewhere than at home." The two cardinals who have not arrived in Rome are the French cardinal-designate Saliege and the Dutch cardinal-designate De Jong, Archbishop of Utrecht Both are not well enough to travel. A new postage stamp issue by the Vatican City is announced to-dav tn commemorate the fourth centenary of the Council of Trent. The series has fourteen different values and each represents various personages of the period, like Charles V. Pope Paul III. Ignatius Loyola, and St.

John Fisher. A NEW THREAT TO NEW YORK Mr. John Lewis Active From our own Correspondent New York, February 20. New York City again faces the threat of a strike of all transport lines. While nominally the strike is threatened about standard labour bargaining points, in the background of the dispute are the two powerful trace union groups.

The one which now holds the collective bargaining contract belongs to the Congress of Industrial Organisations (the C.I.O.). This body is now being attacked, however, by Mr. John Lewis, the militant head of the United Mineworkers. Mr. Lewis recently returned to the American Federation of Labour after a break which lasted for many years.

He invades many fields of trade union activity through a subsidiary organisation, called the "District Fifty." If he seriously invades the New York City transport situation the result will be the battle of the century, and the victims will be New York residents, who quite probably will be forced to walk to work for days or weeks. SHIP TOWED AWAY AS SHED BURNS Four firemen were hurt and 3,000 bales of sisal and hemp destroyed or'damaged when a large dock shed was burned out' in the South 2 Canada Dock at Liverpool yesterday afternoon. The four injured firemen, one of whom fen into the dock, allowed to go after hospital treatment Lasr night firemen were still at work on the smouldering sisaL The fire was one of the most rapid in dockland: history Five minutes after the outbreak -was discovered at three o'clock the! roof, crashed in. A ship alongside was towed to safety across the dock. So fierce were the flames that the ship's side arid a uxeooai were blistered and scorched.

k-uiutmu iiaueismp xo me attairs ol the three Great Powers. If the present situation drifted on unresolved it might lead to Ultimate rlisastai. ft r.nnn. new approach to the problem now be uiuae i ne nnauy appealed. TORY CHEERS LABOUR SILENCE Mr.

Macmillan lavished nraise on Mr. Bevin for his defence of British nniinv and interests before the Security Council. ine lories cheered. The Labour benches were silent. None the less it would be very rash to conclude that this s'lonro implied a positively critical attitude.

Labour members cannot bring themselves to share cheers with the Tories, however mnMi thov tary agreement with them. An appeal iu re loraiai peace settlement with Italy and a warning that Germany may become the occasion of another war if ihi A 11 German policy were other notable points in -iviir. jKiacmjiiaxj-s speecn. air. jfnmps rice followed.

He held the full House while he delivered his views on Russia views fully familiar to readers of the "Manchester Guardian." It an intcvacfincf speech. While he could admit Mr. Vyshmsky's clumsiness and lack of imagination, he told Mr. Bevin that his triumph over the Russian Foreign Minister, notwithstanding all the cheers it had got, did not constitute a policy. Mr.

Price found on his recent visit to the Soviet Union that the people are lust as frifrtitenpH nf them. They are sensitive and suspicious, and suspicious with some reason, Mr. Price argued, remembering interven- Ji "1B elayea recognition or the Balkan Governments, and the existence uj ucuerai r-ousn Army. Amid some LaHntii. phaom enj cama Tory dissent, Mr.

Price suggested that mis couniry rnignt ao much Better now to turn from "Wall Street and a reactionary American a-nrt seek co-operation with Russia. It is Mr. Price's conviction that Russia has am onions ana tnat sne is not seeking to impose Communism on the satellite States. Mr. Wilfrid Roberts, the spokesman for fha T.ihoralc in Vi i vuc iiic first speaker to offer a criticism of Mr.

xie cunsiuerea it was a misraKe that the Foreign Secretary did not accept the commission of inquiry on Indonesia. Mr. Noel-Baker brought the debate to a close with a speech expressing a mrMfarafelv rnt im'ctir. future and considerable satisfaction with uie acnievemenis 01 tne Lionaon meet ings, xie xnougnt tne meetings or the SfVMlr'tv rViiinri1 htti nalnjul Uai frank discussions to improve and not worsen ine relations or the Great Powers. Debate on page 31 "KILLED IN ACTION" MP.

and Brigadier Mallaby In the course of the debate Mr. Driberg (Lab. Maldon) challenged previous accounts that Brigadier Mallaby was "foully murdered" in Indonesia. Details of the truce incident he had gathered from an officer on the spot made it perfectly clear, he said, that the Brigadier was honourably killed in action. facts as he had received them," Mr.

Driberg said that even now it was not absolutely certain whether Brigadier Mallabv was killed by Indonesians or by a grenade thrown by an Indian officer at Indonesians who were approaching his car. Mr. Eden (Acting Leader of the Oddo- sition). describing Mr. Driberg's statement as a grave matter, assumed the Government had its own report of the incident and hoped it would make it public, and Mr.

Noel-Baker (Minister of State) intimated that Mr. Bevin might do so when he spoke to-day. 'PLANE CRASHES IN FLAMES All the Crew Killed The crew of seven were all killed when a Lincoln bomber, believed to have been struck by lightning, crashed in flames last night in a field at Queni-borough, near Leicester. It was the third aircraft to crash in this neighbourhood in three weeks. The 'plane crashed within a hundred yards of the main road between Quem-borough and Barsby.

in the direction of South Croxton. Eye-witnesses state that there was a streak of light in the sky and the machine burst into flames and plunged into the field. It struck some wires and interrupted the electricity supply and the local telephone service. Flames rose to a great height and explosions prevented any attempt at rescue work. five- years unless recalled by their countries.

No choice could have been more fitting or more promising. It was Lord Keynes who early in 1943 opened the international discussions, on a financial mechanism for cost-war world trade which led to the Bretton Woods con- -rercuuc nifi mens waxx personality TY li 7 have dominated these efforts ever since. In fact, no other appointment was con ceivable except that there was some doubt as to his health. The appointment Is Important also because the effect oi tne srenon wooos scheme on the future trade of this country, which has been the subject of such fierce argument. win depend -far more on the actual handling oz the worK than on the letter of the plan.

It certain that Lord Keynes's original plan was far more intelligent and would have been far more beneficial to all countries than the compromise scheme" emeraed from the hard' bargaining of the Washington BALLET FIRST-NIGHT AT COVENT GARDEN From a Correspondent LORD KEYNES'S NEW- APPOINTMENT Governor of the Bretton Woods Fund From oar Financial Editor London, Wednesday; Night. To-night's reopening of the Covent Garden Opera House was certainly a heartening occasion in a none-too-bright world. The King and Queen, Queen Mary, and both Princesses were there, aiso Mr. Attlee and many of his Cabinet. The royal party was warmly, indeed clamorously, received when it appeared in the royal box.

Mr. Ernest Bevin had an ovation all to himself as he entered the Opera House. This was not the first time that the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company had performed at Covent The first and the only other time was in 1939 when the French President. M. Lebrun, paid his state visit to London.

Then too the ballet performed had been "The Sleeping Beauty." But it was only an isolated instance; it did not mean, as. to-night meant, that this company having grown fast during eight pre-war years and having added wonderfully to its stature even in. the war years had now been truly accepted as the country's national ballet company. Besides, there was something encouragingly significant or so one may hope in the choice of ballet with which "to open this Vic-Wells season. For "The Sleeping Beauty" is the most famous of all classical ballets.

It was famous already' in the' nineties in Imperial St Petersburg, and its revival bv Diaghilev at the Alhambra. in London. in 1921 was perhaps the greatest of au the later occasions of Diaghilev. 'For 28 vears until thp Vic-Well Comnanv again revived it a The 1 Sleeping Beauty" was not seen in its entirety: but a few of its dances remained in the repertory- of most companies the De Basil-Company used to give an extract of it, as Diaghilev, too, had done, called Aurora's In fact. London, Wednesday.

-le Treasury announces that the" '-liacellor of the Exchequer has appointed Lord Keynes to be a governor of the International -oaetary Fund and of the Inter- rtl0nal Bank for Reconstruction and -velopment the two institutions up at the Bretton Woods He will leave shortly for urst meeting of the Governors in rl2 United States on March a ft is understood that Lord Keynes will Present post as adviser to the sancellor. The governorship of the ini Breton Woods" bodies more than attendance at periodic wra meetings: Tho Tvwh'ora'iiniuid. l1 expenses are According the "final each member country has the right aPPolnt governor and. one ornate governor shall serve for Treasury..