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THURSDAY, JUJSTJi 13, 1946 GOING, GOING-GONE? Umberto's Promise THE MUFTI IN HEJAZ" Called at Damascus PALESTINE ARABS REUNITED There is every reason to believe A WAY OUT IN INDIA Direct Talks THE DISPUTE OVER REPRESENTATION New Delhi, June 12. Talks have been going on all to-day THE BIRTHDAY HONOURS Sir; W. Beveridge and Sir W. Citrine Raised to Peerage O.M. FOR LORD HALIFAX MR.

BEVIN FACES CRITICS FROM INSIDE LABOUR PARTY His Foreign Policy Endorsed THE DANGER OF A EUROPE DIVIDED INTO TWO CAMPS From our Special Correspondent scornfully dismissing Bevin's policy as CABINET ACTS THIS MORNING Republicans and Monarchists, still disagreeing whether Italy is now a Republic or still a Monarchy, could not agree last night whether Um-berto was in Rome (Signor Lucifero, Minister of the Royal Household, said he was) or whether he had gone (four Cabinet Ministers said he had). One report was that he had left for the royal estate at San Rossore, near Pisa. What appeared certain earlv this Mrs. Churchill and Lady Cripps New Dames Grand Cross Empire. Air Chief Commandant Lady Welsh, W.A.A.F., is made a Dame Commander.

Mrs. Walter Elliot gets the CB.fi. Sir Alexander Cadoean. the British representative on the Security Council of the United Nations Organisation, Lord Listowel. the Postmaster General, and Sir Hartley Shawcross.

the Attorney General, are among the new Privy Counsellors. The only new fcaronet is Sir Ralph Verney, who has been secretary to the Speaker of the House of Commons for the past 25 years. Mr. Theobald Mathew. K.C., the Director of Public Prosecutions, becomes a K.B.E.

Captain Archibald Hordern, Chief Constable of Lancashire becomes a knight, and another local name in the list of new knights is that of Mr. Henry W. L. Kearns chairman and managing director of H. W.

Kearns and Broadheath. who was Director General of Production Services at the Ministry of Supply. Professor Frederick Powicke. Reeius Professor of Modern History at Oxford. Mr.

Henry Clay, warden of Nuffield College. Mr. Herbert Kay, the industrial arbitrator Mr. R. C.

Rootes. president of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, and Mr. Henry Foster, president of the Law Society, are also among the new knights. Mr. Harold Butler, who is raised to a knighthood of the Order of St.

Michael and St. George, was Director General of British Information Services in the United States. He is a former Director of" the -International Labour Office in Geneva, and was also at one time Warden of Nuffield College. A C.M.G. goes to Mr.

Leonard Gibbs Killbv. director of the Empire Cotton Growing Corporation. AWARDS FOR ARTISTS Two war artists. Mr. Edward Bawden and Captain Barnett Freedman, get the C.B.E.

and the artistic work of Mr. Cyril Bird Fougasse in the interests war-time travel and security is similarly recognised. The C.B.E. also goes to Solomon, the pianist. Jelly D'Aranyi.

the violinist, and James Bridie, the playwright. The list of C.B.Ks also includes Lieutenant Colonel Albert Buckley, chairman of the Liverpool Savings Committee. Mr. William Lemkin. who was Director of Clothing and Textiles at the Ministry of Supply, and Mr.

William Winterbottom. Director of Yarn Planning. Cotton Control, at the Board of Trade O.M. OFFERED TO LORD KEYNES It is learned that the King offered the Order of Merit to Lord Keynes, who accepted it shortly before his death. The Order of Merit is a high distinction which is given by the King at his own discretion, and not in consequence of political advice.

Created by King Edward VII in 1902, it is one of the most exclusive of honours. It is limited to twenty-four members. Only those who have won great distinction in the fighting Services of the Empire and those who have made a great name in science, art, and iiterature are eligible for membership. Lord Keynes influenced financial policy in two great wars. It was as the result of strain from overwork on the American loan negotiations that he died from a sudden heart attack last April after his return from Washington in December.

that the Mufti of Jerusalem is in the Hejaz under the protection of King Ibn Saud, says a dispatch from the Tunes and Manchester Guardian" correspondent in Cairo yesterday. Earlier a report that the Mufti was in Damascus is explained by the fact that the French aircraft that brought him irom trance halted at Damascus to refuel for the last stage of its nieht. A Reuter dispatch from Jerusalem last night stated that Dr. Tannous. secretary of the Arab Hieher Commit tee, said he understood from a telephone tans with Mr.

Jamal, Husseini. chairman of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee, that the Mufti of Jerusalem "is safe. A new four-man Palestine Arab Executive Committee, replacing the Arab Higher Committee and the newly-formed 'ao mgner rroni, was tormea last night, according to Reuter and Associated Piess dispatches from Damascus. The new executive committee, with the Mufti of Jerusalem as its spiritual head, consists of Mr. Jamal Husseini, Dr.

Husseini Khalidi, who formed the Higher Front, Mr. Emile of Husseini's Arab oartv. and Ahmad Helmi Pasha, a Jerusalem financier, who is politically independent. All four were originally members of the Higher t-ummucee. MUFTI'S DEPARTURE FROM FRANCE Had Syrian Passpprt From our own Correspondent Paris, June 12.

The French Government has issued an official statement about the departure of the Mufti of Jerusalem from his residence near Rambouillet. The Mufti left Orly aerodrome on May 29 at a.m. in a United States aircraft, a Douglas B.C. 4, belonging to the French Continental Western air line. This company maintains a regular service between Washington and Cairo.

The Mufti arrived in Cairo on the night of May 29-30. He travelled with a full Syrian passport bearing the number 90 and dated November 28, 1945. PARIS POLICE CHIEF DISMISSED Paris, June 12. M. Rene Desvaux, chief the Paris judiciary police (C.I.D.), has been dismissed as a result of the Mufti's escape, it was officially confirmed to-day.

According to semi-official sources, the Mufti oroke his pledged word of honour not to change his residence without telling the authorities. He had been allowed to come and go at will and watch on him had been discontinued before he disappeared on Saturday. neuter. A meisage on Palestine from our Diplomatic Correspondent on page 81 MR. TRUMAN VETOES CASE BILL And Creates Paradox From our own Correspondent New York, June 12.

The domestic situation is now more confused than ever. President Truman has vetoed the Case Bill, which would have put serious additional restraints on labour, and the House of Representatives failed, though by only five votes, to obtain the necessary two-thirds majority, which with a similar vote in the Senate would have made the measure law in spite of the Presidential veto. The Conservatives who last week were loudly singing Mr. Truman's praises are now berating him furiously for his action. If the veto was an effort to regain laocur's si.pport.

which was alienated by Mr. Truman's action following the railway strike, it will be unavailing. The paradox is that while Mr. Truman vetoed the Case Bill he still insists on his own legislation, which in some way? is far more hostile to labour. He still wants power to draft strikers into the Army, although the Senate has already struck this proposal from the measure advocated by Mr.

Truman. Many people Washington now believe that the President knew that the railway strike was settled before he went to Congress to make his dramatic speech demanding coercive legislation. They believe Mr. Truman's advisers had persuaded him to make himself a hero against labour in view of the suffering throughout the nation the railway strike was causing and about to cause. Some journalists charge Mr.

Truman with planning a similar coup during the maritime strike which is projected for next Saturday. They point out that he sent Mr. Schwellenbach, the Secretary for Labour, to Seattle for a comparatively unimportant meeting of the International Labour Office at the moment negotiations about the strike were in progress. It is suggested that when Mr. Truman boasts that he can operate ships with the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps he is overlooking the fact that unionised dockers abroad would refuse to unload hot cargo or load ships for the return voyages.

Unionised American lorry-drivers would refuse to take the goods to the and unionised railway workers would refuse to drive trains to ports. In short Mr. Truman's plans, if carried out. would bring something close to a general strike. WOOING THE POLISH PEASANT Government's Campaign From our own Correspondent Warsaw, June 12.

What may be regarded as a direct result of the visit to Moscow of the Polish President and the Premier is a new drive by the Polish Government to win greater popularity amongst the Polish peasants by measures to ease their burdens. One important decision Is that from August 1 no peasant will any longer be compelled to sell any of his products to the State at fixed low prices. Is now forced to surrender 18 per cent as a "contribution to feed the towns." In return he is entitled to low-priced goods manufactured in the towns. The removal of these restrictions, which will enable the peasant to sell all his goods In the free market at free market- prices, will doubtless bring some benefit to -the Government in the in an. effort to avert a deadlock over setting up the interim Government in India.

The Cabinet Mission, it is thought, may now try to revive direct discussions between Congress and the Moslem League to obtain a compro mise on the Moslem League's claim to equal representation with Congress in the Government. An alternative proposal to parity that has been suggested is that the Government should consist of 15 members, five from the Congress party, five from the Moslem League, and five belonging to neither. Congress is believed to be in favour of fresh discussions among the parties to see how the present stumbling-blocks can be removed. The Congress Working Committee after a three-hour session to-day adjourned until to-morrow afternoon. A meeting of the Moslem League Working Committee was held to-night.

POSITION OF EUROPEANS Mr. Gandhi at his prayer meeting to-night said Europeans should declare that they would neither vote in the elections for a Constituent Assembly stand as candidates. The Mission and the Viceroy should see that this foreign element was not used to affect the elections in any way. Mr. C.

P. Lawson, president of the central administration of the European Association, in a statement to-day said Europeans would consider favourably any proposal in respect of European votes accepted by both Congress and the Moslem League Europeans believe they have obligations and contributions to make ir the Constitution-making, but if they take part they will be bound bv no communal considerations." he said. Reuter. SHORT'S TRANSFER CONFIRMED "Medway Unsuitable" The Government has definitely decided to transfer the aircraft works of Short Bros. (Rochester and Bedford).

Ltd. the home of the Sunderland flying-boat from Rochester to Belfast. Explaining the reasons for this decision, the Ministry of Supply, in an official statement issued last night, declared The Government has been actuated by the necessity for the maintenance of development and production of flying-boats under the most efficient conditions With increasing size and weight of flying-boats, it has become evident that the water facilities of the Medway are unsuitable and the aircraft workshops are inadequate to modern requirements. The official announcement came after a deputation of civic heads from Rochester, Chatham, and Gillingham. members of Parliament, trades union officials, and workers met Mr.

Arthur Woodburn, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry, yesterday and tried to persuade him of the need for maintain-inn the factory at Rochester. Mr. Woodburn had also addressed the factory workpeople and told them that the Government would offer two or three hundred of them an opportunity to move to Belfast, and the Ulster uovernment was anxious to co-operate in finding them suitable homes. "In one resnect." he added, change will benefit Rochester. The introduction of a number of smaller industries will ensure that greater stability of employment which Jlways comes with diversification of work." William Georgr Hynard, C.B C.B Ministry Transport Representative.

Canada. Commander Arthur William Jarratt, R.N.V.R., Dtputy Chairman and Film Industry Liaison Officer. Royal Naval Film Corporation. Harry Jephcott, F.R.I.C., Honorary Manufactured Foods Adviser to the Minister of Food. Clement Wakefield Jones, C.B.

For services to the Cabinet Office. Herbert Kay, C.B.E., general secretary, Wholesale Clothing Manufacturers' Federation of Great Britain. Henry Ward Lionel Kearns C.B Director Genet al of Production Services. Ministry of Supply David Lindsay Keir, LL.D.. Vice-Chan-.

cellor Queen's University, Belfast Alexander Lowe McColl, Chairman Lubricating Oil Committee, Petroleum Board. Hector Lord Provost City ocf Glasgow. Everard Charles Lindley Meynell, O.B.B M.C, British resident in Buenos Aires. For services to HJU. Treasury.

FbUip Robert Morris, C.B.E.. lately Director General of Army Education. War Office Charles John Geoffrey Falmour, F.C.A.. senior partner Whinney. Smith, and Whinney.

chartered accountants. Philip Noel Fanton, M.B.. B.Ch., Consultant Adviser in Pathology Ministry of Health Sydney Parkes. C.BJ3., Chairman City of London Savings Committee. Professor Leonard Gregory Parsons, M.D..

F.R.C.P F.R.C.O.G.. Professor of Diseases of Children and Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Birmingham. Clifford Copland Paterson, O.B.E.. D.Sc. M.InstC-E..

M.I.E.E.. Director of the Research Laboratories. General Electric Company. Wembley. Frederick Maunce Powicke, D.LiU Litt.D LL.D., Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford.

Reginald CJand Bootes, President of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. Harold Leslie Sanderson, Director of Rice. Ministrv of Food. Harold Leonaid Saunders, Comptroller General of the Patent Office. Colonel James Lewis Sleeman, C.B..

OM.G, M.V.O.. T.D Chief Commissioner St John Ambulance Brigade Overseas Arthur John Griffiths Smont, Director General of Ammunition Production. Miristry of Supply. Henry Thomas, D.Litt, D.Lit, P3A, F.S-A-, Keeper of Printed Books. British Museum.

Ronald Mark CunUffe Turner, Head of the Economics Department, Control Office for Germany and Austria. Robert William Wbarhirst, C.B.E., Director of Armaments Supply Admiralty. Lieutenant Colonel Cnthbert Wilfrid Whi taker, For services to the corporation of the City of London. Robert Pelbam Wilkinson, deputy chairman Council of the Stock Exchange. A list of promotion in th various Orders appears ok pag 91 Bournemouth, Wednesday, i Mr.

Bevin got to-day a resounding endorsement for his policy from his party. He earned it. He spoke for over an hour with force, simplicity, and candour. He paid the conference the compliment of telling it something of his ideas for the future, particularly in Palestine, where he foreshadowed, public ownership of the land, to be leased out fairly to Jews and Arabs by an impartial tribunal. He met Mr.

Zilliacus's challenging question of the morning would he undertake not to conclude a separate peace treaty with ex-enemy countries? with a blunt statement, "No one nation is going to keep me in a state of war with other countries. A way will have to-be found. We cannot go on like this. It is indefensible." He spoke in answer to five more or less critical resolutions on general international policy, on Palestine, on the personnel of the Foreign Service, and on relations with the U.S.S.R. and with Spain.

After his speech the first two were withdrawn. About fifty hands went up for the U.S.S.R. and personnel resolutions, and perhaps 100 for the breaking off of diplomatic relations with Franco. As no card vote was taken, one cannot say what strength these hands repre sented. But as no trade union dele gate spoke for any of these resolutions it is probable that they were almost entirely from divisional parties.

The conference had previously shown a good deal of sympathy with these resolutions. It would not be quite right to say that Mr. Bevin had convinced all the critics that they were wrong. What he did. in effect, was to put these points in perspective.

Seen against the massive background of his grasp, sympathy, and fertility of ideas, they, no loneer seemed an adequate ground for voting against him. As Lepidus said of Antony, I must not are Evils enow to darken all his goodness." and perhaps the con ference was conscious, as he himself said, that his real constituents were the unborn generations to come. NO TO COMMUNISTS After thir, the of Communist affiliation seemed an anti-climax. When Mr. Morrison had flogged a moribund horse with an inordinately lengthy whip, and Mr.

Tanner, of the Amalga mated Engineering Union, had done his best with his forlorn hope of a brief, the conference voted against affiliation by 2,673,000 to 468,000 votes on a card vote. Of the 468.000, no fewer than 406.000 came from the mandated delegates of the A.E.U. and the National Union of Railwaymen. The N.E.C 's ameudment to the rules, to bar affiliation of political associations in the future, was then votsd bv 2.413.000 to 667.000. These thines came in the afternoon session.

But the- morning was not wim- out its moments of quality. In it came the movine of a resolution supporting Mr. Bevin, from the General and Muni cipal Workers Union, and of the five critical resolutions from divisional parties. There was no great stir over these, thoueh the Holborn delegate entertained the conference with a tale of a "friend that was," a product ot Ruebv and Oxford, now in the Foreign Service, who was quite incapable of travelling third class, or mixing witn peasants and workers and stationed in a country whose language he does not understand. From this on, dramatic incidents followed more thickly Francis Noel-Baker, rising to confront his father on the platform with his message from the exiled Spanish Socialists zniiacus, ANGER WITH MR UNITED Washington.

June 12. Mr. Bevin's references to Palestine have led to sharp comments in the United States His suggestion that Americans were leading the agitation for 100,000 Jews to be allowed into Palestine because they did not want too many in New York was particularly resented. Mr. Adolph Sabbath, chairman of the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives, said.

It is outrageous, unjustifiable, and unwarranted and must be resented by any fair-minded man." Mr. Emmanuel Celler, an outstanding spokesman in Congress for Zionist groups in the United States, said Mr. Bevin is showing his fangs. His statement is as cruel as it is dishonourable. It is the lowest level 'he has reached in all his obvious manoeuvring to keep 100,000 homeless Jews out of Palestine.

I cannot understand how any human being, knowing the plight and the suffering of displaced Jews, can descend to such depths." CONTROL COUNCIL IN TOKIO Objections Overruled Tokio, June 12. The Soviet representative on the Allied Control Council for Japan, Lieutenant General Derevyanko, protested at a meeting of the Council to-day that an item placed on the agenda by General MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander-in-Chief, involved major policy and should be discussed between the Allied Powers and not come before the Council. The item was a proposal that Japanese merchant shipping should be transferred from the Japanese Government to private companies with a certain degree of Government control." The British Commonwealth representative. Mr. MacMahon Ball, also -considered that high policy was involved.

He could not understand bow -the handing over of Japanese shipping to the Zaibatsu" concerns (the great industrial and financial' combines) could further the interests of democracy. The discussion was closed after the United States chairman. Mr. Atcbeson. had said that no change of ownership or question of high policy was involved and that the proposals were made purely in the interests of the economic operation qi the vessclv-Beoler.

Winston and water Acland. lately leader of Common Wealth, modestly speaking of your party I am too new to it to call it mine Crossman. fresh from the Anglo-American Com mission' on Palestine, begging the conference not to confuse (as the resolution before them did) the distinct issues of the entry of more Jews to Palestine and of the establishment of a Jewish State Professor Laski announced from the chair that 93 delegates had wished to speak in this debate, and the standard of discussion was high enough to make one regret that the conference could not have heard many of those who went uncalled. The main points in Mr. Bevin's weighty speech may be summarised as follows.

On the resolution regretting the apparent continuance of a Conserva tive partv policy." he said that he should regard it. if passed, as a vote of censure. and it would certainly be so regarded overseas. On the personnel of the Foreign Service, he said that he nao decided in "stick to the career man. and not bring in political appointees." He was now recruiting new staff from all walks of life but if he had not Kept on the older men he "would have had no one to take their place.

He was appointing many more attacnes to keep in touch with trade union affairs in other countries in South America, Scandinavia. Holland. China. and the Far East, as well as Washing ton, Rome. Paris, and Brussels.

PALESTINE, SPAIN, RUSSIA On Palestine, he said. "If we put in 100,000 Jews while the illegal armed forces remained I should have to put in another division of British troops. I am not prepared to do it." The financial issues were tremendous, and with our present taxation we could not take on an expenditure of 200,000,000 in Palestine. He ventured to think that we should have to come to the conclusion that the land in Palestine would have to be publicly owned and allocated by an arbitration tribunal. On Spain, he would" not say exactly what steps were being taken, but he was ready to consult at any moment with France and the United States.

He had been in the closest possible touch with the Spanish people. On Russia, Stalin had told him that if the Angio-Russian Treaty was to be extended it would need to be amended. He had replied. Let me know what would suit you," but he did not get anything definite. He had been asked if he would sign a separate peace treaty.

I do not know," he said, "what steps we shall take to get peace treaties. But no one nation is going to keep me in a state of war for ever with other countries. way will have to be found. We cannot eo on indefinitely as we are. It is indefensible." I am not going to be a party to any design of strategy or allotment of forces to attack Russia.

There is not a soul in the Cabinet who would lend a thought tn it. Nor will we consider expansion. But this division of Europe, this awful business of a line from Stettin to Albania if that happens, which God forbid, you will have two camps In Europe by force of events and you will be on the road to another struggle." THE NEW CHAIRMAN Among next year's officers Mr. P. Noel-Baker will be chairman and Mr.

Emanuel Shinwell vice-chairman. It shows the desire to maintain close links between the Government and the party that two of the busiest Ministers are taking these important positions. Mr. Sam Watson, of the Mineworkers' Union, will be the delegate from the Executive on the National Council of Labour's delegation to Germany. Report on next page BEVIN IN THE STATES Dr.

Mahum Goldman, representative in the United States of the Jewish Agency, described Mr. Bevin's reference to New York as idiotic." In New York David Petegorsky, executive director of the American Jewish Congress, speaking on behalf of Dr. Stephen Wise, president of th Congress, said This country may import many British products, but it certainly does not want to import the anti-Semitism and bigotry of the British Foreign Secretary. The American people will utterly repudiate Mr. Bevin's unprecedented- calumnies, as we hope the British people will repudiate his unprecedented inhumanity and illwill to the Jewish people." Reuter.

Mr. Bevin's words were: "In view or the agitation iruthe United States, and particularly in New York, for 100.000 Jews to be put into Palestine and I hope thev will rot misunderstand me in America when I say (with the purest of motives) that I believe it is because they do not want too many of them in New York these 100.0M Jews do not touch the fringe of the problem of the refugees in Europe." TOWN FEARED "TORNADO" Funnel-Shaped Cloud Fearing a tornado, peoplcran for cover at Ipswich last evening when a funnel-shaped cloud detached itself and descended until the tip of the funnel was about 1,000 feet from the ground. The funnel was revolving rapidly in an anti-clockwise direction and was preceded by electrical, storms. Mr. Richard Wilson, of the Ipswich-meteorological station, told a I was making observations at the time and I thought it was the start of a tornado.

I had the funnel in lull view for about ten minutes, and after that it continued to twist rapidly before it finally dispersed." Shortly afterwards torrential rain fell. JAPANESE CONSULATE EIRE ENDED IN It was officially announced last night that Mr. De. Valera has been informed by the Japanese through the intermediary or tne Government of Switzerland, that Mr. Sehsuya Beppa, the Japanese Consul General' in Dublini no longer held that office.

The King's Birthday Honours List, published to-day, contains the names of one new viscount, seven barons, one baronet, and 52 knights bachelor. Knighthoods in the India and Dominions and Colonies lists and promotions in the various Orders bring the total of new knights to 143. None of the new peerages involves a by-election. There are three awards of the Order of Merit and five new Privy Counsellors. The Army and Navy share with diplomacy the awards of the Order of Merit, which go to Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Lord Cunningham, until recently First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Stafl, and Lord Halifax, recently Ambassador at.

Washington. Lord Louis Mountbatten is the only new viscount. LABOUR PEERS Sir William Beveridge becomes a baron, while Labour's representation in the House of Lords is strengthened by baronies conferred upon Sir Walter Citrine, retiring after twenty years as secretary of the Trades Union Congress, and Mr. George Shepherd, who is retiring alter li- years as chief agent of the Labour party. Another Labour neer is Mr.

George William Lucas, president of the Motor Agents' Association, who. apart from other war work, raised over 100,000 for the Red Cross Prisoners of War Fund Other honours for Labour and trade union leaders are bestowed upon Mr. George Gibson, a past chairman of the T.U.C., who is vice-chairman of the National Savings Committee and a governor of the Bank of England (Companion of Honour) and Mr. Joseph Hallsworth. of Manchester, general secretary of the National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers, a past president of the T.U.C.

General Council and a member of the governing body of the International Labour Office (a knight). C.B.E.s are awarded to Mr. Neil Maclean, M.P. for Govan, chairman of the Parliamentary Labour party, Mr, John Benstead. General secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen.

Mr. Ernest Bussey, general secretary of the ElectricaJ Trades Union. Mr. Joseph Hall, the ui'Ksoire miners president. Mr.

Charles Jarman, National Union of Seamen, and three former junior Ministers Mr. Ernest Hicks, Mr. Frederick Montague, and Mr. Tom Smith. Sir Ambrose Woodall, senior surgeon of Manor House Hospital, Golders Green Labour's own hospital.

and medical adviser to the N.U.R.. is created a baron. The work of Mr. Robert Brand, Treasury representative at Washington is rerojmised by a barony. He was appointed chairman of the British Supply Council in succession to Sir Ben Smith WOMEN IN THE LIST Women are not largely represented in the honours list, but Mrs.

Winston Churchill and Ladv Cripps. wife of Sir Stafford, both become Dames Grand Cross of the Order of the British SEVEN NEW Following is a list of the principal i awards in the list VISCOUNT Acting Admiral Lord Louis Francis Viinr- KfoVinlas Mnunt batten. G.C.V.O.. K.C.B.. D.S.O..

Personal Naval the King. BARONS Sir William Henry Beveridge, K.C.B. For public services. The Hon. Robert Henry Brand, C.M.G., D.C.L.

For services as Representative of H.M. Treasury in Washington. The Rt. Hon. Sir Waller McLennan Citrine.

K.B.E.. general secretary of the Trades Union Congress. For public services. George William Lucas. For political and public services.

Marshal of the Koyal Air Force Sir Cyril Louis Norron Newall. G.C.B G.C.G.M., C.BJ3., A.M., Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of New Zealand, 1941-6. George Robert Shepherd, national agent of the Labour party since 1928. ror uolu.cal and public scrv.ces. Sir Ambrose Edgar Woodall.

M.D., M.Sc.. Ch.B., F.K.C.S.. senior surgeon Manor House Hospital. Golders Green. For political and 'public services.

ORDER OF MERIT Field Marshal the Rt. Hon. Alan Francis, Viscount Alanbrooke, G.C.B.. Admiral of Ihe Fleet the Rt Hoa Andrew Browne, Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope, K.T.. G.C.B..

D.S.O. The Rt. Hon. Edward Frederick Lindley, Earl of Halifax. G.C.S.I..

G.C.I.E.. T.D. COMPANION OF HONOUR George Gibson. vice-chairman National Savings Committee. A past chairman of the Trades Union Con- General, the Hon.

Andrew George Latta MCNaugnion, o.c, u.m.ur.. General Officer Commanding-in-Cnief First Canadian Army. 1942-3 PRIVY COUNSELLORS The Hon. Sir Alexander George Montagu Cadogan. G.C.M.G..

K.C3., Permanent United Kingdom Representative on the Security Council of the United Nations and previously Permanent Under Secretary of State. "Foreign Office. The Hon. Clarence Decatur Howe, Minister of Reconstruction and The Rt Hon. William Francis, Earl of UstoweL Postmaster General.

The Bt. Hon. Charles CUve. Viscount Mersey. C.M.G..

C.B.E., a Deputy 'Speaker, House-of Lords, since 1933 and Deputy -Chairman of Committees. Sir Hartley William K.C.. M.P.. Attorney General. Member morning was that the Cabinet, which had sought an assurance from Umberto that he would indeed resign when the Supreme Court announced the final results on June 18, had last night received the following letter I consider it opportune to confirm once more my intention to respect the response of the majority of the Italian people expressed by the electors in the final verdict of the Supreme Court called upon by law to pronounce on it.

Wishing to contribute as much as possible to the pacification of all, I am certain that we can still continue in our collaboration intent on maintaining that which is truly indispensable, the unity of Italy. Accept, Mr. President, the expression of my best sentiments. Affectionately, Umbekto The Minister of Transport, who disclosed the text of the letter, added that Umberto had agreed verbally to leave Rome, but would not leave Italy until June 18. The Cabinet, after considering whether the assurance was sufficiently concrete, issued an Order of the Day early this morning authorising the Premier, Signor de Gasperi.

to assume the powers of provisional Chief of btate. It made no reference whatever to Umberto's Dosition. Reuter. Associated Press, and British United Press. DISORDERS SPREAD TO CAPITAL Monarchist Outburst From our own Correspondent Rome, June 12.

In the last thirty-six hours the Cabinet has had five meetings, and Signor de Gasperi. the Premier, has been to see Umberto at the Quirinal seven times. To-night the Cabinet has met again, and while it was still sitting a letter arrived from Umberto. Signor de Gasperi had asked the King for an assurance that he would go as soon as the High Court made its final announcement. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN At a distance from Italian affairs one can doubtless give excellent advice Indeed, if Signor Nenni had not been so precipitate and if Italians could keep a secret it would have been ideal to leave everything to June 18.

But to have kept anv results so long from the public would have been miraculous in Italy. There seems no doubt that Signor Nenni and many others wanted soi.ie proclamation on Monday to coincide with the commemoration of Matteotti's death: the habit of making dates coinciae dies hard in this country. But it is also clear that both Signor de Gasperi and the King really that the Hish Court was eninp tn proclaim, the Kepublic. But because the High Court was not so definite as it had been expected to be the Cabinet has naa to strive for a formula which would get Umberto out of the country without creating another Lieutenant General to tide over the period till June 18, for another Lieutenant General would be more than the trade unions and voters of Italy could i swallow. Signor de Gasperi has had no easv task.

His Cabinet has in it devoted fiery Republicans who command the respect and affection of the enormous working-class unions, ft also includes defeated Liberals, of whom at least one was responsible for the crisis which brought down Signor Parri and put Sienor da Gasosri in six months ago. The Premier t-ommands 8.000.000 votes in the country, but leads a party without other leaders, and he himself is a man of compromises in a situation which perhaps needs a good deal more than that MONARCHISTS DEMONSTRATE I Rome has on the whole been I quiet, though there have been. some ugly scenes to-nigni monarcn-ists gathered this evening on the Piazza del Popolo mainly clustered round the foot of the plinth in the centre. Two tanks were there and about fifty Italian jeeps were cruising round. In addition there were about a hundred mounted carabiniers together with a company of regular infantrymen.

At various balconies down to the Piazza del Popolo hundreds of Monarchists yelled Savoia every time the Savoy flag was waved from the plinth. All round the piazza, but held back by the police, were thousands of Republicans booing. One evening paper had thoroughly incited tne Monarchist faction by printing in huge headlines the report (quite unconfirmed so Ian that the Republican majority had already shrunk to 200.000. This acted like a powerful cocktail upon the already somewhat hvsterical Monarchists round the Piazza del Popolo and disorders broke out. By nine o'clock, however, the police had got the situation completely hand.

Ten people had been injured, and from the fifteen arrested a haul of batons, hand grenades, and pistols was taken. The behaviour of the Italian police, carabineers, and Army has been excellent. THE NAPLES DISORDERS Naples has had its clashes and through last night's disorders flve are dead and some fifty wounded. The mobile police who were sent to Naples for the elections have been recalled' to-day and substituted by regular carabineers. The mobile police, in their fast jeeps, are usually on the drastic-side and probably the carabineers will be able to handle Naples.

Taranto. and Palermo more tactfully. I The Monarchist attempts in Naples to burn Socialist or Communist party headquarters or newspaper offices is so reminiscent of the work of Fascist, squads in 1922 that, says1 an informant from the affinity of. tie Monarchist movement in Naples with the part regime is obvious to most Neapolitans. PEERS 52 KNIGHTS BACHELOR BARONET Lieutenant Colonel Sir Ralph Verney.

C.B., C.I.E.. C.V.O.. Secretary to the Sneaker of the House of Commons since 1921. KNIGHTS Frederick Aldrldge, Director of Manufactured Foods. Ministry of Food.

Frank Binns. For services to the woollen nnii worsted textile industry. Captain Jocelya Bray, D.L., chairman Tnames conservancy dujiu, uiaumau Catchment Boards Association. William Allport Brockineton. Director of Education for Leicester.

Captain Ernest Geoffrey Brooks, Commodore Master. British India Steam Navigation Fleet. Charles Ernest Christopher Browne, Government Parliamentary Agent Cvril Lodowic Burt, D.Sc. LL.D-. Professor of PsyjholoKy.

University College, London. Henry D.Sc, Warden of Nuffield College. "For public services. Edward Stewart Cripps, Senior Government Broker Andrew Davidson, M.D.. MJtC-P.

F.R.C.S. D.P.H., K.H.P-. Chief Medical OffUer. Department of Health for Scotland. Edward de Stein, lately Director Raw Materials Finance Board Trade.

Arthur James Elvin, M.B.E.. managing director of WemDley Stadium. Ltd. For public services. George Evetts.

O.B.E., lately Gas Adviser to the Minister of Fuel and Power. John Ireland Falconer, W.S Lord Provost. City of Edinburgh. David Gordon Brukewich Ferguson, M.C. lately Director Coal Division.

Ministry of Transport. Briradier General Ernest Richard Fitz-patrick, C3.E. DS.O, National Chairman British Legion. Cyril Thomas Flower, F.S.A.. FJt.Hist.S.

Deputy Keeper of Public Records. Hugh Matheson osier, T.D.. President of the Law Society. Robert Gransden. C.B.E Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet of Northern Ireland and Clerk of the Privy Council of Northern Ireland.

William Thorn's Griffiths, D.Sc. chairman and managipg director of the Mond Nickel Company. Ltd. Joseph Hallsworth, general secretary National Union of Distributive and Allied Workers, past president of the Trades Union Congress General Council, member of the Governing Body of -the International Labour Office. Sidney West C.B, CV.O..

Assistant Under Secretary of State Home Office Lieutenant General Gerald Robert StedaU HicKson, C.B.. CB.E, R.M. (Retired). Secretary King George's Fund for Saitors. Valentine Holmes, K.C., lately Junior Treasury Counsel.

Captain Archibald Frederick Hordern, Chief Constable Lancashire County Constabulary. or Parliament xor sat. iieiens..