Labor Party
Loses In Election
In Australia
SYDNEY, Australia, (/P> — The
Autsralian people turned out their
labor government in a general
election Friday.
The Liberal-Country party co
alition, standing for a return to
the free enterprise system as op
posed to continued socialism, has
won—or as good as won—64 seats
in a lower house of 121 voting rep
resentatives.
The ruling labor party, which
has been in power eight years,
has won—or as good as won—50
seats. There is no reasonable
doubt about these results, although
the final count in some of them is
not yet in. Seven seats remain in
doubt.
tin London, the Australian news
and information bureau, an agen
cy for the Labor goverment, an
nounced that Labor had conceded
defeat. It quoted radio Australia
as saying the opposition had won
at least 62 seat* and perhaps 63‘.
Thus, Autsralia followed New
Zealand in the British Common
wealth trend to the right.
Robert Gordon Mezzies, the lib
eral leader, who will become
prime minister, commented after
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Five former Georgia farmers
have sent the following telegram
to Ralph Magill, editor of the At
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“Georgia boys of Madera, Calif.,
always admire those who produce.
Therefore, we are shipping to you
to be delivered to Mrs. Gibbs,
mother of triplets and twins, one
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The Bakers, the Poythres. the
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ers.”
hearing the New Zealand results
last week:
“The Socialists were brought to
‘ power in New Zealand, Australia
and Great Britain in that order.
This dramatic result seems a hap
py omen that they will go out in
the same order.”
Great Britain must hold general
elections before next July. Labor
had been in the saddle 14 years in
New Zealand, eight years in Aus
tralia. It has been in power in Bri
ain since 1945.
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this morning.
The American diplomat, who
lost 24 pounds during a four-week
diet of bread and water, declared
he had suffered “hellish treat
ment” at the hands of the Reds.
Ward, who was caught at his
consulate by the fall of Mukden
to Chinese Reds in November,
1948, declared his final freedom
made him feel just as one would
“after St. Peter lets you by.”
His jail menu was six slices of
i bread daily—plus hot water,
i Ward’s party was not allowed
to board the evacuation ship until
the consul had signed a statement
for the Reds that they had board
j ed “safely and without molesta
tion.”
Ward is expected to leave for
San Francisco on Jan. 3.
Another high official was also
1 free today. Former Chinese Pre
|mier Chang Chun arrived in Hong
Kong after his release by Nation
alist deserters in Kunming. Chang
Chun was caught along with four
top army commanders when turn
i coat troops took over the city for
! the communists. He had gone
there Friday.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek
narrowly missed going to Kun
ming at the same time, nationalist
sources revealed.
Chang Chun said the governor
of Yunnan province, Lu Han, had
approved his departure from Kun
ming. Chiang, meanwhile, was re
ported executing Red agents on
the Nationalist island fortress of
Formosa and preparing for an ex
pected Red attack on the island.
The U. S. has informed the
Philippines government it will
take “positive action to counteract
the communist threat to For
mosa,” a high source in Manila
said.
Two other emaciated American
officials were back in Seoul today
I after 81 days confinement in
northern Korea by communists.
The two—Albert Willis and Al
1 fred T. Meschter. members of the
j economic cooperation administra
: tion marine bureau, were return
ed yesterday.
The Soviet-backed regime indi
cated it had given up its apparent
attempt to get some form of U. S.
recognition in exchange for the
FCA aides who were delivered to
them by a mutinous ships’ crew.
Elsewhere in the world:
The United States. Britain and
Canada has virtually completed
broad oxitlines for a new partner
ship in the development of atomic
energy and atomic bombs. The
next move will be or the state de
partment to take up the proposals
with Congressional leaders. The
proposed plan reportedly would
provide for continued concentra
tion of atomic weapon manufac
ture in the U. S. it is said to con
template that British and Canadi
an scientists would participate in
the work.
The Labor government’s defeat
in Saturday’s Australian elections
neared landslide proportions to
day. As vote counting continued,
the victorious Liberal-Country
party coalition appeared likely to
win a majority of 23 seats in the
House of Commons, a big edge in
the 121-vote lower chamber of
parliament.
The United Nations decision to
i n t ernationalize Jerusalem has
brought new dissension to the
simmering Middle East. Officials
of Israel and Hashemite Jordan,
who occupy the Holy City, have
Reds Offer Gift
Rates On Barred
Soviet Magazines
WASHINGTON. (A*)—'The Sov
iet embassy’s English-language
magazine, barred from a number
of American schools today invited
subscriptions from “many thou
sands of Americans eager for
more truth” about Russia.
The latest issue of the USSR in
formation bulletin, after listing
some of the “fine articles and re
vealing photographs” it has car
ried in the past to give a “thor
ough-going. rounded picture” of
the Soviet Union says:
.‘Your relative, neighbor or
shopmate is missing all these
things through no fault of his or
her own. We believe you could
help us—and them—and therefore
are addressing you on this page.
“We want these Americans to
know our publication, to become
acquainted with both it and the
Soviet people.”
i
Tt said it is offering special gift
rate Christmas subscriptions— $1
for 24 issues—so its readers can
1 “join with us in building friends
in the cause of peace, internation
al understanding for good-fellow
j ship.”
The bulletin is a slick-paper
j magazine offering a strictly Soviet
view on world issues, along with
a bright picture of life in Russia.
united in defiance of the U. N. as
sembly resolution. From both
countries came threats of armed
action.
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Musofu Mission by J. Desmond
Clark, curator of the Rhodes-Liv
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