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| for 1,050,000 publicly -owned
houses to be built in seven years,
and about $264,000,000 in farm
housing aids. Democrats predict
approval.
Other developments:
Backward Countries — Legisla
tors studied a request from Presi
dent Truman for a new foreign
aid program to build up backward
countries all over the world.
A special message from the
President yesterday asked for
$45,000,000 to finance American
engineering and other assistance
to such countries, and authority
for the export-import bank to
guarantee new American private
investments in those countries
against risks of loss “peculiar” to
foreign financing.
China — Twenty-one Senators
organized opposition against any:
United States move to recognize a 1
communist regime in China. They
sent a letter to President Truman
late yesterday expressing “great
concern” that the government
may be considering recognition of
the communists.
Five per Centers—A Senate in-!
vestigations sub-committee head-1
ed by Senator Hoey <D.-NT. C.> be-1
gan gunning for persons who!
claim that for a fee they can use [
“influence” to swing government
contracts. Hoey said the investiga
tion which started this week into
one reported “five per cent deal”
now will cover all buying activi
ties of the government.
Atomic — Chairman McMahon |
<D.-Conn.» of the Senate-House;
atomic committee has turned down j
a demand by Rep. Price <D.-I11.> j
that the investigation of the atom-!
ic energy commission be halted.
Hearings will be resumed Tues
day.
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March. Besides approving Zayim
as president, the people are asked j
to vote on whether they want free
elections held regularly and a new
constitution.
The Chinese government’s
blockade of communist-held ports
in China is scheduled to begin at |
midnight tonight. The largest port j
for international commerce —
Shanghai—was almost empty. Ex
cept for the crippled British
freighter Anchises, damaged in a
nationalist air raid this week,
there were few foreign ships to
blockade. Because of civil war
dangers insurance rates have been
climbing steadily and shipping
companies have cancelled sailings.
Representatives of the three
western powers meet in Berlin in
a closed session today to try to
find a way around the railway
blockade caused by the five-week
old strike of Berlin railway work
ers.
In Athens, King Paul I has
asked the deputy premier and for
eign minister Constatine Tsaldar
is, to form a new Greek govern
ment. Greece's old premier, The
mistokles Sophoulis, died Friday.
Australia is threatened by a
general coal strike of its 23,500
miners today. The men's request
for increased pay and a cut in
working time to 35 hours a week
has been rejected by the govern
ment coal board. It is mid-winter
in Australia tind the nation’s small
coal supply is drastically rationed.
Monday, June 27, 1949
Berlin’s railway strike is sched
uled to end tomorrow. Bowing to
the orders of the western allies
the executive board of the anti
communist union <UGO> has or
dered the strikers back to work.
The railway workers won two
of their major demands. The Rus
sian-controlled railway manage
ment has given assurance that
there will be no retaliation against
strikers. Henceforth the workers
will be paid in West marks, wofrth
four to six times as much as the
Soviet-sponsored East marks they
had been receiving.
The workers’ third demand—re
cognition of the UGO as official
bargaining agent—was denied.
The provision concerning wages
means the strike s have won one
of the greatest salary boosts in
industrial history. The railway
management will convert 60 per
cent of each employees, East mark
salary into West marks. The We
Berlin city government will ex
change the other 40 per cent.
Success of the strike has been
such that the UGO, which began
the walkout five weeks ago with
3.000 members, now has 14.000.
Western Berlin was blockaded al
most as effectively by the strike
as it had been during the period
of the Soviet blockade, which i
ended May 12.
The Roman Catholic church has
accused the communist govern- j
ment of Czechoslovakia of deceit,
fraud, kidnapping and robbery in
what it called the fight for "ex
termination of the church of
Christ.” It told its communicants
their “hour of trial” may be at
hand.
A pastoral letter, signed by
Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague
and Archbishop Josef Matocha of
Olomouc, and the country’s bish
ops, declared that, under such cir
cumstances, no church-state agree
ment was possible.
Tabulation of about 70 per cent
of 5,000,000 votes cast in Bclgi
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itual ideology to back up our Mar
shall Plan and I am firmly con
vinced that Moral Re-Armament
is the only force that will break
down the barriers of hatred be
tween the nations of the old
world.”
He reported that George Vil
liers, head of France’s industrial
ists, attended the Caux sessions
and was so impressed by what he
saw, ha announced plans to call a
meeting of all of Western Europe’s ,
leading industrialists and labor
unions at Caux to iron out their ,
differences.
St. Johns also reported that Ma
dame Irene Laure, leader of three
million women socialists in France
has now joined the Moral Re-Arm
ament movement and is now as
sisting the program in Western
Germany.
“She learned at Caux,” said S*..
Johns, “of the necessity of bury
ing old hatreds and arriving at a
working agreement if France and
Germany are to live side by side
in peace.”
__ _ __ _
urn’s parliamentary election made
it clear there would be no referen
dum on the possible return of ex
iled King Leopold.
The Social Christian party, only
pro-Leopold group, had received
44.4 per cem of the ballots count
ed. This, however, was far short
of the absolute majority the party
had campaigned for. The election
returns also indicated a smash ng
defeat for the communists, who
lost at least one-fourth of their
1947 support. The voting was held
yesterday.
Korean President Syn g m a n
Rhee promised the “full story” of
rightist leader Kim Koo’s assas
sination would be told when an
investigation is completed. Mys
tery shrouded the case.
Kim. 73-year-old chiel of the
Korean Independence party, was
slain in the bedroom of his heav
ily guarded home in Seoul yester
day. Police identified the killer a -1
an army lieutenant who was a
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