Internationa News
At A Glance —
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sections of Berlin and Eastern
Germany even tighter by a system
of uniform passes. Americans call
ed the move more “hocus pocus.”
The U. S. embassy in Cairo
checked reports that the American
freighter Flying Trader was seized
at Port Said on suspicion of car
rying cargo to Israel.
Britain asked the U. N. to adopt
Count Folke Bernadotte’s plan to
end the Pales.ine war. It would
give the Negev Desert in the south
to the Arabs and western Galilee
to the Jews and place Jerusalem
under U. N. control. The Jews
want to keep the Negev and get
Jewish Jerusalem too.
Old Themistokles Soph o u 1 i s
formed another coalition cabinet
in Greece.
French police and soldiers
moved on Dunkerque where 2,000
dockers, striking at the order of
communist-led unions, barricaded
themselves behind cargoes.
Protesting the American and
British plan to allow the Germans
to decide future ownership of the
basic indusrties of the Ruhr,
France threatened to invoke the
British-French friendship treaty to
force Britain to drop it. France
has demanded international con
trol of the Ruhr, fearing Germany
mght use it to become strong fori
war again.
John Foster Dulles of the Ameri
can delega ion said Americans;
want a strong and unified western '
Europe capable of standing alone, j
He denied Russian propaganda
charges the U. S. is trying for |
world mastery and wants to dump
its surplus into Europe. Actually
the U. S. is dumping into Europe ;
six billion dollars of its treasure—
collected through Ufxse—to sup-!
port the Marshall plan alone this
year.
Friday, November 19, 1948
The United States^ Britain and ;
France all rejected today new Rus
jsian demands in the United Na
1 tions that the five large powers cut
arms a third.
The United States called the
plan “almost irresponsible” and a
“cruel deception.” John Foster
Dulles sai dthe U. S. has only 12
per cent of her wartime troops
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still at arms while Russia has be
tween 35 and 55 per cent. The pro
posal does not apply to iron cur- j
tain countries such as Poland,
Yugoslavia, Romania, and Bul
garia, which have built big armies '
with Russian help.
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Britain called the plan unrealis
tic. France said it was deceiving.
In he case of China, it would re
duce C'hiang Kai-Shek’s hard
pressed armies, but leave its com
munist insurgents intact.
Russia’s Andrei Vishinsky re
peated his oft-voiced charges that
the United States is building a
western European system directed
igainst Russia; that the U. S. and
Britain are carrying on a “mad
armaments race” against Russia;
and in both countries there is a
“war psychosis.”
The royal families of Egypt and
Iran were split by divorce. King
Farouk of Egypt divorced Queen
Farida, who bore him three daugh
ters but no son to inherit the
crown. Shah Reza Pahlevi of Iran
divorced Farouk’s sister, the em
press Faw'zia. The Egyp;ians said
Fawzia’s health didn’t permit her
to stay in Tehran. Farouk’s di
vorce was said to have been or
dered “at God’s will” and that both
the king and Farida were sad.
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In Palestine, where Farouk’s
armies had been soundly thrashed,
Israel retained control of the Ne
gev desert but asserted she had
withdrawn troops which entered
the area acter Oct. 14, w'hen the
last fighting there began. Acting
mediator Ralph Bunche said he
wras gratified and that Israel’s re
ply indicated a willingness to com
ply with his orders.
Paul Henri’s Spaak’s Belgian
coalition cabinet resigned, after de
bate on the policy of clemency
toward former German collabora.
tors.
The French cabinet gave pre
mier Henri Queuille permission to
ask a vote of confidence in the na
tional assembly on the way his
government has cracked down on
communist-ordered strikes. The
seven-week coal strike was about
broken, but it has cost France and
western European recovery efforts
9,000,000 tons of fuel. Dock and
merchant marine strikes were in
the hopper.
Tension eased in central China.
Despite the government’s claim of
complete victory at Suchow, most
observers expected the commun
ists to be regroupilng for another
effort to open the road to Nanking.
Gen. Claire Chennault offered
to organize “Flying Dragons” to
fly against the Reds. The U. S. is
sending 120,000 tons of emergency
food rations for China’s seven
largest cities. American evacuation
of civilians went on apace.
The U. S. hanged 15 more Ger
man war criminals at Landsberg
prison. That made 73 in six weeks.
Secretary of state Marshall talk
ed with the British and French
foreign ministers about the Ruhr
and other questions. He also is to
talk over the Berlin blockade with
Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U. S. military
governor in Germany, before re
porting Sunday to President Tru
man.
British commonwealth leaders
predicted Britain and Eire will
start negotiating a treaty next year
for close military and economic al
liances. The Irish were about to
cut their last ties with the Com
monwealth.
Russia asserted she has exceeded
its prewar metal output.
Com munist demonstrators in
Beirut, Lebanon, fired on police
outside headquarters of the United
Nations educational, scientific and
cultural organization—holding its
third world conference. Ten com
munists were jailed.
Resolution Passed
By Northwestern
Alaska C. Of C.
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has appealed to the people of Nome
through this Chamber of Com
merce and City Officials for co
operation in effecting control of
venereal disease and demoralizing
and illegal sale or use of alcoholic
beverages, and
WHEREAS; the Territorial De
partment of Health has requested
of the Northwestern Alaska Cham
ber of Commerce that a program
of control of venereal disease be
inaugurated in our city, and
WHEREAS; current methods of 1
control now practiced by City Of- j
ficials are admittedly ineffective; I
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RE
SOLVED: That the United Sta es
Federal Judge, U. S. District At
torney, U. S. Marshal’s office and
the U. S. Commissioner be solicited
for aid, advice and their support
1 in putting into effect the follow
ing measures:
1. That all liquor laws be rigid
ly enforced; especially Chap er 60
of the 1939 SLA Laws of the Ter
ritory of Alaska:
2. That all illegal purchasers or
users of intoxicating beverages
i who have been listed as ineligible,
jin accordance with Section 1,
j Chapter 60 of the Session Lows of
, Alaska, be punished to the full ex
tent of the law and if their orig
inal home is other ‘han Nome they
be persuaded to return thereto:
3. That known carriers of vene
real disease be quarantined until
cured. Said quarantine to be rigid
ly enforced and violators be prose
cuted to the full extent of the law:
4. That a program of public en
lightenment on the causes, spread
and result of communicable dis
ease be formulated and publicized
by posters and other methods:
5. That public law under Section
4987, Compiled Laws of Alaska,
1933, defined as “Punishment of
Vagrancy” be rigidly enforced.
Definition and punishment of
vagrancy:
“All idle or dissolute persons who
have no visible means of living, or
lawful occupation or employment
by which to earn a living; all able
bodied persons who shall be found
begging the means of support in
public places, or from house to
house, or who shall procure a
child or children so to do and all
persons who live in houses of ill
repu e shall be deemed vagrants,
and upon conviction thereof shall
be fined not less than twenty nor
more than two hundred fifty dol
lars, or by imprisonment in jail
no* less than ten nor more than
twenty-five days or both.”
This RESOLUTION was unani
mously passed at ‘he regular meet
ing of the Board of Directors,
Northwestern Alaska Chamber of
Commerce, held November 9, 1948.
Signed:
H. F. HARPER, President,
GEORGE BEACOM, Secretary
Approved by the Northwestern
Alaska Chamber of Commerce on
'VTovember 16, 1943, at regular
meeting, by motion made and
unanimously passed.
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