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At A Glance —
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clamped on the returns, it was ad
mitted that of the first 7,000 votes
counted there were 4,180 voting
“no” to only 2,820 who voted
“yes.”
China’s Red War machine was
reported today rolling toward the
evacuated industrial center of
Hankow. Another communist
force stabbed toward Canton, na
tionalist refugee capital.
Meantime the Beds built up a
new threat to embattled Shanghai,
striking into Pootung, dock and
warehouse area facing the famed
bund across the Whangpoo river.
Fires were visible from down
town Shanghai and all during the
night heavy shelling was audible
in the main part of the great Asian
city. Machinegun bursts could be
heard frequently.
The United Nations general as
sembly voted 26 to 15 last night
in favor of returning envoys with
drawn from Madrid in 1946 as a
gesture of disapproval of General
issimo Franco. But the resolution
lost. The move was four votes
short of the two-thirds majority
needed for assembly approval.
Sixteen nations, including the
United States* Britain and France,
abstained from voting.
Officials in Washington said a
new link may be added to the
chain of charges facing commun
ist Gerhart Eisler, if any when he
is extradited from England. It is
known as “departing the court.”
The 52-year-old Eisler, alleged
former No. 1 communist in the
United States, skipped the coun
try May 6 as a stowaway aboard
the Polish liner Botary. He was
hauled off by police when the
ship touched England. A hearing
on whether Eisler will be extra
dited has been adjourned until
next Tuesday and he has been
sent to a jail cell to wait.
Administration leaders in Wash
ington today decided to move
slowly on the $1,130,000,000 pro
gram for rearming North Atlantic
Pact nations while watching close
ly the Big Four foreign ministers
meeting in Paris.
It was also disclosed a group of
Republicans will try to get $200,
000,000 in military aid for China’s
battered nationalist forces.
(Wednesday, May 16, 1949)
Russia, jolted by a 4,000,000
snub in yesterday’s East German
election returns, faces four power
talks on Germany with a lot less
bargaining power than she expect
ed to have.
The communists claimed a "tre
mendous victory” in the election,
but the fact that one third of the
voters went against them was a
staggering blow. It undoubtedly
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has forced Russia to reappraise her
plan of action as she approaches
the Paris conference.
For one thing, she must weigh
; new factors in deciding what posi
; tion to take on any proposal for
| withdrawal of all occupation arm
i ies from Germany.
Before the elections the Rus
sians had been reported as favor
ing withdrawal by both east and
west occupation forces, presum
ably with the idea that East Ger
man communists were strong
enough to seize control of any cen
tral German government embrac
ing all zones.
Another question must give the
Russians pause: in an area
swarming with Soviet troops and
Red spies, how many Germans
voted for the communist slate, al
though actually wishing they had
the courage to vote against it?
The one-third “no” vote greatly
strengthens the hands of the
United States, Britain and France
in the Paris meetings. They now
will face Russia’s strategists,
knowing that most of West Ger
many’s 46,000,000 inhabitants are
against communism and that at
least 4,000.000 East Germans don’t
like it any better.
I Chinese communists drove a
spe arhead through Shanghai’s
I “back door” almost to the Whang
poo river today. A Shanghai garri
son communicfue acknowledged
the thrust, but said the force had
been wiped out in fierce fighting.
Reds encircling the great city
from the southwest drove to
Chwansha, 12 miles east of Shang
hai. They then struck back west
ward against Potwung, just across
the river from the city’s famed
' bund.
In South China the Reds lunged
, to within 31 miles of the port of
i Foochow, provincial capital, mid
, way between Shanghai and Can-1
ton.
| In New York the Bevin-Sforza j
I plan to split up Italy’s prewar col
onies among four nations failed i
early today in the United Nations
assembly. ;
A last-minute Latin American
revolt brought defeat to the Amer- j
ican-supported measure which the
Slavs and Arabs had denounced as
a “deal to strengthen British
American control of the Mediter-;
ranean.”
The British council for German
democracy promised in London to
day to wage a legal “fight to the
utmost limits” for fugitive com
munist Gerhart Eisler. The group,
which styles itself “completely ■
non-party,” has retained a lawyer!
for Eisler.
Eisler who fled the United j
States while under sentence for:
two criminal convictions, is in a
London prison awaiting an extra
dition hearing next Tuesday.
The Senate foreign relations
committee today winds up hear-;
ings in Washington on the North
j Atlantic Pact after 16 days of pub-1
.lie testimony. It is expected to
! give unanimous approval of the
1 treaty.
j Brazil’s president Enrico Gaspar
| Dutra arrives in Washington to-1
I day for a 10-day official visit.
Manguson Suggests
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which are having communist dif- j
ficulties on the fringe of China, j
along with nations on the west J
coast of South America.
Commenting on the situation in J
China where the communists are j
making sweeping advances, the
Washington senior Senator said:
“We’ve been asleep at the
switch. It’s no one’s particular
fauft and it’s everyone’s fault.”
Turning to territorial problems, j
Magnuson said he would try to |
“get the cart before the horse” by |
having Alaska’s statehood approv
ed before Hawaii—which has a
priority bid because it had its bid
in first.
“Statehood for Hawaii,” he as- i
serted, “has been held back be-!
cause some Congressmen are i
afraid we might wind up with a 1
couple of Japanese members of;
Congress.”
Magnuson declined on grounds
of Senatorial courtesy to name
the men to whom he referred but!
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said they could be “described as I
geographical.”
He left today for British Colum
bia to confer with provincial offi
cials on plans for a proposed rail
road from the United States to
Alaska through Canada. He said, j
that final arrangements would!
have to be made “on the state de- i
partment level.”
Victims Of Two
Plane Crashes
Reinterred
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WASHINGTON, (JP) — Sixteen
navy men killed in two 1945 plane
crashes — one in Japan and the
other in the Pacific—were rebur
ied yesterday in two common
graves at Arlington national ceme
tery.
One reinterment will include
the body of Rear Adm. William D
Sample of Atlanta. He, three oth*i
naval officers, and six naval en
listed men were killed Oct. 2, 194b,
when their patrol plane crashed in
Japan.
The six victims of the otnt r
plane crash died when their plane
crashed June 2, 1945, during an
air-sea rescue attempt in the Nan
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The bodies to be buried with
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