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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1945
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Report to President )^ Calls for End of Most Vilar Agencies by June 30
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Told Continuation Of Unneeded Offices Creates New Problems; 126,937 Are Employed
Washington, Nov. 10. (UP) — President Truman tonight was giv¬ en a broad plan for liquidation of emergency wartime agencies with t recommendation that practically all be abolished by June 30, 1946.
The plan was prepsred by George E. Allen, former District of Columbia commissioner and a close political associate of the Preiiident. Allen was assigned by the President on Aug. 30 to make a atudy of the liquidation of feder¬ al war agencies. His report cover¬ ed (0 pages. Asks Uquiiiatlan Director
Allen suggested primarily that a director of liquidation be appoint¬ ed immediately with full authority for administration and co-ordina¬ tion of sll phases of liquidating the emergency agencies. He sug¬ gested also that a liquidation offi¬ cer be set up in each emergency agency.
"A basic objective of liquida¬ tion," Allen reported, "should he to eliminate as far as poasible every ledersl emergency agency by the end of the current fiscal year, June •0. 1»46."
"The few agencies which must continue beyond this period, such as those dealing with prices and other reconversion problems, should be co-ordinated under the Office of War Mobilisation and Reconver¬ sion, and all others be transferred to a proper permanent agency at the earliest  posslle  time."
Te Protect Employees
Allen set forth a series of spe¬ cific recommendations for protec¬ tion of federal personnel employed by agencies to be al>olished. He ad¬ vocated :
1. -Thirty days' notice prior to termination of employinent.
2.—Payment of retirement de¬ ductions within 30 days sfter sepa¬ ration.
3.—Coverage by unemployment Insurance for all emergency agency employees.
4.—Transportation home or an equivalent distance for all dL'nlaccd war agency workers unable to ob¬ tain employment ^US7 Employed ^^As of September there were 124,937 persons employed by emerg¬ ency war agencies. The peak was in June, 1943. when the figure was 189.237. At the time of Poarl Har¬ bor there were only 26,682 peraons employed by such agencies.
Allen's report and recommenda¬ tions did not apply to the vast personnel hired during the war by the regular government depart¬ ments. Including War and Navy. The total number  of  federal  em-
Itloyees throughout the nation now i aibout  3,000.000.
The continuation of unnecessary emergency agencic.i, after their es¬ sential service haa ended, delays and compounds problems for the future." the Allen  report said.
At the same time he recommend¬ ed "energetic measures'' to assure "ail willing workera" the "right to work and the dignity of Individual Independence."
KESSERLING REPORTED K TO BE IN WASHINGTON
Washington, Nov. 10. (UP)—Field I Marshal Alliert Kesselring, former ' chief of staff of the Germany army, was In Washington late this week undergoing questioning by American intelligence authorities, uiually reliable sources said to¬ night.
Kesselring   and    other   captured Cerman   omcers   whose   identities rould not be learned were removed from   the   capital   by   plane   early today.     At   that   time   they   were Spotted  at a distance by reporters Kcthered   to   cover   the   arrival   of !     Prime  Miniater Clement Attlee. I        Army officials refused to say why Kesselring   was   brought   here   or even to admit that he was.   How¬ ever,    informed    sources    reported that it had been common  practice throughout  the wnr  to  brinj:  cap¬ tured   enemy  leaders  to Wnahing- tun  for  extensive   cross examina¬ tion. Tlje   exact   status   of  Kesselring ^   as   a   war   criminal   is   not   dear. ^^Ithough he was  not among  Indl- l^viduals   named   by   the   Nuernberg Indictment,  the high  command  as K" a unit was Included.
Patton to Take Command in Europe
Frankfurt, Nov. 10. (UP)—Gen. Oeorge S. Patton will be com¬ manding offlcer of the American forces during the absence of Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower, It was announced today by Lt. Gen. Walter B. Smith, chief of staff for American forces in the Euro¬ pean Theater.
Patton will assume command by virtue of his seniority. He Is lhe sole four-star general In the European Theater since the de¬ parture of Gen. Omar Bradley and (Sen. Courtney H. Hodges, v/ho returned to the United States last summer.
Smith said Patton probably would commute twice weeklv he- tween Frankfurt and Bad Nau- helm, where he Is commanding the 15th "paper" Army.
The announcement said Elsen¬ hower expects to return to Frankfurt  Nov. 21.
DEADLOCKS M THREAT TO OUTPUT
OFNEWAUTOS
Men Vote Strikes; Over 270,000 Idle Throughout Nation
He Looks the Part, too
British Ub J ruman Asks for
One-Third of/^ Soerabaja
Non-Political
Open Full Drive on Java Nationalists; Claim Casualties Forced the Attack
U.S. Foreign Policy
British soldier guards Col. Esao Tokunaga, whose idea of "sub¬ duing" war prisoners was to fill them with sand and water and
jump en them until they burst. He formerly ran the Japanese prison camps in the Hong Kong area.
Jap Government Control Over Labor Abolished
Cliicago, Nov. 10. (t;P)—Labor and management deadlocks tonight threatened the new car production programs of three of the nation's biggest automobile companies.
With affirmative strike votes al¬ ready taken against General Motors, Chrysler and Ford: these new developments marked the gen¬ eral labor situation:
1.—Walter P. Reuther, vice- president of United Automobile Workers (CIO) reported to the union's executive board in Waah¬ ington on wage negotiations with the auto firms. The UAW gsve a free rein to its strategy commit¬ tee to take whatever action neces¬ sary but It was generally believed that negotiations would be re¬ sumed.
2.—Humphrey Mitchell, Canadian labor minister, gave up his attempts to end the nine week UAW strike at the Ford Motor Company's Windsor plsnt. Caneentrate on OM
S.—UAW officials announced they would concentrate their ef¬ forts on General Motors to put it in an unfavorable competitive po¬ sition with other companies.
In NLRB elections, members of the CIO auto unions voted 11 to 1 to strike against Ford, almost t( to 1 for a Chrysler strike, and 8 to 1 for a strike at General Motors.
Reuther, on leaving Detroit for Washington, accused CJeneral Motors of opposing public welfare by failing to prove their claims that the demanded 30 per cent wage in¬ creaae would  boost auto prices.
"If they'll open up their books to the public to prove why thry cant pay, then we'll be getting down to facts," he said. ',!70,000 on ^4trike
More than 270.000 American workers were idle In strikes from coast to coast.
The Textile Workers Union (CIO) charged that terror tactics had been used against workers strik- mg at three textile mills In Hill County, Texas. The union said "imported thugs' had assaulted cotton workera who were return- mg to their Jobs after calling off a strike at the request of the War L«bor Board.
The government is setting up machinery to handle voluntary wage cases, it was announced in Washington. The War Labor Board, nt the request of President Tru¬ man, said il would establish a tri¬ partite division to cotinup board functions after thc WI^B is liqui¬ dated and until the Wage Stabiliza¬ tion Act dies next June .30. The new divisions will not handle labor disputes, but will pass on volun¬ tary wage boosts which require upproval. Shipyards 8IIII Closed
V. .S, Steel's federal shipyards In Kenrnev and Port Newark, N. J., remained closed as 13,000 C?IO ship¬ builders took a four-day work holiday to protest thc discharge of a shop steward. They walked out yesterday.
Higgins Industries, Inc.,  In New (Continued on Page A-15)
Jtescue Fisherman Affer Week On Craff Burned fo Wafer Line
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Charleston, S. C, Nov. 10. (UP) -The rescue of three fishermen '"I'ho had been adrift In the Atlan¬ tic for a week aboard the charred hulk of their 30-foot smack was reported tonight by the U. S. Coast Guard here.
Names of those rescued were not disclosed Immediately.
The Norwegian freighter Mar- pesla spotted the craft, burned al- jiiost lo the water line, 20 miles off Savannah, Ga.. after continuous daylight searches by Coast Guard planes and surface craft had failed to reveal any trace of the missing shrimper.
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three men, who made up the crew of the shrimper, had suffered no 111 effects, thanks lo adequate food and waler supplied aboard their craft.
Coast Guard officials, who dis¬ patched a vessel to Investigate the charred hulk and determine whe¬ ther it was a menace to navigation, said the Marpesia would anchor at Savannah Lightship about mid¬ night, when the survivors of the ncar-diastcr will be taken off the freighter.
Coast Guard authorities said the three men set out last Saturday on a fishing trip and were sched¬ uled to return the following night or next day. Tuesday, the owner of the fishing craft became alarmed and notified the Coaat Guard that the vessel waa overdue. Search began   immediately.
Possibility of a commercial steamship discovering the fishing timack whicii had no radio, was "one in a million." according to Coast Guard  officials.
New Laws Expected To Protect Unions; Prince Gives up Titles
By RALPH TEATHORTU
Tokyo, Nov. 10. (UP)—Japanese government control over labor has been abolished through the abroga¬ tion of eight regrulatory laws, a spokesman for Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur's headquarters announced today.
The announcement came as for¬ mer Premier Prince Naruhiko Hlgashlkunl, cousin of Emperor Hirohito and member of the House of Peers, proclaimed his Intention of becoming a commoner and de¬ manded dissolution of the feudal- istlc Japanese peerage and the "corrupted cu,>-;oms of the imperial household system."
Abolition of repressive labor ordi¬ nances and lawa was accomplished by Informal discussions with Japa¬ nese authorities rather than by an Allied headquarters directive, the headquarters spokesman said. Labor I.awb Expected
He pointed out that while there was no control law In Japan spe¬ clflcally restricting unionization rights of workers, neither was there any law to govern the actions of an employer who fires a worker for union activity, discriminates against union membera or refuses to bargain collectively.
Liberal elements are expected to prepare and enact legislation legal izing unions and activities of union members, the spokesman said.
He said that stnce Oct 1, the Japaneae government has enacted regulations providing for media tion of labor disputes between Nov. 8 and such time as a formal mediation act will  be passed.
Instructions also have been given police against Intervening In labor disputes unless there Is violence. Old Jjkwn Abolished
Included In the laws abolished were the national labor mobiliza¬ tion ordinance authorizing lal>or allocation, conscription, restric tlons on discharges and transfers and the settlement of labor dis¬ putes, an ordinance establishing s national labor mobilization com¬ millee, and an act suspending lim¬ its on working hours, holidays and night work during wartime.
Prince Naruhiko, who wa., named premier Aug. 16 and who resigned Oct. !> after criticism of his gov¬ ernment for slowness In comply¬ ing with Allied directives, reve.iled his decision to become a commoner to reporters.
He said he believed that the list of Imperial princes should be limit¬ ed to male mcnvbers of the Em¬ peror's immediate family, and pointed out that hU proposal would mean revision of the Japanese Diet's House of Peers. Giving l'p 'ntles
Thc former premier told the newspaper Yomiurl HochI that he had asked the Emperor In writing for permission to become a com¬ moner.
"I believe that now Is the time to eliminate the corrupted customs of the imperial household system which ha\'e dLstorted the picture and to restore the oneness between thc Emperor and the people," the newspaper  quoted  him   aa   saying,
Mainichi said that Prince Taun- emori Kaya, also a member of the Imperial family, had decided to follow Prince Naruhlko's example and lo "become a commoner from a sense of war responsibility." II was recalled that P: ii c Konoye, former premier recnlly announced his Intention of f»iving up his ranks and titles.
CANADA FACING COMPLETE TIEUP OVER FORD STIE
Windsor, Ont, Nov. 10. (UP)— The Canadian government admit¬ ted today that It had failed to end a nine-week strike of 20,000 CHO United Auto Workers acalnst the Ford Motor Ca of Canada, and as a result the walkout threatened anew fo spread over the dominion.
Labor Minister Humphrey Mitch¬ ell abandoning his mediation ef¬ forts, flew back to Ottawa.
Officials of the UAW and the Canadian Congress of Labor came here. Cieorge Addes, secretary treasurer of the UAW, waa flying from Washington. Pat Conroy, Addes' counterpart In the <X!L, ar¬ rived by air and went into confer¬ ences with local union officials. Can Maaa Meeting
A mass meeting of sll union mr;libers in Windsor- CIO and AFL alike—was called for tomor' row night. Speculation grew that a dominion-wide tieup would re¬ sult. The joint policy committee of the 20,000 Windsor strikers ap¬ pealed to the CCL last night to prepare for a one-day sympathy work stoppage throughout Canada
Mitchell said he would report to the cabl'-et Monday.
He did not say what recommenda tlons.  If any, he would make,  but admitted he did not plan to return here.   He left behind his chief con¬ ciliator, J. S, McChiUagh, which in dicated his faint hope that a settle ment still could be achieved. Demand ITnion Security
Mediation collapsed because of the management refusal to accept the ons Issue on which the union stood firm — union security.
Ths UAW said the workers would submit all other Issues to an arbitrator to be appointed from the Canadian Supreme Court which was management's proposal. But they Insisted their demand for the same union security given Ford workers In the United States could not be arbitrated.
The situation though tense was fairly quiet. Picket lines continu¬ ed to ring the Ford plant and out¬ side police forces rushed here when the strike threatened to erupt Into violence last weekend remained on call.
VETS MAY PRESS CLAIMS FOR OLD JOBS BY LAW
MITCHELL BOMBH" CREW DIE IN CRASH INTO HILL
Washington, Nov. 10. (UP)—A Dopartnjent of Justice spokesman .<iald today that veterans who have trouble pelting their jobs back need only call on their district attorney to  have  their  rights  enforced.
Searcy Johnson, special assistant to the attorney general, told the National Council of American Vet¬ erans Organizations that some em¬ ployers are forgetting promises they made to drnfted employees.
SIX KILLED IN CRASH OF ARMY TRANSPORT
Middlcsboro, Ky., Nov. 10. (UP) Five members of a B-25 Miichell bomber' crew were killed late to¬ day when their ship hit the top of a Cumberland Mountain peak in fog. The accident occurred six miles south   of Middlesboro.
Bowman Field aaid the ship was en route there to Knoxvllle and that  five were known  dead.
The .ship hit Fonde Peak in a heavy  log,  Bowman  Field  said.
I^banon, T^nn,. Nov, 10 (UP)— Six persons were killed today when an Arm.v transport plane crashed on a wooded hill 12Mi miles north- fast of here.
Lebanon police said some of those aboard the plane apparently had tried to parachute but that their chulcs did not have time to open because of Insufficient alti¬ tude. Some of the chutes were partly opencK],  police said.
The crash occurred about 4 p.m and Syrna Army air base sent a iletachment to the scene to Inves¬ tigate   the   crash.
Operations at Syrna said the nlane was not from that baae and that they did not know where it wss from.
By  JOHN   BOWEB
Batavia, Java, Nov, 10 (UP)— British Indian troops, supported by warships and planes, today opened an all-out assault against Indo¬ nesian Nationalists barricaded in the streets of Soerabaja who re¬ fused a surrender ultimatum and .lummoned reinforcements from central  Java.
Despite fierce resistance In bloody street fighting, the British were reported gaining ground. In¬ donesian sources said the situation was "most critical" at 8 p. m. or 14 houra after the offensive started.
(British troops have captured one-third of Soerabaja and are well established, although Indonesians are resisting and regrouping in other parta of the city, the Sunday Times of London said in a special dispatch.)
Warships Open Flre
Promptly at 6 a. m. — when the ultimatum expired — British war¬ ships in the harbor opened fire on Indonesian strong points in the city. Indian troops, occupying po¬ sitions around the city, began mov¬ ing into Its streeta. Shortly before noon British warplanes bombed and strafed the government quart¬ er, center of the Nationalist re¬ sistance.
The Soerabaja radio, still In Na¬ tionalist hands, said strong re¬ inforcements were leaving central Java Sunday for Soerabaja. TTie broadcast aald religious leaders had been called upon to assist the Na¬ tionalist  fighting  forces.
Tha BriUsh said they had been forced to attack by steadily mount¬ ing Indonesian aggressiveness which caused some 300 British cwualtles, despite a truce in effect since late October after the kill- ((>>ntinued on Page A-16)
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Wedemeyer Outlines Policy for Future; Will not Be Involved
All Pearl Harbor Facts Promised by Barkley
'No Matter Whom They May Hurt in High or Low Places' — Gov. Dewey, Kimmel, Short Amongr Early Witnesses
I    Washington,   Nov,   10.   (UP)—Chairman   Alben   W.   Barkley   of   the Pearl   Harbor   mvestigating   committee   said   tonight   the     commute would lay all facta before the public "no matter whom they may hur. in high or low places,"
He disclosed thai many top wartime leaders and oihers. including Gov. Thomas A. Dewey of New York, will be among early witnesses before the committee.
Barkley's statement came  aftei  a week of  Intra-commlttee' wrang¬ ling      during    which     Republican I memlters   accused  the   Democratic former U. S. Ambassador to Japan.
Points to Method Of Great Britain as Attlee, King Arrive For Atomic Talks
majority and President Truman of blocking their individual efforts to get at the facts. Wanta No Misunderstanding
The chairman Issued a formal statement "in order." he said, "that tbere may be no misunder¬ standing resulting from discus¬ sions in Congress,"
"Neither I as chairman nor the committee as a whole will coun¬ tenance any effort to keep from the public any facts material to the inquiry,' Barkley said,
"Our task, as I see it, is to lay all the facts before the public, no matter whom they may hurt in high or low places, and we propose to conduct the Inquiry according¬ ly." To Oall Kimmel and (Miert
Barkley listed 48 persons who will be among the early witnesses They included:
Dewey. Maj. Gen. Walter C, Short, Army commander at Pearl Haihor at the time of the Japa¬ nese attack; Rear Adm. Huaband B. Kimmel, the Nsvy commander: former Secretarv of State Cordell Hull; formcr Secretary of War Henrv L. Stimson, C3«n, Henry H. Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces; Oen. (3eorge C. Marshall, Army chief of staff; Capt. Alvin D. Kramer, Na\ry officer who car¬ ried messages from the Navy to the White House on the eve of Pearl Harbor; Adm. J. O. Richard¬ son. Adm. Harold Stark, former chief of naval operations; Adm, WUllam F. Halaey jr.; formcr Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, and Jo.-eph C. Grew for¬ mer  Undersecretary   of  State  and
No Restraint
"At the outset," Barkley said, "the counsel for the committee was assured that no restraint whatever would be placed upon him In his efforts  to  bring out all  the  facts.
"The counsel and his staff have been engaged for weeks in prepsr- ing to present the whole story. The committee has been given whole¬ hearted co-opcration by thc various governmental departments. Coun¬ sels are now ready to produce al the hearings beginning Nov. 15 all the evidence they have collected to date."
"This Initial proof when heard will enable tho committee to de¬ cide wherein the Investigation may be Incomplete and need to be pur¬ sued further.
"I think no one should jump at conclusions as to the sufficiency of the inquiry to date until this initial proof has been made. All documents, records or Information which the counsel has requested from departments has been fur nished or are in the course of prep arations." -All Information Available'*
"All documents and information obtained by counsel are available to every indlvldtial member of the committee. All requests by indi¬ vidual members for information whether classified top secret, se¬ cret, confidential or otherwise, have been preaented to thc depart ments by thc counsel's office.
"Bv presidential order." Barkley continued, "every person in the government service has been au¬ thorized and encouraged to talk with individual members of the (Continued on  Page A-l.^)
Dy OEORGE WANO
Chungking, Nov. 10. (UP)—Lt. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, com¬ mander of U. S. Army forces in China, admitted today that Ameri¬ cans had been Involved In "little Isolated clashes" growing out of the civil war between CHiungkiiiK government and Chinese Commun¬ ist  troops.
"I regret these clashes, but I can assure you the Americans did not take thc initiative," he told a press conference at which he outlined United SUtes policy In the China Theater and the Far East. Communists Besiege Town
The Chinese Ontral News Agencv reported, meanwhile, that a Com¬ munist siege of Kweisul, capital of Suiyuan province, threatened 100,- 000 persons with starvation. One refugee described the offensive as "a disaster heavier than any Jap¬ anese campaign of the past eight years."
The agency said Kweisul had been out off from all food supplies for 10 days as a Communist armyi of 10,000 men attacked government! forces in Suiyuan province. The refugee, a delegate from nine civic bodies In the city, said some 200,000 homeless Chinese from eastern Suiyuan province were streaming westward out of thc path of the Communist forces. Will Continue to Skip Ja|>s
Wedemeyer, who conferred with ("kneraliaslmo Chiang Kai-Shek .shortly after his arrival here last night, said the American forces would continue to help the Chi¬ nese repatriate the Japanese, but that Americans did not come to China to get Involved In fratri¬ cidal warfare.
'I am directed by the Wur De¬ partment to use all means avail¬ able to protect American life and property,", he sad. He added that every incident involving an Amer¬ ican was  under Investigation.
Wedemeyer said that in his con¬ ference wilh Chiang they discuss¬ ed the current situation. Chinese Communist qunrters have demand¬ ed that American Iroops withdraw from China on the grounds thnt they are interfering in China's In¬ ternal affairs. Foree Ready to Up|M>Ke
Wedemeyer said Chinese force still were being transported north¬ ward by American ves.sels and more will be thus carried. Vessels of Vice Adm. Daniel E. Barbey's Tth Amphibious Force have been carrying nationalist troops toward Manchuria, where Chineae Com¬ munist forces aro deployed to op¬ pose their entry.
If the (rniinese government wants to move troops by air into Man¬ churia, it must use Chinese air crews and perhaps American trans¬ port planes transferred to the Chinese government, Wedemeyer asserted. Americana will not move the Chinese forces Into Manchuria aa they did into some areas of China after the Japanese surrender, <
French Action Blocks Allied Control Council
First Disagreement Forced by Dispute on German Labor Unions
By CIJ.NTON B. tX>NGER
Berlin, Nov. 10 (UP)—The four- i power Allied control council for ! Germany. In the flrat final dls- j agreement since its formation, !announced today that France had i blocked a proposal for Inter-zone {amalgamation of Orman trade , unions.
I The breakdown was announced I by an American spokesman aa "final." and he Implied that either the French must change their minds or agreements by the Indl- I vidual Rusalan, American and ' British zonal commanders might 1 well follow, leaving the French out I in the cold.
The meeting of the council was attended by Lt. lien. Lucius D. nay. United States; Fleld Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery. Britain; Marahal G. K. Zhukov of Russia, who prealded. and Gen. Marie-Louis Koeltz of France, rep¬ resenting Lt. Gen. Joseph Pierre Koenig, regular French member of the council. Labor Union t'onlrol
A communique is.sued after the meeting said that "a control law was discussed relative to formation of control functions of German trade unions. Members of the con¬ trol council decided to inform their governments the delegates could not reach full agreement on thc question of accentance of the law because of the position laken by the French delegate at the mo¬ menl."
German trade unions now are functioning in all four occupation zones. A spokesman said the French accepted the entire pro¬ posed law under discussion excent a clause stating that "with the consent of the military government Irade unions will be permitted at the local level and allowed to federate and amalgamate in larger organizations within the whole of Germany." Call it Premature
The French objected that auch a move was premature. They sug¬ gested the law should be written to specifically prohibit Interzone Inbor organization, at least for the present
The inclusion of the phrase "at the moment" in the communique left the road open for the French to change their minda, it was ex¬ plained. But otherwise amalgama¬ tion In the three other zones could result through the clause giving individual zone commanders au¬ thority to make individual agree¬ ments on any matter not specifi¬ cally determined by the control council.
SEN. JOHN THOMAS 71
Washington, Nov. 10. (UP) - Sen. John Thomas, R., Ida., a farm youth who became a banker and cattleman and was twice appoint¬ ed and three times elected to the U. S. Senate, died here today after an illness of several months. Hc was 71.
An Isolationist and a strict party Republican, Thomas was promi¬ nently Identified In Congress with the Irrigation, farming and live¬ stock interests of his state. He v.n\ a member of the Senate banking, finance, irrigation and public lands committees.
Thomas entered George Waah- (Contlnued on Pago A-15)
Washington. Nov. 10 (UP)—Praa- ident Truman aaid tonight (hat he hopes this country can formulate "a foreign policy which will l>e tha policy of the people of the United States and not the policy of anjr politicnl  party."
In a short speech at the stata dinner In honor of Prime Min¬ isters Clement Attlee of Britain and W. L. Mackenzie King of Canad.i.  thc President said:
"One of the great things about the British Empire is that when they have a foreign policy—and lhey always have one- the British people are behind that foreign policy no matter which govern¬ ment ia in power." Shows British Sucre**
Mr. Truman said his statement was "amply illustrated" by the Potsdam "Big Three" conference, wiiich began with Winston Church¬ ill as the British Prime Minister but concluded with Attlee at the reina of a new British Labor gov¬ ernment.
The President made his plea for a non-political foreign policy after he had offered a toast to King George of England. Attlee re* ponded with a toast to "the Presi¬ dent  of   thc   United   Statea."
The British Prine Minister told 'he gatliering that he believed the United Statea and Great Britain noeded most a "foreign policy that la directed not to any immediata aim of any paitiiilar country, but a foreign policy that ia conceived in the interest of all the people of  the  world,"
"This docs not mean that wa don't take Inlo account our par- Llcular differences," he added, "but it seems to me today that our over¬ riding interests of world clvillia- tlon come first." Tommnn-Man World Policy"
Attlee said It was his "earnest desire" that the British-American- Canadian conferees "will ever keep in mind that what we are out for today is to try and devise a world policy of the common man."
Both Attlee and Truman touch¬ ed but briefly on the subject which bi-ought them together at this time —tlie atomic bomb.
Mr. Truman said that Attlee, King and himself "are going at our conferences prayerfully."
"We are hoping that agreements and policies will come out of the conferences which will make the United Nations orgimization a liv¬ ing moving active program," he said.
Attlee expressed hope that tha conferences "will lead us on In bringing about what I believe is the supreme need ot loday — the lifting of the bonds of fear from the human spirit, and the setting free of the hum<in apirit ao that science instead of a menace, as it i-j being looked on today, shall be looked on as something that Is throwing open wide the gale lo a fuller life for all of us,"
Fear Atomic Arntamenta Race
Washington, Nov. 10. (UP)— President Truman and the Prime Ministers of Great Britain and Canada today began discusaing the worid'a most portentous question — how to make atomic energy the aervant rather than the deatroyer of mankind.
Clement Attlee. Britain's Labor Premier, arrived from London by air this morning, nnd thc Canadian Prime Minister. W. L .Mnckenils King, came in about thc aame time from Canada.
Attlee Is a White House gueat and MarKcnzle King la ataying acrosa Pennsylvania avenue In Blair House, the American govern¬ ment's officinl guest house.
The talks began at lunch on what the White House described (Continued  on Page  A-10)
Albanian Regime Recognized; Yugoslavs fo Vofe—Tifo Leads
London, Nov, 10, (UP)—Britain and the United Statea recognized tlie regime of Col, Gen. Bnver Hoxha as a provisional govern¬ ment of Albania today as the peo¬ ple of Yugoslavia prepared to vote Sunday for a national assembly expected lo result in a Yugoslav republic   headed   by  Marshal   Tito.
Recognition of the Hoxha regime was based on the understanding that free elections will be held in Albania, a British foreign office note said. A similar stipulation was made In the United States announcement. No Chnnce  for King Zog
Informed diplomatic quarters here .sdid the British and United States action wrecked any hopes that King Zog might have had of regaining the Albanian which he loet In April. 1939, as Benito Mussolini's Italian troops invaded   his   tiny   counlry.
Hoxha, Albanian premier. Is president of the Albanian National Democratic Front and will be top candidate in Albania's parliament¬ ary elections Dec. 2. He Is com¬ mander-in-chief of the Albanian Army and undoubtedly will be se¬ lected president of an Albanian re¬ public.  Informed quarters said.
tlons.   Including   both   Communists and non-parly men.
The British note to Albania said Britain considers it essential that freedom of the presa should be maintained In Albania and that foreign cornspondents should be permllted to enter thc country and observe and report freely on the elections. It asked that elections should be by secret bollot and that thcy be conducted without any •form of threat or Intimidation."
British diplomatic quarters point¬ ed out that recognition of the Hoxha government doea not Imply recognition of the present Albanian frontier. The border with Greece ia In diapute. Predict  Tito  Victory
Official Yugoslav quartera pra- 'j^"jj^p I dieted that cnndidates of the National Front, which supports Tito, would gain a 6S to 70 per cent majority. It is a coalition of about 10 groupa, organized either on a national scale as are the Com- munLita, or on provincial lines ss ire the Slovene Peasant Party and the  Bosnian  Moslem  Party.
Royalist sources here charged that the Front would obtam only a small minority if genuinely free elections were held In Yugoslavia.
Election  of  a   national   assembly
Communists   hold   key   positions I will  remove  the  last  constitutional
in his government, although "non¬ party patriots" sre represented. A .single list of candidates la being formed for the parliamentary elec-
obatacle for proclamation of a Yugoslav republic. Tlio already Is on record opposing a retum of the monarchy.