INDUSTRY IN GERMANY

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25089, 22 January 1947, Page 7

INDUSTRY IN GERMANY

PLAN TO REVISE LEVEL DISCUSSION BY FOREIGN MINISTERS (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 21. A plan to revise the level of German industry permitted under the Potsdam agreement has been prepared by the British and American authorities in Germany, and will be discussed by the Foreign' Ministers’ Council when it meets in Moscow in March. Disclosing this at a press conference in London yesterday, Mr J. B. Hynd, the Minister responsible for the British zone, said steps had been taken to see that no plant required under the new scheme will be dismantled pending a decision by the council. He added that the British authorities were proceeding with their intention of socialising industry in the British zone, and the necessary steps were being studied. INDIAN AND U.S. TRADE TREATY DISCUSSIONS (Rec. 7.45 p.m.) WASHINGTON, January 20. pie Under-Secretary of State (Mr William Clayton), in a letter to Mr Emanuel Celler (Democrat, New York) disclosed that the State Department has discussed a trade treaty with India, and the United States would like to arrange a treaty with India as soon as India clarifies her commercial relationship with Britain. “The State Department will take advantage of any favourable opportunity to urge on the Government of India the desirability of the early conclusion of such a treaty,” said Mr Clayton.

INDEPENDENCE FOR INDIA RELATIONSHIP WITH BRITAIN (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) NEW DELHI, Jan. 20. Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, speaking on Pandit Nehru’s resolution to proclaim India as an independent republic, said at the resumed session .of the Constituent Assembly that it was inconceivable that India would be a Dominion like other Dominions which were bound to Britain by ties of race, religion, and culture. “Even though we elect to go out of the British Commonwealth, there are 100 different ways of voluntary cooperation and mutual collaboration whose development depend on Britain’s attitude,” said Sit Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. BAN ON ASSEMBLIES IN DELHI (Rec. 7.30 p.m.) NEW DELHI, Jan. 20. The New Delhi radio stated that a ban has been placed on all rallies, political meetings, and assemblies Of more than 10 persons for one month in the Delhi area. PARACEL ISLANDS LANDING BY FRENCH TROOPS <Rec. 7.45 p.m.) PARIS, January 20. , E is learned semi-officially that a detachment of French soldiers from a French Navy frigate landed to-day on the Paracel Islands. 250 miles off the £,uast of Indo-China, over which both Fr A nc e and China claim sovereignty. The Chinese Embassy in Paris earlier issued a statement declaring JhM the Paracel Islands, 250 miles Off coast of Indo-China, were Chinese 1 territory. The statement claimed comsovereignty over the islands, which three weeks ago Chinese forces occupied. The statement added that although the French in the name of the Emperor of Annam occupied the islands 1938. China had never renounced ner sovereignty over them.