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RUSSO-AMERICAN TUG O' WAR
Complications Too Well Timed To Be Just Tathay Pacific
Pure oincidence Important Meeting Of Arab League
London, Feb. 7.
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The broad strategic implications of the Russo- American tug of war seem to be taking an in- creasingly important place in Soviet calcula- tions. Russia is accusing the United States of attempting to make the Mediterranean American lake, of plotting the domination of Western Europe through the Marshall Plan, and now of converting Persia into a spring- board for aggression against the Soviet Union. The threat of impending complications in Persia, at a moment when the transfer of administra- tive power in Palestine is likely to mark a period of unsettlement throughout the whole the Arab Middle East, looks too well timed to be merely coincidental,
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The meeting in Cairo this werkend of the Arab League as Silmes UNUSURI importance this backgr und. The caupirks of the Arab League will face collectively the pro- blems which are being set thưrin hy the intensification of power
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Their conclusiona ΠΡΙ cerialn to have an important bearing on Britam's declared polley of bring
ng her understanding with the Arab status up-to-date the light of the changed post-war
a situation.
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Moscow Makes It All Clear!
London, Feb. 7.
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A Muscow Radio commenta- {tor, Vladimir Linetsky, said to-
night:
"The candidates
of the projected membership
West European Federation are divided by deep contradictions (on such central European pro- blems as the German problem.
A nis is the best means of First and foremost, there is no |avoiding being drawn into the unity between The chicf or. vortex of great power rivalries, ganisers of the Western bloc- Then the changes of a coherent | Britain and France
patien of Anglo-Arab agree- Iments, emerging
future, will recede.
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in
the
the other
neu:
"There was deep dissalisfaction in Britain uver the devaluation hand, the of the frane which constitutes a Asub League lenders conclude tw threat to the pound sterling That the great power struggle, and the whole system of Britain's aerons whose path their territory foreign trade.
lies, caminet, by the nature of things respect Arab Isolationisin,
"Neither is there any unity to be Uen the tone of the latest Soviet among the first countries
Persia
Join the bloc - Bei- e-nvince invited to
nate to
mattiy
them that sone coordinated. The Netherlands and Lux- posity with the outside world is bourg. The age-old struggle between Antwerp and Rotterdam
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enly hope of a peaceful and con- structive development,
The French Finance Min Ister, Rene Mayer, smokes a pipe as he holds a press con ference In the Lauvre Palace in Paris on Jan. 25, to announce the devaluation of the
Franc
(AP Photo).
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Damaged Plane Gets Home Safely
Bunnell, Feb. 7.
An Eastern Airlines" "Constellation" plane with more than 60 persons on board was reported on fire over the Atlantic today and about to attempt an emergency landing at sea. Later, the damaged plane flew in to safety with one of its crew dead.
The dead RA
was flight Auten dam Clbert Paul Falz, killed when an engine disintegrated and a piece
struck him,
***That Netherlands considers. Fire was reported to have falinw. The text of the joint Anglo-tsif insulted. because Brusselsjed the engine failure and several French draft for
alliance pays only half the official value passengers were injured by jumping with the Benelux countries is of the florin. Belginn brewers from the plan after the landing. not yel published in London. It fear competition of Dutch beer,,
The first report of the plane's competition of Dutch widespread
Planes. rescue effort. de-artisans.
blimps and surface craft were quickly "Belgium und The Netherlands knit into a rescue force that began to are dissatisfied because Anglo-converge on the area where the American export goods are beplane was expected to come down.
Western towards
Const Guard
when the and not
craft landed safely Germany via Hamburg
ashore.--Associated Press. Antwerp or Rotterdam,
"Britain, on her part, does not
Another Crash favour the customs
is ertain that the terms of its while Laxembourg industrialists distress caused a major eters and a mutual aid provisions will be fear the chsely studied before they cide whether to accept er reject
it.
Close Alliance
They are #ware from their ing Lowf experience how closely
linked the
economic, political and neurity aspects of any
25-
directed
union rc-
sciation, even a customs union,cently proposed by France to the
is nowadays,
The Anglo-French treaty Dunkirk is directed specifically against a German renewal uf aggression.
In these uncertain timics, There jare indications that the Benelux powers watıld like to see any alliance more widely framed in its security clauses.
Significantly. Russia also ap- pears to be modifying the wor- ding of the corresponding clauses | in her trenties of alliance and mutual aid with the satelite euntries in her sphere of 171-
fknee,
The treaty just signed with Rumania, in its reference to German aggression, is cast so witle that it could be held to cover many kinds uf military action, not necessarily ogainst Germany.
Security presccupations have led Sweden te head 1 Scan- dina vian retreat fruin any West- tern European association com- mitments, apparently On the mistaken assumption that the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, had issued an Invitation at large to join a Western bloc.
Moscow Canard
Moscow Radio puts its own Interpretation on the affair by asserting that the United States and Britain have entered into a secret alliance with The Scan- dinavian countries aimed at the Soviet Union.
This story, officially dismissed as without any foundation, sug-i gests that Moscow is anxious to put maximum pressure on the Scandinavian powers on the eve of the meeting in Stockholm of: the Scandinavian Prime Minis- ters,
The move may also be not unconnected with the Russlan polley in Finland, where the re- cant change of Soviet Ambar- sadors, the decision of the Fin nish Communist Party to join the Cominform, and the pre- parations for tho coming elec- tions, all point to a fresh Soviet effort to bring Finland moto into Jine with the other countries in- side tila Soviet sphero and wean ber away trom any excessivo contact with the Western ·world. -Reuter,
Benelux countries."-Reuter.
off
officers called
them
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