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U.S. DIPLOMATS WAIT FOR SOVIET ASSAULT ON ALLIED RAMPARTS
Aftermath Of Tragic Ship Fire
Washington, September 18.
United States diplomats today awaited a Russian assault on the new cold war ramparts built by the Westem Big Three leaders during the his- tory-making week of international consulta- tions here.
They noted with satisfaction that Big Three world policies, which had been showing a tendency to drift apart, were again co-ordinated on both political and economic levels and that military co-operation for defence was a step nearer. British officials said the "crisis in`confidence" hod
been passed.
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Toronto, September 18. Hundreds of rescuers, after an all-night search, were today still looking for bodies in the 6,905-ton Canadian holiday cruise ship Noronic, which was
Communist tide. swept by fire in dock here yes- However, despite this progress, the terday.
the question of the day among it was not written in their com- The authorities believe that these observers was, “Whe will muniques, officials acknowledged
this as a calculated risk. more than 200 holiday-makers-Vyshinsky do now?" most of them Americans--peri- shed in the disaster.
Although
for
Once more it seemed th. the They believe one way to ease Scores of bodies bearing the next move was up to the evict Soviet pressure in the Far East
to make trouble label "Burned 10cogni- Foreign Minister, Andrei Vyshin- might be
sky, recognised master of state Russia elsewhere. For this pur- tion were in the mortuary.
well as of vilification. pose, they see a made to order Dominion and City authorities craft as
investigating the Mr. Vyshinsky is en route to New weapon in the "family feud" be- have begun
turned the steamer York for the United Nations Gen-tween Yugoslavia and her Mos- into an inferno. More than 400 eral Assembly. which opens on cow-led Communist neighbours Are, which
has been no
passengers and crew fought and Tuesday. There
to safety through hint of his plans and not even a
bulk
The Secretary
Thus, they said, the Western democracies which disavow Cam- munist and dictatorship Arte seeking new ways to bolster the Mr. Communist dictator, Marshal
scrambled flames that turned the 36-year- rumour has reached here where old Neronic into a blackened rumours are a dime a dozen.
of State, Grief-stricken survivors were today still walking down lines of Dean Acheson, left Washington Tits. They added that the out- charred bodies, vainly trying to late today to take personal com lines of Western strategy identify relatives and friends, act mand of the United States dele- clear. The question remained:
The police said that gation to the General Assembly "What will Vyshinsky casualty Agures would known until the submerged parts during the critical opening days United Press.
not be
of the steamer could be searched when Mr. Vyshinsky is expected to tip off whatever strategy he for additional (victimis.
has in his mind
He said that the blaze, which was perhaps started by a lighted cigarette in an empty cabin, was out of control before the ship's officers discovered it.
Not Negligence
As the Canadian Department
of Transport ordered vestigation Mr. K. A. Marshall,
20
in-
crew.
COMMENTS ON
U.S. LOAN
TO INDIA
Plans Of Trouble
Nobody here, least of all the State Department, belleves the Russlan's dispatch case will be empty of plans and his plane usually mean trouble for the West
Western diplomats are ready to:
However,
in
the Mr. Vyshinsky might raise question of the Japanese peace treaty.
were
do?"
Nehru Speaks On India's Kashmir: Role
Ludhiana, East Punjab,
September 18.
Minister, Indian - Prime
The
"We went
remained there
this re-
Senator On
Residents of the Old City of Jerusalem evacuated their homes as a precautionary measure Damascus Gate in the before an estimated three tons of explosives were act.off near the Walled City. The explosives had been buried by Israeil forces during hostilities in Palestine. more than eight months ago and were considered too dangerous to dispose of in any -chan2.7
the explosives fashion. More than 40,000 Inhabitants were moved from their homes before were detonated by Jewish forces. The blast from the cache raises a huge cloud of dust and smoke more than 250 fest high. Minor damage resulted to small buildings in the immediate- vicinity. Centre foreground is the British Consulate, evacuated during the blast, and undam- aged by the explosion though only 100 yards away. (AP Photo).
Dutch-Indonesian Negotiations Shift To
Belgium
Namur, Belgium, September 18. Dutch and Indonesian negotiations have been quiet-
ly shifted from the Hague to Namur, Delegates are meeting here in a secret parley try-
ing to break the deadlock preventing settle- ment of the Indonesion problem.
Real Issue
4
+
+
Irrigation Plans For
M. East
Tel Aviv, September 18. Irrigation plans covering the': whole of the Middle East are the ismeli being prepared by Government here for submission to the United Nations Economie tomorrow or Survey Mission Tuesday.
This was disclosed here todky some-by Dr. Walter Eytan, of the
Israeli Foreign Office.
SE Asia Pacific Pact
of
the President of the Canada battle Russia on the issue of the Pandit Nehru, today described as Steamship Lines, the owners of Austrian treaty, delayed for four incorrect a statement attributed
Representatives of Holland and hold a" Congress secretly Ferozepore yesterday the vessel, said that he had years by the Soviet Union. They to him in a report of his speech that
Dr. Byten told Reuter that a determined, beyond any reason think Mr. Vyshinsky may demand t
came to this neutral country to The Congress was due to open
Government Committee able doubt, that there was no a full-fledged Big Four Foreign Kashmir was essential for India's her former East Indian colons where in the hills. negligence on the part of the Ministers meeting to discuss it security and India, would not be search for a basic solution to the on Saturday morning near Pram-special
ue Soviet strategist prepared to compromise the posi- problem of their future relations banan, outside the Republican in Tel Aviv was putting the fical old existing plans up by touches to They have been meeting at a capital. but was broken round-table discussion in the military police on instructions which, he said, were mostly ir--2 The majority of the passengers likes to pick his own battlefields, tion she had taken up
covering the were asleep in their staterooms He may ignore Austria or even gard.
Mr. Nehru said, "I never said Dutch capital, The Hague. Tran- trom the Republican government rigation schemes
Congress leader Djoni told the whole of the Middle East. and many were trapped by the make concessions on the treaty
order to
concentrate his fireo por am I prepared to say 50. sporting the members of a com-
Wax These plans, he said, would be smoke and fumes.
Lor we went to Kashmir not for
Mr. Gordon Clapp escaped, some by elsewhere. Those who leaping overboard, others by way Observers who specialise in the our security but we went there fence from one country to an-Associated Press that be
United Nations Economic of the pier, were part of a fran-Soviet Union were confident Mr. because Kashmir was being at other and confining them in forced to adjours Congress due submitted
the most unusual diplomatic will have a Congress this month, the tic, screaming and pushing crowd, Vyshinsky would go before the tacked and the people of Kashmir lonely country hotel is one of to military intervention, "But we the United States Chairman of If an open Congress is impossible, Survey Mission, who is expected Captain William Taylor, the
to Kashmir with manoeuvres in history,
A-delegate-said-if-basic terms we would ships master, slood for nearly United Nations Assembly to at-wanted us to save their land.
tack the newly-announced dee
in the
day.... hills
its head- an hour in the bow of the ship fence machinery plans of the the consent of the people of Kash-
The Mission, with. He said he intends to enlarge between the two countries after throwing lines to victims striTM North Atlantic Pact patips. If mir and with their consent we establishing some sort of union where in seruny some-in Tel Aviv tomorrow or stres- with quarters in Beirut, was recently Holland hands
formal the preparatory committee over gling in the water.Reuter.
so, he probably will use as am-
"It is wrong to say that we
of the Republican set up by the United Nations" munition the statements of some
Conciliation Commis American
of the United Went to Kashmir for cur protec-sovereignty to Indonesia were set members critics
to President, Soekarno-Associat-sion to decide on the spot which States foreign policy that the tion. If the people of Kashmir Up, details could be worked cu Army to be sent as a delegation Palestine
want to have relations with us later.
ed Press.
the several existing develop- plans are aimed at Russia.
ment plans can be carried out There was also speculation that it is for them to say so. If they
Referring to the scheme for do not want us there we will not go there."-Reuter.
The issue is whether any
the internationalisation of Jerd- future union between the two
salem; Dr. Eytan said that con- countries should be strong or
tact in Lausanne had proved the wants Holland weak,
Aman's and Tel Aviv's identity strongest possible guarantees
of views on the subject, though that Dutch interests will be
Manila, September 18. probably for different reasons. protected after Indonesia
The New York "Herald Tri-
Arab Attitude comer Independent. When this "surprise party" for bune's Far Eastern corespod
Referring to the attitude of the the week-end was organised, the dent, Mr. A. T. Steel, who left Baltimore, September 18. Dutch said they wanted it in- last night for the United States
after arriving earlier in the day other Arab States to the future The chairman of the Senate formal, Informal it was. Armed Services Committee, Delegates in short sleeves and by plane from Hong Kong, said of the Holy Cify, Dr. Eytan sald
that the countries in South East that they have agreed to the in
because Russia has hitherto demanded Senator Millani Tydings, said sport clothes sat over tea
sympathetic to the temnationalisation plan the veto at the Japanese peace in a radio broadcast today, "It threshing out ways and meat Asia were
if the on-setting up a new order in the proposed South East Asia Union they are not directly interested, The United States will be a miracle
Communism, in this and also mainly because of their to Transjordan conference
opposition part of thy world turned thumbs down on this, but slaught of the Communists is rich South Pacific area Holland to contain
matter supremacy in the city, which the Western powers and their arrested short of the Southern ruled for 250 years.
He has not given the Typical was Saturday's lunch Pacific allies have so far been un border of China” able to find a way to go ahead Mr. Tydings said it was heart- the lawn of the Chateau de serious thought because the plan is connected with their opposition is still vague. "What impressed to the annexation of the Arab ening to see recent reports that Narur. Paris, London and Washington the Nationalist troops had been Premier Willem Dress of Hol-me," he added, "is that there are section of Palestine by Trias.
Fierce opposition to the inter are now giving priority attention making hard fight in some land sat at one end of the table more dissimilarities than similari- fordan. to the problem. Diploma's agree places and that there appeared go for 18. Sultan Hamid I sat at ties of view toward the Union"
The correspondent has travelled nationalisation scheme, proposed Commission. that Russia's Far Eastern post-be some dissatisfaction among the other in a shirt and sweater
all over South East Asia during by the Conciliation which, according to him, he has in a report to the General: As- tion has been greatly strength-he people in Communist-held with no coat or tie. ened by the Communist victory territory, who were finding they
endeavoured to obtain the reae-sembly of the United Nations, in China
tion of as many leaders as possi- marked week-end mass meetings At a Saturday meeting, the Big after all
In Jogjakarta, meanwhile the ble to the anti-Communist econo-held in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem Three agreed that China must be He said the tide might turn written on. They hope the against the Commumista, but this Red Communist leader organiser mic, political and cultural pro- by various Israeli political par and leftwing groups-Beuter,... emerging Nationalist movements prospect should not be counted of Saturday's banned Indonesian jert among the free Asian counties, especially the extreme right
guerilla Congress threatens to tries-Reuter. on China's borders will contain en-United Press.
Bombay, September 18. Mr. Ananthasay Nam Ayyan gar, Deputy Speaker of the In- dian Parliament, said here today that a loan from the United Slates to India on a Government level and on security of India's sterling balanes and repayment guaranteed by the United King- would promote India's eco- nomic interests.
dom
Commenting on the recent dol- lar talks in Washington, he said, "I feel that an attempt should bave been made to reduce India's dependence on the Sterling Area by direct negotiations with the dellar countries."-Reuter.
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