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MOSSADEGH
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Teheran. Dec 18 Persia's general elections, ex-
Premer pected Mohamed Mossadegh to power with big majority, began to
Teheran and
day
Northern
Russia.
2016 deaflis werd bimi dherily o indirectly. do and the cold. Sixty-
- per obs died on shippery or vrac-clanded highways Eighty- te dropped dead of heart at
Eighteen persons died of ķ
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mushaps
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cod
Then there tonight. will be
1.morrow more show and an even worse cold waye on Thursday.
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of the northern part States was blanketed snow to 24 inchies the ranging from 10
with the cold preventing hr
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provinces bordering
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the Prime Transportation failing to
keep on schedule.
In all. 138 seats of the Majli (Lower House are at stake
In the old House Minister's National Front Party seven seals, but ob- forecast that it would
held only
servers emerge
as the strongest party in Parlament after the elections,
The polling, preceded by cer- tain
preliminaries, will last several days In most districts But
months it may be Iany before the results come in from the remote provinces
The National Frn led the fight for oil nationalisation and Dr Mossadegh is seeking mor support in the Majlis
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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1951.
Churchill
For
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Eden-Salah Pasha Talks: No Progress Reported
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Pledges Support European Army
BUT BRITAIN WILL NOT |
JOIN IT
Paris Talks Communique
Paris, Dec. 18.
Mr Winston Churchill pledged tonight that Britain will support and work with a European army "in all the stages of its political and military development" - but not join it.
The pronouncement immediately posed the question whether Mr Churchill's moral support without participation would be enough to restore the waning enthusiasm of some European countries for the one-uniform international army.
Tallulah In
The Witness-Box
New York, Dec. 18. Actress Talluinh Bank- head, peering at an all-male jury through rose-rimmed spectacles, today testified that she had never author- ised her white-haired, 69- year-old former maid to in- crease the amounts of her weekly expense chequer,
The former mald and secretary, Mrs Evyleen Cronin is charged hom Miss with scaling $4,284
But the best sources said Mr Churchill's visit, in preparation for his talks with President Harry Truman in Washington next month, may have results that will lead to the actual merger of European forces, in-Bankhead during an 18-month cluding German, in Western defence.
Mr Churchill's position was stated in a joint British-French communique after he had lunched with General Dwight D. Eisenhower, strong advocate of the Euro pean Army idea, and had had two days of talks between himself and Foreign Secre- tary Anthony Eden on the one side, and French Premier Rene Pleven and Foreign Minister Robert Schuman on the other. Discussions with President Vincent Auriol and W. Averell Harriman, chairman of the North Atlantic economic planners, also were sandwiched in
Mr
in ice from freezing rain that crippled airline operations, 1
Mr Anthony Eden, the British Foreign Secretary, and soweit
halte i Salah el Din Pasha, the Egyptian Foreign Minister, madeperation with any international SHAPE, the Eisenhower head-
to progress tonight towards reconciling the widely sepa-army rated views of the British and Egyptian Governments on organize. the Anglo-Egyptian dispute, it was understood in usually The well-informed diplomatic quarters.
some bus services. Trucks and cars deted the streets leading into the metropolis. lying where they had been abandone: by their drivers. New England Wus warned to expect three ! snowfalls before Christmas Day
- United Press.
Fanbassy
the
that an agreement
Europeans
art #
12
க
of
re-Army now being worked out by erienceAssociated Press.
much 11 was a wonderful ex-
Malcolm
MacDonald's
Future
of his tour of duty-may be decided tomorrow.
period by forgery. The alleged forgertes consisted of raising the amounts of incidental expense cheques
that
Mrs Cronin's defence is Miss Bankhead nuthorised and directed her to raise the amounts. Her defence counsel, Fred Morilt told the jury in his open- ing statement that the cheques, in addition to payment of tips and sandwiches, also paid for such "ineldentals" as liquor, cocaine and marijuana
Gen. Eisenhower was be- This was believed to mean lieved to have told Mr Chur- that the two powers hav. lined chill that England should "come up & programme of closer co- atid in or stay out" and engage in operation in Indo-China
Called as the lar State wit- no half-way measures.
Malaya where both are fighting
ness by the assistan! District Churchill's reported Communist guerillas.
Attorney, Jerome Kidder, Miss answer was that England would Mr Churchill and Gen. Eisen-
Bankhead lightly dropped her ahower were both close-mouthed stay out, but would make
mink cont into the hands of statement
promising Rul
up at co-after their talks broke
her own counsel and sat com→ posedly in the witness chair. West miles roay quarters
Paris.
Gen
(From Kenneth Macaulay) Eisenhower de
EXCESS AMOUNTS Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 18. communique said Mrclared there were no decisions, Churchill and Mr Eden
Mr Malcolm MacDonald's of
When Mr told "nothing
particularised
Kidder handed their French opposite numbers character" In the discussions. future whether he will her 20
cheques which Mrs Britain would "welcome" Mr Churchill commented continue his task as
admitted Com- Cronin had
raising Abdul Fattah Amr Pasha,, new road to their water filtra-
European only have enjoyed it very missioner-General in South- and which constitute Indict- Eypt's Ambassador to Britain, ton plaut.
ment evidence against the de- The Egyptian position as
East Asia or terminate his fendant. Miss Bankhead identi was present
evening's 41 thas
iterated by Salah el Din Pasha | France,
West Germany, Italy, of the two" hour-long meeting
end fiet her signature on each and THE COMMUNIQUE week-end Just
is that nothing Eelgium, Luxembourg and the
responsibilities at the HURDLE CLEARED Foreign Ministers at the British short of evacuation of the Bri- Netherlands.
Paris, Dec. 18.
noted the amount on each. Both France and England, it It was reliably reported here tash troops in the Canal Zone and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan continued, were "convinced that that the text of the joint state- Bonn, Dec. 18.
A ten-minute talk at Singa an agreement
Winston Am Pasha has been recalled could be accepted as a basis for such
would be Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's į
ment issued by Mr
pore Airport tomorrow after- the right method of integrating Churchill, and the French Prime government today cleared one to Cairo by the Egyptian Gov-further negotiations.
sim noon, just before Mr Oliver democratic Germany Mr Eden.
understood. hurdle in its nigh for ratificatioa erament in protest against The
it is
Minister, M. Rene Pleven, had purely defensive organisation for 61 the Schuman coal-strel on demolition of 50 primitive dwell-
establish
been (tried to
common
shown by Mr Churchill Lyttelton takes off for Britain The after his 20,000-mile tour of the plan. The West
discussing the cir- European security.""
to the German Parings a village near Suez by
to its prior ground by
publication, liament's Foreign Affairs Com the British military. The houses cunstances
Far East is likely to determine Britain "will associate itself Atlantic Pact Commander-in- that 80 12 city mittre voted for 11, 12 to 7. were demolished
the troops would
closely as possible with the Chief, General Dwight Eisen- the issue. Associated Press.
British Army could construct a purely British garrison and be- Eutpean defence community at hower, who was stated to have
All stages of is political and expressed great satisfaction. come part of the Allied Supreme
military development," it said, it is
The full text of the statement Command
proposed to
those cheques were drawn for adding:
the amount indicated when you establish in the Middle East.
follows: TRUE COMRADESHIP
"Mr Churchill and Mr Eden
Per-signed them?" "No." PAKISTAN'S ROLE
"The United Kingdom forces, have had a number of talks with he feels about his future. under
"Did the direction
Pleven, Mr Schuman and sonal considerations are involved
at any time tell of the Mr Meanwhite, the part that Sir Supreme Allied Commander in other French ministers
and Mr MacDonald's own views his defendant en any other in the Mohammed Zafrullah Khan. Europe (Eisenhower) will be last two
tarry the greatest weight person that he or she could in- days. Pakistan's Foreign Minister, inked with those of the Euro-
crease the amount of a cheque "The talks have shown com-with the Cabinet."
The Anai touches to may have played in trying to
Mr drawn by you?"-"Never." pean defence community for plete agreement between the two sides bring the
Lyttelton's Report on his tour together training, supply and operations two governments on all prob- of the was
much by land, sea and alr. They will lems of present subject of
international speculation in United quarters tonight.
In the old Hane there were cores of about 20 two hard Deputies each. one supporting the Governmenḥ and one opposing t
In Teheran there are about most of them 100 candidates,
einbers of the National Front. They are confestung
seals-Reuter.
COMMENT OF THE DAY
THE
Fruitful Discussions
THE talks which Mr Churchill and .
Mr Eden have had in Paris during
even
B
the past two days appear to have been eminently successful and helpful, and worded official the carefully communique shows that in consequence
the British of the discussions
and French governments have moved closer together on a number of common prob- lems. M. Pleven has good reason to feel happy about Mr Churchill's pledge to give the Schuman Plan as much moral and practical support as possible. The British Government has accepted the plan in principle, and while not prepared to go as far as having its armed forces merged into a European Army, has promised that it will continue to maintain troops on the continent in fulfilment of obligations. Britain will also actively identify itself with the by Schuman Plan
appointing permanent delegation to act as liaison with the six-power body which is to be constituted for the purpose of imple- menting the provisions of the plan. It can therefore be assumed that one out- come of the Paris talks is that French fears that Britain would repudiate the Schuman Plan have been set at rest, M. Pleven
remains undoubtedly
dis- appointed over the fact that Britain is not prepared to be associated with a
federation European
scheme BS envisaged by France and Italy, and he understands now why a European Army cannot Include British forces. But there are compensations. Britain remains a firm ally and will honour all her continental obligations. There is no question of Franco or any of the other West Europe countries being left in the lurch in the event of an emergency. It is the means and not the end over which there has been any difference of opinion and there le every reason to believe that whatever misunder
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to
British
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In Kuala Lumpur tonight, M
said that Mr Mar- Lyttelton Donald had asked to see him.
The Colonial Secretary added: "He will tell me exactly what
will
ship."
Some Sir Mohammed had lak with Salah
el Din Pasha plained
Nations stand together in trus comrade- situation, notably in the Far completed
a long
British that the
"Is it a fact that all the
arc of
ότι cheques
amounts excess
a ked the of $100?" prosecutor.
The actress answered "yes". She then testified that she had never signed an incidental ex- pense cheque in excess of $100.
"Can you
tell us whether
you
Mr Kidder then asked if Mrs Malaya and Hongkong were
in
had ever asked Miss Kuala Lumpur Cronin 1+ will not
Talse be Bankhead's permission to tonight. East, Middle East and Europe.
of amount but it will be sub- the
a cheque. published officers ex- "The conversations have been
State "Never" was the reply. In all, relationship guided on both sides by the fact mitted to the Cabinet an
document. London between British, United States that in order to meet dangers Service.
Express the actress was on the stand for
| 25 minutes.-United Press, this morning and this evening and European armies would be official
which face
face Europe now, all steps saw Mr Eden after the meeting
and much like the coalition set up leading to a greater unity in between the Egyptian British Ministers.
during the last war.
The He
standings existed they have been cleared up as a result of Mr Churchill's visit to Paris. A full measure of agree- ment has been reached on the fundamental
for necessity
greater unity in dealing with common dangers. And this, judging from the communique, is to be extended to cover problems in the Middle East and Far East. Anglo-French interests in both areas are closely aligned and their prob- lems similar in character. Britain in Malaya and France in Indo-China are confronted with the menace of aggres- sive Communism taking the form of open warfare. guerilla banditry and
Both nations have heavy responsibilities to these territories; their immediate task is to restore law and order, and respect for the legally constituted governments: the second responsibility is to see that both in Malaya and Indo- China the people shall enjoy the benefits of democratic administration. These are common aims and there is cause for satisfaction in the declaration made by Mr Churchill and M. Pleven that complete agreement has been reached between Britain and France on all matters pertaining to the international situation in the Far East, Middle East and Europe. That this should have been achieved is also important from the point of view of Mr Churchill's forthcoming visit to Washington. What- over suspicions there might exist in the United States concerning Anglo- French relations these should be eradicated by the outcome of the Paris discussions. Mr Churchill will be able to give President Truman a reassuring report and to satisfy him that so far as Britain is concerned, she intends to play her full part in bringing about unity of purpose and unity of uction. wherever democracy is threatened.
saw Salah el Din Pasha again this evening immediately laboration, they after returning from the British Embassy.
A British spokesman
Mohammed tonight Sir
said had
called on My Eden for "a gen- eral review" of United Nations affairs before departing for Karachi.
el
Europe should be welcomed and col- encouraged, British-European
"The British ministers took the plea- occasion to express their sure at approval by the French Assembly of the Schuman Plan. "They hope that the Plan
come would
eTact in:0 reaffirmed the inter'ion
sald, would often be extended to joint man
combined training
standardisation Operations arms and training methods.
Mr Churchili often has sup-
An Egyptian described the Eden-Salah Din Parba meeting as "cordial." subject
He refused to say whether another meeting between the two statesmen was conteniplat- ed. Reuter,
a
ACTION THREATENED
of
Belgium'a
Own
soon.
to
common cause,
Fix the
ported the idea of a European and Army-in fact, first suggested
His Majesty's Govern- it in a speech at Strasbourg 18
into close enter minient -but months agob never com-
relations with high authority as spokesman mitte
Britain
her to pooling
soon as it was constituted. army into a single
His Majesty's Government to supra-national political control as envisaged propose to set up a permanent of the delegation at the seat in the Pleven Plan
authority for this purpose. Nevertheless, many European
"The British ministers de- leaders have nurtured the hope clared His Majesty's Government Britain would join. Premier
Paul Van Zeeland, for plans to maintain armed forces so fearful on the continent of Europe to Cairo, Dec. 18. example, has been
fall Iulia their obligations, in the the Pleven A British military spokesman the
Plan would
"His Majesty's Government threatened today that "clearing short of ratification in his
roadt
Parlament that he has props will welcome a conclusion of an military
through
Els ver-
between be one
the of the ed watering it down.
agreement Ismailis may
sion would be more of a coali things we will have to do" to
of countries participating in tion of armica, with none of
Paris,conference. counter Egyptian guerilla ac- tivity.
the countries surrendering any
RIGHT_METHOD DEVIKY.
sovereign their
political Ten days
British of ago the
"Both Governments are con- Arab control over their forces, and
need that flattened a tiny army
much an agreement common budget vinced
offers the right method of in- vlage to build a multary rond without the
tegrating
a démocratie Ger- near another trouble spot in the envisaged in the Pleven Plan. canal zone, Buez City."
ANOTHER STEP
many
A purely defensive or- That move, following The joint communique alganlantion for European security. This would be a major step ambush of British troops in the declared Britain's hope area, caused an uproar among another step toward European inwards structure of a United
Egyptian gov unification, the Schuman
Europe It would strengthen Egyptians. The
pool "con ernment arat ordered its police for a coal and steel
the defence of the North Atlan Hle Area to resist with force, and later soon be put into effect." from recalled its Ambasador
reaffirms the intention of setting "Elle
Government Majesty's London
na protest against up a permanent diegation rt will asstelate themsolves "British aggression.
the high authority closely as possible with the mat Of British spokesman
an made controlling the pool.
European defence community It also declared today's statement at a news con-
the French in all stages of its political and ference in Immailla after one and British had covered a wide military development,
"The United Kingdom forces British officer was killed and range of toples and wore in
the three soldiers wounded there in complete record" on all prob- under the direction Ianother ambushi Mondayms raised, in the Far East, Suprente Allied Commander in
night-Associated Frank.
Four Ear and Eilrope.
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