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MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1952.
COMMENT OF British-Made Atomic
DAY
Future Of
Germany Weapon
Teached
THE rapid agreement
between Mr
Eden, Mr Acheson and M. Schuman on the, thorny and controversial" subject of Western Germany's role in the European defence alliance is as surprising as It is gratifying. A clever compromise has been found which, while not satisfying the Bonn Government's desire for full membership in the
now
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, does offer an honourable oppor- tunity for active participa- tion in the defence alliance, of Arm with
prospects eventual full partnership in West NATO,
provided Germany is willing to fuifl earlier obligations. Much depends on Dr Adenauer, the West German he Chancellor. Hitherto has made known only Germany's maximum con- ditions for his country's sharing in the task of pro-
security serving the Western Europe. He is
presented with reasonable alternative, the terms of which appear to offer a sound bargain and one which he can-paus on to, his Government in fair expectation of it being acceptable. The Big Three joint policy not only
tow
of
1
envisages the ond of the Allied occupation of West Germany, but in due course Bonn assumption by the Government of responsibi- lity for German War griminals. It is clear that the three Foreign Ministers have striven hard and earnestly to find a formula that
a long way goca towards satisfying the future aspirations of West Germany.
THE importance
and
delicacy of the tank is not
be
underestimated. Briefly it is to find waysN and
of getting nearly half
million I Germans into uniform in
menns
the next two years to help General Eisenhower's Allied forces in Europe against the threat of Communist
and aggression, manner which
B
in does not
Franca into
rearmed
hurt German self-respect, or frightens believing that a Germany will present a to her security, There is goneral agreement within NATO that the
menace
to
To Be Tested
Fires Destroy Homes DOWNING ST.
16 Deaths ANNOUNCEMENT
& Cause 16 Deaths
New York, Feb, 17.
Fires in four homes across the country today killed 18 persona, 11 of them children, and' 11 persons died in two major highway accidenta,
In Columbus, Ohlo, five children of two families were trapped in a bedroom when fire swept their house. A familly of six, including four chûlären, was wiped out near Fleming- ten, New Jersey, by a blaze that destroyed their two-storey farmhouse.
Thirteen-year-old Alice Potter and Mrs John Reilly die of sicke poisoning as a result of a New York City apartment house fire and in the Catskills a middle-aged couple and their grandson died in their flaming home.
Seven highway victims were riding in a car that collided with a truck uear Kayaville, Uish. Four persons were killed in a two-car collision near Mount Pleasant, Michigan.—United Press
Future Of Germany:
Big Three Reach Policy Agreement
London, Feb. 17.
*
Australian Site Selected
LONDON, FEB. 17.
A BRITISH ATOMIC WEAPON WILL
BE TESTED IN AUSTRALIA THIS YEAR, WAS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED HERE. TODAY.
IT
An announcement from No. 10 Down
ing Street said:
"In the course of this year the United atomic weapon produced in the United Kingdom.
Kingdom Government intend to test an
"Ia close co-operation with the Govern- ment of the Commonwealth of Australia the test will take place at a site in Australia. It will be conducted in conditions which The Big Three Foreign Ministers reached full will ensure that there will be no danger agreement quickly today on joint policy towards whatever from radio-activity to the health Germany and invited Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of people or animals in the Commonwealth.' to join their talks on Monday morning.
now acting, as jealous rivals,
with
*
Britain raised with America a dangerous sort of competition" The three Ministers, in a 90-minute session this
were the question of ant the three countries morning and a three-hour meeting this afternoon, sur- fast November
The
Post said. "Apparently Prised themselves by finishing in a single day the knotty exploding an atom bomb in the United States but later decided problems of how to deal with Germany when the occupato use facilities within the Com-the Churchill Government has tion ends the so-called "contractual agreement."
monwealth, a State Department concluded that it can win some spokesman said in Washington rational partly in exchange of
atomic information
the de United States only by
attained monstrating that it has parity in atomic development, therefore the British insist that. the bomb, they have developed shall be tested in Australia." ---- Reuler,
when
of
At the morning meeting, they, prejudice Germany's chances of last week. agreed on the future of 1,000 er ering NATO itsel later.
It was assumed Britain had war criminals still in għol un- Agreement on the troublesome
use the American der Allled
sought to sentence. Dr Saar also seemed to be in the atomic testing grounds In Adenauer's government has de- cards. M. Schuman, upon his manded that, when
the oc- return from Parts and the hectic Nevada, but dropped the idea -ends
she was told and
the these Assembly debate last night, in- cupation criminals are turned back to dicated privately that he would security restrictions.
There have been reports it: German Jurisdiction; Allied be willing to make a public Justice should 110t prejud that France wants in Australia for months that a Bri- their future.
directly with Germany tish bomb would be tested on on the
future of the enal-rich the continent, but oficials would At the afternoon meeting, the region. A
comment. spokesman for
Dr not question of
Australia's the amount and Adenauer said such a manner in which Germany would satisfy German
miles north should pay for the upkeep of now and do much to calm the has already been used my Aus- Alled troops in Germany was passion excited by the allegedly tralia for testing guided missiles, decided. Bonn has demanded high-handed French
Juses approach bombs, proximity
pilotless planes.
10
one lump payment he made for recently in appointing an Am- the German defence contribut-bassador to the Saar.
tion..
There was a good chance the
336
Woomern range. of Adelaide,
and
Mr George Strauss, Supply Minister in the last British Government, sald nearly a year.
that Britain had the tech-
Encouraging Promise By
Price 20 Cents
Reds Ask Postponement Of Talks
Munsan, Feb. 18 Today's plenary session of the Korean arralstice delerations was postponed until tomorrow. sit the Reds' request,
The Communists, who gave Do ressort for the postponement request, had been expected to reply to conditional Allled pocop- tance of Red. term for A post-armistice Korean peace conference.
The
plenary meeting
had been slated for 10 am. However, staff officers considering two unresolved iruce issues-exchange of prisoners
and supervision of an armisties--were to meek at 11 am.
The plenary session con- sidering the fifth agenda items recommendations to governments -- could have settled that point if North
Korean General Nam I had no major ob- Jections Associated Press,
Rain Helps To Put Out Bush
Fires
Sydney, Feb. 17. Drenching rains brought some relief on Sunday to drought-parched grazing checking bush fires which have claimed 17 lives and caused more than $22,000,-
lands in New South Wales,
000 damage in the past two months.
A
is
Forestry Commission spokesman warned, however, that the fire danger groat, especially in the rich. Rivering district of Southwest New South Wales.
It will take more than a few days rain, he said to bring the drought and fire stricken areas back to normnul.
in
Maher Pasha 250,000
Cairo, Feb. 17.
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Iraqi Senate Approves New Oil Agreement
50-50 PROFIT SHARING
Cairo, Feb. 17.
Iraq's Senate gave final approval on Sunday
to a new 50-50 oil profit sharing agreement with the British-controlled Iraq Petroleum Company, the Arab News Agency reported.
Three opposition parties immediately called, for a public strike to protest the oil agreement, the dispatch said.
Iraq is the heart of the Middle East all producing aron, adjacent ta Iran Arabla.
and Saudi. The Queen's
The Anglo-Iranian Oil Com. pany whose holdings in Iesn were taken over last October, cwn the Iraq Petroleum Com- pany jointly with American, French and Dutch interests,
The Aub News Agency said there was arly one dissenting vole in the Seia'e against the JBW agreement but three Senators walked out without voting.
Public Wish
Functions To Go On
London, Feb, 17.
Public functions in Bri. Agency lain are to go on as usual, parties It was announced here to-
the Tätional
The Arab News the three den ed which called for s rike as the National De day. mccree Party.
theUnited Popular Front and the Istillal
The announcement said that it was the Queen's independence) Party.
wish that public dinners MINOR OPPOSITION and entertainment associat- The Iraq Chamber of Deed with the Government, puties ratified the agreement trade, charity or the arts" earlier over minor opposition. should take place as usual. While the Royal Family praye
Both
Houses of Parliaments
are controlled by the Constitued this morning, memorial ser tional Whited Party of Tragvicts were held in great cathed
ral prad tiny village churches Premier Nuri Sald Pasha,
throughout Britain,
The goverrunent has claimed the now pact will bring Iraq greater oli profits than those earned by neighbouring countries.
of
Three hundred members of the Windsor Castle household in St attended a service
¿within' the George's Chapel Castle walls where the King was buried on Friday,
Many thousands of pilgrima
The Socialista And other parties have attacked the agree-Aled past the multi-coloured do Iraq's scented array of wreaths and ment as detrimental Intereste.
flowers on the lawns outside the Chapel. Many glanced Över Soide opposklon leaders de the green meadows of Windsor- nationalisation of Iraq's Grest Park towards the Royal eil along the lines followed Lodge where the, new Queen and her husband, the Duke of They charge the Iraq Petro-Edinburgh, were spending the leum Compnay has falled In
with week-end
the Queen
mand
by Iran,
Reports from the inland dis- tricts of New South Wales and along the north coast said cattle to death and were starving losses would be severe, unless Sheep heavy rainfalls come. breeders In Northern Victoria reported the same plight. The Prinic Minister Mr Robert G. Menzies has ordered the army to transport water for livestock in the stricken areas,
Ofelals said the fires, worst more than 30 years, already have killed 17 persons, and the death ol about:
sharp ared
several thousand head of cattle. More
many parts of Southern Eng- homes have been than 380
land to attend the memorial burned down and hundreds of
The service was both televized VAST AREAS in the past came from inland
the and broadcast, to be piped to res have been in widely Mediterranean. The fires
The Archbishop of Canter separated areas, stretching fron New pipelines are new near bury, Dr Geoffrey Fisher, Brt- the dairying and timber coun-completion and a new produc-tain's leading churchman who been opened in conducted the burial service on try in northeastern New South tion aren has
the shtep
the germon Wiles to the country of the south near the Persian Gulf. Friday, preached
dar Associated Press,
Reuter. nor hern Victoria and west as Bourke in the north of New South Wales. Around Sydney dres have played havoc in the rich dairying and sheep country and flames have reached
outskirts suburbs,
the past to pay Iraq her fair Mother and Princess Margaret. share of profits and interferred They had come there from Lon- in Iraq politics,'
don yesterday to rest after the Tho new agreement also strain of the funeral. covers several subsidiaries of Crowds came to London from the Iraq Petroleum Company.
Production in Iraq has been
It was learned from German conference would end on Tuesday *nowledge to produce the Premier All Maher Pasha | miles of fencing destroyed logging because most of the oil service in St. Paul's Cathedral.
sources that
Es is defence
con-
on
bomb.
Wreckage Of
Airliner
Found
Palermo, Feb. 17.
fleld.
However, he added, there will be no stabilly in the Middle as long as the people in this area off deprived of their thornshu and SE Ever", such as
basic rights."
ile lo such a command.)
Eastern
the three Allied morning. and the Big Three nical Ministers in Paris recommended | Ministors 'would leave
said on Sunday that Egypt that Germany pay 11,250,000,- Wednesday afternoon for Lisbon, Some United States scientists will co-operate in maintain- 000 marks (or US$2,678,000,000) where the NATO Council con- believe that Britain has made ing international
contribution, ference opens on Wednesday-creat
peaco strides in the atomic Germany had offered to pay United Press.
through a "strong regional 10,500,000,000 marks, while the
The official announcement organisation" within the West Europe - defence Allies demanded 13,000,000,000..
from Premler Winston Chur framework of the, United alliance cannot be wholly NATO experts in Paris have
chill's headquarters on the test Nations. effective without German
been examining the question.
tonight gave no indication of participation. But it is felt
QUICK APPROVAL
the type of weapon.-Reuter, that until she has
MCMAHON'S VIEWS demonstrated her good The Foregin Secretary, Mr
Washington, Feb. 17. falth and her willingness Anthony Eden, the U.S. Secre
Senator Bryon McMahon, subordinate herary of State, Mr Dean Acheson,
Chairman of the Joint Congres-
A fire near Cenberra burned and the French Foreign Minis- ambitions to the requiro-
sional ter, M. Robert Schuman, gave
Com Atomic Energy
(The Egyptian government out part of the Australian obser- and at Mt. Stromlo ments of the moment, West quick approval to accords work-
mittee, sald tonight that Con- under Maher Fasha's predeces- vatory- gress mught bo ed out by the 30
the reconsider Germany cannot
Pasha, destroyed some valuable equip- advisers
Mustapha Nahes scr. American Tow
meni. admitted to NATO as a full attending the conference
on exchanging Batly refused to join a Middle atomic information in view of Eastern Defence Command Thousands of volunteers have and independent. member. | cerning other issues, on which been disagreement
Britain's announcement that the planned by Britain, France, the joined in a fight to control the The Big Three are prepared there has
A missing British two-was testing her first atomic US and Turkey to resist any preating fires. But, in many among the Allies themselves. to affer a quid pro quo and these included the question of engined airliner was found weapon this year.
aggression in that area. How cases they have had to wait for It is of a nature which how to control German war pro-wrecked on the slopes of He said, "Now we may con- ever, the new Premier had pre- the blaze to burn themselves out. should not be repellant duction, the future of West Ber- 4,600-foot Mount Rose in situation with all the facts in
sider re-thinking the entire vously been reported sympathe-
cr Australla expects buik to the Bonn Government, lin and the legal status.of Allied rugged West Central Sicily front of us."
Bre every summer, but this year Dr Adenauer and his troops' dependants.
and most or all of the 31 Mr McMahon's statement said
The Premier made his state they have been for worse than usual. This is because heavy colleagues will do their Of these, the most important
that the achievement of an menta in a speech broadcast in rains last year caused a thick country a service and at is control of war production, a persons aboard were feared atomic explosion by Britala the United States by the Colum-towth of grass and undergrowth the same time mako question. which has agitated the dead.
would also in aill sharper bla Broadcasting System. He in the bushland. This dried off valunble
The Allies contribution to French Parliament.
Fifteen squads of the Italian focus the problem of atomic co-recalled to the US is struggle during the long, dry summer and
operation between
two for freedom in 1770 and said he warned easily the
whan the Bres the future security of were understood to have agreed
Inden that there would be enough con- Carabinieri,
with countries.
hopes the Americans will help started. Asspelated Prem. Europe by accepting the trols in the proposed European stretchers and first ald equip.
British contributed Egypt reach the same goal. conditions proposed by the Army treaty, particularly in- ment, struggled up the sides of heavily to our own wartime Big Three. They are realls- | direct
"Freedom and independence controls of materials Mount Rose, which is 35 air-atomie project," he said. tic, not ungenerous and allocation and of funds to keep line miles south of Palermo,
of designed eventually to give check on the Germans,
Perhaps the most important spot where the wreckage of the ture or the agreements which
spot where the steward the fortunate circumstances the un-fow eglect "mations," he declared. Egypt's New Western Germany a digni- fied status among the free question the Allies agreed on chartered Viking plane
was how to deal with German spotted from the air shortly was not disclosed to me and my The text was alven "to Cairo.
was made this contribution posible described the speechan people Security Move nations of the world." demand for a voice in NATO, M. before noon.
colleagues on the Senate Special
Cairo, Feb. 17. Schuman gave his assent 10.0
Atomic Energy Committee at the newspapers for publication. The
Interior Ministry: sources sald compromisa proposal to have
The plane, chartered by theme we framed the law in 1010, peach came just three weeks
that. 5,000 policemen and Joint sessions of the NATO Hunting Air Transport Com Now we may consider re-think-after Maher Pasha was put in today. Council and.
d the
men were, belly. projected pany, left Bovingdon, England, ing the entire situation with all power by King Farouk after camel corps
the big ami-Belilah riot in Calta equipped with modern Brearan European Army Council. Unter
on January 20, femal such a plan, the Germans would yesterday for Nairobi, Kenya, the facts in front of
In order to reinforce security. .with D' crow of five and 26
"JEALOUS Istanbul. Feb. 17.
American reaction to the Bri- Meanwhile, the Independent services in the main cities.
10s: 1.000 A taxi collided with" aflahing
The source added that children, mostly Ush rejection of holding the test newspaper Al Ahram salt today boat in the Bosphorus today
un the United States has been that Egypt's Ambassador to Lon- then would be allotted to Cairo, they would The driver of the taxi, Oguz
one of disappointment and some don, Abdel Fatah Amr Pasha, It was understood
the armed Antas, was speeding along the mand that Germany not be ad- The hope that there may have criticism of the arbitrary limita will continue his talks with eventually replace the riceply eloping coastal road near mitted to NATO now would be keen survivors stemmed Irom Bebek when, he lost control, shot met...
“Minia- report by search aircraft that don placed by Congress on any British lenders in an attempt to troops at present in the capital..
Meanwhile, the Interior exchange of atomic information And "a suitable basis for official into the air and landed on the
The proposal was first oant spotted three persons waying with friendly governments. Anglo-Egyptian negotiations."
try mude A large-scalp shuffle tap security officers, bont where Lamall Alaeddin wa
colved by
the Netherlands near the wreckage, Search The Washington Post, in an The paper predicted that Ifa among enjoying
his Sunday morning
Yoreign Minister, Dr. Dirk officials said the three pertone editorial today, said that the basis for discussions is found, transferring to the provinces. thing.
The tax smashed the boat and Stikker, Dr. Stikker is agreeable might have been peasants from wartime cooperation between Egypt and Britain will appoint many who were posted in Cairo both sank but fathermen got to this plan, according to his the surrounding countryside. England, Canada and the United mallary exparts to negotiate during the January 20 riots,
States had "degenerated into Associated Press,
United Press, 20 advicers, co long as it does not United Press,"
Taxi Collides With Bont
both men to shore-Reuter.
have an Indirect say in NATO
and
a direct voice in any NATO passengers, including 11 women decision affecting Germany, At and four
the same time, the French do British.VERBAL
"But due to a series
are no longer the privilege of a
A Foreign Office spokesman.
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