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Stupid & Vain
Massudegh's decision!
Dio break off diplomatic
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relations with Britnin writes finis for the time being to any resumption of negotiations for a Hottle- ment of the Anglo-Peraien oll dispute. By taking u line of aution which can only bear negative results, the Iranian Premier exposCH bia incompetence дн statesman, His decision is! based not on the convletion of th just cause, but Is merely an expression of pique. It can serve no use- ful purpose: on the contrary it jeopardises the whole future of Persin. Dr Mossadegh's uction will delight the Kremlin and will Rive considerable
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LAB. LEADERS' ULTIMATUM French Union Troops
Waiting For TO BEVAN
Recall
London, Oct, 10. The staff of the Iranian Embassy are packed and awaiting departure orders Lonight following Premier Mossadegh's decision sever diplomatic relations with Britain
The spokesman for the nine-man Embdary giaff, at present headed by the Charge D'affaires, said: "We are ready to go at any time In accordance with instruc- tions from Teheran."
He said the Embaary had not received any departure order from Teheran so far. In addition lɔ the Charge. Iran's
n's mission includes the economie. cultural and milliary
attaches and several secretarica. - It also has locally-employed staff not affected by the order,
-United Press.
encouragement to militant CAUSE
Communist
elements in
Persia who are patiently
but
OF
determinedly waiting HARROW
for the most advantageous opportunity of effecting a coup. But responsible world opinion is outraged and antagonised by Mossadegh's cynical disregard for friendly and reasonable settlement offers made by' Britain, and supported by the United States. By his
DISASTER
1
Inquiry Chairman Gives Opinion
London, Oct. 16.
Disband Group
Demand
PARTY LEADERSHIP IS
AT STAKE
London, Oct. 16.
Labour Party leaders tonight decided to propose a party ultimatum to Mr Aneurin Bevan that he should disband his left-wing group and cease attacks on other Labour Members of Parliament.
The ultimatum drawn up at a meeting of Labour front bench members is expected to be presented at a parliamentary group ́` meeting next week.
If a resolution embodying the ultimatum were defeated Mr Clement Attlee and other “Old Guard” · leaders would resign from the parliamentary party,
But if the ultimatum is ap- A Scots express train run.
proved by a majority of the 200 ning at high speed past a
Labour members of Parliament, caution signal und two dan-Mr Bevan and his followers ger signals caused Inst would either have to comply week's London triple crash, with it or face expulsion. which killed 111 people, the The sudden decision of the
latest action the Persian Premier throws away the opportunity of having his disrupted oil in- dustry revived immediately chairman of a publle inquiry leadership to force a showdown with financial aid from sald today.
no
the crash.
nt
express
This is the the party
biggest, crisis in since 1031 when the then Prime Minister, Mr Ramsay MacDonald, and several and colleagues left the party joined in a "national govern-
MR ANEURIN BEVAN
Mr Acheson's Speech On
Powerful
Korea
United Nations, Oct. 16.
Mr Dean Acheson, United States Secretary of State, told the General Assembly today that the United Nations would continue to fight. in Korea "as long as is necessary to stop aggression and restore peace and security."
He said: "We shall stop fighting when an armistice on just terms has been achieved. And we shall not allow faint-heartedness or reckless- ness to defeat our cause, which is to defend peace.'
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Surrounded By Communist Rebels
Hanoi, Oct. 16. Franco-Vietnamese troops in the Nghialo basin were completely surrounded by Communist rebels as darkness fell on the Northern Indo- Chinese outpost tonight.
Fierce fighting was reported along the Basin peri- meter in the rugged Thal mountain country, 90 miles northwest of here, where the Vietminh was concentrating Its strongest elements in a three-pronged offensive north of the Tonkin Delta.
Vietminh morlar and 75 mm artillery shells were falling on the Franco-Vicinamers. defen- ders, dug into fortilled poultions on the edges of the paddyfleld baslá
Sixty-five French fighter planes and 10 B-20 bombers roared into action over the beleaguered
basis as adverse
weather conditions lifted this afternoon. They strafod and bombed enemy positions with napalm, fire bombs and
high explosives.
USING COOLIES Estimates of enemy strength varied from three regiments to more than two divisions, but this latter figure was believed to in- clude some 20,000 coolles being used by the rebels to bring up
Cosmic Ray Rockets Fired
US NAVY TEST
Washington, Oct. 16. The Navy today disclosed that cosmic ray research rockets had been fired suc cessfully, from high altitudo
climbed to
fresh ammunition and supplies. balloons and
Best available sources said the heights of 40 miles over Communists had thrown one North Greenland. regiment around the Nghialo
basin, a second regiment whi The Navy said the altitude deployed eight miles east and a reached by the re.kels was the third was being held in reserve greatest height ever attained in 33 miles to the South,
those northerly latitudes. The One battalion of tough French spectacular series of launchings partrop veterans was dropped
and a second paratroop batta-We carried out by Navy and llon was landed in the basin, civilian dentists in the vicinity General Genz des de Linares, of the geo-magnetis North Pole. commander of Northern Indo- China, ordered French Union net interferes least with cosmic There the earth's magnetic
strength Increased to 10,000 med-to stem the big offensive-United Press,
rebely particles shooting in from space and affords the best condi- tlongs for studying them at the top of the atmosphere in their f primary state.
British & US Studies in the Arctic and also-
Firms
Fined
where around the globe dro made for the Office of Naval Research
the Atomic Energy Commission.
and
By sending the specially de- London, Oct, 18.
signed rockets to a high altitude The American fiam of. manu- in plastle balloons
before facturing chemists, Parke Davies firing them, the Navy was able Company, and the British Wire to use milles of a smaller size less Engineering Company, the than would have been possible Marconis International, were if they had been launched from find an aggregate sum of 1,200,000 rupees by a collector of
the surface. the customs at Bombay for an alleged
The so-called "Beacon" violation of Customs rockets were launched under the restrictions.
direction of Dr James' van This followed a series of raids Allen. They were less than during the last fortnight when about ten feet long. on various fans in the elty eight inches in diameter and
in Korea and to cert their strength for the cause | Charter, we pledge not just thousands of rupees were seized. American huxury goods valued at
The balloon rocket experi Parke Davis were fined 900,000 ments were part of a general research Inquiry pay for the alleged under-cosmile ray
the import duty. them for obtaining reduction in valuation of goods imported by carried out aboard the coast guard icebreaker East Wind 1 while cruising in the Kans The British firm was fined Basin in the north extremity of 300,000 rupees for landing wire-Bau Bay, between Greenland less equipment and setting it up and Ellesmere Island, during In India without payment of August and September-United
Press. duty-France-Presse.
land.
entered ac-
A COMMITMENT
shows they regar?' the' situation Colonel Wilson, Chief Rail-as so intolerable that it must be the United States and ways inspector who presided ended even if it costs Labour the withdrawal of the
was the next general election. over the inquiry, said he British blockade. And until taking on unusual step in giving Dr Mossadegh can proclaim his opinion before evidence had such a development he is been sifted, but be did so in failing in his most urgent view of the great public von duty the people
of teri. Persia.
The Inquiry was adjourned to u dale to be announced later. ment," As an emotional gesture, Dr
of the The guard
Scottish
The "Shadow Cabinet' (front Mussadegh's severing of express involved in the triple
North bench) took its decision after a at Harrow, relations with Britain is in train crash keeping with his theatrical London, last week said today long meeting today at which it
that
the express braked only was understood Mr Attlee won It will be personality,
He went on: "We must con "To make this work, whole-) United Nations for the past five a substantial majorliy for the five seconds before ramuming the
vince the aggressor that con-hearted co-operation is essen-years. cheered by his fanatical) rear of a local train standing ultimatum.
at supporters, and probably the station.
Institution of He is backed by his immediate Unued Aghting in Korea will tial. The
the He Another
reaffirmed his country's United henchman, the former Deputy cost him more than he can gain
Nations can be hailed in the first instance seconds later hit the wreckage Premier, Mr Herbert Morrison, This means the training and stronger than its members.
no pledge not to commit aggression with any weapons, whether rifles, FOG DELAYS A political achievement.
and all members of the last commitment of troops; it means "It is the governments and atole bombs or chemical and The long-term effects, how-
The guard, Mr James Kent, Labour Cabinet which went out food, clothing, material, money, peoples of all member nations bacterial weapons. ever, have #till to be giving evidence the public of office a year ago and it is be "I urge every member of the which have the responsibility realised by the Persian inquiry into the crash, told of Reved a majority of the Labour United Nations to look to its to be physically prepared and her the puruant to our "We reaffirm for all the world people. The country's fog delays on the journey south members of Parliament.
responsibility
to support the to economy is already atrained picked up speed and approached two ministers Mr Harold Wil-participate
from Scotland, how the train
The Bevanites include
be morally malute to use sole ommitment under the action the common to breaking point and there Harrow at between
the reconstrue of peace. 1 50 and 53 son and Mr John Freeman-who tion of that unhappy
that we will avoid the use of is no longer any immediate miles an hour. Then suddenly resigned from the Labour Go into Korea to repel aggression operate must be reflected
"The United Nations went
"This responsibility to
co- one weapon or another but prospect of the resuscitation the brake was applied. The ex-ernment with Mr Bevan him and to restore peace and securi- only in readiness to participate of force contrary to the Char- not that we will not use any form of the oil industry which press "Jumped three times very self in April 1051 after quarrels and to alone cun provide the bad bumps," he said.
on the pace of rearmament..
ty. Aggression has been in action undertaken by theter." nation with the revenuca During the inquiry, ten seconds
stopped. But despite patient and United Nations Ilself but also necessary to maintain an were beaten out on'a table top
He declared: "We reaffirm TWO DEMANDS
sincere efforis of United Na- | in other ways recognised and our Charter obligations to settle tions economic equilibrium. while Kent Histened. Then he
negotiators the Com-sanctioned by the Charter. Behind them stand four munists have co for rejected
International disputes by peace Inevitably
situation said: "It was not as long as that members of the the
party, executive reasonable terms will arise when the workers, Just about half" between the and up to 50 members of the tlce,
for an armis- "Regional and collective, self ful means in such a manner
defence arrangements,
that international peace and disillusioned and dis-
of the brakes and parliamentary group, Including application
This Assembly will have the inte
in and developed
security and justice are not en- contented, will offer them-
left-wingers who have opportunity to review the ve some
cordance with the Charter, are
dangered. selves as willing supporters express, R. S. Jones, was killed Bevan cause on specific issues
The 37-year-old driver of the identified themselves with the cord of the armistice negotiaan integral part of a universal of a Communist uprising. In the crash. Witnesses were
tions which have been proceed- collective security system, Dr Mossadegh questioned today about his men- Nor can
Mr Attlee, who as leader of ing over the past 15 months. "When Individual strength "Nations committed under the are all Charter not to use force to im- himself fail to appreciate tal state. J. Hallmark, a rail- the party presides over meetings The record shows that the Unit- and collective strength this.
of its front bench, is draftinged Nations representatives have dedicated to the cause of peice pose their will on other nations But If
is way superviser at Crewe, north the ultimatum,; it was under- been patient, flexible and re- and the purposes of the Charter, should not he endwavouring to
have to maintain exploit of England junction, said driver
sourceful, always defending the the
armaments structure of security be huge
to protect a Jones was quite normal, "but a such a probability as
This will demand that means of blackmailing Bri.le irritable at having to get the so-called
(1)principles of the Charter,
comes a reality.
themselves from one another. Bevan group
"It is in UNITED PURPOSE
Korea that
"The maintenance of huge tain into acceptance of his out early to go to work." He was
a good driver,
steady which has been holding meet-
whole structure of collective armaments itself constitutes
utes a conditions as a prerequisite type who always seemed to be
a very
ings in private should be dis- **We shall have an opport security is meeting its supreme danger to peace. But disarma for further negotiations in good health. Other witnesses banded immediately; (2) there unity, by action at this Assemb- test. It will stand or fall upon meat cannot be achieved unila- aimed at settling the oil described Jones
be a stop lo attacks ly, to demonstrate to the aggres what we do there.
terally. It cannot be achieved very shall A
the through dispute he must know by methodical man, who was never
"The United Nations fight in weekly journal sor that we are united in pur now that the manoeuvre hasty-Reuter.
the Bevaniles on the leadership we are as one in desire for a and every individual who values "It can be achieved only by cannot succeed. None would
and other member of the just peace and in determination į freedom, Had our nerve failed international agreementa under welcome an agreement Assembly Decision
party.
to achieve it".
at the time of this ruthless act effective safeguards which will more than Britain, but the United Nations, Oct. 10. If the ultimatum is endorsed
Mr Acheson said the Assembly of aggression, these new build-protect law abiding states from principles on which. It in The General Assembly, by a by
by a special meeting of the Irad before it three groups of ings in which wo
meet Loday the harands of violations", and one with six parliamentary based must be fair, and the vote of 48 to
group next)
problems:
Until might already be the empty evasions,
nil states with conditions just. If Persia'ia
abstentions, today rejected a Thursday by only સ small 1. Concerning security;
husks of our defeated hopes for substantial armaments are will- thrown to the Communists deleted from the
South African attempt to have majority the authority of the
3. Relating to the fulfilment this organisation.
ing to co-operate in effective, Assembly leaders. would be gravely
disarmament national
the and
"Had the Republic of Koren guaranteed Individual the weakened.
been allowed to fall to the free law abiding nations of the A bitter fight is certain aspirations; and
arm.and 3. Dealing with economic
the delegates to these world must AggrCA307, DTORTOSS
of individuals and com- assemblies would now be looking armed in self defence." munities.
The Secretary of State to their left and to their right;
United States On the question of security, and asking which would be the called that the Mr Acheson said:
The chief next victim on the aggressors and other Western Powers had submitted to the. Disarmament, lesson of our experience in the list. field of collective security is
Commission comprehensive
do disarmament programme that the solidity of the nations Today's proposals were
Second, that total repatriation which support the Charter is sub-
*""Korea is a test, not anly of vised to eliminato both weapons Communist military
leader mitted to General Mark Clark, et POWs be carried out in ac- absolutely essential. The alter our courage at the initial moment of mass destruction and large in Korea today submitted now United Nations Commander in a cordance
with proposals to the United Nations letter from the North Korean practice with the 1949 Geneva' disine and the triumph once of our couraK”.
international untive to this solidarity is the of decision but even more of the mas armies
Turning to the colonial issuĖS, Ürziness of our 'will, the endur-: of the United
which be qualified as "the for peace in the peninzulu, de Supreme Commander, General convention
and Nations cloring "We are still willing to Kim 11 Sung, and Chinese Com with the already
draft Tawlessness
ess in the world.
The aggressor, having defled legitimate aspiration of depen- Mr Acheron sold make our greatest effort to
armistice mandar, General Peng Toh Korean
Bgreement promote an armistice in Korea," hunt, quoted by the New China The method and procedure
for ed
ed in 1930, wil
with
the uniting for having found himself pushed
dependent News Agency,
„*** Brake behind his initier Zhan
people to ultimate itaconerato Implementation
constitutes attade now counts for victory
wolf government. This right But their key point was 1.
could be settled through con-
Ceneral
recognition upon hose of faint heart who was enshrined in the Charter. renewed, plea for total ལྦ The Communist chiefs pro-sultation in the negotiations. that members Por the United
would grow weary of the Mr. Acheson emphasised patriation of prisoners of war posed, frat, that the "unreason Third, that an armistios in Nations must, by virtue of their
millions of formerly, depondent and this is what the United able action of breaking off the Koren be realised speedily of membership stand together, har Acheson then dealt with the peoples were now. free and that Nations have refused to agree armistice negotiations should be the basis of the draft Korous and act together for the mal question of dimnesment, which progreen was being
alopped inmediatalý.
armistice agreement.--Router. tenance of poRGE, SOM MAN - Bhas been' deadlocked in the (Couldian biak page, col. 3),
to.
1.
m
stood
T
our
by
Tribune, which is controlled by pose and Arm in resolve; that Korea'is the fight of every nationpiunciation in a battle of
it will be solely because agenda the question of of the stupid and vain treatment of people of Indian behaviour of Dr Mossadegh, origin in South Africa. Reuter. Reuter.
Communists' New Truce. Proposals
London, Oct. 10,
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