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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 18, 1958.
STALIN MESSAGE RIDDLE Gesture In
Cryptic Nine-Word Communication To Churchill Revealed
London, Mar. 17.
Britain's Prime Minister holds a key to the riddle of whether Stalin wanted a meeting with him and President Elsénhower,
Ten days before the Russian leader died, it was revealed today, Mr Winston Churchill received from him this last message-a nine-word, personal and cryptic message: "The weather in Moscow is very nice in April."
Bose's "Missing Treasure'
""
New Delhi, Mar. 17, Prime Minister Nehru today Chrew a flicker of now light on the "missing treasure" of the Indian Nationalist leader, Subhas Chandra Bose, reported killed in an nit crash in Japan towards the end of the war.
Grunyko, Russia's
Andrei Ambassador
Tu Britain (#1 present lo the United States) delivered it
vertnily to Mr Churchill at No. 10 Downing Street. That
WIEN the city.
February 23, when M. Gromyko received the Prime Minister's thanks for Russia's cheques,
90.000, donated to i Bloud reflet Junkl. Before going
to No. 10, the! Russian Ambassador had had his! instructions and Stalin's sigel- ficant
for the Prime thessage Minister.
The message world suggest that Stalin was prepared to have talks with the British and Ameri- can leaders. But talks on Stalin's condition-in Moscow,
If informed Money which was collected for the Indian National Any from curious message to the British
Eisenhower Indians in Malaya and Buma Premier, President
Stalin's
ovas supposed to have armounted obviously was not enamoured of
to several million Sterling das remained untraced.
and it,
Mr Nehru told Parliament he himself had recovered altogether £12,000 worth of funds In Singapore dollars and gold in Singapore after the war with the
Just two days after Mr Churchill received it, MI Eisenhower told the world his conditions for engaging in talks with Stalin. And these definitely ruled out Moscow as the meeting! ground.
The U.N.
Following receipt, of the news of Stalin's death and an impassioned Soviet leader by M. Andrei Vyshinsky, then Russlan Foreign Minister, sembly of the United Nations stand in silence for a moment of ofetal mourning. The chief British and American delegaten, Sir Gladwyn Jebb and Mr Henry Cabot Ladge, were present, being represented by substitutes.-Express Photo.
tribute
the
the General AB-
Finns Conclude
New Pact
The Soviet
With
Helsinki, Mar. 17.
The Soviet Union is expected to become Fin- Mr Eisenhower said that, if land's best customer country this year under a aid of Lord Louis Mountbatten, talks were posmble at all, he then Supreme Allied Commander was prepared to go only half-new trade agreement just concluded in Moscow
in the Far East, but totally way somewhere between failed to And the rest
America and Russia,
Some gold and jewels had-
ANOTHER RIDDLE been
sent recently by Japun Mr Churchill agreed with Mr and were in a Bank in India, Eisenhower's conditions. Re pending a decision over their later told the House of Commurs disposal.
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after protracted negotiations,
Communist
buy
Many Finns think that their Agrarian- Socialist Government has made a good bargain with the Russians.
Others are sceptical.
They deals will leave them with It may be that in sending his fear that Finland's exports to stocks of useless The Singapore money, was in mesange to Mr Churchill, the the East may exceed her imports currency. trust used for scholarship, he Russian leader was acting in line and that she will pile up an un-
The great advantage of the radded.
with the pin-pricking of the collectable payments surplus new agreement-it it works Is that despite insistence that Mr Churchill Mr. Nehru sald
[British left-wingers. Their behind the Iron Curtain,
at ensures the Finns an This would mean that the indequate rumours to the contrary, he was arrange a meeting with Stalin Finns had been led to export a and raw materials which they supply of foodstuffs convinced after careful Invest- gallon that Buse was really has been increasing over recent number of goods to the Soviet would otherwise have to
months.
Union free of charge. It would, from the West, partly with And, whatever happened, many Finns feel, place Western dollars of which they are short. would have suited Stalin to have democratic Finland in the same Moreover, il gives them been able to assure
DS Poland
and outlet, which they could hardly Finland in Iron Curtain, for the production send goods exchange for the goods, she ex-ot, their former reparations
Industries. ports to the Soviet Union.
The Finns know, of
Under course,
the Armistice that the Soviet Union has under- Peace treaties, Finland under Laken 10 repay Poland and took to deliver to the Soviet Czechoslovakia for the deliveries Union goods to the value of they make on her behalf. Such 300,000,000 dollars at pre-war repayment is. however, made prices,
dead-Reuter.
IL
the Com-categovakia, BALLERINA GETS munist world that he had indeed
been propared So meet the which BIG RECEPTION Western lenders. He would not have added that one of his prime London, Mar. 17. conditions was unacceptable to Appearing in London for the them, first time since tearing a liga-
Nevertheless
another riddle ment in 1948, 42-your-old remains to be solved; what ballerina Alicia Markova re-significance has the dead leather turned
la triumph as a quest message to Mr Churchill for his stor with the Sadlers Wells successor? - London Express Ballet in her performance of Service. "Giselle" at Covent Garden lost night.
She stood in tears, bewilder-
ed in the middle of the stage, os
on
two countries and on the West side of the
and
not
Preparing For Sudan Polling,
Khartoum, Mar, 17. The electoral commission of seven, which is to con- duct the first Parliamentary elections In the Sudan under the Anglo-Egyptian agreement of February 12. has already set up ofocs here, Me Sukumar Sen, [is Indian
Chairman, nounced today.
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The curmission will con- kist of three delegates from the Sudan and one each from Egypt, Britain, the United States and India, with the Indian member as chairman.-Reuter.
PRINCE PHILIP IN GERMANY
Four-Day Visit To British Forces
Búockezurg, Mar. 17. The Duke of Edinburgh arrived here by air tonight to start a four-day visit to the British forces in Ger many.
During his tour he will ty many hundreds of miles by hellcopter and will also soll up the Rhine with the Royal Navy's river flotilla of landing craft.
He will spend the whole of tomorrow with the Army, Thursday with the Royal Air Force and Friday will be divided between the two forces. He returns to London On Saturday,
Elaborate arrangements have been made by the Navy, Army and Air Force here for the tour," which coincides with
a large- scale Joint Anglo-American air exercise,
King." Bad
head-
hausen, quarters of the NATO Northern Army Group and the British Army of the Rhine, which is the nerve centre of the British land forces In Germany, has mapped out an Intensive programme for him.
BY HELICOPTER Because of the distances involved, much of the tour will be made in Army-manned helicopters,
Moblie artillery, thundered a 21-gun Royal salute after the. Duke, wearing Admical of the Fleet's uniform, stopped from a
Viking alreratt of the Queen's Flight,
On the brilliantly
floodlit apron of the airport, which servea as headquarters of the Second Allied Tactical Alr Force, the British Commanders- in-Chief in Germany waited to welcome him. 1
They were Bear Admiral R. St. V. Herbrooke, Flog Omeer Germany, General Sir Richard Gale,
Commander-in-Chief Northern Army Group
of the North Atlantic Treaty Forces and of the British Army of the Rhine, and Air Chief Marshal Sir Robert Foster, Royal Air Force Commander-in-Chief, Allerl Tactical Alr
PERSONNEL For
POLICY
OF THE UN
African-Asian Move
United Nations, Mar. 17. Twelve members of the African-Asian group, including solution asking for the appoint- India, huve submitted a re-
ment of a special committee to consider the United Nations personnel policy.
Force.
A guard of honour of men of the Royal Navy, the King's Own Hussars and of the Royal Air Force Regiment was drawn up on the tarmac.-Reuter,
Narriman Stays In Seclusion
Geneva, Mar. 17.. The resolution will come be- behind the Iron Curtain and all Many of the goods were pro-1
Ex-queen Narriman of Egypt reports
the General talk a systematic ducts like ships, narrow
of
Assembly who has left her exiled husband, gauge impoverishment
when it debates the subject later | Farouk, in Rome and is under- Czecha-railways and factory plant which this week. of slovakia and Poland.
she was not equipped to supply.
stood to be preparing to return The
suggested
_commillee | to Chiro, spent today indoors in
-Stiff Rise In-Rates-Under-the-now Finao-Russian So-she had to lay down new would study the report of the the lakeside luxury hotel where
the Soviet Union has shipyards and factories, and even three International jurists who she arrived with her undertaken to buy 35,000 million start up new industries to meet adviced Me Trygve Lie, the last Thursday.
mother Landon, Mar. 17. the audience stood and cheered The Bedford Town Council marks (abou) £53,000,000 Sler- her commitments, for 10 minutes through 10 cur-
She received no visitors and of Finnish goods.
Secretary-General, late last year propose a rate increase of 4/-ling) worth
When the last reparations on the situation arising toin calls.
in the Pounul, the highest rise They inc
Included
from had her meals sent up to her pre-fabricated vere delivered last year, Finland the recent
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American She stilt moves with amazing in the history of the borough, houses and other wood industry was, therefore,
loyalty room from the hotel restaurant, eft with new investigations. lightness and fabulous grace-Jumping truni 21/- to 25/-products,, ships, cables, factory Industries on her hands and no
So far her only outings have The African-Asian resolution | been brief rides round the town Heuter.
Reuter.
plant and other machnery, markets for their output. Her asks that the Committee report in a taxi.
Last year, the Soviet Union prices were too high for the back to the Assembly at its next Her relatives in Cairo expect Imported only 27.400 million free markets of the West,
session beginning in September. her to return ᎠᏅ Thurs- marks (about £42,000,000 Ster-
The Assembly debate ling) worth of goods from Fin-
on day and then to start personnel policy, expected today, coedings for divorce and for land. Finland's best customer Was Great Britain who bought
has been delayed while the Big custody of her 14-month-old Five-Britain, France, America, 47,200 million merks
son, King Fuad II, now with his (about £57,000,000 Sterling) worth of
Russla and China-discuss who father in Rome. good from her.
can succeed Mr Trygve Lie au
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A HANDICAP
Lying tucked away in north cast Europe as she does, she is also handicapped by high trans port charges,
Russia.
Secretary-General. on the other hand. more hungry for manufactured
Britain conferred with several delegations yesterday on a tenta- however, has shown here Western world, ele
herself a keen taker.
resolution Biking the that they will not be able to sell She becomes under the agree
Assembly express the import- this your ment the paying client for many ance of an International elvil and that Russia will replace her of the goods which she was service responsible anly to the as their best market. More- receiving gratis as reparallons. United Nations Organisation,
MAY BE REPLACED
The Finns fear,
so much to Britain
over, the Firno-Russian agree- Industrialists are by no means ment provides for additional
nal sure that this situation will last deliverles OVET the 35,000 and have warned the Finnish marks worth in certain people in press Interviews ngainst being 100 optimistic Under the agreement, the about their new inctal Indus- Soviet Union has undertaken to tries. rend Finland grain, fodder, rice, The fact.
salt, petrol and other that they have naptha products, fertilisers,
present.
sugar,
Router.
remains, however,
a market at.
London Talks
On Kenya
pro-
The 19-year-old ex-queen re- mained silent today on Farouk's open letter in a Romo news- paper declaring his love and asking her to return to him and the child.--Reuter,
Mrs Sanders Disappointed
London, Mar. 17. Mrs Edgar Sanders, wife of Nairobi, Mar. 17.
the Briton gaoled by the Hun- Mr Michael Blundell, leader harian authorities, sald tonight Iron and steel, other metals, Moreover, the Russians are of the elected members on the that she was bitterly disappoint anthracite, furs, cotton. other reported to have promised to Kenya Legislative Council, left ed at the Brush Government's non-specified raw materials and buy all the metal Industry by air tonight for London for refusal to accept the Hungarian A Umited number of motor goods which the Finns have talks with Mr Oliver Lyttelton proposal to free her husband in vehicles and other pieces of available after meeting the and Colonial Omee pulcinis on machinery.
needs of their
own domestle the latest views of the Europeanyon women tetrona, Led Meng. exchange for the young Mala- Broadly speaking, the markets. They have not com- community on the Kenya Russions send Finland indis-mitted themselves, to any price] ættlers struggle against Mau She made. this statement pensable primary products like level and this may well be the Mau terrorism.
following the Prime Minister, grain for her bread
block In future and fuel stumbling
One of Mr Blundell's main ob- Mr Winston Churchilla an- for her transport system and
and negotiations.
jects on his London visit will be nouncement tho Govern→ Nor will the agreement pre- to make a preparatory investigament's refund the House of manufactured from her
vent the Finns from continuing tion into products like cables and ships,
the establishment of Commons their traditional exporia of a London headquarters for the Russia's cx- value ports to Faland has not been limber, paper, pulp and so on "Voice of Kenya," an organisi
to the Western world. Russia ton to sprend information Nor hoa
about disclosed.
it been sald has plenty of these commodi- the Colony, flanced ty a £40.- proportion of Finland's
to the Soviet Unionics, although she wants Finnish 000 fund raised by the European Exports
Union pro-fabricated houses. to solve settlers, an oficial said today. for by deliveries her wiill be paid
drastic housingReuter. Poland from
and
Czecho- shortage.-Reuter. The latter alovnitia.
arrange- ment is embodied in separate
Zakke
The
what
16 Temporary cessation of hos-agreements which, it is forecast
-17 Unpleasant (8)...
here, will not
any detail.
own
Air Tourist Class
BASED ON THE
will not be published in It has, however, been rellably
The Hague, Mar, 17, YESTERDAY'S CROSSWOICE, 11. Evil, 12 Saps, 14 Ter-disclosed that other Communist
The Royal Dutch Airlines dor, Stem, 9 Apes, 10 RustRDAcross: 1 Aris, 4 Mata- countries may make
deliverica (KEM) will - Introduce tourist rier, 17 Close, 19 Delay, 23 Nettles, 20 Lens, -21 Vice, 21 to Finland on behalf of the class fares on all their Européen Blammer, 20 Cows, 30 Rent, 31 Presses, 32 Spry. Downs 2 Re- Soviet Union. Rumania and and Middle East"ines ág from poal, 3 Arcoss, 4 Mórit, Amulet, 8 Actor, 7 Obese, 12 Scan, Communiat. China have
bech April 1, the Managing Director,
trianimitat "today, Reuter..
11 Part, 15 Idle, 10 Rays, 10 Sovere, 20. Elects, 21 Answer, named. The Finns are only Dr Albert Picsman, announced 23 Ehtër, 24 Tampa, 35 Siren, t
that these
atraki
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