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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1953. ↑
Soviet Peace Queen Reviews Britain Won't Be Pushed
Gestures To Be Discussed
Paris, Apr. 22.
The Atlantic Council meeting will discuss to- morrow the Soviet gestures of conciliation and decide on the attitude to be adopted in dealing with them.
The Council will also discuss the report of the Secretary-General, Lord Ismay, and the report of the military committee.
Lord Ismay said today that the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation had received no intelligence re- port to indicato any slackening in Soviet military pre- parations.
crowded pree: | ha considered atomic weapons the as one of many factors which iFe of
had Influenced their estimates.
Adlicering conference on the North Atlantis Camel metting, Lord may rmed that there had also been no Mackening in NATO efforts.
He told a questioner that the flam goals for NATO teres se
Asked if the chiefs of stalls, making up the Committee, were in possession of information on ❘ the latest atomic bomb, he re- plied that they had a sufficient
at Lisbon in February last year,knowledge of the bomb to make
of 4,000 aire:aft and 50 amuy divisions in various stages of combat readiness had been "fully mal."
Presel for entre information on Soviet military strength, he Russians' suid. he believed the
trend had been towards more
divisions rather than less.
Admiral E. J. C. Qvistgaard, Danish chairman of the Milliary Committee, told the press con- ference that in revising force requirements the
proper esitmater
Admiral Qvistgaard described the three-day meeting of his Committee as
as "very zurcesin! and harmonious."
The British Chancellor of the Butler, Exchequer, Mr R. A. intrived by ale today from Lon
don for the Atlantic Council meeting tomorrow.
He was accompanied by Mr Selwyn Lloyd, Minister of State Committee for Foreign
DULLES CONFERS
Affairs, and Mr Duncan Sandys, Minister of Supply.-Reuter.
FOUR-POINT PLAN
New York. Apr. 22. Bertrand Russell of Britain distinguished was among 142 citizens of four North Atlantic
Trenty naliens who tonight rsued a four-paint plan aimed
at
IN PARIS giving "better defence at less
Park, Apr, 22.
cost
General George Marshall, Mr Henry Ford II, and M. Edouard eferriat, President of the French The American Searchary State. Mr fehn Fester Dulles, National Assembly, were among conferred here on world prob- | the other sigarra.
France,
the
lems today, ith the Feach The plan was in the form of Foreign Minister, 31. Georges an open letter to fellow citizens States, Britain, Bidault, and Government lenders of the United
Canada, the Netherlands High on the agenda were and Luxembourg and to questions of a state treaty with Audria, possible repercuinns representatives of those countries on Indo-China if the Chinese at the meeting of NATO Counell .Communists switched their which opens in Paris on Thurs-
after troops there
a Kozcan day, armistice.
"We are convinced that the burdens of taxes which rest so With Mr Dulles were the heavily on all our peoples can Secretary of the United States be cased only by better. Integra Treasury, Mr George Mun of the economic, defence and Humphrey, the Mutual Security foren pelicles of all our coun- Diretor, M. Harold Starsen, the tries through the North Atlantiş United States Roving Ambassa Trusty_Organisation," the letter dor in Europe. Mr Willie Draper, and the Ambassador
France, Mr Douglas Dillon,
M. Bidoull was accompanied
Reuter.
by the Minister for the Asso- Premier Decides
clated States of Indo-China, Mr Jean Letourneau, the Defence Minister, M. Rene Pleven, und other members of the Govern- ment; ----
To Resign
Beirut, Apr. 22.. The Lebanese Premier, Emir It is rellebly understood that Khaled Shehab, announced to- M. Pleven pointed out during night that he would resign im the two-and-a-half-hour meeting mediately on the return of the that France could make no President of the Republic, Mr C. substantial Increase In her Chamoun, from his official visit armed forces In the next 12 to Cairo, months owing to commitments in Indo-China.
M. Letourneau
Shchab sald that his resigna- tion was due to a violent attack reported on on the Government by Parlia
the situation in Indo-Chinment after the decrees on the
Communist invasion administrative reshuЛo after the
of Labs. Reuter.
Lebanon.-France-Presse.
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The Guards
Plar: Drawn Up To Deal With Slump In Malaya
London, Apr. 22.
Mr Oliver Lyttelton, the Colonial Secretary, told a questioner in the House of Commons today that there was at present "no substantial unemploy- ment in Malaya."
He added: "But the Federation has plans to pro- vide as much productive work as possible if serious unemployment develops."
Emergency Legislation Requested
Queen Elizabeth is dwarfed by her Guards as she reviews the Sovereign's Company of the Int Battalion, Grenadier Guards, д Windsor Castle before presenting the Queen's Company colour, the Royal Regiment. Standard of the She is the first Queen to pre- sent the Color in person. ---- AP Photograph.
Wartime
Decision Defended
Wellington, Apr, 22. Wartime Attorney-General H. Mr Stanley Awbery, 'a Labour | Mazon told the House of Repre- member, had asked what was sentatives tonight that New Zea- being done to prevent increas- land was fully aware of the dan- ing distress in Malaya
gers involved in sending a divi- result of the continuing fall in sien to fight In Greece in 1941. the price of tin and rubber,
He urged
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Out Of Rights
CHURCHILL'S STATEMENT
London, Apr. 22. Mr Winston Churchill, the Primo Minister, suid today Britain could not be "pushed out of every right wo have" just because vlo- lence was used against her.
He was answering questions | In the House of Commons about Biltnin's dispute with Saudi Arabia over the Buraimi oasis, which Hes in an area belloved to
be rich in oil where no frontiers have been defined in recent times,
Mr Churchill said: "This is a question of treaty rights and other long-established interests jabout which a dispute has arisen Arabla, between us and Saudi Dnd actions of violence, though happily rot of a lethal charac- ter, have taken place.
Reshuffle In Two Soviet Republics
Moscow, Apt. 22. The Governmente two Bovlet Republics Axerbaljaa
of
and, Armenia -were reshuffled today.
new
Extensivo changes an- nounced included the ap- pollment of # President of the Astrbal- Jan Courell of Ministers and a new Minister Interior in Armenia,
of
Azerbaijan, X. Bagirov, substitute mem- ber of the . Preskilum of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, has replaced T. Koulley who becomes Vice-President of the Connell.
In Armenia, a new list of Ministers issued by the Republic's Supreme Soviet named new Ministers for nitat of the key positions. -France-Presse.
Registration Demand
Washington, Apr. 22. The American Attorney- General, Mr Herbert Brownell, the prompt today demanded of fair
registration of 12 alleged
"But we have made perfectly clear that we will willingly ac- cept the processca arbitration," he said.
"But we cannot be pushed out of every right we have just because violence is used on us and because nil efforts of arbitration are rejected."
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The Buraiml oasis, consisting of eight villages
the Persian Gulf coast, is claimed the by Saudi Arabla, while British-protected Sheikhdom of Abu Dhabt and the Sultanate of Muscat claim to divide the oasis between them.
ON MERIT'S
Saudi Arabia's
"Communist Front" organisa- tions as affiliates of the Com- munis! Party.