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No. 35519
Established 1845
TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1953.
COMEX Eisenhower To
COMMENT OF THE DAY.
MuchNeeded
Secrecy
THAT the negotiators at
TH
Panmunjum have gone Into secret session probably offen, the best prospect of 'A final settlement being reached for an armistice in Korea. The blaze of publicity which has followed overr recent meeting has served no useful purpose, and has certainly not been conducivo to a friendlier and more sympathetic atmosphero in the negotiating tenta. The Issue now requiring settle- ment is delicate as well as difficult and it needs to be
terashed out in a cool, level- by wild speculation, dark prophecies and emotional propaganda. Moreover, the Allies request for secrecy.
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Appeal Dramatic Evidence
To The Nation Giant Gives
SEEKS SUPPORT
FOR FOREIGN
AID PROGRAMME
Washington, May 25.
President Eisenhower is preparing to call on the nation to support him in his fight to save the $5,828,732,500 (about £2,081,690,180) foreign aid programme from crippling cuts by a powerful Con- gressional economy bloc, it was learned today.
hower planned a series of talks to the nation
A White House spokesman said Mr Eisen-
the first over radio and television on June 3 some of them would call for popular backing of the
can, be taken a sign that they are determined to do all in their power this time to bring the negotiations to n satisfactory conclusion. It said to Allies project.
known that the latest United Nations proposal represents a compromise in operative detail while at the same time protecting the three prin- ciples previously laid down for the exchange of prisoners. They are: no forcible repatriation, no in- timidation and no indefinita imprisonment. The formula for giving practical effect to these principles is now being placed before the Communist negotiators, and if, as it probably will, meet Com- munist desires at least half way, it is not too much to hope that at long last an agreement will be attained. And it is tremendously im- portant that a settlement should be reached, not only for the purpose of bringing the Korea hostilities to an
-and
The forthcoming debate on aid funds was seen by many Washington observers as a major test of strength between the President and Conservative Republican Party leaders in Congress, headed by Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, who were already calling for steep re- ductions.
Russia Says
"No" To Invitation
Mr Eisenhower And his administration chiettamis had already let it be known that the figure requested was the mini- mu consistent with Allied security. It was almost $1,000,- 000,000 (about £643,000,000) less then that proposed by former President Truman just before he left the White House,
But influential Republicans in Congress, like Senator Styles Bridges of New Hampshire, the Chakama of the Appropriations Commitice, were publicly sug- about $4,000,000,000
London, May 25. Russia has rejected Bri-gesting tain's invitation to a meet-(about £1,428,570,000) or ing in London on Wednes-
adequate. day of Big-Four Foreign aid bill, covering
In the military section of the supplies of Ministers' Deputies drafting guns, tanks and planes,
Con- an Austrian peace treaty.
being gress
asked
to. provide $4,024,623,000 (about Near and Far East and Latin £1,437,330) for Europe, the
America. An additional $250,-
000 000,000 (about £89,300,000) was
for "Epecial
Mr Jacob Malik, Soviet Am- bassador in London, replied to Ahe invitation in a letter quoted by Moscow Radlo tonight, saying: "There is no reason to hope that the suggested conference will produce more Yavourable results than former conferences."
end, but in order to promote the wider efforts which are now being contemplated for an casing of the general International altuation. Korca armistico at this moment would undoubtedly have an important effect on the forthcoming Bermuda talks, and would remove one big obstacle to the proposi tion of a meating between the leaders of the great The whole world powers. has much to gain' from a settlement in Korea.
The Rulers How much do we really
Mr Molik suggested that the through the usual diplomalle mater should be dealt with channels,
was
earmarked
weapons."
tained $005,000,000
to
For defence support ald form of economic help geared 10 rearmament the bill con
Indo-China
bout £355,357,000)
for and the Far East. There
also $550.200.500 (about £199,717,680) listed for global technical assistance and economic help, including aid to india, Pakistan, Israel and the In Arab
nations.
Britain had invites Russia to be represented at a meeting the Big Four Foreign Ministers' Doputies drafting the treaty London on Weinosky,
Mr
Mazow Radio quoted Malik as saying he thought "that at bresent it would be far more reasonable to consider this matter in a diplomatie marner by the
charge of opinion by respondence."-Reuter,"
cox-
want our Governments to be master in our own house? The controversy about Mir Attlee's reference to the unsuitability of the Ameri- can Constitution now that America has become the
SOVIETS BLAMED strongest State in the world haa led in some British
Washington, May 25. quarters to a renewed look
The State Department, almost at the British Constitution. on the eve of the new Austrian The root of the American treaty talks with the Soviet system lies in the balance Union, today. said the Soviet attitude leaves little hope for a of powers, between the satisfactory conclusion Executive, the Legislative realy in the immediste future." and Judicial powers, in which Mr Attlee presum- The Department released ably does not believe. But lengthy review
treaty negotiations
ما
was
the Senate
and the House
of
for substantial cuts through
His Blood
By Father
Of Accused Soldier
Evidence that the elder brother of Pte Bernard Cox, 23, on trial for the alleged murder of a medical orderly, John Needs, had been a cer- tified patient in a mental home for the past four years was given at the Criminal Sessions this morning by Mr W. E. R. Cox, father of the accused who arrived here by air from England on Saturday.
A doctor specialising in mental disorders, Capt J. S. P. Mouat, RAMC, said he learned that Cox's brother suffered from schizophrenia and that such an abnormal family history predisposes a person to an abnormal mental condition.
4
oldest
family of seven. HIS
(Contd. on back page, col, 5)
Cox, who is attached to the 1st [sary to slop Cox because he said, fold the Court of his family his- Bo, the Royal Norfolk Regment, he
would kill tho
boy tory, is accused of having shot Needs if he got hold of him. Cox was He said that accused was a dt the Norwegian Farm Camp on very violent and clenched his March 21 with a rifle taken from teeth. the Guardhouse after he had been brought back to the Camp by Military Policemen from a Fanding dance, hall.
Before Me Justice Reece and a male fury, he is being defendet by Mr Charles Loseby QC, structed by Mr R. E. Moorc.
Crown Counsel. M: D. F O'Reilly Moyne, assisted by Det Insp. E. P. Grace is
Opening the prosecuting
Jessop said that in August, 1952 his men suffered heavy mortar fire, and Cox, was very badly shaken. pale, frothing at the lips and
The most unusual thing he noticed about the accused, sold the witness, was when speaking things he would became very with his friends about ordinary
defence this excited and stumble ever bia morning. Mr Loseby said Words that he (witness)
Europe's Sizzling Whitsun
London, May 26. Europe sizzled today in hotter Whitsun holiday wea- ther than experienced for
murder had been defined as the could not understand him at all. Wrongful killing with malice Cross-examined by Mr aforethought-two separate In- Mayne, Jessop agreed that it gredients. The jury would have was not unusual to be pile and to be satisfed that Cox did the shaken after an experience of killing and that he did it with
shelling or mortaring, He did malice aforethought that
not agree that the words " wickedly and criminally.
kill him"
were often wed by many years He said he was calling evi-some people in a very Loose dence on only one aspect of the sense.
and would do no
nore
cut,
that is, to attempt
is.
City dwellers ded to the country, and bathing polls and seaside resorts had their first big rush of the year.
In parts of Europe brought down temperatures for few hours, but in most of the Gentinent skies were blue and the aún merelless.
Ho agreed that as the senior then follow up the main line of officer It was his duty to report his cross-examination through- he thought Cox necded to medical attention and he would throw light on the question of be the one Cox would see if Cox whether Cox was an ordinary himself
thought he needed man or whether his actions gave medical attention.
"QUEER CHARACTERS" people to think. Cox himself
London had its hottest Whit had at least three times said that Jessop salt
for. that Cox 'nover Monday
nino Murray Tannenbaum, na seven-foot, one-inch, -
years. he got out from asked for this nor did he report Thousands of cara and coaches sfudent at the Long Island Univeralty, New York, was
mind was a blank 1 his need for it, and added Mono | Jeft the capital hourly for the The Jeep among the volunteers who turned up at the school's in- and that, according to Cox, was meets a lot of queer characters
and country, tell the jury. In the Army. It is not my duty Lomion carrying people thousands more poured firmary to give his blood for the blood bank.
all he could Nurse
Whether this Was truc Helene Wolfe had to stand on her tip-toes to test his
or to go round pleking them out to whether it was in essened the seo if they need medical atten-
provinces to see the de- blood pressure, with the hope that this giant would yield truth was highly material.
tion."
corations, for the Coronation a gallon of blood instead of the usual couple of pints.- Mr Loseby
expressed
next week. London Express,
thanks to the War their assistance in bringing Cox's father out to Hongkong. From the
Rhee's Opposition To UN Truce Proposal
Tokyo, May 25.
The United Nations Commander, General Mark Clark, returned to Tokyo tonight from one of the most ticklish diplomatic assignments of the Korean war.
The result of his two-hour secret meeting with Pre- sident Syngman Rhee in Seoul may determine the success
.:
I point
his for
of view of Cox's
mental health his father would give the best evidence. There would also be Dr Mouat, a psychiatrist employed by Army and on" expert" on" mental matters.
FIRST WITNESS
three
the
coast
the
And
into
to
Cpl J. F. Evans who was with in Korea sall that he raw
TERRIFIC STORMS. Cox's finger-tips, broken once.
While temperatures rose In reply to Mr Loseby he EG degrees, Fahrenheit, in the terrific thunderstomm went on to say he noticed this shade, because someone told him about swept slowly southwards. One if, but was stopped by the Judge raged for 12 hours in Scotland, who ruled it was hearsay ani bringing down trees and block- inadmissible to say what was caused several deaths in Wales. ing roads, while another told him by
Mr Loseby objected to the Eastern states enjoyed
the United States the weather, but heavy rain fell in
Judge ruling before hearing Counsel's submissions, and he dispensed with further evidence from that witness.
was Pie
The next witness
in
In
and
Bunny
more foods
threatened Louisiana, Montana
More than 16,000 people have already been made homeless by floods in the Lake Charles area of Louisiana.
brought
The Arst defence witness called was, Staff Drum Maj. C. J. Jessop who said that the accused joined the Defence R. W. Knight who said that be Platoon of the Royal Norfolks noticed Cox acting queerly in Some reductions are expected
Korea with the battalion at the a girl called Lena was picked tria and France told of, crowds in July, 1951
and arrived in Hongkong on one occasion when
Reports from Germany, Aus- be recommended by the Foreign Affairs Committee of of any Korean war truce.
end of September, 1951. Two up by another soldier. Cox leaving the cities for the coun... their arrival Cox smashed a window but after-tryside owing to the heat wave. days after Representatives. But It was re with the elderly President: this even
Gen. Clark spent two hours Koren. Some ROK
officials moved with the Regiment towards said he could not remem- have hinted garded as virtually certain that morning apparently to win Pre-
that the the front:
The temperature In Vienna unless there
South Korea Anny, now part
soared to 00 degrees Fahrenheit, Witness said that he had theber what he had done. was a medical sident Rhee's support for a
The father of the accused, Mr but in some parts change in
force, should job of mounting guard at Ban W. E. R. Cox from Apsley local of the Allied the international
of Austria situation, the heaviest pressure the Korean war.
United Nations proposal to end fight alone
three platoons Guise, Bedforshire, with per- If
United HQ and the the
thunderstorms would be exerted
relief-Router. Nations signs a truco dividing manned during the
machine gunspiration dripping from his face, House and Senate debates, ex- Gen. Clark and ROK Gov-Korea.
posts. It was one of Cox's pected in several weekt time, ernment officials refused to com- Gen, Clark's special mission to jobs to call him but one morn
ment on the meeting. But this Scout apparently was to con- ing he woke up at 5 o'clock
without amendments ---Reuter,
much was clear, the United vince President Rhee that he
being called. He found cep. When Notions may find it tougher to should support the secret United Cox in his bunk asleep.
for this Cox Bell President Rhre
ho. rebuked the Nations truce on
plan agreed] on cd obeng
and when Allied truce plan than
used to con-
eng languag became i the United Nations govern- he checked. by vince the Communists that they menis during the eight-day violently abusivo. should accept it.
iruce talk reces
While talk- This may mean bitterly op- that President Rhee has been
ing to me he President Rhee
he brought his hands of Austrinn
poses any
hall-clenched, in truce which
would asked to abandon at least for up to his sides, leave Korea divided. which
jet bomber which would begin ment-sponsored
Govern the present his fight against a very aggressive manner. He
advanced on me
on me with his then rallics test flights "any day now" seem- been
havo the Communista for Korea'a held in
hands raised and I was forced nearly
every unfled Independence. ed even better than its English South
to strike him down to defend Korean city and town
BITTER FILL equivalent, Sir Donald Harman, in recent weeks, opposing an
myself He ground his toeth chief of the Australian Air Staff, armistice that would continue
This would be a bitter pill for and stumbled over his words" sald today.
Communist rule in North President Rhce, who has lived sald the witness
much of his life in exile. It he Jossop Bald that Cox's be
to an armistice haviour was unusual and he should agree Banners proclaiming "Give due to begin tests next month, us unification
and keep his huge army behind agreed with the Judge's remark or death"
ho would be faster than those bullt plastered
not and the truce line observers believe that he meant buildings on The State Department's 4,000- in the United States--Reuter.
it would
to have privates houses in every part of South
only be because he accustomed review entitled The
Mention that his
war-ravished. assaulting him. no match for the He added to Mr Loseby's
of
#
there are many people in blamed the Soviet Unlon for Britain who think a greater fallure to agree to the settle check on the all-powerful man.. House of Commons is long overdue. Even Mr Churchill himself, during his younger days in the political wilder ness, deilvered n great dissertation on the reform of
* the legislature. He wanted nu Upper House composed
"The single stumbling block has been, and la, the Savier Union, it said. "The Soviet determination to style on trian treaty has become ih- creasingly apparent."
word
Building Super Canberra Plane.
Adelaide, May 25, The Australian-built Canberra
Australian-built Sabrejet fighters,
Sir Donald also said Aus- Korea,
of the best wisdom in all Austrian Treaty: a case study of
the great sciences and arts Soviet tactics,"
was issued by
and in administration. All the Office of Public Affairs. Plane Ploughs Through
efforts to arrango this have
so far. failed becauso
Socialist hostility,
of
It accused Russia of "broken
pledges," stalling and refusal to
As for accept an Austrian pact because
the. American Constitution, of its desire to "exploli" Aus-
i has certainly served the irla's economy.
country, well 80 far.
Nevertheless, it is true
The State Department docu-
ment made it clear that the
Airport Spectators
The dead are a young woman
Amsterdam, May 25.
Was
counout arms and other ald | question that Cox was threaten-
the free world.
I from
South Korea's delegate to the Panmunjom talks did not at tend today's session but there was no immediatè evidence that this meant that the Rhee Gov- emment
has started boycotting the negotiations.
A Unlied Nationa ́ spolocsman
Korean Major-
ing in his manner and he found it impossible to deal with him in the ordinary way.
APOLOGISED
Cox was out for about half a minute after he bad been atruck, witnces continued. When the accused came to he was completely quiet and apologised
for what he had
Two persons wero killed and 44 others were injured went to great lengths to explain that one ar the United States, Britain and when a two-motored Royal Dutch Airlines plane crash that South grontost of the Founding France would stand firm by landed shortly after taking off here today and ploughed General Chol Duk-son missed done. Fathers, Alexander Hamil their promise to restore come Into a nearby flold jammed with spectators.
the talles because he was not Witness added that he then tonwanted system of plate Independence to the
present when the halleppters | took steps for disciplinary Government akin to the Bri. Austrian people, officials said.
The ush and he was only Austrian
Horrifed eyewitness among left Munsan for Panmunjom action against the accused for review sald that the and a child who were hit by the spectators
cased with the United Nations dele. falling to do his duties. case was an ill-wreckage from the plane when death or injury said that the guies. The spokesman, Lieut- Tarrowly defeated. In almost strations of
Who
In November but year in the methods levery American history ployed by the Soviet Union in airport.
em. It broke up in a field near the Convale, which was on its way Colonel Milton Herr, said that Korea a aholi landed about a book: ho is praised highly.exploiting other peoples and
Twenty-seven of the injured clent alutude, when I reached plane because his would be late another private, sald Jessop. to Boris Failed to gain sufl-Gen. Choi did not take another yard from where Cox was with ***** That is unlikely to deter | other nations, regardices
of ware
Whit-Monday
for the meetings halfday- the end of the runway.
and did not "He appeared very shaken, ho Senator McCarthy from pledges solemnly given and malters who had gathered at As scores ran in terror the want to interrupt the session was pale and trambling.” was puiting his quick-firing repeatedly reaffirmed
the fold to watch operations crippled plane hit: a hodge, once it had started.
his description of Cox's reaction. "Here, in capsule, is an at the airport. The other 17 bounced into the field full of lapa:igators" on to Homlllluminating picture of Soviet people who were injured In Nations! truce
No dolalls of the United
Jessop told of another · in- anton and all his works as techniques in handling nations aboard he is tell co were spectator and then broke in President Rhoe have leaked out restrain Cox by force because before cident. He said he once had to - part of the purgo of the and
peoples whe university and school knuckle under,"
refuse to "Paulus Potter" which carried the wreckage whizzed through and today's truco meeting at Cox went after a small Korean It added 20 passengers apart from crew the canles of the on-lookers. Panmunjom was shrouded in boy who had knocked off a libration
| members
United Pres
secrecy United Press.
chimney. Ho thought it neces-
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