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Malaya Appraisal
THE importance of General Templer's recent state- ment in London on the Pituation in Malaya has been somewhat obscured by the thought-provoking speeches of Sir Winston Churchill and Mr Attlee in the House of Commoitx and
the
indignant reactions which camu from Amoricua congressmen, Nevertheless, in several respects, General Templer'a appraisal of developments in Malaya was the most important yet made. He nilowed the facts -and-figures- to speak for themselves, and they add up to this: Communist banda no longer operate on the fringes of the jungles, raid- ing from their lira intu farms and plantations. They have been almost pletely withdrawn. Into the deep jungle country in order to avold contact with the Government troops and police. There they remain potential
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BRITAIN BACKS NEW UN MAN'S STORY OF
TRUCE PROPOSALS Patrol Boat
Eisenhower But They Are
Reiterates Principles
Washington, May 26. President Eisenhower
tonight that my Korean prisoners of war "will be repatriated by force" and "no prisoners will be enerced or intimidated in any way."
Mr Elsenluwer sd in ♫ statement that certain, principles
inherent in the United Nations Command position are basic and not subject to change."
The White House declined to
why Mr Else
Eisenhower was suing the statement.
Bay
pro-
Com-
But Administration Sourc said the purpose was to clear up nlsunderstandings the President felt had developed regarding the United Nations armistice
to the posals submilled munists over the weekend. the prisoner of war issue would There have been reports that be referred for final settlement to the United Nations General Assembly,
Still Secret
SIR WINSTON'S STATEMENT
London, May 26.
The British Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill tonight announced the full support of the British Government for the new Korean armistice proposals put forward at Panmunjom. yesterday by the United Nations negotiator General William Harrison.”
In a statement issued tonight from No. 10 Downing Street, Sir Winston Churchill said that the proposals were secret, and that it was only possible to say that they were "very close to the
Nations in December last". terms of the Indian resolution passed by-the United
This resolution provided that both Chinese and Korean prisoners who refused repatriation should be placed under neutral custody but that a definite time
limit should be provided for their release.
rather than an immediate une. The contrast with two years ago is complete. Then the monthly number of "major incidents mostly murderous raids on isolated forms and plantations--was nearly 200, In the first quarter of this your it was eighteen. Communist casualties, whenever
The text of Mr Eisenhower's tuet can be made with them statement follows: "The atten- ure high. The number of
tion of the free world is focussed
The text of the Prime Minis- upon the armistice negotiations .surrenders is stendily in-
at Panmunjom. There on May ter's statement said: creaming; the armed Com-25 the UNC
Nations "The proposals put forward (United manists who have not been Command) renewed its efforts by General Harrison at Pan- deep to bring un honourable peace to munjom yesterday were pre- Korea on a fair and humane pared by the United States Gov- crnment after consultation, with settlement of the POW issue.
Government "To speed these negotiations the British
Cont
and executive, other the UNC requested in other words confidential, United Nations
these proposals scssluna. We are continuing to observe, the executive nature of secret. It is not possible to say those sessions.
the
withdrawn to. jungle now operate in sail groups of anything from three to a dozen men. These are hard to track, but, they nre comparatively Innocuous. All this means that the attempt to over- throw the authority of the Malayan Government and set up a Communist regime on the Vietminh pattern in a part of the country, which was started in 1948. is now petering out. THE Luct_is_at
the
organisers and, controllers of the "rebellion" com- pletely misjudged the situn- tion. Misled by their own theorles, they really seemed to have believed that once they started An armed revolt they would be sure of a mass support which would make it impossible for the Government to cope with. That support never came. There were, original ly, plentiful jungle hiding places near to a scattered population largely com- posed of Chinese "squatters" →→who could be easily
and
#TO
more
than that they are very close to the terms of the Indian resolution passed by the Unitej Nations in December lust.
"They have the complete support of the British Govern
BASIC PRINCIPLES "There are, however, certain principles inherent in the UNC position which ure basic and not subject to change.
"No
be re-ment." prisoners will patrlated by force. No prisoners
Commenting on the British or intimidated will be coerced
United Nations proposals, a Foreign in any way. And there must belude to the new
a definite limit to the period of office spokesman sald tonight incir captivity. The
that they represented a real used in handling the
attempt to bridge the gap" be tween the positions of the two sides,
must, reflect these
m;mbers of the United Nations."-Reuter.
raided and terrorised into Duke Lands In
giving supplies. But these Palace Grounds dificulties, buffling at first,
have been largely over- Troops have been come. trained in jungle warfare; tho Police have Been roorganised; Home Guards have been ralised and armed, And it is right and proper that a large share of the credit for dealing with the Communist marauders should go to the Malayans themselves. There is justin- dation for the belief that the danger which seemed to threaten Malaya has now largely passed. But that in not the end of the story. As in other instances the Communists change their thetles rather than their objectives. Their reni design In Malayn has been, not to
both Chinese and Korean pri- soners
repatriation refusing would be transferred to neutral custody-Reuter,
NEHRU CONFIRMS
Now Delhi May' '25. The Indian Prime Minister, Mr Nehru, addressing a. publle meeting here today said:
I
Hongkong
Firm Loses
"Yesterday the United Nations or, if I may shy so, the United States, put forward new pro- posals,
"They have
been noi published in the press but
come to know of their have broad outlines, "According
to thy informa- these proposals come ton much nearer to the Indian. resolution" than previous" United Nations proposals. Certain complicated matters have been altered."
Trading Privileges
Washington, May 26--- The Office of International Trade of the Commerce De- "I hope the fullest considera-partment today announced it has denled all export
tion
Explodes
One of the British Navy's new.fast patrol boats, FPB 1023, sank and another, the Gay Archer. WIE badly damaged by fire when an ex- plosion occurred on board one of the vessels in Aarhus The two Harbour, Jutland. craft were among eight fas: which Jeft Gosport
for on May
7 exercises with Danish and
ships. Norwegian
Here smoke can be seen billowing from the two fast patrol boats after the explosion in Aarhus Harbour.—London Express.......
patrol boats
Wind, Snow Buffet Climbers
Uon "In all this, our allies are in
will be given to these full
The principles
proposals and that ⚫ speedy. accord accord also with the prevailing FULLY DISCUSSED
solution will be reached now trading privileges in strale- of the representative view
that there is very little differ-gic goods to Victor England, of Senators He added that they resulted;
between partisan group
ence
the Chinese his San Francisco firm, Vie- who have from full and detailed discus- Congressmen
tight-point propesal and the for England Agencies; the sion" between the United States latest United Nations proposals, bern consulted.
"Fin:lly, these principles upen and the other United Nations
"I see, no
reason why the Capital Company of Hong-
New Delhi, May 26. which we stand are the same as Governments concerned the matter should remain unsettled Irong, and Peter H. T. Pan, a
Stiff winds carrying tanse which were formally ap-Korean campaign.
any longer"."
partner of the Capital Com- proved by 54
snow drifts buffeted the Mr Neliru sald: "It will pany until May 1, 1955. Criticism in London of the
The office said that England British expedition high on Communist truce proposals of strenge if minor differences are May 7 has concentrated on their not ironed out",
and Pan in September 1051, the 29,002-foot Mt Everest fa.lure to fix an eventual time The Indian resolution propos- after Unlied States export con- today. limit for the release of prisoners ed a 4-Power repatriation com-
irols on shipments to Hongkong Reports reaching Kathmandu, who refuse repatriation and on misalon-Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Macwo had been tightened, Nepal, sold it was believed that Sweden and Switzerland - or entered into an arrangement to the British olimbers would with- the possibility that they might Sw
these make possible the introduction any other four non-combatant circumvent controls by draw to a lower camp for a briet making another of fresh Communist troops from nations, two being nominated by establishing in Lisbon, Portugal, rest before
side. It proposed alla firm called the Capital Com attempt to conquer the mountain. London, May 28.
Poland and Czechoslovakia who cach air-minded
The expedition was reported The
Duke
handed over
over pany. would be members of the neutral prisoners should be
the repatriation commission One shipment of loudspeakers to have established successfully Edinburgh
startling commission, into South Korea, but that each side should have in violation of regulations was la advanced camp less than & Bat Royal Innovation today
company foet doom the summit of Everest he ordered a British Army It is recognised here that the the chance to tell the prisoners made to the Lisbon helicopter to drop to the Communist proposal of May 7their rights and explain any and they were trans-shipped to and sherpas (native parters) grounds of Buckingham Palace did concedo the issue that there matter concerning their return Macao. A traveller from the were preparing another camp on to take him to one of his public should be no forcible repatria- [home, The Chinese Premier Mr United States carried to Pan at a rocky ridge oven closer to the duties.
tion of prisoners of war.
Chou En-la! rejected the resolu- Hongkong as personal baggage summit from, which two- The helicopter swooped low The latest United Nations tion on December 15, 1052 a shipment of twist drills, the teams were to make thele înai over a Coronation sightseeing proposals
are understood in [Router, crowd of thousands around the usually well informed quarters Palace and drew gasps of to
the sug- dropped to have astonishment as it slid slowly gestion made from down the Palace.
The
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of
when
the
only a few yards from United Nations side on May 13 Red
that Korean prisoners should Duke called for the be released immediately with-
him to
CUB- a out transfer to neutral helicopter lo tako place near London where he todianship, is to inspect Coronation troops. In the proposals put forward -United Press.
yesterday, 1 was understood
"Jiberate" the Maluyana, Warning Given By Korean
butto paralyse the economic
Hite of the country, which
fe of such importance to the ekonomy of the whole free world.
The rebellion hus
falled. Now they are turn- ing to other familiar Com
Stevedores'
Union.
The Korean Stevedoren'. Union
Puean, May 26. today warned Japanese ships bring
ita
ing ammunition to Korea.
munist methods of infiltra-members would refuse to discharge
tion and subversive propa- ganda. It is prudent, there fore) to appreciate, that
ment commission,
Agents
office said. England had also assaults destroyed documents after be Today's weather report by All- ing requested to produce them. India Radio cald that there would The trade office said England be winds of 30 and 35 knots had been under suspension for around the top of Everest for the seven months and Pan under next 24 hours with the possibility Fair suspension for violating control of snow falls tomorrow. singe April 3 of this year.
but cloudy weather was expected anywhere tompertures the with
it between 10 and 20 degrees below ad-zero Fahrenhelf United Press. :
Explode Bomb England consented
to
issue of his dental order,"
Gubstantially zald. "Pan mitted his violation."
Whitsun Holiday Death Toll
Athens, May 27. Agents of the outlawed Greek England and his firm, the Communist Party last night ex-office added, would be allowed ploded a small bomb in central to make shipments of magazines from San periodicals
Paris, May 26, Athens which scattered anti-and Dulles leaflets and injured one Francisco to Hongkong and Nearly 200 people were killed Macao "to earn a livelihood in and hundreds injured in the woman, polleo reported.
Mr John Foster Dulles, the a non-strategic business which three-day Whitun holiday in American Secretary of State, can be adequately polleel by Germany, Italy, Austria is due here today on his fact-customs officials."—Router.
France, according to unofficial finding four of the Middle East
figures.
Most of the deaths
weke on and South Asia.
the roads as people streamed from the elties to the country- side and beaches to enjoy the Others wero drown- heatwave. New Delhi, May 28.
The bomb was a home-made type of hand grenade and seat- tered hundreds of leaflets around. Written in English and
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· CAMEL-MOUNTED ROBBERS
at Bayawar a rich merchant
and
They accused the Japanese tranco of, a Korean procurerrek, they read: "Warmonger Thirteen robbers mounted on ed. Samo died of sunstroke. though their record of seamen of wholesale smuggling
Dulles, got out of Greece. You now be and said the United Nations had However the official said the will not make Greece another camels swooped. on the house of Router. terrorism will
Chinese Nationalist. Government Forca." rather ability than an agreed to replace the Japanese on Fermoans had told Korca it
of Basdtthéle now-lino
ships trading to Puran with activities can become more
Korean vesselai than troublesome. The good senko, and lalanced judg
They were signed with the Malon near Jodhpur and stole Potrol Heater would act as buying agent. Initiala of the Greek Communist official said that the South Party, which has been pro-
Government and the bed.
Nations Korean
THE
A Korean Government official Korean
United
迎
hoard of gold and Explosion Kills 4 it was reported hera
11 agents made a uimilar worth of property in~!
ment of this inhabitants of today said that Korea was hay-construction Agency had agreed tempt in another central part effective weapons against ships
Malaya will be the moating difficulty in getting suitable to use US$1,000,000 of United of Athens a few weeks
because the Japanese Nations funds to buy ships. wheis come arrests were made
the new throat.
Government hod refused en ] Reuter.
Reuter.
"
The robbers were a gang of aro Dacoits which had been terroris
ing areas south of Jodhpur for same time,Reuter,
Buenos Aires, May 27. Four people were killed and three seriously Injured when a petrol heater exploded while seven friends, were making coffee in a house-Router.
HOW HE RESISTED BLACKMAILER
Future Safety Of His Sons
Offered As Reward:
Washington, May 26.
Rumanian-born Valeriu Georgescu, educated in England and now working in America, broke down and wept today as he told how he refused to become a Communist spy for the price of his two sors' release from a Rumanian prison camp.
He said the attempt to blackmail him into spying was made by the First Secretary of the Rumanian Lega- tion in Washington, Mr Christache Zambeti.
The diplomat was ordered by the State Department today to leave the country. A'terse note to the fumanian Embassy said he was pervina non grata.
In
a Washington hotel room. After he had appealed to the Mr Georgescu told reporters that Red Cross, the State Depart- his two sons--Constantin aged ment, the Indian Government 10, and Peter, 14—were in a and other agencies to secure camp at Botosani, southern their release, Mrs Anna Pauker, Rumania.
then Rumanian Foreign Minis-
were
He said the diplomat called at ter, agreed in 1950 to let the his New York home on May 20 boys leave for the United States.
But and produced a photograph of
suddenly the decision was countermanded. "They told the two boys. On the back was
being a sentence saying: "Dear Daddy, the children they were please do all you can to help taken to Bucharest to get
plano for the United States, but instead the boys The diplomat said: "You may 500
children your
within Ц
a camp," Mr taken
Oway to if year
will you
ogree
Georgescu said. to collaborate politically with us.
us." Mr Georgescu, who took a Bachelor of Science degree at 1925 Birmingham University in and is now an executive
my
"That was one of the meanest things they could have done."
RECEIVES RECEIPT
aro
Each month, Mr Georgescu with Gaid, he sends the children the Standard On Company, sald some money through a bank in he replied: "I don't intend to Rumania and receives a receipt sell my conscience to work for with the boys' signature. "The you-you want to bargain for signature is the only way
childen against i have of knowing the release of
they He added. my conscience."
alive," he After the interview, he and "It was not an easy decision for my wife and I to bring his wife informed the State Do- partment and
the Federal this into the open, but it seems Bureau of Investigation.
the only way in which we can protect our children." BREAKS DOWN
In the official language, ut Severnt times as he talked to
Deportment, the to leave the
the
State
reporters, Mr Georgescu broke Rumanian diplomat was found
down and had room.
My wife and I decided that the only chance we now have to protect our children is by letting the whole world know the facts," he said, we have placed the fate of our children
of
trying "to subvert Mr collaborate poll- Georgescu to fically with the Communist re- gime of Rumenia to the detrl- nent of the United States Gov- crament."
He is the fourth Rumanian
in the hands of pubile opinion." Legation official to be deported
United States
A Stato
Mr Georgescu maid he had left from the the two boys in Rumania with the war. their grandmother in 1947 when
sinco
Department spokes-
he was called to the United man said Mr Georgescu'spons
be
given preferential treatment to emigrate to the
Refugees Reach Naples
States for confultations with his would all company. \
Soon after he left the United States if the Rumanians Rumanian
Government began ever let them leave Rumania. mass arrests of all offieinis con- Reuter. nected with American and Bri- tish institutions. His name was on the list of "undesirables."
So Mr Georgescu stayed in the United States and became a naturalised American in 1852.
The Communist regime had In confiscated all my properly 1048," he said. With tears In his eyes, he added: "They even took away the children's clothes, leaving them nothing but what they were wearing."
Naples, May 27. A charter plane carrying 62 White Russians on their way to Brazil, arrived here last night.
Thoy said they had been ex- pelled from Communist China.
They will continuo their journey by eca.--Reuter.
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