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The Soviet Enigma
HILE the purge among oficials in
W higher
various parts of Soviet Russia and her Bitellite neighbours goes Ꮕ, the world continues to ponder what one commentator has called the "mystery and mystification" of the Beria affair. There are many who are inclined, to the belief; that Beria was dismissed and publicly disgraced because he' የቤዛ making
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EARLY SIGNING OF TRUCE A Ship Of American
Soviet Military Might
IN SIGHT
Important
Revealed Developments
New York, July 20.
himself the champion of the
"A grim lesson" that So. smaller nationalists within viet military strength was the USSR, whereas greater than believed had Malenkov held rigidly to been learnt by North At- the idea of centralisation Inntic Treaty Organisation | and of "Great Russian military officials from the predominance, Similarly recent appearance in East. there is a school of thought Germany of four Soviet divi- which credits Berls with sions to quell the recent up- being an advocate of an
risings there, a Washington "ensier" policy in the antellite states, and that in correspondent reported to consequence of his liquida day. tion thin will now ba
The correspondent, Mr Robert reversed or modified. But Auten, da a dispatch to the New whatever the real reasons York Post reported this as one for the political upheaval of the warnings privately given within the Kremlin, nothing by General Alfred Gruenther, has yet emerged
to
NATO Synteme Commander, to Congressional leaders
against
indiente any very funda cutting the United States Foreign mental change in the Aid Programme. character of
الم
the
Soviet
Purporting
give what
Yesterday
Seoul, July 21.
Preparations for a Korean armistice speeded down the home stretch today (Tuesday) after lower level Allied and Communist officers chalked up their busiest day since the talks started more than two years ago.
While the "truce policemen" of the four- nation Armistice Supervisory Commission waited in Tokyo and Peking respectively for the signal to proceed to Korea, Allied and Communist staff officers doing the spade-work scheduled further meetings at Panmunjom this morning after a marathon day yesterday.
that heralded en
In rapid succession these were the developments early signing of the Korean armistice:
1.Funtor
seven
sessions.
members of the met for a total of more than holm In 10 separate
Highlighting the Monday meet. ing was the appearance for the Orst time at Panmunjom of United Nations officers repro- senting
the UN Millary Armis- tice Commission
which
will work with Communist officers to enforce the armistice.
United Nations representatives met with the Communists for almost two hours and gave the Reds some Allied ideas on the of putting the Com- methods mission into operation.
regime. And one charac General Gruenther said Mr Allen teristic remains: it is of a reported: "Russia is militarily Government, claiming to be stronger than ever before. "democratic" which con-
"That was one of the grim ducts all its affairs and decidos
its policies ons learned from the mass Military Armistice Commission behind an almost impon-risings in East Germany. The met for the first time on Monday four divisions rushed there by with their Communist counter- etrable veil of secrecy. This Lie Kremlin provided the first parts, is not the Iron Curtain closeup look at Communist com 2.-Two groups of Staff Officers which has been lowered at personne equipment and hold five meetings and were
scheduled to carry on today. between the Soviet Union cher
3.Senior Haison officers met Mr Allen reported the General's and the outside non-
warning statement in this quota- twice., Communist world, but
4.Interpretere met twice to tioni eurtain between the What was seen and learned translate into English, Chinese Kremlin and the people of was grim. For one thing the und Korean the decisions being the Union. All discussion incident revealed that Russian reached in other meetings.
soldier and 5.-Communist of policy, all taking of divisions are at 100% battle decisions, are in the most strength and not at 85% or less civilian tabourers and carpenters had reason to believe, resumed the erection of a house complete secrecy. No hint of us we anything, except occasional. Also, their arms and equipment for the armistice signing
Panmunjom, the construction of completely
whith was suspended when the ly an impending "new line", are first class and is allowed to lenk out. The
Reds eccessed the negotiations current formula is that all
more than a mouth aga decisions represent
to
ONE effect of this system is
the Beria case. At one moment he is presented to
modern,
Poland,"
6.
perco
f
at
with
-
The 14,000-ton Polish
liner Batory arrives at Greenwich, England, with 600 Scandinavian tourists aboard. Certain visitors were allowed to visit the ship during her stay. This is the ship, the former captain of which has asked for political asylum in England after describing the Batory as "a ship of terror"-Lon
don Express.
Terror'
British Businessmen
Offer Suggestion To McCarthy
London, July 20.
Aid Offer To France
Story Denied By Foreign Office
Paris, July 20.
The Independent newspaper Le Monde sild today the United States Government had offered France another $200 million of aid in Indo-China provided that Francs
at obtaining plan aimed a decisive military victory in Indo-China and that the United States Government henceforth negotiates directly with the Vietnam Government about economic and military questions.
This proposal according to the paper was made to Foreign Minister Bidault by Mr John Foster
of
Dulles on July 12 in the home of the Secretary State in Georgetown.
If the conditions attaching to the American oder aro
true,
they are liable to arouse storm Inside the Government where + certain number of ministers are strongly opposed to allowing America to have control of affairs. In
frenter
Indo-China,
COMMENT
nde commented: "The Lo Mondo Georgetown pact would in volve France in an Atlantic. pact for Asia with less safe- guards than in the ease NATO (North Atlantic Treaty
aro Organisation). There
at Jcast two members of the Cabinet who have declared
that if one day the conflict in
war
Forvised the Senator to pay more attention to Ameri-sembly they would not remain
Prison E. German
Rioters
Berlin, July 21.
The Reds were expected to
An East German Court nt reply to the UN suggestions to- day and come with counter pro-Dresden has sentenced one posals.---United Press,
Persians To
reported yesterday. Demonstrate
British officials paid scant attention today to Senator Joseph McCarthy's report on Western Indo-China became an inter- trade with Communist China while businessmen
national
against 'Com→ munismo without the explicit concerned called it a "smear campaign” and ad- agreement of the National As-
Goverment can dealings with the Chinese Reds.
"Those who think like them The Foreign Office had no comment because un official have been kept away.
ministerial
since meetings Bidaults.
return. Tho truth Government.
must bo-made known before it is too late." Le Monde majd,
Later the French Foreign Office issued a strong denial of the statements contained in Le Monde,
representations had been received from the United States
The Board of Trade said that, ports from longkong and Macao newspaper accounts of the Me- and to ascertain the origin of Carthy report made pome "very this so-called balinst," the source unfair, comparisons" in trade sak-United Press. Agures.
Actress Loses Jewels
from
It dented in particular that Any Information ubout 'the Washington talks bad
been withheld from the French Gov- WINE emment,
said that the French Foreign Minister had kept his Government constantly informed and it described part of the Los Angeles, July 20.
Information Actress Andrea Leeds and her alleged
in the wealthy husband asked for police Monde article, which was signed hop today to find Jewellery J. Servan Schreiber, a well- £25,300), which they said die "lying." valued at $71,450 (about known French fournalist, as appeared trous is hiding place in
portable radio,
All omela! sources said that the report would make no dif- man to life imprisonment ference to Britain's policy of
develop trade with and 15 others to a total of trying to
bolh Russia and China within 931⁄2 years in gaol for their
limits of the embargo part in the East German agreed by the United Nations in riots on June 17, the East May, 1951. German news agency ADN Businessmen cald they be
lieved that Mr. McCarthy had embarked on a "scar campaign The principal defendant was in furtherance of his own poll Lothar-Markowitz, aged 37, cal ambitions and asked pholographer, sentenced to life whether imprisonment for being "the there were American business
The couple said they took the chief ringleader of a group men in Hongkong "taking ad-
to wear to a party on Thursday, local hea of having attacked the vantage of every opportunity, to jewels from a safe for Miss Leads her husband, Mr Bob Later, Offelals said that the Mc-
Howard, hid them in the back of Carthy, report did not give a true the redio, which they took to a plcture by comparing trade swimming pool. Agures for the first half of this year with those for the period In 1952....
he was
aware that
the Party and the people is } Gruenther in saying that cut-rison, about the military aspects/expected mammoth demonstra-local headquarters of the So-rede with Red China."
one of the greatest and most ting of the military plan, would of the truce. trusted leaders; the next, "destroy all chances of develop- Aa
any
GREAT MANY MORE thic
PEACE CAMP TALKS *WIL was particularly collective wisdom of the similicont is
that these four
Radio Central Committee of the divisions rolled
Poking in with more
nounced the arrival in the Communist Party, yet in than 450 tanks accompanying Chinese
capital of the Polish fact all they do is formally then. That is a great many more and Czech members of the
ratify
and approve tanks than four comparable Supervisory Commission decisions already taken by NATO divisions. would have. their staff. Swiss and Swedish the innermost coterie of And we also learned that in groups already were in Tokyo.
7 The Alh "Army's Com- incdition"" to thesotanks the rulers in the Kremlin.
Russians had at least another mander,
General Muxwell
well D.
Teheran, July 21, flew to the Munsan
have thousand in East Germany and Taylor,
Elaborate precautions conferences been camp for
taken by military and with the UNC chief delegate, Mc Allen said that General Lieut-General William H Har: police forces to prevent today's
tions deteriorating into Internecine quarrel
and blood- for the shed.. preparations Europeon
to a conclusion By mutual warning signing moved
the agreement traitor a
and 4 on this factor.
there appeared to be five prob- pro Government National degenerate. The charges
lems still unsolved. Creation of
These Frontists and Pan - Iranists of the desperately against Eeria have been needed
were:
will demonstrate in the Majlis [3 European Army
1-Revising the line of de- Square in the morning, while and vague
abusive. No largely dependent on forces that
the Tudeh, who are also plan evidence of any kind has would be built up
in three marcation,
for commis- ning a huge demonstration will yet been produced. And "critical countries" - Germany, sion of the Military Italy and Yugoslavia,
Armistice parade in the Majlis Square in nobody is allowed to know
Each of these countries is Committee which will take over Today has been declared
evening. anything either of tho under "tremendous opposition the Implementation of the truce national holiday by the Premier reasons for his disgrace
pressure internally and cx- as soon as it is signed. or of any political implica-ternally and unless United 3. Preparation for the arrival whose return to power Last tions which it may have. In States ald was forthcoming it in Koren of the Neutral Nations year after exposing Ghavam this respect the Russian would be "impossible to induce Supervisory Commission which Sultanch
today. people are as much in the those countries to contribute will police the truce. dark as the outside world. the forces urgently needed for
effective an
they are told to regard him Army" also baset! hia
Ing
៧៧
2-Preparations
4.Whether neutral nations' Ghavam
A
is being celebrated
Sultanch has left
-And
the NATO army," Mr Ailen re-inspection teams will be sent to his house in town and gone else- purely ported General Gruenther as various ports of entry in North where in Iran for security. diplomatic point of view saying-Reuter.
and South Korea before or after Americans in Teheran will
signing.
from the
this barrage of secrecy un- doubtedly (and perhaps intentionally) makes every.
thing more difficult for 51 ARRESTED
governments dealing with
the Soviet regime. In a way
they are playing blindfold
chess. Diplomatic relations
IN CALCUTTA
Calcutin, July 20,
against
The
stay.Indoors generally today
3-Location of prisoner of under Instructions from their war camps and whether the Embassy.--Reuter.
Neutral Nations Repatriation
Commission will take charge or
POWS
refusing
repatriation.
They will probably be located Striking Bus
in the demilitarised zone to avoid
Armistice.net of the
Augusta, Georgia, July 20.
i
clalist Unity (Communist) Party at Niesky, near Dresden,
Another defendant was sen tenced to a 13-year terra, one to 11 years, one to ten years, while the others received up to six
the accused were also alleged to have helped to "demolish" the building and plunder the offices of the security police and to have beaten up Communist officials in them.-Router.
years.
•
Egyptian Govt Applies Ban
Cairo, July 20. The Egyptian Government to-
Бето
+
On
The Foreign Ministry: alute- ment said "M. Bidault would report to the National Assembly
the Washington confrente. "He wants to denounce, how- over, immediately the
gross manoeuvre which M. Servan Schreibertr
constitutes.
It is grave TERablo that
The police have listed the the taste for the sensational and Beweis de los" and say that they disdain for truth, should be used. include & $60,000 platinian and in such an offhand manner to FAIRER COMPARISON
diamond engagement ring. # deceive public opinion about the "During the arst half of 1052 $9,550 diamond pin, a $2,000 pearl | country's interests and those who there was practically no British secklace and two pairs of defend them," the Foreign-
and Deart trade with China because of the diamond
quis Ministry statement suld
Reuter. anti-foreign drive in Peking. It valued at $5,800,-Router would have been-fairer to make a comparison with the second half of 1962 when there was in- the creased trade with China," officials said.
Fairer all, they said, would be for a comparison to be made with the first six months in 1951. "British trade today is, only little more than half what it was in 1951. If McCarthy's investi- gatore care to look up compara- tive figures they, will find
that
Britain is proof
day issued ✡ blanket order definite banning the movement of sup-keeping to the United Nations
plies in the Suez Canal Zone ex- But we cannot live
cept by special lleence and stpu-
trade
and
wo, consider In non-strategie goods with both Russia and China to be the
lated that deals with the British trade in
by except
are unauthorised
The order holic beverages and construction and industrial materials,
covers food, alco-ike age of the free world,"
A similar order was issued two monike ngo, but it affected only
outsido
officials stated Businessmen said that they "amazed that Senator
be, so McCarthy could.
fil-
were
in Onn de
One of them said, "In Hong-
status
Mr Bufford was taken to/cludes territories extending from cernel with nothing but keeping
with the Soviet Union or Police arrested 51 people here and Indian personnel.
clashes between South Korean Driver Wounded podal licence. with any other Communist today--the 20th day of demon- Minor matters to be rettled state are, because of it,strations
Increased Include the entirely different from second class tram fares.
the com- Shotgun pellets today pepper, those with any
In one other
with munications and transportation belking civilised states in modern police armed with lathis charged fines to be used dry the personnel Bufford, a striking union bus
British forces, times. They recall the old
crowd of 200 trying to hold of each side when entering the driver, injuring him and nar
The new
kong, there are about 40 Ameri- order covers preas a meeting in defiance of a ban opposing side in accordance with
missing his wife and
with British
officials zonerand' in-can
Consular Jibe that it is like a man on more than four people at the armistice terms, the type of
of child.
Many of them are con- looking in a dark room for sembilingues and vehicles con protection to be given that per hospital and two lead
the Nile delta eastward to Sinal. n cat which may not be
State
pelicta
an ero on trade with Gom- The order is
is designed to "con- there. Yet all this is quite tinued to be the main targets of joint facilities to be used by the were removed from his heel.
munist China, We would like who hurled Military Armistice Commission.
The shooting broke the full introl the supply situation" and
to important for it applies to demonstrators
ask whether it was these 4 strike of union bus drivers prevent blackmarketing. the mystery that surrounds crackers and brickbats at them,
Articles purchased for personal rial for the McCarthy
officials who supplied the mate TEN SESSIONS
which began on June 1 against
report the fall of Lavrenti Beria, injuring several persons.
With the full truco delega the Augusta Coach Company use by British soldiers traveling We cannot bellove It During the 20 days of rioting. and adds to the puzzle of bombs have been thrown, police tions in Indefinite recom, the here.
Another businessman who just what
After two weeks of no bus empt from licence-United Precently returned from Hongkong is going to have fred on rioters and | activity at Panmunjom yester
said that it was no secret in happen to the Soviet regimo hundreds of people have been day was taken over entirely by services the Company employed in the coming months.
delegation representatives who non-union drivers.Reuter
the British Colony that Ameri can representatives of "large industrial concerns were there
orrested,—Reulor.
sonnel and the construction of
Princess Margaret Goes To A Party
London, July 21. the Marchiontss of Dufferin that Princess Margaret Was Princess Margaret last night and Ava.
expected"" tha... numbersAKTOW allended her, first. party since
in and, out of the pren are ex-
Indo-China Debate
Paris, July 20.
This
WAS,"
Butler's Promise
·-· | dolo", Dinitions with Red London, Jul
July 20.
The French Government will made, he said, was
by dims with Chinese The Acting Britists Prima meet on Wednesday morning to Minister and Chancellor of the debate the Indo-Chin situation names and probably a large rapidly.
Exchequer Mr R. A.. Butler, om pokeman announced Chingo junks whose capacity instead of Tuesday night, an porcentage of it was carried by her return from her tour of No sooner had red carpeta
could not be included in th promised the House of Commans today. Southern Rhodesin with thebeen placed over the steps of As Princess Margaret's
today that he would take up the
McCarthy reportplan Map Queen Mother.......
Lady Dufferin's house, than a drove up it was immediately question of a Big Four moeiing No explanation was offered Ask the investigators to look It was a "welcome" home" mall crowd collected,
tomorrow and surrounded by excited women in his :-speech
on for the postponement. ---- United into the amount of ballast carried the news party given in her honour, by when
loaked out land girls--Reuber.
foreign policy
by Junk to Communist › China
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