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COMMENT OF THE DAY
Meaningless Agreement
form the agreement between Soviet East
signed
pro-
Russia and the German Government Кам the appearance of viding substantial con- cessions to the East Ger- mans, but what they will amount to in substance is a very big question mark. The proposal to end repara. tion paymenta sounds highly generous, but all it actually amounts to is 0 belated gesture which has little menning. The Russians have already exacled O much from East Germany since 1945 in the way of capital and consumer goods that any further plundering must mean the complete. collapse of the East Ger- man economy. The Russjons have now realised this and, purely
their own interests, have decided to end what they euphemis- tleally call "payment of feparations." The accond
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IRAN'S TREASURY EMPTY In Happy Sanctions
Italy Hit By Violent Storms
Rome, Aug. '23.
Nearly 50 people were In hospital tonight and over 100 were homeless after two days of violent summer storms In north- eastern Italy.
Damare
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10 crops WILD extimated at hundreds of thousands of pounds nierling.
people died In Southera Italy in threo different Breworks EX- plosions brought on by heat or lightning-Reuter
Red Agents Steal US Secrets
Immediate Aid Imperative, Says Shah
FEELS WORRIED
Teheran, Aug. 23.
The Shah of Persia said here today that the nation's Treasury was "very empty" and “immediate help is imperativo.”
He declared: "We do not ask any nation in particular and we are not beggars.
"However we must have help now if we are to save the country"
The Shah, who made a triumphant return to Teheran yesterday after six days' oxile in Rome, made the statement to reporters at a tea party in the gardens Washington, Aug. 23.
Senate Internal of Saadabad Palace.
When a reporter asked him if Persia would be equal to five per cent of the Security Sub-Committee re-
promise-to: cut Soviet
occupation costs to a level
The
German budget-in ported today that Com-willing to accept Soviet aid, the 33-year-old monarch "con-munist secret agents were replied gravely: "We are ready to accept help from
operating Within anyone.”
of
East another specious cession," for in practice | still this would mean a raid on agencies of the United The Shah accused the regime The value of the rial rose of Dr Mohammed blossadegh, here today and remained steady all sources of revenue and States Government.
whose government was over-Eat an exchange rate of 80 to might well in effect bring
In a detailed study of Com-thrown by last Wednesday's the $. no actual relief to the coun-
múnist Infiltration since the
Before the fail of Mossadeghi military uprising - paving the try's finances. The decision early 1930s, the report
said; way for the ruler's return-olit had dropped as low as 140. 10 wipe out post-war Ger- "Thousands
diplomatic, bequeathing a "Lorrible" situa~! man debts to Russia strikes
political, milijary scientific, tion. a truly magnanimous note, but it is necessary to con- sidor it in relation to the fuct that already the Soviets have obtained from the East Germans at least $2,000,000,000
for unle
all secure
Communist
which took
the
been
our
about penetration."
whose beautiful
Today's rule, the best since Jost March, Was regarded by experts as a sign of confidence both at home in the currency and abroad.
Korean
Conference
Decision This Week
ex.
A group of happy Bri- tish soldiers are Almed for television by camera- man Ronnie Noble upon their arrival at Freedom Village after repatriation from prison camps in
North Korea.
POLITICAL
Mood
BALLOON
CRASHES: 4
KILLED
Cologne, Aug. 23. Four people
were killed when a balloon crashed to- day at Littfeld, near here,
PRISONERS German police reported.
ESCAPE
Against Strikers Modified
Paris, Aug. 24.
· The French Government has agreed to modify sanctions taken against striking railwaymen, re- moving one of the chiof obstacles to a normal ro- turn to work on the rail- ways, according to sources close to the Government.
The other main obstacle to [the railwaymen's return - the call of the Communist-led
Genern! Confederation of Labour (CGT) for a continued strike-persisted.
But the
Communists had
uscxl penalties imposed on strikers to back their argument that the general agreement reached on Friday between ike Government end the non- Communist unions was worth- Iess. If the penalties were го moved In
most cases, and lightened in others, the COT strike
call is likely to prove jcas effective, Government sources hoped.
The Bureau of the National Assembly meets today (Mon- day) to decide whether to call back Parliament from summer recess, The state of the strikes will determine the Bureau's decision.
NEW TEST AHEAD
When Parliament reassembles -now or in October-tho Laniel Government, triumphantly cloct- Eye-witnesses sald the bal-
ed only two months ago, will loon, which loft Cologne this be tested afresh, but this time in morning, crashed from about the light of the popular revolt 7,000 feet. The last log entry against its methods. gave the height as 2,400 metres (about 7,300 feet).
Was
Rightly or wrongly, the first batch of reforms has failed to strike a spark in the public im- agination.
He said the Mossadegh Gov-
New York, Aug. 23. ment's "misticeds" would be
The dispute over Indian published soon. The Shah,
The Independent evening paper participation in the Korean Queen, Soraya, remains
Keyhan said today that General Peace Conference is Rome, announced that the dis- Zahedi's government had arrest-pected to come to a vote in tribution of crown lands
ed 200 poople including most of the United Nations about
Tunis, Aug. 23. peasants will be resumed the 38 parliamentary deputies Wednesday or Thursday, needy tomorrow.
who lod Dr Mossadegh's National,
Forty-five convicted Tuni
The balloon was been coming already been Linos have land reform Movement He began this
and 40 Com- two years ago
fairly drawn in the dispute with sian political prisoners es- out of cloud, descending far on hla
Owa munist lead
Britain leading Initiative.
the apparent.caped from Tunia gaol The crew had. elitched ballast NEW
without effect favour of Indian today through a hole they
It the Government's critics. majority in commented Correspondents in But, it added, "little was done that the Shah looked sad and
London, Aug. 23.
United
had dug in one of the badly damaged and the passenRight coalition should logically
The balloon's basket
are right, the present Centre- by the executive branch to seemed
Teheran Radio today broad- Participation and the
States persisting in its oppost- worried about nis cast interrupt the Soviet operatives country's future.
the
names of General
tion and hoping to persuade a walls.
Kers probably died immediate soon be replaced by a Centre- Foziolah Zahedi's in their ascent in Government
Ministry large enough minority to block He told them: "If help docs which until Congressional Committees not come we will have night-Shah this morning.
was presented to the Indian participation.
Police disclosed here that they, the eye-witnesses wald. The balloon's captain, prisoners, all Tunisian National Cort Wilms, an engineer, was
This would include British brought forth to public light
Mr Selwyn Lloyd, The following Ministers were
istas, had thoroughly-planned to belleved to be a veteran atruggles with the pro- the facts of the conspiracy.
Socialists now in opposition, and bas escape. Minister of State, who
about 41 balloon flights,
niso General
a large section of the Antonine Garba, The Shah said he slept rounded by the Radlo today:
All Afghar Hekmat, Minister of been the chief British spokes-
Unusual atmospheric effects parties represented in the inan In the debate and the French commander-in-chief in ly last night for the arst time State.
were thought to have caused the existing Cabinet. More particu since his brief exile began. And Ahmed Hussein Abl. Agricul- private discussions with Ameri-Tunisia, who has special amer
crash-Reuter.
Larly It would include the can and other delegates about gency powers, this sleep was only because he tire.
Immediately
Popular Republicans, тапу as exhausted.
due to ordered the prison director, a the conference, was
Radicals, and probably an im leave New York by air tonight French civilian, to be suspended.
portant number of Gaullist to begin his holiday before xo-
Deputies. turning for the next regular session of the Assembly set for September. 15.
One
*INFILTRATION"
marian Lent situation."
or wus
Speaking of foreign policy the Shah said it was much too soon" to resume relations with Britain.
Johan Shah Saleh, Health, Dr All Amini, Finance. Jamal Akhazi, Justice. Abol Qasem Fanahi, Labour. Dr Purhom Awun, National
He also had the French ser
cant to charge of the prison guard and a French sentry placed under close arrest and chargeo with negligence.
and economic secrets of United States have stolen by Soviet agents in Government and other persons closely connected
with the Communists." The report, In repara- year to prepare, said that the tiona during the
Bureau of Investiga last. Federal eight
other Government made tion and years, have
agencies had reported East Germany pay
Information occupation costs Soviet troops, and addition required payment for all goods and services afforded the conquered area by the Soviets. In reality, therefore, the Eastern Zone
Gerranny of
been has practically bled white by the Russian occupation forces, The report said that the in- filtration began in the depression early 1930s into THE Russians have offered score of the
other "concessions."
agencies handling rellef economie
later affairs, and is to increuas deliveries of shifted into the defence and for- staple commodities, notably eign policy agencies, including food, to the East Germans, those concerned with the Unfled but here again it is a gesture Nations. It said the conspir
itis only move in the foreign | Economy. which circumstances have ators had sworn onths to deny field would be to change inuny E. Mallcadch, Roods.
Communist Party membership, ambassadors, he said.
General Vosun, Deputy Minis- Sir Gladwyn Jebb, Britain's forced the Soviets to make,
had helped each
"A FIREWORK” other secure
permanent ter of War.
delegate and lacks entirely the virtue
Brigadier Mohammed Hussein United Nations, will take and hati protected Tho Bhah said the uprising promotions, of spontaneity. The June
one another.
has started like a firework". Dr Johanbali, Deputy Minister of the leadership of the delegation. 17 riots and the subsequent "In general the Communists Mossadegh .would have been Interior.
The compromise, proposal, re- enthusiasm which the East who initrated our Government torn to pieces he had been Mr Meslah.. Deputy Foreign garding Soviet participation in Germans displayed for the worked behind the
Minister.
the conference, which had also scenes caught, he declared.
It Hussein Fatemi, Dr Mos-Minister of Posts, Telegraphs and Britain and the United States,
in Eisenhower food parcels guiding research and preparing
Engineer Sarzanegan, Deputy | been
dispute between scheme were illuminating memoranda on wilch basic sadegh's Foreign Minister, ap-
Telephones-Reuter
looks like going through with- manifestations of the American policies were
ere set, peared now he would probably
PARTY LEADERS HELD
out any
It great difficulty. writing speeches for Cabinet be killed by the people who appalling food shortages w
Teheran, Aug. 23.
would recommsed a seat for the Congression
San Francisco, Aug. 23. which the East Germans officers, influencing
hated him, the Shah added..
Two leaders of the pro-.
Union "provided the Senator William F. Knowland, nl investigations, drafting laws, "So far there is no news are suffering. And that
administrative re-his whereabouts
communist Tudeh Party, Mortaza Soviet
Republican Majority leader of but we hope ankaruivi of the "Fight Against other side desires it". shortage can be directly
serving
the Shah Colonialism"
the Senate, left San Francisco movement and
CRUCIAL ISSUE attributed to the satellite
this the Interest of their Soviet catch
morning by air for a İsaid.
Mahmoud Hormoz of the "Peace government's neglect of the superiors,
He said he would not allow Partisans" organization WCTO Indla has now
become the month's tour of the Far East, country's agricultural in-
"Policies and programmes
crucial issue.
Senator Knowland will visit dustry plus the rapacious laid down by members of this photographers to take pictures arrested here today.
of Dr Mossadegh in prison a
The reasons for the United Japan,
Okinawa Korca, demands of the Russians on
Soviet conspiracy are still in the former
Minister reported of militant communist States opposition:
Formosa, Salgon, Bangkok, effect within our Government
"Decency" forbade leaders in the capital, objected.
1. That under consumer goods which the
the terms of Indonesia and Manila and will continuing him to und constitute Д
authorise photographs! In the provinces, however, a
the article in East Germans have pro-hazard to our national security." agalast Dr Mossadegh's wishes, number of Tudch members
the Armistice confer with Dr Syngman Rhee, duced. The East German
agreement recommending ----Reuter.
the of South Korea, Generalissimo he said
sympathisers have been arrested, conference, non-belligerents can- Chiang people will Buffer
Kai-shek, and other The Shah repeated that he in the little city of Zendjan in
total not attend and that if this rule leaders. illusions concerning the
a with was sure 90% of Persians sup- Azerbaidjan
were. roken in India's case, then motive behind the Soviet
ported his rule.
population of 10,000, 75 arrests
other
The Senator declined to com- non-belligerents could promise of providing them
Tanka and armed guards, were made-France Presse.
claim
scats hus swelling thement on his trip, indicating he with more daily necessitios.
however, Lausanne, Aug. 23.
sull surrounded his
was travelling merely as an ranks to unwieldy proportions.
and hoped to have American belief that India Jobserver Finance Minister Al Amini
as a neutral in East-West con- the United States on September more to say when he returned to told reporters today:
по
always
Another Son For Charlie Chaplin
to
It is nothing more than a Mrs Charles Chaplin, wife of residence. placetory move. Another the actor, gave birth to her th offer is to release a number child, a boy, at a nursing home of German war prisoners here tonight.
which, expressed in that manner, may mean any thing. Ono interpretation could be that the Soviets are now willing to send back home some prisoners of war who have been serving in slave labour camps for eight years and whose, usefulness is now considered to have comp to end. But however
дл
him soon"
Prime
of
"My first job is to find enough
the August pay Mrs Chaplin is former Oonah money to O'Neill, daughter of playwright salaries of Government Eugene O'Neill-Reuter.
ployees,"
Coach Plunges 300Ft:
..
Five People Killed
·
Penrith, Aug. 23,
~!!!-
Five people were killed and 35 injured when a motor coach plunged 300 feet from a mountain road at Shap Fells in the Pennines today.
West England all day.
These were
the first arrests
or
Sabotage Caused troversies and
Derailment
Lo
the
over
In the Korean
Four of the prisoners · were later recaptured in the Tunis suburb of Kaghnuan-Reuter.
more
Poland Follows Russia's Lead
Нет
Left coalition.
of
from East
the
Such a government would, if it found able and imaginativo leaders, have the advantage of
being backed by the hopes of the manual and white-collar worlding classes.
London, Aug. 23. Warsaw Radlo announced to night that Poland will take no
reparations Germany after January 1, 1954. The announcement followed a
On the other hand, it would similar, move
by Russia dis- run into the fleree hosillity of Knowland Heads closed in a communique on the numerous vested, interested in Moscow visit of an East Ger- agriculture and industry which man delegation headed by the cannot stage strikes but which Prime Minister Herr Otto have powerful Parlamentary Grotewohl-Reuter.
lobbies-Reuter.
For Far East
issue might offer unpopular 25
Senator Knowland is schedul- proposals which would be dim-ed to arrive in Tokyo at 12.30 cult to oppose.
Lille, Aug. 23. 3. The threat of President P.m. Japan time, on Tuesday. Sabotage caused a derailment Syngman Rhee of South Korea Reuter.
boycott the conference it of the Falais-Pasig, Express at to Berlalment, near here last night, India, attends. officials sold today.
In an effort to influence the SEARCH FOR The train was travelling at al-united Nations membership
most walking pace when the against voting for Indla there MISSING MEN
the
engine and three compartments was a possibility that the South jumped the track at a junction. Korean observer, to the United A train mechanic was alightly Nations might take the floor. In
Manila, Aug. 23. Injured.
Political Committee this wecks. The US Army and the Philip- A preliminary investigation to announce his Government's pino armed forces, launched a showed that a rail and four opposillon to India.
joint team today to search for sleepera had been unbolted.—
Henry
nry Cabot Lodge, the three Americans reported chief American delegate, hus missing in the hills and jungles
ΟΙ explained that the principal alm Eastern Cagayan Province, of the United States Govern- The Americans were civillan ment
to pahlove 1. ir
Korean
ses of the 28th Engineers employees settlement so that the 500,000 Tops Battalion. Their names Amexican troops in Korean can were not disclosed by the be brought home.
Battalion headquarters, which Has Inferred that to are
near Sangley Point In recommend a seat for India Cavite. would only hinder this process. The Americans were part of The 'dispute over India has the crew of a LCM on a murvey simmered, for the past ten days minion. They disappeared while and now had become the chief nahore to fetch a survey party | centre of interest at the United; which · had landed are
Nations China Mail Special United Press,
grandioso the agreement between Russia.. and East Germany may sound, it is
The accident occurred in misij after treatment but 24 were Reuier. noticeable that there is not
mountainous seriously hurt. which shrouded the alightest hint about
The coach plunged down a 43 degree slope to Anish completely TREMORS AGAIN giving the East German more freedom, or that the
The coach, carrying a party of wrecked in a stream. After
SHAKE ALGIERS Soviets are willing to relax day trippers from Penrith to the leaving the road it feli 20 feet
Algiers, Aug. 23. in any degree their tight seaside, crashed through a wall before touching the ground and
The second series of earth then somersaulted down the the system and and carcered down into a ravine slope finging passengers and tremors in two hold on
days shook policies of the satellite 300 feet below, turning over slope
and metai in: all Algiers today. government. The intelligent several times as it fell..
directions. It rolled over and The shocks were of less in- East German worker will. An official at Westmorland over before finally ending up-tensity than those registered not be slow to appreciate County Hospital, where the a tangled chassis only at a early yesterday. No casualties
strepen were reported this shortcoming in a much I casualties were taken, said to crazy angle in the
· but several [houses were damaged---Router; night some had been discharged Reuter. touted agreement.
JAGUAR
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"ESS" M'ATHAN SOAR,