SIGNIFICANT POINTER An Automatic Eisenhower-Stevenson
French Public Opinion Reflected By Radicals Japan's Party Congress Indicates
Defence Forces
Plan Rodrafted By "General Staffs"
Tokyn, Sept. 21. The strength of the Na- tional Security Force future home defence army of Japan-will be boosted from its present 110,000 to 130.000 mon during the 1954-55 period, according to a plan redrafted by the
Distrust
Of Germany
Aix-les-Bains, Sept. 20.
The French Government will get little comfort in its difficulties over the European Army Treaty from the Congress of the Radical Party which ended here today.
Less numerous than before the war, the Radical Party still remains very representative of the average Frenchman and the temper of this year's Congress constitutes a significant pointer to the state of French public opinion.
The Congress showed that the French upper and lower middle classes are certainly not indifferent to the question of transferring part of their national sovereignty to a super-national body in which they fear a strong Germany will play a dominating part.
National Security Board, Bidault Replies
the Tokyo Shimbun re- ported.
The plan. the jurimi knk, was dirüfted
Staff by Ornerat (Army) No. 1
arct General Stuff No. 2 (Navy) of the Na-
Hoard Tional Security basis of Prunier Yoshidn's in-
To Adenauer
The Minister,
Paris. Sep.20.
Fordlari Frenchi
M. Georges fo Went
Bidault's reply on the
structions given UTA Septem- ber 18.
In giving Bistrnettens Premier to have em- Yoshida was raid phasised they following lo
Every care should be taken that maintenance of the ex- panded security force may not jeopardize the Japanese economy, and
2. The cale of the expanded National Security Force should Bot
be large choigh to create feur among other nations in Asia that Jupan would soon re-emerge as military power,
pointed out that
The paper
the new defence bull-up is 2D to 30% mailer in scale than the first plan made pubilt on Sep- tember 1.
The
follows;
Hist of the plan is
The first strength
of
the
German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer's proposal for a meellor on Franco-German relations was sent to Bonn Loday.
M the
The French Foreign Office Raid yesterday that Bidault had accepted proposal for discussions of mutual problems.
The contents of the French reply are expected to be released tomorrow. Reuter.
SIR-ROGER
CASEMENTS
REMAINS
N.S.F. wit be bousted by 20,000 Request By Ireland
men during the 1094-55 period.
Dublin, Sept. 20.
Government
The total strength DI the
The Irish N.S.F. ground forces will reach 170,000-180,000 or 190,000 men once again try to recover from
at the end of the five-year des Britain the fence build-up plm.
Repatriation Of t War Prisoners
ter.
Brewster
Bench.
was
Presse.
remains
of Sir
A British Crossword Puzzle
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Executive A crowded audience of overfa supranational 1,000 delegates listened with Council responsible to a deb- rapt attention yesterday for cratically viccted Assembly, and live continuous hours ol The restrictions already exist- sperches by Radical leaders for log on nasional police force.
against 1110 European
Army.
Advocates
LEFTIST'S
CALL M. Pierre Mendes - France, and prominent
and advertaries leftist Radical got ther shares of applause but the adversaries seemed to make the deeper impression..
critic of .current -French economic and foreign policies, culled on France to "break with
M. Edouard Herriot, who as Speaker of the National Argem-the pust."
"If we wish to give hope to bly and as a veteran statesman
tho Jounger of
generation enjoys immense in- the France
do is to thing we must fluence, wound up the debate first
told "I am not hostile to break with the past," he by saying: a European community. am the delegates. heattle
cle to this particular treaty. My conviction is that most of those who. approve
We
"Things must change. must outline detailed structural the trenty reforms, display more imagina-
and even some of those who tion and greater Initiative in signed it have never read it." | Indo-China and slop bur per-
M. Herriot said the additional
petual ainte the
was
Jeetlonable paints,"
begging policy abroad." protecols drown up
M. Mendes-France said the treaty
signcel "have recent
strikes showed the changed nothing on some ob-workers wanted a "now deal." The strikes were neither wholly In particular he demanded the political nor wholly due to elimination of article 11 under working conditions, ho said, strikers could riot limitation Some of the strength of the interna- accurately express their reasons tional police forco Germany for striking. The strikes "were
the result ecu build up.
of disappointment and despair.
which there
Both
was 110
FIRST ESSENTIAL
M.
all costs.
11
and Herriot
and
M.
The French working class, he
said, would not start for any Ore "double dealing." Privileges and flagrant social injustice which revolted, foreign critics must be sropt awow.
"Part of the nation should
juxury spending which is in con- Arns to existing misery."
said
CX-
concerned to, other
Helmsman
IN
On exhibit at Olympia, Londen,
this nutornailo helmsman. Its use will enable about 23 hours jo be saved on a voyage of 7.000 miles (for example, from Vancouver to Sydney) and it works in conjariclion with a gyro-compass.
-Express Photo,
Soviet Union's
Long-Range Plan For E. Germany
Under the
more
Berlin, Sept. 20..
enrichment
more
of
clearly
Struggle In 1956 Forecast
Washington, Sept. 20.
The Democratic Party Convention held in Chicago last week points the way to another Eisenhower-Stevenson electoral struggle in 1956, political observers believe.
For Mr Adlai Stevenson, the Democratic presidential candidate defeated by President Eisenhower last year, has succeeded" in securing behind him a marked degree of political unity. among Democratic Party leaders.
And it is not tisual in American politics for a do- feated candidate to maintain his leadership of the Party...
11.
this as zeems likely at point, Mr Stevenson gains the Democratic nomination for the Presidency again In 1956, he will be achieving a fent not scen more than a dozen times before In major American parties.
B
The Republichen aro,following the Democrație rally with minor one if their own, which is being conducted without the presence of the main figure of the Parly,
President Eisenhower remains In his holiday retreat at Denver, Colorado.
Huge Cost Of Allied Occupation
Vienna, Sept. 20.
The Allied occupation has cost Austria over 27,000 million schillings (almost
Though much can happen in £378,000,000) In eight the next three years there seems years, according to figures reason to doubt that, Pre-published in the Austrian sident Elsenhower will nominated again as the Party's newspapers.
no
choice 1930.
In addition. acceptance of
At the Democratle Rally lost. Alifed military script currency week the major party riftahes cost Austria scene 1,000 mil which usually follow an eler- ilon schillings (about 214,000,-
000). toral defeat were patched up.
the most extreme All but
The total of 27,000 million partizans in the Northern schillings does not include the berals versus Southern White considerable economic damage Supremo Conservatives dispute, caused to the country by Soviet- which split the Party last year, administered sought at Chicago
their differerices.
enterories in to bridge Austria, nor the lots entised by the confiscation of 285 firmy AS German assets in
COMPROMISE DEVICES
such com.
"lomer Austria."
They nchieved
Nor does it include financial promise devices as a study com- losses incurred through Allied of hotels and review the sterile requisitioning inliboo to procedural issues in which their housing units throughout the differences were manifested at country. the last party convention.....
Mr Truman bowed
NOT'CHALLENGED
Mr Stevenson,
the
estimated
NOT AT END
own
AB
from
Edouard Daladier. French Pre- mier at the outbreak of World War II. said negotiations with the Russians must come first.
They made clear their opinions Irish that hopes of successfully nepu-effort a certain sobriety which Roger Caserment, the
an does not necessarily mean One of these three plans wil Consul-General, who was hang-reca state of equilibrium in austerity," M. Mendes-France
Nationalist and one-time Britishlating with the Russians for be adopted.
Europe
reconciled could not be
said.
· Damage suffered through the "Naval strength will be about by the British as a traitor with insistence on carrying out We must cut down on Our
With consummate tact, both dismantling of about 40 per cent 140,000 tons and alr strength In 1918.
the European Army Treaty at
The Soviet Union has now started in earnest
Industrial planta Casement had been found will be limited to 800-1,000
Stevenson found and the confiscation of raw of assisting Germany
on a long-term plan to make East Germany econo-x-President Truman and ex- of Austria's the planes at the largest, the paper quilly
Even the advocates of
OVERHAUL NEEDED
acceptable titles for each other material supplies and stocks, sit.Reuter.
during the First World War.
M. Rene treaty, in parilcular
mically sound.
to 18,000. million A committee has been special-
M. Mendes Franço
emounted Mayer who was Premier during ly formed and will bring a legal the Brst half of this year, were France's economle system need- This move, forecast frequently in the past few in the Party hierarchy,
achillings (nearly £182,000,000). Mr Loss of duties and taxes coused case against the British Govern-
ed a though overhaul. France months by East German Communist speakers, has Stevenson to his in London's Queen's forced to say that various con-
dilions must be fulfilled before held the record for unproduc
another 4,000 produc- taken solid shape since the Moscow agreement on titular head of the Party and by the Occupation Powers are be envisaged itve expenditure. Its
the leading candidate for its million schillings (over £60," and Up to now the British Gov ralification could
private August 23. A settlement. of the tivity was static
Presidential including
nomination.
Mr 000,000). emment had said that Case-
question, Saar
talks with
with the public vestment had de-
the her and she was Stevenson, the idol 1949. "It in- ment's body had been buried,
agreement, Enst taken from Itussinis
Liberol satisfactory clined since
intelligentsia, As far as the payment of the and San Francisco, Sept. 20.
conceivable that our produc-
Germany gets back 33 large too poot to be an acceptable Party's
now bowed Mr Truman to a seat of occupation costs is concerned, The repatriation of Americanlike these of others who suffer-
temper of militant tivity should remain at a stand- A Bow
industrial concerns from Soviet economic partner in any
equal status as "Mr Democrat,"
ent," Austria will be better off at the war prisoners noured its end to-ed the death penalty, in quick-form of British association,
patrician was noticeable in olf still," he said.
control, her occupation costs are gotlations for unification.
living symbol tiny when the U.S. Naval Trans-lime and had disappeared,
of Parly beginning of 1054, since France East the The Irish claim to have
The A bold policy of economic cuit, no more roparations will go ussions whether on home or
and tradition, usually will then be the only Occupation port General R. W.
or document showing that his bedly reign affairs. Observers got expansion and increased pro- rolling cast after January 1 Germany, in the shape of pro-unlly arrived here with 30- prisoners
payment of her annual share, war. 'They
collin, and they the impressium that France is ductivity should be inaugurated 1954 and she will receive sub vision of better-clothes, more personalised by an elder states- Power which still demands the brought to more was buried in
the and unproductive spenting increasingly front should be cut, M. Mendes-
stantial credits and goods as food, improved, schooling, houses man. than 3,000 the former prisoners want it dug up.
amounting to 101,000,000 schil well as having her post-war | for workers,
radios, demoralising They wish to transfer it to
ing returned home by sen since the
lings (tome £2,100,000). Murlough in Antrim where 0
debts annulled. Armisties was signed.
bicycles, irons and other house effect of four years of eneiny France said. If defence
hold gadgets is obviously not This was manifest penituro was to be reduced this occupation. The ninth and last ship is due plaque to Casement's memory orugat
who had junt Behind this, presumably, lics next Wednesday,
recently unveiled by the when the Congress discussed should not lead to unemploy
going to bo accomplished with- Radical ment but industries
The United States Govern- The
released Irish Prime Minister, Mr Eamon French North Africa.
the idea that a more prosperone in a year. This fact makes the returned from a world tour, up- Communists
said should be converted
East Germacy will entice hard-
Moscow peared to observers to be much ubout 8,500 Americans, many de Vatera, before a large crowd Deputy Henri Calilavet
with: both press ment has been paying its Oc- Nationalists from the European integration was uses.
headed West German politicians political fruits of the
meeting all of whom have been sent back to of Irish
the more signi- more at ense the It was
and politicians, more of a pro-cupation ecsts from its and economists to pay no good Increasing
Acant the United States by air.-Reu- Northern Counties, France ficult to reconcile with
fessional politician and able funda since 1947, and quite un- decided attention to Moscow's proposals maintenance and development wages even where such increases
speak with now authority on experiedly, the Soviet for unification,
NO DELUSIONS
to renounce the payment of ol. France's overseas territories. were justined without at the
foreign affairs.
their annual share tame time increasing produc-
Western propaganda argues The East German Prime VITAL INTERESTS
vity and the national revenue
No one in the Democratic August 1. this year. that the Moscow agreement does Minister, Herr Olto Grotewohl, At a private banquet given to as a whole.
for East Germany what the on his return from Moscow, Party has challenged Mr Ste-
Great Britain has Informe! his own particular followers in
realised M. Mendes-France
West in great part already did immediately launched another venson's position as leader. ex-Premier
Government that the Austrian the Radical, Party,
Euch an economie polity would
In the other major party, no for a long time ago went much further. Daladler
vested
West plea for German unity. But the be 'opposed by strong He said: "The advocates of the interests. Most Frenchmen, he
Germany. But it is a fact that words ho
only one is likely to challenge the she will no longer require pay- the agreement will strengthen after
with President's party position be-ment, of her Occupation costs as treaty at home and abroad said, wanted some kind
long consultation DI
East German industry, want to cut us off from North change but at the
same time
the Kremlin leaders, contained ween now and the next elec- from January 1, 1954.
But even France's renuncia- Africa, Do not worry, my remained firmly attached to
This, together with the East nothing new. The chief thema lon. For the Republican Party friends. We shall see to it that
thelr → economic privileges. German efforis to attract more of all East German propagands not to offer him the chance of tion of her claims to Occupa- second term would be regard-tion costs has not put an end Western now, vital interests are "Frenchmen," he added, "want consumer goods from
as before, is that both
confession ed as a humiliating
Austria's financial losses a revolution within the frame-suppliers, is taken here as
Asides must agree to forming a of inadequacy after the Party's to
through the four-Power occupa- Taken together with a strongly work of their existing safe clear indication that one of the provisional all-German govern- first term in power since 1933.
trime aims in Moscow and East ent which will
ment worded reminder of their opposi- | guarded. rights."-Reuter.
direct the Mr Elsenhower may himself tion in general.. tion to the treaty Irsued Inst
Berlin is now to give the aver-holding of the first all-German ask to be a one-term president.
Even after the conclusion of Dgc East German a far boiler week by the Gaullist and the
elections pinc: World War II. But the Republican victory was deal than he has had in the dissident Gaullist grauas in the
Since this idea
has already partly a result of Mr Eisen-e State, Trealy and the with-
the of
Occupation drawal past. National Assembly, the Radical
been flatly rejected by the three hower's personal popularity. contributed
troops, Austria would have th The Berliner and nearly every Western to
occupation powers, China Mall Special. Collie French; opposition to
considerable financial East German would certainly Britain, France and the United
assume
State Under the of beating its defense
burdens the strofest of
say that the move is long over- States,
BRITISH COMMENT no one in East Berlin
Treaty draft, the country would forces and has trengthened
due. Living standards through can have any delusion about its
Looklon, Sept. 20. senižnént in favour of ali däder-
out East Germany, adjudged by chances of making headway,
have to pay to the Soviet Union the
totalling gob Russia if possible standing
people who have travelled in
The Observer said today with
For these
compensation d strong reasons other East European Socialist feeling has grown up amatig speeches made last week by Mrmilion echlings (nearly £56-
Stevenson, American States, are extremely low.
many sections of opinion hero Adind
confiscated "German property." that the Soviet Union does not Democratie leader, and Mr John000,000) for the release of the.
United States SLIGHT REVERSAL
really expect to see German Foster Dulles
ik- shower Winston Churchill's
In additio, the projected Secretary of State, unity come quickly. Kansas City, Sept. 20.
Within the last few werks,
ingly the break in the continuity States Treaty would allow the made recently for a four-power Ex-President Truman said
An interesting sidelight on the Armoricans doreign policy since Soviets jo continuo exploitations meeting "at the highest level." today that the United Nations there has already been a slight
The Congress which repeated would be the means of creating reversal of the downward trend Moscow talks Is the appearance the Repubilcare took over.
for future in living standards. Food la less of strength which they have Mr Steventon's Chiengo speech for another the demand in its final resolit- poned in the world
scarce quite apart from the given Herr Grotowohl. The Im brought back "he volee of the wo
would result in lustOS yon, added that such a meeting generations.
relatively small increase brought pression is being created in East good-neighbounty America wha, hundreds of million schilings. should negotiate on nil qutstand Eventually all the free 5-
about by fret foot parcels dis-Berlin that whereas Herr Grote
Vote in the years kip to 1852, 103 The Soviets would also retain ing problems in spirit of mutant tions would' rench complete tributed in West Berlin and wohl is waxing, his
gathered around her so largo s comprehensioti and reciprocal understanding, he added. confession in order to Thako Mr Truman, making his first there is avery prospect of more Fremler, Herr Walter Ulbricht, corruity of free nations and possession of the ports, equip consumer goods in the State the Communist strong man, is who had established so are a ment and ships of the Danubi pacifle co-existence possible,
television
claim to effective work leader Shipping Company-Reuter, radio appearance, gave a short shops soon if emeial. promises on the wano.
This, of course, may be just ship." But talk from his office here. The aro, carried out.
Low people Berlin, the impression the two.
"This Independent newspaper The resolution also stated the talk was one of a Ford Foudda-Soviet East or Capitalist West want to create for the benefit sald tho speech recognised RAILWAY STRIKE Party's "attachment to thelon series for youth.
would deny that the average or the Westen press. It is hard that "the best means, to maka European Community and wel
"By deed and example we West Common worker gets much to Imaging Herr Ulbricht play friends and influence people is comed the promising beginning must work to bring the nations
hip mohay than
the
ing second fiddle to anyone to have an open mind on the of the -Cool and 'Stoël Com-
Mr more for world together," of the
Average East German worker.
and interests of others. private.
Vlows While the Moscow agreement munity."
sald.
peaceable readiness to A strike which would paralyte Ono point is, however, clear: "The. best way we can do was at first dismissed by many Herr Grotewohl is the only negotiate and compromise." Guatemala's railwayz is expect
I've always believed, people Dis
9 move to influenco
Ön the other hand, tho ed this week, Mr Harold Haace, ourselves un the West German elections on former Socialist in any of the
European countries to newspaper said, the substance Vice-President of the Britich swervingly, to
on top in spite of his of the Dulles speech to the and American-owned Intern primarily ng the first step, on a stay Congress, the résolution the principles unest, democrap, Septémbér 0, it is how regardod Bast
In a reference to the atom long-term basis, to build up Social Democrat, origins. In Po- United Nation General Arseni- tional Railways of Control
Hungary, bly was without compro America, szid today. sald, subordinated ratification of
land. stron
Czechoslovakia,
and Bulkaria they misen. Rumania the EDC treaty to four factors: bomb, Mr Truman sold
·economiany into Adoption of DTS
The Observer said, "It i'ne Negotiations over wazo des though it was menacing as a Inter-nation
me, wespon, 4: of destruction "the Ong of the main objections Have alther faded into obscurity
the union statute for the Sanet
esenting The validity of the additional atarde, age, holds, remendous voiced in West Germany toer been disgraced, while Com- way to peace to make demands mandi between the company
maskom promise and hope, 91, relieving, wards the prospect of unlly has munist veterans have taken which could only be reallred as and protocola
China Mall Specialbroken of yesterday. The establishment of a com mankind from fast and been that the cconomie wchluß their face, China Mail a result of a Vistedoll war 0,000 railway worker mon palitosi muthority, that poverty-Reuter-
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at the cost of dropping or modify- ing the European Army schermo ti
Accemary that
The Congr
FOUR FACTORS
The resolution
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diurnand
"U.N. WILL
SUCCEED" --TRUMAN
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added that the Congress "regrets that the. International situation has pre- to maturely posed the problem of the millldry community."
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