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Diplomacy
MONG the stranger
A features of diplomacy to
day are the need for cute ferences and the dieulty of arranging them, They Bre necessary because the only means of negotlukion between the Communists and other Powers appears to he either the formal con ference or the protracted and long-range exchange of formal auten. The United! Nations has become rather a.forum for public debate than an opportunity for dis. casion and settlement and co-operation. And diploma- le relations with the Com munist countries no longer ful their proper purpose, For rensons of their own with- the Russians bave drawn from the pre-war That diplomatic contacts. embussies can deliver or
receive notes or anotatacie. menia. But the diplomatic channels Are choked by Soviet dis- Inclination to make use of them. Earlier this year Mr Eden made an attempt to put Angle-Soviet diploma. tie retutions again on a normal and useful basis. Sir Alvary Gascoigne tried to
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RUSSIA IGNORES 3
INVITATION
Reply Makes No Reference
To Talks On Austria
And
Germany
Washington, Nov. 3.
Russia apparently has killed all hope for an early Big Four Foreign Ministers' meeting to draft peace treaties for Germany and Austria, official sources said tonight.
an
The officials said that a study of the Soviet reply to American-British-French invitation to meet at Lugano, Switzerland, on November 9 indicated that the Russians side- stepped the question of the meeting.
The note was understood to repeat Russia's former proposal for a Five-Power Foreign Ministers' conference, including Communist China and a separate Big Four Ministers' meeting.
Russia was said to have proposed that the Austrian issue be handled through normal diplomatic channels.
discuss in the traditional RETURNING M
manner a number of speelfi- cally Anglo-Soviet quey. tions of comparatively minor importance with the Russian Foreign Offer.
Hmall Despite kome
Con- no cessions, Russla gare real encouragement. In Anglo-Chinese relations the record is even stranger and even more discouraging. In 1951 after recognising the Chinese Communist Govern- ment, Britain sent & Charge d'Affaires to Peking is a first step to establishing full diplomatic relations and ex- changing ambassadors. But the Peking Government has prevented any further step
of
TO FACE
CHARGE
Londen, Nov. 3. Lord Montagu of Beaulieu has announced that he will soon return to Britain 10 answer the charge of im morality, which has been made against him. by the Hampshire police,
Ол August
Soviet Russia delivered its reply to-
4, the th: day to
United States, government sent a note to the Briush and French envoys in three Western powers accepting the principle of a meeting of the A State
Department spoke four foreign ministers, but pro- man said the note is 18 pages posing that the agenda should long and that the full text is be enlarged to include all ques- expected here during the night, tions at present in dispute.
When
It is received it will
IN SAME VEIN The Soviet be studied at the highest level
sent government will be given full con- another note on August 18 in the sideration," the spokesman said. same vein as their previous one. Early reports of the contents, On September 2, the Western however, confirmed the opinion powers sent a note to the Soviet of United States officials that Union proposing a meeting of the Russians will not go along the four foreign ministers with any sincero effort to reach Lugano on October 15 with the agreement CO Germany and agenda limited to the German Austria-considered here-to-ba and Austrian-questions.
and
the heat of the cold war. United Press.
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Three-Day Strike
Germany Tightens
Berlin, Nov. 3.
East German security police, whose ranks were purged after the June anti-Communist re- volt, are intensifying their campaign to smash opposition to the regime, East German reports revealed today.
More arrests and trials of "spies, terrorists
At Dakar and saboteurs," who are alleged to be backed by
to
the conference room as the also accused at the same time, i added that the Soviet red, with four-power participa- for Air France traffic.
Mr Kenneth Hume. who is
had done the same for the same reason, i was slated.
over
establishments
af
"anti-
Lyttelton Sees Jagan
British
Tel. 21433.
Persia's Six Proposals To End The Oil Dispute
(From Arthur Cook)
Teheran, Nov. 3. Persia wants Britain to run her oil industry, and the American envoy, Mr Herbert Hoover Jr., is on his way to London with six Persian proposals,
Today a member of the three-man O Commission ap painted by Premier Zahedi told me of the Persion decisions, given to Mr Hoover at the end of fortnight's fact-finding
vixit.
The Persian proposals cre:
bo
1, Britain to recognise the law which notionalised oil. 2. All work possible to done by Persians, with Brlions supervising. The Persians want American oll men only if they cannot get enough technicians from Britain.
8. The Britons to reccivo same pay ns they received from the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
4.. Persia wants Britain to ship 80 per cent of the oil.
5. It Is hoped Britain
handle sules
WIEL
markets.
6. "Just
on
world
compensation for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company ean be fixed by a Persian court court agreed to by both
or
any
sides."
Then comes a plen for urgent British wash help in her internal problems. It could be nepald out of oil revenue,
Sald an On
Commission
member: "Mr Hoover wanted to visit Abadan but wo thought it best he did not go. After all, if anyone sees Abodan. It should be the British." London Express Service.
SITUATIONIS UNCHANGED
Washington, Nov.. 3.
of
the United States, are believed to be imminent. On September 27, the Soviet
Dakar, Nov. 3.
Authoritative Alilled and West The vital West African German spurces in West Berlin government accepted the meet- ing of foreign ministers to settle port of Dakar was idle to-loday said it was clear that a big the German problem on the
The American. Béoretary The Soviet Union today, in condition that a further confer day as workmen answer a "security drive" was bring con-
Slate, M Johrt Forter Dulles, A statement by his lawyer reply to the Western notes in-
ence be held to settle other three-day strike call by the dusted in East Gamany.
But none of them believed
today stated that, basically, the today said that Lerd Montagu viting the Soviet Union lo st-
disputes, wi
with Chinese Communist trade unions.
circulated abroad slaries
Trieste situation had remained s and has not evon sent bad had no hatention, of avoiding tend four-power talks at
úticipation.
In addition
the water-battles" there between police
inchanged for the last week. Charge d'Affaires to London. | the charge, but that he had de- Lugano, Switzerland, on Noven-
On October 18, the three front, the strike virtually a onganised groups of Gʊanen,
Ho
conversations London, Nov. 8.
said that cons proposed that closed oll refineries, public Polish and Czech
the between
three Western IT is this breakdown of the tale until after aber mase ne fette by ins Western powerf
The British Colonial Secretary, subject, it was certain date.”
stat:d
by in the Lugano conference should be works and the airport, normal machinery
formed sources here
except Communist partisans." tonight.
Mr Oliver Lyttelton, today say alles, as well as conversations Allied sources here regarded
with Haly and Yugoslavia, were diplomney which drives it to
Other on, on. Navember 0.
were political conditions in East Ger- the deposed Prime Minister of ecetinuing with the object of
Gulana, Dr handed ply was
to the
Cheddi Political circies in London 10-less hard hit. Many business many as relatively stable at only available method of
three Western embassies at 6.30 night believed that the proposed
houses
remained open,
ad-present, with occasional isolated Jagan, and the former British holding a five-power contererice, No concrete proposals had boen discussing problems of
p.ni., Moscow time, and thatfight be
Lugano meeting would not take ministrative services were only incidents involving police and Gulana Minister of Education, put forward on this subject, be the Soviet reply was a docu- plect at last, on the suggested slightly The statement was understood ment of 18 pages with rotate-in the light of reports on ployees in hotels, common mterest. It is not
said-France-Presse, and all em-canonents of the regime. crippled -n-good-method.--It-hus-many-to-mean- -that-the-two-accused-
cafes and The death sentence in yester disadvantages. Conferences did not wish to be in Britain at allusion whatsoever to the pro- the Soviet reply handed to the
at work. restaurants were
day's spy trial at Cottbus, near The Colonial-Office-announced
two posed four-power talks
Big Three today.
The strike was called by all the Polish border.
the tonight and The British. Foreign Office.
unions Clare
of Dakar and the weekend announcement that the leaders of the People's Pro- an gressive Party In British Guiana, Montagu, was governments
today on the subject and, as yet, a uniform
of the alleged American-backed band had denied the charges mutu application Viscount
that the Soviet Union had re-authorised comment was expected. | Territorial Labour Code to all of "spies,
and by the British government in a terrorists plied to the Western not:s
were taken Jo
Office London, a Foreign
COMPLETED
Paris, Nov. 3. spokesman tonight announced
diplomats Western the handing over of the Soviet reply to the British Embassy in have
here to completed talks Moscow,
Western policy on interrupting He added that the co-ordinate text of the Soviet reply had not Germany and Austria prior to a yet reached, the Foreign Office and
that the contents of the Possible "Big Four" meeting,
was learned here tonight. note were unknown.
the
take place under the spot- | a time when the peer's sister,th the British and French | however, hod made no stalement Senegal in an attempt to eblain Communists had mashed
light of public attention, the Honourable Mary Time is apt to be limited Douglas Scot; and the agenda crowded. being The process takes on Garnock-France-Presse.
formal enaraster and only ; too often the character of a conflict between two sides. But it seems the only way now possible.
There is a
married
to
Jordan-Israel Troops Clash
Jerusalem, Nov. 3. The Arno Legion and Jordan's National Guardsmen batted 00 Israell soldiers for 90 minutes the Israells night when last attacked the village of Budrus officials near Qulbyn, Jordan said today.
011 An Israeli military spokes
said he knew man in Tel-Aviv
about
revealed
-France-Presse.
TALKS
Senior
saboteurs"
Mr J. M. Burnhamn.
that
the
ar
ΠΕΤΙ,
TEMPLER BACK
IN LONDON.
London, Nov. 3. General Sir Gerald Templer,
workers.
as White Paper that they were con- British High Commissioner for International Malaya, arrived at London air- French High
the reorganisex nected with Commissioner evidence that
port today on a "normal routine were showing Communist movement. Cornut-Centille said: In security police Bernard
Trip their mettle. statement that a work stop-
The Colonial Secretary, sald Ho expects to be here for would
in They only result
were now "mopping page
the negovations up some of the hostile groups the statement, informed both about, a fortnight.
"Everything is going to plan," currently in progress,"
which
their net when men that the British government escaped Acting Senegal Governor Jean they rounded up known anti- stood by its report contained in ho said at the airport. "I am the White Paper ara had no fairly happy about the situation Goujon nasured Senegalese Communists after the revolt.
RIGOROUS DISCIPLINE intention of departing from the put there and I certainly hope They considered during their workers that the Government In Paris, the contents of the discussions, which ended
Discipline and training in all action it had taken, France to see the white area system ox last was working in their interests.
tended soon."-Reuter. branches of the East German Presse. Soviet note were not divulged. night, all possible aspects of the Reuter.
Britain America and France, German and Austrian problems notes, had in which are able to be discussed n simultaneous Vited the Soviet Union to take with the Soviet Union, diploma- part in four-power talks on
tie quarters said. They Austria and Germany at Lugano considered the stand the Western on November 9.
should powers
take if the The Soviet
Union rejected the
also
police has evidently bzen made more rigorous,"
Most of the 637 East German
Hard Fighting police who fled to West Berjin
At Phunhoquan
**
longer stand this
the
further dimeulty. Without proper diplomatic procedure the very business of holding a conference becomes major problem. Questions of date and place and agenda become the subject of public controversy. It is so in the case of the proposal for a
last month raid they could, no four-Power conference
new tough Germany and Austria, and
followed Soviet reply
policy. likewise in the case of the nothing
the alleged many months of political and three-power Invitation for a
Hanol-Nov. 3. In the past few months, the Korean political conference. Incident. The last incldent he | diplomatic activity In which Foreign Ministers conference in
Flanked French Union in- Communists have urged the heard of in the area, he suld, six notcs flowed between Lugano on November 9. "The purpose of that con-heare
into the fantry rammed
key publle regularly to watch out on October 20, the West and Moscow and back.
"Fascist terrorists and The talks, which are part of
of for cominand base Communist ference in set aut in Article was a skirmish
On July 15, the Western
únderground (agents." run- when Israel charged that Arab
in a 60 of the armistice agres Legion soldiers opened fire on
powers sent u note to Moscow regular exchanges on Germany, Phunhoquan today Fronk ning batilo. that
East German newspapers to- once sent ment.
"to settle Isract's
to representative
proposing a meeting of the four were attended by Sir
Under-Secretary of Generat Rene Cogny leaping day renewed appeals to Roberts, through negotiation the Mixed
Armistice Commission
to settle the foreign ministers
State in charge of German from his jeep for cover under public questions of the withdrawal meeting.-United Press.
German question.
In their drive security forcesport the State at the British Foreign close gunfire. affairs
Red-led of all foreign forces from
Francois Soydoux, Omee, M.
Vietminh, against "Fascist agents.
They charging
allged that thick the head of the European Depart
out of
these Korea, the peaceful settle-
"agents" In the
were
pay of the the on at the French Foreign underbrush, pounced ment ment of the Korean ques
United States and operate Ministry, Mr Douglas Mac- French Union column closing in tion, etc." The withdrawal
Arthur, Counsellor at the on the town 80 miles south of under the command of a former of foreign forces would
Nazi
general to sabotage adhe Stato Department. follow automatically
French
East German Government's new diplomatic there could be a "peaceful
today said the "Big Four
policy of improving living.con- ditions. Bettlement of the Korean
ing was unlikely to take place question." This is really
in Lugano on November 9, even the crucial issue and its
accepted If the Soviet Union diffleully can be neither. ignored nor disguised. The question eventually revolves around the holding of free elections in Korea, and the
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Man And Woman Plead
Guilty To Kidnapping
Kansas City, Nov. 3.
Carl Austin Hall and Mrs. Bonnie Brown Heady today pleaded guilty to kidnapping Bobby Greenlease, the son. of an American millionaire, who was subsequently found murdered.
They were indicted by aaccuted have pleaded guilty, Communista are well aware federal grand jury last Friday, they are liable to the death that anything in the nature and today they told Federal sentence in accordance with a of free elections would menu Judge Alberi Reeves that they federal law it the jury so re- the end of all Communist would plead guilty.
commends.
Greenlease, the six- control and of nearly all
year-old son
Communist Influenco. This
is
Handcuffed and chalned to
a formidable prospect taken reparately by car from ruse from the privalo school,
the Western Invitation within 48 hours. The Western powers TC- quired a minimum of six days' to make their advance notice Anal arrangements, they sald Rooter.
The
Hanoi.
Aircraft and artillery ranged in on the Red ambushers and trove them off.
General Cogny was unhurt- United Press,
to
•
A responsiblo Allled source here said that generally speak- ing, a "low state of morale** remained in East Germany as the aftermath of the June re-
East Germans had nursed (high hopes of getting rid of their Communist government as a result of the opposition way showed but they had been thwarted, he said.Router.
More Arrests volt
In Lucknow
Foreign Policy Debate
Lucknow, Nov. 3. Police have rounded up 270 BULGAR MISSION people here in the past 24 hours, bringing up to 900 the IN ATHENS of a Kansas City
total number detained since wartiers, Hall and Heady were millionaire, was taken by a
Atheris, Nov. 3.
Friday's clashes between A Bulgarian trade mission students and police. which the Communists oro Kansas City prison to the court.. where he attended, by Mrs arrived in Athens today-the An official communique #mid- 'bound to resist, and it must Heady, aged 41, dressed in a Heady on September 20. Later, first since the war-to negotiate the city was quiet during the be taken for granted that brown costume, appeared calm, his kidnappers demanded, and trade agreement between the last 24 hours, bat eight students
London, Nov. 4. the difficulties of reaching and smiled at the journalists. received, a record ransom of two countries,
The House of Commons Is to on the other $600,000.
At present, Greece and Bui- were arrested for defying *
curlow.
debate 'forelem policy on an agreement about the ali, aged 34,
hand, ceemed haggard and Somo $295,000 were found in garia have no normal diplo- "Authorities said they would Thursday and Britain's ⠀ econo- convening of the political
Url,
Hall's room, but the rest had matic relations, but direct talks not extend the curfew which mic situation on Friday. conferenco will not compare Judge- Reeves
Mr Anthony fixed Novem- disappeared. Bobby's body was for their restoration are due to was due to expire on Wednes
Eden, the with the difficulties of ber 16 as the date on which found buried in the garden of start in Paris next week be-day, but would impose a pine-Foreign Secretary. Is expected reaching agreement in the the trial of Hall and Heady a house at St. Joseph, Missouri,tween the Greek and Bulgarian hour curfew at night until to open the debate on foreign conference itself.
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