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COMMENT OF THE DAY
Mr Malenkov's
Big Anxiety
NE of the most Important In the inter-
O factors
national situation today- and yet one that is often overlooked-la the economie condition of the Soviet Union and its Enst European satellite countrien,
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It is not sy to accurately; for accurate In-
formation is hard to obtain, Statistics are not revealed; and economic facts which tri normal countries are public, are iu the Communist societies, 24 State wecret. But Phough evidence available to allow a general
be formed. impression to
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And that impression is one of acute scarcity. Mr Malenkov's long spreck te the Supreme Soviet, readi carefully, shows the Guy cramenta intense concern with the shortage, not oniv of consumer goods, but of food. The niost "argent thak" in that of "enising sharply the population's supply of foodstuffs and of manufactured goods," while M. Krushchev's directive to the Communist Party a Central Committee a month inte drew a gloomy picture of the food situation. The KROHA agricultural output Jud only risen by ten per cent above pre-war level; which means that the avail- able food supply per head
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13, 1954.
Price 20 Cents
NEW AMERICAN MILITARY
Plane Crashes Into Four Houses
Long Beach, Calif., Jan. 12.
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An Air Force F-80 sobre let p'unged out of rainy skics and crashed into A row of house in residential Signal I to- day, killing five persons, Including two women and a child, and demolishing four homes.
The 600 mile-per-hour routine training Jet, on a
exploded High slammed Info Raymond of Avenue, sending chunks borning debris mashing houres along both Miden of
Firet the street, broke out over a two-block
arra.
A sixth
person, a mate bystander who WAS not Immediately idonüfled, was reported to have died of a beart attack suffered as the plane rocked the urighbourhood.
Press.
United
Los Angeles Shaken By 'Quake
Los Angeles, Jan. 12. of population is well below An earthquake of ap-
pre-war level. The prode-parently moderate intensity tion of grain, potatoes, shook Lon Angeles at vegetables and fodder is all
3.35 pm. PST today. The too slow. The situation us regards eattle and livestock quake rocked buildings in is worst of all: the number of a rolling motion for several
cattle is actually diminish-seconds. ing--though the population to be fed is increasing.
ALL the Communist govern- ments of Eastern Europe are, in fact, facing a serious economic crisis-a crisis of Acarcity.
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The
nearby communities that the quake was felt.
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POLICIES
Retaliatory
Power
To Deter
Aggression
MR DULLES EXPLAINS "TRANSFORMATIONS”
New York, Jan. 12.
Mr John Foster Dulles, the United States Secretary of State, said today the Eisenhower Administration had decided to develop massive retaliatory military power to deter aggression.
Mr Dulles in a speech before the Council on Foreign Relations here said that this was the basic decision taken by President Eisenhower and his advisers in planning military policies to meet the threat from international Communism.
Mr Dulles listed the "transformations" needed by the United States for long-range defence policies.
These were:
1.
It was not sound military strategy permanently to commit United States land forces to Asia to a degree that left no strategic reserves.
2. It was
not sound economics or good foreign policy to support permanently other countries.
3. It Was not sound to become permanently committed to military expenditures so vast that they lead to "practical bankruptcy."
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French National
Assembly
Socialist
Elected President
Parla, Jan. 12,
Andre Lo Troquer was tonight elected President of the French National-As- sembly.
M. Le Troquer, 80, a veteran Socialist, was elected President (Speaker) on-lhe third ballot.
The Assembly was voting for A Prekdent to succeed 84-year- old Radical elder stateman, M. Edcuard Herriot, who was first elated to the President's chair in 1923, and who had frequently orcupleà il between his teams of office as Minister and Prime Minister.
M. Le Troquer got 300 votes en the third ballot. His opponent, Populer
Republican Pierre Plmlin, got 261.
According to the constitution,
a simple mejority only is sulk [clent on the third ballot, whereas an absolute.majority is required on the first two ballots.
As President of the Assembly. M. Le Troquer will rank as the second most important figure in the French fourth Republic after the newly-elected President, M
M. Lo
Rene Conquer, who has not
tho
publicly committed himself on European Army, gained Communist support in the vote. About 140 Radical, Conservative and Guallist Depuiles also votei for him.
HIS CAREER
the
M. Le Troquer is known to be on the right-wing of
Vice Pre- Socialist Party. As
ident of the Assembly, he re- cently acted as President of the Congress of Parlipment which met at Versailles to elect a new President of the Republie A Mawyer, he first started on political carcer by becoming a Paris municipal councillor in 1010. Previously he had served In the French Infantry, Was decoratça för bravery, lost his right arm and was promoted from private to Lieutenant in the field.
Не
first elected Was Socialist Deputy in 1930.
a
During the second war ho became a Minister in General s Do Gaulle's Provisional Gov- crnment.
He was Minister of
also felt, said it appeared strong our doors; but we do not have ready to fight in the artie lyn, New York, was arrested at/ missing in Europe's biggest Alpine avalanche disasters State in the first post Ubora
arca,
He said the pos-
Was
Any
at protection
million)
and
$11,000
river
It
Ho
the
He was warmly
by all sections of the
We want for ourselves and the 1954. This was on top of taxes immediately but sold they be to have hurled down the Vienna vinusly found accommodation in Dewi forinily
Reuter.
Router.
change in policies was "Mic way to deter aggression metton swaying earth
imperative
theto ter the free conimunity to vỡ Wus felt throughout the Los
for permanent willing and able to resportd Ángeles arca. with reports stamina needed
vigorously at places and with
Montreal, Jan. 12. coming in from Beverly Hais, city, he eald, adding:
"We need Allies and collec-means of its own choosing, Hollywood, Burbank, Southgate Live security.
*So long as our basic policy Our purpose la
Two suspected operatora to make these relations more concepts were unclear, our mill- and other
tary leaders could not be selec-of a smuggling ring were costly. This en In Riverside, 00 miles to theffective, less
building cur military arrested tonight as Cana- tive in be done by placing more Communisin N southeast of here, the quake
liance on deterrent power and power.
dian police and US Treasury falling to "deliver The also was felt as a rolling carth
If an enemy could pick his less dependence on local goods;" and the Communist motion.
tensive power,
time and place and method of agents teamed to crack
diamond-smuggling gang lenders have come, a little
preliminary report,
warfare-and if our policy was the California "This la accepted practice so to remain the traditional one of that operated on two con- belatedly, to realise the seismologists at
Institute of Technology ut Car A local communities
Over 200 people were tonight estimated dead or danger. There may at pro-
Pasadena, where the quake was concerned. We keep locks on meeting aggression by direct and tinents,
opposition we needed to Moses Mandel, 40, of Brook-
tion Government and was also sent be no apprehension of Actuni famine euch
Farsin which hurled a train into an Austrian valley and buried elected President of the Paris to have enough
done some
armed guard in every on
home. be
and in the tropies; in Asia, the an hotel shortly after
1945 suffered by the Soviet Union
damage
Municipal Council from but they could not We
East and in Europe: by Jacob Kosmierski, 25, was pick- thousands of homes.
to 1947. security system So
Canadian munity
Royal by the sea, by land and by air; with ed in 1921, 1931 and 1946. But estimate the intensity until they muy principally on a cont
in Salzburg was stated
of the well equipped to punish
Reuter
was Minister messages told this. and with
he stepped the "upsurge" of agricul- knew its epicentre.
new Mounted Pollee as
that a family was dug out alive Interior in 1948 and Minister DT Charles Richtek. noted
who break in and steal that in old weapons
brought story: airliner that from tural production, for which
seismologist, sald the
Los fact would-be aggressors
are weapons,
At least 181 casual to itht from the Vieraa-bound of Defence in M. Leon Blum's Vienna: Mr Malenkov has called, 1s Angeles urca was not the centre
"The total cast of our security him from Paris. They will be
reported generally deterred. That is the efforts at home and abroad was arraigned tomorrow on charges les ace
in Austria train zwept into the valley from Government in 1947. imperative. And there can of the quake.
After his election, M. Lo modern way of getting over $50,000 million (£17.857 of smuggling $200,000 worth of and there are warnings of more Dainas. maximum
ovolanches and possible be no upsurge of food pro-sibility of damage could not be
Only casualty was at Aus. Troquer said he proposed to ask # million) per annum and involved uncut diamonds into Canada. the bearable coat,
Assembly to confer trian dead when rescue parties duction unless the peasants ruled out Immediately if
for 1953 a projected budgetary An RCMP spokesman said a floods. a populated
under way in the An avalanche swept a station reached him.
Ule of Honorary President on can obtain, in exchange for epicentre were in
"What
the Eisenhower al-
is a similarit of $9,000 million (£3,214 | search was
about half way up
Herriot, their
Other million United States for a third suspect. at Daloos, clothes and
passengers had pre-M. ministratien sucks creps,
NO DAMAGE boots and the other things
international security
for Police did not disclose his name the Arlberg Pass, and is reported system. (£3,325 million sterling) Long Beach, seene of a dis-
the village. before the avalanche they want. Hence the pro astrous earthquake in 1933, also
President other free nations a maximum comparable to wartime taxes: lieved he was on "international express in the giant snowball. mised drastic change in felt the tremor but reported no
Rescuers are pushing along a engine, four
swept the train, consisting of an take his place ns and the dollar was depreciating carrier" for illicit diamonds and
corcher onda next Thursday and will deliver economic policy. Concentra damage. San Gabriel Valley deterrent at a bearable cost.
MUST BE REINFORCED in effective volus.
Our
Allies possibly other gems destined il-perilous valley to Blons village: luggage vara, into the valloy an inauguration speech then- the quake
Berne: Avalanches have
killed tion on the development of also reported
similarly weighed down.timately for sale in the United "Local defence will always be wore and the felt. heavy industry
at least 18 people in Switzerland, swent away To the North, the Lancaster important. But there is no local This could not be continued for States. production of capital goods,
chalets, buried was hit defence which alone will contain long without grave budgetary,
herdsmen and injured scores area reported that it an "Industrialisation" which hard" by the earth movement
103 SOCİRL conse- ACROSS 2 CONTINENTS the might and power of the economie
A trail across two continents villagers. Eight members of one marked the Stalin era, is
but there were no reports of Communist world. Local de quences.
BASIC DECISIONS
led detectives to a cache of family were buried in the ruins now seen to have been a damage.
Iences must be reinfereed by
rubber of their house near Schudorf. "But before military planning uncut diamonds in a
hotel
The Bernese Oberland and mistake; or to have been Santa Barbara, where a strong the further deterrent of massive
could be changed, the President encased package near an carried too far. The economy earthquake did major damage in retaliatory power. that has been constructed 1925, reported the quake was
which have "A potential aggressor must and his advisers as represented yesterday, an RCMP officer sald. the Gruyere cheese country are
worked Ja dangerously lopsided. The felt there also, but neither the know that he cannot always pre- by the National Security Council
Rome: several avalanches fell foundationa have
Is "The basle decision was to an the case.
been reported RCMP's camalties, have of Los Angeles, reported that glutted with manpower might be depend primarily upon a great Bette
branch
So far, to retaliate instantly criminal investigation the earthquake there snapped tempted to attack in confidence capacity
HUGE SNOW DRIFTS be charged under a section on telephone lines, making a check that resistance would be con- by means and at places of our here, said the two men would
Stockholm: Huge drifts de- Canadian customs Act for damage slow, but when a tlued to manpower, lle might choosing.
10.
in cttack templed
"Now the Department of De- the check was made it showed no br
Chiefs of which provides heavy dnes and feated snow ploughs in Sweden called in to troops were where Iris superiority fence and the Joint
(Contd. on back pare. Col. 4) pricon terms for illegal posses of carve roads through the snow. damage other than
wus decisive,
sion. and transportation
Thousands of trees, uprooted by gems.
show and gales, have made A preliminary investigation indicated
Kasmieriki many roads impassable.
Paris: The cold in Burgundy brought the diamonds to Canada, Police
was believed has driven wolves out of the in tearch for food, to have been waiting here to woods
France has had on across Eastern smuggle the diamonds
avalanche
warning the border into the US.
In Austria, reports of people Belec sald arrested after he had "cleared" dead, missing or rescued poured at nearby Dorval in almost by the minute, and the customs
the customs by tonight it was clear that the three days had brought at the field were briefed but the worst avalanche. officers airport. He said
recorded in about the case before the Paris one of plang arrived and let Kasmierski catastrophes ever
with only
routine Austria,
Tho Western part of the country is almost in a state of!! national emergency, with every able-bodied man out for rescue: [work in many arest.
Canadian Federal police and stered. arcas dangerously neglected while any reports of do miles north potential
been police nor the sheriff's office had ecribe balle conditions that suit i had to take some basic polley) US.. Treasurystoms officers
him. Otherwise, for example, a/decisions. This has been done with Chuadiananapactor Rens in the Dolomites today, but no
a grandiose superstructure was being proudly erected, NE
JEVERTHELESS the change
Ventura, about
wires.-United Press.
the broken places
aggressor who
Television Salvage Ship May Help To Locate Comet Wreckage
.
chief of
that
Bald Mandel
the
Kamierski
**and
was
in economic policy has come and it is far and away the most important thing that has happened in the Soviet Union Rince the end of the
What
s war. Interesting is how it affects of the the relationship. Union to the non-Communist world. The change does Acem to rule out any immediate possibility of
London, Jan. 12. Soviet aggression elther against Western Europe or
The Admiralty salvage ship, Reclaim, with its unique underwater television in the Middle East. But can equipment, has been offered to help locate the wreckage of the crashed BOAC Comet, It also be expected that the the airline aaid tonight. change will bring a new
Reclaim's The
television, ment. It is operated by remote, crash and the grounding of the readiness on the part of Mr.
Comels in Britain certainly did through used control. Malenkov and his colleagues equipment
A BOAC official said tonight not mean the end of the jet baggage check:-United Prozs, to call off the "cold war" with success to locate the miss to adopt a more friendly ing British submarine, Affray, that the airline was "consider transport plane.
which vanished with its crewing the offer." attitude towards the West, of 78 in the and to allow the reunion of in September 1951.
28 SENTENCED Germany on a tree and
location of the anything that will help us clear is a shtme," he said, "but such up the mystery of the Comet accidents happen to all types of basis? There crashed democratic
planes. It is a tragedy but not
Cairo, :Jan. 12. Berne, Jan. 12, aro no solid grounds for known, but the exact spot has crash," he added.
Piano-accordionist, T. Bebeto, A Calro higher military court optimism in this respect, yet not yet been pinpointed.
An early model of the televi- the end of the jet plane." Reclaim's television alon camera was used to locate ile arid United States, aircraft today collapsed a few minutes tonight sentenced 28 Egyptians one thing is certain: during The thecoming months Mr cameras might be able to find the Affray at a depth of noarly manufacturers were going ahead short of brediking the world's accused of Communist activities the wreck and help to examine 300 feet. New. and more to develop and produce their xordion-playing endurance - to prison sentences varying from one to ten yours with hard Malenkov's actions and
Fit.
powerful' cameras have now types of civilian jet aircraft og doctor ordered him, to stop labour, and fince from 30 to 100, policies are going to be con- ***The 1,700-ton ship, commanded been Atted to the Reclaim and: 11, was only a questions of playing after he had turned out
mayptian dollars. ditioned and determined by by Lieutenant-Commander J.N.|Router. 'his
sima batore the planes would be fun for 74 hours and 35 Twelve were acquitted; They anxiety over the Bathurst, har
Washington, Jan. 12 television economic condition of the camera, mounted in a specially A spokòrran cat the Airerst operating in this country minute. The world's, record is were arrested 18 months ago
Reuberti d akti 78 hours, JIA) welded, Soviet Union.
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