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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1954.
EISENHOWER STATEMENT CAUSES
STIR AT GENEVA
Legless Farmer Becomes Pilot
Adelaide, Austraila.
Mir Roger Pitt? 21, legless farmer of Naracoorte, 240 miles from here, has quall- fled na a pilot.
Mr Pili toset his legs fou“ In a swinging-
years ago
saw accident.
Part of his text
was lo make forced landings, minu and recoveries.-China Maj Spectal.
Bevan's Rebuke To
Morrison
Mr
Commonwealth See
It As Attempt
"To Force The Pace"
Geneva, May 5.
President Eisenhower's declaration today that a Southeast Asian collective security arrange- ment was "in process of formation” caused con- cern in British Commonwealth circles at the Far East conference at Geneva.
Some Commonwealth delegates tonight re- garded the President's statement as an American move to "force the pace" in the matter.
They pointed out that there was still broad agree- ment between the United States and the Common- wealth countries including Britain that there should be talks on such a Southeast defence pact.
But the Commonwealth coun» [a Southeast Asia security tries had made plain before the arrangement.
from Geneva
London, May 5. The rebel Socialist, Aneurin Bevan, refused to conference opened That they Osicht› statements, made ben become involved in
wanted to see how the Indo-fore -- the Geneva conference 1475
China talks shaped before be opened on April 26 had referred deputy coming argument with the
Involved In detalled to United States Allies. speci- lender of the Labour Party, walks.
fically Britain and France, 03 Mr Herbert Morrison on the Today's declaration by Presi- having agreed only to "examine floor of the House of Com- dent Elsenhower that
possibility" the the
of such NATO-typo pact was already arrangement. mons today.
being formed appeared to some a quiet rebuke to a public attack node Commonwealth delegates to be en him yesterday by Mr Morbid to press America's friends Into taking action before they Mr Morrison, writing in the thought it desirable.
suggested that the
statement
might embarasa the Western cause in Soull and Southeast Asia and possibly jeopardise chances of attracting Asian nations into a defensive bloc
Mr Bevan returned
KON.
#L was ragazine Socialist Commentary. President's denounced Mr Bevan's recent walk-out from the Labour Party's shadow Cabinet as "the answer to the Tories' pras
**suicide
declared deck
the
backing Mr Bevan's rebellion
Rully were
or "damaging foolahness" and recalled
that
Mr Bevan's 1948 characterisa“ tion of the Tories as "a bunch of vertnin" Jost the Labour body in
Party 30 to 60 seats
1950 elections.
Mr
Bevan suicl Today: *** have always munde it a rule never to make personal attacks upon any of my rolleagues. I do not propose to depart from t on these matters.
"The differences between u
of principle. UT
matters (x1 This can only be obscured attempting to express them In tezime of personalities,"
by
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The British attitude is that the military situation in Indo- Is not such as to womant China แบบ
untu Intervention
the outcome of the Geneva conference known. The
Press reports have described the British Gov- enment as being
the free nations of the
that
South
Dropped From Balloons
Czech
Protest
Over US
Leaflet Campaign
Vienna, May 5.
Czechoslovakia has protested to the United States against the alleged dropping of leaflets over Czechoslovakia from American balloons, Prague radio announced today.
"Pravda's' 42nd Birthday
King Panl Goes Driving
Kink
Paul of Greece saluted by the Guard sa ho drives out of the Royal Palace in Athena
In his British Jaguar XK120 car. Every day after his daily taska ni the Palace the King drives to the summer residence of his family
city at Tato in the suburbs --Express Photo,
Molotov Goes To Dinner
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Has A Cough And Doesn't Look Well
Malta Concerned
At Queen's Tired Appearance
Valetta, Malta, May 6. Authoritative sources last night said Queen Elizabeth was in "good health and the best of spirits."
They were commenting on the expressions of concern voiced by some Maltese who said the Queen did not look well and appeared to have a cough.
Earlier, circles close to the Royal Household had said the Queen was "probably suffering":" from the after effects of lightning change of climate from tropical Aden to Mediter ranean Malta.
&
Valetta Radio said last night the Queen was' "very tired" and
needed all the rest she could
no specches
The Navy beat the Army by four goals to two, and the Duka #cored the Navy's second goal.
The firet was scored by the Navy's captain, Admirul Flari Mountbatten, Commander-in-
Chlof Mediterranean, who also scored the third goal,
If was the first time the Royal their father children had seen
play
In a match. Earlier the Queen put out in
get. Islanders were naked not to trouble
her and the Duke the Royal barge from the yacht during days when they were Britannia to the aircraft currlor free from public engagements.
Eagle, accompanied by the Duke There were
or of Edinburgh in the unifcam of long ceremonies yesterday. This an Admiral of the Fleet.
The Queen talked with the Queen and the Duke paid in- formal visili to the atrcroft Bailors and the Duke with old cartier Eagle and the cruiser
from the frigate hipmates Glasgow in Valeita harbour,
Magpie, which he used to com- Yesterday afternoon
the mand. Queen and Prince Charles and Queen and the Duke spent a few On the windy flight deck the Princess Anne watched Duke play polo for the Navy in minutes taking the colute at a the annual Rundlo Cup match march past by the lip's .com- at Marsa here,
pany, China Mail Special.
the
With Eden HOOVER
In A Bullet-Proof
The
Car Convoy
This "balloon" action was
Geneva, May 5. a severe violation of inter-
Soviet Foreign national law and constituted Minister. Mr Vyacheslav interference in the Internal Molotov, drove in his bullet- affairs of an Independent proof car to have dinner to- country, the Czechoslovak night with Mr Anthony note said.
Eden in the palatial Lake-
The note said: "An American-side Villa here once used by sponsored organisation called the exiled King Leopold of the Crusaders for Freedom" Belgium, had released the balloons from
reluctant to start the proces of fortning the defence arrangement before en Indo-Chlau settlement has been reached or fully attempted #t the Geneva Fur Easteru conference.
President Elsenhower, ILow- of described most ever, today MONSOONS
east Asin area and others direct- Asian nations could well gainly concerned as having shown the impression that the Unitex affirmative
in interest" the He said that con- States was building up a NATO-arrang
advance of the verration were
arrangement
'actively pro- rine-nation Indo-China talks at ceeding. He then described the Genova,
Southeast
Asia Organisations as This could lend
support
process of formation" and the propaganda of the Russians said that this fact "could have an and the
Chinese Communists important bearing upon what directed against "American im-
happene at Geneva during the perialism" in Asja.
Indo-China phase of the соп- ference
On the basis of reports from
implication Geneva, the
was the negotiation of an Indo-China settlement al
The Soviet Foreign Minister scason
Geneva would be alded if it
London, May 6 Won-Camguy at the end of d been host last week'nt a in Indo-China is expected to
was known that such a settle-
Sovlet
on the beginning newspaper April
Hunch for the Brilh Foreign halt military operations in Indo-
meni would be backed
Pravda received China for at least four months.
May. State a
Secretary and the Chinese guaranteed by a system
Thay were an effort to die Prime Minister, Mr Chou En- There is general concern
And Preal Award of the Lenin banner turb May Day celebrations in cer on collective security. of Britain's delegates dent the part of the issue at
Eisenhower
that on its 42nd birthday today Czechoslovakia and to influence Parliamentary Labour
Party that the non-Communist powers
"progress this matter has an Russia and other Com the population regarding the at the conference shoul do
been considerable"".
munist countries of Europe forthcoming Natidal Comunittes that might nothing
appear 13
The President's statement to-
elections. prejudge the failure of the cun-
day appears to be an advance celebrated "Press Day." therefore possibly on the pre-Geneva position of The first issue of Pravda, n. ference and
"HOSTILE CONTENT" news- anti-Tsarist affect its outcome.
merely "examining the possi- Bolshevik
The balloons had Britain's
In starting bilty of the motive
Southeast Astu paper, appeared cat May 5, 1012. early military talks in Singapore defence organisation.
St. Petersburg, then the leaflets "with a hostile content," separates Mr Eden's villa from the Soviet Southeast Asia
is to plan
It was Russian capital.
sup- They called for sabotage, made that occupied by possible guarantees
of a settiC-
SIGNIFICANT?
pressed eight Limes between unfounded accusations against delegates.
Soviet the Czech Government and tried
plain clothes body- mem in Indo-China for whlen
1912 and 1914, Sir Winston Churchill promiseci
The language of President
Each time IL reappeared to spoil the good relations Budg
guarda stood in the roadway support in the House of Com-
Elsenhower's statement today under a new but similar name. between Czechoslovakia and the outside both houses as the So- mons Jast
has in mind a
Pravda-the Russlan word Bovlet Union,
viet cars swung out of one, sped the note said. month.China Mail suggests he too the Special.
Southeast Asia security arrange- "truth"-is now the organ of But this trick had
along the road, then turned into failed" Asla Southeast
ment which would not be the Central Committee
the other. of the because the Czech workers recog- directed against any bloc of Soviet Communist Party with nised the organtoars as "cruel nations and would not be de-| Q daily circulation
stated to exploiters and colonisers," signed primarily to justify mill-; be between two million and The noto
wold
the today tary Intervention by the Unned ree only central Soviet last July tried to stir up the "Crusaders for Freedom" had
FIERCE ARGUMENT
observers
With that Mr Ветил B01 down, and political promptly forecast а llerge argument over
meeting tomorrow,
0
The Party recently adopted a rule that members should re Frain from erit.cssing cech other in the press
and on the plat form.
Mr Morrison, the Party's deputy leader and Mr Clemem Attlee's righthand
de- nan, parted from the rule yesterday In attacking Mr Bevan,
In
Mr Bevna resigned from the Labour Party's shadow Cabinet
a brook with Mr Attlee's moderate Socialists issue of the
security pact.
over
He condemned Mr. Aftlee's re- tusal to condemn that pact us an American pressure move des
monsoon
On
AN ADVANCE
Washington, May 5. President Eisenhower
signed to menace "Republican announced "considerable pro- China"--United Press,
gress" towards the formation of
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of
Statza and its allies in the Indo-China war,
The
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But Mr Chou was not present at tonight's dinner.
A four-car convoy of Russian- made Zias cars accompanied by Swise
cycliata pollen motor drave at high speet along the of lakeside rond that dropped mile
newspaper which publishes for Czech people against their low-
days He traced United
# week. Other, ful Government. Reuter. States even thinking on the Southeast Asia newspapers, including Izvestia, Govern- of the Soviet recurity arrangement to the organ famous Senote "Vandenburg" ment, appear every day except | resolution of 1948 which led to Monday.
news-
the Western hemisphere ald Moscow Radio said that be- pact, the North Atlantic pact, side the award to the the Anrus and other Puciic paper, several members of ita alliance.
sht also received decorations.
-Reuter.
He then made this important statement which appeared to be designed to allay any "neu- tralist"
apprehensions about joining in such arrangements: arrangements are in-
Those variably to assure the peaceful security of the contracíing na- tions and to prevent the likell- hood of attack; they arrangements designed pri- marily for a war".
are not
It may or may not be signi- Bcant in this connection that the President in his references to
Dien Bien Phu
Wounded
Four Killed In
Ambush
Singapore, May 6.
я
Other Russians strolled along the road apparently enjoying the cool breeze from the lako,
Gursts n tonight's dinner in-
cluded Mr Georg Zarubin, Soviet Ambassador to the United States, and Mr Evelyn Shuck- burgh, Mr Eden's private secre- tury,
and Mr Denis Allien Foreign Office
expert Reuter,
Far
Eastern
SEARCHING FOR
A SETTLEMENT
Four people, including
Rome, May 5. European police lieutenant, were
Proposals for a setement of killed and three others wounded the Trieste problem will bo in a bandit ambush on the made this month to the Italian Penggarang road,
Government by the British and on the west
coast of south Johore, yesterday,
| Americans,
SAW
med che
cies said here
The Sums
The bandits, about 30 strong
said that and heavily armed, fired on a the unofficial talks which had ing a party of polios and special London between the British and constables, Malaya and Chinese. Yugoslay Governments had been
Intensified during the past few chys so that the question should be on its way to a solution when the Italian Parliament deals with. ratification of the European Defence Community Trenty- France-Presse,
Reach Paris police vehicle which was carry-boen hold for some time in
Paris, May 5. Thirteen soldiers seriously Casualties were brought by Mr Dalles's original proposals wounded in the battle for Dien boat across the Straits of Johore for Southeast Asian security at Ben Phu arrived here today to Chang), Singapore, and then no time used Mr Dulles pobon from Hamol in a French hospital transferred to the General Helly belligerent phrase "United:
plane.
Hospital at Johore Bahru. - Reuter:
action".
Waldomar Bahr, 24, a For Western diplomats here were sign Legimaire, who lost a leg impressed by the optimistic tone and arm told reporters he had of the President's statement reto wait three days to get away garding the progress being from the fortress after being
by [the] Geniva Farwounded.
made Eastern conference-Reuter,
Do Fumes
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Cause Cancer? Bahr seid his stretcher
bearers eventually dodged hall of Communist fire to holat London, May: 5. London's vir is to be analysed him aboard ahelicopter, **
to see if fumes from
diesel
believe it was the last helicopter to get away from Dies SAIDscribing the dent Vlbtminh
driven vehicles may be inc” he said. |inig, zünden of devilsping.
acor.
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