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Eden Clears The
Air Again
NCE again Mr Eden, in
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hin carefully Analytical
and objective style, has cleared the atmosphere ut Geneva, restating with penetrating clarity the fundamental duties and res- ponsibilities of the delegates
the Indo-Chinu
al ference. An a constructive piece of analysts, Mr Eden's speech yesterday was one of biz bent contributions to the conference Hi far. In- fortunately there are small grounds for believing the renctions of the Communist representatives will kus favourable or positive, In An admirably incisive man- Her the British Foreigo Secretary sommed up the existing situation conference as follows; agrev- ment has been reached that there should be A simul- Innvous cessation of hostili- les in the three Indo-Chinn associated states; that there should be Rome form of International supervision of the armistice; that the questions of Cambodia and Laos should examined.
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CHINA MAIL
No. 35840
Established 1845
FRIDAY, JUNE 11, 1954.
Eisenhower's Foreign
Policy Speech
Soviets Honour Queen's Birthday
Moscow, June 11.
Premier
Soviet Deputy Agasta Mikoyan, and top Red Army Generals And Ministers, honoured queen Elizabeth's birthday Je terday with champagne ai the British Embassy, only 200 yards from the Krem. iin.
More than 100 Soviet zuesia as well as the entire diplomatic corps attended A laylas garden party
Kiven by Bir William Hayter, the Ambassador.
There were more Rus- sians present than at any function of a Western mis- slon since East year's Coronation ball at the Bri- tish Embassy-China Mail Special.
What Britain
Can Export
To China
BOT Lists More Than 400 Items
London, June 11. As part of the general drive to capture more trade with Communist China, the British Board of Trade lust night published a list of
more than 400 items that
impressive achievement. It has been, however, sufficient to keep the talks alive and to sustain hopes that some- thing more tangiblo will he forthcoming. Yet it
can now be exported there noticeable that
Mr Eden is now beginning to by British businessmen - only to normal feel doubts about any real subject
con- licensing procedure, success attending the ference, and his warning
The list covers a wide range the unless the conference
of goods from small passenger resolves its differences It
Instruments, must honestly admit failure. textile plant and machinery, munt be taken In Kilomee machinery, chemicals, serious 1999,
drugs and feather gooria, This In the Arst time Mr Eden hos
voiced the possibility of the conference renching an un- breakable deadlock, and the significance of the utterance Ruine may, perhaps, have effect on the Communists.
[NDERSTANDABLY,
Mr
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STRENGTH TO
DEFEAT "RASH AGGRESSION"
في
Freer System Of World Trade
Washington, june 11.
President Eisenhower told the nation last night his foreign policy was directed toward building up strength to defeat any "rash aggression" by the Communists and
Indo-China Talks
Moving Towards A Complete Breakdown
Geneva, June 10.
The Indo-China peace conference moved towards complete breakdown to day in the view of most Western delegates.
Mr Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary, opened the Bession with a blunt warning to the Communists that they would wreck the five-week talks i they persisted in demanding armistice conditions utterly un- acceptable to the West. But (withi an hour, Mr Vyacheslov Foreign Molotov, the Soviet
at the same time help to eliminate poverty, Minister, again insisted on the disease and ignorance in the world.
Mr Eisenhower, who was speaking at a meeting of the National Citizens for Eisenhower Congressional Committee here, took the opportunity to appeal for Con- gressional approval and public support for the foreign and domestic programmes he had outlined to Congress.
inclusion of Poland and Czecho- slovakia In 蘸 supervisory armistice commission,
He gave no hint of D con- cession
on the all-important issue of the Communist demand for veto power in the armistice
said tonight this represented no change in the Communist posi- tion.
control bodies. A Soviet official
Mr Molotov again concentra- ted his fire on the United States with the object, Wes.cm This programme, Mr Eisenhower said, was
delegates believe of helping to designed to protect the nation's freedoms, foster a upset the French Government in Its critical confidence vole op growing prosperous peace-time economy, and to Saturday.
NOT OPTIMISTIC fulfil the Government's obligations in helping to
The Western Ministers will solve the human problems of the people.
for now... probably The President said a"strong forthright_foreign" | restricted sessions to see what cari bu done to save the con- policy which the Administration was developing was
ference from complete fallure. But nonc of them is basic to the protection of freedom.
very to n optimistic that they lead modification of the Communit position.
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Tragedy At Racing Car Meeting
One spectator was kill- ed and about 50 were
French Lose Two More Injured when the racing
Outposts In
The Red River Delta
Hanoi, June 10.
The French High Command today announced the loss of two more defence posts in the ricefields of the southern Red River delta and turned to face the threat of a general Communist offensive.
> Several thousand Franco-Vietnamese troops fought in a large scale naval and amphibious operation in the flooded delta waterways to save the garrison of Hai Yen, 30 miles southeast of Hanoi at the confluence of the Red River and the Bamboo Canal.
The post vaši svät:doned after Those at the airport to meet a week of rebol utfacks, but the him included General Salan and garrison was evacuated in a and General Rene Cogny- three-day
water-borne rescue United Press. mission that see-sawed back and forth.
electric appliances, photographicquired a national defence pro- build up our own material and pedients was a reminder that it and the garrison_wiped
Eden placed considerable emphasis on the stalemate which has been reached regarding the composition tennis
racquets
foods and
account our
and boxing | kind
We
release
from tho
to sock
those
opopse
of the supervisory commis- gloves, chess sels and traps Jo deadening burden of armaments. adjourned next month, the hope
must
continue
tackle
south delta,
Ok
car driven by German driver Schoo, with his French co-driver Lacroux crashed into the front row of spectators, most of whom were children. Schoo escaped with Д broken leg. This picture shows the wreckage of the car after the crash at the sports stadium at Reichel, near Nurnberg.
London Express.
It's No Problem Say Chinese Reds
DRAMATIC difficult to reach a "reason-
Six
RESCUE
the
Geneva, June 10. "Our foreign policy is vigorously opposed
China told the United imperialist ambition but devoted to harmonious
States today that "It is not operation with all nations and peoples who desire to
Mr Eden's warning that the The second post, Lat Khiem, live in peace with their neighbours," he said.
conference could no longer was taken by rebel troops near
able and fair solution of "In "Present world conditions re-
this way we not only shelter behind procedural ex Phuly, 35 miles south of here,
the problem of American out in
and "Chinese nationals held and cinematographic equipment,
strength so that
was already ww
working in ramme, sircamlined, effective military
the navage fighting. Except for radio and gramophone equip-
in each other's territory, successfully any
atmosphere of unreality.
principal towns and roads, the Com- air and nuclear rash aggression by the
The ment. Agricultural and hortical and economical that takes into may
three Reds now threaten all of the delegates decided
The Chinese delegation to the tural equipment, including trac-
munists but we help
weeks ago to eliminate
put on one side
Tokyo, June 10. Far East conference announced conditions
and
miners who tors and combine harvesters, are might," he said.
dispute over Laos
had been this of poverty, the
after a meeting between also in the list. So are textiles
the Outside the timing "But in the longer range our disease and
the Cambodia, and Ignorance in
180-mile delta buried alive in a copper mine American and Chinese officials and clothing, some rubber goods, foreign and defence olicies world which provide fertile the political settlement, so that perimeter, seven Vietminh divi- near here since Monday, were who discussed the problem for plastic
materials,
armistice must be directed toward world | breeding
alona were deployed awaiting | dramatically reunited with their ground for the ex-they could
the second time since last terms. | disarmament," President Eisen-ploiters of discontent." beverages.
General Vo Nguyen Glaps signal families on Wednesday follow- Saturday. It was inevitable that these
to march.
ing a desperate rescue opera- The Chinese Other miscellaneous goodshower declared.
delegation said Appealing to Congress for two big issues would bring the North around Thai Nguyen, tion.
that its chief negotiator, Mr include pens, penells, footballs. "We must seek for all man- enactment Di hia
west And legislative negotiations to a halt at some
northwest between
The disaster occurred at the Wang Ping-ran, said at today's programme before Congress time, but it was the Western the Red and Black River valleys,
Tamaomura meeting it is not difficult that the conference could south and southeast along mining village of meanwhile agree on apmistice Day River and the mountains Tochigi prefecture, 50 miles frem today's contact on
north of here, when the pit in question of nationals of each President said, "Let us have less
that separate the delta from which the men were working side residing in the other's terri- political
Annam, battle-hardened Vlot Whe
suddenly caved in and cut them tory and on the question of minh troops, many of them
off from completely
outside Overseas students to secure veterans of Dien Bien Phu, are
reasonable and fair solution so contact, poised for an offensive expected
It was believed that the long as both sidos have the this month.
caving in of the mine
waa sincerity to solve the problem."
There Are caused by heavy
43 rains which
American loosened the earth above the civilians in Communiat China, Inside the Hanol citadel
pit
of whom 32 are in prison, thred French military headquarters Rescue squads composed of presumed under ATTCSD and
General here,
Racul Salan, mipork, firemen, polles an1 19
unable ito obtain exit the Supreme Com- students worked continuously Deputy to
gainst difficult inits. A total of 20 Amert- mander, General Paul Ely, delta for 40 hours
can military
personnel Commander Gentral Rene conditions and pouring rains under arrest 18 from the Corny, and other high officers and finally, as hope was dim- United States Air Force and 11
they could from began to hammer out a defence ming that possibly
the
Navy and Coast delta they have not reach the men in time, they Guard. promised to defend.
The Chinese succeeded in making the alleges that the United States. delegation here tact. Miltary observers said it was
·"detained”...... about maximum The man were said to have has
5,000 vital to muster the
in forte within
surprisingly
citizens, the been
good Chinese defenco
mainly shortest possible minh
considering students, in America, time, not only physical condition
but the Attack
their harrowing ordeal.--United United States authorities deny but to discourage General Glap Press. from launching b
offensiv immediately.
we
fission and
terms. more political fusion. Let us haug in this session of the Congress approval of a programme essere
conf the main
the
rata and mice. sion, yet his observationa
devold of The Jlst wholly
itself
not sensible solutions for the fateful were
all that can recrimination. His analysis necessarily
be problems posed by the atom and
In fact, differences over major ex-supplied by British exporters hydrogen bombs.
questions of principle have now of this impasse was
without infringing the БЕУСТО
"Pursuing these purposes
deadlocked even this part of the pressed in impeccable terms
Ita which are still
one being and it is hard to believe restrictions
force on the export of strateme love persistently mado appro- tial to a stronger America."
refusal to accept the that Mr Molotov and Mr
to the
Mr Eisenhower said that Con- Communist demand for a vato goods or even goods on which priate proposals to the world-
and more particularly be Chou could fail to
strategic potential could be
Soviets which if honestly ac-gress had been hard at work in the armistice commission. impressed with his advocacy built.
The Western delegations are of his own proposals for But it is the first time since cepted would go far toward at- on his programme "but much
still remains that is of vital confident that if the talks break- significance to every American down on this issue, they will resolving this particular export controls were introduced tainment of these goals.
cltizers."* problem. The Communists that
carry non- Communist world opinion with them-China Mall Special,
He has been made Available to British firms, who
OVERSEAS AID
..DEFENCE PLAN
plan for the Laniel's
constantly WANTS QUICK ACTION "We must strive cannot with any honestyiously had to rely on their question the complete
our friends for a freer
He called for quick action on: Impartiality of the nations applications for export licences with
either being accepted or system of world trade and in-
1. A tax reviŝion bill to give which Mr Eden suggests rejected.
vestment,
strengthened for
liberal treatment for should form the supervisory Its
a trade agreement legislation, for more publication follows
and regulations families and businesses. commission-India, Pakis- British attempt to change the simpler rules
can be 2. His now farm programame which trade tradu channels
under and unsatisfactory tan, Ceylon, Burmu
meantime calling for the end of rigid price Indonesin, and in the final which existed with China where carried on. In the
must continue to render supports and their substitution Chances Sink can argue by business could only be done we
only through the Communist-control-military and economic assistance by flexible supports. line one
led organisation in East Berlin. abroad where our national in- | -Reuter.
serest is thereby served.
analysis they along
whether the commission should be invested with the right of the veto. Their in- aistence on this procedure the
is significant. When It Wasn't Sir Winston's
conception of the veto was tho introduced in
first
United Nations it was in- tended to be a safeguard,
Russia has since converted
It into a weapon of obstruc
•
Swan After All
The Hague, June 10.
The black swan found last weekend near Uden, in tion and frustration, and it Holland, and thought to belong to Sir Winston Churchill
that the Communist demand
is precisely because of this stood in line today at an "Identification parade" and was for the right of applying handed to another claimant.
Rapidly
to rest a
(A, committee of the House of Representatives this week called for the continuation of the pre- sent form programme for Sun
Giap may decide to hold off additional year, Last night the
Paris, June 10.
Big push unio October President said: "In my opinion Promier Joseph Laniel's when the delia has dried up the circumstances
too chances arc
would be of surviving a con- again. He
огород stronger • "and" "the critical to permit such a delay.) dence vote, called for Satur- tinmlely
3. The
of un-day, sank rapidly tonight even Trouch would need large num employment, social security and antion started to seek a re-new oquipment to meet it than
aa-'members
of his crumbling bow of fresh troops, grms and medical benefits to
placement.
A French delegation Americans.
M.Laniel huddled all day Major, Roger Jamos is due to
north of Hanck ΟΙ the
road to of spics and Communist subver with political leaders in a last-meet the Vietminh 40 miles sives which would at the same ditch effort to prevent the fall
would Langen, www. time protect the rights of the of his Cablaet,, which
the re-
extension
more
-4, Bills to curb the activities
tomorrow,
leave France without a "não- patriation of some DUP wounded i
ment at the height of the
the voto in the supervisory Two days ago, the British; the swan's cousiter claimant. Mr Individual citizen, commission becomes highly Embassy hero announced that F., Van Valkenbury, was allow delivered to the nation through French press and Parliamentary | OF 859 French wounded.. ca
Auspect in motive and the bird "acemed to be" the one to enter the room. Intention, Mr Eden, there which disappeared on June 1
Without hesitation, Mr Van fore, expresses a sound and from Sir Winston Churchill's
at Westerham, Valkenburg a local zoo director Country homo acceptable argument when
Kent.
pointed to the Uden bird. "That ho says, "There can be no
Today's reversal of fortune one is mine" he said.
veto. To insist on unanimity came when the local police chief Siry Winston Churchill's claims is to declare that you have at Hertogenbosch decided that were beginning to dada. **
Mr Van Der Mark: Aried to
Mr Eisenhower's speech was China conflet. But both the Vietminh following rebel freeing
2
the major radio and television networks-Reuter.
[
no confidence in Impar- the best way to settle the awan's shake Mr Van Valkenburg's con- tiality. The international real ownership would be to ap commission must be truly ply the well-tried police method viction, but he stuck to his guns, Eventually, the police...... cks. impartial and must have of holding an identity ineup.
Captain "321" Beckers,
FIVE KILLED IN FACTORY
exports gave M. Laniel, who fured at Dien Bien Phi har walked a political fightrope Informed sources said that the ss Premler for almost a year, dolocations mle
almó may
may talk of little chr og to save his govern delhaltation of French and
an unexported Vistaninh zones in c ment barring
fire in sareed' upon
change.
"Barring," a mírecio, Laniel's
instamototable, said the headline of the a noon paper. Paris, Frasses
Thme already was widen
ponsible spaoulation tron
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Those killed were trapped in and now Finance
the power to decide by The Uden swan was solemnly comind. He ruled, that the dist
places in a row with Ave other puted bird be handed over majority The non black swoon in a room at The Mr. Van Valkenburg? Communist delegates at
house of Mr F. Van Der Mark, jak onser claimanta, dal p Geneva havo a right to
a bird, expert. When Mr Van shale diima, MELUMA inslet upon acceptance of Der Maric had told the, police will know to fucking excami this' declaration,
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