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COMMENT OF
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AST week's decision at
Geneva to enll oIT
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Korean discussiona appear
the
may Lo
on the surface have been a hasty one, and
many probably few that
over
perhaps JL little mure pailence would have seen. the deadlock broken, Bot in truth the differencen of view which at first glance неста to be merely matters of holding elec
are in fact funda. tions, mental. They stem from profoundly different cost. cepts of "free elections." The Denor racies. wad the Communists use the same phrase, but mean entirely things. In all
different Communist controlled countries "free elections" means elections in which the Vatera JETA only
free 10 elect candidates who
are
011 a single list drawn up or approved by the Com munist
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Unconditional Surrender Demand
By Guatemalan Rebels
Japan's Economy
In Danger
AMBASSADOR'S WARNING
the
tra
re-
Seattle, June 21. Mr Sadno Iguchi, Japan-
Ambassador ese
to United States, warned party machine. day that if Japanese This, beyond any possible armament went faster and questions,
what Mr farther than
the economy Molotov, Mr Chou Enlai of his country it could "be- and General Nam }] meant at Geneva when they come a source of weakness Ald they agreed to the rather than of strength."
"The problem of defence for "free principle secret" all-Korean elections. Japan is clowly related to the problem of econorale stability." It is a phruse which
the he told Seattle's Japan Institute Communists habitually age
in a a speech.
of
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218
the
10 describe the system "The building of our defence
well which they apply in their capability, own countries; which is strengthening of our people's the format basis for Com-devotion to the defence of their munist dictatorships und for the elimination of opposition and all criticism. It was the method used in
all
of
North Korea in 1948 which produced an Assembly of 752 fervent supporters the Communist
regime including 360 Assemblymen who claimed to have been "elected" by the people of South Koren.
BEHIND
society, depends largely upon the recovery of economic strength," he adried.
Mr Iguchi sald Japon was Armly committed to building up Its defence system to the limit) of L
its capacity, but said, "our national economy is still wenk and
nd precarious.
Vital as is military defence, i "Vital as however, military measures are pital the Anal volution to thes ho sold. poverty
Comantinist niesace,"
Communism feeds on
and economic instability, and if the "double we cannot abolish poverty and
WOR
economic instability, Cominu~ uisin inay grow from within."
All talk" and different mean- ings attached to the same words, the intention of the
MORE TRADE PLEA Communists became very
Mr Iguchi backed his worn- clear of Geneva, it
ing with a plea for increased that under the protext of trade between Japan and the preparing for "free elec- | non-Communist ritions of the tions" some sort of ail. world, Korena organisation would Pointing out that Japan's pre- sent yearly trade defielt was be formed in which Com-
about 1,000,000,000 dollars, he munists and non-Commun.
"We must find a solution ists would be equal in
through the normal channels of Hirength. The United international trade. Nations troops would have "The expansion of our export been withdrawn overseas trade depends on the lowering and there might be great of the artificial barriers lo Fortunately, there are Hend reluctance to
them hnok. The Chinese "volun ataug the democratle countries signs of growing tendency teers" reven if they were in fact withdrawn) would only be juml BCTORA the Yalu River. The Chinese colonists who have
been
trude,
to appreciate the mutual bene-i fits of freer trade and freer flow of capital.
"The efforts of the American
FIRST CLASH BETWEEN GOVERNMENT FORCES
AND INVADERS
Tegucigalpa, Honduras, June 21.
Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas set up an anti-Communist govern- ment inside Guatemala today and called for the unconditional surrender of President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman and his Communist-supported regime.
Colonel Armas, leader of the invading forces striking from Hon- duras, made his demand after issuing a communique claiming that his revolutionary forces had captured several important cities, penetrating deep into Guatemala.
"We demand the unconditional surrender of Arbenz and his Communist group because we are not willing to compromise with those who never showed
murdered in any mercy towards the citizenry whom they tortured and prisons," said Colonel Armas,
the
His demand for unconditional surrender coincided with a Guatemalan govern- ment communique which said that Federal troops had launched a general counter- attack against the invaders, It said the rebels were hurled back during the first encounter near Gualan in Zacapa State.
Fusillades Of Shots
In Guatemala City
Guatemala City, June 21.
Fusillades of shots broke the peace of this blacked-out capital last night but was attributed to police shooting at cars with lights on.
The city was normal this morning with shops open and people going about their business.
over
The government communique said the Cualan battle started chorty before midnight last night.
"The Army with regular troops, well-trained and equip- ned with modern armament, attacked the rebels' position and forced them to fall back after stubborn realst- sald the commualque. "Latest reports
Indicate the retreating in that my was
ang
aten.
Colonel Armas said his forces
were sweeping across Guate- mala almost without opposition..
"This 10 not ло Invasion, properly speaking," he sald. are Just thousands of Guatemalas who are forcing the doors of our own country to
the "Wo No rebel planes were reported directly capital though warnings came in of activity from nearby districts.
Police Suspect Triple
Murder
Fort William, Ontario, June 21.
There was heavy movement of troops in Guatemala City yester- day-reportedly towards the western coast, where Aghting was said to be still raging in the key port of Puerto Barrios.
return to our homes.'
Unique Appointment
Captain Krishna Bahadur Rai and Captain Lal Bahadur Thapa, MC, the two Gurkha officers who have been appointed Queen Elizabeth's Gurkha Orderly Of cers at Buckingham Palace. The appointments are the first of their kind—and their first dutles will be on July 6, when in their fine uniforms they will stand beside the Royal dais for the first time at the Summer Investitures-London Express.
French Cabinet To Make Big Decisions
Details of the fighting were scarce but at United Nations Headquarters, in New York the Guaternalan
government on- nounced that it would "proceed
Paris, June 21. immediately" with full-scale fighting against the insurgent
M. Pierre Mendes-France's new "young men's" There are few reports here of forces of Colonel Armas and his Government, at its first Cabinet meeting tomorrow, is what is going on in the rest of
followers.
expected to decide to hurry all available reinforcements the country but the invaders are said to be very close to the town Guatemala announced its into Indo-China -- short of sending conscripts. or Zapeen, northeast Guatemala, tentions in a cablegram to The Government has to face the National Assembly Correspondents have been re- Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of the on Thursday when three Conservatives and one Radical fused permission to visit war United States, current President had given notice that they will question the Premier
of the United Nations Security
on the composition of his Government and his intentions Council.
on foreign policy and North Africa.
areas.
It appears that the regular
Government in this direction An autopsy was performed on pouring into the country are especially reassuring to us. the charred bodies of a mother army has not so far exchanged cigalpa indicated that the rebel
would remain. In short n situation would be created very similar to that which in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary, Rumania Hulgarin had made рон-
sible the rapid establish-
ment
いま
dictatorships und the
Hoppression not only of free elections. freedoms.
AT GREAT COST
a triple murder.
Mra
for army.
that the
A
vote on
without be obtained
this is expected | France and hinge the fate of the any Vietnam Republie to American support. No details of the talis has were available--Reuter.
M. Mendes-France dropped the iden of nighing to Progress Geneva immediately, there on, the withdrawal of
Information reaching Fegu- We are also hopeful that more; and her two children today as a single shot with the rebels,
forces had occupied several to readily accessible sources of the Police searched for clues In | Any resistance has come from raw materials may be opened what they said appeared to be police or armed trade unioniste.mall towns inside Guatemala, dimculty. up to us.
Both
sides agreed The sale of petrol in
in Guate- mala City was resumed today town of Esquipulas, come miles "For at present, we are being five-year-old son and 10-month-
Horst Mchapplen, her but with each customer rationed from the Honduras border, had
doned | fallen to the rebels. to five gallons. Private cars forced to secure many of our old daughter died in flames that immediately appeared on the Colonel Armas denied that troops from Cambodia and Communlat bulky Imports at great cost from razed their lonely cabin in the strecto
again There has ap-foreign elements were taking Laos is thought to be prepar- fer distant sources because of bush 80 miles northeast of here parently been no active roper part in the political barriers to closer
fight against the ing their way for direct French cussion to the Government's call Communist backed on Saturday night.
Arbenz talks with the Vietminh, The sources of supply. The more
a "Maxi fleet" to help the government.
Fremler
to bide his is likely but of the free nations of the world
The provincial police said that It was this can trade without restriction, her hands had been tied behindi
"In the liberating army," he time before appearing in per-
son at Geneva. which made the question of the more will they be able to her back and another rope was
Conditions were very close to said, "there is not one officer or perve each other's needs to their tied around her neck.
Guate supervision a crucin one.
Burned normal in Guatemala City today soldier who is not a mutual advantage.
frogments of tops were dis-and local representatives of malan," this interdependent covered "For in this
On her wrists
The and International airlines hope that
anti-Communist Co- world which modern science has throat. Communist plan Was to linked together so closely, the ensure the creation of an welfare of one nation depends They speculated that all Korean Government on the welfare of all, and the three were victims of a killer firmly based on popular welfare of all can be endangered who burned down the wooden support and therefore by the misfortune of one."
cabin in an attempt to destroy Mr Iguchi added: "The closer any clues. possessed of authority and power to safeguard demo-Japan is integrated into the web international of interlocking cratic institutions whether trade relations, the more firmly against
open attack
or will Japan be held to the policy against conspiracy. And of international co-operation and such a Government could peaco."~~Reuter. only be the outcome of genuinely free elections the resulta of which would command acceptance.
THE only counter
to
In
this way the whole problem narrowed down to that of
ensuring genuinely. free olections. That became the
103 Terrorists Killed
Nairobi, June 21.
wounded
kornet of the Korean Security forces killed 103 problem. The Communista Mau Mau terrorists,
playing any role in this Erskine's
the
at
the
French commentators stress that an improvement in Anglo- fights into Guatemala from out-ordination Committee said the French relations is expected as ย Conscquistico of the Dow alde will be resumed tamOTTÓW, armed forces under Colonel
Government in France, Most local airliners left Guate Armas had appealed for recog- nition as belligerents under
American officials made no. male airport last night but were
comment but wero quoted as not carrying clvillan passengers, International Law.
in An appeal was made to the | saying They have been transporting
private that troops.
people to join the uprising aimed postwar cra of predominant Red-tainted American Influence on France ousting the A Canadian National Railway There were no developments
had come to an end. crow stumbled en the
tragic today in the plan to evacuate regime of President Arbenz. scene on Saturday night while about 1,200 focal American
BOMBINGS DENIED their trains was waiting
France looked like getting on residents though the Embassy siding at Kelly for another train was completing its plans.
The rebel government and the Vittnem state. Emperor some opposition from the head to pass.
Mr R. Andrews, the British nouncements, over the signa Bao Dal, who has been spend- recent weoks on the BODY OUTSIDE CABIN Minister, has not yet made any tures of Carlos
special arrangements to evacuate Valladares, Domingo
Goicoleang
French and engineer the estimated 200 Britons U the and Luis Corado Lára of the French Riviera, issued a com- The Breman
Co-ordination Committee, also unique today which
was meant rushed to the smoking ruins of country-Router.
urged the Army to join the anti-diplomats thought the houss on the CNR llno be.
to embarras M. Pleuro úïendce": Communist forces. tween Port Arthur and Sloux
his coming Franco in Lookout.
They discovered the woman
the
US BOMBER CRASHES
Savannah, Georgia, June 21. A B-47 Stratojot bomber with four men aboard exploded in Alight today and crashed near Townsend, Georgia, about 40 miles south of ham, shortly after taking out from Hunter Ale Foros
Balazar, Luis
It denied that the robet air force has bombed, or strafod negotiations. defenceless citles and
said attacks
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complaineri cka had been made only on Government had so far not been did not simply reject the or captured 12 others and de- on the ground outside the burn- Iden of the United Nations talaed 250 in operations in the ing cabin. She apparently had
movement is not against therefore been unable to deal given · mough": powert? add, had past week, General Sir-George been able to move when the
the through an- flames burned Headquarters
people but against those who supervision. They rejected nounced here today.
topes and had stumbled outside
sold the country to the Soviet with the requirements of national the idea of any effective The announcement added that to die..
masters," said the announcement, recovery,
Authoritative sources here said aupervision. That being so terrorists have boon concentrat
The Police, who searched the
rseldent Arbens had declared further talk would have ing on
cattle stealing to charred ruins yesterday morn
martial law throughout Guate boon a waste of time. The plenish food stocks for the Mau in found the children's bodies
mais in face of the progression between France and end of the Korean con- Mau “army."
uprising, Rebel sources doubted Vietnam which might accede inside. A total of 232 cattle wore ference did not come, over¦
thegood rally, his army, for, « parity to Dr Ho Chi-minčai'm get "rustled in European farming The „doad woman's husband. There was no iminediate re- perious defence of the capital. |posal to divide the country on any faste of Kietall,
dreas last weak but police and a German immigrant who came port on the number of casualties to Guatambalan no labour Lenders the 18th or 18th but over one of the troops recovered 168 of them. 1 to Canids three years ago, was burl, searching blimpal, from the wineryported ordering track most fundamental issues in the Mount Kenya area world Mine Critre, Dene Brun wick, Gooi vir Parivarkystint way wolkens that divide the Communist yesterday a gang broke into a Thery rancang wimi hetwas zietion, and helicoplars reportad countries from the Demo-part ofice and Mole: £300, molded at the death of this not sign of lifekis PE DE ACEEA cración:
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Chou En-lai And
Mondes-France
Arranging A Secret Meeting
Geneva, June 21. Efforts are under way to arrange a secret meeting between the Chinese Premier, Chou En-la!, and '· the now French Promier, Pierre Mendes-Franco, In hopes of striking a quick Indo-China peace deal, high French sources said tonight. The report was substantiated by sources close to the French government, contacted in Paris by telephone, who said M. Mendes-France had taken the initiative in setting up the secret encounter.
new
The sources said the Chinose had Indicated their accord for the meeting, but that there was still no final agreement on timo or place. It would not be di- cult for the two 10 Бе
cach other in nearby France without publicity.
of a
Mr Chou is the only top- ranking representative major power lett in Geneva. The US, Britain and the Soviet Union withdraw the chiefs of
their delegations to the nine-
nation conference.
M. Mendes-France, who promised the National Assem- bly
рево
formula by July 20, is anxious to hear the Chinese terms for ending the
war in
seven-and-a-half-year
the Far East, the sources said. FRENCH PLAN
Meanwhile, informed sources
said the French
mit
plan to sub-
a proposal tomorrow
the 23rd session
at
of the Indo- China conference to study how the Communist and Westerni for establishing A proposals ceasefire control system could
be "synthesised" cd to
Such ล
tho
agreement on Laos and Cam- bodia on
Saturday.
The French Ambassador to Switzerland,
Jean Chauvel,
acting head of the French de- legation,
and the bassador to
US Am- Czechoslovakia, Alexis Johnson, head of the depleted US delegation, con- ferred this evening about tac- tics for tomorrow's session.
The new French Premier was sald to favour the
neutralisation of Laos
tho and Cambodia, division of Vietnam Into two zones, French retention of ports in the Vietminh half and even- tual free elections as the com- panents of a peace formula.. United Press.
DESTINATION UNKNOWN
Genova, June 22. Mr Chou En-lal, the Chinese Communist Prime Minister and Foreign Minister. may leave Geneva today (Tuesday), ac- usually reliable cording to a soured here,
But the source could not give his destination, Reuter.
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