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CHINA MAIL
No. 35938
MONDAY, OCTOBER 1954.
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FRANCE LIKELY TO SAY 'YES? Vietminh
Optimism In Paris O
Ministers Make Hurried Departure
London, Oct. 3. Visiting Ministers today ael up a now record for the speed with which they dispersed after six days of strenuous negotiation,
Wilbin two hours of the final signature, three the Ministers bome,
First to
were
of
air- leave was
Italy's Professor Gaetano
nine-nation talks on German roarmament on Friday, when the French Fremier upset everybody's calcula- tion by insisting on drastic arms controls on Germany, Mr Foster Dulles wy na reported to have taken Mendes-France to one side and said: "Just what are you after-everything ?" If that was true it was [03 extraordinary statement for the American Secretary of State to make. But before launching into any violent castigation of Mr Dulles for hir unnecessary bluntnena and lack of iact, let's face the facts. The American
Martino, whose bags were Administration have been
walling in
outaido #car trying for more than four Lancaster House during yenra to get a European today's reselor, and Dr defence project working Adenauer and M. Mendes- with a rearmed Germany as
France followed in rapid Me of ITA
succession. partners, Vacillations
d procras- tinations by successive French Premiers have been maitily responsible for the long delay. At last the Bri- tish Foreign Secretary, Mr Eden inds what appears to be a suitable plan and just when the conference is on the verge of Mendes-France throws bombshell which. without the concessions of the West German Chancellor, Dr Adenauer and the patient negotiation of M. Spank of Belgium, could have
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wrecked this plan. It would be a mild understatement to say that Mr Dulles was "on edge". Every Foreign Minia- ter must have felt the same way as he did. Remember, too, that since September 1, Mr Dulles HAA travelled thousands of miles all over the world on his diplomatic. duties and he must have been
cven
M. Mendes-France Joked with reporters about this
hastu. "Quick," he Bald at the sirpart, "my life depends on
After short rests. Mr John Faster Dulles, Dr Beyen (Holland) and M. Spaak (Belgium) were also on their way back to their capitals, and by night- fall only Mr Lester Pearson of Canida and M. Joset Bech of Luxembourg re- mained in Lendon-China Mafi Special,
Man Almost
Sucked Out
Of Airliner
Window Broke In Pressurised Cabin
a tired man. And European defence is not Mr Dulles's only worry-he's got the cares of the world on his
South Bend, Indiana, shoulders as he showed in i
Oct. 3. his careful and thoughful speech
United A man was almost sucked to the Nations
out of the broken window Assembly Inst week. Formosa, Trieste. of an airliner as it flew at atomic polley, disarmament 13,000 feet over Indlana
these are but a few of his problema. With the French shock coming on top of all this, it would be much to expect a man of 66 to pre- serve his equanimity. He must have been very near the point of desperation. IT is impossible to castigate
yesterday.
Only the safety belt saved Mr J. G. Greenway from being drawn right out of the plane after the emergency exit win dow blew off a pressurised DC-6 airliner.
The sudden rush-of air from the pressurised cabin lifted Mr Greenway from his seat and forced his head and shoulders out of the window. Other passengers rushed to his aid and pulled him back Infide. The plane landed at South Bend and Mr Greenway was, taken to hospital where doctore kept him under observation and took extensive X-rays today.
'WORRY MY WIFE'
Over Getting Ready For Talks On Germany, New Plan
For Germany
ASSEMBLY DEBATE ON THURSDAY
Paris, Oct. 3.
French political circles today greeted the London agreements on Germany as the solution to. the rearmament problem most likely to receive parliamentary approval.
The French Premier M. Pierre Mendes- France, pn his return to France tonight, im- mediately called for a special session of the French National Assembly on Thursday, to approve his London conference policy.
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M. Mendes-France naked the Assembly President, Andre le Troquer, to send out notice of the special session, to start at 3 p.m. local time, it was officially announced,
The Chamber is now on vaca- tion unill November 8.
Reliable SOURCES said M. Mendes-France was expected to ask for an explicit or implicit confidence vote before the nine Powers meet in Paris on October 21 to sign the agreements pre- pared during the London con- fercie.
Reaction in Paris among sup- portere of M. Mendes-France was favourable to the results achieved
The in London. Premier's
opponents, however, felt the agreements did not "dia- gulse” the fact that ́ Germany was getting back national
sway sume of the Secialists, hitherto opposed to any form of German rearmament,
4. The extension and streng- thening of the Brussels pat until a possible new nucleus for the European unity to which the popular republi cans are dedicated.
5. The personal popularity of Premier Mendes-France himself who, while he re mained. uncommitted in the debate the EDC, will.
on atake his offer and his con- siderable achievements during. the vote on the London -plati.. army, which they op battle was Thera
COMMUNIST OPPOSITION
way
epriainty in A close Assembly
crewed on the predicted
The ted and the odds were about 0-4 in favour of the Lon-bitter Opposition of the pre
Q
don plan being accepted,
British offer of
caution.
with a
The The Blah Foreign Minister Mr Anthony Eden (centre) with the American' Secretary Slate Mr John Foster Dulles (se bond from left) and Belgian Foreign · Minkter:[ M. Phoi-Henti Speak (extreme right) seen at the opening session of the important nine-Power" Conference, called to discuss the re-ármament of Germany, at Lancaster. House, 'St. James, London.” Lanf
Flying Says
|beings,
-week--Beuterphoto.
Saucers Are REAL A German Expert
garreta
March Into Hanoi
Hanol,, Oct. 4.
The fitat "regular" Com- munist troops entered Hanol today with Communist of« cials who are getting ready for the transfer of the city in,accordance, with the Geneva consefire, agreement. ****The coldiers will guard the Labeman" "Hospital, where Communist / Vietminh: officials, the first "of the thousands to come, are staying. The officials are charged with inspecting, the functioning of public services tri preparation for next Sunday's take-over.
The first of an advance party of 400 Communists arrived this- morning.
Starting tomorrow, a nightly curfew from : 8. p.m. to 7. nm. will be enforced. No civilian trafic will be allowed in the
* highway a leading from Hanoi 40 Halphons, 68 mailed away. Any fooling, burning or pillaging will be punished 'sinder military, law; and punished on the spot, the authoriles warned.
"ADVICE TO CIVILIANS
"All" "French :/ and Vietnamese. clyillen authoritica huvolett the city. The French Army is in charge. Today, holmeted, and amed Foreign Legionnaire tell pasted · postéry on, walls, ing the people what to do during the next seven days,
They advised all city-rosidanstä to stock at least a four-day- supply of food in the event of A #communication breakdown
period
dura
Meanwhile, informed sources. said the International, Commis
tomorrow, IN slon,puy_intervene
question of trapalerrin Hanoi's services to the Com- munists is not cleared by the
the
* Hamburg, Oct. 8. Flying saucers exist and represent at least 10 per cent of the objects seen in the sky, Professor Hermann Oberth, a German rocket expert and
madhe Vietminh „vinsist on the Honorary President of the German, Astronautica Society, said today, coned pressor Frencht He mid It was possible the ? He also said that it was pose The boing at Bose moved technicians in water, electricity, | hundred odd Communiste-and Optimism was based primarily two Imponderables which tingeucers" contained crews of pible for reasols unimaginable toward him, he said, and then: treetcar and railway services.
Vietminh - délégates on the following factors:
similar to the optimism
certala creatures
butnan to the human mind, that the turned etti:fed. Shardly after Butt, the
refusat⠀ to: print "the creatures desired. no contact words, the
"orthing" took off have 1. The
He proposed to call these with human beings.
santo the air
great speed, the guarantee demanded by socie close participation which will It is not yet known whether
les representing the technicians, Shary beings "Urapidos" and estimated bring over many of
the the Socialist Party, leadership
MACHINE
United Press: CURIOUS. MA Socialists and Gualtists, who gratified by
Two youths of Vron. (Semme) ол the EDC opposed
the participation than the EDC pro sands of years in advance to
said that they also saw a curious grounds that Britain's absence vided for, but perturbed at the Cur-pool
wwwplained
machine landing just off the Oberth would lead to German predo- smaller degree of Integration, that
rational highway between Cree will 'oppose the plan outright on In the those grounds and enforce party saucers" had crashed on earth
end
supranationality discipline, on 'deputies.
was probably due to the fact and other And it is not certain whether that their pilots had perfect con *Right-wing deputies had the popular republicans, will be trol of their machines. fought to the EDC in the able to overcome their bitter bellef it would deprive France disappointment at the defeat of of military sovereignty,
the EDC and their loss of office
The
reduction
minance.
clement which Gaullists
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British greater
2, The control of German to the extent of supporting M." orms production which might. Mendes-France.
PREMIER'S VIEWS
•
that they were probably thou FRENCH REPORTS
New Luxury Hotel In Moscow
1.
Paris, Oct. 3. Reports from people claiming to have seen flying saucers con- tinued to pour in from all parts of France today.
it shoub
At Vie Sur Core in Central the machine, they said, but took they saw a flying ciger moving southwart, trailing a thin stream
France, several peoplo, said thar / off at their approer, near
At Corbigny, also in Central France, the representative of an insurance company and several inhabitants of the city said that they saw's luminous orange disc moving about the sky'
A woman of
chateauroux In Central France, the police that she saw a luminous machine-about 10 for in diameter just over the roof top
Fined $250 For Wasting Water
“For wasting" water and using
rubber boss without approval from the Water Authority, Li un-etin, 48, house boy was fined $260 by Mr Hin-hing Lo nt Central this morning.
Another woman, who
Mr E. L. Porte; Water Works lived a short distance away, sald that she saw the same
Inspector, said on Saturday: A Chateauroux, said that she saw. Robinson Road, he saw the de
woman at thing.
al. afternoon while driving luminous in the sky, fendant standing
Ah Bressuire, in the west, the She said
Courcing object gavo |
employee of: a' slaughter house oft v::Feinlah-yellow color/Fink of No. 71, Robinso
arving
which led-
Inspector Furte tap and arrested
PAYAB
Asked if he thought the the following day and it was Fronch National Assembly hoped to hold a meeting of the would ratify the agreement M. North Atlantic Treaty Organisa-
London, Oct. 3, Mendes-France said before tion Council on October 22, the Tusa News, Agency reported., igid that as he was on his way and that it climbed high into the floor, with an leaving London: "I hope that spokesman added.
yesterday a new luxury hotel to work, he saw a circuler sky and diappeared after: sie the decisions wil’bo ratißed by The three Western Alllet with a dust elimination systemsonsething on the ground, and looked elf for some minutes the French Parliament but it is High Commissioners and Dr. and a "hower, telephone: and nearby a being dressed in a kid | France-Pr too early to make a definite Adenauer will meet at Bonn radio in every room has just answer to that
inter this week to press ahead opened in Moscow, ID "What will be proposed to with amending the Bonn the National Assembly is not❘ventions, which are to governi An Airlines spokesman said it what we have decided here. the future relationship between
appeared, however, that Mr We have only decided prin- fully sovereign Western Ger Greenway had sutiered only ciples.
many and the three former oc- shock and bruises.
"The texts, and conventions cupying powers, the Foreign'|
bo ratified Onice, spokesman said today. The other 65 passengers board have to be prepared by experts
which will have to
It was hoped they could finish the aircraft were, transferred to be ratified Inter. In the con- the new conventions for sigued to another plane, which conference am hopeful for the ture in Paris on October 20. tinued the light from Seattleatlication by France. to New York City.
M. Mendes-France, who was
The report,, broadcast by Radio Moscow and monitored 29 here said the hotel has storeys and is called "Lenin- gradskaya."
Liner
Collides With
Mendes-France for doing what he did, either. Ile knows exactly just how for hia National Assembly ist prepared to go in accepting Germany as a partner in European defence. That is why he drew up his own plan before leaving for London and the China Mail said a week ago that if the West wanted France and Germany as partners in a defence scheme, it would have to make concessions to the French view. For if the
The building is faced with West had forced the French Premier to accept plans
white tiles and its foundations which had no hope of being
with polished black labrador approved by the National
tiles. The inside is finished with Assembly, not only would
marble, polished walnut
and there have been no European Mr Greenway, a resident of pale and drawn and had a
dak, the broadcasts said. The American Secretary of the cellings have defence scheme but in ail
arilatic Seattle, Washington, today re-heavy cold, asked that his atr
Foster Dulles State, Mr. John probability it would have
talk about his ex- port meeting with the pres wild at London Airport before stucco ornaments and paintings. fused to perience, caused more political in-i
"It would
Just should be short. He said at one leaving for Washington that 155 The hotel han 360 wiites" of OBE,
My life, is at London conteranée had salvaged 74VD or three rooms and every Hner AMER atability in
worry my wife," he saidpoint "quickly, that country. United Press. And that would have been
FUTURE MEETINGS "A great deal of what had been apartment has a bath,
contained in D
In 'EDC' and contri- telephone and radio. The three 523, passengers, bound, for dangerous. Better to keep
London, Oct. 3. buted one new great asset, the room apartments have television Europe, returned to her Mendes-France in power, fat
dock today with serious bow better to be sure of political
The "Big Trek Western British commitment
the U.3. con.There is a large restaurant- damage suffered last night, Foreign Ministers and Dr Kon and economic stability In
rad Adenauer, the West German tribution to Europe "I hope, will cafeteria and a cafeteria on the ina collision with a that country and her con-
Chancellor will meet at Paris be forthcoming because what is root, the
(pectul
freighter. tinued support of the St. Hubat, Quebre, Oct. 3.
on October 20, a Briith Foreign being built in Europe contains The building has a
tonight. Western cause than to rely An Air Force Communications Offde spokesman toisters which was in 3DC Resto hot water bentler and
and centimies the vital element system of dust elimination. The The shine forelan on the doubtful allegiance of puno crashed while attempting
(Bee F3 Full Text of tinti · systemsádro a Gaulliat dominated Govern- a landing of the Royal Canadian who attended the London con-
Agreement, P. 10, réactide))}· Taas raide United Pre ment or a coalition of the Air Force station here, kaling, ference would meet in Paris
two crew members and critical-
has gar sboard.
Two Killed In Plane Crash
left. As it is the nine- ly injuring two owenvloe pawpen-. power conferenco reached full agreement on'
Folke sid the two-engined
10 Killed In
rearming Western Germany arepart clipped,a hours near the in a new European defence runway but nobody in the build- scheme and there is an ing was hurt-United Press, excellent chance that the agreement will be ratified by the French Assembly. The concessions made by Ger many and the patience of all "Foreign Ministers "particis
In the have been. For It looks
Mine Accident
Dortmund, Oct. 8.... Men men were killed in the inim 3 Mine.'neer, Dortmund
when a pl
stake."
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