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Dulles Leaves For Paris
Washington, Oct. 19. Mr John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State, today said that any be difficult problems must solved before West Ger- many could become armed member of the West- ern Alliance.
# re-
But he expressed the hope that decisive action could br taken at meetings in Paris (bis
week,
His
Mc Dulles expressed views on the German problem shortly before leaving Washing-
ton for the Paris conference.
In Paris he will
confer with
West European Foreign Ministers at a series of meetings aimed at creating a new
Western Euro-
ponn Union and giving West Germany membership In
the
North Atlantic Treaty Organist
ngreements tion. Preliminary were reached in London a fort-
night ago.
the "Primary action be- 10 the European coun-
the United would be "aytapathette and re sponsive" to their effurls
Mr Dulley said
billy" for
tries but
secure their defences.
on
Slates
lo
re-
He said that since the London conference work had been pro- arresing
the technical arrangements necessary to store sovereignty to West Ger- many to create a Council of the Western European Union under Brussels Treaty to give West Germany membership in
the
NATO
WORK COMPLETED
London, Ort, 19. The London Working Group Powers today of the Brusscia completed Its work on new Jest protocols designed to admit West Germany and Italy to member- be- 1948 treaty ship of the tween Britalo, France and the Benelux countries.
The protocols will bo pre
sented to Friday's nine-power Paris on West Ger-
meeting in Pay man rearmament.
A communique Issued after today's meeting of the group said the group had approved a number of texts for submission" to the Paris meeting.
CHINA MAIL
Soviet Motion On 'U.S. Aggression' Postponed In U.N.
New York, Oct. 19.
The Steering Committee of the United Na- tions General Assembly today approved by 12 votes to 2 a proposal by Britain, postponing for two weeks the consideration of a Soviet request for inclusion in the Assembly's agenda of charges of United States aggression against Communist China.
Only the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia opposed the postponement.
favour
a new
do
The Steering Commitee first Mr Selwyn Lloyd of Britain turned today to a Czech re-sald he did not · think the quest for incluston of their enbling of the Item would Item "prohibition of pronny good, Had this not been a paganda In war."
"ecol war Item" and put for- ward for cold war purposes, it Mr Henry Cabot Lodge, the would have seemed that when United States delegate, said that if it were possible to disarmament
the proposed sub-committee on
were sch
up li in their cept words
normal meaning, one
would almost could be examined again in an
Item objective way. the proposed welcome
But one could not accept wordy at their face value from "those
DON'T THROW PETROL
Mr Henry Hoppenat
or
whose masters work from within the steel walls of the France said that he would have
Kremlin.
whe
He said the Assembly quite secustomed to proposals
of this nature which had usually been submitted by the Soviet Union in the past.
NO FEAR Since the item had been sub- mitted, the
the question.
that this
preferred that the Crech delega- tion had refrained from raising
"We hope
debato will be moderate and not throw petrol on the fire It professes to extinguish," he said.
The Czech proposal to have "prohibition of propaganda in favour of new war" wan accepted on the agenda of the AS- United Nations General dignity (sembly by 13-1 (China) with no
abstentions.
United States did not fear debate on it and would not oppose inscription of it on the agenda.
What was hurt, he added,
the prestige and
WOR
of the United Nations.
Mr Andrel Vyshinsky of the So let Union reported
An Australian proposal to "the recommend that the Czech Item Cacch item calls for cessation should be sent to the Ad Hoc or of propaganda for a_newy war. | Special Politeal Committee for |Me Lodge Jooks as though his debate was approved by. 10-0 hat had caught fire on his own with four abstentions - Cuba, head."
Ecuador, Iceland and Colombia,
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1954;
SIDE GLANCES By Galbraith
JO
9-10
19. M. Mg. U. 3. Por tre Car: 1954 by KEA Berdes, bra.
"Your Uncle Wilbur, has been retired five years, but he still must be doing something every minute!"
U.S. THREAT TO
CUT AID
TO SOUTH KOREA
}
Sheaffers SNORKEL
British Compromise On Japan's
Entry Into G.A.T.T.
From Our Own Correspondent
London, Oct. 19.
JOHN CLARKE'S
CASEBOOK
Partnership
Dissolved
THE # pleasant looking young, woman in the dock was charged with
stealing money something between £50 and £60 from
The British Government has decided after all not to offer outright opposition to Japan's entry Into GATT. But the terms on which it would be a house. The good-looking prepared to support Japanese application for membership are still not clear.
This change of policy was first indicated in a Tokyo report regarded in London as officially that Britain was working out com- inspired promise proposals for Japanese admission to GATT.
young man who stood in the witness-box at Clerkenwell court was the prosecutor. And the two were husband' and wife.
They
were also father, and
mother to children aged two- and-a-half and 13 months; and
they shared in the ruming of a business. It' was talking from
bo ad
with
would almost ME
- TELEGRAMS, PHONES THE
The Board of Trade today. Instead
of granting this the business, which did not be- denied any proposal had yet treatment automatically to all long to them, that the husband been put to the Japanese Gov-Japanese imports, Britain and accused the wife of stealing.
Commonwealth The wife. whose name was emment regarding her entry curtain other Into GATT.
countries including Australia Tina, pleaded not guilty, and the It is understood, however, that and No
New Zealand would, it is tale was begun for the the British Government is anxious suggested, negotiate separate magistrate, Mr T. F. Davies, to not to pince itself in an invidi bilateral agreements with
bear. only Which
certa ous position of being one of the under few members. to oppose fume mited on squal terms
Japan Importa accession. At the same: time
husband said: "She got though, it
it insists upon the right these from other countries,
As textiles
up in the morning before lo anfeguard its own vital trad-A
certainly be one of "excluded" was awake, took my keys, and ing interests in the event
this would go a long way went to the fafe and took the Japan's admission
de removing
the most money. When I woke up, she Briush objections to was gone, and the older child admission to GATT, with her, I thought she would But the difficulty would be to have gone to her parents down. get other members to agree to on the coast. I sent telegrams this formula despite Britain's and I telephoned. I went to try orgument that Japan is a special to bring her back, but it was no caso requiring special treatment. good."
of
A Board of Trade spokes towards nan summed up the British
attitude in these words: "We dio not oppose Japan's member ship in principle. But we are anxious above all to avoid the situation in which competition from Japanese Imports, In the British home market might well reach crisis proportions,"
"Hod relations been bed) between you?" the magistrate naked.
"No"!
"Not bad at all!" -"Well, tíoy/: had been, car) she's accusing mo of casin
· Cross, '--examntristiem v
wim's lawyers Berceni
i went into the witnes
CHANGE OF POLICY .....
Under the present rules of ..VERY LIKELY
GATT a country may withhold He considered it. "very likely application of the agreement therefore Washington, Oct. 20.
that Britain would of certain parts of it-from somio form of com- new member nations by declin- United States military and economic aid to
promise,
ing to enter into tariff negotia= The sort of safeguard that tions with it prior to its formal South Korea may be reduced unless President
Britain would Syngman Rhee's Government adopts a more co-tached to Japanese membership
like to see at access the Beerved. its
sh Govern operative attitude, informed officials said today. of GATT B one that would ment has oficially
They were hopeful but not optimistic" that Japanese imports from most reports that if would invoke this exclude certain portion" it did not discourage the meeting between President Rhee, and General favoured nation treatment. "I wish to underscore
clause in GATT and thereby re- 'J., and the zoccžný ! John E. Hull, the United Nations Far East Com-
fuse to recogniso Japan's mem- "We'd had a w bership.
telephone call came The mander, today would produce some agreement on
that Britain is now and I answered. aid conditions, including a revaluation of Korea's currency unit, the hwan.
Provocative Proposal
that
The proposal postponing con- | Iteration of Soviet charges we are running awry from anual the United States was nothing," he said. mod by the British delegate. The Soviet complaint against
Mr Lloyd said he had termed the Soviet proposal an "pro- vocalive in the sense that it would promote acrimonious de- bate, some of which had already been experienced in the Steering Committee.
rust be met: ...1.
alleged "piratical attacks" by Chinese National Naval units on merchant ships in the China Seas was
also postponed for two votes to five, weeks by soven with two abstentions.
Those against were: the Mr Andrei Vyshinsky, the So- United States, the Soviet Union, viet delegate, said there was a China, Cuba and Czechoslovakia. Jong history behind the issue Burma and Syria abstained.. and that I could not be sald The United States wanted the Russia now had an motive for bringing up the while the Soviet Union opposed question.
2. any adjournment at all.-Reuter | Japan. "We want to put an end to rand United Press. situation that is a de Lacto war," he said. • "There is a do
facto occupation' of a Chinese island of Chinese soil.
molitving and completing the right."***
M
Nations
A total of 700 million dollars† dojlar is worth about 600 hwan has been marked for aid to the in the open market. Korean Republic over the next Cut off from currency, súp- your but the United States is plies through the banks, the command is insisting that these conditions United
Tho ple
ald now propocing to sell petrol. dollars must be used buy and all to Korean civilians at
to
from the towest
funds to pay
the salaries of ita Korean employees. accounting of its dollar an
announced by plant balances. 3.
Take decisive General Hull, has drawn sharp steps to control inflation protests from Korean officials Fatablish
exchange questioned its legality and
ulterior matter adjourned indefinitely Korcan rehabilitation conluding market prices to raise
типа
COCKTAILS
FOR NEHRU
Paris, Oct. 10,
an
rates.
der
must gives
ns 1
to
h
ABNORMAL POSITION
The conditions were discussed
Rhed's visit "Any attempt to reparate
during Dr Formosa from. China
Washington last July but since counter ta Chinese territorial
then, officials said, he has given integrity. The situation
A cocktail party attended by no indication that he would which now prevails there on Taiwan more than 600 people was given accept them
"package" deal, (Formosa) is an abnormal one. today by Mr Chou En-lai, Pro- include draft protocols This state of affairs must be set mier of the People's Republic of
On the contrary,
Korean China, in honour of Jawaharlal
officials have become increas- Brussols Treaty and extending
Vyshinsky snid the Nehru, the Indian Prime Minis
ingly irritated over the Korean the Powers of the Council and Formosa Straits had fallen under ter, now on a viall to China, the
attitude and now feel that #ditional, ogreements covering the "sway" of the Unlied States New Chino News Agency
"show down" is imminent and other decisions reached in the Seventh Ficet and the area had noted fright
would begin with ¡General Anall act
of the Rent London become "a hotbed of war,"
Among those present THÁNG conference, the He said the responsibility representatives of the Chinese Hull's talk with the Infran
fridi | abrent President, rested with "aggressive circle" Government, Massigli, М. Аспе
French in the United States who were well es representatives of inbour
Chinese Communist Parly, Ambassador to Britain, apparently unable to become unions and cultural organisations presided at the group's meet-reconelled to peace and the re- and members of the diplomatic ing at which
Winthrop duction of international tensions. rerpy--France-ProSSE. Aldrich, the United
Stales
U.S. ELECTIONS?« *Ambassador in London, was an
observer.
The other countries
repre- sented were Britain, Belizkim, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany. - Italy and West Reuter
Penttiau gald
Mr
Soviet Soldier Seeks Asylum
lenders
of the
complained that At would cripple the Korean economy by contributing
theblack market-Reuter.
to
U.S. Asylum
For 23 Polish
Seamen?
(From The Times Washington Correspondent),
of
aggravation between the
two
Wor
IBSUC.
"Is". it the America?" he said.
elections in
the Two Months' Gaol local currency to the United Under-Secretary of State, ask-
For Stealing
FOCAL POINT
The current focal point
London, October, 19. countries now centres on
tho
A spokesman of the Depart- exchange rate issue and the ment of Justice, said yesterday action of the Korean Govern that a letter, had been "received. ment in cutting off supplies of from Mr Herbert Hoover, Nations command on Oct. 1. Ing for consideration
to be
to
Mr Vyshinsky said he mystifled why the Committer should want to postpone
enable her to
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· fact
STORMY PASSAGE
E told me to take
HE
thinking in terms of a compro-rolleve me for a recond: mi
indicates A
change
of should I do all the work." polley. What caused this is not was storming now," and te indwn but it may be significant had for the moment
destro
that in the last week or two, her pleasant Booler. Britain has had the opportunity Madam," said the minais, views on the question rate, "you may lose your tem- Tan's membership of
GATT
of
from her partners in both the per as much as you like, but it Commonwealth
and
Western won't do you much good. If you a like that here, what are
Europe-art opinion which is you like at home?" **{"
strongly in favour of Japan's adailion may also have in-
fluenced a change of attitude.nl you wondered that the
London Express Service..
Tina pulled herself together. The tale of mistry "mounted;
four walls of a house, could dori- tain so much of it,
S
BLACK EYES.
LETTER TOT Jealous when he avoll bits
THE husband agreed to was
THE EDITOR
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Bir-The
wife, in the couras of business, seeming to pay too much atten tion to other me. The wife talked of beatings and black eyes, Until this last ume, the quarrels had been patched up;
This is an unhappy story," wald: the magistrate, KITI one of bosa
Empire Field of should hayo Remembrance, which is or sublimely happy.
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The heart of this dispute is given to granting 23 Polish
admittance Mr Lloyd said, the purpose of When searched by Polleo-do- the United States refusal to pers his proposal was to chable the tectives on Saturday, a 22-year-accept the "official" of 188 United States.. disarmament debate' in the old unemployed, Chting Kau, at hwan to the dollar when the Assembly's Political Committee Connaught Road, West, was ina: reasonable found to have a quantity of clothing concealed beneath a
10
atmosphere,
Mr Cabot Lodge for America | raincoat.
was "preposterous". to
maj
It was revealed ju three cotton singlets, one pale clothing one pair of pyjamas,
Damage Charges Brought Against Young P.C
Charges of malldous dama
of underpants, and one brass and criminal intimidation, were
Vienna, Oct. 19. Brigadier
William said it General
was sentenced to two Nutter, commander of American accuse the United States Seventh Poon Yan-hot at Centrul thi
... imprisonment by Mr forces in Vienna, announced to Fleet as Mr yahin ky had done. morning for simple largany dry that, Inst Sunday a Soviet
NEW PLOIT soldier stationed in this city had Russia's charga
the asked the American authorities "designed to hide a new Sevier
political grounds. for asylum, on
plot The announcement old that the soldier, Nikola. Tulumakoy hdd contacted American author ties at the American Broadcast Ing Stoikin, "Hot Welas Hotel *ife was hunded over to the American rullliary pollon which
Investigating
nan Movie Gul
Ta début here
Mr Lodge, recalled that pot had been stolen from the brought against similar chargo against the US. roof of 17 and 20 Connaught 04 Police Constable Lul was brought to the Security Courell by Communist China Rood, West, earlier in the day, wh, of astorn Follee and to the General Assembly by
appeared before Hin-thing, Lo at Central Ruanda, in 1950, H
to "znát, proved to be a prelude the dreamson in Kören pof which Communist
Two Killed
The men doserted in Formosa after the Chineso Nationalists seized the freighter Praco and the tanker Gottwald some time.
ciated with the Fold and have
in
sigtsd and wro
khall
a crom planted on their behalf in British Plot saved for the conditionally, he ad
She ran from the cour British Commonwealth
and Thall and Burma, India, Ceylon, Empire, or in any particular to the officer in charge
sobbing): Hér hujabusid. Formosa, Okinawat Japán, Kores, Toure and plots for all sections for of the colare
Regimental plot
Potions case, and left by anoth
ones
of the Military and Civil Ser+ [ Bashalland, India, Caylón, Pakistan, Pet, Middle East, Africs. Great Britain & vices, and a pamphlet on the was the end of
arneral arrangements may bej jhenaya, Indonesia, Austenzia
office 317 Queen's polit JAMA, New Lealand, 6pm.
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The State Department, after a week of negotiations, feels that admission would be in keeping with the traditional polley of granting asylum to political ro fugees, and the rectaent' is said to2 koldt dan have the backing of other sovervimental gencies.Par
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