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THE DAY LAST DINNER AS PREMIER THREAT GROWS
Vietnam Enigma
"ETNAM is at this moment giving other countries in Asla`an object lesson in the difficulties and dangers of trying to build
a democratic society in an unstable, strained and troubled environment. Premier Ngo Dinh Diem enjoys a fair measure of personal popularity among the people of the country.
His fervent nationalism has never been questioned by
any
section outside the Communist-controlled zones, inside of which he is of course anathema because he is not a Communist. He! has set his face against
Churchill's Glittering Function At Downing St
Violent Anti-British Campaign In Cyprus
Nicosia, Apr. 4. Police today uncovered
fresh endeavours for land anti-British
campaign
in
TODAY'S MOMENTOUS
EVENTS
London, Apr. 4.
malpractices and initiated-new evidence of the violent Sir Winston Churchill tonight cele reform. It is his friendship Cyprus extending to school brated what is generally believed to be his with the United Statea children and the Cyprus last evening as Prime Minister with which has aroused the ire government broadcast
anglittering banquet to Queen Elizabeth and
and opposition of the so-appeal to the public to help the Duke of Edinburgh.
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A crowd of more than 1,000 lined Downing Street to see the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh arrive for the banquet. All the other guests had arrived about
had admitted 20 minutes earlier.
called religious" sects of Can
them halt the outrages. Dai, Hoa Hac and Binh
The Governor, Sir Robert Xuyen, which, with their Armitage, warned Greek teach- private armies, nowers and parents that copies of threaten the internal secret oath to struggle against security of South Vietnam. the "British yok" even of the The tragedy of the present sacrifice of life had been found situation is that the vast during recent searches. One majority, if not all of the arrested student
taking disputants have the same ultimate end in view. All towns and villages today after are Nationalists. All are discovery of an arms cache Sercely determined
that the dry well of an empty house having won independence at Limassol yesterday. from France, their country shall not fall under elther
the oath. Police made raids in many
ini
EXPLOSIVES FOUND A large quantity of explosives,
reports.
direct control or undue including ammunition and hand influence of other alien grenades, was found in the wall forces. Where the religious Police said Machineguns were sects differ from Nge Dinh also found there, according to Diem, and at times from on buildings and the each other, is in the best homes of Britons have been the means to attain and maia-chief targets of the explosions tain their common ends which began last Friday and in Their differences are of the which Molotov cocktails, sticks same types as are common of dynamites and hand grenades ly encountered even on the were used. long established democra cies. Each believes that he and his friends have the right answer to the couR- try's problems and seeks to secure wider public support and control of the machi nery of government.
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The Prime Minister, in evening dress with knee breeches and evening pumps, waved in answer to the cheers from the crowd.
The cheers were renewed as the royal couple stepped from their car.
Within 24 hours of this social function at 10 Downing Street, the young Sovereign is expected to receive the 80- year-old statesman's resignation at a formal audience at Buckingham Palace and appoint Sir Anthony Eden as his
successor.
Announcement of the changes,.. But the wines, red and white, probably late on Tuesday even- and the post prandial brandy ing, will be followed at an early were known to be the Prime date by. a government decision Minister's personal choice after
tion timing-how much careful thought. on gezeral election strongly tipped for May 26
$28. with many extra helpers, set the As the Prime Minister's staff,
age of tonight's royal dinner, Sir Winston Churchill himself party, Sir Winston worked a normal day at his was determined that the
Не prepared the parting atmosphere would be desk. the- trial of 13-men charged words he intends to deliver to and social. with promoting civil war in his chief ministers at a
ing some students have now A total of 18 people, includ been remanded in custody.
of
TRIAL ADVANCED
It was announced today that
large
Sir Anthony Eden was among Though the expected events of the guests invited to the dianer.
tomorrow loomed over The Churchill
relaxed
Premier & Successor
This picture of Sir Winston Churchill and Sir Anthony Eden, standing together at the entrance of No 40 Downing Street was taken last week. When Sir Vinston resigns from the Premiership today, No. 10. will become Sir Anthony's official residence,Central Press Photograph.
Cabinet Tomorrow Queen Elizabeth MALENKOV
Cyprus, originally fixed for May meeting summoned for tomorrow. is due to give official audiences 17, had been advanced to May Outside in Downing Street, à one sense the Vietnamese 2 and
to her two statesmen separately that a special assize crowd watched the con--first Sir Winston Churchill, instinct is accurate. It is of would be held at Paphos tot stant
stant coming and going then. Sir Anthony Eden the essence of true them.
CZUST BE and ficrists
When Sir Winston Churchill democracy that there An explosion shook the port messer
A great resigne, all his ministers will messengers and staff. Larnaca, in south Cyprus, to- should be general accep night.
profusion of flowers roses, also place their resignations in tulips, lies of the valley, and his tance that all wisdom does
hands. But they will First reports said a bomb freala-came from
Prime had been thrown at an
Minister's own garden and hot remain at their posts und! Sir
Eden, Anthony
after and that the identified Englishman's house, houses at Chartwell, Kent,
being invited to form a governmen", be free to causing
slight damage but no
submits his list of appointments to the Queen.
not reside in any one group or party,
people should
choose between divergent or casualties.-Reuter.
even diametrically opposed policies.
If means could be found of
a
country com The Diggers'
outside
Function
J
all
must"
The King
REAPPEARS Of Yemen
IN PUBLIC Besieged
TO SAIGON'S
SAFETY
Rebel Forces Close In
Saigon, Apr. 4- Anti-government forces closed in on the gates
of Saigon today 24 hours before the truce between rebel warlords and the South Vietnam government wás to end.
General Bacut, commander of the private army of the Hoa Hao sect, has concentrated 12 battalions some 6,000 men on the city from the region he controls southwest of Saigon...
This force will support the 9,000 troops already in the capital under the command of the Binh Xuyen private army,, *** which today threatened to blow up South Vietnam's security headquarters If its forces are attacked.
General Paul Ely, French Commander-in-Chief, -was active behind the scenes trying
to prolong" the truce be secured last Wednesday after street battles between the opposing sides in which about 100 people were killed or injured.
REBELLION
ON SHIP
German
Kiel, Apr. 4. stamen rebelled"
Mr Nga Dịch Them, the Pine Minister, has about 12,000 well-gainst British offers aboard a
equipped trooper of the National army to throw into any battle- launched by the warlords to
from Singapore to ship bound.
German Poland, the
Marine
overthrow his goverúment. Police reported today.
The authorities said that the
General Phuong, commander British Consulate here called for Police help yerie.day and officers of the Cao Dai private army. deserted the "united front" of found
On
seamen
dispute private armies last Thursday boord the 7:00
7,000-ton-British. and placed his 25,000 men at freighter "Sterling Viking the disposal of the government
German Some 20 but it is not known whether aboard the freighter were pre- the Cao Daist troops will fight testing alleged "slave condi- their former allies or neutral
staytions,
ACROSS RICEFIELDS · General Bacut moved. his troops across ricefields to avoid armoured" patrols of the Viet- namese army on the main roads around Saigon
*
the Police said," and re
fused to sail any further.
The ship was berthed at the Holtenant Locks on the Kiel Medal - here:
The Police said that a British
crew will man the ship for the
of its journey from Singa pare
to Danzig in Poland. The ship belongs to the The general wears his har Vergette Company of Longch, shoulder length. He has armed there has been a little
The British Consul here com had it cut since he went into Machining
fire Geneva trouble on board. armistice agreement that parli-
............
to
The Consul said that the ship tioned.Vietrain:
was changing mästers here but Xuyen threat The Bình
that this had nothing to do with the trouble, British "ships "fre- blow ip security headquarters is worrying city officials responsible quently, change officers af Kd for the sately of United States if they are not touching at the and other foreign officials in British Isles on their Journey, Saigon
he sald United Press.
A building next to the head- quarters houses the American Economie Aid Mission, the Bel- gian Consulate, and the Ameri can and French consuletes and American, French and British
Moscow, Apr. 4. Mr
Malenkov, Son To The Rescue residents Georgi former Soviet Prime Minis-⠀ ter, appeared with other
war.
Mr Malerkoy attended the Sovietskaya reception in the
Aden, Apr. 4.
Prince Self
The
Willing To Trade
Prague Apt 4. Czechoslovak Prime
Binh Xuyen troops have guarded security headquarters Minister. Mr Weliam Streky, since last September when the said today his country was will
capitalistic countries.
BUSTLE AT ÑO, 10 inside Downing Street was bustie, Chefs and waiters prepared the food and laid the. IMPORTANT DECISION Soviet leaders at a reception King Ahmed of the government feared a coup d'etating to develop lis trade, edtural tables of the
beautiful oak The new Prime Minister must Isolating a
panelled dining room with its take
was reported be- by the National Army Reuter and political relations with the one important decision here tonight marking the Yemen chandelier single scintillating
chouse 10th anniversary of
Me Siroky added that the pletely
the sieged in a desert fortress from
er quickly. He and its portraits of the Duke of whether to continue until the "liberation" of Hungary by tonight. by forces under
Western Powers
plans influences, of providing for
Wellington and Nelson-heroes
general election both as Premier the Soviet Army during the the command of his brother,
Nenni Appointed arming West the spooth functioning of
Germany in of the war against Napoleon and Foreign Secretary crap-
creased the danger to Czecho- the administration, and of
looking down from the walls.
but the King's son was re-
slovakia's Tuzin, Apr. 4.
western frontier. point a few man at the Foreign ensuring
flourishing
Adelaide, Apr. 5.
The Prime Minister arranged once.
ported on the way to hisi Signor Pietro Nenal was re- Czechoslovakia would not for economy in the interim, it Australia is training troops for to greet the Queen and, her If he decides to appoint a
father's rescue at the head confirmed as Secretary of the get the "painful lessons of the would doubtless be best war in Malaya not for chasing husband at the entrance hall of Foreign Secretary immediately,
leftwing Italian Socialist Party past" or relax" her vigilance in terrorists, Lieutenant-General 10 Downing Street, home of M Harold Macmillan, 61, Hotel diven by the Hungarian of 8,000 loyal tribesmen.
by the Party's newly elected the fight against the powers of that all factions should Henry Wells, Chief of the Aus- British heads of government Minister of Defence, appears Ambassador, Mr Ferenc. Munich, keep up a wordy strife until tralian General Staff, said here for centuries.
Reports from the Yemen sald executive committee here to-imperialism and aggression, he the Communist Party CrowIL the most likely choice, though with
declared Reuter. el Islam night-Reuter. the populace could make a tast
A walk through the narrow
members of the name of Mr Belwyn Lloyd, Secretary, Mr Nikita Krushchev, ed. Badar rallied final decision. As things are
and up a fight of 50, Supply Minister
If the would not be the same as stairs led to the impressive Meister of. State and former the Prime Minister, Marshal | the Hashed and Bakil-tribes by throwing down his turban and Foreign confronting the British pillared first floor drawing room office, is also mentioned, The those pressure is heavy.
Nikolai Bulganin, the Foreign dagger before the chieftains in he said, in Malaya,
where administration is inexperi
the other guests awaited
Mr R. A. Buller, Chancellor Minister,
a sign of helplessness and As soon as accommodation was the arrival of the Sovereign. enced and confronted with ready, the army would have a
of the Exchequer, is expected Molotov, and other top Soviet humiliation, ". ". Here a large Prime Ministerial to be Sir Anthony, Eden's de leaders. tasks that would test the steady Bow of officers and men desk, set at one end of the room, puty and to remain at the
Prince Seit was reported at- most seasoned of adminis- training at the jungle warfare gave the one suggestion
Malenkov's appearance tacking his uncle Abdullah's Cream coloured wall Treasury in control of Britain's
Taezin Southern force. at econcrain and draincial policy.
tonight came after 10 days of
Yemen,
where King Ahmed his future speculation about and typical
STRANGE BACKGROUND
was defending the el Urdhi Men or women, under 45 by setting aside regular monthly, half- from which the only gained (Australia's new commitments inxamples of the work of Anfonia Sir Winston Churchill's last since. he failed, to attend the fortress. Abdullah was reported yearly or yearly amounts under the SUN LIFE OF CANADA plan · Canaletto (1897-1788) and Fran- chapter as Premier is staged final session of the Russian to have about 1,000 men in his can, for example, receive at age. 55 a lump sum 24,315 for cisco Guardi (1712-1793) the against a strange background-a Federation's Supreme Soviet la rebel army but King Alined men or 24,852 for women or a private income for life of must be the very forces to week by the Prime Minister, Mr | Venetian painters, lent a spaciouų | blackout of national newspapers the Kremlin on Saturday, March was in control of the el Urdhi £264 a year. Any, accumulated dividends would be paid in
that is impossible. External le Conservently Australia's prob- corridors
of
trators. And the immediate school at Canungra, in Queens- formally the sombre huo, of, the
They will be trained for duty p Persien carpet
and growing danger is that land, he added. the wordy battles are liable
to deteriorate into violence in Malaya under the
terms of
Southeast Asia announced last which all the disputants are Robert Menzies.---Reuter,
hotly opposed,
PREMIER Ngo Dinh Diem is
to
Took Her Teeth
fully alive to the perils of the current situation, and is
willing
Maline, DL, Apr. 4. apparently
A woman sirged "the" police engage in a test of political today to and her boy friend who, and military strength. Less she said, forced his way into her certain is the determination apartment,
1
of the religious sects to "He took my treth and I'm
caused by an 11-day strike of about 700 newspaper workers.
28.
· Mr
Mr Vyacheslay
quality to the room.
The crystal chandeller set centrally cast a golden glint on London's millions of people Mr Malenkov was reported to the French period chairs scatter will be dependent for their be looking well and cheerful at ed about the room.
knowledge of the great events today's reception, but he took no un radio broadcasts and a trickle and any conversation with KEPT A SECRET Official sources would not of provincial newspapers.
Western diplomats Beuter. discuss the menu for the royal in addition, official quarters dinner, or the vintage of the up to the last moment decline to champagne in which the Queen comment on the Prime Minister's
was toasted on the call of her retirement plans, which they Convict Slays pursue their threats of | hungry," she said, United chief minister and very old neither confirm nor "deny--Rewa
In the Press.
fricad-Sir Winston Churchill. ter. military action.
Prison Officer
chaotic conditions of recent years the sects have tended to develop into what are almost states within a state and to resent. the irea of yielding зду of their authority. It is a provocative policy, and it might be as well it the leaders of Cao Dal, Hoa Hao and Binh Xuyen realised that each is as exposed to danger as the man walking across a busy street and bore in mind the story of the pedestrian who knew his rights upon the public highway: “He was right dead right, as he walked along, but he's just as dead ́sa if he'd been, wrong.
Taxation Threatens Ancestral Home:
London, Apr. 4. Taxation difficulties, may force the Duke and Duchess of Bedford to quit their ancient ancestral home, Bobura Abbey, Bedford thire, and they may live in Jersey for a time,
The Duke of Bedford, whoss home all be opened to the public for the first time on Good Friday, said that huge death duties were duo afterahis father's death,
two years ago in a shooting accident.
K.
“We pre still arguing with the Treasury over deatht dutica,” he said. "It looks to be as if we are going to have to live in Jersey for the time being. We have bought a place there. It is helpful with the taxes."
The Duke,.... back in England from his South African form, added: "I am still not resident here and
Miami, Apr. 4 A desperate young
bank robber shot a veteran prison official to death after failing to
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