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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
Then And Now
THEN the last Habsburgi
the throne of Vienna on Armistice Day of World War 1 the universal hope was that, despite the still obvious national link betwcen the two countries, Germany and Austria would no longer threaten imperialism in Europe and that democracy would thrive in the new Austrian Republic.
The events of the pre-war years up to Hitler's an- nexation of Austria in 1938 are now part of history. So is the post-World War II occupation
four by the former allied powers. the world can reflect thankfully today. And on the signing of the Austrian State Treaty in Vienna yesterday there is specific assurance provided that Central European domination of Europe will never again threaten world peace as long as democracy" thrives there,
The World should remember, however, that it is not Russia that has finally. granted independence to Austria. It is her procrastination which, for about the last six years, has kept independence from her by her vacillating. dodging tactics. The draft treaty was virtually com- could pleted in 1949 but
not be implemented because Moscow decided the time was not propitious. In 1955, she has finally acquiesced not because she believes Austria should now be free but be- cause freedom and neutrality on the Austrian lines are" to be Moscow's model for
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MOLOTOV
End Of Career
MOLOTOV
Plans For
Dock Strike
Completed
Four Key British Ports Involved
London, May 15. Plans for a dock strike a
solution of the German week tomorrow in four key
problem.
As Foreign Minister
GROMYKO IN LINE
OF SUCCESSION
Vienna, May 15.
Unconfirmed reports swept Vienna today that Vyacheslav Molotov's signature to the Austrian treaty might be his last major formal act as Soviet Foreign Minister.
GROMYKO
GREEN LIGHT FOR VACCINE
FIGHTS POSSE
Soviet Aim FOR
Is To Neutralise
Europe
FIVE HOURS
Thornton, Texas, May 15,
A berserk farmer shot a sheriff between the eyes today, barricaded himself in his home and. held off a posse for more than five hours. He was finally dragged out, covered with blood and screeching, by Texas Rangers with the help of an armoured ear."
The farmer was N. J. Tynes, 45, who was wanted for London, May 15. shooting an 18-year-old boy before he shot the sheriff. The belief that forth Texas Rangers called for an armoured car from Fort Hood, coming Soviet - Yugoslav Texas. It moved up to within 10 feet of the house. Eight talks form part of a Soviet tear gas shells were fired into the house. Two fire bombs plan to establish a cordon were fired into grass around the house, up wind.
of neutral nations from The fire bombs set the grass on fire and the smoke- Sweden in the north through swept into the house, mingling with the tear gas. Austria and Germany and Tynes, covered with blood, down to Yugoslavia was ex ran out of one rear door, along pressed in West European the back of the house for a few capitals today.
feet and into another rear door.
Ranger Captain Clint Peoples
and Ranger JL. Rogers saw that he was covered with blood and did not have his .22 rifle.
The Austrian state treaty, signed today with its parallel guarantee of Austrian neutra lity, is seen as the first achieve-
They dashed into the house Speculation spread that the 65-year-old Soviet Washington, May 15. ment of this plan to set up after him and dragged him out. Sixteen states were told to buffer zone in Europe between He had on only a pair of shorts, diplomat might withdraw or be withdrawn night, they may go ahead in Communist states and the His right arm was broken above from the Kremlin's day-to-day foreign policy mediately their polic Western powers.
the elbow, his left hand was dangling by shreds of flesh and. direction and join, as a Deputy Premier, the thin-vaccination programmes.
Russia will try to lend Yugo-muscle-it had almost been shot The Federal Surgeon-General slavia away frim her ties with ning ranks of Moscow's "elder statesmen."
away. DT Leonard Scheele, said
the West into neutrality at talks 3,600,000 cubic centimetres of
with
ganini,
servers say, "
Forceful, ambitious Andrei Gromyko, appointed vaccine, produced by Eli Lilly in Belgrade later this month be- Molotov's first Deputy only two months ago in a surand Company of Indianapolis, tween Marshal "Nikolai Bul Soviet Prime Minister, prise diplomatic reshuffle, would, according to the had been cleared for use afist and Marshal Tito, Western ob-
painstaking rechecking... speculation, succeed Molotov as Foreign Minister.
The checks' werc ordered Russian and Allied diplomatic sources disclaimed after outbreaks of polio among with this knowledge of these suggestions, which were strengthened children inoculated
cutter laboratories of Berkeley, by Moscow's announcement yesterday omitting Molotov's vaccine and that of the from a top-level mission to Belgrade.
California.-Reuter.
Nothing in Molotov's ap pearance and bearing during his contacts here with the Western
The Westery Ministers who bri negotiated with him, the final stages of the Austrian treaty and discussed the projected Big Four parley with him described him as jovial and casy going..
One conference participant
come from Molotov's lips during the dismissors in the past 24 hours.
But Western observers shied away from drawing any clusions on what may or may
con-
British ports were com- Ministers and at official cere- RUSSIA'S European "neutral pleted tonight.
monies gave any hint of possible concept emerges in Mass meetings of dockers in change in his status.
and Liverpool more dramatic outline with Manchester the announcement that Mr endorsed the strike call for May Krushchev and Marshal Bul-23, made earlier by their col ganin, among others, are to leagues in London and Hull. visit Belgrade later this the
The men are all members of 15,000 strong National month for talks with the Amalgamated Stevedores and truant Marshal Tito, Yugo Dockers Union who although slavs may well be puzzled at they represent only a proportion stressed that yet" had not the reaction of dismay in of Britain's total dock labour some Western capitals at a force could seriously dislocate time when the Big Three the country's economy.
A strike of 7,000 NASD men themselves have secured ด meeting with the Russians. in London last year eventually resulted in 45,000 dockers stop- Basically, however, it is beping work paralysing 350 ships.
cause Tito is not entirely
UNION'S CLAIM
not be in store for the Soviet trusted despite his COUT- The NASD is claiming the diplomat, who long has ageous
right to negotiate
international with em- dominated, the opposition to Moscow's players in the three provincial diplomatic scene domination. The West has ports.
sigent forcefulness. watched with some appre- The union already has the
Nevertheless, the rumour of hension the gradual transi power in London, but elsewhere
withdrawal from and General Workers
held by the giant transport his possible"
Union the Foreign Ministry received attention. In which claims to represent 82,000 considerable British dockers. The TGWU diplomatic quarters here. has instructed its men to stay
SUSPICION AROUSED clear of the dispute.
the two Rivalry
Suspicion was aroused yester- keen. Last year, the day by the announcement from unions NASD was suspended from the Moscow that Gromyko would Trades Union Congress because join Soviet Premier it was "poaching" men from the larger union in its recruit ing campaign.
and determined
te
tion of Soviet attitude from enmity following. Yugo- stavia's break with Cominform in 1948 to ap parent amity. The conclusion in the West is that the Russian visit may a first step to a be either rapprochement between the two Communist powers or else
Moscow-dictated guarantee of neutrality for Yugoslavia. Tito has
д
re-
pudiated the first sugges tion, and the observer of Balkan affairs may have legitimate doubts about the ..second course,
*between
COULD EMBARRASS Timed
with intrap-
Nikolai Marshal this
Bulganin's mission to Tito of Yugoslavia later month.
that
to take •place three This was only partly ex- days before the general elec-plained by the argument
too closely tion, the strike could embarrass Molotov had been
connected with Generalissimo the Labour Party,
Stalin's anti-Tito campaign.
More than 3,500 members of the Merseyside branch of the
to
to in
Russian policy experts re- FOR centuries now the Yugo: support the executive is the called that Molotow had not beez included in the all- slavs have, in their tight
national strike. They were the important Soviet mission which Adriatic corridor, played Last of the four groups to vote.
went to Peking last year to their cards shrewdly; they While the NASD membership
the Sino-Russlan are thoroughly practised in
among the 19,000 Liverpool strengthen
treaty of alliance. the art of playing off the dockers has never been revealed, Great Powers one against it is estimated they have more another. In earlier ages it than 5,000 adherents-Reuter, was Rome against Byzan.
tium, Pope against E- ANOTHER BIG
peror, Teuton against Turk for the sole purpose of preserving national inde- pendence. Today Tito is
NY FIRE
New Yor, May 15 A huge fire raged through a possibly utilising and cernicek-long lumber yard tonight. tainly exhibiting this proven It was the second major fire in diplomacy of the southern New York City in four days.
The first alarm for the fire in Slavs to avoid entangle-
the ment with East or West.residential Queens; across Tito's assurance to the West East River from Manhattan,
therefore may be accepted was sounded at
alarms had
7.30 p.m. By as an honest statement of 6.20 p.m. nine intention. On the other called 65 fire companies to the hand, his neutralist sym- pathies cannot be discount-
SCCEC.
she
That mission was headed by Communist Party chief, Nikita Krushchev, and included Bulgarin and the then planning co-ordinator, Anastas Mikoyan, now a Deputy Premier. The sume mlasten, is now to procesi to Belgrade with Gromyko as an addition-United Press.
ROBESON'S REQUEST
Attempts to secure a united neutral Germany at the planned
mit" this summer will make or East-West "meeting at the sun- break this process. Reuter...
TRIED TO BITE
KONIEV
GIVEN THE TOP JOB
London, May 15. Prime Ministers of Russia and seven Communist states
But Tynes snarled, bit at the East Europe returned officers and kicked at them as home from Warsaw today they dragged him outside. They at the end of talks setting could not use his arms to lift up a military alliance as him into the ambulance,
their answer to West Ger man rearmament,
they put belts under him lift
him
to
Soviet Marshal Ivan Konjey named Commander-in-
terday.
A crowd of 2,500 persons had been standing
about.500 yards back, watching Tynes was hold off the officers. The ward Chief of the Communist blocs ** | "NATO”: under the 20-year that be had been. captured
announced "yes- swept through the crowd and security pact hundreds broke and ran for- ward surrounding the house as the Rangers loaded Tynes into the ambulance. The fire in the grag was put out before the ","house" caught BRAKARTA
Sherif Harry During was short between the eyes at a range of 75 yards.
The announcement said ber East Germany was excluded. membership of the joint mill-
_corpmaak,3,would be. eminent later
Marshal. Konley, 57, former Commander of Russian ground For hours the posse could not forces and"" one of the chief get close enough to him to tell architects of Hitler's defert an whether he was dead or alive Eastern Front, will have his Finally, under cover of a headquarters in Boscow fusillade of... gundre," three.
His staff will consist of officers officers slipped into the front from the six countries in acii- yard and recovered the body.
tion to Russia Joining the com- Sheriff Dunlap had tried to mand-Albania, Czechoslovakia, arrest Tynes for the shooting of Hungary, Poland and Bazmania. Johrr Ray Bentley, who is in Their troops will be deployed "in critical condition-United Press. accordance with the needs of
mutual defence."-Reuter.
IN: SERIOUS CONDITION
No Date Fixed
Vienna, May 16,
York, May 15. The Archbishop of York, 'Dr The "Big Four foreign Cyril Garbett, in a nursing home ministers bade each. other serious condition which gives ing to a decision about the date rise to anxiety, it was 1- and |nounced today.
A "Revolutionary Committee" set up in Saigon has demanded the dethrone-here after an operation, is in a farewell tonight without cam- ment of Bao Dai, Head of the South Vietnamese State. The Committee which is seen here in session is présided over by N'Guyen Bo Toan (second from the left).
-France-Presse.
Newsman's Death:
No Dereliction Of Duty
By S'pore Police
Washington, May 15:
The United States Consul in Singapore, Mr Lampton Berry, today cleared the Colony's police of allegations of "dereliction of duty" in the death last week of an American correspondent.
air Berry said in a report to the State Department that no such the available information indicated there was dereliction.
The reporter, Mr Gene, sent a call to headquarters, Symonds, of the United Press, which dispatched
1
special
was attacked by a crowd of squad to look for the man in strikera while watching a trouble. demonstration in Singapore last Thursday.
With fighting under way at many points, this special group had difficulty finding
"He died of his injuries.
told the Slate | Symonds. Mr Berry Department that when Mr. Symonds approached the area
Mr
Overthrow Of Bao Dai Demanded
Saigon, May 15.
Ten thousand persons to- day demonstrated for the absentee overthrow of Emperor Bao Dai, and the Revolutionary. Committee of South Vietnam raised the banner of the "Républic.”
Heavily armed French troops were out in force as the parade wound through Saigon's ELTO pean district, but there were no incidents. French authorities had feared the rally might provoke anti-French violence..
Leaders of the Revolutionary Committee waved a new fag before the demonstrators and announced it was the emblem of The Republic of Vietnam." The Meanwhile, his driver return-flag was Red and Yellow with New York, May 15. of rioting, he was blocked by ed to him and Mr Symonds Red Star, a cross between the present Communist Vietminh Only last Thursday 11 alarms, Paul Robeson, Negro singer one group of police and finally asked to be taken to a hospital and South Vietnamese flags were sounded for a fire in the whose lefile sympathies have showed his press credentials to As he was being assisted into a ed. He may never yield to industrial exction of Greenpoint, placked his passport application another group, saying he would van, police in a passing radio
DIEM ANSWERS CALL pressure from Moscow; in Brooklyn, that wept through for five years, sald bere he has go forward "on his own re car declined to help, saying they had been ordered to on-
Franier Nga. Dình Diem spe deed pressure may not be cour city blocks before it was asked the State Department for sponsibility."
other trouble spot and could not peared briefly, on a balcony and needed. Equivocal diplos bought under control-United special permission to travel to
to
waved to the " crowd when it 'slope make a fim. macy may prove more effce-Press.
the Soviet Union
shouted to him, while passing his Mr Robeson said he had been
Mr. Berry's account, obtained The van taking Mr. Symonds palace of Independence. role - in offered, the leading
the Singapore police to hospital stopped at the road- "Othello" to be made by the from
andi Bep Daí speeches authorities, related that after block on the way out of the riot Moshim studio,
Mr Symonds had been attacked Ho fled sulf last January to
aboard for the rest of the trip parade traversed the French An unknown terrorist sprayed compel the department to allow his tax driver returned to the and two police officers got at the central market place, the facade of agreement, de billets last night at three him to travel, contending that roadblock and told policy that a
Mr Berry's report, and 85 quarter to Din Terence Yugoslavia may be expect Moroccans chatting together in be and ringing engagemente European was being beaten up minntes elapsed from the time Despite the agitation for Bao. The police according to the of the attack to the time Mr Date dethronement, Den bu this city's new native quarter, offered him in Larael, England
could not "Symonds was booked into taken no hurther acti killing two and injuring the and other countries
alrection CEE but they hospital, Reuter, Urte here Reuter third United Preas,
tive and a temporary align
ment
of Soviet Yugoslav
views may well follow. A
best, however: Moscow cas
only hope for a deceptive
ed to continue leaning West but without affronting the Goliath of the East,
Terrorist Slays
*Two Men......
Cambiarca, May 15.
SENT CALL 10
but very report said
leave the
The
Archbishop, 80.
place for the: "summit" conference of heads of govern- last meat.
February, whose operation was
for
ari intestinal obstruction, Officials sald the question was said to have had a restless) would now be settled through night, but
maintaining diplomatic exchanges, probab strength-Reuter,
in the next ten days-Reuter
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