THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1955.
NORTH VIETNAM REFUGEES Swearing In
SIGNOR SCELBA
SCELBA -
Russian Support For UK Over Time Limit
Moscow, May 19.
The Soviet Union will support Britain's request for an extension of the time limit imposed on the movement of refugees in North and South Vietnam, observers here said today.
Mr Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, met Sir William Hayter, the British Ambassador, yesterday to discuss an extension of the time limit which
A FIGHTING expired last night.
SPEECH
Rome, May 19. Western. diplomats said today that Premier. Mario Scelba has taken a major step in halting a dangerous drift toward neutralism in Italy:
In a fighting speech_to Italian farmers gathered ar Rame las!! night, Signer Scribs made it. clear to the Western allies that | Italy will stand beside them in peate or war against Commu- risp.
He issued a stern warning to the Talian people, many whem are Birting with the idea of neutrality, that this nation cannot stay out of the struggle. This was the speech Western diploma's were waiting for. They guld even though Signer Sociba's days as Premier may be num- bered, his stern stand beside the West is
bound
to influenco Coinion pubile
TO ITALY Signor Scotba said the inter- national alarm over the election of a Christian Democrat, Signor Giovanni Gronchi, a President was an insult to Italy.
Signor Scribe fought Signer Grenchi's candidacy, and in his
he specch
Signor rejected ided that Lhy de-
play
parties.. should ball with the fellow-traveling Socialists of Stalin prize-winner Signor Pietro Nenni.
There is no fear of Italy's going Communist, but there is worry over neutralism.--United Press.
- Mr Mao
London, May 21.
Chinese Tse-tung,
sent a groei-
"leader, yesterday
ings musage
Mr. Ho Chi
Minh, President of North Viet-
nam on his 65th birthday, the New China News Agen.cy
ported today.
re-
Mr Mao wished Mr Ho suc- cess in the "glorious cause cí striving for peace, independence, unification and democracy in Vietnam."-Reuter,
18
(A British Foreign Office! Some 50,000 refugees (mostly spokesman said in London that Catholics) are stranded in North Russia as met Britain me Vienam unable to pass to the of the way" cri the question. South. Mr Molotov met the Ambassa-
dor following Britain's note of May 7 requesting an extension of the programme.)
FLEET FATROLS Meanwhile American and French troop transports protected by the French Far Eastern fleet today patrolled waters off the Communist North Vietnam coast to pick any refugees that the Reds may release,
up
Atom Bomb
Necessary In Europe
+
New York, May 19.
of
The transport fleet hovering north the Red-controlled coast could accommodate 20,000 refugees-if the Reds let any go, Albert Edouard Admiral Jozan, commanding the French Far Eastern Fleet today radioed" French vessels to be on the look- out for refugees who have asked Communist
authorities repatriation to South Vietnam.
for
The French ships were backed
up by several American trans- previous evacuations of anti
ports which participated in pre-
Communists from North Viet- nam.
US General Rebukes
--
Subordinate
DID NOT TELL TRUTH
Washington, May 19.
General Nathan Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff, today publicly rebuked one of his generals who said that the Soviet Air Force was "at least as good as" .or possibly better than that of the United Government wStates.
The French hope the Red Ho
agree to the South Vietnamese
Statco
Britain that
gold
The
request-backed by the United General Twining told reporters that GENERAL Alfred Gruenner, exchange of civilian populations the officer, Brigadier-General Woodbury Burgess, Deputy Chief of Staff for In- telligence in the Continental Air Defence Command "did not tell the truth."
Supreme Commander of the between the two zones be con- Allied
tinuel-Reuter & United Press. forces in Europe (SHAPE), spoke out against a ban on atomic weapons here Loday.
He pointed out that the atomic bomb would be needed to repel a Soviet in- vasion in Western Europe successfully.
Addressing 700 mayors from all
over the United States, he said he feared that recent con- ciliatory proposals of the
Compulsory
Military
Soviet Union were aimed only Reserve Bill
at eliminating these weapons.
"REAL DANGER
He asserted that there was a real danger of public opmion forcing political leaders
to
Shelved
||
the General Burgess made statement in a speech in Detroit last night. He said America had the
been underestimating
Russians.
DISCIPLINE?
Asked whether he would discipline General Burgess, General Twining said: “I certainly will talk to him" General
the Twining and Secretary of the Air Force, Mr Harold Talbott, both said they surprised at American fears of Soviet air power.
Some" fear has been express-
sitze the
last Air Force forces porarily, President Eisen-week published a report which described a parade over Moscow
make compromises which the end might be disadvanta- Beous to the Western world.
The
1
Washington, May 19. The House today sudden- General said he was co
at least tem⚫ed vinces that the North Atlantic ly shelved,
www
Treaty Organisation
Reserve Bill
and fighters,
Democrat
Senator
could bcat the Pisices, behower's Compulsory Military of powerful new jet bombers cause of air superiority, they attacked Western Europe.
stated that But he
an invasion of that part
the world could be prevented only using the atomic bomb with German military port.-France-Presse,
A British Crossword Puzzle
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8 Period (4).
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13 Sea-bird (4),
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18 Stripping (8).
19 Not at home ($),
21 Emits (6).
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26 Accurate (4).
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The unexpected action came by after the House reaffirmed ils and stand against compulsory racial the National segregation, in sup
Guard. It did so by defeating, 167 to 143, a proposal by Mr Carl Vinson, Chairman of the House Armed Services Com- mittee, to knock out of the Bil a controversial anti-segregation amendment adopted tentatively yesterday.
22
124
A
26
1 Pace (4).
DOWN.
2 Liberate (4).
4 Assent (4),
5 Greedy (4).
Egg-shaped (5),
7.Sevéro (5).
9
9 Ventured (5).
10
Fruit
(5).
12 Renovate (5),
14 Extent (5).
#16 Part of a flower (5),
17 Ghastly (5).
19 Land measures (5).
20 Slicing-block (5).
21 Absorbed (4).
23 Expensive (4), -- 23-Sheep-(4):-
24 Check (4)
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD Acrosc. 1 Climbs. 4. Pores,
7 Eminence, 8 Realm, 9 Strait, 11. Orterly, 13 Compare, ↑ 15 Sudden, 18 Idiot, 19 Undulate, 20 Cadre, 21 Events. Down: 1 Chess, 2 Manna, 3 Senator, 4 Peered, 5′ Repaired, 8 Siemps. 10 Remained, 12 Residue, 13 Critic, 14 Astute, 16 Deive, 17.
Needs.
Walte
time at the | George suggested
that the purpose of the report was perhaps to impress Con- gress with the necessity to be liberal with money for Ameri-
air power. The military budget is now pending in Con- gress,
and Talbott
General Twining testified in secret today before a Senate Appropriations Committee
Mr
The Chairman of the Com-
When his proposal was mittee, Senator Dennis Chavez, beaten, Mr Vinson-aware that said after hearing their testi- the entire Bill was in trouble-mony that in both offensive and proposed that the House quit defensive air power the United work on the measure. His mo- States was much better than any tion was carried by 161 to 124 other nation-Reuter. votes.
WOULD BE KILLED
.ant.
Mr Vinson had said the Bl would be killed if the segregation provision, sponsored by Representative. Adam Clayton Powell, Jr, stayed in. He denied that the vole to quit work on the measure means the Bill is abandoned or dead. He said it
still may be called up later for further consideration,
Mr Powell, cre of three Negro members of the House, said Mr Vinson promised that the Com mittee would try to work out "an acceptable bill,”
Honour For
Mrs Pandit
GENERAL TWINING
ALLEGED SLAVE TRAFFIC
territories
of
Swiss Guards
Twenty-two recruits for the Vatican. Swiss Gaard are worn in st the colourful ceremony which takes place every year on the anniversary of the Sack of Rome. On his name being called the recruit leaves the ranks and marches forward to the flag bearer who lowers the flag so that the recruit can place his left hand on it while he raises the ether and repeats the oath. Twenty-one took the oath in German, and one in French. Picture shows: The swearing- in ceremony in progress in the Courtyard of Belvedere at the Vatican. The recruit is
with his hand
on the taking the.. onth.
Express Photo.
SCGT
flag
Dutch Cabinet
Crisis
May Be Long And Difficult
The Hague, May 20. Queen Juliana today. re- sumes her consultations with party leaders in a bid to resolve the Dutch Cabinet. | crisis, now in its fourth day.
A Court anacurement to- night said she has invited parliamentary leaders of the Protestant Anti-Revolutionary
and Christian Historical Parties,
Part 37
Warning To Electorate
DANGERS OF BIG MAJORITY
London, May 19.
The New Statesman and Nation, the left-wing weekly, warned today of the "dangers" of a Con- servative Government winning next Thursday's general election by a large majority.
Then it said the Government would have no defence against the pressure of those Conservative groups "who do not love the moderation" of Mr R. A. Butler, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Dislike of top-level talks and beliefs that British security demands that we should always appease the Re- publican part in Washington.".
The weekly made this com~| ment as the right-wing journal, Time and Tide, called for "an enlarged and strengthened Con- servative majority"
the election.
.།
NOT TOO LATE.
In its review of the election the New StatesmEEMIT and Nation mid it was still not too late får Labour ta retrieve ita fortunes in the election.
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The left-wing journal said: "It begary with the handicap that Labour voters are not easily roused when the country is, generally speaking, prosperous, World economics have been such that Conservative government has cot as in the 1830's meant economic misery and unemploy- ment,
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"The Conservatives have even been able to suggest that they are the party of peace' and that there is no contradiction between their freedom and prosperity" and Labour's welfare state'.
This Tory bipartisanship with Labour has enabled the Conser- vatives to run an election on gentlemanly Hnes for the first time since the First World War. No stunts, no excitements.....
"As a result the Labour voter has not been made angry and
the Judging by.
municipal elections last weekend is dis- inclined to voie," the New Stateanan and Nation said.
But it declared the issues were "real enough." A temporary boom, it said, did not affect the argument between socialism and private enterprise,
FREE SYSTEM
The journal commented: "Mr Buller has asked for a mandate to dexi with any future economic crisis by returning to a 'free' system in which there are no con-
trols and no subsidies to
maintain
that relative equality which the Labour Government gave the cvun-» try,"
No Guard For Princess
Cologne, May 19. There will be no guard
honour for Princess Margaret when she irrives at Wahn airfield, near hers, on Monday for a three-day visit to British troops, a Royal Air Force spokesman said today.
had been
Instructions received from her house-
haid
to keep airfield cere mobiles short they
last just over ten minutes mso that the will waste no ime in getting away by car to the Suffolk Regiment at
Wuppertal, 25 miles from here.
There she will inspect a guard of honour - of the Suffolks, of which she is Colonel-in-Chief.
at
But there will be a wel- coming
WANA headed by
Darty
the British Ambassador, Sle Federick Hoyer Millar, and repre-
wentatives of President
Theodor Heuss, of West Germany and of the Federal German Govern ment.-China Mall Special.
Saviour
Of Pakistan
Karachi, May 19. Pakistan's "Governor-General, Mr Ghulam Mohammed. has agreed to accept the title of "Mohafiz-E-Millat (Savious of
the Nation), it was learnt here today.
Twenty-nine organisations had
the Liberals, the Communists. The New Statesman and urged the Governor to take fire the splinter National Catholic Nation stressed that people who title. In their appeal, they said Party and the extreme right-thought there is little to choose that by his timely interventions, wing political Reformed Party.
between the parties should re- he had saved the people 'of member that the welfare state Pakistan from disaster, at least was only Conservative policy twice. The title will be used "when the parties in the House before his name.
Leaders of the Catholic and Socialist Parties, which each hold 30 seats in Holland's 100- are nearly equally balanced." seat Lower House,
Since the creation of Paki- had talks The right-wing Time and Tide with the Queen on Wednesday. said that to those
stan, two leaders, both new. dead, whoso memories went back before the They were the founder of Paki- have been given honorary names. -The Queen held no talks First World War the yesterday, Ascension Day, which general election campaign es called "Quaid E Azam" (Great present stan, Mohammed Ali Jinnah,
is
a public holiday in Netherlands.
the
the strangely, unhealthily quiet"
But emphasising the It is generally feared that portance of
crisis,
caused by the journal said narrow defeat of the Govern between "two kinds of mood and He was known as "Quaid E ment in the Lower House on a temper, two kinds of technique "lat", (Leader of the Nation). domestic issue of higher renta,
If a Socialist mood and -France-Presse. will be long and difficult. ..
technique was chosen It said there will be swift and pro- The last Cabinet crisis, lasted alne weeks
Leader), and the first Premier, Ira-Liaquat Ali Khan, who was as the election the sassinated in 1951.
the choice was
Marseilles, May 19. French police are investigat og allegations of slave traffic between some French West Africa and certala 1952, Arab countries, a delegate to Heuber. the Congress of the Popular Republican Party said here to- day,
He said the traffic was coo-
cloak ducted under the
Mecca pligrimageš,
of
The delegate, M. Emmanuel
PLAN TO SAVE GOVT. MONEY
in found disturbances in the terms Overseas trade; and a_
& Social
'New York, May 19. Former President Herbert la Graviere, was replying to a Hoover said today 38,000 million reporter's questions or a state-
London, May 19.
(£142 million) might be saved The Queen
Mother, recently
by elected Chancellor of Londonment he was reported to have if steps so far recommended
has personally made in a Party study group of his Commission on Government
territories Organisation were carried out. Vijaya Lakshmi France's
**And beyond that there could Pandit, the High Commissioner yesterday. The congress proper
be returned to the treasury for India, to receive one of the opened today.....
about $70,000 million (£2,500,- erald
University, chosen Mrs
overseas
of
ist Chancellor (of the Exhequer) controls to
will apply physity and cen-
counter them.
tralised direction will be the order of the day in all our economy... the way will be open and quick, to national disaster."
GOOD BECORD
The right-wing Specistor sală today the Conservative Government's record was "remarkably good" and there had been na decline in full employment or "any amenit
welfare stake,"
the
On the Socialists the Spectator
Scholarship Offer By Russia
London, May 19.
Russia is to grant ten scholarships to native in- habitants of non-self govern- ing territories to enable them to obtain education in six honorary degrees which she He said: "In the course of an 800) of money which
the Soviet Union, Moscow will confer when she is installed investigation; I have conducted be provided otherwise," be
radio announced today, Bs Chancellor in November.
The radio in the past few months in French added
that tive Pandit will become a West Africa, I have obtained Mr Hoover was appointed by said that even more glaring than Russian delegation to the United Doctor of Laws.
that several hundred President. Eisenhower to head Labour lack of unity was its Nations had sent a letter to Mr will remain as "unfinished" The Senate of the University, proof
Hammarskjold, the business until he decides to call which is usually in charge of Negroes, roan and women, under the Commission, which is seek lack of policy. This must be a
up for further House con- selecting nominees, has approved the pretext of pilgrimages to the ways to save money in very nearly the first time that Secretary-General, forming American Government opera the left-wing party has entered him of the offer and asking the Queen Mother's list, which Mecca, have been sent as slaves tions.
an elections without a policy," it,
to Lator Calerested also includes the Prime Minister by African dealers to certaíi He gave the figures in a commented of the Central African Federa- Arab states, notably the Yemen speech at the annual meeting of This journal said beftter persons and authorities of the tion, Lard Malvern France and Saudi Arabia."--China Mail the National Industrial Confer Labour's record nor its proposals trusteeship territories. Presse.
Special,
ence Board-Router
inspired confidence.-Reuter.
Mr Vinson said that. the B
sideration,-United Press,
Swedish Envoy
In Peking
London, May 20." Communist China's Premier, Mr Chou En-lai, yesterday afternoon received Mr R. Sohl-A man, Swedish Ambassador to Russia, who on a visit to Peking New China News Agency reported today----
Asian Atomic Plan Long Way Off
Washington, May 20 proposed Aslan alonie autho alty for developing we of the atom to industrialise the not- Communist nations of the Far.
Washington
it said Mr Huang Hua, Direc- #thorities - Madd
today. tor of the Western European- | These "oficials, in close touch African Affairs Department of gwiths · Asian do affairs, WEED the Foreign Ministry, and Mr suxions to counteract any id
Hugo Wistrand, Swedish "... premion that such a pružnetiş Ambassador to China, were pro- urged at the International zer? --Reuter.
Chamber of Commerce eve
him
The
UN APPEAL.
letter said the scholar- ships had been granted in con- nection with the United Nations General Assembly's decision on educational assistance by mem-
populations of trusteeship ter. modelled on the European
ritories Coal and Steel Community
(On November 28 last year the Dian, WAS put before at General Assembly adopted a „Tokyo. Con
by the resolution An
member
ference In Tokyo could be The Asina countries wonki, | The⠀⠀⠀átor - for - Asta idea, ber countries to the native established in the foreseeable future.
They, politted out, that even in Europe, where several nationa were far advanced in-nucitar capabilities, there were so yet He concrete pints for a co- operaiiva zuthority to the suggested for siminently bagic- ward Asian; which did not even have a single reactor to| start with
therefore," have to make`a great deal more progress in
·kmaio ; atomia research, icin
scientist.......... and techni.. Clans"Lie" find ways ut: coping with the compilested politi eal problems, 2 well as fue vortant
security, considera. before" allenating to with the problems; of utamia 5 energy.
make
American Industralist, co. Me nations to John Jay Hopkins Fresident offers of scholarship and fellow oviserable ja qualified "of the
which students from non self govern Corporation. built the millus, the | Ing" territories to undertake World's first ale-powered technical and vocational training Mail and univerzity and port primary
studies)Reuter
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