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The Queen Launches
'PEACE CAN BE WON' Big Liner
HIGH HOPES, HE SAYS
New Phase Beginning In International Relations
San Francisco, June 22.
The British Foreign Secretary, Mr Harold · Macmillan, said today international relations were now "at the beginning of..
a new phase."
Peace, he said, was "a living thing to be won-and believe we can win it together."
Speaking at a luncheon of the San Francisco Commonwealth Club Mr Macmillan reiterated President Eisenhower's statement that "the summer of 1955 is a season of high hope for" the
in the country to its advantage. There are other aspirants to power among the dissident factions of the Liberals, Democrats and Socialists. Might there "For these hopes to fructify shall need skill, patience, not be among them a more we
and above all grateful recipient of Soviet perseverence
sa:d. Mr Macmillari foyalty," generosity, a more amen "For peace is not a sort of able pigeon to be plucked? drugged or dreamlike state IN Tokyo, there is a good passive or effortless. It is a living deal of consternation at thing to be wer-and I believe this exhibition of stern we can win it together." Soviet intransigence, The doubtful consolation is
"We are both of us in this job of guarding democracy and offered by the Japanese freedom
extending, and
by Foreign Ministry that the peaceful but persistent effort, talks are still at an early the rule of law.
stage
high
and price
the present
Russia
So
"Of course, it means risks.. is
does everything that is worth re- while."
demanding for a conciliation is not to be
as to how we can best use it to deter aggression and to negotiate for a genuine pacification."
Greatest Challenge
of
Asia presented the free world with its greatest challenge, he said. Most of the countries that area had newly won their independence and their domi nan emotion was still tionalism.
na-
But nationalism, like alcohol, should be taken in moderation Fus a stimulant and not as a
drug, he said.
regarded as its last word A Secular Struggle "Anyway nationalism in Asia
Mr
Mr Khemillan
not
a
the
world.”
wealth have killed or captured over 8,000 of the terrorists. The driven remainder have been deep into the jungle.
The revolutionaries must know that they have no hope of Government overthrowing the by force."
British Ship Released
off
The Exitiati freighter Helikon, interocpled Foochow
Tuesday morning and taken to the Nationalist held White Dog Island, was released by the Nationalista yester day, said an official of Wo Sing, owners of the 2,036-con vessel, this morn» Ing.
The ocial said that Captain Gunter, J. Tockus, of the Helikon, wired that the ship was released at 4.20 p.m. yesterday and left the island for the sea, Capt, Tockus added that all his crew were safe and no damage was suffered by the ship.
The official said that he had no knowledge of the ship'a destination.
The Helikon, along with another British ship the Inehjurs, was approach- ing Foochow from Shang- hal when she was inter- cepted. The Inchjura was warned not to go Foochow...
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Liverpool
Dockers Still 'Out'
British ex-captive says
REBELS AT WORK
IN UKRAINE
Report On Resistance Group
OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT
New Empress Ship
Glasgow, June 22.
The Queen today. before her departure for Norway the launched
Canadian Pacific luxury liner Empress of Britain.
The 640-foot 22,500-ton streamlined liner.. is the third to bear the name.
In a
zpoke
firm voice the Queen the time-honoured formula 29 she swung the beribboned champagne - bottle: "I name this ship Empress of Britain. May God speed her and sit who sall" in her,”
The Queen was accompabled London, June 22.
by_the Duke of Edinburgh.
The new Empress of Brilain, Twenty-nine-year-old "Mad Ginger" Fiddington, 6ft 2ins ex-British paratrooper and "wall of death" motor her yellow funnel bearing the
Canadian. Pacific
company cyclist, who spent four years in 's Russian slave camp, checkerboard red and white claimed tonight there was an underground resistance motif, has accommodation for
movement in the Ukraine nearly big enough to topple the 1,050 passengers. government.
to
More than a million feet of welding and · scores
of thou Between 1945 and 1953, ac- sands of rivets have gone into'
redistance reports, her hull, Her electric genera- cording to more than ten million Ukrainians tors develop enough power. had "disappeared", most of then provide lighting for a town. to Siberian slave labour camps, ship of 12.000. but many
to sudden
the famous of them
Her predecessor,
in death.
42,500-ton liner, launched Drastic measures, however, 1930 by the Duke of Windsor, stem caly to have strengthenes then Prince of Wales, was lost resistance particularly since through enemy action in 1940- British intelligence service. many Ukrainians who might Reuter.
Piddington, who has become a motor
the mechanic since Russians released him last year and who dropped his old nick- name in faveur of his birth certificate Eames William Ernest--and let his hair grow withheld dark brown again, had
he leamed Is from the
most of what Russia
or advice
otherwise be lined
to Co-
But tonight-five days before publication of his forthcoming book "Russian Frenzy" -he operate with the Russians are was willing to talk and willing more than was in the
to say book,
Still Going Strong-
angered by the consistent policy of arresting not caly suspects and culprits, but their whole family as well.
Bomb Attacks In Cyprus
wave
Nicosia, June 22.
The greater part of the prob. lem, however, was combatting those conditions in which Com- munism could breed and to this end the Malayan Govern-
No Use For Regime ment had undertaken a wide and social
"The only solution," Pidding. He said that while he was
The
of anti-British would range of economic
there measures. Soon
serving à 28-year sentence for ton maintains, "is for us to try be elections to give the federa.
"espionage" he worked hand in to topple the regime not by war terrorism continued today in n" Cyprus. Terrorists threw three tion a legislature with ū
band with the Ukrainian re- but by other means if we can,"
the bombs at the homes of British sistance movement which even "Certainly it is obvious majority of elected members.
London, June 22, Urging the British and Ameri-
then was strong enough to population of the Ukraine has officials and array officers and not to exaggerate The 30-day old British cause the Russian authorities co use for the regime.flacked-troops,
Nicosia was rocked by four passing Piddington was their two dock strike differences between
continues. considerable trouble... countries M: Macmillan said
Since
bis release he had through East Germany in 1950 explosions tonight. One bonb was thrown at the home of Sir
a lead America might think Britain Liverpool dockers decided managed to maintain some con- on his way to visit a girl friend was wrong to recognise Com-today to carry on the strike fact and he is quite certain the when he was arrested. He had John Sterndale Bennett, munist China but recognition until victory was won.
resistance movement is still no permit to be in Germany and ing British official. No. going strong.
when he presented his British or
The British owned They did not imply approval.
are firmly behind the
Hotel in In the Ukraine itself, he says, passport he was immediately
the centre of the town. Important To HK dockers in Hull and Manchester resistance organisations are sa charged with espionage,
was attacked and a homb ex- who voted similar resolutions sirong they are able to maintain Eventually he was sentenced
ploded in the garden without earlier today.
their own arms factories and and taken to Siberia where he
causing damage or casuallies. He added that it was "quie
London dockers last night the country is constantly on the remained until the Russians re-
In Famagusta a bombs was untrue" to say Britain furnished voted to go back on Monday.
leased him in July of last year edge of chaos,
thrown at the house of a British the Chinese with war materials provided their
provincial
officer,
In Major Carter. same. The her benefited colleagues did the but trade with
Limassol a grenade was thrown Britain and was very important three largest provincial ports,
ata Truckload of British troops remain idle, their however, to Hongkong.
driving along a main road... dockers
France-Presse, Mr Macmillan said Britian Meanwhile, Mr Dick Barrett, fully understood United General-Secretary of the Na- States position with regard to tional Amalgamated Stevedores
has often been the stooge and But the tone of Saturday's statement by the Tokyo
reviewed Bri-stalking horse of Communism," Government suggests that ain's recovery
since the war he said, "These young countries peoples
need patriotism, but they need far from indicating any and said "if you come to my optimism, it is whistling country today, ten years later, also to be protected from the nervously to keep its cour- you will see a very big change blandishments of Communism
It is due partly to you and masquerading as idealism". age up.
partly to ourselves. You helped
By joining with the United Hatayamu'a Certainly
is when we needed help and. Democrats were hoping to believe me, we shall never for States and other like-minded nations in the Manila treaty, strengthen their position in get it."
Britain had done her best to the government coalition
Mr Macmillian said that there ensure that aggression would with a deal which among was going on in the world today
be "tempted by other things would promise whether we like it or not,
prospect of an easy conquest". 30 immediate return of secular struggle between two "You may say we have lock- Japanese nationals, & ideologies, or to use a simplered the stable door too late," settlement of the vexatious and better phrase, between two commented Mr Macmillan. "I don't think so, there are still a fisheries, dispute and the ways of life." eventus! restoration
Both you and we believe in few horses left in the stable. southern Sakhalin and the the superiority of our own and
Violence In Malaya Kuriles..
have
fear no
honour and security" involved As it is, the Russians may yet existence," he added. "That is cede the cherished territory really why we want peace."
"At the moment there is only but had not disguised its view -und magnanimously consent "We believe that peace is the one part of the world where or the small coastal Islands held
and
promoted by General Chiang Kai-shek. most powerful "subversion is being to Japan's other wishes greatest
our side. We want by open violence amounting to Like the United States, he .but only at the most pro- force on
is Malaya.
There
Britain had constantly pitious moment and when peace and with peace, progress war. This Tokyo has a little more to and prosperity because we be the Malayan Communist Party, said,
allens, urged that the whole Formosan be settled by problem should a campaign free world will have been offer in return than an Am-eve that given the chance the 95 per cent of them
ideals of the
by force and bassador in Moscow and a prove a stronger force than the of armed terrorism since 1948. negotiation not
the' forces of the welcomed any relief of tension Since then food of cheap consumer fallacies of Communism.
We know what our strength Malayan Government combined as a step towards that end..- goods. Neutrality, and with
of the Common-Reuter. it an evacuation of Ameri- is and we all know and agree with those
of
can forces, and "complete freedom of trade is, in
Moscow's view, a more ft ting and equitable quid pro
quo.
THERE is another considera- tion which cannot be overlooked. At the begin- ning of this century, China and Russia were made the first stepping stones Japan's supremacy as military
to
2
and industrial
power in the Far East. Has
we
of
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waging
PEACEFUL CALM DISTURBED
RUSSIANS UNDER FIRE AT U.N.
San Francisco, June 22.
An attempt by the Cuban delegate at the United
General
the
*BITTL
Secrets From Siberia
Formosa and "the obligations of and Dockers Union, has an- Briton
Mr
nounced his resignation,
Mr Barrett, who had much influence over union members, described the strike as disas
trous.
resignation will have any effect
Was Involved
In Hitler Bomb Plot
Vienna, June 22.
An Austrian recently freed from a Soviet prison camp told today of a British prisoner still held who claim- ed to have been involved in the 1944 bomb plot against Hitler.
NO REASON GIVEN He has not yet giver any reason for his decision and it is too
see whether his early to
on the strike movement,
The latest position in
the semi-paralysed ports showed 18,983 dockers idle in the six
The Austrian, who asked that when Soviet troops killed 3,000 ports involved in the labour dis his
not be to 4.000 prisoners, the Austrian pute, and 32,723 dockers con- published, is one of 184 former said. China Mail Special.
two
Americans .and foreigners still held in Soviet camps.
should name
tinue to work in these ports. Soviet prisoners released Molotov However, loading and unloading days ago, many of whom nameri
Clarifies
Soviet Policy
San Francisco, June 22. Western diplomats said
ís continuing normally o Britons,
148 ships, partially on 97 and not at all on 181.
The union will meet tomorrow to discuss the decision taken by the London dockers yesterday to go back to work-France Presse.
The Austrian said the Briton is Leslie Mahoney, whom he met last year in one of numerous forced labour camps at Taishict, Siberia.
(British officials here said they had heard of Mahoney before. They said other persons rELUITI-
Nehru To Visiting from Russian prison campu
London
called hith Machonie Machokin.)
or
SUPPLIED BOMB? Mahoney, according to the freed Austrian, was "Intimately involved in the 1944 bomb plot. Dgainst Hitler.
the ignominy of this Nations tenth anniversary meeting here to speak about today there was little new humiliating defeat been what he called "the enslavement of Lithuania, Latvia and in Mr Molotov's speech be- completely effaced in the Estonia" today caused the first incident to disturb the fore the United Nations events of the last 15 years? calm of the sessions.
apart from his call for a Will a new, resilient, in-
world economic conference. Romulo retorted powerful dependent and
The delegate, Dr Emilio Nunez,
added that the one day to Portuondo, was interrupted by it was the same thing."
But they Japan emerge
According to the prepared
many im- threaten the Communists' the President of the meeting, Dr own peculiar designs in Ecleo Van Kleffens, of the text previously distributed to address contained
Cuban delegate portant clarifications of the re Netherlands, as he was about to the press, the
cent Soviet proposal. this hemisphere?
giving freedom to ex-enemies They paid particular atten Equivocation and perfidy are begin his criticism of the Soviet contrasted the Western action in
Union for the "enslavement". | Livi deeply imbedded in
the The Chairman read a ruling that and Colonial territories with the tion to the part of his speech Air Force, plane to fly to London the Briton had "had some sing
not in his Soviet "enslavement" by con dealing with disarmament. Some Japanese character,
G delegate must
quest of eight million people in delegates said that Soviet nccep- on judgment conceivably might it not specch place
Europe alone.
tance of the" Western proposals again be lured by the specific states,
ALLOWED TO CONTINUE
for a reduction of conventional prizes that so nearly came CARLOS JUMPS UP
His text said the sole aim of armaments had never been so within its
grasp not 15 The delegate of the Philip.
United years ago? It is not Mr pines, General Carlos Romulo, the Russan proposal appeared clearly put before.
from its allies and. States immediately jumped from his to be to Isolate the
and
Hatoyama or any other
His statement that it was now
seat in the opera house orchestra when there is talk of up to make the next...
the
Ance and taken to Berlin,
Moscow, June 2 Mr Nehru, the Indian Prime
has Minister,
accepted Sir Anthony Eden's invitation to visit Britain, an authoritative
Mahoney would not reveal Indian source said tonight,
exactly how intimately he had These sources said Mr Nehru been involved in the pilot, the would leave Rome by an Indian Austrian said, but he believed
on July 8,
do with supplying the to Mr Nehru is due in Rom Mahoney, according to after visiting Poland, Yugoslavia Austrian, is the son of the cap Last Russian Czar Austria on his way home tain of the
England from the Soviet Union, Reuter.
who settled in before the first world war.
Mahoney joined the British in 1839, he was captured move was regarded by som Ban On Anti-Polio
where he worked for the Nazi scene who might tempt fate thunderous applause from some ...without the slightest sug definite, savitation to begin
German radio and film organisa in this dangerous way but delegates and the pubile gallery gestion of freeing the peoples negotiating again
Vaccine Urged
tion, the Austrian
raid always the unseen: General Romulo
ARRESTED BY GESTAPO powers behind the politi-against the Chairman's ruling
Washington June 22. Following the bomb plot he we are faced with a manoeuvre In London: Diplomatic obser cians who dictate the path and after Mr Van Kleffens had
Top line American palio was arrested and questioned by to destiny.
zpoken to him about it the to impose by force the ancient ye
his re- Philippines, delegate said Mir and immutable design of Rus-Vers said tonight, Mr Molotoy's specialist, Dr Albert Babin the Gestapo but high placed
seven-point plan foreshadows recommended today the tem connections obtained f whether the Russians would Van Klemens should have given sian world domination
the Salk 1945 Mahoney was cap was the case the Soviet Government porary banning Dr Nuper Portuonds
is expected to present at the anti-pole vaccine Repres be deliberately vindictive similar ruling during the
which the Soviet Foreign allowed to resume reading his Geneva summit conference He told the House of Repre tured by the wear. M. Molotov, had text at the point where he said: nec month.
Tsentatives trade subcommittee moved rom prison camp to will take careful· pre just finished
The peoples of the world are
Observers did not thatat
think Mr the Inoculations should be prison camp. At Norils cautions to ensure that the Mr Van Kleffens said that constantly under threat of a Malosoy, had disclosed the fail stopped and production of the Far Eastern balance of Mr Molotoy had not directed aggression even more serious hand the Soviet Union might vaccine halted until a less dan Sea, he took part in a revolt power never again becomes any of his remarks at any ene than armed attack by the Soviet play at this conderence. Stenter gerous preparation was per in 1958 which lasted three
Union "-Reiter,
and Chaimu Mail Specializ
montas and was only quelled weighted In Japan's favour, state in partictilar
individual on the present stalls, and run to the stage amidst tralising Japan and Germany.
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In retrospect, it is doubtful
but it is almost certain they
SEMOGA SU
protested enslaved by the Soviet Union possible in the United Nations
It is quite evident that Disarmament Sub-committee.!
Russians ......and
the Arcule
casualties were
No Appeal Plans
London, June, 22. Mrs Ruth Ellis, 28-year-old 'ash blonde-model senter.ced, to death by hanging yesterday for murdering her ex-lover, not appeal, her solicitor today.
witt sald
Mrs Ellis, divorced mother
of two chlidren: decided this morning against lodging an ap
dale at peal. The execution
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