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Capital. Punishment
any consideration of the
Indise public's reaction
to the banging of Mrs Ellis, it is necessary hist ta draw a distinction between morbid Faseination and con- scientious objection. it 14 in necessary also to beur mind that the case was fir fron typical; in fact it was extraordinary. The murder itself
"erime
Was
#
passion." and additionally Mrs Elis was a young an beautiful mother of two children. These factors to awing public tended opinion agafitst the death sentence.
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NEW CASABLANCA RIOTS AMERICAN VIEWPOINT
Peron To Moroccans
Europeans Clash
Call It
A Day
&
WILL NOT SEEK NEWSPAPER OFFICE
RE-ELECTION
Buenos Aires, July 15.
Pre-
President Peron of Argen- tine said today he is resign- It is worthwhile poititinging his leadership of the
that when 11 67-year-old woman was hanged in Man Peronista Party and will not chester for a particularly accept re-election as erime a year sident for a third time. vold-blooded!
He also, told Congress rapres ago, the outery was largely
to a small hard sentatives who called on him at confined
House that the core of conscientious ah..Government
operation since
dies ment, Ruth his martyr's death by compari son, and news agency ports нер
re-
been
In
jectors to capital punish state of internal war which has #1 abortive military coup in
September 1951 will be lifted.
The state of internal war nu- Wednesday' thorises pollee to keep people potent wider arrest for any length of new drive in, at the government's plen
sure. against the death sentence.
execution
faelor
AN
......A NEW PHASE He said the country
press.
wa
I is agreat that hanging is about to enter a new phase
with particularly comer nstitutional government
freedom for mendable form 01 punts complete political
all factions and freedom of the ment. With some justice it has been described
The cicetion in which Preil- barbarous anachronism. The|q Peron said he would not Royal Commission stand as president is constitu- Capital Punishment, now tonally due in 1958, but cheer ever, while advocating very here expect a call to the certain changes in the impells much earlier.
President Peress was swept to the death of position penalty, largely supports power as the country's first con- hanging.
The three pur-situtionally elected President in assigned 1946 what he was head of the pores commonly
Partido Laberists, the party to punishment are: retri
which was later named the bution, deterrence and formation, and is claim. ed that capital punishment has a
"uniquely deterrent force," We believe it would be a pity the if public reaction to Ellis cave by itself brought an end to expital punish ment, particularly ILM current outery does
19 | Percrista Party.-Reuter,
25 YEARS FOR KILLING BOY
[L
New York, July 15, Frank Santana, 17, who shot
younger boy to death on Bronx Street Inst April 30, was sentenced on Friday to 25 years 10 life in prison.
the
in Britain not appear to
be County
ATTACKED
Casablanca, July 15.
demonstrating Moroccans and Europeans. A mob Fighting broke out here this evening between of Moroccans moved in from the Médina (Moroccan quarter) towards the European town and clashed with Europeans who were counter-demonstrating.
Shortly afterwards, another group of Moroc- cans was reported moving towards the European quarter where 35 European casualties resulted from fighting last night.
Moroccans
were sacking European villas their way into the centre of the city.
Earlier a crowd of European demeriters sacked and burnt Moroccan shops in the "Place Des Allic" and overturned and set en fire Morovets transport buscs. Many Moroccans were in- jured by the demonstrators. No pelien were to be seen.
The
on
new French Resident General, Gllbert Grandval,' had hurried in troop reinforcements und clamped a strict curfew in an effort to stop the wild mob rioting that threatened France's new conciliation polley whole
China - Mail
Feature Highlights
Here are some of highlights
feature section:
P. 8: "Murder
the
today's
Was Their Business"-One of the world's strangest stories,
P. 6: The Wingate story--
4ih instalment.
re-
P. 7; Another of the "Did
It Happen?". series. P. 8 Anne Sharpley
veals the secret of the Mary Pickford "quarrel polley
13:
.P. Befton Delmer shows You a photograph and reports on the Malenkov comeback; Rene MacColl calls Ол E.G. Wode. house and reports why he will not return home in the style of Bertie Wooster,
Mrs Sispera Home At
Last
Soviet Security
US And Red China Assured By West OPTIMISTIC European Union
FORECAST
BY U NU
San Francisco, July 15.
U Nu, Burmese Prime Minister, said today he be- lieved within the foreseeable, future # understanding would be established be- tween Communist China and
the United States.
Ile stressed that his prediction was based on personal belief not on what he had been told by
anyone.
Paris, July 15.
The United States is to tell the Soviet Union at the "Big Four" meeting in Geneva that the armaments control measures and the level of forces provided by Western European Union offer Russia the most effective guarantee of her security, a source close to the American delegation said here tonight.
The source said that one of the. tasks of Western diplomacy at the "summit" conference in Geneva would be to convince the Soviet Union that her security would be guaranteed under the Western European Union formula.
The control. of German Ye» Concluding his visit to the armament under WEU and the United
ited States, U Nu was spenk-North Atlantic Counell should ing at a press conference.
clearly show Russia that the
Last night in a formal address he advanced
the opinion that world problems would not be settled until China paricipated in discussions with the Big Four, QIANCES FAVOURABLE
Asked to sum up the results
efforts to
bring about an understanding between the US and China he said he believed the chances were favourable in the future.
of
danger of German militarism
was over.
The source added that in the American view the fact tha! France and Germany were now closely linked meant the elimi- of the major notion of one
of friction in Europe, sources thus providing an added, proice- tion for the Soviet Union.
Court Upholds A Mother
Norwich, July 15.
A 32-year-old mother of --. Nusaid he believed Geneva feels that the unificetion court here yesterday that it The American delegation to four children maintained in the establishment of such. of Germany and European
and
un understanding would folow security are two parts of the was wreng to send a child unification between Nationalis! and Communist China.
"If there
will continue to
a Moroccan mob invading the children after a month-long/ple of unification the
same problem.
under 10 to school
von her ease.
London, July 15. Mrs Phyllis Sispera, 32- year-old divorced wife of a Czech, flew into London late
The United States govern- her three
She is Mrs Joy Baker and tonight with
the ment does not believe
she ivas appealing against being suffer and they have suffered Soviet Union would consent to
earlier. by a magi- German reunification unters red £4 battle to leave Czechoslova- enough" U Nu said.
He explained he had not dis-adequate arrangements were strales court for falling to com- Lehoch.. attendance ply with With
cussed the unification of Formosa made for European security. her was Mr Jaromir
orders. and Commúnist China with Chudy. a Czach, who first dis-
IMPRACTICABLE
Mrs Baker muintained that it “យោ៩
up- esparate wrong to bringing and schooling until ut
cast the age of 10."
Kia.
in the strategic protectorate,
The police tonight turned back Twe Merecents were killed by revolver and inachinegun fire by the European demonstrators in European quarter in retaliation the centre of Casablanca. They for massacres and lynchings of were beaten ever the head with Moroccans by European mobs
But Casablanca was a city in rifle butts until completely dead, while a third Moroccan in the a state of siche. It seemed that closed her story to the worldatlonelist Readers and in hole
had swept through its
of Prime Minister he could not fame district was lynched by war
do so because Burma does not streets, Icaving hulits of smok-and who according to some re-.
ports may marry Mrs
Stapera. the crowd some minutes later.
A vast crowd of more thoning cars, burning buildings and
Mrs Sispera, carrying recognise the Nationalist Govern-
meni red roses, demonstrators pillaged shops.-United Preas,
bouquet of 2,500 European
But he said if he were a pri clashed out from the centre of
smiling joyfully us she alighted Casablanca to the
promises of
trom a Viscount airliner of the vale citizen and were asked, by Nationalist Tenders to discuss the
anti-counter- pre-French
British European Airways. terrorist
Maroc. newspaper Presz, breaking through a thin cordon of pollee and attempted
force their
way into to
builNDOWS SMASHED
the
the
Finding the doors bolted the crowd. completely filling little
street where the news- offices. hurled has its paper Bronx scntcnee, In passing
stones through the windows of Court Judge William the editor's rooms und the based on profound convie-Lyman said the killing of 15-administrative quarters. Two tion. It would be foolish to year-old William Blankenship printers were injured by the
destroy impetuously an in
strument that has assumed
a vital role in the preven-
tion and punishment. crime in Britain.
Jr. was "wanton murder."
The slai boy was the son of leader in Bronx community of the fight against Juvenile delin-
quity-Associated Press.
.in
meet
At least it may be said
Manchester, July 15. mitigation that the scales of
Bepresentatives of all sections justice balance fairly where the
British cotton Industry the English judicial system wil
Mr Peter Thorney- is employed, which is, per-croft, President of the Board of haps. more than can be Trade, on July 27 to discuss the Bald for the many "pro. Industry's export problems,
Bord said the The Cotton gressive" countries who criticise Britain's so-called meeting would take place at the
Invitation of the Thornycroft. "out-dated" system.
Reuter.
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In the street, the crowd found a car belonging to the paper, which they proceeded in
ПСУБ-
Big Three
Reach Swift
Agreement
wos
She joined with her children the problem he would be happy in waving to a crowd gathered to do so. on the airport balcony behind a newsreel and press ttery of battery
meras.
The home-coming and family reunions with three of Mrs Slapera's visiers and two of her brothers was a birthday pre- scnt for
chlid, her eldest Jaroslav Martin Sispera, who
13 today. was
ment
"TERRIBLE LIFE"
U Nu sald he
QS
TENSIONS RELAX
cir- Asked he envisaged cumstances when he could visit Formosa in the role of a private ciilzen, he said it was possible but the decision to retire Prime Minister was not up to him but to the people of Burna. believed བས་་ world tensions had appreciably Paris, July 15.
relaxed during the last few Western statesmen pre-
Mrs Sispera, wearing a big months and said that the Astan nations would continue their next week's belted grey Jacket-length coal, paring for
efforts to establish a basis of Geneva conference of heads adorned with a bright yellow
the Com friendship between of government. swept ower, spoke of her imprisonmunist and Western blocs of the
with her former husband world. through their business here in 1950 for attempting to leave smush up.
He disclaimed the role of self- The demonstrators finally today reaching "complete Czechoslovakia illegally,
between in with their Ured, carrying triumph a member of the police agreement" on the presenta- delegated to keep order in the tion of their case to Russia. elly.
At n 24-hour meeting the Sisperu A major part of the shares three foreign ministers Mr prilion ilfe
were John Foster Dulics, United courage. bought at the beginning of the states, Mr Harold Macmillan.
Roland
Lemalgre by
was shot last Britain, and M. Antione Pinay, who
with only France - adopted
Mrs Sispera described her re- Dubreuil, month by unknown assailants as
slight changes
detailed pealed applications to return to he came out of his hat in the
plans submitted by their ex-Britain with the children and European quarter of Casablanca.
sald: "I fought for it. cannot peria, At the time it was considered
tell you how I fought for it." that this murder was the work
Asked how it felt to be home,
Stu the Marac
Presse
the
appointed negotiator With her arm tightly clasped the blocs because he said he con- her daughter. who ridered such a role ridiculous and around clutched 1 small doll, Mrs he did not like ridiculous jobs.
"The grimly:
53
sald
Was
He would accept the role of
The source said that the United States rejected the idea that some kind of formal agree ment could be reached between NATO and the Eastern Euro pean defence, ret-up, recently established in Warsaw.
Today tho, court-the County of Norfolk Sessions Appeals— but allowed Mrs Baker's 'appeal added that this, would not pre-
In the American view, this en! the Icent éducation autho would be on alliance between rities from taking further atcion two blocs which did not trusty time they felt the children
nct, itzelving each other. As such, it would were
education. be unworkable.
The United States in addition' not believe that two did separate German states could be organised into any effective de- fence system. ...
efficient
HER METHOD
Mrs Baker told the court that she found by her method the children could more easily understand what was going on
According to the source the and the greater part of their United States expects that the work had been to learn to speak
table question of German reunifica-
| manners--aleanliness 0
courtesy, tion and European security will correctly, be referred by the four heads kindness and consideration.
She said she a meeting of to
thought these of governments foreign ministers in the autumn, were of more importance than while the disarmament preo. writing or
Seria not
scholastic "[ lem will be handed over to the United Nations.
achievement but for contented According to the source, the human beings," she said.
at Geneva will Mr. Horry Greenwood, the United States
Senior Inspector of that Mrs Baker's the Soviet satellites and Schools, sald status of the
of subversion in 10-year-old son was three years problem
writing and arithe- the free world, caused by ngents behind in of International Communism-metic and about a year behind In reading-China Mall Special. Router.
want to discuss with Russia the County beyond my negotiator, he said, only if asked
She described it as a "terrible
life.
These "briefs" which now go of French counter-terrorisis-to the three Western heads of she said: "It is too good to be France-Presse.
government at a meeting In true. It is like a heavy stone Geneva on Sunday morning being lifted from my heart."- deal with:
Reuter.
mobs
HEAVY CASUALTTES
Casablanca, July 15. French and Moroccan clashed in the streets, pillaged, and killed tonight in burned blazing riots that raged out of control.
At least 15 persons were kili- ed and 100 or more injured, late but the police announced tonight: The manifestations
Casablanca," have ended in,
1. The reunification of Germany.
2. European security.
3. World disarmament,
4. A miscellany of problems causing International tension, -Reuter.
GO AHEAD
WORLD RECORD
by all the partics concerned and then he would work only as a servant of peace.-Reuter,
Second Victim Of
Thunderbolt
A
·
Ascot, July 15. second death occurred during the night as a result of yesterday's "ropical" thunder- storm at Ascot when lightning Bashed into a crowd of race- goers, killing a woman and in- juring several other persons. " Oslo, July 15.
This brought the death roll, The Finn, Pentti Karvonen, from lightning during the plast tonight established a new world | 24 hours to seven. These in- children record for the 3,000 Metres cluded three school
was 8 sheltering under a tree in a steeplechase. His time
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