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B Foster Dulles, did not brenk a lot of now ground in his address to the United Nations Generül Assembly, but he wins ad- miration and congratula- tions for the fine balance of his peroration. He engaged in no high optimism, but he gave a forceful impreg Bion that the world right now possesBCA the biggest opportunity of a decade to bring about a lasting peace. The Geneva "summit" meeting staried something, as it was intended to do, but it has yet to be determined pre- cinely what. It could result, as Mr Dulles hopes it will, in a "decade of trus peace,”. although the implied time Hmitation is a trifle dis- concerting. It could finally reveal itself nothing more than a gesture on the part of the Russian rulers.
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WHITE PAPER DISCLOSURES By Hurricane
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London, Sept. 23.
In Barbados
Miami, Florida,
Sept. 23. Hurricane Janet was re-
ported here today to have idlled at least 100 people and left thousands home-
A Government White Paper revealed tonight that the two British diplomats, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, fled from Britain on the very day that Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison ordered an interrogation of Maclean.
The Government statement however shed no light on less in the British island of whether a "third man" had tipped off the two diplomats, Barbados. who are now believed to be in Moscow as advisers to the A state of emergency was de Soviet Foreign Ministry.
clared in Barbados,
100-
of 200,000.
The White Paper implicated Maclean in giving secret information square-mile British-owned island to the Soviet Union but made no reference at all to the activities of with a population
Wreckage was reported strewn Burgess, apart from the fact that he had Communist sympathies while at Cambridge University,
tion.
But in some shape or an- other it must have its Im- pact on future world events, and the great expectation is that this will become mani- fest during the new session of the General Assembly. The dominant question is
The White Paper indicated that Maclean had been spying for the whether the goodwill and friendly spirit of
Soviet Union for "some years" before January, 1949. the Geneva meeting can be
detected he was under observa- for two separate sums of £1,000. Defending zelf against criti- sustained by the East and clam for not having arrested
Or he may have been Both drafts had been romitted West within the United Maclean and the other missing warned.
by a Mr Robert, Becker whose Nations; whether the Com-diplomat, Guy Burgess, before Searching enquiries involving address was given as the Hotel Tive TARN muniat bloc can enlarge they could flee the country, the individual interrogations were Central, Zurich,
made into this last possibility: given was probably false. their ideas of co-existence Government said: to co-operation and theroby "In some countries no doubt, Insufficient evidence was ob-
Cleverly Planned give substance to the aims Maclean would
been tainable to form a definite con- have and ideals upon which the afterwords. In this country, na
airested firat and questioned clusion or to warrant princesa,
tion" Big Four leaders found arrest can be made without Maclean, at the time he was under investigation, was head of
As on American citizen, the the Foreign Ofee, The White Paper. did not specify when
British Government had no Burgess came under suspicion
power to preverit her leaving White Paper indicated
By going behind the country that since their escape
Savitzerland. tro Iron Curtain, Maclean and ncár Mos-
used
agreement.
LTHOUGH there was a tendency for the "aummit" talks to give the impression that questions such as dis- armament, the security of
BBC Listeners
London, Sept. 23. British housewive wept today for the fictitious heroine of their favourite Tadio serial. She Suas killed off by a script writer for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Some 9,000,000 listeners to "The Archers-An_Every- day Story of Country Folk," last night heard the heroine, Grace Archer, die in the arms of her
husband
being
after trapped in a burning, barn, Hundreda
weeping the BBC women called to ask why Grace had been killed, Many offered aid to the "bereaved
husband."
A family in Dover pulled down the blinds in their
across roads and the damage to Ex-MP
sugar cane, the island's chief
crop, was callmated at millions
of dollars,
Other islands of the Windward group, Hoar Barbados were enveloped in silence dealto call for information from them
Bureau.
a'
10
bados, and possibly Grenada 10 the south; were believed The White Paper said that have been struck, by the hur- Mrs Maclean's flight to join herricane-Reuter was clearly cleverly planned".
adequate evide per slated that the American Department of husband behind the Iron Curtain
The White in January, 1049, the security authorities received A report that certain Foreign Office In formaflor had looked to the Soviet authorities some years
The
Europo, the reunification of earlier Geld of suspicion had Burgess had lived
The
and other
•
and other inter- Germany national problems were ex 1931, to
been narrowed by mid-April, cow. They were
"advisers to the Ministry of two or three persons, clusively the concern of the
Affairs Foreign nf May, Big Four, the reality is the beginning
had come to Maclean that in all these issues the garded
be re- Soviet agencies.
The White Paper said that, garded 13
principal the
of Maclean's United Nations Organisa-
up to the time auspect". tion has a dominating in-
The
White Paper said that escape, there was terest. It is this fuct which Maclean and Burgess gavo no admissible evidence to support imposes great importanee evidence during the course of a prosecution under the omelal to the deliberations of the their career in the Foreign Ser-secrets act"..
vice of any association other
UN during its new session, than would be normal between Mr Foster Dulles, speaking two colleagues..
He Knew
with
of
in
for the Western world, has "It is now clear that they Indiented the willingness of were in communication the democracies to work each other after the return
Washington unrelentingly towards the Burgess from goal of peace, and to do so
1931 and they may have been In such communication earlier. in a practical manner. All that remains Is for the Soviet Union and her a830- elates to do likewise. Geneva prepared the ground and the way is open for substantial progress during the coming months towards creating entirely new
"ab legally
Narrow Escape
On May
25, 1951, the very the
dis- day
two diplomats
the then appeared,
Foreign Secretary, Mr Herbert Morrison, authorised the security services Lo question Maclean.
The statement sald that both diplomats, while students at Cambridge University in the The White Paper said: "It is carly 1930's had chownL Com- now clear that in spite of the munist sympathies. There was by the no evidence that Maclean had precautions taken authorities, Maclean must have ever been a member of the time Communist Party and both, on international before his disappearance, that leaving the university, had out. not he was under investigation. wardly renounced Communist
explanation may be views.
relations. There may recur such a splendid op- portunity for realising the desires and hopes of the people of the world.
TYPHOON KATE.
LATEST
The Royal Observatory this morning reported
that Typhoon Kate was centred within 120 miles of 18 deg. N and 118 deg. E moving west or west- north-west at 12 knols.
to
This places the storm west of northern Luzon and between 300 and 400] miles southeast of Hong- kong. If the typhoon con- tinues on its present it should pass south of the Colony.
course
home as a sign of mourn- ing. Viewers in Bleming-
movie ham cancelled,a date.
One unhappy housewifa told
the BBC: "I don't aực" any reason for getting rid of Grace. She and Phillip haven't been married long and
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they seem to be happy. Why did she have to die?"
BBC spokesman wild the episode was planned last March" because writer Ed Mason decided to eliminate Grace from the plot. "We want to keep the pro- pramine realistic," said the "spokesman. "Normal fami
les have deaths and other the tragedies-why not Archers?"-United Pecar.
Count Sues
Of
City Of
Paris
Paris, Sept. 23.
by the United States Weather Count Arnold Bendern of Liechtenstein, who
was once a Liberal member of the British parlia St Vincent, duo west of Bar-ment, today sued the city of Paris for the return of 420 acres of land he donated for a garden city: His legal representative, Maitre Reno Floriot, said the Count donated the land on condition that the building of the garden city at Beauregard, near here, began with in five years of the donation. More than five years have passed and nothing had been done, Maits Fioriot said.
-chambers The Judge In~. nominated en expert to cheelt
West German
Border Shooting that world, had not yet begun
Hof, Germany, Sept. 23. A Communist military patrol crossed the border into West Germany yesterday and fired on a.US
Army patrol, the army said today.
the
and Maltro Floriotsaid.. his ellent would revoke the dona-` tion, as soon, as, this had been proved.
Count Arncli Bendern, born Maurice Arnold Forest, repre- senied East Ham North Division,'
Dulles Not Impressed
1 HOWLOON
Rioting Breaks Out In Buenos
Aires
Buenos Aires, Sept. 23.
Bred
Pro-Peron workers staged riots today within a Fow hours of the triumphant [·inauguration of General Eduardo Lonardi»as: new President of Argentina.
Armbuted gars advancing demonstrators · ́at, Rosario City, about 180 miles northwest of Buenos Aires, In the capital itself, there were slots in working class suburbs to the south of the cit
The government proadcast an appeal
to the Rosario
rioters to disband, warning that anti- personnel bombs would be used by the Air Force if they failed to respond. Rosario is Argentina's second city, with a population of more than 500,000,
CARS STONED
In the Buenos Aires dock demonstrators arce, pro-Peron advanced threateningly towards power plants of the Argentine Electricity Company, stoning
cars on the way.
area
Armoured units rushed to the southern suburbs to disband the crowds. Drawbridges over a waterway separating the from other parts of Buerios Aires were raised, **..
radio appealed Adren
Buenos
for calm as other parts of the
capital resounded to the cheers of people thronging the streets celebrating the replacement of Feron, whose nine-year-old ne gime was toppled on Monday by General Lonard forces
One of the clay's Hot centres was the manufacturing area of Riachuelo, where. workers •/ten Avellaneda, across the River years ago rose up against army leaders who bad Imprisoned Peru, then a vien groot dent. Reuber
CONSUL'S * SUICIDE
Washington, Sept. 23.
Colombo, Sept. 23, The American Secretary of The Swedish Consul in Cey- Mr John Foster Dulles, Ion, George Olaf Widgren, was State, declared that the Soviet Foreign found dead in his bedroom this Minister, Mr Molotov's speech morning. An inquest handed today before, the United Nations down a verdict of thath by General Assembly seemed at suicide from an overdose of first impression only to be a sleeping pills found eastern reiteration of the Soviet posl-
was bed-lable which Widgren's tion.
read: "Freds, I love you". The note was signed simply "G"
A spokesman said the un-in the House of Commons from Identified" patrol was 100 yards 1911 to 1916. within West German territory. There were no casualties, and
He took Liechtenstein nation- ality in 1932 and became a US patrol did not return diplomatic
counsellor in the fire, he added
principality on tho The incident took place six border of Switzerland. miles from this Bavarian border
Mr Dulles made his statement Now 76 years old he is reput- town which is a few miles northed to be fabulously wealthy upon his arrival there from Now Czechoslovak border and owns property in Biarritz, York, where he attended today's
the Cote d'Azur land-Reuter.
of the United Press,
Bulganin's Opinion
Denver, Sept. 23.
REBELS KILLED
on
The inquest established that:
who
10
taken them
and Switzer session of the General Assembly the "Freda" referred to, was "At first impression it seemed probably the wife of Mr K. P. to me to be a restatement of old 5 Witt, Danish Consul
I didn't see anything Ceylon, positions. I
testified at the Wit now in it." Dulles
wald accused Molotov of inquest,
Widgren had quating out of context his speech frequently made protestations to the General Assembly yeler- Algiers, Sept. 23.
Witt, had never Mr Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet
French forces have killed 21 day. He quoted me as saying that of love to his wife, but that he,
possible. seriously. Premier, declared in a message Algerian catlaws and taken one disarmament is not
was that
who was 55 years Widgren, President
that Ebenhower
divorced in Sweden. prisoner in operations begun But what I did eny Mr. Eisenhower's plan for yesterday in the Nementenas under conditions of fear, dis old, was
I He Eved in a big house; in "One
very difficult. and charging military blueprints mountains, it was announced armament is
also said that if fear were re-Colombo with three that he was no longer receiving The White Paper sald that the her children were met by an "would become significant only today. certain types of secret papers. two diplomats left Maclean's | unidentified man who toolt them if agreement is reached on the Twelve weapons
were Feizen moved, disarmament would be and It is also possible that he home at Tatsfeld, Kent, on away by car, probably to the reduction of armaments and on by the French, who announced possible."-France-Press.
Friday night, May 25, 1951. They Soviet zone.
taicing measures for the prohibi-that the operation was con- crossed from Southampton to
of The White Paper said that tions
obornic weRDONE.”--- timing.-France-Presse.
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St Malo the same night, leaving revelations by the refugee Router.
on board the Channel
their baggage and
steamer Soylet diplomat, Vladimir
few Petrov, had confirmed that
clothes. They were thought to Maclean and Burgess had gone
have taken a tal. to Rennes and then to have caught a train to Paris. They were never seen. again. Mrs
Dunbar, mother-in-kw
to the Soviet Union where they
had been joined by Mrs Mac-
Cyprus Not For Discussion
ican.
The Government defended it
United Nations, Sept. 23. of Maclean, told the Foreign self against criticisms of its
The United Nations plenary Offloc in confidence that on alience® on the case by saying General Assembly today decided that counter-esplonge de-not to put the Cyprus issue on August 3, 1931, she received two registered letters posted in penda for! its success on the the Assembly's agenda. The St.
maximum Gallen, Switzerland, con-
secrecy, France- i voting was 28
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STRIKE ENDED
Parts, Sept. 23. The 24 hours "warning strike" launched yesterday by French railway engineers and mechanica ended in Paris this evening.
Regular rail and suburban traffic was reported normal by the railroad" management, France-Presse,
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