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HE declaration of Mala-
Tran independence signed
last night in London might have given rise to one of two doubts had it not been for the added statement by the Chief Minister, Tenghi Abdul Rahman, The im- portant and essential pledge ho
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★ Big_Three Representatives Discuss Middle East Situation ★
U.S.
PLAN TO STOP AGGRESSION
Blockade And
Sanctions
Washington, Feb. 8.
US officials placed before their British and
The tragedy that ha French colleagues today an American plan for emancipated colonies and stopping aggression in the Middle East by mea- protectorates in Asia in thesures short of military action. postwar yours is that they
seriusly
have either forgotten 03. American informants made clear, in advance selfishly. Beyer
of a tripartite meeting on the Middle East this aubscribed to this curdinál. obligation JB
afternoon, that they think that measures such as principle, Britain may have no right naval blockades and economic and financial sanc- tions would be best fitted for dousing an Arab- ber of the Commonwealth. Israeli flare-up.
to demand this assurance from an independent mem
As such,
But the demand,
This Ine of US thinking stems from a close analysis of the given by American officials to the kind of military action
should not be necessary, for
the survival Commonwealth
upon each taneously
Questions About HK
depends which could be taken by either side in the dispute. The Incidents
member recognising not
-
conclusion has been that any war in that area in the foreseeable future would take different forms from the Just the dangers of frigid! Korean conflict and would, therefore, need different issintion, but the prime im- ; handling by whatever Powers seek to bring it to a stop. portance of mutuallsm.
A
I
ND the new independence - it was believed that the British and French have
declaration gives striking reached essentially the same conclusion. proof of the extent to which
each member of the Comme.al eiretes was that the fr
Tho understanding In US, amelala contend, to train the men and develop the technical monwealth is interdepen-
partite conference on the Mid-feundations for on air strike dent, indeed of how tightly die Enst will decide on speelfie against farmel. woven are the interests of individuai members, this
respect the most ob vious examples are defence And the sterling area finan- cial agreements. Under one,
INERRUP to be taken in the event of specifle developments threatening the breaking peace in the Middle Eas
One
Postponed
London, Feb. 8. A Labour Member of Parliament withdrew two questions he had been sche- duled to ask about Hong- kong in the House of Com- THE BIG RISK
mong today so he could pre- sent them later and be able The risk that preys on the minds of US officialc-the to debate them. pesin danger is that danger they ure going to -
Mr Stephen Davies
had eithte the relis of the Ezyp-phasise in their talks with the originally planned to ask the Britain and four other tans will stage Invasion, British and French-is one of a
Colonial Secretary Mr Alan Commonwealth
what Lennox-Boyd, countries Should that happen, the most serious military outbreak being
"By United contribute to
States Malaya's either side could reasonably try sparked by another "border in- authority
Con either wido security under the other, for it to inftet a heavy blow cldept" without
sular personnel in Houzkoda Malaya contributes her and seize a chunk of territory, really wishing it.
permitted, were
to gearch large gold and dollar carn- US military strategists. sec 10 March may be the critical business establishments operated Israeli officials have by ̈“Chintoo. : studens and to ings to the Commonwealth possibility of either driving for month.
thadow and Investigate them.” * served notice that an all-out victory.
they intend pool.
He also planned to ask "why
Consular United States
per sonnel were allowed to search Chinese residents in Hongkong ind to enter the Nam Woh Middle School and to subject forcibly
Kirl student to detaked search anxi a lorz Interrogation about herself and her family"
Two points arise here: in con- nection with defence, the Tengku now feels that in- dependence will strengthen his hand in any future niks with the Communists parti. cularly as be now hus com- internal plete control of security. This is debatable for, as we pointed out re cently, although Chin Peng, the terrorist Jenster, has pro- mised to lay down arms under these cunditions, what he probably meant, but did no way, was that surrender only he would
when all "foreign forces" have left Mulayan soll,
faces combination of insur- rection and invasion To
MALAYA today
this extent it la difficult to differentinte between in- ternal and external security in the frar against the terrorists. A difference hus, however. been made and even though Commonwealth forces will remain
under
the command of the Director of Operations, an Emer-
gency Operationa Council
its
on
The First Communique
Washington, Feb. 5. British, French and United States officials today dia- cursed for more than two hourn their responsibilities under their tripartite de. claration of 1950 guaISIN- leeing Israeli's frontlers,
A brief ammunique issued after Um meeting at the State
Department said:
here
"Representatives
tho of Untied States, United Kingdom and France mtt today
consider the situation Lry the Middle East.
"As members of the United Nasiona the three goverii- ments share in the res ponsibility of all members to be alert and vigilant to threats to international peace and security.
"In light of the increased farston in the Middle East with ond In Locordance their undertakings in the triparilte declarzulon of May 25, 1950, the United States, the United Kingdom and
belleved France would be useful to discuss their responsibilitim under that declaration.
"This
Was
preliminary of views and exchange further coustaltations will tako place," the brief com- munique concluded.
The British Ambassador, Sir Roger Makini whe took part, told reporters after the meeting "we have not
got any earthquaking
pre-
decisions to announce." Asked
the whether ilminary exchange of views wi saltfactory, he replica emphatically "Yes, certain- 17."--Reuter.
work in a demili- zone
the Syrian
on
a
The questions were among the last on the list of those to be answered today in the House, As a result, Mr Davies, n 69- year-old
former ccal miner.
said he asked that the questions be postponed so he could pro- sent them orally and thus have the privilege of debating them.
They will be asked again at n Inter question period, the date of which has not yet been set. -United Press.
Indian Gangster
Killed
Shillong, India, Feb. 8. Notohe Sema, cfficially de- ccribed as a "notorious gangster,"" was killed today in the first encounter between government forces and Naga rebels.
Police and troops launched operations Inst week to quell disturbances created by mem- bers of the Naga National Coun- cil to back demands for an in- dependent State. Today's clash of occurred at Zuricheboty, #
village in the Naga Hills..
Syrian the
TRUMAN, MacARTHUR AT IT AGAIN
My Dismissal Was Savage & Brutal Says General
New York, Feb. 8.
General Douglas MacArthur today described his dismissal as United States Far Eastern Commander in 1951 by ex-President Harry Truman as "savage and brutal" and linked it with the disappearance of Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean of the British Foreign Office.
Mr Truman's memoirs are being serialised in Life magazine and in this week's instalment the former president said his dismissal of General MacArthur was because "I could no longer tolerate his insubordination."
The Magazine invited General MacArthur to read the Intal ment and publish his reply in
the same issue,
Officials of the magazine sald the General, now chairman of Remington Rand Corporation,
bis this reply in his own hand- cent
asked that it bo writing and published with no alterations.
Gentral MacArthur denied
OFFER TO BANNED
NEGRESS STUDENT
Free Studies At Copenhagen University
US To Stop
Sending Up Weather Balloons
Washington, Feb. 8.
A State Department spokesman said tonight that launching of United States weather balloons from Germany and Turkey would CORSO
pending further study.
The spokesman was answer- ing questions from reporters after the State Department re- pled today to a Soviet prolest that the balloons were viola- ing Soviet air space and endan- gering air irațile.
PRACTICAL MATTER
The reply to the Soviet pro- New York, Feb. 8. test of last Saturday said "The Autherine Lucy,
United States government' will 8 SUB-
scdk to aver" "Husching of pended University of Ala- esditional balloons which on the bama Negro coed, said to bis of isown data, might į demand that this situation be
exposed coming after the Alger day she had been invited to transit the USSR." Hiss and Harry Dexter White attend school in Denmark! scandale caused deepest resent- but had declined.
In response to queries about this promise, the State DA men
Ho thought 11 W pa probably regarded as a political League for Tolerance," offered "As a practical matter pending Danish organisation, the pertment's cows division caði: the ad- embarrass move do
to pay Miss Lucy's transporta further study. balloon launch- ministration
Ulon to Denmark and for herings in Germany and Turkey (H) and White were alleged studies at the University of will erasą,"
government Copenhagen, whose rector, R.M.
Hanse. is
The Soviet a supporter of the
protested last the United Saturday to both States and Turkey. · Mies, Lucy said she received
Communists
posts).
In
A
· afterwards.—
that he had ever been guilty of
tion and said "Mr Must Have Been Told Lengue.
narrative docs such
Burts ad Macleza were a personal telephoned invitation A similar protest was lodged once to life with that
135 Maclean we to-go-to-Denmark, Shek with Us West German govern "dis" || twa be 2 Would remain alent
sie could not identify the calfes ment civico to the
officials whoe
shortly nation,"
disappearance The general called Truman's behind the curtzia: hid by name, but that the call was Router.
placed from Copenhagen. version of his dismissal "a laby-wide repercussionis. Central
thot claimed
"I was very pleased, and it rinth of fancy" and "netian, MacArthur distortion
Communists misrepresenta Chinese tion."
war without advance essurance. behind the
that be at Manchuria would tacked.
and
Real Reason?
He said the real reason for his removal might well have been set off by "my recom- mendation inace in January shortly before my relief, that
initiated
treason
trial be break up a spy ring responsible for the purloining of my top secret reports to Washington,
the
would
never have entered the Korenkime me feel gooù they asked
scenes
not
sho
sald.
She said, however, that she is to go to the still determined University of Alabama, which suspended her after demonstra- tions over her admission.
TWO WARNINGS "What then was the um- paralleled circumstance--and the Miss Lucy revealed today she enly clicumstance possible had received two warnings over which induced the Chinese to the telephone to get out of town
war" the or suffer the consequences, enter the Korean
Meanwhile, Arthur general asked.
Shores, "They must have been told by her attorney, said at a press con. sorao one and they must have
ference that he did not think that "It was not until the recent known what I did not know, the Alabama trustees reliance on exposure of the British spies,
that even if their armies swept their policing powers to keep Burgess and Maclean, that the across the Yalu by the hundreds her away from the university true facts began to untold the of thousands. cven
they will hold up in Federal court. general added.
struck without warning as at He said the courts have always "These men with access to Pearl Harbour, we would ensure held that police powers "must sceret nies were undoubtedly their forces sanctuary in Man- give
to way
constitutional General MacArthur links in the chain to our enemy churib,"
rights" in Korea, through Feking by added,
Shores said also he is "guro" way of Moscow. I belleve my (Contd. on back page, Col. 4)
the courts will direct that Miss Lucy be re-admitted, "The dead- line is tomorrow, and if they (the trusites) don't act by then ere prepared to start our legal ection, ho cald United Press.
WOLVES, HUNGER RIOTS
THREATEN S. ITALY
Rome, Feb. 8.,
Rescue caravans pushed through the worst snows on record today to bring food and clothing to isolated South- ern Italy, where hunger riots were breaking out.
Cargoes of food, clothing and medicines began to pour in to the usually sunny districts at the tip of the Italian boot and to Sicily, where 57 persons are known dead as a result of the bitter cold gripping the countryside,
girl was
under the Minister for In those circumstances, then, 1 lo resume Internal Defence will plan the Western Big Three objective Larised the revived jungle campaign. | would be to force the eggressor frontier to divest water from This is a sensible move for, to withdraw to his side of the the Jordan River. The Israelis
Whether the cb-
need the water for their econo- quite apart from the aense boundary line,
Syria of responsibility it should jective is sought through United mic development plans.
Nations machinery or outside has warned in the gravest terms confer
the minister
the
consequences best against the UN. It would be concerned. It should also achieved by punitive economic such a step. give valuable experience in meatures such as blockades or It is feared that
Notohe Sema was shot while helping Malaya to formu sanctions, American
ECUITS Goldiers would fure OD
attempting to escape, the Israelis. It is feared that the authorities said. He had been
The overall European death, alive. The fourth, a laraclis then would send
wanted for the murder, of a toll in the cold that drifted in dead when found. AS LAST RESORT
military force into the de Naga village leader two months from the Siberian Arctic stood The cold spread; as far west militarises zane to fire back. Military action against Arab
Ent 210.
One as Turkey and Greece, Furthermore, Israeli
policy or Ismeli troops in the held a hitherto has been to punish
Scycal Nugas have been A roaring avalanche buried passenger train had been stuck In American | HANNAN envisaged
Austrian
Adrianopolis in between tourists
and stiff arrested in the past two days four border. harements by
Istanbul is only
for three days. on charges of possessing arms Salzburg Province, the Aus Military convoys were set to Inst-resort a
retaliatory altacks, Nasser has various new schemes. Its measure, in the most desperate promised
another such and being members that
trian police reported.
the 287 big dollar carnings give it circumstances.
political
passengers. teams brought out three of them the aid of on Syria-Egypt's tremist gangs-United Press,
Wolves came down out of a wider scope for purchasing consequences
such action attack
military ally-would · bring
their inauntain: fairs in a quest US its needs than many other would be
grave that
to Egypt into the tray.
for food. Some were spotted Commonwealth countries. officials are reluctant
around the Istanbul airport, But the Tengku, mustim spell them out.
Passengera
1 nowbound preas on his ministers and
train in Greece fought off wolves.
late own foreign and said, national defonce policies. The second point: finance for,
national development pro- jects. The Government will: doubtless be tempted to outlay much
money
on
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One thing could build on top of another, "end before, we knew it, the tat could be in the are," the US official said.
meet.
ago.
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EX-
CYPRIOT CHILDREN SLASH ROYAL FAMILY PICTURES
Rescue
Nicosia, Feb. 8. Cypriot schoolchildren today, broke into school buildings to rip down British flags and slash pictures of ́the Royal family in a violent protest after a Famagusta student died in yesterday's rioting.?
13FT SNOWDRIFTS V Italiani villages, some of them isolated by sdowcelts 13 decl deep, reported towninen fight-
off on our own The Italian government, faced with
Communist
propaganda over the suffering of the us
send over-
As one well-informed official the people the need to put it, "If we really got to that rationalise Malaya's own point, then we'll really be on requirements with those of the brink of something."
DANGER POINT the Commonwealth as д The US plan is one which re-
Another danger ocint whole. As ho has been so lies on the ability of the United quick to acknowledge this States and other friendly na-around the Gule of Audi Arabian
Xarnell, Jordanian, Baudi principle already there tions to keep things from getting
Egypilan bordem should be no fears that his anywhere near that point, -
Egypt has announced a blockade Actually, US oficials do not agalest the I Iraeli port of Elath government will not honour
think the Egyptian Government at the tip of the gulf, and has The government today closed Famagusta achcolboys toured employed and homelers in the its pledges
is plotting an invasion of Israel mounted shoro baltosios to en-down, all schools where is the town warning shopkeepers white terres rushed 100,000 As for the to be hoped that They do not think that force it. Israeli Premier, David turbances were reported and to cloro down, or have their pieces of clothing to the meat
whole, it is to
ponents of a "preventive" war it will be approved by the are going to get the upper hard Ben-Gurion has serves notice denied that more than two shots shops med British Government and the in Irael. They do not take that Insel will forpe a passage were fred is yesterday's student Most Greck secondary schools out food and medicines to Hard
and already closed and today bit towns conference of Sultans and serioomy Israel warnings that The US and most other Powers riot
two elementary cho
Rame reported tw
twođeniha put into constitutional form Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser is recombe Israel's logat eight for Am pridian
}Nidolfi, and~fhoge ink (Trakhoni, |mom,the weather, filthough the as soon as possible. It is going to send his MIG-19s and freedom of passage through the holated Greek BR
the Long Live. A ZORLA
temperatang!. flyushin et bombers but to gulf, but they are fearful pr one that. Ahould and favour bomb. Talmayiv and other of Card Once ang the slogans on the walls in all parts of the Common Farmall callone would take fat onuld be in the fire, the United a theitsyts: key? tant #wealth.
stricken sness. The. Vatican, went
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Hungary Adds Its Protest
Vienna, Feb. 8. Hungary today handed a note to the United States Embassy in Budapest protesting against Ameri« can balloons being sent up from West Germany, Budapest radio reported.
The note aid that the balloons had already killed several persons, in Hungary and had caused two Han- garian planes to crush resently,
But this was- thought here to be a reference to the crash of two, jeś planes in Essicru Austzka wo days ago, in which one, Hungarian pilot was killed rauda Soviet pilot baled out safely--Heater.
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