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HE whole civilised world will feel a surge of rolicf and antinfnction as a result of the doctors' report that President Eisenhower's health is such that he can look forward Kafely leading
active An for another five 10 ten year. The reactions are not stimulated by political considerations, but stem from warm admiration and deep respect
for n man whose Ilfe is guided by the highest principles and who has long used his outstand ing talents in the Interests of his fellow beings,
Mr Eisenhower is not only the President of the United States; he has become the leader of and spokesman for the free world-n man wholly trusted, and whose health is a matter of con- cern to millions outside of his
His
· doctors' report provides the best news so far this year.
But while President Eisen- hower must himself feel 'deeply gratified by a return to full strength and vigour, the fact confronts him with the task of making decision which, no matter what form It takes, will have repercussion throughout the world Within the next week or ten days he will probably decide, and publicly whether or not he is pre- pared to offer himself for n accond term as President of the United States.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1956,
LABOUR MOVE
Censure Motion
In Commons
ECONOMIC
POLICY
ATTACKED
London, Feb. 15.
The Labour Opposi- tion tonight tabled an official censüre motion in the House of Commons the Government's handling of the economic situation.
on
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MALAYA TO
RECRUIT
HK DOCTORS
London, Feb. 15,
Mr John Hare, Minister Stufe for Colonial Affairs, sald today the of Malaya Government planned to recruls from Hongkong doctors who had the full qualifiesitons necessary for registration in the Federation.
Doctora from China would not be excluded, he told a questioner in the Hour of Commons,
Mr Reginald Sorensen, Labour member, had asked what was being done ta recruit doctor for Malaya from Hongkong or China
WAA
Herald there large number of doctors in Hongkong who had graduated from the Uni- versity or had come from China-Reuter, measures he
The motion came on the eve of an important state- ment by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Harold" Macmillan, in the House of Commons on proposes to use to fight in- intion.
The Labour motion was in the Mr Hugh Gaitskell. nume of Leader of the Party, and other leaders.
maing failure of the Govern- The motion deplores the con-
ment to stop the rise in prices. and close the nation's trade gap.
The cabinet is expected to consider the censure motion to- morrow and I will probably be debated in the House of Com- mons next week.
HIGHER BANK RATE? Reports that Mr Macmillan's
Revised Plan
For Soviet Leaders Visit
To Britain
London, Feb. 15.
The visit of the Soviet
Nikolai the Com-
Premier "Marshol Bulganin and munist Party Secretary Mr
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AGAINST EDEN Shots Fired,
U.S. FEARS OF
WAR IN
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MIDDLE EAST
Washington, Feb. 15.
The Assistant Secretary of State, Mr George
NEW RULERS
FOR RUSSIA.
Mr K Has An Eye
Allen, said today there was "serious" danger of For Women
war in the Middle East unless something was done to lessen tension.
London, Feb. 15. Russia's top leadership
Fists Fly In Assembly
Scuffle
Paris, Feb. 15. Shots were fired during a
rough and tumble in the
Communist
French Assembly today.
and right-wing Poujadiat 'members traded blows and throw stools at each other during the fight.
The chaotid
scene
Was three shots, from " punctuated by the public gallery, fired from a blank-cartridge pistol of the type used for starting reces.
The blanks were fired by Nikita Krushchev to Britain This was one of the most de~) woric through the UN.. but next April will be more of a pressing statements made by a would not consider.. His hands for the next few years in Georges Vincent 31, on unem- ployed legal adviser, who 11 was Government oTsiol "business trip" than the high
on tied if it was paralysed"-likely to be chosen from a reported, had received his ad- the Arab-Israci crisis, Inpresumably by n Soviet veto.. list of 36 men and three mission card to the gallery from goodwill tour it was 'origin•
British, an Interview with
Mr Allen added that any te-
a Pouladiat member of parla- ally intended to be, high au-French and American corres-lon by the United States, women. thoritative sources said to-pondents on the State Depart Britain and France outside the
Mr Nikita Krushchev, First ment,
MP APOLOGISES ment's radio "Voice of America." U.N. day.
actually would be con- Secretary and "strong men" of UN. Charter the Soviet Communist Party,
Vincent, Injured · in a scuffle They sald a committee under Mr Allen said he was never sistent with the
because the Big Three would hinted that more women should with an African student sit State Lord willing to admit that war was the Minister of
he move only if necessary to resist be elected to leading posts in ting behind him in the public. Reading revised a programme Inevitable anywhere. But
the for the visit before added: "It prepared
1 likely that the open aggression,
his key note policy report to leaders toured In-States of that area
Asked about with their the Soviet
station for questioning.
In the yesterday. pleas to buy cut-rate U.S. amas, 20th party Congress in Moscow gallery, was brought to a police and dia, Burma
Afghanistan present tense atlitude could be
meantime, Pouladist Ho complained Use bodies MP, M. Jean Damasio, Breisty Jost November und December Involved in serious military Mr Allen sald there were argu-
Soviet ments for and against. speech after speech operations. ..I think that the
ccnmred by
Assembly and made
colonial kelthood. is serious," Britain's
wore "Moo timid" in promoting
yesterday for Alibustering attacking
women to top posts.
after he was ordered to formulating the
leave. Stalin's
policy. -
rcstrum
Soc.aliat by Cabin inner Politburo, or
Speaker, M. Andre Le Troquer, bore the tabel "for men
BID policies
GOVT.
TO END DISPUTES
London, Feb. 15. The Government tosight ap- pointed two Courts of Inquiry which into printing disputes havo hit the publication of and hundreds of ILow.payors periodicals and caused the dis- missal of 8,000 men,
"causes and circumstances" of a One inquiry will examine the
cut.
Aources
Mr
Wis
it was
DIPLOMATS MEET.
•
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Israel's urgent
of
shouted "Vive
The 30 men and three women. Vivo Ravachol" (2
womon
were elected yesterday to form noted French anarchist around the
the turn of the century), as ho "Presidium"ű sort of
fired. He was seized by a 20- collective chairmanship of the Communist Party
Congress. year-old Negro student, M. The position is honorary, for Kaba, from Kankan in French the duration of the Congress West Africa, who tried to wrest
only, but the
election is
a
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from him. The two men came to violent blows, before Vincent, his face streaming with blood, was er- rested. After questicring Vincent
He said a factor in favour of sending arms to Israel was the fact that Egypt had received a The revised programme
very considerable amount of sent to Sir William Hayter,
from the British Ambassador in Moscow, Leading diplomats of Britain, modern wespons
Soviet bloc
And today, of more than 60 expressed his "regrets" to the for presentation to the Soviet France, and the U.S. met today
He said Russian MIG planes, Government ministers in Soviet Asembly for starting today's, Foreign Minister V. M. to consider a new joint action
or outside the "Inside
Unlied beileved to
or three are incidents have been furnished Russia, only, two Molotov. The
would not Nations" on the Middle Eastern to Egypt, were faster than any divulge the major changes in crisis.
other planes in the Middle East, Mr Allen conferred with the Such modern weapons, he said, the. programme but
balance of military understood that the number of French Ambassador M. Maurice upset the
de Murville and the power in the area. occasions on which the Soviet Couve
J. E.
BAGHDAD PACT could
public British Minister, Mr leaders speeches has been drasticallyCoulson.
The meeting was held in the
On the other hand. Mr All Soviet protests that said, the United States did not face of US. The Target? movement of Western: troops to want to get involved in an
Middle East
The Eleven. The British decision was the
constitute not want to encourage Israel to
011 mem- violation of the "gross
buy military equipment with
The list includes all threat"
to peace. the small smount of money it.
bers of the existing "Presidicam" was pacted, don area where employers that the Soviet leaders might Charter and a
The Western Big Three re
Committee The incident started when profesied were denied tonight by a Trea" tonight completed the diurnissal Take the United States their. sury spektsman.
target in publie poceties: in nat
considering, sending possessed,
Mr Allen said the United of the Central
Russia's top ruling group. The Pouladist deputies The Labour
But Statca had not rued out move followed of 8,000 men.
Tho
the Troquer to call a vote on, a such a the release
Mál Nikolai Hulcanin, of trade zlatistics
vestigate 1.
Communist-sponsored motion to parallel. dispute out effects on Anglo-American informuals cald
ter Mr Vyacheslav Baghdad for last month, which showed a
the five-nation would be actively considered if in
Prime Minister,
Invalidate a Poujadist deputy widening
the depressing
sido the capital.
authoritative quarters large-scale hustilities broke out Pact but did not want to Molotov, Foreign Minister, androm the Haute-Garonne do- In both cases printing work- exports and im- gap between
Allen said the revised
the United involved now in disputes among ers have backed their claim for
Bulganin | States was "very anxious" to Arab nations United Press x-Fremier Mr Georgl Malen-artment.
-Two- members · "of · Plórre Ports.
are those whose pro-Poujade's tax-protest movement It came 115 Fleet Street higher pay, by banning overtime would give Marshal
and. Mr Krushchev much more buzzed with reports that the and "working to rule,"
traits are hung in the streets on
have already been unseated for raise Bank of England would
In London the employers time than was originally intend-
Soviet high days and holidays Irregularities in concluding party replied
members with
dismissal ed for discussions
with the Bink rate tomorrow, pos- have
Of the three women who seem alliances in the January 2 elec- The free world, conscious sibly as high as six per cent.
ordery
of the Government,
possible candidates LOT the tions. One certainty appeared to be A Ministry of Labour state-
honours: The best PUSHED COMMUNIST
Mrs Furtsev city First ment, announcing the Courts of that Sir Anthony would Include Inquiry, said it was hoped they disarmament on the list of sub- would start work in about one jects to be discussed.-United
Press.
T
TF he answers in the affirma
tive, there is little doubt that the electors will give him the same solid backing as they did in 1952. It would mitfer not if he ran on the Republican or Democratie ticket, he would undoubted- ly be re-elected.
licences or import restrictions wage claim dispute in the Lon-apparently prompted by fears oval without U.N.anns race in the area, and did Pointer to fature prospects.
anti-inflation meneurs would in clude the imposition of building
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and United
U.N.
other inquiry will, in- Briisin with possiblodamaging / me to the Middie Eas step eventual' Américan membership 41 include Mr Krushchov, Mary Borsta decision by M. to
weok's time.-Router.
that it must look to the
The Bank rate is now 4% per United States for much of
cent but apparently it has not its leadership, would be checked the flow of money in delighted if Mr Eisenhower Britain. — Reuter elected to run for another Press. term, Among the statesmen of the world, he is the ans who most commands the respect of the Soviet leaders, Morcover his strength of purpose and his firm convictions based on high principles, provide the democracies, with an assailable moral leadership and inspiration. For the froe world the popular slogan "I like Ike" has become "We want Ike."
GERMAN MIGRANT BOYS CHARGED
IF Mr Eisenhower-decides to
run again and is re-elected, Amerien's friends would also like to see a strong bipartisan allation in foreign affairs. With all his talents, Mir Foster Dulles has been inclined, more particularly during recent months, to ส านน bipartisanship. Some of his speeches have outraged liberally-minded Democrats į and have bred in them a suspicion of the Eisenhower administration's foreign ! policies. Within the American political system there is always room for a bipartiann polley in
affecting
inter- matters national relations, and this becomes more pronounced when, na at present, Con- grena is composed of
Democratic majority, though tho President is a Republi- сап.
In the years ahead, as now, the responsibilities of any US administration in deal- ing:
WITH SADISTIC TORTURE ORGY
The
Melbourne, Feb. 15. Two 15-year-old
German migrants were arrested today on charges of torturing eight Austration schoolboys in a sadistle
nows orgy. ovoked fears that Nazi youth methodo had been trans- planted to Australla. Polico disclosed that eight boys from 10 to 13 years old were rounded up. last weekend,
taken to an isolated cypress grove
near the Melbourne muburb of Footscray and subjected to various forms of physical and mental torture. KIDNAPPED
The names of the two boys who carried out what the authori- "the worst Ucs described 215
case of juvenile delinquency in Victoria State history" were withheld from the public be cause of their ages.
They
Germany with their parents about three years ago. the police said they kidnapped the younger boys in pairs at the point of knives anti
came to Australis from
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airgun, took them to the grove, and bound and gagged them. Later, the captives were used as targets for airgun and knife- throwing practice. Four were wounded.
Terrorists Kill Cypriot
Nicosia, Feb. 15.
with international Terrorist gunmen shot down affairsmu assume great another of their own country- importanco, and its policy men today for the second time decisions must deeply affect in 12 hours.
A guman abot and seriously not only. Amorion's friends-
Cypriot and allies, but the enemies wounded, a
With Coats Achilles, as he went 10 of the free world. this in mind, a really nolld work from his village 50 miles
west of Nicosia, C
Zoat night terrorists mur. Zovros, a Greek Capitol Hill would infuse déred Costas
bipartisan understanding at
4
Greek
now confidence throughout Cypriot who was alleged to havé the an informer for the democracies. And how been batter could this bo nc-Cyprus poilco-United Frese;" complished than by having a
donova, Feb. 15. man like Dwight Eisenhower Mr David Marshall, Chiet As President and a man such Minister of Bioempore, arrived as Adlai Stovenson as his in Arosa today for a rost cure of about, three weeks---Reuter, “ Secretary of State}-
-AND BRITAIN'S VIEW
TALKED FOR 5% DAYS
The i
the London, Feb. 15. maintained according to The Foreign Secretary Mr tripartite agreement. T
"I am quite satisfied that highest Selwyn Lloyd told Parliament
was debated Secretary of the
The Poujadists said the Com- today he was still satisfied that the present situation is as I said known is the Arab-Israell balance of arms when the matter
post at munist motion could not bo' the (last
Foreign Party organisation present.
moth)." was being preserved at
One time held by Krushchev. voted upon since, they claimdd. He rejected another Socialist Secretary cald.
But
quite
She is reported to be, athe Assembly, after recognise I
a long the Govern→ attempt to make
the future a protege of Krushchevs, and was procechiral wrangle, had in rovcal details of its specific different situation might arise."
frankly that in
one of the first speakers when effect validated the Poujadist shipments to both sides,
Emmanuel |—United Press.
the Congress began debating deputy. Labour MP, Mr
the Krushchev report today. Shinwell, asked him for details
Reuter: to of Centurion tanks, supplied
Jordan, Iraq and Israel. hen Mr Lloyd refused, Mr head, chafe 12, atrick on
asiced him if news- Shinwell Imbsi Angelo marks or
13, wrist paper reports were correct that Georgopoulos, was suspended from a tree by wound and shock; Lawrence Egypt had 33 Centurions, Jordan
Peters, 11, finger sliced when Mr Lloyd again refused informa
12, Iraq eight and Israel, none, repes tled to hia, wrists. One
removed, signet ring was had his fingertip sliced cf.
chate marks wrists, Parution.
va other Finally they were stripped of
from pressuro Under Mugdziarz 12, brand on wrist, clothing, robbed and released,
finger and Labour members, Mr Lloyd, satul The migrant boys told detec- slug wounds on
was..impossible to give a 100, chafo marks; Marien it tives they had conceived the
10, arm brand, complete picture of arms ship- Iden
Mugdziarz, from roading cowboy
chate marks; Eddie. Raicunas ments by disclosing British ex- 13, are brand, chate marks, ports because other countries alo sold munition to both chafo marks.
other boy's name was not sides: made. public.
The boys also were sald by the police to have been 'branded with red-hot knives. One
and Indian comics.
GREEN PAINT
One of the victims revealed that one knife-thrower had daubed green paint on his face and body and had donned en Indian head-dress. The police believed that other schoolboys may have been victims but had not com: plained to the authorities. The two German youths pre- viously had been taken into
custody for stealing. One escaped from the Royal Park Boys' Home recently. During the abduction and for-
One
Footscray.
All reside in Deviating from the polley of accrecy, Mr Lloyd said, "might theso countries pur- "They had three knives," one result in
of the victims told the police, chasing from other suppliers us and we stromuld lose any control "They while we were roped to a at all.".
Then one 'auld," "I'm to brand you follows." SHEATED KNIFE
tree.
Boing
threw them at
Georgopoulos said, "They stuffed canvas gags in our mouths.
knife and· They heated branded us all."
ture, the victims were warned m
that they would be shot if they tried to escape, The investigation was hampered somewhat because the victims at Brst were afraid to tell their parents what had happened. The names of the victims and their injuries: Norman Green,
Died Outside
Mortuary
Missouri, Feb. 15.
Mr Eugene Tulk, an 85-year-
old rancher, paid for his funeral and then committed suleste by mortnary here, the
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was
explaining the finger"
said: "HO unable to get the ring past the- khuckle, so
he sliced off piece of my finger."
Four
.A
of the boya were kidnapped on Saturday and four OVL Sunday-United Pros
S'pore Detective
Charged
Another Labour member. Mr Alfred Robcris asked whether Mr Lloyd was satisfied that the balance of
was- being
Minister's Warning
To Forces
London, Feb. 15. The Minister of Defence, Sir Walter Monckton sold today
that soldiers taken pelsomer in
It's The Gift Of The Gab
As A Sheehan Would Say
Cheltenham, Feb. 15.
Kevin Sheehan, 33-year-old ex-Irish guardsman from Limerick, has regained the world talking marathon by completing a non-stop word-spinning session of 138 hours 45 minutes.
cord
Cheered on by a packed aus dicace at a local hall, he bout by a, quarter of an hour the 133- had. bettered contsader who hour record part up by a Rusfars Sheehan's own previous of 127-hour non-stop talking.
Thon not satisfied with his target, Sheehan went on reciting poetry for, another half an hour. Swaying on his feet as he finished, Sheehan was seized by enthusiastic fellow-Irishmen and carried shoulder high round the hall.
During the last few hours of his marathon, he had frequently bean examined by a doctor. He sald later that he would not mghin defend his title and that all he wanted was to get some sleep-China Mail Special
Priest's Last Ordeal
Rome, Feb. 15. future wars with Communit
Don Gennaro Francesconi, a bution could expect, to be
67-year-old priest, dropped dead treated like "war criminals:
But Singapore, Feb. 15.
British
prison ive only
of war today after nghting his way through five mues of deep snow Detective Stephen David would continue to William Jones, 23, attached to their names, ranks, birth dates to summon help for his village the Special Branch of the and serial numbers despite Com. of Luzons, isolated for the lasi
coroner appeared from the Colony en
Mall February 0 and was later found;
violations of the Geneva
wenk
shocking himself outside the CLD., Singapore, who
~ of this
rule can Mail Special. Z
found yesterday--China
Special
IN BRIEF GOING BALD
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Halljar,
Feb. 15. A coroner's inquest jourd that Brian Crapper, 17, hanged, himself from beam in his home because The thought he was going baid,United Pressyris
Water Fish Dying Of Cold
ho told Parlament. Don Gennaro was parish priest has shown that of Lazzeria for 20 years--- China a stowaway, aboard a ship any to Ceylan, was today remanded only In the divulgence by in
prisoners of war of information custody.
www charged with rine [izwehul to the lawfully absenting himasif, from told the House of
Hall andð the
Oslo, Feb 15. He piedod mot guilty
piantied 146
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Peshawar, Feb. 18.
Kabul radio reported today
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When M. Le Troquer, called for the vote, a Poujadiat, M. Damasio mounted the rostrum to push the Communist deputy M. Jean Mancenu away from the ballot box which he was superviding an Assembly recretary.
The two members come to blows and were prompůly jolned by other Communist and Pouja- dist depulles. Fists flow and
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stools hurtled through the air, to drag the soufflers away from untit Assembly officers managed the embattled rostrum area |France-Presse,
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