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EMBARGO DECISION
Alliances America Decides
THE prime purpose of Mr
TH
Selwyn Lloyd's Anlun Journey is to attend the Council meeting of the Southeast Asin Treaty Organisation in Karachi. Undoubtedly SEATO has been a subject for discÜK- alon with Col Nasser And
Mr Nehru during the Bri- tish Foreign Secretory's visits to Cairo and
New
Decides
To Go Slow
HITS BACK AT CHINA
Washington, Mar, 5.
Delhi, but another, and The United States is resisting British pressure to reach a decision on relaxing trade restrictions with Communist l'hina, authoritative sources said today.
equally important matter has been the Raghdad Pael Both are examples of those defensive alliances which
have aroused criticis 17 many neut rad countries, expecially in Asia.
Few people regard military
alliances
desirable FUM themselves. It would be fur
it
One of the factors delaying a Washington de- cision was understood to be the growing truculence of China at the Sino-American negotiations at Geneva,
Communist representatives at Geneva have better in every way ir been demanding an end to the trade embargo reliance for matual security | imposed during the Korean War. could be placed on the United Nations and on the obligations of the Charter. į The regional groups such as NATO, SEATO and the there Baghdad Poet Are
because they
necessary.
The
are deemed
necessity has
created by the
been i
policies
pursued by the Soviet
Union, employed 118
MCKIN
of rendering
EDEN TELLS
UNION MEN
THE FACTS
in
] !
London, Mar. 5.
effective the decisions of
ม
of
The meeting was series
"brietings" of ecommute situation which
Gly
Action on the inatier was agreed between President Elsen- hower and the Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, in Washing- 100
February 1 in the following terms: "We agreed that trade controla
should
continue and should be reviewed now and periodical- ly as to their scope. In the ight of changing conditions,
so that they may
best serve
the interests of the free world."
The State Department, a few
said that duy's later,
would
"HOW"
"very
a
Since then British representa- tives her have been pressing for a decision in a ceries.
plomate meetings.
of
L
the
the
But the Washington view
on the issue, it was learned today, has stiffened.some- what
the
Eisenhower talks.
xince
Eden-
the Security Council. the international fteld thei Sir Anthony Eden and ment negotiations on China
bogin Russians have adopted another key ministers tonight trade expansionist policy which, explained the Conservative
Kihortly."
BRITAIN PRESSING coupled with the creation Government's unti-inflation by the USSR of its own policy at a 90-minute meet. formidable network of
ing with 12 union chiefs. alliances, has proved menace to world peace. IT is well to remember that
the Initiative in the Prime Minister has arranged creation of bloca came from with leading figures" In the Moncow, It began with the Industrini work. Soviet-Polish Treaty Sir Anthony Eden was siccom- a whole panied at the meeting by Mr R. 1946, followed by
ley, Lord Privy Seal, Mr A. Butley, series of similar pacta in
Harold Macmillan, Chancellor of Eastern Europe. These pre- the Exchequer,
und Mr Ian ceded.by
Home two years Macho, Minister of Labour,
States the formation of
The the Sir
current Uniled outlined Anthony Exten
Position, according to a source Western Union, and NATO the
serious economic problemis
in touch with deliberations, is: came a year later still, facing Britain
Mr. and
Mac-
The United States sull has explained the Govern Soviet ment's plans in detail, reliable
reneted no firm decisions treaties has long since sources said later.
on easing trade restrictions, United
States has The Prime Minister and M★ The developed into something
made no cominitment to more. The Soviet Union and Macmillan, H was learned, made
no dirvel appeal for a standstill Igre la casing the embargo, Its satellites now form a
and will do no more than rês In wage claims by unions, but closely kuit system.
declare that increased produc-view the case at the moment, armed forces are completely Uvity
The
United States reg any★
regards integrated. The Communist.
the trade question as only controlled world is really a
the part of
whole complex Hey picture of relations with Com- thomunist China, on which Britain and the United States are out of
Washington announce- ment can be expected in the immediate future, and when It docs come It will be in the tentative terms, It will Just probably Indicate Bttle more than
agreement to an
have multilateral negotiations in
This network
The
should accompany
rires.
leaders
single "military bloc", and headed by Mr Wiltred it is ironie that the Bercest wood, Chairman denunciation of the exis- Economie
or
Commillee
were
The
tence of such blues come eight-million-strong Trades step in several aspects.
from such a quarter.
In the light of these develop-
ments
the creation of
Union Congress.-Reuter.
Western defensive alliances K & B Want
WAN inevitable. Yet many
"neutral" countries consider To Go
them to be provocative and
cause of tension.
That
surely is to mistake effect To
for cause. Tension certainly
exists today: it is equally certain it less than in
Scotland
London, Mar. 5. The Soviel Premier Marshal
1948 the time of the Berlin Nikola! Bulganin and the Com- blockade and the Czecho-munist Party Chief Mr Nikita slovakin coup.
Krushchev have asked the Bri- tish Government to allow them
had
effect in Southeast Asia. tance
Parls.
No
A spokesman of the Senate Invertigations sub - Committee said that hearings would be resumed tomorrow on East-West trade.Reuter,
Ship Sinks
Glubb Is
Now Sir John'
London, Mar. 5. Gederal John Bagot Glubb, former British Commander of the Jordan Aráb Legion, has been : made # Knight of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath, it was an- nounced tonight from No. 10 Downing Street.
General Glubb will be known as Sir John Bagot; Glubb, as soon as Queen Elizabeth bestows the accolade.
General Glubb, who was dismissed by Kings Hussein of Jordan last Friday, returned to Lon- :don
Saturday. —
оп
France-Presse.
* Abone — Glubb CA he will alway; be remembered.
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HOLD-UP
Interpol Makes
Bid: To Break
Big Gold
MORE TROOPS WILL GO Smuggling
(If they are
....
песеввагу) Conspiracy
TO JORDAN · EDEN TELLS REBEL MPs
London, Mar. 5.
The Government has decided to send troop reinforcements to Jordan in the event of hostile demonstrations threatening British bases, property or nationals, according to reports in the lobby of the House of Commons today.
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from, PERCY HOSKINS
London, Mar. 5. Gold is top priority in London's crime marketa to- day and big prices are being paid for Inside Information about the movements, of bullion from one country to another.
*tho Interpol,
The chicks of International police organisa-
finance a two-way
Reports sald the troops would that unless the Suez Canal for in a British-Egyptian agree be sent if there were danger to zone is re-cequpled, israel ment is now running ahead of the British air bases at Amman will be reinforced and arms schedule. of
Marfak, to the installations deliveries to Art countries be On the fourth point, the position, discovered at a secret- the British armoured re- halted,
1100 of the
Suez Group ap.
three-day meeting in Paris tho giment stationed at Akaba, or
The statement on Cyprus by proaches that of the Labour reason for the new demand for to the lives or property of the Colonial Secretary Mr Alan Party, which claims that the gold; bullion stolen in London British nationals.
Lennex-Boyd in the House of Government favours the Arabs and again last month in Geneva According to the same re Commons today appears to have and demands aid for Israel was being used to world-wide great full France-Presse. ports, the
A has given the "Suez Group" Government
smuggling conspiracy. Klven assurances to Conserva- catisfaction on the first point.
CAIRO TALKS
Big shipments of drugs aro tive MPs who urged the Govern-
It would appear more difficult
Into being smuggled the Government to meet
European ment not to accept the fait ac-for
and North American countries, Cairo, Mar! 5. the compl in the Middle East.
third demand and delay
The Egyptian Prime Minister, Fantastic sums have been Anal
British evacuation of
Lieutenant-Colonel Gamal Abdel placed at the disposal of amig- Canal troops from the Sucz
Naseer and President Shukri glers whose operations begin at zone, the
evacuation providest
el Kounity of Syria began talks Bahrein in the Persian Gulf and here today. They are expected follow airline routes to east of to Dover ü
Singapore and on wide range
the United to
sro political and military questions States where the drugs
landed almost openly, 30- the Arab worlit,
HK IMPLICATED
DEBATE PROMISED
Informed circles confirmed that a debate on the subject of Jordan
notably, the dismissal of General John Glubb 05 of the Arab Legion - would be held in the Commons soon.
It is believed the ment's decision to
to forcements prompted by a request by about
Commander-in-Chief
send Jordan
Govern-
rein-
was
a
60 Tory MPs who urged the
adopt. Prime Minister 10 Arm line."
The group, known as the "Sucz Group" is headed by Captain' Charles Waterhouse. Conservative Party chairman), Sir Robert Boothby, and Lord Hichingbrooke.
The "Suez Group" is reported
do tyve demandey hold am in
at Britain
Cyprus,
1
She
Found
A Piece Of
Glass' Worth
of
Saud of Saudi-Arabia was expected to arrive in Cairo tomorrow to join the talks, which are also attended by the Syrian Primler, Sald Ghazzi, his Defence Minister, Rashad Bar mada,
mid the Syrian Army Chief of Staff, Brigadier Shawkat Shugoir-Reuter,
The smugglers are 'protected by an Claborate system of bribery and corruption, which Interpol is trying to smash.
Vast quantities of gold aro being smuggled to the East in payment for drugs...
instance, is being di India, for
11.inst
Last
with ぶい nearly 10,000
were seized by customs and police.
$15,000 Now It's Trotsky ounces, valued at £6,000,000
New York, Mar. 5. A 40-year-old housewife, picked up what looked like a piece of glass near Mur-
thut British units station-freesboro, Arkansas, yeşter- ed in Jordin be reinforced, day. It turned out to be a following the dismissal General John Glubb.
of
that the evacuation of the remaining British troops in the Suez Canal zone be delayed as long as possible,
And In Cyprus
THE JAM BEGINS
Nicosia, Mar. 5.
Athens radio broadcasts to Cyprus were jammed to night soon after Britain announced its intention to put down terrorism.
Offcial spokesmen herc
fused to say whether Britain had initiated the jamming, which the Government said last month was under consideration.
Listeners on Cyprus said none of the broadcast got through a curtain of interference,
15.31 carat diamond worth
an estimated $15,000.
paid $1.50 to hunt for stores in Mrs Arthur Lee Parker had
a three-acre tract here called What the Crater of Diamonds.
she found is the largest gem ever discovered on the North American continent by a single person,
Mrs Parker, the mother of two children and an amateur geologist, sald: "It castly could have been mistaken for a piece of broken glass. In fact, I think someone might have found it ; carlier
and thrown it away, thinking it was glass."
'Mr and Mrs Howerd Miller, sard Craer, operators of the last year about 15.000 people foured
107
diamonds, averaging
A Royalty
The Government disclosed in visited the area. They .50 Parliament earlier this year (But a Colonial Office spokes If the "criminate broadenst" con-
that it was considering Jamming carats. men in London said, "It may be unted despite London due to the fact that certain ex-
protests, The Government said at that periments are
are being made.". He
"But this is the finest stoso it was already making would say no more).
I have evor "seen. It is • Simultaneously the Royal Air
flow," Force regiment
never interfered perfect gem without a had carried out a
foreign broadcasts not' he said. systematic search of the capital even during World War II when
Pons for jamming.
ume
with
city of Nicosia at dusk tonight. Nazi Germeny tratisunited Under admission, terms at the
th
breadcasts by Lord Haw How and other propagandists.
Whistling Noise
But, tonight, thousands
Crater, any diamond under 5 errats is "indots-keepers," ...
On langer stones, the finder must pay a royalty of 25 per cent of the value over '&• carats the owners and operators of
the tourist enterprise,
The crackdown followed declaration of the Colonial Sec. retary, Mr Aka Leox-Boyd, in London this wtternoon that Colombo, Mar. 5. Britain would give first priority THE existence of NATO hast visit Scotland and Wales, an The Greek freighter. "Aønos" to restoring law and order now
calming EL
and informed source sald today.
The disclosure that Jamming struck a rock and sank today that negotiations with pro- was stabilising effect in Europe, The
and already four miles off the south-west Greek Archbishop Makarios had Greece brought forth a loud pro- being considered against And there ia renaul
to rent a proposed programme for coast of Ceylon near Galle, while broken down,
And Arkansas has a 4 per belleve the existence of the visit of the two leaders to bound with a cargo of mineral "For this we have the resolu-test in Britain. Newspapers, In- SEATO has had a similar the Soviet Government and had Iron from Vizagapatam (India) ion and the forces and it will cluding The Times, and many cent severance tax on diamonds. lawmakers condemned the idea The tax is based on market expected to receive an accep- to Italy.
bo dane," Mr Lennox-Boyd
a violation `öf ́ British tradi- į value at the place, where the It is conceivable that if last week.
principle at the end of
Captain F. Zagouries and his sald.
tions of free speech.
diamond is found or mined. 20-man crew took to the beats there had been some com-
eľ Instead the
The Crates of Diamonds Is. request for an and landed safely on the const parable institution in 1950, extension of the visit was for- of Ceylon after vainly trying to there might have been no warded, the source said.
onco boasted the only com- pump water for two hours,- Korean war.
the mercial diamond mining The source sold that the France-Presse.
tion in North' America, On balance the Western Soviet request W09 zomewhat
.....................IN BRIEF********** GOOD FOR BUSINESS
Biarritz, Mar. 5. Jacques Dallenger, son-i of the owner of a Biarritz bar, today said he found 58 small pearls in one, oyster-France-Presse.
embarrassing! for the
defensive pacta have done & Covernment, but that great deal of good, and will promisa
continue to do so. It is fair Minister
to claim that the ponce of initial
British a cem~ between
Prime Sir Anthony Eden's suggestions and the
the
the world is anfer with them Soviet proposal would probably
than it would have been be found.-France-Presąć,
without them.
The invitation to the neutral
countries to becomo
05-
nociated with these defen-
alve alliances remains open, though the indications are
Marshall Rebuffed
Singapore, Mar. 6. Singapore's Labour Front
Governor's Warning Cypriots at their supper tables part of a 72-acre tract which
oporn-
heard only loud whisiling noises The Governor, Sir John
when they tuned in on Harding, said he would restore regular Athens transmission. order "with all the means ob Meanwhile, Archbishop
The largest stone ever found my disposal".
Makarios, leader of the Greek
at the site' was the 40.23 carat Almost at the same time the move
movement, served notice cariler
"Uncle Sam”—a rose-tinted dia- Athens radio, tame an with its toda
today that
the anti-British mond cut into a 14.24 carat stone regular
Cypriots would "struggle to the valued at $75,000. But it was evening transmission to Cyprus,
last, personally, against
thefound during mining operations, This is one of the daily legal sovereignty of the British United Press. broadcasts that Britain has re- rulers," peatedly condemned as "incite He said it would be up to ment” and “inflammation." Its Britain to take the initiative in protests to Athens have been resuming negotiations, over the ignored.
• •| island's "future-United Press.
that those countries are con- Cents Coleil, KENYA MURDER MYSTERY——WERE THEY MAU MAU?
vinced there aro other
body of the man comparat of advantages in non-commit- the Celeny's Government tonight ment. It is auroly unneces- rejceled proposals from the Chief sary, however, to condemn Minister, Mr. David
Marshall the pacts in order to justify that party should merge not joining them. Some of with the liberal socialists.
It was the first time since 'Mr
the critics of these alliances Marshall became Chief Minister could ponder on what might have happened had they not an April last that his party had turned down one of his \pro-
existed and for the dotar- posals, mination to resist aggre#- There was no question of Mr Blón, of which they are the| Marthall's' rosigoleug, Labour
frent sources mud--leuter.
visible algo.
Palice
Big Demand For Plastic Surgery
New York, Mar. 5. Mir Youkou 'Fujil,
Nairobi, Mar. 5. hacked to death after hearing) A rieighbour heard yelling and Japaner surgeon who survived today detained Ave banging noises within.
screaming from the bungalow the Hiroshima atcan bomb and Africans after the murder of
last night and decided there today there were about 1,000 60-year-old Mre Winifred
must be a party op.
people in that Japanese, elty Medcalfe, a frail Hittia Eng-
Mrs Medcoife's body was found cod In Nagasak), also atom- lishwoman who lived alone
In a pool of blood in her sit-
bombed, In need of plastic and was noted for her kind-
ting room, clad only in a BUTORY to Africans,
plane By Dr' Fujii, od, arrived i today to study plastic, surgery. At the height of the emergency, | tecualquer et Mourit..."Bnai Mrs Médcalfe used to man a Hospital, wheto 1-43 - ELIroshima police radio station at night, women are ©undergoing trente | ---China Málf: Special ... |
ness,
to
lier houreboy, who had served
her for 14 years.
ren to a neighbouring farm and ro ported that he had found her
Two Kikuyu women who were apparently present at a party In the servants' quarters of Mrs Medcalfo's trul; farm aro among the people being ques- tioned, Police said they could not rule out the possibility that the Mau Mau Instigated || the murdar, though the jouai Mau Mau, algus - were, absent.")
nightdress,
was missing.
her small pisto!
'ment---Heuter.
Without The Traitor)
Moscow, Mdr 5* For the first timestu 20. ucars. Trotsky's name was mentioned in Russi todo without the usual descrip- tion of py", "traitor", or "enemy of the people'
The latest taste of
the Academic Journal
said Trotsky was in "ideoló gical conflict, with Lenin, and that he was wrong.
The
magazine devoted much of its current issue to problema of
re-writing history
during
Congress,
all recommended the recent 20th Communist Party
good
Last week it was die closed that Madame Trotsky had written to the Kremlin asking the Com- munist Party" to "restore file
name of her husband.
Trotsky
veiled
by Stalin to Turkey for poll Heal deviation in 1929 was assassinated in Mexico in 1940.]—United Press.
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And this, the authorities "br leve, is only a fraction of the Traffic in gold. It reaches India from Australia by steamship, via Macao Hongkong and Singapore, from Africa
via
by tasterslan
Egypt. Syria” and thể onl and from America: by: oir Gulf,
via London, France, Switzerland and the Middle East
the old and drug Behind the gold smugglers is one of the most fabulous criminal · networks in history. To fight it, police in 50 nations are now being re- cruited by Interpol-London Express Service.
CO2 In Ship's Hold: Two Die
Penang, Mcr *5.
Two men died and three, o her were taken to hospital after being overcome by. gis. in. a ship's hold containing onions
here today.
The ship Is the freighter Tafula, which arrived here from India. The dead were a mim- ber of the ship's crew and local labourer. A seclor Gov- cromini chemis: sald there was carbon dioxid in the hold- Revie
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