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'Malta's New Partnership
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STHE Houac of Commons
wrote #piece of history! yesterday By ite approval, without a dissenting voice, of the all-party recommenda- tion for the integration of Main
The with Britain,
Home created a brand new relationship betweers
4th
eudony and The Matheri The effect of the. country,
British thecision
other colonies is likely to be pro- fontot, ami pertus to future! imperial governments, their denunde may become some what embarrassing.
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Jerusalem, Mar. 26. Jordan has linked it- self with Syria in "united frontier" plan met specta against Israel, it was re- For Malta, the
cular feature of integration : ported in the Israel
ther
is that entilles the colony section of Jerusalem to- to send to the House of
elected day. L'onitors The bes where they will be fully empowered to take part and sofe in all delados, freely speak for the Multque, 201 share i! the daily 1} Commons an eral Trading British MP,
THAT
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with
an exciting prospect for any colony, vet at slows a4 that integral. with all it birations and implications, will result
The new scheme wond unite the frontiers of Syria and Jordag for joint action against Israel,
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with Egypt and Saudi-Arabia in a similar paet,
Reports reaching Israel Jorday rab the Syrian-Jordurisany prz was reached! In framtier Fratry conversations held last Light between the Chint of
of the two Stat General Shawkat Shukeir 1 The month establishment of Syria and Maj-Gen. Radi Anab, a new political relationship the new commander of the Arab between Malta and Britain. It was the first time the milt- Two disenmeerting factors
chiefs of the two countries tory *Coin with the bad met since the dismissal of referendum: THI integralism, General John Bagot Glubls from conducted earlier this year: the leadership Di The Arub
1 only 45 per cent of the Legion.
were
colony's population voted:,
The Roman Cathulie:
Legion.
JORDAN RIVER WORK
Church. If not openly op Meanwhile, Ģeneral KL.H. posed to the new partner-¦ Burns, United Nations Chief of ship, holds many reservn: Stuff, Intimated to Israel tions concerning its desira the hitty, and may be temptedį standi
Aral Governments
anti
his
0711 the resumption of
to stimulate obstruction to work on the Jordan River pro-
the scheme.
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jeet, which he based 01 The resolution atlopted by the Security Council
1953
ralls
The resolution
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for
The must compelling argument!
in Javour of Malta's in stoppage of work on the Jordan | tegration with Britain is water canal dug by Israel in the the colony's unique position.' demilitarised zone. Economic considerations pre-
SOLITIS revealed
clude full self-government; durting his recent VINIL
that
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Silence POISON
Angers US Senators
Washington, Mar. 26. Senators. today accused three leading administra- tion officials of "jeopardis- pro- ing the foreign aid gramme" by refusing to reveal publicly which goods could be shipped by Allies of the United States to the Communist bloc.
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Communists Get Tough At
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*UNIVERSITY PARTY LEADER
IS GIVEN
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Moscow, Mar. 26.
1
The Communist Party leader at the Stalin Slate! University in Tiflis, Georgia, was today reported to have been dismissed from his poși as an aftermath of indis-
for the island. Much of its Dunas 3, General Burns recipline among students,
economy is dependent upon esived a incorandum from the
its use by Britain as a mili- Syata government stating that The announcement. which tary base. A third of its the Syrian Terps would sational income comes from. Har of work te the
UK the mehis It has FYMOUPTUM.
Jent
canal were Servier Departy
The soures admitted that such no natorad Without grunts action would constititle a sprouts from the United Kingdom violation of the armistice agree. but they intimated that its reonomy would collapse. General Burns
nat was
ton- cerned
at this juncture with These hard and inescapable; identifying a potential "aggres- facts have complicated the S as much as he was anxiDAS
prevent pronnes
ennstitutiotal
hostilities. development in Malta an
Of
So 14
4/1 outbreak
concerned, Israci
appeared in the latest testes the Geergian newspaper Zaryn * Vostoka to reach Moscow, is the Georgian first dismissal Communist Party official to be (reported in recent weeks. This is the capital of Georgia, Stalin's
home state.
The newspaper sald The Secretary of the Communist Committee at the University. S DJorbenadze, had been dismissed The sources ogmitted that, as and reprimanded by the Tiflis convinced the Premier. Mr far as the armistice agreement, Communist Party committee to Dom Mintoff, that integru- ] was
wn day for failure in party und
I political work." tion is the only feasible) withat is rights 1 continute and satisfactory alternative work to full independence and Jordan self-government. By its con- firmation of the proposed partnership, the House of Commons is, in effect, ask ing the opponents of integration to accept the than position gracefully and to help in making it à success-¦ ful experiment.
The Georgian newspaper said
been there had
laxity of dis- theelpline at the University and ciled cases of large-scale absen- teelsm among students as well as "holiganism" and lack of atten- tion to idealogical and political
on Thr diversion of waters outside 1be zone and demilitarised Syrians had no right to object 10 work done outside the zone, UN circles regarded Syrian- Israeli
being tension as potentially no less dangerous studies.
the Tension an the Egyptian Isrzeli border."... United Press,
DEBATE ADJOURNED
New York, Mar, 20.
of
dis
Were
eradicade the cause of pro-Stalin
wh ch demonttions
10..owed attacks on Stalin at the recent Suvist Communist Party Co gress
The editorial said the Rector et :: Univesity. Mr V. Kup
in a speech had failed radze, before the local Communist Party to give "any deep analysis of the shortcomings and mis- takes a party political and ideo. logical work among student youth,"
The
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Denounced At Protest Meeting
Manchester, Már, 26. Mr Malcolm Muggeridge, Editor of Punch, tonight described Marshal Bulganin and Mr Nikita Khrushchev as "seasoned, professional terrorists."
Both of them, he added, had lat different times been entrusted by Stalin-the muster they now repudiate - with missions which Involved the most ruthless and murderous exercise of
which they power and
meticulously.
.New York, Mar. 26.
The American Secret Service
tonight investigating
Abfully whether
executed." "poisoned" soft drinks had been put aboard a Jackson
private railway sald a packed hearing of the riage used by President Senate Permanent Investigations Eisenhower to travel to Sub-Committee: "Some of us
White Sulphur Springs who consistently have support- ed the foreign old programme
West Virginia, from In the past are
Washington. going to sup- port it this time. Senator Jolin
The 'Chairman,
ara noi
McClellan (Democrat, Arkansas), and Senator Stuart Symington (Democrat, Missouri), voice< broad agreement, with emphatic backing from Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican, Wiscon Fin).
But the three administration official-Mr Herbert Hoover, the Under-Secretary of State, Mr Sinclair Weeks, the Secretory of Commerce, and Mr John Holl13- ter, the Director of the Inter-
to
The map shows the bor-national Co-operation Adminis- ders of some of the countriestration which administers foreign refused that make up the Middle ald programmes-flatly
disclose the information in East and the areas occupied public ession. by the principal participants in the present struggle for supremacy. Akoba, a port used by ships to supply British troops- in....jordan, is the centre of four power
interest at the moment.
US PLAN FOR CHECK
POINTS
BREACH OF FAITH Mr Hoover said in a prepared
statement that to declassify the list of East-West trade embar- goes agreed among 16 nations faith which "would not only be a breach of
would be
• pre judicial to our foreign relations, but it could
risk seriously destroying the entire agreement upon which our system of con- trols now rests."
Furthermore, he claimed, it would jeopardise
the United States ability to conduct nego- tiations on this
other subject in the future.
or any
The committee bós bcen strongly critical of the Adminis- trailon's action in permitting the easting of strategie trade controls In 1954, when many items were London, Mar, 26.
taken of the embargo list or The United States today pen "downgraded" for restricted Posed
**communications centres" be set up around the export to the slot committee
Soviet globe to gift reports about the research staff claimed Included foreign troop
of movements countries belonging to a world copper wire, machine tools of various types, 'electric generators and other goods of strategic value.
that
disarmament pact.
Mr Harold Stassen made the proposal to his British, French. Canadian and Russlan colleagues In the United Nations Disarma- ment Sub-Committee,
Conference sources sald Mr The newspaper also criticised Stasson urged that all nations leaders of the Communist party should give advance notice of organisation in Gorki, Stalls the movements of air, land and birthplace, and said there had ca forces outside their territories been "serious mistakes and to "communications centres" set failures in the bringing up of up by a disarmament control
organisation. youth in the town,
This would help prevent sur also newspaper
said prise
attacks, lessen tension and meetings to discuss the Party improve international conddence, Congress, at which the Stalinist Mr Andrei Gromyko, Russia's "cult of personality" was con- Deputy Forcign Minister
had
been held emred,
in appointed Western delegates to various Georgian centres.
day by failing to produce any The education of workers and now proposals for breaking the 10 "above ali of the young gencra- ytar deadlock over how the na- tion" was now the main task of tions of the world should 'disarm the party-Router.
under safeguards.--Beuter.
dis-
worthy of Cofnunin daudents" Won't Go Back To Belgrade
TWO EXPELLED
the Two girl students University had been expelled recently after "viointing public by of course THERE will
order in a most flagrant manner
uf The United Nations Security and displaying lack many constitutional prob- lems arising auit of The Council tonight adjourned debate | cipline."
1 untit next Tuesday on the acceptance of the proposals, United States proposal to re-
The girls, whose names were while the Roman Catholics {
quest Mr Dag Hammarskjold, given as Zinaida Shiukashvili of Malta may find them the
Secretary-Genora!, to in- and Ketevana. ArabidzTM, solves, pored with the prob-vestigate the fence Middle East
condemned for "conduct lem of accepting the pre-situation. vailing view in Britain on The adjcument was pro
A three-column article about such questions as marriage, posed by Dr Djalal Abdon, of
the University which WIN divorce and education with Iron He said the Arab states
published in the newspaper is which views the Catholle would not be ready to speak typical of the serious attention Church is to some extent in before next week.
being given at present disagreement.
Before today's meeting, re-
students in Georgia, presentatives
four of Israel's
Zarya Vostoka said university Arab neighbours Egypt, efficinis ignored many warnings Integration ia
a bold
And Jordan,
Gyrla Lebanon about
the
of imaginative
"sorry state" answer to decided to
forma ubmit
affairs at the University, which Malta's desire for further requests to be allowed to take
has
about 6,000 students, in- self-expression. It is con- part in the debate. Their
Immediately cluding 4,409 members of the sidered by many people to requests were
Young Communist League and 630 be the only possible answer, granted and Israel was
full members
the Invited to sit.--Router. If the word is to mean what
Communist Party. It anys it will result in the
and
also
closer association of the Border Shooting
and
peoples of Britain Malta, This is bound in the years to come profoundly to affect the day to day life, manners and morals of the Maltare people.
then thore seems to be no way
If integration fails,
Tel-Aviv, Mar, 20.
of
'PLAYED TRUÁNT'
10
Istanbul, Mar. 20.
Mr Osman Peraly, 31-year-old secretary and assistant Press Attache at the Yugoslav Embassy, today asked for political asylum
after being recalled to Belgrado,
Peroly, whose wife and two eldren are now in Yugoslavia was assigned to Turkey. In 1959. He handed 'a written, request asking for protection to Turkish security officials. Peroly la of Turkish origin but was born in Yugoslavia, Reuter.
$. Portrait To Be Changed
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Ottawa, Mar. 27. The portrait of the Queen.on the new Canadian bank notes is to be altered to correct a "re- grettable' error" in design which
The newspaper declared that Egyptian positions and lurpellentire groups of students miss patrol exchanged rifle, autanaticed lectures to malo "collective" and mortar fire for three leurs visits to the cinema and teachers today in the El Auta demilitar-sometimes Ind to lecture in makes it look ca though there is
ised zone on the Sinai border, emply halls,
600 Arrested
to give the Maltone the self- Six hundred prodlo
in devil's heat in the Queen's About 50 per cent of students hair. missed seminars on dialectical materialiam, a study of Com- The alteration, was, announced Nicosia, Mar. 20, |munist "philosophy which In the House of Commiarís today";
were obligatory in Soviet universities. uy the Canadian Minister of they desire,
Absenteeism arrested yesterday for minor in-
tad become Certain minor constitu-fringements of the curfew regu- particularly serious in the cur described as
Finance, Mr Walter Harris, who bregrettable tional changes might be fations it was officially stated rent term, the newspaper said. made but these are unlike-| tonight. All were' released on The newspaper's rebuke were exzer" the freak effect of the ly to satisfy anyone.
ball later
I seen as part of a campaign to design-France-Pressa.
expressión
1
Senator McCarthy demanded of. Mr Hoover today: "Do you agree that we should cut off ald to any of the, countries which are shipping 00,000 kilowati generators to the Soviet Union?" HOOVER'S REPLY
Mr Hoover replied that the with position as regards trade
17- Communist countries was teresting."
not be generally "It may known that the Chinese Nation- alista
shipping
the Chinese Communists many millions of dollars worth of
are
to
Every year," Mr Hoover
"If we cut off ald to all coun tries trading with the Com- munist-bloc we should And cursolves in ด very strange
The
The
tration spokesman. defended the Government's agreement to the 1964 easing of Western trade embargoes on the grounds that concessions had to bo mado to. United States allies in order to maintain any icind of an embargo system, at all.
They offered to tell the cam- mittee in closed session exactly which Items had been removed or downgraded, but not in open Bession, Reuter.
Queen's Tour Film Jeered
Singapore, Mar. | 20." Singapore's education department was tonight investigating a complaint by an Englishwoman that every tims the film of the Queen England Tour of Nigeria appeared on a joval screen children screamed, yellza catells and feered. An Education Department spokes- tonight there has
men
been disorder
show, bring the film
from two English schools, But there did
in their minds with "Mer deka"
The management of the Cinema denied that the incidents Described by the Engilsh- ,woman had occurred.--Reuter.
Stop The Mud Flinging
Singapore, Mpr. 20, Singapore's Chief Minister, Me not appear to have been any David Marshall,, called for an enarized disturbance, he said, end to the Pinging of mud". In addition to hand clapping against the British in Singapore,
and other halso, it appeared "These people are holding out. there was vorne looring when the hand of friendship, he said,
boys
in the audienco saw "We, must algiinguish Manil- Amicane in funny clothes. colonial from, anti-drifah feel- They probably linked this:Lipy ing.
Mr Segret
U.E. Baghman, Service Chief, ordered what he called
"routine Investigation” after the President arrived here for a conference with Mexican and Canadian leader.
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"Wo don's think there has been any plot aimed at the President, but WO do want to find ont there is to know about the situation," Mr Baghman said.
Three Taken· Ill
The Carriage
the private' one of Mr Water Tuoby, President of the Chesapeake and Ohio, Rally way.
Three people were "re....” ported to have been taken il after having 1 soft drink in the carriage: last Friday when it was on the way to Washington to pick up the Presidential party.
One of the trio, n woman, was said to be in
· Huntington Hospital suntoring from "acute polsoning,"
A Huulington newspaper quoted her as saying, that she and several others were invited to Inspent the carriage when it stoppeil In the West Virgiɛla fown on the way to Washington. The chef asked · if they would havo lurah, but they declined. They ne cepted a soft drink,
"The drink looked cloudy and tasted funny,” the woman was quoted as saying. Another woman was reported Ul at home and a man was said to, be in hospital as a result of drinking the 'Ilquid, -- Reuter.
Mr Muggeridge was speaking to a inceting to protest against the Soviet leaders'
official reception in Britain.
The meeting was originally scheduled
tuke
at place London's vast Albert Hall, but the management cancelled the booking on the grounds that the
to
to
meeting could tead breach of the peace.
Almost 2,500 people turned up tonight and Mr Muggeridgo's speech was interrupted several times by shouts of "Down with the Russians."
Fatuous_Initiative'
Mr Muggeridge said: "What we are protesting against tonight is not so much a visit, an ill- conceived and fatuous diploma- Lic initiative
Edon "Suppose Sir Anthony by somb strange chance does' achieve some agreement with Khrushchev, what is it worth?
"What have, previous agree ments with the Soviet been worth?
"I'll tell you-nothing.”
The meeting passed a resolu- tion saying: "However much the people of Britain may-long, for friendship with the Russian people,
there con
no mutual can be trust while the U.S.S.R. re- mains
Communist, maintains slave labour camps, attacks re- ligion and persecutes those who practise it, retains prisoners-of- war, and continues, to hold in thrall the nations of Eastern Europe."
The resolution is being, for : warded to Sir Anthony Eden the Prime Minister-Reuter,
HOUSE BACKS MALTA
PLAN
London, Mar, 26.
The House of Commons tonight backed a proposal that Malta should be in-.. tegrated with Britain.
It agreed without a vote to a Government motion, to "take". note" of a report by a 'Brifish all-party round table conterence proposing Integration.
With both Government and opposition speaking strongly in favour, this amounted to a tacit endorsement, though the motion did not make any specine claim.
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