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WEDNESDAY, MAY 9, 1956.
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WARNING ON ARMS SHIPMENTS Stop Those
US Official Points To
Middle East Danger
known KB the "Middle And On The Spot:
Eastern
Questions" have
taken on an entirely new form. Nor is this morely because the old Ottoman Empire has given place to a Kroup of Independent states; or because one of them the Republic vf
Iarnet. The Middle East is now of importance to the
because it is the richest oll-
BURNS IN BID TO KEEP GAZA PEACE
Washington, May 9.
The Assistant Secretary of State, Mr George whole non-communist world | Allen said today Communist arms shipments to bearing area anywhere and Egypt had increased "the frightening prospects because of and all products of a devastating arms race or even a resurgence are vital in the economies of hostilities." of every country.
It is the
Middle Bastern ol sources In the past two
As Mr Allen denounced Communist tactics in development of the Middle East in Washington, General E. L. M. Burns, the United Nations Truce Supervisor flew decades that has provided from Jerusalem to Gaza, apparently to prevent countries of Western new violations of the ceasefire agreement signed Asia with the fuel essential by Israel and Egypt during Mr Hammarskjold's
the
Europe and
of Southern
to their economic develop tour. ment. At the same time it
General Burns conferred with i
the
"Our goal in the area is the has given the Middle the Egyptian armistice chief Col. permanent
sceurity of Eastern lands themselves agalah Gohar
states there," he said, wealth they have Beyer
Dorsey, acting known before.
There is a tendency—and it is an excusable one--to see the whole situation In terms of "munopolist exploitation of the Middle East peoples," or of g melodramatic "war", between rival oll compauler. But that is tu obscure the rentities.
;
Mr Stephen Earlier today Isruel criticised
an American armistice observer | Director of the International Co- for abstaining in a vote to con-operation Administration's office demn Jurdan for un alleged in- for the Middle and Neur East, Altration into Israel and blowing sold the
Foreign Aid Adminis
up of A house on Saturday tration was asking for a total
of $1,214,635,000 10. night.
spend In the facal year beginning on | 19
July 5. for lie Near East, Africa and South Asta.
The observer refused to sup- port Israel because, he said, no definite trucks had been found despite the use of dugs to truce the infiltrators,
In
Д
Official's Testimony
Mr Washington
George Allen said la testimony at hearing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the hope for pence In the Middle rested on "the rule of law and the establishment of friendly relations among neighbours.”
Easi
THE figures help to correct perspective, Last year the six main West European refining countries (Britain, Belgium, France, Italy, the Netherlands and West Ger- many) imported for their own use and for re-export about 93 million tona of crude oil. Nearly 90 per He said American policy was cent of this came from the aimed at the achievement of a Middle East. From the peaceful and equitable settlement aame source, the countries or Arab-Israeli differences" and of Southern Asia (outside the "permanent security of the the oil areas) and of Africa state" in Me area,
and Australasia imported
Mr
40 million tons. Moreover, the Middle Eastern situation to the demand steadily grows. support
This compared with $627,968,- 000 committed for spending in the present fiscal year, he said. The increase was in military ald and a $100,000,000 flexible economic aid fund, he explained. Allocations
The new Agure includes $200,000,000 for defence sup- port for Greece, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan, $139,000,000 for development In the Arab States, Israel, Ceylon, India and Nepal, $58,100,000 for technical co-operation
year
Allen gave testimony on
the Administration's work. $4,800 million foreign aid re- scal year be-
To those countries the over- quest for the
riding consideration is that ginning in July. their supplies of Middle
East oil
are an essential
factor in their economic life.
'Proud Of It'
and development. Converse-economic assistance in the Near
He said U.S. technical and under basin irrigation,
in the entire region, $100,000,000 for the Middle East and Africa flexible fund, and authority economic to continue Into the new fiscal $45,300,000 iri unspent funds for Palestine
refugue
Regarding Egypt, he recalled the U.S. offer to help construct the High Aswan Dam, which la turn would irrigate 1,300,000
desert and acres of
provide 700,000 acres crops in
now
These resource factors
to a
growing popula- tion which is demanding im- provements in a steadily de- clining standard of living." he sald
of tt omni-
ly, they as the markets, are Eust had helped and we are critical the source of the revenue proud of our record which the oll producing plishanera.“ areas derive from the sale
of oil-which is an essential However, he raid. "We neer factor in their economics, to contin120
along
Our
Are
Intensify and
In the field of technical co efforts The real point is the inter-order to show the Near Easter continue to receive the greatest these lines, in operation, agricultural projects dependence of the oll pro- peop that the
peoples ducing and the oil consuming economic
peaceful share of available aid for and social develop- Egypt." countries. Any breakdown ment to which they aspire may in the complicated machinery best be obtained through
Co-
of production and distribu- operation with the free world- tion, from whatever cause, not the Communist bloc."
or any serious reduction in
the flow of oil from the wells Mr Allen
to the marketa would be a
that
stressed United States policy
In the Middle
the East "is aimed at
settlement of Arab-
For Jordan
For Jordan, he said, affore. station and watershed protection projects were of critical import- ence.
of a peaceful and 600,000 Palestine refugees and "With a populations swollen by beset by political pressureg from neighbouring Siples. Jordan must make rapid econo- mic progress to attain viability."
major disaster for producer achievement and consumer countries
equitable alike, and tho consumer Israel differences. countries include virtually the whole non-Communisti world.
THERE is the further con-
THE
DARING JEWEL-Ualled Press,
sideration that, though ROBBERY the companies may only be one factor in the whole 'com.
Madrid, May 8, plex, they are, as things Gangsters wearing Spanish stand, an indispensable milltary uniforms got away factor. There has grown up with jewels valued at coveral a partnership between them million pesetas in a lightning raid and the peoplen of the oil-on a leading Madrid jewellers. rich areas. The experience
Driving up In
car with military number plates,
escort of two motor cycles, the gangalers shattered These are the economic frets store window with revolver
of Iran suggests' there is no false substitute for that partner-with-an ship.
which lie at the root of all
shota.
thinking and of all polley They reooped up a collection concerning the "Middle of cut diamonds and other Eastern question," It is no pieces of jewellery before the
of panic-stricken longer, as it, was in the yes
standers.
nineteenth century, a "ques-
tion" of power politics. It The Fing
by
escaped before
is a question of India- police arrived-France-PressC. pensable oil supplies for tho
non-Communist world.
Equally, it is a question of Peronist Bomb?
Indispensable oil revenues
for the ell-bearing countries.
Buenos Aires, May 8. This two interests aro.com-| A high-powered bomb, today plomontary. They both re- abnet completely destroyed the quire, above all, maintenance Argentine Socialist Party's head of peace and security in the quarters at Olavarria, 200 miles region, and the maintenance south of Buenos Airey, 199 of relations; between ›pro-
The public library, next door ducer, operating and cons to the headquarters was also #uming countries which destroyed. Supporters of exileu will allow the maximum of e-President Juan Peron are be- cooperation for the common Leves, to be responsible for, the benefit.
incident.-----France-Pres
'Drained' At Birth
ONE HOUR IN THE LIFE OF BABY ROY
Our Own Correspondent
London, May 8.
In all the world there Is no_baby_anywhere like Roy Davenport. This la because no baby has 仕事で been born with the kind of blood that ran through Roy's veins and lived longer than one hour.
But Roy today is nine weeks old, 10 lbs 8 oz in weight, and perfectly nor- mal.
He lives because doctors drained all the blood with which he was born from him--as you would drain oil from the engine of your car- und "lled him "up" with a new kind.
FIRST STILLBORN
WAL Last January when Mrs Rennie Daven- port, wife of a miner, waAS riven a blood text by her doctor. Her baby was not due for soother thres months.
The
teat showed that because she had had sillborn baby In 1952 there was
now the
TAXE
factor in her blood stream walled "Lille E"
Specialists ktler-factor
knew the would
be
DT to her baby. All ́could do was to hope the child would live long enough after birth to allow them to change the entire blood stream and replace it I
another rare blood
with
Only one per cent of the population of the British Isles posses this group.
Three donors were found A In the Midlands and fourth in Oxford, They were asked to stand by ready to give blood as soon By the baby was born.
THEN THE DRAMA
When Mr Davenport was taken to the nursing home on March 2 messages were flashed to three donors to go there,
Another ambulance raced to Birmingham with the contribution of the fourth
Then
hours, for 30 specialists, doctora and officials of the blood trans- fuston service stood by
On March 4, the baby WRS born, pale aud
jaundiced.
But within the vital one hour time limit bis blood wüs taken away (and the new blood group pumped. in
recovered and
flourished.
Said a blood specialist: "The child is now perfect. It is the very first co where such
a thing has been done."
Dived Into The Sea
To Chase His Ship
Pening, May 8. to land only A ship's engineer who arrived
struggle. at the dockside to, pře his He was Claude ship selling away last night, dived into the sea to catch her, was swept out to and succeeded in getting back
Now Insurance Against Rain!
London, Mau, 8. Tourists going, to Europe for their holidays; will de able, to Irisure, themselves against rain, it was learnt in London today.
A British Insuranco com- „pany announced it was nepotiating with a firm of French- underwriters covering visitors to France against, bad-weather risks,
The cost tolll vary, with the month and the locality, i the basic premium, for June for example, being 0 per cent of the min (naurada France-Preške,
engineer
after a 3-hour
Belcher, third
Executions
GOVERNMENT TO East Germans Plea By
TELL HOW
FROGMAN DIED
London, May 9.
Seize Two US Officers
Berlin, May 8. Two United States Army The Government is expected to make state-officers were detained for ments in both Houses of Parliament today on the three hours today by Enst case of Commander Lionell Crabb, the British German police in the Soviet frogman who disappeared during a mysterious a radio-telephone in their sector of Berlin for having underwater mission in the Portsmouth ares.
cor.
scene.
Greek Govt
· Athéns, May 8. The Greck "Government tonight asked the United States to ask the British Government to call off the execution of a Greek Cypriot convicted of murder.
The Foreign Ministry called
in the American Ambassador Mr Greek Government's concern in Cavendish Cannon and asked him to relay to Washington the
the ca90,
The
*
They were released when a The Governor of Cyprus, Sir. Sl: Anthony Eden has nowhul of the Sovlet cruiser Russian officer arrived at the John Harding today confirmed. received a detailed" report en Ordzhenikidze, which brought the }
xecution orders against two 22- the disappearance of this 40- Soviet leaders to Britain Jast
The two officers, who were your-old Cypriots despite Greek year-old navel hero,
month.
detained about 100 yards inside and Cypriot threats of wido Political circles believe that
sector, are Colonel scale repris Minister also Parliament will hear only part should Crabb have disappeared Allied
Admiral Thomsen asked why the Soviet
Supreme Hugh Socks, from
Foreign of the Crabb story.
Headquarters in Paris, protested - to the British Lieutenant Carl Ambassador, Sir Charles Fook. Crabb's disappearance remains elsewhere than in Stockey Bay and Second headline news in Britain today is the Admiralty had announced. Perry.
In today's diplomatie moves, A similar Incident THREE MILES AWAY
occurred Greece referred only to the ease last November when two mem-of Michael Karaolls, condemned bers of the United States Con- for shooting a Cypriot polle
were detained in a car man gress equipped with radio-telephone in 20 in East Berlin.
Ол General P.
eleven days after an Admiralty statement that he was "missing presumed dead"
After under- water trials near Portsmouth
Commander Crabb
near
Since then a Soviet Embassy Spokesman has admitted frogman Crabb wag seen the Russian cruiser Ordzhoni- kidze in which Marshal Bulganin and Mr Khrushchev arrived in Portsmouth for their British tour
ADMIRALTY VIEW
The Admiralty said today Commander Crabb could not have been acting without the Admirulty's knowledge when ho disappeared. **
Rear-Admiral George Thom-
Submarine
affelra spechist, said secret diving tests werÜ carried out solely under direct control of the
BOGL,
Admiralty.
this
occasion Major-
the A. Dibrova,
Trouble Expected
He said press reports were based solely on a statement by Soviet naval attache in Lon- don who said the cruiser's crew has sighted a frogman near the Vessel
But Stockes Bay was about three miles from Portsmouth answered American protests by mobilised
forces harbour where the Ordzhonikidze claiming that Allied personnel throughout Greece to protect was anchored, Admiral Thomson | were subject to East German | Ilves and property in caso saldi.-Reuter and France-Presse, ❘ law in East Berlin.—Reuter. demonstrations broke out.
The Greek Premier, Mr Con-
security
Soviet commandant In Berlin, standin Karamanlly -earlier
ARMS TALKS WILL GO ON: EISENHOWER'S REQUEST
Washington, May 8. President Eisenhower had directed that the United States "continue patiently and per-.
Pakistan Border
Clash
Rawalpindi, May 8. An 'Afghan pattel and a Fakis- tan militia patrol exchanged fire in the Gazlona area of the Pakis. tan-Afghanistan border én Sun-. day, an official source disclosed today. There were ties on the Pakistan. side.
sistently to seek ( sound agreement"
disarmament Soviet Union
with the
olher nations.
and
F
The President's instructions were reported to reporters at the
*Mr Cannon created a furore recently "sympathy
for the
he expressed his
"admiration" Government's
in Frestrained behavious“! the
dispute. Britain, which has
repeatedly to objected
Inflammatory broadcasts bearned to Cyprus by Radio Athens, demanded' an urgent explanation of his state- ment from Washington, United Press,
White House by Mr Harold Anti-Tito Protest
Stassen, the President's chief assistant on disarmament prob
lema,
Mr Stassen, talked to reporters
Paris, May 8.
police today dispersed about
50 Frenchmen - demonstrating· outside the Yugoslav embossy
after giving "the President against President Tito's visit. preliminary report on the dis "Forty people were taken to a armament talks in London | police station and released after with representatives of the an identity check-Reuter, Soviet Union and other nations. no casualThe negotiations were dead- locked on the major issue of
New York, May 8. but Mr aerial inspection; Stassen sald he was still hope 30-year sentence in Alcatraz Morton Sobell, now serving a would be
Several bordar, incidents have been reported since Afghanistan demanded frontler rovisions for the establishment of a separate Pathan state of Pushtu-speaking been people in North-West, Pakistan. in Ports This has been rejected by Pakis
Crabb could not have authorised to
dive
mouth harbour without the tan.-Reuter. Admiralty's
he permission,
Baid
He dismissed press reports that Crabb, had dived under the
Big Police Guard For Sir Winston
•
Aachen, May 8. The German authorities mobilised powerful police reserves tonight and order- ed strict security precau- tions to head off possible demonstrations here against Sir Winston Churchill.
Sir Winston azrivéž tomorrow evening to receive the inférna- tional Charlemagne Prize of the city of Aachen. The prize is awarded each year for out- standing services to the cause of European unity.
The Association of expelled Germans has protestød, against the award and has announced of the 7,909-ton that it will singo a demonstra- President Grant of the American President Lines.,
dion in front of Aachen's wor memorial at
at the same time that
He arrived at Swettenham pier sir Winston, receives the prize
last night to rejoin his ship a
few
minutes after she left, in a ceremony
at the mediaeval
He took off all his clothes City Hall a mile away. except a pair of shorts
Former 'Nazis and other ex- tremo Rightste wore expected
and dived in after her, but when only a short distance from to take advantage of the pro- the ship ho was caught in a test to demonstrate against Sit
current and
· swept out
to
Dock labourers who saw what
on-
City authorities that
between 400 and raised the 800 had happened
regular
bo polles would alarm and a Marine Police mobiilsed, together with several launch searched for Belcher, guard Sir Winston and prevent hundred State, riot police, ta. without success.
Belcher, a strong swimmer,
trouble from the demonstrators,
struck across the current and United Press.
when out of its pult made for
the there some way down the
Three Drowned
coast from Penang There he was picked up
New York, May 8. member of the American
cart Three American soldiers were Consular staff and brought drowned at: Thet Story today * back to Penang mahalina when two amphibious · landing „Today, skrangements were, made craft overturned, ?onfeturning * for him to fir to Bombay to from 1 an 1-exerelyn.:|- Beva
Ijoin the President Grant others swam to azaly --Franc Kouter
ful agreement reached eventually.
וי
Seeks Retrial
prison for stomle septopage, to
Ho day asked for a retrial. "I feel the next year is perhaps was sentenced at the same time the most important one in Ethel and Julius Rosenberg,
atomic espionage reaching an agreement, Mrxzcuted för Stasson said.---Reuter.
in 1953.
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