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COMMENT
THE DAY
OF
Soviet Action
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HE promised "dramatic"
Tannouncement by Russia
on
disarmament
has
materialinud. It amounts to A reduction In the Soviel armed forces of 1,200,000 between now and next May. the putting into mothballe
of 376 warships and the
scrapping
of several adr
force squadrons.
The announcemem, It But
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denervitig the description of FURTHER REDUCTION POSSIBLE
"dramatic" is not unimpres.
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and its Kiming
possesses some significance,
Manifestly it is intended to
Moscow, May 14.
Russia announced today it would cut its armed forces French Premier and his by 1,200,000 before May 1, next year.
have its effect on the
Foreign Minister on the eve of their visit to
Moscow What The West
more estelally as it set out to support the recently ex- pressed French view that world disarmament meu. Aures need not of necessity
be wholly dependent on a settlement of the German problem.
This in the wedge the Itussing lenders undoubtedly hope to drive between the thinking of France and her Western allfen or subjects such as and German disarmament unification. They are not likely to
the succeed, but
reduction
proposed
Į
Soviel armed forces pre- vides the Kremlin leaders with
good basis for In- they are
arguing that
dulging in deeds, and nut
merely words.
TAKEN at face value, Russin
proposes to
substantial
effect quite
cuts
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her milltary manpower to the latest reduction of 1,200,000 must be added the 650,000 which she announced some months ago.
Nevertheless
the Agures must be evalued. disarinument Lo post-war
and rearmament as a whole, if they are to be held in correct perspective.
At the end of World War II.
the Western powers D mediately began disarming, } in the
that expectation Russia would do likewise, On the contrary Russia em-i barked on a programme of building up armed forces fur beyond peace-time requirements. Simultaneous. ly she set out to build a hinge war fleet and to create an offensive air force. In No doing she forced her former Western allies to call a halt to their own domes- tic disarmament pro- grammes, to create for them- selves a defensive alliance, and to build up military strength sufficient to deler Russin aggression in the West.
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It is against this background, and the till numerically in- ferior standing armies and operational air forces of the Western
powers, that the present disarming action of the Soviets must be viewed and appreciated. It can be wercomed, but it does not mean that Russia wil seriously wonken her mill-i tary strength because of it.
This may be a genuine
-Thinks
About It All
LONDON
re-
British sources said last night The proposed duction reflected Hovtel beller thai conventional
and Armler were obsolete becoming modern warfare,
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When disarmament deadlock ended in
ago, leaders
delegations that Russia would 2001 Announce a spectacular cut in ber forces, MOSCOW
The wording of the que NOUNCEMENT Jed Foreign observers to believe that the reduction was dictated
much by the train on the Soviet economy as by considerations Dj Soviet foreign policy
WASHINGTON
scorched
cau-
Oficials tiously for loopholes in the Moscow announcement.
the
of
It was pointed out that true significance this cut in terms of global disarmament could not be property assessed until the Soviet Union responded to the United States' augsts- tion that it disclose the existing total of its armed services manpower.
America
already made public the total of men of its number armed forces~~~2,000,000. tinuing Tho
of the the eve Announcement on of the opening of Soviet- French talks in Moscow regarded as another reason for treating it primarily a
gesture. propaganda
1
Reuter.
has
HK Prison
Official's
Evidence
At Inquiry
Kampala, May 14.
A Soviet Government announcement said 68
divisions would be disbanded, including three Air
Force divisions and 30,000 men stationed in East Germany.
Western estimates place the present strength of the Soviet torres' about 4,000,000. THETC "the arc 175 land divisions,
greatest lang force in the world General according to fucky," Alfred Gruenther. resting Supreme Allied Commander in Europe
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The Soviet announcement sald Russia would be ready to co sider "the question of further reductions of the armed forces Nic USSR if the Western United States of perwers-the Amerien Britain and Franco- for their part would carry out a corresponding reduction of their armed forces and atmameris,
BUDGET CUT TOO
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The announcement, disclosed conference in the Soviet Foreign Ministry, said 375 ships of the Soviet Navy would be put into reserve. There would be a proportionate reduction in Soviet budget expenditure for military needs and in arms re ductions.
The announcement sold the reduction did at include the 140,000
who
de- men
were mobiilsed a year ago.
It added that If the Western powers made similar reductions it would be "an important stage on the road of realising plex programme of disarmament und would create real conditions for the speeding up of a solution on the question of barring atomio and hydrogen weapons."
EXPLAINS WHY
a com-
The Soviet Government sald it had taken this action "with the desire of playing a new part in the malter of disarmament and ensuring peace, of striving to create still more favourable conditions for peaceful economic and cultural constructions in the Soviet Union.
"Undertaking this new and vary great reduction in the number of the Soviet armed forces and armaments, the Soviet Govern- ment is striving to contribute towards the practical realisation. programme of a disarmament which is under examination by the United Nations,
tho this decision, "Taking
takes into Soviet Government account that cs for Europe, the French people and the British people just as the peoples of the Soviet Unlery and other peace loving European stateo, do not
want
or the terrible unt war,
consequences which they are still suffering from today." demobliised men would be given the opportunity to work in In- dustry and agriculture,
The announcement said the
The demobilisation of 1,200,- 000 men would “play a great new part in the further raising of all branches of the national Economy of the USSR."
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RELAX IN
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Censure
ARMS CUT Motion
DOG
SHOOTS
MAN
Capetown, May 14. Barry Lamprecht of Ton- devile, Was making satis- factory progress in hospital today after being shot by his dog.
The dog trod on the trig- ger as Barry plekeď up" loaded shot gun.
The run went off and the pelleja hli kim in the side. China Ma Special.
H-Explosion Tomorrow?
Eniwetok, May 14.
Improving conditions forecast by weather ob- servers today raised hope that the Bikini H-bomb may be dropped on Wednesday, United Press,
This Is Baby Roy-
This picture just received from
London shows Baby Roy and his mother, Mrs Rennie Davenport.
Before Roy was born in March:
doctors cstimated that unices drain him com- they could pletely of his blood and pump new blood into him he would die within an hour,
For, they found in his mother's
rare blood a
factor called "Little E", which they knew would kill the baby unless re- moved and replaced with a rare blood group. The transfusion succeeded. And today Baby Roy is a normal, healthy fellow--as the picture akows
Britain May Send More
Samples To China,
London, May 14.
Britain is to make more use of the "exemption pro- cedure❞ to send certain "classified" goods to Communist China, the Minister of State at the Foreign Office, Mr Anthony Nutting said today.
At the same time Britain was pressing America to permit general revision of the China embargo to bring it into fine with the less stringent embargo applied to Soviet Russia and its satellites.
Soviet endeavour to en- courage A world disarma- ment agreement, but the proposed new cuts in heri military manpower may also have been partially dictated by Internal economic cir cumstances. The cost of maintaining standing armies, Gilbert Roy Pickett, As- navien and air forces of the|sistant Commissioner of Russian proportions Is Prisons in Hongkong, lezti- sovero atrain on the nation's fled today in the Investiga- duction of military expenditure "Chincom" (the China Commit- reaðurces. Moreover the tion of the Uganda Central in the USSR state budget will tee of Cocom or the Nato Con- manpower so employed is unproductiva.
'FOR PEACE'
A spokesman of the Board of Trade sald that the, exemplions The statement added at the procedure referred to by ESMO time, this further
Prison, of which he was make it possible to formerly Superintendent,
ed the expert of about 60 tractors to China as "samples."
The Chinese authorities have made it known that they are Britain prepared to buy from
tractors. France- 1,400,000 Prosse,
re-Nutting consists of noting Rebel Force
Near
direct the sultative Group of Paris) by
ards member towards resources so released
governments that they peaceful construction,
Intend to authorise the export out still of certain banned goods "In order to carry more successfully the grandiose China as camples, while awalt-Frends armoured
decision plan of Socialist development ing an international of our country and the raising on whether the particular Item completely removed from the list.
Way rơn.
It is noticeable that the Russian announcement allied
He told the Investigating Com the disarming action with
mission there was "continual the grandiose
of plan
frictions t the top
of the Socialist development of our Prisons Department,"
He said country and the raising of that the Assistant Commissioner, the Soviet people's living can the Soviet people's standard John Redman, who visited the standards"
of living." The suggestion prison weekly, never went near
is that the Soviet fertlers the Buperintendent's office.
now realise that Russia's
Internal economy nceda
"Sometimes I never knew he was in the prison," he said.
bo
Such an exemption The announcement said the Soviet Union "will not relax its cently made when Beltsin allow- vigilance and will be on guard against the intrigues of forces hostile to the tause of peace
strengthening, particularly Mr Pickett, denied that he and peaceful, co-existence be
in the output of primary had known
products. To achieve this, cigarettes and food were brought
wordat
and to increase production into the prison Illegally or that of ponce" of other types of consumer prisoners went outside for sufficiently strong and well or- goods, very much more man- trysts with African women. power is needed on the landj and in the factories.
.t
Colonial Office Chief
London May 14, Sir John MacPherson, former- Fly Governor. General of Nigeria,
that alcohol, tween nations."
it added that the "forces But
present
ganised "to give a due rebuff to He admitted that one prisoner, any attempt to Violate the
pence,” Robert McKerrow, who worked Mr Loonide flylchev, the has been appointed Permanent But whatever the motivating in the office, "might have been Foreign Ministry Prese Chief Under Secretary of State for factor, the Russian action in position to allocate the who held the prese conference, the colonies in successica to Ble will help still further to wardons" duties and housing." declined to): armene reporters'
Mr Pickett (came të, Uganda questions on fine i prevent Thorna Loyih" who is retiring losson international tension;
Daroos in August, it were arstiolinced andens #uchit merits no by plane for the hearing, wire och Boviet
United Prem knowledgment.
Reuter
Algiers, May 14.
unita Dod helicopter borne troops, today wiped out a rebel force in a battle only 15 miles south of Algiers.
The pelion was ordered after, a number of terrorist attacks in the area, culminating in an abortive attempt on the lite of
of
the
River Mayor
of the village of The robels had their head- quarters in a fortified house on, the outskirts of Rivet, As French troops approached #their hideout alively exchange
of fire took place. Then tanka attacked, demolishing
the fortified house
In
MISSING FROGMAN
DEBATE: EDEN
IN ANGRY SCENE
London, May 14. The Prime Minister, Sir Anthony Eden, re- fused tonight to disclose "one word more" about the case of the British frogman, missing and "pre- sumed" to have died on a mysterious mission under the hull of a visiting Russian warship,
Socialist cates of "shamo" and "resign", greeted his remarks,
Then Sir Anthony added engrfly: "I deplore this debate and will say no more, and sat dowl
He said caly that the mission was undertaken without the knowledge of the Glovemment and that disciplinary steps hand been taken,
to
word more "1 have not one
Say than
Í nawounced Wednesday said Sir Anthony when he replied to Mr Galtskell today,
But he had one comment on
which he said Commander Crabb went on his mission without tho au- thority of the Government,
**That Includes all Her
Sir Majesty's Ministers,' said Anthony.
The Labour Party promptly forced a vote on its consura motion, but the House rejected It
by 310 votes to 229. The leader of the Opposition.the second part" of fast Wodnes. Mr Hugh Gullskell, opened the day's statement, in debate by urging Sir Anthony to reveal all he could about the clrcumstances surrounding the death of the frogman, Com- mander Lionel Crabb,
on
'SHAMEFUL'
He was presumed killed April 10 while swimming in Portsmouth harbour near tho Soviet cruiser that brought Mr Khrushchev and Marshal Bulganin to Britain.
This appeared to be a remark made in defence of the First Lord of the Admiralty. Lord Cileennin.
Sir Anthony dwelt for several minutes on the reasons why n Prime Minister could not pubile-
y talk about activities of the Secret SerVİCES Mr Gnitskull had asked specftenly what part the Secret Services played in House the case. Crabb
1Est
The Soviet press has called It "shameful esplanage". But Sir Anthony refused Wednesday to tell the whether Commander was spying on the cruiser,
'ALGERIA FIGHTING OVER BY AUTUMN
Alglers, May 14. The Resident Minis- ter in Algeria M. Robert Lacoste said tonight that he thought order would be restored in Algeria by the end of the summer.
M. Lacoste said; "I mised 'no
miracle, for too rocent untmorica are cruel. But I bring you reasonable hope and I be- the end of lieve that by the summer, we shall be able to say to our crition
that law and order reigns in Algeria.
He said the Algerian problem could not be settled by arms alone.
But he said to was not the moment to engage in hasty
when the Lo
the
monations "Just at Army, after plonging
the depths of the abyss last February, had 50- rained its profound bellef In its mission.”
He praised the morale of reservists. drafted to
·Algeria and promised the systemalle stamping out of terrorism.-France-Presse,
Wiped Out Algiers
prisoners were taken and army scized.. French forces suffered. 'Ave
wounded in the batije, Four of five French tank-truck
drivers who were kidnapped in a rebci ambusfi in the Öran region''this' 'mpeñing re later recovered by a French patrol Twenty ebels were killed by security forces which went kito oction in this area after the attack on the tank-trucks.-- Franco-Pisse
Snuffed Out
Sadly London "May 14,'
The Minister of Health, Mr R H Turcas told Parliament the rule of the building tonight that teland inquiry French troops found the bodies undowa w Britain bad failed of 18 rebels in uniform, ont vocabony, dancy) emmtion between of them bearing the insignia lung; cárioara hii te taking
Bir
Anthony said he had announced that the Government had been ignorant of Com- mander Crabb's mission because if he had not, "doubts would inevitably have been thrown on the sincerity of our position"
talks in Londen,
|
Defeated
London, May 14.
A stormy House of Com- mons debate on Cyprus end- ed tonight with the Govern- ment defeating a Labour censure motion by 314 votes to 236.
The Colonial Secretary, Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd, created up- roar by referring to documents which he said sherved that the. Labour Government in 1981 had proposals
turned down Greek that the island should be coded
to Greece.
The
Labour Party
ing that Cyprus
la press- should be
granted self-determination.
Mr Aneurin Bevan and other Labour leaders noisily argued for 10 minutes that the Government had no right to refer to docu- ments that the House had so chance to examine,
Mr Bevan said they did not
the whether
Colonial know Becretary was telling the truth
or not.
Murderous Blackmail
reported: Mr Lemmox-Boyd "These documenta are known to many people in Greece and think it is about time that the people in the United Kingdom know them too,"
He spoke of the "beastliness" being carried out by gangsters in Cyprus and declared: "I anyone seriously stagesta British Government 50
that
could possibly surrender to this form of murderous blackmail then I understand think they do not the real feelings of the Briush people."
The debate has opened by Mr. James Griffiths, deputy Leader of the Opposition, who urged the Government to bring the exfied Archbishop. Makarios and a representative of the Cypriot Ethnarchy Council to London to discuss a mottlement of the Cyprus problem-Reuter,
during the Khrushchey-Bulgarin Russian Writer
He felt he had to patcance that his Ministers last week were ignorant of the frogmunt's missioni.
"All
'ALL I CARE'
Shoots Himself
Moscow, May. 14.
The famous Russian novelist, Alexander Thien, chof himel care for is that the outcome of our discussions within at of alcoholte depression, Soviet leaders should, in the official news agency · Tans truth, prove to be the beginning reported today.
the
of a beginning." he said.
"I intend to
Fadecy's death on Sunday had safeguard that been announced in Moscow, but possibility at all costs.
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only today were correspondents. belleve that is the policy permitted to write that he took
of the Soviet his own life, in the minds leaders
"And that is the reason, sir," he added with feeling, "that
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The novelist had been a chronic alcoholte
and was in
sald. On Sunday, he shot 1 deplore this debate and will at Duit for acveral years, say no more."
himself during a drinking bout Earlier he had told the House: | in his Moscow Apartment,it "It is not and never has been added.
discuss there the practice to
Medical
treatment of the extended
matters openly in the House and novellst during his
am not going to break with period of alcoholism had, not precedent tonight,"
been successful-United Press.
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