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Let Side Down
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TR David Marshall enjoy, and also suffers from, a variety of idiosyncrasies; sonte engaging, others dis- concurling. He is potentially
skilful politician and possesses leadership quall- lies. But he is a poor loser and his publicly expressed tantrums consequent or the breakdown of the London negotiations on Singapore have not Won lalrn any respect in England or else. where.
CHINA*
No. 36441
Established 1845
TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1956.
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America's, Defence Plans In The Atomic Age
RELAX IN
INDAKS
THE FAMEUS COMERET EN ACTION TROUSERS
Whiteaways
Greek MPs
Scuffle
ROW? SERVICE CHIEFS SAY NO In Cyprus
BUT THEY ADMIT SOME
DIFFERENCES' IN POLICY
BIG PRESS CONFERENCE HELD
Washington, May 21.
President Eisenhower's chief civilian and military defence advisers held an unprecedented mass press conference today and showed a virtually united front in denying persistent American press reports of rivalries and dissensions between the three armed services.
He has made some extrava- gant and flamboyani claima and arcusations during the past few days, all of which have been the product of }{K highly developed
Mr Charles Wilson, liid emotionalism,
bear
who Secretary of Defence, ittle relation to reality. When, for example, he surrounded himself with the asserts that the people of three civilian secretaries, Britain are wholly sympathe Joint Chiefs of Staff and
the
"We have our prob- but the contro-
thetic to his crusade for the Marine Commandant,
indepen said: full Singapore's dence he is guilty of a
lems no! generalisation ported by evidence. It would be truer
to say that the
aupversy (In the press) has
been exaggerated."
The Press reports, responsible mass of people in Britain for the calling of today's Press do not even comprehend the | conference, were based on con- problem of Singapore, much | dcvlit documents said to have less possess any firm com- been victions about the right-services. фека of Mr Marshall's cause.
by all
three
"leaked"
Among the inter-service dif- ferences were said to be:
BUT if the tue of Mr chiefly on ultrale air power, 41-
The Army's opposition to The United States relying
though this concept is now na- Bonal policy.
valry over the develop- *
ment and control vf revert guided missile systems within the Army, Navy, und Air Fores.
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Marshall's claim for wide- spread sympathy for his in- dependence campaign can be questioned (and it can), to an even greater extent can his ridiculous accuña tion that the Colonial Office
Air Force Stutenenis that is a Fuscist department be
huge aircraft carriers of repudiated. Such a cheap the Forrestal clans were liabili- Jibe in below the dignity of ties in the atomic age,
a man who represents him- ★
The
Anry's complaint that is being relegated
self na the chief negotiato mapping-up operations after Lor for a New Order In atomic bombs had smashed an Singapore.
It is very cuay, when a politi- cnl objective has not been attained, to place all the blame for fallure
oth another party. But if Mr Marshall were to allow him. self to be guided by honesty instead of an incurable,
frustration, he sense of would admit that the break- down in the London talks principally Df
WAR
making. This has even been admitted by members of bis own delegation who have since confessed they were prepared
|
enemy.
three Mr Wilson and the secretaries said that most of the reported in the criticisms, tis Press this weekend, did not re- feet official policy.
EAGER BEAVERS
Cholera Hits Calcutta
Calcutta, May 21.
Police today ralded 21 markets and destroyed 3,300 pounds of rotten fish and other foodstuffs na authorities pushed an anti- Cholera campaign.
But a shortage of filtered water-believed the principal cause of the epidemic which has already claimed more than 309 Ulves- continued.
Hosptials admitted 4,838 cases of suspected cholera, of which 840 were confirmed.United Press
HAS
BRITAIN
Iran Warns Egypt 'Stop Those Broadcasts'
Lady Churchill
TO BEQUEATH
HER EYES
London, May 21. Lady Churchill, wife of the former Prime Minister, has agreed. to leave her eyes to’an "eye bank" after death. Mr Franels Stanislaw. founder of u "Eye Will Crusade," said he had been told this by Bir Winston Churchill's secretary,
Ho adled
Lady that Churchill was one of 300 people who had responded to an appeal to bequeath the cornes of their eyes after death so that others could see.-Reuter.
CHOSEN
H-TEST
SITE?
Christmas Island Pinpointed
Washington, May 22.
Britain today reached an advanced stage in negotiations with the United States to explode one or more nuclear weapons on Christmas Island, an isolated atoll in the heart of the Pacific Ocean.
Authoritative
Teherin, May 21 Iran may break off diplo matle relations with Egypt if Egypt's propaganda cam paign continues, high government official said to-island to
weapon. day.
A
His statement was backed by en official protest against Egypt's actions
Iranian Under-Secretary for They sold they were carrying Foreign Affairs, Mochfegh on separate investigations to Kazemi summoned the Egyptian
to deliver determine who had leaked the Ambassador
memorandum papers and why these had been strongly-worded
being represented than the views of individuals.
other protesting false reports about
Iran by Cairo radio. Complaining at the authorised release of documents reflecting individual views, Mr Wilson said: "the eager beavers are gnawing down scene of the wrong trees.
was com
Iran objected aspectully to a Calro broadcast reporting a coup d'etat by Iranian officers which Iranian officials say plotely faise. Cairo radio hda also broadcast reports of wide- "Ordinarily we
along spread unemployment in Iran. get to settle, for the time being pretty well as team.
The official said that unless self-
"Our military
programmes Egypt stops anti-Iranian broad- government proposals offered | have the unanimous support of casts Iran
to may be forced by the British government the Joint Chiefs of Staff."
sever diplomatic relations with By this can be measured Mr But Mr Wilson and the Egypt. Marshall's iden of the service secretaries did not "truth" of the London respond when some reporters negotiations.
for the
advanced
IT is this "truth" with which
Mr Marshall is about to regale Prime Minister Nehru of India. Yet aurely the facts of the London con- ference have alrendy been sufficiently aired in public
SHAH ANGRY
told them that recent Con- gressional testimony by
SOIT of the Joint Chiots of reflected differences over
the armed forces The Shah of Iran, who is at roles which
Turkey, were earmarked to play in the present in
ed to be very annoyed at the atomic age.
anti-Iranian broadcasts monat- int from
Nasser Zolfa-
Egypt has been trying to Iran to leave the Stair Persuade
the Bagdad Pact.
'SOME DIFFERENCE'
Egypt.
JOLIECH
Q
LENNOX-BOYD SAYS:
'Singapore Of Vital Importance
To Britain'
London, May 21. The Colonial Secretary Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd, sald in a television interview to- by night that possession Britain of Singapore Was "more important than ever today."
Mr Lennox-Boyd was answOT- ing questions put to him by Mr Woodrow Wyatt, a former Labour minister
the "panorama" programme of the BBC.
"In a cold war-and we are living in a cold war now-the of subversion from danger is within," Mr Lennox-Boyd said.
"We might eastly and tiia vital base
world-wide In our defence communications under-
mined from within by munist subversion.
No Hostility
Com-
"In the event of thero being another hot war, it is of vital
importance for a whole series of
reasons."
Mr Lermux-Boyd said there was no sign whatever of hostili- (to Britain) on a wide scale
In
among the people maidi Hydsbøger. : weapon would be of go was, he added, a fund of the many races who had these negotiations had been protested on Australian soli. ceeding for several works. But
With the Monte Bello chaln come to make their home in the confidence to comment on they declined gathering speculation that Bri
only 12 miles off the mainland Singapore in
that they were Iow
going to get. A fair deal tain wanted this remote coral of Australia, and only
test
more miles from the township Q hydrogen
Mr Lennox-Boyd said he did of Onelow, it was believed that not think there was any danger Britain Christmas Island, which Bel-
of Singapore becoming another tain claims in dispute with the
Cyprus. United States, lies in isolation in the Poelfic Ocean, close to the
be equator roughly midway tween Australia and the United
Sules,
Lease Terminated
It was learned that Britain hud terminated on short notice the lease of the South Pacific Airlines, an American company which planned to use Christmas as a refuelling point on Island
proposed route between Tahiti and Honolulu.
The company negotiated the lease with the British Com- missioner late last year and 11 was cancelled in March with request that the company "keep things confidential,
Up
The company, which had set equipment and begun to clear coral from the lagoon in the centre of the atoll so sca- planes could land, was asked to
would have to look
0 afleld for themmo- further nuclear testing site.
am a great optimist in re- Although Washington officials gard to the future of Singe will not make formal comment, pore," Mr Lennox-Boyd added. they do not contradict specula--Reuter. tion that Britain is giving con- sideration to Christmas Island sa
a suitable site.
Christmas Island is approx!- mately 25 miles long and 16 miles wide. Its total population 100, is estimated at less than natives mostly
who collect copra for a livelihood.
Criticism Expected
During the World War II the United States Navy used the atoll ingoon for a seaplane base, and it was this base that South Pacific Airlines was returnishing
Czech Boys Ridicule Stalin Cult
Prague, May 21. Thousands of singing, shouting Czechoslovak stud- the ents made fun of I Britain does conduct
and the "cult thermonuclear test in the central government Pacile, diplomatic sources expect of Stalin" in their tradi- new wave of protests from tional May carnival proces Japan, Indin and other Asiansion, revived for the first nations which have vigorously
is report bmth a bill for inselationriticised the United States for time since before the war.
Vice today: "We are sur-
to
According South Pacific Air. the latest yesterday,?
This is hardly con- theavy equipment to move from that on the basis of information their banners which also poked
the island,
News of the lease leaked out when ten
thermonuclear explosiums in the reached Honolulu. Marshall Islands group, including three-mile
Laughing crowds lining. the #lone men
route procession In inscarpation Both General Nathan-Twining,
chord said
through the city yesterday, ghark 28 to leave nu miscon- the Air Forco Chief of Staff, arki
the marchers... and sed at Cairo radio's prised
recent lines still has one man and its
applauded ception na to why the talks General Maxwell Taylor,
the attitude.
State Department officials sald foundered. And wo
the education doubt Army Chief of Staff, said they ducive to good relations.
mild fun at whether Mr Nehru is likely alanvowed much in the docu-
"We also strongly object to
Mithorities. from Tokyo they expected_re- It is believed that the govern-newed: protests
reach to allow himself to be mis~;mments as reported in the Press Egyptians meddling in Bahren
In the parade, passing a 100- from Japanese Mr Wilson, in led by Marshall's emotion-
prepared and making it a problem whichment has given them a deadline Washington
foot monument to Stain, was No get this equipment away, but
sources in the near future. aliam.
statement at the beginning of is not theirs at all."
tall student bearing a placard it was understood that this
Reuter, Press cenference, said:
with the word "cult," behind Yet oven at this moment, the tire
headline was still more than a be
hlm was a smaller student with Singapore Chlef Minister "There will always
week off. of opinion within
a sign reading "maller cult" continues to parade his in- differences
and a third, even smaller, was
some
The dil-rich island of Bahrein is a British protectorate in the Persian Gulf off the Saudi
1
consistency. While heaping and between the services.... Arabian coast, claimed by Iran abuse on the Colonial Office, Honest differences and reason-United Press. and by inference accusing able competition between the. Mr Lennox-Boyd of having military services are healthy perverted the truth in his and
will result in a stronger
presentation to parliament, defence establishment,"
Harriman In Hospital
Stir Down Under
Israeli Soldier
0
labelled ny cult."
Wounded their group of students,
On May 10 Britain exploded what was officially called
"moutha gagged with band- "atorale device" in the Monte
ages and their cars plugged with Bello islands off the Western
cotton wool; described them- Tel-Aviv, May 21, coast of Australia. This was the One
a placard as the Israeli soldier was selves on
the youth and the Press of the London i But, he said, it was not good
third series of tests conducted wounded last night near the editorial staff of makes for the country to have these
New York, May 21. ho discussions,
by Britain since 1952.
organisation newspaper, Mlada Lebanon frontler. Mr Averell Harriman,
Fromia. further
differences "aired on a basis of advances for a
British The
government The Israel-Lebanese border. acrvice partisanship without governor of New Yoric state, was
near tha There was also a group dress- resumption of the talks, this
responsible operated on for prostate gland carller had announced its inten. Incident occurred time on.. 8 government to giving the proper
to hold condition tion
a thermonuclper village of Baram, where in-ed in deep mourning solemnly. today. --His to trouble the opportunity government basin.
as "excel-(Hydrogen) weapons test this truders get ce, ambush for a walking behind a hearse
chalked "bureaucracy." It makes it difficult to know weigh all the factors involved. Inter was described
lent." Ho is expected
to ro-year, causing such a atir omong Israeli patrol, a military spokes-coffin -Reuter.
main a hospital; nine or ten Australians that Canberra for-man announced in Tel-Aviv to---Renter days-Reuter.
mally assured the Public that no day-France-Presse.
Just when Mr Marshall is serious. To castigate the people with whom you plead for further audience does
not appear to be the most appropriate method of
officials
Taipei Claims Island
Taipol, May 22.
winning their confidance The Nationalista yesterday in-
and respect.
formed the Philippine Govero-
Anti-Glubb Men Out Of Jordan Cabinet
When Mr Marshall. gets back ment that "Freedom Island," a Mr Sala Mufu, Jordan's new
to Singapore he should take small istant 250 miles north-west some time off to reflect on of Palawan Island, is part
of
the part he played in the Nationalist territory, according
to
official sources.
J. falluro of, the, London con-
A Philippine, schoolmaster has
Amman, May 21. Prime Minister has completed formation of his cabinet, with- out including: members of this Nationist Socialist party, nÜ- thoritative sources said to
forence; to reflect also on claimed that he discovered the some of his boorish public island, but the Nationalists said utterances. It may help it was part of the Macclesteld The National Socialists were him to ronilse that a group and the island itself was ambos, the mow feryant by spokesman for the Colony'snown to the nationalists ho rather let the humanity 'side down,
Chinese ai kingdom.”-United · Globbs Lowenste (Britiati
The
recently relleved of his post by: King Hussein. The Nationalist Socialiste had insisted that unless the Lower House was disolved and new elcation hold, they would not co-operate with Mr Bold Muntourpes close to the Prime Minister weld The Prime Min
demand, and
and
New Soviet-Asian Friendship Group
cabinet is expected to be
London, May 217) after ! announced tomorrow
Soviet committed belog formally, submitted to
Se solidarity with Asian,
countries the interview earlier today, how boon set up: Moscow radio in an
Mr Said Murti hinted that his shnoimoodi tonight, tupak IDE
Tho, committee, set up on the new Clovertimens will review the Anglo-Jordaer treaty. He initiative of the Soviet Central said there was alsoeliisisction | Asan and Caucasian, Republies avery'ita teins, but ould not. im toj “express the wild of Bovist Commit himwait on whether he public-coltion to.... strengthen the would; prawo for the compéte
the treaty. Ploving pooping it Asli:
BIG FIRE
UNDER
Debate
Athens, May 21. Government and opposl tion deputies scuffed in Parliament today during a debate on an
Opposition censure the Government for its handling of the Cyprus Issue,
LONDON motion to
London, May 21. Masked. London fire- men battled flames and smoke in a 200-foot- deep air rald shelter late tonight.
They feared at first fiat at least one person wi trapped.
But
After
bours of starching they found nothing but a black cât.
Sixteen fire engines crowded Tattenham Court Road outside the Army depot which stands over the shelter. Military Pollon and helmeted "bobbits" deloured late night crowds and treme,
TERRIBLE
Relays of firemen, wear- ing respirators went in and out of the shelter, which i reached by a steep spiral staircase, Ambulanens walled outside the depot for possible victims.
Sixty-three soldiers, quartered temporarily in the shelter, were driven ent by flames and smoke, Their personal belongings and equipment were still in the shelter. They were schmfuted to My to Sings-. pore tomorTOW.
** One Army" corporal'said: "We have been sleeplig down there. It's terrible. We have never had any fre drill or Instructions on kow to leave in 'an emer» gency,"
IKE'S OLD HQ
A Fire
Department
official said firemen could: not find the exact centre of the blaze bécause no were plan of the tunnel avaliable. The tunnel was originally used during the
hower's
quarters.
General Elen Signals head-
Firemen stopped frilm at a nearby underground stallen and broke down a the to Bloodgate Trading burning shelter. They also ran fire hoses through the station at underground
the Gloodge Street to
shelter.
A soldier-barman at an
underground officers' meas first raised the alarm. He said he opened z-door and a "mass of flame”, rushed toward him. He ran to ring the fire bell-United Press.
Once a
Terasion ran high 09 The speaker Intervened to restore order.
Deputies scuffied after Mr Demetrius Makris, the Minister of the Interior, said that "anarchists" were to blame for riots and bloodshed in Athena on May 9, after the execution of two Cypriots for terrorist Deba.
Parliament later resumed its dicbate.
Eartier Mr George Mavros of the Opposition Liberal Demo- cratic Union pleaded for forina- tion of a "political union" cabinet to face the crisis.
Our Ally
He said the Cyprus dispute "cannot bo, solved emotionally on the addewales" Only by pubilc conquering.. Brush opinion our main if not our for only ally" could justice Cyprus be obtained.
The debate has been forced by 35 Opposition deputies,
They tabled a censure motion condemning the Government of Mr Constantine Kozornenilta saying its policy resulted in the executions that it was inefcient
tho preventing
ensuing demonstrations.
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When the debate ends on Friday a vote of condidence will be taken the second since the vote on the Government's polley statement on April 11, when the now two-month-old Karaman-
165 votes abinet secured against the opposition's 120 Vobes,—Reuter, ¡
Shop Search
Nicola, May 22. Ali Greek shop owners in a curfewed area of central Nicosia were under orders to assemble" at dawn today for security forces to search their premises, follow- ing yesterday's plats and bomb British attacks, in which a serviceman was filled and 11 people werd injured.,
The shopkeepers were warned that if they failed to turn up their premises might be broken
open.
The curfew was imposed in- definitely, and men of the South Staffordshire Regiment moved in to enforce £. Other Greek sec- tors of the capital closed down.
Terrorists in Larmen, South Cyprus, threw two bombs at houses occupied by Army officers. The attack caused slight damage to the houses, but there were no casualties-Reuter and France-
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