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CANAL COMMITTEE ACTS QUICKLY
Over To Nasser Invitation To Nasser China Mail
HE spotlight moves from London to Cairo, bring- ng the Suez Canal crisis Into a new focus. Eighteen nations, having decided that Egypt should be In- vited to negotiate an agree- ment for the future of the Canal, based on its man- agement by an internation al body, committee uf ve has been requested to place the proponnis before Col Nasser.
Will he be boorish enough to
refuse to
them? receive Such behaviour would not be entirely surprising from a man who is governed so much by egoism, and whe does not appear to be over- concerned about world opinion, whether It be friendly or criticnl.
Nevertheless the assumption Col Nasser must be that will respect at least the niceties of protocol md diplomacy and listen 10 what Mr Robert Menzies And his colleagues have to sny, but whether he will make
endeavour fy
10 weigh the propusuls OB their
is merita,
more
doubtful.
Ready Last Night
MORE SHEPILOV CRITICISM
London, Aug. 24.
The five-nation committee agreed today to hand the an immediate note inviting Pre- Egyptian Ambassador here sident Nasser to top-level talks on internationalising the Suez Canal.
Authoritative sources said the note was being prepared the Egyptian for delivery tonight to Sami Aboul Fetouh,
envoy
in London.
It will invite Nasser to join Australian Prime Minister R. G. Menzies and representatives of four other nations in negotiations of the Suez Canal for international control of the Suez Canal.
The Committee favours Geneva or Rome as site of the talks, these sources said.
OL
to
splji the committee of dve, would study the invitation for Dulles plan and While the
4 five continents at least few clayam-possibly conference in two, ministers from
to The Soviet proposal framed their invitation, Britain longer,
India's V. K. Krishna Menon conclude the conference with a and France went abend
which as tadable | formal communique their own with sharply stepped-ellinated himself
go-between in the talks,
would provide fer a peaceful up muakary propios.
We have no role between
these settlement was not scripted he news pointed out. il
Southern England
The Egyptian President ha the Chunt ports of Southamp-negotiations," he told
expressed
his determina tion to retain the waterway
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Be said it was wrong to claim that the united or monolithic view of the 18 nations on the form of a settlement had been catablished,
"We u conference tonight. Portland became text wrich vast manoeuvre ground of in-enough work at home."
Informed
sourcer sald that fantry and funks ready for in-
Menzies, a famous lawyer who mediate movement overstas
Soviet Foreign Minister D. T.knows the Middle East at (rst staternent hand, favours a firm approach to just Strepitov, before departing home, warned Nasser.
to have He was understood those military might against
told an associate the committee preparations.
will "not go begging" to Calro. It was not known yet whether Menzles would be willing to faltuation which might arise as travel to Cairo for the negotia- ja result of using a "position of lons if Egypt rejects a neutral strength." site.
10-
A SWIFT START
At his Bows conference
The Soviet Enbassy night of Shepov reiterated his previous complaints inside the just-ended London conference that it had STATE WITHIN STATE no right to decide on the Canal's future.
"Far from it," he said, Several nations of this group had ex- Preased the desire for a peace- ful settlement, he said,
Shepiloy ended on a note of warning of the gravity of the
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Nicosia, Aug. 24.
A Greek Cypriot was kill
|
OF US PLANE
UN EMPLOYEE SHOOTING DOWN IS DISMISSED One Body
FOR SPYING
RUSSIAN WHO TRIED TO
GET AIRCRAFT SECRETS
United Nations, Aug. 24.
A Soviet translator in the United Nations Secretariat, Viktor Ivanovich Petrov, was dis- missed today after the American State Department had accused him of trying to obtain vital security information.
Found By Destroyer
Washington, Aug. 24.
The body of one of the 16 crew of a naval patrol plane shot down north of Formosa earlier this week has been recovered, the Navy said to- night.
The Navy said the body of an aviation electronics techni clan was found by a destroyer the China codat amid wreckage International" waters"
"in
Merestor patrol plane which disappeared after a brief
Simultaneous communiques from the UN Bureau of Personnel and the American delegation announced that Petrov had been dismissed by the of the Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold, for engag-message saying It was under ing in activities outside the scope of his duties as attack. a United Nations employee and incompatible with wreckage and body about 239 the rules of conduct of international civil servants. miles NNE of Formosa the Navy
'The
American
The
destroyer
ratd.-Reuter,
found
IKE CONFERS
the
The UN Secretariat disclosed The communique
that said that Petrov had left the United Petrov Anally gave the employee
Monterey, Aug. 24. States yesterday. His dismissal a chart, published by the press,
Provident Eisenhower confer- took effect today.
listing the physical specifications
with of red by telephone Loday and fight characteristics communique several American military planes. Under-Secretary of State Robert stated that Hammarskjold had
about, the shooling decided to dismiss Petrov after The chart contained a number C. Murphy
of blanks where the specifica- down
wn of a US Navy plane off having examined information tons had not been published in Formosa. sent to him last week
White thethe laterests of national defence.
House
pre secretary State Department
James C. Hagerty said ho tho
pected the State Department to have a statement on the affair Pakrov told the employee that before the day was over, but- he would give him money if he that the White House would could fill somo
of the blanks, have no comment
until the although the employed pointed chief executive received addi put that this information was tional information. considered secret, the com- During the morning Eisen-
report on the
The
taonslator's acting i information whichstice Depart-
had been
gathered by the ment,
hadi proved that Petrov tried to obtain information vital to the security, and defence tho.
United States, the corn-
He also recalled a stalemented and affother seriously unique sald
a nationalised
enter- prise and
seemingly confident he has the full backing of the Arab and Moslem world in the posi- He tion he has adopted.
belleves apparently
that him Arab friends will be a holy propared to wage war in the Middle East to prevent the 18-nation pro- posals from being adopted.
at the beginning of the cat ferance, that, the military pas On this prospect
however,
parations were an open and Col Nasser should not
Shepilov attacked the proce-admissible challanga so peace. place too heavy a rellance.
Meanwhile the five-nation dure adopted by the confer- Although Egypt may have committee got off to a swittence.
THE QUESTION..... some near neighbours who Blart with is signment of Contrasting at great length profess themselves willing putting the Dulics plan before the
Foreign to fight for the retention | Nasser,
Selwyn Lloyd, in a rare ratio Interview with the BBC, spoke soberly of the consequences of refusal by Nasser to accept the Dulics plan.
of the Canal as a national- US Secretary of State John ly-controlled waterway, by | Fister Duls humsed attended the committee's first session this far the greater number of the Islamic nations have afternen, it was held in the publicly and emphatically same room where the 22-nation Insisted that the dispute Suez conterency ended yester.
settled through
Dulles New back 10 This in 41
But consultation Washington, force of moral opinion
kanung Wie members-Australia, that the Egyptian President United States, Iran, Ethiopia and cannot disdain, except per- Sweden-minued by telephone haps to his cost.
throughout the day.
must be
negotiation.
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The first decision was to 'teep The committee of five is not alt proceedings secret so neither going to Cairo force publicity nor propaganda could
to
Colge in the way of settlement. down
On the
FIRST APPROACH contrary it is a mission of
ultimatums
Nasser's throat.
the members
peace. It has important re- But I was disclosed tonight decided to presentative views to pre- that Hent for Nasser's con-make their first approach to the sideration. They are views Egyptian Embassy here-and to
for Indian proposal solution with the Dulles plan, Sheploy charged that the latter provided for the creation of a state within a state.
tablishment
of
The Indian plan, as support- ed by
and the Soviet Union others, is a "plan for a just and peaceful solution," he said
Dulles He charged that the plan
"to the amounted
of form a colonial regime in Egypt. It is a plan of colonising incom- patible with our times."
Emphasising Russia's "sincere feelings" of friendship for the of the United peoples
States, Britain and sald Russia matter of honour" to stand up In defence of nations and of peace.
France, Shepilov
considers it "as
a British
Russin, he said, wos aware of France
soon
to which Col Nusser in the dit as fast as the diplomatic the needs of Britain,
mote could be prepared by ex- dual capacity of a national
perts. leader and ʼn statesman is There wis
prediction no and obliged to give full
when or how Nasser would re- Diplomats expected he earnest thought.
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and other nations for the free- Canal. He then of the went on: "We mean to ensure that freedom of navigation on the Sucz
absolutely Canal is
this must undisputed but solved without impairment the sovereign right of Egypt."
RECOGNISES RIGHTS
bo of
The legitimate rights of each state must be recognised, he salck "Russia strives for the objective solution of the dispute. Any attempt to settle this prob lem without talcing into account the sovereign rights of Egypt is
a colonising approach.
He then attacked New Zealand Foreign Minister T. L. Mac- Donald for allegedly trying to impose on the conference the
:
Secretary
"If he now pays no attention to the opinion of these 18 coun- tries (supporting the plan) this very weighty body of interna- tional opinion, it will be a very serious matter," he said.
He whe asked in the ridio interview what would happen If Egypt says no to the Ave. nation conference,
"I hope that is precisely the question which Colonel Nasser is asking himself" Mr Loyd sald, United Press.
TO INDIA
-NOTE HANDED-
TO ENVOY
London, Aug. 24. The
Frime Australian Minister, Mr Robert Mensics, Lonight handed Egyptian Ambassador
the
in London, document destined for the Egyptian
President, Colonel Gamal
Abdel NasBOT.
Was
The 16-minute interview held at the Egyptian Embassy. On leaving the Embassy, Mr Menzies told newspapeİTOON!
"I hope to get a reply this weekend. The Ambas- sador said he would trans- mit the message to Pro- sident Namer · as' soon possible."-France-Fresse.
ind
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wounded tonight by an ex- pinion in the Larnaca area, southeast Cyprus,
tical,
The Third Case
of
Not Successful
bowICK Fuoco
Ex-
The Justice Department said London from Secretary of State will An official statement said the Petrov, who is 31 years old that at no time did Potrvy John Foster Dulles Dulles explosion
United States Was "beloved to and a native of Moscow, entered nooped in getting secret return the
The formation che UN Secretariat as a transla have been caused by a bomb."
Department sometime tomorrow and report. The incident cccurred three for on February 2, 1953. His also refused to give the name of immediately to the President by of Athlenou, wife and daughter lived with the employee or the company telephone. Dulles will not come miles southeast
him in New York, but have for whom he worked.--France- to California to see Mr Eisen-
hower.-United Press. apparently in open country.
It was not immediately clear returned to the Soviet Union. Presse whether the incident was poli- His is the third case of its signalling a sudden re-kind in the United Nations. newal of violence by the Eoka The first and most famous was that of Valentin Gulbichev, who underground organisation,
The last death attributed to was dismissed
and expelled Eoka terrorists
in occurred
from the United States in 1949 Nicosia nine days ago just be-
after having been compromised Eoka fore
Its proclaimed
in a case of espionage with n "'ceasefire"1 order to
pave the way for political negotiations young American official, Judith
Coplon. on the Greek Cypriot olzám for self-determination-Reuter
Singapore Youths Attack Bus
of
The Justice Department today'
Viktor accused
Petrov, having tried to bribe an Ameri- cun Lechnician to give him secret defence information.
The Justice Department com- Singapore, Auz 24. munique stated that Petrov had company More than 20 youths tonight contacted an aircraft throw empty bottles, fron bands, employee through a newspaper bicycle chains and atonce at advertisement offering part-time a bus travelling through industrial design work. At first, Singapore's Chinatown, police Petrov asked the employee to diagrams from freely reported.
copy available aeronautical magazines.
The conductor, drivty and 12 passengers aboard the bus were not hurt, police said
About 100
policemen rushed to the scene, but the youths hud red-Reuter.
Destroyer Sails
London, Aug. 24.
His. Offer
It soon became evident to the employee that Petrov was more anxious to develop friendly re- lations with him than to get drawings of diagrams already avaliable, the communique said,
The destroyer Al Qaher, sola After several months, Petrov by Britain to the Egyptian Gov-announced that he would give ernment, left Portsmouth har-large amounts of money for bour tonight
for Egypt, the details on plates bullt by the Admiralty announced in London company where the employee Another British
worked.. Ho also asked if the destroyer sold
any friends to Egypt and renamed the Al employed had Fateh, is still in Portsmouth and the factory who needed money
tests | and › who could get mich was to undergo its last shortly.--France-Presse.
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Three other fire fighters were sent to hospital with barn's wind-driven suffered in the blaze which roared along in a wide are four miles north of France's perfume capitat.
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