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Jew versus Arab
ONE
NE would be more ready echo the Jordanian
statement, that the big Jewish attack on Tuesday night WILS
"open challenge to the Security Council and the United
Nations as a whole", had it i como from anywhere butj Jordan, For it is difficult to decide in the recent
clashes between Jew and Arab which side takes the cake for downright and
contemptible
irresponsibi
lity. The contest would be! close, suffice it to say.
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Security Council Agree On Suez Canal Agenda
BIG DEBATE OPENS
All Foreign Ministers To EGYPT
Part: Egypt Included HAS BIG
Take
United Nations, Sept. 26.
The United Nations Security Council Both are taking advantage of voted today to give a full airing to opposing
the complete Inability of!
Anglo-French and Egyptian complaints in the United Nations to do, anything more than censure the Suez Canal crisis and then adjourned and mediate, and the Tri until next week to allow the foreign Big Three which can stop ministers to gather for the debate.
partite goarantees of the
nothing short of a major WILI. One should, however, never underestimate the
1 decisive factor in the
Britain proposed that the Council start its substantive debate on the Suez Canal on Thursday,
October 4. Mr Sobolev asked for a postponement to Friday, October 5, to give "all" foreign ministers concerned an opportunity to get here,
Asked later by newsmen if that meant Mr Shepilov was coming, Mr Sobolev replied with a smile: "Why not?"
The Council left the actual date of its meeting open for negotiation among its 11 members. agenda item on the situation arising from the It voted to debate first the Anglo-French unilateral action" of Egypt in seizing the Canal. Egypt's complaint that British and French actions had created a "danger to international peace and security" was put in second position.
value of world opinion. Far The Soviet delegate, Mr Arkady Sobolev, from being nebulous, it is indicated strongly that the Russian Foreign Middle East and certainly Minister, Mr Dmitri Shepilov, would come. it in frustrating both skles The British Foreign Secretary, Mr Selwyn from testing the theoretien Lloyd, the French Foreign Minister, M. Short of land-grabbing there. Christian Pineau, the US Secretary of State,
genuity and, given the full Mr John Foster Dulles, and the Egyptian member, to participate in the Suez debate without a panoply of muderu arms, Foreign Minister, Dr Mahmoud Fawzi, also restricted to burder fornys, were expected.
iimits of their enalty.
is wide scope for local in-
neither
even un
Lide
be need
the the scale of
Jewish attack on Jordan
The Council agreed to invite Egypt, not à Council
It deferred action until its next meeting on similar request from Israel,
vote.
Д
Tuesday, Fortunately, if Sir Pierson Dixon Opens The Debate
this sector, possession of
rejected
A
jet planes, tanks and war- Voting on the Anglo-French the post few days taken place, ships does not necessarily Items was unanimous There in Palestine." imply direct use and con- were seven votes for the flagrations are thereby con- Egyptian Hem, on which Bri- fined in intensity. Thus tuin,
France. Australia und aberrant whims are curbed Belgium abstained and hate Jurks in a match- 'The Counell
which world opinion YugosŠIN Lux
proposal
discuss keeps closed,
both items simultaneously. Only Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union United Nations voted in favour,
Peru, Japan Secretary-General Mr Dag and China abstained. The other Hammarskjold in a realist countries voted against, who Beos the danger of The nation counell (x))- spontaneous combustion. He, vened at 7.08 pm GMT, will Nuvez-Pertuondo of la preparing to take action Dr Emilio in the Security Council to Cuba. President for September. but a
stop to the latest in the chair.
Opening the serics of border clashes.
Portuondo referred
THE
Dr
President. I would
CANAL SCHEME
Port Said, Sept. 26, A director of Egypt's new Suez Canal authority snid tonight the Egyptian gov- ernment would shortly an nounce a major development scheme for the Canal which might mount to £20 million Egyptian or possibly more.
Mr Tewik el Dib, director of the Port Said office of tho
authortly, said the new schorne night be announced within 15
days.
Mr El
Dib sald he did not know when tenders were likely
OCT 5
Palestine Flare-Up: UN Chief To Seek New Armistice
Jerusalem, Sept. 26.
General Edson Burns, chief of the United Nations Palestine truce commission, will shortly go from Jerusalem to Amman to attempt to con- clude a new ceasefire agreement between Israel and Jordan, informed sources reported today.
General Burns reportedly was to leave for Amman after conferring with Israeli Foreign Minister, Madame Golda Meir, on the outburst of incidents along the Jordan- Israeli border. General Burns was said to have kept UN headquarters in New York informed of the latest develop- ments of the situation.
to be called for or whether the today they believed more than Ministers Council today to
res
On
Arab Legion sources here said emergency session of the Jordan
90 Israells were idled in lost view the present situation night's rald on the villages of the frontiers. Fokeen and Houssan.
improvements scheme of the old Cenol Company would be en- tirely scropped to make way for the new scheme.
The Egyptian government has announced that 31 Jordanians | all called for tenders
The Jordanian press
for the most wena idiladi.
stage
of the old Company's tenders must scheme and those be in by October 1.
Canal authorities today gave
the
for the first time official figures "I express the hope," he saki Sir Pierson said the possibi- on the timber of pilots with the "thut the debate which maylity of bringing the situation to authority.
A spokesman said 120 pilots take place in connection with the the Council had been discussed
in Libe were training here, of whom 75 He noted that this document adoption or non-adoption of the at a very curly stage
80 fully trained are foreign; did wat request In meeting of i
agenda
will be one in which crisir, including the first London the Council, but, Br Portuondo
pilots are now working on the representatives of the Counette ference,
Canal, he said, said, he had had it distributed will confine their comments lo
It was decided that the time He added that 1.000 applies- among Council members.
of the prob- procedural aspects
been received tor tem without
upon was ripe to come to the world tions had entering substantiva questions, which can organisation, and the French and pilots jobs from all over
therefore i world. --Reuter. be discussed once the agenda British governments bag been adopted."
brought the skuntion to the Council.
done "We have The first speaker, Shr Pierson this becau
we consider that Dixon of Britain, said that the the time had come to bring to governments, including the Bri- the foreign ministers, of several the attention of the council the situation which I have ish Foreign Secretary, Mr briefly outlined" mid Sir Pierson. Selwyn Lloyd, intended to come "I hope that the Council will to New York juter next week to give tull and careful considera-, take part in a substantive debate tion to this question."
He would on the Suez crisia. therefore limit himself to deal- ing with the provisional agenda
"In any event, in my capacity like to have recorded my sorrow at the loss of life which has occurred lamong the two contenders in the events which have occurred in Palestine, and I would also like lo volce my concern at the un- folding of events in that region," he said.
|
merisak,
tratter Dr Portuonde then went on to from read the request, for the Coun-
The step is designed to re-be had received today store tranquillity but it will Dr Dak Hammarskjold thecil meeting he had received from test both the institution's Secretary-General, about the "de Britain and Francs and from authority and
Mr Ham- plorable events which
have Egypt.
before the Council.
Slr Pierson said that it was one which affected the vital interests directly or indirectly of the whole world,
Egypt's Unsubstantiated Complaint
"We think
it right that the
opportunity to assert the
marskjold's prestige us It mediator to bring about} more thna 2 temporary truce. The frontier is after all an arbitrary line on the map which neither Jow nor United Nations should be given Arab will accept na final. this No permanent solution is yet rule of law and help towards a in sight, short of removing peaceful solution. As a not un- the source of trouble, Israel, | influential member of from the land they were United Nations, as one of the promised and given. 8,400 erchitects of the Charter, we
will make
our contribution to years ago but there is no basis for reasoning in this this end. Iden just an exercise in speculation.
to
the
He
Bolshoi Ballet For London After All
of
Moscow, Sept. 28. An
of the ometal
Soviet Ministry of Culture said today that he believed the. Moscow Bolshoi Theatre's ballet COST- pany would travel to Britain after all.
The
official head In these circumstances, the
the very problem which the Egyptian
suggested that Egypt be invited to government has itself created."
participate in
English the truation had become worse with Ministry's
language countries servicė, M. Bony, saldı Unhappily, Sir Pierson said, proceeding when this subatan-ume, the French delegate sald.
think everything will be llule doubt that live discussion was
Thus, they must now call en Egypt's
erranged in the endi" Interests Council
the second phase of the proce
Bony spoke pecially
affected"
dure foreseen by the UN Char- He added that he would re-ter, namely
ception at the British Embassy recourse to
here in honour of the visiting serve his position about Israel's Security Council.
London Symphony Orchestra, request also to take part.
M. Bernard Cornut-Gentile,
Earlier, Culture Minister, Nikolai Mikhailov, referred to
The w whether
or not the
Bem "we shall all hear much! more of these Irrelevant and misleading charges when we come to embar or our sub- stantive discussion."
decided to accept this Egyptian
began "beciAUSE
will be
-
the
"France and England are to-
sup-
"
during
ro-
"cancellation" last week of the
don visit.
"RELEASE NINA”
The announcement
also sold office the king summoned to the palaco
Arab heads of diplomatic missions in Jordan to discuss the incident.-France-Presse
Tho press ofce announcedi that King Hussein held on Router.
Typhoon Harriet Batters
Japanese Island
Tokyo, Sept. 20.
milen
Typhoon Harriet, just before 10 o'clock tonight' ħie "full" force on Kyushu, Japan's westernmost island with- gales exceeding
100. per hour and drenching rain which today had
land deluged the
with fouriten incher. Temporary SCG and flood barriera built since the destruction Wrought by typhoon Emma carlter
this month were already breaking.
and
Police were counting casual-
and
coastguards watched great waves over, whelming harbour refuges and... smashing, moored boats and breakwaters. More than
100 landslider already blocked the rati way' system on Kyushu. Japan's national radio service broadcast warnings to the cast and southern coasts. Meteorologists reported two more typhoon" developing out in the Paciflc-Reuter,
CREW OF 34 RESCUED
Tokyo, Sept. 27. The 34 crewmen of the grounded British vessel Bedford Earl were rescued early today from a coral the ship was tossed by reef off Okinawa on which typhoon Harriet, the U.S. Army reported:
An Army spokesman in Tokyo said, however, that it was not known here whether the rescue was made by a US Coast Guard vessel which had been sent to the scene or if the men made it to safety through some other means,
He said the 10,000-ton ship The Army reported earlier
danger of breaking trp.
were calm.
The
crew
the French delegate, declared: day applying, in all good faith, "An international convention to the Security Council, that the announced acason for the
The the principles of international ballet company's planned Lon-was still intact and was in no that the 34 crewmen could have has ruddenly been broken. disturbance resulting from this
morality and the principles of
defended and only rights be denunciation affected not the signatories of this Conven-ported,"
M. Comut- said Gentille. tion, but the entire world.”
The users of the Canal, he
He said France firmly hoped added, had found their rights no longer guaranteed and their in- the Council would put on its agenda the Anglo-French Item pet before it,
"The full nature or our pur- pase in coming to the Security It is tempting to wish that Council will be unfolded inter
Sir Plerson said the Egyptian item remained "an outrageous Canada, which recently when we enter the substantive
slunder." But if it was the view Israel 24 debate. It will also depend on sell agreed
of other members that, despite Supersabre jetplanes, would our estimate of what the United withdraw its offer, but to which we look for a just solu-
Nations can do in this matter in this the Counch should not re-
fusc
to accept the Item, he enforce nrma embargo on. And
an
will would be prepared, though with effective only on one side naturally be affected by the extreme distaste, to refrain may produce R__recklessness course of the debate in this from opposing its adoption Da M. Cornut-Gentile exit that that will wreck the object Council on which we are now
of either a punitive sanction embarking."
or a policy of arms starva-
are consoling be drawn to
the
tion. There conclusions from the present stalemate, however, apart from doubt that neither Jew nor Arab will ever use his newly acquired equipment to its full extent.
this
estimate
terests insecure.
"The French delegation joins the British delogation in pro posing that Egypt be invited to part in the debate,” be
dako
added.
no
ine agenda.
"the abettor of the whole affair" It was
for the Council to Roferring to the Egyptian decide. But,
whatever its ce- had refusid to take part in the Sir Pierson
cision, he assumed that the conference called by Britain and counter-compliant, Dixon characterised it 43 British and French complaint France on the problem. "strangely worded." He said it would be given priority.
Their offer to negotiate had poke in an unsubstantiated way Sir Pierson Dixon weet en tomet only a negative respons of "ncions by some powers" say that he understood the "which, though loudly stating unspecified
atterson of October 4
wish for conciliation, maite wis The complaint contained generally convenient for the effort bowand it. "ominous overtones" he said.start of substantivo debate and A second collective effort for adjourn until the middle of
propaganda | he proposed that
a new conference had met with next week, after having invited "deigned to blur the issue and be adjourned until then after the the same "uncompromising att-Egypt to take part in
from the agenda was adopted.
¡ debate. lude."
FL WRI clearly
NOT much more than another to distret attention
Le
temporary ceasefire con
expected from another
Security Council meeting |
as long as the Suez crisis
Jasts. We said last week
the meeling
Scas como ashore yesterday afternoon were and evening with Okinawan He said the Soviet
mado dancers taken to the Army headquarters | fishermen, who
several "would be very happy to go to area in Sukiran.
trips out to the distressed vessel The vessel was about a mile through_reasonably enlm sets. == London, but the present situa-
United Preza. tion should be cleared up first" If the east coast.
He was apparently referring to the case of the Soviet woman athlete,
Nina Ponomareva, still in Britain after being charged with the theft of five hats from a London store,
Madame Mikhailov told news- papermen Inter: "Put Nina in a The French delegate also plane tomorrow and sind her supported the request that, to home and the day after the enable the foreign ministers to Bolshoi ballet will leave for come to New York, the Council England France-Presse.
"Seeking A Peaceful Solution”
the
Leaps To Death
Chicago, Sept. 20. Faith, Bacon, the first of the fans dancers, throw herself from a hotel window in despair over her vanished fame today and
when Mr Henry Cobot Lodge, of the had now come to the Security ngendas
items that both were the result of United States,
were it necessary to draw attention died of her injuries tonight. welcomed the Counell,
directed against itself.
to "some wellknown facts" and She never recovered from her Arab nationalism which initiative of Britain and France "Wo hope" Fald Mr Lodge Because the United States was thus to fil in the picture of coma at Grand Hospital and would seem to have wide in bringing the situation to the "thas other users of the Cabal not opposing 'inscription of the events which had been referred | died after an. emergency support everywhere cast and Counell.
will support them in their deter Egyption item, it did not mean to by the three Western de-operation on her perforated lung north of the Middle East.
mitation for a lasting settlement that she agreed with the con-legates.
had failed to save her. ... What, then, are the consolamonstration of the determina concerned."
He said it was a further de- which protects the rights of all tention that Britain and France Britain and France, he declar- 1 appeared that the once-
had acted in any way incon- tiona?
tion of Britain and France to
sistent with this Charter. Professor Arnold Toynbee Inst full thele obligations under
"It is essential that, the rights night dealt briefly with the the UN Charter and to seek a st oli users rest on a basis other two post-World War II peaceful solution.
than a unilateral promise," Mr ware and observed that un- "This is precisely what they Lodge said.
and other governments concerned satisfactory compromises in in the atluation have been doing duced by a fear of atomic since nationalisation et the conflagration brought both Canal," Ma
"Mr Lodgy said.
ed, had brought "crudo pres-beautiful sleiptease queen had sure to bear on Egypt, both no wish to live because the
world had forgotten hot (Contd. on back page, Col. 2) United Press...
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"It should also be understood wo voto as we do in the belief that the United Kingdom, and French proposal. should have In the substantive debate, the complete priority and considera. United States would seek a just tɔon of the Egyptian' item should settlement and it hoped that be deferred until the Anglo- to ́n conclusion. The same Franco and Britain as well as
this would be the altitude of French item has been disposed end, he felt, was likely in the the United States had consistent, the others. In this spirit the of,” M
Mr Lodge said. Canal dispute. And though ly sought, in accordance with United States would vote for the The United States also coul he did not say it, similar the obligations under article 23 adoption of tho provisional
corned in the British and Trench olve agenda, favouring inscription of view that the Comell should ex fear, may, be, as potent ¤ deterrenttä war along, the | cfferences through" negotiations tho Items proposed by Britain turut. In courtcay to the foreign | The violina”
The three major Western and France hd by Egypt,
Israel-Arab borders. It can-
of the Chartes", to
with
Haybe
resolve
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