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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1957.
No Solution Of Suez Problem Us Oil Firms Attempted Lynchings
FICTION AWARD
New York, Feb. 10.
Novellat John Don PasBON Was today awarded the gold medal for Bction of the National Institute of Arta and Letters.
The award, made every five years, is given for the entire work of an author who. In
In the opinion
the insitute, has made " Justing contribution American letters.”
Mr Dos
Pacros
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known for his works por- traying American fe on all level-China Special
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Secret Plans!
To Unify Singapore And Malaya
Singapore, Feb. 1.
"gecik plans" to unite this colony and the Maluyan mainland eventually, ปลด Malayan Assistant Minister for Com merce and Industry, Inche
MALAYA Bad
Khir Johar, add Stugi- pore at the weekend, accord- ing to the Strane Thues 10- day.
A news
the Straits report in Times said tnche bir Foll 1,000 members of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) that a merger was not feasible at present. He warned there would be bloodshed if Singapore und Malaya were merged by force. "We want to avoid this," he said
Inche Khir, the Information
chlef of the UMNO, Was quoted as saying Milaya had plans to achieve a merger but theso "cannot yet be disclos- ed"
HINT
In Sight Payment Of Tolls
And Gulf Of
Aqaba Navigation
London, Feb. 10.
United Nations progress in clearing the Suez Canal brought Britain, Israel and Egypt and the UN itself close today to a major showdown over the whole shaky peace in the Middle East.
Parlia reopening ! the elogged waterway is expected within several weeks, bu there wan suli ng zolution in sight to The two biggest issues amenidering hrough the
ccascire:
Two Issues
UN
of
1. Iseli occupation the Gaze and the Egyptian shore of the Gulf of Aqaba,
2. Egyptian determina- all the to collect Loils for shipping Lllowed through the Suez Canal.
a
Until resumpton of traille in the waterway became an in- mediate prospect, the Gaz Aqaba dispute was largely Jogabstle argument between the UN and Egy
there have been arm Bul Indications that Egypt inay re- fuse passage at leas. to French nad British
all slip until Israeli
ops have withdrawn. If carried
threa. out, this would transform the Egyptian- Israth dispute Into economic disaster [or most of Europe. Britaita ani the Continent are burning up oli reserves on the assumption British tankers wil Mon be speeding through the waterway.
Seized Assets
Port Said to awali removal of one of these, the concrete-illied Egyptian landing ship Akka.
Tomorrow Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd faces a barrage of questions in the worrled House of Commons
Conservative Roger Gresham Cooke will press for an indica- tion whether Britain will sup- port Isroel's 'demand for free- dom of navigation through the Gulf of Aqabe.
Other MPs will try to sound Eisenhower out Lloyd on the doctrine-which Prime Minis- Dlready ter Harold Macmillan has Corsed-and how Britain hopes to get compensation from Enypt
businessca for British "Egyptianis d" since the Suez conflict-United Press.
HUGE PRICE SUPPORT LOSSES
Washington, Feb. 10.
The form price support pro- grumme has cost the Eisenhower Aamctration $2,794,000,000 £ the last four years-nearly three times the icta governmen losses in the preceding 20 years Britain and France and sume of Federal farm pict pro- at least of its allies in the 14-grammes, nation Suez Canal Uiers' Asso- ciation are also determined to withhold part of the regular Canal tolls from Egypt.
The idea is to use the with press conference on his re-held funds to guarantee com- turn from London talks, the pentation for seized
The Straits Tunes report sald Incha Khir hinted Singapore still did not have a sufficient- ly strong and stable govern- mont.
(In Singapore last month at a
assels
A
A
Car- Commodity Credit poration (Agriculture Depart- meat) report, which said today, stated that the total losser since the Roosevelt Administru- Inaugurated the
in
LICO
pro-
Minister of Malaya Egypt-including the Cano) - Krammes in 1930 were $4,005,- Tengku Abdul Rahman, said self-and to help pay for clear-000,000.
was opposed to having Singapore as unit in an inde-ance of the sabotaged waterway. pendent Malaya.
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(At that time the Singapore Chief Minister Mr Lim Yew Hock reiterated that his gove ernment was still working to wards a merger with Malaya.)
Reuter
Paris, Feb. 10. The former Hungarian poli-
barracks tical police
In Eger bave been transformed into
60-bed hospital, Radio Budapest
reported today.
Hungarian Government The had earlier announced that the political police organisation, the AVO had been omelilly dis- Solved:-France-Presse,
The Corporation owned sur- plus commodities costing $5.- 302,000,000 at the end of 1950, before they
Jake Josses
Egypt on the other hand has Indicated it intends to collect all tolls.
Informed
re-und it
expected to sources here
these stocks port
that preliminary up- un proaches through the UN has were disposed of, the resulted in on progress toward added solution of the double imparse.
Showdown
report
The figures did not take into
account
direct
"Mutiny In Palermo Gaol,
Dovez
of
Police stormod s gaol in Palermo under machine-gun fire to end a 24-hour mutiny by 200 inmates. They had climbed to the prison roof, and the police had to use tear gas before they could be removed. Pisture toy shows a police armoured vehlele on the road outside the geol. Bome of the mutineering prisoners can be seen on the roof top. Plature bottom shows some of the prisoners onR roof of the szol--Express Photo.
French Republicans Determined To Hold Algeria
Bordeaux, Feb. 10.
in
The French right-of-centre Social Republican Party's Congress today called on its members to keep Algeria as part of France at all costs and to subordinate all their political action to that end.
Ending their meeting af | tion will then have to be dealt Bordeaux, the delegates voted a resolutions, opposing any
also with, though more briefly,
a piconry session of the Gen- movement which would limiteral Assembly, where it wili the
of possibilities
French
need a two-thirds majority some national defence, which would it is to be adopted.
irrevocably withdraw France's economie and social freedom, or which
would risk' dividing Metropolitan France and the overseas territories.
pay.
subsidy ments to farmers, cost of export subsidies under which The imminence of the prob commodities were sold abroad able showdown was brought at cut prices, or funds other than home this weekend when Egypt the Corporation's used to buy
tanker and two surpluses started one
for relief and other Canal distribution-Reuter minerweepers down the in hopes of detouring around the last two remaining obstacles.
The vessels were held up to- night only 49 miles south
A British Crossword Puzzle
SKRAL
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The resolution called for the estabilshment of "Federal insti-
Sway Opinion
If
It is difficult to foresee when the Algerian debate can como before tho Assembly, as the pressing mattor of Israel's re- a strong President. "s national and the Gulf of Aqeba will be arbiter abova parlics", by given absolut priority, largo electoral college represent- ing all local communities.
SEES tutions including the election of fusal to evacuate the Gazs strip
SAUD SEES FRANCO
Madrid, Feb. 10. King Saud of Saudi Arabia hed a 10-minute falk tonight
head of State.
AIN with General Franco, Spanish
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Main Tasks
The Afro-Asian group is pre- paring a new resolution calling for sanellona agɛinst Isrnc) for her refusal to obey UN resolu- Įtions.
of
But their resolution will only Lube put to the vote if it is judged likely to obtain a two- thirds majority, and particular-
Fould sway Assembly
Jacques Chaban-Delmas, who re-olected President the National Council, said the An official communique des party's main tasks were to keep cribed the meeting as a cordial and save Algeria, to ensure the Interview." General Franco met | Hoe
liberal evolution of overeens King Saud on his arrival here territories while keeping them American support, which
from the United States, within the French Union, and where the King had talks with to build a unified Europe, pro- institutions did not vided its place France in a position of insurmountable inferiority,
today
Mohammed
AVO
opinion in
the
the
As the Afro-Asian group is | President Elsenhower,
by no means sure yet of ob- King Saud tonight anner in honour of Sultan Sial
thining these conditions, ben Youssef of Tho Algerian situation will Asembly vote on the Middle East, originally expected. on Morocco. with whom he will be debated for the second week Tuesday, may be postponed,
Yet another debate on the discuss, during his five-day stay, running in the United Nations United States plans for an Arab Political Committee tomorrow Palestine situation is to come
the and, with 25 speakers still to be
to before the special Political heard, It is unlikely to wind up' Errived here before the middle of the week. Committee of the Assembly to- day. This will arine out of a The Brst resolution to be report by Henry Labouisse, voled on at the end of the Director of the UN Relief and debate will be the Afro-Asian Works Agency for Palestine resolution, which appears un refugees. ikely to obtain even simple majority stage.
anti-Communist bloc and Algerian question,
Sultan The yesterday.-Reuter.
Saudi Base
General Nominated
Washington, Feb. 10.
American Air Force General Dale Sinth has been note as head of the American mill- tary ald group in Saudi Arabia
and commander of the 2nd Air Force Division at Dhahran air haze, the Air Force Department announced today.
ot
the committee
If it is not carried, Thailand and the Philippines are expect
modifed
Caused Death
The report accuses the Israeli authorities of having caused the
Presse.
Stress Rights
Both
resolutions' stráca tho
Holiday Casualties
US Told To Drop
Prices
Washington, Feb. 10. Senator Joseph O'Mahoney called upon the big oil com- panies today to reduce the price of petrol immediately or face the threat of legisla- tive action by Congress.
Senator O'Mahoney, chairman
committes Investigating the oll for Europe programme, pre- dicted that eventually potrol prices would be reduced "at least I hope so."
of the joint Senate sub
Alleged In Hungarian Schools
By RONALD FARQUHAR
Budapest, Feb. 10,
The Hungarian Communist press today attacked the church for failing to condemn alleged attempted "lynchings" of school children who' refused to attend religious classes.
The censure came in en articlo į refusing in the Socialist Workers (Com-classes. munist) Parly newspaper Nepazabaeng and followed recent
to
attend religious
Last Wednesday Nepszabadsag
He said the longer the in-pres attacks on cortain Roman accused Cardinal Josef Mind. dustry waited before cutting the
Catholic and Protesian church Szanty, Roman Catholic primato _DAULTS for a.leged "counter-
of Hungary, of issuing orʊcts, price, the greater would be tho
from the United States logation revolutionary activities." demand for leglaiation,
In Budapest where he sought The Senator was asked on, a
asylum on November 4, dismiss-, television programma
tho
ing "Democratic minded' possible legislation would take
priests, the form of a system of price controls for the patroloum in-
dustry.
"It might be," he said. said later: "Price control by government is not as bad as price-xing by a monopoly."
NO JUSTIFICATION
the
The article, entitled "The crows is no gallows", recalled recent press reports that pupils in one schools tried to hang classmates by their scarves and locked others in a cupboard becaus they would not go to religious classes.
Guardian of Purity
Two dnys later Nepakarat, sald "some porsonalities" tha Kujozmed Church Protestant wonted to make their church' "one of the baseS of counter- revolution,"
Newspapers reported that 14 people alleged to have been In- volved in Isrching soven politie: officers in Miskolc, northcust Hungary, during the rising were duo to stand trial soon.
The writer of the article, Mr Senator Estes Kefauver (De-Imre Dobozy, said: "I cannot a member understand why the church, the mocrat, Tennessee), of Senator
O'Mahoney's joint guardian of the purity of rell- sub-commitice, Enid, mean-gion, is silent at the time of this while, that there was no ugly warfare in the schools
Nopakarat printed a photo- "Why does it not proclaim in graph of British Labour MP Mr a widely-hoard voice that Chris- Aneurin Bevan and quoted him' tianity has nothing to do with as saying, in a recent article in brutal violence. Is it possible a British newspaper, that he that silently i tolerates the did not belfove the Middle East crime of abuses committed in was really threatened by com- the пато of religion," the munian. article said.
tecnomie justißcation" for recent increase in oil and petrol prices,
Senator O'Mahoney criticised the Administration for allowing a 13-company privac oil group to handle the oil for Europe He said he would programme. have "had the Government supervise Le whole business,
"I do not believe," he said, "an industry
group shouldclared, світу out
güvernment func- tions."-United Press,
Free practice of religion was guaranteed in Hungary, de- but "Aggressive bar- barian violence" must be extir pated, and the authorities must be ruthless towards intigators.
The Hungarian Commissioner
Education, Mr
Mr Albert
Good Sign
Nepakarat said "It is a good sign that such a pollucion of great repute as Bevan declares These things without hesitation.
"But it is д 165 that
Western
Atlantic Pact Konya, was quoted by the trade expecially in
Not A Bargaining Counter
Bunn, Feb. 10.
Dr Heinrich von Brentano,
West German Foreign Minister, said at Oberabsteinach
He told
Food politiel
union newspaper Nepakarat as very great details of the fairy saying
that "lynching and tale about the Middle East terrorism" in schools were που being attacked by the Com- widespread.
munists."—China Mail Special
But, he told a press con- ference, strong measures were nooded even in the most In- significant cuses.
Cancelled
(When Hungarian schools re-
Coalminers Needed For Poles
today surned lessons early this year that Germany could not use theater the national rising of lost Atlantic Pact us a bargaining October and November, religi
Berlin, Feb. 10. counter when negotiating for us classes, previously restricted reunification.
to children who specifically ask- East German Communista ed to attend at the beginning of today met lagging Polish a Christian
Demo- the school year in September, coal shipments with a call cratie Party meeting that since were opened to all others who for transfer of workers to the recent foreign polley debate wanted to join. In the Bundestag (lower house) in which the
the the coalfields (But shortly afterwards
to increase Covernment re- authorities cancelled this and domestic production. affirmed its NATO policy, he reverted to the former arranges. had received many letters from ment because of alleged abuses The official Communist Party people in East Germany saying and "spiritual terror" to force newspaper, Neues Deutschland, that West German polley had children to attend there classes) said now coal miners were neod given them the courage to hold
Nepakarat reported on Jonu ed if production was to be - ary 31 that three boys were creased. The newspaper pro- Dr von Brentano said pro-hung by their scarves on pegs posed that factory workers in posals for an alternative to the at a school at Mosonmagyarovar, towns near the coalavids go into NATO and Warsaw pacts put West forward by Herr Erich Ollen-
they did not at- hauer, leader of the Social send religious classes. Democratte
100
"simply unrealisticon.
week bgary, the previous the mines.
There was no suggestion of a were All three were freed, but, the draft. newspaper said, one of them, a
The seriousness of the coal (Herr Ollenhauer said last 17-year-old boy, almost sutto-
shortage was disclosed last week Thursday that his party pro-cated before the teacher came by Brune Leuschner, head of
released
the State's coonomile plan com- multice. He said that, because
on
the room posed a mutual non-aggression to
and pact for Europe in which mem-them. bere would have limited and Nepszabadsag reported controlled armaments, and which February 5 that at another un- Poland had failed to meet copi
export agreements, East Ger would be guaranteed by the named school come pupils were Soviet Union and the United "half-strangled and shut in a many would have to cut its 1957 States-China Mail Special. cupboard by
for production goals and its capitai schoolmates
investment programme.
H-BOMB TESTS
REPLY TODAY
London, Feb. 10.
Poland has cut its delivery of coal to the Soviet bloc and is scling coal in Western Europe tor Western goods. This Бад bit the entire East European
cxonomy, already disrupted by the economic chaos in Hungary. -United Press.
Japan is expected to get an indirect reply to-Polish 5-Year
morrow to its demand for suspension of Britain's planned H-bomb tests in the Pacific this spring.
كم
Plan Modified
Paris, Feb. 10..
Foreign Secretary Solwyn of Christmas Island in the South Lloyd faces three Socialist Pacife and what reply he has questions in the House of Com-given to such protesta
A mona on Japanese reaction to
Third Socialist, Emrys the tests.
Hughes, has added
third
A modification of the The inclusion of the two molion for Lloyd to answer to questions high on the Hat
of morrow. Hughes will ask "if he Polish five-year plan to in
inform motions provides an opportunity will
the Japanca crenee the production of for brief debate of the H-bomb Government what area in the consumer goods in the years test plans. Many Socialists Pacifle it is proposed to declare have demanded that Britain dangerous for fishing in future 1957-1960 was recently support an Immediate ban on United Kingdom nuclear worked out by the Planning auclear text explosions..
weapon tests, and whether he Commission, attached to the, will Inform
Japanese Polish Cabinet, the Polish Government
Japoneso fishermen will be compensated PAP. agency reported today. for any loss they may bustain
The production of consumer. within that area."
goods, including farmors MA- materials, terials, construction machines, raw
Insufficient Time
tho
that
Major Problem
· materials · ́ ́ for tsors CANE, motorcycles, retrizera-
Twice in the last month the ed to introduce another reply
death of several refugees during two questions have come up tion, embodying in
the occupation of the Gaza strip; | before the House but both times form cartalm elements
but it also accusca Egypt of there was troufficient time for resolution. This holding up UN relief work in loyd to give an oral reply. The Afro-Asian would probably command con- the Gaza aren before the out- Socialists refused to pecept a The third question confronts bleycles, radios, and ciderably more support than the break of hostilities. Franco-written answer since this would the British Government with a tors, is to be increared by an Afro-Asian resolution.
deprive them of the opportunity problem that clouded previous average of ning per cent from
US toste in the Pacific when 1958 to 1980, the agency said. of debating the lesue.
Sociallet W. W. Homilion will fears of radioactivity caused a
The productions of goods for Bak "what was the pature of the major blow to the Japanese
industry will also be increased warning given to Japan about fishing Industry,
It is already known that the and possibly supplemented by General Smith is at prsent rights of peoples to salt-deter
nuclear due to and lider Japanese Government formally imports of raw materials and Singapore, Feb, 10. around Christense Island chief of the planning bureau mination and the necessity for
between France Rond beeldents killed 11, this year, and what official asked Britain to "aupend's the wei-dinished goods, while the at Air Force headquarters in negotiatione Washington. He took part in | ană
the people and seriously injured Japanese reply has been made tests. The British Government planned representatives of
doliverozi Socialist Stephen Davies will has not
cal the
*Indiat Gaze for, mechani».
production is to ba the technical phase of law Algerian people, The 18-bation more than 30, in the first nine
batwuon negotiations
covering ask what protests he has re- formal reply to Japan's request maintained, the agency said. Afro-Asian resolution call on days of this mont
questions before the The general investments for Saudi Arabia and the United the Secretary-General. Mr Dad part of the Chinese New Year esived from the thing industry. But the
Tomorrow 1957-1950 will be reduced to 17 Spar, 19 Stale, 20 Striates, 21 Boot, 23 Tunic, 24 Itell, 25 states, and was prosent at most sammanfold, to
to fødliste them Dortivities" li was announced to trade unions and petos organi-House of Commons
a chance sorpe, 87 milloæda Klotys. (about deya Polios saldi in this Holiday mations in Japan against the provide, Labouri Sewer, 20 Blagen. Down: 1 Princess, 2 Alder-man, 3 Bick, 5 of the official ceremonies in negodalom
millard dollars), Caplikis, & insane, 9 Ports, 11 Parazito, 12 Poses, 13 Erecting, honour of King Saud of Baudi
piitiosi, period more if this 60 audiente: propowed Briishing of argue in favour of the Japanese 164
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