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The Big Three
THE announcement that
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President Eisenhower and My Macmillan.are to meet next month wilf undoubted- ly be welcomed with feel- ings of quiet satisfaction throughout Britain, the Commonwealth
the and United States, It denotes, among other things, the ending of a briefly happy phase In Anglo- American relations, promises the full IP- establishment of the close understanding which exiNL- ed between the two nations up to the time of the Suez crisis. The measure goodwill which lies behind President Elsenhower's agreement to Indulge with Mr Maerullen In four days of delibera- tions is underlined by his offer to leave the United
of
States and hold the meet- Î ing in Bermuda. It is al gracwusly friendly gesture) and assures in advance m harmonious meeting. The two lenders, however, are
Kolik to do much
more
than smoke a pipe of pence, or, lo renew in person friendship Armly establish-
the
ed during the war. There may be no set agenda, but range of topics on which they will exchange
will certainly comprehensive, FROM the meeting can
expected
views
tu emerge
be
CHINA
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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1957.
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BRITAIN CALLS FOR AQABA GULF GUARANTEE
London, Feb. 11. The Foreign Secretary, Mr Selwyn Lloyd, sald today the United Na tions should make it clear that when Israeli troops withdrew from Egyptian territory the United Nations' full authority will be exer- cised to ensure freedom
of navigation through the Gulf of Aqaba. Replying to questions in the House of Commons. Mr Lloyd said he hoped "It will not come to a sanctions resolution (against Israel), in the United Nations,"
The questions concerned
instructions given
10
the British delegate at the United Nations on the recent · resolutions calling upon Israel to evacuate the Gaza strip and the area alongside the Gulf of Aqaba,” Mr Lloyd said the British representative at the United Nations had made it clear that he
·
did not regard the withdrawal of Israeli troops as sufficient in Itself.
He had added they would have to see further action to settle some of the problems in the area in the interest of peace and stability. Captain Charles Water-
house, Conservative, asked whether the Bri- tish representative at the United Nations would have definite in- structions not to sup- port any Imposition of sanctions against Israel unless the conditions the representative had spoken of were first
complied with.
RELAX.IN
INDAKS
THE FANSICH COS ER ACTION TINGLEKR
Whiteaways
Mr Lloyd: It would be quite wrong for the British Government to support sanctions with- oul, the other part of the picture being cover- ed.
"I hope myself it will not come to a sanctions re- solution."-Reuter.
ITALIAN SOCIALISTS REVOLT
NENNI OUSTED
SHOCK
CONGRESS
VOTE
Venice, Feb. 11.
Signor Pietro Nenni,
leader, WELS
81.
tonight
NEGRO KILLER
BID TO
Bulganin Note To
SHOT
EASE
TRADE BAN
Adenauer DEAD
Released
4
Columbus, Feb. 11. Luigo Flowers, depart- ment store owner who shot
He died in the emergency where he was rushed shortly room of City Medical Centre
after he was found slumped in tho vestibule of the Dixie Theatre across the street from
his store.
Police had no elues to the mysterious shooting. One bullet passed through his head and he never regained consciousness.
Moscow, Feb. 11. The Soviet Premier, Mara Negro leader to death last London, Feb. 11. shal Bulganin, made a major year, was fatally wounded with a pistol bullet early to- Italy's veteran Socialist ru
THE British Government bid for a Soviet-German
day. agreed with a suggestion rapprochement in his letter today thas
IL was pressing to the German Chancellor, ousted from undisputed **weck by work"
to try to Dr Konrad Adenauer, which control of his party by a secure a relaxation of controls sudden "palace revolu-imposed at the time of the war
on Western irade with China was released today.
He offered the Germans, the tion" of party
prospect of better relations with office in Korea.
Russla achieved through In- Mr Stephen Swingler, Labour, beholders.
trade, asked in the House
cultural and of Com-creased
co-operation and mons what representations the technical closer identity of views re- In a poll for a new Cen-Government
consular had made in the proposed
convention fating to the threat of Comtral Committee of the party last three months in Washing is connected with repatria- which would "tacillate ques- munism in the Middle East, Signor Nenui's candidates ton and
on the Paris com- and of common action to be won only 27 seats of a total
NO WITNESSES tion". deals with this mittee which taken to repel that threat,
At the same time the Soviet subject,
Detective chict H.. T. Whitley Premier warned that German said no arrests had been made Mr Eisenhower's recently
Mr Ian Harvey, joini Foreign expounded "doctrine" for
Under-Secretary, sald the Bri-mament complicated West the maintenance of stability
views abundantly clear to
th Government had made its Germany's International posi- nantepparently there were
no witnesses to the shooting. ali tion, in the area Illustrates the
members of the
Last February consultative suspicion" of its neighbours and
Flowers shot now awareness which has
and killed Dr TH. Brewer, group in Paris but he could not
Columbus National Association seized the President of the
disclose the details Another group headed by fidential discussions and repre- of con-
for the Advancement of the dangerous situation which
Signor Lelio Basto, former
Coloured Peoples (NAACP) hoa arisen as a result of
lender Soviet political penetration and a group led by
Party Secretary, won 18 seats, sentations.
Mr Swingler asked whether He warned that
Brewer had Signor into several of the Arab Sandro Piertini, opposing the the Government was pressing weapons supplied to Germany office to complain about alleged matter week by week to by its allfes had not strengthened Police brutality to Negroes in countries.
proposed break between 3ocla- this
try to Two other subjects of close! lists Communists,
secure a relaxation of Germany but only complicated
the vicinity of Flowers' store. won the controls,
its political position mutual interest will also į nine.
Mr Harvey replied that it
"I write to you about this m fnevitably arise during the
the Socialist
because our Bermuda discussions. One Party into total confusion after was reasonable to make that all frankness, not
country &sumption. Reuter.
tears the creation in the German Federal Republic of a new army, but because we are moved by a feeling of con- cern and responsibility for the fate of peace in Europe," sald the letter.
is
Britain's
rendjusted defence policy which has for Its purpose elimination of
party office holders who feared ty Toup consisting mainly of dismissal by the party leader won 30 seats.
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the
top
The vole threw The
Nationat Cong:ess, 0 policy-making body, had last Hight unanimously Signor Nemi's polley of trying
approved
wastage in manpower, pro to wrest fruin the Communists
duction of armaments and the development of
with it weapons, and saving of expenditure tha! will help to stabilise the
A
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control of Italy's left-wing and of organised labour.
DISCREPANCY
When the result of the vote
nation's economy; the other for the Central Committee was
is Britain's future commit. ments to NATO.
for the Com-
unnounced tonight, Signor Nenut issued # sinicmen. The two subjects are in fact emphasising the discrepancy be
interwoven and they also tween
unanimous approval of involve deeply
Angie, his polley by the Congress anzl
the divided vote if the American co-operation the needa of Both Britain | mittee, and the Atlantic organisa. He added that he left it to the tion are to be effectively Central Comunittee
lo sort out composed. Mr Duncan this discrepancy. Sandys'
The to
Committee Is Washington prepared the due to meet either tomorrow in
Venice
or on Thursday in Rome, ground for this realignment
Astonished by the effects of
recent visit
Central
of policies and obligations, deir revolt against the 68-year- but it will be at Bermuda, old party tender, the two main it is hoped, where
they dissident groups
were tonight will receive the required trying to persuade him to con- approval for their imple- tinue in office in agreement mentation.
with one or the other of them,
LESS directly affecting the
United States, but a sub. ject which deeply interests
off
NO CONDITIONS
Signer Nenni made It lacin President Eisenhower and that he would only accept the which Mr Macmillan will leadership again if one or both almost certainly desire to the groups would support his introduce, is the proposed policies completely and without Europent free market conditions. scheme. Here Mr Mac- The
biggest dissident group millan starts
with had no delini.e politiral colour- the encouraging knowing, but consisted largely of ledge that Mr Eisenhower people holding paid party jobs has given the project his Signor Basso, who during the They were led into revolt by blessing, and that he sees Congress dobates declared that in it yet another road to the ho had accepted Signor Nenni's solidifying and stabilising policy of merging the Socialists of Western Europe. Mr Mac-and Social Democrats into a millan probably will not big party capable of competing Reok from the President for Government power on de more than moral backing moralle party lines-Reuter. for the enterprise, 'but this he can confidently expect to receive...
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PARATROOPS FOR ADEN
From HUGH POND
London, Feb. 12. Urgent reinforcementa are being Blown from Bri- Lain to Aden this weck About 109 paratroops of the 33 Parachute Field
RA, will Regt,
zo from Lyncham, Wiltshire.
They
They will take three 25-pounder geld guns and troop of 4.2 heavy mortars. Remo of their 20 Hastings aircraft will carry ammunition
nnd supplies-London Express
Service.
RAF Planes
Destroy
Rebel Village
معام
increased "mistrust and
hindered
German
unifico COMPLICATED
atomic
Marshal Bulganin's letter. approximately lung. was delivered to Herr
2,000
wondu
Adenauer by the Soviet Am- bassador, Mr A Smimov, in Bonn last Friday. - United Press.
Marshal Bulganin warned that the question of war or peace in Europe "depends above all on how ralations between our two peoples add up."
He said the Soviet leaders had that the basic In- concluded terests of the Russian and Ger- mon people demanded that rela- tions between the two countries "take a decisive turning away from mistrust and even known hostility to confidence and friendship.
"
ASSISTANCE
He said friendly relations be- tween the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic would strong- then world peace. He also sold that only by bringing East and Wee:
Germany together could solution of the unification question be solved.
He offered Soylet assistance in bringing the two Germanies together, Aden, Feb, 11.
but did not provide The village of Danubs in the any details on what form this western Aden protectorate wassistance would take.
He proposed what he called destroyed by. Royal ¡Air Force bomb and rocket attacks today "concrete steps," to obtain
improvement in rein- after a 48-hour ultimatum to serious had expired, an official fand over dissident tribesmentions between the two countries.
unique reported, Officials had said that Danuba had been used As a buse for raids and had sheltered ring- leaders of an attack last week
which two men of a
a Cameron Highlander patrol were killed,
Bombs and rockets were used by Shackleton and Venom air- craft to raze the village.
In
com.
Einstein Theory The time and the portents for
Similar punitive action was taken against a village in Wadi the meeting between Pro- Attacked sident Elsenhower and M.
Hatib two years ago after a Mollet, the French Premier,
force of levies was ambushed, and later Mr Macmillan,
Rome, Feb 11. Einstein's theory of relativityal Air Force planes had on Danuba dropped leaflets 'nre propitious..
All three wus
attneted today na, įtaving warning the villagers to move Tendors appreciate that in no scientif basis" by Italiano. Pilots reported yesterday the Interests of the froe Professor Guleino Majorana of it the place appeared to be that to be world they must establish a the University of Bologna. how unity between thoir;
i Majorana stated in sent by messenger. Dr nations based on apprecia paper to the "Lincel National An official communique yes- tion of, and respect for, Academy that Albert Einstein terday said the village had been
formulated his theory of re-known for some time to be their pecullar and differing lativity at the beginning of the centre of Yement intrigue." problema.. As a result of century when certain laws of Most of the villagers, it 'rakt. those meetings the free physics were still unknown. bad boen bribed by the Yomini democracies will hope thee, declared that Einstein authorities to stir up trouble Blizz Threo wilk once again had never backed up his against the Emir of Dhala, the become so in fact as well as theories by, experiments. -- lawful ruler of the area-Neu- In namo.
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France-PresIO,
ter.
(Contd on back page, Col. 1)
a
come' to‘- hla
shot Flowers ploaded he Brower in "self defence" when the Negro reached into his pocket as though to introduce a weapon.
ANOTHER COLD AND FROSTY MORNING
-But It's Getting Warmer.
The Royal Observatory says it is getting warmer, but reports from people at various points like the Peak and Cape D'Agullur complain that “It is still very, very cold."
Last night the staf of Dr 1. E. M. Watts, Director Victoria Penk Reuter's receiving station on of the Royal Observatory sald
left a
basin of water outside and this morning found it coated with a thin layer of ice.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING
Singapore, Feb. 11. A school teacher struck by
is less cold today than yes terday, by only a degree or so --but it will be cold amin to night.
However the temperature will
increase generally
to
DULLES' 2-POINT PLAN
Washington, Feb, 11.
The US Secretary of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, has proposed to Mr Abba Eban, the Iarnell dele gate at the UN a new two- point plan aimed at meet- ing, at least in part, Israel's conditions for withdrawing Its forces from the. Gaza strip and the Gulf of Aqaba, it was reported tonight..
The two points_word:
The United States would publicly declare its
sup- port of free navigation in the Gulf of Aqaba
The United States would Khecine its purpose, and use its Induence as a member of the United Nations to have U.N. forces or U.N.. observors in large numbers take up post- tions in the Gaza strip to PTO... vent its use as a base for Egyp tion military forays into Israel. Mr Eban was understood to proposal to his Government im have promised to refer the mediately and ask for on answer in the next 24 to 48 hours.
'CONCRETE'
Earlier Mr Eban had said the talks were "very concrete,"
A Jerusalem report sald the Israell Foreign Ministry today accused
of provisions the United 20 propt of violating one gradually Nations charter and 18 UN, re- from day day, and this solutions and international trea- Colony can expect an increase ties and conventions. of clouds after tonight,
A ministry spokesman told a
conference press
that the "application of double standards to Isract and Egypt would seriously undermine the United Nations role in the area.”
There was again Trost on the hills around Sek Kong and Taimoshan, but not as heavy as it was yesterday,
Of
Observers here believed ho vas referring to current demands
The Observatory recorded a lightning near a classroom has
minimum air temperature died from injuries, the Singa 37,1 and a minimum grass tem- pore General Hospital said to-perature of 36.1 at 7 aan, today, by some UN. General Assembly Yesterday's figures at the same delegates for Banciions against A fellow teacher time were 36:8 and--38.5 reglerast because of its failure to serious condition. They ware pretively chatting outside a classroom with 40 students when the lightning truck. None of the students
was injured.--Reuter,
Not Attending
London, Feb. 11.
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comply with the assembly's re- The lowest ever experienced solution calling for an "imme- in the Observatory was 32 de- dialo" withdrawal of Israel
The Foreign ment said Egypt "treated with contempt" the Geneva conven- Jons as well as the UN, univer- sal declaration of human rights
grees in January, 1693 and troops from Kinistry, sinte-
yesterday's temperature was the second lowest. It was also the lowest experienced in February. COLD WIND
At Sek Kong yesterday morn- by her persecution of Jewish
Mr Selwyn Lloyd, the For- eign Secretary, sold in a Parlia-ing the minimum air tempera- inhabitants and the treatment ture was 33 degrees and the meted out to Israeli prisoners of A Grand Jury ruled that the mentary reply today he would shooting was in self defence not altend the forthcoming
grase minimum 29 degrees. In war-Reuter. and did not
Nations indict Flowers United
debate
January, On United Press.
Cyprus-Reuter.
LONDON COMMENT ON
.
COTTON MISSION
London, Feb. 11.
Considerable further delay in solving the problem of Commonwealth grey cloth imports to Britain now seems inevitable, reports the "Financial Times" textile bulletin today. !
The sport bases this сол cloth last year, at 207,700,000 ciusion on the guarded state-equare yards, were only frac
1955 the gram tem- perature there
went as low as 26.5. This morning the mini- mum temperature there was 36.1 tho minimum gross tem-
perature was 30.8.
At Cape D'Aguilar, the Cable and Wireless Station, which is almost at sca levol, reported 40 degrees at 7 am, as opposed fo 39 degress yesterday morning, but "there is still a very, very cold wind off the sea.”
Cable and Wireless at tho Peak
than yesterday's}
mer med a slightly
32 degrees.
war-
Paris Traffic Tie Up
Paris, Feb. 11. Striking Communist-led post- al workers broke through police barricades today and staged an march that | impromptu street
ued up mid-town traffic for more than an hour,
They roughed up two motor- cycle policemen
knocked who
At Kal Tak, the thermometer ne demonstrator down in try- registered 40.4 between 3 am,ng to clear a path through the demonstrators which parade, and 4 am. which is 4.5 degrees made with locked arms. higher than yesterday. Since Nobody was seriously injured,
ment issued by the Lancashire tlonally under 0.2 per cent less then the temperature has risen but the. police arrested several
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than in 1955, and were 13 per cent higher than in 1954."
mission, which has just return- ed from India and Hongkong.
The bulletin states, "At the industrial level,
much
more negotiating remains to be done
person or by mail. "At the official level, the Government in relieved from deciding whether it ought to reverse its policy of declining to take practical steps to re-cashire is pesaing through a strict imports,
"
Problem Greater
yet the problem is now greater and more involved.
"Contrary to popular impresa- slon, imports inve not fallen
Total imports off.
of grey
"Imports from India were 1.7 per cent less than in 1955, and were '13 per cent higher than in 1954, but those from Hongkong were 14 per cent higher and were three times the 1954 figure. "The cotton industry in Lan-
period of relative and perhaps temporary good trade, but it would need only a slight reces- sion to revive ogitation against duty-free and quota-tree imports of cloth from India, Hongkong and Commonwealth countries."
Take Time
"If a mission to Pakistan is successful in securing
*30
COMING FROM CHINA ceptance and if further negotia-
ton
London, Feb. 11..
Canton.
Captain P. Mchweeney and allThe agency, said the ship siruck a hidden rock while it was 26 crew members of the 1,200-
British freighter, King carrying 500 tons of fertilber Beo which sonic near Amoy on from, Hongkong to Amoy, January 24, left for Hongkong According to the agency, Cap- by special train: today. The New. China news agency,
tain Mchweeney thanked the people of Amoy for the rescue reporting this today, said they
of-his crew and for the care were travelling by way
taken of them.--Rouler, -
of
GOING TO CHINA
1
tiens can bring both the Indians and Hongkong to agree to a celling, the rituation will seem more encouraging,
"But this will tako joine time.
"The Indian mill owner may agreeably restrici his own salca to Britain, but how is he, or the Kill Owners Association, to ensure control over other trade outlets whether in India or not? "Unless Hongkong also agreed shipments could diverted vlá, Hongkong,
be and
probably through many other
places,
by
The 2,823-10 Porwegian ship A brief oficial statement issued
Singapore, Feb. 12, .j to China, Daviken was steaming today when the ship sailed did not through the South China Sea identify the banishees or my "Nor could india arce with- for Hongkong carrying || 152 | who they were,
out
parallel agreement Chinese
beon In an anti-Communist cam- Pakistan who have
for even
n alight banished to Communist China paign, the Singapore Govern- growth of Pakistan's cotton by the Singapore and Malayan mentre recently · banished" "cloth' exports at the expense of Governmenta
#overal, students and trade. India would arouse more pubile Govortiment cffelals would unfonisis for what I anld Indignation In India than
not say whether the banishees were activities against the greater volume of competition would" be put nahuro.at best interests of the people of from elsewhere. France
Singapore. Rerites, Hongkong or taken directly
Presie
"}
to 45 degrees.
demonstrators.--United Press.
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