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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
Budget Outlook
M the Chancellor of the
Potor Thorneycroft,
Exchequer, today has what appears to be an exception- ally fino opportunity of regaining for the Britini.. government some, probably much, of the popularity it has lost during the past six months. All the indicationa
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are that he will be in a ANNOUNCEMENT
position to present an at- tractive Budget, and if ho in so minded to announce proposals that will bring to the taxpayers a непас of satisfaction.
There дго several factors, political and economie, which suggeat Mr Thorney- croft will probably present what is commonly known as
"popular badget."
For example he can calculate unchanged taxation
01
that
would bring him in a much bigger current surplus than the £200 million registered | in the financial year just ended, and if he does estimate for a substantially increased surplus, the people and British industries may fairly hope to have this shared with them by way of tax reliefs and incentives. Politically the Chancellor may feel that the government, having done so many pleasant and unpopular things during the past year, should not miss this chance: of doing something pleasant and popular.
ME Thorneycroft's
un-
happy position of being able to point to reduced budgetary and ispending
enlarged budgetary revenue for the coming year is due to a number of influences. The profits tox was raised a year ago; in December another shilling a gallon was put an petrol, for the duration of rationing: recently
there have been cuts in welfare services and increases in
Insurance
National
con-
tributions; defence spending has been cut by more than terms of was expected in money and still more as a share of rising output. Taking all this into considera- tion it is hardly surprising that the political
and
IN LONDON
London, Apr. 8. The Ministry of Defence announced tonight that a further nuclear explosion in the current Soviet test Faries was conducted on Saturday,
a
On Friday, the Ministry an- nounced that nuclear test had been concluded in the Soviet Union last Wednesday,
CROWN
ASKS 'DEATH'
FOR ADAMS
London, Apr. 8. The Attorney General, Sir Reginald Man- ningham-Buller today asked for the death penalty for Dr John Bodkin Adams, who is accused of murdering by drugs an 81-year- old woman patient.
QUEEN THE GLITTERING
Secrets
Official Missing
LOST HER
What Happened To Capt. Shannon
London, Apr. 8. British security services
dia are investigating the appearance of a high Air Ministry official who was | entrusted with destroylog discarded secret documents, it was learned today.
The official, Captain Frederick The Attorney-General told the P. Shannon, left his home lust jury that murder had been Tuesday and had not been seen proved beyond all reasonable since.
His landlady
that doubt. The proper verlet in
reported this case was one of murder, ahortly before his disappearance
Earlier,
Reginald had Captain Shannon bought a com- argued that to ignore evidence plete new wardrobe. the
about treatment in the last days of Mrs Morrell's life and to say her death was due to causen would be to
any
Neither then nor tonight did
the Ministry disclose further detalls of Russian testa.
it is the eighth test li, the
current series.
In Milan, atmospheric radio-
natural
Ignore the obvious,
Solicitor Faints
death was due to the adminis- tration of drugs,
During today's hearing-the 10th day of the trial, Dr Adams'
activity was two and a half times above normal yesterday, the Brera Obser- He submitted that the evidence vatory announced. it last-clearly proved that Mrs Morrell's ed only a few hours. HALT PROPOSED At the UN Disarmament sub-committee recently, Rumia proposed a rom- porary halt to these plosions,
ex-
solicitor, M. H. James collapsed In his offee at the Old Bailey Court and was taken to hospital.
The trial was adjourned until tomorrow when Mr Justice Devlin will continue his sum- ming up for the jury,
He reportedly sald that the money for the purchases cams from an inheritance, -- France- Presse,
Suez Canal
All Clear
Of Wrecks
GOWN THAT
BROLLY MADE PARIS GASP
Pariz, Apr. 8.
Orly airport police reported tonight they had
sexured the air-
Paris, Apr. 8.
Thousands of Parisians struggled with Police tonight to get a close view of the Queen as she drove from a state banquet at the Elysee Palace to a gala ballet performance at the Opera..
Some Police said such crowd scenes had not, been witnessed since the liberation of Paris at the end of war as the shouting, laughing masses jammed the floodlit streets.
FLASHING HELMETS
PENNEY SENDS HIS NO. 2
Outside the Opera the mounted Republican Guard, helmets flashing with the reflection of coloured lights, had to break their ceremonial line- Sir up and help the foot police.
They rode their horses up to the crowds, wheeled and formed a barrier of horseflesh.
Women and children, scared of being knocked down or trampled underfoot, clambered to the the roofs of parked cars. One roof collapsed as 20
people got on top.
port for Queen's umTM brella, lost hor Journey Paris today.
They said offl- cikls
sident
CL Рто Co4Y'a
palace tele-
phoned to
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IVORY SATIN
Police set up temporary first aid posts on the the umbrella pavements but no one was seriously hurt. was lost. Cairo, Apr. 8. The Suez Canal is now
The two, announcements by two
Tho fudge spoke today for "all clear" for maximum
house and. 53 minutes,
Britain of Soviet teste France-Presse. have come in the midst of
a heated controversy hera over British plans to carry out muclear tests in the Pacific this year. On Friday,
@ Japanoso spokesman said ho regret- tod the announcement of a Soviet test "as it would be a test made by any other country,"
draught shipping following the dumping of the wreek of the frigate Abukir in the Bitter Lakes tonight, a UN
GAZA IRON spokesman said.
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But normal traffic will still have to wait for an Egyptian announcement.
Egypt, apparently still held to its own terms for passage.
Informed sources sald Egypt was willing to agree to small changes
by requested United States in the still
operating published plan the Canal.
Ashkelon, Israel, Apr. 8. Israel tonight agreed to the building of a barbed-wire fenom along the length of the Gar trip.
The proposal that the fence economie pundits in Britain In March, Mr Khrushchev be built was put by Uner Com- told Japan that Russia mander, Gen, E. L, M, Burns io acting chief of the Israel staff could not suspend nuclear Brigadier Meir Amit in 10- and tests without parallel minute meeting, at this Mediter- Anglo-American action,- ruican coastal town north of
Gaza. Router.
Rec-
are confidently forecasting the announcement by the Chancellor of Incentives affecting substantia? tions of the population. One could be the restoration of the investment allowance in the tax relief granted on new purchases of industrial plant and equipment- change that would stimulate business Kentiment und new investmont orders im- mediately. The недеги effect would be a transfer of resources from defence to Industrial developments.
some
THE most popular forecast.
however, is that relief will be provided for the middle class taxpayer, which might well take "the form of extending the range of the earned income allowances, increasing the education allowance, and in some way making life Д little more bearable for those on fixed incomes. What does appear to bo certain is that there will be cuts in the entertainment : tax, while the Chancellor
it desirable may And
.to offer some taxation reduc- tion on companies which trade overaORS. The prospects for the coming year are that both national output and government spending will move more quickly in the right direc tion than during the past twelve months. The effect must be to yield a vastly increased Budget surplus, and the Chancellor's prob lem is whether to
for
the
un-
But Egypt sticks to the man terms that she run the Canal and collect all the tolls the sourers said.
Among the
minor changes
which Egypt is willing to make, the sources said, was to trans- for her pion from a memoran- dum
to solemn declarations which would have International
Gas Burns sald he has dis- United Press said it was cussed his fence-building pro- presumed the latest ex-posal with the Egyptians and "I plosion was detected from belleve they'll agree,"
legal It is officially estimated the radioactive matter in the fence would be 42 miles long
The and would upper atmosphere.
cost $80,000, "The United States and Britain labour, materials and money maintained a joint look will be supplied by the old firm
which generally pays
(the out for the signs of United Nations)," a spokesman nuclear explosions.
sold-Uniled Press.
'CUT ARMS SPENDING’
PLEA BY STASSEN
London, Apr. 8.
The United States représentative, Bir Ilaroid Stassen, today pro- posed to the United Nations sub-commitire on disarmament that the great powers cut their arms expanditure by 25 per cent in two years, a Western conference source said. The Soviet delegate, Mr Valerian Zorin, replied that he was much Interested by the proposal and would study it carefully. According to the source. Mr Zorin's attitude had been considerably more "forthcoming" since the Soviet Union resumed nuclear tesle with one explosion on Wednesday and a second on Saturday-Reuter.
Tax On Share Profits?
!
London, Apr. 8.1 Londen financial sources re-
ported today that the budget to be presented tomorrow by the Chancellor of the Ex-
to reduce or abolish certain entertainment taxes, part cularly on the cinema and the theatre-France-Presse.
chequer, Mr Peter Thomey Man Killed In
croft might contain a proposal a tax on profita mado
for
from the sales of shares, and
atocks and property.
Trailer Smash
Michigan City, Apr. 6.
A roller broke loose from a
retain This would create a sensation in big truck and smashed into a
the whole surplus, if only to offset any Inflationary effects of wage increases, or to share it with the tax- payers,
Some Insist that reforms of]
purchase tax and profits tax are overdue, but Mr Thorneycroft is well aware that two moro; budgets aro due before there has to be another genoral election and he can afford, there fore, to defor consideration of these two proposals fór the time being.
status,
Egypt will agree is the tighten- Another change to which
arbitration of disputes, sources
ing of the provisions allowing
suid-Reuter & United Press,
The plane which brought the royal party rebm Loudon had already left the search
and
produced
nothing.
Officials in the Queen's declined ment-Reuter,
The dress the Queen wore to the opera house made even the fashion-proud Parisiennes gasp. It was made of ivory satin, glitteringly embroidered with gold, pearls and topaz representing the flowers
and fields of France.
She wore the same dress at the state retinue banquet as the guest of President Renc
Coty.-Reuter.
Com-
LOUIS XV CLOCK
FOR THE QUEEN
Paris, Apr. 8. A Louis XV wall clock, ex- quisitely worked in riided bronzé is President Coty's gift to the Queen,
to.
He presented is to her today
in the Elysee Palace, gether with gifte to Prince Philip and the royal child- rea who remain in Eng- land.
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'ISRAEL. NOT A BIG
CANAL USER'
No. Need To Join Association
London, Apr. 8.
The British Government rejected today an opposi tion suggestion that Israel be invited to join the Suez' Canal Users' Association.
David Snow Avalanche
The Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Mr Ormsby-Gore also told the House Of Commons that President, Nasser'a six-point plan was in many respects totally unacceptable.".
He told Socialist questioners in the House of Commons that Track, unlike the 14 present members of the Canni Users Association, was not a major user of the Cannt and thus should not be invited
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Prince Philip received a
of crystal
modet cockerel, France's national symbol, arranged 26 reading lamp.
For Prince Charles there was a clae camera, and for Princess Anne a gold- clip shaped us rabbit. The Queen gave
Pre- sident three glass goblets. -Reuter,
the
Commander
For All Three Armed Services?
London, Apr. 8.
The Defence Minister, Mr. Duncan Sandys, said to-.
night the Government was
considering the possibility
of bringing the three arm- ed services under one com- mand.
BBC
A mow avalanche buried a However, he told millions of truck, carrying two men and a viewers watching the
an undetermined telovalon programme "Panora car number of occupants on 11,314-ma," he could make no definite statement at the moment. on foot Berthoud Pass near Empire,
the subject. Colorado, today.
Mr Sandy's was being in- The avalanche, 100 yards wide, thundered down onto U.S, Higherviewed by Mr Malcolm Mug- Punch other geridge, Edilor way 40. Ploughs and mow equipment were marshall magazine,
The minister, answering ed to dig out the victims.question, sald: "The question United. Pres,
that such a tax would be im school bus today, killing the bus Benn suggested that admission Top Red Killed
posed for the first time byla driver and injuring B to Conservative government, pupils United Press,
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Mr Onsby-Core old even if lighten the taxation burden.
lifted. Iardol Tokyo, Apr. 8. the ban were in the middle class And
mofor strengthen Mr Harold Mac Lorry loads of Japanese De- would not become a
fance Force troops were rushed user. Ho sald Israel, was more millan's
position
the toa
northern Japanese . forest} Jikely to · direct-hor/trade country
tonlaht to help thousands of through "the Quif of Aqaba, The circles recalled that h a volunteers and firemen fight: a) oneo that waterway "was come.
British Treasury Mission hugh fre wont to the United States Latest reports said the fre
pletely free Inst year to
study the tax fanned by strong winds, had Me Ormsby-Core sald Britain on capital gains, there. destroyed more than 3,200 serem vai ready to sẽ negotiate on the The budget was also expected for timber Ansteuben K
In
Kuala Lumpur, Apr. 8.
of
| does · arise as to whether, we shall need three separate de- partments to administer forceS the army alone of
than
A Follco patrol has killed The Government announced a high-ranking Communist last terrorist in Selangor Mate, a vices would be composed of week that the ....armod Box=
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regular, servicemen stier: 1900, Reuter, s
when national service (con
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Rangoon, Apr. 8.
Me co?, would: end]
Sandys mid of the recent dotenco decision. "Perhaps
the most · Important" galia: trôm) 021 ople, including four this is not just the money mayed children, were killed tonight but the release of over 800,000 when a fire. wwopt through caj men from the services who will North - Rangoon alium, destroy, then be able to go into industry. Ing thờpmands for bamboo huta, and "donezmochandvask jogu
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From CHAPMAN PINCHER
London, Apr. 9.
William
Penney, British atom weapons chief, has decided 'ke'will not attend the H-bomb tests off Christmas Island in the Pacific,
This decision is surprising because Sir William has provided the main ideas for the British weapons which are of an entirely new typ
they are successful, Britain will be ahead of
Amerios and ahead of Rumia is II-bomb development, defence chiche bellove.
sir Willam a remaining at his research station
in Britain to press on with the development of atomio warheads for the new guided milies for which the Army and the RAF
are waiting.
His deputy, William 3. Cook, will now have sole charge of the scientific side of the Christmas Island explosions. Ile will leave for the Pacifo at the end of the month, London Express Service,
La Reine Elle Parle
En Francais
Paris, Apr. 8.
The Queen said tonight that understanding betweent Britals and France was "the best pledge" of the future of Europe.
le
The queen, speaking in French The
at a state dinner in the Elyece Palaco, raised her glass at the ond of her speech to say: "May the confident under- standing between the French republic and the United King- dom always endure.”
She paid tribute to the comrade- ship of French troops with those of Britain during world
WAX two, and recalled the "daring exploits of the French resistance during the German occupation of France.
a tribute here today to pay their courage, their faith in France and their devotion to our common traditions, Our two nations are each the com- plement of the other. Our peoples understand
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another,” she said.
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Queed added: "Monsieur President, the heartbeat od the British Common- wealth of nations is freedom. As far back as memory can recall Europe has been the cradile of this ideal: and France one of Its most jealous guardians.
"The understanding between our two peoples is tho best pledge of its future, · In that spirit let us go forward with all like-minded peoples of the world."
President Rene Coty, speaking
before the queen, said that in the past ten years the young entente had been transformed into "an indissoluble unton." This union had been “realed by the blood which British and French soldiers hat shed do by side," he added.-Reuter.
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