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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
SOVIET THREAT
THE
HE Russian threat not to take any further art in the five-nation sub-com- mittee or its parent Dis- armament Commission ia dinquietening and it con- Afitutes a very serious blow) to the continued attempts hy Britain, the United States, France and Canada to find a path out of the eleven-year-old deadlock.
It is a classic example of u great power trying to move diplomatically from strength |
and to make capital front the Russian spectacular
outer space successes,
In the past it, has bfen the
habit of the Soviet Union to regularly
the
NECLINE
Western alliance of trying to assert its power dipto- mntically. buc now the Появлен seem nothing wrong Buch tactica.
to findi in
By making the threat to
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RELAX IN
DAKS
THE HANGER CONFERT IN ACTION TROBEERS
Whiteaways
Move To Enlarge Disarmament Commission Erroll Says:
New York, Nov. 6.
Usually well-informed sources said today-while the UN Political Committee had adjourned for lunch -that a new device was being considered for enlarging the UN Disarmament Commission,
The sources said the iden was for this body to be enlarged by co-opting a number of staten-no figure was stated-as non-voting members, Soviet Russia, a few days ago, asked for the Dia- armament Commission to be Increased to include all 82 members of the world organisation.
WESTERN
Overwhelming
Vote In UN
A MAJOR VICTORY
New York, Nov. 6.
withdraw from the Com- The United Nations today endorsed the
mission, Mr Khrushchev,
the Communist Party chief, and now presumably the
author of Soviet foreign
policy, is apparently at- tempting to force bilateral negotiations with the United
joint Western disarmament proposals advanced in London last August and rejected by the Soviet Union.
The Geral Assembly's Poli-
States as he has repeatedly at Commiilee adopted by 57
Hottle. the problems.
disarmament
Asserted that the two votes to nine with 15 absten-
themselven could then's a resolution powers
urging the Disarmament Sub-committite to give priority to reaching an agreement which would cover the six major points of Western plats.
CONTROL
M
K Khrushchev's Intest
pases."
Outer Space
*
the
pronouncements on this Among these s a proposal subject related to control of for "Jofit study of an inspection outer space missiles. This system designed to ensure that brought a declaration from the sanding of objects through both Mr Julin Foster Dulles guter space will be exclusively and President Eisenhower for peaceful and selentitle pur- that the United States would
only Though
simple not in any circumstances. negotiato without their
majority is required in the Committee, in fact it gave the Western allies and that the
resolution more then the two- forum for discussion of the
for thirds majority required control of outer space
Later endorsement in the 82- missiles Bhould Le the United Nations Disarmu- ment Commission.
Suspend A-Tests
JAPANESE
RESOLUTION
The
REJECTED
New York, Nov. 6.
United Nations. Pali-
The Hources said that under the new dovico the Dis- armament Sub-committee would be left unchanged but its role us the main medium for disarmament negotiations might be modified to lay greater emphasis on the full Commission, which has been criticised in some quarters for functioning mainly as "post office" between Sub-committee and Assembly,
The United States was reliably stated to be willing to nequiesce to such a move which, informants and, would give substance to its statements about the
PLAN
"flexibility"! of its position on disarmament COLONY CAN
machinery.
It was pointed out that the enlargement plan would
be facilitated by the fact that from January 1
Canada; now the only non-Security Council member of the Commiaston. will join the Council; Thus
there could be a clear division between co-opted
members without voting right and the "Security Powers."
At present Canada is on the Commission principally
because of her common borders with the Soviet Union and the United States.--Router.
ENDORSED
SIX VEHICLES-NOW A PILE OF TWISTED METAL
ficat Committee today GAILLARD
rejected a Japanese re-
solution to suspand ato-. mic tests.
The vote was 32 to 18 with 31 uletentions.
sation Assembly. Thus, since the committee a plenary The United States, Britain, bedy, Assembly endorsement Frence and the Soviet Unioni all voted against the resolu- was assured,
Japan Mr Allchiro Eulyana, those countries Japanese Foreign Minister, him- sclf came to New York last the resolu- month to promote
Only the Soviet group voted tion. The fact that Mr Khrushchev
has so often spoken of aagalust the resolution.
among was abstainity.
tion.
solution of the disurin- ament problem in terms of Western informarits sold that settlement between the the Soviet threat to withdraw United States and
the from the Disarmament Com- Soviet Union tends to prove mission ar. Its five-member
unless
these the hollowness of the pro- Sub-committee posal the Soylet delegation were expanded was thought to made recently during the have been a factor in producing erai United Nations debate for the sizable number of absten-
tions. the establishment of a evm- mittee comprising all the 82 member states,
Put Blame
INSPECTION SYSTEM
TEM
It would have had the Gen- Assembly call ол the member states concerned to test 'ex- suspend all nuclear plosions.from the time egree- ment was reached in principie on à "supervision and inspec- At the same time the West tion system necessary to verify until hulled the vote as a major the suspension of tests victory after more that three the discussions on the report wecks of bitter Committee of the Disarmament Commisslon Soviet declaration debate in which Mr Andrel at the next regular session of could well be a "blind." Gromyko, Sevlet Foreign Minis- the
A BLIND
THE
It may be one of those ter, and his deputy, Mr Vasily "external acts" which Mr Kuznetsov, put all the blame Dulles forecast last week na on the United States, Britain and France for failure to reach likely to be forthcoming to agreement, divert attention from the domestic
political situn- dramatised by the
tion
purge of Marshal Georgi Zhukov as Soviet Defence Minister,
negotiation the better,
General Assembly have been concluded."
TO SEEK
NEW ADVANCE
Paris, Nov. 6. Premier Felix Gaillard, fresh from his election in the National Assembly last night received per- mission from his cabinet. money today to borrow from the Bank of France to 8ght the Treasury's guping deficit.
At ils first meeting under the chairmanship of President Rene Caty, the cabinet also authorised Gaillard to ask the Assembly for extension of special powers to combat the 38-month-old re- bellion in Algeria and nationalist gang wars in France.
It would also coll On the negotia-
The Government spokesman states to "enter into
tho did not reveal how much money tlong Immediately after commencement of the suspen- Gaillard will need from the Today's important voto
sion of tests, in order to reach Bank of France, which last June on the prompt | advanced the Government 200 was taken against the back- an agreement'
francs (HK$2,044, installation of the supervision milliards drop of privato consultations aimed at ensuring that the
and inspection system neces-000,000);
the suspension sary to verify. out carty Russians do noi
PAYMENTS of tests."
fbrir boycott threat.
The West made clear its the Commisalon sympathy for the alms behind
Inila and Carieda-herself a nember
of
have been concentrated.
The Westera proposal further There in a way out and that suggests the setting up of a is to show a degree of co- group or groups of eight experts the Sub-committee to operation and understand within
examine inspection systems for ing which has been sadly disarmament measures on which lacking in the past fruitless the Sub-committee might over- years of endless
con='| tually egree-Reuternod Françe- ferences.
Presso,
New Decree
Bangkok, Nov. 6. Buddhists in Thailand will be able to gamble on Holy days from now on, in accordance with î new Government decree United Press,
United Press.
Fifty people were taken to hospital. Hani wijek! when three craches, two, ears, anden motor eyele obllided at Hoo, Kent. The back was ripped on one of the coaches and the front of anether. 'arrished "in. The main road from Rocken-- fer to the Kent Oil Refinery at Grain was blocked. Photo shows a pile of: twisted metal anil broken glass from two
couches and the motor oycle.-Keystone Photo,
AVOID INDUSTRIAL WARFARE
REVERSE WAGE DECISIONS
CRIES LABOUR
The
London, Nov. 6. chief Labour Party spokesman in a House of Com mons debate today warned the Government that if it wanted to avoid industrial warfare il must reverse some of the decisions and pronouncements on wages policy made in the last few weeks.
Mr James Callaghan, resuming on the Government's debate
programme sald; "I legislative know there is a contest in the Cabinet,"
During a debate in the House of Lords tonight Lord Hallsham said the Goverment was proud of the Brilish trade unions,
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It was, because it wanted to "I place the Prime Minister, see them efficient and playing Mr Harold Macmillan, tad the a responsible part in industrial Minister of Labour, Mr. fake that the Government was Gor-Macleod, on the side of those anxious there should be
not head-on collitions. who are sensible and do new ad want to return to the conditions francs of the two nations we had in
"Our wages policy is not an foreign the 1930s."
overt declaration of war against any section of the country,” he said-Reuler,
WILD MEN
to have on
RIVER BOAT
At
CAPSIZES
Leopoldville, Nov. 8. least 37 people were
High sources said the But whatever the reason the and Sub-committee both the Japanese move, but dele-omment will need a
vance of 280 milliards necessity for finding avere moving to obtain Assem- gates said they could not vote
domestic and solution becomes greater bly approval for enlargement for it because it separated themrat
cessation which is
of tests from the payments, every year and the sooner of the Commission,
The cabinet hopes to recelvo the power get down to empowered to decide the com- general disarmament problem.
The Soviet Union also spoke the special powers from the finding a realistic busis for position of the Sub-committee.
11 which disarmament talks against it-Beuter,
Assembly next Wednesday.
"But the Lord Mancrofts and These powers, first voted under the Guy Mollet cabinet in 1058, the Lord Hailshams and a lot must be revoted within 10 days of other wild men, I believe, following the formation of a are willing and ready to force
the pace in order new cabinet.
Gaillard's coalition cablazt Industrial showdown." will meet again on Saturday to study a bill giving the cabinet them beware of the consequer.ces Mr Callaghan added: "Let special financial .powers to this country. If they do."
Lord Halisham is a member of drowned when a Congo river the Cabinet as Lord President boat copsized today at Kabimbi of the Council. He was FC- on the Upper Congo. cently made Chairman of the Conservative Party organisation The boat, on the Kasengo- Sir David Eccles, President of Pweto run, capsized as it drew Norts, Azores, Nov. 6.
the-Board--of--Trade, said the fla_to_tho-quay at Kabimbi.........Alj The volcanic tale that comes Later Lady Winchester went to and goes off, the western tip of world was still waiting to see the passengers had crowded whether this winter. Britain (over on to one side of the boat's the Bahamas, only to find Fatal Bank back under water that her spouse had left for yesterday, after its reappearance could hold her costs of pro-deck and this was understood to
duction.
have been the cause of the 'në- the: United States. She went | above the surface on Monday,
cident to the United Staica Bul. Dubbed "Nens Inʼand" curing finally caught up with him its 30-day existence last month,
Although first reports sald only in Mexico.
it was lost to view for: five
that 37 were killed tud eight days, but. rose amidst eruptions "We are not going to dismissing, a total of about 90 At the present time, Lord-Win- of renewed - violenesto a appoint them” he said, - passengers were trapped- under cheeler is: living slime, The | height, of -over :20 ·fest @@bove Production was running fat the “” boạt when ft: overturned còmat was carller told that the ron-level, only to submarge about, three per cent up on and it was feared that the final Marquis. In: Kimosi penullest,ne again 24 hours later, — Unfled last year and showed no signs castially, foil might þe higher. -* Franco-Free.
Press:
of contracting.
France-Presse,
LOVE TRIAL OF THE ' AGED
London, Nov. G.
Mirs
Seventy-three-year-old
Evelyn Fleming today defend- ed' herself in court against charges by Indian-born (. Marchioness of Winchester of haylig reduced Lord Win- cheater (who,' is celebrating hi th birthday this week).
learned that he was planning
to marry the presani Max- chloner, the daughter of
·
Parsee priest, Mire - Fleming, uid, sho kuen broke off relations with Lond Winchester, - (iken aged 90) and agreed to meet him agatta | --only after -- he had left his wife to lyn alone lui Monic Mes Fleming sinh nho, waa el- -Carlo. Sho-- then aftted to gged to Lord Winchester and rcostve him at her estate in Madʻbalą kla' dolia 'when sho{"the Bahamas, sàn said.
L
Island Sinks
THREE PER CENT
In Peking
HELP CHINA'S
EXPORT
PROBLEMS
London, Nov. 6. Britain and Hongkong could help, China with her ex- port problems, sald F. J. Erroll, Parliamentary. Secretary to the Board of Trade, on his arrival here from a month's tour of China.
China is ready to buy British equipment directly she learns more about Ife technical points, jht added.
NOT CORRECT
Mr Erroll, the first Dritish Minister to visit China for twenty years, said it was not correct that China only wanted Industrial information and was (unwilling to buy from Britain.
In Peking. Mr Erroll said ho urged ministera and high Lomelals to try British machinery · and see for themselves whether it gave better value than the Soviet plant which had featured sc far in China's development projects.
It was a sign of China's in- terest, Mr Errall said, that the Chinese technical mission now touring Britain was inspecting so many key industries.
· AN APTITUDE
After П fortnight in the masin. Chinese Industrial centres Mr Erroll concluded that" "the Chinaso have h natural mechanical talent And an aptitudo for ticat manufactur- ing work."
He had told Peking officials that. International markoto in London such as those for metals and furs could handle Chinese products.
Puris, Nov. 6. The Canadian Trade: Commis sion. In Hongkong Mr C. M. Forsyth-Smith and his assistant arrived in Peking by plano this He had found a growing im- afternoon at the Invitation of pression that the Chinese au- the "China Committee for the thorities were not satisfied that Promotion of International relling many of their com- Trade," the New China · Newe fmodities through Eastern Agency
reported. France-Europe had brought in the best- Presse.
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