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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
B's LETTERS
THE Soviet Union's new
Tdiplomatic campaign.
Carefully timed to over. shadow the coming Nato conference in Paris, has
become now
all-out offensive to awing world opinion against the West's nuclear armament plans for the Continent,
Although it is a global cam- paign it appears ΣΟ be particularly aimed at the United States as the one country eligible for "great power relationship with the Soviet Union.
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The letter sent by Marshal Bulganin tu President Elvenhower contuina number of important fen- tures absent from thone despatched to the British, French, Weat German, Dutch and Belgian heads of governments,
Marshal Bulganin, while not Ignoring other countries altogether, has made it plain that only through the co-operation of the United States enn full agreement be reached to end the arms
race.
There is a proposal that the United States and the Soviet Union take steps to end the cold war and a sug- gention that both countries. enter into a friendship pact without reference to the other partners of the North Atlantic Alliance.
Objective
*ARSHAL Bulganin's ob-
split
Mjective is plain. It is
an attempt
In
to
the Alliance working on the fact that there are still many isolationists in the United States who are not only against American participation
world affairs but are also afraid of a global war precipitated by a European country, All the letters vary in their approach but common to the entire correspondence la the thesis that vulner- ability is increased by the establishment of missile bases and the possession of nuclear weapons.
each But while
hend of kovernment has received individual treatment from Marshal Bulganin, Presi- dent Eisenhower appears to have been placed in a special position.
The Soviet appeal to him is
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DUTCH LOSE ALL FIRMS
Take-Over Ordered
By Army
Djakarta, Dec. 13.
The army today ordered its territorial and district commanders to take over all companies, still in Dutch hands to prevent further seizures by Communist- led unions.
ESTATES
HANDED
OVER
The Hague, Dec. 13.
The Netherlands news agency said to- night that, according to
from report A Djakarta, the managers of 500 Dutch estates in Indonesia had elther handed over their authority to their old- est Indonesian em- ployee
or were about
to do so.
The agency quoted Dr J. Meyer. a Dutch- man of the syndicate of estate owners as saying that within a week of handing over authority the managers would trans- fer inventories and cash.
their estate
Dr Meyer said the transfer of authority had already taken place on a number of estates in Djakarta-Reuter,
Employment Decline
Washington, Dec. 13.
neted soon after
The my President Soekarno scotched Dutch reports that he had been austed from office by a coup. Abdul Haris Major-General Nasution, Army Chief of Staff, specifically banned all indivi- duals and organisatiors trom seizing Dutch companies.
The order in effect kalted the seizure of Dutch firms by mem- bers of some unions, including the
dominated Communist -
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Safeguard
The Indonesian Presbira news agency said the order placed the companies under army manage- also the army ment. It said
con- hoped to anteguard the inued work of the enterprises by authorising the companies to hire experts, including experts
of Dutch nationality,"
it said the order indicated that the army wanted to prevent individuals organizations
and
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Foot Releases Cypriot Women
Nicosia, Dec. 13.
PROBLEMS
FOR NATO
Paris, Dec. 13.
M. Christian Pineau, the French Foreign Minister told reporters here tonight that there were three main problems for the Nato conference. These were:
1. Political problems, in- cluding reinforcing
uf
Allantie authority, disarmament,
and the political situation in "vertain parts of the world” which he declined to specify.
2. The political and techni
aspects of creating a scientific community.
cal
3. The division of arme ments manufacture und "various technical problema,"
Solidarity
Eisenhower On Way To Paris
Washington, Dec. 13. President Elsenhower took off by plane at 10 p.m. for Paris.
The President's plane took off
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RACE 8 M. Pineau was answering
Barrington questions following a meeting
The President's limousine Milky Way between French ministers
and arrived
at the airport 10 Permanent View the minutes Mr John Foster Dulles,
before takeoff. Mrs Outsider:Jemima P. American Secretary of State. « Eisenhower, who remained in Asked about the problem of Washington, gave the chief missiles and launching bases in executive a goodbye kiss and a France, M. Pineau said that the wifely pat on the shoulder from making political capital out. Sir Hugh Foot, Governor of technical
problems Involved before he stopped out of the Cyprus, today visited 12 might be brought up during the car.
Nata... acasions, but no decision. Cypriot - Greek woman would be taken there. This HEAVY OVERCOAT who had pelitioned him would be the subject of bilateral for their release from Franco-American talks.
The President, who wore M. Pineau also said in reply central prison to questions that, Marshal Bul-heavy blue overcoat and a black where they are held as ganin's letters to other Prime and white muffler, twica doffed . suspected terrorists.-
of the enll-Dutch compaign in the dispute with the Nether- lands over West New Guinea, United Press.
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Ministers might be brought up his hat at the assembled group when the Nats meeting discuss- of Government ofcials and Ic Saw the wotnen anded Soviet Intentions.
diplomats despite the cold ordered the immediate release He said replies to the Bul-weather. of two. He said he had just ganin, Jetter would be given in Before leaving. Mr. Eisen. been told that their continued due course
"hower chatted briedy with Vice-
London, Dec. 13. detention was inadvisable on
President Richard M. Nixon, Important cool deposits have medical grounds,
He promised Nixon to "keep been discovered in the Antarctic 'your folka informed"
of by two geologists of the Now developments in Paris and ask-Zealand polar expedition, led ed the Vice-President to "give by Everest CONQUETOT, Sir my love" to Mrs Nixon,
Edmund Hillary, it was Icared As the plana taxied out to hero today. the runway,
New York, Dec. 13, Mrs Eisenhower The deposits were discovered
The United Nations General waved goodbye from the car under a thick glacer layer in Assembly agreed today to spend window. When nowa photo-Roesland between the hugo up to 10 million dollars to main- graphers gathered about the Mackay and Fry glaciers by tain the UN Emergency Force motioned them away explaining geologiata S. Gunn and G. UNEF) during the first half of
"Walt. I want to get out and Warren, who are prospecting a 1950. wave to him."-United Press. 200-mile mountainous In
The Assembly adopted the al dog-sleds.
climates of its Budgetary The party has climbed a 10,000 Committee without discussion feet unnamed peak in the Prince by 45 voles to nine. The nine Albert chain.
Soviet bloc countries voted The New Zealand expedition against adoption.
The two women, Nitsa and Elenitsa Higeorglou, 25,
M. Felix Gaillard, the French Seraphim, 32, had been detain- | Prime Minister, saw Mr Dulles ed without trial for nearly 18 to his car after the meeting,
about
one year, Both were smiling as they posed months and respectively, under section 18B for photographers,
the Cyprus emergency French sources said it was possible, that other Franco- American talka would be held during the next few days- Reuter,
regulations.
Teheran, Dec, 13. Reports reaching here to- night put the earthquake death toll in Western Persia at 600 as fresh of tremors jolted the area.
This was the first time during The latest unofficial death toll the island emergency that was compiled from telegrams governor has visited the prison from provincial authorities in and the first time
has thu stricken areas,
personally Thousands of people were repetition from delaineca. ported to be homeless.
NO TIME Troops and gendarmes ure even
helping villagers in Farming and Batinez to recover bodies from ruined homes.
made as ons leader of an Nearly every major sector of alliance to another with an the economy contributed to the
from Implicit assumption that decline ki employment
October to November, Gover- ment figures indicate."
tho
But
tripartito Western leadership of the United
One except was retail and States, Britain and France
trade. wholesale fa a thing of the past. It is there the employment increase now up to President Eisen- of 105,000 was weak. The pre- hower to disillusion the holiday season usually produces Russian Prime Minister, a bigger uptum.-United Press.
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a governor answered
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An official statement said the Governor told the women, ho All relief organisations bor- dering the stricken aron have had not yet had time to study been instructed to rush doctors their papers and to know more and medical and other supplies about the reasons for their de to the spot.
Five hundred tents and 1,000 blankets have already been sent to the disaster area.-Reuter,
Copper Needed
London, Dec. 13.
tention.
He could not, therefore, give any decision until he had had a chance to review their case the light of the security situa- tion,
in
Apart from two. Isolated in- cidents today, Cyprus received calmly the news of the decision
Singapore Leader Threatens Banks
Singapore, Dec. 13.
arc
A budget for the full expected in the ricxt session-Roister,
is making its way northwards The estimates are "exclusive where it expects to join the of
extra and extraordinary British expedition, led by Dr costs." Vivian Fuchs, near the South year is
• Mr. Leo said. It would take a | Pole.-France-Presse. Mr Lee Kuan Yew, leader generation to recover
this of Singapore's powerful from Malayanisation. This was money - in -economies rosulting left-wing People's Action a grim prospect, the sald, and told the would have ,Party, today
to be considered Legiointive Assembly "one of these days." Singapore banks might doing things to the Chartered We might have to consider some day be taken over Bank and the Hongkong and like banks in Djakarta. Shanghai Bank like the happen-
In Djakarta," he said,
He complained during the
He spoke of banners being
placed across the
entrance te
Polleo today searched for of the United Nations Political | budget debele about the amount thloves who broke into a post | Committee last night approving { of money "had gone down the the banks saying: "Taken over office, and carried off. 7,080 | a Greek resolution almed at drain" in compensation to by, the people of Singapore to pennies weighing 100 pounds. —eventunt self-determination for | British civil servants, who lost | pay compensation to ex- United Press,
their jobs in Malayanisation. patriates," Reuter.
the colony-Reuter.
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