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COMMENT OF
THE DAY
ASIAN SOLIDARITY
ONE
NE of the alms of Com- munism In Asia appears to bo an attempt to usurp credit for the Bandung spirit which nolidined the alms of many of the Afro- Asian nations,
The Bandung conference was
called together by govern- : ments
which are non-
Communist, but ever since
It was held the Communista
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American
Offer Not Warmly
Received So
By Norway & Denmark
Paris, Dec. 16.
have been trying to wrest The United States today offered to supply nuclear warheads to
It to their advantage and a
new attempt is being made
at the present lime,
At the end of this month a Afro - Asian 80 called solidarity conference is to be held in Cairo.
This conference will not be a governmental one and those attending will for the most part be delegates of "Asian solidarity committeca" in different countries. The net- work of these committees exists throughout Asia and some of them are succes- Nors to former Communist- inspired peace committees.
In Background
STENSIBLY
the com-
Western Europe to strengthen allied defence against Com-
munist aggression.
The American offer was spelled out to the Nato GUNTA- mit conference by Secretary of State John Foster Dulles this afternoon after President Elsen- huwer had reaffirmed to the 14 other
Nuto powers that would aid "with all
America appropriate fore any Nato member that was the victim of armed attack.
US Custody
Explaining the nuclear war- heads offer, Dulles told the on- ference "within this stockpile system nuclear warheads woulti be deployed under US custody in accordance with Nato defen- sive planning and in agreemen! with the nations directly con-
Omittees have a compre-cerned."
warben is
hensive membership aimed He continued in the event of at enlisting members of hostilities, Lucleur parliament, writers, univer- would be released to the appro- sity professors and intellee-priate Nato Supreme Allled tuals while the Communista Commander for employment by keep in the background, nuclear-capable Nato forces,"
But in many of the countries they succeed in harmonising the pronouncements of solidarity committees with tacties of the Communist
· Parly.
True, not all solidarity committees allow themselves to be used in this way and muny of their members have no desire to play the Communist game and they are genuine nationalists,
no
By written agreement, the Nato Supreme Commander always is an American,
There was
immediate comment from the European statesmen on this offer because all speeches delivered at this
opening afternoon's
session
·were prepared in advance,
Cold War Talks
NATO HEADS
LUKEWARM TO SOVIET TALKS
+
Paris, Dec. 16.
British Prime Minister Mr Harold Macmillan said today in the Nato summit meeting that he would like to go as far as possible in discus- sions and debates with the Russians to prove the sincerity of the West, without making any concession to its security,
UK Renews IMF Agreement
London, Dec. 16. The International Monetary Fund had agreed to renew for u year a stand-by arrange- ment enabling Britain tə purchase up to $788,530, 000 in foreign currencies with sterling, it was an nounced here tonight,
The British Treasury, quoting an announcement by the Fund in Washing- ton today, said the stand- by arrangement, which had been in effect sitco December 22, last year, has not been drawn upon to. date.
The extension of the arrangement was granted at the request of the British Government. Reuter.
LARGE SUM
OF
MONEY
MISSING
Bank Rate Leakage Inquiry
Rumours Harmed London's Financial Reputation: Cobbold
London, Dec. 16.
Mr Cameron F. Cobbold, Governor of the Bank of England, told an official tribunal today that rumours of a Bank Rate leakage had "caused prejudice to the financial reputation of London and so to the national credit."
The 33-year-old Governer-u Mr Mynors sald he did not personality little known to the think it would have made any British publie despite his Im- impression on his mind if Mr portance in the nation's economle Keswick had said he had that afairs-sold: "I have been pro-day received un order for a foundly disturbed by the effect which the rumours about these maiters have had around the world...
"If you should conclude thal these rumours are baseless I do earnestly hope that the Anal result of this tribunal may be not only to maintain but actually enhance the reputation of London for financial Integrity."
The tribunal, set up by the government, is investigating the rumours of a leakage about last September's two per cent rire in the Bank Rate to sovea per ecat,
Memorandum
Mr Cobbold, in a memoran dum to the tribunal, supported the present system of the Bank
"I believe that if enougli progress can be made in this and other ways, then 001- sideration could be given to The theft of US$50,000 to of England having directors
Mr Macmillan said he thought, human, scientific, and cultural the Western Powers, before relations. opening this discussion, shoulé begin by reaffirming their strength, and should not be afraid of the consequences of modern weapons under the protection of which they were living.
He sald Great Britain's policy would be determined in the light of the discussions which would take place, and would not be decided before the ent of the present Nato conterence,
The Charter
Mr Macmillan said that Presid- ent Eisenhower had reaffirmed But the Prime Ministers of the doctrine which provided that both Norway and Denmarkjan utlack against one of the Nato urged in their addresses that members would be considered as Should re-examine the on aggression against all of them. Nato
He said that was their charter whole question of stationing missiles in Europe and should and they would remain faithful use this breathing spell to re open cold war talks with the Soviets.
Thus tension exists within the Asian solidarity movement and this may be reflected in!!! the coming conference.
Preliminary
A meeting
reluctant
to it.
IKE STAYS
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nuclear war-
AWAY FROM
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany, another country that have missiles or beads stockpiled tory, also suggested that this question should be re-studied.
But Adenauer told newsmen
on ita terri-
Sa preliminary to the full this month preparatory talks were held in Cairo in October, The Egyptian Government has taken so much interest in its proceedings that it has afterwards he was "deeply im-
offered
to pay travelling "very
the President's by pressed"
Arm and heartening Ile described the
expenses and subsistence of speech."
delegates coming to the pledge to come to Europe's aid main conference,
as, an excellent piece of stater- Egypt is not showing this manship."United Press.
genorosity without purpose. Obviously it hopes to mani- pulate the conference into
a propaganda demonstration in Egypt's favour and it will be directed against her competitors for leadership of the Arab world by trying to represent theso renegades of nationalism.
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If Egypt is trying to use the conference for its national purposes, the Communists will try to use both Egypt and the conference for their own ends,
Main Issues
NE of the main issues
Fill be the definition of
the conference's status · No Communist propaganda ia trying to spread the im- pression that it is in some unspecified way linked with the Bandung conference, or lo an extension of it.
Denmark Says.....
Let's Try Disarmament Talks
Paris, Doc. 16.
Mr Hans Christian Hanson, Danish Primo Minister, told the Nato summit meeting today that, in common with Norway, Denmark would not allow stockpiling of atomic war- hoads or the construction of rocket launching sitos on her territory.
A DINNER
can-
Paris, Dec. 16. President Eisenhower, tired after a gruelling day at the Nalo sum- mit meeting, celled plans to attend a dinner tonight in honour of visiting Nalo leaders, White
House Press Secretary James C. Hagerty emphasised In announcing the cancellation that he did not regard it as any evidence of a dis- turbing or alarming reflection on Eisen- hower's condition, — Unlied Press.
resources and
the peribility of holding further negotiations от iratiers of substance at A later date with greater under- sanding and confidence once the USBR given cyldegoo of a serious desire to réséh; agres- ment," Mr Diefenbaker said. Mr Diefenbaker advocated the establishment of something in the nature of a food bank tỡ toke surplus of food products and distribute ordinary way among countries of the less advanced areas of the world.
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Achilles van Acker, Belgian Prime Minister, advocated the conference "strielly delimit- cd" and carefully prepared negotiations with the Eastern bloc, Belgian delegation source said last night.
New York, Doc. 16.
US$100,000 in American who were also directors of pri- vate concerns. Possession of and foreign currency and special knowledge which they money orders was dis-must not allow to influence their covered today by a partner affairs of the Rockefeller Centre money exchange firm.
Lionel Perrera," of Ferrera, Mantra and Brooks said he discovered the theft when he opened the office this morning. There were no signs of forced entry and police surmised the thief had a key to the office.
It was not known immediately how intich of the loot' was in American currency. The firm
sale of git- odgod to the nominal value of £1,000,000.
The Attorney - General: "Dld be say anything to you to this effect; It is really very awkward, because this order for selling a million has come in reply to the tela- Kram which I sent after lanching with you on
Mon. day,"
Mr Mynors: "He did not." he give you any indication that The Attorney-General: "Dld
for the order to sell?" the telegram had been received
Mr Mynors: "I do not re- collect."
The Attorney-General: "Did ho tell you it was in reply to a telegram he had sent?"
Mr Mynors: "I think not. I don't remember it."
The Advice
The Attorney-General; "Was the advice you gave him to carry on with the uncompleted sale to avoid arousing any sus-
elsewhere sometimes Put some strain on them.
But if lių dievolors were not
· to be prácticať men of business or if they
to become Pelona?** wero mere gureheads tha utility of the Bank of England to the public laterest of Beltain and the Commonwealth would disappear.
Current Session
Paris, Dec. 16. The 15-nation committee which governs strategic embargoes on trade with the Communist world Cocomannounced here tonight that it had finish- ed its work for the cur- rent session and was ad- journing for an indefinite period.
The committee, which includes
Japan and all Nato coun tries, except feeland, has been meeting to fix quotes for the export by member countries to the Communist bloc of gooda subject to strategio control
In its current scesion the com- mitter and two speciile tasks.
SEPARATE QUOTA
One
was to decide whether separato quotas should ba fixed for trade with China or whother trade with all Con mundet nations China, the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe should be governed by global quotas, The committee's ecccd tani
WAS
agree on the size of the global quotas for specific .goods and to divide those quotas, among the member countries.
A communique issued by Cocom
tonight said the work had been done "to the satisfaction of all member of Cocamanna Router.
GONZALES HAS
TO PLAY
Los Angeles, Dec. 16. A Superior Court Judge ruled
today that professional tennis stor Poncho Gon-. sales must abide by a contract to play in promo- tor Jack Kramar's tennia tour. the
Mr Mynors: "Certainly" Lord Justice Parker: "Sup- posing Mr Keswick:
when he came into your room before lunch, and having board what you had to say about the posal- Following Mr. Cobbold to the billy of a rise in the Bank Rate, witness table today was Mr still being possible and Humphrey Charles Baskerville (matier at being under dis- does a large business in con- Mynors, Deputy Governor of the cussion, had said, "My principels verting dollars to foreign cur- Bank of England.
in Hengker want to sell güt- rekty,--Unlied Press.
edged. They have asked my ad- vice. They don't want to miss the bus. What am I to udylie them? What would you have sold?"
U.K. WILL NOT
STOP H-BOMB
TESTS ON JAN. 1
1
Mr Mynors said he acted as Governor from August 24 while Mr Cobbold was on holiday. Under Discussion
He said Nato's role could Hel remala purely maliitary and suggested member 24- Lions should adopt "s coй- structive policy which would create frequent contacts and exchanges of all kinds with the peoples of the East" Mr Adnan Menderes, Turkish Prime Minister, told the meeting The British Government will were under discussion and this
Turkey's Army was "the best safeguard against Communist expansion in une Middle East" bu needed all up-to-date weapons including guided mis- siles, according to a Turkish delegation source.
He sald Russia's nim was to make the Mediterranean "thelr zone of operation" and that "the Communist danger would be in- 'creased" if such regimes as that In Syria were consolidated.-- France-Presse and Reuter.
Precautions In Cyprus
Nicosia, Dec. 18. Speaking of the pooling of Military reinforcements stood production
rloting ready for fresh
today knowlodae, and the declara-although processions of islanders tion made on this subject by protesting the UN voto on US Secretary of State, John Cyprus dispersed peacefully Foster Dulles, Mr Macmilla..
Many schools were closed,
wald that there should cer- shops did little trade. tainly be agreement on gen- erat principles, but he thought a practical systeın should be devised,
Security authorities were tak-
Ing no chances, however, in the
London, Dec. 16.
to
Mr Mynors: "I should have. naked him whether he could divorce his independent judg- ment from what I had just said, which at that stage 1 think he could have done, beantime I had mentioned no date and no Agure."
Justice Parker: "You would I
On September 3, he wrote in his own hand letters to the Brak directors Including Mr William Johnston Keswick who were out of London. He told them that meraures for dealing with the economic situation.
suppose have questioned him a might include action ct the bit more about the need for not agree
suspend Bank Rale. He told them
selling?" 16 H-Bomb testing as of destroy the letters,
Mr Mynore: "I might have done that. It ia January 1, as proposed by
a utte Sovict Premier
On Monday, September 10 hypothetical," Nikolai
(three days before the Bank
The tribunal was adjourned Bulgonin, the House of
Xale
rine), bo sw Mr till Wednesday.-Reuter. Commons was told today. Keswick who looked into his sam The Minister of State' for room to say he was back from foreign affairs, David Ormsby- his
not an holiday. It was Gore, in a written answer to a ezgagement Axed in advance. question submitted in Parlin- Mr Mynor said he had told ment, said that he did "not Mr Keswick at that meeting wish to anticipate the reply to that the possibility he had sug- Mr. Bulganin's letter, but, he rested in his letter Was Bull said, "It appears that he still only a possibility "but we were envisages the suspension
further of somewhat nuclear tests in isolation from road,"
disarmament agreement.” Mr Ormsby-Gore added, "this Js proposal which has been rejected by the United Nations as well as by the British Gov- ernment."--United Press.
Spellman Leaves
New York, Dec. 10.
down the
"I certainly named no figure for a possible increase in the Bank Rate," Mr Mynors said, He agreed he told Mr Keswick that measures were under con- templation and that ho possibly used the phrase "swinging risg" in the Bank Rate,
In The Middle
Cardinal Francis Spellman, On September 18 he asked event trouble might break out the Roman Catholle Archbishop Mr Keswick to come and sec at the funeral this afternoon of of New York, left here today him and tho then told him what
Greek-Cypriot kille by by air for his annual Christmas had been told to other. Bank cecurity forces during the unrest
to American troops directors about the intention to yesterday.-United Press. stationed overseas.—Reuter,' raise the Bank Kote,
Mr Keswick then fold blm herm had order to sell certain git-edged securities from clients in the Far East, They were in the middle of executing this order.
Mr Hansen supported the pro- posal made at this afternoon's
Macmillan sald that a. Kession by the Norwegian Nato's objective was to prevent This is fabrication but the Prime Minister that any decl- and avold war, not to make
Communist aim in to give sion on the establishment of
war, but that it must go fur- Intermediate Renge Ballistic ther than that, It prestige by representing Missile sitos be postponed In
means of reaching something
to praceful existence maust perhaps
Later Date
It as more than a coming order to allow time to examined the future. le seld, together of delegates of self- the possibilities of disarma- comparable appointed committees. The standing of an unofficial
ment.
sought.
Co-
bo
In the more distant future, thinking of the welfare of the next Low generations, man must think of a real peace, This peace should be founded.
meeting of this kind depends "It is of decisive importance really upon what it doen. that Nato builds up its military If Ita members act responsi- position to make it clear to bly, they will gain prestige, forces serve two purposes only everybody that Nato's military whatever the origin of the to
deter aggression and to conference. But if they main the possibility of nego- allow themselves to be mani- tations which would be aimed pulated, no amount of pro- at the relaxation of tensions, on justice, he said. paganda :can establish their disarmament and understanding reputation.
between East and West," he Therefore, the proceedings, at sold.
Cairo will need to bo studied sympathetically, but alno vigilantly and detail,
in
"Continued armament does not, in itself, lead to a solution of the issues dividing East and West, to added.Noister.
Canadian Prime Minister, told to meeting he believed that the possibility of holding negotia- lane with the Russians might be considered at a later date if progress could be made before hand, in some fields / ruch an
Mr John Diefenbaker, the
BRUTAL MURDER OF CHILDREN
Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 16. Three children, one girl of 10, one girl of four and their brother, poven, were brutally murdered while their father, a Chinese vegetable gardener, and their mother, a Chinese läpper, were working away from their house in village near Sercham, recently.
The police have detained a man for questioning. The murders were discovered when a neighbour, hearing screams
Zrom the house ran to the police station to report. the house when a neighbour told her that her three children The mother said that she was tapping rubber a mile away from
were dead. Sho is now suffering from severo shock, The father who was working 16 miles from Seremban, had not
seen his children for a month.
Police belloved that the weapon, ured by the murderer was a
tapping knife-France-PresED,
Me Mynors sold Mr Kerwick left in his mind the Impression that £500,000 or', 2400,000-of order was still to be completed.
The Attorney-Gomerat; "Ho did not tell you at guy time what was the lotes homies 1, amount of order he had re- colved?"" "5
Mr Mynors: "I do not think. he did. No. Any Agure he' gave me I took as relating to s pohlo enxunt of order widel had been completed."
Superior Judge Loon T. David handed down a memorandum decision that the disputed contract, requiring Gonzales' services through 1960, was valid and thero were no grounds for submitting the dispute to arbitration.
ARBITRATION
Kramer requested a court order 20 requiring arbitration on the contract after Gonzales charged that Kramer in a verbal agreement had promised to increase Gonzales sharo of gross receipts from exhibi- tion play from 20 to 25 per cent.
Judigo. David set aside putting
the dispute up for jury trial, saying he "know of no way to alter a written contract by a verbal agreement." United Press.
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