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Sola Agente GILMANS
COMMENT OF
THE DAY
RECALL OF THE STALINISTS
TNTIL recently, there have
U
been people who believed that Mr Khrushchev was Η ΠΗ whe favoured a liberalising trend in the internal affairs of both the Soviet Union and of the East European satellites, Even after the Soviet Union crushed the Hungarian up- rising some prople believed that Mr Khrush
still
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RELAX IN
"DAKS
THE FANOUS KOMFURY IN ACTION TROUSKILS
Whiteaways
HID NÄGUKO MỌGI
KOWLOONG
LABOUR SNUBS GOVERNMENT Mintoff
Refuses To Join
In Bipartite
Defence Policy
London, Mar, 25,
chey regarded this action The British Labour Party will not officially join
with distaste, and would Aoun revert to the liberalis- ing trend..
Unfortunately, developmenta in Hungary since the end of 1960 have suggested exactly the opposite, Cer- tain concessions to popular feeling in the economic feld liave been much more than outweighed by tighter and light political re- pression.
Gone Back
THE
Kadar government
T has gone back on all the
promises it made under the extreme pressure created by the uprising. To judge by the outward picture, the Hungarian people are How one of the most rigidly of the satellite controlled
nations.
with the Conservative Government in a hipartite defence policy, parliamentary lobby circles said here tonight, after the meeting between Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell.
MOLOTOV SEEN IN
SIBERIA-
By STEPHEN CONSTANT
London, Mar, 26. A British company director touring Russia, Mongolia and China saw the sacked and banished V. Molotov 10 days ago.
told her
The meeting was called by Macmillan, who offered to in- for the opposition of the gov | criment's latest decisions with revard 10 the 1-bomb and nuclear weapons,
Procedent
Sumatran Oil
Centres Fall
By WILLIAM D. MILLER
Singapore, Mar. 25. The Indonesian Army an
nounced in Djakarta tor day the occupation of the of oil-producing towns Rengat and Tembilahan in Central Sumatra. A dispatch from United Press correspondent Arnold Dibble in Djakarta suld the Army reported that Government troops were unopposed in moving into the Stanvac oll centres. The Army ruid 208 rebels went over to the Government with their weapons.
Tembilahan is 45 miles cast of Rengat on the Indergirl Iver. Bengal's airfield Mú Djapura
"previously
Was
HEAVY FIGHTING
Gaitskell, declined the offer. Sir WinsioZL Churchill set а prperlent for this refusal in 1M9 when, as lender of the damaged," the Army said, but was expected to be reopened opposition. he refused to be
af later today. taken into the confidence
fist Prime Minister, the Clement Attlee, so that he could continue to criticise the Goy- ermment untransmelled by con- Indonesian Central Govern- siderations of secrecy. Forhei
ment forces also claimed tonight Gritskell's pouftion this the surrender of large numbers is rather delicate. Be of rebel troops north of Medan respect defends Labour's offelal policy but made no mentiun of reported of support for the nurufacture heavy fighting south of the North
Sumatran city. of the H-bomb.
In a letter which London yesterday, the director hes the former The latest broken promise lies
minister who Russian flig in the recull of prominent na been banished to Mongolia, Stalinists who fled
the the poorest and drearies of country at the time of the Russia's embassies. uprising, and whose return
The company director writes: to office had been banned
board a China "I was about by the Communist Party Airways plane ut Irkutsk, Central Committee.
Siberia, when I noticed Molotov This development may show coming to the plane escorted by seven men in plain clothes. the internal weakness of the He looked it and well. Kudar regime, but it must in the seat behind him all the Atirely also signify a re-ny to Ulan Bator, the Mongo- turn to Stalinism by those linn capital, where he was niet who hold ultimate power by a 17-car reception of high over Hungary-in the lust asking Mengullan officials."
Mr Khrushchev resort, himself.
The chief of all the lung garian Stalinists is natural 15 Matyas Rakosi, the man whu for many years was loyal servant of Stalin in Russia, and who became u
Hungary. little Stalin
izt Even before the 1956 up- rising, internal and ternal pressures had forced him to yield his position and to leave the country for the Soviet Union. No Talk
S
NO DURESS
in
Radio Medan, controlled by the Government, sold more than 4 two- 300 rebels, part of Battalion Achinese force under
Major Usman, had surrendered between March 17 and 23. Most of them were said to have given up at Sidlialun, turning over bazookas, mortars and machine- guns.
YEOMEN OF THE GUARD;
HM the Queen inspected the Bodyguard of the Yeomen of the Guard in the garden of Buckingham Palace last Friday. Photo shows the queen during her inspection escorted by the Earl of Onslow (Capt of the Guard) and Major-General Sir Alan Adair (Lieut of the Guard)-Keystone.
Shift In Power In Oil Rich Kingdom
Of Saudi
But an active minority of the Labour parliamentary group now supports the idea of unilateral renunciation of the H-bomb has the backing This minority
Sections in general, of Labour favourable to renunciation, but
: sat as not yet won over the large trades uniors which hold majority votes in the annual Labour Party Congress and In the Labour Party executive.
Outflanked
*10* writer sidderl that Mololoy did not appene to be under any duress and the escort did not appear to be directing him in any way.
From rebel headquarters at Bukittinggi, United Press corres- pondent Wendell Merick ro- ported the departure of the Danish freighter Bretagne from out-Padang harbour. The ship was Brud en by a Central Govern- ment corvette when it reached Padang last Friday with a cargo
10
In order to avoid being fantced by the Labour left- wing. Gaitskell lias decided stress existing disagreements between the government and the food
Singupore.
opposition with regard to nuclear
and medicine from
The Danish Government ask- defence questions. He will urged Djakarta to guarantee safe
The unilateral suspension af nuclear tests, at least Passage for the freighter's out- ward trip but there was no re- port that it had becu granted United Press,
Tats is the first time that Krushchev's arch enemy, Mulo- lov, has been sren by A Westerer since his dismissal, for a limited period. ex-fur only Communist diplomatic
An Immediate end 10 * missions go to Ulan Bator. The
patrols over British terri- fact that Maloloy is allowed to
tory by British and British- travel with some semblance of based American bombers, carry- independence --- even under es- Ing even dismantled H-bombs. cort may signity that he has accepled Krushchev's victory and has stopped kicking against the regime.
far, there has been no
talk of his return, and it could only be authorised if Mr Khrushchey
-London Express Service).
Postponement of the installation of launching) amps for American rockets on British territory until after the sumunii conference, --France- Presse.
Wanted BRITAIN CUTS HONGKONG
deliberately te provoke the Hungarian people to fres revolt.
Those who are already pre-
paring the way are them-
selves proniluent enough, or
notorious enough, in un-
CIVIL ESTIMATES
Mr
BLOUSES
of
London, Mar. 25. Jolin Vaughan-Morgan, Minister London, Mar. 25.
State, Board of garian eyes. Four who Britain is to cut costs in Trade, said in written House of Commong reply today that no the of members were
her Commonwealth
action was being taken on the Politburo
Rukusl under
foreign services by more import er 5,000 duzen ladies' have recently reappeared in
than £13 million according houses from Hongkong at one public life.
to the 1958-59 Civil Esti-shilling and expence halfpenny
Why are these people, all deeply detested in Hungary, now bidden to reappear? It may of course be that the Hungarian Communist Party has been so badly weakened by the uprising and the aftermath that Kadar cannot find enough reliable helpers without calling the Stalinists to his aid,
E the Soviet rulers are tired
and
mates published here to- cach,
Sir Arthur Vere Harvey
day,
com-
(Conservative) had asked him
Mr
CHINESE TRADE MISSION TO UK
London, Mar. 25.
An important Chinese State Trade Corporation's mis- sion will arrive in the United Kingdom shortly for the purpose of nego tinting and concluding buying contracts for a wide range of British pro- ducts, the Sino-British Trade Council announced today.
Nei total to be spent on these | to what extent the garments services is £60,700,292
The Council sald these would were 100 per cent empire pro-include iron and steel, electrl- pared with the current year's duce.
tractors, cables, sald cal goods, expenditure of £83,819,014.
Vaughan-Morgan, ASSISTANCE
that before they were admitted machine tools and precision in- duty-free under Imperial Pre-struments. Main cuts are a drop of £4 terence customs officers satisfied 183,255 lb £11,808.450 in themselves that they had been .assistance lo foreign manufactured in Hongkong direct countries and £10,141,774 from empire-produced fabrics,"
£17,303,001 in colonial services
But development and welfare spending in the colonies la to
the on
British
Reuter.
HK Exercise
·
ENCOURAGING
The party will also include Several Chinese export reprez entatives who will investigate means for increasing the sale of Chinese products in Britain.
It is recalled that a Chinese economic and technlent mission under came hero last autumn
Counell's-Ruspiers. The
and Chinese mission la considered
Tired?
be raised by £1,250,000 to TAQUALLY it may be that £10,500,000,
Canberra, Mar. 26. Spending
The Royal Australian Navy which presents the will hend a
Commonwealth the of the mask of pseudo-Council, moderation which is worn British way of Hfe abroad, is to convoy exercise to be carried forthcoming arrival of a second
be increased ly £340,450 to out
between Singapore by the Kadar regime, and dissatisfied with Kadar's $2.737,306 and the inefficiency. They may be weath preparing for his removal. Yet if the aim of bringing back the Staliniste is to strengthen the Communist rule in Hungary, the result may be the reverso.
There is evidence that the
Relatiures
Omee
Common Hongkong from April 3, the by the Council as "an encourag- by Australian Navy Minister, Mring fret result" of its negotin- £435,172 to £2,800,219-Reu- Frederick Davidson announced tions with Chinese representa-
today.-Reuter.
lives last year-France-Presse.
ter.
Demands
·
Paris, Mar. 25. Conservative members of Pre- fer Felix Gaillard's coalition hardened their demands con- cerning Tunisia today and said
Arabia
London, Mar. 25.
The first analysis of the shift of power in Saudi Arabia from King Saud to his brother Prince Feisal shows that it means another feather in the cap of Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic, informed British sources said today.
DIPLOMAT STOLE SECRET PLANS ?
Pnom Penh, Mur. 25. Vladmimir Lukashevitz, a Russian diplomat here who has disappeared on his way back to Moscow, has flown to Bangkok, usually reliable sources said here today.
Ofi
Although his name did not appear on any passenger list, he flew by Thal Airways March 12, the sources said.
Lukashevilz, Secund Secretary at the Russian Embassy, was granted an exi visa at the Embassy's
He was request. believed to have been recalled,
He with is wife and son left by air early this month.
BLOWN OPEN
when
Cambodian Foreign Ministry sources said the diplomat's dis- appearance was nothied the Russian Embassy reported:
Embassy safe was blown His fingerprints were found on the safe door.
the
орел.
These
sources said they be Hoved Lukashevitz was a Soviet Secret Agent and had stolen steret Communist plans. Other
reliable usually
yources said they believed the stolen plans dealt with Communist plans for the
of Southeast Infitration
Asia.
The Russion Embassy has so far refused to comment on the matter. Reuter,
Toshack
Acquitted Of Stealing
Former
Sydney, Mar. 25,
cricketeer Ernie Toshack was acquitted to- day of a charge of steal- ing £991 worth of copper while employed 'as a rail- way linesman. The osecution claimed
to police helping to admitted
the wire
truck. land Toshack denied the charge.
Toshack's defending counsel that told the jury
that elthough
he
But there has been no oficial to deny compllelty in the plot to Icpetion
such, with the assassinate Nasser, and, second, Foreign Office reserving com- when he failed to throw in his lot either with the Egypt-Syria ment.
Union or the Iraq-Jordan club Unofficially, however, there is of kings. cautious assessment of the change, which some authorita- Those quarters belleve tive sources see more 15 ure-Prince Feisal will make more Toshack 1s "one of cricket's sult of King Saud's weakness definite moves soon and choose immortals," they should not let rather than a gain for Nasser. Saudi Arcbla's affiliation with that influence them..
These quarters belleve that ene or other of the new Arab Saud vrred when he failed, first, } blocs,
STOP PRESS
SUGAR WINS
FIGHT
Chicago., Mar. 20. Sugar Ray Robinson, chai- lenger for the middleweight championship of the world, won a points decision over Carmen Basilio at Chicago stadium today in 15 roHİNİR. -United Press.
LYTTELTON WINS BUNGALOW
Barnet, Mar, 25.
Immediate effect has been the must be "neutral" rather TTUMPHREY Lylation, Bri- to strengthen the spirit of than merely non-belligerent" in Hain's top Jazz trumpeter, opposition, even among the the Algerian war. rank-and-file members of the This made M. Galliard's job Communist Party itself. look harder than ever as he met the Bellish and American
Roberi
It may prove difficult for Mr #good office" negoliators
Khrushchev to put the clock Harold
Booley and
Elonian trumpeter - 1dol of Britain's Jaxx lovers-against the focal counell's refusal to fel him build the bungalow. has won hix battle to build a
soundproof The counoli said the unconven- modernistio, bungalow in this quiet miburk tional design, with an enclosed courtyard, WEE "Di-soolat" of London.
and out of keeping wills neighbours' hotteen.
back without damaging the Murphy, this afternoon-United The Minister of Housing allow ed an appeal by the of
works
“It would be like tooking at a
BATTLE
cowshed," the council But- veyor told a public inquiry.
They pointed out that Saudi Arabia now holds o tactical position because, should Feisal choose to join Nasser's Arob Union, the Iraq-Jordan Federa- outflanked tion would be seriously.
Reconciliation ·
"Toshack is completely inna- cent," the counset declared:
The jury acquitted Toshack after 20 minutes' dellberation.— United Press,
Chile Nitrates
Warns Britain
runs
Valetta, Mar. 25. Mr Dom Mintoff. Multa's Prime Minister, warned Britain tonight that the Maltese Parliament will be dissolved and gencral elections held if Malta short of money during the coming finan- cial year and Britain fails to foot the bill. Speaking to the Legislative Assembly, ho gave notice that kls Government will to ohead with spending originally plan- ned for the next financial year, despite a proposed Bri tish cut in Anancial grania to the island.
Mr Mintoff returned here last Saturday after talles in Lon- don with Mr Alan Lennox- Boyd, the Colonial Secretary, over the conumle and con- siliutional future vi the Island colony.
RECOMMENDATION
Ho mid the last recommenda- tlon made to him and his col-
He
leagues by the Colonial Secretary was to resort to "no dramatic measures."
remarked that his "20 ahead" polley was taken оп the strength of this recom- mendation and in a final at- tempt to avold "a complete breakdown In our relations with The British Govern- inent." Mr Mintoft said as the Maltese Government had not agreed
to adopt the Bscal measures suggested by the British Gov- ernment, it would not necept responsibility for administro- lon and government. Reuter.
MUST CHANGE ATTITUDE SAYS LENNOX-BOYD
London, Mar. 25. Mr_Alan Lennox-Boyd, the Colonial Secrotary, said today the British Govern- mont could not plodge Parliament to proceed with plans for integrating Malta with the United
unless Kingdom
tho Matteso Government showed a very different state of mind."
He was reporting to the House recent of Commons on his talks in London with Mr Dom Mintoly, tho Muliese Prime Minister,
The Colonial Secretary said: "It is impossible for the United- Kingdom Government 10 pledge Parliament to proceed with integration unless a very different state of mind is shown."
But
the British Government was prepared to resume dis- with The Malteso Government to find a modua vivendi pending consideration of long-term arrangemenis.---- Reuter.
Santiago, Mar. 25. Chile is about
cussion well 500,000 tons of nlirates worth US$15,- 000,000 to China, authoritative said he quarters said tonight-United One high authority Cow in the move "a family Press. reconciliation" and pointed out that King Saud and Prince Felsal had previously been at loggerheads whereas now they did
to have reached appear agreement "which could prove all for the better."
The London Times, mean- while, said the changes in the desert kingdom #711 muke posible a delente in the battle of words with Cairo, though It must remain part of Naser's long term policy to restore and Increase his Influence over Saudi Arabin."
Feisal
Commenting on reports that was pro-Egyptian and might swing his nation in the direction of Calro, the Times doubled gnid. "It may be whether any important bers of the Saudi Royal Family are willing to allow an open brench in their ranks."
men-
The editorial then cited the
Calro newspaper Al
that "when Abdel
speaks, crowns topple heads,"
Abram
Nasser
from
"If the Mauc family. allowed the
alatt in their process to kingdom, none of them could be sure where it would stop," the Times said United Press,
Exaggerated
Singapore, Mar. 25. Djakarta Radio said today reports of damnine in the country east of Djakarta were exEE: Mr Lyftelion dealed his dealen gerated.
was un-neighbourly. It would
The Radio cald the reports had' be easy to sound-proof, giving been Investigated by, the Health his melstbourg
protection Ministry, which found some ngalpat the sound of his people had unczema duc. 19
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