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Comment Wife tells reporters no chance of living' MCCANN FLOWN TO MANILA
of the
The future of
Labour
Liberal Party and Its
Troubles in the past with the result that as a real political entity it ceased to exist as an effective forer In Britain and eventually almost total disintegration brought it to the position in which it finds itself to- day,
It is trying to rejuvenate the strength which it once had and while at The lust General Elections there was no indication that its polletes were gaining sup- ort to any great degree there is now greater hope that they will drain of a of the splinter mensure
voter in the Labour move- mcnt.
Press conference_held
at
Kai Tak
Mr Robert E. McCann, the cancer-stricken American who was freed by the Chinese from a Tientsin jail last Monday, loft for Clark Field, Manila, by an American Air Force plane this morning.
Mrs McCann, who went to China to accompany her sick husband back to freedom, told Pressmen before leaving that Mr McCann's condition was very critical.
Macmillan
tells
This may be wishful think
ing on the part of the Liberal leaders, but as long as the Labour Purly la bent upon destroying its very foundations the hope mask Mr nevertheless be considered as a real threat to the Parliamentary Opposition.
ISUNITY in any organi-
Dition, whether it be
senators
he is optimistic
Washington, Apr. 6. Harold Macmillan was quoted as telling senators at a luncheon today that ho was optimistic about the prospects for a pouco. ful sottlement in Laos. John Senator
She sald: "His condition is doctor attached to the Ameri- extremely serious.
It will can Red Cross,
no
be a very There's living."
his
short time. chance of
Mr McCann crossed the bor- der at Lawu shortly after noen yesterday and immediately went to St Teresa's Hospital for medical examination,
Unfit
1
The same three had travelled to the border yesterdny to meet Mr and Mrs McCann, and ac- companied them to hospital.
ad-
An ambulance man ministering a glucose solu- tion to Mr McCann as ho was carried aboard the air- craft at Kai Tak this morn- shows Picture below his ing.
It was found that he was unit for travel and he was given blood transfurlon
stay at the hospital.
during
Mrs McConn being inter-
Shortly before 11 am today, viewed by reporters at the Mr McCann was taken by St. John ambulance to the airport airport. to board the waiting aircraft for Manila.
As he was being taken aboard the pinne by stretcher carried by a team of St Jolin Ambulance attendants, a solution of dex- being administered Sparkman trose was
the
political or otherwise, can {Democrat, Alabama), who at to give him strength for only lead self-destruction ended the luncheon, said the fight. unless the lender
Mr McCann was accompanied leaders Prime Minister was optimistic
about **several" situations In in his fight to Mariln--by n can either compromise or relinquish the principles various parts of the world. The lighs urgeon of the American for which they are fight-nator did not say what were Air Force. The plane took off
the other situations referred to from Kai Tak at 11.15 am. ing.
by Mr Macmillan.
Mr Gaitskeli and the Parlia- mentury Labour Party are at least determined to go down fighting, but the left- wing is apparently gaining
at the more ground
Mr
CX
The luncheon was given in Mr Macmillan's honour by
William Fulbright Senator chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,
On his arrival at the capitol
waz
who Mrs McCann, suffering frum strain and exhaustion yesterday, this morning met newsmen at the airport before her husband was taken aboard the aircraft, her hus- She thought that
building Mr Macmillan was band's condition was aggravated the long journey from upplauded by tourists visiting by
Peking to the Hongkong border
pense of the more practical the capitol. He was accompanied but added: "Our object was to and realistic right.
by the Earl of Home, the Foreign Secretary, and Sir Ket him out
alternative." Harold Caccia, the Ambassador. Mr Macmillán and Lord Home
Cousins showed his
and we had no
She sald her husband well looked after by the Chin-
was
strength
The October discussed Laos and other prob-ese Red Cross during the Jour- conference; anual
the lenis in East-West relations ultra-leftists have been during the luncheon. burred from the part, the House of Commons and
ney and everything was being done to expedite her departure for home.
She said her husband was
the luncheon before it was over, Senator Sparkman who left Sinister meeting with the Prime lying on a stretcher during the friendly whole train journey and it was to the seats of u tled safely both coach.
was "very
and very nice."
ניי
latterly the Young Sucial- ists have seen it in ignore the more sober leaders who
would say
they ACC. no sense in demanding seemed to be optimisile over the unilateral renunciation Laos," he went on. "I thought of all nuclear weapons the Prime Minister was rather without proper safeguards. optimistic
THAT
the Young Sucialist vole calling for Mr Gaitskell's resignation should follow the Co- operative Party's reafirma. tion of its opposition nuclear
In his viewpoint about several situations We discussed."
The
He smiled
Mrs McCann sald her hus- band knew that he was a free man and was travelling home. She sald just before crossing the border, sho repeatedly told him that within an hour he would be a free man and "My husband smiled and said that he knew," she said.
husband Asked whether her cherished any bitternes about of his treatment at the bands the Chinese, Mrs McCann sald
COALITION senator, asked if there of the possi- was discussion
would bility that Communists Jain a coalition government in Laos, said the Issue was nol to
discussed in precisely those IL terms,
"But it is my understanding abandon its military pacts, that the Pathet Lao are Com- Including Nato and Seato,¦munists and therefore I assume her husband did not discuss this is ominous,
and weapons demand that Britain
waa
It would mean including some matter. of them," he said.
She sald Mr McCann suffered Senator 'Sparkmon also a damaged brain which It would be hard to judge how!
general condition of a much opposition there is touted Mr Mainllan as saying part
That Nato was In very Rood brought about by cancer. the nuclear weapon ques- convaltion.
At Umes be was in a coma tion and how much resent- He said that Mr Macmillan while at other times his mind ment there is
Mr observed that problems of re- was clear, she said. Gaitskell's flouting of the|lative strength between Nato Mrs McCann sald October conference ruling. and the Soviet Union, weapons, bar told her nothing of his feelings about the espionage charge that brought him a 15- year jail term.
to
TT is not beyond the bounda
and were mont
other military problems always mutter of argu- und clispute between
If possibility that the mold dis
lutter is the greatest causo for alarm within the party
the IC ranka,
anti-
Gaitskell faction kepa harping long enough then it is hard to see how the leadera can hope to re- weld the party into a politi eal machine capable calling itself an affective unit.
of
It is evident, too, that Mr Cousins hins no intention of lotting the matter drop and
"But he thinks It is in very good shape," Senator Sparkman
nid. Reuter.
PAPER ROBBED
New York, Apr. 6, Three bandita escaped today with 302,001 from the New York Daily News' Brooklyn plant.
Thaita robberd handcuffed 47, and cashier Harry Gelv,
30, ami flert Bernard Ritzer,
payroll onl with a $52,001
Neither
he has made it quite clear $10,000 in collections.
that Individuals in
the
unions will not be allowed
to vote na they wish on
the nuclear weapons prob-
was harmed.—AP.
Salgon, Apr. fl. Communist terrorists yester- day Get. Bre to 100 thatched
lem as a separata item, for houses at the village of Ho Nai,
to do no would deprive him- 30
milca cast of here, the
self of the power he has Vietnam news agency reported gained at the expens
af today.
unity and the party.
the welfare of
No comunities -Reuter.
were reported,
her hus-
GUNMEN ASSASSINATE HOSPITAL PATIENT
Paris, Apr. 6.
Algerian talks on brink of collapse
Tunis, Apr. 6.
The biggest attempt made so far to end the six- and-a-half-year-old nationalist uprising in Algeria was on the brink of collapse tonight on the eve of the scheduled start of Franco- Algerian peace talks.
The two sides appeared in a "It looks as if things are back complete stalemate after Д where they started and that the spokesman of the Insurgent gov-war must go on," was a frequent ernment (FLN) here had "no comment heard in Tunis tonight. comment to make on a French Observers expected the course Cabinet statement which' obser- taken by events-could prompt a vers said did not contain the re- United States mediation bid in affirmation cought by the FLN the crisis. This possibility was that they should be "the main foreshadowed by last Monday's representatives of Algeria's nine talks here between the Upted million Moslems.
States Ambassador in Tunla and two leading FLN ministers. Neuter,
France and the FLN lost Thursday ogreed to meet at Evian, on the banks of Lake Geneva, tomorrow for talks to end the uprising and establish the condition of Algerian ecl- determination.
Rival group
Rebel wants
to talk
the selzed
Algerian gunmen raided a Paris hospital tonight and killed two people
Rio de Janeiro, Apr, 0. But later that day the French and injured 12 after assassinating a Moslem patient,
Capt Henrique Galvao, Minister for Algarian Affairs,
Portuguese rebel who Police believe the hospital Mr Louls Joxe, said he would The hospital in the Paris died within the hour. Another
the luxury liner Santa Maria roid has a direct connection with meet a rival Algerian nationalist suburb of Montgermell was at- Algerian in the room hid under
thinking of tacked by terrorist commandos his bed and was not spotted. Inst Monday's attack on a cafe group, the Algerian National last January, is
rival Movement described by the taking a trip to the United who drove up in a taxi.
As they rushed from the at Livry-Gargan, where
of Algerians exchanged FLN as "coloniallat lackeys" States in a few weeks to lecture wearing Three men,
rain building, the men knocked out gongs
"as I will meet with the FLN." against the Lisbon regime. coats, entered the building and a ward attendant with the butt fire.
Galvao has, apked the U.S. hurried up to the
floor of their submachine gun
Observers nald today's French Consulate what he needed to a visit to where Algerlan vlctims of a struck a nurse.
Cabinet statement would con- do to get a visa for clash between the
France Scare that recent
firm FLN
the United States. She said: "I can't say because Liberation Front (FLN) and
Intended to make the rival natiortalist group plav serious role in Algeria's future.
Informed
well looked
down
first
a
and
SHOT DOWN Two policemen, who tried to bar their passage as they crossed police the yard, were thot down too.
I do not know. He did not tell Nationalist Movement (MNA) me." However, she added that lay in a surgical ward. her husband was
They shot after whilst in prison, speciallyard in the corridor cutside, Both were wounded in the feet. during the past two years.
seized his submachine gun and killed hlm
his own with
weapon,
Then they hurried from room to room, spraying bullets at everyone they encountered.
On holiday
Her husband was taken on a hollday to Peking in June last year, she said.
But, she said, her husband's Imprisonment and treatment was a minor matter when sho saw him. "y were concern- ed only in getting him back home," she said, Mrs
McCann said she had made no definite plan after get tlog to Manila. She had enbled her son who will By to Manila to meet them at the Air Force Hospital.
Mrs McCann who seen off at Kni Tak Today by Mrs Robin de Lange of the Brilleh Red Cross, Mrs Donald Glikin- Ron of the American Ited Cross and Mr J. Corniglia, a field
The three men leaped into their waiting tax!, where two comrades had walled with the driver throughout the raid. The taxi made off at full speed.
Later a taxi was stopped by a police barrage and its Algerian driver was taken away for questioning. It was not known if there were any passengers in his car.
GIRL HURT Among those wounded were seven-year-old Martine Pelit, a French girl, and her father who
Mohand Talba, the Algerian sat at her bedside. The girl's another, who flung herself across who was fatally shot in the the bed to try and protect her hospital. is understood to have daughter, was wounded in the been a leg.
member of the MNA, the smaller nationalist move-
"The only victim on that 26- casion was the French son of the cafe owner, who was killed by a stray bullet.-AP.
Happy Easter
He is also seeking
a special
a
passport from
the Brazilian
any talks
on
Foreign Ministry.
Meanwhile, his
sald to-
Becking to overthrow
Ira partner
Salazar,
Bourcea
night that if the next few days in the brought по chango French position, the FLN was Miami, Apr. 0.
expected to publish the detalled of tho preliminary Guests at an oceanfront hotel accounts thought the orange juice served secret talks held in Switzerlara at breakfast on Easter morning since January between French Was extra good. One guest and FLN. emisaries which led drank three plassen.
to Inst week's agreement to meet ut Evian.
Paris to
Humberto Delgado is reported planning a voyage to do some similar talking,
Both Galvao and Delgado have been granted asylum in Drazil.-AP.
Nauseous
London, Apr 6.
Not until Wednesday did tho
Sources close to the FLN ketel owner, Sammy Manna,
A traveller on London's un-. discover why it was so popular. said here this week that such
publication "would put the derground øysitim today told Orange Juice drinkera actually
blame squarely on France for the Evening Standard that got a subtly potent mixture of
the Evian failure and reveal | when we tried to pay his foro Altogether 12 patients in the ment
the full extent of her bad faith before slepping on a train, n Wille Jean Verdier, head of range juice and voll, hospital were wounded, Five
sign informed him: “Staí į šlck. Manna sald a servant hurried and insincerity." the Surete Nationale, visited tho ware reported in serious con-
the walk-in
The sources sald that France | Pay at the ether end." refrigerator hospital last night, armed police into dition.
at the When he tonehal his destina- surrounded
Algerian and picked up two gallon juga gavon formal pledge The raider, then forced their
rendy-mixed the
vodka pre-Evjan conkicis not. to trytion the man anld, he was way into another room, whero workers' hostel in the suburb of of
greeted by another sign:-"Staf Mohand. Talbo, Algerian, Bondy, where it was belløved drink made up for a cocktail to turn the peace talks into a
of tho orange round-table conference of all sick. Pay at the other end."--- Win under treatment. They two of the wanted men wero party, instead
UTI. poured shots into his bed. He hiding.
ать
julce-AP.
Algerian tendencies,