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SIGNIFICANT SOVIET BID FOR PALESTINE ARMY OBSERVERS

SECURITY BODY GETS SURPRISE

Lake Success, Juno 7.

Russia mada hor first opan bid today to send mili-

tary observers into Palestine, Andrei A. Gromyko, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister, told the United Nations Security Council he had heard that governments on the Council's Truce Commission had been asked to supply observers. They are the United States, Belgium and France.

He said that Russla is ready any other countries at this aes- to send her observers also.

sion.

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Missionary Beheaded

Vatican City, June 7, Word has been received in the Vatican City of...the...ba....... heading of Father Clanpietro Indiart Alhor of the Paris

For Missions by the Viet

Namh at Chapa, Indochina.

According to Scanty In- formation received the print Awas beheaded on May 18, In the church of Chapa, which he directed,

Hh death brings to 15 the tolat of priests of the Paris Foreign Missions killed during the past five years in Indochina.-Associated Press.

sperin) slatement to you Gromyke thus brought into

porters, the Soviet delegation to the open for the first time a question which has troubled the United Nations said "It is re-

ported that the United Nations ****......................................................... several powers

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Palestine and the ever since the Palestine u Trure Commission are expecting clon arose. It is this:

military observers who have to Can the United Nations stop the he used in accordance with the fighting Tre Palestine by forer resolution of the Security Coun- without having to include Recil. Ariny troops?

Surprised Security Counell de- legates promptly put off talk about observers until Thursday after noon at least. Then they enbled

their home governments for in-

structions.

U.S. Approached Gromyko said the Council re- solution setting up the mediation attempt did not state clearly how observers would be chosen. Ite

Russia cou Satel

could not neerpt any theory that the mere fact these Bree governments were on the Truce Commission gave them the right to send military observers

to Palestine,

Dr. Philip Jessup. new US deputy on the Council, sald the mediator had approached Wash. US and Ington and that the said it would send observers if desired. Alexandre

Purodi

France hud said France niso

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SOCIALIST GAINS IN LUXEMBOURG

Luxembourg, June 7.

Unofficial returns in the Grand Duchy of Luxem- bourg Parliamentary elections hold on Sunday show the Socialist Party gained three scats -from-Social--Christians (Rightist-Catholics). The political composition of Parliament re- mains otherwise unchanged.

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London, June 7. Members of the British Peerage will no longer-have- the right to be tried by their Peers in criminal proceed ings.

The House of Lords abolished This ancient privilege when con- sidering the Judicial Reform Bill leonight.

In future, o Peer will have the same proceedings as the man in the street.

Lord Jowitt, Lord Chancellor and head of the British Judiciary, said that "in future we shall be treated like everyone else and tried by the sume method everyone else.

"Let us end what had become a complete anachronism and en tirely inappropriate at the pre- Kent time when you have some- thing like 850 Peers."

The measure was passed un- animously.

for

The privilicges, which cannot be waived, are Indictment treason or felony.-Reuter.

SWEDEN'S REPARATION

London, June 7. The Under-Secretary for For- eign Affairs, Mr. Christopher Mayhow, sald today Sweden hod reiterated that the right to al- Picate German assets in Sweden rested ultimately with the Swedish Government.

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Mr. Mayhow was answering a Parliamentary question on whe- Government the Swedish has replied to the representations me.de on behalf of the Inter- Allled Reparations Agency.

He added that Sweden men- tloned that in the proposals which she had already made she had gone as far as she could to meat the Agency's requirements.

The Swedish reply was being considered by the Agency. Hou

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The

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between compromise propose Hose who want to abolish the death penalty and those who would keep , by recommendhyt that it should be retained only for

mur brutal exceptionally

such as the murder children.--Reuter.

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MOUNTBATTEN TERM-NEARS-END-

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Lord Louls today met a five-

The results of Sunday's voting gave the Christian Socialists nine

later conferred alone for two seats. Soctalists tree, Commun-

hours with Luik All Moren, Hy- sts four, Dember itin group Bree

derabad Prime Minister. Tonight and Independent one on the

he received V. P. Menon, Depart- nasis of the moeial returns.

Lord Henderson has been ment Secretary of State-Asso- Parliament will now be made up

sappointed an additional Parlia-rinted Press, follows:

figure (second

Under-Secretary in party strengths before the elec-mentary

13

tions).

Christian Socialists 24 (25). Socialists

14 4

(11). Democratie Group * 10). Communists

S (5). Independence

(1).

London, June 7.

the Foreign Office and among his tasks will be to help to ad- minister the British Zones of Germany and Austrin.

Lord Henderson, son of the late Mr. Arthur Henderson, a pre- war Labour Foreign Secretary, is

Socialist and 4t political writer | of long standing

to b

No immediate change is exe pertes in tite Government-of

He was first elected to Fariifu- Premier Pierre Dupong, leader of ment in 1923 and again in 1929. the Social Christians which is a

During the war. Lard Hender-: coalition of four Social Christians son was personal assistant and three members of the Demo-r. Arthur Greenwood, then cratic Group.

member of the War Cabinet.

"After the Labour Party's-vic- tory In 1945, he was made a peer and

moved to the House of Lords.

Lord Henderson's appointment i will make available an additional Parliament Under-Secretary of! State to assist in taska connected with the occupation of Austria and Germany.

Dupong and Foreign Minister Joseph Beth topped the poll in their electoral districts.

The official results are not ex- pected before Tuesday night, Associated Press.

CREDIT FOR JAPAN.

Washington, June 7.

A bill authorising a US$150,- 000,000 fund to purchase raw fibers in this country for Japan- ese and German textile mills was approved today by

House 11

the

Committee.

Armed Services has passed the Senate.

The fund would buy collon.

Lord Henderson will now give; up his honorary title of "Lord- -Waiting" which involves per- sonal attendance on the Sover- eign.-Reuter.

STRIKE IN FRENCH ZONE

Mannheim, June 7,

Protesting "bad food condi-

Iwool and other fibers in the U.S. tions," 35,000 workers left their The raw materials, plus starch, jobs ai Ludwigshafen in the dyes, roller leather and carding French zone of Germany today

would go to mills in oc- This was the first large post- cupied areas of Japan and Surope. war walk-out in that industrial Finished goods would be sold in city. French

rations .Dre regular trade channels of those 1,400 calories daily, compared countries, and the fund would be with 1,000 in the Anglo-American repald-Associated Press.

zone. Associated Press.

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EASTS' NEED FOR CAPITAL GOODS

Ootacamund, Juno 7.

The Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East.

́(ECAFE) ́Committee on Industrial Devolop. mont today endorsed the Industrial Working Party's view that there is an urgent nood to im- port capital goods and, basic materials from more advanced countries.

The Committee recommended The Committee also sup- ported the Working Party's that Governments in the ECAFE view on appeals for assistance region give immediate considera- „Hen to the passibility of entering for capital goods to meet the needs of the region. and In- into working arrangements with Industrial Japan to uillise her structed the Secretariat to ex- capacity within limits permitted plore the possibility of devising by the Far Eastern Commission kuitable international measures and the pesco settlement yet to to facilitate the supply of such be concluded. gonds.

Committed also - recom- The Committee requested all

countries mumber

.to. specify mended that a working part be ed off last night through media separately their short and long set up to study questions arising tion of the Government's Central term Industrialisation needs. Labour Relations Board.

Tokyo, June 8.. The strike of the all-Japan Railway Workers Union schedul- ed to begin on June 16 was call-

Tho

from the ullisation of Japan's A six-point resolution adopted present industrial capacity. would have today by the Trade Promotion An investigation over the de-

Patriko one mil-Committeo called for the estab-sirability of adopting special`fin- |

stranded lion office workers' In the nation's Hahment of a trade promotion ancial arrangements (proposed large cities. Labour and manage-section within ECAFE, the Secre- by the Philippines) and an ment agreed to accept a com- tariat to carry out research and ECAFE undertaking to study promise plan offered by the Cen-investigation of the work of this juto, silh and oliseeds tral Labour Relations Board.

section next your, and the pro-among other resolutions adopted Reuter.

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