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SCANDINAVIAN ALLIANCE?

Anglo-US Approach To Sweden Reported

STOCKHOLM FEAR OF RUSSIA

London, June 15.

A Swedish informant said today that the US and Britain have urged Sweden to sign a Scanding-

•vian defonca páct. Sweden has indicated unwillingness to enter any regional defence alliance with Norway land Denmark if it is linked with the Brussels alliance of France, Britain and the Benelux countries.

The argument is that this The Norwegian Foreign Minis- would anger Russia and thatter, Halvard Lange told The As- Sweden would get no compen-ociated Press in Oslo tonight suting guarantee of military that ordinary diplomatic talks aid.

taking place between the Norwegian Ambassador in Lon- don Per Prebensen and the For- eign Office.

The informant said Norway and Denmark are less positive that Scandinavian neutrality could be kept in a war between the West und East.

The huve made no

arc

this statement when commenting The Foreign Minister made

Associated Press report secret of a desire to tie up with an an

From London the Western defence grouping.

that Q Swedish that the diplomat had stated

"ub-

The informant said the British Norwegian and Danish Govern- Foreign Office told Swedish Am- bassador Erie Roheman that Bri-ments would regard it as tain would like 10 see a Scan-fortunate if the Western Union

"lost its

the Scan- | dinavian olliance concluded zoon.

dpory to dinavian countries" because of the present deadlock.

Anglo-Norwegian Talks

He wald US diplomats in Blockholm And Washington have left Sweden. in no doubt the US wants to "know who her friends arc.""

Britain Gets A 'Heat Wave'

When

London, June 14.

the temperature climbed to 77 degrees at 4

o'clock this afternoon, Lon- doners thought they were

No Pressure The Foreign Minister denied that any British or American pressure on Norway is taking pláce In connection with the question of a Scandinavian de- fence union.

"Since I made my last speeches

Apology Talks With

Accepted

London, June 15,

· Mr. Winston Churchill to- day Accepted Mr. Herbert Morrison's, apology for accus Ing him talicly of taking a £2,000 a year salary as leader of the Opposition Hovan

while Busent."

In a letter to Mr. Morrison, Mr. Churchill sald, "I thank

Russians

To Resume

London, June 15.

The President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Harold Wilson,

you for your letter-of-Jonesald at a London meeting to. 14, withdrawing and regret.

day that "negotiations for ing your statement at Cardin trade with the Soviet Union about my, antary as toader of are to be resumed in the very the Opposition.

near future.”

"I am content with this and, In consequence, have no nead to raise the matter In the Houre-United Press.

Reds Woo British Catholics

London, June 10,

He said the Russians had now replied welcoming the British in- vitation to resume the talks in London. It would conduct the LOB

It was found continue the talks:

talks himself and,

necessary to

in Moscow, the Secretory for

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Russia will have buy "a wider range" of British goods if Anglo-Russian trade Js to be further developed, Mr. Wilson added.

"I have supplied the Russians with a list of the goods which Britain's Communist Party Britain would like to export to "They include bid today for the support of them", he said. Catholic workers..

false everything from

teeth to

Harry Pollitt, Its Secretary.hydraulic cranes."Reuter, General, told a rally that the purly "Invites Catholic workers to TO REMAIN ILO share our outlook on industrial. social and political matters."

MEMBER

He claimed that the Commu-

in Malmot, Sweden, on this ques-nist party stands for "full rights

tion,

nothing Lange said.

has

Washington, June 18, The House of Representatives changed," to practice religion" and urged today approved legislation which

Catholics to Join "without hesita- would authorize the United The Foreign Minister left for tion and play their part in bring-States to continue membership in Stockholm tonight to representing about the fundamental social the International Labour Organ- the Norwegian Government in change which is the only hope of ization. connection with the 90th birth- | the working class."

would signify dlay anniversary of the Swedish Pollitt coupled his appeat with United States acceptance of re- King, Gustav V.Associated an attack upon the Vallcan.- visions of the ILO Constitution, drawn up in October 1940, to ni The UN pattern.

Press.

Associated Press,

GROMYKO SEES A DEEP PLOT

having a heat wave of extra-The ordinary. ferocity..

it was the humidity.

The "heat wave",spread all over England.

Trent At crowded

United Nations Security Council today killed

Lake Success, June 15.

The

measure

The House amendments will cquire Senate action before the bili can go to the White House United Press,

ILO PROPOSAL TO UNO

So-gualsation

a Russian proposal aimed at placing five viet officers on the military observation team created to help supervise the armistice in Palestine.

Montreal, June 18. Tht International Labour Or- has proposed joint

United with the cunsultations Nations on machinery for on- forcing the rights of workers and employers to join organisations of their own choosing.

It wasn't so much the heat- Bridge cricket ground in Notting- ham, where England and Austra- lia are playing the first Test, 30

Only Russla and the Ukraine, tions on the Security Counciled at the International Labour spectatora fainted. The tempera-supported the Soviet proposal, abstained from voting. This Organisation's annual conference ture there was 73.

Lightning struck in Д dozen places as thundershowers added to the humidity without easing the heat. It did little damage besides killing two horses standing In a meadow,

One-bolt tore a hole-in-the roof of a school while 500 chil- dron were singing at the top of their voices to drown the thunderclaps.

Spotty showers dropped flash floods on several London residen tial districts. Firemen had

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Only The Clips Survived

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London, June 15.

The proposal is to be consider.

left the Soviet delegato (M. at on Francisco, opening Andrei Gromyka) with only Thursday-Reuter. Lwò of the seven votes neces- sary for passage.

Shanghai, June 16,

A Chinese report from Nanking The rejected resolution would said today that the Chinese agree- hove:

ment with the Union of South reduction of mutual 30 Africa for

1. Reduced

to between

and 50 the group of nearly 100 tariff came into effect on "Juna” 14: milltary observers being Assem--United Press

bled by Count Bernadotte as truce overaécrs,

2. Permitted any nation of the Security Council, except the Arab

The Privy Council conceded stale of Syria, to contribute to the many calls for help that they today that it had been outwit-observation pool if it desired.

and the M: Gromyko told the Council nally had to start answerlag the ted by white ants

Council adjourned to take it was only fale that Russia be cou

allowed to send a handful of ob counsel.

The case-before-the-Council's servera_since the United States with Juliolal Coramittee was a dispute hnd sent several together about frontlers between the West France and Belgium. African tribes

The Western powers did not of Nkwanta and Beckem,

The very same case eyen bother to comment on M. was adjourned last February for Gromyko's propesal. a study of historical documents at Kumasi, provincial capital of the Gold Coast province of As hanti.

Gory Jap Operation

Yokohama, June 16, Japan's first woman war crimes defendant today des- cribed a gory lung operation in which a captive American airman died.

31.

The woman, Shizuko Tsutsui,

细 on trial with 29

men

charged with murder of eight American

B-20

crewmen, butchered in meriical experiments at the Kyushu University.

The doctor who performed the operation inspected the lungs -with-his--hands as I watched," Tsutsul said in a statement in- troduced by the prosecution.

The doctor hold "the right lung 'with a pair of pincers", and "cut out about one-third of the fund."

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The unidentiled patitent's condition scbn afterwird.“ bes came bad and he died about the time the incision was sewed upi sho said. Tautsal was the head nurse in the surgical department | where the operations were per-

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Research specialists assigned to the case reported today?-?

Tho Soviet representative angrily ascribed his defeat to a plot to carve out a "bargain" in

which Falcaline

would harm boley.

the Arab end the Jewish "Unfortunately the documents The vote came shortly after it ofcially announced that were kept in a building at Ku-was mag which was accessible, to Count Bernadotte had asked the white onts. Only the paper clips United

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