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LONDON TAKES CALM VIEW OF SITUATION IN BERLIN POKER GAME FOR

HIGH STAKES

London, July 17. Authoritative sources admitted today that a four power conference on all Germany probably was the only alternativo to a dangerous showdown with the Russians, which no ono wants, ovar Bortin.

There will be a lot of give and take before that stage is reached. And this approach does not fit in very neatly with the arrival here of 60 Superfortresses, which supports the shown- down theory.

But these reliable sources While there, the British For- insist the Western powers areļeign Minister, Mr. Ernest Bevin' not considering o final show-and the French Foreign Minister, down and are not considering M. Georges Bidnult, will survey an ultimatum now.

the problem and seek the advice of the Benelux Foreign Ministers Inslead, they sold the next and may be ready by mid-week Western reply to Russin's refusal to draft a reply to Moscow.

blockade is lift the Berlin

To

The Alternatives Ultimately, authoritative sources

be:

Firstly, four Pawer tions.

His 100th Conviction

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Luton, July 17. Ellott, 49, of no address, recalved his one hundredth conviction at- Luton today when he was sent to prison for three months for theft.

Detective Inspector Sanders wald "Elliot has 99 convictions -80 not out"

Elliot appeared en remand housebreaking charge on # which was reduced to one of theft of a tin of vegetable salad from a house in New Bedford Road, Luton/Aso- glated Press.

now to let Berlin provoke another war. The West are so firmly committed at this time that they cannot abondori Berlin.

more likely to renszert even more

Both the West and Russian rigorously than before, the West's rights to be in Berlin and then here said, the alternatives appear destra bit of fling on

desirability settling such dis- negotia.putes by negotiations. The mo-

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than a showdown.

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United States, Britain and France, have postponed any action on the crisis until after the "Western Union" meeting at The Hague next week.

Secondly, abandon Berlin. Thirdly, a military show down with the Russians—which means wat.

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On whose fernus would such a four power conference be called?

The West demanded an Imme- diate and complete lifting of the

Berlin blockade and Russian ac- knowledgment of the West's right to remain in Berlin before there can be any talk of negotia- tions.

BELGRADE GETS SPY · FEVER

Prague, July 17.

BELGRADE BANS SALE

OF RED BULLETINS

Bucharest, July 17. Yugoslavia has banned the sale of the Cominform's bullotins which have been blasting the regimo of Premier Marshal Tito.

The latest bulletin of the Communist Information. Bureau, issued 48 hours late, protests the ban as "another disgraceful act" and orders that the Yugoslav edition of the bulletin be suspend- ed.

pro- when they try to go ahead pa their own they are helpless.

An official announcement in Belgrade sald today that anti-

The new Communist 'Communist spies briefed in paganda offensive against Tito Italy and the

Rautu devotad himself to an United States Includes a wrathful article by zene of Austria have been en Ana Pauker, Foreign Minister analysis of the Yugoslav Party. tering Yugoslavia since Mar- of Rumania, who declared that once again accusing it of breaks; ? shal Tito was expelled from the liquidation of Tito's regime Ing away from the tenets of

Marx and Lonin, "is a matter of life and death to the Yugoslav Communist Party."

the Cominform.

West Mistaken?

The Yugoslav nows agency said

Mrs. Pauker's attack accused the trial of 94 Vstocht spies in Mistakes of the "Sectarian the party in Yugoslavia of op- Zagreb, which opened inst month, Bureaucratic regime in the Yuga posing the study of Stalin's has been postponed "due to the slav Communist party", cannot "short history the Communist fact that the indictment has been be righted, Mrs. D'auker says, Party of the Soviet Union" on extended to a new group of spies adding that "the system prevail the grounds that it might result and terrorists who crossed into Ing inside the Communist party in the application of the Russian Yugoslavia illegally of late and of Yugoslavia reflects the pro- experience in Yugoslavia. even during the trial itself."

foundly incorrect and harmful attitude of its leaders."

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She accused the Yugoslav lead- of cloaking themselves in Testimony during the five days More than three the aloofness and secrecy and losing of the show-window trial charg-bulletin's six pages are devoted contact with the masses. In fact, ed that the spies were briefed by to belabouring Tito's alleged ahe said, the Yugeslay Commun

Vatican agents" in Rome and by heresies. One page is given over is behave as if they were an officers of "n foreign power in to resolutions by other Commun.

mun- underground movement. Salzburg, which is the U.S. zonest parties condemning the Yugo- of Austria.—United Press.

slav attitude. There also are articles by the Soviet writer P. Yudin and by I. Kautu, the Press Chief of the Rumanian Commun- Ist party,

Mr Draper In Paris

Paris, July 17. The United States Assistant

In all the three Western coun- Secretary for War, Mr. William tries, especially Britain and

Draper, arrived by air toda: America; responsible ometals have taken a very firm stand. from Berlin. He was accom- They have not left much room panted by General Tate and for manoeuvring. And in each several other United States of the Anglo-Saxon countries, I personalities.

Mr. Churchill

British Conservatives, led' by Mr. Winston Churchill, con-

Woebegone Marxists

Yudin called the Yugoslav Communista *woebegone Marxists." He queationed the validity of the Yugoslav Party's programme, Accueing It of wanting to co-operate with the West, and added that no roal

rutes.

Finally, she says the West is wrong if it thinks "the United Socialist Front" has been weaken- ed. She said open dicussions only strengthen the Communit case.-Associated Press.

10

Stillman Visit To US

Shanghai, July 10, Mr. Charles I. Stillman, head

the

Sociallat system could be built of the United States Ald Survey without the aid of the coun-Mission here, will personally re- Arler where Boclallum now Quest the American Government

make no reduction, In the opposition to the present ad- Mr. Draper is to leave Paris Yudin's job in this issue, vition projects in this country when

grants

car-marked for reconstruc- ministrations probably favour for Washington tonight.

was to fear to pieces the He has recently visited Aus- even more than 1 Arm stand.

Com:nunist Party's he visits Washington, according tria, Turkey. Grecce, the Free draft programme for its forth- to. semi-official Chinese sources Territory of Trieste and Ger-

coming Party Congress, scheduled here. many.

to begin next Wednesday. He Mr. Stillman will probably take Mr. Draper had an interview called it disheartening to see that off here early next month. with the ERP ambassador at}

nothing

On the basis of his report, Mr. the Yugoslavs !carned large, Mr. Averell Harriman, on

Paul Hoffman, ECA, Administra-

Mr. Chur tria parable to Munich.

within the experience in Socialism. Yugo- chill is urging the West to take framework

Communists do all Fight distribution of supplies to China informed sinY the stand he thinks they should sources stated:-Agence France-hen they keep to the Interna-under the American aid program have taken at Munich in 1938. Presse.

tional programme, he said, but me--Neuter. There is a feeling here that any sign of weakening by the Tru- man administration might be im- mediately injected into the cur- rent campaign

issues.

of

sider the present issue com the situation prevailing in Austrom the Russians 25 years tor, will decide on a plan for the

But against the compileated background stands the last para- graph of the West's original note to Russia

calling, for negotiation to settle such problems and a paragraph in the Soviet reply not objecting to negotiations," but refusing preliminary condi- tions or limited negotiations just Bérlin.

on

Diplomats here hope that as far opari as those positions are now, there

ΣΟΦΙΑ thero for manoeuvring toward negotiations.

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