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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1949.

NORWAY'S APPROACH TO A Nail Worth

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE UK FOR DEFENCE PACT An Egg Here

London, February 12.

Agents: CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD. | Dr. Halvard Lange, Foreign Minister of Norway, on his way home

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to Oslo by air from the United States, will call on Mr. Ernest Be- yin, the Foreign Secretary, in London on Monday morning. Dr. Lange's visit comes at a delicate stage in the negotiations leading up to the conclusion of an Atlantic defence association linking the Unit- ed States and Canada to Western Europe. The position at the end of his visit to Washington and his conversations with the American Secretary of Stato, Mr. Doan Acheson, is that Norway has failed to obtain-clear-answers-tor Beam Amb comedica-movie-for

the questions which took Dr. Lange across the Atlantic,

Observers here expect Dr. Lange to ask Mr. Bevin what are the prospects of assistance from

and the other Britain members of the Western Union in the event of Norway's elther joining the Atlantic Union or the lea of a falling back on reparate Scandinavian pact.

which Other points

the two Foreign Ministers ore expected to consider:

1.-The Soviet note to Norway on, the Atlantic Union.

2. The repercussions of delays in Washington on Dr. Lange's own position in Norway an on- domestic

political Norwegian trends.

3. The effects of Norway's de- cision, to join either the Atlantic Union or Scandinavian union, on the position of Tesland and the Spitzbergen special relation and Greenland to any association

ara

Unfortunately for the Western powers,

nor neither Moscow Sweden and Bonmark, both of whom

still anxious મન BCG an Independent Scandina. vian defence pact in preferenan to Scandinavian membership of the Atlantic Union; can be ex- pected to wait without moving until the delays in Washington have been cleared up.

Criticism is being expressed in the press and In official circles alleged in Washington at the mishandling by the United States of the defence problems of the Scandinavian powers before and during the visit of Dr. Lange.

Stockholm, February 11. Sweden is willing to take part In the coming conference - of European states to discuss the establishment of a European Council of Ministers and a Con- sullative Assembly, the Swedish Foreign Office announced today.

this week, Mr.

here, asked M. Gesten Unden, Swedish Foreign Minister, il Sweden would necept a formal

· invitation,--Reuter,

glass,

walzed dur- Ing the past fortnight was valued at 280,000 marks and

con* Vinoldidad ten tons of

matting tainers for nine tons of nails, 13 tone of special stool, motor car apare parts and tires, 50,000 cigarette-holders and 10,000

Reuter..

Assassination Of Moslem Leader

Cairo, February 13,

Sheik Hassan el Banna, leader of the outlawed ex-. tremist Moslem Brotherhood, was killed last night by gunmon who pumped five shots into his body as he entered a taxicab. Banna and a companion were shot down by a. group of youths who opened fire from another car and then sped away.

El

European diplomats have said privately that misunderstandings, delays and lack of préparation by United States officials have con-

One bullet tore through his kept repeating: "I saw the num- fused the critical Scandinavian political situation and played into mouth and another hit him in ber plate."

The Moslem Brotherhood was the hands of Soviet spokesmen the chest. Police said he was hit ol

outlawed on December 8 by the now denouncing both the North by at least five slugs.

last Premier, Mahmoud Fahmy Atlantic Pact and the proposed

Both victims were taken to hos-Nokrashy Pasha, who was him- pital, and the Minister of the In- Scandinavian defence pact,"

self assassinated by one of its terior later told United Press that members, Abd el Meguid Ahmed el Banna succumbed.

of the Atlantic powers.

Router's diplomatic correspon dent, Sylvale Mangeot, writes:

The Dilemma

No Liaison

It has been asserted in Wash- Not for the first time the West-ington that liaison between the ern powers, in their effort to co- United States and the Norwegian was no Inadequate ordinate their forces into a broad-Government er front, have run into trouble. that the State Department did not This time it is over the Atlantic know of Dr. Lange's visit until Union.

few hours before he caught his plane.

Thus the Department was un- prepared to answer the detalled questions he put.

The dilemma is that the limits imposed

by the United States Constitution on the State

making Department in

hard

In the midst of the Norwegian commitments on defence to for- eign powers confilst with the Foreign Minister's visit came n urgent necessity of satires States was proposing to reduce its of satisfying press disclosure that the United prospective European members States of an Atlantic defence pact that commitments to military action under the Atlantic Pnet and to they will receive hard guaran-

suggest revisions of the

of the draft of tecs of security.

the pact which would further de lay its operation.

been

As result the seven-power talks in Washington, It had been believed that the drafting of the Atlantic terms of a proposed Union had reached a stage where additional European powers could be invited to enter the final stage of the discussions.

It swing

that Dry in this belief

went to Washing- ton after the breakdown of the Sca

defence

talks and of notes between

the

Moscow ant Oslo.

The Western powers, it now ́appears, “had--cklculated without the results of soundings made by Mr. Acheson among Congressional leaders as to how Congress would react to the text of the pact as provisionally drafted.

U.S. Bungling

The result is that there may be a hiatus which will leave Dr. Lange in a difficult position on his return to Oslo, vla London, next week.

The altuation a

fur. ther complicated by the secreny about the proposed termi

torms of the pact.

Critiolam Is

being vieced of the handling of the question of military supplies to countries whose security might

be vital to the United States.

at

Nokrashy's successor, Premier Ebd el Hadi. ordered the arrest of more than 80 members but left el Banna tree.

Eye-witnesses' said loast Hassan. seven shots were fired at the pair as they emerged from the Young Men's Mohammedan Association building and opened the door of a waiting taxi.

Sheik Hassan El Banna (his name means "Hassan the Build-

As the Shelk was taken to hos

he bleeding profusely,

pital,

Australian Lack Of Defences

•

er") was 38 years old and bearded. He claims a following of over half a million in Egypt.

Army Of 10,000

The Brotherhood was banned throughout Egypt last December nfler the police had arrestext several members for alleged raids and murders

The boarded leader of the during Brotherhood declared. the Palestino fighting that bla Brotherhood had a programma for the fiberation of Palestine by fire and blood if necessary. *He claimed he had on army of Sydney, February 12. The Sunday Herald, quoting 10,000. men whose training had The Egyptian authoritative sources, soid 'to-begun in 1942. day that the United States Gov- Government, in banning the ur ernment is seriously concerned gunisation, accused it of planning Before the Brotherhood's dis- about Australia's lack of de- to overthrow the regime.

it was reported to be solution, The newspaper, the Sunday preparing a march on Calro but edition of the Sydney Moming Sheik Hassan denied knowledge

has of this, Herald, said Washington

The day after the dissolution, asked the United States Navy, Army and Air Force Attaches, he offered to be placed under ar-- in Australia for full reports on rest, but the Government declin- Australia's defence preparations.ed the offer.-United Press and

Two considerations had in Reuter.

American interest. spired this

After obscure references to this question in the President's Bud- fences. get message in January, the State Department came out with a statement that military supplies would not be sent to countries not associated with the United States in pacts such as the pro- posed North Atlantic Pact.

This, however, gave the op- parently unintentional appearance of putting United States premure on certain Scandinavian countries to eschew regional pacts of their own and to come Into the North Ailantie Pack-Reuter.

TENOR DEAD

the

paper sald.

the Communist suc Firstly, cesses in China had forced the U.S. Service chiefs to make drastic reassessment of defence strategy in the Pacific.

Secondly, American dofanos chlofe are opposed to tying up stronger United States forcos In the Psolfio and urge that Australia and New Zealand

greater responsibili.

Until a draft text, acceptable to both the Western powers and

New York, February 12, to Congressional leaders, has been

Giovanni Zenstello, 72, operatic agreed upon, it would seem im-

more than

Accept- 30 years, possible either to give the pre- tenor for cise Information about the Atlandied here today.

He made his, debut in Milan in tic Union which the Norwegian Clovernment wants or to issue in 1901 and during his career he

Atlantic Union sang "Othello"" more vitations for an conference.

times-United Press.

W.D.&H.O.WILLS'

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Scientist Attacks

U.S. Policy

Brussels, February 12. The Herald said. that Mr. Professor Max Cosyns, phy- Royall, U.S. Armysicist, of Brussels University, Kenneth

than 300 Secretory, supports this view-

Reuter.

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the project. A great conspiracy.

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