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Atlantic Pact and on its possible ference will last about a week, NEXT FLIGHT ON THURSDAY 21st. APR., 1949

ects in Western Europe after which he will confer with the Admiralty for two or three No feki comment is avail-particularly in Germany.

take part in German able

Foreign British from Uwe

source stated, days. He will Omre but it is clear to observers however, that the blockade is not "Trident," the name given to the to study the effect of that the British Government

one of the principal subjects to exercises not directly concerned in any be discussed in Washington, So-atomic weapons in a war at sea.-- feelers that may have been put viet Military Government circles Heuter.

in Berlin are unwilling to state whether or not the envoy will attempt to make contact with Mr.

out.

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Nuremberg. April 18. Troops of the United States

Before the week-end, a Foreign Zone Constabulary are tonight completing the first phase of offee spokesman formally denied their biggest post-war battle that any approach on the subject | Acheson.

Russiana the Ba- of the Berlin blockade had been

Rumours that practice held along the varian-Czechoslovak border. received from the Soviet Govern-

plan to it the Bertin blockade But It has been

were discounted in Paris by the noted This morning they are massed ment.

Minister. M. French Foreign along the border against an im-here that to categorical tlenial

was made by Mr. Dean Acheson. Robert Schuman, aginary aggressor from the East. During the day they have been U.S. Secretary of State, when he

"It

only a 1s

rumour, withdrawing to strategic defence was questioned on the matter.

For some days, therefore, it ins Schuman told reporters, "but it lines along the Ludwig Canal,

10 Impossible exclude the is already quite a lot that it (the Observers from Britain, France, been Sweden,

Hollund and Norway possibility of some truth in the rumour) exists."-Reulor and As-

Søvlet

soclated Press. watched as the steel-helineted many rumours of

ap- Constabulary units began their proach to Washington. The prob- strategic withdrawal to a region whiltly that the Suvie: Govern- 1st Divisionment is making a fresh attempt where the American ist had already set up a defence line.

The

manoeuvres, which

as 100

to secure a solution of the Ger- will man problem as a whole, before

eventually engage almost 70,000 a West German Government is

troops, also marked the first time that American Civil Affairs teams have accompanied tactical troops

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in war games.

set up, and would even be pre- pared to raise the Berlin blockade as a preliminary, is thought by observers here to have

been

Twenty-five P-47 (Thunder-strengthened in recent weeks by bolts), playing the role of ag- the economic difficulties in Eust

Kressor planes, "buzzed" the city

of Nuremberg, headquarters of the defending forces, during the

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