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HAGUE ROUND-TABLE

MEETING REACHES MOST DECISIVE STAGE

The Hague, October 15.

PRESS STRIKE November I was set last night as the target date

IN ITALY

Rome, October 15.

Printers in two Italian cities were today continuing their strike for higher pay though nearly 70,- 000 printers

country were back at work.

for the ending of the Indonesian" round-table conference which began nine weeks ago to define relations between the Netherlands and its former Far East colonies after sovereignty is transferred to an independent United States of Indonesia.

other parts of the The announcement of the Steering Committee that all conference Committees would have to sub- mit their reports with an eye to the objective of concluding the conference on Novermber 1 was taken of the Hague to mean that dis- cussions had now reached their most decisive stage.

No newspapers appeared in Milan for the third successive day as "rebel" printers met union lea ders to discuss their refusal to re- sume work despite the official cnding of the strike.

Printers in Venice, which was also without papers again today, were meeting tonight to decide-Earlier in the day, a Republican He would leave on Monday, whether to start work again to-spokesraan said that in the course which is earlier than be ofginally

of the next few weeks the trans-planned Officials of the Printers Union tween Holland and Indonesia and departure from

fer document statute of union be He admitted that his premature the Hague was

morrow.

join a South East Asia pact along Asked whether Indonesia would the lines of the North Atlantic economic and social cooperation. Pact, he replied; "No, we want It is impossible for Indonesia to make any military commitments.”

Associated Press.

in Rome said tonight that printext of provisional constitution Died up with Pandit Nehru's visit ters all over the country may for Indonesia would be ready. shortly resume the strike.

to Washington. "We The knotty ecotomic-fnancial are ready to reopen the strike at issue would be dealt with by a any moment to enforce our de-special Committee of three which mand," The printers are demand- includes Merle ing a 2,000-lire weekly raise in member of the UN Commission Cochran, US wages.Reuter.

for Indonesia.

Meanwhile, the parties already have agreed that details in the Economic-financial field would have to be ironed out after the end of the conference. The Com- mittee would try to find a solution along broad lines.

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Informed' spokesmen that agreement had been reach. ed on the withdrawal of Dutch troops and the future of some thousands of Dutch civil vants still employed in donesia.

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Czechs Turn Down U.S. Protest

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Prague, October 15. Czechoslovak Foreign Ministry today informed the that it could take no action on United States Embassy here an Embassy complaint about an alleged provocative and unfriendly act

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In the financial field, there will still be much to do to find a solu- tion for the debt problem but the setting of the November 1, target date was taken as a guarantee that agreement would be reached The Embassy announced that principle on main points it had lodged a verbal complaint Setting of the target date was using these terms about the explained at the Hague as a re-appearance

anti-American sult of strong pressure by the portere and cartoons lin display Indonesians.

windows We must be home soon",

near the Information an Bureau maintained in Prague by Indonesian delegate explained, the United

States Information "lest our people back home get Service. frustrated and lose faith in our

posters are efforts. They want to see results, such a position

displayed in that visitors to and soon.

the Information Bureau or pas- sers by cannot fail to see them. and, in fact, might at first, be lod to associate them with the dis- plays in the Information room's windows.

Members of both Dutch and Indonesian delegations could be quoted as saying "We must come to an agreement. It is a necessity

for

both of us."

servants.

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No details were revealed on the An Embassy spokesman said agreement regarding Dutch civil today that the Foreign Ministry replied that it could do nothing the military field, the parties because the posters were arranged agreed that the bulk of the Dutch by the Union for Czech-Soviet troops in Indonesia would leave Friendship and were, therefore, within the first six months of 1950 not the affair and the remainder as soon as Minist technically possible.

Main Difficulty

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C. Maramis, Indonesian Ambassador-at-Large and mem- ber of the Indonesian delegation at the roundtable conference, told the Associated Press yesterday that he had received instructions to return to his post in New Delhi, India.

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Landan: October 18.

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The British Cammanist Party today called on working class organizations in the country to protest vigorously against the verdict

of gulit passed in New York

yesterday on TT United States Communist Party leaders.

It described the

verdict as the clea

clearest expression of

of the reactionary, anti-democratic and war-mongering campaign that is being carried out by American big business and its henchmen in official positions. "The trial and the verdict are a challenge to the free- dom of speech and organisa- tians throughout the

world. and especially to the working class movement", the state- ment added. Reuter.

Mr. Nehru

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Prime

Nehra of India, arriving in New

New York, October 15.

Minister Jawaharlal York this morning for a six-day visit, said that India has no inten- tion of joining either the Russian or American bloc in the cold war. Mr. Nehru told reporters at La Guardia airport, The question? did not and does not arise any where"

The Indian leader said tha India's action on any future oc casion would be governed by ciră cumstances and not by commit- ments. Mr. Nehru told reporters that he was happy to extend a Truman to visit India, cardial invitation to President

The Indian Premier, in response to a question as to where India stood in the cold war, said, “You expect me to answer that in one minute?" continued to say, how- methods. We intend to follow the ever, *We follow democratic policy of peace."

Mr. Nehru said India does not from Russia on the North.. articipate any immediate danger

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Mr. Nehru said he was more interested in seeing people that in the sights in New York. He said, "There are so many things to see in New York that in the main I am interested in people of the Foreign more than anything. I am

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Paris, October, 15. Andre Brossard d'Opíus, the. man who last June stopped pub- lie auction in Paris of ex-Marshal Petain's personal belongings, was today given a suspended sentence of 15 days' imprisonment and fined 25,000 francs.

He was convicted of "hindering the freedom of auctions".

D'Opius, who claimed to be the Marquis of Belleval and a Colonel in the first world war, brandished a cane and called the sale dishonour to France".

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