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EUROPE ASSEMBLY PROPOSAL

Not To Tolerate Rod Expansion

Strasbourg, May 6.

Thirty-one members of

the Assembly of the

uncil

of Europe today proposed an Atlantic Declaration that no further Soviet expansion in Europe would be tolerated.

Mr Duncan Sandys, British head of the European Movemen! and son-in-law of Mr Winston Churchill, Bended the signa- turies of the proposal.

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The other signatories, he said. represented practically u } } Europrun

Communist parties and all the 15 member nutjons

Counell of the

of Europe except Sweden,

Sweden's representatives feli that their country's neutral vosition did not allow them to sign.

Was

which also The resolution, ralled for a warning to Russia to "ay of Yugoslavia, subiniited to the European Parliament, which began its first 1951 session here today,

**The The solution sald; Assembly urges the European Governments to consult with- ut delay with the Governments of the United States and Canada with a view to making a joint tirclaration that no further ex- pansion of the. area of Soviet domination in Europe can be tolerated and, in particular, any attack by Russia or her satellites upon Yugoslavia will be treated by the Western Powers as an attack upon them- selves,"

The motion

that

will be debated

by the Assembly

on Saturday

in a general discussion on the defence of Europe.-Reuter,

RUSSIA BLAMED

Lyons, May 8, The French Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schuman,

THE SEA TURNS TO

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ANCHORS ARE

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...and this is a long-focus view of the figures dwarf- Ihr the arrowed policeman --- taken from across the river. The mural

is called "The Islanders.". Austrian Siegfried Charoux, British, today Russia

the year. international tension present and for one of the two main causes for interference in the internal affairs of the Western countries.

blamed

The other

for

worked on it for a

Recently he went, to South Bank to watch alterations to the floodlighting.

Americans Warned of

M. cause, sald Schuman, was the abnormal balance of forces between the antagonistic

Western and Eastern blocs.

Speaking at Popular Re- publican Party Congress here, M. Schuman said that Russia had, since 1946, régimented nil the countries under her influence and had imposed on them 24 treaties of alliance, the masi wernt with Eastern Ger- many.

France wanted to avoid any uselces provocation. Bul neutralism, said M. Schuman, was a mure and dangerous illusion-Reuter,

Up-To-Date

Socialist

Principles

Strasbourg, May 6.

A now Socialist International, representing the non-Communist Socialist parties of Europe and some in Asia, will come to life st Frarafurt next month.

The decision to create it was taken at a meeting here of COMISOO, the International Committee of the non-Communist Socialist parties, representing

over 20 countries.

A

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Inflation

Washington, May. 6. Mr Eric Johnston, United States Economic Stabiliser, today

predicted that the "real fires" of inflation in America would begin next autumn.

The country must be ready to hold it lu check or mobili- sallon costs would soar sky- high, he said.

Mr Johnston was interviewed just before he left on a four- day trip to the American West coast.

40FT.-SQUARE mural

A stone-Just revealed by the

removal of scaffolding brings the sea to the South Bank Festival

exhibition: stands boldlyin

front of the Dome of Discovery. But there are NO waves, no anchors, no

no boots.

Simply three rugged figures : 4

fisherman and his wife, both wear- ing the volknack jerseys in which they toll, and their Mile son, Steadfastly they gaze across the flowing waters of the Thames, ...

Sald be: "I decided not to

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"I used no Bgures are creations from my own head.

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"I estimated it would take at least a fortnight to put up. And I was right," -- London Express Service.

Peking Burial Of Agnes Smedley

Oilfields Dispute:

REPORTED TERMS

TEHERAN'S

OF

REPLY TO LONDON

Teheran, May 6.

Persia's reply to Britain's note on oil nation- alisation is in the final stages of preparation, in- formed sources said here tonight.

British Papers Close Down

London, May a.

Two weekly newspapers pubilakod their last issues -over the week-end.

One, the Exze County Telegraph, was founded in The other, Harwich Newsman, was founded in

ЕВНО.

Both blame the shut- down on the "iremendous increase in the cost of newsprint"

At the same time two Teheran newspapers WARNING gave what they claimed was the text of the reply.

The evening newspaper Bakhtar Emruz, quoting a ON FOOD Government source for its information, said that the reply stressed three points:

1.--Persia desires to con- tinue friendly relations with Britain.

2.--The decision to nationalise the Persian of industry was completely within the ambit of tho sovercign powers which Persin possesses,

the

3. The nationalisation of oil industry is a_maller concerning the Persian Govern- ment and cominercial under- taking (the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company) and is, therefore, not a concern of the British Government.

(The British Government holds the majority of the shares in the Anglo-Iranian Oil Com- pany).

Mr Herbert Morrison's note, which the British Ambassador In Persin, Sir Francis Shepherd, read to the Prime Minister during an hour-long interview On May 2, believed to be a personal

from the message British Foreign Secretary.

The note is understood to have fald that Britain was ready and willing to reopen negotiations with Persia con- cerning the vil Industry- Reuter,

VOTE FOR PREMIER

Teheran, May 6. The Lower House of the Iraniun Parliament Lony paared a vote of confidence in Premier Mossadegh.

Of 102 members, present, 99 voted for and the remainder abstained.

The Senate is expected to passa similar vote tomorrow.— Associated Press,

IRAQ NEGOTIATIONS

Girls Will "Type" You Through

From

Desks

London, May 6. Telephone exchanges of the will look just ke future

offices, ordinary

with girle sitting at grouped desks Instead or facing upright panels which can be very trying,

And the desks will be free from plug-in cables, cords, diais, and finshing lights.

The girls will have much less to do. Because of that they will be able to give a faster and better service,

There will be fewer wrong numbers and clearer communi- cation.

All this will be achieved by i what Post Once engineers here call the "cordless board," which is already in use in South Afrien, Sweden and Holland,

LIKE TYPEWRITER

A Post Office spokesman sold: "In front of the operator will. be a small keyboard, rather like a typewriter on which she will tap out the numbers. Incoming calls will queue automatically and will be dealt with in strict rotation.

"The boards are now to be made to our specifications. It may take some while before since they are in general usa they contain a mass of intricate electrical circuits,

Baghdad, May 0. The Managing Director of the Iraq Petroleum Company, Mr. "We started our research just H. S. Gibson, arrived here to- after the war. What our

SITUATION

Bradford, May 6.

The Food Minister, - Mr Maurice Webb, said here today that British people who complained about the (small meat ration remember India millions were facing gen- eral starvation.

day to resume talks on oil engineers sought was tho ideal). royalties with the Iraql Gov-board to fit into our very com ernment.

plex system. We think we

With him were some of the have found it. - Company's staff

Mr Gibson will meet the Iraq San Francisco, May, 0.

Prime Minister Nuri es Suid Agnes Smedley. pro-Com- Pasha, tomorrow before regolia-

writor who tions start. munist American dled in Oxford, England, Last month' Iraq's GoveITI-

ago, was buried ment issued a exactly a ye

writ against the today in Peka reported the Iraq Petroleum Company claim- Chinese Radio, heard here. |ing higher royalties.

In accord with her will, the Iraq at present receives royal- Peking - broadcast--said,-- hör- ties on the basis of the official ashes were placed in the "New gold exchange rate, giving her Cemetery for Revolutionaries" 18 shillings o`ton, at services

800 attended by Chinese notables.

Miss Smedley's will. probated in New York last year, queathed her estate to General Chu Tch, Chinese Commander- in-Chief.

But Iraq claims that the free market rate of gold would give her more, and has taken action bo-to get the case referred to a

London court.

The broadcast added that her "The inflationary forces which personal possessions, such ag camera, radio set typewriter, were feared prematurely after

and correspondence with Chu, Korea are now beginning to were placed on exhibit in the bulld up in fact," Mr Johnston Hall of the Youth Palace. said.

Mentioned as her most prized

a series possessions were "The other was just soma Chinese songs

sung by Pau! smoke but now the real fres Robeson. -- Reuter. of inflation are getting hot. Tha defence programme is getting

under way

la

of

at trouble - SWEET RATION

UP AGAIN

we are in for real trouble un- less we follow through with the overall, stabilisation programme now being developed". Reu- ter

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Getting Back To Normal

MacArthur Puzzles Air Force

should

where

Addressing a May Day rally in the Mechanics Institute, Mr Webb sold that the popula tion of the work! grow by about 3,000,000 people every year.

"Many millions of them, are foping famine and starvation. It makes me so cross when peoplo get up and say we are facing starvation. We aro nowhere near starving, compared with these people."

In certain parts of India in the last two or three weeks the people had been on the movu in search for food.

"Some have left their planta- tions neglected. I am giving you these facts because they show what may happen to your cup of ten in the next year or so, because these, people are on the march in search of food."

Mr Webb said this was the state of millions the world just wanting a few of people ina husks of rice.

He spoke also of Australia, saying, "I have been negotiating for months a 18-year-agreement with Australla to get us meat and to give to Australia a 15 years' guarantee,

"It is a bulk purchase agree- ment, which the Tories sneer about.

A STRUGGLE

"I have done this because (in five years time this country is going to have a struggle to get meat, because of the Increasing difficulties in the world".

He spoke about the future as time for hard, clear thinking, saying that his own job as Food Minister was a stark Illustration of the facts.

emphatically,

He declared "Here am I, the Socialist Minis- ter In charge of the largest trading concern in the world- a-business doing--a trade of £1,700 million a year, the big- gest business in the world with the responsibility for hav- to find four meals a day for ing 50,000,000 people

on Island only half the

Tokyo, May 6. Some Air Force men are to- day puzzled by General Doug las MacArthur's testimony in that can grow Washington that the ChinesO The Iraq Petroleum Company Reds are using "every possible food it needs in a world where most of the people are begin- will be bound by the court's facility," in the Korean war. ning to stand up and say We decision.

The Air Force is convinced want more of the food"," On April 13, 18 members of

Reds have a potent Reuter, Iraq's Parliament demanded the that the

been hurled · ot the never nationalisation of the country's arm whose full power has

as the only way industry

Allied armies. to protect our oil".

Some Air Force officers ad- GOLD ASSESSMENT

mit they do not understand why the Reds have avoided using Negotiations on the royalties the air power they have. dispute were going on in Lon-

Intelligence sources say the don in March this year when Communists tave enough Dr Nadim al-Pachachi, Direc-planes to launch several hun- tor of the Iraqi Ministry of ded sorties a day. Economics, put the matter be-

Tito Frees Prisoners

Estimates of the number of

the It was stated Communia air bases in Mun

churia and Siberia range from 50 to 200.--Associated Press.

Saudi Count De Wiart

Dead

of

Belgrade, May 6. The Yugoslav Minister

Interlor MA Alexander Hankovich, lus aigned a decrea freeing 1,079 pro-Cominform sympathisers from arrest ac- cording to Borbb, the

oficial

organ of the Communist Yugo-

slav Party.

fore British courts. Early to Aprli that Mr Gibson had agreed to open negotiations with Iraq on London, May 6. the basis that Iraq's oil re- Another 2oz. a month on the venue per ton should be com- sweet ration from May 20 was parable with that

and Iran. announced by Mr Webb, Minis-Arabia

Borba said that the released ier of Food, at Gillingham,

between The present talks

prisoners had addressed a tale. This Kent, last night.

will the Iraqi Government and the

gram to Marshal Tito Mr bring the ration to doz, a week. Petroleum Company will deelde

Brussels, May 6, Rankovich and M. Svetozar It was also announced lust whether gold should be assessed

Eighty-two year-old Count Vurmanovic, President of the the whole of the at the fixed London rate or the -night that

Henri Carton de Wart, veteran Federal Council for the extruct- The declaration is divided into

10d, meat ration would be of free market rate.

Cathole leader and Ing Industries, thanking the five sections. The preamble sets

further Auckland, May 0.

carcass mcat unt!!

The Prime Minister, Nuri es Balgion curc

The ration has been in Sald, will lead the Iraqi team former Premier died here to Yugoslav Communist Party for The unloading of ships here, netice. Socialism in its historical con

night

restoring

to them their freedom the new terms. text in

the capitalist still confined to one wharf this form for the past two relation to the

negotiating

the Count was the senior He will parties and Communism

following the 10 weeks' dock weeks.

be allied by the

the "new life" Minister

The telegram sald Abdul member of Bolum's Chamber

that the Mr Webb said that chilled Economics There were sections denting strike, is expected....to extend.

-Deputies, which for joined Communist-Party-had-helped- Socialism and political to other wharves tomorrow. beef, when it came, would be Majid Mahmoud, the Com-or- democracy, social democracy and This will relieve the congés-distributed on the ration and munications and Public Works 55 years ago. Count Carton do them to realise "the slanderous International democracy,

tion in the harbour, where 11 not have priority distribution in Minister, Dr Dhia Jafar, and a Wiart was the Chairman of nature of the Cominfarm ac- Sources in touch

the Inter-Parliamentary Union.cusations against Yugoslavia." with ships are anchored, awaiting hotels and restaurants, The number of legal and oil ex-

-Reuter.

Reuter. COMISCO sald that the declara- unloading-Reuter.

London area would get it Arst. perts-Reuter. Son would be found more up to date and realistic than the general statements of principles adhered to by many individual Socialist parties-Reuter

with

Ship's Officers Turn Cowboys

Ships officers, turned cowboys when a cow, one of 'a consign. mont of 110, charged past :tho officers' quarters and leaped tho art rail into the son

Officers purated in a motor Munch, lasscod and towed it protestingly, to the ship, where it was toibed aboard by # Jerrick,

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