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No Change Stunt To Be
Of Heart In Moscow
Paris, June 22.
The collapse of, the Big Four deputies' conference proved that Russin is not ready to improve relations batween East and West, the British Under-Seere- tary of State, Mr Ernest Davies, said today.
"The West has been forced to realise that Russia will not change her, policies," the British delegate to the four-Power talks told reporters. "But the door is still open a Foreign Ministers'
ineching
Mr Davies said: "One can sill hops that Russia will ultimately see that n' full-dress meeting of the Foreign Ministers is in her own interests, Russia has suc- conded to a certain extent in her altompt to slow down the Western defence effort in general, especial- ly regarding German ment.
rearma-
"But when Russia saw the West firm in rofusing to accept the Atlantic Fact on the final agenda, she saw the conference was impossible. As a resull, we до thead with the
can now
Western defence."
WELL AWARE Mr Davies spoke to newsmen in his hotel suite, He said if the West accepted the Atlantic Fact and United States bases on the agenda as "disagreed Hem," the Russian Foreign Minister, at the Anal con ference, would then try to in- terpret the "disagreed item" as
an excuse to discuss the "sub stance" of the Atlantic Pact.
This
would have been ira- possible, and Rusia was well aware of it," he added.
Mr Davies said the collapse
of the deputies Lalke, which began on March 5 and con- tinued through · 74 plenary sensions, should not be followed by further delerioration of 12- Intions between the great Pow- ers.-United Press,
FATE OF BRITISH
MINISTER
Banned
London, June 22 Five-year-old Bubba Tongay and ·kla four-year old sister, Kathy, who wanted to swim the English Channel, were refused" per- mission to land at London Airport tollay.
the
Questions about children's arrival were anked
of in the House Commons yesterday.
Brigadier Frank Medli. cott declared it would be erttel to allow the two children to make the at- tempt. Their parents should be barred from exploiting. and commercialising, the youngsters, he said.
The British women's organisations had also pro- tested against the attempt. -Reuter.
De Gaulle
Charts
His Course
Parls, June 22.
General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the biggest party in the newly elected French Assembly, declared today that his party was ready to assume power immediately-but only it the other parties agreed to the constitutional changes he demanded..
The wartime Free French leader admitted that the changes of that were slim. He announced that, meantline. Es. Porlla- mentary group, the Hally of the French People (RPF) would not "obstruct" the reign of the present ruling Centre parlics but, ยา the contrary, would support any "constructive pro- posals" that they might make.
On the
other hand the RPF would not vote in the Assembly for the establishment of another Government of the Centre nor would it support sucli a Govern ment in confidence votes, Gen-
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SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 1951.
American Cadets Take
A Cricket · Lesson
A party of cadets from the American military academy at West Point is now visit- ing Sandhurst and is getting a first-hand view of various aspects of British life. Here a Sand- hurst cadet shows one of the visitors how to hold a cricket bat.
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BRITAIN STOPS TANKERS
FROM CALLING AT PERSIAN OIL PORT
Barr Takes Issue
With MacArthur On China Policy
Washington, June 22.
Precautionary Moves In Middle East Continuing
Basrah, June 22.
According to reliable information reaching Basrah, British and British-chartered oil tankers have been instructed as from 1.00 p.m. to day not to call at Abadan.
Basrah is at present a sounding board for what is happening in Khuzistan, Persia's main oil centre, and it was reported here today that General Sir Brian Robertson, British Commander-in-Chief of the Middle* East Land Forces, is ready to take immediate action if circumstances warrant it.
Reports that Habbaniyah, the Royal Air Force base near Baghdad, has been alerted were followed by news that certain precautionary mea- sures were being taken at Shaiba, the Royal Air
Middle East
Force station less than 40 miles west of Abadan Defence Move
-a few minutes' flight for a jet plane.
*
Proposal
London, June 22. The Commonwealth De- oli fence Ministers' meeting
the
to
On
which
the
There is a certain feel-measures to protect British Lives ing of tension at Basrab, and installations in Persia.
They just over the border from speech by the Foreign Secretary, criticised last night's Persia, about what is hap- Mr Herbert Morrison, in reply lo pening and will happen at
dobate on the Persian Abadan,
dispute. The
motion "duplores
here may propose the set- A British Overseas Airways Foreign Secretary's refusal to ting up of a Middle East Maj-General David Barr, who headed an to leave London on Sunday for firm assurance that the British Britain, France and
Corporation Argonaut plane, due give, in his speech of June 21, a Defence Board American military advisory mission to Nation- Bombay, will be diverted at Government is determined
Bahrein for Abadan to pick up alist China shortly before that country was over-the wives and children of Bu take the necessary measures 10 United States would be re-
British protect run by the Communists, sharply disagreed with th
lives and installa- ollfeld
prosented, a usually re- workers, usually tions in forthwith »
and requires him liable source said today. General Douglas MacArthur today about the ad- said today.
reliable sources in Karachi to do so
Turkey, The signatories
Greece and possibly. Vietminh troops last night visability of permitting Nationalist troops to at-
are Brigadier The diversion is being made Fitzroy MacLean, Viscount Cran- some of the other Common- attacked eight villages defend-tack South China.
the request of the British borne, Mr Julioa Amery, Captain wealth countries might be ed by Vietnamese partisans
nounced that plans were being for Winston Churchill) Car that this Defence Board would Government, who recently an-Christopher Soames (son-in-law bers of the Board. about 20 miles" northeast
The tentative proposal is made elvit sirlines in taln. Gobert Ryder and
as the evacuation of Abudan Richard Fort-Reuter.
later be linked to the North
MINISTER'S VIEW
without being an integral part
it.
from
Hanol, June 22.
Hanol, the French Army thorities announced today.
details were released.
eral de Gaulle said.
The General told a Press con- ference Paris, June 22.
that his party would
kind Mr Ernest Davies, Foreign not join in the
of "mui- Under-Secretary, said today that i Uple
government"
that had
Nor Hol
"I don't think we should do it," he said, adding. that of it would require terrific involvements in furnishing the Nationalists with supplies and transport. Any such in- Novasion would do little to Bft Communist pressure from the.
American troops in Koren.
After the three-day Thanh battle in the Tonking
In any case, General Ban enough Communist troops still in South China to take care of anything that might be launched from Formosa,
Delta, which ended last night. said, he belleved there were to an extent, if not altogether." 250 more Vietminh have been found killed and 50 more cap tured, the announcement add- ed.
he had handed a memorandum | existed since the war, to M. Andrei Gromyko, Sovle: would it have any part in Deputy Foreign Minister, asking government which did not sub- him to
to make enquiries in Moscow scribe to the reforms he sought. concernng the whereabouts
Once again he outlined his Captain Viviant Holi, British demands for constitutional re- Minister to Korea before the forms. Their alm would be to
Increase
the powers of the var started.
Captain Holt,_with_several Executive. -so-that-it-could-act other British subjects, slayed swiftly and decisively, not with behind in Seoul when the city the "vacillation and weaknesses" first fell to the North-Koreans a displayed by
post-war the year ago,Reuter,
Centre group coalitions.-Reuter. French Union patrols-Reuter
wor
COMMENT OF THE DAY
to
This brings total Vetmiah troops put out of action in the operation to 1,300. In the same area hundreds of tong rice have been seized
A Familiar Pattern
THE course of politics in Hungary
This following the path pre-ordain- ed for the so-called peoples' demo- cracies within the Soviet imperial system. In this predominantly Catho- lie country we are witnessing today not only a major purge of "doubtful" elements but the trial, on the lines of the trial of Cardinal Mindszenty, of his successor, Archbishop Grocaz, the signer of the Church-State agreement last year who is being arraigned at the head of a long list of defendants on the by now familiar charges of anti-State activity, blackmarket
cur-
rency dealings, helping wanted persons flee the country and other alleged crimes. As the Archbishop appears in court in Budapest, thousands of Hun- garians are in the process of being deported from the capital and other cities and put to work as Blave labourers-an action rightly described by Mr Morrison in the House of Com- mona as "inhuman." All these events are another stage in the process of Communisation started three years ago with the coalition of parties under self-appointed Communist leadership, which gave way to open dictatorship by the Communist Party. The second stage which was accelerated by ex: ternal events-saw the so-called Mus- covite Communists (or Stalinists) grasp a monopoly of power at the ex- pense of the national Communists.. The purge which has now been going on for several weeks has struck many .well-known Hungarians, including the Foreign Minister. All of them had belonged to the, Communist group which had organised the Hungarlan realatance to Germany and who, when the Red Army arrived, formed a pro- visional government along with' Hun- garian Communists who until thon had been living in exile in Moscow.. The reasons for the purge are not far to seek. They are the same reasons.
more
which led to similar purges in other satellite countries-the tensions caused within the regime by an economic pro- gramme geared to the demands of the Soviet Union. Heavy Industry is being expanded with little regard to
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the needs of the mass of consumers and at the expense of labour standards. Col- lectivisation of agriculture is pressed forward and exporta of food are main- tained at the cost of shortage at home, Hungary's resources of manpower and materials are strained. There is in- evitably, as a result of all this, an atmosphere of suspicion and complaint and a search for scapegoats. There is anxiety about where the subservience of the Hungarian economy to the calls of the Soviet Union is lending Hun- gary. The mood is natural and could bode no good to Hungary'a maaters. So the purge is ordered; so the trial is staged of the Catholic leader. Whether any active opposition identifiable the beginnings of Titolsm had already developed is not clear. It would accord with precedent for Moscow to direct forestalling action against those ele- ments in the regime regarded as more nationally minded and no less trust- worthy than others. Whatever satis- faction the events may give in Moscow they can only widen the gap between people and Government in Hungary.. Thousands of: families are being up- rooted at short notice from their homes and settled in the country in conditions of squalor. By this brutal means the Government, whose build- ing programme is backward, makes accommodation for industrial workers. Probably this is a foretaste of the treatment that all members of the in- telligentsia and professional classes of old Hungary may expect when the re gime has trained sufficient Commu- nists to replace them. The greatest purgo has yet to come.
by
Alexander
The
Was
ak
became necessary.
A BOAC onelal admitted that
was the plane
being diverted but would make no other comment.
mem.
Mr
for
Atlantic Treaty Organisation
South Rhodesia
three
she
observers because
not
Chiang Kai-shek was driven Senator Richard Russell, asked Middle East,
Committee chairman, ready for any emergency in the reparable dienster which some Middle East defence.
why since Chiang was the
|Generalissimo.
aro
second
London, June 22. present time which are working
The Detence Ministers Britain shrugged its shoulders Britain, Australia, New Zealand, At Fayid, in the Suez Canal tonight over the next step in
Africa and Southern approved
held General Barr also said Chiang Zone, Colonel J. F. Carroll, the Persian oil tangle and pre:
their tion Barr gave him as chief of tons
every recommenda Director Army Public Rela. Pared its people for the worst.
with Britain's Middle B Minister of Fuel P. Noel- Canada is represented only by
F. session of the conference today. the American military mission East Land Forces, said that of the Persian oil would not Senator
with Wiley in 1948-49, but never
Briush garrisons in the Suez (Republican) asked General Chlong able to make it stick.
Matter too much. It NATO and other commitments Barr to sum up reasons why
Canal Zone were standing by would not mean the swift, ir-
directly concerned in
out of Chinn,
The Defence Ministers and General Barr: "It was brought
Reinforcements, including the people had predicted.
The Fuci Minister suld the their advisers are considering 17th Artillery Regiment, about in the defence forces,
But the main loss of the Persian oil would be global strategy. principally the Army, duo
General Barr: "Because he being quartered in the Canel offset immediately by the ex- accent is on the defence of the to did not the fact that they were
have the Intestinal Zone and there is considerable not fortitude to slap his old faith-activity in camps, depots and pansion of other Common- Middle East, which is regarded properly paid, were not propore fuls and say to them, 'By God, air stations throughout the Canal Bri
a Commonwealth ly clothed and fed, nor were I said to do ii-now do it." Zone. their dependants cared for
Both the
the military and political taken care of in any way.
He
explained that by ""old Army and Air Force leave has should not be more than 3,000, situation in the Middle East is faithfuls
4,000,000 tons. "Leadership was atrocious so who had been his friends over
or neant "people not been officially cancelled hut
being probed with the possible The
feeling Keneral far as the individual soldier was a period of many, many years
In there are few men of duty.
defenec contribution of the Com- Britain
was that there
was
In concerned.
countries Offshore, the 9,000-ton trans- No one accepted and who
the monwealth to be done now event of a war. nothing more occupied high post- pont, Empire Pride, is passing responsibility for him. got breakfast in the morning, his Army"-United Press.
tions in his government and in through the Great Bitter Lake but wait hopefully that some- Strategy in the South West was purely on his own."
carrying troops to the Far East thing might happen to untangla Pacific is also looming large in Later
the Persian oll troubles, General
the talks. The defence of this Barr told Senator John Stennis
What the something might be area affects the ald that Aus- that American troops would have
was highly uncertain: "Some Iralia and New Zealand might At The Hague, Sir Philip British officials had been count- be able to make to the Middle Nichols, British Ambassador to ing quietly on sudden change East. The Netherlands, handed to, the of government
it
or
to be sent to the Chinese mala- and if any invaalon by the Nationalists from Formosa was to be successful.
INVOLVEMENT DANGER Senator Stennis asked if the Nationalists should be used in Korea.
yes.
he
Sharp
Note
NAGUE APPLICATION
wealth
would which Britain with a deficit which
03
Cremati
000
in Persia but After this morning's - sitting International Court of Justice the increasing series of tactical the conference was adjourning
To America today Britain's application to Contioned on Page 18, Col. 3) for a week's recess Router.
Prague, June 22,
restrain Persia from action
which might prejudico
any
Czechoslovakia today. accused eventual Court decision.
The delivery of the note
the United States of "systema followed Britain's original ap
cally and grossly violating the plication on May 20 asking the territorial sovereignty of the
General Barr: "If there were no involvements, I would say
The involvements are so Czech Republie" by the "inten- Court to arbitrate in the dis- great would say no."
tional and systematic" crossing of puto between the Persian It would mean Americanhe Czech ale frontier by Ameri- Government
and the Anglo- obligation to defend Formosa can aircraft.
Iranian Oll Company,
·
and at least moral obligation to In a personal note to the In London, a Foreign Office help the Nationalists when the American Ambassador in Prague spokesman said, in answer to a Korean fighting ended.
on the subject of two American question, that Britain had always American officers had sought aircraft which Janded near strongly urged Iraq to reopen to Initiate
rystem of direct pay Prague on June 8, Mr Villam the oil pipeline to Halfo, which to Chinese soldiers but Chinese Siroky, Czech Depuly Premier Was closed when the Palestino division
commanders resented and Foreign Minister, said that war broke out in May, 1948. thin
since It would havo meant the two planes violated the
The British Governments view, abandonment of the "squeeze" Czech frontier.
was that the question was in- system from which they pro- "In view of this fact the Czech dependent of the recent de-
ed,
authorities must very carefully velopments in Persia. No 3p- General Barr said that when Investigats whether it was really proach on the matter had been he left China, early in 1940 hea training flight, an emergency made to Iraq, tho believed
spokesman the United States situation and whether the Czech said. should withdraw from China air space has been violated;
unintentionally." completely.
There was nothing, In my Mr Siralty's noto included opinion, that could be done to list of 110 alleged cases help China. I might say I am violation of Czechoslovak devoted to the Chinese people space since January 15. I feel they are the most endur-
It also mentioned 58 other ing, hapless, hopeless, helpless cases which occurred before
in the world." prople In
that date and were the subject General Barr regards Gen- of a Czech Government protest eralissimo Chinng
an
honest man but sald Chiang was seldom able to carry out his (Barr's) recommendations because of pressure from out Elde.
BLOCKADE ISSUE
on Feb. 9.
Reuter,
Missing
.
Plane
In London, six Conservative Members of Parliament have
a given notice of a motion for of debate in the House of Commons air urging the Government to take
New York, June 22. In the afternoon hearings be said, the passengers aboard its
Pan-American World Airways | Joru the Senate Committee, missing Constellation alrüner General Barr testified that he from Africa included, "Mr and was not in favour of a com- Mrs J. R. Hoffman from Accra, plete blockade of the Ching Gold Coast, to New York, nud const, at the present time.
Willkom
Storey, bound from I do not feel sufficient Johannesburg to New York, assistance is coming in through Hoffman was an American that sourco to seriously affect employee of the American Oli our operations in corca. There Storage Company at TakoradL→ are certain sanctions set for the United Press.
South Africa Face Defeat.
South Africa - are facing. defeat in the second-Test Match at Lord's,
All out in their Brat in. nings "for_only_125, In город to England's knock of 311, South Africa followed on and at the close of play yesterday warel 187 for 4-bending 69. moto avoid the innings defens, Full-tepors' is on back
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