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Britain Preparing King's Health
New
Proposal
For Persian Govt
London, July 4.
Foreign Office sources disclosed tonight that Britain is preparing a new proposal to settle the oil crisis with Iran and enable British tankers to resume loading in Abadan,'
A Foreign Office spokesman said there were "indications" that the Iranian Prime Minister, Dr Mohammed Mossadegh, might be prepared to dis- cuss a new formula for receipts to be signed at Iran's demand by captains of tankers.
Dr Mossadegh was sold
GX- to page of income from oil have "Intimated" to the United ports. States Ambassador in Teheran,
be
an
guar.
He said this step was in-
Dr Henry Grady, that he would evitable if tanker masters con- tinued to refuse to sign receipts consider willing to
of receipts if of the "National Oil Company". "amended form" the
British government
Dr Mossadegh stated that the dovernment needed only loans which would be interest free with an indefinite date of re- payment.
anteed payment for oil would eventually be made to the na- tionalised oil company.
Ambassador The United States in London, Mr Walter Gifford, informed the Foreign Secretary,
proposal had so far come from earlig
Teheran.
Britain's
sources
Meanwhile, Persian said today that the public prose Mr Herbert Morrison, of the cutor was considering "Indictment Illegal activities" after development yesterday but off for
documents seized cials here denied that any firm
this week from the home of Mr Richard Seddon, Anglo- The Foreign Office spokesman Iranian's chief representative in new proposal Teheran. It was not clear who Raid
for would be "indicted" would suggest a formula
Parliamentary deputies which would try to receipts satisfy both sides and alleviate Government officials met today Iran's fears that she may be in Mr Seddon's House where the in complete "cheated" out of her money for Police are still oll supplies. However, cautioned that so for "funda-protests to Momadegh. mental dimculties
no1 changed".
have
and
Improves
London, July 4. Buckingham Palace an nounced today that Ib Majesty the King,
who has been ill for
Would hold an in-
KENNE, W Buckinghata
July 31 Coutt sources said the aristine- ment could be taken as an "encouraging Indication”.
The King is making good progress da his recovery from induenita and hang Infusiumtion,
United Pres
Flood, Fire & Tornado
New York, July 4. The flooding Missouri River threatened to spili over 25,000 more acres of Missouri farmland today and a forest fire in New Mexico roared toward 10,000 acres of virgin pine.
A tornado hit Webb City, Missouri, wrecking houses and causing damage estimated at $100,000.
The Missouri, which yesterday broke through a leves near St Charles, poured over 4,000 acres of land and was held back from 25,000 acres in the same area by
railway
The embankment. authorities said the embankment was "soggy and possibly would collapse under pressure from the swirling waters. A break would
80 homes.
-he possession desplie the Britan's fore than 250 men fought a']
British and Persian staff who used the house as an offer are
Abadan, Julý 4.
for forest fire which threatened to spread to 10,000 acres of pine-
ill being denied entry-Reuter. Tand in a park. The men were
PRODUCTION OUT
In danger of being trapped should a shift in the wind fan An Anglo-Iranian Oll Com-flames behind them. Their pany spokesman announced to- efforts kept the are confined Jast day
that the Company WOG to an area of 1,500 acrea considering cutting production yesterday. to 3,000,000 gallons daily, ⋅ ap- Meanwhile, -the 10-day-old proximately
sixth
Nevertheless, there was the thal first glimmer of hope tension might be eased and closing down of the Abadan re-
averted at finery
the moment United Press.
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Ridgway Accepts July 8 For First Truce
SAFE CONDUCT ASSURANCE SOUGHT
Tokyo, July 5.
The UN Supreme Commander, General Matthew B. Ridgway, replied accepting July 8 as the date for holding an-initial meeting with the Communists.
Gen. Ridgway said that three llason officers and two interpreters would attend the initial cease- fire meeting and requested "positive assurance” of safe conduct for the party,”
Gen. Ridgway sent the following message by radio to Gen. Kim II Sung, Supreme Commander of the Korean People's Army, and Gen. Peng Teh-hual, Commander of the Chinese "volunteers,'
"I have received your reply dated 4th July. The date of 8th July for the initial meeting is acceptable. A reference is made to my message dated 3rd July. In addition to three liaison officers specified in that message, two interpreters will be sent. Positive assurance of safe conduct for these personnel is requested. Your reply is requested. Signed M. B. Ridgway, General of the US Army Commander-in-Chief of the United Nations Com-
mand."
Gen. Ridgway's Latest message was issued by the General Headquarters in Tokyo and broadcast over Allied transmitters at 7.30 Hongkong time. this morning- United Press.
PEKING BROADCAST
Tokyo, July 5. Peking Radio, broadcasting an by tho Communist mouthplect
pred
agreed to meet the UN field commanders to arrange a pos- sible cease-fire in Korea.
The Perelan Prime Minister, maximum production and one-tain area was reported "under
after charting "2 40,- editorial Mohammed Mossadegh, told the sixth of the pre-crisis yield, control" people today that bo might boHe said the refinery, could be 000-acre tract, with an estimatoncipl of $1,500,000.Unityd Daly for alx weeks at thated loss forced" to ask them for money "Idle" because of the complete stop rate-United Press,
Press.
If cease-fire negotiations mater northward alise it will not mean a "come river to
COMMENT OF THE DAY
A Scandalous Case
THE trial, conviction and sentencing
news
of Mr William Oatis, American newspaperman, by a Czechoslovakian court-provides another illustration of the travesty which masquerades 18 justice and the so-called protection of individual rights in Communist-ruled countries. This case, in fact, is the most blatant example of cynical injustice conceivable. Oatis was charged with and convicted of espionage. Yet the prosecution's evidence clearly showed that as an American agency representative he was doing nothing more than attempting to carry out his duties as a reporter. No sugges- tion was made that he either tried or succeeded in dealing with state secrets. His "spying" consisted of informing the outside world about events which had happened-a job which every normal Un- newsman regards as his duty. fortunately for him he was reporting nature which historic events of a embarrassed the Czechoslovakian Com- munists and when that sort of thing happens the "dictatorship of the proletariat" quickly shows what of individual rights and "freedom expression amount to. The Oatla case is manifestly an attempt by the Com-
British Policy
[ARDENING of British policy in
Hthe Persian oil crisis indicated by
to
'abandonment of the. Intention arrange almost immediate evacuation of British personnel will be welcomed or largely discounted according to varying estimates of the meaning behind the change of front. If it merely implies a Micawberish determination to hang on in the hope of something turning up, Mr Herbert Morrison gains nothing in stature in his handling of the disturbing affair. If, on the other hand, in repre- sentations to the Foreign Office, Mr Eric Drake offered more convincing reasons for holding on than that the evacuation step once taken would be irretrievable, belief in an ultimate compromise and Persian concession, to the sanctity of freely entered international agreements may gain adherents. There are, of courag some signs, minor though they may be, in favour of an improvement in the situation. Pigeonholing of the anti-nabotage law, gravely jeopardising
munists to intimidate the free press of the world, and exemplifies the lengths to which an Authoritarian government will go in its campaign of hatred and suppression of those things which the democracies hold most dear. Every- thing against Oatis was fabricated and, distorted. Routine reporting duties were converted into espionage, a con- fession was forced out of the victim and the trial was a farce. But the attempted: hoax on the Intelligence of the world will fool no one. What it can do is to reawaken the freedom-loving countries to the perils of a system which denies all human rights and which,, In its intolerance, will tell and act monstrous lies in order to maintain its strangulating grip on the will of the people. Dictators, of course, cannot permit a free press to exist, which is why Peron suppressed La Prensa. But it is not merely the freedom of the press which is destroyed by regimes such as that which dominates in Czechoslovakia today. The ordinary human rights and privileges of the individual are denicà and the will of the people enslaved. This is the lesson taught the free world by the trial and conviction of William Ontis.
In Oil
Dispute
British nationals, and second thoughts on the formula for oil receipts, do sug- gest growing Perslan realisation that they have bitten off more than they can chew. But for advantage, British. pressure today must be far stronger than any witnessed over the past three months. For the main danger of the crisis is not the possible loss to Britain of her Persian oil, supply, but the exploitation by the Tudeh Party of the consequent
Princess
Meeting
Elizabeth And
Free World Must Remain On Guard
President Truman's Message
Washington, July 4. President Truman said on Wednesday night the Korean war "has shown the world that the United Na- tiona Charter is not just a scrap of paper."
In an address commemorating the 175th United States declaration of in- anniversary of the dependence, the President said the United Nations forces in Korea may have victory in their hands.
But
the President said the United States and the rest, of the world must be on their guard. He warned of the "dan- ger of military outbreaks in other parts of the world" and said: The threat of Soviet aggression stlik hangs heavy over a country-including our The President' likened Korean war
to the American War for independence. "We did not fight that war to drive the British out of the North Ameri- can continent, nor to destroy the military power of England, or to wipe out the British Empire," he said.
Duke Of Edinburgh To Visit Canada
Ottawa, July 4,
the
Mr Truman said the United States must continue to bulld rate.
The train stretched into *}; }
that shrouded the The Canadian Prime Minister, Mr-Louis-St.up her military forces at a rapid redd: Sotact="" steel rails leading | ****
themin Laurent, announced today that Princess Elizabeth continue to help build up the across Munsan, Kaesong,
and he added: "We must defences of other Ires nations.
pleta solution" of the Korean which was chosen the site for and the Duke of Edinburgh would visit Canada inFurthermore, we must continue
problem and other Far Eastern | cease-fire talks, les only a October. Issues, wherefore Communist few miles northwest of Munsan,
China must bolster its defence.
The editorial, according to the broadcast monitored in Tokyo on Thursday morning, declared that even if cease-fire negotia- tions succeed "It does not mean a complete solution of Korea, of Formosa to the restitution China, the Japanese peace treaty and other Far East problems," Earlier, Peking Rudlo made
The rolling stock Includes
four dining cats, 10 coaches, a India's Trade
car for the train crew and two special lounge cars..
Some coaches were divided apartments, others into small have been cleared for small tables at which a man,might.| work at a typewriter.
Inside one lounge car stood a highly polished dark hurd-
ference.
With China
Via Hongkong
the
struggle to overcome the constant efforts of the Soviet Mr St. Laurent said they had rulers to dominate the world by accepted an invitation extended lies and threats and subversion:
to them in London by the Ex- ternal Affairs Minister, Mr | Lester Fearson, who was at pre-hate sent overscas....
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in
Their
SOVIET HATRED He said the Soviet rulers us....becauso 'we free--because Wo greatest exc of freedom".
are are the example of the power
Mr St. Laurent said, Royal Highnesses will, of course, in the short time at their dis-
"The Soviet rulers are engaged posal on this visit not be able to in a relentless effort, therefore,
all the pla
Conada that they would
"to persuade other nations that we do not, in fact, stand for freedom. He added that they had ex- They are trying to convince the
at "their pressed the hope that
of Europe that we intend people London, July 4. first visit to Canada, to which to exploit them. They are telling they are looking forward with the people of Arts, who are, for will be kept the most part, ill-informed about having re- our purposes, that we mean to
special announcement repeating wood table suitable for a con-Query In Commons
announce- Pyongyang radio's ment of the Communist. ac- ceptance of General Matthew Ridgway's preliminary parley offer, but asking that the date be postponed from Thursday to July 10,
The walls of the compart- ment were covered with green
'the train.
A Conservative, Major keen anticences of the fasten new chains upon them.
gard to the
of Commons mes and I know their wishes They are trying to make the rest
the
of the world believe we want to
Colonial will be respected" wer added, control them dos. our own profit
The Frime
silk tapestry which distinguish-Tufton Beamish, suggested as simple as ed this car from the rest of in the House
today that A withered Korean woman Secretary
discuss should polished and repolished with the Hongkong and "All Canadians will be delight the ideas of our declaration of
able until an Impatient ser- must geant in charge of detail ag- Indian Governments means ed that the heiress to the Throne independence are a shao, aort of la coming to our country and fraud... the way to meet this peared to send her to other to stop certain goods from will give Her Royal Highness atacit is to show that it is false.” India and other countries and His Royal Highness, the
The editorial, in conclusion, sald because a cease-fire will not algnify the solution of the afore- said problems "China strengthen its defense"
The editorial, intending to
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eat, of welcomes," Router,
The President criticised the
(Contd on back page, col 1)
show what attitude the Chinese The sergeant paused to com-reaching Communist China Duke of Edinburgh, the warm-"prophets of doom" (who predict; people should take, asserted that plain that the large table's through Hongkong Harbour, & "cease-fire will not mean a surface. has been gone over six The good he referred to were solution of these
They times problems.
and there was other those "destined for China, and (Americans) avill continue to work to be done.
considered by the United Nations control South occupy Formosa,
unsuitable for, export Korea and Japan
and
But if 'n cease-fire is to after
China" menace to the Chinese people's signed on that table the ser- peaceful republic. Under such
geant will be the first to say circumstanga
the Chinese people that it was worth the trouble. must more than ever strengthen-United Press. the current campaign to donate arms, increase enlistments and production and prevent espion age. Only by so doing to bölster our defence and military power can we regain Formosa, prevent an invasion of the Imperialists, restore and maintain peace in the Far East."—United Press.
MYSTERY TRAIN -
Seoul, July 5
WHITEHALL ANNOYED
Korea.
asko
Mr John Dugdale, the Minister of State for the Colonies, sold that the Colonial Secretary, Mr James Griffiths, was already consulting the Governor of Hong- kong on this matter.
London, July 4. He added that discussions with Mr Ernest Davies, British the Government of India did not, Foreign Under-Secretary, told of course, tall within the Colonial Parliament today that Secretary's sphere, but he noted the diplomatie representations are that Major Beamish had another. being made to the South Korean question down on this subject to government concerning state the Secretary for Commonwealth ments
Relations. that it intended to ignore any
(Tomorrow, Major Beamish cease-fire agreement in
Commonwealth will ork the A mystery train fit for a
Labour Member J. B. Hynd Relations Secretary what discus King, President or peace emis
whether
sions he had had with the Indian, the British sary rode the rusty ralls of this Government was aware of the Government to try to establish a capital city's bombed out rull- way terminal early today. statements made by South common polley on trade with China and what results had beep Korean government representa achieved)Reuter. diamol It was raining, n drizzle on the blackest of black lives and what stops were being nights, and a long train which taken
have seen
irresponsible is a collection of Korea's best
statements Pl
appropriate rolling stock stood greased and
London, July 4, stepe ready, but minus an engine,
"uro being taken through The attention of the Board of Its destination was anybody's diplomatic channels, Trade 10
question and everybody was Davies replied-Unitéd Press.
Japanese oxports to China has guessing.
been drawn by the Conservative MP, Sir Waldron Smithers, *
He
wrote making the President Hartley Shawcross, whether the laffer was aware that Tapanese exports to China show, increases The as Republica de Colombia of up to nearly 100 per cent in of the Grancolombiana Steam the last year answer to Sir ship Company ran aground on
A few hours cariler, a hastily recruited working party of eight
JAPANESE EXPORTS
the
Koreans supervised by a few Ship Runs Aground of the Boans of Trade,
close-mouthed Americans,
over the nondescipt sweeping... cleaning and
RUCT chaos in the Persian economy for Communist ends. It is clearly right to demonstrate by what- ever show of firumess is at this late stage found to be feasible that the cholce for: Persin is between her own ruin "and responsible. negotiation with the country that has done most for her. in the past. But whatever, ensues, Britain will have had one more sharp demonstration of the results of culpable: failure to see, the plainest writing on; the wall and to het in good time.
Cartagena, Colombla, July 4
of
Sir
cars polishing: * LabourerS worked swiftly They had orders, to have "the cars ready by nightfall." Duonday near the islands at San Waldron, the Board of Trade Seventeen care suddenly ape Andros and was reported to be mys the figures on the subject peared below the mark shale taking in water. The vasol was supplied by the MP refer to Lered walls of the deserted pizuwed between read unit five months July to November station two days ago the day of the Columbian Navy left last year and that, comprehen General Matthew Ridgway in- immediately to attempt a rescue ive control on exports from nounced, that the Chinese had, |-Unlied FrVUE..
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