THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1952,
COMMUNISM FAILS Mr. Eden's TO GAIN IN ARAB LANDS
Fiancee A Writer
On Ballet
London, Aug. 12. The engagement of Mr the Anthony Eden, 55, Foreign Secretary, and Miss Clarissa Spencer Churchill, 32, niece of the Prime Minis ter, Bir Winston Churchill, will be formally announced
today.
Miss Spencer-Church!l! Is the of Winston's only daughter
Jack brother, the late Major
sometimes Spencer-Churchill, culled "The Churchill nobody knew."
blue-eyed. tick Ash blonde
was Miss Spencer-Churchill
beautiful halled as the most debutante of 1938,
She has written on balle:,
London, Aug. 11.
All indications available to observers here suggest that although Russia must derive much satisfaction from the chaotic train of events in the Middle East, Communism, is making no actual in- roads into the Arab States which appear to be steering towards Western ideas of security..
Every responsible report indicates that there is little of the Soviet-style of Communism in Arab States.
The Egyptian Communist party, probably number. ing no more than 10,000, has been curbed by severo legislation which is likely to be more strictly enforced under the present Government, which was put into Power by the Army under General Mohammed Naguib who gave ex-King Farouk his marching orders.
Syria, largely agricultural, has Įtopped his Government's polley hardly been affected and in priorities. Saudi Arabia and The Yemen all
As far as the Arab Statos Major Spencer-Churchill died reports indicate that Russian In-
are concerned it has been ob- fluence there is negligible. In 1947, aged 67.
Jere that the Αταξ In Iran it is a different story. served Responsible
League Security Pact ralificat reports from Teheran are agreed that it was by Egypt, Jordan, Syria and the Communist
Tudel Party Iraq came into force this month officials believe which took leading
part in the British
Dr that it provides the necessary restored lots which
the nucleus for Arab collaboration Mohammed Mossadegh to
defenco four-Power theatre, books and flu Premiership last month, and in the has studied philosophy at Ox-
English information has reached White-organisation, ford University and and French literature at Lon-hall that the Tudeh did in fact don University, in the last war have orders from Moscow to the warlted for a time at the stage a total coup d'etat. Foreign Office.
the
a
Mr
granted Eden was
wife, divorce against his first Beatrice, on the grounds of de sertion in June, 1950. She had fived in the United States for two years.
They had two sons, Nicholas and Simon. Simon was lost on a bumber raid in the last war.
Anglo-American differences revolve mainly around command appointments and strategic con- cepts-with Britain looking at Commonwealth life-lines needing to be defended and America looking at the Middle East as a European war
theatre,
Their objectives were to force the Shah's abdication and restore Dr Mossadegh to office, as a 50- viel tool.
They succeeded in restoring Dr Mossadegh who frightened to the the Shah into giving him con- trol over Iran's army but since the Communist programing then appears to have collided head- on with the Nationalist front in Iran which wante to expel ail foreign influence, including So-
Up to a fowl years ago, aviet Russia's, member of the House at Com- mens and particularly a Cabinet Minister would have offered
to
WEAKEST PART
But Iran remains the weakest resign after being a party to a part of the Middle East with regard to possible Soviet inroads divorce suit.
and more so now that Egypt is an immediate cause of deep con- cern to Western Governments.
This strict unwritten law no longer followed, though divorced personis still may not be admitted to the exclusive Royal Enclosure at the Ascot the altended Sovereign-Router.
Racks
by
́INVITATION TO
UNIONISTS
Washington, Aug. 10, The Congress of Industrial Organisations urged its affiliates today to invite foreign workers In this country on Government- visit CIO sponsored trips to
for a week or so and unions "see how we live."
Britain's main concern over Iran is to restore the free flow of oil under tolerable conditions which the Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, believes to be the best way of keeping the
Russians out..
J
Most anxious for a Middle East pact is Turkey who has been the Arab trying to persuade States to face up to the danger confronting them.
Reports from Tel-Avly indicate that Israel is also desirous of Joining in a collective Middle East defenca scheme but the changes in Egypt are not seen here as auguring well for the inclusion of Israel,
BRITISH OPTIMISM
But British officials insist that the projected Middle East de- fence scheme is anything but a distant dream and that it will come to fruition much than skeptics forecast.
sooner
The four-Power proposals are concerned less with the Suez Canal itself than with the whole vast area stretching from the
that
Mountbatten Sweden
'In. Israel
Admiral Lord.Mountbatten, Commander-in-Chief, Medl- terranean, recently vislied Tel Aviv in the frigate "Surprise". He met Mr Ben Gurlön, the Prime Minister, Mr Josep Spring- zak, acting President of Israel, political and military leaders and discussed aspects of regional defence. Here Lord Monat. batten is seen arriving at flie Israel Admirally during bis visit, -Express Photo.
Adlai Stevenson To Get
From
Briefing President
Washington, Aug. 11.
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Holding Big This Fire Put Mánoeuvres In
The Baltic.
HINT TO RUSSIA
Stockholm, Aug. 11.
Neutral Sweden's Navy and Air Force are holding their biggest manoeuvres yet in the Baltic during the two months of August and September.
Itself Out
'Sunderland, Aug, 11. A fire here last night pas self out.
Firet' there was a short atroult which set fire to gua in s Kas pine which shot out flame to a nearby water pipe which melted the pipe which spouted water which put out the Bre. United Fress.
Girl Guides Hold Camp
The two services have standing instructions In England
to shoot if attacked by Soviet forces.
A Swedish-Russian clash in the Baltic has been con- HK Representative
sidered a possibility here since Soviet fighters shot down tryo unarmed Swedish aircraft earlier this summer.
newspapete
Attending
London, Aug. 11. Hongkong's
representa-
*Stockholm
say Great Britain's, will älvkje that the Swedes are using the into two. One half will make manoeuvres to show Russia that mock attacks on towns, rallway tive, Melissa Kwan, is one she cannot scare them out of the junctions, power stations and
East Baille. Scaring them out other key targets up and down of some 1,000 Girl Guides of these international waters Sweden, while the other, alded from the Colonies and over, was, it is believed here, one of by Army anti-aircraft units, 80 other countries, includ- Russia's reasons for shooting will meet the attackers and trying Britain, at the Guide down the two planed and to drive them off. carlier-extending her territorial waters limit from four to 12 nautical miles.
To
its
The manoeuvres will be held International Camp in the at about the same time as the grounds of the Hall Barn," scheduled NATO
(North Beaconsfield. Atlantic Treaty Organisation)
paper
The Camp opened today and will continuo until Aug. 10.
In the absence of Lady Stratheden and Campbell, the Chief Commissioner, oversLE visitors were welcomed, today by Mrs Geoffrey Gibbs, the De puty Chief Commissioner.
show that the Baltic temano
manoeuvres in the Bollic stili the Swedish Air Force's Sweden's Communist daily news. "stamping ground,”. 08 One Sweden's
"Ny Dag" has been using spokesman put it, the Swedish this coincidence as the basis for planes will range avtr
accusations that the Swedish eastern half while taking care Government Is holding secret to keep outside the Soviet ter-combined manoeuvres with the ritorial limits.
Western Allies. The paper has The manoeuvres will be de- been saking why the Swedish
A special message from Prin- holding the fensive and offensive. To make High Command" is
cess Margaret, Commodore of the
the Sea Rangers,, was read them as comprehensive as pos- manoeuvres in the Baltic, on sible and to give them a touch Russian side of Sweden, instead the welcoming ceremony.
of in the North of real wartime conditions,
Sca, on the
Lady Baden Powell, GBE, number of conscripts will be Western side
World Chief Guide, will fly from called up to take part in
Official sources have denied Norway specially to attend o them.
Sunday, She will visit the Dag" of "intri-various groups in the camp to the guides at, a speak
д
ac-
A number of "Lottas", Swedish repeatedly these recurrent woman volunteers, correspond-cusations la ing to Britians's "W.A.AF.S.", gue with the
Western Powers. and will also play ort important The manoeuvres, it is under-camparo after supper.
part by helping in the opera-stcod, are being held at the most
other suitable time for them. tions control room and
Moreover, pitecs.
Soviet combined
air and sea manoeuvres, during In the defensive manoeuvres, which the two unarmed Swedish reconnaisance planes, fighters aircraft
were shot down, CC
and Ught bombers, come. of cupied most of the air over the them based оть Gothland, Balile during the first half of the Sweden's Baltie island province, summer. will meet an attack from East.
Down below,
In the Baltic, Swedish warships, pro-|
be watching
the
VULNERABLE SIDE
at
Highlight of the camp will be
a mammoth campfire to be held Wednesday from 8.30-10
on
p.m. The guides already there will be joined for the occasion. by 7,000 others from different parts of Great Britain
Other activities include group demonstrations, un open day for visitors and excursions. Each country invited will demonstrate tected by an air umbrella, will As for the manoeuvres being some particularly national aspect
their Sweden's 1,000-mile of
gulding national for an invasion held off
long East coast, this is her most dances, cooking, handicrafts or Governor Adlai Stevenson will receive a top-eet.
vulnerable side, as history camperaft. Excursions include Western side in visits to London, Wincisor, level briefing on the defence build-up and the tense
manotuvres, shows. Her In the offensive
and she Greenwich and trips down the world situation and will then confer privately with Sweden's big Air Force, the shielded by Norway -
attack from the Nor-Thames.-London Express Ser President Truman during his flying visit here to-largest in Western Europe after dears no
The time-table was announced by the White House Press Secretary, Mr Joseph Short, who said he had heard no discussion of a proposal to invite Mr Dwight Eisenhower, the Republican presi- dential nominee, to the executive mansión for a similar briefing.
wegiane.
While Sweden's armed forces pre preparing to show their right to operate international
EX-ENEMY Bale waters in diplomatic COUNTRIES
battle between her Government and the Russians over the two missing planesa Dakota and a Catalina has reached a dead- lock,
Russia of
ADMITTED shooting down both planes and
In the British point of view, the changes in Egypt will have removed many obstacles to the Bosphorus to the old hatteneick inorrow. Arab States' co-operation in the of North Africa which are con Middle East defence scheme
sidered to form the Middle East proposed last October by the United States, France, Britain in the military sense of the term. and Turkey.
The problem with Egypt, there From all avaliable reports, it font the Cannt Zone plays ng would appear now that progress part in the regional defence of toward the establishment of this the whole vast area.
Sweden accusos defence organisation is being
difference If Egypt decides to have no
Russia admits only that her MIG The private conference be- Mr Slevenson will fly here A new pamphlet by the CIO slowed more by the
fighters that down the Catalina. of ideas between Britain and part in the scheme, as seemed Research Department suggested
All eight mon on the : Dakota that one of the best ways to the United States than because possible in the pre-abdication Aween the Illinois Governor and trom Springfield for a top-level the man he hopes to succeed in White House luncheon with Mr cf any troubles in the Middle days, Britain, the United States,
the White House is expected to Truman. Senator John Spark World Bank Decision were lost. The ceven men on mutual understanding East. develop
Franco and Turkey wore
the Catalina were picked up by campaign polities, man, the Democratie Vice-Pre-
the
steamer Went German among workers of the demo-
Washington, Aug. 11. cratic nations is to ask foreign The Egyptian Prime Minister, drawing up plans for defence centre on
without Egypt, Now however, possibly including the question sidential nominee, and members
Germany and Japan will be Muensterland, things havo trude unionists to "visit your Aly Maher, told the United
changed and of which of the two la to make of the Cabinet. He will return
of the as members address on Labour to Springfield in the late after admitted
Russia claims that both planca union 'in your town." United Press in Calro that a settlement although Egypt still demands the major
International Monetary Fund violated Baylet territory and of the Anglo-Egyptian dispute
Sweden Press.
denies this, Sweden British withdrawal there are
Mr Stevenson will be briefed and World Bank this year. that Indications
Aly strong
reported there It has been
has produced documentary evl Maher, the
over by the Secretary of State, Me Egyptian Prime was
"controversy". 4
Dean Acheson, the chairman of Japan is expected to sign the dence, inclutting testimony from agreement of the the captain of the Muensterland, Minister, and General Naguib, whether the Democratic nominee the Egyptian Commander-in would deliver the main speech the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General arudes of Chief, are ready to talk defence in Detroll or Mr Truman would Omar Bradley, the chief of the two organisations on Wednes to support her case, and has Central Intelligence Agency,
day, and Germany on Thurs suggested that the dispute be submitted to the Hague Court along Western lines which they speak in Milwaukee. Stevens General Walter Bedell Smith day.
sald there was and the foreign als chief, M
or some other responsible inter a new headquarters see as offering Egypt
no con- question but
Admission of the two coun- national body for arbitration. status BS power-United some
Averell Harriman, Vice-Pre-
Russia has refused. troversy over the matter.
sident Alben Barkley sent retries, will bring total member
Sho has also refused to low grets that he could not attend ship in the Bank and Fund. to
the
Hogue Court 10 arbitrale because of a previous speaking
on her claim to 12 sea miles engagement.
Informed quarters said they territorial waters limit in the Mr Barkley and Mr Harriman expected Japan's fund quota to Baltie instead of the four sca were both unsuccessful Democra- be fixed at $230,000,000, of miles which, the Swedes Be candidates for the nomination. which $62,500,000 would be paid "have
been customary for in gold.
centuries!" A FREE HAND
The Swedish Press is now After lunch, Mr Truman and Mr Stevenson will talk privately
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Day.
Refugee's Tale
Prison Escape
Of
Munich, Aug. 11.
A Czech refugee today said he and John Hvasta, an American student, escaped with four other prisoners last Jan. 2 from a Czech prison.
Hvasta had been serving a 10-year sentence for spying. Although born in Czechoslovakia, he had acquired American citizenship as a child.
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Microphone Qualities
Of The Ear
Washington, Aug. 11.
How facts about the "micro- phone qualities of the ear are reported by the United States Navy, which says that the so- search paints to possibilities for protecting almen, divers and submarine men against certain potential hearing hazards,
The Navy announcment states Noval that selentistant Medical Research Laboratory at New London, Connecticut, have
In succeeded
recording and measuring the electrical energy produced in the inner
mall animals when exposed to sound.
OWNL
The
ear of
Explaining that the inner ear works roughly like the conven- tional microphone used for tele- vision and radio, converting weak sounds into stronger ones. by cicatrical means, the Navy an-
its Germany's quota would be accusing Russia of gangster-nouncement says that the car $330,000,000, of which $33,000,- Imperialism"
electrical in the Baltic. generates
energy. Sweden's foreign policy is still Scientists have long sought to Russia's measure this energy in order to have test the affects upon electrical caused by varying amounts of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the blood of quimals under test,
:
Snags Delay
Such research is important, the Navy says, because scientists are concerned with possible effects on the inner car produced by shortage of oxygen and over-chundance of carbon dioxide in such people as avia- tors, divers and submarine men. -Router.
in the President's offer. Mr 800 would be in gold. Truman already has said the
Both countries will probably famly neutral. But talks will cover everything be send delegations to the annual actions in the Baltic
November.
City, opening on Sept. 3, mocratic victory in Novem meeting of governors at Mexico given it a hard folt, Reuter. output
This will almost certainly
The size of their quolas is ex- cover the campaign role of the
almort President, who single-pected to assure both countries the campaign seat on the Board of Executive handedly waged which brought the Democrats Directors, expanding the Board 4their upset victory in 1948. from 14 to 10 members,
Meanwhile, Mr Truman gave
The biennial election of direr- Mr Stevenson a completely free hand to pick his own Democratic tors will be held, next month, national chairman for the 1953 Reuter.
sccording campaign, Governor's Press spokesman
This. Latest assertion of inden on Jan. 2 and that his where-recaptured. He was probably pendence from
campaign headquarters camo za abouts alice were unknown. hiding in some small village.
Burce succeeded in making Mr Stevenson prepared to hold harmony conference at lun- Wabis way across the heavily a
for Senator Estes told In an interview by Jaro guarded Czech border into west choon
Kefauver of Tennessee-United
His whereabouts now are the, were unable to find,caeli other
thereafter. subject of a wide inquiry,
•
The refugee's story supported
IN HIDING.
an official Czech announcement Bree was confident, however, of Aug. 8 that Hvasta creaped that Hyasta had not been shot or
The story of the escape
slay Buroc, 30. --
Preda.
N.J..
Germany.
Hvasta, 25, of Hillside, 'Bures eald four prominent political prisoners filed at the was arrested by Czech secret žamo tima as himself and police in October, 1940, and the following May was sentenced to Hvanta, but he did not name
charges on three years in prison them.
of espionage. a second trial appeal, a
increased April,
1950, in
vasta's sentence to 10.
*.....
He Identified the prison as one nt Leopoldov, 30 miles northeast
the
the Governor's
New Method Of
Polling
Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 11.
Reparations Conference
The Hague, Aug. 11.
A spokesman of the feraeli
delegation today listed three points as delaying the conclusion of the conference here between West Germany, Israel and, `a
dalcald
on.com- the
A popcorn merchant of Nash- World Joury ville has had a new idea in pensation to be
U.S. Destroyers Hit By Shells
Washington, Aug. 11. Two United States destroyers
political popularity poll He Jewish victims of the Nazis. were hit by Communist shore
containers He sold the fint dificulty was has ordered 10,000,000 CEYLON'S RICE
carrying the picture of Mr the language problem involved batteries on Kores and one man SHORTAGE
Elsenhower, Republican can-by the treaty now being drafted. was killed and another wound- Jidate for President, and 10- The official and binding texted, the Navy appounced today.
The destroyers are the Bartonk Colombo, Aug. 11, 000,000 with the picture of the would be in Tugilads and it was Ceylon is short of nearly Democratic candidate, Governor the German translation that and the John R. Pierce, The Barton engagement occurred on much time of Bratislava, where only pro-
was taking no vas, oncials have, siendfastly 70,000 tons of rice this year. Blevesestimos
The minent prisoners or those con-
Secretary to
Secondly, there were the Sunday. Korean Tane.
struck ¡on · August. sidered especially dangerous rejected the Czech spy charges the Parliamentary
the Food Ministry told the The merchant, Mr Jim Blevins, clauses on which na terement Pleres were held. By Buree's account as unfounded, born in Czecho-Hour of Representatives today, expecls that consumers of bad get been reached, but to and was oericanly damaged.
Fivazta was
He said the country was still popcorn in theatres, cinemas and spokesman og for big red to The Barton was not s
damaged. The six fugitives slipped out slovakis, and returned there as
Tho Navy peld the 蔬 ship to mouth baseball parks throughout the speelfy them TESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD. — Adres: 3 Composed, unnoticed by guards, late in the student in 1940, about the living
The third polat at stue was the Barton WOR by 7hendille Honn, B. Attained, 11 Passport 13 Urge, 15 Confirms 10 afternoon. They parted Into two time the Communitarized existence but the and would nation will select the packagO
Clause ensuring moire fire near Wondan, of die starve.
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