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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

Slamming The Door Door

F the many speeches Mr

"the United Nations forum none has boon 80. dis appointing and less worthy of the occasion than his contribution yesterday to the debate on the Korean War. The Soviet Foreign Miniator made no effort to square up to the primary issues of the problem. His only reference to tho question of POW repatrin- tion held n sinister note: if, he said, the United Nations insisted он voluntary repatriation, the armistice talks would collapse and an expansion of the fighting In Korea would result. There can be but one.mean- ing to an observation of this nature-Russia has no Intention of trying to assist In composing differences in the armistica negotiations, and will, in fact, encourage tho Chinese and North Korean Communists to resist all United Nations endeavours

to reach an honourable and amicablo trace, Mr Vyshinsky's pointed refusal to discuss even the principle of voluntary repatriation of POWs is a cleur notice that, Bo far us Russia is con- cerned, the door has been

solation to the problem,

now

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"TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1952.

TRYGVE LIE RESIGNS

TRYGVE LIE

Suicidal

Attack By Chinese

Attempt To Win Hilltop Fails

Tokyo, Nov. 11.

UN JOB

Ends 6 Years As

Sec-General

SHOCK FOR THE ASSEMBLY

UNITED NATIONS; NOV. 10. MR TRYGVE LIE, FOR SIX YEARS SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS, RESIGNED TODAY.

Mr Lie said he had wanted to resign earlier but agreed to stay on because of the Korean issue.

But now the situation seemed to be "better".

A new Secretary-General chosen unanimously by the big five powers might be better suited for the job.

Mr Lie announced his resignation in the General Assembly.

and when Norway's Labour Government came to power in 1935 he was appointed Justice Minister

slammed to any compromise Allied Infantrymen He proposed that the Assembly should place THE decision must incvit-so-win-or-die Chattack by on its agenda the question of electing a new

ably jeopardise the 800

Chinese

Secretary-General. The President, Mr Lester the western front's Pork- of effortu conscientiou neutral UN delegates to chop Hill early today in Pearson of Canada, said that the question would evolve a formula capable of bloody hand-to-hand fight-be placed on the agenda. breaking the truce negotia- ing.. tions impasse. Indin's over tures to the Peking Govern- virtually ment are doomed to rejection, while the Soviet. attitude throws cold water on Indonesia's proposula for a compromise. In is present form Mr Vyshinsky's suggestion for the creation of an 11-nution commission "to take Immediate steps for the settlement of the Korean question, and to give its pid to the repatriation of all prisoners by both parties." cannot receive the approval of the

bralce.

As Minister of Shipping* bb rot more than 1,000 Norwegian ships to British ports when the Germans invaded Norway in 1940. In exile in London with King Haakon, he was appointed Foreign Minister.

Mr Lie said that he was re- At least 100 Reds were killed. igning "for personal reason The bodies were counted on the after long consultation with his frozen slopes of the hill north-family and friends and thero

were no other reasons. Yonchon when dawn

He did not want his action to west of

be "misunderstood."

Mr Lie was fushed and ap- to be under some peared emotion when he read his pre- statement. It was pared received in complete silence by

As Secretary-General he lost top of Porkchop from 11.30 the packed Assembly.

no opportunity of making per Monday until the beaten Chinese fell back at 4.05. a.m. today.

Shortly after making his sur-sonal contact with member "They outnumbered us, but prise statement Mr Lie left the governments. Between

It was not blies he toured almost the whole our guys did a wonderful job," plenary chamber.

when Mr immediately clear

United Nations troops fought the Coramunists with fats, knives and rifle butts in the network of tunnels and bunkers on the

a UN battalion officer said.

►

LIKE CONFETTI

United Nations The Red assault was backed because it falls completely by 3,500 rounds of artillery and to deal with the fundamental}_moriar.__ question of whether The Chinese, screaming "kill, repatriation be forced or

kill", first swarmed to the crest voluntary. By inference it

in 200-man strength at 1 a.m. rejects the principle of but were driven off. They free choice repatriation, came straight up laughing and und this alone makes the

swinging shovels Elggling and Soviet proposal unpalatable and throwing grenades like con- and unacceptable. But if, fettl, United Press correspon- reported In addition to torpedoing dent Fred Pointon all constructive efforts to from the front.

secure a

truce agreement, Half an hour after the first Russia intends to promote attack was repulsed, the Reds

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THE QUEEN OPENS PARLIAMENT

Her Majesty the Queen, sooofupanted by the Duke of Edinburgh, fast week opened Parliament for the Arst time in her reign, Picture shows the Queen, with the Duke of Edinburgh, passing procemon through the Royal Gallery of the House of Lords. Preceding her's Field Marshal Kart Alexander of Tunis, carrying the Sword of State-Beuterphoto

Seize THE SHAH

Paratroopers

Vietminhese Ammunition Depot

Hanoi, Nov. 10.

French Union paratroopers captured a huge Communist ammunition depot today as the year's busiest military activity gripped three widely- separated fronts.

Two battalions of skytroopers, accompanied Lie's resignation would become world. A few months before by tanks, probed northward from the enlarged

effective.

war began he Hanoi perimeter up one of the main rebel supply

the Korean visited the capitals of the Soon after the Korean war

including Powers, began in 1950 Bussin vetoed Mr

Moscow, routes coming from China. Their target was the Lie's re-election as Secretary-seeking views on a 20-year plan, critical Red highway junction of Tuyen Quang,

which was

approved by the General at a meeting of the

Assembly, The plan anvisaged now less than 100 miles away. Security She

Instead the twice yearly meetings of the big Droneed election of the Polish Foreigo Powers at Ministerial level and Minister at that time,

a now attempt to place atomic The General Assembly over-energy under international con- rode the bitter Soviet oppost-trol.---Reuter. tion and by 46 votes to five extended his term of office for

a further three years.

A SECRET

The resignation was the

an expansion of hostilities came back with a full battalion secret of the Assembly.

scrambling up the hill through

POSSIBLE SUCCESSOR

Washington, Nov. 10. General Carlos Romulo, For

Light resistance came mostly from snipers and partisans.

The munitions dump WAS found. less than two miles from Phu Hoan when the French forces fanned out after their air- drop yesterday-the largest of the war and caught the Vietminh by

Pbu surprise.

Churchill

SIGNS

Teheran, Nov. 10. The Shab tonight signed bills for action against ex- Premier Ahmed GhaVAKI on charges of responsibility-

Inst July's for Teheran

Teheran reported.

blondy Radio

Another of the three Shah bills signed – by the

an act liberating who Khalil Tahmabsebi,

AN assassinated Premier Razmera at the start of the of crisis in 1851- United Press,

War Danger

Receding

Wants Talks Mayor's Banquet

eign Minister of the Philippines Donn is 10 miles' northwest of With Ike

Republic, is being prominently mentioned in offelal circles here.

her deadly mixture of their own i wart from the "Big Three" as the most likely successor to

are

In Korea, the responsibility will fall squarely on shoulders. Mr Vyshinsky'e own utterances sufficient to condemn Russia in the eyes of the world. A Now Directive

MIKE fact that the disclosure

THE

of the Communist directive

Brtillery, Allied arlilery and streams of bullets from machine guns

and rifles. "They were ordered to take the hill or die," an officer told Painton, "Their casualties are very heavy."-United Press.

ordering a change of method 'SHOCKING'

in Malayn coincided with

Stalin's long policy stato

ment at the Soviet Party has naturally

• Congress

the

OFFENCE

were

com-

Foreign Ministers,

Dr

T. F. Telang as President of the Security Council and Mr Lester B. Pearson as President of the Was Assembly, no one knew it coming.

Mr Lie, in making his an- nouncement, told the hushed Assembly of a letter he had sent to the President of the General Assembly this morning expressing his decision to

He said his decision was made "after lengthy considera- tion over many months"

the

"I have delayed until today

Mr Trygve Lie as United Nations Secretary-General-Reuter.

Punitive Operation

In Kenya

Nyeri, Kenya, Nov. 10. -

Hanoi.

The dump, measuring 1,000

London, Nov. 10. by 600 yards, held thousands of rounds of 105 howitzer shells as Prime Minister Winston well as 81 and 120 ram mortar Churchill served notice on anmmunition. A cartridge Alling

Monday that Britain wants plant also was seized."

Intense ale activity, mean-early talks with President. while, destroyed another depot elect Dwight D. Eisen- at Yenbay to the west and a hower's new government on munitions factory at Tam Ky, 200 miles up the coast from many world questions in- Saigon.

cluding relations with Rus- sia.

WESTWARD THRUST

UD

were

"

He told a House of Commons questioner through a spokerchan: "There will be many ques- tion which Her Majesty's will wish to dis- government cus with the new United States Administration after it has been

formed.".

Mr

The Red command replied to the French threat up Colonial Route 2 by thrusting far west- Four hundred police and ward across the French-Held produced a conviction that

That when the Foreign Ministers of troops today cordoned off 20 highway in the remote the two things are closely

the five permanent members of square-kilometre strip of the country. This meant the loyal Bingapore, 'Nov. 10. connected. Actually

Security Cound!

are all Kikuyu tribal reserve near here forces in the wild mountainous Two British businessmen who Politburo directive in admitted having received stolen present for the first time during and drove off over 4,000 head region henceforth can be sup Malaya was lagued only a food supplies meant for British this session in the hope that if of cattle and thousands more pled only by alt.

will facilitato consideration of

plica goats and sheep: fow weeks

Mr Dorman before the jungle fighters from a troopship

A French communique sald The questioner, a successor,

estimated де one told by a

Dobbs, arketi whether Federation was plunged in Singapore

Mr Lio's letter.said:

It was the biggest punitive the Reds,

raise tha magistrate they

Kikuyu battalion, cut Provincial Route Churchill would into despondency by the police

I shall therefore be grateful operation against the mitted a "shocking" offence.

Chau, 23 miles possibility with Eisenhower in assassination of Sir Henry

If you would, Mr President, pro- tribe since the emergency was 41 at Luan Gurney. It took

three southoont of the Thai capital at seeicing man to man talks with now item on Magistrate H. B. Livingstone pose as a many

the proclaimed. in Kenya and agenda--appointment of a new weeks ago.

Soviet Prime Minister Stalin. Lai Chau months to penetrate to the told Gordon Warrington

French reinforcements directed

Dodds referred "to 'promises State, district and branch Richard Burns, who acceptedt Secretary-General

The operation was is hams, luncheon sausages, pert "I have also informed the and

during Britain's three. Kikuyu rub flown in over the weekend to by Churchill formations,

sausages, beof, salmon, phca-President of the Security Coun- against

Thal 1050 and 1951 some 10,000

election cam-. locations, whose population back ppparently becoming effecante, chickens and butter to cil, De Triang of China about my have refused to help the police mountaineers rallying to defend paigns that I voted to power tive, only when Goneral the value of S$120 from the decision.

capital Communist-led he would work for a top level And the murderers of Benfor their Templor's leadership has Empire Windrush with the ald

Chlef Nderi and two African Vietminha also increased hope and con- of chief butcher Leonard

constables. fidence. The directive has Nicholls:.

can see no reason at allmer, after more pieces by a mob. of 500 taking be the next Red target.

The three men were hacked to delta, which might turn out to

There is open talk among the usual dialectical

British officials that Churchlil Food of this preface. It admits neither for this offence.

talks with my family and a tow part in a Mau Mau coremony two Five legal Vietnamese cut thinking of making a trip to Icind is plentiful in Singapore. close friends that I finally weeks ago.

attacked posts were dofent nor the abandonment

during the

Washington

early in the "It was put on the ship for decided. Since then a few others Today's rald was carried out weekend by units of two Year to discus many outstand of the original objective of tho benent of people like the whom I had consulted have tried on the basis of communal Vietminh divisions-the cracking Anglo-American and Allled establishing ́0 "people's Green

Howards and others to persuade me to go on. I responsiblity.

304th and the Thal 20 which problems Political relations, republic" in Malaya. But it who have been fighting in the thank them for that. But I am The Hivestock werd gently infiltrated into the

liny Catholic oconomic co-operation and does strike a new noto by jungles of Malaya and else- quite sure that this is the time herded uphill to a meadow where bishopric of Phat Diem.

The

questions of defence and cold calling for the "curtail where in the Far East and who to leave without damage to the the police had established the French suffered some lorges and warm strategy are said to noud ment" of terrorist acts of are going home on a well- United Nations,

headquarters. no military consequence; dserved rest and are entitled Mr Trygve Lds had held the A Budicial Inquiry is expected said the Reds tost 23 dead, 10 early discussion,

Dodda

got no answer. when. the, avaldance of civilian to some decent food on board" post of Secretary-General since to deckle the face of the in prisoners and 17 deserters,

All was - quiet in the central he asked Captain 11 F. C. All the three pleaded guilty. the United Nations was founded pounded animala

Black *** liver

from casualties even when attack-

rent, although rookshank, leader of the directing Warrington was fined 89500 'or in 1946. Son of an Oslo car A Superintendent, Ing security for four months rigoris impron-penter, Mr Lie, who in 30, was the codraton, male any Kikuyu French dghter bombers continued House of Commons, to permiade. Improvement of the security ment, Burns $3350 or three only in when elected chairman giving Information leading to to plaster largo. Red: elements Churchill at long last to blaze of the Communist executive months and Nicholls 83300 or of a branch of the Norwegian the arrest at Ndori's murderers aspertibled near Moc Chau at their the trail to Moscow for peaco and the organisation of thres

Associated Labour morths.

he would have their stock returned furthest point of southward instead of trying to find it in

penetrationUnited: Prese "urban'matters.”

Korea,"asociated Prom graduates from, a law school, |**itauter,

Fries.

TIME TO LEAVE

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New

Republican Majority Clipped

Washington, Nov. 10.

The Democrats narrowed the Republican majority In the House in the next Con gress to 11 today with the victory of the Democratic Congressional candidate. In Florida.

After trailing, by about 2,000 votes in the counting of absentee ballots, William Cramer (Repub- lican) conceded defeat by Courtney Campbell (Democrat) in the race for Florida's Arst Congressional district. With the race, dealsion-in-the-Florida there were still three undecided House contests.

M

Loridon, Nov. 10. The British Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, tonight roiterated that the danger of a The Democrats are feading in third world war seemed to be two of the races, in Washington-

State receding.

and Idaho. and the He was addressing the Lord Republican candidato has

at London's slight lead in the undecided race historia Guildhall

in California, The Republicans "We are pleased by the fact at present hold 221 seats in the that the danger of a third next House, and the Democrats world war scena to have re- 210. There is one Independent, coded and that our national and one vacancy caused by the solvency has been freed from death of Adolph Sabath immediate perf;". ho, sal Democrat, (linol), - United Reuter

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