Senators To Investigate Bohlen File
Washington, Mar, 24.
The Benate Foreign Relations Committen tp- day. picked Senators Robert Taft ald John Sparkman 10 examle Fodoral Investigation Bureau files on Mr Charles Bohlen, whose nomination
United Staten Am bassador RusJu born clallenged by mall Senate crops.
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Both men are known to bo in favour of Mr Bol- ten'a appointment which has already been endorsed tunanimously
by the Foreign Relations Com- mittee. Full Senate Ap- proval is expected soon..
Senate "Investigators" are picked fram both parties-Mr Taft is the Republican floor leader, and
Sparkmart Democratio candidate for tko -Vice-Presidency In November's election, lant
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CLIMBERS'
HOPES
DAMPENED
Belgrade, Mar. 24.
Edinburgh Festival
Plans Another
Season Of "Hits"
London, Mar. 24.
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1953.
The Edinburgh Festival has announced plans for another talent-crowded three-week season that should again make it the most important cultural event of the year in Europe.
The programme, which will fill six different theatres every evening, provides eight different orchestras, seven theatrical, opera and ballet com- panies and such celebrated artists as conductors Wilhelm Furtwangler, Bruno Walter and Herbert Karajan, violinists Isaac Stern and Yehudi Menuhin, pianist Solomon and the Lowenguth and Paganini string quartets.
"Anti-Jewish Incitement"
By Soviet
United Nations, Mar. 24.
Theatre and opera will pro- (vile some of the main attrac- tions of the now Festival, from August 23 to September 12, as they have since the series was (slarted in 1947, by Rudolf Bing. now head of 4ie Now York Metropolitan opera.
pro-
This year's theatrical gamut includes the follow-
1.The world premiere of a
"The new play,
Confidential Mrs Golda Myerson of Israel Clerk," by Nobel-prize-winning told the General Assembly's Anglo-Anierican pool T. S Political Committee today that Isrnel would present at the ap
Elio1.
Yugoslavia's mountain clim-propriate time a record of the 2.The first English produc- bers who hope to challenge un-policies of "anti-Jewish Incite-tion of "The Rake's Progress"", Soviet the opera by Igor Stravinsky conquered Mount Everest havement" adopted by the run into rough going and calily | Union ami its supporters.
and W. H. Audan, which crested climes long before the expedi tion has reached a level higher than the Danube Basin.
Observers believed that statement meant that
sensation at its premiere at the
the Venice Festival and recently Israel would postpone bringing up the New York. The new production
opened at
at the Metropolitan in Only a few weeks ngo, the
question of anti-Semitism beby the Glyndebourne Opera com- Yugoslav Mountaineering As- hind the Tron Curtain until the sociation announced its inten-Committee reached the omnibus any will be conducted by Alfred
Wallenstein. tion to attempt in 1955 the feat which has defied the world's best Alpinists for years, ond implored the Yugoslav Am- bascuder in Indian to obtain
permission for the try..
The "Borba".
proposal hy Polant calling for measures to avert the threat of a new war.
3,--A series of performances of Shakespeare's Hamlet by the Mrs Myerson, who was mak-} Old Vic Company starring ing her malden speech to the Richard Burlon und Claire Un Nations, was replying Bloom,
Czech newspaper:0 Yugoslav
charges that the
1-A series of performanceS Com United States was of the
organising by the great French actress weighed spionage and subversion Gavernment.
carefully, dento- Communist countries with funds Edwige Feuillera and her com-
under and provided economically
Mutualpany in Dumas' "La Dame Aux
Camelias" (Camille). to the point Security Act.--Reuter. whether it had the slightest chance of success.
the project
munist
gically,
perhaps more
It reached the conclusion that the mountaineers were climbing into the clouds even before they began the ascent, that they had better keep their feet on rocity mountains of Yugoslavia rather than risks them on ivy slopes of Everest.
tops
tourist Press
or Bosnia.
the
Skavenia and
trade.
Associated
JAP EXPEDITION
Kathmandu, Mar. 24.
the
Jet Pilots'
Complaints
in
5.-A series of performances by the American National Ballet Theatre of New York. Their programme will include Constantia, The Thief Who Loved
Black Swan. a Ghost, Rodeo, Billy The Kid, Schumann Concerto and Graduation Ball.
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tho
TWO OPERAS
8.-Two
programmes
of
Centurions For Denmark
The first of 16 new Centurion tanks from Britain' go ashore at the harbour of Esbjerg In Denmark. The tanks, each weighing 52 tons and costing £63,000, travelled in a special vessel and are supplied as part of Denmark's military aid.--Express Phole.
Russian Failure Predicted In
The Middle
East
New York, Mar. 24. Harold Lamb, author and scholar, predicted today the Russians would not be able to take over the Middle East..
"It is my personal conviction that Americans at home are becoming aware of the danger in the Middle East and that, as a result, the Soviet at- tempt to advance step by step will fail" there, Mr Lamb said in the Saturday Evening Post.
GREATEST NEED
BIG JOB STILL LIES AHEAD IN
INDONESIA
Djakarta, Mar. 24,
This new, rich country of Indonésia has made considerable progress since it came into being on December 27, 1949, but it still has many unsolved problems and headaches.
While the leaders like to point out their suc- cesses, they also are willing to admit their failures. They acknowledge that the big job still lies altead.
The Indonesian State . is
founded on five principles:
1. Belief in God und freedom
of religion,
2.-Democracy.
3-National sovereignty. 4,-Social
justice for all.
and <conomic
6-Humanitarian principles of
helping each other and befriend- ing other nations.
Being a How nation, the spirit of nationalism runs high. There is some anti-foreign feel- ing, but, at the same time, wifi- cial recognition of the need for fordign Investment and Co- operation with people and coun- Iries abroad.
BIG NEED
Indonesia suffered consider- able damage during World War I and the revolution
'Red Olga'
Sent For Trial
Luneburg, Mar. 24. Ukrainian accused of spying for "Red Olga", a tall attractive
Russia in West Germany, was sent from a local Court here to- day for trial by a Federal Court at Karlsruhe, Southwest Ger many.
In transferring the case, the "Olga"Frata Court described Olga Larissa Robine, 35--as en the Dutch that followed. The "intelligent and clever woman"
with
against
big need today is to get ahead who must have known "she would be asked to carry out even bigger the belated reconstruc-
assignments one day." tlun programme. Much progress has been made in the last year, but there still are bandits in the country and hundreds planned projects still are in the blueprint
stage.
of
Government ocials told 0 United Press correspoesident that
The Court, from which Press and public were excluded, de- cided it was not competent to deal with "Red Olga who was sald to have worked for the Germans in the Ukraine during the war,
She married a German and, the biggest problem of Indonesia it was alleged, was sent to West today is maintaining
an inde- Germany in 1951 by the Itusslan pendent foreign policy. Afraid of Secret Service as one of their being pulled into a vorld con- | agents with the order to set flict, the new
doing up a spy network. new Republic
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