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CORONATION FEVER GRIPS LONDON

Exports Scenes Of Wild

OMPARED with

the

Immediate post-war years, Invisible exports have intely been less popular as a topic with Government spokes- inen

and politicians generally. This is rather surprising for

their

importance to this country's economy Пан Increased rather

than diminished. How Important they are was made clear by Mr A. H. Ensor, chief, general manager of Lloyds Bank Ltd., in his prosidential | address at the annual mect-

ing of the Institute of Bunkers in London recently, He pointed out that in the

years before the war Bri-) tain's exports of mer-

Enthusiasm

HUNDREDS CAMPING OUT

IN THE STREETS

LONDON, JUNE 1. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WERE CAMPING OUT IN

THEIR LONDON STREETS THIS MORNING, STAKING CLAIMS FOR FRONT ROW POSITIONS ALONG THE COR- ONATION PROCESSION.

Armed with stools, rugs, food, thermos flasks and um- chandise did not pay for brellas, many of them began their marathon vigil last night.

or

more than 60 per cent of her imports, which left "an enormous import surplus to be met either from gold or other

reserves,

from Invisible earnings". The gap was bridged almost completely by invisible ex- ports which, he observed, equivalent on the average to 38 per cent of Britain's imports bill in the five-year period 1934-38,

wero

Now,

large part of the overseas investments having been sold to help pay for the war, income from interest and dividends Is considerably less than the pre-war loval-even in terms of money, let alone purchasing power--and the country is having to rely to an increasing extent upon invisible exports from other

sources, banking, insurance, and the tourist trade being the principal. "Fortunately,

They sat on the kerbs, while around them surged thou- sands and thousands of people all out to see the capital in its Coronation trappings.

Among the first arrivals was a 73-year-old widow, Mrs Zoe Nerme, who left her Buckinghamshire village at dawn yesterday morning and travelled up, to London prepared to camp out for two days.

Forty thousand cheering people surged up the gates of Buckingham Palace late last night chanting "We want the Queen".

For three hours they kept it up, but Queen Elizabeth did not appear. Once a Palace servant pulled aside the blinds of the windows leading to the balcony where the Royal Family always appears for the

crowds.

**Att

But the doors remained closed. This wildly excited crowd, however, was undaunted. They began singing "For She's A Jolly Good Follow", and groups" split up to make spaces in the dense mass for spontaneous dancing.

Everyone let themselves go, residence - Dune End also in I Men In white tie and talls and Herfortshire curlier today, frocks, foreigners and service Lord President of the Council women fra gorgeous evening The Marques of Salisbury, na

men from the Commonwealth, | is

responsible were in the great crush. At one Cabinet for time, they were 100 deep around arrangements. the Palace gales

Three Cheers For Her Majesty

Sir Winston Churchill, the Prime Minister, leads the gathering in three cheers for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth at the luncheon given in her honour by the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association in Westminster Hall last. Thursday. —AP. Photo:

Clemency Appeal By Son, Aged 10

Communlat countries were Lotter To President represented...by... their

Eisenhower bassadors or ministers in Lon- don. They included Mr Jacob. 10 the British Malik, Russia's Ambassador to

New York, May 31. Coronation Britain. the

The

A letter said to have been guests were later shown Hatfield House, a 18th century historic paintings and soliques written to President Eisen- They spilled Into the road, manalon, is the family seat causing a terrife trame holdup, the Cecils, Lord Salisbury who Polico reinforcements were is also the Conservative leader rushed to the Palace to leave in the House of Lords, is the path in the crowds and get the present head of the Cecil' family. cars moving again,

EVENING FROCK The Queen Mother dressed in an evening

frock of powder

of

MR HAROLD MACMILLAN

In Hatfield House where Queenhower by the ten-year-old Macmillan

Elizabeth I once lived as a virtual prisoner in the 16th

century. shipping,

shipping carnings havo done something to pensate for the loss of investment income", Mr Ensor stated. "In money terms the net earnings of the British Mercantile Marine are estimated to have been six times large in 1951 as the 1938 figure of £20 mu., but the 1062 figures are not so

It encouraging", hardly surprising that shipping's net earnings of foreign exchange were lower last

your than

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It waa

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gala night, and

though the police had to move

in, t the huge, good-natured crowd | blue, wearing a hat of the same

colour and was really in command.

was

the

three

strands of walked freely Royal dignitaries,

801

of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, condemned atom She held her first counell Inspies, was released here to- the Hall where the guests day.

The council gathered today. was arranged by William Cecil, an ancestor of today's host "the Committee to secure Justice Reuter.

in the Rosenberg case."

FILM PREVIEW

London, May 31, Police laked MATRE

and

their

May Succeed

The letter was made public by Mr Eden

-In it, Michael Rosenberg and asked the President to "let my his six-your-old brother Bobbie, mommy and daddy go."

The Rosenbergs are to be executed at Sing Sing Prison in the week of June 15.

The letter was said to have

And there was the unusual large pearls, com-

the spectacle of the sentrics at the anong Palace marching up and down Crown princes, diplomats, and heaved back 5,000 Londoners Inside the railings instead of Commonwealth and foreign

to the Carona- trying to mob Coronation guests outside. The sentry boxes were representatives

as they rolled up in royal moved inside too. There wit❘tion. Just no room for them and the She stayed at the party for meusines to a private preview

two hours.

of the British flim "The Beggars' crowd.

Though

As the Queen Mother stepped Opera", In the West End here the Queen failed to appear before the people, there into the main garden the band tonight.

Mounted officers took British National cheers played excitement and

been written on May 20, · after Charles Anthem and guests Prince

attire horses.

to the edge of the crowd the children have scea a televi- carlier when

straining against the police was seen at a top floor window, ranging from military uniforms.

slon appearance of Mr William He was laughing and waving morning fults and tophate to cordon.

Buckingham Palace chose the Oalis, recently released from his hands frantically above his sarongs, stood to attention.

First to be introduced to the guests and the preview had all prison by the Czechoslovak head. But as on his three other Queen Mother was Mr Robert the glamour and glitter of a ernment. brief appearances today, he Menzies, Australian Prime world premiere. was quickly hauled away by a

Rosenbergs Lawyers for the Princes, Prime. Ministers and

make another attempt An hour later Princess Anne, walked among the guests

Queen Mother then statesmen, the guests of Queen are to who will be three in August, spoke to hundreds of them.

and Elizabeth, were grected like film this week for a stay of execu

tion. appeared dressed in a

stars. They came in turbans, walte

WIB

in

FULLFEN

1961 since freights general ly were considerably re- duced and employment for ships was not so readily available. Moreover, it would seem that in normal trading years it may becoma increasingly difficult for shipping to sustain even, ita present lovel of net carn ings which are probably in the region of £100 mn: per hanum,

was Reuter.

Minister. Tho

RADIANT SMILE

исп

Snow Hazard

Confronts Mountaineers

Straight Talking By Dulles To Naguib

Ankara, June 1. Diplomatic circles sald_hero Yesterday that Mr John Fosler Dulles, the United States Secre- tary of State, during his meet- Ings in Cairo with Wagub Premier Mohammed mado It known

clearly BO

long as the Suez question had not boen settled in a friendly way with Britain, the United States would give no atd

to

Egypt

According to these circles, Mr Dulles who recently stopped at Ankara on his tour, said that the United States would also not support any plan or agree- ment Buch as the Arab security pact, unili

F settlement bad-

been. reached.

sur-

The Egyptians appeared prised at his words, according to these circles, and Mr Dulics and his companions

gained the Impression that the Egyptians regrotted the abruptness with which they ended the talks with London. These circles said the Egyptians might reopen the talks with more readiness to at an agreement.

LESS AMBITIOUS

arrivo

It was also stated here that the proposals made to the Arab capitals by Washington and other Western powers are, to start with, less ambitious and "military" than those presented until

now.

One Idea was an organisation of political co-operation group- Katmandu, Juno I. ing a number of Middle *East Snow showers seem like Mediterranean countries. In this and Eastern and Central to prove an added difficulty way a start would be made with to British climbers who are a system of "no commitments" thought, to have been mak which would lead to ing their third and final at-¡military collaboration. tempt to reach the summit India and Pakistan would have In this and other proposals, of Everest during the week- end.

showers

real

considerable place. Pakistan an. important reservoir of The special forecast covering troops which would be priceless the..weather in the Everest ares she would put them on a real for the 24 hours ending noon footing for Middie East defence, today antelpated relatively encompassing also the Iranian light westerly winds, with ec plateau which is the ultimate casional know

and aim of Allied plans. colder weather.

to India, to lead the Snow had already hampered Delhi government to collabora- the climbers The thick new tlon with the West is expected Mr Harold Macmillan, 58, now makes rock holds pre- to be one of the principal, if Britain's Housing and Local carious, turns every movement not the principal, objective of

into a laborious effort, and Mr Dulles in this-arça, Government Minister is blots out the steps already, cut, All the proposals, which aro

London, May 31.

sult of Mr Eden's

-

As

Expulsion Order

aro

tipped here to succeed Mr so that those. cut in the morning in many cases Just Ideas,

*Eden Anthony

if the have to be cut again later in still vague.---France-Presse.

the day. Foreign Secretary's illness Reuters special correspondent, makes a change necessary. Peter Jackson, the only news- Sir Winston Churchill will paper correspondent not attach-

Teheran, May 31. delay a decision until the re-ed to the expedition, who is Colonel Maurice Joel, French operation covering the assault from the military attacho -In: Tcherun which he la to have in the forward area, sent a despatch during the war, and until 1940, United States next week is on Friday from the expedition now doing business here as a known.

base camp on the Khumbu silk merchant has been told to The

Foreign Secretary will glacier, confirming that two leave the country within be flown by the Royal Canadian attempts carlier last week bad hous

The reason for his expulsion Air Force on Friday to Boston falled through the bad weather.

is not known-Reuter. where he will enter the Lahey-Reuter, clinic.

the

out

The Rosenbergs are in death house at Sing Sing for transmitting secret information lo Russia on American atomic developments.

tiaras and dinner jackets. nightgown in the arms of her

Crown Prince Akihito of nanny. She waved and gurgled

She was seen smiling radiant- | Japan, among the early arrivals, with delight-and then shely and talking quietly to Crown and in a dinner jacket, hurled

whisked away

to bed. Princes and other foreign through the reception group and royalty, cabinet ministers, mill-up the stairs to the circle- GARDEN PARTY

dis- Reuter. tary officers, sultems and

The Rosenbergs' only ap Hatfield, May 31 tinguished

letters, of

TROOPS' PRAYERS

parent chance to escape death Queen Elizabeth, the Queen medicine, science and the arts, Mother, graced an evening gar-

Suez Canal Zone, May 31.

in the electric chair is to tell The Japanese Crown Prince,

Soldiers and airmen In the the government any espionage den party given at historic wearing a morning sult and Hatfield House

today

Suez Canal zone put their rifies secrets they may still hold. to over grey tophot and the red ribbon 2,000 Commonwealth and foreign of the order of the Chrysan-aside for 90 minutes today and

Throughout the proceedings bowed their heads in prayer for visitors to the Coronation. themum was escorted by

against them the couple have Among the vialtors to the Takanosu Mitami, Grand Cham- Her Majesty. E reason for this is that Party, given by the Marques of berlain

On sports grounds and air-insisted they are innocent. Britain's Beets of pangen Salisbury, Lord President of

other Crown Princes fields in 16 major cities through- There has been no indication ger liners and trump ships the Council, was Crown Prince were those of Ethiopia, Laus, out the zone they paraded in that Julius, 34, and Ethel,

thousands at drumhead are prepared to admit have declinad,

and Norway. Among the Com-their and may; Akihito of Japan. decline still further. There- The Crown Prince was ac-monwealth representatives were services. Regiments serving in guilt-Router.

companied to Hatfield by Sir the fore there will probably be Christopher Chancellor, General Selangor, Jahure, Peralt, Brunel gether with the Royal Air Force, Zanzibar, the zone were represented to- less carned from the receipt Manager of Routers and Lady and Lake) and some of them East Africa Pioneers and mem- of passenger fares, and the Chancellor, whose luncheon wore swords ant daggers in bers of the women's services. transport of goods for other quest he was at their country |their national costumes. countries; prosent world- widé currency restrictions are not conducive to the prosperity of the cross-

tradon in which Britain's Ughips have long obtained profitable employment. But what has been lost in these directions may have been partly made good by In- creased invisible exports from other sources. For example, civil aviation has considerably expanded in recent years; so, too, has the tourist trade. But the

The

sultans

of

Coronation Adventure

Comes To Abrupt End

Calais May 31.

Trawlermen in the English channel today forcibly seized a lone Viennese dentist trying to get to the Coronation in a hired canoo as it was about, to founder in heavy sons with his goal almost in sight...

a mile..

7%

British commanders every- where have made every effort to ensure that security precautions do not interfere with celebra-

lons on the day-Reuter.

Many Traffic Accidents

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their

The operation, to be carried by Dr Richard. Cattell, who recently saw him in Lon don, will be his third in two. months for gall bladder trouble.

If it falls to relieve his con- dition the question will orise not only of a new Foreign Secretary but also of a new deputy leader for the CoRECIVA- tive Party and potential Prime Minister.

In that cast

the mantle af Sir Winston Churchill, to which Mr Eden up to now has been sole heir is expected to go eventually to Mr Richard Bu ler, 50, Chancellor of the Ex- chequer.

Since the Churchill govern- ment came to power in 1951, Air Butler has built up. reputaTM tlon among Conservatives com parable to that enjoyed by the late Sir Stafford Cripps in the Labour Party-and in the same sphtro of economics and finance.

If ill health causes Mr Eden to. Chicago, May 31, Traffe necldents rose swifity retire Mr Butler boa no real

4-Day Dash To today as good weather fured challenger for the succession: ta

Sick Mother

Middlesborough, May 31. Twenty-two-year-old Trooper

millions onto the nation's high- Sir Winston Churchill as Prime

and it

题 of Conservative ways.

appeared the Minister traffic toll would

match

the Government-Reuter, : National Safety Council's pre- diction that 240 persons,

New Appointment

Malcolm Cunningham arrived be-killed in mash-ups.ould Queen Accepts here today to see his sick mother after a four-day dash from the Malayan Simple in tour planes and is tesini tje

A hellcopier carried him drom He was so keen to get to Bri-, The fabermen begged him to

the Jungles to the 22nd Special importance of shipping in tain for the Coronation that give up his attempt but here Air Service Regiment base. this connection is difficult earlier, ha tried to swim the fused so they hoisted him aboard

An Auster plane took him to and put h and Channel but give up after little the trawler

him in the to over-emphasise,

Kuala Lumpur where he boarded hold.

a civil plans for Singapore, further dimination in the more than a

He was put ashore at Boulogne. He was down from Singaporn Andustry's earnings of

The canoist, Gerard Scholz, 24, where he said he planned to re- to London in a Canet des ale foreign exchange would

was paddling with water up to tum to Vienna and come back liner and completed his Joumey -have-gerious consequences his waist as the trawlers hemmed with a craft better suited for to Middlesborough by rain,

for this country.

in hir trail 5 foot craft.

crossing the Channel-Reuter, – | Reuter.

150

The latest tabulation showed persons dead in highway.

Ottawa, May 81. crashes, It was expected that

Queen Elizabeth II has accept- Boar when the toll would motorists begin their home-ed the appointment as Honorary Commissioner of the Royal ward drive at the close of the Canadian Mounted Police, Com weekend this evening,

missioner L. H. Nicholson and A total of 250 persons has nounced tonight.[4] wi

killed over the holiday, Mr. Nicholson said, This high including 74 in miscellaneous honour is a source of accidents, nine in Ught "phine pride crashes and three burned to ranks of the force, United .death--United Press.

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