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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

Leadership In The US

P does not

DRESİDENT

Eisenhower

seum to

be

fulfilling the high hopes that were entertained upon his election. Some may even think that Mr Adlai Steven- Bon would have been the better President, It may be that the General is too) Inexpert in polities to feel safe in giving a lead, and it is evident that a lead le wanted. The theory upon which he seems to be acting is that he must try to carry the whole Republican Party with him, but, in fact, the Republicans are divided. There may even be Home division within the Pre-

sident's Cabinet. The Pre- Aldent himself mado an overture to Hussin, but Mrj Dulles has sometimes appeared to be mout reluctant to follow it up. Senator McCarthy has given

cation for breaking

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Soldiers Appeal NEW U.S. POLICY URGED

Against

Death Sentences

COUNSEL SUBMITS JURY'S

VERDICT WAS WRONG

The verdict of a jury which resulted in L/Cpl George Robert Douthwaite, 21, and Trooper Douglas Derrick Dalton, 19, being sentenced to death represented a complete miscarriage of justice that would shock any fair-minded person capable of examining the evidence given at their trial, Mr Charles Loseby, QC, submitted before a Full Court of Appeal this morning.

Counsel told the Court, comprising the Chief Justice Sir Gerard the President every justill-Howe, and Mr Justice C. W. Reece, Puisne Judge, that the essence of the appeal was almost in toto against the verdict of the jury. He was not attacking the Prosecution, the Prosecution witnesses or the trial Judge, but was appealing on the ground that the jury's verdict could not be sup- ported by the evidence that there was insufficient evidence to justify "the dreadful verdict of guilty in a murder case."

relations with him, but the President has avoided tt clear challenge to tho Sengjor, although, accord- ing to the Christian Science Monitor, devoted and useful Foreign Service officers are being victimised in the McCarthy witch-hunt. Mr Taft has just developed the iden that the United States should "forget the United Nations" s0

far as the

Korean War is concerned, but though the President has reafirmed his support of the United Nations and said that he does not share the views of Senator Taft, he believes that Senator Taft Is entitled to hold them. Indeed, he has sold that he sympathised with; the irritation and sense-of- frustration of people like Senator Taft when they felt they were working along decent lines, and then found themselves baulked by

whom gumeone

they regarded as their friend.

ure some who question the need for the President to rely solely upon his own party.

Certainly the war-time practice of bi- partisan foreign policy sug- gests a possible precedent. Mr Walter Lippman, the American political

THERE

b

Coronation Celebrations

In Pictures

China

Tomorrow tho Mail devotea its two-paro pletorial aecilon, customari- ly reserved for pictures of local social events, to the Coronation cc. rations in Нонкон

-

or two

Douthwaite, of Swallon, a concession a minute Scarborough, and Dalton of later, and no attempt was made Southampton, were sentenced to by the Prosecution to shift that hary by Mr Justice T. J. Gould time. It was a good blcycle on May 1 for the murder of a which went at

reasonable 33-year-old woman, Ho Sze-speed and experiments Axed the mul, an amah employed by time taken for the journey to NAAFI. Her body was found the spot where the woman was in a ditch off the motor road accosted at 32 minutes. Tha leading from the Fanting Cross was the time that a cyclist could Road to Sek Kong on December reasonably be expected to take; 23, last year.

fixed by the Prosecution to their satisation and it was ac- cepted by both sides.

The Crown case was that the crime took place on the oven- ing of December 19 when the Mr Loseby added "I can afford accused, on bleycles, intercept- to make concessions because I ed the woman and attacked, play with. It I am right at the a passenger on have a great deal of time to

This will

another the first “comprehensive pletorial

her with a pair of handcuffs end of that time the murder record of local Coronation

causing

head wounds from could not have been committed scenes to be offered to the

which she died three days later.by theso, two men or either of public.

There was also e suggestion by them. the Prosecution that there was interference with the woman of a rexual nature.

dragon

The photographic display includes the Colony's de-

and corations

night [Iluminations, the processions, the ceremonial parades, reading of the Loyal Address and the fireworks.

Be sure to obtain your China Mall temorrow for this historie supplement.

France

Shivers. In

Cold & Rain

The defence was that the ac- cused never met the woman and could not have been at the spot at that time.

Douthwaite is represented by Mr

instructed by Loseby

A. M. L. Soares and Dallon by Mr D. A. L. Wright, instructed by Mr W. C. R. Corr,

Mr A Hopton, Soffeltor- General, and Mr G. R. Sreati, Crown Counsel, is appearing for the Crown,

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of

and is

not

a half

Coronation Floodlighting In London

Floodlighting represented an impressive part of London's Coronation illuminations, and this picture shows the County Hall with the lights.on.

Daily Express photo,

Revolutionary Advance Made In Production Of Atomic Fuel

Las Vegas, Nevada, June 4.

The biggest atom bomb ever exploded in the United States flared over the desert here today with a flash seen in San Francisco, 600 miles away.

Her scientists at the same time announced a revolutionary advance ➡an atomic "furnace" which is producing new atomic fuel at least as fast as it is consuming uranium.

4

that

by

Europe As

Vital Centre

Chicago, June 4. Mr Chester Bowles, former United States Am- bassador to India, tonight proposed a 10-point Amerl- can_foreign_policy for Asia that recognises Europe as nt present a

more critical area for the free world than the Far East.

"An effective responsible Aslan policy must start by recognising the fact that in the next few years the worst disaster that could befall the United States and the

free world is not in Asia at all but in Europe," Mr Bowles said.

He added that "our Interest in Adia should not blind us to the nect for a strong tiliod NATO organisation backed by adequate military strength."

now

Mr Bowles suggested tho policy in a speech prepared for a "free world" dinner at Roose- velt College here.

DISASTROUS ASSUMPTION

Ho asserted that " foreign polley which assumed that the ties between the Soviet Union and Communist China weze permanent was potentially tils- astrous,

"There is growing evidence that Communist China is deter- mined to take the leadership of the Communist movement in Asia which Russia has exerted for

so long through the Comin- form,"

he

"Those who said. would continue

the present war with Communist China in Korea to

day longer than necessary inadvertently playing into the

achieve an honourable truce aro

hands of the Soviet Union."

"There is little chance of Mao in the sense of switching from the

Mr Bowle

No tropa to utilise it was disclosed by Scientifle today's test but 37 aircraft took policy also

were involved in Mr Bowles said that Asian

fuck-was not tried in this Cx-

fa even

4.

the cloud was visible to moun- Main observers for two minutes

part.

be

Asla and

that the

Tse-tung becoming a Tito Soviet side to that of the West, The Solicitor-General opened his case strongly

confluued. "But and firmly, This is a milestone on the Counsel went on to say. But in

there is always the possibility Today's atomic explosion at lon (a kiloton being equal to that he may become increasing way to atom-powered industry, the Nevada proving ground, the 1,000 tons of TNT), Fower outly independent the course of his case it was whittled down and explanations Gordon Dean, Chairman of the spring series, incorporated an-twico

It means, acording, to Mr 11th and last of

of the Soviet the present put of today's bomb would be Union and more and mort were added by his own witnesses Atomic Energy and the Solicitor-General, put-that it is now possible for one made in the previous text,

Commission, ather new atomic discovery physical evidence.

Judged

determined to build the

his own country in his own way." ung the matter to the jury in mankind ultimately his flani address based it upon all the uraniums that can be ex-Director Alvin C. Graves. Mr

the evidence as it was given in tracted from the earth's surface

should recognise that: Court. He quite rightly made In its natural state." no attempt to gloss it over.

The device was - "reline- Dogs and mice were stalloned. "Many Asian problems can be He explained in a speech to in this series, he said.

ment of one previously tested at varying distances from the of how many atomic bombs we solved only by time. Regardless "ACCEPTS" WITNESSES the Edison Electric Institute

blast point and the effects on

may build we that

will never the

the eyes of rabbits were tested. com-

renctor Mr Loseby said that he ac-

at Arco. A bomber flying over from

omnipotent in Asia. It has been Nevada, mentator, has even said that

It was revealed today that the Adans and not Americans and burning cepted the prosecution witnesses. uranium-235 and in the process probably 35,000 to 40,000 feet named "Upshot-Knothole," but no have

up Albuquerque, New Mexico, at present series of tests was code- Europeans who since the war STERN BUT JUST a President-be he Democrat

Lodging his appeal, Mr

There was very little dispute as it is changing non-fissionable dropped the bomb, which or Republican-cannot ex-

Loseby said that he did

to the facts.

been deciding the great uranium (uranium-238)

ap-explanation was given. venture to

Into peared to explode more

than The taxi-cyclist had to pro- fisioable plutonium."

issues of South-east nect to

his

criticise

anything big

Mr Gordon Dean rald today carry

2,500 feet above the ground, that the world's first atomle sub- Isaid or done by the Solleftar-ceed some three and

the Far East." of policy by mensures

And General or Crown Counsel in miles (or 5,070 yards) before

uranium-238 La 140 Just before dawn.

marine would probably have its Mr Bowles said partisan-vote in Congress:

their conduct of the case from he came to the spot where he

times more plentiful than

first It bathed the desert in white

sen-going he must do so by coalitions,

test some time Asiatic solution was not a theory the first to the last. The Pro- and his fare met two soldiers,

U-230.

light for at

next year.

but a dynamic, complex develop whlel,cut across party lines.

least five seconds, ern said Mr Loseby. secution throughout was stern,

The case for

Speaking of a version of the ment which motivated hundreds The coalitions necessary for,

Paris, June 4. but just, taking every angle

ngle the Prosecution was

My Dean gald that though then formed into a golden fire- submarine's power unit which of millions of people. Aslan that these foreign affairs may not be

ball, which boiled for France shivered again to- with propriety that

concerned thorium-another potential atom than 30 seconds in the sky, in-reactor testing station, Mr Dean sistance if democracy were to could be two soldiers were

more has begun running at the Idaho nations needed economic 05- the same as those required day as the cold wave per-taken by the Prosecution. Nor with the death of the for the support of domestic | sisted and snow. hall and he in make any attack on was conceded by the decanes / Deriment, the present success/dicating an intensity twice that said "when the sea-going model (survive in them.

the Prosecution wit- that this theory of the Prosecu-ultimately be used. And thorlam in the desert.

suggested that thorium might also of any previous atom explosion of this reactor first turns the "Democracy could suffer no mexaures, However that rain storms continued to nesses. It could safely be con- tion was supported by the

crew of the USS Nautilus, prob- greater blow in Asia than the may be, Mr Truman had lash the northern half

of ceded by the Defence that those evidence if the evidence of the uranam-238.

more plentiful than The Hiroshima bomb had aably next year, atomic power will collapse

of India os a free nothing like the popular Italy for the third day.

witnesses gave evidence to the

taxi-cyclist was accepted, but

10-second fireball.

have como of age,”—ilouter. - nation," he said.-United Press. best

of their recollection.

the which President

Defence said that out of the support

Mr Dean explained this Temperatures Elsenhower had, but he

mouth of reliable prosecution encouraging development," the "The essence of the

The mushroom cloud formed 17.0" of

appeal, in which fortunately is unusual, witnesses evidence had been reading of atom fuel, by what usually large. The ery glow in Fahrenheit evidently knew his own the

were recorded

today and quickly

looked Central

to show Pyrenees mind, and was not afraid to many

directed probably in toto Riven

that neither he called an "over simplified" of France's mountain against the verdict of the jury, Doutwalte or Dalton could have analogy. speak out. Yet President ranges

been one of the two men. were blanketed with sald Mr Loseby.

AN-ANALOGY Eisenhower is in the fresh snow.

The grounds, he said, were tion, Mr Loseby

On the question of Identifica- strongest possible position to

said that it Suppose, he said, that still that the

was admitted that the two ap 100 gallons of petrol existed on blasts, three hours, disregarded prin- claim that he is representa-hovered around $7.2* Fahren-ey tive of the American people. heit and Parisians kepi their ciples binding upon them and pellants were on Route 2 that the earth but that more potrel

night. thern by all Coun- enjoined

highest power of any could be created by burning that; ned upon That is clear from the com- fires going.

on atomic ex-Solicitor-General and

sci concerned, including the that by the time carefully petrol in the presence of water. previous bomb dropped here. parison between the popular

the trial marked out by the Prosecution if the new petrol produced was believed to be about 30 kilo- yoto for him and the rela-plosion effects on the

We the Judge, "In consequence by rea- the two might have been near only equivalent to 10 per renewed today were

the fatal spot tively poor showing which Conservative

| son of their disregard, of these

But from the of what was burned, the total the cent newspaper Le the Republicans made in the Figaro, whose weather expert, principles we are responsible outset and all through the case stock would eventually run out.

that represents the taxi-cyclist had described elections.

sald that for a verdict

But They enjoy a M Pierre Devaux,

it a process was discovered the two soldiers I Me I

as being a majority of only one in the recent French studies proved terms almost arrogant) a mis-shorter and a taller one, that gallons of petrol from water for that would produco 100 or more Senate and a slender lend that radio activity in Central chrringe of justice complete they were wearing oot and every

France had doubled after the In the House of Representa- kini explosions.

gallons of petrol miscarriage of Justice

puttees, and that they were hat-burned, then it would suddenly that tives. But the signs are

and will less. Whereas there was evidence have become possible to change He added that the Nevada chocks the conscience that the neo-isolationlam of desert

the appellants all the water in the world of any to show Senator Taft in making that "It seems that a general fair-minded person

capable of were of almost, the same height, headway, President Elsen poisoning of the atmosphere of examining the evidence," added wore shoes and no puttees that gradually into petrol.

night and wore hats. The taxi- Ar Loseby. the earth by olomic explo- hower does not agree with it,

"That was essentially what had He sak!

the cyclist falled the trend

that although

to indentify the happened in the realm of atomic sions" could reverse

Paris, June 4. but he seems to think that of

two accused at a parade and fuel. Court was always reluctant to

M. Pierro Mendes-France, 40- warmer winters and

interfere with the decision of a another witness picked out two

other men, jury, in this particular case it

Buy he added the warning Year-old Radical, just failed to- might have whe

"it does not mean that overnight in his bid to become should do so without any fear, boen on Route 2 that night and night we have suddenly obtain, France's

10th postwar Prime pt that time. This was confirm-

Minister and 12-day-old ed by two

witnesses for the ed all the Ossionable material prin-

Government erials is continuing. ciples the jury

disregarded prosecution. In effect what the We want or need.

does not mean that

The National Assembly cast the onus of proof, the tax-cyclist was saying was "I

tho met two men... Insufficiency of suspicion alone

but it was not

can now be regarded 307 voter for his investiture- as a virtually costicks fuel. It is oven: short of the required Ythese two men?

quite possible that the breeding absolute majority of 314. principle will not even be in-

M. Mendo-France was operated in the mat atomic fourth-politician to be called in

plants. It may be tant some other types will be more

to try to form Icasible from the economic since the fall of the Mayer point of view, at least at first Cabinet 12 days ago, Mr Dean sald

He staked his hopes on But he admitted that "this policy which he outlined to the milestone" of progress. "holds Assembly yesterday, of big

Maximum temperature

Speculation

by

jury, who were out for

(you will

forgive

shock the conscience

closer and was even

ho can work with its exposi- generally softer climate.-Reu- torag

ter.

Swedish Air Ace Killed

Im

Plane

Seckholm, June 4. Gendral-Birger Schyber Swedish infrace who took part the rescue of Itallen general

o ob gʻa. Arctic expedition in 14520 was killed when the ifcrvard treming / plane crashed in Northeast Sweden today.

Thespiane” was attempting to landt Söderhamn military aerodrome in heavy rain and poor visibility.

Crash

津

Force only a year when he took part in the Swedish nie rescue

trip to the North Pole.

General Nobile had taken the

THE PRINCIPLES Counsel said that the

wero

Ho

that

and the necessity for conviction Mr Loseby contended that at beyond all reasonable doubt.

would call to his aid the that stage in the trial he could words of caution used by the have asked the Judge whether

he neeti go any further. airship Halla to the North Pole Trial Judge in his summing up. but it was wrecked over pack he

lee and six of her crow weto,

100

20 seconds, far outshining any only of Nevada's 30 previous bomb

Tho

Fails In Bid

For Premiership

the

11. Government

DIDN'T LIKE NISK to the evidence. Mr

The Chief Justice asked Mr kliizd. Cntral Nelle himself Loseby said that on December Loseby why he did not make was injured.

10 last year a taxi-cyclist took such a submission then, The Swedish expedition took up the unfortunate woman, Ho, Counnel repiled that at the of the survivors after several as a fare travelling bleng what time he did not wish to take the out the promise of making a economies in civilian and mill- bids had failed including one in was called Route 2. it was risk. For supposing the Judge civillon atomic power Industry tary expenditure at homo, closer which the famous Norwegian established on the evidence that had not agrect with him, it even more feasible and attrac-links with Britain and less Major-General' Schyberg was explorer Roald Amundsen lost they started out on their might have been a rebuff in the tire in the long range than it dependence on American aid. --- 50. He had been in the Air - his life.-Reuter.

journey at 6.30 pm., or making (Contd. on back page, col. 4) |has hitherto appeared to bu,”** Reuter

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