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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1953.

Anti-Govt Demonstration

And TUC By East Berlin Workers

THE British Labour Party's

TH

manifesto outlining the Rocinl and

political,

COMMUNIST OFFICIALS

Bid To

Conquer

Mountain Fails

economic programme to be adopted if and when the Socialista regain parliament- ury power is interesting. and intriguing in a number of ways, not the least being the timing of its publien- tion. It is presented precisely one week before the left-wing Bevanites are scheduled to have their show-down with, the Trades Union Congress over the appointment of trade union lenders to the Conservative

Government's Iron

Katmandu, June 16. articl Steel Board. Thus, while The Japanese bid to con- the Party's manifesto sug-quer the 26,658-foot Hima- gests that the Beranites layan peak Mansalu has have (at least temporarily) failed, according to a source compused their differences in regular contact with the with the centre and right- expedition. wing groups over general-

assault party principles, the antagoniam turned back from a height of of three between the Socialist 25,420 feet, with still 1,238 feet parliamentary rebels" and to go. They were unable to the Trades Union Congress, climb higher owing to bad who represent the backbone weather. of the Labour Party, s sharper today than ever before. In fact it can be fairly described as open war between the two factions, and is fully liable to split the Steinlet party asunder.

THE

lo

The

HOWLED DOWN

Win

Concessions

Berlin, June 17.

East Berlin's angry demonstrations against conditions under Communist rule surged up anew last night when 300 young strikers led thousands of marchers towards Karlshorst, seat of the Soviet occupation authority.

As they passed a lorryload of uniformed police, they roared in unison "Down with the people's police."

No Quick

Return Home For

GIS

Washington, June 16.

The Secretary of Defence,

Mr Charles E. Wilson, at his press conference today, said it would not be safe to bring United States troops home from Korea in less than six months after an armistice is signed.

would

News of the protests spread, and it seemed as though every taxi, motor cycle, car and lorry had joined a two-mile traffic jam behind the strikers.

Ho naded that how long after This followed a day of demonstrations against the the troops could be brought raising of "work norms", demands for better pay and home would depend on con- the threat of a general strike the first outburst ofditions and the decision the kind that the well-disciplined Soviet zone has ever

have to be made at that time.

Answering questions on the seen.

Korean situation, Mr Wilson said the evidence indicates that there is going to be a truce though he does not know how goon.

The 15-man expedition, fed by Y. Mito, 54-year-old business- man and experienced moun- promise

The demonstrators

wrung a, regime there has no backing

"What is happening behind the

taineer, set out from Katmandu Herr Fritz Selbmann, Minister

of concessions from from the population.

at the beginning of April,

He added he did not know why the Reds are attacking co intensely at this stage. Mr Wilson observed that he does not understand

the Oriental mindi very

well. From the American point of view, he side, desiring a truce sald, It would seem that a would not

of Mines and Ironworks, Includ- Iron Curtain strengthens us in The expedition, sponsored by ing cancelation of last month's our resolution to continue our tho Japanese Alpine Club, and a order of 10 per cent more work presem policy. For only in Japanese newspaper, was ac-for the same pay.

community with the free peoples HE Jackground the companied by 13 Sherpas and Lush night a counter de- can we gain freedom for East

300 porters carrying gear and monstration was started by 000 Germany." the dispute between Bevanites and the TUC la wilghing 71% tons, in-blue-shirted young Communists

cluding special oxygen equip with banners saying "We have of the opposition Social Demo- Herr Erich Ollenhauer, leader confidence in our Government."

want to Ministers who first tried to cratic Party, said: "This is the

intensity such demonstra Arst time pacify the dayılme

a spontaneous military effort when a truce is tors were howled down.

demonstration witnesses

Eye- masS

occurred within reach, lest thin maices said they heard the in East Germany 1 reflected an agreement more duficult. angry men shout: "Get out the true feelings of the people and was not a trivial affair, he this is a revolution."

The crowd yelled, angrily for said.

In

heard

from the

.

not without Importance.ment As long ago as 1949 tho

Little was General Council of the expedition after It set up its Trades Union Congress ifth and last camp at a height declared that among those of 25,000 feet last month. In appointed to the boards of the past week, there had been public corporations under

some anxiety for the safety of nationalisation "should be the climbers. persons whose experience

Mount Munalu, among the has been obtained in trade world's eight higliest peaks, has u'ni dniam, and who, not so far been conquered. although in 110 way

(A report that the expedition accountable to any other had falled,

published in the Interest than the public for Hindustan Times Evening News their decisions, will ensure in New Delhi, did not say that, the

of the whether the views

expedition WAB Industry's workpeople shall making further attempts, or was receive full understanding returning. The monsoon breaks

along the Himalayas at and consideration.The Bevaniles insist that this period of the year, with stream- rain and, at higher contention is invalidated by altitudes, snow), the fact that in the case of iron and ateel, State

and ownership supervision is being replaced by private owner. ship and the creation of a statutory board. The Trades Union Congress argues the spirit and meaning of the 1949 dictum is fully pre- served by the appointment to the new board of men chosen from

State

the trade

ing

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TC-

Ita

AVOIDS QUESTIONS Mr Wilson avolded answering tho question of whether the Herr Dito Grotewohl, Prime

would Herr

Berlin the West German Defence Department Minister, and

recommend a "cut off date" Ulbricht, Secretary of the East Minister for All Germant Affairs for the purpose of establishing German Socialist Unity Party, Herr Jakob Kaiser, urged East the line of demarcation baw who was strong man behind is Berliners and East Germans to

tween the two sides for the militant Communist line, which refrain from "inconsiderate and

purpose of the armistice. has now been apparently dangerous actions."

THEW The laxed.

reporter

thla asking question Speaking

Rlas, over

pointed out that it The

United States High Commission the fighting continues the way within a few days of a

Com-radio station, in West Berlin, he is now, the line of demaren- re-said: "The basic change of your tion would change every day.

The question of Mr Wilson's force production occupied most af the presy conference time. He gave the reporters explana- tions of complex production techniques.

demonstrations

versal of East German versal munist policy, promising.

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TROOPING THE COLOUR

料

The traditional ceremony of Trooping the Colour on the Queen's official birth. day took place at Horse Guards Parade last Thursday. Picture shows the guards marching past.-London Express,

Eisenhower

Commute

Death

Unlikely To Rosenbergs' Sentences

Washington; June 16.

Clergymen who pleaded with President Eisenhower for the lives of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg today said the President indicated he would not commute the death sentences,

The couple, due to die on Thursday as atom spies, signed an appeal to the President for clemency today. Mr Eisenhower turned down a similar appeal on February. 11.

►

Four clergymen spent half an hour. at the White House and afterwards one of them, the Reverend Daniel Ridout, negro secretary of the Baltimore area of the Methodist Church, said the President "indicated he would not commute the sentence."

an-

PETITION REJECTED'

The Pollsh Embassy

FRENCH OPINION nounced here today that Poland

Genova, June 16.

Paris, Juno 10. The United States Consulato The American Embassy hero would receive the Rosenbergs

the Americans would re here today turned down a peti- has informed President Eisen- prieve them and let them go tion from a

that

French public group of Swiss hower there.

citizens appealing for rovision of opinion towards the United A State Department spokes- the

be death Bentence

would

"seriously against States man called this "an Imperiin-Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, the affected" if Julius and Ethel

executed, ence" and a crude move to stir convicted atom spics due to be Rosenberg aro up worldwide sympathy"

Embassy spokesman said today. and executed on Thursday. said "We will not answer i

He said an increasing number Mr Robert E. Ward, the of protests or requests for mercy Poland said its offer of

United States.Consul General, were being received-at-the-

this lef to hard-pressed farmers living conditions will be achiev-so-called stretchout-of-air asylumn was at the suggestion stated that he, had refused to Embassy, and had now risen to

a

All members of the expedi- tion are well, according to communication from Mr Mita, the lender today.-Reuter.

EVEREST QUESTIONS

London, June 10. Questions about the trans- mission of the news of the con- quest of Everest will be asked in the House of Commons to-

morrow.

ed by the restoration-of-Ger- and private businessmen,

unity and freedom Hundreds of workers were man sull demonstrating in groups Reuter. at various areas of East Berlin late last night.

At one point on the United States-Soviet

sector boundary. Marie Will

demonstrators removed wooden signs reading "Here begina the democratle (Eastern) sector".

Several speakers called on the demonstrators to hold 很 rally on Strausberger Platz, at one end of Stalin Alley, this morning-Reuter.

ALARMING SIGN

Bonn, June 18.

Christian

The West Germun

Try To Form

Government

He smoked one cigarette after nnother, and when answering some particularly difficult point, ho talked with a cigarette in the corner of his mouth..

doctors,

of the Polish Red Cross.

The Rosenbergs' two children, accept the petition, signed by 40 Michael,

Swiss

lawyers, The 10, and Robert, 6, visited

them in Sing Sing prison journalists and religious officials. last-Reuter. Lottay-perhaps

for the time.

They will not see their parents

unless the Rosenbergs

DEMONSTRATION

Brussels, June 15. About 2,000 people took part minuto court action or an act of in a "Save the Rosenbergs de clemency by President Elsen-monstration in Brussels last

is put

off by last-

about 500 a day. elicited animity religious cedented

affairs, where

divlaton has in recent years become a

issue Rosenberg

has

mcusuro

of

political In

quarters unpro-

and

in French diversity and

national characteristic. one point did his us

voice turn sharp.

were

that

The Embossy spokesman sald while the protests against night The group hacking "Save the

not in the the execution of the convicted Although it was part of the city where the atom spies had been originated Rosenbergs demonstrations

The Committee to

States

and inspired by the Com- Secure United

Embassy the civil police munists, the current requests Justice in the Rosenberg Caso" situated,

redoubled their efforts to { guarding outside the. Embassy for clemency stemmed from, a secure Presidential intervention Building was increased from wide variety of non-Communist

sources-Reuter one to three.---Reuter.

The

That was when

a reportar asked hower. whether he agreed with the theory that traitors In the De- fence Department Paris, June 16. pansible

for the ammunition M. Andre Marie, 55-year-shortage which existed in Korea old Radical leader, today some time ago.United Press.

President Vincent

Brigadier Fitzroy MacLean, unions. Moreover, there is Conservative, will ask in what overy reason to believe that circumstances the news was the Minister of Supply, Mr withheld from the King of Nepal. Duncan Sandys, has the by the British Embassy in Kat-Democratic Party of Chancellor fold goodwill of the General mandu until he had already Konrad Adenauer saldina Auriol he was prepared to Council of the TUG in leamed of it from other sources, press statement tonight that to try to form a new govern- The same point is made in day's demonstration by workers

ment for crisis-ridden nother question by Squadron in East Berlin was "on alarm- Lender Emlyn Carner Evansing sign for the public of the France,

asking work" showing that the sup- (Conservative) who is

making the appointments.

THERE is yet another aspect

of the failing out between

what arrangements were

transmission of messages

from

made pressed East Germans wanted He had spent five days can- by the British Embassy for the

freedom

vassing support and the strength It said: "It can now be seen of the backing pledged to him the expedition to the London how embittered the people in is not yet known. But political East Germany are and that the and Industrial troubles appeared to be deepening today in a France which has staggered along without a government for a month.

the Bevanites and the TUC. Strong, even bitier con- troversy has arisen between Times-Reuter. the Labour Loft and tho Congress over the TUC's critical attitude to some of the Bevanites' proposals in the formulation of a now Labour Party policy. It is these criticisms which have lashed the extreme left- wingers into donouncing

Immediate Independence

have Demand By Cambodia

the TUC's decision to per- mit trade unionists to serve

Paris, June 16.

had set

STOPPRESS

More Trouble Expected

The Rosenbergs' lawyers, fighting to delay the execution, won permission yesterday from Mr Justice William Douglas, of the Supreme Court, to present to him today what they called new.arguments.

Aftor waiting outside his chambers in the Supreme Court building today for an hour and a half, they sent in more "legal papers' to Mr Douglas through the cleric of the Court-Router. CLEMENCY APPEAL

Washington, June 16. The condemned atomic spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, today signed an appeal for President Bison-

.

This is the second time: that

Berlin, June 17 An uneasy calm hung over this divided city today following demon. appry anti-Commmmist strations yesterday in East Ber- Ja

There was a foreboding of The upper house today re fused to extend an £60,000,000 more trouble, for the Communist clemency to loan to the Treasury which fell rulers of East Germany, Strik-hower, I was reported here. que today and in the labour folding building workers who pre-

and ground staff clpitated yesterday's demonstra- the couple asked for presiden- 10,000 flying

In Stalin Alley-East Berlin's Their lawyer, Mr Emmanuel The Secretary of State for the Indo-China Kingdom of Air France, the state airline, lions have called a mass raily tial clemency. came out on strike.

"Anet Socialist

streetferntoch, today How from New on the new Iron and Steel of Cambodia Mr Sam Sary, who is at present staying in

M. Auriol called on M. Marie, today, where they are expected York to Washington, to deliver Board. The Bovanites have France, was informed by his Government last night that Minister of Education in the to picad for a general sirlice. caples. of the appeal to the In West Berlin, the. Social White House and the Federal even gone as far as to aug. it had decided to demand "imme linte and complete inde- outgoing government last Thur gest that a trade union leader pendence”.

day after the National Assembly Democratie Party has invited Department of Justler-France-

a record in rejecting East and West Berliners to a Presse. who joins a board which is

the. Kreuzberg MAINTAIN INNOCENCE I diplomatic quarters, worth only 10 francs Instead of three candidates for premiership mus rally in French to undo Socialist policy is

district in in succession.

the United States

New York, July 16, guilty of sabotage. The thought it unlikely that the King 17.

The Governments of Vicinam,

sector:

for the condemned lawyer of Cambodia would turn to the accusation

to has outraged United Nations to press his Laos, and

M. Marle will sill have Cambodia protested,

Demonstrators were marching couple, Jullus and Ethel Roch union leaders who see in claims..

at the devaluation' which Franco un the gauntlet of the in- the Bevanites'

manoeuvro Reports from Bangkok re- contended

end illegal vestiture vote in the Waliona through the city 1 late last berg, scheduled to die the would

defacing slogans,

Communist Prison next Thursday, told an attempt to ram Labour ceived here indicated that Thai-traffte in plastres by people said Assembly in which he needs night, shouting anti-Communist electric chair at Sing Sing

314 votes to be formally con slogans on walls and tearing Journalists that his clients sti Party policy down the throat land was still hesitant about to be financing rebels.,

The Governments of the thres Brmed as Premier.

down Communist emblems on maintained that they were in- of the TUC. Next Wednes backing the King's ́eouse.

un- Associated States of Indo-China day's show-down between There was still great

M. Marie, who is expected to offices of Communist-led or- nocent of the spy charges of

they were convicted the opposing factions will certainly here about the exact worked night and day to sort present himself to the National ganisations,

Violence dared up in at least motives which led the King to out financial chaos after the

Assembly on Thursday, told

he left by plane take place behind closed leave his country shortly after devaluation.

reporters that his aim was to one spot when demonstrators he

'becond Prices in Cambodia rocketed, government of "unton clashed with Communist youths with the seco doors, but its outcome is giving general acceptance to the

Elsenhower "bound to tost," more fally Franco-Cambodian Convention and people went from there to and authority." If the crials stoging counter demonstrations President The Vietnam where controls operated. was not solved than any of the Parliament-signed here on May D.

Mr Exionarvizel

Bloch France's point under the slogan "Long live the

his cilenta Cambodian

would dif A Vietnam Glovemment official ary. Labour Party's lunced last night that it was sak at the, time: that it would view would not be heard Government.

in the world,

East Berlin police, though they must with dignity, no longer prepared to negotiate | take at least a month to sort j****-

Keeping a meticulous check on To concluded thunt in his My Marie's the town, stood by without therefore, make no confession

France-Press taking any action-Reuter,

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