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COMMENT of

THE DAY

A New Test

THE one concrete develop- ment which has so far emerged from the Bermuda conference is agreement on the Big Three reply to the Soviet offer to join in Four- Power talks. This, of course, relatively CnRy

War

decision to rench, merely requiring careful considera- tion of thu preciso phraseology of the note. Winely the Big Three lenders have decided to in- jeet no pre-conditions, the. assumption, if not the hope, being that Russia is pre- pared to meet the Allies'

desire aft-expressed tackle urgent European questions which may, in turn, lead to exploring wider International prob- lems. It would be foolish, however, tu anticipate spectacularly rapid agree.

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PARLEYS Iron Curtain BIG THREE

NEARING

END

Reported Indo-China Mission Project

KOREA: FRANCE, BRITAIN SEEK ASSURANCES

Bermuda, Dec. 7.

The Big Three neared the end of their first postwar meeting to- ment on any points likely night with the United States reported ready to send a military mission to Indo-China to help train the Vietnamese Army fighting the Com- munists.

to be raised at the proposéri

Berlin conference. Russia has already very broadly hinted that she will try to make an issue out of the formation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisa- tion and the European Defence Community-thir latter being especially obnoxious to the Kremlin. The early stages of the Big Four conference are almost certain to be featured by o Soviet display of polemics, And the talka may

even

break down before they can really get started. Any attempt by the Soviets to

have China brought into the discussions

relating

Official reports on the last-minute series of top-level meetings among President Eisenhower, Premier Joseph Laniel of France and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Britain were not expected until the end of the final session, starting at 10 p.m. (10 a.m., Tues. HKT).

But authoritative sources told of Franco-American negotiations

on Indo. China and of a United States offer for the "integration of atomic weapons into the North Atlantic alliance" as a means of bolstering European defences.

However, it was understood most of the final day of the four-day conference was devoted to Far Eastern problems, including the establishment of an ironclid Korean peace. This was discussed in a two-hour 20-minute mid-day meeting:

The Big Three, with the Foreign Ministers present, met from 5 p.m. to 8.40 p.m. to- . night and then recessed for dinner. The final session was scheduled for 10 p.m.-United Press,

REQUEST TO US

sup-

the will be the guest of the UN

Mr

was also handed over to experts leave Bermuda by air tomorrow between 4 p.m., ond 4.30 p.m., to study. Bermuda, Dec. 7.

At this to Europe will be implac-

morning's meeting, GMT direct for La Guardia air- The British Prime Minister,| For Eastern experts of the port in New York. ably resisted by the Western Sir Winstan

Churchill.

American and French After

the Gin- allles; so too will

the French any ported by

President Foreign British,

governments were

present for cral Assem Bidault, consultations. Representing D Secretary-General, endeavour to have NATO Minister, M. Georges and EDC placed on the today. asked President Elsen-Tre

Foreign Office was Mr

Dag agenda for debate. Buthower to keep America's allies ore

at a reception Walter while the prospects for an Korea Informed in advance of State

In the United Nations Command Allen. Mr

of | betere flying back to Washington i American Assistant Secon, Hammarskjeeld, successful. Four-Power con- any new plans

In the event of

State and For Eastern

same expert, the

evening.-France- the President. Presse. ference cannot be con- a breakdown in the Korean accompanied

France was represented by the sidered notably bright, the political conterence, if was re- occasion will offer itself as

vealed here after the Big Three Director of Far Eastern Affairs yet another test of Russian this morning had dealt with at the French Foreign Ministry,

Far Eastern problems at a two- M. Jacques Roux. sincerity, both in motives

bour meeting. and intentions. It has been

The

Prime Minister's request

GENERAL BITUMMION

BIG FOUR

MEETING,

JANUARY 4

Washington, Dec. 7.. The Western "Big Three" will propose to Russia that four-Power Foreign the Ministers meeting in Berlin

diplomatic sources here re- ported today.

the United States argument was understood to have follow-i general situation in the For without having to call another should be on January 4,

to

tho

keep Britain,

to take part in Four-Power talks cannot, at this time, France and the other aller in talks, the British Prime Minis the note, approved "without, began, Western diplomats thought

be rated higher than 41 Korea Informed of any

gesture. But if the

of

new now плу

moves over

the

con-developments · and ference materialises, Russia plans in order to avold will then be placed in spectacular position where she elther Korean situation,

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Iron Curtain Inside Story Of

Eisenhower's UN Speech

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London Express,

Conspiracy

From RENE MacCOLL

Bermuda, Dec. 7.

The inside story of the big speech-"The perils of the atom age in which we live"--which Mr Eisenhower is to deliver to the world from the United Nations headquarters in New York to- morrow is a story of the only real disagreement between Mr Eisenhower and Sir Winston Churchill.

When Sir Winston came to Bermuda he had no idea that such a gesture was in the minds of the President and his advisers.

When Mr Elsenhower showed, trol. But the

experia-recollint

16 the

Sir Winston the first draft of Russian refusal to go along with the speech he was "greatly up- an earlier scheme of the kind, Thereafter, Churchill, the Baruch Plan of 1918-are. with all the eloquence at his waiting to see if he can produce command tried to persuade a new approach which might be Eisenhower to forget the whole acceptable thing. Sir Winston

Soviets. took the London Express Service, that the speech as frst drafted would "profoundly shock the world," and he pointed out that skice ΝΑΤΟ forces in Europe, are now in the process of being equipped with atomic

other forms artillery and

ine

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atom weapons, the bluntness of Mr Elsenhower's speech might casily be construed as a threat;

But despite the vigour of Sir Winston Churchill's pleas. Mr

Eisenhow

War On Secret

Societies

Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 8. Malayan police, in a move to remained quite smash anationwide network

"sold" on the idea of the spe.ch.of outlaw secret societies, have arrested 80 key leaders throughout the cities

ideo is

of the

SOURCE OF IDEA The

understood to have come from one of Mr Federation, it was learned to-

day. Elsenhower's most highly prized advisers, C. D. Jackson, former Police officials estimate this magazine writer who has been some 10,000 persons are mem high in the councils of the bers President since the

of the Malaya. President's campaign last year. are

start

of

secret societies in The outlaw societies engaged in all forms of It was Jackson who pro- crime, especially extortion and duced the highly successful protection

rockets, police

campaign promise by Eisen- officers said. hower that he would personal- ly go at once to the Korean, Malayan. CID was created re battlefront if he were elected President.

When he reluctantly saw his protesta were in voln, Sir Winston Churchill set about using his influence to tone down 1110 speech 39 far as possible,

Mr Elsenhower had produced the maximum of "impt

Value" in his original

and

A ipecial now branch of the cently to deal with the secret society menace and police have entitled the present "Operation Thug"

crackdown

Arrests have been confined mainly to Kuala Lumpur, Telok On, Klang, Ipoh and Penang- United Press,

Churchill told him the shock SURPRISE FOR

Charge Against Gtering

con.

effect would have a bad and result on world “opinion: Teople were

aware,

ho told Mr Elsenhower, the potential horror of Arther reminder.

and H bombs and needed no

already

What they do need now is a cober

and constructive approach

of holding, to the problem

out reasonable hope that it can somehow be surmounted,

more alarmist vanished result of Winston

Somo

of the

"angica" have

now

AGAINST TIME

London, Dec. 7.

talking The Big Three were against time tonight in an all- The meeting of the Big Three out drive to end their Bermuda est was confined to a study of the discussion on world problems that Russia is unwilling to ed a denunciation by President East, with more detailed meeting tomorrow. give any positive ́signs of Eisenhower of what he examination of particular ques- The first concrete result of wanting to ease her inter-

described ns the Jilatory

lons left for discussion by ex- the conference is a note to be national relations with the tactics of the Communists 31 perts and by the foreign minis- | despatched to Moscow tomorrow President Eisenhower is said to Western world, and it must the current Panmunjom. Iniks iers of the three powers, well-which, it is understood, accepts have agreed on this date with be admitted that her offer Sir Winston, It was stated, Informed sources said.

Russia's proposal" for four- Sir Winston Churchill-and-M.- asked han immediately

Joseph Lanlet at Bermudu. Fresident

Initiative at the power talks in Berlin. Taking the

Bonn

Before the Bermuda conference reports tonight sald ter was reported to have urged

reservation"

by Dr Konrad the "Big Four" talks might be

Berlin, Dec. 7. that the policy of lessening in-

Adenauer, the West German in late January-mainly because

An American soldier, which ternational tension,

he

Chancellor. will suggest the of the French political situation, Robert Blevens, will go on favoured in Europe, should be first week in January for the with the inauguration of appled in the Far East, especial-

trial on Wednesday before Foreign Ministers President on January 19, ly in connection with Western Big Three

The Mr Vyacheslav

proposal of January 4 re- the American Court in West meeting with has to give substance to the A British proposal for free. policy towads Communist

China,

fected American

an determination Molotoy. gesture, or confirm Ameri-all-Korean elections was hand- President Eisenhower, however,

Ministers Berlin on charges of Sources in the West German to get the Fereign ed over to experts to study, It was reported to have indicated capital, to which the draft text meeting ove: Bs

Esspiring with an East Ger of

quicicly suspicions

hor

was revealed..

that it was not possible for was sent from Bermuda as possible to allow France to man organisation whose from the speech as a integrity. She is no longer

Commercial relations with America to soften its attitude to metter of routine, said the note approve membership in the pro purpose is the overthrow by the counsel from Sir able to pull wool over the Communist China also played a words the Feking government is a short one about a page posed six-nation European army force of the United States Churchill and Lord Cherwell. It eyes of the rest of the part in this

thereafter, morning's Forbatore the results of the pro-long- Eastern talks and this question jested Korean political confer--and suggests that the Big Immediately

dalks should Four

deal with sources here said. ence were known.

The European sécurity, including that

Secretary of State, Mr The Indo-China situation, it of Germany.

John Foster Dulles, is reported to stated, was only briefly

It upholds the European De be determined not to prolong the mentioned by M. Bidault and fence Community and rejects Berlin conference. Indefinitely was due to be discussed by Russian charges that the scheme the Russians should convert experis in the

afternoon.

-including West German mill-into a forum for new propaganda The American spokesman, Mr tary contribution is anything moves against the West-Reuter, James Hagerly, after the com

offensive, the Bonn sources ference this morning, revealed but that the vast question of the Far East had been the topic of would probably be held in the They added that the meeting the general discussion of the Big! Three during their two-hour, Allied Control Council Building meeting but that this problem in the American zone of Berlin. had

also

brought been

in parallel talks all through the conference-nt lunches, dinners and other functions where con- verrations could be held in an Informal atmosphere,

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Не is also charged with having connived with a German woman, Ingrid Jonck, to incite American soldiers to desert.

Blevens is reported to have descried his unit, stationed in Berlin, in April this year. Ho gave himself up later in the same month and was imprisoned pending trial for desertion, but he managed to escape, on May 10.

He was re-arrested on August 20. An American Army com munique wid psychiatrie Blovens examination, showed

of. full possession

had

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A source close to Dr Adenauer's Cabinet called it a "good note."

In Paris tonight thero was re- Het at the Western decision to

Bermuda, Dec. 7. meet Rusla, and the Bermuda

A usually reliable French talks were described as "Chur-

President Elsen faculties-France-Presse. source said chill's conference"

of the because

hower apd Sir

Winston British Prime Minister's cager Churchill were today consider

for a Big Four get together, ing a French plea to support a d'Arcy Edmondson, said that At Berords talks headquarters the talks on the European De the only French reservation, it move to obtain an extension of

EDO TALKS END

The British spokesman, Mr ress fo

Subjects Taboo

M. Georges Bidault, French Foreign Minister, made the co- quest yesterday Huring the Big Three's talks on the European Defence Community

Dean's New

The

Offer

hir

Panmunjom, Dec. 8, M, Bidault said the extensión

United States special of NATO, which now has 18 years to run before members voy, Mr Arthur Dean, today offered the Communists a draft aro entiled to opt out would

for arrangingro help French ratification of the agreement

Korea conference and said he EDC treaty, which is for a 50- was authorised to sign it.

offer came` after Mr Dean's year Eisenhower was non-his visit to Seoul yesterday and conference with Dr Syngman

term

fence Community had been con- was learned was a preference the Atlantio Pact to 50 years cluded and had not bec for a date after January 17. for from its present life of 20 years. brought up at Ula morning's the conference with Russia. conference.

But French statemen were Mr Edmondson added that the sald not to be particularly comuments- of the West German hostile" to a meeting earlier next Chancellor, Dr Konrad Aden-month-Router. auer, on the text of the Western reply to the Soviet, note en a four-power conference in Berlin had not yet reached Bermuda but that the three delegations were hoping to receive a com-

New York, Dec. 7. Adenauer munication from Dr

Britain today declined to today

The British spokesman said he tion, the anti-Mau Mau cam could not give an indication when pain in Kenya and the de Churchill stressed the im Ambassador to

final communique on the position of the Kabaka of portance of obtaining a Europeinador to Korea, Mr. Ellis

themade Bermuda conference would be Buganda.

army and did not smuggast The offer was made så published.

These matters were raised by alternative ways 02. rearming This afternoon,

the

three India In the 10-nation Trustee the West Germans, a

question of prisoners refusing a source repatriation appeared to be bo Middle Eart questions and the Nations General Assembly.

int way

of the preliminary talks talks were expected to contious

The British dolegate, Mr W. port

W. portance of keeping, Brilah and here. The liste had looked until the evening. GAM Mathleron, told the Com American troops in Burope and like, becoming an olatacie to

President Eisenhower, who was mittee that these matters word said the 123 German? divisions an agreements Important working on his scheduled speech outside, its work. No further planned, under. EDC should not the existing difficulty of deciding on atomic matters to be de discussion took place and the be regarded as taking the place the status the Soviet Union, livered before the United Na- Committee: completed its work of the Anglo-American forecs, ——- should assume at any Koron Hong'o General Assembly. will for the present on Reuter Raub

conference Router.

the

discuss Central African Fedora commitial' yesterday. Winston Abee and the United States

Both ho and

tho

Western Jozders" were ‹ discussing í ship Committee of the Unitedwar Bidaule) stressed, the coming: a new dificulty in the

is understood that Mr Elsen- hower intends to put forward a plan for international atonic con-

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