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COMMENT OF THE DAY

First Things

First

Molotoy's was Mr

Intention to spread early

disillusionment uver the outcome of the four power talks in Berlin he has certainly gone the right way about achieving it. There

WA

neither conciliatlon nor the spirit of compromise to be found associated with his opening speech at the conference. He ignored com- pletely Mr Eden's offer on behalf of the Western Powern to guarantee Soviet Recurity,

instead in

dreary repetition of demanding appilention of the Potsdam

launched

T

IL

and Yolla agreements

HOW

which, he knows full well, clrcumstance have rendered impracticable and inapplicable to the prob- Jems of the day. That Mir Molotov's proposed three- point agenda places con- sideration of a Five Power conference, the German question and an Austrian peace treaty in that order need occasion no surprise; it was expected. What is disappointing and frustrat- ing is Mr Molulov'a attitude of intractability and the in which he is already injecting pro- paganda into the dis- cussions. Public opinion in the Western

world han

manner

rightly insisted that every endeavour should be made to persuade Russin to a con- ference. Great patience has beon shown-and also much swallowing of diplo- matic discourtesies which, carried to the very prelimi- narles of the talks, appeared to be tactical Josses to the Big Three. Yet it was felt those would not matter if Russin displayed some sweet reasonableness at the din cussions, accompanied by

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FIVE-POWER TALKS A "MUST" Tanker On

SAYS MOLOTOV Invite China,

Demands Inclusion Of Communist China

INDULGES IN TIRADE AT

BERLIN

CONFERENCE

Berlin, Jan. 25.

A hard-hitting, outspoken Soviet Foreign Minister tonight bluntly told the foreign ministers of the three great Western nations that, in the cyes of the rulers in the Kremlin, top priority must be given to a five- power conference with Communist China.

The Soviet government, declared the Soviet Foreign Minister, was prepared to make a concrete proposal on the calling of such a conference to take place some time after the Berlin conference,

M. Vyacheslav Molotov, speak ing at the opening session of the Berlin conference immediately after the French Foreign Minister, M.

Georges Bidault, and the British Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden;

went straight into a forceful resume of Soviet complaints against the West. He spoke at such length

- 20 duplicator-typed pages, including

a French and English version distributed with the original Russian copy that the American Secretary of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, was forced, despite Soviet objections, to postpone his introductory speech until

tomorrow.

M. Molotov's opening speech took the conference by surprise. la it he renewed all the classic allegations made by the Soviet Union against the Wert the American camp, which had and caused considerable disappointment in warmly welcomed the short, conciliatory speeches of M. Bidault and the British Foreign Secretary.

the

re

early show of good intentions. Unfortunately, nothing that Mr Molotov said yesterday helped in any way to justify those hopes, HAT the conference has got THAT off

disappointing start is wholly the fault of Mr Molotov. Buth Mr Eden and would try to put the con- speak for themselves. It is only

to

Nevertheless, it would be wrong to assume that the talks are destined to break down before they have a

under way.

The Soviet Foreign Minister,

renewal of foriner attacks ngainst American bases and the European defence

ministers

11 three-point

the

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he

CONDITION PRIMARY

a

ends, wou

would be the principal

take

It is

the

Urges Daily Express

London, Jan. 26.

The right-wing Daily Express declared today that Britain's part in the Berlin conference should

bo

to use her inituence to bring China to the con- ference table.

circulation

This Masa newspaper added: **It may be said that Molotoy's first remark on arriving in

Berlin stremed the value of Chinese participation.

Ro

ana

that to invite China, it would be to give Russių a diplomatie victory.

This

a poity short-sighted view. far more important to re- member that Russia, with a long frontier in Asia to worry her, is unlikely make pesco In Europe until the can see the out- Iines of a settlement in the For East.

to

"And settlement In the Far East cannot be resched without China.”—Kenter.

SABOTAGE ABOARD CARRIER

London, Jan, 25,

A new case of sabotage WAS discovered tonight aboard the British air. craft carrier, HMS In- present defatigable, at lying off Portland.

Churchill,

Marksman

the

Father Is Convicted Of Manslaughter

Minmi, Florida, Jan. 25. Husky Russell Tongay WB8 convicted of man- the slaughter today in high-dive death of his swimming star daughter und sentenced to 10 years in prison.

An all-male Cireult Court jury deliberated less than an hour before it returned a verdict of guilty against the 20-year-old who Guardsman, former Const had been pictured as a drill- mester who made his children perform dimcult aquatic feats.

His weeping wife, the main witness for the defence, was in the courtroom when the verdict was returned, Tongay himself appeared imperturbable, as he And through most of the four- day trin

trini, Judge

Willard fixed the

punishment for Tongay at 10 yours hard labour.

In his summation, the assistant Prosecutor, A. C. Dresster, as- serted that for purely "selfsh

guin" Tonizay put his children hrough perilous routines in

their "Aquatots" act.

The

child Kathy died last May 0. several hours after p high dive which the State con- tended resulted in a fatal in- Jury. United Press.

i

13.

VIN CRUE DIE V MEICA

Fifty-eight men and women

Fire

were rescued by lifeboat!

from a flame-swept Navy oil tanker' in the Bristol - Chupet Inst work. The ship was then abandoned, blazing foriously In the moonlight. This graphlo merial ploture shown 'the tanker as the flames swept the whole stern of the venel, lighting up

the ripple-surfaced Bristol Channel-Dally Express Photos

Hemingway Describes

Two Amazing

His

Escapes

Entebbe, Uganda, Jan. 25.

Ernest Hemingway arrived in Entebbe today clutching a bunch of bananas and a bottle of gin after surviving two plane crashes in the. elephant country of Uganda.

His head was swathed in bandages and his arm was injured, but the cele-

she is running very good." brated American author quipped: "My luck -

canopy.

he builed open the rear door and scrambled out, His wife and the pilot also e9- caped but all their luggage was destroyed.

but "We had emergency goods were short on water he said. -around "Africa¬la; his

Mr Hemingway sald that, in Press. order to miss the birds the plane had to land either on a crocodiles sandspit where six lay basking in the African bu or on an elephant track through chose the thick scrub. Marsh scrub, and pancaked the plane

-revealed ——Úrilted

HUGE BLAZE AT RUBBER PLANT Toronto, Jan. 25.

pile of

swept through ́nTM stock-

1,000,000 reconditioned

a rubber plant today,

with his wife, saying with minor damage. They spent tyres at her Moring attracted clephants Saturday night around a camp-causing an estimated $1,000,000 as they camped overnight near fee, surrounded by the elephant damage in Toronto's worst fire the wreckage of the first plane herd, and sought a ride yester in several years.

taunch that crash-landed on Saturday day mining with a

the full of tourists back to Butlaba near Murchison Falls an

on Lake Albert, Upper Nile,

Wiren tho second

Firemen said the blaze, which the National · Rubber gutted Company plant in the city's HELD THEIR BREATH

plane West End, may smoulder. for "We held our breaths about ground-Icoped and caught fire, two days-United Press. i

two hours while an elephant 12 paces away was silhouetted in the moonlight, listening to my wife's shorts," he roared.

war T In view of the tenor of e, single independent state left in the danger of a new

Mr Dulles an-Ash which has not established | Europe. Soviet stanci,

An

spokesman Admirally the with relations

He said that people were de- nounced that he would volun- political

limit- said that the dials of the boller- torily postpone his opening Chinese People's Republic or, at kasing themselves about

under | room equipment had been that tho statement as he could not leave teast, which is not intending to ing German milliarism

He added: smashed, but added this arrangement. unanswered what he regarded do so."

threeThe formation of the so-called damage had done no harm to M. Molotov told the as "classic and stale allegations

Western foreign ministers that European ariny, or to put it the carrier's sea-going functions. in M. Molotov's remarks.

formation of by an- in all, 36 countries, large and more exactly, the Greatly disappointed

of states

This was the fourth case of army of some

the sabotage of the intract small, whose populations totalled an

discovered ' aboard other repetition of able Soviet viewpoint, as an about three billion inhabitants, western Europe in which

With him won his wife Mary. | Hemingway never dared write, he said, army of West Germany, having HMS Indefatigable. American spokesman tonight had established diplomatic

She had two cracked ribs and for one of his fictional heroes. and rovenge-rezking Chinese

Kitcrive RIVE called It, it was

was announced that

He said the blue and silver In the three previous cases, lations

with

was limping as the $5-year-old Mr Dulles, who had drafted a

cable was cut, People's Republic.

the ship's Hemingway helped her tenderly single-engined Cessna they hired }s

he continued, force, could lead to the creation a clear," roncliistory speech in keeping

from a defensive of

union

of other telephone network was damaged

car that brought them for the night to Murchison Falls to and an oil tank was drained. "without any need for further

order

here from Butiaba, 100 miles crashed when pilot Marsh dived European with the tone of the British and

states in world

facts delegations,

that the old explanations

Similar

at low altitude to avoid hitting sabotage away. cases of guarantee their recurity." French

tomorrow answer M, Molotov

M. Molotov pointed out that were recently discovered aboard

Although he declined an offer a flying flock of black and white The trip in North America that no coun-

HMA carrier. the countries of Europe would the 13,500-ton

to By out of the jungles right jungle birds big enough to smash wife's Christmas present, Mr

Homingway the and M. Bidault expressed ference back on the right

then be divided into two mill- | Warrior, the destroyer, try has yet taken this step."

Bar-after his second crash yesterday, themselves

of neur and The Soviet government, 111 tones of track."

tary camps, the existence

a submarine repair Me Hemingway said with a grin accentuate said took the position that this which would moderation and jointly held

the ship.-France-Presse.

that he would fly again as soon situation

picgiant with Au

as he finds another plane. out an olive branch to the

dangers of war. danger. Russian representative which

M. Molotov declared: "It is

He waved a swollen arm, community, Taking up the German que5-

wrapped in a torn shirt, and he brusquely rejected. called TH the four foreign tion, M. Molotov said that the above cil the ecuntries of con-

appeared to

to be

in high spirits as to give top priority study of this was indirsclubly tinental Europe, like the USSR

he brushed nside the nearly which must at the Berlin talks to a Ave-linked to the general question of and France

tragic crashes, into account the creation of such power conference with Coin-

asosurity guarantee in Europe.

He dangerous situation, munist Calna.

He added: "Only this kind of munis

proposed a solution of the Gennan problem quite understandable that there chance of really getting agenda, M, Molotov placed in will be durable and just and will are in France an increasing

Mr Molotov's secondl place the

London, Jan. 25. German contribute to the reinforcement number at opponents of the

in which European army and. thirdly, proposed agenda is not in question

an of peace in Europe."

Seventy-nine-year-old British dominant place will be occupied itself wholly unacceptable; | Austrian slate treaty.

Prime Minister, Sir Winston by the army of West Germany aircrted by Here

Churchill, today picked up the The Foreign Minister told the

genzrais, only the order of the sub-

three Wean foren minters The Soviet Foreign Minister

Belgian what kind of new

30 self-loading jects. The Big Three have thre

that bevatise

of of rifle-and, to Chinese declared that the primary con-who have shown

surprise never rejected the suggestion

Republe. which he} ikien for

to the propic they are as occupiers Eolution People's

offlecra present, hit the of a five power conference

called the "legitimate repre- posiblilty of new attempts rif

German question was that any French territory."

M. Molotov said that there target every time, (including Communist sentative of the Chinese people,

unified Germany Visiting an army range near Chinn) being at some time was 1101 represented in the German militarism to unicash a

unless it was a peaceful Ger-Chequers, his country home, Sir in the future convened, but United Nations, no Important third world war be excluded.

for that, it was Winston decided to test the new of many. And, the clauses step relating to world security

Referring to they do insist that the

the Yalta and Potsdam agree- necessteady reached: the rifle with which the British army of Chicago, smiled.

already of

and other Atlantic forces will "And when we wake her," current Big Four talks shall could be adopted.

an-France-Soviet treaty, the Angabe equipped. ments banning the re-birth

A former cavalry continued Mr Hemingway first deal with the German

German militarism and guaran-

Soviet treaty and the Peissamm

officer at the turn of the century, a wave of the gin bottle, "sho reconstruction problem and the Austrian

teeing peaceful

timed Cote doastors

at preventing Sir Winston riddled the target cald, said of Germany, M. Molotov

I never shore. You've got with the skill of a bor marks- fixation about it. I repised, peace treaty, and if Mr Molotov is prepared to re-

that the Soviet people and the lany German remment,

ATOMIC WEAPONS Biltala and people of France,

man. Referring to atomic matters,

officers learned So has the elephant."" Later, army vise the order of his pro-

of the United States

then Mr Hemingway

gave mtist adopt

KIM. decisions on the German 'ques need

Molotov posed agenda, it will be

emphasised the that the Prime Minister had imitation of the howl of a wild for taking decisions to already hed the new gun to

to illustrate how he talked He commented that

dog Ave- tien tiet

b3 WIL ponsible for the four foreign

interns-ban the use the

of the

atomic pieces at his official residence in ministers to settle down to power meeting, in his opinion, fermity

around their campfire in the the weapon, the hydrogen weapon London, 10 Downing Street, to with the animals that poketi at the was indispensable to put on end

zmong carnext business

tional agreements

of mass study its mechanism. of the

other weapons United and Berlin conference. It will to the armaments race.

government

The new rifle can be used for wilds on Saturday night. the United States, destruction. He added that the had Kingdom,

"Every animal detests the This race, he asserted,

"When be the task of Mr Dulles

of single shots or as an automatie which Soviet delegation would, the United the USSR and France, been started by

DUVIL

or during wild dog fie explained.

the animals today to try and persuade

course, base itself on the fact in freezing weather Skats. "Corlain powers," he have adhered to

unexpected emergency. you how!, Mr Molotov to adopt a

answer then you know where continued, "are carrying out

Emphasising that the cbjce that, in the last few days, a un

of discussing France-Presse.

they are. realistic appreciation of the long-range plans which have tive aimed at was European precise manner,

Mr Hemingway, who prime designs of the con- the aim of setting up military security, the

Foreign Minister the atomie question had been on foreign territory far continuablishment of Ger-

outlined, of "The problem

Jived as dangerously as the ference. There is plenty of bases

heroes, of ble staccato Betion, acnsiblo for

was examined by a doctor at room

said that they do this for defen-ma unity and the creation of an M. Molotov both sides.

Butlabo,

of the second promise

ends, aMhough these who all-German government is in- be opportune

on Austrian state There must also be patience. Isten to

plane crash, An X-Ray WAY them and those who dissolably linked to the ques-question of

advised but apparently he was The inaues are of paramount make such statements do not tion of knowing if a united treaty at the prosent conference. that the question

Washington, Jan, 20.

not badly hurt." Importance to the whole of believe it."

Germany will be a democratie Ho odded

occurred The Defence

creab "It is clear to everybody,"

The Department Europe and any progress declared M. Molotov, "that the and peace-loving stató, or if it should be worked out on the

again become lines of the present agreement today ordered the Army to ive when a Cesna pilated by Roy will onco getting up of American military

., and militaristic

aggressive between the four powers with hases in many European, œsun-state."

the safeguard that Austria did dishonourable discharges to the Marab cracked up near the 21. Americans who refused to 400-foot fails while making an Search trics, in North Africa and on M. Molotov went on to say not become an Instrument in come home from Commuhlst emergency landinge

who flew over rRNALANG the territory of certain countries that it was imposible that the "forces of aggression and

of elephants"

*dangerous. of the Near East and Middle Germany va a whole, or any in particular, the instrument of announ

Secretary

Mrly neartan East have nothing "In cenmon part of Gerntany whatsoever, German militarian

Charles 201

Vulison, said it would "The second crash occurred Returning to the China farne, should be drawn into a grouping the European Deterge

Immediately end all pay and Sundaying the Foreign

allowances for the individuals had described as a "mil-

on

com-

towards their solution will have a beneficial effect on

the international situation generally. Mr Molotov is in

a position to hasten that

progresa ly agreeing to put

Arat things first, namely

CRITICISES US

M. Molstov vigorously critic ised the United States, which he held responsible for keeping Communist China outside of the United Nations,

from

their own borders. It in

with defensive purposes,"

tackling the German and M. Molotov declared that an auch S

131 con-

Austrian questions, while | agreement in Korea was dimouit Community, who EKK the Western Powers can precisely because the existered make their contribution to of Communist China was being tary blog of a group of European A countries directed against other the same ond by indicating ignored.

DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS

Mates, n

Europe Molotov a willingness to expand the donounced what he, caned

ovi afferted, that the talks Into a five power con-ross violations of the Korean creation of the Kuropean ** would ference should there be use armistice agreement referring t ful results from the Berlin prisoners and addech, with grea) disctissions.“

"emphasis,

could

Be no

In the course of his statement, said that it would

+

to discuss the

Dishonourable Discharge

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Police Fire On-

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Mrs Hemingway, the former war orrespondent Mary Welsh

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the BUNDLE

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instructed, the Secretary of

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Bombay, Jah. 251. One atrilogy was killed and Injured. today when

fors, ouields strike

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his

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