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Absolutely No Progress

GREEN On Austrian

FINGERS

Question

Berlin, Feb. 16.

The Big Four Foreign

ELOQUENCE try days to go before their con-

ALOQUENCE is part of Ministers, with only two

Welshman, and most are #o skilled with words that on their tongues a laundry Ist, recited, sparkles like a poem.

When Dal Green Finger, cums into the dock ut Bow Stat,

therefore, and when we heard his name and saw the are in his yes and the way is thinning hair swept back as though he

bad used a whirlwind for a comb that morning we all, in court,

prepared for uratory above the

average.

"You are charged," said the ienened clerk, in Bus official (epts, "with being a suspected per- son, loitering with intent to commit a felony-to steal from mvattended cars. How do you _*t<? *

SILENCE

Now for it, we said to our- selves, and waited to receive the Row of wortis. But only silence

crime.

on

ference here ends, made absolutely no progress the Austrian problem to- day, a British spokesman said tonight.

They decided, make a final Ercement on

however, to effort to reach Thursday when they are due to wind up the wh.ch began more conference, than three weeks ago.

Dr Leopold Figl, Austrian Foreign Minister,

rejected the amendments which Mr Vyache- alov Molotov. Soviet Foreign Minister, wanted to attach to the

existing 52-article draft independence treaty, to which all four powers had already agreed. The main amendment is one which would permit

mit troops of the Big Four powers to remain in Austris after the signature

clusion of the treaty and until the con- D German peace treaty.

of

"Cun you hear me?" the learned cleric asked louilly. Mr Molotov stuck to his pro- posni for the temporary reten-

Still no answer from Dal

He was told Dai was not deaf.ilon of troops,

but offered to

No repeated his question. There reconsider the matter "not later was still no answer.

"I' enter A plen of not guilty," said Mr R. H. Blundell, the magistrate, and called evidence.

for

Two policemen told of watch- ing Dai for half-an-hour the

now?"

night before, and seeing him try the door handles of three cars. THE PAST SPEAKS WHAT would you like to do magistrate asked when the story was done. "Give evidence on oath

the witness-box, make statement from where you are,

the

ar say nothing?"

Doi only glowered.

"Very well,

n

I and

the cast proved,"

Huld the magistrate, and turned to the police ofeer guin, "Anything known?" he asked.

This man is identical with a man with convictions," said the officer. " will read vut the last three,"

He did. Two of the convictions were for trying to steal from cars, the third for shop-breaking.

went on,

WORDS IN CHECK "He was released from prison, Just, in January 1952," the officer

"He tells me he is jobbing gardener by trade, and that he has had no regular work for two months.

Before

that, he was going foto somewhere near Guild-

days a

He week. hostel in London."

want to question the on anything he has said?" and

"Do

officer

you

Dal,

Mr Blundell asked used the silence that followed to man in the dock, study the thinking, perhaps, how strange it was that a man who looked to be almost bursting with bottled- up fury, should follow such a gentle recupation

1lowers.

да

tending

THE STORM BREAKS FTER the long pause when It became clear Dai did not wish to speak, the magistrate sak: "There's far too much of this going on. Go to prison for three months."

Then the storm burst, and Dal,

with wild,

impassioned gestures, broke his silence. "I beg your pardon," he roared. "Tis nothing but a damnable racket, all thisy,

"I beg your pardon, but 'tis all lies, lies, lies. Three times

it

I had been here, and 1hree times

been framed against me....

has,

The magistrato was entering the sentence in his register. The gaoler caught Dol's failing arm,

than in 1955."

The Sovici

delegation had made concessions to the Western poine of view on Austria in the hope of getting the treaty signed before the conference ended, he said.