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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 10, 1954.
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NEW WEAPONS FOR Lively Commons Debate
The Meaning Is THE
Different
URING the Berlin con.
Dference the East German
Communist Government an- nounced that ali-German elections could only be allowed on condition they were
free
"In democratie Benko of word." Next Sunday Germans, and others,
that the.
the
the
are
to be given another demon- stration of what Commun- ists mean by free elections "in the democratic scrise of the word," for on that day the people of the Soviet Union itself are to elect n new Supreme Soviet. this. according
And to the
Kusalan press, in "the
BRITISH NAVY
"Homing" Device For Destroying Submarines
Equal Pay For Women
Petition
Mr Butler Replies To 25 Questions
London, Mar. 9. Spring bonnets and a hint most democratic election in } of perfume filled the House the world." If the terms of of Commons today when the Soviet Constitution of Britain's determined women 1936 are taken
face tackled the Chancellor of value the claim would not the Exchequer on the ques-
to be exaggerated, for Article 14 lays down tlon of "equal pay for equal
work." of
appear
that
the
on
Constitution of
the
any
realised
But Mr R. A. Buller, smiling, parried their thrusts-25 pointed praise questions-with gallant and soft words.
mid Word
members Supreme Soviet "are chosen by the electors on a basis of
equal universal,
and direct suffrage by secret
The attack opened ballot." This seems to fulfil cheers when Miss Irene ni the conditions for (Conservative), wearing genuinely free elections. It green and white hat-colours of might well have been the first suffragette movement copied word for word from which won women the right to vole presented petitions with "bourgeois democracy." But 30.000 signatures to an official attendant superbly digulfed in it remains to be
full evening dress. that there is an important
Then more
ore petitions difference in practice. | øver a million Every adult Soviet citizen has a right to vote. He is free to choose his member of the Supreme Soviet. That is, he has in theory, the right to choose. But in no choice. practice he han For in each constituency there
single is only candidate, and he (or she) is the candidate of the "Communist and non-party bloc." It is noticeable that enndidates need not necas- sarily be members of the Communist Party: un the other hand
-party being non candidates must be persona
"devoted who are
to the cause of Leninism-Stalinism.
In other words they must have Communist approval.
HER
ERE then is the model of free elections "in the democratic
of верне
the
word." They are, in fact, elections which only pro- duce, and can only produce an alignment of nominees in which there is no possibility of opposition of of any dissenting voice of Another Any consequence,
London, Mar. 9.
Mr J. P. Thomas, First Lord of the Admiralty, told the House of Commons today that greatly improved "homing" weapons for destroying sub- marines when located would shortly be in service with the British Navy.
He did not give any details, but an Admiralty spokesman said the weapons would be launched from aircraft. They would "chase" submarines and "home" on to their targets.
This is distinct from the improved type of depth charge as fired from ships by a kind of multiple mounting.
This, the spokesman said, is partly of greatly improved asdie (underwater detection) gear fitted in the modern anti-submarine frigate. It contains an electric brain which when it locates a submarine sets about destroying it by automatically operat- ing a more deadly anti-submarine mortar than has ever been used before in war.
The equipment
automatically year, has a rate of fire which controls the mortar. It locates, will compare with heavy with alms, fires and sets its bombs to machine guns, he said. names were explode at
the correct depth He added that the Navy brought in by Mr
Charies without human
Qic! thus in- would have a new six inch gun Parnell (Labour) and neatly
creasing the "kicking" power of fur cruisers with a rate of fire stacked on the floor.
three times as fast as that in escort ships many times. Miss Ward read her pettuon
Mr Thomas said that British existing cruisers even the most which asked for "legislation to
anti-rubmarine aireratt would be modern-Router. establish equal pay for equal filed with Improved rudar for
between men and
the delection of submarine's women in the Public service, snort breathing apparatus which and thus toplement a principle projects above the water. They which has been accepted by your would also erry buoys which honourable house in 1920, 1936, would
can be dropped for detecting 1944 and 1982,"
submerged submarines,
Another
weapon submarine warfare
be would hollcopters, he gall. Their
work
A barage of questions follow- ed and Mr Butler said he would answer them ten at a time.
"EXPLOITED"
anti-
Dr Edith Summerski, Labour, ability to hover with a locating Fald women civil servants were device suspended in the sen-a
labour**
tl
Accusation Levelled
At McCarthy
Washington, Mar. 9. Senator Ralph E. Flan- beders (Rep. Vermont) told
exploited ILA
asdic" promised "cheap"dipping
Improvement in the countries great and that than Britain did not so accuracy with exploit their
elvil merged women servants. Mr Butler replied fixed.
which
submouring
A cout!
sub-
C
and Members of
Parliament
should have equal pay and net the civil servants In attendance the Chancellor the House.
(omid laughter and retorted ret
good many cheers) things to do with women,, it is entirely illogical."
"Like
A
He pointed out that the cost of implementing equal pas consideration to be appre- throughout the civil service and clated in estimating the in the teaching profession importance of next Sun- would be over £30,000,000.
"AN has been repeatedly day's elections is that, de-
"it is the spite its august title, the stated," he said,
not
tention does
of the Government to Supreme Soviet
make a start in the introduction in the play any vital role governing of the country. of equal pay in the civil service
as the financiai 500m
navl meets only
economic situation of the coun brief try permits."
It usually
not
to
or
up
Pancake Race Climax
The annual
pancake
race at Olney, Bucks, this year was won by 32-year- old Mrs Joan Keech, who collapsed at the end of the race and declared, "Never again.” But after she had recovered she bestowed a kiss on'the Rev. Ronald Collins, one * of the officials,
Free Hand For Geneva
Porter Battered
To Death
Shocking London Crime
Promised
CANAL ZONE POLICY TO BE ATTACKED
London, Mar. 10. Sir Winston Churchill's Government faces a determined attack in the House of Commons on Thursday over its policy on the future of the Suez Canal zone base.
Parliament will deal with this issue in a debate on the Army estimates. The Labour Oppo- sition will try to drive a wedge between the Government and a group of 40 Conservatives who challenge their own leaders' policy on the Anglo- Egyptian dispute.
These Conservatives recently presented a motion asking the Government to call off negotia. tions with Cairo on the revision of the 1936 Anglo- Egyptian treaty and to withdraw any terms already offered,
C
the Party's will meet tonight to plan the
The Labour "shadow Cabinet" Parliamentary leaders Opposition attack.
www.m
Simultaneously the 40 ConsY- The Conservative "rebels" vatives will conter privately on have to make up their minds the attitude in the debate.
how far they are prepared to There now appears to be some push their own criticism with the Government, already. under division of opinion among them.
the Labour Party attack from the Opposition Many of want to criticise the Govern
Some of the Conservative ment by alleging it had
It has dragged critics said this week the eclipse Its feet on the Suez negotiations and subsequent neatsterment of in deference to
General Naguib justifled their to its rebels.
40
'it
Should
But Labour Opposition has Argument that the Egyptian been complicated by & resolus Government is unstable and that flon put forward by Mrs Barsegotiations with bara Castle, one of the superefore be called of China
Special. Aneurin Bevan, porters of Mr Labour's left-wing leader,
This asks Parlament to note London, Mor. 9. "a deterioration since 1951 in
A 60-year-old night porter the living conditions of British of a hotel in London's South troops in the Canal zone due to Kensington district was uncertainty as to the future of
Couference found bound and gagged the broo
and battered to death early today.
According
was
IN CONFLICT "Deploring the Government's handling of the Anglo-Egyptian
of
Taking A Rest
Cairo, Mar. 8.
Gemal
Lieutenant-Colonel
Abdel Naster, Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister, said tonight he is talaing Ave days' rest on the advice of
of his doctor.
Colonel Nasser became Prima
Minister when President Naguib resigned in last month's gavern- tment crisis, only to lose the post last night when General Naguib already reinstatḍ -- resumed supreme authority,
HEAD-ON CRASH
Paris, Mar. 10. Kitchen maids who went to negotiations, "which has pro- The French Government the pantry early this morting longed
thin uncertainty," that withdrawal last night emerged from the sercomed when they found the urges
and equipment and battered body of British troops Indo-China debate, which bloody stocky,
grey-haired George should begin forthwith. National Smart in a corner began in the
of the tluy This unqualified demand for
Colonel Nagaor has bcen Assembly last Friday, with room.
the withdrawal of troops con- replaced by President Naguib flicts a free hand for the Genova
with official Labour both as Prime Minister and as to the
It is learned that Mrs Chairman of polles, policy.
the Revolution conference on the Far East Smart
tackled the Intruders, Castle has since decided to cut Council-Reuter. but somewhat cramped in but
overpowered and cut this part of her resolution, its current
which negotiations trussed up and dragged to the
some Socialists think with Vietnamese Ministers pantry where he was battered would heal rather than widen
to death. No sounds of the the breach between the Gov- Rosario, Argentina, Mar. 9. in Paris.
struggle were heard despite the ernment and its "Suez rebels."
Two long-distance banes The Labour shadow Cabinet] crowded with passengers crashed A motion approving the Gov-night quiet that reig uver the
must decide today whether it head-on today on the national ernment's policy and welcoming shabby gentility of the district.
can advise its adherents to sup-highway between here and the Geneva conference was
About £2 and some cigarettes port the resolution as amended. Cordoba. First reports. ísald approved by a show of hands
were missing frem the hotel Many Socialists are deter- seven persons were killed and after being given priority over
office, apparently the total haut mined to force a vote. other proposed motions by 340
for which
George Smart votes to 272.
battered to death.
Miss Mary Boylin, a 21-year- old art student who lives in the hotel, said today that Smart was "not, the sort of man to stand any nonsense from anybody."
Miss Baylin was one of the
was
that the splendid ladles of the Submarines, Mr Thomas saul, the United States Senate civil service would not regard were also being provided with today that Senator Joseph
usdies. The McCarthy themselves as being exploited as much improved
was doing his Navy
VCTY best also was
going cheap labour.
break
the When asked why Ministers thoroughly into "novel and pro-
party, mising new devices for clearing Republican
either wilfully
through all types of mines.
NEW JET FIGHTER
ignorance. Mr Thomas said progress was
The real danger to the being made in the producing of
swept back wing carrier-borne security of the United States and was to be found without, Jet Aghier. This machine would
within as claimed by the carry air to air guided missiles Senator from Wisconsin, Sena- for air combat and an atom bomb for Flanders declared. if required. It was capable of
One only had to look to supersonic speeds.
Korea where the Iron Curtain He also reported "ateady pro-had been moved down to the presa"
the development of a truce line by force of arms, in "Large guldod miselle for fleet deflanco, of the principles and and convoy protection".
of the purposes of the United The first gulded weapon trials Nations, or to Indo-China ship would be fitted out shortly where
been our country has he added.
of assigned to play the part Mr Thomas said it would bo n
of colonialism," supporter mistake to imagine that guided Senator Flanders said.
But to secure this victory the weapons would be in general
Government had to accept a In Europe "Italy was ready a year for a
service at sea or would supersede to Into the hands of the Gaullist-sponsored addition session of three to four days, Mr Emanuel Shinwell, pro- for years yet
as a Communists," while France was
the motion which, in effect, The Supreme Soviet is little testing from the Opposition weapon af medium and close solute, palsied in thought warned the Indo-Chinese States more than a financo
of the fleet and and com- side, asked "isn't it about time range defence
either stay in with her Com-
that
they must cit mction,
the French Union or be prepared last people to see Smart alive. munista woll
and organised mittee. All the real power the Chancellor stopped talking convoys against air attack..
lot of nonsense? Isn't it Mr Thomas was asking
to defend themselves against the He opened the hotel door to her sure of their ground," the Sena- and authority la vested in a
Communist-led Vietminh Army when she returned just after he doesn't intend House of Commons for £353,- for claimed. a tiny group of men in the case that
000,000 for the Navy for Senator McCarthy "should not without the help of the French midnight, Kremlin, responsible to do anything at all?"
to
Question time over, Mr year 1954/55.
expeditionary force. work So
33 to conceal the none but themselves, who Douglas Houghton, Labour, was
This
Government the
·loft An Admiralty spokesman sald mortal danger in which our
10sa control the organs of gov given leave to introduce ils pri- tonight that a new three inch country, finds itself from the considerably erament and the organisa-vate members Bill to establish gun would be the main medium external enemies of mankind," manoeuvre in the talks with the Vietnamese, who are not keen tion of the Party. The a principle of equni pay.
range anti-aircraft weapon of Senator Flanders said.
old-fashioned but the cue for the the future. This gun being official description of the
on the French Union in its pre- them with Meanwhile, Senator McCarthy sent form and would like to get lovely jewellery-all system is "democratic "suffragettes" beauty queens to fitted in the trials cruiser Cum told the
berland for sea trials later this that he would
press in New York their Independence treaty fret Agathie Christie.” contralism," and certainly start lobbying-Reuter.
whether and settle the form of their
VICTORIAN BUILDING American radio networks had association with Franco. after- the "centralism" cannot be
the right to refuse him the free wards. disputed. Moreover, it
The Abban Court hotel where time on the air he required to the clause by cinuse voting Smart was murdered is a six-
In this Soviet system and this
reply to the reply
accusations made which preceded the final vole, storeyed Victorian building. Most Soviet conception of "free
against him ay the
by
defeated this additional paragraph got of its 100 tenants are retired old elections" which have been
candidate, 377 votes against 235. extended to the so-called People's Democracies the aatellite states Eastern Europe.
once
AB
Is
It was
the gun
Essex
Housewives To
of
Burn Ration Books
of
in
London, Mar. 9.
the
the
Democrat
Mr Adial
БЕС
гоот
to
whole place," said Miss rather South
forton. Lots of old ladies,
rather
ladies who find it, as in
other nearby hotels, a sheltered, life with something to remind them of the spacious days gone
Tho Government, however, already secured The networks had
the rejection of an given the required "air time" to the Republican Party, which amendment which might have weakened its bargaining power
The dingy curtains of many desired to put its caso against at Geneva by urging it to seek The Mr Stevenson, but had reftised to let McCarthy reply indivi-even before, the Geneva con-ed today as the old ladies peep- cense Are in Indo China of the hotels in the area flutter- dually-Franco-Presse.
ference" As It stands the ed out and watched the coming Government is simply pledged and going of Scotland Yard
Arson And Looting
Features Polling
offer as a basis for the re/audience of housewives, hardinusekeping allowances by the area here, today during - clestient
Russia there is always the Housewives in Maldon, Essex, east coast resort, "single list" that and the will burn their ration books at a public rally on July 17 denial to the elector of any to celebrate the official end of food rationing in voice whatever in the
Britain. election of his representa- tive. This then is the mean.
Major Gwilym Lloyd George, tary to the Health Minister, ing of the phrase "free Britain's Food Minister,
srld who conducted "a private พณ
husbands to elections in the democratic told about the big bonfire | snoop" among 20
Doces, East Bengal, Mar. 9, are planning And out how many pagod an
Fifty-six_people were strested," sense of the word," which Maldon women
ja party office set on fire and the German Communists who ho attended a 500-strong the concession to their wives.
"Only
increased their threo shops, looted in the bazaar,
benefitod" unification of Germany.
she between rival partion Voting to they The news came after he had amount This is why Mr Molotov faced a barrage of quick-fire declared.
legislature for East know Three told me their women Bortzale could not understand the questions about present day Eden Plan at Berlin. It is prices and shortages, an
so much that they had After police had delven away shillings any arsimials and looters an armed also why there can never The housewives learned some-given them five
all nine regarded contingent of the East Bengal a working agreement thing too about the £300,000,000 WAY and
the
light of Tiftes was called out to patrol between the Big Four or income tax relief given in the their action in
the are between West and East last budget "for the distinct martyrdom
PAI purpose of offsetting the cost of
the rost gavo nothing Voling today, the second day, Germany on the proper living at Horny Smith, hoping" -- Chine
whatever of the occasion for of the four-day election, was methods for holding all-
Mail mainly by women and minori 'Gorman free elections.. attractive: Parliamentary Beure?! Spacial.
be
today.
elect
Detectives
to seek all solutions capable of cars in the streets.
disturbed tho Indo-China-Reuter,
enturing petice and freedom" in
* Eire - Elections
On May 18
1
Dublin, Mar. 0.
-almo
settled routine of the residents of the hotel as they took over the lounge and other roome and axamined. everything with fingerprint microscopes; and powder.
policemen
inter lewod all the hotel residents. but none had any, Information. Mr Eamon de Valora, the The Ume of the murder was Prime Minister of the Iriah fixed at around 2.80 am. since Republie announced hero to the chairs in the lounge had
the Dall" (Irish -voer
ready for night that
palacked up Parliament) would be dissolved | cleaning, which was one of on April 25, HERO Smarte duties, But the carpets, Clarkana eipetiopia will be held which at normally taken up in fire on May 18-France about that time were frie
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