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What Is Behind The Offer?". THE

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HE real design behind Russia's offer to become nasociated with the North Atlantic Treaty Orgonian- tion opens up a wide field of speculation, yet the

can be regarded proposal

as not illogical sequel to the Berlin Big Four con-

ference.

AL Berlin, Mr Eden's plan for ensuring the

Europa, security of including that of Soviet Russin, WDS rejected by Mr Molotov because of the existence of NATO, while the Big Three had no alter- native but

down to turn Sovlet all Europe the collective security scheme because it expressly for- bade its signatories from being associated, with any uther alliance considered inimical to the interests and purposes of the pro- posed Russian pact, e.g., the North Atlantic Treaty Or ganisation. In effect, there- fore, Soviet Russla has along with what It considers to be a quid pro compromise--Russian Association with NATO In return for the Big Three'a participation In

All- Europe collective security agreement. It is a curious-

come

quo

an

ly naive proposition to emerge from such a fertile Molotov's, and that is why its real meaning la net readily discernible.

nd subtie mind 跟踪 Mr

IT does, of course, provide some first-class propaganda material for the Commun- ists whose countries are members of NATO, and it may make

an impression

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CHINA MAIL

No. 85781

Established 1845

2 FRIDAY, APRIL

1954.

BIG THREE H-BOMB

TALKS URGED

Opposition's Motion

For Commons

INVITES GOVT TO TAKE

THE INITIATIVE

London, Apr. 1.

The Labour Opposition decided tonight to call on the British Government to take the initia-. tive in promoting a Big Three (U.S., Britain and Russia) conference to consider anew the control and reduction of armaments.

It is to present a motion for Parliament's H-bomb debate on Monday.

The motion, put forward by the official Labour Party leaders, was quickly accepted by a private meeting of the 292-member Labour Opposi tion. It was hailed as a triumph for Mr Clement Attlee, the Party chief, who is reported to have drafted it personally.

Mr Attlee and his principal lieutenants sought to provide a resolution' that would win wide approval from the House of Commons and avert embarrassment to the Government in its delicate exchanges with the United States and the H-bomb' issue,

- Other elements in the party had been seeking some mofe critical formula which would have forced Labour into voting against the Government.

| British Government” to bring

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This new fighter plang-able to take off and land verti- plly—was manufactured By the Lockheed Aircraft Corpora“. tion for the United States Navy. Powered by twin jet tur-

· bines · harnessed to contra-rols ting-propellers, the XFV-1 can, (1) take off vertically from a standing start on its tall, (2)

hover level, off to fly and fight at very high speeds, (3) stationary in the air and descend for a pinpoint landing by backing straight down-London Express.

"L'affaire Juin" Raises Storm In Parliament

Paris, Apr. 2.

on the minds of those Frenchmen, Italians and West Germans who ате wavering in their convic- The Inbour motion suld it mediate world Big Three meet- tions as to the benefits to recognised that the hydrogen ing but merely said it would bo derived from

bomb with its immense range "welcome" an the

immediate Bri- tish initiative for this purpose. power 0.3 disclosed by Defence European

Com- and

recent experiments constituted munity pact. Yet it Te-

The resolution refrains from "a grave threat to civilisation. quires little imagination to

Any recourse to war might ment's pollees or its conduct of

any criticism

Govern- of the appreciate the incongruous lead to its use.

exchanges with the United of the Russian

pro-

The

since anxiety therefore asked States

of the posal. NATO is itself

party

to "welcome an bomb mounted here. collective security alliance Partiument

immediate initiative by the which owes its creation

The Labour Party, embracing solely

to the aggressive about a top-level meeting of many divergent opinions on the expansion of Soviet Russia Britain, the United States and H-bomb issue, was apparently In Eastern and Central Russia to consider anew the won over almost tunediately by what was, afterwards described Europe during the last problem of the reduction as a "brillant" speech by Mr eight years, and Mr Molotov "ontrol of armaments"

Attlee. would be the last mun

Such a meeting, it said, could seriously to suggest that try to devise positive policies bomb Isue was

'He told his supporters the H- not merely a Russin considers

M. Laniel gave a divided Chamber of Deputies the and means for removing from Europe collective security the peoples of the world the British problem but one dion Government's version of "Paffaire Juin" which is blowing

Ing the whole civilisation pact to be complementary fear which now oppresses them, and doubtless 1s Srcat an up into a French version of the "MacArthur affair" in to the North Atlantic and for the strengthening anxiety to the people behind

collective

peace through the Iron Curtain as those in the the United States in 1951. United

Nations

Organisation." West. The official leaders met ahead

the meeting of the full party The Labour leader also ra- final minded put the mation into

the meeting of the shape. Mr Attlee will open delicacy of the British. Govern- Monday's debate on it. Sir ment's discussions with America Winston Churchill will follow on the H-bomb tests. He warned with a speech in which he will against any Parliamentary action state Government polley.

that would increase the difficulty of that task.

an all.

Treaty Organisation, NATO, EDC and anything else contributing to the solidari- ty of the West, economical- ly, militarily, or spiritually, 'la anathema to Russin because it is the one factor which stands in the way of militant Communism over- running the free countries of Europe.

ME Intent Soviet overtures

THE

un.

cannot be dismissed as 4 childish piece of ingenuous ness. There is, assuredly, a tangible purpose behind the gesture, though it may be some time before it makes itself apparent. It is likely the move is engender- ed by fear, any more than it la motivated by a genuine : desire to compose East- West international differ ences. Its main purpose maybe propaganda-an" other endeavour to convince the more credulous, people of the world that the only constructive and concrete proposals for achieving a lessening of international tension emanate from Ruasin. Or it may have a more sinister intention;

at

10

THE CLIMAX

of

the

Premier Joseph Laniel last night stood firm in the face of a volley of Parliamentary questions on the dismissal of Marshal Alphonse Juin, France's No. 1 soldier.

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Dien Bien Phu Defenders Make Urgent Appeal For Reinforcements

Hanoi, Apr. 1...

Dien Bien Phu's stand-or-die commander called tonight for "urgent" reinforcements to save the battered outpost.

officer

Colonel Christian de Castries, the French charged with holding Dien Bien Phu, sent, word after a day. of Communist attacks that the shell-torn city could be saved if help arrived.

A spokesman for the Supreme Commander. General Henri Eugene Navarre, said he had replied that every effort would be made to get reinforċements and supplies through the Com- munist anti-aircraft fire ringing Dien Bien, Phu. But the spokesman warned that the anti-aircraft barrage and the rebels' nearness to the city's Inner lines would make a relief effort exceedingly difficult.

Communist 'besleging forces crashed through the north- eastern defences of Dien Bien Phu today and seized a short- lived tochold on the airfeld of tho of the French fortress.

heart Colonel de Castries' out- numbered garrison

battled de

sperately tonight against waves of howling shock troops_trying to widen the breach and flood in force on to the landing strip,

Bald Command

The High "violent battles" raged all day. The swaying struggle was salá

to be "very confused".

The biggest pitched battle of

Poisoning Trial WomanWins Provisional

Freedom

Bordeaux, Apr. 1.

the Indo-China War came The audience gasped when

of the Court do

de Doisserian-

through is 48th hour with the President central cluster of French forti-Pourquery fications reported holding Armly nounced this afternoon, in the except in the northeast.

crowded court room here, that Marie Besnard,

nocused of

Aix people, was

Lady Churchill Celebrates Birthday

London; "Apr.1. Lady. Churchill, wife the Prime Minister, ́brated ber 09th birthday culelly today in her own room at Downing Street

She Ir-being-treated for nearily in the arum Al-

though elaborate

the

there~t was no

family

Chuday

Cat Lady Okur“

A

bedalde to help her

eat a 16-pound cake.

The cake, made by Hungarian

bakery which makes all the Churchill's celebration confectionary, was pale" green, decorated with a flower garden 'and croquet pitch-two (of Lady Churchill" favourite relaxations.

Inscribed

cake on the. WAS this verse samposed by `the baker's son, ・ “You

land

mayhap

The shadow of the man who, with your undoubted help, history' - has made. You stand. demurely and ́be- comingly, and dignify that shade"-China Mail

Very

Special.

Japanese Lighters: MP's Query

cost the Reds and that her trial-the second hearing photo"old in Britnin

women, were not:

London, Apr. 1.

HIGH LOSSES

Mr Harold Wilson, foriner French officials estimated that poisoning

Labour Cabinet Minister, asked this second great assault on Dien granted provisional freedom, the Government today to ensure Bien Phu had

ond that Japanese cigarette lighters of nude some 6,000 casuales, including since she was imprisoned in 2,000 dead, boosting their losses 1947--was again postponed.

or reshipped for sale in the Bri In the 20-day slege to more

Her ball was set at 1,200,000 The lighters figured in a court

tish colonies as intended, than 20,000.

French los

losses have not been franca (about US$3,600),

case here

nere last month when two reported, but officials admitted

Three new experts in toxi- men and a woman appeared in they were bound to be high.

cology havo been appointedcourt for stealing or receiving Attacking

three divisions They will be asked to stata at 400 Japanese lighters from strong, the Reds seized three de- como future session of the dock's warehouse. Each lighter

Criminal Court, whether and women Wilson recalled "Cours d'Assise,” the French has four photographs of nude Besnard, nicknamed

an-

tha

"the kind lady of Loudon, administered Magistrate.bnd

them referred to arsenie to most of her relatives as "obscene publications in view in order to

inherit from them, of

of which certaita pictures or whether the arsenic found in 1 will not go into detalla The their remains, particularly in Socialst member added they the

the mer

who

hair, could have been

Maric

Diso

'contravened

·

fence positions in their punish- ing onslaught from the north cast and lodged a small group of shock troops on the airfield.

was promptly The group nihilated.

With censorship blotting out details, а military spokesman said about one-third of the northeast defence position the fortress was in the hands of brought by subterranean waters chandise marks. They were not

and bacteria.

marked "made in England." the Communist Vieiminh troops,

When the Court announced Terse dispatches from Dien

John Boyd Carpenter, decision, Bien Phu said furious battles its

Bemard Financial Secretary to

the went on most of the day along kissed her hard-working lawyers Treasury, sald It was not the the eastern side of the stadium-

had threatened to practice to prosecute under the shaped valley.

walk out of the case if their Act in a case conetting goods French Union troops counter-client was not sot free.

in transit unless there was some attacked to try to regain one The now postponement of direct conflict with British lost strongpoint. At the end of Marie Bemard's marathon case interests.

came after a new expert, Pro- "On the question of obscenity the afternoon came a terse mes- sage: "We attained almost all of fessor Louis Trufert, had told of which I will not go our objectives.",

the Court today of completely details, that is a matter At one crucial stage of the new experiments, showing that consideration by the prosecuting the natives in the polyglot gar-pregnated by arsenic dissolved showdown battle, a battalion of human

hair

could be im- authorities, who In this case

Puu | word,

were not the customs, a rison cracked up under the in

He said the lighters had ben water. artlilery fire. An officer said

Thai

shattered had

the detained by the, police in con- they simply could not take the

theories of the official experts nection with the court case and coiled by the Prosecution, who had since been released. At no and dived for artillery pounded at

necessarily absorbed by the customs authorities, hạ two resistance Dien

centres on the hair was cast #ldo of Bien Phu, by the victims-France-Presse, added-Reuter, while French guns lashed back at the batteries sheltered in the encircling hills.

for

He said the Government had not make political speeches fire, of an intensity unknot said that arsenic found in the time had they been impounded

"no choice" but to relieve the without seelung approval from to them, and

Rebel Marshal after be had repeated the Government. Marshal Juin consult the Defence at a dinner on Wednesday night did not

day..

yot decided what its course option of being for or against several times that would be if this expectation M. Lanfel said, "It is 91 Juin to como

the anti-EDC remarks he had Minister before delivering, his made before a group of reserve controversial remarks.) officers at Auxerre last Satur M. Laniel also said that if the Marshal had asked permission to

AN INFERNO But in the face of heavy free his conscience it would have

all-day questioning the Premier main been granted.

Airmen back from He might not, His speech brought quick fained that the relieving of however, have been allowed to bombing and strafing missions The debate will form the acceptance of the official motion. Morsbal Juin had nothing to do "free his conscience while said the six-by-four-mile basin climax of a sustained Labour The Opposition is proceeding with his position against the holding his former high military was an Inferna of smoke and outery against the United States meantime on

flame. the assumption European Army plan. H-bomb explosions last month that, the Government will not

In all this affair there is no The Premier said he had tried French officials acknowledged at Bikini atoll in the Pacific oppose its resolution and has not

of their planes to get Marthal that "several" Ocean.

explain his were shot down in desperate It was learned, tonight the Labour leaders are hopeful proves wrong."

state owes obedience to conduct even sending his top attempts to parachute the sub- secretary (whom Marshat Jults others, trying to sneak into the defenders. Bill plies to the the Government will feel "able Mr Herbert Morrison will the state":

refused Government

to soc) and laviting the (The

apart on the steel matting tion to go through without a the debate and Mr, Anthony drastic action against France's soldier to use a secret door to battered airtelp,

avold nwspapermen's questions.

Reinforcements' of, 25 Amerl- He said Marshal Juin had ob Foreign Secretary, only Living Marshal on grounds Mr Attlee so framed it that it will close it for the Govern that he had ignored a 1830 order jected to being "called on the can B-28 light bombers wero

not "demand" an im-] ment.--Reuter.

toying that army officers may corpot like a private soldion expected at any me in Hanol. and resented the fact that the Officials said they were pro- had been leaked to mised by President Eisenhower tummond

last week.

to allow the Opposition resolu- wind up the Opposition case in

vote,

does

Eden,

the

of whether a servont

Ho Chi Minh's Reported Secret Agreement With Red China

Washington, Apr. 1.

Look

Usually reliable diplomatic sources said today that the Vietminh Com- munist leader, Ho Chi-minh, was reported to have granted Communist China”the same rights in the port of Haiphong in Vietnam as Soviet Russia enjoy in Dairen and Port Arthur,

They

Jts

to

were

blasted

the press.

Stories of the herole defence Before the Premier spoke, Moderate Conservative Jacques of Dien Bien Phus were begin Isomi, who acted

as defence ring to Blter throught. One counsel for the late Marshal gunner's corporal, his position Potain, rebuked the Govern-overrun by a score of Reds and ment for losing its "sang frold" his crew all dead, ignored a sur- and acting precipitately

(Contd. on back page, Col. 2)

NO

"FOOLS ONE" General Fierro Koenig, a leading

said: Gaullist,

#Court, decision fools no one. If Marshal Juin had said he was a partisan that of giving notice this

of the EDC would he have been la the Instpeaceful

called before you? I think he approach" to the political

would have been congratu problems of the day which the Kremlin intends to

understood this secret, the Chinese province of Yunnan, Buu-Lo, who recently returned lated."

then decides make. Blackmail is part of agrootsent had been reached on on the other side of the Vietnam from Paris to Saigon, is having The Gaullets

thes vantherstanding that Commu-border,

talice there on this subject, as on a manoeuvre to place the the Communists' stock-in-nist China would demand at the

also said the United to whether Vietnam want; full Government in a difficult posi- trade and they have applied Geneva conference, as part of States and Britain would favour, representation in Geneva, second reading of the military 70)11oz, abstention" ✨ from the it in the international field the armistice arrangonants, that outcial representative of: Viet-

pointed out that credits which were being de during bast years with most of Tonkin in Vietnam nam, Cambodia

This sources pointed out that and Laos Tub varying success. Which should be ruled by Ho Chiminn the deuova conference when if the threo Amciated Stator bated

technical knowledge makes it all the parale" areas should be at Indo-China indiciassed, but had full representation, then, the

up between the): Vietnamese, Frenos so far ties not been Vietminh would have a right to absolute, majority was noode overnment 2, and the viemish able

state whether they be represented at the conference to, pass the Communjatra imezilya

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