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Stassen's report on East- West trade provides a wel Comme tursel much needed change from the strident and unbalanced commenta of Bome of Congress's re vociferous, but less informed "atudents" the subject. As an expression of official American policy it in both dispassionate and intriguing. Of particular interest is Mr Stansen's references { America's "hifla of un- phasis in the rourientation of her policy in the matter

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No. 35819

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TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1954.

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SECRET GENEVA MEETING

WAS "USEFUL”

Dulles Some Progress

Creates

Confusion

INTERVENTION

TALKS

(Our Own Correspondent)

London, May 17.

On Subject

Of Indo-China

SOVIETS AND CHINESE MORE CONCILIATORY

Geneva, May 17.

trading between the Western world and the Soviet blue. In some respects those "shifts of emphasis” | display inconsistency. For example, while the US Ad- ministration is prepared to modify ret #43274" exten! trading relations with the

There is still confusion Soviet bloe in Europe, it will among Allied diplomats as not consider for a momen result of Mr Dulles' deci- · any relaxation of the totali gian To holi talks with embargo against the Com: France about possible direct ¦ munist bloc in the Far East. American intervention in The logic is not easily under Indo-China, stood. If trading in certain These Falis ! approved commodities with 3 without telling Britain, and Mr Rusin and her Europers Edens has profested vigorously. satellites can, as the report

Sir Winston Churchill,

was forceel Admits, be helpful to the to Mr Dulles tactics, change his plan

The Communists however, did not drop their for giving Western powers, why should Parliament a progress report to demand that Laos and Cambodia, two of the three they not also reap similar day on

the Geneva conference. advantages from

re-emphasise~} Trading Trial, e

associated states of Indo-China, must be included with Communist China in an

policy of not making any new

in any peace settlement. llit Commitments approved range of commuli. Far

until

ties, especially Rood? There will be to quarrel with Mr Stassen's

schools

Consumer

arranger

ewing

after the conference ends

The results of the American ve looked dangerous at Best,

discus-

and British diplomats thought it objections to the extremist would destroy the chances of thought Brase! Netting the Asian menbers of who advocale complete and the Commonwealth to en-operate In guaranteeing an Tado-China unrestricted trade with the settlement. It seemed tonight, Communist her, and those however, there is sull hope of who demand that all trade getting their co-operation

Why did Mr Dulles armuke of any nature cease between the Western powers and the the Franco-American

slons? Reds. Nevertheless if it is good enough for the free world to trade with Russia and her Europeni associates, how can it be heinous for the same nations to have truding relations with Com- munist theo?

THE Stussen

is,

report nonetheless, an encourag- ing document. At least it recognises

right for the West European nations, who are struggling

make themselves

to eronomically

solvent, to apply reasonable trading policies with the Communist countries of

If is believed he is impatiens attitude to new with Britain's commitments to Indo-Ching and that he is trying to exert pre... sure to change this policy.

Mr Dulles has failed, how-

either Australia ever, to Ket New Zealand British Inc.

desert

th

STRAIGHT CHOICE

So he has a straight choice. he can co-operate with Britain and the Commonwealth or run

abem!

with Independient planning for the Far East.

Tonight 11 seemed, despite re- Dulles cent

that Mr actions, prefers the first choice. "Meanwhile

Geneva

The nine nations trying to end the seven-year Indo-China war had "useful discussion and made some progress" on restoring peace at their first secret session here today, authoritative conference sources said tonight.

The West maintains that these two smaller states cannot be put on the same footing as Viet- nam because they are threatened with aggression from outside by the Vietminh in Vietnam.

The sources said that no agreement was reached in the dispute over the evacuation of the French Union wounded from the fallen fortress of Dien Bien Phu but the Russians and the Chinese appeared to be more con- ciliatory than the Vietminh delegates,

Western delegates were thus hopeful that the problem could be resolved.

À second secret session has been fixed for tomorrow.

A communique issued after today's Arst closed meeting which lasted three and a quarter hours said merely that they had discussed

of question evacuating wounded from the InBen French fortress of Dien Bien Phu and the problem of restoring peace to Indo-China,”

The French High Command in Indo-China

declared hist

The evneration agreement reached

after the

talks peace opened here on May 8 is "un- workable" and that it intended to resume the hombing of a key Vietminh supply route leading

fled to the threatened

New Plan

To Evacuate

Wounded

5000

Saigon, May 17. The French High Command nisu todny broadcast a series of new there is anxiety over the ap- proposals to the Vietminh highe parent widening of Angio- command for the evacuation of American divergence of policy the weunded of Dien Bien Phu: della, on Indo-China.

1. The Dien Bien Phu airfield

hush-hush visit

to Bue paid a Dai, now staying at Evian just over the French border from Gevena.

River

Yesterday Mr Bedell Smith will be restored for the use of The United States has back

Dakota planes, the work to be ed French charges that the ene either by the Vietminh or Vietminh forces are seeking to the French.

gain a big military advantage 2. When the airfield has been from the original agreement to negotiations break down It made wabl: the wounded will evacuate the fortress wounded.

It is thought in Geneva that

whit be an appeal from Ban be airlifted by the Dakotas, military aid without ury Bout to the number Dal for direct which will start off

the planes may American of round trips intervention.

make. One big difcully now is the

3. All alr operations against absence of the three Common-Highway 41 between Dien Bleu wealth foreign

ininisters whe

Both countries also expressed fears about discrimination against Vietnamese wounded of the Dien Bien Phu garrison.

FRENCH PESSIMISM

French sources said after to- scssion that they were pessimistic at this stage

gave Mr Eden vigorous support and Sonia will be called day's secret

off for the necessary time to

Eastern Europe, and the pledge that the United States has no intention of trying to coerce her allies into accepting and adapting The more rigid American policies will bo received with relief. This is the answer to Mr Bevan and his Associates who are constant- ly harping on the theme that all of Britain's foreign polleles, economic as well an political, are being dictated by Washington. This assurance by Mr Stassen also gives notice to the American extremists of the McCarthy, Knowland clique that the Administration is not going to be talked into adopting policies which could only be inimical to relations between the United States and her friends in Western Europe. There remains another point in the Stassen report deserving notice. The claim is made that ample scope oxlats for the free world to develop trade within itself; that the combined losources of 1. What America would do the free world are greater if the military situation in than those of the Soviet bloc Indo-China deteriorated; and its potentialities 2. What it would do if the tremendous. This is true,

Paris, May 17. M. Maurice Schumann, French Minister, saw deputy Foreign the American Ambassador, Mr

the areas

thu

on the chances of

agreement

Prince Charles and Fr❘nocks Anne recently visited

composite

Gibraltar's famous colony of monkeys and this picture_dows some of the highlights of the visit.. Top left, Princess Anne is quite at ease as she givés a beaṇus to a monkey; top right, two baby monkeys quens up for peanista from Prince Charles; bottom left, Major A.C. James puis out a restraining hand as the princess gets down on the ground very near the edge of the parapet to play with a baby mon- key; bottom right, she reaches up to shake hands with one

of the animals.-AP Photos.

Reds Ship Arms To Guatemala

Washington, May 17.

The State Department said today that 'an important shipment of arms' had been sent to Guatemala from "Soviet-controlled territory."

The announcement said the State Department "con- siders that this is a development of gravity."

Without elaborating it said large

shipment of armament the arms cargo was now being consigned to the Guatemalan unloaded at the Guatemalan Government. This armament. Is port of Puerto Burrloa after now being unloaded at Puerto arriving on Saturday.

Barrios. We are ndvised that the armament was shipped from the Communist administered port of Stettin.

"Because of the origin of the arms the point of their en- barkation, their destination and the quantity of arms involved, the Department of State con- siders that this is a development of gravity."-Router,

The arms, the State Depart ment sald, were shipped from tho "Communist administered

Port of Statin, formerly in East Germany and now in munist-run Poland,

Com-

The Department Press Officer,

minister were nembarkation,

in the early stages. Mr Casey of

allow the Vietminh to evacuate Australia, Mr Webb

of New their wounded

by Ula road Zealand, and Mr Pearson

oir Traffic not being used for ins over the wounded question. Canada have all left and their

be forbidden

The dispute took up the fryi absence is most noticeable in purpose will

this stretch. Mixed commis part of the session which was Mr Lincoln White, refused to say affecting

Angio- sions, questions

which might include attended by the foreign minis- where the arms were manufac- would he Answer American relations,

Britain, France, the lured. Nor neutrals, will be established uters of

the specific States, The of Dien Bien Phu, United

Soviet questions about

in the ship- Tuan Glao, Bar Vay and Sonle Union, Communist China, the amount Involved

Indo-China to check the road traffle, The three

Associated ment.

"Because

of States

of the origin Vietminh

of Vietnam. L203 high command will

and

the date on

Cambodia and the

the point of their which announce

Vietminh. these arms,

their

i destination is to begin, With each evacuation

and the quantity of arms in- giving 48 hours' notice to allow few picked advisers,

volved, the Department of Stale the mixed commission time to Mr Anthony Eden, British considers that this is a develop- take up their positions.

Foreign Secretary-on whose

ment of gravity," Mr White 4. The French High Command initiative the secret sessions sald in his announcement. Government SLETTE that Vietnamese wounded were arranged-presided over

will be evacuated under exactly the A

Ho declined to EDY what meeting. same conditions as thown of allier today'a

It marked

action, any, the United States nationalities in conformity with the what was generally regarded as

London, May 17. agreement reached at Geneva.

the 3. The mixed commission will week of the Indo-China

start of the most declive proposed to take.

Mr John E. Puerifoy, United An office manager, married conStates Ambussador to Quatemala, and the father of two children, the wounded and reject hose to be evacuated. As soon as ference.

returned to his post last week was arraigned today on a second nigeliations Brok: the present agreement

Command will Earlier today, Mr Eden re- after nearly two weeks of con- charge of manslaughter in the French High have the right to parachute medical ceived a reply from Mr Phan.sultation

with

Department "lové drug" poisoning of twe

This

021

John Dillon, tonight for

of views other exchange what the United States is pre- pared to do to assist France in Indo-China.

The French wans to know:

Geneva

down.

On

clarity

for all the wounded.

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Gambler Costello Sentenced To 5 Years

suc-

New York, May 17. Gambler Frank Costello, called by the prosecution "the symbol of the cessful racketeer," was sentenced today to five years in prison and fined $30,000 (£10,700) for tax evasion.

Costello, 68, was convicted lası Thursday of evading $89,015 (£13,033) In Federal income The jury were out for

tax.

eight hours.

The judge postponed sentence until today on the man who when naked by the Senate Crime Committee in 1981 what he had done for his country said: "I paid my taxes.'

The caso took over dx week. to hear. Costello was ordered to pay the costs of the trial.

Costello has been imprisoned twice before ten months for illegally possessing a revolver 30 years ago and 14 months for contempt of the Senate Crims Investigating Committee in 1952- 53...-Reuter.

Ana Pauker

To Go On Trial

Belgrade, May 17.

Ana Pauker, former Com- munist Foreign Minister of Rumania, and Vasilev Luca, another former outstanding | Rumanian Communist lead- er, will shorily stand trial, Yugopress, the semi-official

SINGAPORE'S Yugoslav news agency, sald

CONSTITUTION

London, May 17.

A Colonial Once report re- vealed today that the Colonial Secretary, Mr Oliver Lyttelton, and the Governor of Singapore, Sir John Nicol, have agreed that the Colony's now constitution he put into effect at an early date by drafting the necessary con- siltutional instruments,

A new constitution, giving a real measure of responsibility to the legislative assembly and the elected ministers, was recom- mended by a commission which made its report last February, France-Presse.

Bicycle Tied To Weather Vane

Oxford, May 17.

A joker climbed the dome of the (India) Institute, Oxford, during the night end tied a man's bicycle to the weather vane 80 the University streets, China Mait City's

feet above

Special.

here tonight.

They would be charged with "introducing hostile elements Into the party and state ad-

ministration," the agency said

It added that Mrs Pauker and Vedley Luca were now in the Ministry of the Interlur's prison. (Ana Pauker, 60, as Foreign Minister in the post-war years up to July 1952, when she was

lieved powerful Rumanian

of her post, was, a

Influence

fa Commundot

and Government,

(There

the Party

were reports of her Arrest in December 1992, with union- further reports all Ormed that she had been · re- leased week after Stalin'e death last year,)--Route",

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Duke Of Norfolk Has Chicken Pox

Arundel, May 17. The Duke of Norfolk, Britain's Premier Duke and Earl, is suf- ferlag from chicken pox in bis castle here and has cancelled all engagements for the time being. He is 45-China Mall Special.

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but at the moment only theoretically so. Too many The main Franco-American supplies and other material needed Van Dong Vietminh deputy officials about developments in young secretaries. trade barriers exist for talks on this subject have not. The French High Command Premier, whom he had invited that area.

yet begun, and it has not even also offers to

Arthur K. Ford, 44, was ic parachute medical to make a statement about the the free world to make the been decided yet whether they supplies to the Vietminh command Dien Bien Phu wounded.

cused of the death of Juno fullest use of its potentiall- should take place

for the use of their own striously in Paris or

Molins, 19, Mr Dong said he understone

beauty contest wounded If these are weded and tles па a self-sustaining in Washington.

wis further transport by air either that the evacuation problem had malan Embassy sald that the 25, died after eating candy bara A spokesman, at : the Guate winner. She and Betty Grant, markot, capable of meeting

to an airfield in Vietminh hands or What is being discussed

boon solved satisfactorily. to a French hospital any seriously all the requirements of on ambassadorial love is the wounded Vietminh for whom a

announce-in' the office on April 20. his letter

Ha was sent before the State Department's domand and supply. If Mr praminarias

was being to the

Command talks, wound might be fatal. Any Viet French High

an-mont

cabled to previously was necured in tha minh taken to French hospital

Ho Bald Stansen's vision

the case of Miss Grant. la to be well informed sources said to-

would be returned as poors a day

nouncement that it would re Guatemala.

“(Contd. on back pago, Col. 2)-

Embassy would have no com- Analysis showed that the girls fulfiled the free world's night-Reuter.

were at enough—France-Press.

ment.

had taken fatal dosca of trading gatos must be

cantharic acid,

substanco opened much wider than

generally credited with aphro they are today, and the load

disiac qualities, pe

In this direction must come

If

--

Falls To His Death Attempting Rescue

Marcus Hook, Penn., May 17.

ba

The Stato Department's

nouncement road,

The Department of State is in receipt of reliable informa- from America herself.

Trygve Heraldsen, 43, whose about halfway down a 300-foot tion to the effect that an im- tariff walls were at The chief mate of a Nor address was listed only as Nor-ladder when

suddenly Portant shipment of arms has from Soviet- least partially demolished, wegian oil tankor fell down a way, He was chief mate aboard tumbled to the tool decic. He been affected

few controlled territory to Guate the free world

could ladder to his death today while the tanker Jalna, which was was pronounced dead n bogin to attain that trying to rescue two crew mem- preparing to take on a cargo of minutes later at a dockulde mala,

bers who were overcome by reined petroleum products at „dispensary, i

A

On Baurday, May 15, trading alf-sufficiency bentol fumes while cleaning” a Bun Oil Company pler.

The other wo

be men were ship, Altheim, believed to which the Stassen report tank below decks

An oil company... spokesman roscized by fellow crew mem under charter, arrived at Puerto envisages,

Heraldsen had climbed | "bara/-/United Press,

"Barrios, Chatemala, carrying A

The victim was identified' as 'enid"

the

The Police said that the drug apparently had, been put into the candy bars Ford offered the girls. He himself was hospi- talised, but recovered, to Alad

: Ford was sent back to guol. to. await further heiring on May 25. The Proseculory; Meg Wohn Claxton, said that he had 32 witnesses---United Press,

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