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BAD DAY AT GENEVA Heroine Is Dulles'

A

Royal

Incident

reared Queen

at the

London, June, & frightened

horse

Up In front of Mother Ellsbeth Royal tourDBIENT here today, throwing to the ground the groom" who

was holding it.

cussions relating to atomic Tournament problems and that of Pravda, the official Russian organ, JA notable. President's declaration WAR carefully phrased to expres disappointment, but to avoid recrimination, Pravda at tacked the Eisenhower proposal of last December on which the conversationa wore based, as an attempt to "ovade the main issue) of banning the Une of utomic weapons. It is only necessary to look back to the President's speech of December 8 to

how baseless the accusation is.

ace

He spoko of the Instant readiness of the

United

Status Government to Beck for "an acceptable solution of the atomic ormaments race which overshadows not only the

but the poace, very life of the world." He supported the UN Assembly resolution of November 28 which had recommended the setting up of I Bub. committee of the Disarma-

The groom scrambled to his feet and quietened the hotse.

Arena

SEAL

The Queen Mother had stepped down Into the of Earla Court to present

to the awards winners in a horse Jurap- competition and standing there with thres riders lined up before her when

the incident Dccurred.

She continued calmly to present

Awards, Chine Mall Special,

the

Laniel's

Open Clash Over Supervisory Commission

MOLOTOV ATTACKS US

INDO-CHINA

POLICY

Geneva, June 8. The West and Russia clashed openly at Geneva today on the question of whether Com- munist nations should help supervise an Indo- China armistice.

Mr Anthony Eden, British Foreign Secretary, formally proposed that India, Pakistan, Burma, Indonesia and Ceylon the "Colombo Powers" should be responsible for supervision.

But Mr Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian Foreign Minister, reaffirmed the Communist view that the

ment Commission, which Chances Of Supervisory Commission should consist of Poland,

Would consist of the

"powers prinelpally in-

volved," and which should

alt in private. He offered niso to enter into "diploma. tic talka" for the same His proposal for purpose. the creation of an inter- national pool of fissionsbie materials for peaceful

purposes was, in his own words, a new conception which the United States was prepared to carry into theep talks. It was not an isolated or separate plan.

Survival Diminish

Paris, June

Premier Joseph "I

chances of survirl morrow's debate of China were cut sharply 10- day by development in Washington and Geneva.

Czechoslovakia, India and Pakistan.

Mr Waiter Bedell Smith, head of the American delegation, said the United States would only accept "impartial" members for the Commission.

M. Georges Bidault, the French Foreign Minister, said a Commission comprising the powers named by Mr Molotov "would not give any guarantees anyone."

to

He said there must be no vetoes for. without the

possibility of quick decisions, "there will be disorder and unforeseen risks."

"Without efficient control, I do not see any solution," he said.

should be The Ministers were speaking | Indo-China ceasefire It was not an evasion of M. Laniel won a one-day post-

Today at a plenary session of the nine-multaneous in all three Indo- the main fasue, but an ponement of the debate

but still insisted additional contribution to but diplomatic observers said nation Indo-China conference China states,

Soylet the first open meeting for three on a separate settlement provid- V. M. weeks. It lasted nearly «Ave†ing for withdrawal of Vietminh action stemmed from the Molotov, in Geneva and of the hours, the longest since the Far forces into Vietnam.

John East conference opened on April

ita solution. Two lines of

the, stutersmenta Foreign Minister, Mr

of the

President's speech. Firstly, US Secretary of Stadshington, 20.

on the initiative of the US. Foster Dulles, In

between

cussions American and Soviet

gov.

ernments. Secondly, on the initiative of the United Kingdom, the setting up of

the sub-committee of the Commission,

Viet.

Com

the

Welcomed Double

Warning

Mlle Genevieve de Gallard-Terraube, the heroine of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, arrives in Paris and receives a kiss from her mother who was wailing at Orly Airfeld to greet her-London Express."

Cement Company's Precipitator Operating "Quite Successfully'

"

Washington, June 8. Mr John Foster Dulles today

gave the Commu- nista a double barreled warn- ing that the United States was ready to break off the Geneva talks unless early progrc0ss WRS made, and would strike back if Com- munist China intervened in the Indo-China war.

At his weekly press conferenICC the Secretary of State implied that the United States would bó willing to take initial action alone in Indo-China should the pattern of Communist aggression be radically changed by such an event

Communist China's entry into the conflict,

But in the State Department, the Defence Department and in diplomatic quarters here there is a firm conviction that Britalu and the 14 other nations which fought for the United Nations in

Korea would join in collective action if China rushed her forces to Indo-China.

Armed Bandits Kill 3 Men

Colombo, June 8. Armed banditą "killed three men, seriously in- Jured a woman and 'two

11

children and burned down houses yesterday at Tissematarama,

sinali

town in south Deylon.

The village was so ter- rorised that shopkeepers

their stores.

have closed

to

Police reinforcements were rushed to thin arca search for the bandits.

Yesterday'a

WYM

said to be the outgrowth of a feud between two families. But the bandits stripped the houses of sil valuables before burning them down-Unlied Press

DIEN BIEN PHU

Pleven Accepts The Blame

Paris, June 8.

"I assume all the reapon- sibilities for the Dien Bien Phu affair," declared - Mr Rene Pleven, Minister for Though these nations have not National Defence, before a made their views known it hushed House. considered they established » precedent

dent in the Korean war which could apply in the case of new aggression in Indo-China, This was the 16-nation declare- on that any Communist breach of the armistice would be at the risk of retaliation which might not be confined to the frontiers of Korea,

GROWING FEELING

It le recognised in Washington that the question of United States or Allled Intervention in Indo-China would be academie if there was a negotiated settle ment of the Korean and Chinese problems at the Geneva ference.

Speaking from the government bench, Mr Pleven recalled that when he visited Dien Bien Phu on Feb. 19, no one in the cou said that the position could be defended and no one dreamed

of evacuating it.

He said that on the day of his visit, "the evacuation was then already impossible". Ho added that with affect.

from the be- ginning of

of this year, a consider- able effort had been undertaken to Increase the strength of the air force in Indo-China.

the

and

Mr Pleven stated that there

Indo were 601 warplanes in China without counting CMU con-

Transport aircraft during this period, the number of air force specialists have been increased by

2,000

But in the Eisenhower Ad- ministration there is a growing He asserted that supplies to fooling that the GenovŇ talks the expeditionary farce had

leave no hepo of a satisfactory } never been neained

ths

and

A.

Mr Pham Van Dong, Premier minh Depuly

agreement which would unity Mr Pleven

that the private two-power dis- had reduced his chances of Mr Eden, proposing the plained

delay in starting on

war-torn Korea or bring peace they did not wait for the Dien the winning a vote of confidence, Colombo powers as the armit- the spot talks between

to Indo-China on terms which Bien Phu to reinforce the air Mr Maloloy today hinted that tice supervisors, said there could High Command staffs in Indo-

no danger of deadlock In China.

would not open the way for at force. They took the necessary the Communists would demand be

The Green Island Cement Company's new precipitator | eventual sclture more than 48 per cent of Indo-such a Commission acting

of the whole steps immediately by M.

who hunsel! Bidault,

after China as their

Bermuda Conference (smoke reducing equipment) which was installed almost country, be- complained that the talks After hearing for peace majority vote. Mr Molotov, M.

Mr Molotov launched a strong tween the commands at Geneva

a month ago la now operating "quite successfully", the Mr Dulles gave public considerable effort in its intra- Bidault said, “It's all over, attack on American policy, were going "too slowly". au- General Manager of the Company, Mr J. S. C. Neel, sald expression this feeling when structure had been achieved.

Then he left for Paris to face marking that "aggressive circles thorised

"We have increased the num- his spokesmon to today.

he charged that Communist ber the National Assembly,

of our In some countries Icar success reveal that General Paul Ely, He said the precipitator had experienced some "teething dragging out the talks while in- of them can always be operating

negotiators

aircraft carriers deliberately from one to three so that one in Geneva” ond that certain | ***

Commander new French delegations aimed

at "proving do-China,

had been ordered

tensifying their müllars effort In Indo-China. the impossibility" of ending the

to contact the Vietminh seven-year-old' war.

fix a dale for the parallel talks

But ho was careful to point prin Indo-China.

out that primary responsibility for Another

the plenary session will

Indo-China cading negotiation rests with France and the Associated States.

Disarmament

THE the stressed In the Pravdn article suggests that in the committee well as in the conversations

as

M. Laniel's chances also word aid to be reduced by Mr Dulles statement that he had no plan Congross for at present to ask Authority to intervene in the Mr Dulles

the Soviet theais is that Indo-China

of atomic

war.

territorial

the

vers

intor

SPPED IN TRACKS

and

because

2

AVETO

in

Far Eastern waters" Mr Pleven added.-France-Presse.

Bought Car For 5s. 11d.

Birmingham; June 8, William Harvey of Erdington today bought a 1934 Morris Dinor car for Rvo. shit!- ings and 11 pence after waiting 40 hours outside a Birmingham car dealer's shop.

The

advertised on Saturday night, The proprietur decided to have a fad and lot the car, originally priced at £30. go cheap-China Mail Special.

troubles" last month but was now operating satisfactorily.

Airline officials who ja the order had been caused by the past have been among the most smoke plume from Hunghom. They intended this "to

The pare a further extension of the

Green Island Cement the "banning"

critical of Green Island's dence said the US would consider war and Thailand's recent re-

steam plume

of its Company be held tomorrow.

intends Installing weapons is to be treated intervening if Communist China

danger to landing aircraft said second precipitator in about As a separate inaue which engaged in open aggression in mest for United Nations obser

to be sent to her Indo- is to have priority over all Indo-China.

'As for as a Korean settlement The

French spokesman yesterday they had noticed some two months time and Depart- China border was "an attempt

Mr that improvement since the precipita- ment of Civil Aviadon officials is concerned Mr Dulles left no sald after today's session other issues of disarma-

believe this should mean Mr Molotov's hint of Com- to prepare a a pretext for Ameri-

thetor had been installed.

an doubt the United States would "the Communists stopped ment. And that is a theals munist

even greater reduction In demands can intervention in the internal

the like to

end this phase of the conference in its tracks,"

Hongkong's Director of Civil which the non-Communist virtually doomed hope of affairs of Indo-China," he said.

A United He was backed by Mr Pham sald the Communists

States spokesman Aviation, Mr M. J. Muspratt-team phime coming from the talks as soon as possible. Indo-

company's chimney stack, countries have

It is no secret the Eisenhower never been reaching an honourable

had beWillams, said the precipitator settlement in Van Dong Vietminh Deputy haved "in a purely destructive had "made able to accept, and cannot Chinese peace

tremendous The first precipitator installed Administration has always te- Geneva.

has had this effect: It reduced #arded the Korean negotiations Premier, who said the Thai way in accept. For one thing the

order "to make the difference" to the steam output observers were ques was instigated by the banning of atomie weapons Diplomats or noted that United States and that the most unfavourable

(1) the length of the steam as a waste of time and only par impact on "There have been one or two French public

and the occasions when it has been had, plume, (2), the density of the telpated because of the pressure must be dependent on the

M. Laniel asked for postpono- West wanted to internationalise

Parliamentary

situation"

steam, and (3) the time the of Allied and public opinion, creation of a really effec- ment

of course, but during the last of

Router. Indo-Chinese the war

by American

steam plume took to disperse. (M. Bidault faces the French month we have been keeping a tive system of international debate so that the National vention,

National Assembly control-which

tomorrow dally, even hourly check on the the Soviet Assembly could hear

"UN "DOMINATED" M.

(Wednesday) to explain the stear output in order to get a Government has never been { Bidault's report on the negotia- He said he would not accept Government's handling of the thorough analysis. This has willing

accept. For an- tions at Geneva.--United Press. United Nations supervision of Indo-China question. The de-shown a vast improvement in other, na the United Nationa

an Indo-China armistics bbate is a

a crucial one which the steam output. decided in 1962, questions

cause the United Nations we could result in the fall of the

the United Lantol

"While the new equipment is "dominated by

Government.)

there have not perfect for States."

A British Span said Mr been short periods

when the Mr Eden, who presided, said Molotov's

contained steam has gone back to its A Russian stewarders, who that as the Neutral Commission "nothing that was particularly original state we feel the armament 1s Indivisible.jumped into the sea at Thorshaan proposed by Mr Molotov

equipment has made tremen- The agreed task of the sub-in the Faroe Islands from

a composed half of Communist or helpful," but the Chi-

Communist spokesman dous difference on the whole." claimed it would "help to over- OTHER REACTIONS como the present stoguancy

A number of airline officials

A former East German here."—Router. “

Interviewed yesterday wero not willing to

go quite as far as Foreign Minister, Herr Mr Muspratt-Williams, They Goorg Dertinger, has been said that while there had been sentenced to 18 years' hard some Improvement in the smoke labour, the East German plume this was only true radio reported today.

of "atomic" and

"conven-

tional" armaments cannot

he treated separately. Dis.

GIVEN ASYLUM

Copenhagen, June 8.

committee WAB, 08 Mr Soviet trawler, has been given and half of non-Communist Selwyn Lloyd said at its the right to remain in Danmark, states, the danger of deadlock first meeting laat month,ccording to a metrage received would clearly arise,· "to devise

Mr Top system of here.

Cambodian Phan. mutual, supervised,"

She will sail to Denmark. by Foreign Minister, sald Cambodia.

decided to agree that, prehensive disarmament. If, the first available ship--Reuter. had

Д

com.

as the Pravda article seems

ominously to suggeat,

the

440

Russians are trying to limit US Aid

US Aid Programme Plea

discussion to the "main

question of banning the use

Washington, June 8.

the Mr Starsen noted that

se

Still No Agreement

and

fino weather humidity was high

car was

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FOR

DERTINGER

"gang

Berlin, June 8.

the

whenever

The Bast and molature

German Radio clouds hung low

over the asserted that the East German precipitator made Supreme Court had tried a of atomic weapons," Впу Foreign Aid Chief Harold E. Stassen appealed today

virtually no difference at all.

of conspirators" led by London, Jung 9. progross Ясств unlikely for continuance of the multi-billion dollar foreign aid

These adicinis believe that Dertinger. They had planned to Disarmament talks between the

overthrow the East German Maintenance of the Soviet programme as a matter of "urgent necessity."

the Ave major "atomic powers the steam nulmance will not be overth armed strength at high

effectively reduced until the Republic, nullify "achieve entered their fourth week here Greams Island Cement Company ments of the workers and level during the immediate · Mr Stassen told the Senate iances. of security, and the yesterday with East and West installs the rotary slurry ter peasants government** and postwar years has been the Foreign Relations Committee economic well-being of the still disagreeing on basic prin which the Company hopes

to restore "exploitation by

the prime cause of the current that foreign aid "is the route people of the United States and ciples, according to diplomatie have in operation by the end monopolists,

landowners

and "armaments race." The that will lead towards the best of the other free nationg of the observer.

of 1955.

facist," it amich, "main question" is the end-spects of peace and prosperity would

This Alter which will coet for ourselves, and others."

The secret meetings between

Five other defendants were ¿ing of that raco, its burdens The Administration has naked roquest is $1,300,000,000 less than representatives of the United our $500,000, is expected to sentenced to terms ranging from and its dangers. The ban for $9,447,000,000 in mallet approved by Congress last year. States, Russia, Canada, France reduce the water content of three to 13 years hard labour. ning, with adequate ante- and economic aid in the coming But barring major and us and Britain are expected to end slutry, ded into the kild by more Dorlinger, had been a member than 60 per cent. This should of the Christian Dehqeratie: guards, of atomic weapons fiscal year. Of this total, norrly expected and adverso "events" | soon,

mean a roduction of 60 is desirable and

Is for military United Stater forelin 'did objecThe delegates, meeting as in the steam coming from the Router.

East Germany per cont Party of Indeed $1,000,000,000

Seartheast Asla. necessary. But It is not Mr Blason, in his prepared tires can be realised under the Sub-Committee of the United company's chimney, d suficient, nor can it be statement, did not touch directly ecimulated success of the pro-don, have been seeking an this slurry filter installed, com reduced amount because of the Nations Diastinument Commis Airine officials said that until separated from the problem on the Indo-China crisis. •

£1,000 BEQUEST of which it is only a part,

gramme.

“acceptable”” solution for world some humid days they would He admitted there have been

some Uang It seems to be the Soviet "mislaites" "in" the foreign, aid

of the #9,800,000,-

control.

of diverting aircraft to Manlia- been left to Bir Alexander Government which, by programme and that at me it 000 in carry-over funds, the comment Including storlek be faced with the pepeptet A bequest London, June 8

ald ngeles expect.

A communique inued after an operadon witch cost £1,000 Fleming, discqvare Bol Insisting on this impracticas "fallen short" of its goals.

to spend about $3,000,-. today's semion”, said the, dale- to £1,200 for major airlines call-, efilin, by Lady Beinle Robertson able and impossible separa-But on the whole, he said, "it is

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