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COMMENT OF THE DAY

Oil Agreement

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At Last

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ELATIONS between Persia and the Western world, and political ditions inside the country.! have so greatly improved the past year that the cit agreement ratified last w sterk bad come to be regarded

f #t matter

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Detoleen, of I. When

1961, the Anglo-Iranian O Company was driven out of Abadan. British

prestige

throughout the Middle East ralfered a severe blow. The

WILM Immediate shock

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physical and Brucial fo

The great refinery, repre-

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Wide Air-Sea Search New Picture Of The Queen

Ike's Election

Stunt 'Sweeping U.S.'

Washington, Oct. 31. The Republican National Chairman, Mr Leonard W. Hall said today President Elsenhower's “10 times fo" telephone campaign to win

party votes for the

on Tuesday "is sweeping the country",

He said members of the President's cabinet, (over- nors, Legislators

and "Americans in every walk

of ife" have joined in the novel campaign started by Mr Elsenhower on Satur day to elect a Repubilean- controlled Congress,

10

The President telephoned of his supporters in various parts of the coun try and asked them to call 10

urging more people them to go to the polls and vote Republican.

Renting some £350 milion

British }

empital Wat i nbanded. Even worse, n major source of sterling oll

cut off.

It was only TVเล่ Jater that

ulterior Consequences, not to Britain alone, buil to the security of

The Democratic National the whole free world began

Chairman Mr Stephen A to be realised. Persia lost,

Mitchell countered by tele- at a single stroke, one-third

graphing party leaders and candidates total revenue, but of her

start 10 "Democratic walkathon1,' The power and influence of

asked them lo "walk the crazed De Mossades, Inst brought

to the homes of 10 prople" who

this

urging election of a Deino- about, seemed unshaken. (a

oralle Congress. fact the Premier exulted amid the ruin. Behind him exulted, with better reason, the Communists,

IT appeared inevitable that a

would

ruined Persin become a Red Persia. A this prospect grew more menacing the economic consequences of the losa of Abadan to the outside world began to fade, Deprivation of the refinery put no brake on the Anglo-Iranian enter prise. Expanding productiun from the neighbouring felds fa Kuwalt. Irsk and Saudi Arabin so made good the loss of Abadna wil, maal Bus now filled the gap Taree times over. The work nu kanger needed Per-an out- int Persia's need to relt it was dire The set Persia on her feet in the interests of world security thas became

dominant the

tif

Western policy. For Bidaun it transcended though, course, it cunld not affect

her rightful claim to c pensation

for Persia a

Vic 10

E. did

A

Mr Hall Hent telegrama to all GOP State Chairmen urging them to get behin Mir Eisenhower's plan, ite told them It "could well bring the big vole we netd for victory,

"Hall reported that Mr

Thomas Governor Dewey of New York botter than Baked.

Others called 12 people. Joining in the compaign were Mrs Oveta Culp Secretary of Health, Blobby. Education and Welfare, and Fastmaster General Arthur E. Bummerfield United Fress,

Democrats

Mr

Still Tipped

To Win

Of Atlantic Ocean Ordered

U.S. Servicemen On Board

New York, Oct. 31.

A U.S. Navy Constellation carrying 42 officers and men is missing and presumed lost in the Atlan- A huge air-sea rescue operation was tic Ocean, ordered by the Navy to search for survivors.

Navy and Coast Guard planes and ships, in- cluding aircraft carriers, were assigned to search for the plane which was last heard at 0400 GMT East of 400 miles today at a position some Baltimore. It was on a routine flight from the Patuxent, Maryland, Naval Air Station to the Azores,

The Navy said the Constellation had only enough fuel to enable it to remain in the air until 1500 GMT today.

Captain Ray Needham,

Commander of Navai air

buses in the first naval dis- Plea To Pope

trict said he hoped to con-. tinue the search through the; night but or visibility

threatened to halt opera- tions until dawn.

For Body

Of Mussolini

Captain Needham sald patrol from plones had been

sent

Rome, Oct. 31. bases in Argentina, Newfound- ind, Norfolk, Virginia, Lagos, The daughter of Benito Azores, Bermuda and Patuxent Mussolini is planning to ap

"Many scores of planes are criss-crossing the Ocean in peal to Pope Pius XII for designated search areas," no help in her efforts to get her spid.

father's body back from the the Itallam “Government,. Rome newspaper, It Tempo, said today.

COAST GUÁND SENT The Coast Guard cutter, Mc- Cullough,

from Avas sent Bermuda early today to head The newspaper said, Countess of the Clano, daughter for the Just radloed

position Edda

and widow of Foreign Fascist

Minister Galeazzo Ciano,

intended to

of the Constellation 400 mueslate dictator

northwest of Bermudu.

All three services planned to submit her plea to the Pope "in expand the search tomorrow. the next few days."

Aboard the Constellation were

It

10

quoted Mussolini's БОЛ

4.3 telling 2 crew members and 21 pas. Romano

friends: personnel. "My sister Edda will go to see sengers--all Naval Half

had of the crew

Holiness Plus been i his

XII in the scheduled to love the plane at next few days. the Azores and pick up another, "My sister wil ask him, as

Navy officials here pointed out the head of the church,

an end may that Navy Constellations nor intervene so that mully carry up to 16 life rafts capable of carrying 16 men each. Each man was also equipped with a Mac West life preserver suitUnited 62171

survival

Washington, Oct. 31.

pollsters Press, Congressional still say the Democrats

breach of the oil agreement will win control of both

And the

seizure of the

refinery. With American c

houses

Congress on

be put to the sad odyssey of a famliy which doesn't even knowi where to take a flower and shed tears."

CLOSE SECRET

whereabouts of Mus- The solini's body has been one of the most closely guarded secrets in Italy for eight years.

After the

eration the Tuesday when the United High Honour dictator to execution of th

poses have been patiently States goes to the polls.

pursued, in proper perspectĮ live, sinen the overthrow of Dr Mossndeg made

But at the lus!

moment there

is the usual tendency to qualify

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a year ugo predictions with легуома

ferences to the possibility that

He they may be upset by the

last- publican Party's intense minute effort.

it possible to con- template any dealings with Perala. The United States furnished the emergency aid on which the country still subsisty.

BRITAIN'S contribution

to

President Eisenhower has just

For The

Queen Mother

New York, Oct. 31. The Queen Mother was

completed a 1,500 mile tour of tonight given the place of marginal states in an attempt to honour in a solemn pro secura for his hard-pressed party the necessary votes to re- cession of 48 distinguished tho rescue operation has tain command of the Senate and international figures who re been to make concessions the House of Representatives for ceived honorary degrees to- which would

enable the next two years

fl

day from Columbia Univer- sensible Persian Govern. Presidential elections.

Fity.

the audience

ment to sign an agreement.

until the

On Tuesday, all 435

seals in In

CLOSE DIVISION

or 32 every

The

over

wero 100

‘A NOBLE QUEEN'

the

Italy in April, 1945, the body was taken to Milan and strung up by the heels at a gasoline station before being buried in an unmarked grove at Milan's Musocco Cemetery.

On the night of April 22-23, 1946, the body was stolen by Tour

Neo-Fascist fanatics. Police recovered the body eight months' later, hidden in a Milen monas- tery.

Since then, Its whereabouts

a handful of Government leaders and police officials are believed to know the exact spot where il was re-buried.-United Press,

have been a State secret. Only

A striking, new picture of the Queen, photographed as she arrived at the Tivoli Theatre hst week to attend the Royal Gala promlere of “Neapolitan Fantasy” which marked the opening of the Italian Film Festival' in London Central Press Photo,

?

Government Orders Probe SECRETS OF R.A.F's. LATEST JET FIGHTERS LEAK OUT

London, Oct. 31.

An immediate official probe has been ordered into the publication of an ace test pilot's book which security men allege reveals secrets about Britain's latest fighters.

The

"Mach I* book, written by Lieutenant Com- mander ke 13thcow, 34- year-old

Lest pilot, WALA published last week.

Lithgow tests planes for Vickers Armstrong. British aircraft manufacturers which made the supersonló swept. wing Swift and a hush hushi all-weather naval plane, 525. which burst through the Bound barrier at almost level flight this year.

Not Catastrophe

The investigation will be carried out by Ministry of Supply officials working in co-operation with the Air Ministry and the Admiralty. It is understood the detai18 of "Mach the official term for the speed of sound. -do not constitute A major leakage. In

'WE'RE STILL

BRANDO'S

officisi

circles there is no question of a "security" catastrophe" being caused by the book.

No Request Made

A Ministry of Supply oM- cial said "no request was made to us or to the security nuthorities of the services concerned elther by tho author or his employers for permission to publish material on a classified sub- Ject in the book.

rapid

"The book how land examination and it has been found that certain Informa- tion in respect of military

In algeraft

restricted

In 1 Is included in category

"As the book has already beery distributed at home and overseas for sale, no

· usefál purpose, would have been served by seeking to postpons publication." m China Mail Special.

ENGAGED' SAYS

GIRL

FRIEND

Paris, Oct. 31.

Josianne Berenger, pretty French flancee of Marlon Brando, arrived in Paris tonight wearing no engagement ring but saying that the actor had promised to meet her in the United States next week.

to

and" to

It would be disingenuous to the House of Representatives representatives of pretend that, these conces-and 37 of the Senate's 06 seats foreign universities, scientifle яions are not regrettable, are at stake. House members academies and learned societies both financially and from are elected fer two-year terms, from as far away as Tokyo and the more important stand- Senators for six years. At least

Moscow, point of

prestige. The one third of the Senate, or

Queen Mother accepted monotary recompense to be seats, come up for election

the degree of Doctor of Laws two years. This year, deaths from De Gazyson Kirk, Pre- received by Anglo-Iranian, resimations have ralca dent of the University,

and

and when every pound has been the Senate total

to 37 under squeezed out of it, remains contest.

donned the purple hood of the degree,

tests such that the company must

while 6,000 Jooked on in the New York announce it on a note of

John

American cathedral, of St.

The ring was in her handbag, | gang-plank. Jasianne was swept governess apology and excuse. Anglo- The party' division ir. Congress Devine.

she added.

protesting through the airport psychiatrist's children, Iranian's sole right to the is so cleo now that the Demo

Her husky Hollywood sweet lounges by the crowd of press awals a reunion with Brando

coffed anti-VOŽ exploitation of Persian oil crats need to gain only a few she was described as “a noble ¦ heart drove off unexpectedly men and finally posed amiling who has been in ceded to an international more scals in the Seanie and the Queen ... a gifted musician, at- in

a hired

car, leaving her by a black car which drove her Hollywood's most unpredictable consortium in which Britain House to take over control. ".... complished linguist and under-weeping at the window of her into Paris. There has been no as well na imosh, brilliant will have less than a half

home in Bandol on the Mediter news of Brando since he left for actors The present Congressional standing student of the Arts,"

Italy

CROP OF RUMOURS share,. For an agreement line-up -Senate: 40 Ko-

The procession included Adial ranean.

The dark-haired 20-year-old

toaving one Stevenson; the Chief Justice, Mr

he declared: "I Betora which had 39 years to runpublicans, · 40. Democrats,

Brando's expooled de- offatally engaged myself in substituted

the publicity to a far less | Independent, House: 218 Re-Earl Warren; Dr. Konrad Ader- } fisherman's daughter appeared considene. 1'was in #greement } parture: yesterday, after a four- favourable one, with

an publicans, 212 Democrats, The manor, West German Chancellor; bewildered by

Dr Dag Hammarskjeld, Socre brought on by her surprise with the Berenger family that day stay in tile pretty Riviera initial term of only 25 independent, four vacancies. tary General of the United engagument. She has gone into the engagemem should be an- resort, led to a crop of rumours that he had broken off the nounced." years, with future hurdles Congressional control: Senate, Nations, three Nobel Prize win hiding with friends here.

announced only He said he had engagements engagement, to negotiate if it in to ba Democrats must win 20 of 32 nery and several distinguished

BUE POSES

Aid Italy

and would probably visit the day, before, Hokka extended for further 15. contested-races. Republicans can English educators.

Josianne, said Marion had, Not Florence. From there he would But the couple üre under These terms can be justified keep control by winning 14. The Queen Mother' current

Democrats have no opvalt to America resulted from an told her exactly where he was go to London, where he was due stood to save Pureed that, their only in the perspective of [milon); Housd: 218 seals need. | Invitation last winter to takd going when he left her parenta i to start work on two films soon): wedding wily not be hel

control. (Only two Ro in the ceremonios, which hole in the fittis vilago of In why case, he added, Joalanne until after he his completed the

ihad: to'? Zerve for New Yorke London Almagu

Sharedband Marión had 200th far soniyawory at the

wider "aims and hopes, A Forsla politlently stable and publicans are unopposed, 71 must be an asset to the free notably, In the South, face only "ming of the Charter by King blane Brliging her from world, and may well become, token opposition).--Reiter (§ de Creone) 25or Great 1

Bridal Pantouched down CROY Kan notiva: kllyžega el United Freud?

economically prosperous Deindcrats unopposed and offices University planted for romtely the four-engined during the waelc/

'Let's Compromise On Two Systems")

Russia's New Idea For All

Elections

German

Berlin, Oct. 31. Russia will accept a compromise between Western style "free for all" elections and the Soviet "single list" method if a new four-power con- ference re-examines the idea of all-German elec- tions, it was stated authoritatively in East Berlin today.

In a statement prominently European Army project was published In the Commpolet drach. It suid-Reuter, newspaper, Noues Deutschland, 'NO' REPLY BY WEST the official East German "Com-

Washington, Oct. 31. mittee for German Unity" A team of Allied experts will asked:

meet in London soon to draft a diplomatic rejection of Russia's "Who has ever claimed that latest bid for early four-power the electoral system of one or talks on the other party of Germany sources said must be applied to the conduct

d all German election?"

Allied officials in West Berlin regarded the Committee's state ment as a "kite" to test Western reaction to a concreta proposal from Russia, which they pected very soon.

<x-

· NOT FREE ELECTIONS They said it was an attempt to attract genuine attention in France and Germany, following

Germany, diplomatio

France the way for the drafting session, which may the United States. It would not start this week, when it assured press for triks with Russia until the new Allied agreements on Germany were ratified..

This opparently means the United States,, France and Bri- tain will not meet with Rusala on the German and perhaps other cold war issues at least until early 1985.-United Press,

the poor reception given Four U.S.N. Ships

to the previous Russlan- offers, notably the Soviet nete of Octo- ber asking for a four-power colleation.

on Europe and Get-

man

The

Comitice's statement

In Collisions

Norfolk, Virginia, Oct. 31. Four US Navy ships were involved in collisions at sen off sald Russia could not accept the the Virginia Cape early today, kind of election which, in West but no

· The Ales were reported."

Germany last September swept

said: the first colli- Dr Konrad Adenauer back to sion occurred when the destroyer

"with

The

majority increased USS Norris of Newport, Rhode Island, rammed the submarine But it admitted that the 80- USS Burgall of New Lordon, viot sido did not expect the Connecticut,

accident the kind of occurred 270 miles east of Nor- Went to agree to cicetion which, in East Germany, folk during an underwater a fortnight ago, returned the assault defence dill. single

1st Parliament pre- selected by the Communists,

TWO QUESTIONS

"Who can see any demand la

Later two destroyers—the USS W.L. Lynd and the USS Enz- list collided about 40 miles south of the first accident scene. All the damaged ships ure

the Soviet proposals (of Octo-making for post under their ber 23) that the electoral law own

Proses.

power and none is in

of the (East) German Democratic danger, the Navy gald-United Republic must be adopted for all-German elections?" it naked.

The Committee said the out- 5 Killed In Smash standing points of dispute were:

Tunis, Oct 31. Who is to supervise the poll and Five men were.. killed and how is to be conducted?

more than 20 seriously hurt Both could be solved at a when an Army lorry landed with four-power conference, now that parachutists overturned, on the Geneva conference had frontier road near Souk Ahram shown the way

and the today--Router,

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