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THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1955.
PEACE HOPES
Wness to explore the possi Eisenhower Offers To
bilities of discussing a Formosa ceasefire with Com- munist China following Mr Cháu Bulls statement in Bandung is pleasing news, It offers a tangible hope that talks on this vexed question may at last begin and that, with goodwill on both sides, E settlement may be reached. Mr Joba Foster Dulles' state- ment outlining the US atti- tude is important for three main reasons.. First, the principle now adopted by the State Department is that the question of a ceasefire
should be made the starting
Enlarge Scope Of Negotiations
By PAUL SCOTT RANKINE -
Washington, Apr. 27.“
President Eisenhower today "widened the scope of the proposed point from which broader bilateral negotiations between the United States and Communist China and more comprehensive dis- to include the whole subject of easing world tensions and not merely that cussions on Formosa's fature of a ceasefire in the Formosan area. status can proceed.. suggests a divorce of the two
This
questions. In fact, however, has been a rationalisation of the earlier policy dividing it into two separate yet related This is a principle Britain has
the only change is that there
components.
consistently advocated and one which has the support of a large section of world feeling that tension must be ended first and the dangerous! drift to war brought to a halt. The second important; aspect is a corollary to the first: that by enunciating: this principle herself, America now appears to bel no longer estranged from the views of her allies,
ONCE there seemed to be a
cynical apathy in the State Department about the prospects of ceasefire talks reaching a successful! conclusion. Mr Dulles, re
dent Eisenhower, now sees
in its desire for peace and
that it is worthwhile at least to find out more about her intentions.
At his press conference today the President obviously in an optimistic mood about brightening world peace prospects in general went further than his Secretary of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, went yester- day towards public acceptance of the offer of the Chinese Communist Premier, Mr Chou En-lai, last week to negotiate directly with the United States regarding a relaxation of Far Eastern tensions.
Virtually the only limitation placed on
the bilateral talks by President Eisenhower today was that Communist China should not discuss matters which affect the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa
་་
Chou's Pact Offer
To Britain
From. LES ARMOUR
ciples for co-existence.”
London, Apr. 27.
3
(At Bandung, Mr Chou principles of co-existence, and be indicated at a press conference | beinted out that Sir Anthony that he was willing to come to Eden had subscribed to the reporte: an agreement with any country principles. When
his Aiva asked him whether that meant
he would be willing to sign pact with Britain on that basis the Chinese Premier replied. in the affirmative.)
the
basis of
Apart from this President Elsenhower was willing for the United States to talk with Com mualst China about anything which would further the easing of tensions and the advancement of world peace and he added ons specifie subject: getting back the United States airmen imprisoned in China last year for alleged espionage.
The statement of Mr Dulles yesterday stim stands that a ceasefire in the Formosan arca is an indispensable prerequisite to anything further ""
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London, Apr. 27.
Three men appeared in -court here today on a
charge of conspiring with
other persons unknown to defraud a London-company by presenting false delivery orders for pepper.
The company concerned Was Huih Prodace Sales (Overseas) Limited.
After a police officer had explstand that the case was rather involved, the hearing
was adjourned until May 27.
William Henry Walker, ts, company director, was released on bait of £5,000 and Joseph Ben- nett, produce merchani, and Frank Alfred Parker, 48, produce buyer, în ball of £2,000 sterling each.
The charte soused the -three men of committing the. alleged offence · in London between April, h 1954 and April 15 this year. ---China, Mall Speciál -
Diana
Barrymore
FOR JAPAN
Tokyo, Apr. 27. The Japanese Govern- ment was today, seeking a solution to a dilemma: how to increase trade, with Communist China without compromising on its pre- sent policy of not TE cognising the Peking re gime,
A visiting Communist Chinese trade delegation was attempting to force the Governement to give its official sunction to a private trade agreement between the two countries.
The Governmen war em- barrassed by condict at its
Ban
Bevan To Be Sensation
Reinstated
The
Lendosi, Aur. 27.
· British "lafi-wing Labour Party leader. Mr Anrurin Bêyên, wil bo readmitted tomorrow to sho Parliamentary Inbetr stoum, from, which he was expelled due to "lack" of discipline" month and a half ago, it was learned here today. N
Mr Bevan will be re- turned to the Parliamentary group in a move to restore Labour Party unity, for the general election to be held on May 28,
Mr Bevan is scheduled to speak in, a large number of districts where left. wing members of the Party are up for election.
-France-Presse.
DIEM'S
Clection pronists of more trade FUTURE IN
and closer ties with the Cora- munists on the one hand and is non-recognition of Peiding on the other,
Businessmen here said that if It was persuaded to give official
sanction which the Chinese Communist delegation seeks, it would be put in a position of treating officially with a Govers ment it does not recognise,
i.
BALANCE
Washington, Apr. 27.; President Eisenhower
Washington, Apr. 27. The government today banned the use of all Salk polio vaccine produced by ʼn Californian firm as a pre- cautionary measure after several children inoculated with the serum were stricken with paralytic polio.
The order was issued to the Cutter Laboratories, California, which began calling for its
Chippedccine had been
to
least 18 States, of States mostly. the South. In Los Angeles 30,000 children already had been Inoculated with
in
The ban on the Cutter vaccine was ordered by the US Public Health Service which em phasised its complete Caith
ས་ in the Salk serum. But-it-said the, California, vhccine would be held up pending an investig tion of the cases of six children. strickten with palla, INOCULATIONS
STOFFED In Philadelphia, parochial school oficials halted inoculations of
of their students until City health officials re- confirm the safety of the vac- cine in use there.
The serum used to Philadel phia was
from: the
may reconsider his attitude Laboratories- not the
concern - and a toward the failing regime of said Wyeth had had "absolute
If the Government does not South Vietnam's Premier no reports of adverse
Chinese Communists may refust believed here today,
Dangerously saredon the agreement, the Ngo Dinh Diem, It was
III
to sign it The Government
opinion was
spokesman
they wanted to double-check the But public health officials said
serum,
In Pocatello, Idabo, mean
would then be open to charges. This prevailing that its election pledges last based on the: pessimise reports while, seven-year-old Sumn February of more trade with which President Elsensower's Léroe died of bulbar poils nine days after being inoculated. Her case was not among those re- partod by the Public Health Service bore State officialą salą. some 32,000 Idaho children
Boston, Apr. 27. Actress Diana Barrymore
China, were fosincere;
today pert ១. wider political was taken unconscious to a
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private- --
special envoy
was General Lawton Collbus reported to bave brought back from Indo-China,
General Collins has reported
recre
the
15.
vaccine
Scheele and other-Federal Health officials emphasised that there may ber
e nothing wrong with the vaccine. They said the children already may have
Inoculated been infected, when
A DEADLOCK" But the President's statements Mr Arthur Henderson, ex-British Air Minister
The Chinese delegation of 34 freshed from his short and former Secretary of State for Commonwealth complexions
the proposed Boston hospital tonight embora headed by Lei Jen
min,
Choirroan of the fishing holiday and possibly Relations, called on the British government tonight biberal negotiations after that a kivan overdose of ster Commitee for International carefuly briefed by Presi to explore Mr Chou En-lai's offer to sign a pact one may being pills, hospital officials Trade Promotion, arrived hard try of State John Foster Dulles
surmounted. These now
of the Japanese International Hons Committee sin that Peking may be genuine with Britain on the basis of China's five prin- be expected to include such said. Her condition was March 29 at the invitation the Suncle's
questione as a political settle-described as "dangerous".
A spokesman said. Maade, Promotion: Association, A. tummed from Indo-Cisire | Aasy.} ment in Korea, the situation, in Mr Henderson, now one of the Socialist Party's top Indo-China and anything cousing Barrymore "was taken into the Jayate bindundial group of Thursday
Informed sources sald Gen. San Dieg policy advisers, told me: "I think this is the first time world tensions except the one hospital in a comatose condition After four weeks, private
regards the situation in each the Chinese Premier has expressed a desire to negotiate question of the disposal or suffering from an overdose of negotiations have reached dead-South Vietnam as serious and agian, and sleeping pilis, very likely lock because of the Chinese de doubts whether Diem bas the Chicagy the Chinese Nadonalists.
phenobarbital directly with Britain. It certainly deserves serious con- future status of Formosa
mand that the Japanese Govern ambority necessary to end the Cutter NOT RECOGNITION
There was no reason given ment endorse a trade agreement
between fas present crisis sideration."
Administration spokesmen are for the talented performer
with With toute form of
official
gal government reluctant to say that this action. An official of the Majes-guumiter.
political-religious" sex reply the Government bas Presse, presents a change in United tie Theatre where she was play- States policies and
ing a leading part in the musical ordered the delegation to love said she Japan (*
next plane. emphasising that it does not revu "Pyjama Tops," said Involve
available. the "way the bad not been in ill
next available plane But the net RESPONDS FEEBLY
[expected to be recognition of the Communis
Police sald Miss Barrymore's is regime as the government of
busband, Robert Wilcox, aplisted before May 3, the late avalable mainland China,
But the kind of negotiations the authorities about 8pm, of the Chinese had previously are which President Eisenhower his wife's plight. She was rush, pested to leave for home.
Japanese and Chinese, negotia ed from Boston Hotel suite in antors have so far only agreed on now seems to have in mind the House of Commons on the would appear to involve-mory ambulance to the hospital, where the list of goods to be exchanged a parade on that: day before".
significant contacts between the she was given first aid and had
under the new pact United States and Communist her stomach pumped out.
The Japanese
se ride originally Premier Ngo Dinh Diem, -
London, Apr. 27. China than any of the previous Wilcox was at her bedside bus
propceed an annual exchange-of The "United Front of politico- The Queen has approved the very circumscribed negotiations refused to comment
goods worth. £35 million each religious sects, which oppose appoin mask of Mr. John Gutch, and discussions such as those The hospital. spokesman said
way,
ay. But the
plan is only Diem, www the parade 19-8 fundit recently "Chief Secretary which led up to the Korean she responded "reebly to the tentative. The Japanese side pro-Diem demonstration and British Guland, and who a and the Indo-China emergency treatment but was hopes for a bigger frow of trade, prepared to organise a "counter-present currying out a special armistice settlement
able
to understand questions and
EMBARRASSED A 21 Coupled with developments In obey commands.
Besides seeking officially a tration using thousands dgment in that territory, other world capitak the Pre Miss Barrymore, 34-year-old
Government guarantee for their commandos-France to be High Commietoper
Presse
the Western PacificRe sident's statements on Formosan daughter of John Barrymore trade agreement, the "Com talks today gave the impression and a veteran of Hollywood and munists have also: embarrassed that a relaxation of world to New York appearances, was the the Government by urging that
second prominent actress
The third consideration is that in deciding in principle to confer with China without the Nationaliste, Mr Dulles is making a sensible dis- tinction between America's interests (and therefore world peace) and the in terests of the Kuomintang. Formosa bas consistently rejected a ceasefire. To have lasisted on her presence at ceasefire talks would have been to condemn them to futile and frustrating wran- gling. And so by deciding to absent Taipei, Washing. ton has enhanced the of successful prospects negotiations. There is satis- therefore, to faction, this extent.
MR
AR Dulles' subsequent presa conference left ✡ leas desirable impression, per- haps because he had too much to say and his re. marks appeared confusing
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Preparing
For Top-Level
Talks
From Derek Marks
London, Apr. 27.
The British government
in the light of his prepared hopes that all plans for a statement. He seems un able to rid himself of the Big Four meeting will be conviction that China is ready in two weeks, it was trying to hold a gun to disclosed by the Foreign America's head" over Secretary, Mr Harold Mac- Formosa, When Chou made millan tonight.
J
his appeal at Bandung He was speaking to a private there was no indication of meeting of the Tory Party it. The Secretary of State foreign affairs committee in the
this recognised
in his House of Commons. statement yet raised the In his speech Mr Macmillan con-warned Tory MPs to prepare for possibility in his ference. The suspicion was foreign affairs and the H-Bomb without genuine foundation becoming the main issues in the and the qualification there- general election.
Macmillan said prepara- fore gratuitous. It does not
were being speeded to help to promote the proper settle all outstanding technical atmosphere for negotia difficulties in the way of top tions.
level talks with Russia.
Mr
tions
Tomorrow, Mr. Henderson will question Sir Anthony Eden in
Chinese offer.
Mr Arthur Henderson
Bay
ston has already begun.
OTHER DEVELOPMENTS Other
to take an overdose of sleeping payment under the agreement should be settled through oficial developments which pills in two days.
Actress Susan Hayward was banking accounts in both coun- tend to confirm this picture creound unconscious in her Holly-tes Trade between the two 1. The President'a DWR EX- wood home on Monday in what countries is at present settled. pression
of his feeling that the police described as a suicide through private barter dents. things are on the upswing so attempt United Press, far as concerns a general abate- ment of tensions between East and West.
The Commmists have also put forward "1⁄2 two, further demards that would involve the Japanese Government. They
Pro-Catholics have sought an exchange of
Demonstrate
trade missions and holding trade fals in Japaniard China. Both these proposals: would involve. the Japanese Government in the provision of visas, import and export licences and other official a formalities. /
hazalso some embarrassment to
Si
2. The President's personal correspondence with the Soviet Minister of Defence, Marshal Zhukov, and his optimistic re So far the Chinese suggestion ferences to the prospects of un 't been taken up at least in Austrian settlement with, the
Brussels, Apr. 27. public by the British Foreign Soviet Union, Office on the grounds that the 3. The progress being made
Several arrests, and "ve principles are little more in following up the receipt
The Communist Chinese, trade then a restartiment of ebligations through diplomatic channels of į number of slight injuries heation's visit
members have Mr which all. UNO
Chou En-lai's offer to resulted from the pro
Caused already accepted.
negotiate.
Catholic demonstrations to Japanese businessmen. Mr Henderson said, however, 4. President Eisenhower's he thought it gignificant the confident reference to the fact day against two govern maths ago A
business circles Chinese Premier should suggest that Nationalist China is al ment ministers in the two were appealing for a chance of There is also a suggestion (These difficulties were be talks directly with Britain and
observing a ceasefire. ready
Belgian provincial cities of more trade with China.
!Today many (of the country's that China must come to tackled by British, French and
in London he felt the offer should not, on
5. The expression of hope by Turnhout and Ninove.. ta
Leading business houses had bert Blankeasy account, be simply ignored. the British Foreign Secretary At Turnhout a large, hostile made no move any ceasefire discussions American officials
Ho declined to add anything Me Harold Macmillan, that a crowd defied the mayor's pro- 14 Jan-min's party
to contact Mir as a prodigal and await today. Dr
horn, held of the German her acceptance a
had received an official reply may begin to develop,
akong recognised Asian power at falles tomorrow,)
Sir Anthony Eden more favourable ime",
five people and heckled Interior the pleasure of Washing Plona
yes Minister Pierre Vermoylen Businessmen from these firms wild there were two reasons for during, a speech."
their present lack of enthusiasm ton. Certainly no deal of officials will be approved by London Express Service.
terday that the last ter days: į:
to
Firstly the Chinese are wanting seen developments of break into the building, cau
'causing "id" have
"decisive importance both Europe azad Aditi Retites in the police charges, one women Communist Chloe pertand
Foreign Office will join the'l to his statement until after he whole uuation in the Far Zhiblica of crowds of midrethane ZACK OF EXTRISTASHL
drawn up.by.
Western
the from
ministers of the powers- it goes as we hope
bargaining can be expected the foreign mi at the ceasefire talks but three America should realise that closely associated with the when
ugene ministers meet in
Paris on May
Macmillan said Britain
question of ensing tensioned talks between the B
the Far East is the
The
Victory For
Government-
Capetown, Apr): 27. South Africa's -Nationalist need to place mainland Four heads of government, to Government tonight won crucial * vote in the House China in proper diplomatic de Quemos and Matsuise Supreme Court
with the "roust outstanding Assembly on its bill to enlarge perspective and that it questio conditions, are to return to kit hien sak the Raasians fudge: 195 ses/Involvin
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to
several arrests.
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were a worned my validity of government normal, then "normal" re-body shoot the possibility of tion. The bid, given lations must be restored Red China using force to seize reading by 88 votes to with. Peing, America has die blunds and thus provokin been alleged by the C still some rationalising to
A major war
London: Expres to undermine the courts and the was do in this respecté
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