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THE DAY
OF
Tory Policy
Imanif
Labour's
election
manifesto is uninspiring
and disappointing, then the Tories is remarkable for its restraint and almost complete reliance on past record and present policy even allowing that the two must, be judged by, a different criterion, Labour, in Opposition, is challeng ing. The Government is defending. Traditionally the Opposition's manifesto pro mises more while both tend to ignore realities.
But the Tories can ill-afford complacency with its pre- sent small House majority, however sound its record at home and abroad may be, particularly when all in dications point to a close fight in this 'month's national poll. An essential part of the Tory manifesto is, of course, the budget and by all political and economic considerations it is judged a Furthermore
sound one. pro-govern-
ment" economists are quick to point out that if the
Party secures
THE
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Established 1845
MONDAY, MAY 2, 1955.
CONFUSED SAIGON
Loss To Trade Unionism
Death Of
Mr Arthur
Deakin
large enough majority sweeping changes to the taxation structure are foreshadowed, THE whole economy is to be rejuvenated and strengthen- ed by basic re-arrangemente and alterations. Yet a few more tangible election .bribes could have been offered. This "Honest John".. -attitude implies the Govern- ment I only seeking a vote of confidence. To draw any comfort from the
Leicester, May. 1. results it will have to see its present majority of 19
Mr Arthur Deakin, one of increased to at least 60. Britain's most powerful and
Brilliant Trade Union Leader
Revolutionary Junta In Control
SUSPECTED CONTACT WITH VIETMINHESE
Saigon, May 1.
Battle-scarred Saigon was relatively calm tonight, but clouds seemed to be gathering for a possible new storm,
The situation was this:
1. General Nguyen Van Vy, invested by Viet- nam Chief of State Bao Dai with full military powers, was in flight to Dalat and the army seemed to be under the control of supporters of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. However, Nguyen Van Vy still considered himself the sole legal power in South Vietnam, and was trying to win the army to him.
2. A "revolutionary committee" composed of supporters of Premier Diem had declared the deposi tion of Bao Dai, the dissolution of the Diem govern. ment and called on Diem to constitute a new govern-
ment.
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Morrison Applauds US Policy Change
London, May 1.
A suspect is arrested during the recent fighting" which broke out at the headquarters of the Viet- nam Forces in Saigon, Indo-China-London Ex- press.
Mr Herbert Morrison, the former Labour Moseley Back
Foreign Secretary, said tonight the British labour movement urged all governments genuinely to co- operate "for the promotion and protection of the peace of the world, and for general disarmament, including putting out of action the atomic and hydrogen bomb."
Death Mystifies Police
Hollywood, May 1. Birgit, Johansson, 26, a atatuesque Swedish blonde who once claimed she wEN with romantically "linked Olympic track star Mal Whitfield, was found dead in her apartment under strange circumstances, police reported today.
Detective Sgt. E. V. Jackson,
· said- Misa, Johansson, a Holly- wood bank bookkeeper who was the daughter of a Stockholm contractor, apparently was the victim of an operation.
"It looks like she bled to death from an operation," Jackson said, "but we won't know for sure until an autopery tomorrow.
Police mid the former Swedish schoolteacher was found dead in her apartment by a man identi Aed as Sam
Lander 25, who told officers he was a friend of hers.
BOMANCE DENIED. Miss Johansson, who came to Hollywood a year ago, 223– nounced last Dec. 12 that the would marry Whitfeld, who, at the time was
on an inter national goodwill touy
TWO
days later. Whitfeld denied they were engaged, she also admitted they were not engaged
Both she and Whitfeld's rela- tives denied there was anything. to her announcement of the romance. Her father is a Stock- holm builder Axel Johansson.
Police and Miss Johansson's Was adomed with apartment action
Whitfield Photographs of and - souvenirs from the · 1952
Stockholm which Whitfield competed.
MET AT GAMES London, May 15.
Whitfeld's brother-in-law, Sir Oswald Moseley, former Horace P. Clark, said
his first open-air meeting for during the T}
In Politics Olympics in
British Fracist leader, spoke at Johansson and Whitheld
four years here today, to about but never das einki - gan
Misa met
However, according to informed sources, Diem and the United States Embassy here were suspicious that several of the 200 members of the "revolutionary committee" were really connected with the Vietminh, the Communist-led wartime force which now rules the and better still 100. On its controversial trade union 3. The "revolutionary committee" published appeals present manifesto this does leaders, died here tonight calling on the Vietnamese population to "install a republic" after collapsing wth a heart and throw out the French colonialists. General Pant attack while addressing a
Ely, French Commissioner-General in Indo-China, îm2
The landlord at the Swedish' He was speaking at a May Day, Labour de 100 people. mediately strengthened his Saigon forces in order to pro May Day rally.
disturbances beauty's apartment, Thomas tect the French population of the city. A Moroccan monstration at Leeds.
Ball, told police Miss Tobanason division was on its way to Saigon from Bien Hoa, about Mr Morrison declared that he was glad to see there
prophesied that there left the apartment on 20 miles from Saigon.
were signs of a change of policy in both the United States
two-and-a-half would not be another major wara anah “wear th and and China which might ease the situation in the Far East. terrible
politicians hours later with a red-haired was interesting to note city's first May Day procession themselves would be exposed to woman it was the last time he
danger.
saw Misa "Johansson alive, Ball that Mr Adlai Stevenson" in for more than 30 years, Mr He said afterwards he could said United Press.
declared: they Came not afford to fight a general offshore islands took almost beginning to whisper against him election but his "Union Move- exactly the same line that the and to say his resignation should ment would put up candidates British Labour Party had been have occurred earlier."
for county and borough CYRM- taking all the way through.
cils-Reiter.
not seem possible. On foreign affairs, the Government is hopeful, in some respecta optimistic and insists that achieve His death at the age of 64 ment lies with the proven came just three hours before the diplomatic procedures of deadline for a nationwide rail called off last night the last four years.
At strike home
result. of his much
fergely as a appears to
mediation efforts, hinge on future budgetary methods; exports are to be 1,300,000 strong Transport
Mr Deakin, Secretary of the maintained
or increased; General Workers Union, was against the Binh Xuyen home and hospital build the bitterest opponent of Com-reinforced by troops of another ing are likewise to be tn. munist cells in the trade union private army controlled by the creased. One compensation movement and an outspoken Hoa Hao sect. perhaps is that the elec-critic of Mr Aneurin Bevan, the
leftwing Labour leader,
radical
torate at least knows there are "to be changes.
no
A
and
Tonight the revolutionary junta bolstering Mr Diem in defiance of the Head of State,
it
US Strikes dealing with Formosa and the Bevan prepared to wage an all-out war
now
Binh The green-bercted" Kuyen maintain strong forces, ai of the key points in the centre of Sai- former Chairman eight million strong Trades gon and its twin city of Cholon, Union Congress he was proud of But their main body was
of ported forming up cutside the
Vietnam's Plight his nickname The hammer
D
re-
he Reds" and of the role he city in the maze of waterways in leading Western and rice paddies that stretch
IEM must go, the French played
he must stay.
wonders" who is right.
of the Communist- down to the sea, unions out
Assume Threatening
Note
י
the new Conservative Now, surprising as it might leader, Sir Anthony
Eden, Mr seem, M. Eisenhower, and the Bevan sald be had been Secretary of State (Mr John qualifying for more than 35 Foster Dulles) showed signs of years to be Britain's best looking following the Stevenson line and of coming to a settlement / F
which he (Mr Morrison) hoped
He said the Conservatives did
not want `war, but, they
war."-Reuter,
There "wese nò or heckling
He
that the
Planes Collide
New York, May 1. Two F-51. fighter planes of the Ohio National Guard collided in flight' rear Mount Vernon, Ohio,
SECOND VICTIM
Boise, Idaho, May 1. A second child inoculated with :: Salk's anti-polio vaccine-made by the Cutter Laboratories ded ca Sunday it was announced here today.
The death occurred at Spokene hospital in the State of Washington.-France-Presse.
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Now he was looking "wara both China and America would out" and "saddle sore" because today. Both pilots parachuted
to safety.---United Press. be had been sitting on his accept. New York, May 1. insist. And the Ameri-dominated World Federation of The private armies/radio
horse for a long time at the cans are equally insistent Trade Unions.
station said tonight that. Gen.
Strikes of railway and This would mean Formosa side of the arena waiting to
United The world
Ngo Dinn Diem, like
Nations ride in Gen. telephone workers in the becoming a GREAT INFLUENCE
Mohammed Naguib in Egypt, southern statės
the people of entered protege and
Formosa, by plebiscite or other- Possibly a majority side
out- had been superseded by on ex their eighth week on a tense wise, deciding what their own wanted the things that make fearlessly Bluff and with
influence the French, not spoken, his
military on tremist revolutionary
note today and other labour future should be. .because they are convinced Britain's Industrial and ecno-junta.
It appealed to the United disputes loomed threaten- of the ineffectiveness of the mic affairs since the war was
Mr Merrison added that one States
to help form a legal ingly on the national scene of the possible virtues of the present Premier of South considered greater than that of
any other union chief.
Government of national unity Vietnam
Fears of violence spread itUnited States but possibly Mr Deakin was due to retire quickly to prevent South Viet-the south following a dynamite could change their opinion, and
was that
they because the Americans have this November from his post nam from crumbling into, civil
explosion yesterday which he welcomed the signs which an unfortunate habit of with the TCWU the world's war endangering all Southeast
destroyed 3 Southern Bell were reported · this weekend of backing the wrong horse largest union outside Soviet Asia,
telephone relay company station, modifications" near Chester, North Carolina, opinion in the direction which of American and sticking to it with Russia,
and more damage to cable was the British Labour Party had reported in many places....
been urging all the time.
The
radio
that
The telephone strike is over" terms of a new contract.
in
"STOP SUPPORT PLEA purblind tenacity-regard- He collapsed on the platform
They asked President Elsen- less of its obvious short in the middle of the speech hower to stop support Diem and
added:
"We want urgently a comings.
apparently from a heart attack
solution in which there is If Diem is dumped-and who and died on reaching hospital.
Mr Deakin succeeded the late neither victor nor vanquished. isto dump him?-who Mi Ernest Bevin as
In the strike against the big TGWU
reported follows? Or rather, what Secretary in 1946,
"Pope" Pham Cong Tac of the Louisville and Nashing he
sent way, officials reported follows? "Government" by He had been a follower of Mr Caodaist religion had
bridge proxy from Cannes, a new Bevin since meeting him to fully-equipped Cao Dai troops namaiting of a
to join dose of Gilbertian war Wales 44 years ago, and became Hoa Hao "united front." Alabama last Friday.
the Bình Xuyen and This lordism and
second temporary head of the union is the first
STRIKE SPREADS news that.. Cao Mr Bevin went in Daist forces were still fighting weekend to another rall com- tragedy of the Tuchung? when
The strike spread during the Anarchy, at any rate, with Britain's wardáme government as was ho private armies und
Minister of Labour in 1948
had not
followed their Company in Kentucky and pickets mander FORCEFUL LEADER
in-Chief, General Interrupted service on a third Nguyen Thanh Phuong, over to railway in Birmingham, Alabama. The rail dispute is over ₤ After the war, with Mr Bevin the side of the govemminent.
to' Most Cao Dal troops are welfare, and pension fund.
away from Saigon and probably National Labour officials are away from Gen. Phuong's in mediating. Ruence.
Americanis
warned
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their myopia, it must be The son of Warwickshire May Day Border
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BEVAN'S ALLEGATION
BOY SLAIN
BY
YOUTHS
was
New York, May 1.
· A ; 17-year-old tough arrested today and charged with Mr Anturin Bevan, leader of the enlous slaying of the teeri
leftwing elements in the Labour age son of a crusader against Party, told no audience of 2,000 juvenile delinquency."
at Newcastle tonight that many Conservatives were now begin Eleven other youths, all mem- bers of a Bronx gang known as ning to say that they had never the "Navajos", were picked up Winston Churchill. trusted their former leader, Sir and booked on various charges stemming from the slaying of Speaking after marching a William Blankenship, Jr., 15. mile through the rain in the Young Blankenship was killed last night as he was walking A toward his Bronx home. friend -- he was with told, the
a gang of youths riced up to them on bicycles,
CHOU AND HO police that as they neared home
TALKING?
South Vietnam doomed to a
formless struggle. huge, until the "day of de. liverance" by Ho Chi-minh. devoting his time fully In Asia, Diem's failure is re-chics, Mr Deakin developed garded as a typical example into one of the nation's most of the consequence of forceful union chicis, American interference.. No. He succeeded Lord Citrine as
The private armies radio was yesterday that a nationwide ra quantity of the once- all President of the World Federa- fainter today and appeared to way strike was probable if cur
One of them asked. Blanken- Tokyo, May 1. powerful dollar aid
But in have been moved further away rent negotiations in Chicago did
|ship if he were a member, or Caption of Trade Unions.. Bave him now. Only his January 1949, he left the British from Saigon France - Presse net bring a settlement,
Speculation is gaining ground the "Golden Guintas", another delegates out of the organisation and Reuter.
among competent observers that gangs and stival of the natural instinct to survive, and the American, and -Dutch
The warning came from the the fact the Chinese Premier "Navajos When Blankenship Yet without condoning inions also seceded.
leader of this Ralway Conductors Chou En-lai, who flew into said he did not know what they and Brakemen's Union, whoss Kunming last Friday from the were talking about the wa representatives will negotiate Bandung Conference said there is an element of cabbler, he started work at four
pusbed into a vacant lot and Welsh steel
with the management tomorrow!
mains in the realism
Yunnanese capital in the present shillys a week in
on their pay claims. American stand.
Plant at the age of 13,
could be linked, with possible t He became a Companion of
Tel-Aviv, May 1 SEA CRITICALA MONTH important talks he might "be Frank Santana, 17 was Diem, administratively incom- Honour in 1949 and St Winston An Israeli Amity spokesman. In Detroit, labour experts having with Ho Chi-minh, charged with the actual shoot-
petent as he is, offers a slim Chirchill made him a Privy tonight reported a" May Day saw a critical- month ahead
of the North Vietnam Ing. Another youth was charged incident chance possibly one in a Counsellor last year Reuter
on the ·Gaza strip bargaining talks between unions
Se with inciting, a riot- and: 10 million--that he may effect
border between Egyptian and and the management of General
observers pointed out other teen-gers were charged Israeli guards on the border. Motors and Ford, the two that Ho Cal-minh was a notable with being deliriquents, pe
The spokesman said the largest motor companies absentee from the May Day Togliatti Unwell incident occurred
When
en Egypt The United Automobile Workers
held in Hanoi to * Trieste," May 1 ku Amy i positions" opened i contracts the-two: Paimiro Togeth, 62-year-old strong automatic arms against panies will
Correct, conflict. At the moment, alleas Composant leader, was an Israeli petrol at Gazz week of June, there is anarchy, Diem and ill while add 15,000 The patrol returned the fire. Observers said the issue was portant joint political declara af test that the slaying that one slight hope..With- | workers at a May Day rally They were no chem out him, there is anarchy here today but continued after the Israeli, side, the spokesman and no hope
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