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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

In Perspective

Ta time when

both

A British political parties

are dangling the bait

of

"peace" before an apathe- tic electorate, it is as well that a senior minister hos the good senge to remind forth- the public that the coming Big Four

talks

is

should not be regarded as the infallible panacea for all the problems which have divided the world for the last ten years. Mr Macmillan's warning

realistic and sensible if for both parties' "peace pledges in proper perspec- tive. The Tories' own doubtedly devised to fore

no other reason than it puts

"Pence of Eden" was un-

stall and dilute a possible repetition of Opposition charges of warmongering (couched last time in the snide question "Whose finger on the trigger"). The Tory catchery is no more plausible for that reason. The reality of the situation still requires emphasis possibly even more so in view of Labour's attempt.] to emulate their opponents as peacemakers in the pre- sent campaign... RUSSIA gives daily evidence

that the latest spate of Kremlin propaganda is un- "double talk" adulterated

can

be

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1955.

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Labour Minister Calls

Talks Today

DOCKERS STILL OUT

London, May 25.

Senior officials of the British Transport Com- mission and the Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen will meet the Minister of Labour, Sir Walter Monckton, today in a bid to avert the rail strike called by the union for mid night on Saturday.

But a Trades Union official said last night a solution to the dispute was not in sight.

The ASLEF has lodged a claim for higher wages to maintain the differential between the highly skilled workers and the unskilled and less highly skilled workers in the rival National Union of Railwaymen.

will

If the strike materialises, it, ports, appeared today to be set will stop four out of five trains, for a long campaign, endanger supplies of food and raw materials, upset millions of holidaymakers' plans for the Whitsun week-end and give the Government elected in this week's General Election a major headache,

Meanwhile the deck strike, which has slowed down dx

TITO'S

PEACE

HOPES

Belgrade, May 24.

which is capable of differ- ent interpretations even in Moscow. Thus when they call for Austria to be neutralised on Swiss lines. they do not really mean that at all. Austria like Switzerland should be free of any alliances, they believe, but ! Austria, unlike Switzerland, should not have strong armed forces to defend its neutrality. This is the only conclusion that drawn from the recent Pravda denunciation of "enemies of Austria's inde: pendence" who feel their country should be allowed to raise somewhat larger. (but still modest) armed forces than those specified in the treaty. Ostensibly the Russians have made Important concessions in their new disarmament plan. In fact, not only have

President Voroshilov of the they merely accepted provision demanded by the Soviet Union sent the following Allies at the Disarmament telegram to Marshal Tito

night. sub-committee meetings held

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About 18,200 strikers gather at dock gales today to near from thele leaders how their Aght is progressing for official recognition in the indus- fry's negotiating machinery,

Oneals

National of the

Stevedores Dad Amalgamated Dockers Unica will tell them that they are prepared to con- duct the strike to "a successful conclusion,"

ANOTHER FORTNIGHT?

strike Last night, a leading official indicated the union was prepared to hold out for at least a fortnight.

Tonight, strike leaders meet officials of the Watertren, Lightermen, Tugmen and Barge- men's Union, which came out in support of last October's tional Dock strike.

Na-

At the six-affected ports London, Hull, Liverpool, Birken.

86

President Tito of Yugo-head, Garston and Manchester.

ships were idle, 82 were slavia said today "for the

undermanned and 123 were first time in ten years, the wor

working sky looks brighter and hope has returned that peace may be preserved," Belgrade Radio said.

"At the normally. secondary port of Rochester, Kent, about 100 workers out of

250 were on strike,

Yesterday, about 400 men. returned to work but many

members WETH

of the rival

He told more than 30 delega-Transport and General Workers tions who came to congratulate

Union which has condemned him on his 63rd birthday to-

the strike.—Reuter.

morrow that "mankind has be gun to feel that an international agreement may be possible."

cause

to-

of

VACCINE DECLARED SAFE

New Envoy To Peking

Mr C.D.W. O'Neill, head of the Foreign Office News De- partment, has been appointed Charge d'Affaires at 'Peking. This picture is taken at his desk at home in London. He leaves towards the end of June to take up his new appoint- ment-London Express Photo.

Stop Meddling With Austrian Affairs'

CONSERVATIVE

PLEDGE TO HELP LANCASHIRE

But No Retaliation Against Hongkong

Manchester, May 24.

Sir Anthony Eden said tonight the Lancashire cotton industry was facing "serious problems."

Many of these problems would require for their soln- tion far more than an appropriate government policy, he said.

The Prime Minister thought|cent Indian concessions "will the cotten. " trade was making assist our exports." great efforts to solve its own "We cannot imperil by rash problem--making new products, and hasty action the expansion Anding new markets, installing of world trade for which we

worked so hard. new machinery and producing have

We sew designs,

He pledged that the Conserva- ve Party was determined to give the industry all the help it can to face the new conditions in the world

very.

KAGANOVICH

New Post In Soviet Government

Moscow, May 24.

must not place in jeopardy the exports, employ- ment and production of all our

Mr Lazar Kaganovich, a industries by inciting re- tallation agains

against our exports, Soviet first Deputy Premier "We must not go back on the and veteran economic or- ry principles we have driven After stressing that the cot- so hard to establish in the worldganiser, was today given ten industry must have "free-

sweeping powers believed to " | of trade. dom to move and adapt itself to the challenge of the present

be designed to raise output day," the Prime Minister said

throughout Soviet industry, with higher wages only for harder work,

It

FAITH IN NEGOTIATION

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not a question merely recent months the increased affecting two countries and one imports from India and Hong- commodity, be said, "The kony have caused anxiety.

effects of wrong action would

further

The Government well under-extend far and would never be

Tass, the official news agency, stands the gravity of this prob- limited to textiles." lem which until recently was "I believe we can solve these announced the establishment

a special goverment committee complicated by a pro- problems by negotiation, hibitive tariff on our exports to "The sucesses of our discus-questions of labour and wages to be headed by Mr Kaganovich. India and at one time by asions with Tolla about.. the

The announcement said the quota as well”

tariff and before that about Committee had bec

beca set Recent British Government the quota are an indication of strengthen state control over the measures at home would be of what can be dene," he added. work of Ministries and Direc "some help,” he said,-while.re-Reuter

torates and to improve their work in' all questions of labour and wages,”

Election Latest:

ELECTRONIC BRAINS

Order To Red Army TO PREDICT VOTE

Vienna, May 24.

Mr Ivan D. Ilyichov, the Soviet High Commissioner

London, May 25.

Britain called on electronic “brains" for the first time in Vienna, has ordered Russian commanders not to meddle to help compute the May 26 election vote.

in Austrian affairs in future, Herr Julius Raab, the Chan- cellor, told his cabinet today.

The British Broadcasting-

in

Mr

up

uts

Kaganovich, a 61-year- old Jew, was one of Stalin's ablest organisers and was once expected to be his success

has 2 -reputation for ruthless efficiency which be used to

reorganise Russia's railway system In the 1930s with a thoroughness that gave the lie to German prophecies down it would break under the stress of war.

that

He also served as pre-war Commissar for Heavy Industry, building Moscow into a centre. of the nation's industry and building the underground rail- way in the capital"

He became a deputy Premier

in 1938-Reuter.

Company is using a machine them are offering odds of two to

against Herr Raab said Mir Ilyichov |

1 Conservative The Russians opened many developed by English Electric, one had told him this in a private shops

was reported goods to keep Esteners posted on re-victory, it selling cheap conversation recently.

brought in without paying insults, and will try to forecast London today. the final result,

The prisoners correctly fore Although the Western Allies Port duties.

By calculating "swings" to cast a Labour victory in 1950 intervention stopped all

in The shops paid no turnover wards Tory or Labour in each and a Conservative victory in Austrian internal affairs in their tax, no company tax and no constituency and comparing 1951. zones five or six years ago, dudes on alcohol and tobacco. them with 1951 figures, its The "Tobacco barons"-un- Soviet occupation authorities when Austrian authorities con- operators hope to know who official prison bookmakers who maintained constant inter ficcated large quantities of these wins, well ahead of schedule.

-Djakarta, May 25, bet in tobacco are specially

Premier Ali Sastreamidjojo ference,

contraband goods being shipped The Conservative Party; privileged mien with access to tett by special plane today for constitution into other zones, the Russians meanwhile, installed a mam newspapers who move more Peking for discussions on the COST-

Leaves For Peking.

last year but they still in- "Please accept sincere congra- sist on the abandonment of tulations on the occasion of your NATO and the withdrawal birthday and best wishes for for fruitful of all foreign (and there your health and

activity in your work for the fore.American) troops from happiness of the Yugoslav. Europe. In their stead, the peoples and in the

Washington, May 21. Russians offer the "all-peace." "---Reuter.

The United States Sur- The Austrian European security system"

all refugees reaching Austria the right to claim politi. rdered them to be given back moth mechanical "brain" which freely around the big gaol than Formosa dispute with geon General, Dr Leonard gives controlled and directed by

Scheele, said tonight that cal asylum, but the Russians Moscow.

that any refugees ON German

the Ambassador, M. Francis Coule: all Salk anti-polio vaccine, insisted

reuse manufactured by drug com- Hungary or

from Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Russians are guilty of that Yugoslavia

Bulgaria reaching Ragrant equivocation. When all neutrality, either for her-panies was safe except pos- their zone must be handed

self or for any other country, Ribly for two, lots made by to Austrian particularly

then they say the

Germany," diplo- settlement should be an matic circles said. In Belgrade the Cutter Laboratories of handed back to the countries example to freedom-loving today.

California. Germans, they are speaking

unity,

TITO'S ASSURANCE

President Tito told the French

would

the inoculation place of when

as gramme would be restrned.

of the method of negotia- In histerview with the Am- Dr Scheele gave no indication

which took tion rather than the actual bassador,

Tito settlement achieved. The yesterday, President

sured M. Coulet that the talks top

would

the

a

He did not say that such' a relationship had been proved to exist,

them

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En-Ini-United Press.

will do the work of 198 secret-most of the community,China munist Chinese Premier Chou aries, tabulating results. It cast Mail Special £4,000 and the Tories say: "It may put us ahead of anyone else

Press,

Plan To Reform in analysing results."United

Constitution

Paris, May 24,

Deputies voted by 404 sgainst. 210 to modify five articles of

the constitution.

They were

from which they had escaped.

The Russians also

prdered the Austrian police"max"

The National Assembly voted to Austrian law pro-apply the

tonight to start reform of the in be Soviet zone constitution of the Fourth Re- forengnars who had Russian Propusica" public in a strong bid for future German leaders, like the between Yugoslavia and

D: Scheele's statement at the (permits). They could enter Austrian leaders, should go Soviet leaders, who are due to end of a meeting of Polio ex- Austria, live where they liked Cabinet stability. to Moscow for unity and arrive in Belgrade on Thursday, peris said there was "strong without registering and disobey

would take democracy, Russia says.

place in complete presumptive evidence that there Austrian police regulations with

cause and effect re-impunity. But then

openness, and that the French was they suddenly Government would be kept in lationship" between some cases

NEWSPAPERS BARRED make an alarming distinc-formed, the same circles stated of paralytic Follo and the use tion between the two coun- Meanwhile, the assurance given of two lots of Cutter vaccine tries. No mention is made today by American Secretary out of nine released." of giving Germany freedom of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, and independence on Aus- that American military aid fo trian lines. In fact, Herr Yugoslavia will not be cut, is felt, in Belgrade to strengthen Ulbricht, dictator of East Germany, makes it quite responsible for carrying as the the hand of three who will be clear that "freedom for the conversations with people means depriving of Premier, Marshal Bulgatic, and

Secretary First their pre-dominance

those the industrial and banking Communist Party, Nikita Khru

shchev France-Presse. magnates in Western Ger- many who have combined with American finance capital and sold the inter- ests of the German nation." These facts should not be hidden from the British public. Neither should the public be beguiled by glib promises of peace when all the prospects point to a new era of Soviet vacillation and procrastination. -- What! Mr Macmillan told. Britain was that they must noti expect an early end to the Cold War. Both parties should have been honest enough to admit that from the start.

Premier Edgar

Faure tola Deputies" before voting started A whole series of newspapers, that the government held a including all non-Communist "favourable view" of the pro- German illustrated papers and a posed cerstitutional

modifica- number of Austrian papers were lions. banned in the Soviet

Prior to the vote, M. Faure During recent municipal and sald: our institutions need im The numer of cases of Palio provincial elections, candidates provement, and among people who had received of the rightwing League of In- the government has observed a 'adaptation. It Soviet the Culter vaccine has now dependents were not allowed to certain reserve, it is certainly reached 60. There have also hold election meetings and their not disinterested in. this debate. the been 28 cases among children election posters were tom down The modifications constitute a

who received vaccine by four by order of the Russian com-

coherent and complete system other manufacturers-Reuter. manders.

which the government considers favourable.United Press.

Allegedly Murdered In Prison Cell

London, May 24,

May 7 while the doors were Later, prison officials, managed being unlocked for "slopping to force open the cell door and

overpower Perrott.

out" to be done,

A 31-year-old Jamaican, who died. following an attack at the Brixton Prison Hospital earlier this month, had been The office said he fellowed to murdered by a fellow prisoner,

a coroner's jury decided here today. The

enter the cell but it was bar- ricaded and he could not force the door more than about:

inches,

King, was mid to could just see through the small opening King was on

murdered man, Sefton

-have: ---arrived --- in -- England-

about 1950, prison A

Mr Frank Woodward, told

inquest that a prisoner called Perrotz walked into King'a-cell-on)

officer

the

the floor and Perrott was at

tacking him." Mr Woodward added that King was being hit continuously on the head with a piece of a chair,

Mow Released

Premier's Message

To Party

The

Londen, May 25.

Minister, Prime Bir Anthony Eden, sald today the resolt of Beftain's General Election tomorrow could decide the future of the world for z generation. In 'message' to: Con→ servatives, he said good intentions would not Win the election Only votes could do that.

"You know what is at slake: the future of thin. 'country and maybe of the world for a gener Renter.

Dartmoor Poll:

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LABOUR WIN Budweiser

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Mexico City, May 24. Fang-isu Mow, Chinese gen- eral accused of robbing Gea The Prison Medical Oficer eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek's

London, May 24 Long-term convicts at Dart added that Perrott was in Government of US$8,388,503.46, hospital for routine observa- was freed today at the success moor, Britain's toughest, prison tion. "We were of the opinion ful conclusion of his three on the Devonshire mdors, have

year fight he was mentally in,” he said. Without retiring, the just re- Formosa, at saker averly conde, that Labou will win by ht against extradition to already held 1" "General Elec-

tion" of corded a verdict that Perrot murdered King

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