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the statement signed by internationally.

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"DOMINION"? Knowland's

Free The

Resolution

Whitehall To Consider Constitutional Changes In All Colonies Satellites

Eisenhower Will TO BE DISCUSSED

AT THE MALTA Big 4 Plus

-Local Reactions To The Idea

developed an immunity to the fear of a hydrogen bomb war-constant repetition of the dreadful consequences hus numbed the mind and dulled its receplivity; or jefhus apathy has grown out of the feeling of utter helplessness which the pro-

Both the Reform Club and #pect creates; or perhaps it is just that we eling to an the longkong Civic Associa insecure faith, (or is it tion reacted this morning to hope?) that no world power the London report of a pos- not even the Russianssible change in the Colony's would be foolish enough to constitution.

such wholesale instigate enrnage as this kind of war involves.

THE purpose of the state

ment, however, was not to jog dilatory and reluctant memories,

Mr Brook Bernacchi said:

pleasure the fact that proposed

affect

position.

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CONFERENCE

By HAROLD GUARD

London, July 11.

Say "No" To-

Red China Conference

Washington, July 12. President Eisenhower is any oppose

at the

to

proposal

The appointment of a round-table conference to consider Malta's request for representation in Britain's Parliament may expected set a precedent for constitutional changes Soviet

Geneva conference for a colonial territories, including five-power for other Hongkong, authoritative sources said here Communist China to nego- today.

meçting with.

nol even

tiate a peace settlement in the Far East.

According to present plans, Mr

will Eisenhower attempt to raise Far East ques- does not communist China in his address.

lens at next week's meeling and intend to include. a specifle discussion of Formriosa or

Following studies of the Maltese pro- "The Reform Club notes with posals for assimilation by the United King- constitutions! changes in Malta dom and admission to representation at Hongkong's owns Westminster, the Government has resolved may

on the broad principles by which any further or to. arouse that there are many advantages applications should be judged. dormant fears. It was to an arrangement whereby the It is understood that proposals for the associa-Friday night.

Parliament in tion of some small self-governing colonies with the nearest Commonwealth ́member are being circu- lated among Commonwealth governments.

London.

Reform Club considers

to

to

the nation shortly before leaving for the Swiss capital on

the

designed 'ai 11 timely Colony could elect its own re,.

The President's determination East problems warning specifienlly to the presentative

to avoid For Big Four heads of govern-

during the Geneva conference is ment and generally to the "Whilst the Reform Club

in marked contrast to the at- that the-Excel- world's atomic powers that recommenda

Utude of Sir Anthony Eden, the In this way the Commissioner British Prime Minister, who has the situation it puses as ativo should sit with the Legis-

By this scheme New Guinea Hongkong and future possibility is to be lature

elected and the Solomon Islands would for langkong would have direct have Home

cuss any subject which any one avoided at all costs. The should

Big Four heads 'of Authoritative scurces, stressed of moral is quite clear in this representatives on it, constitu- expected to gravitate toward access to Whitehall on behalf of signified his willingness to dis

tional changes of a more sweep-Australia: Fiji, Samoa and Tonga his government.

toward New Zealand; Mauritius ing nature

toward

that these were only ideas which governments may want to bring require

and the Seychelles The most obvious inference to studied. with care."

Tuture Federation; and Bermuda would come up for discussion at up:

the round-table conference on and be drawn from it is that we

the

Bahamas,toward The Other View

Malta

members ot thailles approach to this have now reached the cross-

Caribbean Federationi:**

Müllese Parliaments., roads in our dealings with

Speaking for the Civic Asso- The proposals for association British

There huy been another question presumably will be an the with

Commonwealth niso path clation. Mr F. W. Kendall said:

important aspect of last-minute- that the Russians; one the

tailka which the has would fit in with Malta's ideas suggestion "The Civic Association

"Dominions" leads to what Sir Winston

Prime Ministers pro-Geneva Churchill once described as noted that certain suggestions of integration with the United

constitutional Kingdom and could also include should sit in on plenary sessions sweeping

of future Commonwealth Prime "the broad highway to peace! for

Ministers' conferences.. and plenty and the other changes concerning Hongkong Gibraltar, the sources said,

respect.

to

be

to be made at the round London table conference in called to discuss, constitutional reform in Malta.

to a state of affairs which are could precipitate the dan- gers which the scientists underline so vividly.

Promotion

4

Another

'new

DEMAND EXPECTED

United States Secretary of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, will hold with the British and French Foreign Ministers in Paris co Thursday and Friday.

But such an arrangement could not include island and city states like Hongkong and Council" by themselves together discussion development in

Cyprus.

to

As a document bearing the "In view of the present stage

signatures of some of the of political most famous figures in the Hongkong, the Civic Association considers any constitutional world of physical selence and medicine, it cannot fuis change of a sweeping nature is that they should be promoted civil servants

be detrimental to the to have a profound effect upon the minds of those who will be involved in the dis-

Cer cussions at Geneva, tainly the Western leaders,

would economic and political stability of the Colony."

A Soviet demand for inclusion

by expected of the Far East in the Geneva

here. The diplomatic sources probable Soviet line has been one of the big question marks facing Washington in its pre- parations for the Big Four con- ference.

the

A Petition That Failed

[EVENINGE

Washington, July 11... The Senate Republican lender, William Knowland,

introduced today

an {administration-backed reso- lution proclaiming hope for independence for the people of Communist satellite, na- tions.

It was co-sponsored by the acting Democratic lender, Earle Clements, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee,

and Walter Wiley, Republican Senator Alexander

member of that Committee.

Senator Knowland told the, Senate he Introduced

the resolu

tion with the knowledge and proval of the

the State

ap.

Department. He offered, the resolution Seuator Joseph McCarthy pre- at put- pared for another try ing the Senato on record, for liberation of the Communist satellites. previous effori,

Serator McCarthy's

calling President Elsenhower is, raise

10

satellite question at next week's Big Four summit CoДL-

fanence, was rejected by the Star by a 77-4 vote on the grounde that it would try to the President's hand's in critical diplomacy.

AGGRESSIVE DESPOTISM' The Knowland resolution, dist not mention the Big Four. coli- feronco. It did say that millions of persons in Europe and. Aşın lived under "totalitarian im- perialism" and that domination of free people by an aggressive despotism was a threat to the security of all other free peoples, Asserting that the American people che

cherish a tradition of freedom and self-determination, the resolution concluded with

Mrs Frieds Pratt, who was on' Irial five years ago for mare than 1,000 stabbing her husband, recently obtained signatures to her petition for the reprieve of Mrs Mary Ellis,

her of

lover. David Eintenced to death, for the murder Blakely. But reports. from London yesterday said that the Home-Secretary had decided not to intervene and Mrs Ellis is--is resolus due to be banged today.-London. Express photo. -

LENNOX BOYD LEÁVES CYPRUS

CONDEMNATION OF VIOLENCE URGED

Nicosia, July 11.

resolving clause

"That the Senate proclaim the hope that the peoples who have been subjected to the captivity. of alien despotlam shall again. enjoy the right of self-deter- # framework mination within which will sustain peace; that they shall again have the right to choose the form of govern- ment under which they will live the sovereign rights and that of self-government shall be restored to them ail in accor- dance with the pledge of the Atlantic Charter."United Press.

FLOOD THREAT

"Grand Council"

that suggestion is they should form a "Grand with the suggestion that the Crown Office in London should

and staffed For these areas one suggestion be enlarged

by for the new

Mr. Alan Lennox Boyd, British Colonial Secre- style "Dominions." rank of the

tary, tonight called for universal condemnation of "Dominions" on the understand- The idea behind this sugges- ing that that term is only lower tion is that the Crown Office It has been underscored by violent demonstrations in Cyprus as he prepared to

Calcutta, July 11. in status to "realm" and higher then could operate in the same reports in London that

'Prime Minister.

The North Mr J. L. Murray, Government

Me return to London after a weekend visit to this un-

Bengal river way as the Commonwealth Re Indian Public Relations Officer, stated status to "colony,"

British who left the

Teesta, in the Himalayas, today ways these new lations Office which has direct Nehru. In heard

been easy island. that Government huet

"dominions could be modeled access to the Foreign Office and capital on Sunday, had been

Mr Lennox Boyd is to fly home tonight after three widened the breach it made in ambankment protecting nothing of the suggestions and more than anyone else, erefore had no comment to on the old. Their governors Cabinet offices in Whitehall.

asked by Soviet leaders to sound

towns on its eastern bank to- out the British Government on days of talks with British, Greek and Turkish community tho conscious of the frightfun

appointed by the make,

Queen on the recommendation that the proposals for Mally broadening the Geneva meeting leaders in Cyprus where terrorist organisations have day.

It tore 800-foot gap in the menace and are pledged to

their Prime Minister in the were "plain and practical" and to include Formosp and other bring an end to present

embankment which stretches for Dominion,

that if the British Government disputes involving the Chinese organised bomb incidents to demonstrate for Enosis

and realm did meet the Maltese demands, Communists tension and banish threat

United (union with Greece)..

nine miles. The Commonwealth

States. of war. The Soviet attitude

which accepts overall respond-Hongkong and Singapore could is still uncertain. To the

Casablanca, July 12.

bility for the

territory in righly request similar constitu- terrorist on a

tional

adjustment. -- United negotiators, then, the warn-

Press. and seriously question could be represented in Com- "Dominion" by a the ing has particular point.

wounded a 47-year-old woman, HE refusal of the Russians Mrs Germaine Cossi, in the re-misslorer and the "Dominion" associate themselves sidential district here yesterday, would likewise be represented to

THE

with it is to be regretted,

The statement transcends politics and its message is

aclen-

Woman Wounded

A Moroccan bicycle shot

-France-Presse.

might

my

in London.

surely universal. As selen. The "Frightful Haircut”

an

a

of

tista and as the men most! intimately connected with the development of atomic and nuclear energy they are concerned solely with the future welfare of mankind, not with advocating any controversial policy or pro- posing any solution to problem which in reality defies effective agreement under present international conditions. Presumably the price

Soviet participation would

additional! have been appeal to ban production of the bomb and to abandon all tests. But does this really matter at this stage? Aren'

questions really these irrelevant? The danger to civilisation is real enough now-today and tomorrow. And it is not the hydrogen bomb that poses that danger but the circumstances which led to its testing and its wholesale manufacture and which may one day lend to its use. What the scientists are

effect asking is to remove the threat of further ten- sion and the, passibility of war. That, they insist, is the primary consideration, the real problem to over- come. The alternative they Warn thay be the grim picture they paint in their statement.

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Authoritative

BATHING

sald

TRAGEDY

the

At

British

Mr Lennox Boyd left Nicosia The Himalayan town of Dar- a press conference Mr

jeeling in now completely cut off NO EXPERT INCLUDED Lennox Boyd said that "acts of for London later in a

from the rest of India by severo terrorism tend to increase ten-European Airways Viscount.

fluttered Sandalide, which have blocked Demonstrators, Tire fact that the United rion and are certainly not help-

and Geneva ul 10

shouted the road and railway lines bes States delegation

to the calra discharge of our handkerchiefs

the plains, "Enotis" as the plane took off. tween it and does not include a single work-dules."

-Reuter.

France-Presse. ing level expert with respon- sibility for policy in the Far East is taken here as a sign of out that any action the, govern- might take against Président Eisenhower's deter-ment mination

He said he wished to paint

Mother, 6 Children attempt to act as a spokesmen kellon against

Drowned

Nairn, Scotland, July 11.

for

the ChinesC at the con- than

Enosis. ference

President Elsenhower's At-

to resist any Soviet terrorism would be cosentially icrorism rather against agitatica for Mr Lennox Boyd' said his of the of the "complexity" titude also gives full support to visit had confirmed his feelings Mr Dulles, who has unmis-

problem but he now felt beiter Soviet D A mother and her six okably, discounted amati children

were proposal - made at Berlin in equipped to find solution.

TAKES RESPONSIBILITY 1953 and expected to drowned here last night January

Answering criticism be revived now-for, a con-

rule of Cyprus governors, he the while a distracted father ference between the Big Four said Sir Robert Armilage,

had always. Governor, scrambled over sand dunes and Communist. China on the s

present

the had the full support of searching for them in a Far East-Reuter.

British Government in his dif sea mist,

Boult task which was no merc domcalic problem but involved Greece and Turkey.

Polide today found the bodies of the woman, her nieco and

four of the children: They kept on searching for the re- maining two children, one an in- font of two.

Suggestion By

Truce Chief

Suggestions

Gaza, July 11,

for "physical

of

the

"I teke complete responsibility for all actions that have been taken and may be taken by the Governor in the proper discharge of his duties," Mr Lennox Boy added.

BABY MURDERED Sloun City, Iowa, July 11. The bathy of 21-month-old, Donna Sue Davis, who

notchodom her crib while her parents watched televidon,

The family, on holiday at the senside, had gone, for a picnic on the sands. The father, John McIntosh, 46, a forestry worker, volunteered to brew ten and pre- pare the food while his wife and obstacles-ponsibly a minefeld Fer 18-year-old niece, Shens between barbed wire fences

Israel- MacDonald, took the six children some parts of the

Egypt truce demarcation line to paddle in the sen.

While he waited for them to will be discussed when talks return the seamist closed in between the parties resume of For four hours he scorched but Wednesday. It is understood. could find no trace of his family This is one of the proposals was found ate today at the edge CUT OFF BY TIDE made by Major-General Edsson of a muddy cornfeld about four who joined went to the polico, Burns, Chief United Nations mile from her home, out

The blonde bile-eyed baby. hed bean beaten Ualled Press. Police today old Mrs Mettuce supervisor,

search.

intosh and the children must Last week's talks in a hut

the Ulda, 2 were adjourned on have both cut off by

Tuly7. and Its the wort drowning ware reported by farnell, sources

to have ended Hin police official said which Egypt defende scovered solar care Joint com bunlar

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