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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

Opportunities

At Geneva

A/HEN the Big Two talks

WHEN

in Geneva were first an- nounced, it was generally agreed in the West that it they were to yield anything useful I would be neces-i sary for Communist China to give an early sign uf goodwill and sincere inten. tions. This can be regarded As having been done with the disclosure by the Chinese Ambassador of the release from captivity of eluven American Airmen. The way has been cleared for carnest negotiations, free l suspicion or polemics, leading to a basis for a settlement of Far East | problems,

Peking's decision to free the American airmen promises to make easy negotiations

for the return of civilians of both sides to their respec: tive countries. The United States has already indicated that it is prepared to reach a quick agreement on this subject and if for no other FeR-on than to maistain con- sistency, the Chinese can be expected to facilitate this item on the Geneva agenda,

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No. 36192

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1955.

OFFERING FRIENDSHIP TO TYRANTS, MURDERERS”

Eisenhower Under Fire

In Senate

BITTER ATTACK

BY MCCARTHY

Washington, Aug. 1.

Senator Joseph McCarthy today accused Pre- sident Eisenhower of offering "friendship to tyrants and murderers" at the Big Four "Summit" meeting at Geneva.

$90m Kai Tak Contract To French Company

A French construction company has secured the contract for the construc- tion of the new runway at] Kai-Tak.

Frost Wipes Out Big Coffee Crop

Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 1. Frost

southern struck Brazil's coffee lands today for the second time in three

The contract, which has been awarded to the So-years, destroying hundreds cicle Francaise d'Enter-

of thousands of bushes, ac- cording to first estimates. prises de Dragages et de Travaux Publics, is worth approximately HK$90 mil-

The Communist hunting Republican senator said the Eisenhower administration had adopted "every important plank of the Democrat party's foreign policy" and had made "a scrap of paper"||lion. out of the 1952 Republican platform.

Senator McCarthy, making a Senate speech, niso bitterly at- jacked the President's relation-

with ship

Marshal Georgi Zhukov, the Soviet Defence Minister friend.

and his war-time

nuded:

many of us friends cod suppor- ters, came

President's to the defence and traded blow for

blow.

Serr Vi]} Knowland,

the

Republic lender in tha Senate, who was himself a critic

along Sepaler McCarthy's carlier line President Elsen- hower's Far East polletes joined

in the

against counter-attack Senator M.Carthy.

Leapt to His Feet

Senator McCarthy Estened quiety to many warm tributes tą Eisenhower Administration's forely policies and then he

In the actual construc- tion, the French company will be working in associa- tion with Messrs Gammon (Malaya) Limited.

China-U.S. Talks

Mr Krushchev

Expects

The worst cold wave of the reason plunged the mercury below zero Centigrade in five States, leaving a death toll of at least four people, destroying other

and crops

spreading blankets of snow areas where even before. Lowest below

Zero

in several snow was

Lemperature,

Centigrade,

пеуст

0.0

was

reported at Soo Joaquin. In snow-covered

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110 Injured In Big

Strike Clash

St Nazaire, Aug. 1.

One hundred' and ten people were injured today in violent clashes between Police and striking ship. yard workers.

Steel-helnicted, and heavily armed Police charged demonstrators after they set fire tonight to the headquarters of the Shipyard Employers Association.

The disturbances began this morning when 5,000 men of the Penhoet Shipyard downed tools after rejecting their employers' reply to wage demands, and in protest against a decision to cut the working week from 48 to 40 hours.

The men knocked down an Iron gate leading to the Management building and set fire to a large pile of papers. The blaze quickly spread to a nearby watchman's hut.

Windows Smashed

Later the Penhoet men were joined by workers from the Chaltler De La Loire Shipyard, and they clashed with heavily reinforced pelice detachments moved into the area at mid-day,

Many windows were smashed 08 the demonstrators shouted, slogana at the employers who were meeting with trade union leaders in an upper storey of the management building.

About 50 demonstrators and 60 policemen were injured and-13 were taken to hospital.

The police and strikers engaged in an hour-four baltle with the strikers throwing rocks at the police who retaliated with tear gas bombs-Reuter and France-Presse.

Israeli Airliner Destruction Latest

BULGARIANS TRY

TO COVER UP

CONGRESS COMMITTEE

FORCES A SHOWDOWN

Air Force Secretary Resigns

Washington, Aug. 1.

Mr Harold Talbott resign- ed today as Secretary of the Air Force following a Con- gressional investigation of his outside business activi ties.

The persistently-rumoured re- signation was accepted by the President, Mr Talbott's old friend, in a letter in, which Mr Eisenhowever commended, Mr Talbott's "Ane accomplishments as Secretary".

Administration

Sources sald the President did not request the resignation.

Mr

Talbott, who resigned

only last work from a $60,000 a year partnership in the Paul B. Mulligan Company, a New York engineering firm, sold he hind run into "pretty tough deal". MADE $18,000

Mr Talbott, who made $18,000 year as

as Air Force Secretary, had resigned some Corporation interests and sold

conderable stock before he was confirmed by the Senate In 1953.

The Mulligan partnership was the source of his troubles.

Mr Talbott told Mr Eisen. hower he was resigning “because I would not under any cireum- stances wish to be a source of embarrassment to

og to

You

your splendid administration".

had laid down for his administra don impeccable ethical con-

tion

Plane Parts Tampered With dust na well as tredom from

the taint of any illegal activity.. IKE'S DECISION

do Sul, Cixios Rio Grande do Sul State, a circus elephant died of cold.

The most strious frost struck carly on Sunday morning and today in the rolling coffee lands of Western Parana and south-

stern Sao Paulo. eastern

The

spokesman for a major North American export firm, 'with a network of observers in Parona, cald reports from Lond- rina, the Parana coffee belt, said the frost

was "worst than in 1953", when a July 4 frost kill- ed or damaged 4,000,000 bushes.

Mayor Milton Menezes Lamaran was quoted as saying Senator McCarthy sald

the frost

a "disasier' Moscow, Aug. 1.

Lunardelll, Eisenhower-Zhukov relationship

leading Geremia Soviet Communist Party was as undesirable 04 would

ngartly world-wide tribute to the Pre-Chief, Mr Nikita Krushchey called exporter with large land been tampered with in an effort to remove in-criterions had been met,

holdings in Parano, sold: "From have been the late President Hoovt's making "a pact of

sident and dribed Geneva as Bald today the China-United Londrina to the South, 50 per mutual trust and friendship with

trees were de- say Hermann Goering or Josepha "rout" for the free world and States talks which are under cent of the Goebbels,"

the "total disintegration of the way in Geneva should give stroyed."United Press.

"gozd results."

He sad Mr Eisenhowe "ough to have a decent regard for the reelings of his countrymen."

"the argument that throgh Zhukov we have a (ORE delicate fasuen will, ipeline to the Kremlin is sheet

The sort the follow, The agenda; nergense

of thing IHkely to tell provides for consideration that Zhukov

the President is the sort of of "other practical matters at issue between the two dng the President should hear

less of, it more." sides," which could open a wide field of investigation, AL ambassadorial level; however, there can le agreement only in principle. aimed at creating oppor. tunity for higher level taiks in the future. There can be spectacolar decision Geneva whatever topics are discussed.-

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Opposed to Ike

the

Senator McCarthy snid he

party President

in

01

leapt to his feet with the charge Good Results

that the Praddent had offered "friendship to tycants and mur-

Не

discounted the

anti-Communist front."

the

Senator McCarthy showed no qualms when he

made said that by Mr Krushchev offering the hand of friendship statement in an interview with to the Soviet Union the Prea correspondent during a recep- sident had advanced "the causetion held at the Swiss Legation of tyranny and murder."

there

Switzerland's

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national holiday.

wis

A Day Of Disasters

The immediate objective is to

find ways

and means of himself stood in "the remnants"

She Republlema composing differences bel

the Opposing tween the nited States and

foreign policy. Communist China. But if

Republicu na "Most

in their that car be accomplished,

hearts, I think, are opposed to then vast possiblities are

The Presidcot's policies," lic opened up. A Far Eastern

said. would conference

2 be

"But they have accepted the feasible development, Ques-

Peking's Theory that they cannot retin tiun uch 21:4

several on to office in 1050 without Eisen- Senator McCarthy the United admission to

occasiona bag described hower at the head of the ticket. Nations, the cessation af And they are, I am afraid, pre- members of the "party of trea-

of former Pre-Krushabey said, "I believe I can drowned thepared to subordinate considera- son" because hostilities

Truman's policies $1 and tions of sound policy to those of sident Chinese Communists

silent. Nationalists, the Com politlent survival."

between

and

positive

New Campaign?

munists' claim to the off- shore islands and the future of Formosa would automa- tically figure on the agenda, į

Senator McCarthy implied and could be handled in that he would start a campaign practical

airfler to the "Communists in Crusade" 1:0 Governanent Jaunched in 1930.

He said foreign policy noW was dominated by two things- "Geneva demoralisation and the China sell-out."

manner.

the proper con To create

ditions for developments along these lines it is almost certain the American repre- "Five years ago," he went on, sentative at this week's "I saw a picture that was only Geneva talks will press the slightly less bleak and sightly Chinese Ambasunder for a less hopeful than this one.

"And it depleted a situation formal declaration from the that effected the survival of Uls Paking government re-nation every bit as seriously as nouncing the use of force does the situation today.

In the settlement of the Formosa issue. The natural quid pro quo would be for

United the

States .to Influence the Chinese Nationalists to withdraw

Counter-attack

Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Foreign Mingbor Vyacheslav also attended the re-

Democrats Silent

Democratie Senators

whom Moloboy ception.

419

Asked about

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the talks.

Mr

63 DROWNED

to

Tokyo. Aug. 2,

were Sixty-three persons

in A day as the say that China sincerely desires Japanese went to the seaside,

United rivers and swimming pools

heat all over the country on Sunday, police reported yester- day. bureau said

The welfare ministry's statistic more than 8,000 Japanese died by drowning on the average per year.-Reuter.

positive readits. If the the co seck shelters from the abnormal

They were content to watch States fonts the same

да listen

Senator Mc-terende cannot have negative Carthy's friends joined in the results.""" defence of the President and

appealed to him to support the

policyReu Administration's

The problems to be solved are clear-cut and should give good ter and China Mall Specina, results, Mr Krushchev sald,

Ship Sinks, Four Killed

BIC STORM LEAVES

'Jerusalem, Aug, 1.

He told a news conference last

The Israeli Foreign Ministry said today that week he would study tri- parts of the Israeli airliner shot down by Bulgarian Tatt's

Beript of Somate hearings of Mir anti-aircraft guns on Wednesday "had obviously to de

determine

criminating evidence."-"

Lo add "Z. They were allowed to barbarous stay only six hours.

"3. Tine Bulgarian

officars

Mr

business conflections

This

whether

Talbott consistently- dlested to reporters, when asked about reports that he was re- sighing, that the final decision rested with the President. Hence there were some grounds for speculation that his re-

First reports received here It listed these points: from an Israeli commission "1. Only three of the Israel making an on-the-spot investi-team of six were permitted to gation of the disaster, in which enter Bulgaria. all 58 passengers. and. crew

was, requested by the perished, were sald "gravity to the

Talboll wrote the Pre- character of the outrage."

sident: "The recent unfortunate,

believe distorted, at the Foreign accompanying them were un- and I

pub A spokesman

licity

given to Ministry sald the Israell Lega- communicative and entirely association with a management my continued tion in Sofia has been instructed unwilling to impart every such engineering firm has been a to demand full and immediate information as must have been matter of deep concern to me. information on, the findings of a within their knowledge, Bulgarian Government Commis- |sion appointed to investigate, the

Incident.

:

Bullet Holes

I am clear in my mind and con-

hive 4. No interrogation of Bul-science that my actions

within the garian eye-witnesses was al- been

bound of lowed."

ethics."-United Press.

DENIES IMPROPRIETY "All these facts are greatly Reuter adds: Mr Tulboit re- alarming," the statement added. ceived more than $130,000 from

"In addition, the

Paul B. Mulligan Bulgarian the firm of The Mistry statement said: "Israel investigators gained the Government Commission, which and Company, in which he is a definite impression that the El was to investigate the circum-partner, in the two years since Al airliner had been attacked stances of the disaster, has not he became Secretary of the Alr

BO for seen at to make public Force. by a machine-gun.

any of its findings.

Talbott had donica EKLY "Numerous bullet holes could The Israel legation in Sofia impropriety but has suki he be distinguished in parts of the has been instructed to demand realised he

in was mistaken plane scattered over a wide full and

letters. Immediate information writing

and making area in Bulgarian territory in on this score."

telephone calls from his De- the vicinily of the Greek A correspondent of the Tel- fence Department offico on beni. border," It added,

Aviv newspaper Maariv reported half of the firm. "It is believed the Bulgarian He denied to the Senate in- "This became clear despite official inquiry commission com-vestigators sub-committee that An explosion at a fireworks the fact that parts had obvious-posed of five Cabinet Ministers he had ever used his post im factory in Tokyo yesterday

17 KILLED

Tokyo, Aug. 2.

M

anhas not even visited the scene." properly to promote the com-

killed 17 people and Injured 28ly been tampered with in

effort to remove incriminating-Router. others, police reported.

The fire, caused by, the ex- plosion, destroyed the factory and 17 house-Reuter.

evidence,"

The Foreign Ministry state, ment complained that "no co operation of a idnd to facilitate full

TRAIL OF HAVOC FOUR KNIFED her cablement of the the

New Orleans, Aug. 1, The first tropical storm of the scason chumit across marshy Louisian island within 40 miles of Gulf Const, rescis today, sinking me vessel and disabling three others, Four have so far been killed.

"As I saw it then there was only one recourse: to take the Issue to the American people. their forces from the offThat is the only solution I rec shore islands of Matsu and today. I shall go to the people." Quemoy. The automatic Senator McCarthy said "the consequence of these two coming sell-out in Asia" could there make be prevented if only moves would be to.

were the will." effective a ceasefire between

Later Sonalor McCarthy's Re the two warring Chinese

winds publicam colleagues, deluding factions.

of BIG SECRET ARMS

DUMP FOUND

• Rome, Aug. 17 A mysterious explonitas in a well, led Forli police to unearth

the biggest secret arING dump discovered in Haly for evde a year,

This, together with an agroe-

ment on the exchange civilians, probably would be the maximum which the, two ambassadors could achieve in their talks. But if they can get that for it will have a profound effect on the political atmosphere in the Far East. Much of the value of the

Agreements reached at the recent Big Four "summit" meeting will evaporate un- Icas some positive progress In made towards composing

Police said the arms-and- Far East problems. The ammunition had been hidden in American and Chinese am- tunnels dug into the walls of basandora now conferring in the well. But although the ETELU Genova may only be able towers well cared for, thơ casing. make a modest contribution of some incenallary bomba had towards a general, nottle-beert commoded, "and" a focent ment of outstanding: inter-heat wave had set them off, national problems in the Also founk vero a'rećło truda- Orient, but it, will not be writer, bench rolls of telephone: the less welcome.

Wide China Maël

The Jarmer owning the well and his son, both Hated by the Communist Party Af members, were arverted.

active

Two other people were missing as the stam "Brenda" - moved towards land with 60-mph

Lions Ate Out Of His Hand

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Tanglers, Aug. 1. headed for the Bay St. Louis, Missouri, which is dotted with Moroccan ran amuck to- vacation cottages and piers day and fatally injured four sank in people, including an Englishman A tug capsized and

Sokko shallow Lake Pontchartrain, and a Spaniard, in east of

of Tangiers, 40-mile winds. The Coast The other two who died Guard reported four of its were a Moroccan woman, and crewmen were picked up by a Marocent man. helicopter and the other three swam ashore,

The tug Chief, at Southwest Pass at the mouth of the Mississippi, reported its engines and com pass out, A Coast Guard cut- ier went to its aid.

The murderer, who brandished a long knife and was shouting "holy war," was finally arrested by the police--France-Presse,

on

facts, was forthcoming part of the Bulgarian authori ties."

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