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HERE were three sections in the instructions which the heads of the Big Four governmenta gave to their i foreign ministers at the end of their meeting in Geneva In July, and it these in. structions which form the agenda of the next Geneva conference at the end
this month.
The first
European
Germany;
of
section concerns
security, And the second at
armament; the third, which |
have big pussitin-
should
ties, relate to the develop- ment of contacts between East and Wunt,
Admittently it is a somewhat vague phrase, but the in- Aro structiona themselves
more precise, The min.ste.co are TO GINCREMA nd study menure when cound 311 bring about A progressIVU elination
burjer 11t waien Ju.erfere with free communications and peace- ful trading between peopANS and bring about such free contacts and peaceim exchanges As are to mu.und advantage of the Countries and peoples con- cerned.
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STRIKE IN MOROCCO
21 Killed In One Day
13 DIE IN BUS MASSACRE
Casablanca, Oct. 18.
A fresh upsurge of terrorism in French North Africa has taken a toll of 21 lives during the last 24 hours.
In a fresh outbreak of individual terrorist attacks and rioting in the principal cities of Morocco eight Moroccans had been killed by to- night and a number of Moroccans and Europeans injured.
Algerian rebels claimed 13 victims-seven of them Europeans-when a band of
100 attacked a packed bus on the Bone-Berbillon road yesterday afternoon.
FAURE WINS VITAL
VOTE ON ALGERIA
Assembly Gives Him 54 Majority
Paris, Oct. 18.
The French Premier, M. Edgar Faure tonight won controversial Algerian parliamentary support for his policy and a new lease of life for his Government.
The National Assembly gave Faure has asked for a formal tilni a 300 to 254 vole of eon- vote of confidence since he took ver, which he requested lust office last February. Ten days weck-und After Deputies had ago, he obtained overwhelming Assembly approval of his Moroc- IT in obvious that what is in refused to vote priority for any the minds of the three of the motions submitted, In-
can policy without having to re- cluding Western
in
pro- Government quest a formal confidence vote, governments
on presented by M. Faure's that a real effor, should be
own Hadleul Socialist Party. made to break down, or to lift, those barriers between the Communit Countries
and the outer world, com- monly known as the "irun curtain." Communists at times are apt
to deny the existenco
of The iron curtain, and to bu- suggest that it is an vention of Western pro-
paganda. But it does exist,
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The Algerian queadon was the first issue on which M.
Italians To
Exhibit
physically. All down the Goods Here
frontier between the Com-
munkat countries of Eastern
!
Rome, Oct. 18.
Europe and their Westeru | Preferor Gluseppe Vedovato, neighbours, there runs, un
a member of the Foreign Affairs the Communist side, a belt Committee of the Italian Parila of barbed wire, minefielda, i mert urd specia1ini on Asian reoremic affairs, has organisel machinegun posts, for
an Italian permanent industrial the world like a "no-man's-
"xhibition in ilongkong.
all
The exhibition
whleh
The exhibition will be in-
The Assembly vote tonight meat that France would not be in the midst of a govern- ment crisis when major inter- national events take place with
h the next ten days,
FAURE'S APPEAL
A young honeymoon couple were among the European pas- sengers taken from the bus and hacked to death with knives,
Marrakesh, Morocco's largest city, has been the scene of the worst disorders in the
•protestorate,
tard
For the Afth day running gangs of Are-mislog youths tormed the streets of the Arab quarter. setting the torch to tele- shops and cutting down phone poles.
Steel-helmeted police squady escorted firemen Into the area and the fres were quickly brought under control,
A second Spaniard, 10-year- old Jose Gaulo, was also killed by a bullet wound through the head.
Firebug Killed
A youthful Moroccan lender of
band of Arebugs was fatally wounded by police gunfire after his gang had started about 20
dres.
The police shot the terrorist
after his band had wrecked the office of a Jewish dentist and set fire to the building.
A
The people of the Saar will vote next Sunday in a referon- By I am. today the town was dam on a French-West German reported calm hut troop rein agreement providing a Euroforcementa were brought up to pean" status for the territo. 3, strengthen the security and on October 27, the Foreign around the Arab quarter. Ministers of the Big Four powers
nigel In Genevu,
a
A high powered bomb which exploded outside maternity M. Faure sought to pises the clinic in the Moroccan quarter of El Alin, at Fedala, about 20 miles outside Casablanca, falled to do any damage.
this Lo question confidence
international context broader tonight in a las minute uppedi to the National Assembly be fore the vote.
Just outside the
In Casablanca, mimeographesi
SOVIET MOVE ON ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY
New York. Oct. 18. This Soviet Union today propoard the calling of Ari International conference to consider questions relaüng to the drafting of a statuto for the projected interna- Ilonal Atorto Energy Agency.
It did so in the form of a revised resolution put be-. fere the political commistes of the Unlied Nations Geri- cral Asarmably.
TWO HOURS WITH TOWNSEND -THEN OFF TO A PARTY Princess Spends Evening At Claridge's
London, Oct. 18.
Group Captain Peter Townsend tonight called on Princess Margaret
at her London home for the second time in a week,
Suw
him Waiting hundreds drive through the main gates in his car at 4.10 p.m.
The
Princess hnd now seen Group Captain Townsend every day since she returned from Scotland five days ahead of the Queen.
"
nt
They met at Clarence House, spent
week-end together Windsor and attended a dinner party last night at the house of
In making the move the Soviet Union beat to the punch the Western powers who In order to meet ob- notably from the Jretiona Scandinavian countries and Indla
had agreed
n friend. to the idea of calling an Interna- tional conference to comalder and approve the terms of the statute-Router.
BUTLER CALLS IT
CREEPING
SNAKE OF
INFLATION
London, Oct. 18. The Chancellor of the Exchequer. Mr R. A. Butler.|
TOWNSEND SILENT
Princess Margaret left Clarence House just after 6.30 pm. lo attend a Royal Air Force cock- tail party at Claridge's Hotel, a function on her offcial diary,
The Princess ant well back in her
unusual which-an car occurrence--was not it inside.
Group Captain Townsend left Carence House in his own cur about the
as the same ilme Princess and drove back to his Temporary home in fashionable Lowndes Square.
He shook his hend when re- porters asked if he could say anything about his visit to the Pru.cess's home,
Of
The handful He also shook his head when, Housa asked if he would be going out people outside barely caught again tonight,
a glimpse of her as she eat well back in the car,
Later et Claridge's Hotel 60 civil and 20 Air Force police linked arms across the roadway to keep back a crowd of more than 400 who had waited to greet the Princess.
She wore a simple cut green tafetin dress, with a boul-shaped gathered neckline and short
lcoves.
She sipped a whisky soda nau smoked cigarettes from a long black holder, Several leading members of the film industry were presented to her.
DISCUSSED FILMS
As
A member of her group told A reporter "she chatted mostly about filme-In which she has a great interest.”
She smiled to each olde she departed.
Outside, in the darkness, the Lor faithful crowd had walled this second opportunity to clip and cheer the Princess.
her eight o'clock returned to Clarence
Before jimousing
aldi tonight the two world Wave of Crime In America wars had turned Britain? "from being the world's greatest creditor to be world's greatest debtor."
the
Mr Butler was speaking at the annual dinner of the Royal Society of St George.
that "IL Is
position with which I um grappling at tino' moment-and I am glad to say it la gradually Improving," Mr
Eutler added.
"It is the intention
DAY THIS!
IN ONE
ALL
Battered To Death
New York, Oct. 18.
This is the most horrible sex crime in years," he said. "I must have been done by madman.
There is no sign that the Queen or the Queen Mother has discussed Princess Margaret's future
outside eMelally
the Royal Family circle.
NOT CONSULTED
Government
officials Instat the Prime Minister has not been consulted offelally, though it is believed Queen Elizabeth has discussed the position informu ally.
And in spite of reports that Parliament will soon be asked to pass laws allowing Princess
House of Margaret to marry, Commons oficials
have not been asked to change the pro- gramme already fixed for next wook when Parilament reassem bles from its summer recess.
The Princess and Group Cap-
to tip Townsend appear completely unperturbed by the intenso public interest newspaper speculation in their moetings-Reuter.
PRESS CRITICISED-
and
London, Oct. 19. The, Prem Council, watchdog of. Baldah newspaper standards, today.'censured unnamed- nows- papers for offending agains good taste in their handling of The Princess Margaret, totde
Af its
quer erymanthip
meeting day under the
of
Sir Linton Andrews editor, of the Yorkshire Post, the Council passed a resolution which sald the treatment of the story in some papers had done a con- a siderable ill service to the re
pulation of the press,"
The
A 16-year-old Italian was One of the victims appeared for the to have been slashed by an axe. of the arrested today
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מפתח
in
Among those killed today was a Spanish blacksmith, who was head by n shot through the He said the calling uf
the Moroccan land" between hostile armies
resolution said: "The Geneva
conference
was Casablanca main station. confronting each other. It in
Fress Council has had under has mainly"
the achievement of
consideration specific cola the outward and visible the sumport of the Italian Pat-his government and he stressed Jeaflets signed "The Black Hand" Government and of the Chan-murder of a 60-year-old 'That'll Teach You' plaints against newspapers and sign of the isolation between Hament, will display textiles, the need to maintain a policy were distributed
in the In Arab cellor of the Exchequer to deal vagrant whose body was
general complaints against the the "two cumps" on which muchines, office equipment, pre-of reducing international
quarter. The leaflets said that quite squarely and faithfully found Just Friday In Д
New York, Oct. 18. pres regarding the way in Communist policy has in-ision instruments, radio, tele-
slon.
European counter-terrorists" with this creeping snake of in- lower East Side vacant lot. The authori'ics held four which the personal future of vision and cinema equipment. sisted.
M. Faure sold ho was olso had been
en freed and were "ready nation."
been today for Princess Margaret has four other
young men in gaot Signer Vedosato has choten
The police said Communist policy, until now. Hongkong for the exhibition be-
asking the Assembly to express to go into action again." approval of his government's The leaflets sald the "Black "What we have to achieve in boys, 13 and 14 years old, had flooding the home of a Lutheran treated.
that has raised barriers not only
be stressed "It must is a meeting i PP ause he feels it
decision to withdraw France's Hand" did not recognise the Britain is to be our age and to watched the boy Frank Aragona minister they had wrongly sus to the exchange
their of per place
to pected of breaking up for
public interest in the lives of buyers throughout
United Nations delegation after Throne Council
we really can beat the unidentified set up yester- i undertake what sonal visits, but to the ex- Eastern Asta.
death with four-foot board necking parties
a nearby
members of the Royal Family is the General Assembly had day.
carry out."
and some broken bricks.
lovers' lane. change of ideas. The Reds
intense, and rightly so, and that 011 for comment Mr trends. economic
The Rev. and Mrs Waller De- newspaper They said Aragona had come free trade augurated on February 1, 1950. veto take up the Algerian
Butler told the gathering: "It is to New York from Italy about genhardt returned from a week- example,
Princess Margaret's not a critical situation,
a year ago and had become end holiday to find their home future, is justified, but this in known as a terror of the neigh- { had been flooded. Mr Degen- volves newspapers in a
great Paris, Oct. 18.
"It is simply one that has got bourhood Ben Slimane, the moderate to be rectified.
hardt forced his way through the responsibility in the way they He is known to neighbours as
Tuhing water to find every room deal with both fact and com Moroccan Nationalist leader, was today officially invited by the
"Crazy Frankie" and "Frankie to be "We have got
on the lower floor of his two- ment and in maintaining a stan the Bug", the police said.
dard of good taste. home flooded. recently appointed Throne Coun-physically in this country
to become the first premier and a great deal more strenuous change of assaulting a housing the walls were buckling. Water papers have offended against
He was fred on, bail
niture was submerged and The Council feels that certain under the "new deal" and to and a great deal more taunt in
authority patrolman with a knife
gushed from a hose whore good taste and have done con- when the aged man was killed.
nozzle had been forced through siderable lil service to the ro ent coalition party, and gen-form an all-party National Gov- our muscles.
China erally by his right-wing parllo-
Ben Stimane announced this "We are not facing an emer-
a mall slot in the front door.--putation of the pres3." The US Air Force taued stormmentary allies.
at a Press conference given t
We are preparing our-
United Press.
Mall Special, and placed warnings
the
A new crusade." the Ministry for Morocco and selves for typhoon 150 miles south-west of
Tunisia tonight-Reuter.
Reuter. Okinawa late tonight. Its winds
have forbidden
in the written word. The-France-Presse,
Import and distribution of all foreign literature ไป subject to rigid controls and censorship. The Soviet peoples are forbidden any kind of free access to Roll- Communist
ideas and thoughts.
The same can be sald about
Typhoon Threat
To Okinawa
Tokyo, Oct. 18. Typhona Opal today threaten- broadcasting, The Soviets ed Okinawa, have never hidden their fear of this medium of in- formation 11 education and they have readily spent millions of pounds a year on an elaborate "Jamming" of foreign broadcasts,
is not easy to estimate or comprehend the motives of the Russian government (and of the satellites which
Opal, the 15th typhoon of the season, was moving north-east, Its course and speed would place it in the Okinawa area about 9 a.m. tomorrow.--United Press,
question.
The bulk of the votes against the Premier tonight came from the opposition Socialist and which had Communist parties, suppported him on the Moroc
an issue.
He was supported by his own Radical Socialist Purty, the mainly Catholic MRP, a govern
ALCERIA REFORMS
four
were believed to be 90 mph and A fraction of the Social Re were increasing, the Air Force publicens (ex-Gaullisto}, weather central said,
of whose ministers left the gov- crnment after a dispute over the Moroccan polley, were reported among the opposition on the Algerian vote, according to an incomplete breakdown,
The confidence vole was taken оп A pro-government motion presented by Radical Socialist Gabarit M. Faure jasked the Assembly to approve a policy of administrative, social and economic reforms in Algeria. coupled with measures to stamp out terrorism.
always follow the Moscow Colombo Plan To Roger
in
model) against interchange of idons and knowledge; tho fact remains Soviet policy has built up an elaborate barrier, both phyalent and men!al, between the coun tries which it controls and the outer world.
"war" this
Be Extended
Singapore Oct. 10. Colombo Plan ministers were
The government has pledged today preparing to discuss de- itself to full application of tails of this vital "Aid Asta"-1947 statute, guaranteeing to all schemo
Algerians full rights as French Conference sources said that citizens. ----France-Presse. The one encouraging aspect agreement had been reached on is that since the "summit" | extending the plan beyond its talks, the Russians have six years of existence, due to displayed some readiness to end on June 30, 1957.
mix more freely with the They said the
the period of ex- Western world.. Examples nite,
tension was likely
to be inde ajiliough some donor
are their appearance at the countries, including New Zea- international conference of land, would prefer to see a de nuclear scientists, exchange naite target date set for of visits to atomle research extension-Router.
and
stations in England Russia and, only thene lant few days, visits of British and Russian warships to Leningrad ant Portsmouth. If these can be rogarded a
portents, then the prospects of agreement at Genova
Russia To Use Jet Air liners
tho
Moscow, Oct. 18. - Boviet Russia announced to-
Di on
this month for over freor day that it was planning to u contacts and peaceful ex-jet passenger planes flying changes between East and speeds of 780-800 moh West can be written "down) domestic airlines beginning de reasonable."
| early next year,- United Prest.
Morocco's
ernment In Morocco,
Premier
On
Rency.
Big Battleship Runs Aground ·
New York, Oct, 18.
more
The 45,000-ton Wisconsin, one of the four largest battleships in the world, was driven aground on Diamond Reef, 1,000 yards from the Brooklyn Bridge, in New York harbour today by the flood- swollen waters of the East River.
Navy and commercial tugs freed her an hour later. The Navy said no one was injured in the mishap, and it is understood the Wisconsin did not suflet any damage.-United Press,
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Killed His Mother
Pasadena, Oct., 18. A 10-year-old boy confessed. that he beat his mother to death with a hammer "because mu parents don't understand me" and then tried to kill himself leaping in front of two cars and a truck, police said today.
The youth, John Hawley, was reported in serious condition at San Bernardino County Hospital about 60 miles away
Horrible Sex Crime
Chicago, Oct. 10. The nude, mutilated bodies of three young boys were found in a forest prederye today in what the authorities called the "most horrible crime in years."
The bodies, stripped of all ¦ clothing, were found piled in a dry creek bed a short distanco from a parking area,
The Coroner, Mr Walter McCarron, said the boys had been strangled, their mouths had been taped and their hands and feet wired together,
Pisa Angry About
Tower Plan ·
Plan, Oct 19, Angry Pinna mid today they wanted their leaning towor to continue leaning the way it was, The Mayor City engineers and most of the town's
People spurred a proposal by Professor Giovanni Boaga of Rome to haul down the 701-year-old tower and rebuild it will lean. Ingon à mora solid founda- tion,
Pisania said that was -almost zu báðas, the plan to 'set' the town straightmUnited Patos/
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