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No. 36288

Macmillan

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Wooing India New Middle

THEN Mr

Nehru

Jays

Widia has no intention

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New Middle East Defence Organisation Launched At Bagdad Attempts

"WE CAN

WORK

MIRACLES'

of joining any camp in pur- suit of R cold war, or becoming entangled in any military alliance for the protection of world ponce, the declaration CAB be accepted as an unequivocal! expression of nationali policy. Mr Nehru is a pure i noutralist; he believes not only in the theory, but the

Bagdad, Nov. 21. practicability of neutrallam,

Britain today proposed an To that extent the visit of alliance between the tech- Marshal Bulganin and Mr

nical skills of the West and Khrushchev to India. possesses no special sign the oll wealth of the Middle

East to bring peace

and prosperity to this vital de sert

flank of the Atlantic alliance.

Scance.

But the

Soviet leaders.

ure mere courtesy making no call. There is a very definite

The British Foreign Secre-| purpose behind their pre- sence in India calling for tary, Mr Harold Macmillan, the careful attention of the told the inaugural meeting West. It gives the Soviet of the Middle East Defence Union a

Ormer diplomatic Organisation Council such status in the Rub-continent an alliance would "work and it holds out the promise miracles in health, human of new economic relations welfare,

and productivity between ladin and Russin .

the enrichment of civilisa-į tion."

This at Arst sight may appear to be an innocuous develop-

ment, but to the West it in

a form of gentle penetra tion which could have far

effects. India's roaching

Speakers of all five nations In MEDO Britain, Turkey. Perzio, Pakistan and Iraq... stressed the urgency of economic and military co-operation in the and expressed the hope neutralism in her inter- that the United States would national relations must to

the Bogdad part inking some extent be affected by her membership in the Bri- tish Commonwealth; so too is

the Commonwealth Ausceptible to any substan tial trade agreements between India and Russia.

FOR Britain and her other

the

Join

them.

The United States had already decided in mifery and pou Utcai lolson with the pect and had four observer at the secret meetings which followed this morning's opening scesion which Mr Macmillan as the of the other four Premiers

at

countries made policy speeches Mr Adnan Menderes of Tur- Commonwealth partners

most

kur, Mr Nuti Al Salt of Iraq disconcerting possibility of the Bulganin. and Mr Hussein Ala of Persia in their speeches also stressed Khrushchoy visit is an Indo-the urgency of a solution for the Soviet arrangement which Arab-Israali problem, to stable enables Russia to give alise the Middle East, disproportionate amount of assistance in India's indus- trial development. It would create an opportunity for the Soviets to exploit their classical method of infiltra-

tion and would simultane- ously bolster their diplomu-

TWO AIMS

Mr

Mr Macmillan and Mohammed All of Pakistan did

but all five not mention this,

expressed the hope statesmen

THE DUKE CORRECTS

FILM MAKERS

'Not Accurate'-So They Re-draft

London, Nov. 21. Scriptwriters for a newly- released British war film began re-drafting a scene today after the Duke of Edinburgh saw the film at a premiere and said it soun not quite accurate,

The film, "Cockleshell Heroca", tells of a 1942 commando

raid in

which Royal Marines in two-man canoes, slipped into a French harbour and blew up German cargo ships by placing minca on their hulls.

The Admiralty and numerous technical advisers, including the leader of the attack himself, apparently to tell the script- failed

reason writers the real behind the Alm.

After seeing the flin at ita premiere, the Duke com-

mented: "Jolly good film. But i suppose you chaps do know why this raid GDA really made! I am surprised you did not go the whole way and tell the world the whole reason,"

The producer naid they had been told the raid uTR carried out to stop fast German ships from breaking the British blockade.

the

"Not just that," replied Duke. "Those shipa were to take radar equip. ment to the Japanesc. (The had JapanesO

radar then.) That equipment had You ought to

to be sunk.

110

explain that."

The producer immediately ordered a new scene shot to explain

shooting it. The will take two days and cust about £2,000.-United Presa.

Egyptian Guns Fire

On Fishing Boat

Tel-Aviv, Nov. 21.

Egyptian coastal batteries opened fire on an Israeli motor fishing boat off the Gaza coastal strip today as Israeli sources reported a worsening of the border situa

1kom.

CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING

| There were no cakukitled and she sailed out of range of the guns, an Israeli mill- bary spokesman said.

SERGEANT SHOT

DEAD: NEW CYPRUS TENSION

Nicosia, Nov. 21.

Cyprus terrorists killed a second Britiah ser- geant tonight in a fresh outbreak of shooting.

The sergeant WILLS fatally, "We swear thousands of you will

wounded as he rode in a military truck four miles from Phekella. He was the second sergeant killed In four days by terrorists and his death brought the toll of British

servicemen to six.

Gunire was reported at twa

other points but there weto Bo unmediate reports of casualties.

CHILDREN STRIKE

The police also reported firing from the direction of Wolso- ley Barracks, the main Army headquarters at Nicosia, and from a police station nearby. Meanwhile, an indefinite, island- wide strike of school children has been called for tomorrow and it was feared the cox sequences would be serious. Already placards and pamphlets were plastered over the larger

be killed," read one placard. Others referred to the British as "vampires" and "tyrants". DOORS BATTERED IN

The

Brush new

military Casurity came shortly after Bluff Sergeant G. Cripps of Sussex was buried, the victim of o bombing of an Army mess on Friday afternoon. Other violence

on the island. included the battering in of the doors of the residences of school hoodhunster and hiá sistant. Three shots ичего fired at the homes.

A

A special Turkish guard shot a British soldier after he failed to answer a command to halt in downtown Nicosia. Tho soldier was sent to hospital.— United Press.

British Stars Mobbed By Moscow Fans

Moscow, Nov. 21, Enthusiastic Russian actors mobbed 38 British sators sad potent they arrived

airport today. They were

first

British pestry

the

tion.

The

to come to Moscow the 1917 'revoli.

British stars stood 15 minutes in 15 de

groom of frost while they WORD greeted by the Ruslan actors and Soviet cultural officials.

They Now here from Berlin to find “sold, out*

Betons notices

BEOBDOW billboards

their 12 for

Hamlet, performances of

starring Paul Scofield And Diana Wynyard in the leading roles.

•

Their director, Mr Peter Brooke, who arrived bere Was also week ago, walling as the airport to greet the company on the first real Moscow winter evening this year-Router.

towns and villages, challenging BOMBAY RIOT

the British in

ginke. Some of the signs threatened mass reprisals

the government executed Michael Karaolls, sentenced

A

to death for murdering policeman. Ha sentence is under appeal.

Allegedly Bought Dynamite

that the Bagdad pact would be EMPLOYER'S WIFE waters and Egypt had protested Gilbert extended to cover

other Arab Egypt and Saudi Arabia

Lic influence from the states, Eastern Mediterranean to have so far boycotted it, saying: China.

split Arab unity against

in

Mr

It

has

Israel.

Calcutta, Nov. 21. A court today refused bond butler charged for a Pakistani

Film English This is the danger. It may not, Mr Macmillan suggested two with kidnapping

pretty wife. The materialise.

the council to make employer's Nehru aims to

claims, the wife seduced believes

co- the region's peoples safe from baller practical

to him and forced her attentions existence, but he is first and aggression and to rosolve

on him. foremost an intense patriotaraist one another in economy and social development and is welfare.

"no country how was and powerful can

in gating survive of

and a nationalist, and not likely to surrender lo the blandishments of his

He said: ever great

living

The butter, Habibur Rahman, refused ball at a hearing

after on Saturday

an investi- officer charged that if main ball were granted he would flee standards to Pakisten or "prejudice" pro- secution witnesses, The trial was postponed.

Rahman's

DO

Russian guests. Neverthe-stand alone less his position is not an economie isolation, easy one. Fiis country' tain decent Urgent peed for economie without the help of friends."

He hoped their association would the

prove "acceptable as Industrial

Jawyer pattern co-operation with Barrackpore, court

for brings heavy pressure to bear on national policy, sub. states in the Middle East. Edna Dixon

development, expecially In

sphere,

jecting it to expediency at the expense of judicious

Desa.

IT is not suggested that Mr Nehru's dilemma is so great that he will be forced to do a deal with the Russians against his better judgment,

"The massive

influence and

support of the United States will her butler

WLS nt the

told the that Mirs made advances to while her husband factory. Rahman

add strength, and I look forward tried to discourage Mrs Dixon's to the consolidation of their infatuation, the lawyer said, bui association with us."

sho perwisted and suggested they go to Madras last August for a little privacy, the lawyer said.

ful

STRONG WORDS

Mr Macralian said afterwards When they were discovered in

a Moslem hotel in the session was "highly success-

Madras a week later, Mra Dixon told her but it is highly unlikely The Turkish premier wel-husband she had no idea how that the Soviet leaders will commed the Eden mediation plan she got there--United Press. return to Moscow without as a constructive approach to taking with them aomo the Israci problem. practical fruits from their The strongest words on this uttered by Premier visit. And they will be quite issue were

Nurl, who said "ing will not

satisfied, for the time being. hesitate to use her resources for if they can obtain a firm the assistance of any Arab state economie toehold in Middie subjected to Israeil aggression, in

Asia,

+

accordance with her

Arab

Priests Gaoled For Smuggling

league obligations and based on ¦ Two

די

Cairo, Nov. 21. black-robed. Maronite

But whether or not Bulganin article 51 of the United Nations prista were sentenced by a and Khrushchev can pin charter" (the right of individual high military, triburial today to Nehru down to any trade or collective self-defence).

three years hard labour in pact, their appearanco lu This was taken by observer prison for attempting to smuggle India, and later Afghanis to be eald with an eye to 100,000 out of Egypt: tan, atrongthens the Soviets Egypt's criticisms. diplomatic offensive, which Mr Nuri was unanimously began in recent months in elected President of the „pačká the Middle East. And in permanent council, India the Communists and Tho, new council decided that thoir fellow-travellers must gain in prestige.

All this lo disturbing to the West. The Russians have undoubtedly obtained the diplomatic initiative and Are exploiting it with skill And prescience. But there is no reason why Britain and her associates should Allow the Soviets to make all the running, India 16 part of the Commonwealth, and if, the Commonwealth cures to exert itself, it. has plenty of opportunity for matching any... säsistance {offers) which the “Kurki

At the same trial, a business-

man, Ahmed Margour, received

à total sentence of ten’yegra în

DEATH

TOLL RISES TO 10

Bombay, Nov. 21.- Ten people were killed and more than 225 injured to day when police fired on stone-throwing crowds in one of the worst riots in Bombay for years, t

Officials sald 50 of the injured:

The riots were touched off by a one-days strike called by [thirojghout the day wore hit by

Comeback

Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 21.

Brazil was plunged Into its third political crisis in two weeks today.

Tho crisis stemmed from roports that alling President Joao Calo had been cleared by his doctors and had notified acting President Nereu Ramos, the House of Congress and the Supremo Court that he had rotissimed his offles,

response, Atmy forces surrounded the Presidential palice an other strategic contres. The Navy recalled its поста to

and

basca. ships Censors moved into newspaper offices and radio stationa.

to

ARMY MOVES IN

Army landers were said to have vetoed Cate's return power because they feel ho is too closer to Navy, Air Force and National Democratic Union Party groups which the Army bellove аге randy to block President-cloot Juscelino Kubit- ochek from taking office on Jan.

91.

Army officers installed Romos in offer little over a week agu after they, deposed the former; acting president for the same

reason.

A move began immediately in the_Chamber of Deputies to declare Cafe mill physically un- it to exercise the presidency.

Army tanks and motorised units rolled into the city, from - the Villa Militar, the main Army base outside the city. They took positions around the war Minis other key objectives and Uned try, the Presidential palace and up the only

access to Caleao | Andy air base - Unlied

fortist Barber baatril o cover tulidt six police ocers, le Yvonne de Carlo

ment plan to divide (Bombay poliéemen, and 10 fome state into three, with the efly were among the injured. as a separate state.

The rioters turned the streets Into rubbish heaps of burning buses, abandoned cars, broken glass and stone.

of

Socialist

to the an appeal OVET 4 police loud-

guards

:

Police opened fire three times when the demonstrators who marched

Chowpatty stoned police and vehicles destroyed public property.

beach

and

held

Married

Hollywood, Nov. 21.

Yvonne de Carlo the 33-year- old 'film actress was married in a surprise ceremony Fat Beno today, to a stunts man with; an eight-year-old, daughter,

The

bridegroom la Robert

A' mooting was luter without indideat on the beach. Morgan, aged 40.. The police relaxed' an earijer ten they had imposed ca pubile surprise, meetings.

(Cairo radio reporting the

Denver, Nov, 21. shelling said the boat tead Mr Lynn Brown, a shop violated Egyptian territorial | keeper today identified John

Graham, Bocused to the mixed armistice commis- putting a bomb aboard, an air- The riot stopped for a while alon).

liner and killing 44 people in- when on Opposition cluding his mother, as the man border in the Legislative Counci who bought 20 or 25 sticks of

of broadcast

The ceremony came as a big dynamite from blun October

on

crowds

studio Bources. said. 29 two days before the disaster.

speaker.

Mins de Carla mer M. Morgan Graham,

of la accused putting a dynamite bomb in his Later police again opened the

five years ago while working on In the al Opposition members mother's luggag before she on a stene-throwing crowa of Assembly violently criticised the

Only last week they completed boarded the United Air Lines about 150,000 who marched to Government pian to divide work in the Alm "How "Edge". plane on November 1: The Chowpatty bench for a public Bombay state into three when This 15 the flest marriage for plane blew up in fight 11 meeting,

it was debated today--Reuter, Mias de Carlo.-Reuter. minutes after taking off.

Israeli Minister's Arms Warning

Washington, Nov. 21 The Tracti Foreign Minister Mr Moshe Shareit made it clear today that Irvet would bay

the from

Boviet bloo countries, if necessary.

Asked by reporters who her Israel would bay Soviet bloo

Shareit said the Iersell Government would attempt to buy bbots from source if it is a matter of “life and death.”...----FruBOл

Presto.

'Graham in interviews with reporters has repudiated an affeged confession quoted by Police

Mr Brown, owner of a shop in Kromlling, in north-western Colorado, picked Grahom out of a line-up of seven prison in- mates, today Reuter.

Police On Strike

Dacco, Nov. 21. Troops took over police duties today after most of the polica force went on strike in Daeen, the capital of East Pekisión, a Government statement salil,

Israel also sold ก unit of "trained sabotea" from Jordan

Some of the striking: Polize wrecked a carpenter's shop and damaged water Installations but members of a special armed without causing casualties in the force, were immediately arrest. village of Avouka in the wested and confined to their ber- bank of the River Jordan

racks/Router.

There were at least three ex- plosions, one apparently from a Ume borab,, the spokesman sald. The Isrpall Foreign Minister said the worsening of the border- situation in, the last 24 hours "organised was part of an guerilla campaign” conducted by Egypt-Reuter,

Peron To Face Treason Charge

Buenos Aires, Nov. 21. An Argentine Federal Judge prison on two separate Indict-way calica for the extradition the pertuanent seat of the monti, while the other's were of » ex-President Juan Peron aiddle East Defence Organima sentenced to lewer terms from Panama to face charges of tion will be in Bordad-Reuter. United Press.

treason-Better.

Air Hostess Shot By Jilted Lover

Boskie, Nov. 21.

A 25-year-old airline sogariten was shot and killedt, aboard a United Air Lines plane at the. Boathe Tacoma airport's this afternoon by her fitsa lover. Minaries pater he shot huwer.

Hob Klendendon n of New Yo

boarded Un

Barbara Cóliíbeníó, búto m seat and shot, hey, trên Angler

through the chest..

ideed on arrival and stand 900 in pritical condition. Another #light: B13' stewardess.

City was the resil @quarze

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