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Civic Association

Enters Politics

THE Civic Association has

Tdecided to throw its hat

Inte the local political JATERIA. It is an interesting | but not surprising develop- ment, It might almost be described a evolutionary. During its first 14 months of existence the Association has contented itself with quiet, behind-the-scenes Co- quiries, surveys and In- vestigations touching matters affecting the welfare of the general public, and through

On

memoranda to

Government and releases

to the newspapers has kept

officialdom and the com-

activities and its opiniona.

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Israel And Egypt Gird Themselves For Any Emergency

KOWLOON

BEN GURION'S POLICY ENDORSED

Vote Of Confidence

From

Party Mountbatten

ASSUMES FULL RESPONSIBILITY

Tel-Aviv, Dec, 29.

Premier David Ben Gurion's political party munity acquainted with its today voted new confidence in his stand against the Arabs after a three-day "emergency" party meeting called by his critics.

the Association's work

has

This has served a quite use

ful purpose. for much of been painstaking and wholly ubjective.

Not all the re- search work has disclosed original or unknown data, but there has been ah

com-

As tension along Israel's borders increased during recent weeks, criticism against 69-year-old Ben Gurion's policy rumbled beneath the political surface.

May Visit

II.K. In 1956

London, Dec. 29. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten of Burma, First Sca

Lord, to con templating

tour of British naval bases in the Far East early next yeur, waid today.

Admiralty spokesman On this occa= mon, Lord Mountbatten is ukely to make an official visit to India, where he was the last Viceroy.

till

Although the programme of the tour has not been fixed la thought that

Mountbatten leave in a few weeks time. He will fly to

Singapore

LOT Hongkong. Mountbatten has been First Sen Lord since last April. In October he went

and

The criticism was directed mainly

Lord against Ben mendable sense of perspec- Gurion and his own Defence Minister. He customarily tive about the reports, and exercises certain powers in security matters without it is

fair claim

that consulting his cabinet. the Association, particularly during 1966, has gained public recognition and prestige.

SOME may regret

The three-day closed meeting of the Mapal party studied a comprehensive plan of the present emergency --compiled by former Defence Minister Pinhas Lavon, reliable sources said.

to the United States and Canada-France-Press.

PLANE EXPLODES:

Di

2 DIE

that the

It 19 believed that the Ben Gurion, the sources said, Association, from being an Proiler's critics within the also took full responsibility for independent, non - political party took the opportunity to the conduct of his country's guardian of public interests, challenge Den Gurion's line of security and oven volled dls

the views agreement with in now to become a political action against the Arabs.

Moshc Foreign Minister

Sharett entity, with ita attendant The result was that Ben

Rollable Sources roid the dangers of narrow partisan- Gurion demanded his party's majority of the

Мара ship. Nevertheless, it would full confidence. It was believed accepted the "Ben Gurion line" Party appear that the days of the that he personally took

during the meeting. The most- notficial "advisory" or-ponsibility for truei's

action ing was attended by the Mapal ganisations are numbered in against Syrlu at Lake Hongkong. Time was when where they flourished--the Kowloon Residents' Association (stillĮ

died

more than 50

Dover, Ohio, Dec, 29.

Tiberias political committee and members Two men were killed to

functioning), the Penk and Peace Proposals Accepted-

zone.

IKE WILL SAY “NO” TO EDEN

EMBARGO LIFTING PROSPECTS DIM

Washington, Dec. 29.

A highly placed United States official said today he expected the United States to resist any British pressure to ease restric- tions on trade with Communist China at next month's Anglo-American "summit" talks in Washington.

Sir Anthony Eden, the British Prime Minister, and his Foreign Secretary, Mr Selwyn Lloyd, are due in Washington on January 30 for a five-day review on world problems with President Eisen- hower and Mr John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State.

5.

The United States official was. The State Department responding to a question at aj could not confirm a Tokyo re- press briefing on United Staten-port that Japan had entered an Asian relation about the possi-arrangement with the United bilities of a British proposal to States to produce American ease the ban on strategic goods awana under Leence for the For imposed by agreement on China East theatre. during the Korean war.

The official replied that

had

he

stand

thought

The official said he that barle United States-Asian

a great deal of sympathy polley would be unaffected by Ker the United States

the outcome of the Increasing trade with sdential election. mmunist China at this time. lie said he could not ace how

He

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A Former Apprentice Rescues Company

Coventry, Dec. 29.

Sir William Rootes, British or manufacturer, today. became chief of Binger Motors, where he began as a penny an hour apprentice after leaving school,

It was to save his old firm from folding up that Shr William Rootes droides to step in and offer to buy out share- holders.

At a stormy meeting here Singer shareholders agreed to accept the offer of £1,400,000 from the Rooter our group to tako over the whole of their ordinary and preference stock. The offer, was made partly in each and partly in shares.

The Singer firm started by making bicycles for the kings and queens of Europe in the 1870's. And it grew to become one of Britain's leading osz-masking concerns. It now in-.. cludes "the Humber, Hillman and Sunbeam Talbot our com- pantes,

Now the Singer cars will not vanish from the roads. Bir William Rootes has given his word that they will confinne to be made, China Mall Special.

More Yalta Secrets Revealed

Washington, Dec, 28.

The United States State Department tonight published previously secret papers relating to the controversial Big Four conference at Yalta in 1945, the last year of the war.

The documents provided fresh evidence that the the West could bargain with victory of the Republicans in wartime partnership between the Soviet Union and the authorities by giving 1952 had brought about les United States began to disintegrate before the fighting

observers ended. | had expected, and said that would American policy

pointed out that

tho

Peking them what they advance.

Turning to

wanted

I change than many

other

orcas of boste

#

to's.com-

peace

CLOSE TOGETHER Under the Japa czo in 1951, Japan agreed to contri- treaty signed at San Francisco,

bute annually towards the cost

NATO WILL BE THE

PRIME SUBJECT

ended

over

Another message from Mr. Averell Harriman, then, Ambas- sador in Moscow to Prezident Roosevelt in April 1945,7 salch-fra "accumulation of-minor:?inel- dents" beginning immediately after the Yalta conference? contributed to concern American-Soviet- relations. He mentioned specifically Soviet resistance to a proposal for American "air teams" and. * "naval team to visit territory under Soviet control to inspect bomb damage.

Among them is a "secret and have his own, say about, organ United States-Asian policy, the still depend upon the great personal" message from Stalin toising a government for Poland. official, predicted that Japan and factors in international affairs. President Roosevelt indicating A dispute between Russin aid when Syrians of the party in the Knesset day

thisReuter. two-engine the United States would

plainly that Stalin fotended to the United States and Britain. (Parliament).

private plane

work exploded, year be able

over the Tuture of Poland was crashed and burned near out agreement on

probably the first major confljet tribution to the upkeep of here.

Julled States forces stationed When Gruenther Sees Eisenhower

of the cold wor Mid-Levels Residents' AB-

"The state highway petrol in Japon and the size of self- Hociations and the Cheung 13en Gurlon himself, and

identified the plane as the pro-defence forces to be matatained Hammarskjold isuggested ("bau Residents' Association Shurett, opened the discussion ways to restore quie: along the porty of the Gulf Refining Com- by Japan. full three defunct,}

with refertness to "economic and common borders

of Egypt and pany. olti al probes," the sources Israel and in the demilitarised engine plane was involved. Fire Firat reports had sold a four- In their self-imposed limited sad, but the meeting scan moved folds of activity. these on to "propers dness for an emer-

| engines and an ambulance raced The Israel statement yester across rain-swept roads to the urganisations over the yearsį gency.

day insisted its acceptance of scene fulfilled useful functions in,

where two bodies were Gurion Came out of the Hammarskjold plan was removed from the wreckage of its defence. But the question the interests of the com-¦ felirement at his Jonely sheep "unconditional" and munity, but they often ranch to as his country once

exception to communique suffered the frustration of more in mecting what the Jews from truco superviser General

hearing from sunsider un Arob threat to their E.LAM. Burns saying minus official survival.

imposed "conditions" to her Implementation of

The their

endorsement of

acceptance. Ben Gurion

followed yesterday's "Iste''s Foreign Ministry announcement promoting

feels that her

faithful Today, in Hongkong, there is that Israel

of peace proposals armistice consciousness; ceptance

from United Nations Secretary-at no time made a condition the general public are more General Dag Hammarskjold, for implementation and

of of what

In contrast 10 "the Secretary-General's proposals,'

stand which Was

the statement said. United Press.

a courteous

Government

idens and proposals.

More

elvic

more aware

Bin

stood

they consider to be their Egyptian

нем

social rights, and seek a tantamount to their rejection." slightly louder voice in affairs which afcet their daily lives.

Meanwhile, Gets More

took Reuter.

Isruel "Teddy Boys"

Beat Up Indians

auggestions border quiet observance

Areement

for and

of the

were

A

the

Egypt Arms

Covernment, on its part, has paralleled this development by considerably enlarging the scope and functions of the Urban Council; has widen-

Cairo, Dec. 29. ed the electorate and

Czechoslovakia has provided Egypt with enough Increased

the the size of Council by additional elected arms to enable it to meet any emergency in the

future, Colonel Osman Fawzi, the Egyptian military attache in Prague, said today.

T

representatives. Thus it is that organisations, whose declared objects and reasona

Colonel Fawzi returned here are the safeguarding and nuturing of the interests of about the implementation of the to report to the government the community as a whole, Czechoslovak-Egyptian arms de-

to seek iveries agreement. find it necessary elected representation on the Urban Council.

in

Twould appear that political parties, based on those to be found functioning in the municipalities of Britain, ate now inevitable Hongkong, The prospect need not frighten or dismay the public. At the moment there are two auch parties the Reform Club and the

Association.' Civic

their aims and Ideals

But

mear

their

of size of the Japaness contri- bution has caused trouble each

year and for the past Ascal year

Washington, Dec, 29.

yet begun on Japan's 1958 con- where he underwent a minor operation, according to

In

01

Japanese

officials

were

the surrounding districts.---- BETTER POSITION

France-Presse ;

MISTINGUETT

NATO forces

|

OVER A 1000 TESTED RECIPES

General Alfred Gruenther, the NATO commander in Europe, is expected to confer with President Eisenhower took months of negotiation.

No formal negotiations have at Key West, Florida, as soon as he leaves hospital here

Another message to President tribution, the officiel sald, but milltary officials.

Recsevelt published today was London, Dec, 29.

preliminary exploratory General Gruenther's conferences with President Elsen from Mr Patrick Hurley, then of young English talks the views gang

Ameriban Ambassador to China shower are expected to have an important bearing on European in February 1945. It contained a thugs, dressed as "Teddy Boys", and American toady best up and robbed Indian close enough together to say defence policies in 1956. They will have added importance secret

for a proposal

a meeting of customers of about £400 in an that "something

could be in view of the unrest. in French North Africa, which is Mr

Winston Roosevelt, Sir East London Indian cafo,

worked out pretty quickly." The "Teddy Boys'

NATO's back door, and the fact that the bulk of the French Churchill and Central Chiang Formal threatened

hegotiations were victims with

Kal-shek Army is pinned down there.

at New Delhi to knives and

expected to open soon.

clarity policies and strategies improvised weapons.

In response to further ques- Customers descriptions of the tions the official

offelals said Geeral; the These

and boost morale in the China these made

with new theatre of war young gangsters have enabled other points:

Gruenther, continues to consider ) weapons, détectives to begin a search in

NATO's defences have been General Gruenther has long The newly disclosed docu seriously, weakened by the dis-enjoyed the confidence of Prements are contained in a 1,032- patch of so many French forces sident. Eisenhower and some page 1. Japan at the end of this

book-published by the to North Africa.

officials consider he may be the State Department on "the con year was in a better position

next chairman of the Joint forencent Malta ani. Yalta than at the end of last year. France has sent 10 Africa Chiefs of Staff United Press, 1945.-Reuter, Economically, Japan, through troops from NATO's European. Paris, Dec. 20, Mistinguett, one-time Idol of the efforts of government and forces and NATO might be French .musle

the favourable further weakened it more re- halls, was reindustry and ported tonight to be in a world economic conditions, had | inforcements have to be sent to

on condition" after

tot been

able to expand trade. | North Africa. There are

only. suffering a stroke on Christmas Politically, Japan now had about 30,000 French troops lest Eve.

Physicians said that It

system and two-party

in Indo-Chino, consequently "Egypt has acquired various would be several days before government with working few more reinforcements can be ascertained, types of arms which, as I have they could make any predio majority that gave promise of expected from there. Czechoslovakia could offer." said star's chances

art the

best tions about the 82-year-old the kind of political stability of recovery', im that was essential to Japan's (Contd. on back page, Col. 2) France-Presse.

further progress,

Some of these officials 2. The United States had consider that after the French received to official intimation elections on January 2, Franco either from 'Japan or South may have to mobllise her Korea that they were arranging civilians for service in North for talks to settle their several Afrien. This is, reported to he quirrels.

the view of some French 3. Tokyo has not yet formally military chiefs as well. asiced the State Department to. They believed it, was possible declare any replacement for the | General Gruenther may urge Ambassador; Me Badao, Igilchi. that the United States take a

HOPEFUL PROSPECT | hand in restoring pesoc. in North

Africa

agreement with 4. Barring deterioration of France and local represent world economic conditions

restore strength generally there tow WEB

La PreNATO A hopeful possibility" that Europe. However, It is known Japan's econome upturn, would that the state Department help solve such basic problems would be very reluctant to take as feeding and providing for any role in North African the dense Japanese population..

KRUSHCHEV'S AMAZING APOLOGY

Paris, Doc. 29.

Soviet leaders today made an apologetic gesture to Turkey, which went even further than the "mes culpa" they uttered to Yugoslav President Tito in Belgrade last summer.

The setting this time was the closing meeting of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow, where Communist Party chief, Nikita Krushchey, made a speech bristling with attacks on the West.”

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