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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1956.
West Indies Federation May Sultan In
Why Do They
Yawn?
Paris, Feb. 19.
Fronch scienilata yester- day began work at Pau--- the "Atceplest town in all France"-io And out what makes the people yawn much.
AL A new reacaroli centre, they will test the solt relaxing winds that sigh over Pau, in the foot- hits of the Pyrenees.
They
will humidity and probe Lic layere of radioactive mineral dust in the town.
also
Test
Pau is noted for its rent cures.
The new biocima- tical centre above the town's casino will also *tudy climatio influences on the health of patients inking cures.--China - Mall Special.
Soon Be In Existence
2 MAJOR PROBLEMS
TO BE SOLVED
London, Feb. 19.
The dream of welding Britain's | scattered sugar-and-spice islands of the Caribbean into one nation has moved significantly nearer to accomplished fact in the past few days, West Indian political circles in London agree.
Sixteen
men, speaking for three million islanders sweeping from Trinidad,
the across
Caribbean to Jamaica, have been locked in conference here for days.
FOREIGN AID northwest
PROGRAMME
COMMITTEE
Washington, Feb. 19.
FORMATION of a
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Litly has been disclosed of ex-wrestler, Mr Albert Gomes, their progress—but more than has braided federation one delegation has booked als "meaningless" without a customs passages home for next union. Thursday..
are
paper
Some delegates say that un-. A reliable conference source less they are promised a free said last night: "It is impos- Interchange of goods they will sible to say how near we are to not accept the free movement "com-success because the whole silun-of pergons. mittee for an effective tion is like a jig-saw.
There foreign aid programme" to are a
Delegates number of pieces ready
conaldering over the weekend give economic and techni-to be moved into place, if only
marry them with the drafted by British experts which cal assistance to under-next pieces we shape."
seeks to harmonise the hopes, developed countries was
and fears of a customs union. announced today.
The choice of # capital has not been yet but it is known that least five Islands hope to site: it.
we can
Customs & Capital
federal debated
The co-chairmen are Mr Morris Llewellyn Cooke, Philadelphia
Delegation sources say there engineer and former rural
are two major decisions still to electrification administrator, be taken and two more which and
Dr Dewey Anderson, conomist
are only relatively less tricky. and author and The major hurdles are: How
Grenada was favoured by H executive director of the
ston are the federating islands previous conference three years Public Affairs Institute,
but Its prospects were "We
promised
custom go
there by the hurricane Janet harmed by the havoc wrought
last September.
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The
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Other Questions
Manley has withdrawn
both have for the past weekly sessions Jambien from
Gar
weapons served
the big stick."
Antigua and St Lucinn well as Grenada are expected to make a case for it. This will be one of the last decisions of the conference.
of
Slat
ben Mohammed Youssef. the Sultan Morocco, arrived In the French capital recently. Pic- tured in the scene on his arrival at Orly Airfield. Fram Joft. aro: General Gattoval (depulling for
President Coly): The Sulian; Premier Mollet; General Zeller: Foreign Minister Pineau: French Morocco's Resident. General Dubols. Behind the Sultan is his son, Frince Moulay Hassan, Express Photo.
Rahman Meets Nasser
Malaya To Exchange Envoys
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Cairo, Feb. 19. Tengku Abdul Rahman, what he calls Chief Minister of Malaya, "the capital stakes" to hasted Barbados, and two small islands Singapore that he would agreement. But Trinidad, said before leaving Cairo for
send
representative to Er pt to foster cultural relations.
"When we have our indepen- dence,
shall We
exchange diplomatic relations with Egypt," he told reporters here.
Tengku
Rahman Abdul stopped in Cairo for two days the Egyptian Premier, Colonel Nasser, on his way home from London, where he reached agreement with the
believe that President union? and: Where shall the Eisenhower's 'atoms for peace capital be? proposal Bad President
"customs union" has Truman's Pont, Four pro- provoked the kernest debates-- ramme are by all odds the in the caucus meetings of delc- most constructīve
departures gates which characterised the in recent American foreign opening week of the conference policy,"
they said in a joint and in the dally statement, "But tended to become propaganda devices, administered grude-major personal duel of the con- It was also incarnated the gingly, with many scoldings, ference between the chief de often serving or small carrots legates of the largest islands,
while Jamaica and Trinidad!.
Mr Norman Mantey, Socialist Chief Minister of Jamaica has The co-chairmen said the 130 been reluctant, delegation cireles
Americany who joinert
The two lisay, tu be commitled to an Im-
other substantial forming the committee were mediate customs union, The questions still undeclded are: straitjacketed by some Jamalean opposition leader. Mr How is the estimated £350,000 rigid conception of AmericanAlexander Bustamante, cabled sterling
the n year to run aid to underdeveloped areas, his party's representative in the federal
to govemment
be but wanted to lift it to the island's delegation, urging him raised? And: What power will central policy position it re-to resist a customs union in the Britain retain in the federation. quires if it
if it is to be an effective belief that it would flood Jamalen
The
proposal in the blue- Instrument for
Peace."
(with cheap imports, causing print before delegates to levy Members of the committee in- unemployment,
British special taxes on rum, sugar end
government for the clude the former Attorney-
independence of Malays within petrol for federal revenue has faced
the Commonwealth But sharp resistance.
by August delegates belleve that a formula | 1957. will be found to meet objec- tions.
"not
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General, Mr Francis Biddle,
the former Agricolture Secret-
ary, Mr Charles Brannan, the
writer Pearl S. Buck, Supreme
A Champion
Several smaller islands, who Court Justice William Douglas, are eager for the free inter- Governor George Leader of change of trade, found a cham- Pennsylvania and Governor plan in Trinidad, second only to William Marland of West Jamalea in size. *The chief Virginia.-United Press,
Trinidad delegate, the colourful
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Bound With Britain Tengku Abdul Rahman said Malaya was bound with Britain militarily and economicstly.
Nasser.
The Tengku arrived here on Friday and left late last night. position-the pro- During his stay here, he had
of the talks
with Colonel and the Colonel Anwar el Sadal, the the Egyptian Minister of Sinio and also
of the all- Secretary-General Islamic Congress. and the British Ambassador. Sir Hum- phrey Trevelyan,
three officials nominees in federal cabinet of 14-hos been under Are.
the
to
The Jamaican delegation has a "seven point mandate" in which a bid to trim Britain's continu- ing power occupied two points.
Delegation circles say British reaction was hosille their proposals but some modi- ication may still be negotiated.
The proposed federation will link Jamaica, Trinidad-1,000 miles away, and Barbados, with the four Windward Islands— | Grenada, Dominica, St Lugin and St Vincent and three of the Leeward Island group who have been defederated in readi- ness.
Tho Constitution will follow roughly the Australian model. All
power not specifically with the island governments.
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WESTERN TRADE WITH REDS
Department
State Paris
Abbey Becoming Congested
London, Feb. 19.
Westminster Abbey, best-loved shrine in the British Commonwealth, is so crowded with the graves of the great and near-great of the past 600 years that ""within a short time" there will be no space for further burials.
For centuries, the British have made the noble Gothic abbey a valhalla for the men and women they honoured most with the result that now the Dean of Westminster is wondering where to find room for the eminent of this century.
The Shah of Persia
Shah Discusses
Middle East
Problems
New Delhi, Feb. 10,
The Shah of Persla hal a
Unable To Head Off Investigators
Washington, Feb. 19.
The State Department tried to head off a
Congressional investigation of Western trade with Communist nations on grounds that the inquiry might dis- please some of America's allies, informed sources said today.
These sources said the Under-Secretary of State, Mr Herbert Hoover Jr, told the Senate | Investigating Sub-Committee that public hearings
on the touchy subject might cause an uproar in. such countries as France and Italy, whose parlia- ments include large Communist delegations.
East-West trade also is
soro subject between the United States and Britain.
Britain insite it must trade with Iron Curtain countries to bolster the British coonamy.
trade COMMUNISTS
CONFESS TO ERROR
Mr Hoover, who testified at a closed sub-committee hearing on Tuesday, lost his argument. The Senate went ahead with the Inquiry and will resume public hearings tomorrow,
Called To Explain
Top administration officials
will be called to explain why the United States has agreed to Jet its allies zeli strategic goods to Russia and her satellites despite the fact that it has such saics itself,
A spokesman said Mr Hoover told the aub-committee that the United States made the best deal it could at meeting in Paris in
Secret List
mid-1934 when officials of 15, non-Communist world nations relaxed international export con- For the past 30 years, and
trols on strategic shipments to more, the problem has been
**Iron Curtain countries. discussed from time to time. but without a solution evolving. It came up again recently, when it was announced that Lord Trenchard, "Father of the Royal Air Force,"
was to be cremated and his ashes interred next week in the RAF Chapel in the cbbey,
THE
London, Feb. 19.
Soviet and other European Communist parties today admitted that the prewar Com- munist Party in Poland was dissolved by the Com. munist International in 1988 on the strength of "fabricated evidence," the Polish news agency PAP reported.
The contral committees of the Savipt, Pollah, Italian, Bulgarien and Finnish Com- munist parties Issued a stato- ment to that affect in today's Trybuna Ludu, organ of the Polish Communist Party, The statement recalled that In 1938 the executive, committee of the Communist Interna- fional decided on the da
Com- solution of the Polish Wis
Although sub-commitice members strongly criticised the administration's
Mr stand, | Hoover insisted that the in-
ternational organisation voluntary He said the United Nobles Acquired Vaults | States could not stop other
The Dean, Dr Alan Don, the only, one who may grant per- mission for the burial within the abbey precincts, said that owing to lack cf space both laside end outside the abbзy, the position was such that
within
short time"
No further burials would be able to take place.
In the Middle Ages when the Ibbey
was still young, only kings, queens and high ecclesias- ties were buried there.
at
nations from trading with the Reds if they wanted to,
The sub-committee expects to got from the Commerce Depart ment tomorrow a Urt'of 100 to 150 items which the United States recommended that the Paris meeting control. The sub-committee has sought the
but
list
the
argued that it
for months administration was accret.
Lost Punch
The spokesman also said Mr Hoover told the Senators that the so-called Battle Act, which allows the President to cut off US aid to nations trading with the Communists had lost much of its punch because US aid to many nations had fallen to a
But by the time of the reign
Elizabeth
nobles I, the began to acquire vaulla in the abbey and erected many large and beautiful monuments.
The bones of Elizabeth herself |lle within the abbey near those
of Mary, Queen of Scots.
In the 17th century, the Eng-trickle. lish poets began to move into pocta corner. Chaucer lies there States only moral persuasion as with Dryden, Spencer, Tennyson a and Rudyard Kipling.
Ben
was Johnson standing upright.
'buried
More Congested
In the last century, when an
Before leaving, he thanked discussion on Middle Eastern eminent Victorian was interred Colonel Nasser for the sympathy problems today with Prime) Johnson's head rolled out. ho had shown
It
io Mulayan Minister Nehru, on the eve of lies beneath the pavement near students in Calro and expressed is departure from Delhi. his appreciation of a special programme Egyptian state broadensting for prepared by Malaya.-Reuter.
SERVICES
FOR CRASH
VICTIMS
The talks were Informal" but it is understood that Iran's towards the Bagdad attitude | Pact, of which she is a member,
was discussed,
India has opposed the paci.
The Shah and Queen Soraya Jeft tonight by train for Bhakra Dam in Punjab-the biggest river project NOW unuler construction in India.
Thoir fortnight's tour Funeral services for 44 India will include a big game of the victims of the York hunt in Mysore and a visit to The British Colonial Secretary, transport plane crash here industrial and agricultural pro- Mr Alan Lennox-Boyd. who
jects.-Router, has presided over slx of the and of the plane's captain so will take place on Monday
Share Facilities
seven conference
acssiona
far, has promised to hurry bill through
Parliament summer to give effect to federation if the ference is "conclusive
will
American
this
Valletta, Feb. 19.
crow
at the military cemetery. the The bodies of four con-members will be flown to
Britain for burial.
the abbey, walked over daily by thousands of Londoners.
In Queen Victoria's me, the abbey became even more con gested with huge and often une #ainly
monuments.
The
monuments still stand although there are many who' urge their removal.
Nowadays, the practice of cremation has meant that smail flat slabs in the ground have replaced the monuments.
Pre-eminent Service
the
This in effect left the United
Press.
pressure weapon.-United
ILLITERACY
HIGH IN
ITALY
Milan, Feb. 19.
At least 12 Italians out
of 100 are completely
munist Party on the strongl of an accusation alleging widespread Infiltration by a hostile agency Info the rank and fle of the leadership of. the party. "It has now
been established that the accusation was based on evidence fabricated by provocateurs who have since been unmasked," the state- ment said.
"Having considered the evidence on this question the central committees of the Communist parties of the Soviet Italy,
Bulgaria and d together with the central committee of the Polish Unit- ed Workers' Party, Have reached the conclusion that the dissolution of the Com- munist Party of Poland wAY undounded," the statement said.-Bouler,
Luftwaffe Operational By 1960
Bonn, Feb. 20.
The now West German air force, it is hoped, will tactical have a complete fighting force by 1960 consisting mainly of jet fighters
and reconnala- sance aircraft, according
illiterate, Italy's leading to a high ranking air force
newspaper sald today.
officer here.
The poled journalist Luigi
The first flying units are to Barzini Jr. said, in a front-page article in Milan's Corriere dela be ready by spring 1957, prob- Sera that literacy was growing ubly equipped with United as a result of poor living con- States jet fighters and some ditions, insufficient school faci- United States recconalasanco air-
ties and faults of the education. craft. system.
Prime Ministers, puthors,
of of architects and deana
abbey are honoured with burial there.
The air force will eventually Lord Trenchard will bo Signor Baraind said a census consist of 20 squadrons, with a buried there "In view of his pre-covering two-thirds of Italy, total of about 1,000 aircraft eminent services to the country showed that 14.0 per cent of
and 80,000 men, including the the Italians over six yours of ground staff. A unique services to RAF," the Dean sold. China Mail Special.
Autobahn Patrol
Duesseldorf, Feb: 18.
four-lane Auto-
Germany's
3 REBELS 40 per cent, comprising 20 per in building
KILLED
Constanting, Feb. 19.
↑
cent completely illiterate and 20 per cent nearly iterale,
Was Worse
problem
worso
were illiterate. Ho said some
The now air force, the air experts estimated that, includ- ing persons who had forgotten officer wald, has before it a
Laarsed what little they
at considerable task of training old school, the figure might rise to Luftwaffe men or new recruits,
up the anticonlat
large Senior oficials of the Ministry
tocilool facilities needed, in mainland territories of British of Transport and Civil Aviation
getting modern aeroplanes and Honduras were on the scene after a night Guiana
and British
at the same time helping the The not join federalion at Might from Britala. Both were
aircraft Industry to get started the outset. But both have sent concerned in investigating plant
| again after a „lipse of 11 years. observers to the conference and crashes in the Mediterranent.
The
"It is, however, being, holped will share in the federal judicial
Only Spectator bahn, which was terrorized – a
Southern At least throe Algerian rebels in poverty-stricken
by the United States air fored facilities. Observers believe
Italy, Signor
Barzial
wald. and the British air force.int The only known spectator of few months ago by a series of were diled last night when a That If federation prospère both
the York's crash was said to be highway robberies, will soon be strong band attacked a village Among youth called up for China Mail Special. colonies will join Inter-Router.
In some 16 miles north of Constan- military
literacy service, an elderly woman tending fonts patrolled by special police near the seone.
ranged from one to 10 per cent fine, it was reported today. She reported fast sports cars.
and Central The villagers successfully held in the Northern seeing the plane smoking sa it BARBER AT 6
Omku, Feb 19. A university graduate, hara A group of 40 expert drivers off the attackers, who abandoned | Povinces and reached 40 to $0 come down. One man said he
the the attack after an hour,
per cent in the south, with a sued his father, a farmer, for Madrid, Feb. 19. saw the plane turn over on its has been chosen to
Tadio equipped sports cars, member of the village security peak of 58 per cent in the pro- 240,000 you. (£240) claiming Six-year-old Peplte Martinez, back before dropping.
reported that the which are capable of reaching | guard was killed, and a second i vince garsini said, the ostuni bis tultiön fees but defau
of Cagliari, Sardinia. that his father promised to pay stands on a tool to shave cus-plane's captain had been advised 110 miles an hour.
wounded.
Elenor tomers at his father's barber's by the Laga airport control
Nobels who attacked two overall figures wore higher than The court rejected the plan. shop at Elche. He is Spain's tower that the plane was smok
Police hope
to add European farms in the Constan-
Khoon
shown by the soilers" The judge ruled that "the grant youngest barber,
census, because there were more of schooding logmily a gift ma He cute hair too, but only of in, and replied "Roger, siend helicopters to this "Autobelin tine region last night were also
foros!! - China Mail | successfully beaten off-Trance. illiterates. amour women and not
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