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NATO's Role NORTH Atlantic Treaty
ministers have good ren- son to feel satisfied with their accomplishments t the three-day meeting which has just ended in Paris. On the whole the aims set out in their communique mudent--they
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NATO CABINET PROPOSAL Elderly Spinsters
Eisenhower's Idea For Co-ordination
Paris, May 6.
President Eisenhower has proposed that the foreign ministers (all 15 uf | NATO allies form a full-time Atlantic alliance eredit for Cabinet in an historic step to co-ordinate Western agreed unanimously to make policy on key international issues, authoritative
use of a hitherto dormant | sources said today. provision of the NATO con-
two
reasons:
they
have
sillution which is obviously
pertinent to the present situation--and they have moved quickly.
One wonders how the three Western foreign ministers appointed to the task of
Atlantic Treaty Council meeting here by the US The idea was suggested to the 15-nation North
Secretary of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, the sources said. But it was still uncertain whether the NATO allies would agree to the plan,
The international Cabinet idea was disclosed after reshaping the Alliance merit | the United States, Britain and Franco agreed in a Big the description of "wise Three
that the Israeli-Arab within the United Nations
But the Western Big Three Foreign Ministers renched no agreement on a Middle East arms embargo, whether They also sidestepped any joint decision on France should send a new shipment of 12 Mystere fighters to Isruel.
Full-Time
meeting here today men" at this stage of pro- conflict must be settled ceedings even though it
Security Council. would seem hard for them to go wrong. But if they are to avoid posterity's cri- fels Me Lester Pearson of Canada suggests "the three blind mice" they should be careful to under. stand the limits of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisa- tion # nn internationat philanthropic institution,
THE idea of a united West once again on the offen- sive, reinforcing the various aid schemes that have been implemented in the past is appealing-but it would be helpful and wise to look at NATO from, say, the view
of Mr point
Nehru, Colone! Nager, What Authoritative NATO as well as
ather closed today that Mr Elsen- regional defence organisa-hower and Mr Dulies wanted a tions can accomplish--and full-time body in the NATO alliance that would co-ordinate
It'
Mr Dulles look off for home at 6.10 p.m. after what he called
mast the
Important" NATO meeting he had ever attended.
He said at the airport that he was satisfied with the confer ence, which wound up last night with the naming of a three-man council of "wise men" to draft
streamlined
Western policy to meet changing Soviet
It
inetics.
TOW
sourcca
the
dis
this the foreign ministers Allied policy on vital problems properly stress-is better and determine future of co-operation in the eronomie the Western world. field between member The co-ordinating body would nations. Outside of the
amount to a virtual Cabinet. areas of the three pucts, nid the sources said. It would be could best be distributed by | a high-level organisation whose representatives would rank next to Foreign Ministers.
It would
not involve any bandonment of US severely.
Fources explained, and would
test * provide whether the West
can over- come its historic divisions,
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organisation whose sheep's clothing is not suspect. The United Nations itself suggests medium if no new body in to be created,
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the
Body
Middle East, particularly nema," said M. Pineau.
on
What should be, avoided, he
New Wonder
Plane
New York, May 6. The Navy tonight re- leoned for the first time aome details of a new jet fighter which can fly non- atop across the United states in under four hours photographing continuona ten-mile-wid atrip of country as it
goes.
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The swept-wing air craft is a new version of the Grumman XOF-8 Cougar. The Navy de clined to disclusa its apred.
ONE KILLED, FIVE WOUNDED
SNIPER FIRES INTO CHURCH PROCESSION
New York, May 6.
Brutally Murdered
London, May 0. Two elderly spinatera word found murdered in their tiny tobacconist and con- fectionera shop today in Ormskirt in Lancashire. The crime was discovered when a neighbour, taking a morning cup of tea to Margaret arid Mary Ormesker, found the shop door firmly shut and re- ceived no response to her
· calle,
The position of their bodice,
their severe head wounds and damage. to the walls and ceiling of the room indicated a long and desperate strug- gle with the unknown asscilant
or assailants. The sisters Spaniel dog was found alive in the murder room.
A neighbour later reported
hearing noises during the night coming from the The police broke down the direction of the shop, but
door and found the two had put them down to a old ladies
wandering lying dead
drunk. blood. of
France-PresNO.
The sister of the late King Carol of Rumania and daughter of the late Queen Marie narrowly missed being hit by an assassin's - bullets early today when a
in a midnight gunman fired on Orthodox Easter candlelight procession, killing one worshipper and wounding five,
pools
Police said the sniper, angered over portraits FOREIGN AID BILL
of former Rumanian Royalty in a shita
But in 1954 an carlier Compar averaged 643 miles
how ат establishing a #m-stop cross-country speed cord of three hours, 45 minutes, 30 seconds, the Novy said.
TC-
The new model is al- ready in operation wit k The FleetRouter.
Church art
exhibit, had been variusly described by Church members as anti-Royalist, pro-Communist, pro- Nazi and a general trouble-maker.
He fired four bullets from a room in D residential section small rented room down on the off Central Park Then ho congregation as it led in a fled into the darkness. povement procession from the A citywide search wa church basement to the altar launched immediately for The gunman ind pollee ordered Д special check of every ship porta along the
Eastern sea- board to make sure he did not try to flee the country aboard a véssel bound for an Iran Cur- tain country.
All-Out Effort To
Kill Rebellion
Paris, May 6.
The French Government is expected to devote added, was the appearance that itself almost entirely this week to its all-out effort one of the Big Three was
to wipe out the Algerian rebellion. champion of arma supplies one nation alone,
the to
M. Pineau said that while tripartite de- the big three claration of 1930, Kamnite ing the Middle East borders,
The French Army's new tactica in Algeria have begun to yield some spectacular successes. Stress is with on small, highly-mobile groups now placed tremendous fire-power who can get at robel attackers wog not a dead letter, the before they can slip away into their mountain hide- changed conditions of today made | outs. it less valuable.
Major Issues
Authoritative
made sources these points about major issues that came up here:
The changes In Russia - There is a tendency by some of
the NATO lies to estimate that
developments
герге- Russian sent a bigger change than the United States belleves safe to Atsume. The French,
for example, put more
trust
in the Soviet change.
They
may be Iight, the
sources said, but the Urilled States believes it is safe to awall developments until i
sure the trend is really irreversible.
The French feel for example, less need
to emphasise military power than does the United States.
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Whenever a rebel band had',
been
hift"" -
NOT A PLOT
tu
The chief of detectives, James Leggett, discounted rumours of
FIGHT BEGINS
Washington, May 7. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today begins consideration of President Eisenhower's $4,900 million foreign aid programme.
Cuts in the aid bill are considered inevitable, especially as this is election year. But Mr John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State, had already told the committee slash- ing cuts "would make a shambles of our foreign policy."
The bill, covering the year beginning July 1, incorporates proposals for long-term economic old to
the counter
Soviet economic drive
under- in
a Communist plot against the developed countries. old aum of former King Michael into
life of Princess Ileant, 47-year-
of Humanio,
But this innovation has run opposition from Senator daughter of the Walter George, Democratic chair- late Queen Mario and former man of the foreign relations wife of a member of Austria's committee. Royal
now
Neither President Elsenhower mor Mr Dulles have been able to persuade the 78-year-old Senator
Paper Forecasts Breakdown. In S'pore Talks
London, May 7.. family. Ileana
The News Chronicle today wifo- ot a Rumanian-born New
York doctor, was walking behind the to drop his opposition to long-claimed that it now seems pastor of the Rumanian Orthe term ald. He is standing for probable that the London
re-election this year.
talks on Singapore's future dox Church of St Dumitru, The first witness before the will break down.. which occupies an old brown commitee today will be Mr John stone house on West 89th Street. Hollister, head of the Interne
thla hoppens, riots and They were part of a procession national Co-operation Adminis bloodshed In the island are of
than 300 persons. more
tration-Reuter.
likely to follow, this Liberal Police said if they had taken
newspaper, predicted, a fow more utepe, they only
"But were Britain to yield would have been directly in the gunman's line of are.
Singapore's Chief Minister,
...
Their Parliamentary, attitude been pinned down in this way, is interpreted as showing they
always has almost
are prepared to sacrifice im completely wiped out.
mediate advantages to the cam- But M. Robert Lacoste, minis paign for a "popular front of ter residing in Algiers, is ex- Communists and Socialists. But pected to press his demands for the Socialists chow no signs of still more reinforcements for covinging such an eillance.
Conditions in Morocco and by the sniper, who used a heavy Algeria when he lles to Paris on Wednesday for discussions,
even more disastrous, Turrisia, both
French former
duty rifle to fire from about 150 protectorates to which France feet. Another person Was
London, May 0. "Mr Marshall, who is violent- has granted effective independ- womded seriously, also by
sincerely and are taking to ly ence, are causing considerable direct hit. Four others were wearing "falsies' fake mousta Communist, must realise concern in Paris,
either by flying chips ches and injured
beardeto impress the granting of absoluto self- of brownstone
in existing clr- cut loose by
and business government friends.. girl
cumstarices would be a dubious bullets or by ricochetting bullets associates, it is reported today. -United Fress
Britain has too much A London Arm of wig makers gamble. is sald Sunday newspaper at stake in Singapore
by a to be doing a roaring trado that risk."-Reuter. "with customers ranging from
Fake "Mo's" And all that Mr David Marshall, One man was killed outright Beards The Rage requires, the resuite might be
In
The Government decided on April 11, to make all men who hod completed national service years liable in the past three for immediate recall.
Right-wing commentators con- Paris,
overwhelming majority of deputies back the aider the slaughter in Marrakesh Government's police of all-out of former followers of El Glaoul, force against the rebels, though Pasha of Marrakesh, firm friend many of the left, including some of France until his death last of Premier Guy Molla's
January, bodes Ill for the inter Labourites dependence of Socialist Parly, still hope that "local contacts" which the Morocco.
has Government
nuthorised rapid ceasefire. The Middle East The Big may lead to
Outside Parliament, Commun- Three have handed the problem
the against
Govern Algeria policy have
Ам for
strengthening
the
Bave the
A
internal administration of NATO, there is room
3 Basic Questions for improvement here, too. A suggestion is made that the The present
NATO Canell Atlantte Council should | could be expanded or made into Council, the an cutirely new powers
sources said, But
the present
ates cil. Their declaration of 1950, feeling the United States advocates, they sald. It
Middle East ment's has warning against
Issues threatening the
to prior UN responsibility for
گروه
France and
"cabinet" and that the NATO Permanent Council is far back to the UN Security Coun- | ist efforts to organise popular not begin until France formally
bassadorial status of the from what
delegates should be raised to that of senior minister. never even considered the three aggression, was always subject yielded only meagre results. Ideal as this seems, it pre-basic
supposes a far higher level ¦ alliance — North Africa, the maintaining peace and securily.
of Western integration than future of Cyprus and the Middle exists at present. If no coun- East.
the "cabinet" would have to
ambassadors is also exclusively
If those efforts break down, the Big Three would he forced to could be done consider what
In Tunisia, Prime Minister Habib Bourguiba, has said, nego- tiations on inter-dependence will
recognises Tunisia's complete independence. ---- China Special.
Mali fho
Tito's Moscow Quest
Washington, May 6.
try is prepared to sacrifice In fact, the sources said, the outside the UN. But the post- sovereignty it means that present permanent Council of tion is changed by Rula's re-Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito prob refer back specific proposals military and the meetings of the statement expressing will-
Ministers are Foreign
loo short gness ard too far between
it censes to be a "cabinet".
The
to
of
co-operate. to their governments for
trouble in the Middle East puts consideration. Immediately ordinate Atlantic policy.
to co the whole future of Europe in
2,300,000 barrels Mr Dulles, the British
Middle
East oil a day feed the Foreign Secretary, Mr Selwyn industry and military power of Lloyd; and the French Foreign Europe. It cannot be cupplied OBVIOUSLY NATO will only Minister. M. Christian Pineau, elsewhere.
change gradually. Mora met for an hour and a half this regular meetings of the moming at the French Foreign foreign ministers would Ministry.
possibly help to give it and
` Israel—There has been some rapprochement of Big Three A brief communique Issued policies here about arms to
did
of common on disarmament, the
The sourceS
not
its decisions added import afterwards said merely that the anée. Certainly more meet- Ministers exchanged views on elaborate except to repeat pre- ings are needed during the the questions
vious US policy, next few months to sanction interesi,
North Africa - The -Fronch the various steps of the pro-Middle East and the Far East" have dealt in a statesmanlike posed reformation. Wisely But informents said the Big way, in giving independence to (Conta, on back pags, Col. 2). the defensive structure is to Three leaders' only decision be maintained at the same was to turn the whole Middle time and the ministers agree East question
oyer
to the
that until disarmament and Security Council. Russia has a the reunification of Ger- veto in that UN body:
many are achieved it would Referred Back
be wrong even to begin the
process of diamantling the
military organisation.
cold
"The question of en arms embargo cannot be settled by It appears that many Westorn the three powers alone,"
ministers have come around M. Pineau after the meeting, to Mr Dulles way of think-I the Security Council ing that Western policies dicelded to promote such in the postwar years were measure, France would support mainly responsible for the and respect it," recent shift is emphasis In The Western lenders referred Soviet policy from armed the question of arms supplies to threat to peaceful penetro-the Middle East back to tion. Now, while still permanent Big Thyce meeting in stressing the need for de- Washington. The Committee.js charged with maintaining... A fence, the West realises the balance in arms shipments, medi need to match tho new Franco has 12 more Mystera stratagem and its responsive IV Jet Oghters awailing shipmerst attitude indicates that any to Israel but wants the United
And. Britain, to farther steps. Russia plans State
the
share
In lessoning tension will be perposibility for the doolsion to met by corresponding ship them.
"The three powers 'ere deler- alterations in - Western mined to week any agrond vand. il common policy toward the
· polley,
ably will urge Sovint leaders to grant more freedom Russia's satellites during his state visit to Moscow noxt month, diplomatie officials said today,
They don't expect him to win any starting concessions in polley, fron-ste Kremlin
But Tito's mere presence in Moscow, they said, could well persuade some of the satelites
to
i think seriously about following Tito's Independent
course.
of State John Foster there
Secretary
Dalles recently
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the puppet states getting somewhat weaker." He said this is becauzo somê beginning to wonder
Parade
London, May 6. Nearly 10.000 members of.
British
Parly Labour paraded through London today behind banners calling for free- dom for Cyprus. Other slogans carried
the procession, organised to celebrate the first Sunday after May 1, Labour Day, called for
for a clean sweep
by
as the last hope for England.
Several speakers addressed the massed crowds when the parade gathered at Trafalgar whether Tito "is getting the Square, severely criticising the 'best of both (free and government
questions Communist) worlds."
such
over
as unemployment, "automa- mechanisation of tobacco monopolies,: ---
Tilo, the only Communist bossilon-the
to defy Moscow successfully, industry increased has been carefully woord by prices both the United States
Yurostovia
and
and France-Presse in recent months. Just Announced last week that Tito will visib Moscow
in June, repaying A dimilar, visit to Belgrade last
spring by Soviet Premier. Nikolai Bulganin and Ruslan Communist Party bod Nikita Khrushchev.---United Press.
Collision
United battlhip
report
Cob
TRAIN CRASH
IN ALGERIA
Algiers, May 6. Two people wore injured, one of them seriously, in a trein crush between Modjahed, and Turenne this evening.
Sabotage was suspected.
A Berious accident was Everted because the couplings between the locomotive And carriages broke when the loco- motive leaped from the track.
The train was on the run from Oran in Algeria to Oujda in Morocco.-France-Premo,
Ferryboat Tragedy
Manila, May 7.
Six persons were drowned and several others still missing/when a overloaded ferry boat with, 60 Auriengers exprized and waride in the Cagayan River, 190bela Pro-
SUERTE Laizer yesterday.
British men
engineers to earls"
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costing beards,
from £3.55 each.
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to take
ISRAELI POLICE CAR FIRED ON
Tel-Aviv, May 0.
The director of the firm, Mr
An Israeli police car was fired Gerry Rex, la quoted as saying on near Kfar Saba, 13 miles from that he was asked inst week by | Tel-Aviv, and near, the Jordan a couple of men for beards like border this evening, an Israck those of Marshal Nikolai spokesman announced fiere, Bulganin, tho Soviet Prime No casualties were reported. Minister-China Mail Special. |France-Presse.
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