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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1957.
BRITAIN'S "NEW
ARMED
All-Round Cuts Planned
London, Feb. 14.
Lengthening queues reported | Mr Duncan Sandys, the British Defence Secretary, on Wednesday told the House of sioners offices in Londen, Commons of the vast changes which Britain and reports from Dominion must make in her defence policy in the
correspondents on conditions
in their various lands and face of the problems of the nuclear age. the difficulty with which)
In an article in today's Daily Express, special-
some British migrants are ists Derek Marks, Chapman Pincher and Hugh "settling in"all prominent-f
British Pond discuss some of these decisions. ly displayed newspapers-testify to
nt
the
Here is their analysis:
In a fortnight Mr Sandys will submit to the Lon- don conference of Western Europe foreign ministers the government's plans for:
alarm with which the Press,
Jeust, In viewing thei situation. While it is true that somi emigrants are shocked by the conditions which they find overseas, and it is of★ course the duty of the Press to point out the differences In the ways of life across the seas, it would seem that Rome British Journalista have developed a peculiarly localised view of English| history, They appear also to have overlooked Britain's great and continuing con- tribution to the growth of Dew nations,
THEY speak as if Britain had never before sent her blood as a transfusion to other lands, as if this were Home novel phenomenon of this generation only, as if the fact that some of our best brains and stoutest
compatriota werd leaving English shores was a sitt that Britain herself was sinking. They seem to for- get the colonists who in times past, in hundreds and
have thousands,
rarried British enterprise and skill across the sens, Hongkong itself is the fruit of this same driving spirit.
A view of British history that
forgets that Britons have!
the world's always been
B
Inos wandering race and that Britain's main contri- bution to the world has been made by those who lett her whores is a short view inded,
Figures re- Jensed by the Oversena Blogration Hoard tend to
1. Reducing the number of British divisions in Ger- many from four to probably three.
Reducing the strength of the RAF tactical force in Germany.
History note: in September 1964 Britain told France, Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg that in return for the rearmament of Germany, Britain would keep four divialona and an air force in Europe for 50 years.
ARMY OF 220,000
A report by General Sir Richard Hull now being con-
sidered by the War Office recommends a future regular army of around 220,000 men,
At present the army totals around 360,000—-half national servicemen, half regulars.
The new plan would probably mean national service would be gradually eut dowḥ, possibly on a selective service system.
Economy cuts are to be almed principally at the supply. services, and headquarters staffs.
The Navys to be cut to a lower level in man- power and ships than was intended before the Suez episode and will be kept in that for five years.
REGENERATION
state
It will then be gradually regenerated as an atom-propelled force, capable of operating over long distances independently of the Suez Canal and overseas bases like Ceylon and Singapore. Mr Sandys told MPs "there is reason to believe" the Russians have been developing an enlarged version of Hitler's 12 rocket capable of reaching Britain "from launching points within Soviet controlled territory."
The information is that existing Russian missiles could show that the boot is rather, just reach Britain from a launching site in Enst Germany. It
en the other foot-that not enough Britons are mgrating to
is believed the Russiads are still trying to correct directional control,
the They must be expected to have solved these problema by 1960. Hence the urgency for Britain, London Express Service.
Demons' needs. Far from being perturbed that there} is emigration from Britain, there would perhaps be cause for greater concorn If ever that flow should fail : or cense, for then it will be time to worry about Eng-] land.
Defence Cuts ĮRITAIN'S decision to re- shape its armed forces seems to have caused mis- givings to the harassed Nate Supreme Commander, General Norstad, who mado
it clear in London he would
he "very concerned" with
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-Committee Modifies Ike's
Mid-East "Doctrine"
Washington, Feb. 13.
The combined Senate Armed Servicca-Foreign Relations Committed today approved a sharply-modified form of President Elarnhower'a Middle East "Doctrine." The 20-to-8 vote senda the resolution to the Senate foor.
Just before the final vote, the Committee approved
a last-minute modification by Sen. Hubert H. Hum- phrey which softened the language of the Presi- dent'a original request.
The Committee previously had defeated all major attempts to water down the proposal. The substitute, approved by a vale of 15 to 19, would atate that the United Staten "in prepared to armed forcex to assist” any Middin East nation or group of nations threatened by Communism if the President deter- mines the necessity there- of,"
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But it does not specifically give the President the
Nasser's Hour Glass Running Out
FINANCIAL CRISIS
CONFRONTS EGYPT
London, Feb. 14.
A
the
Tho City Editor of the Daily Express writes that Nasser is fast running Egypt into financial crisia, Bing: Canal srub the Egyptian pound
has fallen so steeply that even his Arab friends sro segred to hold his money..
'A London, banker who used to
do big trade with Egypt said
an Wednesday: "The whole of their epatomar. Mjukis p bad way...
Before Nasser' acted against the West the Egyptian pound was worth 20 shillings,
DOWN TO 13/31
And now?
In Beirut the rate is 13/3d, This Lebanese capital used to carty on an extensive trade in Egyptian monty.
Now a leading exchange expert there B335: "Traders through- out the Arab world can't risk
with dealing
the Egyptian pound. They never know how much it will lose overnight." In Zurich the rate is 13/8d, In Marseilles,
try- ing to.change Egyptian pound being offered alk shillings for them.
notes aro
scamen
In Cairo, Nasser's
own
capital, the people are chank- ing cash into gold.
The rate for a gold sovereign
bas leapt
from £4-2-0
the time of the Suez grab to more than £5.
HK Naval Dockyard Staff
Queries In The Commons
Our Own Correspondent
London, Feb. 13.
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Socialist Frederick Willey asked the Admiralty spokesman in the Commons today three questions concerning officering of his department's yardcraft vessois in Hongkong.
Nasser's money troubles stem from the trade and financial
the
Council Bluffs, Iowa, Feb. 13.
Fire turned a_75-year-old wooden convalescent hoine Into
A
Threat
London, Feb. 18.
A general shut down of raging under box today, power stations throughout trapping elderly and heiple Britain was threatened to- patients in their beda and burning 13 of them to death,
|night following ́a decision
Eighteen other inmates of the by about 14,000 senior tech- Council Bluffs Convalescent nical engineers to work to
Home
escaped
with their lives
when the two-hour blaze swept rule. through the building and left The technicians are taking this action after '18 months of it a charred, lopsided shell. The
ap-
"authority" to 1188 anch forces, ax requested by the Administration. Honse already has proved
President's request.
Despite the change, eight Democrats, including some of the Senate's most in- fluential members, voted against the proposal on final
passage. It 1008 approved by a combina- tion of six Democrats and 14 Republicans.--United Preas.
2 Algeria Resolutions Approved
United Nations, Feb. 13. blockade imposed on Egypt The General Assembly's
by Britain and France.
The British government has main political committee million of approved rival resolutions
frozin £110
The
for
different
18 survivors were all in fruitless negotiations on their hospital,
two of them in criticni demand condition,
Firemen said three hours and
grading
salary
A spalesman for their union, 45 minutes after the fire ended the Electrical Power Engineers, that all the rest home's 31 oc-said he believed the effect of
work to rule cupants apparently had
been the
decision accounted for. Earlier, It was "would lead to a shut down of reported that six of them were the power stations." missing.
Effect Of Rule
SEARCH CONTINUES
He said the technicians, some Nevertheless, the search for of whom make £1,800 a year, were being asked to "adopt an more bossible victims continued
of non-co-operation,” into the night. The search was attitude painfully slow because the top and it is expected that the two floors of the three-story, 75- work to rule will begin in the year-old building had crashed power stations tomorrow.
The union spokesman the
plained that working to rule would mean "a scrupulous ob servance of all the operating tude to safety in every particular rules, an extremely careful atti-
and the greatest attention to maintenance,"
the
way
ail
through to basement.
Meanwhile, the Council Bluffs fire chier, Weldo Merrill, charged that the rest home had few fire extinguishers and no sprinkling system to control
EX-
power
the blaze. A neighbour said he The workers would refuse to had tried to get the house for work overtime and down as a
"fire trap" and the breakdowns would take much Town Public Health Commir-
M= [longer to restore.-Router. sion CT
Mr Edmund Zummerer, said the home's licence was not renewed last July 1, because of
certain
Press,
deficiencies."United Ambush Charge
?
Brypilan money held by the on Algerin today, meaning For First Time
Bank of England.
MAIN DANGER But the main danger to Nasser
is Frans withiin, Tho fall in
London, Feb. 'îð.
Damascus, Feb. 13.
A military spokesman today accused Iérüell forecs of am- bushing a Syrian patrol in No Man's. Lond on the Syrinn southwest border. The Syrian patrol returned, the Bre; and added.
that both will be sent to the! Assembly as a whole for The United States Navy to- day announced the first firing further action..
In the Mediterranean- of as Neither rosolution passed the guided missile from an Ameri-gufferca no caslidities, He
Egypt's round"reflects, woria | Committen by the two-thirds carr-warships-Router- opinion that the eminiry threatened with rapid falla tion.
That would rocket the cant of living and irim the already meagre living standards of Egypt's population.
majority needed for approval sa by the Assembly. It wa pected that the two would be combined by mutual agreement
tho before
whole Assembly votes.
A US-supported Latin Ameri- Can
resolution, expressing hove
Even Egypt's Iron curtain allies for a "peaceful and democratic afe undermining Nasser's colution" of the Algerian prob-
currency.
lem,' was approved" by a vote The Czechs gave him arms in of 41 to 33, with three absten-
exchange for colten. Now tions.
and
they are selling some of the A second resolution, submitled cotton cheap and forcing by Japan, the Philippines down the price
Nasser can Thailand, was adopted 37 to 27
with 13 abstentions.
get.
America From
comes this forecast by currency expert
A third resolution, proposed
Franz Pick: "If the Egyptiany 18 nations or the Afro-Asion
abandoned by pound goes as low as 10/94 bloc, was
then the hour glass will have sponsors run out for Nasser.".
In the Lebanon i han 2/64 to
-London Express Service.
Opposes UN Pledge Proposal
Cairo, Feb. 13.
its after its first two cperative paragraphs had been
in paragraph-by njected peragraph vole-United Press.
GOVT WINS
VOTE
London, Feb. 13.
The House of Commons to-
might rejected a Labour opposi-
tion motion of censure on the Government's defence policy by 302 votes to 243 and" adopted without a vote a motion of con- fidence in the government.
while
An Egyptian affelal today in- dicated that Egypt opposed John Foster Dulles's proposals for a United States pledge to Israel on freedom of navigation in the Gulf of Aqaba and United States support for deployment of United
Nations
The Labour censure motion troops in the Gaza strip.
called for a reform of Britain's of com- defence and abolition Although the official, Egyptian pulsory military service,
The information department chief,
confidence motion ap- Abdel Kaser Halem, did not proved the government's policy inention the United States by of ensuring essential defence re- any "significant cut" in the extent they would in future bo
He wanted to know to what staff replacing them will hava In an interview, Mr Willey name, his statement was con- quirements and facing up to in- forces at his disposal, But officered by locally entered stuffs they are up
to sality dockyard authorities told me he had received infor- aldered here as the first official ternational obligations, as Mr Sandys says, military and whether there men would standard.
to an acceptable mation from Hongkong that re- Egypuan reaction to the Dulles reducing expenses and effectives.
placement by local personnel || proposals,
-France-Presst, spending must be reduced bo included in the published The spokesman gave the might mean a saving on cxpen- Hatem said that countries If Britain's economy is to total of civil servants employed salaries of United Kingdom-iiture at the expense of British which supported Israel's "de-
in his be strengthened.
department: what"
based officers and said salaries personnel. Fears had also been mands" concerning the Sinal Mr Macmillau has also anid fcations were required of United for local replacements had not expressed that there might be n
that reduced military mandom-based
officers,
regions were 100- yet been fixed, but will be show of saving in manpower pardising the rights of Palestine locally entered staffs determined by means of a re- by simply not introducing local Arabs and contradicting the power is to be coupled with replacing them would require view of wages or salaries in replacements in naval returns.
London, Feb, 13. a sweeping modernisation; the
UN.
Princess Margaret paid a rare He added that charter. qualifications and force for comparable same this finally the differences in salaries | the generality of other local this information that his ques-countries who were trying to visit to the House of CommonS programme, Though
Good employers."
consolidate "some political gains today to witness a major debute for Israel as a result of her and vote of confidence on the aggressions were also contra government's defence policy. vening the UN charter-France- Her visit promptly revived an Presse,
undercurrent of speculation that tho Princess shortly may as sume an important post in the Commonwealth. She has been
will take time to completa between the two categories.
It emphasises that Britain
is determined both to help
dofend the continent and
and
He was told in written answers
that our present policy in dock-
provide for its own and Ita yards abroad is to employ local
dependencies' safety,
entrants on work for which they are considered suitable and no
General Norstad's insistent change in this policy is con
appeals to maintain Nato's templated." divisional strength is f they were aimed at the new
British policies puzzling
3 OUT OF 14
The Intention was to replace
officers
yardcraft
.
work ki It was because he had received
tions had been tabled.
Kowloon Fire Tragedy: Death Toll Now 39
The death toll in the 60-minute fire which gutted four four-storey, tenement houses in Canton Road, Kowloon, before dawn yesterday, has increased to 39.
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and Gaza
4
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Margaret Visits The Commons
Troop Movements mentioned often in the press ar
Complaint
possible governor of the new British Caribbean Federation which will become a member of New York, Feb. 18. the Commonwealth Inter.....this in view of Mr Sandys tiree out of 14 United Kingdom
Pakistan allégod today. that | year-Unlied Press. apparently acceptable ox-based
Indian by
"significans."*
troop planation of them to the locally entered grades, The
movements, place US authorities. Admittedly poisenman, adcod test the num- Eight more corpses were re-verhotday by the Bocist Waltaro Iulia nince the United Nation Author Arrested the loss of even one Nato bor of locally entered staff covered by Fire Brigade and Omer. By, 5 pm, 360 homeica Security Council began debating
Paris, Feb. 13. division means problems serving abroad was included in Police rescuers between fast had been registered. Registra- the Kashmir problem.
Jacques and possibly an unwelcome the Navy staffs bub excluded night and carly this morning. tion continues, today,
As a result of these moves, Despurch was arrested at his precedent, but Gen. Norstad from the quarterly white paper. A government spokesman sald
a presc statement said, Indis Paris home today in connection thio must also realise the Im-
The
aro
being now has three divisions plus with a bazooka rocket attack on portance of economic stabi- Kingom-based officers is
One qualification of United among that there
40 persons unaccount provided, with two, free moils a three delechod brigades along the Algiers Headquarters of the that cd for. Tile Fire Brigade is con- day at the Yatirnati Welfare the Kashmir border and three, Franch Commander « in « chief, lity In Europe which is as they may be required to serve timing to search the debris, canential as effective de-anywhere in the world, includ
Centre in Public Square: Street. divisions and an independent General Itaoul, Salam,, in which, *Registration of the fire victima hey” have been issued with and an armoured, brigade on the a French affece was killed, u force.
|ing Hongicong. Locally entered|began.zoon after the outbreaic | blankets and clothing, –
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