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HANDSONG 1.
KUWID AN
RUSSIA OFFERS OPEN SKIES Missing
New Proposals Free Observation
USSIA'S Intest act of dis-
Ramument proposals com-
mand attention chiefly be-- cause for the first time the Soviets have Nomething concrete to suggest on the question of mutual aerial Inspection, commonly known As the Eisenhower "open | skies" plan.
M. Moch, the French delegute
Of Alaska-US
Wanted In Return
London, Apr. 30.
NUWAR WARNS
SAUD
Cairo, Apr. 30,
DULLES TO FIGHT NEW STYLE
ARMS CUTS
By RENE MacCOLL
Family
NAVY TASK Mystery
FORCES PLANNED
Deepens
An American business- Washington, Apr. 30.
London, Apr. 30. man, his wife and 'their The Egyptian-controlled Russia unveiled a new "first step" to the UN Disarmament
The US Secretary of State, Mr John Foster
The Navy Chiefs-of-Staff eight-month-old son who Sub-Committee, has already partial
disarmament plan today in Middle East News Agency Dulles, now being hailed by Americans as the man of the British Common-disappeared from Macao reacted critically to some of
reported from Damascus who stopped the Jordan crisis single-handed (with meeting in London, have missing this morning,
wealth countries, now last Saturday were still ren tesla proposals, but cluding an offer to open the skies over today that Major-General the aid of the Sixth Fleet) took off tonight for a discussed problems which the fact they cover Home Siberia if the United States allows free Ali Abu Nuwar, former chief of the Jordan Army worthy of careful considera- observation of Alaska and America
General Staff, sent tion by the Western powers from the west coast to St Louis.
warning message to King They may, at least, provide the basis for compromise
Saud of Saudi Arabia.
Agency,
new ground makes them
formuin acceptable to the
In which event notable pro- Armament would have been
gress towards world dis-
made.
Russia. has now advanced be.
yond accepting the "open skles" proposal in principle. She has gone so far as to suggest that areas should be subjected
aerial Inspection. For herself she offers freedom of the skies over Eastern Siberia and other Far Eastern terri-
to
tories; in return she pro poses that virtually all of the Nato territory in Europe and the whole of the Western area of the United States be made available for inspection by Soviet planes.
TN terms of square miles, Russia is proposing to open up for inspection about as much territory as she pro-
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Valerian Zorin, just back from Moscow, gave formal acceptance to President
open Eisenhower's two-year-old
skies plan in today's meeting of the United Disarmament Subcommittee Nations
here.
the
The exact detalls of the new not zone
immediately were available but it was known the area would reach farther into France and Great Britain It the west and into Russia on the
Except for A detailed pro- position on open sides, it was much same proposal Andret Gromyko, now--Soviet Foreign Minister, gave the same conference
one year ago. mediate end to nuclear tests and wcludes demands for an im- | east.
"moral" ban on use of nuclear proposed to open the international
to
Soviet stuces aerial photography over "a vast zone not only in Europe but also in the Far East, including the territory of eastern Siberia
tho and maritime territory, Kamchatka and
Sakhalin TWO-THIRDS OF US
In return he called for the poses the West should make United States to open "Alaska available, but geographi-and the west of the United States cally there are important with
differences
between
D12: aggregate ared of the 2,720,318 square miler." President. Western sources sald this Eisenhower has suggested
areas
which
of
should come within the "open akies" scheme and
On the surface, the Russian what Russia is proposing. open zone
would be slightly Much of America's vital pro larger than America's. Zorin duction and testing of put it at 2,761,704 square miles. guided missiles, rockets and But this is only about one-third supersonic aircraft is een-of the Soviet Union's vast con- tred in the extreme West of thintal territory.
not
OD
せ
Stassen already had sug- gested opening the skies over the greater part of France and, other direction, over in the Russia as far east as Odessa and Leningrad,
These
two major Russian cities would covered in the Zorin plan,
Zorin said the Soviet proposals envisaged the reduction of the armed forces of the United States, the Soviet Union and China to 2,500,000 men each, and of Britain and France to 750,000 men each.
مسان
According to the
momentous conference.
some
of
The American, whose name was given as Donald Jackson Blackwood, 25, and his wife and son, went to Macao for a two-day stay on April 28. They were due back in Hongkong on April 28. They were reported. to have been last seen at 11 p.m. an April 27, when they,
may arise during the next eight years in the fields of representatives
He is flying to Bonn to meet duced to change its mind and navy strategy and tactics,
of 14 nations either cancel
the headed by Britain
Britain's First Sen Lord, which with planned cuts or at least post-
Admiral America make up Nato.
Lord General Nuwar advised the and Washington and saw Mr Dulles tonight that Britale will not ference today.
pose them considerably.
Mount Elsenhower new to Tho news from Germany batten, told a press con- to stop involving "your name army in a conspiracy so that just before he stepped into the make the first cut of 13,000 in Moslem bloodshed
be plane for Bonn.
arrived
A The three-day meeting, which its Germany stationed may
With
а last-minute agree- forces until the autumn was The message
the meat from added,
the President, Mr greeted in Washington with
almost audible sigh of relief. Agency Bald Saudi troops in Dulics is going to do his utmost Jordan, which wens originally to halt a tendency of European nations to cut their milltary strength.
avoided."
welcomed, have now become a tool to serve personal, and im
... the Jordan perialist whims ...... peoples' resentment threatens to explode at any moment."
That goes for Britain too.
Disturbed
American officials were study ing reports from Germany that
ot
ends tomorrow,
ls being at- tended by representatives Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Pakistan, Ceylon and Malaya.
Mountbatten said he had told
left the Riviera Hotel.
locked suitcase and & ladies' hangbag wero atli their hotel room.
the British Army on the Rhine his colleagues of British plan Not In Hospital
which provided for putting into ships carrying service by 1865 guided missiles, atomic sub- marines and task forces based aircraft carriers with upon atomle bombers,
One of these task forces, he would bo permanently assigned to the Indian Ocean and would be" based at Mom-
East Africa, bazsa,
and at Singapore-France-Presse,
high brass are saying that "later cuts may perhaps be put off or avoided entirely?”
Mr Britain's decision to cist man-
Dulles is
is going to tell America representatives power, military and conventional Nato
with its present weapons and aircraft has dis- will continue turbed and worried top men of military strength only if it feels the United States Government convinced that "others are do sald, Iraqi
and armed forces far more than ing their fair share.” anything else have encountered Re-examine Strength during many years in America.
Misgivings and disapproval of the American General, Lauris Norstad, Commander-in-Chief of Nato forces, are thunderously echoed in Washington
ow, and the British Even now, White Paper notwithstanding,
Meanwhile, an uncle of King Hussein of Jordan few in and out of
today for a Bagdad whirlwind round of talks with
other King Faisal and leaders,
Informed sources sald Sherif Janfi had brought a from Hussein to his message cousin Feisal and that he took a reply with him when he flew back to Amman this afternoon. Government sources and the
Nasir
Jordan Embassy refused to give any Information on the contents of the messages,--Reuter &2 United Press,
He will issue an open wam- ing that if Britain and others make their cuts "too drastic" then the United States will be forced to re-examine the pos- sibility of cutting down its own strength in Europe.
And
there are powerful men, in the
behind that warning United States Government who would hover the threat that think that Britain can be in-America might "pull out" alto-
gether - and this is something that would cause Western Ger- many and France to tremble. London Express Service.
Princess Margaret Welcome In Malaya
London, Apr. 30.
ANTI-SOVIET PACTS
But because of "anti-Soviet would stretch us for east as St military pacts and forces close Loula Missouri-two-thirds
borders, to her
the Soviel the United States.
Union would agree to this re duction only if it was also agreed to make д further subsequent reduction of the Americon, Soviet and Chinese forces to 1,500,000 men each.
Malaya would welcome a member of the Royal Zorin said that parallel with Family as Queen Elizabeth's representative at the the county, but whether; Zorin also widened Soviet Pre- forces the Soviet Government Federation's independence celebrations next August, Russia's nuclear-weapon in-mler Nikolaj Bulganin's offer of proposed the partial agreement informed sources here said today. dustries are centred is last November to establish an should envisage commitments Eastern Siberla, Southern, open skies zone reaching 500
They were commenting on a tion on his visit next month for Sakhalin and Kamchatka is miles each side of the Iron Cur- And military expenditures, press report tha. Princess Mar- talks with the British Govern
garet, the Queen's 27-year-old mint on the Federation's new sister, was expected to represent draft constitution, the Crown at the ceremonies at Kuala Lumpur,
open to doubt, In any event the Soviet proposals shift the overflying area West- wards to include merely the Western fringe of Russin, whereas President Eisen- hower has envisaged an aren which would start from West Russia and move Eastward as far us Lenin- grnd. This is the important difference between the Russian and American "open skies" scheme.
IN other
ain in Europe.
The reduction of the
armed
on the reduction of armaments |
United Press and Reuter.
MOCH PICKS
HOLES
IN ZORIN'S SKIES
On
certain
London, Apr. 30.
tion of airfelds,
.
COMPROMISE
Questioned on the press report
Princess Margaret,
a
at
The sources said that Tengku about Abdul Rahman, Malayan Chlet Colonial Office spokesman de- Minister, might raise the ques-clined comment. Footnote:
Ghana'a Independence celebra- tions in March, the Queen was represented by her aunt, the Duchess of Kent.
BALLOON NUCLEAR TESTS
Washington, Apr. 30. The Atomic Energy
Ex-Partisans Deny Taking Duce Treasure
Rome, Apr. 30.
One Hallan ex-partisan after another today, denied havá. taken, received or used the fabulous $100,000,000 treasure of Italian dictator, Benito Mus- solini, during the session of a trial in Padua.
There Wan a startling development in the my→ stery at
this 11.30 morning when 2 Por tugucso_lady visited the China Mail office and said "They are
not missing... they are in hospital, *I know because diapenmry supplies drugs to that hospital-you ring the San Esfaci Hospital
in Macao."
те
bus #Doka
English
my
Olina Mall · did, there who and who described himself as “the secretary of the hospital” said the Blackwoods were noi there.
"We did have a couple of Americans here about.
fortnight ago, by the name of Cowell. He WILS * mnalo professor in : ani American university, but
· they 'gus 'better and went back to Hongkong. t Dougall we do not have.
any Americans 'in^now,”
in
A spokesman of the American Consulate here sald, "We are trying the best
but we can, there has been no news so far.” A spokesman of the Portu- Consulate in Hongkong
Some 36 defendants, most of them active in the Communist- led resistance movement 12 years ago, are being tried on charges of embezzling, mis
receiving the appropriating or loot belonging to the Duce,"
Some are accused of murder quese | Commission announced to- in the squabbling over the trea-sald that no further nows had
day that at least two of sure, whose exact value is not been received from Macao,
A France-Presso mesango the bigger explosions in known, after Mussolini and his
-mistress, Clara Fetocel, were from Macao said the possibility this spring's weapons tests killed while fleeing toward quietly into China le discounted
at the couple having
Kone will be detonated from Switzerland.-France-Presse. captive balloons high over the Nevada Desert.
The explosions will yield violence greater than that of 20,000 tons of TNT, the AEC said. The bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in August, 1945, was A spokesman of the Malayan equivalent to 15,000 tons of TNT.
the today: "If Princess Margaret is sions sly will public explo- be under 20,000 chosen as the Queen's represen- tons of TNT in energy yield and tative, the people of Malaya three will be above. All of the will be delighted. They have smaller weapons and one of the been longing to see her." larger will be exploded from Reuter.
steel towers.--United Press,
Amiable Taxi-Driver Commissioner's Office here faid
Honoured
Vautier. a former Foreign Legionnaire, twico decorated with the Croix de Guerre, was
awarded the Order of French Courtesy. He has been driving a cab for 42 years,
Jules Moch, French delegate to the United Na- |tions Subcommittee on Disarmament, said today the new Soviet disarmament plan showed the Soviet directions the Sovlet disarmament pro-
Union's willingness to continue negotiations, but con-
Paris, Apr, 30. poents are open to criticism, tained "important defects and premature measures."
Maurice Vautier, 00-year-old but also lend themselves to Speaking at a press conference He said the Soviets no longer Parls taxl-driver, who gives discussion. The Soviet at the French Embassy, Moch provided for direct inspection of perfume to his women customers Union wants
to his general said "the principal fault of the military units and establishments, and tells funny stories JL banning of nuclear tests, now Soviet plan is that it is but only on paper,
male ones, today was proclaimed but makes no provision for armament and lets the nucicar plan did not provide for inspec- city.
centred en conventionsi dis- Moch added the new Soviet "most amiable" hackman, in the the cessation of nuclear weapons race continue." weapons production or their Although the Soviet plan progressive stock-piling. So made concessions far an conventional weapons points, its proposals only asked
The French delegate said the and the reduction of stand- for a halt to experimental ex- ing armies are concerned, plosions while postponing a halt Soviet Union sought to reduce in the manufacture of atomic the arms of the various powers the latest Russian proposals weapons until later, Moch said proportionally, which would do not materially differ MORAL COMMITMENT
He said his motto is that the favour countries which have
"I from those previously put
bigger arms stocks than their customer is always right. forward.
forces needed.
have always followed their France is ready to renounce A moro delicate proposal is all experimental explosions it Moch sald France was pre-directions, except once," he re.
for the thinning out of the three powers who have als pared to negotiate
compromise called. forces which exist under the ready set them off agree to give disarmament proposal on the
manufacturing up
"A very nervous lady, basis of the Warsaw
nuclear pact and are
present deployed
Ho sald weapons and accept the reduc- within
Lic-slons.
the French neurotic, asked me to thrive her tion of their stocks, Moch said. delegation considered such to the St Anne (mental) Hospital European territories of Moch sold that while the
for treatment. Instead I took Nato. Clearly this involves Soviet
compromise was now possible. plan
would prohibit
The other Western delega-her to see the Montmartre night important political problems, nuclear tests, it did not call for tions are expected.
indicate spots. She was crazy about [1," moro especially those re a ban on atomic arma manu- their reactions to the Soviet-France-Press0. lating to
when. Germany. The for a moral commitment not
facture.
The plan simply asked proposals on Monday, Western delegates are in to use nuclear weapons but such France-Presse.
The Subcommittee reponvents. no position to commit commitment could not be en- themselves on this proposal forced, Moch said. without the full approval of
alscus-
Western Germany-approval biggest improvement in the new
The French delegate sald the Ship Unable To
previous
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Cairo, Apr. 30.
which is unlikely to be Soviet plan over the given while the question of Russian proposals was the ac- reunification, remains un-ceptance of aerial inspection as determined.
a means of supervising disarma- Novertheless, the knowledgement measures, but the area of The Egyptian Suez Canal that Russia is now prepared the Soviet Union to be covered Authority reminded shipping to make a positive contribu- by such inspection was insut-agenta "today that only "fred tion towards realisation of ficient.
the "open skies". plan is * PROPOSALS WEAKER” encouraging. It may lead
to the step-by-step type of Moch added, however, that he agreement which the op te le not the last word,
of the Soviet Government."": Western delegates belleve› The new, Soylee disarmament to be the most practical supervision · propósala ---- weco, -method of solving the dia- woodete, thân (in the previous Carmanant problemąj
Soviet plan, Moch mi
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