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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1957.

LONDON DISARMAMENT TALKS

Russia Rejects Latest Offer

No Surprise

Parks, Aug. 29. Usually well-informed sources here said to- night that Sovjet ·rojec. tion of the, Western partiallisarmament plan cume as no surprise after the previous attitude of the Soviet delegate to the London disarmament talks, Mr Valerian Zorin.

They sold it was`re- grettable that

ON

the had

Soviel delegate adopted fi negative position

rapidly without giving serious study to the Western proposals, which had been carefully worked out by the allies.

The Rource said it seemed that the Soviet Union was planning to muke demagogic pro- posals un disarmament before The General Assembly of the United Nations.

They said it · WAH hoped in Paris that the Western proposals would in the meantime be given more serious study in Moscow, and that the Soviet Union would then reverse its position a little and produce constructive proposals.Ching Mail Special.

Eisenhower Disappointed

WAS

Washington, Aug. 29. -President Eisenhower said today that he disappointed that a joint | Congressional Committee yesterday approved appro- priations of only $3,435,- 810,000 for foreign aid during the current fiscal year.

Senate minority William Knowland, who

London, Aug. 29.

Mr Valerian Zorin, chief Soviet de- STALIN

legate to the disarmament talks here, today rejected the Western partial disarmament plan, according to a British source.

Mr Zorin told the Western delegates after the Western plan had been presented to him today: "This paper can not be con- sidered, as offering anything of genuine value.'

A British

after to- source day's version Hoid Mir Zorin mide his comment in the course of a 50-minute speech.

The British source rald Mr Zorin did not ask for tline to study the partial disarmament suborated at the proposals

meeting by delegates of the United States,

and Canada.

France, Britain

Practical Offer

AJI four Western speakers! today emphasised to Mr Zorini

AND TRUMAN

OVER

DIFFERED

JAPAN'S SURRENDER

Moscow, Aug. 29.

Moscow Wants dent, Harry Truman, differed sharply in 1945 as to who should accept the

Baltic As Russian Lake

Frankfurt, Aug. 29.

The independent news-

Frankfurter

Allge.

thut their first-stage "počkage"} puper disarmament plan win con- | meine suid today that if the sidered by their governments to Soviet Union succeeded in be a serious and practient offer put forward for serious negotio- its efforts to "neutralise" tion.

the Baltic, then the Red Fleet could turn it into a "Russian lake.”

The meeting of the sub- comitice-Britain. France, the United States, Cmnda and The newspaper Russia-lasted for over three hours and the next session will be held on the Tuesday after-

noot.

Slassen,

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the Soviet Uulon was trying to eliminate all Western influence from the Baltic,

Baltic com- The need for u mand in Nato permitted the chief United States to obtai

footbold there and, alongside Denmark, wults of the West German Navy were in Nato,

Mr Harold United States delegate, presided nt today's meeting at which he out the Western partial fist- stage disarmanicot plan.

No Answer

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"The whole naval strength of the West thus becomes effective. ly felt by the Soviet Union as

political

pressure," the Francfurter Allgemeine said.

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For years the Soviet Union had made diplomatic attempts to turn the Baltic Into a closed sea.

"Neutralisation