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ANY people outside the Stuten feur

MUnited

vaguely that there is some-

thing unreal about United State estimates, budgets, and statistics generally, When, during the last war, the fabulous "F.D.R." Apoke confidently of end- ing overseas ninety thnu- sand aircraft, few people beyond the boundaries of the United States belleved him,

Most auspected that there

was about the undertaking some of the picturesque exaggeration ]] which much American humour used to bu based.

In the

event, however, the Americans did better than was promised, for they are capable of astonishing fentsį of productivity when Aroused,

Hence we should nat smile when l'resident Eisenhower produces a budget calling for the raising and spend- Ing of more than seventy thousand million dollars.

Population

TOW the population of the

NUnited States proper is

between

one

somewhere hundred and sixty millions and one hundred and sixty- five millione.

That is rather more than three times the population of the United Kingdom, and in this connection it is Interesting to take a for- ward glance at Britain's next budgetz

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LONDON TRIBUNAL'S FINDINGS RIOTS BREAK

Vindication Of Political

Govt And Bank

Brings Relief

By SYDNEY CAMPELL

J

London, Jan. 21.

The Bank Rate tribunal's complete vindication of the Government and the Bank of England came as a great relief to the City of London.

TURKS TELL FOOT TO GO HOME

WO-

Nicosia, Jan. 21. Turkish-Cypriot men,

men and students demon- strating against Sir Hugh Foot, Governor of Cyprus, clashed with troops of the Gloucestershire Regiment | today the first direct conflict between the Bri- tish and the Turkish com- munity since the emer. gency began in 1955, There were simultaneous de- monstrations in Nicosia and Famagusta, Both were dispersed by the security forces.

Placards carried such slogans as "we don't want Sir Hugh Foot," "Grecke and Turks can't live together, and "Foot, go away." The Turics allego pro- Greek bias on the part of the Britain's budget will be about now"Governor, who has just one-fifth, and British ex-returned from consultation in

London. penditure on defence about one-ninth, of President Eisenhower's figures. Reference is, of course, to money figures. In terms of purchasing power, the Bri- tish totals make a better

GRAPPLED

In Nicosia Turks hurledi chairs and other objects at the soldiers as they gruppled with

One Turk was demonstrates reported slightly injured.

A Turkish schoolmaster called showing. for American the students back to their clas5- wages and prices are sub-rooms and order was scan re- stantially higher.

Porcentage

stored.

Famagusta processions marched through the Barrow strects carrying placards and

S a percentage of gross shouting "We don't want Fout"

As of

tain's defence expenditure may make a slightly better comparison with that of

the United States.

Just the same, Britons will have to be wary of telling the Americans in future

that the United Kingdom 1 her fair share of Western

bearing much more than

mny

be

British troops in riot gear stood by.

Confusion

Mounts In

Guatemala

Guatemala City, Jan. 21. Political confusion mounted

today over the results of

Sunday's Presidential elec- tion, with all three lead. ing candidates nouncing returns in dis- agreement

with

official tabulations.

An-

the

Queen Tells UK

UK Press She Wants Privacy'

PRINCE CHARLES MAY LEAVE CHEAM

London, Jan. 21. today informed Britain's Family's private life is

Queen Elizabeth's Pross Secretary

leading editors that the Royal being "increasingly interrupted" by certain sections of the press,

The British. General Counc

The allegations had been holly resented in the City, where i The right-wing National of the Press announced that was felt that all parties concerned Farty claimed that its nominee, Commander Richard Colville, had throughout neted with the General

Press Secretary to the Quern,| Miguel Ydigoras most serupulous propṛlety.

Fuentes, won

plurality appeared at a meeting or thei But until the tribunal report throughout the Republic and Couneli and "asked for guidance

In this matter." place to Mario was issued this afternoon there Rave, second

The how the Mendez Montenegro, candidate were some fears of

meeting followed In- creasing reports that the Royal matter might appear to people of the left-wing Revolutionary unfamiliar with the City's opera-Farty,

Family is finding its private tions and with the huge sums of

life increasingly difficult in the money which It turns över every

face of intense journalistle com- petition for Inside scoops an diny.

Royal affairs.

Small Amounts

Most of the sums which figured in the investigated transactions are in fact small emounts for the institutions concerned,

Banking quarters

particularly

that

the tribunal

the

On the other hand, the middle-of-the-road National Democratic Movement claimed that its candidate, Colonel Jose Luís Cruz Salazar, was in second place and gaining ground as returns from outlying areas came in.

Friends of the Royal Family week that the revealed inst Queen and Prince Philip had considered they might have to withdraw Prince Charles from school because of attempis to depict his daily routine,

Statement

SOVIET PROPOSAL

SAID "ONE-SIDED’

London, Jan. 21. The Foreign Office today criticised as "one-sided" a Soviet proposal aimed at setting up a missile free zone in the Middle East.

A Foreign Office spokesman which opens in Ankaron for a Monday did not plan to discuss said: "The proposal

appear to the selling up of missile bases eutral zone would be a one-sided affair as there in the Middle East, was no mention of what areas Soviet territory would be Included."

iz

the

Offensive

OUT IN

CARACAS

Washington, Jan. 21. Unconfirmed reports reach- ing here tonight sald violence flared in Caracas, the Venezuelan capital, today on the first day of a general strike against the regime of President Marcos Perez Jimenez.

One report said that 30 prople had been killed and 100 in- Jured in clashes between rlots and pollo and National Guardsmeni.

The reports sald cars and buses had been overturned in the rioting in a worker"' area of the old stollon of the capital.

Arrested

According to these reports, troops and police had arrest- ed about 1,000 people and a dawn-to-dusk ourfew hid been imposed.

The

reports also said there was a rigid censorship of all outgoing news,

Earlier dispatches from Caracas had reported heavily armed pollen using tear gan to break

were

up crowds of demonstrators, Amon the unofficial reports

reaching here

Home stating thak the Keneral strike, called by opponents of President Feres, had been VETY

effective

· all shops and

banks being closed and newspapers suspending publication,

schools,

The question ol

which candidate is in second place is said it of crucial importance because it

ForelEn Ofice fources said gratifying no candidate polls 51 per cent had been of the total populer voic, Con-

sald The spokesman

the Soviet proposal, made today, able to endorse the Governor gress will decide the electica by

Soviet Union failed to help in- may be the start of an offensive The General Council of the,ternational understanding when against the Pact, similar to that Bank of England's voting for the candidates who

semi-official its report would get first and second places In Press, A hope that

body 11 attacked the Bagdad Pact as carried out before the top-level popular not only maintain but actual- tho

vote.--United which includes representatives an aggressive alliance,

Atlantic Tact conterence in ly enhance London's reputa- Press.

of the major dally newspapers

The Foreign Office said the Paris last month. in Britain, said in a statement tion for financial Integrity.

Padi was defensive and the The text tone and timing at] released tonight: In future, changes in

Soviet statement "re- Soviet allegations had no justi- today's London Bank Hate are likely

Col- Sention

text of the semble Soviet docinations of The Pact to be smaller, less dramatle and

cr in the polley of the last month, the sources said'. -- taken at shorter notice.

Franice-Presse, member governments."

the

The circumstances of last September, when the inter- national financial system may have been within a fortnight of collapse, were unique,

Technicality

Essentially the Bank Rate is a technicality of the short money market. In ordinary times. It is as likely to follow the market as to lead it,

Central banks in many countries favour a principle of adjusting the Bank Rate to the market, Canada doen

every week. Quite apait from Loday's report, the

of the Governor Bank of England is Imown 10 deplore any over-dmmatisation of the Bank Rate,

Turkish shops were shut and Turkish dockers employed on like has it that he would

to get back to the Famagusta dock downed tools.system in which changes in Reuter,

LODGE TO LEAVE US

defence costa.

Otherwise, they

Washington, Jan. 21. aaked pointedly not merely

President Eisenhower Link- how they equate Britain's thirty per cent of revenue Cabot Lodge, US Ambassador to nouncerl today that Henry 011 defence with spent

the United Nations, will leave Amerien's fifty-five per next Tuesday on a visit to Iran, cont-but also what ri- Afghanistan, Pakistan ned tain has to show against ¦ Indta,

old

Bank Rate were regarded us financial technicalities and not as dramatle signals of alarm of "all clear,"

J

Complicated

At the moment, the subject

is compileated by the resigne-

tion of Mr Peter Thomeycroft

Veteran

Aviatrixville, Press Secretary

Breaks Record

Stewart Airbate, N.Y...,

Jan. 21. American aviation planser, Ruth Nichols, today broke the world record for women air passengers when she accompanied a altitude of pilot at an 51,000

airbas fool, ол opokesman announced.

Miss Nichola, aged 55, who soloed En 1919, added 3.000 feet to the former record of 48,000, the spokesman Bald. Mian Nichols, A Lieutenant- Colonel in the Civli Ar Patrol, set today's mark in "TF-102" aircraft, France-Presse.

FREIGHTER

RUNS AGROUND

Stockton, Cal, Jan. 21.

as Chancellor of the Exchequer, The Japanese freighter Tenwa Minor financial relaxations Mar ran aground in the Son which might

otherwise have Joaquin River today as it up- been taken as their technical proached Stockton Harbour In face value would at present a fog.

Le closely scrutinized for There were no injuries to the deeper mollyes,

ship's crew. Two tugs were dis-

the Bank free

the ship.

which

was

the £1,381,000.000 Lo hei The White House announce- When the atmosphere be-patched from San Francisco to given away by the United ment said Lodge was invited to comes more normal, States in foreign aid. be guest of these tour nations. Rate is likely to be handled scheduled to load iron ore and

Public Alarm

The grounding blocked

He will carry letters frem, with Torre rouling and less canned food here. President Elsenhower to the emotion, chief of state of each country.

ESPITE the public alarm

| Lodge expects to return 10

DE

the United States within

in the United States it month-United Press.

Is doubtful if American

leaders are deeply impressed

by the sputniks, but what-

over the reason, they are -

all

From the start, the consensus shipping in the narrow channel

of the Clly was that all the of the river seven miles west transactions in Bank Rate week of the port of Stockton-United derived simply from intelligent Press. anticipation of the kind of crisis

that the Government would have to take

¡ measures Arctic Blast

London, Jan. 21.

coldest weather for two years

The tribunal na fully en- dorsed this view.Reuter.

Acknowledged

.

Sputnik II's Death

London, Jan, 1.

A Soviet scientist sald today that the second Soviet earth

will disintegrate

satellite "shortly."

plainly bent on "packing the Snow and ice blanketed 80 heaviest punch" no matter counties in Britain today as the what the cost.

United swept across the country, Poople outside the

More than 170,000 miles of States may feel that the main roads were affected over Administration might wise an area of 88,750 square miles. ly have pruned a good many Rail, sea and air truffle were miliona off defence and a hit by the Aretle blast. used the money in ut- In London, thousands ofference need not be preceeded committed nations.

people were lale for work as the by a foreign ministers meeting, But the Administration must arst snow of winter fell on the informed observers said today the second Sputnik will shortly

City-Router.

have regard for

mass

opinion-and mnas opinion In the United States has been soured by the at- titudes and reactions of aome of the nations to whom ald has been givon gonerously.

It is forvently to be hoped

that

American averago citizens will come to under- stand the resentments that are horn of dependence and, so, not to expect gratitude from those they help in the common causG, They will not find it easy to attain such understanding.

London, Jan. 21. Britain 1149 nej;nowledged that a top-level East-West con-

France-Presse.

A Moscow Radio broadcast heard here quoted Professor Fedunsky of tho Inter- departmental Committee of the International Geophysical Year as saying it is "expected that cease to exist," United Press.

Britain Sends Note To Russia

London, Jan. 21.

A noto to Britain delivered

Rumla. Jast Baturday. În con- neation with the recently re« ported. Kumalam landing on Žavodovsky, an hland of the Bouth Sandwich "group the Antarctic, well informed sources said today. The sources said that the mote, handed to the Hariel Govern- munt i Motodw," surgested!

that Britain would be grate. But fut for "prior notification of any - proposed landing ́ON. Britlah territory hi the area." Russians have recently claimed

thai Zavodovsky and two - Captain Jaisen Cook, other 'taninha bèledi: Milanus

Britain claims that these istarrila - und; the rest of the South Sandwich group! had already been discovered in 1775..by the British 'explorer,

group, consisting of

nearby were discovered about: The "whole Bouth Sandwich 180 years ago by a Busilan "Antiello expedition under Faddol Ballingshausen- and 255khail Lamiey.

falarida,

La part of the · · Bri- Ush. Falkland Islands, depen-

dencies,kanier/

to the

"Commander Richard

Queen....attended the quarter ly meeting....when there was a general discussion on the rou Iations between the Press De partment of Buckingham Palace and the newspapers....

"He

"In the

-Neighbours.

As regards the missile free Zoue, the spokesman said: "It made a statement out- is for the Middle East coun- lining the work of the

Press tries and particularly for the Department and replied

10 members of the Bagdad Pact criticisms which had been made. who are neighbours of the He also

on explained, proposals Soviet Union to comment which were under active con- this proposal." sideration at the Palace and to meet

The designed which were

of the (critical) points Pact's some mised by the Press Council.

Disrupted

the

"He also informed the Council that the

of the private lives Royal Family were being in- creasingly disrupted by certain sections of the press and asked for guidance in this matter.

that "It was agreed discussions between Commander Colville and the Council's gen- cral purposes committee should bo continued and that a further statement should be issued when they have been pleted"

COM-

Today's meeting followed a Press Counell report last year which complained relations be tween the Palace and news- papers were less than satisfac- tory. United Press.

TWA

Agreements

ho

Takaoka, Jan. 21. Matsutato Shorild, Chairman'] of the Japan Atomile Energy

Bald today Commission, believed agreements with Bri- tain and the United States for A-power nuclear reactors would the be concluded this month. meeting United Press,

spokesman said

ministerial

with

Underground

that the reports said general strike was 'ordered by an underground organimation called "The Patriollo Military Juneta" which⋅ urged-workers to` come out on`atefice·to-forte the government to seKNOW- Tedge and recognise the poll- Heat opposition.

Ministry Tonight's #1 Defence

communique, read over the radio la Caracas, sald that ourfew between 7 pm

+

and

5 am had been imposed "in order -- to restore franquillity and in the country.”—Beuler United Press,

TORIES FACE CRUCIAL VOTE OF

CONFIDENCE IN COMMONS

Leadon, Jan. 21, THE Government tonight pat forward a confidence mo- tion for Parliament to debate this week on the recent crisis climaxed by the resignation

three of Britain's

top Treasury

chicls,

will The House of Commons

be asked in the debate on Thursday-to "support the Government in its resolve to maintain by every effective means the internal and ex-

ternal value of the pound carried, sterling."

the

new

Mr Derick Heathcoat-Amory, Chancellor, will open Thursday's debate, in which Labour will be critical of the Government's general handling of economic policy. Mr Hugh Gallekell, leader of the Labour opposition, will an amendment to the Government's motion. The amendment amounts to one censure and if it wero

move

TWA

FLY

the Government would be obliged to resign.

the The Amendment makes

motion read, that the House "having regard to the record of the Government, which nɔ longer enjoys the support of the people of Britain, bas po confidence in the capacity of Her Majesty's ministers to pursue policies which will secure expanding production, full employment and a stablo

· pound."--Reuter,

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