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LMOST half A century IL very gallant Englishman lay dying a lonely death. Around him ware hla dend comrades. Outside his flimsy tent, an hysterical wind turned the Antarctic landscape Into A whirling mass of fury. Grasping his pencil in his
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MOSCOW: LET'S MEET IN JUNE AGREEMENT
TASK OF NEW IRAQI
CABINET
Bagdad, Mar. 4.
frozen hand, Captain Robert The main task of the now
Falcon Scott wrote these! immortal words:
"And we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurnace, nad courage of my companions which would havo stirred the heart of every Englishman, These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the) talo...."
Tale Complete
Iraqi Cabinet to replace the Government which ro- signed carlier today is to achieve materialization of the Jordan-Iraqi Union within the framework of the amended Iraqi con- stitution, which was contly submitted to the Chamber of Deputies.
ro-
Russia's Terms
For
Summit Talks
Moscow, Mar. 3.
The Soviet Union proposed in a letter published tonight that East-West Foreign Ministers should meet in Geneva next April to prepare for a summit conference two months later.
But it said a "rm agree- ment" on the date for summit talks should be reached before the Foreign Ministers meet.
on
Details of the letter, sent to M. Christian Pinesti, the French Foreign Minister,
were issued here. Saturday, tonight by the Soviet News The letter was Agency Tass. con-written by Mr Andrei Gromyko,
Soviet Foreign Minister.
This Involves the automatic dissolution of the present cham- ber and the staging of general elections for a new chamber to ratify the amended stitution.
TOW tho tale is complete. Sir Vivian Fuchs, has replied, and his triumph has
Iraqi leaders who attended that touch poetic triumph this morning's palace meeting in that his journey finished t discuss the Iraqi-Jordan Union and other Middle-Eastern affairs agreed unanimously that the formation of a new, strong national cabinet under General Nuri Al Said was essential.
cross
within the shadow of that which was wooden erected at Hut Point, to the memory of Captain Scott and his men who gained immortality in the snow. On the Scolt Memorial are carved these words from Tennyson's Ulysses:
A MESSAGE
10
Meanwhile Abdullah Ḥakir, "To Chief of
Cabinet, the Royal atrive, to seek, to find, and left today for Amman. He was not to yield." Surely such believed to be carrying a special
King Faisal which words
form the message from epitaph
carlier King Hussein of Jordan. for the explorer have been Anatched from the hands of Death to become the inspiration of the victorious living.
It seems but a week or two heard that ago that wo Sir Vivian Fuchs should abandon his journey before the terrible Antarctic winter should demand the lives of him and the party he led. But Fuchs refused to yield, and today, not only wa of the Commonwealth Nations, but the whole world rejoices in his triumph.
Link Up
of
UR Butisfaction
ightened when we hour
years,
of the link up between Sir Vivian Fuchs and Sir Edmund Hillary. Within five
these two courageous explorers have! brought feelings of glowing pride to all members of the Commonwealth of Nations. And that pride glows anew when we reflect that no petty feelings of Jealousy marred this
xrent Inst achievement,
Sir Edmund made the last
down
Composition
He galda Foreign Ministers' should have the conference "imited task" of preparing an and determining the ngenda composition of summit talks.
Mr Gromyko sald he noted that the French Government Agreed that there should be parity both at the Foreign Ministers' and the conferences.
Bumanit
'Steamroller'
7.
JAPANESE DOLLS PASS THROUGH HK?
London, Mar. 3. Cheap Japanese dolls that passed through Hongkong are becoming 1 menaco to British manufacturers, said Mr Maurice Ainley.
Mr Ainley, who is a director of one of Bri- tain's largest doll frms, had just returned from Australia. He said:
Tactics Heighten "Japanese dolls are flood-
Western Fears
озп
London, Mar. 9. Russian East-West
ference terms today heightened Western fears that Moscow was at- tempting to force a sum- mit meeting by "steam- roller tactics",
This
the
was the first oppraisal by diplomatic Bources of latest terms for pre-summit and summit talks act out by Rusala la a note to Fronce.
The note was still under off- clot study by the big Weslem powers and will be further
examined in Nato's permanent
the
Council in Paris this week, This would
for mean,
But a preliminary apprais} example, he said, "that the West be represented by France, showed, according to authorita- the United States,
Britain and tive diplomatie officials,
firm on all Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia major issues of the cold war, italy, and the East by the Soviet Soviet standing
PROCEDURAL and Rumania.
Conditions for what they are worth appeared so far to be limited to procedural problems rather than to methods of sub- stance, the sources added.
No change in Iraq's policies will lo occur. Nuri is likely continue the present home and foreign policies which he laid assumed the when he
summer of Agreement remains premiership in the 1934 and Armly established reached the participation loader-additionally of some uncom tenure of Government
mited countries mentioned in ship until June last year.
Soviet proposals of January 8,
Д
In the foreign, field this in-it fald. cluded the Bagdad Pact. It is Govern- certain also that the ment Development Programme financed by Iraq's oil revenues will be continued under the cabinet.euler and present United Press.
Govt Crisis
Ends
In Greece
Athens, Mar. 3. King Poul named Constan- tino Georgakopoulous head
on
Problems
to
be
The Arst appraisal of Soviet terms, moreover, tended to con- firm Western suspicions of pro- pagandist Intentions in
pre- summit moves.
Western sources sald that 11 looked as if the Russians were cndorsed cut for declarations by the summit conference, whereas the West would want to negotiate solid agreements on some of the most important problems that divide East and the termination of nuclear West-United Press. weapon tests,
The letter proposes that the summit conference discuss prob- Jems which give some hope of reaching an agreement.
Among them arc; the esta- bilstment of an atom free
xune in Central Europe and
Mr Gromyko rejected M. Pineau's proposal to discuss the atom-free plan
the reunification of Germany.
STRATOJET together with
JETTISONS
reuni-
the letter sald. German
These are different problern neation is first and foremost the of a "caretaker" Govorn- concern of the Germans them- mont today, ending the selves and is not connected with crisis into which Greece the creation was plunged yesterday by zone.
of an atom-tree
the resignation of Premier Independent
Constantin Karamanlis.
Tho
King commissioned the
terrible stage of the journey temporary premier to proclaim Mr Gromyko said the problem possible by what Sir Vivian general elections and to throw of ending nuclear tests was an described in his broadcasts support
behind the new | Independent matter,
as the great practical help electoral law which was tabled
Sir Edmund rendered,
Generous Praise
QUALLY generous WOH
by Parliament,
Mr Georgakopoulos is Prest- dent of the Greek Red Cross.
of Education He was Minister
in the Government of John
Esic Edmund in his praise Metaxas in 1836.
of Sir Vivica Fuchs' triumph.
RESIGNATION
FUEL TANK
London, Mar. 3.
A fuel tank almost 20 fact long foll this afternoon from an American Sératojet heavy bomber and landed in the garden of a Royal Air Force Squadron Leader at Aston Köyes, Wiltshiro. A wing Up also fell nearby
roofs after grazing the several houses.
ing Australia and I be lieve they are getting into Britain. I am told Japan is sending dolls to Hong- kong and Singapore where they are re-export- ed as Empire Made."-- London Express Service.
A
Winter Resort Dynamited
In Nassau
Nassau, Mar. 3. dynamite cap thrown from passing cor exploded last night in the dining room of the Royal Victoria
BETWEEN
AND NIXON
ARCHBISHOP EISENHOWER
STONED IN LIVERPOOL
Liverpool, Mar. 4.
A hostile crowd stoned the Roman Catholic Arch- bishop of Liverpool, The Very Reverend John Heenan, here late yesterday.
There was no Immediate ex- planation for the attack which took place while the Archbishop was visiting the sick in St Anthony's parish in Scotland | Road, Liverpool.
Stones, pleces of wood and other missiles were throwa the 53-year-old Archbishop.
Spat At
at
Some of the crowd spat at him as he went through a narrow courtyard to visit n bed-ridden widow, Mrs Winifred Denson,
Despite the demonstration, Dr Hecman carried on with his visit
Gaillard's Govt
In Financial Difficulties
Paris, Mar. 3.
French Premier Felix Gail. lard's Government is run- ning into difficulties today over military spending.
to 40-year-old Mrs Denson, who The National Defence De- has been widowed for six years.partment's budget estimates are
Bed-ridden for 18 months, she running 00,000 million runes:
than has two daughters, Marion (11) | (US$150,000,000) higher and Maureen (7).
the allocation planned,
par-
Mrs Denson said later: "As the | ilcularly because of operations Archbishop talked to
me and in Algeria.
gave me comfort, I could hear
The molses outside,
Bercams..
The original 1958 budget including draft had already been rigidly
"The Archbishop was unper-compressed at the beginning of turbed and carried on chatting to the winter, me. He patted me gently as he left."
Police Called
I
There was a further demon-
A CEILING
Finance Minister Pierre Filmlin now insists on main-
B ceiling limit. taining
francs
of
5,300,000 million
(US
$13,250 milion).
It appears dificult to reduce civilian spending any
more.
Hotel, one of the "big stration' as Dr Hecnun left the four"! hora" - that house house and walked towards his
This would leave only the in- winter tourists. No one car.
The crowd continued to de- vestment programme to cut in was injured and damage monstrate as the car drove away order to find the additional was negligible.
Lalong the narrow street. me 00,000. zažilion...........franca...... needed
The dinning room Was "U" occupied at the ume, but if had been Alled with tourists only an hour before.
THE FOURTH
This was the fourth dynamit- ing to Nassau in the past two weeks, and apparently is part of the aftermath of the 19-day general strike by most of the Island's workers that ended on January 27,
Police
Wert called to the for the military-France-Presse. scene and dispersed the demon- strators. No arrests were made.
His secretary sald late last night: "There was an incident and the Archbishop is resting. Beyond that, there is no com- ment."
Royal Visitor
London, Mar. 3. Princess Margaret will pay a private visit to British Army Dr Heenan is due to visit the units in North Germany from same area next Friday on an- March 28 to 30, it was officially
announced here
tonight. other visit to the sick.
Scotland Road is in the Irish
visit the First She will quarter of Liverpool and Battalion the Highland Light
strongly Protestant. Infantry at There also have been three borders a
Luneburg and the Third Battalion the Kings Own fires one in a printing plant, district,China Mall Special.
Hussars at Munster of which another at the race track and a
regiments she is Colonel-In- Chlef Rober,
third in a hotel.
The Royal Victoria holds 185 guests and is filled to capacity. The hotel management said no gúcsia had chocked out as a re- sult of the dynemiling-United
Prosa.
Threatened Archbishop: Arrested
Boston, Mar, 3.
Terrorists Ambush Policemen
London, Mar. 3. Irish Republican Army for- Torists today ambushed two Ulster policemen at Rossloo, in Formonogh County some 200 yards from the border betwoon Uinter and the -frish Republic.
Detectives arrested a feather worker late today on a charge of threatening to kill Catholic Archbishop mine in Richard | Cushing,
The terrorists had planteď a which the roadway
But the problem of termal- nating
production of the fissiona bir material, which
blew up the police officers' car, bad been proposed for dis-
The man, John J. Pohl, 51, of alightly wounding the occupants. An American Air Force south Boston, was accused of cussion, was "one of the clc-
As the mine exploded, the ments of the general problem spokesman here paid that the maiding two threatening tele- IRA men sprang out from both of terminating the manufac- Stratojet was dying from Brize phone calls to Boston Pellee sides of the road and opened
Norton, Oxfordshire, on train- Headquarters
carly yesterday, fire on the police with Automa ture of atomic weapon, ing ng fight, and that the fuel tank saying he was going to "kill the the weapons. ning their use and destroying which fell off was empty, all aucicar stockpiles."
Archbishop and blow up Holy This is the second time in Cross Cathedral."
the firs Mr Gromkyo went on to re- Modesty becomes us, indeed it
The police returned Mr Karamana, a 41-year-old
Police caid Pohl confessed to and called for help, but before is expected of us, but hearts
reproaches four days that a fuel tank has lawyer and Greece's youngest eet M. Pineau's
fallen from an American plane. making the calls after biter reinforcemente arrived the ter- statements un run high today as wo, by Prime Minister, announced his about Soviet
Last Friday & B-47 in difficulties | questioning.
rartats had made off across the proxy of our birth, share in resignation after 16 rebels Algeria as "groundless,""
fuel tank at the delight of this wonder withdrew their confidence from
He said Soviet criticism of Jettisoned its
The suspect was picked up at í border-France-Presse, A south Boston feather firm Greenham Common, Berkshire. did ful adventure of the Bri-the Government Parly, the pro- French policy in Algeria
The tank crashed on the air-❘ where he La cmployed. --- tish Commonwealth trans-Western National Rnical harm French Interests as
set to to another United Press. Antarctic Expedition.
the statements "dealt only with field and Union. Then, to crown it all, comes They were acting in support isnt, which is opposed by many
the outdated policy of colonial plane-France-Presse. that mosnage
Her of the
Iwo resignation of
Russin thought there Majesty the Queen has con- Cabinet Ministers who quit last prominent Frenchmen,"
Macao, Mar. 3.
ho Houso fered the honour of Knight-week because of what they call-
solution thero
A total of 200 men, women tonight defeated by 304 volca ed the premier's orbitrary Uttle hope of a
and children ded the China hood upon Dr Fuchs.
Akola, Mar. 3. while the
motion French Government
a to 240, method of governing",
About 00 demonstrators and mainland during February. They
consuring the Government's 80 policemen were injured to escaped by means of small Rent Act, which freed more the British Commonwealth
ing against the premier's hand- force of arms." and Empire add our greeting of a proposal for propor-
Mr Gromyko said Russia sup- day in a clash at a mooting call-wooden craft.
On February 17, the eve of than 800,000 houses and dais ported better relations with ed by traders to protest against inga..... well done, and Lonal representation. United France, including economic re- proposed new taxes in Akola in the Chinese Laibar
New Year, in Britain from control. congratulations, Sir Vivian. Press.
lations and he asked M. Pineau Bombay Stato, Demonstratore 81 escapees arrived here in 10 Four Conservatives refused to-
against the motion to continue to exchange vlows stoned the pollee, who retallat-sampans. This was the largest vote Dn theso and other issuca.- ed with baton charges and tear group to flee from the mainland | Reuter. Reuter,
in a single day.-France-Presse. gas-Reuter,
the
WES
We too, from this outpost of The Ministers were protect attempted to settle the issue "by
ARMS TRAINS HELD UP
to
Rabat, Mar. 3. was carrying Tronch armoured with its tank 10 The Moroccan authorities regiment
Oujda and Figuig on the were tonight holding up Algerian border
relieve three trains Inden with other French forces in the area. French troops and mill. The other trains containing tary equipment because military material have been blocked at Park Lyautey since the French refused to Friday. allow Moroccan officials to
One
WAD
on its way to make a detailed examina arrakesh and the other to tion of the equipment. Métier Ball were orrying One of the trains which was half-tracks among their equip- held up in TW, this morning ment-Branca-Preme,
Tax Clash
Flee Mainland
FERRY BOAT LOCATED WITH BODIES INSIDE
Istanbul, Mar. 3. rivera today localed the ferry boni Tokudar, which mak. On Saturday drowning some – 500 PAREDDETTE, Hnd said they› MAY
lowring port at Tamils when it Ferty people ware maved, 120 opsised in ano of the worst:| bodies have been reouvereů.
storms to hit the area în 15 The Alvors said the ferry boat YOUTH.
was lying simsosi intact on one aide.
borts towing the 60-ton Touch Me Ekrani Celinal, dovernor of to the nearby Kuala Gulf cones [2, the Turkish ten of Kenda, today or GiotKYWW.
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The "ferry" mak shortly after
Motion Defeated
London, Mar, 3.
of Commons
Labote
Explosion
Albany, Mar, 3, At least 30 workers word worlosialy injured here today in an explosion at a waterfront factory
·Beveral workers: were feared trapped in a firo which followed They reperied that the bodies of the complodon near a group of elevators, Am- many of the sidit trapped hugo grain vlodizne were vimblo Lemide bulances were rushed to tha the sky-FraD00-YIENG · and scene and bospitals
-alerted---Neuder". Kouter.
were
Washington, Mar. 3. President Eisenhower and Vice-President Richard M. Nixon have agreed that Nixon would take over as "Acting President” If the Chlef Executive wero unable to All the post. If_pomible, Eisenhower would inform Nixon of his inability, But, if he were unable to in- form Nixon, the Vico- President, After consulung with others "would · decido upon the devolation of the Dowers and duties of the Ofoe and would serve Acting President anta inabilliy had ended,”
Che
Mr J. Hagerty. Presidential
Press Secretary, maid 120 statement riven to repertorn. was "moto or less" a copy of tho understanding between Eisenhower and Nixon.
The statement said the two be
Heve the procedure worked out is in compliance with the Constitution.
THE STEPS
It linied there sleps which
would be followed:
In the event of inability, the President would passible so inform the Vice- President, and the V100w President 'would serve Acting President, exercising the powers and duties of the until the inability had Oller
ended. In
In the event of an inability which would prevent tho President from so communi eating with the Vico- President, the Vice-President, dftar kuch
consultation
under
AG
to him appropriato the circumstances, would decide upon the devola- tion of the powers and duties of the Oleo and would servo Acting President until the inability had ended.
The President, in either determine event, would when the inabilly had ended
that and at
time would resume the full exercise of the powers and duties of the Office"
The exact
copy of the under- standing was not made public, ́· but Hagerly said the White House statement covered the enire procedure agreed upon, -Unlied - Press,
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