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COMMENT OF

THE DAY

DISTORTED PICTURE

HERE is a picture of the moves towards

Trecent

high-levo negotiations be- tween the Soviet Union and the Western Powers, which with the aid of a cortain amount of propaganda, has found wide acceptance. Yet it does not correspond with reality.

It is a picture of the Soviet Govorüment initiating and patiently advocating a new effort to leasen tension be-

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THA NON MINGI KONI, OON

GLOOMY REPORT ON US ECONOMY

Output Index

ANOTHER

Slides Down To HONOUR

Three-year Low

By RAYMOND LAHR

Washington, Mar, 17.

tween tho groupe, The Federal Reserve Board

two

while Western statesmen, and Mr Dullos in parti- cular, have barred the way by laying down unrensor- able conditions for such an effort.

That is, in fact, not only a false picture; it is very nearly the precise opposite of the truth.

Serious Proposal

which

wns the, Nato Powers mado tho first serious proposal for a new effort to break the deadlock which has existed since last summer when the Soviet delegation bluntly put an end to the disarmament talks in London.

The

reported a continued "recession in economic ac- tivity" today with industrial production in February down to the lowest point in more than three years.

Board's

scoronally- of output by adjusted kadex

and mines dropped factories three points in February to 130 per cent of the 1017-40 average. This was a decline of 16 points below February, 1957.

The last time the Index skidded to as low as 130 was in December 1954. The all- time high was 147 in December 1953.

Cautioned

Ten Killed

In Accident

Mexico City, Mor, 17. Ten persons were killed and 50 others were injured when bits rammed inta a run-away

San Juan Del Rio in n wall Mexico's Queretaron State, It was learned today.

The beeldent occurrey yes-

box the year The new and gloomy report terday when

the

broke # the bus was published after Treasury of This step was followed by the Secretary Robert B. Anderson driver was trying to slow down

against "ill-con-on

steep, incline. D

Three equally blunt refusal to cautioned

persons were killed immediate- participate in the new dis-sidered" demands for a tax cut armament commission set to fight the recession, He said by and seven others died on the Administration intends the way to hospital,-France-

to

up by the United Nations hold up a tax-cutting decision Presse... Assembly.

It is true that Marshal Bul- gania, in his letter of December 10 to President Eisenhower did refer, some what vaguely, to the possi- bility of a "personal meet ing of hends of govern ments."

But in his letter, at the same time, to Mr Macmillan the Soviet Premier only spoko of the usefulness of "personal contacts between the Soviet Union and the "Western Powers,"

Passing Phrases THESE were only passing

phrases in long letters and there was nothing in the nature of A definite proposal for a new effort at negotiation.

until "the impact of current developments...has been clarl- fed."

The drop in the Federal Re- serve Board index represented a production decrease of about 11 per cent from the high level of a year earlier.

500 WORKERS

LAID OFF

Wilmington, Del., Mar. 17.

The General Motora Cor. poration announced today that it will lay off B00 workers at its Buick. Oldemoblie assembly fac tory here and cut pro- duction by Half сп

Thursday,

A spokesman sald the re-

duction was in line with the company's ourront schedule requirements. The factory has been work-

Ing a two-shift, four-day week recently--Reuter.

FOR FUCHS

London, Mar. 17.

Dr Vivian Fuchs, leader of

the

succesful trane. Antarctio expedition to- day was awarded the Royal Geographical Bo- cloty's special gold medal. The medal was inst awarded In 1920 10 Robert Peary of the United States Navy --the Brat man to reach the North goographical pole,

Previous rooiplants of the word modal

Captain Rabert Scott in 1904 and Bir Ernest Shackleton in 1909.

Bir Edmund Hillary, leader

of the New Zealand con- tingent of the Commo17- wealth trans-Antarctio expedition and conqueror. of Everest, received the Founder's model for which the Queen's a- proval in necessary—for Antarctic and Himalayan exploration.

Dr Paul A. Giple, chief of the US Army Arotio Re- search Bection, WED -the Boclaty's awarded Patron's Medal. Siple, whose Antarctlo ex- periences began in 1928, was in charge of the first winter camp station at the Bouth Pole isst year. Ho and his party were the first men to spend the winter there. United Prest.

US To Decide Whether To Press For Meeting Of

Disarmament Commission

New York, Mar. 17.

HELICOPTER-BORNE MARINES SINGAPORE EXPLOSIONS

USN Moves Into MERCHANTS

Indonesian

War Zone

By DONALD WISE

Singapore, Mar. 17.

Assault carriers of the United States Seventh Fleet arrived with helicopter-borne Marines in Indonesian war zone off Singapore today.

|UAR PARTISANS

FIGHT

NATIONALISTS

Beirut, Mar. 17. One person was killed and

of

HELPING

REBELS?

were

Singapore, Mar, 17. Singapore merchants were among the "foreign ad- venturers" who helping the rebel forces in Central Sumatra, the In- donesian Consulate here said today In a press statement.

Shooting Star jets and Sky- raider bombers from the carriers are said to have buzzed coastal

It was these adventurers, the shipping. This buzzing wag statement affirmed, who derived reported to the British naval the greatest benefit from the authorities in Singapore by

hips captians who sailed in to uplicával in Indonesia. night. They said the United Efforts to destroy Indonesia's States aircraft flew at sea level independent foreign polley were over cousters amid Tihio Islande, becoming apparent, the nearest of which is 15 miles ment went on. from Singapore. Rhio Islands belong to Indonesia.

They have been used as base by Indonesian Government gün- boals in an attempt to stop

the state-

RE-AFFIRMED

It re-affirmed, however, that several injured in a fight Indonesian rebels shipping rab- the present cells was not civil between

ber to Singapore and partisans

taking war, and the Central Govern- United

rebel zone ment's actions were only similar! Amb Republic arms back to main

carlier against to those taken In Sumatra. President

and the so-called Gamal Abdel

Darul Islam Radar Screen Nasser and Lebanese Na-

"South Moluccas Repubile". tionalists in a Lebanese village last night, I was reported here today.

The fight occurred at the vilinge of Shlaura,

the are. Beirut Damascus highway, when

the

Singaporo aircraft

ships

of

tha

Radar

screens in

Central and provincial gov have been picking up continually in the past 48 hours. ernments wero functioning "

are un-usual," tourist traffic was un- Omelally these planes

also officially they hampered, and communications e "friendly

were fully maintained in all but the rebel, areas, the state- a group of buses and automobiles Seventh Fleet which arrived off ment, went on. were returning from Domaseus, Singapore tonight is the carrier "The problem of the rebel The people In the buses and Philippine Sca, On board are cique does not represent racial cars, had gone to Damascus to 800, Marines of the First Regior provincial matter" it add- participate in celebrations of the meat of the Third Division, ed, but a matter of endangering formation of the UAR,

switched from Okinawa, the basic constitution.

America's laland base. in

not

Answer

the

Fivo

ROCK NICOSIA

Nicosia, Mar. 17.

explosions Lonight started. fires in two ralli-

tary camps in Nicosia. Three of the explosions were at

• Royal Engineers -camp 50 yards from a police station,

bellayed fo The explosions,

have been caused by in- cendiary bombe, started # fire in a timber store. The other explosions were re- ported in a Naal store. out- side the Waracı Keep miit- lary camp, west of Nicosia, False Alarm

Firo

Ingines in Nicola had carller been sent to Pas southern part of Nicosis on a false alarm. It was believed they

were inred away to enable the fires in the mill- tary camps to get a hold. The fire in the Naal camp was later put out. It was report-

to have

esused only

ed

slight damage.

In the last 10 days there myc been 12 explosions, including tonight's at or near Belilah service Installations and hai Some damage been caused, but no casualles.

CAMDE

At least two bombs have been electrically delanated. Another bomb, discovered in an Army launch at Paphos on February disposed 12, was bannlessly of-Beater.

Border Raid

Panila Mar, 17. Goan officials annotinced to

¿- PORTRAITS".

Pacific. In Singapore's man-of- Padang Radio claimed tonight The vehicles carried portraits war anchorage are United States that the Commander of North of Narter and when the tra beavy cruiser Bremerton and Sumatra Licut-Colonel Jamin day that one person was killed two destroyers. As they ap- Gintings, had fled the province, and four others were wounded vellers refused to remove the

during an attack by Indian submarines The rebel radio cald the terrorists last Saturday against portraits the fight broke out. proached port, they were fol-j Daggers were used in the enlowed by foreig

a police outpost ab Polem the defence of North Sumatra was which did suing struggle,

American ships algnals.

now in the hands of the Army, Goa's southern border, Bremer-Chief-of-Stor Major-General Tonight the cruiser

Officials said the terrorists Police rushed to the village, broke up the fight and medo ton and the two destroyers are Abdul Haris Nasution, who had from the Indian Union made a preparing to sail to nect United net up beadquarters in the Rhienight raid but consed fire when the police garrison retaliatex--- arrests,

States ammunition and supply islands south of Singapore, - Meanwhile, the Lebanese

France-Presse.· In the China France-Presse and Reuter, Sea. If the fighting between CLES the internal Pecurity Cabinet met here today to dig

Indonesian Government troops and rebels develops seriously, to quell disturbance.

The Government ordered the then the Seventh Fleet would evacuate Americans and pro- removal of all outdoor portralia teet United States property.

whether

or Nosser of

be This protection would Lebancre Presklent Camille given largely by United States Chamoun--to avoid friction be- Marines, who would go ashore Labour

helicopter! twin-engined tween partisans of both skies- United Press.

bananas"

The United States will decide within the next 36 hours whether to press for meetings of the United Nations Disarmament Commission and the Security Council in face of Soviet objectuation and to take measures tions, authoritative sources said today.

The

Next, a meeting of the The declalon will come from

11-member Council could | tho State Department either late today or tomorrow after officials be called at which the item on have

studied the weekend the agenda would not be a broad Soviet statements on the ques discussion of disarmament but

procedural. tion, Insisting that the diurm- be purely It was the Nato Council in

would note that talks ament issue should come

Council up Paria which took the first

outside the world organisation. and negotiations might be ex- real Initiative. it declared

Mr Arkatly. Sobotev, Soviet pected on a different level out- at the time that if Russia

permanent representative, has side the United Nations. The Board said covere weather said that his. Government would continued to take part in

The Council could then ex- Disarmament tho

Com-contributed to last month's re- boycott the 25-member commis- press the hope that such meet

in industrial mission, the Nate govern duction

activity sion and. objected to

having ings might prove fruitful,

Informed ments

Fources in the disarmament procedures.

stressed United Nations have Envisaged

The

tra

would welcome but did bring an increase in the the Security Council meet meeting at Foreign Minis- output of electricity and gas.

The sharpest drop for the your tars' lavel to break the

In the Industrial production dendlock.

Index was in the output of

Bources envisaged the fell of 27

which durable goods. It

following steps

the points, or 16 per cent, during United States would consider Production of consumer dur "deal" in dealing with the able goods was down

20 per deadlocked disarmament prob-

1em; cent to the lowest level sice December, 1953.

That Was the first specific proposal since 1956 for a high-level Soviet - Western conference and it was very practical as it suggested as the objective the breaking of the deadlock and the resumption of negotiations on probably the most im- portant of all problems,

Concessions

M

the year.

Summary

The Board said automobile output dropped again in carly March while atcel production remained near the low Febru-

UCH has been made of ary rate, the fact that the Soviet In a terse summary of busi- Government has now with-ness conditicas, the Board said: "Recension in economic ac- drawn its opposition to a meeting of Foreign Minis-

ters (provided that

it

deals only with, procedural questions) and this Be represented as a consider-

to abio concession Western Powers.

·

But

it

was the

the

Western Powers which had already made the concessions. Both the British and United States Governments hud announced that, since thero was Soviet objection, they were willing to drop the idea of a Foreign Ministers". meeting, and to use the "normal diplomatic chan- nela" for the preparatory work.

These are the facts and they give a very different im- pression from that given by the distorted picture which has gained" wido currency: not only in the Communist countries, but also. In the Western world as well.

A meeting of the Com- mission to be called in accordance with the desire ex- pressed by the General Assembly at Its Inst session, In December.

that this has been the position

Blessings

A

CHINA VISIT PERMISSION EXPIRING

Washington, Mar. 17.

ships somewhere

known

"flying 03 which can carry 36 men,

There are 2,000 Americans in Indonesia's biggest Sumatra, Island and cradle of the revolt, These Amerkans work mainly Standard Caltex and Vacuum Oil installations

0

Seventh Fleet

tho 7th Fleet Altogether musters 125 ships and 80,000 men. It includes four carriers, three cruisers, 30 destroyers,

The 7th Fleet's rolo in the world's defences is to

of the United States since February, and that it is not a position which has been sud-The State Department ro- submarines and support craft. denly Improvised. They also minded 26 news organisa- The Fice is commanded by

tions

that today

US Admiral Wallace Blakeley, Ho have argued that It is a position which has been misunderstood,

permission for their repro- takes orders from Admiral Felix and even seriously distorted, by

B. Stump, Commander-in-Chief sentativos to visit China of all the American forces in some people.

expires on Saturday.

the Pacific. Lincoln White | Press Offoer said, however, that the Depart trea

secure Western Pacide aca lanes. The United States is known ment is prepaned to renew the

There to favour United Nations permission until October 21,

ETÜ three Important of any talks -- The Department, in a policy stretches of water-the Makas- "blessing" either at the summit or Foreign reversal last August, decided to sar Stralt between Borneo and Ministers' love).

lot 26 news gathering organisa- Celebes, the Malacca Sirait be- One feature of the Soviet re-tions send one man each to tween Malaya and Sumatra and fusal to participate in the work Chine. It validated passports the Molucca Stratton routes the Philippines and of the Disarmament Commis- for seven months to permit the between

Australia. sion has puzzled some Western trip.

has However, Peking

no! Postage through these walers observers.

agreed to let any of the news could be threatened if the Com- President men cater the country since the munisis took over State Department gave its per-Soekarno's Government in Indo-

nesia. President Sockamo. £ sympathetic to Reds, but de scribes his policy "non- alumment" with the East or West London Express Service.

This meeting would be held with the clear knowledge that the Soviet Union, Poland and Czechoslovakia would not at lend.

The aim of the meeting would be to air in substance the not tivity continued in February: bring about any debate on the disarmament problem, nor to

out that They point Industrial production,

of the issue, substance

but Russians have given as one of ployment. Incomes and fail anies again declined, and simply to satisfy the expressed the reasons for their refusal the unemployment rose to a new wishes of the General Assembly fact that 18 of the 25 members postwar high. Construction that

em-

TC-

the

mission United Press. the Commission should may be considered to be pro-

activity was curtalled slightly meet and report before April 30.

10

Western.

Take Note

The Soviet Union has said it "Ia February and early

will not sit on a body in which March,

prices of farm pro-

The meeting would take note it is no outnumbered, Yet. It has aucis and foods continued

while prices of indus of the absence of "several im- said it would agree to discuss rise,

and would disarmanent, in a committee of trial commodities changed, portant members"

back to the the whole Assembly-which last Total bank loans and invest- agree to report

and the year endorsed the Western dia- ments

appreciably al- General Asembly FG% though loans to business con- Security Counell, without mak- arminent proposals by 57 votes

to nine-Reuter. tinued to declino. Free reng any recommendation serves of member banks in- creased further. Short-term Interest rates were generally lower, while long-term, bual- ness rates rose somewhat.” United ProR.

Duke Returns

London, Mar. 17. The Duko OF Edinburgh landed in his iferon aircraft ut London airport tonight after his 10-day private visit to Germany.

-Reute“,

Bus Crash

Ldini, Mar, 17. * Twenty perons word killed today when a lorry crashed into two oncoming buses between Trujillo and Chibote, 250 miles north of Lime-France-Presse.

FRENCH WRITER SUES: GOVERNMENT

Park, Mar. 17. |French willer Jean Paul Sartre, publisher Betto Hullliard and the director of two weeklits Ob- L'Expres and FrainO sorralcur today initiated fogat proceedings against the Freuch Guvernment for what they turtbed: Hogni mipprominta "The fear nariai – a civil auli

ragainst the Minister of tho; Bartre's, imonthly... magasinio Les Interior and the Prefoot of - Temps' Modatnos was seized

anand- Foties in the civil

·ministraitys; ovurts of Taxis.

Iwwen of the two weeklies wero aalsed by the polloe two weeks |_ HET, KNÅ Die of theex, Brands Observateur, affered tea

three weeks are, and his book, La Vistaire was destroyod at tão Jaillard Fabinhing Honma

Railwaymen

May Strike

London, Mar, 17. A mass meeting of Londoo railwaymen tonight passed a

· their rosolution calling on union executive to arrango a national strike if ther wagỡ de- mands for all grades of workers are rejected.

The moling had heard their leaders explain the latest singu In wage pogodations for Bri- tain's half a million sallwaymen

ADVICE TO MACMILLAN

London, Mar. 17. Party MP, Emrys Hughes, today suggested that Prime Minister, Mr Harold Macmillan should as Pre- aldent Dwight Elsenhower to Increase American trade with the Soviet Union and China to relieve unemployment. Mr Hughes asked Home Seete- tory, Richard Butler, in the Commons: "As you depulise so well for the Prime Minister, could you not persuade him to so to America a little carlier? As there are 3,000,000 unem- l.

ployed in America, he might help the President if he sug- gested that we bave been successful in solving our prob- lem partially by having more trade with Russia and China." Mr Butler replied, "My general reply is that the Prime Minis ter knows very well how to mind his business and how to look after the country's busi

Mr Macmillan is expected to go United States at the to the beginning of June.-France- Presse.

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