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UN DEBATE

THE Soviet Union's decision

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to bring charges regard- American bomber before the operations United Nations Security Council

the eve diplomatic "summit" pre- paratory talks - appears to be an effort to put the Caited States on the defen- sive..

The timing of the

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Russian United

Nations Security Coupe il

consideration of the matter

In therefore particularly significant.

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UN Security Council Debate On H-Bomb Flights Bidault Loses

RUSSIA WITHDRAWS IN A HUFF Socialists

Unsuccessful

In Gaining Adjournment

United Nations, Apr. 21.

United States defence officials Russia tonight unexpectedly withdrew its

have made no effort to deny that bombers capable of carrying hydrogen bombs do regularly patrol in the direction of potential enemy targets.

demand for United Nations Security Council action to end H-bomber re- prisal alerts by the United States Strategic Air Command.

Soviet The

unless it Arkady

But this alert force cannot proceed beyond a certain established Ine receives additional informa tion and this information to fly to designated targets can only be given on authority of the President. However, the insistence in The State Department's statement issued last week that the Strategic Air Com- mand alert force has never been launched except in enrefully planned and con- trolled exercises and prac. tices seems to be somewhat

representative. plain fact is that the resolution Sobolev, who twice of the Soviet Union almply did sought unsuccessfully An ad- not have the voles." Journment until tomorrow. announced that because the US told newsmen: "It was a com- After the meeting. Mr Lodge delegate. Henry Cabot Lodge, plete defent fot the Soviet had insisted upon a vote tonight, Union. The vote would have| he was withdrawing Rush's been overwhelmingly against draft resolution "as a protesi." them and that to why They

withdrew the resolution.”

Mr Sobolcy said: "I am dis- appointed in two things: The Russian uction, however, procedure adopted by the Pre- came after Mr Soboley had taken sident of the Security Council the floor for the second lime in to avoid full and

considered a six-hour debate, which went debate on the Issue and the on without a halt from 3.05 p.m. failure of the Security Counell! until after & p.m., to denounce to Lake action warranted by this the practice of SAC. bombers threat of war."-United Press.

Six-Hour

at variance with the imaking off with hydrogen bombs pression given on previous when unidentified objects are bcensions by official spokes- sighted on radarscopes,

men.

United States observers see the Soviet move to call the Security Council as another Astute diplomatic stroke designed to capitalise on the apprehension among West-Europeans and Asian peoples aver the possibility of nuclear war.

But what effect the Security

If

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Russia's charre that SAC) procedures threatened to start World War III was based on a dispatch by the President uf United Fress.. Frank Bartholo mew, describing, a hypothell- cal mixslost and the "Hall 'safe" system which prevents

·bombers - from proceeding to their

largets if the radar sightings prove false.

of Mr

Mr Sobolev read part

debate might have on a Bartholomew's dispatch inte the summit conference is not Council record and noted that it! immediately-clear-it-might--was based on conversationg-with- even tend harden United the Pentagon and SAC head-

to States opinion against a quarters and approved by the

| Defence Department. hende

governments

"Mr Bartholemew said, bom- hers are in continuous fight

of

around the perimeler

the

CHANCELLOR

REPLIES TO LABOUR

CRITICS

Policies Would Lead

or the To Roaring Inflation

meeting. there is a return to the old of the cold war at the

said Ms-Scbolou Nations when in- "These fights may cause war flammatory charges of germ to break out at any warfare and indiscriminate They are advertised

moment. the In

· violations of air space were | American Press, causing a war Mr exchanged, the chances of a paychosis,"

summit conference.might be

put off guished.

or almost extin-

THE SWAGGER STICK

COMEBODY seemed to have been curious about the possible effects of the Budget on the retreut If not retirement of the "swagger" walking-stick. It was pretty soon established that those who sold this article had no great expectations from the reduction in the rate of purchaso tax.

It is considered that the pondulum may swing back

so far as women's fashions

Self-Defence

па and

Mr Lodge, however, told the Council that the United States would continue its H-bomber

alerts reprisal flights on "legitimate self-defence" would maintain SAC "in a state of high efficiency."

Each of the Council's 11 metabers spoke' except neu trai

All Sweden,

except Russla agreed that US bom- ber practices constituted no menace to perde.

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Londen, Apr. 21.

Derick Heathcoal- Amory, Chancellor of the Exchequer, said tonight that if Labour opposition economic policies were adopted they would lead to "roaring inflation,"

He was replying to a three- day debate in the House of Commons on his budget pro- posals, which he presented_to_ Parliament last Tuesday..

The budget gave £308 million in taxation relicte in a full year. The Chancellor cald the

The Mighty Missile

FREAK AIR Mintoff

DISASTER

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British Territorials paid a visit-to-the No.47- Gulded Weapons Regi- Crooklum, ment at Hants where men trained in handling the United States “Corporal" This is the unit that is

are

expected to be sent to

the

Germany under Nato agreement to station a Guided Weapons Unit In Western Germany. by

the end of the year.

Keystone,

Lady Docker

To Be Barred

From Monaco?

declared, Socialist policy has Prince greatly increased public Ex- penditure, high taxation low interest rates.

and

I cannot see a better recipe for wild inflation and a balance of payments crisis," he said.

-Monte Carlo, Apr. 21.

Rainier's Govern- ment is planning to bar the Lady Docker from

of tiny principality Monaco, Paluce said tonight.

Mr Sobolev said Mr Lodge's in refusing to adjoum action will tomorrow was "an heard od procedure" in the Security Council. Mr Lodge, us President, put to the vote Mr Sobolev's two motions for adjournment one to 3 p.m. tumornow and the other to

The opposition had also ad-said. 10.30 a.m.

defeated 4-2 vocaled more import controls.

and the But Britain abstentions

. ADVOCATED

sources

But no decision on the ban

has been taken yet, the sources

was also an ex- Lady Docker, wife of British 8-2 with three absten- porting nation. She was un-industrialist, Sir Bernard Docker, Sweden

with likely to gain, from import-con- votech

are concerned, for they are The Arst WOR always incalculable anyway with five But men have long since got second out of the habit and have tione. turned to the tightly-rolled Russia both times. urabrella as perhaps the final excrescence of class.

Plain

sticks have in fact not. been subject to tax for some time. Those who used to make them created quite a

Resorted To

trols.

is alleged to have insulted the Monaco Royal Family following The Government, he said, a dispute over invitations to Intended to continue to safe- the christening ceremonies yes- guard the value of the currency terday of Prince Albert, heir to and stabilise the cost of living. the drone,

The Chancellor said he hoped

discussions now going on with En London, Sir Bernard

Commonwealth and

United Dockter said, "Don't suppose for

"It must be noted." said Mr Sobolev, "that the represento tive of the United States prefers as resorted to voting machin point the to sidestep free discussion and states Governments would one moment that ofther Princess way to solutions Grace of Prince Rainier' knew ery. In the circumstances, the which would give more confid- anything of the incident. Soviet Union does not press for ence to the world in the future

"If they did they must have

about getting Lanco Router.

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fuss and the Board of Trade, ying, took off the tax.

sticks are now sold not for pride of possession n vote on its resolution. As of international trade and the learned too late to do anything but for puro utility-mostly protest, we withdraw our draft soundness of International car- to hospitals, blind people resolution."

reny arrangements-Reuter. and sufferers from leg com-

Mr Lodge retorted that ho did not resori to lilegal pro- : plaints.

ondere nor follow an unpre- Mounted sticks have still to

codchied course, pay tax, which had dropped from 60 to 80 per cent, but these too, are not for the well-dressed man. The obony cane with the silver knob is now seldom seen, except

perhaps on the stage.

The manager of a large shop

in the West End made the

surprising statement

that

The chair did not suppress free speech," he 'told Mr Sobolov. "We carried out the rules in a democratic way, The

Quake Felt

Rome, Apr. 21.

'A violent earth tremor accom-

they still sell a fair number|panied by a muffled rumble was

of punishment

cants to felt today at Teramo in the

schoolmastera. And these,

Abruzzi Teglon,

he added, apparently without change of cuuntenance, will

fed

The panic-stricken population

from their houses.

the

No casualties word reported, ákhough several houses were cracked-Franca-Presse.

not be affected by Budget.

KILLS 49

Las Vegas, Apr. 21.

An Air Force jet fighter-trainer apparently plunged down onto a United Air Lines DC-7 passenger plane high over the Nevada Desert today and both crashed to earth, killing all 49 persons aboard, the authorities reported.

Jordanians Reject Allegations

Resigns

Valetta, Apr. 21. student- Mr Dom Mintoff, Prime Minister of Malta, and his cabinet resigned to day, opening the way for an imminent general clec- tion.

Support

Paris, Apr. 21.

A serious blow was struck tonight at the chances of Premier designate

M. Georges Bidault in his attempt to form a new French Government when Socialist leader and former Premier Guy Mollet announced that M. Bidault could not count on Socialist votes for his investiture.

M. Bidault declared Im mediately that ho would Forsevere In his attempt even without Socialist support.

He rebuked the Socialists for falling to rally to the policy statement he had mado carliér to the effect that Algeria 13 subject "exclusively to French sovereignly" and that French prosperity depends upon the "non-belligerency of Tunisia."

Polical observers said that M. Bidault'e prospects now de

end largely upon the reactions his own, party, the mainly Catholic Popular Republicans (MRP) both to his Algerian policy and to the Socialist, posi- Hon.

of

Air Force spokesmen said the F-100 jet, caring an in- structor-pilot and a pilot on a routine instrument training mission, had just been given permission to let down from 28,000 feet to a lower possible altitude, and it was the jet not knowing the big DC-7 was fying below it ai

The resignations are to be 21,000 feet at the time came bunded to the Governor, Sir down directly onto the passen-Robert Laycock, together with Eer craft,

a declaration signed by the 23 Labour members of the Maltese Parliament, staling their inten- tion not, to support any other expected than a Labour Governmîni.

The resignations come at the support of the MRP, in add- Lieut-Col. George Arbuthnot. height of a heated argument tion to that of the Conservative tion to the United Nations deputy training group comman-between-Malta and the British Independents and various right-

Government over terms for the wing groups, Nellis Air Force Base, against Israel's mussing der at

United Nations, Apr. 21. Jordan today rejected

allegations that it had not made formal representa-

Visual Flight

tain.

was defeated at the polla,

NO LONGER ..

Reluctant

Even If the Socialists should investiture voto abalain in the

on Thursday, M. Bidault would need the full

The MPP has always been reluctant to cut itself oir trom.

of troops and armour in said the jet was flying under colony's Integration with Bri-

visunt fight rules and its pllets Mr Mintoft became Labour the non-Communist left, Jerusalem for its tenth "would not have known or Prime Minister of the island in represented by the Socialtete,

bren 'notified" anniversary celebration.

that the New March 1955, succeeding Dr Borg and political observers express- York-bound airliner was beneath Olivier, whose Nationalist Party ed doubt tonight that M. Bidault would win their full support in it.

the light of M. Guy Moliet's Glanbantation to broadcast carller In o radio

Numerous members of the today, Mr Mintoff heralded his MRP group in the National intention to realgn, saying he Assembly were also reported to and his colicagues--no-longer-be-unwfiling-to-support-whole wanted to remain responsible heartedly the tough and un- for public peace and order on compromising position taken by the island in the face of Bri-M. Bidault concerning 'Algeria tain's policy,

and Tunisia-France-Presse,

A statement by the Jordanian delegation said that on February 20 hp Secretary-General and been notified of Israel's inten=" tions and requested to intervene In time to prevent suelo flagrant_violation of the terms of the general armistice agree- ment and its consequences." DISCUSSED

Following that note. the delegation said, Jordan's acting

dis permanent representative

the mussed

case with the Ham- Dag Secretary-General, marskjold. A second letter was sent to Mr Hammarskjold on March 28, setting forth Jordan's -contention that Israel's plins were in violation of the armistice and "a provocation that was bound to increase the...tense situation already existing along the borders and especially in the City of Jerusalem,"

The case was again discussi with Mr Hammarskjold on April 8, the mission cald,

It said Jordan also dealt with the case on the diplomatic level with, Western, Ambassadors in Amman and with the UN truce chief in Jerusalem. Yesterday's Amman communique "confirms views of the attitude and the Une Jordan Government, rt sald.United Press.

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US EXPELS, CZECH DIPLOMAT

Washington, Apr., 21. The United States today ordered the expulsion of a Czechy diplomat here, following Czechoslovakia's Expulsion of a United States diplomat in Prague last week, Last Thursday Czechosloya

kia ordered the departure of Mr. Joseph R. Jacyno, Second Secretary of the

United States Embassy in Prague, alleging-that he : had been engaging in

spying.

Today, the State Depart- ment announced that Mr John Foster Dulles, the Secretary of State, had sent a note to the Czech Ambassador hers, Dr Karel Petrzelka, saying 'ke part:" the continued

But thetama./confusion. aftong both the military and the civilian authorities as to what led to the tragedy.

CAA Statement

Washington, Apr. 21. A Civil Aeronautics Admin- istration spokesman said the collision of a com- mercial airliner and an Air Force jat plano near Las Vegas, Nevada, ap- -peared-to-be-gong isan

million freak", on the beats of preliminary In- formation.

The CAA official said the airliner was #ying under vleual flight rules on a regular Federal airway. . He emphasland that the colllalon, did not nèces. sarily result from viola. tion of that air space by the

plane. military United Press.

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First reports from the Air Force following the crash had aid the Jot apparently suffered a "fame out"—meas- ing that its engine went dead and then plunged down in a into the dive that carried it lower-lying airliner, which carried a crew of five and 43

passengers on.

from a fight Los Angeles.

Uncertain

Dut several hours after both planes had crashed, 61⁄2 miles apart in a barren area about 12 miles south of this gambling re- sort, the Air Force said it was uncertain that the jet had suf fcred # fame-out, or any mechanical failure.

Nellis ALF Force Base, where the jet was based, Buld It was possible one of tha plois radioed the words "ball out" inslead of “flame out." But further confusion clouded the cause of the tragedy, when Arbuthnot reported that neither 'pilot in the jet actually balled out. He said the body of the student-pilot WAS found

wreckage, whillo thr body of the Instructor WAS nearby, Indicating that ho either tried to elect himsel! befora Impact "immediately with the ground" or that his ejector soat was released when the plane hit the desert,

tho

presence in this country of Dr Roman Skokan, Commercial Alinche, is no longer acceptable to

Meanwhile, the bodies of lo the Government of the United States,

victims were brought titre to a former raco track behind the "The Secretary of State Desert Inn Hotel, making an

would

the frontcal scene as the grisly appreciate Ambassador's co-operation business of "plecing" the bodleg in arranging for the Im-together for denincation went or just off the famour, · ganly mediate departure of Dr gambling "Strip", United Skokan,Reater.

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He said: "The hour of our trial has arrived. The Maltese people, who in the past have fought so many batties for other people, now have the chance to prove to the world that they have grown into a nation."

Liege, Apr. 21. A Belgian Aighter tonight a house at tho rashed into

Mons, near here, village killing two people and seriously Injuring three others.

of

A large force of civilian

The pilot parachuted from the police patrolled the city's plane and was rescued from the streets while Mr Minton was middle of the River MausPS, speaking-Reuter,

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