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COMMENT OF THE DAY

Geneva Success

A

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GROUP of atomic scien-

tists meeting at Geneva han

succeeded in doing

something that diplomatx have inen trying in vain to do for the last 13 years They reached 11 precise agreement on a fixed aut ject between East and West,

Of course it is not yet known what wil come of thin agreement or if its

ton-

clusions will ever enter inta practice: nevertheless one important point has been made: The control of atomic explosions can seriously considered. Despite

occasional ambiguities of the communique, that much is now certain.

the

Control Possible

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UN Session On Middle East Crisis Ends

80-0 VOTE FOR ARAB PLAN!

Family Dispute Brought Tonga Treaty

•

To A Happy Ending

United Nations, Aug. 21.

The United Nations General Assembly tonight by a unanimous

vote approved an all-Arab East.

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peace plan for the Middle

A The vote was taken by a show of hands without a roll-call,

The last obstacle to unanimity was removed when Israel an- nounced that it would vote for the Arab measure, with reservations.

THE UN, Secretary-General! Trup Hummarskjold holds that opinion, and the Director of the European Called The Centre

it

Nations has said: "Thanks to your lorts... the con trol of

nuclear experimenta i peshe." Those who thetips or who found convenient to believe that no control was possible in Chis domain, have been hantled a positive anger by the experts.

menna

vote win

The actual the Dominican Republic being

abrent,

R-8, Middle East was overloaked en-j

rety.

T vole brought rare un animity among the Arabs in a Bebalrhit-talking" courts yes-

lay and even raver unanimity

The rare unanimity in the Assembly caused a great burst of applause and relief after seven days of tense and bitter | in the General Assembly. debate.

The vole came some lvl* after American and

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The Measure

werk

The measure:,

Rarms the principles of Labanon and Jordan respec- the Arab League pact culine fively in response to calls from for

mutual respect, 121- their governments, which com- mterference, mutual benit and mained if subversion and in-insurance that consuel hy word conforms to these terference by the United Arab 138 deed!"

was 1: ken Not that the physicists dis- | stepublie.

precepts. This

Eisenhower's call of covered

meeting Mr detection. Those they pro-

for an end to fomenting from without of civil strife and the posed are classic: samplinge

West hoped it signalled an end Yadioactive fallout, After the volc, two other re-

to radio propaganda warfare registration

seismic, elutions were withdrawn. of

of sub- Une ncoustle and hydro-neoustie

Bever-power and border infiltration Was

cesives and rebellion material. waves and electro-magnetic Western-backed resolution which

Requests Secretary waves, co-ordinated withould merely turn the Middle

Eust question over

Dak Hammarskjold to Mr Dag Generat inspretion "f suspected

to make forthwith

such Hammarskjold, U.N. Secretary- FERN The new element is

Arrangements that the experts of both neri, for offerts at a solution, practical

would adequately help in up- ciples of the the charter in re-

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The other was a Soviet draft calling for withdrawal

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Invites Mr Hammarskjold

to study with the Arab countries an Arab development institu Lion designed 10 futher cconomic growth." This complied with Mr Eisenhower's call for on Arab do-it-yourself economic programmu with the help of

the United States. The West and-if it desires-Russia.

cx-

Increases Autonomy

London, Aug. 21.

The woman who stole the hearts of the London crowds on the day of Queen Elizabeth's coronation in 1953, has won a bigger share of home-rule for her south sen island people. Ste iz Queen Salute of Tongn (pictured right) who braved the heavy rain and rede in the big procession in an open landau.

For Britain and Tonga have signed a new trealy under which Tonga will continue tu be a state under British protection, but will have increased local autonomy, according to

Colonial Office announcement today.

150 Islands

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The announcement said that "Queen Elizabeth of England und Queen Salole of Tonga, desiring to confirm and strengthen The friendly relations which exist between them un their respective states, have, with the agreement of the government of the United Kingdom and the government of Tonge, decided to conclude a new treaty of friend- ship.

• Finally. osks Mr Ham- maskjold to make a progress report het later than September 30 by which time, crepiding to wester spokesman withdrawal plus should be well underway

U.N. Reporter Mr. Hammarskjold was pected to leave for the Middle East early next week to begin

The population was estimated negotiations for "U.N, presener"

at the end of 1955 to be 56,006, there, notably in Jordan, V.N.

including 54,601 Tongans, 288 observers, already are operating Europeans and 1,059 persons of In Lebenon.

other nationalities, France The West wanted an "A- Presse. basador-reporter" In the Middle East, with speola) re- presentatives in Lebanon and

The treaty will reflect changes which have pegurred since the previous agreements were concluded and will be designed to enable the existing friendly rejations to develop, the announcement said,

The Kingdom of Tonga consists of 150 islands and islets in the southwestern Pacific Ocean to the enst of the Fijon Islands, running north and south in two narrow parallel chalos.

Queen Salote and grandson Prince Taufa's Hau, eldest son of her eldest son, the Prime Minister of Tunga.

She Surfaced Daily Through

Turkey Still Wants Partition

Ankara, Aug. 22.

The Turkish Foreign Minis-

ter, Mr Fatin Zorlu, said hore

lost

night that

Turkey "still wants parti- tion" of Cyprus.

Replying to opposition eritielem of Turkish policy on

Cyprus at

extraordinary the National | meeting of

As- sembly, he said Turkey had made a new offer for a - partite meeting the Brillzh plan.

Referring to economic nid to Turkey from the United States, OBEC. and the International. Monetary Fund, the Minister said this was a step towards Europeat solidarity particularly between well developed Euro- pean countries and a lens de- veloped country,

The granling of the aid was B mark of sucess not only for Turkey but also for the whole Europe and the civilised world.-Reuter.

of

Did Russia

of the holding the purposes and prin- Jordan, to report on compliance Bus In Chasm Holes In Polar Ice | Really Want!

cumps have agreed that those methods, properly Anglo-American troops without

would arranged, muffelent 10 detect

be delay,

resolu-

any Presenting the Arab secret explosion. The tia, the Sudanese

Foreign perts are so convinced that Minister, Mr Mohammed Ahmed they recommend the appli-Mnhygoub, sald brought cution of these methods in Middle East "family" dispute to a control system.

La "happy conclusion,"

Reticent

THE

The

The vote came at 2243 GMT. vading for all practical purposes an hergency session of the

E communique is very; teneral Assembly which began last Wednesday when President Eishower opened it by out- Bing & six-point plan for a Middle East peace.

reticent on the experts conception of this control system. For the time being they limit themselves to The approved incasure, which [ a[k suggesting that a network carried the sponsorship

dealt with of stations be installed on 10 Arab countries, the continents and islands four of the six polu's presented

3 well as

small by Mr Eisenhower. DR number of ships at sea. It is at

this point that Arst political appears.

the

difficulty The communiqué does not state whether con- frol stations would have to he set up on the territory

of the two biggest powers, ar whether inspection could be carried out only from stations at sea or in neutral territory.

of

Perhaps the experts might In

collected

ense:

consider, suspicious data from a neutral area, send- ing inspection teams to the regions concerned. Evident-

a country which refused

to allow a commission on

its territory would con- siderably reinforce the auspicions against it. Western Scruples

THE Anul speech

TH

of Eugeni

Professor Feodorov, head of the Soviet delegation, was much more precise than the com- munique. The Soviet scien-

Omitted for further con- sideration by the Assembly's regular session, which starts on September 10, was his call for a stand-by peace force.

And his call for steps avoid an orms race spiral in the

luon to Lebanon and Jordan circumstances In the present and thereby facilitate the early Withdrawal of foreign troeps And from the two countries."

to preserve "UN, measures peace in Jordan."

Also met Arab and for some call Soviet demanda for the withdrawal of Angio- American forces while leaving The Lime clement only as "early."

with the unanimously-approved resolution. Other powers purti- the idea of a U.N. high com- misstoner", for the area.

The Assembly president, Sir Leslie Munro of New Zealnne

ment's

Bogota, Colombia. August 21. Thirty-two bodies were re- covered from the bottom of a chcem where a bus carrying 50 expressed the Bl-ation Parlia-people tell yesterday. Fourteen "confidence in the of the passengers were injured abilities of our distinguished seriously and thirteen others, in Secretary-General and with him cluding several children were to have been well in the discharge of the missing, feared

which the swept away by the raging for. responsibilities Assembly has entrusted to him,”

rent running through the deep gorge.-U.P.I. -U.P.I. & Reuter,

Hungary And China Decisions Shelved

United Nations, Aug. 21.

The United Nations General Assembly tonight endorsed a report from its credentials committee recommend- ing a further delay in any action regarding Hun- garian and Chinese repre- sentation.

Eisenhower Plans One Year Test Suspension

the The report, presented to Assembly'c emergency sessica by Mr Thor Thors, of Iceland. recommended no decision be taken for or against the validity of the Hungarian delegation and proposed a "moratorium" In the case of China,

India voiced reservation both cases,

ini

Dr Endre Sik, Hungarian

Washington, Aug. 21.

The United States atomic submarine Skate crossed twice under the North Pole — on August 11 and 17; when it followed the route pioneered by the Nautilus, the Navy announced here tonight. The Skate completed an under-ice survey

region. It surfaced daily through holes in the ice.--- Reuter,

on

the polar

Spaak May Visit Iceland, Britain

For Compromise

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Fish

Formula

Washington, Aug. 21.

Reliable sources said today that eleventh hour visits by Nato Secretary-General Paul- Henri Spaak to Reykjavik and London may be the only way to avoid serious trouble when Iceland enforces its 12-milo fishing limit on September 1.

Sean- the

They said efforts by dinavian nations and by

out a Nato coupell to work

formula between compromise Iceland and Britain appears to have made little progress.

Is trouble If there

between the two countries on Septem- ber 1, they pointed out, it might have serious consequence for

Forelyn Minister, protested at the Nato bice in Ireland. the Committee's findings. His government

was a legal body, was fui-

оп

has been passed extending the fishing limit to 12 miles September 1 and it would be dificult to change the law or postpone its effcelive date.

US Air Force

In Saudi Arabia

In addition, the sources under- stood Premier Hermoan Jonas. son has gone along with the views of Fisheries Minister Lud- vik Josztesson, that there must be no compromise.

Washington, Aug, 21, State Department spokesma The sources said the United he said, and lungory

They noted Josefsson recently [Joseph W. Reap sald today he filing her membership respon-States continues to use its 500raturned from a visit to Moscow. Fad no information on reports Washington, Aug. 21.

sibilities

ofces to urge Iceland and Dri- There Was speculation about that Saudi Arubla intends to ask tain to reach a compromise but President Eisenhower plans to halt American

Since the

exactly what he discussed with U.S. forces to leave the Dahreri 1956 revolution, it belleves the matter should be Soviet leaders although Josels-pirfield.

by the nuclear tests provided Russia agrees to enter Hungary had continued to main settled directly

two

son claimed his purpose was to tin diplomatic relations with countries or by Nata. into negotiations for an international ban,the majority of United Nations

get Russia to increase its quota' member states,

These sources said the Ice of fish imports from Iceland.- none of which diplomatic sources reported tonight.

had been severed --Router, Iandle viewpoint

U. P. I.. is that a law

The news follows closely on. ¡÷MARKEÇİN CİZGAN BAIKIS MAPUSASIAT CANNELLONICS KENT

thut top tist afirmed that without the announcement

any nuclear ex- Communist and Western selen

hetists who have been meeting in mattor how

Geneva have concluded that an detected,

agreement, to and tests cour be effectively policed...

President Eisenhower will

The communique, showing the effect of Western

scruples, says only that propose a one-year suspension the present methods permit of American tests stucking in "in certain well defined October or November sind- limits" the detection of taneously with International talks an the subject, the atomle tests.

sources sold,"

en-

The timing proposed would enable Britain to complete her teets at Christmas Island.

The United States is under-

Ая Important And

couraging as it is then, the experts' conference has not rettled anything. The prob lem of continuing or stop-stood to be consulting Britola ning nuclear tests still re-end France.

Russia cnnounced muspension The unsolved. mains

of tests five months ago, but tho military and the politiciana West refused to follow suit in

will have their say the sixence

of any guarantee

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of

The scientists at least have that secret tests could be de the honour of having given tected. The U.S. then proposed the future negotiators a the Goneva conference solid basis for their dia- experts to discuss the subject—| cussions.

Reuter.

Malayan Trade Commissioner

For Hongkong Welcomed

Singapore, Aug. 22.

Hongkong merchants welcomed a proposal

that Malaya should appoint a Trade Commissioner in the Colony, a Straits Times correspondent in Hongkong said today,

Mr.

The correspondent said several Hongkong He spinning and weaving enterprises planned to move into Malaya.

The Times quoted Mr. U Tat Chee,.

-Honorary President of the Hongkong

Chinese Manufacturers Association. The as saying the only hesitation Intending

Hongkong investors had, came from fear of industrial disputes and high fabour costs in Malaya.

U Tat Chee suggested that Malaya allow free admission of skilled Hong- kong labour.

said that for the past ten years Hong- kong industrialists had been anxiously watching for opportunities to expand abroad, particularly in Singapore, Malaya and North Borneo, appointment of a trade commissionar would be a welcome step.-Router.,

Mr U Tat Cheo

Keap pointed out that the agreement under which U.S forces may use thie feld does not expire unill 1962.-U.P.1.

A Summit?

London, Aug. 21. Nearly half the people

in Britain consider Russia's proposals for a summit conference have been a protonce,

·But If a summit con- ference took place, the majority would be in favour of Peking participating. This is shown by the latest Daily Express'poti_of public opinion carried out during August 14-19.

A representative cross- section of the voting community was ask- ed:

"From

what

you've heard and road, do you feel that the Russians genuine- ly desire a summit conference?"

The figure for "genuino desiro" wore: Tory voters: 221⁄2 per cont, Socialist voton: 35 por cont, Liberat votors 41 por cont. Asked if they would op- prove of Peking's par- ticipation in the talks, voters replied: Approve - 51 por cont. Disapprovo-30 per cont. Don't know -19 per cent.—Ex- press Service.

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