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Comment Big government majority in House of Commons vote Of The LABOUR PROTEST REJECTED
Day
More work for
the Premier
FR Macmillan's provoca
M
tive decision to appoint
Censure on Home's appointment defeated
London, July 28.
Foreign Secretary in the A Labour opposition protest against the appointment of
House of Lords undoubted-
ly reflects his view that in
today's conditions one
of
in
age to have
the most important func- tiona of the Premier is that of principal architect the and
of exponent nation's foreign policy. He can therefore afford to dispense with this post the House of Commons, unwelcome as it may be in this modern such an important ministry occupied by бле not elected to Parliament. Lord Home's position is result. ambiguous, as I
is although For
he Foreign Secretary in title It seems clear that he will not enjoy the same respon- sibilities as his predeces- Bor. It will seem strange after all these years to have Mr Selwyn Lloyd in the role of Chancellor or the Exchequer but it is a tribute to his versatility that Mr Macmillan be lleves he can do equally well in such an important portfolio so strikingly dif- ferent from his last job.
MR
the Earl of Home
a peer sitting on the House of Lords
-as Britain's new Foreign Secretary was rejected in the House of Commons tonight by 332 votes to 220- government majority.
Mr Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the opposition, strongly attacked the appointment on constitu- tional grounds and because he was "closely associated with Munich".
Lord Home succeeded Mr Selwyn Lloyd as Foreign Secretary in the reshuffle of govern ment posts announced by Mr Harold Macmillan, the Prime Minister, yesterday,
Mr Gaitskell, who was opening a House of Commons debate on the appointment, said the House of Lords, which many Labour members would like to see abolished, was in political terms "only an appendage and not a rival of the House of Commons."
That was the constitutional point.
Mr Gaitskell maintained it was essential that -
a foreign secretary should be in the Commons. He could then be in constant touch with public opinion through elected members of Parliament and could also be "exposed to criticism and questioning like any other minister"
Went to Munich
Mr Gaitskell said Lord Home was chiefly known in the period 1931-39 as parliamentary private secretary, to the then Prime Minister Mr Neville Chamberlain. He went to Munich with him.
It was possible, Mr Galtskell added, that since Munich Lord Home had changed his mind. "But we cannot ignore this altogether," he suid.
Mr Macmillan defended his choice of Lord on the grounds that he felt he was the
best man for the job."
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Duncan Sandys has
"To put in as foreign secretary someone so also improved his closely identified with that agreement at a time position and prospects. when we are still hoping to negotiate an agree
was ment with the Soviet Union seems a trifle un- Suggestions that he eligible for the Foreign wise," he went on. Secretaryship apparently
Home d not take account of his dislike of being anyone's stooge-even the Prime Minister's. He should find his plenty of scope for undoubted qualities in his new role. Perhaps its chief that value is
he has regained much of what he lost when he was demoted from Defence to Aviation he last year. Assuming makes u success of this ministry he will be handily placed to assume a senior post. in the Government in the next major reshuffle. Another welcome appoint- ment is that of Mr Peter Thorneycroft who returns after his resignation in 1958 over policy differences.
The
He believed Lord Home had qualities that would make him "a successful and widely respected foreign secretary."
The Prime Minister said he realised the appointment of foreign secretary in the House of Lords after an interval of 20 years would raise difficulties. Ile niso thought it might arouse some anxieties among his supporters.
If I had not been absolutely convinced that Lord Home was the best man for the job, why should I have risked such a complication?" he asked.
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Mr Macmillan said it had been alleged he was trying to get. greater control or exercise a A greater personal control over foreign affairs.
But everyone knew that the relations between the Prime
of the day and his rest of the changes Minister
LORD HOME
Rocket-carrying truck drama
Dallas, July 28.
Murder finding Cabot Lodge's should stand, warning on Law Lords rule
London, July 28.
The House of Lords ruled today that Jim Smith,
a 26-year-old scrap dealer, should not have been acquitted of the murder of a policeman last March.
Smith was convicted in May of the capital mur- der (murder while resisting arrest) of police constable Leslie Mathon, 34, who was killed when he was flung from Smith's car to which he was holding on March 2. He was sentenced to death..
...
In May, the Court of Criminal Appeal substituted a verdict of guilty of manslaughter and commuted ¿Smith's death sentence to one of 10 years' imprison- ment on the grounds of a fault in the judge's summing
up.
Five Law Lords today unanimously, allowed an appeal by the Director of Public Prosecutions against the Appeal Court judgment and the case was remitted to the Appeal Court, "to do what shall be just and consistent with this judgment."
Smith was present when Lord Kilmuir, the Lord Chancellor, gave judgment.
Mr R. A. Butler, the Home Secretary has already said that he would consider a reprieve from the death sentence originally passed, if the appeal was allowed. -Chino Mail Special.
Belgians allege 300 women raped in Congo
Brussels, July 28.
US. elections
MR CABOT LODGE
Chicago, July 28. Henry Cabot Lodge accepted
the Republican vice- presidential nomination tonight with a warning
MANY KILLED AND INJURED
··IN· TRAIN
DISASTER Havana, July 28. Several people were killed and more than
100 injured today when. two trains collided 'neor: Camaguey City, ~.
Most of the victims were militiamen retum- ing to their various homes after attending celebrations of the July 26 insurrection of Sierra Maestra.
One of the trains consisted of 100 goods wagons, while the other had 30 carriages. All medical services and rescue teams available were mobilized.-AFP.
that the 1960 election will Moscow expels
be held in the face of a "death struggle" with Communism requiring the most able, experienced man in the White House. Mr Lodge, picked by Richard
M. Nixon largely because of
his experience since 1953 as U.S. Ambassador to the United
students for
distributing
Nations, fold the Republican U.S. magazine
National convention, the, forth- coming White House, contest has overwhelming importance Ito us and the work.”.
The 58-year-old 'plomat promised to drownimself whole-heartedly into the cam- paign and predicted a He- publican victory. He outlined
basics:
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A Belgian Royal Commission has authenticated a foreign policy based on these
that 291 white women were raped by Congolese soldiers "and the file is far from being closed," Belgian Minister of Justice, Mr Laurent Mer- chiers, said tonight.
a
news
Merchiers told
Mr Merchiers said that the conference that some of the commission had also proof of a. women "had been raped more further 230 men and women than 20 times by Congolese who were severely beaten soldiers who menaced children by the Congolese, two who with death to make the mother were tortured with burning
truck which raced 190 miles through Texas carry-summit.
ing an Army rocket motor at one time thought to be on the verge of exploding reached its destination safely.
up
cigarettes and three who were made to run a gauntiet of The Minister heads a Royal stoning until they dropped un Commission investigating atro-conscious ties - committed against Extro peans. The commission is com-
He said, "all the cases took posed of leading Belgian magis place before Belgian troops in- trates. The file will be placed tervened to restore peace."-- before the United Nations when UPI. Red-completed to support Belgium's
formal complaint.
are of little consequence leading colleagues depended for A Police motor cycle escort The spokesman said that a
do
for
Investigators include women doctors as well as magistrates and police,
unless one considers those their success on a real sense of accompanied the truck when its solid-fuelled rocket motor was who were passed over. Mr partnership.
Mr Macmillen added, "1
driver reported that its air con- being transported from
Arsenal Huntsville, Iain MacLeod has obviously not think that the mere accident ditioning plant had broken down stone performed creditably
of birth or the mere fact that and that it would be dangerous Alabama, to White Sands, New
tests. It was Colonial Secretary but this he sits in the House of Lords If the temperature inside the Mexica,
containing the rescarch And development is a portfolio which like should debag me of the man 1 compartment
to vehicle, at a missile, he em- the Foreign Secretaryship, wanted to choose at my side or rocket motor were allowed
phasised. inspires more confidence to deprive him of the
The truck raced for the the less it is meddled with.portunity to serve.
The motor was carried in a factory which produced the air-
Mr Merchiers sald "every. conditioning system and had it refrigerator compartment under
before any damage temperatures of 40 to 45 degrees, case in the file was been veri
the spokesman said.
Besides Mr MacLeod's
"I do not regard this as matter of principle.
op-rise too high.
It is a
ability is not in question-matter of expediency."Reuter repaired He is a tried and trusted and UPI.
minister and very highly re- spected. He has nothing to fear by being passed over. Indeed his chances will be
• considerably enhanced by e further successful term in the Colonial Office,
HE overall Impression then is that Mr. Mac millan, now surrounded by his most trusted and ex- perienced Heutenants in the key ministries, is today more of a double-barrelled. minister than ever before. This corresponds with trends elsewhere. Perhaps the next few years will see a fuller evolution of this new role which may in volve the shedding of some of his secondary Prime Ministerial duties to the able and loyal Mr Butler. This seema to be appre
clated in the Conservative Party and while. Tabour criticism of Lord Home's appointment was to be ex- pected, it is likely that they too will be con- soled by the only meaning that the new move carr have: that the Prime Minis ter himself will take the leading role in the conduct of fordign affairs, and be the chief spokesman in the House of Commons.
Publicity was free
London, July 28. Britain's new Foreign Secretary the Earl of Home wald today his "Scottish blood" helped him weather the storm of oritielam around him when realised that "the publiclty .was free,"
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Lord Home made his re- mark when he went to the House of Lords to receive congratulations for coming Foreign Secretary
the
дем British cambinet shake-up.
The appointment WEE sharply criticised in the press and Parliament by those who opposed giving the post to a peer,
··Lord-Mora· sald;......"T: do not deny that the last few days have not been too equy
to fres and cecumenally some of the criticisms have tended to get me down. But
at such moments my Boot». tish blood has come to my rescue and reminded, me ihat. After all the publicity is free.#
could be done.
NO DANGER
The US Army said tonight there, was no danger of an ex- plosion.
The worst that could have happened in the high Texas temperature, a spokesman said, was that the solid fuel of the rocket could have been damaged and prevented proper firing in scheduled tests.
no
However, there was damage to the fuel, the army reported.
MURDER OF
AFRICAN: APPEAL DISMISSED
London, July 28. The Privy Council today dis- missed an appeal by 28-year- old Peter Harok Richard Poole, an engineer, against his sentence
the murder' of by conviction
The truck was of a type usual-fled ly used to haul perishable food.
Mechanical trouble developed
VERIFIED
Woman fatally injured
when down
A 20-year-old woman, LA Fong.
wes fatally injured yesterday afternoon Itnacked was He handed a 32-page booklet she near Texarkana in the northeast crammed with first person ac- by a military vehicle on Route corner of Texas and the truck counts, but with names omitted, II near the golf club at Sheung driver requested a police escort by women who were physically Shai The woman died before
assaulted by Congolese soldiers. I arrival in hospital. for his run to Dallas-UPL
PEAK RESIDENTS
OF TOLD
NEW ROADS AND NUMBERS
"The Peak, having suffered for:
years from chantic, read num- bering, will go out of existence on September 1
For on that day, 266 buildings en The Peak, begin using new
· numbers and now road, names. The new road names were
güzelted today. A-Government announcement t szid, property owners and re- sidents had been notified of the chaares in the house numbers affected by the re- /Himing of these roads...
of death imposed in Kenya for New rood is plains, re-being. an African house, mage, by the Publle Works Department ♫ These will be conviction was, the inst against a white person. by an
pul up during the last few all-white jury in Kenya for the dar of August, murder of an African.
The council wH reasons for dismissing the sp pealt later,China MAI Special
All changes in house umbers
Fill be gazelles:
Government upoktryka said operty owners
asked
to exhibit these "Ola Peak Road" in the new numbers from September 1. name given to Peak Road from Robinson Hond, to Vletoria Residents on the Peak are also
Gap. Aberdeen Rosd for lis advised to use the new house
entire length will be known as numbers in their correspo
"Feel. Ble" while Traderages dence as from that date,
Ross for its entire length, will The renaming of roads on The
be called "Pollock's Path" Peak arises from Govern- mstie's proposal, announced in "The Janitary, to change the present wrotem of house numbering on the Peak and to re-number the houses scoprding to the and and which bey are
Unterkathe revised
Wancha!
Gag in the Upper. Peak Tram Station will be-kufa "Peak Road" while, the exist ing Peak Band, from Upper Train - Stution to Victoria
Government spokesman said: "Some confuzion - may' malac In the early” “släges of the changeover, buté onse "sil beddings are clearly marked.. with the new house numbers.
diffculites, should" sort them- helves out quickly, at matbest The Pasimater-General,j=Mr. A. G. Crook waleonets the, in-
and maya li will taalikals the kog sud delivery (at Correct "mail, especially when the [8=
duty”.
⚫ To continue
and strengthen the military power which guarantees
nation will ever dare attack the U.S.
Five
three
Moscow, July 28. Western students; Americans; · one British and one West German, were today order. ed to leave the Soviet Union, after having dis- tributed copies of the Russian-language "Ameri- ca" magazine to Mos- covites in front of the Metropolis Hotel here.
The magazine, according to a To improve the "kind U.S.Soviet cultural agreement, we have in may only be distributed through of community America” so the world will the "Soyuz Pechat" agency. know Americans Practice A policeman arrested the what they preach on educa-students outside the hotel. 'and tion, care for the aged, health took them to a police station, and opportunities for youth.
Police ordered the students to leave the Soviet, Union before noon next Saturday
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Progress in human rights so a world "four-Arths non-white will "recognise the existence of justice in Americz-UFI.
The students, who were driv ing through Russla in their own car, were said to be leaving tai- mediately for Rumania-AFP.
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