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Comment of the day

WELCOME!

THE suggestion that the

States of Americ

Aitould become a member of the British Commonwealth of Nations seems quite a reasonable one. The iden was recently posed by Mr Donald McLachlan, editur of the Sunday Telegraph, and the more ose looks at

the

it,

414, mure convinced that there

ja

is

sound losle in his reasoning.

In the first pince, although

we speak of the British

Commonwealth, that does

nol

that there is menn necessarily a senior partner! and several junior partners. For instance, when a prob- lem arises which affects the immediate interests of any member of the Common- wealth, that nation ini- mediately takes the lead at the head of the table. Nor does any member dominate the proceedings.

seem that both

Tinguistically

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All Russian eyes are on the sky SPACE FLIGHT NO 2 ALERT

More ambitious THE SHADOW MEETS RUSSIA REPLIES TO

project

in the air

By DONALD SEAMAN

Moscow, Apr. 17. Stand by for space flight number two. Tonight in this jubilant Russian capital-

where every man and woman has eyes only for the sky-l learn that a team of astronauts and space vehicles stand ready at secret cosmodromes beyond the Urals to launch on even more ambitious sky probe than the world's first by Yuri Gagarin.

And ideo- EICHMANN TRIAL logically, the United States is already an ex-officio meal-

ber of the Commonwealth

and that everything is to

be gained, and nothing lost by a closer association. Such

♫

Kive

Father of assassin demands

seat

Jerusalem, Apr. 16. elderly man applying during the week for one of the 20 public seats available daily for the Eichmann trial identified himself as the father of a Nazi diplomat's assassin, | it was disclosed here to! day,

AN Association would give greater strength to the Commonwealth and the intangible ideal which linka the States to the Common- wealth would nehlove concrete form, and cohesion to what now seems a vague bond between one nation joining a number of nations, which follow an common way and purpose. A further advantage would be that those who strive to drive wedge between the British way and purpose and the American, would find themselves in a much weaker position. And final- ly, it would give concrete expression to Hort of union which already exists.

ja this trial: 1 um HOULD the term British Herschel Grystpan's father."

Commonwealth stick in (Grynszpan

17-year- anyone's throat, there seems

old Polish Jew who, in Parla in 1938 killed Ernst von Rath, no obvious reason for re-

third secretary of the German taining it, for British is

Embassy. not used in the ownership

(The Nazis used the murder of the word, but

"Crystal as a pretext for the to suggest a way of life to

Night

destruction of which real democracy sub- Jowish

the wynagogues and scribes. For as grand ne

mass arrest of Jews, the articles of Independ-

ARRESTED which took

Renge

ence

are

A

He told

reporters: "I must srt I have particular

int creat

the

1₤

was a

(At the time of the shooting!

inio It's expected to be put orbit at greater heights than Gagarin achieved and in multi- ple circuit us o gigantle boost the forthcoming May day

for

parade,

Lum told that Soviet fechini- eians are all set to launch 3. (antastie three point cosmic programme,

First of the cuetimber-shaped man-curryha

vehicles Spoce will spon the earth far higher. thoni Gagarin and will complete several elreuits before re-entry: a manned flight round the moon is planned to follow, possibly this year; and after a series of experimental landing's the Russions will attempt to put a man ort the moon itself.

A preliminary examination of Gagarin and his machine have shown no physical - effects, no abnormal the hull. And it is now clear that the space vehicles can be used for more than one journey.

strwa on

Pin up Gagarin himself Is every- one's pin up, the most reted man in this country of 200 million people. He is spend- ing tonight quietly celebrat- ing with his family.

It is hard to convey the morale of these Russions after this historic flight into space.

They speak of nothing but "ar achievement."

of

Here in Moscow posters Gagarin ne the streets, Flags Inre out everywhere. Men walk around with their chests stuck cut, sorry for the rest of the world that is so backward.

The housing shortage, the

MAN SHE HELPED

ESCAPE FROM HK

London, Apr. 17.

The Shadow and the soldier came face to face at the weekend and provided Mra Ellen Field

the with answer to an 18-year-old question.

Did any of the seven nolliers she helped in escape from the Japanese in Hongkong reach safely.

Mrs Field--nicknamed "The Shadow" by the prisoners of war and now a 48- year-old grandmoiber - opened the front door of her home in north London on Saturday evening, She

Jock "It's Easped: White." On the doorstep Jock Salter. the first of the seven she murgled out explained: "That's the false name I gave you because I could not be sure of anyone while I was on the run. Then Juck, now a 47-year- old company director Look Mrs Field off to celebrate their reunion at the Royal Scots Old Comrades dinuer at the Duke of York's Chelsea headquarters. Said Jock: "We decided to surprise her by making her our guest of honour tonight,"

Sold Mrs. Field: "It hune ni-

warzled ways

AID not

knowing what happened eventually to any of my soldiers, But bo's real enough."

Mrs Field, mother of three daughters was caught in Hongkong

the when Japanese invaded. She destroyed her British paza- port and convinced them she was cutrat Irish.

She spent four years Aktiivz In and out of the Sham - shulpo prison camp with food and medicines, "When Jock escaped i dyed his ginger hair with ink him wear 2 and made Chinese gown," she said, "During the night we walk- ed for 12 mica dodging Jan patrola and then handed him over to the guide in the hills," London Express Service, FOOTNOTE: Ellen Fields, a long-time former resident

Hongkong. is the mother of June Lee who, in 1954. was chosen to represent the Cofony at the "Miss Universe"

beauls

pageant in Long Beach, USA, June is now markled and has settled in Muncie, Indiana.

A second daughter, Carolyn. still resides in Hongkong. Her youngest daughter, Wendy, in living in Britain,

Reinforcements

airlifted

Angola

to

Lisbon, Apr. 16.

First shipments of men and military materials to reinforce Portuguese Government forces in the tense Angola colony were flown on a 6,000 mile airlift from Lisbon to Luanda today, the official Lusitania agency reported.

were

BRITISH NOTE ON

LAOS CEASEFIRE

Moscow, Apr. 16.

The Soviet Union tonight replied to British proposals to end the Laos crisis. No details of the reply-which is being sent immediately to London were given here.

Ammonia

fumes threaten

town

Fallon, Nev, Apr. 16.

The reply was given in an alde memoire handed to Slr Frank Roberis,. British Ambas- sador, at the Soviet Ministry. Sir Frank was received by Mr Andrel Gromyko, Soviet For- eign Minister, who had asked for the meeting.

But it la belleved here that Britain

thig la opposed to capital because of bad com- munications and lack of доч commodation. Since

the British proposals were originally presented in the form of an side memoire, Britain's proposals were made Sir Frank has had three meet- on March 23. Since then Sirings this month with Soviet Frank has bad three meetings Foreign Ministry officials. with Soviet offeinis to discuss In his visits the Ambassador draft documents on a ceasefire, has placed before the Soviet

three nation In~| Union draft documents on revival of the ternational Truce Commissioni censebre, the reviving of the and the convening of a 14- International Truce Commission nutien international conference. and the convening of an Inter-

Sir Frank had only just re-national conference--Reuter.

turned to the Brilish Embassy

from Moscow's Vnukova alrport

A huge truck overturned to- day on a busy highway and looked deadly am- where he briefly met Prince Souvanna Phouma, the former for eight monia fumes

Lantian neutralist Prime Minië- hours boforo masked exter who arrived here tonight.

ports, rushed in by plano, plugged the leuk.

Several farm families in the area five miles west of Fallon were evacuated hastily by sheriff's depriles.

Sent to London

Embassy sources declined, lo state the details of the Soviet reply, its length, or even how

|--The--tructe--waz~~~carrying long-the meeting lasted

'anhydrous, ammonia concent- Tale used fertiliser,

Before the experts ended, the slow outpouring of fumes, Sheriff George Wilkins had said:

Ther said that, the Soviet alde memoire was being im-

Loudon mediately sent to where it would be studied, fognty

The British proposals, sent to Moscow, on March 23 called for conscire in Laos, recalling the

commission starts International

Parking meter mystery

Copenhagen, Apr. 18.

2

City parking authority oficials, trying to find out why parking meters were all re- ceiving coins when rood works prevented motorists from using them, have found that young giri friends use the meters to prove

been they havo Britain and the Soviet Union how long are the co-chairmen of the 1954 walling

and

"We'll be in trouble. the wind comes up and blawing this stuff toward town. convening a 14-nation confer- Danes waiting for their It can be fatal.”

ence.

Laos.

DRIVER RESCUED Some passing youths rescued the driver, Frank Silva, before Geneva conference which origin. the fumes could harm him and worked out a settlement for took him to hospital.

Later several persons

tho overturned ventured near truck had to undergo treatment. The Highway Patrol stationed

Dear the

men

who

accident scene

on busy U.S. state and allowed this western

2

According to diplomatic sources here any Soviet reply is expect- ed to revolve around the de-

"When a young man arrives, he inserte 30 oere (sixpence) in the meter, and the meter shows how long he has walied, a city parking authority official said,China Mail Special.

Long walk

gree of conviction by each side that there would not be a case- Highway 50 inre without a conference, nor &

conference without a ceasefire.

Sir Frank has discussed with ; Soviet Foreign Ministry officials

Durban, Apr. 16. the question of the time and A 45-year-old goldminer, Bon place for the suggested 14 ha- Shepherd, has walked the 400 miles between Johannesburg and The Soviet Union has already Durban in nine days 81⁄2 hours Enid that this should be held at the longest walk ever made in Africa, China Mall the Cambodian capital of Prom- South penh.

Special.

cars to go through one at time.

The instructions: "Hurry, Keep your windows|tion conference.

and your heaters turned

the truck

Large reale material

The toll in the Cabinda attacki und manpower reinforcements to was listed as three dead Euro- up bolster the Government forces peons, two wounded and seven of so you don't suck In

air." The attackers were planned yesterday during missing.

Owner of suffered heavy have

experts, equipped

by gas maska, Pango California to plur

two AP.

was arrested by fact that so few people have a level conference between said to

Portugal's Premier Antonio losses.

America on her independent Grynszpan venture,

During World | refrigerator-what do these mat-Salazar, who every wordt of French police. that article Is English; War II he was handed over to ter?

The Russians are on the brink ter. the Nazis by the Vichy Govern-

of the biggest fires in man's his ment and His fate has never

tory. Morale in sky-high. been determined.

And every eye is on the sky.

every sentiment expressed

is English; and every name at the bottom of the page is a good old British name. But strange as it may seem, many Americans are still fighting the War of Inde- pendence. How, therefore. can the rejection of King George II and the accep tance of Queen Elizabeth I be reconciled? We would suggest a further etage in the evolution of the Com- monwealth iden under which the Queen could become the patron Instead of titular head, and The Common- wealth of Nations thrown open

to H Pust and present membera of the British Empire.

NOR blood calls to blood,

FOR

(He was last June declared deud by i Hanover, West Germany, court at the request į of his parents,

(Last August 26 Mr I. Franekel, the Parisian

lawyer who defended Grynszpan at his murder trial, announced in Paris he had sent a

the request to Israeli Justice Minister, Dr Finhas Rosen, asking him to have Eichmann Interrogated on

the subject of Grynszpan'a fate,)-Reuter,

STORMS CAUSE .

FIRES

In

were

-(London Express Service),

Jackie

Coogan jailed

has taken over Further south the function of Defence Minis Aluquem, strong assaults

and lending officers.

military days ago by the terrorists were thwarted by self-defence groups The Lusitanin Agency 10 among the planters and Govern- that the cargo shipment forces aided by aircraft. reported 500 Tome would leave Portugal Terrorists suffered heavy lossen for Angola tomorrow with again and 24 were killed. full lond of varied types of Pango Aluquem is in a regina mlillary vehicles. a large which annually produces 15,000 quanllly of munitions and a ton of coffee. number of field kitchens.

In Bastern Angola in the Meanwhite, the Portuguese Malange Region, cast southeast press reported today that terro-

of Luania, trouble was also rists in northem Angola were rowing this week, at Cacuso

using for the first time-are- 25 terrorists were killed. arms, including automatic wen- Meanwhile nowa from Silva pons. The arms were believed Porto, In the centre of Angola, io, have been procured in ou seemed to enst doubts on claina prise attacks by non-white | *** deserters from the Government that terrorist activities had not spread to the area. A number

forces.

Wearing uniforms

some of the attackers

wcru

of non-whiteleaders were re- ported arrested this week.

re-

ony

sent with special plane from the leak-

HUNDREDS OF SAILORS DESERT

Sydney, Apr. 16. About 500 Greek sailors have deserted from ships In the Australian ports in last 15 months. Recently 17 eumen disappear- Sydney ed from one ship in Harbour, according to repTİS KO"

Malibu, Apr. 16.-. Actor Juckle Coogan was

Another report ptated that In the capital city of Luanda,ceived by the police. jailed on a charge of drunken-

during a terrorist attack on the the Portuguese press also

Police issue warrants for the ness shortly after dawn today

Cabinda enclave two days ago,ported that tension and distur- arrest of all deserters, but only Warsaw, Apr, 10. when California highway

bances continued in the "muce about one-third of the 55 deser Thunder storms swept central patrolmen found him asleep in spotted wearing uniforms. These and heritage to heritage, and eastern Poland today, caus- his car.

ques"-the non-white quarters.

ters havo beca traced and and just as the Americans

men were not only armed but A communique from the Gov- ing numerous fres. In the Looz Coogun, who gave his age as

also seemed to be following a emor-General noted that mill-repatriated or have taken berths were never more English area 38 buildings-mainly strow 40, was booked at the Malibis prearranged attack plan which iary forces which could well be other ships. than when they signed the thatched barns-and

the sheriff's sublatlon.

The that remain here usudi- Bail on included raida on three points used in other parts of Angola Declaration of Independ-Lublin area 15 buildings

the charge, drunk in auto, was on the frontiers of the former had to remain in Luanda loly stay with relatives until the $105.--UPI. ence, so were these same burnt down,

Belgian and French Congua.

language problem is solved, and maintain security there-AFP. Gusts of strong wind made i

then and work, There are thou- idenis nover more strongly frs-fighting dimcult. High ten-

sands of legal Greek migrants expressed than when they sien ires were broken in places,

in Australia, associated themselves with causing power cuts in overal Britain in the hour of her | villages.-Reuter. deadly peril in 1940. And oven If the Americans and English of this genera- tion cannot ace it, it was clearly acon by that astuto politician Binmark eventy years ago, For he warned his own country that any who dared to Interfere with either the Amorleans or the

Let's go!

New York, Apr. 10. A letter in the New York Dally Now, signed James J.

"The United Holland, said:

States should follow the exam- ple of South Africa and get the Britiah, would find them-heck out of the British Com- selves up against one people monwealth". of common heritage.

Special.

PROBLEM INCREASES The problem of the defecting Greek Ballors has increased in Minister

A. D. D. Faulkner the last two years because of a sald he was satisfied that the recession in the Greek shipping current wave of armed no- | trade, suld the neting Connul- sivity was being organised by General for Grecco, Mr A. men from Euro, and not

by Goona. former Internnes released 1900,

Belfast

IRA ATTACK FORESTALLED

Belfast, Apr. 19. Police have forestalled out of the most serious outbreaks of violence on the border DO- tween Ulater. Northern Iro- land, and Ere, since when

the ourrent

Republican Army (IRA) terrorist campaign ovened, a police spokesman said bere today.

from Eire were Elscovered by the polles after an Ulster Constabulary helicopter patrolį spotted men acting suspicious- ly on the border. Police found two ambush part-

tions, several

Lend

mines

In

ready for use, a drum full of | OMeinl - Belfast opinion Was aeilgnito, anbmachine gun aITA» that any resurgenon of border

K20 muniston, Brot aid kits

per- terrorism would almost haveruseks of erniy-type food tainly reelt In the reintern- Tations.

ment of many men with- pasi tafilicators Northern Ireland Home Affaira: IRA records--AIT,

China Mall | Extensive preparations for an

armed attack by

"Four to six of the crew desert from every Greek ship which comes to Australlen ports," he said,

They deserted, the Coneul- General added, tá take advant- age of "wonderful working con-

ditions in Australia."—AP,

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