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London, Oct. 31-Vler. Admiral Forrest Sherman left for New York by Pan- American Clipper today. Kt318 mum about reports that he would succeed de- Hosed Admiral Louis Den- fold as 18. Chief of Naval Operations,

Admiral Sherman, who teti bin taxk force Al Beirut,

arrived Hierr by Clipper from Brussels and look off again for the U.H. 23 minuten Inter To re- peated queries from nowy- men for comment en thr report that he would ke- reved Admiral Drufeld. Admiral Sherman replied: "1 f 19 comment 011 any subject, Press.

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VOL. IV NO. 257

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1949.

Bitter Exchanges

In United Nations

Over Resolution

ALBANIA ASKED TO STOP

FIRING ON OBSERVERS

THEFTS FROM General Assembly voted overwhelmingly today to instruct the

NORWEGIAN ARMS DUMPS

Lake Success, Oct. 31.-The Political Committee of the

United Nations Secretary-General to request the Albanian Gov- ernment to ensure that attacks from Albanian territory upon United Nations observers ended immediately.

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A British resolution that effect, approved by 46 Oslo, Ort. 31 Norway votes to six with three ab today ordered sweeping stentions, was based chiefly Investigation of large-scale on reports that a group of arms thefts from hee mill-U.N. observers

fired Lary dumps amid reports jupon from Albanian terri that the Communist Partytory on the nigh' of Octo- had established a formidable her 25. Bercet military organisation which is carrying out ex- tensive training exercises.

to 1s and remain at the The nuller came before the disposal of the group during dis. Committee when the Bulgarian pram of the Balkans problem,, representative, Mr Nissim The Committee enriter defeated Movorah, submitted a written zrelostov ik move la permal exquest to the Committee chalt-

t.. Czech represer intiv

Lil-

man, Mr Pearson, naking for fully it the nebale, - participation in the discussion. ---

Fight to ruited Press. though without the You The Czech proposal, sup- MCNEIL'S CHARGES

ted by The Soviet Union.

Lake Success. Oct. 31-Mr Poland, the Ukraine and Byelo-

Hector McNell, the British Press reports announcing the Husata, would have permitted

Minister of State, today accused incident were confirmed tiny this representatives to parti-

1be Suviet Union of making by a telegram from the chair. elpate in the debate on a full

Greece a "lool of Soviet foreign man of the group of observers | fonùng of equabily

policy,

with a cynical and an to Mr Lester Pearson of Canada, other members

immor! disregard for the sut channels" was chairman of the Politieni Com-

Norwegian mittee. they

people,"

An Investigation "through res

police gular ordered by

tion".

un

[F-

U.S. OPPOSITION

Mr Benjamin Cohen (United logs and aspirations of the

tivities

Albanan nod

Speaking

the United Nations Pollen Committee on the Soviet proposal,for "setting" the Balkans

Issue, Mr McNell made these points:

General amnely:

"This 19 very desirable but it seems to ne that it is primarily a matter for the Greek Governmeal to Mr Katz-Surky charged that decide when

they nre lit the Unite States wished to a position to grant such retaxa- representativys of

tions of security miensures es Rulgaria and penalise them for refusing to co-operate with the fare consistent with recurlly,

said Balkans Commission. He the United States should con- equently attempi to silence the Polish delegation because Puland

Minister of Justice, Mr O.C. A vojn wha taken After States) opposed this suggestion Gunderson, as Oslo newspaper | lengthy

on the grounds that Albania and and bitter exchangea hinted that the perfes of postwar between Mr Hector MeNei Bulgaria had refused to Co- thefts in military depots might | (United Kingdom) and Mroperate with the United Nations be connected with a "secret Jacob Malik (Soviet Russin) Balkans Commission in its ac- Communist milltary organisa, fand Julius Katz-Suchy

and Investigation and), in which the two Easton Therefore the Committee should delegates charged not grant these countries special The police denied that there European had been large-scale thefts, but that the British resolution was privileges Mr Gunderson announced that legal because it attempt to ag put the blame on the Albanan investigation WAN being

basis of Guvertiment

the enrried out "To find out whether

we hot militery Communist orgia-reports of observers, sation exists, and how large it taking ble roosideration, what.

ever explanation Albank sta have to offer. In Gjorvik, in central Norway CZECH MOVE DEFEATED bocal newspapers linerf the White Mr Malik charges that

to recognize Communists were holding milli- cing ensulation WLIN not part of also had refuzed

UN Balkuns Commiadon exercises in the the Committee's agenda, Mr

VOTING RESULT Katz-Sachy suggested that the Committee should. Instead, re-j The Chunmitee decided by the Albantan Government to three votes, with On10

the 3M side A

dis- Jabstention, to javite representa- En premest

Bulgaria The Pollab delegate and lives of Albania and

IN "

nry train muntados.Unster Prest

Wavell In Canada te

doubt if Mr Vyshinsky ........ would appreciate the Asseintly areommending to the Soviet Governme Government that they should

grant tu muesty to some of The political prisoners which, for doubtless the best reasons, he has been Instrumental ไม่ committing to prison."

GREEK ELECTIONS Elections: "I am cure that

¡the Ponzmittee had no way of, to appear before the Committee. the Greek Government will, in Montreal,

3) Ort:

- Field (newing

whether the fire really, but relected by 40 votes to six, due course, announce its inten. Marshul Earl Wavell, former og Tom Albumian territory with three abstentions a Czech tion of holding free elections." Viceroy of Indio,

move to grant these representa- Mr McNell, however, emplasia- arrived here Toe Politient Cominuslee ano Today by air for a four-week

Cendet te meite representatives lives the right of participationed that owing to the hostilities vinli.--Reuter.

Ca↑ Bulgaria and All ma to mak , the discusson.

The present Greek electoral rolls were hopelessly out of date," and serious revisions would be required before genuine elec- tons could be held.

EDITORIAL

Iron And Bamboo Curtains

THE lightning flashes that have passed between Belgrade and Moscow have burned large holes in the Iron Curtain. The screen is not nearly as good as it WAR.

When Russia moved her frontier westward, she carried with it not only the Soviet system but also the secrecy and isolation that go with it. The satellite states in Eastern Europe were far from being models of democracy in the old days, but at least they were accessible and were in touch with the outer world. The "new democracy" locked them in and made them incommunicado. The Russians lived secluded in their separate world for nearly three decades after the Revolution. Nobody Interfered with them, and they did not openly Interfere with other nations. The Communist. (International disturbed some countries, but conquered none, and it was not considered a real danger. Between the drawn.curtain, half way up at first but drawn down a little farther every year, the Soviet planners- were able to work out their great experi- ment.assecretly as they pleased. Today It is harder to maintain the black-out. The well grows thinner as it covers more ierritory. Unlike the Soviet Union itself, the neighbouring countries have been too long tied to the West to be completely detached. For the most part, the people. are unwilling captives, and while only a few are able to run away, many more manage in devious ways to maintain con- Ptacts outside. Russla has always been more or leas insulated-"the dark forest that nobody knows"--but that is not true of her satellites in Europe. « Thoy remember, they are not entirely subdued, and they, leak, with the result that the

WAS

Also

* democratic

that

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Spain Offers Guarantee Of Help In War

Madrid, Oct. 31. - Spain has offered the Atlantic Pact powers a guarantee of active aid în any war with Soviet Russia in exchange for American financial assistance, it was reliably re- ported today.

Trustworthy diplomatic sources here and in Lisbon said the Spanish offer was made at two private meetings which Generalissimo Francisco Franco bad with Premier Antonio De Oliveira Salazar of Portugal during his recent state visit to that country.

No communique was either here or in the Portu- insucti after the meetings, guene capital. however, and it has been impossible to obtain official

onfirmation

of the report

New Jet Fighter Crashes

Thic diplomatic informants ald the Spanish guarantees offered by General lasimo Franco

would be contained in a mill-

tary alliance with Portugal, al-

ready a member of the

North

Atlantic Pact. Such an alliance would promise the Portuguese the aid of Spain if they should drawn into A war with Russia because of their Atlantic Pact membership.

be

It is not kriown whether such an alliance actually was signed, or whether Generalissimo Frened merely made the offer pending reaction from the United States. DRIVE FOR CREDITS Yeovil, Somerset, Oct. 31.

Diplomatic informants here -The pilot. a six-year-old say, however, the Generalis- cyclist, and a woman were almo's offer was a move in his killed when a British semi-drive to obtain American credits seoret Westland Wavern for vitally needed raw materials

and supplies. turbo-jet fighter prototype For some time, the Spanish crashed on two houses here Government has been giving an today.

impetus to this campaign by ex- - tending facilities to Important Another

Wae American legislators and per- taken to hospital with sonalles, as well as to French serious burns.

and British figures, to visit Spain for conferences with The plane had been

Franco and other government routine test flight, piloted by leadera.

Woman

לז

the Westland Aircraft Com- The Spaniards seem to think pany's assistant chief test pilot, that the best way of combatting Squadron Leader Michael feeling abroad against the

Istanbul, Oct. 31.-Senator Homer Ferguson (Re-Graves, 20-year-old son of Sir Franco regime is to invite in- publican of Michigan) said on his arrival hore from Belgrade Ciel Graves, a former Director fluential foreigners to meet the that the ideological conflict with Russia had created a General of the British Broad Caudillo himself and see the "national spirit" in Yugoslavia. The national Yugoslava casting Corporation.

country for themselves.~~Asso- intended to estabish close connections with the West, he other woman who was believed

Police are searching for an- ciated Press.

to have been in Duc of the houses demolished in the crash. -Reuter

added.

BLONDE DISAPPEARS

ON SHIP

Yugoslavs devoterl to Moscow Communism repre- sented hardly three percent while the remaining 97 per-

of

KILLED BY FUMES

NO TRACE

London, Oct. 31.—A coroner's OF MISSING

cent had a "mitigated con-court heard today that fumey ception"

Communist from their blazing aircruft tenels, the Senator said. killed Ove of the six victims of

Senator F.rguson is a metuber plane crash last Friday.

programm:.

The

RUSSIANS

of a special sub-commitee of

plane, gweed by the Cairo, Oct. 31-Egyptian ti: Senate Appropriations Cam-Superior Oil Company of Los Melbourne, Oct. 31. mittee now touring the worldAngeles, crashed at London Airplanes found no trace today Wong

On the Soviet demand

application of port while attempting to take off of three Russian airmen Australian homicide squad to spet the circles" should be detectives boarded

the Dalted States military aid in a fog, the

whose mystery plane was S. Keith, a pathologist, reported to Dr included In the

the Greeks eleekral 28,000-ton Orient liner Or-

have crash- body. Mr McNell

He arrived yesterday to join told the Kilburn coroner's court said thecades here today to invent!-other members of the Kroup 11unt the five died from inhaling landed in the shark-infested was obviously the intention of

that tt 20-vestigting Am.rien uld

Mediterranean near Tobruk. the products of combustion," to the Soviet Union to put into gate reports

The pilot, Joseph Jordan, of last Saturday, "legal opposition" those rebels year-old blonde, who gave Turkey. Reuter.

to overthrow her name

Los Angeles, died of shock and ns Gwenda Mc-| the Greek Government legal- Callum, was missing

haemorrhage, Dr Keith sold.

OTHER VICTIMS "Their record of illegal oppo- the ship during its voyage novic Yugoslav Charge sition does not entitle them to frum Sydney.

'Affaires in the Soviet Union, The five other victims were They were probing a reperi ieft Moscow by train yesterday Robert Allen, vice-president of their place in legal oppositions," he declared.

that she was sec1 struggling for Finland and Sweden on his Superior Oil Company, James with a man on a lower deck way back to Belgrade, leaving Lewis, Los Angeles attorney loved that the plane took off

who had faller

ly

Mr Vyshinsky had also asked that the elections be supervised by representatives of the Great Powers, including the Soviet Union.

SOVIET REFUSAL

from

some hours after midnight-yes- terday.

DIPLOMAT'S RECALL Moscow, Oct. 31-Lazo La-

The search is continuing but hope is fading. Nothing has been heard from the missing Soviet fliers since they.radioed Saturday. Their mission an irrgent appeal for ald on

mystery to local officials. Some aviation circles hers be-

WRE

message from the

only

as

total strength in the Yugoslav Hugh

Weightman and W. J Embassy of only five.

Horna, officials of A London originally from Albania for an The girl lold ship's

officers

M. Latinovic, who has the mining

and radio unknown destination

and be company, soon after the chip.icft Sydney rank of

Minister-Counsellor, officer Andre Cole, of Seal came lost in foul weather. They on October 29 that she came on has been Lin charge of the Beach, California.

the first board for a parly and "gol Embassy for the fast five monilis Earl Oscar Sivage of Cairo and plane identified it Mr McNell said that in 1946) drunk." Passengers paid her during the absence of the Am- Los Angeles, the co-pilot, was "plane RLM" in distress and the Soviet Union was invited to second class fare to Melbourne,bassador, M. Karlo Mrazove, thrown free. He suffered face preparing to crash-land. supervise the Greek elections and she was reported to have

But in the second distress but had refused to participate been last seen in the early hours whose recall was demanded last and leg burns,

Govern- week by the Soviet

The inquest was adjourned call

on Sunday, the Russians on the grounds that it was of yesterday morning, wander-

until November. 21-Associated were reported to have identi- opposed in principle to the ing around the ship in priamas Soviet hote asking for

The

fled themselves and said they supervision of national elections and a dressing down.

were surrounded by sharks and by foreign states "--

officera

the removal of the Ambassador yesterday from his office

said that, the

indicated they were adrift on The reason for that attitudo searched the vessel in vain for

treason trial Hungarian

of

the wreckage or on a raft. was that at that time "a different her.-Reuter.

Laszio Rajk showed that ha Was engaged in subversive Soviet activities against the

rest of the world knows a great deal of what goes on behind the curtain. we knew a' greut den! mure about Russla than we did. In extending her power. she has dispelled much of the mystery that formerly surrounded her and kept the world guessing. Nothing has been more Illuminating than the self-revelations proceeding from the break with Tito. The Yugoslav leader has told more, for instance, of the inside story of the war in Greece thun

disclosed In the testimony of the United Nations Commis sion of Inquiry. It has also been seen how Yugoslavia was ready to abandon all claims on Austrian territory except. a couple of power stations, but the Soviet Government did not give up the demands, on behalf of Yugoslavia, until this summer at the Paris meeting of the Foreign Ministers. Now, with the Chinese Com- munist domination of China, a similar-kind of election" was to take effort to put up a new screen is being made in this part of the world. The prohibition against foreign newspaper correspondents is the greatest single step in that direction. Personal contacts with foreign nationals are also being discouraged. On a higher level, diplomatic Contacts for the settlement of day to day affairs are spurned on the. excuse that formal diplomatic relations do not exist. Although trade is so far permitted it is being conducted. with the minimum, of intercourse between the parties. China is being deliberately closed In. How far she can be leelated behind the curtain is for the future lo tell. Win the screen turn out to be merely a bamboo curtain thint does not `completely shut out the view?

place in Bulgaria, and Rumania, and Mr Vyshinsky did not want Allied observers to see what Went DL

Ship's

LIMITING THE VETO

Union

NAMED AS AGENT

M. Latinovic was named by: Mr MeNeil said the "imposed

ต supervision" of elections was Lake Success, Oct. 31-us-a witness at the trial as a for- new. precedent in the diplomatic shi, the United States, Great mer American agent in Swit

[history of treo Independent Britain, France and China have reriono, a attrovin had

countries.

ngrood to consult each other

M.

been

Australian Election

Canberra, Oct.

Calzo

aviation spurces be lieved that the anal message

come

from a radio set on the raft, British RAF planes were reported to have joined in the search although both British 31-The and Egyptian Air Force officials Parliament refused to comment Unlied Australian Federal has been dissolved under a pro- Press. clamation gazetted here.

December, 10 is fixed дз

can only be undertaken at the decisions are taken in the cow Embassy for 12 months. The last General Election in

It cannot be imposed, Itvately before any important Minister-Councellor in the Mos General Election Day.

CLEARING THE invitations of the Government Security Council.

His French-born wife, who Australia was held on Septem-

DECKS concerned. Now, the Grek

This war disclosed In a state- was with him in Moscow, left ber 28, 1940, when the Labour Government may find

dement issued today by the Pre-during the summer.

Party was returned. This Party London, Oct. 31-The House Hrable

to hayo International aldent of the Security Council, The Yugoslav Embassy in has held office. since October of Commons tonight cleared approval for any new elections, Mr Warren Austin, of the United Moscow was today in charge of 1941, when it took over the Au- the decks for passage of the but it is not for me nor for States,

Btojonovic. on behalf of the "Big M. Homer

First ministration from a shaky and highly controversial bill Mr Vyshinsky to suggest such a Five"

Secretary, with a diplomatic divided right-wing Coalition. haidonalise Britain's steel indus- course to the Greek Govern- The agreement on the "prin- staff of four under him-Reuter. The

Minister, Mr try within the normal life of ment," he said,

dipic and practice" of talking BORDER INCIDENTA Joseph

the Opposition the

present Parliament. things over bafore taking any Joint Commisalons:

Party leader, Mr A. The House voted by 333 to There Important Council decision is today placed the blame for last G. Menzies, and the Country 198 in favour of cutting, from was already the United Nattens aimed at reducing the number Thursday night's Hungarian Party Icader, Mr A. W. Fadden, two years to one the delaying Balkans. Commission, designed of vetoo, which now total 41. Yugoslav from fer incident on are expected to make their powers of the predominantly. |to control the frontiers between ]ör theso, 40 havo beep Yugoslavia, alleging that be- policy speeches about the mid- Conservative House, of Lords,

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