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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1951.

EISENHOWER ON QUICK TOUR Informal Talks With Viscount Montgomery In Paris

No Amount Of Outside Aid Alone Can Defend Europe

Paris, Jan. 7.

General Dwight D. Eisenhower flew in here today to take command of the Atlantic Pact Army. Soon after landing he held informal talks with Field Marshal Viscount Mongtomery, the Western Union defence chief.

The Field Marshal's defence organisation is likely to be absorbed by the new 12-nation Atlantic Army.

Asked after their talks whether he had ac- cepted a post under General Eisenhower-his old World War II commander-Field Marshal Mont- gomery replied: "No questions today. I have nothing to say.

In а recorded statemeut

broadcast by the French Radio, put aside

"Let us work for them and General Eisenhower

all prejudices warned past

and Europeans

grievances. And that he had

let us no never shirk from defending

а

Paet

"miraculous plans" and that no their birthright of liberty even amount of outside aid alone as ours has been cherished and could defend Europe,

General Eisenhower plans

staunchly defended for us. quick tour of Atlantic capitals. High French officials. Service chiefs and diplomats met him at the airport when he arrived here.

He told them that he would return to Europe "more per- manently" about the middle of February

"I cling to the hope that the suffering of. the last war were young lives, the blood and the not spent squanders his inheritance, but as the profligate that from the common ordeal will now arise a strong and united Europe, a Europe that look forward confidently to a future of peace, advance- ment and mutal security.

can'

According to an itinerary given by a spokesman here yesterday, the Supreme Com- "This is our goal, We must mander, after conferring with put our

hearts and hands to French officials, will visit its achievement, Brussels The Hague, Copen- "NO lesser hagen, Oslo, London, Lisbon, warped nationalism and, above purpose, no Rome, Frankfurt, Luxembourg all, no aggressive or predatory and Reykjavik (Iceland) be- design should be tween January 10 and 26.

allowed to turn us He will then go to Ottawa enterprise.

away from this noble for a two-day visit, and return to Washington for talks with President Truman before taking up his new Command perman- ently at SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters of the Atlantic Powers in Europe) in the Hotel Astoria on the Champs Elysees.

General "Ike" then drove round the Arc de Triomphe and back to the Hotel Raphael, where he is staying, to begin informal talks with Lord Mont- gomery.

"In the same degree that we believe danger threatens us all, we must meet it together. Our task is to preserve the peace, not to incite war.

"We approach this task not in appeasement but with the clear eyes and stout hearts of men who knew that theirs is à righteous cause.

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BETTER THAN NOTHING-Even during the retreat before the Chinese Communist troops, this GI decided to brave the icy water for a quick foot-bath in North Korea. The hurried and dangerous retreat doesn't permit much washing and this member of the 24th Division took his wherever he could find it.

alliance of such magnitude can bring confidence, not fear, to the hearts of men."--Reuter. Paris, Jan, 7. General Eisenhower will have met the top political and mili- tary leaders of France and the most prominent figures of the Marshall within the first 48 hours of his

Plan

check-up" tour European capitals.

of Western

Primus Stove

Is Blessing In

organisation Middle East

"Barak

Allah

Cairo, Jan. 7.

Al Suweid." This invocation goes up daily from hundreds of thousands of homes all over the Middle

The economic aspect of European rearmament accounted for the presence of Mr Milton Katz, Marshall Plan roving afabassador, and Mr William East. Batt, head of EC.A. administra- tion in London, at top-level Bless

PREMIERS

ACTED

WISELY

New York, Jan. 7.

The Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Conference in Lon-" don acted "swiftly and wisely"

in revising the formula that persuaded Mr Liaquat Ali Khan to hurry to London, the New York Times commented today.

"The Kashmir issue has been detrimental to both India and Pakistan," it said. "It has made the solution of other pressing problems even more difficult.

"Pakistan and India will each be stronger if they are firmly allied rather than sensitively. opposed."

The New York Herald- Tribune, in a

leading article before it was known that the Pakistan Prime Minister was going to London, said that the idea of a plebiscite in Kashmir: "still seems the most just and reasonable" method of solving the problem.

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India's "adamant rejection" stood incongruously with "its emphasis

morality and fairness in dealings between nations." No move would more persuasively indicate through- out the world the disinterested- ness of Pandit Nehru's motives and purposes than a change of position on this point, the paper said. Reuter.

NO NEW PROPOSALS

Schipol Airport,

Holland, Jan. 7. Mr Liaquat Ali Khan, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, told Reuter here tonight that he had "no new proposals" for a settlement of the Kashmir dispute when he landed on his way to the London Common- wealth talks.

He said that the proposals for a settlement had already been made and "it is just a matter of a deadlook over their implementation".

"Pakistan still holds

that the future of Kashmir must be decided by a free and partial plebiscite. I have to get im- the help of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers to have the they mean "God plebiscite proposal implement- Sweden" and the in-ed, Mr Liaquat continued.

Translated

do

"There is power in our union and resourcefulness sea, land and air. Aroused and meetings. shortly after the Vocation goes up because "ht this problem is solved united there is nothing which General's arrival here today, Sweden has conferred the then India and Pakistan will the nations of the Atlantic com- The two commanders

THE American Ambassador, greatest possible boon on the be able to con-munity cannot achieve.

make their

own tinued their discussion during

M David Bruce, was originally peoples of these lands in the contributions to the "Let those

peace of lunch in General

who might be to have entertained the form of the "primus stove," Asia and of the world. Until Eisenhower's tempted to put this power to Supreme Commander suite. Others at the

to lunch Literally millions of these it

is solved, neither can luncheon the test ponder well the les- but this later became a dinner stoves, the only form of cooker anything."-Reuter. were Lieutenant-General Alfred sons of history. The cause of engagement with Mr Katz and known to the vast majority of Gruenther, General

ARRIVES IN LONDON Eisen-freedom can never be defeated, Mr Batt among the guests. hower's Chief of Staff,

the teeming millions of these who "We

London, Jan. 7. are committed to arrived:

Officials described the dinner lands, and carrying the words Mr a with him today, and great partnership and I, in all

Liaquat Ali Khan, as "private", but observers be- "made in Sweden" are scatter-Pakistan's Admiral Robert Carney, the humility, am proud to serve in lieved

Prime that vital

Minister, Commander-in-Chief

questions ed up and down the face of arrived in London by air from of the one. phase of attaining United States naval forces

the were broached.

Karachi tonight, in aspirations of our several the Eastern Atlantic and

General Eisenhower

He the peoples,

may export to the

has come to join the Mediterranean.

ferred alone with Mr Charles Middle East more valuable Commonwealth Prime "Should

Minis our solidarity, our prayers for of the Atlantic Council of De-

through Spofford, American Chairman cargoes than primus stoves, ters' 10-day secret conference peace and though the mercy puties before he went

she certainly does not which began here on Thursday. of God, be spared

into a

anything nearly

-Reuter. So the catas closed meeting with trophe of another war then this Marshal Viscount Montgomery, very exceptionally one finds Field-popular, In lands where only organisation will have served Western Union defence chief. "The children of all nations a noble purpose.

a fireplace or a stove such as Every year about 150,000 deserve better than we have so

Speculation "It will

on the subjects we are accustomed to in the have demonstrated discussed by

stoves are off-loaded iri far been able to promise them. that

General Eisen- West, the primus stove is the Egyptian ports alone, and are àn alliance for They bear no hatred, suspicion rather than for war is an en- gomery

peace hower and Field-Marshal. Mont-centrepiece of the household. sold

centred or distrust. They have earned tirely practical measure that latter's

round the No sound is more welcome, or none against themselves.

position within the more universal,- than in an Atlantic army-Reuter.

General Eisenhower, in his broadcast, asked all Europeans to put aside prejudices and past grievances and work for a united Europe.

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