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GROMYKO'S NEW PROPOSALS Still Conflict With Western Views, But To Be Considered

COMMENT

The Big Four deputies have had more than three weeks of verbal hair- splitting in Paris now. And the result. looks

just as much a deadlock The niggling

as ever.

and the bickering have begun to how crucial are

the issues at stake.

It is so tragically likely to

be the last serious at tempt of the Western world to get down to an understanding with the Soviet. If it fails, it is difficult to escape the

German Demilitarisation

Linked With Tension Causes

Paris, Mar. 28.

Soviet Russia today submitted new proposals to the conference of "Big Four" deputies here which Mr. Ernest Davies, the British delegate, said would be considered with "great care and without prejudice.”

The new Soviet proposals dealt with disarmament of the four Great Powers and the causes of international tension.

Sightseeing

idea that despite the Buses Fired

valiant efforts of the West, sooner or later the

clash must come. On In Berlin

Floundering in the smoke-

Berlin, Mar. 28.

Today's meeting was the 19th and it was marked by the Soviet delegate, M. Andrei Gromyko, presenting a new draft for the third item of the Soviet agenda,

Are Bald Men Bolder?

Bonn. Mar. 28.

Bald men are far more passionate than those with a full crop of hair, Dr Herbert Schrader, said to- day.

The German physician, who has made a life-long study of human hair, said the most emotional women were those with long, nar- eyebrows United

Tow

Press,

MOTORSHIP

SWEPT

M. Gromyko, presenting the new proposal, said that the Western Powers, by making allega- BY tions about fear of Soviet aggression right from the beginning of the conference, had not con- tributed to creating a favourable atmosphere in which agreement could be reached.

..

M,

FIRE

Dar Es Salaam, Mar. 28. A blaze which swept the 4,295-ton Norwegian motor- ship Siemmestad from stem The Soviet delegation, he said (according to a

Gromyko did not state to stern was reported today. spokesinan), had become more ed to accept the Western item

Western today whether he was prepar- to be dying down.. and more convinced

The vessel wa's carrying that the submitted yesterday about the kerosene and bitumen in the Western Powers were opposed fulfilment of the Balkan peace deck to the inclusion on the agenda treaties.

and general cargo, fa- of the two most burning ques-

dluding matches and brandy in tions-demilitarisation of Ger-

the holds. ¿ Conference reduction of

Two hours after the start of many and armaments of the four Powers.

said the

that the new Soviet text still the fire, which occurred soon No agenda which

conflicted with the attitude of after she left here yesterday, ignored these two questions could

returned to the outer an- the Western Powers in the she be regarded as.

following respect:

chorage and the port tug Linden satisfactory, M. Gromyko said..

(1) The reference to the re- towed her to Daphne Reef, where duction of armaments was still she lay blazing.

to the confined

four Great

The East German police to- States day fired 12 shots at five United Army buses carrying American soldiers and tourists. The incident occurred at a point where the British, Soviet and American sectors meet. No one was injured,

According to first reports, the drivers were ordered to stop by a member of the black, uniformed People's police. The drivers did not appear to un- derstand these, the reports said, and drove on.

The in-hit the last bus several times.

police opened fire and

an Twelve shots were fired, an American official said. The

The new proposal buses were carrying American show the Western Powers how soldiers and routine tour of the four sectors. taking a four-Power meeting.

tourists on seriously the Soviet Union was They were coming from

The Western spokesman said Brandenberg Gate, at the that the Western Powers told British-Russian sector, when, M. Gromyko that they would according to first reports, they like time to consider the ques- were ordered to stop by 3 ticns raised by the new Soviet member of the people's police proposal.

con-

screen set up by Gromyko and the blatant propaganda-the Western deputies appear to have overlooked. the three cardinal points: One. This is a conference which Russia worked hard to get. The assump tion must be that she really wants something. Two, This is, in any case,

not the decisive ference, but is merely tended to draw up agreed agenda. Three, Should the confer- ence break down, it may be of importance to place. the fault unmistakably. The fact that Russia really wants something.. the non-rearmament of Ger- many--has naturally not interfered with the Gromyko technique. Gromyko keeps the Paris gathering an the verge of breakdown. Day by day he doles out triviali- ties, apparently hoping that the Big Three will: make real concessions: In general, the Soviet has

been trying to get agenda phrased in such a way that, by accepting

an

-Reuter.

would

Holiday Battle In Britain's Arsenals

London, Mar. 28.

Thousands of armament workers at four English State arsenals have decided to ban over- time work from tomorrow, a Ministry of Supply

it, the West is committed spokesman said today. to the ultimate decision!

The men's action will be bound to slow down In particular, Stalin Britain's big rearmament drive, he added.

and the Royal Ordinance fac- tories at Nottingham, Wigan and Radway Green, in North-West England.

ponents.

cluding small arms and fuse fac- tories."

The dispute had been going on for two or three years.

.

STILL CONFLICTS

observers

.*

She was carrying no passen- Powers, its order of discussion gers and most of the crew were was also placed before a general taken off at 9.00 p.m. last night. examination 10C the level of "Four men, who took to a armaments.

raft after being trapped in the (2) The question of German forepart of the vessel; were to- demilitarisation was placed first day picked up by a dhow (Arab with the causes of tension and transfered to a launch, which among the

questions dealing sailing vessel). They were later

was consequently somewhat was due here at 8.00, p.m.' isolated from the general dis- Their raft was sighted by an cussion on the level of arma-aircraft pilot, who afterwards ments.

went up in a chartered plane Before the, meeting closed, M. to guide rescuers to the spot. Gromyko replied to the speech Reuter. yesterday by Dr Philip Jessup. (United States) who had said

that the United States supported No

neither an armaments race nor the re-arming of. Comiany.

"OLD FABLES" M. Gromyko

said that the Western Powers tried to pretend that their measures in Germany did not amount to remii grisa- (Continued on Page 8 Col. 1)

Four

Privates Desert

No Separate

Approach To China Planned

òn

London, Mar. 28. Britain had no intention of making a separate approach to the

Chinese Government Korea at the present time, a Foreign Office spokesmah said today.

wants German arma- ments discussed first-as The plants affected are the arsenal at Woolwich, London, being the cause of Euro- pean tension! Russia, ostensibly, wants the discussions, tied to fulfilment of the Pots- These factories produce guns,

and tank dam Agreement. Curious ammunition

com ly enough because the West has demilitarised The object of the ban, which does not have the approval of their part of Germany the men's

He said that he could not say involved in the Korean cam- taade unions, is to

where they had gone. but paign. two- thoroughly and the Rus-press the claims for a

A strike by a few..hundred sources close to the British At the same time it was be- sians have filled East weeks' holiday a year. At pre dockers in Northumberland is Military Government agreed

lieved here that President Tru- holding up 63 ships which that they Germany with a so-called sent the workers get one week.

The Government is discussing normally carry coal from North- over as reported by Tass.

had probably gone man might make a public de claration. police force that is the men's decision with their East-England to London. The The men had been stationed Later It was decided to corn- beyond doubt a military unions, the chief of which is the men have stopped work because with their battalion in the bine the two moves so that

huge Amalgamated Engineering more highly skilled coal loaders British organisation.

Union.

sector of Berlin. The President Truman is now ex- have been brought from their Tass report followed immediate-pected to make a declaration A spokesman of the Union docks from other parts of Britain ly on the return of Corporal on United Nations policy to- said that he understood the and they claimed that this im-John Walker, of the Royal Army wards China overtime.

and after the bani would affect perilled their chances of being Service Corps, who "quite a

went to terms have been approved- by number of factories promoted to better paid jobs. Eastern Germany in May. up and down the country, Reuter.

Reuter,

He was commenting on press reports that Britain might short- Berlin, Mar. 28.

ly make a new approach to Four privates of the

1st China. NOT OPPORTUNÉ

Battalion, the Manchester Regi

The report was thought here ment,

reported by the Soviet to be out of date. Last week The Ministry of Supply had news been in favour of granting the sought asylum in Eastern Ger-informed diplomatic

agency, Tass, to have it was believed in usually well. queteri men's request in principle but many, had been absent since here that Britain might make said that economic circumstances March 4, a British Army spokes-an approach to China, in the. were "not opportune." The man said today.

name of the other governments Ministry's last reply had been "no."

What is wrong therefore.

with accepting the Pots dam basis and challeng- ing them on it?

all the governments concerned. -Reuter.