WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1952
UN Planes
Blast Four
Red Bases
SEOUL, Wednesday, Feb. 6
(AP).—Allied warplanes Tuesday
destroyed four Communist am
munition and supply bases in
heavy attacks, touching off giant
fires that lighted the night sky for
miles.
The- ruined supply centers were
Namchonjon and Sinmak, 35 and
46 miles respectively northwest
of the truce town of Panmunjom.
Marine corsairs blew up the
ammunition depots, which were
on the east coast of- North
Korea. •
Ground Action
The fifth air force said the
planes destroyed a total of 130
supply building and revetments.
In the ground war, Allied in
fantrymen reoccupied a hill on
the western front without firing
a shot. They had quite the posi
tion . Monday night when the
Beds attacked behind intense ar
tillery fire.
Only small patrol actions were
reported elsewhere • along the
155-mile front. Temperatures in
the line were several degrees be
low zero.
Hit Railroads
Allied fighter-bombers, in addi
tion to attacks on supply centers,
struck, anew at Communist com
munication lines. Pilots estimated
they cut Korean rail lines in 65
places.
One flight of jet fighter-bomb
ers struck at the railway yards
at Pyongyang, North Korean
capital. They destroyed one loco
motive and damaged another.
Sabre jets flying cover for the
fighter-bombers sighted 118 Rus
sian-made MIG-75 jets in North
ing passes with elements of the
west Korea. They exchanged fir
formations but made no damage
claims.
Comm iff ee Adopts
UMT Blueprint
WASHINGTON, Feb. s—(£>)
The House Armed Services com
mittee today adopted the major
provisions of a blueprint for Uni
versal Military Training, commit
tee officials said.
. Meeting in a closed session, the
committee approved, with “minor
exceptions,” a training plan pre
pared by a special five-man com
mission. It provides for six
months’ training of 18-year-olds,
followed by seven and one-half
years’ service in the reserves.
But the commission also ap
proved an amendment under
which trainees could not be com
pelled, to go into regular military
service without congressional ap
proval.
British to Attempt
Egyptian Settlement
LONDON, Feb. s— (JP) —Britain will spare no effort to reach a
settlement of the British-Egyptian dispute “that takes account of the
legitimate rights of both parties,” Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
told the House of Commons tonight.
Arab leaders also hunted a way to end the festering quarrel.
In the Middle East, Iraq Pre
mier Nuri said Pasha joined King
Ibi Saud of Saudi Arabia in an
approach to ■ bo t h sides which
clearly was designed to:
1. Get British troops out of the
Suez canal zone.
2. Persuade Egypt to accept a
plebiscite in the Anglo-Egyptian
Sudan.
3. Unite the Moslem nations of
the Middle East into a security
system which would be supported
—but not controlled —by the west
ern Allies.
A 1 Misry, a Cairo newspaper
which backs the policies of the
powerful WAFDists, reported to
day that Nuri Said has received
from Britain a six-point formula
for settling the dispute.
This broadly is what the Arab
leaders’ plan looked like:
1. British evacuation of the
Suez Canal at a date to be agreed
on.
2. This evacuation would be
conditioned on the prior return
of peace and security in the canal
zone.
3. British military installations
in the area would be maintained
UN Overrides Russia;
Reds to Present Truce
MUNSAN, ■ Korea, Wednesday,
Feb. 6 — (AP) — The Communists
may reveal to the world today
their plans for Korea.
The 36th plenary session of the
full Korean armistice delegations
convened today to begin discus
sions on the final agenda item—
recommendations to the belliger
ent governments.
1 The session opened at 10 a.m.
(8 p.m., EST, Tuesday) in a tent
at the conference site of Panmun
jom.
North Korean Gen. Nam 11,
senior Red delegate at the Pan
munjom armistice talks, an
nounced he would lay before the
full five-man United Nations dele
gation a draft of Commuist
recommendations to the govern-
Gen. Nam II
ments concerned for a Korean
The plenary meeting, the first
in two months, was scheduled for
10 a.m. (8 p.m. Tuesday, EST).
Regular session of staff officers
and a sub-delegation of the main
armistice commission will follow,
settlement.
There was speculation before
the meeting as to what Nam U’s
plans would cover. These sug
gestions were uppermost:
1. Nam would demand that
North-Korea and Red China sit
down at a high level conference
with UN powers to decide the
final - terms of a Korean peace
settlement.
2. Nam would ask immediate
withdrawal of all foreign troops
from Korea. This has been a pet
demand of the Reds.
The Allied truce team, headed
by Vice Adm. C. Turner Joy
seemed unperturbed. Joy pro
posed last week that the final
agenda item—recommendations—
be considered before agreement
was reached on other issues. The
Reds accepted on Sunday.
for use in case of a threat to the
security of the canal.
4. Both Britain and Egypt
would agree on the means of
maintenance and protection of
these bases.-
5. Agreement would be reached
on the defense of the Middle East
in case of aggression and the
basis of this defense would be
an Arab security pact.
6. The question of the future of
the Sudan would be decided bv
a plebiscite in the Sudan, with
no pressure from either Egypt
or Britain.
1021 Men to Be Called
In Second Feb. Draft
HARRISBURG, Feb. 5 —(/P)
The second draft call for Feb
ruary was issued today from
state Selective Service headquar
ters, calling for induction of
1021 men.
State Director Henry M. Gross
said a third call will be sent later
in the month. The complete Feb
ruary Call is for 39971
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
Embassy
Probe Is
Set by U.S.
WASHINGTON, Feb. S—(AP)
—The State Department said to
day it will take a new look at
the- question whether to shut
down American embassies and
legations in Russian satellite
countries.
Top American diplomats to
Iron Curtain countries will meet
in Paris early next month to dis
cuss this along with other prob
lems.
The United States at present
maintains embassies ‘ in Poland
and Czechoslovakia and lega r
tions, headed by ministers, in
Romania and Hungary.
Listening Posts
Press officer Michael J. Mc-
Dermitt confirmed at a news con
ference , that the problem of
whether to continue diplomatic
relations has been placed on the
Paris conference agenda.
In answering questions, he
made it plain the State Depart
ment under present conditions
favors keeping these diplomatic
outposts open to serve as “listen
ing posts.” '•
Shutdown Proposed
Responsible State Department
officials, who disclosed the de
velopment before. McDermott
talked about it, told a repbrter an
American embassy has proposed
the shutdown.
. Up to now the department has
endured Communist restrictions
largely on the theory that such
information as the diplomatic
missions would provide about de
velopments behind the Iron Cur
tain was better than no official,
contact at all.
Mew Directory
Will Be Ready
About Feb. 20
A supplement to the student
directory, containing the names
of all new students on campus,
will be ready about Feb. 20, John
Laubach, president of the As
sociation of Independent Men,
announced yesterday.
Laubach said that supplement
will not carry any changes of ad
dresses of students whose names
appeared in the student directory
as originally published. He said
that the present appropriation
probably would not be large
enough to cover the expense of
putting out a supplement of the
size which would be required to
include all the changes in' ad
dress that have been made. Lau
bach also said that suitable sys
tem for obtaining all the changes
could not be worked out in time
to allow an early publication of
the supplement.
Laubach stated that the depart
ment of public information is
going to aid All-College Cabinet
in covering the cost of putting
out the supplement. Louis Bell,
director of public information,
will act as adviser to the supple
ment committee.
FAtTUFFE
PLAYS AT
CENTER STAGE
3 MORE WEEKENDS
Bth and 9th
15th and 16th
22nd and 23rd
Tickets At
Student Union
And At The Door
PARIS, Feb. s— (JP) —The UN
assembly today overrode Russian
objections and shelved the Ko
rean case , until an armistice is
reached or a rupture of the Pan
munjom talks calls for stronger
UN action.
It then adjourned its three
month Paris session, with • most
delegates expressing hope for an
early truce. The next session is
due in the autumn.
Emergency Session
The assembly voted 51 to five
(Soviet bloc) to delay discussion
of the political settlement in
Korea until the military talks are
successfully completed. The dele
gates authorized Secretary-Gen
eral Trygve Lie to call the assem
bly into an emergency special
session in New York to consider
more forceful action if the. talks
finally break down.
The United States fought for
this decision through heated com
mittee debate last Saturday and
today’s vote went as expected.
Chile and .Yemen abstained.be
cause they felt the delegates
should discuss rehabilitation and
reconstruction work » now. Dele
gates of Peru and South Africa
were absent.
New Disarmament Group
The vote killed another of the
pet projects of Soviet Foreign
Minister Andrei Y. Vishinsky,
who returned to Moscow last
week, ailing and tired. Vishinsky
failed earlier in an effort to con->
demn membership in the North,
Atlantic Treaty organization: He
was not able to halt a resolution
forging stronger bonds of collec
tive security and finally had to
make new proposals on atomic
controls which he himself termed
momentous concessions.
Perhaps the most important
achievements of the sixth general
assembly were the creation of a
new disarmament commission for
a fresh try at international con
trol of atomic energy and the ap
proval of a broader program for
collective security, including re
gional-pact forces , such as NATO,
whenever aggression occurs.
$250,000 Weapon
Will Be Revealed
WASHINGTON, Feb. S—(AP)
—Defense officials took some of
the wraps. off • new and highly
complex weapons today, includ
ing a $250,000 bomb-sighting
system which “thinks” faster
than the human mind.
The closely-guarded exhibition
was prepared for a Senate ap
propriations subcommittee to
help demonstrate:
(a) Scientific strides in the field
of military weapons, and
(b) Why the Defense depart
ment has asked for $52,100,000,-
000 for the fiscal year starting
July 1.
Another exhibit was a model of
a new “skysweeper” anti-air
craft gun, which Karl R. Bendet
sen, assistant secretary of the
Army, said was entirely radar
controlled.
Eden Calls
Lahorites
'Anti-U.S/
LONDON, Feb. s—(/P)— Foreign
Secretary Anthony Eden angrily
accused Laborite critics tonight
of “anti-American prejudice.” He
insisted there is less fear of war
now than when Winston Churchill
became prime minister three
months ago.
Growing anxiety in some Brit
ish quarters’ that Korea might
lead to a full-scale war in the
Far East—with Britain in it—
was brought out in the open in
an uproarious debate on foreign
policy in the House of Commons.
Armistice Intentions
Eden clenched his fists and
pounded a table as he denounced
any suggestions the United States
does not want a
armistice in K<
rea.
“The Amer
cans want an a:
mistice and
will be signed
it can be got,”
shouted.
turning to hec!
ling Laborites,
“The United Anthony Eden
States is as deep
ly anxious for peace in the Far
East as we are. There is in some
quarters such anti-American prej
udice that they will hardly listen
to what I have to say.”
Eden said he felt the Ameri
cans still regard Europe as the
“decisive area” in combatting
communism and declared:
Truce Enforcement
“Certainly, it is my opinion that
the United States has no desire
to become more deeply involved
in the Far East.”
If the Communists break a
Korean truce, Eden said, “the
only undertaking, if it can -be' so
described, which we have entered
into is .that, in that event, con
sultation would take place among
the interested parties, including
ourselves.”
. A highly placed informant said
m Paris Saturday Britain and
France had agreed to join the
United States in asking the Unit
ed Nations for punitive action
against Communist China if a
truce, once reached, was violated.
Eden had just completed a con
ference in Paris with French For
eign Minister Robert Schuman.
Dilworth Accuses Fine
Of Breaking Pledges
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. S— (JP)
—Richardson Dilworth said to
night Republican Governor John
S. Fine “has broken virtually
every one” of his campaign pled
ges, and “has deliberately sold
out the people who backed him.”
Dilworth, a Democrat, was de
feated by Fine in the 1950 guber
natorial race. Last fall Dilworth
successfully won election as dis
trict attorney of Philadelphia as
Democrats captured the city gov
ernment for the first time in 68
years.
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