WEDNESDAY. APRIL 7,1954
U.S. Asks Support
hi Warning Reds
LONDON, April 6 (?P)—The United States has called on
Britain, France, Australia, and New Zealand to join in issu
ing"a stern warning intended to protect war-torn Indochina
and the `rest of Southeast Asia from further Communist ag-
gression.
The British Foreign Office said terms.,of the declaration
have not yet been completed, but
are being hammered out in Wash
ington at conferences between
U.S. Secretary of State John Fos
ter Dulles and ambassadors of the
other countries which would sign
Hickenlooper,
Truman Clash
WASHINGTON, April 6 (M- 7 -
Former President Harry S. Tru
man and Sen.' Bourke B. 4icken
looper (R-Iowa) hooked up today
in a sharp cross-country clash
over whether Great Britain still
has a veto power over United
States use of atomic bombs.
Yes, Britain has, Truman said
in an interview at Kansas City.
"Not correct," Hickenlooper
told the Senate.
"No comment," Truman said
when asked abotit Hickenlooper's
statement. "The record speaks for
itself."
James • C. Hagerty, President
Dwight D. Eisenhower's press sec
retary_ declared: "Sen. Hicken
looper is Correct."
Everyone agreed, however, that
no nation holds veto power' over
U.S. use of the newly-developed
hydrogen weapons.
The Atomic Energy Act pro
hibits the sharing of atomic sec
rets with any' other nation.
Truman got into the act when
he was asked for comment on a
statement made yesterday by Hag
erty that a secret agreement was
made in 1943 but that it is "not
in effect at the present time."
Eisenhower Seeks
More Aid for Asia
WASHINGTON, April 6 (JP) —President Dwight D. Eisenhower
made a new move toward bulwarking Indochina today by ear
marking nearly one third of next year's cutdown $3.5 billion foreign
aid budget for the Asian. war.
The President slashed over one
billion dollars-58 per cent from
European aid funds in a $3.5 bil
lion overseas program for the
year ending in mid-1955. He sent
the measures to Congress today.
The overall program is the
smallest since global foreign aid
got underway in 1948 and is more
"than one billion dollars less than
the $4.7 billion voted by Congress
last year,.
But it includes $l.l billion for
military and economic aid to In
dochina, the largest single item
in a budget that otherwise re
flects a marked - scale down in
funds for arms.
Foreign Operations Administra
tor Harold E. Stassen, outlining
the program to the House Foreign
Affairs Committee, said Indochina
is earmarked for $3OO million in
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Australian government sources
in Caberra said the United States
has also asked that country, New
Zealand, and Britain to give all
possible aid to France to prevent
Indochina falling to the Reds.
U.S. Seeks 'Grouping'
Authoritative Washington re
ports said the United States was
aiming at a Southeast Asian re
gional grouping which could coun
ter. Red threats to that area.
Britain appears ready to join
in some form *of declaration con
cerning Southeast Asia.
A French Foreign Ministry
spokesman said in Paris some
Asian governments also would be
asked to join in the formal warn
ing. The Philippines and Thailand
presumably were the most likely
to be approached.
Similar to Korean Pact
The declaration, it was under
stood, probably would closely re
semble that issued last August by
the 16 members of the United Na
tions who participated in the Ko
rean War. That one warned that
any xiolation of the armistice
would be resisted and the ensuing
hostilities might not be limited to
Korean territory. .
arms, $BOO million in military
supporting expenditures and the
balance for economic help.
He said this budget is based on
the belief that Indochina must be
held and that the war there can
be won in two years.
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Churchill
Issues More
Bomb Facts
LONDON, April 6 (iP)---rPrime
Minister Winston Churchill added
to Britain's H-bomb furor today
by telling the House . of Commons
that British planes—with Ameri
can approval—made observation
flights at U.S. hydrogen bomb
tests last month.
In another of the continuing
series of atomic statements,. the
Foreign Office revealed that the
United States asked for and got
British permission befort. drop
ping the atomic bomb on Hiro
shima and. Nagasaki in 1945.
The United States acted in ac
cord with a `secret pact, disclosed
yesterday, between Churchill and
the late President Franklin D.
Roosevelt pledging the two coun
tries not to use the A-bomb with
out the other's consent.
Churchill told the House that
two of the planes assigned to the
H-bomb survey were lost, but the
Prime Minister insisted this had
nothing to do with the bomb blast.
The 79-year-old statesman, en
gaged in one of the most violent
political fights of his career, said
the planes surveyed the blast sites
March 1 and March 27, a few hours
after H-bomb explosions on those
dates. •
This_ was the first public ac
knowledgment that the British
governMent was well enough in
formed -about the tests and their
timing to send planes in at the
proper time.
NATO Official
'Hit'; May Quit
PARIS, April 6 (W) The North
Atlantic Council handed French
Marshal Alphonse Juin a rebuke
today which a NATO spokesrhan
described as strong \enough to pro
voke him to resign his Allied com
mand.
The council told the Marshal,
commander of NATO forces in
Central Europe, it regrets deeply
his repeated criticisms of the Eu
ropean Defense Treaty. The North
Atlantic Treaty. Organization- sup
ports EDC ' without reservations.
To make Juin's resignatibn eas
ier, the council specified there is
no plan to replace him with 'any
but another French general offi
cer.
French Unleash
Big Air Attack
HANOI, Indochina, April 6 (JP)—The French launched their
heaviest air assaults of the Indochinese War today to aid the be
leaguered defenders of Dien Bien Phu.
American -supplied fighters and 826 bombers laid down barrages
of thousands of pounds of high explosives and fire bombs on Com
munist-led rebel troop concentra
tions. They ranged out to smash
rebel supply convoys, strafed
thousands of coolies carrying Red
war materiel while cargo planes
parachuted tons of ammunition
and supplies to men in the be
seiged fortress.
French troops and their Vietna
mese allies, bolstered by the air
drops, tightened their network of
defenses for another expected
large scale assault by the Viet
minh rebels. Reports were cur
rent here that Vietminh Gen. Vo
Nguyen Giap intended to' throw
tens of thousands of men into
battle in a supreme bid to wipe
out the fortress
A French Press Agency report
said Monday that Vietminh com
manders were rushing up 20,000
reinforcements. There was no con
firmation of this figure.
As heavy rains hit the moun
tains and valleys of the pro-
French Thai tribal peoples coun
try, Vietminh artillery continued
to roar and drew heavy counter
barrages.
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Stable Budget
LONDON, April 6 (W)—Brit
ain's Conservative government
announced a "carry-on" budget
today—standing pat on substan
tially the same fiscal program it
claimed sent industrial production
to record heights last:year.
Giving th e impression the
Churchill government has no im
mediate plans-for a general elec
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Exchequer R. A. Butler put for
ward a balanced budget calling
for expenditures of 4.5 billion
pounds $12.6 billion and leaving a
"small surplus" of 14 million
pounds.
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