FRIDAY. APRIL 9. 195' GOP l .. Leaderafers F.oroign•Aid Sloo WASHINGTON, April 8 (W)—Senate Republican leader Know land put Britain and France on notice - today that Congress might hold up foreign aid appropriations to spur them into acting on Amer ica's call for Allied unity against Asiatic communism._ • Knowland spoke out shortly before the State Department an nounced that Secretary Dulles may fly to London and Paris for ur gent consultations on the Indo china crisis. The California senator cited evidence that Britain and France were in no hurry to respond to Dulles' overtures for a 10-nation coalition to bolster the anti-Red fight in Southeast Asia. If America's' allies "want to take 'a new' reading" based on what happens at the forthcoming Geneva conference with the Com munists, Knowland told newsmen, then CongreSs might take a new reading of its own. - He put it this way: "Since some of the nations with which we are ' associated have been suggesting, they wait until after Geneva before deciding how to respond to Secretary Dulles' in quiries regarding their willingness to join iri collective action should there, be f u r t her aggression in Southeast Asia, I f ind growing sentiment in Congress that per haps it should delay until after Geneva b e f ore determining its final policy , regarding appropria tions in support of those NATO c o ujn tries— particularly those dragging their feet insofar • as EDC is concerned." Britain, Fiance Balk at Action Urged by U.S. LONDON, April 8 (iP)—Britain and France balked tonight at im mediate "united action" to head off Communist domination of In dochina. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles was reported ready to fly to Europe, to urge action without -delay. A State Department spokesman said in Washington that the trip was being considered but that the "decision had not been made. Reports here were that Dulles would visit London and Paris next week for. talks with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and. France's Foreign Minister Georges Bidault. The talks would precede the Geneva conference on Far East problems, chiefly Korea and Indo china, scheduled for April 26. Dulles - had previously planned to fly to Paris about April 22 for NATO talks, then go on to Ge neva. Official sources said the Church ill government has asked Wash ington to go slow on its program for a "hands off" warning to Red China and a new anti-CommuniSt front of 10 nations in Southeast Asia. The British have not turned down the proposals. They have simply, asked for more time to talk them over. Both the British and the French have expressed fear in diplomatic exchanges, that hasty action now may hurt chances of reaching some agreement with Red China and Russia at the Geneva confab. ASK HER FOR A DATE TODAY! Semi-Formal Dancing 9 to 1 $4.00 per Couple Russians Rumored To Have N-Bomb TOKYO, Friday, April 9 (fP)— Kyodo' News Agency,today quot ed a Japanese scientist as saying Russia, was reported producing a "nitrogen" bomb so dangerous that 30 of them set off at once would annihilate the entire hu man race. - The statement was attributed to Dr. Tsunesaburo Asada, profes sor of science at Osaka University. The Senior Class Proudly P, resents RICHARD HAYMAN AND HIS ORCHESTRA The Best Weekend of the Year! FRIDAY, MAY 14 Senior Ball Recrecition Hail THE DAILY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE FiENNSYLVANIA e eS miationat French Guns. Batter Rebels HANOI, Indochina, April 8 (P) —French Union guns sniashed fresh Vietminh entrenchments around embattled Dienrßien Phu today as the , French fought to keep encircling rebels from try ing another death blocir before the rains come. The French poured grenades and tank .gun shells on the wind ing trenches as word went out that„ the Vietminh commander, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, was mov ing: up his forces for another at tempt to break through to the bastion's vital core. But, desp it e the withering French gunfire and savage ground attacks by the bastion's defend efs, the rebels stubbornly dug new fox holes and trenches within 600 yards of the barbed wire barriers guarding the heart of Dien Bien Phu. New Radar Fence Setllp in Arctic WASHINGTON, April 8 (W)— The United States and Canada are setting up a new radar warning fence along the tundra and ice of the arctic perimeter in an effort to give the big cities to the south at least a six-hour notice of ap proaching enemy warplanes. The new, northernmost chain of radar sets to detect enemy planes and guide friendly planes to in terception of an- enemy force, is part of an intensified effort to tighten the guard against hydro gen or atomic attack across the North Pole, H-Bomb Filar The color sound film," Opera tion Ivy," the explosion of a hy drogen bomb in' the Pacific in 1952, will be shown at the court house .1n Bellefonte tomorrow at 8 p.m. The public is'invited to at tend and there is no admission charge. SATURDAY, MAY 15 Track -- Michigan State Baseball Temple Lacrosse -- Swarthmore Fraternity Dances Wilson States Security Plan WASHINGTON, April 8 (A")--A new Army-Navy-Air Force secur ity program aimed at keeping the armed forces free of subversives and other security risks was an nounced by Secretary of Defense Wilson today. Wilson told • the Senate Armed Services Committee the new di rective will provide uniform stan dards for all the services and "speed up our procedures for get ting such individuals out of the service and for keeping them out." One controversialfeature: "Known Communists will not be inducted into the armed services." That means, in effect, automatic draft exemptions for young Com munists who otherwise would be subject to military service. Chess originated in Iraq about 4000 B.C. PAGE THREE
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