WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 22. 1954 Germany Requests End of Occupation ... ‘ LONDON, Sept. 21 (#*)—Chancellor Konrad Adenauer has asked for a quick Western Big Three declaration lending'the occupation of West Germany and granting her full sov ereignty, Western officials ; disclosed-tonight. 7.V The German leader’s call was'the day’s dominant development in the tangled maneu vers; that surround free Europe’s search for a means of rearming West Germany in the light of France’s rejection of the European Defense Community. , Adenauer’s move became known as the Western Allies weighed with cautious reserve French Premier Pierre Mendes-France’s new plan for arming the West Germans. The plan was a rival to the British scheme previously advanced by' Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. The French proposals are viewed as only a starting point for hard bargaining when the London nine power conference on the key Eu ropean problem gets • underway Sept. 28 Informants here said Adenauer’s call .is expected to be high on the agenda for at - the London parley. It was Sept. 2 that he first put the price tag of “full: and undiminished sovereignty” on German military suppi>rt for Western defense lines. Adenauer has promised an im mediate counter-declaration in re turn for his requested Big Three declaration. In it, he would vol untarily cede certain rights to. the three occupying nations—. the United States, Britain and France. Three Por visions One provision would allow the three nations to keep their armies on German soil on an agreed cost basis. Another would allow the Al lies to remain in control of West Berlin, isolated in the Soviet zone'. A third would give the Allies con trol over the problem of German unification. ... But a Western difficulty is that the Allies would have to bind Adenauer legally to forego the right to rearm for the period in which the West hammers out an agreement on giving the federal republic a full and equal ,role within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, ‘ Adenauer's Suggestion Adenauer put forward his sug gestion for a quick Allied action . because quite evidently he con ■ siders a long time may be re quired before . a complete solu tion can be attained to the West German problem of restoring full German independence, including the right to rearm. He ■ clearly needs to show his restless coun rtrymen his policy of close coopera tion with the West is paying off. U.S., Canada Will Sit In By ( Britain’s invitation, repre sentatives of the United States and .Canada will sit in the nine power _ London conference. The others- will be Britain, Franca, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, who are charter members of the Brussels Alliance of 1948, and West Germany and Italy, who would become mem bers of that alliance under both the Mendes-France and Eden plans. Steelworkers Rap Ike Administration ATLANTIC CITY, N.J., Sept. 21. (JP)—' The United Steelworkers of/America CIO today accused the -Republican administration of “either inaction or outright re jection” n of' the union’s' legislative proposals., ' A resolution passed at the steel workers’ biennial convention said: “During the past 20 months ; our organization, for the first' time' in its history, has been confronted with a Republican administration both in Congress and the White House. ...... “As a result we have faced even greater obstacles than those pre viously presented by the Repub lican-Dixiecrat coalitioii ih our attempt' to secure fair ■ and ' just legislation/’ ... The resolution, * approved by 3000 delegates representing 1,200;- 000 steelworkers, said “some- por tions’’ of the USW program have been enacted. The ripest old age l attained, in modem times for which records seem reliable is that of a Dane named Christen Drakenberg who completed almost 146 years. Indochina Outbreak Puzzles Authorities /SAIGON, Indochina, Sept. 21 (JP) —Five hundred refugees from the North fought police here today in a demonstration that deepened Viet Namfe. r government-army crisis. Two men were 'killed and several wounded as the police fired, to disperse refugees. The aims of the demonstration were interpreted variously. The French News Agency said the refugees were demanding for some reason that they be returned to North Viet Nam, soon •to -'fall completely under Communist rule. Promotion of such a demand would" help Red agitators pre-, sumably assigned secretly to refu gee groups to foment trouble. But Gen. Nguyen Van Hinh, the chief ,of staff who is still refusing Premier Ngo Dinh Diem’s order to take a “special leave” in France that the army interprets'.gs.gjxile, said the refugee group ’ demon strated in favor of Diem against the army. He charged the govern ment promoted the clash, arming the refugees with clubs and bot tles to attack the police. “The army-has definite proof that thegovernmentprovoked the troubles this morning in Saigon,” Hinh said. The refugees are among a third of a million who abandoned homes, farms and business, and moved southward—many aboard U.S. shop and air transports—to avoid falling into the hands of the Communist-led Vietminh as it takes over North Viet Nam un der the. Geneva agreement end ing the Indochina war. Korea Cold War I Chess Game Still In Play PANMUNJOM, Korea, Sept.' 21 (JP) —It has been over a year now since .the.armistice was signed in this bleak Korean village but a sort of cold war chess game still goes on. This game with the Communists began with the/signing of the armistice July 27, 1953, and the UN Command believes it is win ning. , • “I feel we have successfully de feated the Chinese across the table and set up a stone wall when they tried tb get through,” said Rear Adm. Thomas B. Brittain, senior UN member of the Joint Military Armistice Commission. " The game is played between the six Allied' and six Communist of ficers on the commission. They have met 47 times since the armis tice. NY Republicans Defer Slate SYRACUSE, N.Y., Sept. 21 (JP) —Republican strategists tonight put off choosing two running mates for Sen. Irving M. Ives and J. Raymond McGovern amid growing signs they intended to wait uritil the Democrats pick their slate. ' McGovern becaihe a certain GOP choice for lieutenant gover nor today When Ives, sure-to be the candidate for governor, en dorsed the state comptroller. High level agreement on nom inees for. comptroller and attorney general still failed to materialize at..a GOP state Executive Com mittee huddle late this afternoon. Republican Misrule Cited MIFFLIN, Pa., Sept. 21 (JP)— Sen. George M. Leader tonight proposed to substitute Democratic thrift and prudence for what he called “profligate waste of Re publican misrule.” In a campaign speech the Demo cratic-nominee for governor de clared that abolition of the state sale's tax, promised by his party if elected,. would not be made at the expense of the public school system. =£umimmii!iimiimiimim!iiiiHiimimiiiiimimimimtiiiiimimiimij||iiu NEWMAN Welcome FOR ALL CATHOLIC STUDENTS TONIGHT 7:30 p.m. | McElwain Lounge = .'iiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimmiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii? THE DAfLY COLLEGIAN STATE COLLEGE PENNSYLVANIA Ike to Start 4 State Tour ; The “running scared” Republi ; cans send their principal • cam paign attraction into the political fray today as President Dwight D. Eisenhower starts a four-state speaking tour in the West. In the East the Democrats cen tered their attention, meantime, on a convention battle between Averell Harriman, millionaire and former New Deal official, and Rep. Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., for the Democratic nomination for New York governor. Hafri man was conceded the edge as the showdown balloting ap proached. Republican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall, repeating that his party is “running scared,” re ported to Eisenhower that pros pects are good but “a hard fight” is needed to retain Republican control of the Congress. “I don’t think you should con duct a campaign any other way,” He told newsmen afterwards. Hall and other party leaders conferred with, the President at the summer White House 'in Den ver as Eisenhower prepared for his three-day swing into Montana, Oregon, Washington and Califor nia. Four speeches are scheduled CLUB M ixer UN Shelves Action On Red China Seat UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Sept. 21 (/P)—The U.N. Assembly as its first business today overrode Soviet demands and shelved for 1954 any action on the tension-ridden question of seating Red China. The vote was 43-11. It was the third straight year the Assembly had taken such action. Today’s vote was virtually the same as that last year, when a similar proposal was approved 44- 10. Denmark switched from the affirmative io the negative to ac count for the single, additional vote , cast against the proposal. The vote two years ago was 42-7. Britain and France joined the United States in urging postpone ment of action, even though Brit ain has recognized the Red Chi nese government. The British told the Assembly this was not the time to consider the question. Lodge Proposal The roll call was oh a proposal by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Amer ican delegate, to put off the issue for this year. The Assembly con vened today is expected to ad journ in December. • The nations voting against the Lodge resolution were Burma, White Russia, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, India, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Union and Yugo slavia. Abstaining-were Afghanis tan, Egypt, Indonesia, Saudi Ara bia, Syria and Yemen. After this decision the Assem bly elected Eelco N. van Kleffens, former foreign minister of the Netherlands, as president for this year. . The Assembly will complete its organization tomorrow with the election of seven vice presidents and seven committee chairmen, Who will serve as its steering body;- Pandit Pans Issue Just before the vote on the Red China issue, Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, outgoing president and sister 'of India’s Prim'e Minister Nehru, slapped down by a' stern ruling, an attempt by V. R. Krish na Menon, • her brother’s top ad viser on foreign affairs, to throw the whole question over to a later time in the Assembly session. Menon protested that he had not had y a chance to debate the issue. He said. the proposal for postponement was out of order. Krishna Menon insisted the As- must' await a report of the Credentials Committee for a debate on the whole issue. durihg the three days. •, Republicans are counting heav ily on Eisenhower’s prestige in the Nov. 2 election, and some re portedly have asked the President to take a more active part in the campaign. But Hall said Eisenhower plans no change in his tactics. Hall said the President will make a nation wide “get out the vote” speech by television and,radio Nov. 1, but has only one other political en gagement beyond this weekend. AFL, CIO Plan Early Merger LOS , ANGELES, Sept. 21 (JPh- A new era of good feeling be tween the AFL and CIO devel oped today at the AFL’s annual convention with indications the nation’s two big labor groups plan an early merger. The CIO sent a warm message of “fraternal best wishes” to the AFL sessions—the first time the CIO has'extended such an expres sion of friendship since its unions broke away from the AFL nearly two decades ago. In his message CIO President Walter Reuther said that the no raiding agreement recently signed by the AFL and CIO marks “a heartening trend toward elimina tion of friction within the labor movement.” “We need real unity in the la bor movement. We have many problems that we could face in a better way if we had unity,” Meany said. - On the eve of a new congres sional investigation opening here tomorrow into union handling of rich welfare funds, Dave Beck, president' of the AFL Teamsters’ Union, issued a statement saying employers as well as union share responsibility f&r safeguarding such funds. A number of team sters union oficials were report edly under subpoena to appear at tomorrow’s hearings in the fed eral building before a special House subcommittee headed by Rep. Samuel McConnell (R-Pa.). Prior congressional probes have turned' up irregularities in hand ling and investing welfare funds. There has been testimony that" union officers, many in the Team sters Union, have profited hand somely. A new Senate investiga tion also is to start soon. At the convention, Meany an swered Secretary of Labor Mit chell’s speech yesterday accusing the A.FL of unfair and unyielding criticism of the Eisenhower ad ministration. Meany said the AFL has given praise for real accom plishment such as adoption of So cial Security improvements this year, but reserved the right to criticize when it felt it was justi fied. PAGE THREE
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