TUESDAY,
ECEMBER 18. 1956
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nch Soldier
.AID, Egypt, Dec. 17 (IP)—Guerrillas swung back
k on departing British-French forces in Port Said
ng a French Foreign Legionnaire as he boarded
PORT
to the atta
today, kill
ship.
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•d out a sniper hideaway and arrested three guer-
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Gen. Alfred
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"foolish to
membermen
i. TON. Dec. 17 (IP)
M. Gruenther, who
ern armies guarding
today it would be
ssume that the dis
of the Soviet em-
I ahead."
Ir supreme command
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' forces gave that ad
eting with newsmen
c h questions arose
pire is just
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during mr h
about Russi
with her em
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ire.
able' Hostility
In additi n to .the continuing
military thri at of the Soviets and
their "imp] cable" hostility.
Gruenther said that in the diplo
matic and economic field "we are
going to have very, very severe
competition for quite some time
ahead."
While the general forsees no
quick collapse of the Soviet world,
he said he does believe that it
was a "fantastic mistake" when
the Russians used troops to crush
Hungary.
Disarmament Proposals
Gruenther was asked about pub
lished reports concerning disarma
ment proposals, which arose last
week.
He said that such speculation
"right in the middle of the NATO
conference, was not helpful."
NATO Meeting Ended
The foreign and military minis
ters of the NATO nations con
cluded-their meeting Friday.
Gruenther said he felt that the
meeting was "definitely a step
ahead," but that he did not mean
that it produced "any miracles."
Eisenhower, Nehru Air
Tense Global Problems
GETTYSBURG, Pa., Dec. 17 (P)—President Dwight D. Eisen
hower and Prime Minister Nehru of India sat down today in rural
seclusion and weighed together the problems of a tense, uneasy
world.
Suez, Hungary, Red China, military alliances, foreign aid—all
these and others were likely top
;brou
iiir for the two chiefs of state in ght Nehru half way around
the isolation of the President's
!the world at Eisenhower's invita
country mansion. ' tion.
But details of the specific sub- No other top officials of gov
jects they discussed, and any ernment were present to intrude
meeting of minds or lack of it, on their seclusion, although each
may become known only with the was accompanied to Gettysburg
]apse of time. - by a small staff.
None of these staff members
Discussions 'Personal' None
venturing to say what might
Presidential press secretary come of the discussions at this
James C. Hagerty labeled the important and even critical phase
Eisenhower - Nehru conversations of history.
"entirely personaL" He all but
ruled. out the possibility of any
communique setting out even in
a general way the nature of the
discussions.
Briefing for reporters by Hag
erty and K. Ell Tandan, press sec
retary at the Indian embassy,
merely produced word that Eisen
hower had told them that he and
Nehru had beg i n "discussing many
things in the nternational field."
No 'S ' Topics'
Hagerty 'd the President
didn't describ what those things
were or "bre k them down into
specific topics.
T c
The preside
mated Eisenh
were spending
in private co
Tandan told s
"usually wor
night."
Eisenhower and his guest are
"leaving at 9 a.m. tomorrow to
motor back to Washington.
Eisenhower and Nehru drove
from Washington to the Presi:-
dent's Gettysburg farm this morn
ing.
And within minutes after their
arrival, they Were sitting side by
Bide on the glass enclosed porch,
starting in on a discussion which
'alai secretary esti
ower and Nehru
'more than 12 hours
versations today.
questioner Nehru
very late at
THE DAILY COLLEGIAN. STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
rillas.
The legionnaire was the first of
the French forces killed this way.
The sniper's rifle shot broke a
calm prevailing after a week
end of bloodshed touched off by
the ambush slaying of a British
officer.
British tanks and troops at
tacked the Arab slum quarter, a
guerrilla refugee.
The day had been so calm that
British soldiers spent most of the
time helping the UN police force
protect the embarkation of 334
Italian residents fleeing Port Said.
The Italians left behind about
1000 of their countrymen who are
defying threats of vengence from
guerrillas.
The underground Sands accuse
the Italians of collaborating with
the invading armies.
The UN police detachment in
Port Said drew a pat on the
back from Lt. Gen. Sir Hugh
Stockwell, commander of the
British-French task force. He
said the police, largely Scandi
navians, "have proved their
worth tremendously."
Stockwell told newsmen 27
Egyptian men were killed and an
undetermined number wounded
in the moonlight battle set off be
tween British troops and Egyp
tian guerrillas by the ambush
slaying of a British 'major on pa
trol late Saturday night. The ma
jor was described as the only
British casualty.
A few hours after the battle
ended, at 2:30 a.m., Sunday, the
British withdrew to a narrow,
wire-guarded strip on the wat
erfront.
Supreme Court Decision
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (iP)—
The Supreme Court today rejected
pleas by Alabama and the city of
Montgomery for reconsideration
of its Nov. 13 decision banning
racial segregation on local buses.
Streets of Britain
Stilled by Return
Of Gas Rationing
LONDON, Dec. 17 (IP)—Britain's
first day of "Suez" gasoline ra
tioning left some city streets as
deserted as a village lane today.
It brought strange turn-of-the
century vehicles out of hiding.
In Edinburgh, Harold Marshall
perched himself in the saddle of
a high-wheeled bicycle from
grandma's day and pedaled to his
work as a research engineer.
Lt. Col. Eric Trevor cantered
his chestnut mare six miles to his
real estate office in the heart of
London.
A London firm used an elec
trically powered brougham built
in Paris in 1900 to transport its
direcots.
A chain-driven, solid-tired elec
trical truck of 1922 vintage crept
back to work in the Southampton
dockyard.
Thousands of Britons left their
cars in garages -and turned to
crowded public transport systems
to get to work.
Overuse of TV
Seen by Butler
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 671
The chairman of the Democratic
National Committee said today he
believes the public was given too
big a dose of TV and radio ora
tory during the 1956 campaign.
Both the Republicans and the,
Democrats were guilty of the'
overdosage, Paul M. Butler told
a special House committee study-1
ing the political campaign with a I
view to recommending election;
law changes.
Butler estimated the Democrats I
invested about two million dollars!
in radio-TV campaigning and the
Republicans probably more.
The effect of the frequent po
litical harangues which some
times broke into regular pro-,
grams, Butler said, was that the
public became bored.
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Russia Challenged to Allow
UN Observers in Hungary
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 VII--
The State Department challenged
Russia today to allow United Na
tions observers inside Hungary to
determine the truth of Soviet
charges that the Hungarian revolt
was "stimulated from the out
side."
Press officer Lincoln White
said the Hungarian government
"is obviously under control of the
Soviet Union" and that with a,
UN inspection "the answer to
who stimulated whom would be
come very evident."
U.S. Protest Rejected
Another development today was
a blunt Russian rejection of an
American protest against massed
Soviet tanks "threatening helpless
Hungarian civilians" outside the
U.S. legation in Budapest.
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The U.S. government refused
to withdraw its protest.
Russian Charge d' Affairs Ser
gei R. Striganov had a sharp in
terview with Deputy Undersecre
tary of State Robert Murphy.
Striganov told reporters he had
"resolutely declined" to accept a
vigorous American protest made
10 days ago against the action of
Soviet tanks in the Hungarian
capital.
U.S. Note "Unjustified"
The American note. he said, is
"an unjustified attempt" to inter
fere with relations between Rus
sia and "the Hungarian People's
Republic."
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Striganov renewed Russia's con
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