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Commonwealth
Asks for Peace
LONDON (in—Leaders of Britain's Commonwealth end
ed their 10-day talks yesterday with a dramatic plan to halt
the world arms race—and to seat Red China at the negotiating
table.
The leaders suggested an
Post Office Told
To Half Inspection
Of Unsealed Mail
WASHINGTON (IP) Presi—
dent Kennedy yesterday ordered
the Post Office Department and
the Custoins Bureau to stop their.
censorship of unsealed Communist
mail coming into the United
States.
His order ended a 13-year pro
gram., that has been criticized by
civil liberties groups as ineffec
tual, foolish and unconstitutional.
"Not only has the intelligence
value of the program been found
to be of no usefulness," the White
House said, "but the program
also has been of concern to the
secretary of state in connection
with efforts to improve cultural
exchanges with Communist coun
tries."
The program never was based
on direct legislation. Instead, it
arose out of a ruling by Atty.
General Robert H. Jackson in 1940.
In a complicated interweaving of
the Espionage Act of 1917 and ,the
Foreign Agents Registration Act
of 1938, Jackson ruled that the
Post Office Department could
seize large shipments of Nazi
propaganda.
New African Policy
Announced by U.S.
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (?P)—The United States con
firmed yesterday that it would pursue an independent policy
on African problems while maintaining a deep and common
interest with its Western allies.
The U.S. position was outl
explaining the vote of Chief Dele
gate Adlai E. Stevenson in the
U.N. Security Council Wednes
day night on a proposal for re
forms in Portuguese Angola.
On this issue, the United
States voted along with the So
viet Union and three Asian-
African countries. Britain.
Franca and four other countries
abstained.
Friday's statement by Francis
W. Carpenter, U.S. delegation
spokesman, said the U.S. deci
sion to vote for the Angola res
olution was made only after Ste
venson had consulted with State
Department officials and after
approval by Secretary of State
Dean RUsk and President Ken
nedy.
"The policy decisions behind
the vote, which were all reflected
in Coy. Stevenson's speech be
fore the Security Council," Car
penter said, "had ben carefully
considered.
"Our allies were informed in
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nternational army be set up to
enforce the laws of any agreed
new disarmament pact after all
nations' military forces are re
duced to the minimum needed
to maintain internal security.
To set the plan in motion, they
urged the major powers open a
disarmament meeting as soon
as possible.
Demanding abolition of nuclear
arms, they declared: "In view of
;the slaughter and destruction ex
perienced in so-called 'conven-
I tional' wars and of the difficulty
!of preventing a conventional war,
!once started from developing into
is nuclear war, our aim must be
nothing less than the complete
!abolition of the means of waging
war of any kind."
The multiracial alliance of na
tions omitted any mention of the
bitter dispute over racial segre
gation that led South Africa to
decide to quit the Commonwealth.
By tradition. Commonwealth
communiques deal only with is
sues on which all leaders agree.
And Prime Minister Hendrik
F. Verwoerd of South Africa
was one of the signers. South
Africa does not quit the Com
monwealth until it becomes a
republic May 31.
Prime Minister Nehru of In
dia, for one, told reporters he
felt. "no elation but pure relief"
at the development. He said he
doubted if this precedent of as
sailing the internal policies of a
member country will break up
the Commonwealth.
ned in a statement to the press
advance. We have a deep and
continuing common interest
with them. The difficulty and
complexity of African ques
tions are, however, such that
there are and may continue to
be differences in approach in
some of them."
The U.S. vote created a sensa-1
tion at the United Nations and
was followed Thursday morning
by another U.S. vote which was
at odds with the votes of Britain
and France. The latter was on a
resolution censuring the Union of
South Africa for its actions in the
territory of South-West Africa.
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Meeting Set
For Rusk,
Gromyko
WASHINGTON (N)--Secre
tary of State Dean Rusk and
Soviet Foreign Minister An
drei Gromyko will confer here
today on "international ques
tions of interest" to the United
States and the Soviet Union
th e State Department an
nounced yesterday.
The conference, set up on Rusk's
initiative, will afford a new op
portunity for the Kennedy admin
istration to warn the Soviet gov
ernment of the dangers which it
sees in the continuing crisis in
Laos.
Laos is considered certain to
be one of the main topics of dis
cussion, but the State Depart
ment, in announcing the meet
ing, declined to identify any
particular subject.
Other topics considered likely
to come up include arrangements
for resuming disarmament nego
tiations, the Berlin situation, the
Congo crisis, and perhaps the
prospects for an eventual meet
ing between President Kennedy
and Soviet Premier Khrushchev.
Diplomats said the discussion
here will be a new step in the se
ries which have been under way
between the Khrushchev govern
ment and the new administration
in Washington since immediately
after Kennedy took office two
months ago.
Income Drop
Noted In Feb.
WASHINGTON (JP) A Febru
ary drop in personal income
dampened hopes yesterday that a
six-month slide in business ended
last month.
The Commerce Department re
ported February's over-all person
al income rate dropped $7OO mil
lion from January's to an annual
rate of $405.9 billion.
This didn't wholly offset Thurs
day's good news from the Federal
Reserve Board. But it gave pause
to those who feel the recession
hit bottom in February and re
covery has begun. And it support
ed those who insist it's still too
early to say whether the hoped
for spring upturn will occur.
The Federal Reserve board
Thursday reported February in
dustrial production leveled off at
the January rate, halting six
straitht months of declines. This
combined with other favorable
items to encourage hope that the
low point had been reached and
an upturn was starting.
The Commerce Department said
drops in February's wages, sal
aries and dividends were only
partly offset by a slight increase
in farmer income and a $2OO-mil
lion rise in unemployment com
pensation benefits and similar
government payments.
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French-Algerians
To Negotiate Peace
TUNIS, Tunisia (EP)--The Algerian rebel government
accepted yesterday a French offer for negotiations to end the
bloody, six-year-old rebellion in Algeria. Optimism blossomed
on both sides of the Mediterranean.
Mohamed Yazid, Algerian - information minister, read a
communique to newsmen spelling
terms of negotiations.
out that the rebels want to talk
Immediate reaction in France
about self-determination for Al- to the new communique was fa
geria, and not such prior condi- vorable. although there was no of
tions as an armistice. ficial comment.
The French offer Wednesday
had been guarded about men
tioning such conditions, which
have stalled all previous ef
forts at down-to-earth peace
talks.
The rebel action appeared to re
move all obstacles to beginning
negotiations. Neither the rebels
nor the French have mentioned
time or place. It is reliably re
ported the talks will begin next
week at a French resort city just
across Lake Geneva from Switz
erland.
The location of the talks
would permit the rebels to base
in Switzerland, where they
would hr - complete freedom
of moven...lst which was de
nied them in the ill-fated talks
last June when they left in an
ger, charging the French were
attempting to strong-arm the
Jordan Hits Israeli Plans
AMMAN, Jordan (AY) Jordan
has told the U.N. Palestine truce,
chief, Sweden's Maj. Gen. Carl
von Horn, it takes a serious view'
of reports that Israel plans a big
Jerusalem military parade to
mark the mid-April anniversary
of Israeli independence.
It said Jordan reserves a right
to take counteraction as it did
three years ago in massing troops
land tanks in old Jerusalem when
Israel massed troops and arms in
'the Israeli sector.
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