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THE NEW YORK TIMES, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 19S4.
L +BIG FOUR MAY SET
RED CHINA PARLEY
Allied Quarters in Berlin Say Compromise on Asian Issue
Is Possible This Week
Special to Tag New York Times,
BERLIN, Jan. 31—There is a bare possibility, according to cer tain Allied quarters in Berlin, that the Big Four foreign minis ters may reach agreement this week on some sort of Asian nego tiations to include Communist China.
Those quarters venture no firm prediction, but suggest that if any compromise among the four powers is possible it probably will be on the Far East issue.
The United States, Britain and France have firmly rejected a
proposal by the Soviet Union for a five-power meeting with an all- inclusive agenda, but talks on specific problems, such as Korea and Indo-China, with the partici pation o f other interested gov ernments are apparently not yet entirely excluded.
The prospects for a compro mise seem to depend primarily on John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State, and Vyache slav M. Molotov, Soviet Foreign Minister, who represent the two extremes on this issue. Some conference experts think that Mr. Molotov may be contemplating concessions and has been consult ing his Government in Moscow, but of course no one knows what he will ultimately decide. The United States position is also un predictable.
If the Allied and Soviet views could be reconciled, it has been suggested in speculation here, the foreign ministers might record their agreement and leave it to experts to work out the agenda and membership list for the con templated Asian conference.
Issue Put Off to This Week The main reason for believing that such agreement is even- re motely possible is that the min isters did not arbitrarily dismiss the idea of talks with Communist China when they considered the subject last week. Instead the Western delegates said they need ed time for study and reflection and it was agreed to discuss the subject further in a restricted meeting this week. A date for the meeting will be set at tomorrow’s plenary session of the conference.
Postponing the discussion until this week may have been a tac tical maneuver to sidetrack the issue and get down to the Aus trian and German problems. But many competent observers here think that is not the case.
The very fact that a restricted — and probably secret—meeting will be held suggests that the ministers intend to engage in se rious negotiations, not polemics and propaganda.
So far as they have been dis closed in conference speeches and private conversations, the posi tions from which the four powers will approach these negotiations are as follows:
•IMr. Molotov has consistently advocated a conference of the five great powers with an agenda covering all causes of world ten sion. However, he has recognized that his colleagues do not agree with him on the composition and subject matter of the confer ence.
He has been doggedly insistent that the Peiping regime must be admitted as an equal to the councils of the great powers. It remains to be seen whether he will accept limitations on Com munist China’s right to nego tiate, as proposed by the Allies. •3 Last week Mr. Dulles twice rejected Mr. Molotov’s proposal for a five-power conference. Nevertheless, he said the United States would meet Chinese Com munist representatives on spe cific matters, provided other in terested countries were also present.
Mr. Dulles asserted he could not say without further study wheth er his views and those of Mr’. Molotov could be reconciled.
*5Georges Bidault, French For eign Minister, said his Govern ment was always ready for con versations that might terminate the war in Indo-China. However, he made two conditions—that Chinego aid to the Communist-led Vietmmh forces must cease and that the Associated States of Indo-China must be represented in any peace talks.
3 Anthony Eden, British For eign Secretary, stood firmly be side Mr. Dulles and M. Bidault in refusing a five-power meeting. But he did not slam the door on alternatives. He and the others were ready to continue a search for practical solutions of the problems of Korea and Indo- China, he said,
Mr. Eden spoke as the repre sentative of a Government that has recognized Peiping and has no particular inhibitions about negotiating with it. Also, he has no great public opinion problem, as Mr. Dulles and M. Bidault have.
Those who reflect upon the ad vantages of some kind o f Asian conference argue this way: All four powers in Berlin have some interest in such a conference. The Panmunjom talks to arrange a Korean political conference have bogged down and the Indo- Chinese war continues unabated. Maybe a new start with a new type of conference would do no harm, to say the least.
The argument on the other Side, of course, is that there is plenty of conference machinery in existence already. All that is needed is a little goodwill from the Russians and Chinese Com munists, it is maintained.
India's Envoy to Speak Here Gaganvihari L. Mehta, Am bassador from India to the Unit ed States, will speak at a dinner Feb. 18 at the Roosevelt* Hotel for the benefit of the Morning- side Community Center, 360 West 122d Street. The Rev. James H. Robinson, executive director, said yesterday that Dr. Buell G. Gal lagher, president of City College, would nreside.
BAYAR AFFIRMS
MINORITY RIGHTS
Turkish Chief Cites Freedom in His Land as He Receives Tribute From Jewish Body
The New York Times TU RKISH PRESIDENT GREETS TURKISH N E W Y O R K E R S: President Celal Bayar of Turkey, bends down to talk with child whose parents were among many Turkish residents of city who attended a reception for the President at the Plaza Hotel. Mme. Bayar and Necdet Kent, Turkish Consul General, look on. Later he was cited by American Jewish Committee.
POLITICAL CRISIS
DEEPENS IN ITALY
Continued From Page 1 Chamber that no Government is conceivable unless they are its backbone.
Most of the leading Christian Democratic leaders met today at former Premier Alcide De Gaspe- ri’s home near Castel Gandolfo, fifteen miles south of Rome. It soon became apparent that no unity of thought existed between them. They were, in fact, divided into three currents.
One advocates a right-wing solution that in plain language means an understanding between the Christian Democrats and the monarchists.
A second advocates a center solution or a government based on a coalition composed of the Christian Democrats and the three minor center parties.
The third advocates a care taker government to obtain ap proval of the budget, which un der the Constitution should be submitted to Parliament by Jan. 31 (which has been done by the Fanfani Government) and ap proved by June 30.
What is remarkable about these three currents is that none has even faintly suggested new elections. The Christian Demo crats apparently feel that they have lost ground since the gen eral election of last June and that a new appeal to the elec torate would be more likely to aggravate than solve their dif ficulties.
No Candidate in Lead Each of the three proposed solutions helps or hinders some candidacies for the Premiership. Things are, however, still so con fused that it cannot yet be said that any one candidacy has more chance of success than any other. To show how embroiled” things are it suffices to say that a part of the left wing of the Christian Democratic party, which should be the chief adversary of any contacts with the monarchists, feels that the best solution would be to ask Amintore Fanfani to try again and induce him to en ter into the alliance with the monarchists. They believe that he would be able to push through his social program even in a co alition with the monarchists, who would give his government better guarantees of stability than the minor center parties.
Be that as it may no collabo ration with the monarchists is possible till it has been specific ally authorized by some respon sible Christian Democratic organ. When the national council of the party met six months ago it per mitted only a pure center party government and vetoed any solution that included Cabinet ministers from any party as far left as Pietro Nenni’s left-wing Socialists or as far right as the monarchists.
There is every reason to be lieve that the Christian Demo cratic party would authorize an alliance with the monarchists only after the possibilities of re constituting a center party coali tion had been thoroughly explored and found unfeasible.
Yugoslav Official Says Tito Bars
Return to Soviet Style of Red Rule
Continued From Page 1 of Milovan Djilas, former Vice President.
On behalf of these officials the spokesman made a series of charges and assertions. The main charges were:
«That Westerners appeared to demand, in principle, a choice be tween Western forms of demo cracy and Soviet-style tyranny; that they appeared to preclude the possibility of a third form of government philosophy honestly solicitous of the interests of the people.
«¡That some interpretations of events in Yugoslavia appeared to ignore the "reality” of existing conditions, that is, the position from which the present regime was forced and the political and economic changes that have been made in recent years.
Commenting on the changes, the spokesman emphasized the economic decentralization by which individual, albeit worker managed, enterprises have been established in competition with each other. These were devised to be independent of the state or any political party, he said.
"Could Never Go Back’' "We have gone so far in this that we could never go back to centralization,” he said. “ More over, we have done this con sciously in order to prevent such return. The party can no longer rule the policies of these enter prises. This was an effort to smash bureaucracy, and to scrap it now would mean convulsion.”
The assertions, in the light of the charges, were:
<IThe assumption that the Yu goslav liberalization trend con noted the ultimate aim of estab lishing Western democracy was wrong and could only lead to misunderstanding.
<JThe belief that because Yugo slavia was Communist-led and was in principle and, at least partly in practice, barely differ ent from Soviet communism was wrong, if not malicious.
Political leaders here operate on the premise they have achieved in Yugoslavia a form o f govern ment more advanced than any other on the road toward best satisfying the economic and po litical needs and aspirations of
No Chance of Red Rule Seen Giulio Pastore, general secre tary of the Italian Confederation of Free Trade Unions, declared yesterday that he did not believe the Communists had any chance of taking over the Italian Gov ernment.
"There is a wrong impression in the United States,” he said. "The Communists cannot get the majority in Parliament.”
He said that Communist ele ments in the Italian labor move ment had been losing ground to the anti-Communists. He was in terviewed at Idlewild Airport, be fore leaving for Miami to attend the executive session of the American Federation o f Labor.
the population, the official de clared.
This assertion is modified only by the corollary statement that achievement must be assessed in terms of the prevailing conditions in Yugoslavia, that is, the state of economic development and the multinatienal character of the population.
West’s Attitude a* Factor
Special to Th i Newyo«k Times,
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—-The Yugoslav reaction today to thé latest. Cominform suggestion to- a Yugoslav-Soviet rapproche ment reflects Belgrade’s fears that the recent Djilas case might be unfavorably interpreted in the West.
Describing the Moscow sugges tion as “ impertinent” and “ ab surd,” Yugoslav officials said it was “ a provocation” calculated among other things to stir up doubts and suspicions about Bel grade’s relations with the West. The official publication of the Cominform also confirmed what Yugoslavs had gathered from other quarters, that the Djilas case was being used by the So viet Communists as ammunition against the “ ruling clique” in Belgrade.
Yugoslav observers here did not overlook the irony of the Cominform’s new invitation to Belgrade to rejoin the Soviet bloc, while simultaneously de nouncing thè leaders of the Tito Government for their ties to the West. It was, after all, M. Djilas’ “premature pro-Western” views that cost him his government and party posts.
Milovan Djilas was President of the new National Parliament and a member of the Communist party executive committee until he was deposed for publicly sug gesting political reforms that would have reduced the Commu nist party to a debating society and opened the way for an oppo sition movement.
Yugoslav sources say the Djilas episode has been interpreted in the East as a symptom of a weakening Tito Government. The alacrity with which the Soviet Communists, or “Cominformists,” have broadcast that analysis is regarded by some authorities as a sign that Moscow would like to see the Djilas reforms put into effect.
By PETEK KIHSS First to Turks and then to Jews, President Celai Bayar of Turkey affirmed yesterday a democratic view toward so-called minority peoples.
Accepting a silver medallion from the American Jewish Com mittee in a ceremony attended by 200 persons at the Plaza Hotel, the 70-year-old chief of the Turk ish Republic declared:
"Elements bearing a distinction o f faith or race within a given nation are not to be considered as a subject o f disunion or discrimi nation, but rather as connecting links serving to create closer and firmer ties between that nation and other nations.
"For we in Turkey believe, as you do here in America, that our civilization can only advance by the strengthening of the ties of friendship and brotherhood among all countries and peoples attached to the ideal o f a free world and to moral values.’’
Old-Country Respect There are 5,000 persons of Turkish birth or ancestry in the city, according to Consul General Necdet Kent, and 500 of them attended a reception given for the President earlier at the Plaza. Some bowed to kiss the President’s hand and then touched it with their foreheads in a court ly gesture of old-country respect. Diane Johnson, 14 years old, and her brother, Stephen, 12, of Setauket, L. I., children of a Turkish-born flagpole manufac turer, surprised President and Mme. Bayar by giving them two boxes for their two youngest granddaughters. The gifts were American dungarees, sizes 6 and 8, and walking dolls.
Happy over his countrymen’s prosperity in the United States, President Bayar assured the gathering that Turkey had regime by the people, for the people.” Turkey used to import wheat, he said, but this year she I will export 1,500,000 tons of this | commodity.
With evident pleasure, he told how a well-to-do peasant and his ¡■educated brother were building a factory on "private initiative,’ rather than expecting their Gov ernment to "do everything.”
Experts Are Needed Turkey needs experts in every field, the President emphasized. He urged those Turks who had been well trained or were study- j ing in the United States to “ think | of their homeland and earn affec
tion of their fellow-citizens” by contributing their knowledge.
The Jewish committee’s tribute was in gratitude not only for the well-being of the 60,000 Jews in Turkey, but also for a long his tory of Turkish friendship and goodwill. This was stressed in speches by Irving M. Engel, new president of the committee, and Jacob Blaustein, outgoing pres ident.
They recalled how Jews had re ceived opportunities to help Tur key to expand and obtained haven on their expulsion from Spain in 1492. Referring to the current Israel-Arab tension, Mr. Blau stein said he appreciated Turkey’s “equitable and constructive line of policy.”
President Bayar replied that “the secular Republic of Turkey has separated the church from the state and, according to the modern conception of nationality, looks upon a nation as the prod uct of a common culture and common ideals.”
Turkey’s constitution bestows equal rights and duties without discrimination for race, faith or language, he added. The Presi dent upheld “ the implementation of these, principles as an honor able duty in the service of civili zation and humanity.”
Between the two receptions, President Bayar visited the Na tional Broadcasting Company studios, 30 Rockefeller Plaza, and watched with delight a color tele cast of “ Zoo Parade,” as well as a black-and-white screening.
He noted that Turkey was ex panding her radio network, but only experimenting with televi sion.
The President gave a private dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel last night for United Na tions officials and delegates. Today he will tour the United Nations at 9:30 A. M., and then take part in a parade up Broad way from the Battery for a City Hall welcome at 12:20 P. M.
SOVIET-WEST TRADE
DROPS 50% IN 1953
Only about 10 per cent of the Soviet Union’s foreign trade in 1953 was conducted with the non- Soviet world, a comparison of So viet official data with prelimi nary United Nations data indi cates. This represented a decrease of about half from the 1952 fig ure.
The Soviet Government has an nounced that its foreign trade in 1953 was about 23,000,000,000 ru bles, or $5,750,000,000 in terms of the official exchange ratio. Pre liminary data compiled by the Statistical Office of the United Nations indicate that Soviet trade with non-Commi»nist nations in 1953 probably did not exceed $700,000,000, and may have been little more than $600,000,000.
From the data released by Moscow, it is possible to calcu late the division of Soviet trade and its magnitude during 1952. In that year, the Soviet Govern ment has revealed, total foreign trade was 20,800,000,000 rubles, of which 80 per cent was with Communist countries. Thus Soviet 1953 trade with the satellites was more than enough to make up for the decline in trade with non- Communist countries. ,
Recent complaints from Greece about the Soviet’s failure to de liver promised commodities sug gest that shortages of some key goods may prove a drag on the intense Soviet efforts of recent months to expand trade with the non-Communist world.
BRITISH SOLDIER TARRED
Belfast Incident Is Second byNationalists in 2 Weeks BELFAST, Northern Ireland, Jan. 31 (HP)—Irish nationalists tarred and feathered a British soldier here last night and chained him to a lamp-post. Around his neck they hung a sign, “Kenya Black and Tans, Be ware”
The soldier was home on leave from duty in Britain’s East Afri can colony of Kenya. “Black and Tans” is the name the Irish gave to British soldiers sent to Ireland during home-rule riots in tile Nineteen Twenties.
The attack was the second on a British soldier here this month. Two weeks ago another soldier was stripped and his uniform burned. The Irish Republic Army, an outlawed organization that demands independence from Brit ain, acknowledged “full responsi bility” for the first attack in let ters to Belfast newspapers.
German Red Labor Rebuffed DUESSELDORF.Germany.Jan. 31 UP)•—West German trade union officials said today they had re buffed a Communist suggestion that they get together at a con ference table with union officials from the Soviet zone. A spokes man for the West German Trade Union Association said the pro posal was advanced yesterday by an East zone delegation, which showed up at a meeting of the West zone group.
TRAIN-TRUCK WRECK
KILLS 46 NEAR SEOUL
SEOUL, Korea, Monday, Feb. 1 1®—A train-truck collision at a lonely crossing last night shat tered three wooden coaches into a mass of twisted wreckage and left forty-six persons dead and more than 100 injured.
No Americans were involved. The locomotive jumped the tracks and overturned. Rushed to the scene thirty miles south of Seoul, American military doctors worked for hours removing the dead and injured.
The South Korean Transporta tion Ministry said the three wooden coaches directly behind the overturned engine had piled up in a mass of wreckage. The first splintered into the engine, the second rolled over and the third slammed sidewise into the other two.
The train was bound for Cho- nan from Seoul.
It was the worst train disaster in Korea since 1952, when a civil ian train went off a bridge near Seoul, killing more than 100 persons.
Stahlhelm Re-elects Kesselring BONN, Germany, Jan. 31 (/P)— Former Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, one of Hitler’s lead ing soldiers, has been re-elected president of the German veterans organization, Stahlhelm ( steel helmet). He took over the presi dency last May, seven months af ter having been released from an Allied war crimes prison.
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Special,to The New York Times.
•THE HASUE, the Netherlands, Jan. 31—A bitter cold wind from the northeast blew over the Netherlands today. It was kinder, however, than the warmer blast from the northwest that pushed water into the North Sea exactly a year ago and prepared the old enemy of tjie lowlands for its cruelest conquest in a century.
The liberation o f their soil from that conquest took the Dutch nearly a year. The equivalent of more than $100,000,000 has been spent to undo the damage done by the sea on the night of Jan. 31-Feb. 1, 1953, and the bill is less than half paid. Thousands of acres of once-rich land lie barren, still impregnated with salt.
Tomorrow the nation will re member formally the 1835 per sons who lost their lives that night.
And now this small, indomit able kingdom is preparing its most ambitious challenge to the sea from which it already has wrested so much soil. This proj ect, the closing off by dikes of the sea fingers that form the estuary of the Rhine and Maas (Meuse) Rivers, will provide a new first line of defense to assure the safety of the rich but pre carious polders, or reclaimed low lands, inundated a year ago.
The dikes, according to tenta tive plans, would be built respec tively from Voorne to Goeree, closing the Harlngvliet; from Goeree to Schouwen-Duiveland, closing the Grevelingen and Krammer; from Schouwen-Duive land to North Beveland, closing the Eastern Scheldt, and from North Beveland to Walcheren, closing the Veersche Gat. The project would necessitate more than seventeen miles of dikes in what is almost open sea and would cost about 1,500,000,000 guilders (about $400,000,000).
Alternative Project An alternative to this under taking is strengthening and rais ing the height of the more than 400 miles of dikes that protect the polders in the area. The cost would not be much less than that of the more imaginative project, according to Jacob Algera, Min ister of Transport and Water Works.
When a tremendously swollerf high tide swept south toward1 the narrow funnel of the Strait of Dover a year ago it ravaged the eastern coast of England, but its full fury fell on the delta where the Rhine, Maas and Scheldt Rivers finger their way across the Low Countries. Most of the land in the area is below sea level and has been diked since it was reclaimed. The sea pushed far up the river and canal net work and flooded about 360,000 acres. About 200,000 acres went under salt water.
The fresh-water floods did not seriously impair the land, and as soon as the river dikes were mended, the -land was pumped dry and produced a normal har vest last fall. Half of the salt- flooded land was dried out quick ly enough to permit nearly nor mal crops, excluding
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FOR JEWISH UNITY
World Congress' British Unit Hears ‘Petty’ Rifts Scored—
German Arming Opposed
The New York Times Feb. 1. 1954 D IKE P L A N S : The Dutch are planning a series of dikes that would extend from Voorne to Goeree (1 ), from Goeree to Schouwen (2 ), from Schouwen to North Beveland (3 ) and from North Beveland to Walcheren (4 ).
tive plants such as potatoes and flax. About a quarter of the salted polders produced only scrub barley this year and the other quarter was barren.
The Government’s bill for live stock and crop losses and the restoration of farm land was equivalent to $69,000,000. Nearly 8.000 houses or barns on about 1,500 farms were destroyed or badly damaged, and more than 20.000 other buildings were dam aged to some extent.
$42,000,000 for Housing The outlay for housing restera tion will be about $42,000,000, and restoration of dikes, roads and communications will come to nearly $24,000,000 more. The maintenance of the thousands of persons made homeless cost $10,- 500,000. In addition, the Govern ment has estimated that claims to be paid to industry and ship ping wilt exceed $25,000,000. Pri ât* charities have paid out the equivalent of another $25,000,000 to replace lost furniture and clothing.
The Government’s flood ex penditure in 1953 was completely covered by a United States grant of 400,000,000 guilders ($105,000,- 000) from guilders accumulated by the sale of goods under the economic aid program.
Dutch hydraulic engineers achieved a triumph last spring by getting water off all but 44.000 acres of the flood land by- April 17. The flood had- left sixty-seven major tidal gaps in dikes through which the seas continuad to sweep in and out scouring the land. Thousands of smaller breaks had to be repaired.
The last gap, on the big estuary island of Schouwen Duiveland, was not closed until Nov. 6. Floatable concrete cais sons the size of apartment build ings finally filled the gaping hole and the polders were dry in December. Normal crops cannot be expected before 1956, however.
If the Rhine-Maas estuary project, which will cost about what the nation spends each year for military defense, will prevent a repetition of the 1953 disaster, it will greatly improve land com munications and will turn the estuary into a fresh-water lake.
IRAN OIL SALE PLAN
STUDIED BY PREMIER
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ft---TEHERAN, Iran, Jan. 31 (JP)— The six-man committee appoint ed to advise Premier Fazfollah Zahedi on the oil question has recommended the creation of a consortium o f American, British and Iranian oil companies to market Iran's oil, a member of the committee said today.
Agreement on the marketing arrangement would be a long step toward solving the nearly three-year-old dispute with Brit ain growing out of nationaliza tion of the British-owned Anglo- Iranian Oil Company.
The committee’s recommenda tions provided for the American companies to handle 50 per cent of Iran’s oil products, British companies 45 per cent and the remaining 5 per cent by the Ira nian Government.
The committee’s recommenda tions are given to the Premier for action by the Cabinet. The Pre mier himself took part in a meet ing of the committee at the Foreign Ministry tonight.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31 (A?)— The United States has cleared the way for American, British and Dutch oil companies to create an international "con sortium” to market Iran’s oil output.
Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr., acting under direc tion of the National Security Council, has granted five Amer ican oil companies immunity from anti-trust prosecution in order to allow them to join the combine. The companies are re ported to be Standard Oil of New Jersey, Standard Oil of Califor nia, Gulf Oil, the Texas Com pany, and Socony Vacuum.
BILL HITS REDS IN CEYLON
Georgian Reds Defer Congress LONDON, Jan. 31 tff)—1The purge-ridden Communist party in the Georgian Soviet Republic postponed the opening of its six teenth regular party congress to day until Feb. 16 without expla nation. It had been set for Feb. 3.
Special to The New York Times.
LONDON, Jan. 31—A call for unity and for the avoidance of "quarrels about petty incidents” was delivered today by Dr. Nahum Goldmann, president of the World Jewish Congress. He spoke at the resumed eighth bi ennial conference of the British section of the Congress.
There has been a considerable amount of acrimony over the question of whether the British section is encroaching without warrant on the title of the Board of Deputies of British Jews as the accredited voice of the religious group here.
There also were criticisms about a month ago when Dr. Goldmann, who also is negoti ating Jewish claims against Ger many, announced at a press con ference here the breaking off of negotiations with Austria on the restitution of property to victims ot Nazi persecution. He was ac cused of having failed to consult interested Jewish bodies.
Some echo of these contro versies appeared in Dr. Gold- mann's address when he declared:
“I plead with those not in this hall not to continue quarrels about petty incidents. It is undig nified to them and to us, and very harmful to the great problems of Jewish life. When we are fighting with Austria to recognize their obligations, it is not right to quarrel on what stationery a press conference was called.”
‘Dangers of Disintegration’ "The danger of disintegration of Jewish life is today much stronger because o f the’ effects of the cold war, which separates Jewish life into two blocs,” he continued. "Therefore, more than ever it is necessary to do every thing to secure Jewish unity. That does not only mean political action. It means culture. It means Hebrew. It means a tie-up with Israel.”
The conference approved reso lutions condemning the rearming of any part of Germany, opposing the rehabilitation o f former Nazis or the extension of clemency to war criminals, and decrying the "glorification” of former Nazi military leaders through motion pictures or literature.
The conference adopted a reso lution deploring “the policy and action of those Governments which continue to supply weapons of war to the Arab states, not withstanding that these states refuse to give assurances that such weapons will not be used against Israel.”
Big 4 Bid to Austria Asked The Western Hemisphere Exec utive o f the World Jewish Con-' gress urged last night that the Big Four foreign ministers, in Berlin, call on Austria to settle “without delay” the claims of the surviving victims of Nazi perse cution.
A t a meeting of the executive held at the Stephen Wise Con gress House, 15 East Eighty- fourth Street, Dr. Israel Gold stein, chairman o f the group, de clared: “ Austria cannot demand just treatment from the nations of the world without doing jus tice to the Jews who were sub jected to cruel persecution during the Nazi period and who suffered material losses of staggering dimensions.”
Proposal Fixes Heavy Penalties fo r Aiding Foreign Agents
Special to The New York Times.
COLOMBO, Ceylon, Jan. 31— The Government has prepared legislation providing for pe nal action against persons in dulging in activities prejudicial to the security of Ceylon. The legislation is directed chiefly against Communist activity, to ward which Ceylon has grown noticeably alert in recent months.
Under the legislation, any per son who has been in eommunica- ion or attempts to communicate with a foreign agent will be guilty of action prejudicial to safety of the state and the onus of proving good faith will be placed upon him.
Punishments for such activities are a maximum of fourteen years' imprisonment and a fine of 20,- 000 rupees (about four thousand dollars).
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