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dent Ba U in Rangoon.

Anastas Mikoyan (right) is seen here with Burmese Presi-
The Soviet first deputy premier

wore Burmese attire to a garden party held in honor of his
visit. The USSR has offered Burma an aid program, including
establishment of a technological institute.

gram for peace.

leader’s visit. It continued:

@ A pledge to do their utmost
to maintain peace in the
Middle East.

@ An agreement to work to-
wards an end to the world
arms race and seek the ulti-
mate goal of a ban on nu-
clear weapons.

e@ A promise to continue ef-
ferts through the United
Nations Disarmament Sub-
committee to reduce and con-
trol armed forces, beginning
with those of the Big Five.

e A program to try to increase

A communique, .summarizing

LONDON

) Anglo-Soviet talks, signed by Soviet Premier Nikolai
Bulganin, Soviet Communist party secretary Nikita Khrushchev, and British Prime Min-
ister Sir Anthony Eden, was issued Thursday last week at the conclusion of the Soviet

Anglo-Soviet trade.

@ An announcement of plans
for increased cultural and
other contacts.

Both gevernments agreed that
efforts at easing world tension
should take place within the
framework of the United Nations
to the end that disarmament
eventually would become a fact
and “thus free the people of the
world from the threat of a new
war.”

Text of the joint communique
was signed by Eden and the two
Soviet leaders after the Russians
returned to London from a 5%-

_KRUSHCHEV TELLS BRITISH BUSINESSMEN:

Trade key to

° LONDON
The major factor in the de-
velopment of good relations be-
tween Britain and the Soviet
Union is the development of
trade, Soviet Communist party
secretary Nikita Khrushchev told
a British Industries Fair luncheon
at Birmingham last week.

Declaring that a really wide-

‘scale development of trade was
necessary, Khrushchev said: “A
great deal depends on the basis
oa which that trade is carried
en. Our trade would scarcely
flourish if it was based on the
‘sale of crabs on our side and the
sale of herring on yours.”
Khrushchev began by saying:
“We have come to this country
with the very best of intentions.
We are very pleased at the hos-
pitality shown to us by your gov-
ernment and your people. —_
“Your people are a-very fine
people and all of those who can
read the expressions of the peo-
ple, the looks in their eyes, will
see they are very glad at our
coming here,” he continued.
-4*I do not wish to exaggerate
the importance of our presence.

Poor ‘new deal’
for British Guiana

LONDON
Under the guise of- advancing
to democracy the British govern-
ment last week announced a new
constitution for British Guiana
even less democratic than the
one suspended in October 1953.
Under that constitution there
was an elected majority in the
legislative council which elected
a majority of ministers, led by
Dr. Cheddi Jagan. It was sus-
pended when Dr. Jagan asked
for the rights of responsible gov-
ernment. : i
Under the new constitution only
12 — or half — the members of
the legislative council will be
elected, Four will be officials
and eight will be nominated.
_ In the executive council only
five members will be elected,
four will be officials and one
Nominated. Even so, no elections
will be allowed till “some time
next year,”
later.” |

~

or maybe “even:

d relations

“Perhaps if we had come here
simply as Mr. Khrushchev and
Mr. Bulganin we should not have
been welcome. - ‘
“But coming here as the rep-
resentatives of a great country,
and a very interesting one at
that, we might be liked or dis-
liked, but that would not affect
the fact that the great Soviet
Union is>in existence.” =

Khrushchev. said he believed
that in the talks between them-
selves: and British leaders “we
shall be laying a very good foun-
dation, a very good basis for the
development of relations which
must in the future become as
friendly as possible.

“phe major factor in the de-
velopment of good relations is
the development of trade.
What is needed is a develop-
ment of commercial relations
petween the Soviet Union and
Britain. As a matter of fact,

‘we would like these relations
with other countries as well.

“Some political leaders say, and

politicians often speak more on
these subjects than businessmen,
that there should be no trade in
strategic goods because of the
possibility of conflict.

“But what are strategic or

non-strategic goods? It all de-
pends on one’s point of view.
«we do not ask you to sell us
guns or warships. AS a matter
of fact, armament on a modern
warship is not so very UP to date,
and if you wanted we could sell
you some of our cruisers, because
what wa§ good yesterday 1s out
of date today. bey eo

“You must not think we are

behind you in the production of
aircraft — it would be a big mis-
take to think so. The British
authorities were kind enough to
show us one of your latest planes
— a very fine plane. —

“Tt can take up. to 90 passen-

gers, but we have among us here

our well-known aircraft designer |

Tupolev, who is now building a
passenger plane for 170 passen-
gers.

“The plane we saw today has
four engines — his will have four
engines, too.

“We have come here to Birm-
ingham in a four-engined plane,
an excellent plane, which takes

2

,

up to 50 passengers with four
engines.

“Our man has produced a jet
airliner which takes 47 passengers
and has a cruising speed of 850
kilometres per hour (over 500
mph) with two engines.

“If you want to discuss the
hydrogen bomb, it remains a fact
that we were the first to explode
a hydrogen bomb from a plane.

“The Americans aré only in-
tending to do so because their
previous explosion was not of a
hydrogen bomb but of a hydro-
gen installation. Great stress is
being laid now on guided missiles.

“We can compete there, too,
and I am quite sure that we will
have a guided missile with a

hydrogen bomb that can fall any-
where in the world. In spite of
that, you do not want to trade
with us. -

“Has that prevented us from
doing anything? Do you think
we are behind you? It is a
question of who is behind and
who is in front.

“The point I want to make is
that these restrictions of trade do
not prevent us, in any way, in
our making advances in our arm-
aments. Z

“What is needed is the develop-
ment of real trade. It is only the
development of wide-scale trade
that can really smooth the’ road
to friendship — to real strong
friendship between us.”

hour tour of Edinburgh.

The statement said the talks
of the three chiefs of state, took
place in a “spirit of candor and
realism,” and recognized the fact
that international confidence is
strengthened by “personal con-
tacts between leading statesmen.”

said both nations agree it is their
“firm intention” to maintain.
peace in the Arab-Israel dispute.

‘For-this purpose we will give
the necessary support to the Un-
ited Nations in its endeavor to
strengthen peace in the region
of Palestine and to carry out the
appropriate decisions of the Se-
curity Council,” the statement
said. .

It added that Britain and the
USSR will support the UN’s ef-
forts to secure a mutually ac-
ceptable solution to the Arab-
Israeli dispute.

Eden, Bulganin and Khrush-
chev also agreed that their
common objective remains the
abolition of nuclear weapons.

The communique admitted a
lack of progress in settling major
cold war. issues, such as German
unification and European secur-
ity.

~ *

A British foreign office state-

ment said “. . . the achievement

standing place among the prob-
lems whose solution we must
strive to promote.”

Don’t let Gaglardi hear this--_ :

*

2000 years.

The ruins of the Forum, with the Coliseum in the back-
ground, are still one of the most impressive sights of the
Eternal City. But a more enduring tribute to the engineering
skill of ancient Rome are roads and bridges still in use after

2,268 years of service. :

-The threat to the proud high-
way comes not so much from its
age — it is still less bumpy than
many newer roads — but from

PSS

° MAY 4, 1956 —

‘| before

. @ . e
Appian Way still best highway
: . ROME
The famed Appian Way, over
which everything from Roman
legions to U.S. jeeps have travel-
ed, may soon be retired after

archeologists who want to ex-
plore the secrets of its construc-
tion.

For the past year and a half
a long segment of the road has
been closed to accommodate the
diggers. Now reports have spread
that the government does not
plan to put that part of the road
back into use at all, and many
Romans are already protesting.

Romans probably are even more
enthusiastic about the road today
than they were when it was built

‘|in 312 B.C. by an engineer nam-
E| ed Appius Claudius Caecus.

~The Romans of that day had
good reason to be pleased. Ap-
pius’ super-highway ran straight

2 as an arrow toward the rich Greek

cities of southern Italy, which
‘small but ambitious Rome cov-
eted.

Hardly was the last stone laid
Roman legions were
marching south to conquer the
Greek cities, and soon carts were
rumbling back over the Via Ap-
pia with the spoils. Upstart Rome
was on the way to becoming a
great power. :
‘Any threat to the road is like-
ly to provoke a hot controversy.
Only two years ago the people
of Rome got the government to
stop the building of brilliant new
villas along the road on the
grounds the buildings were un-
worthy of the Via Appia. ©

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