| to ban

a | Labor members cried “shame” in the British
Simmons last week when Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden

Coidly turned down the Soviet
: tests of nuclear weapons.

Cypriots
cannot be
Crushed’

NICOSIA
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Eden refuses |

bomb

House of
proposal for an.agreed ban on

Amid Labor cheers, Opposition
leader Clement Attlee asked ‘him:
‘“Shouldn’t we take any oppor-
tunity to try and halt these ex-
periments ?”

But Eden fell back on these
“arguments” against an immedi-
ate acceptance by Britain of the
Soviet initiative:

@® The announcement was not
made by the Soviet Govern-
ment, but by a commentator
on Moscow Radio.

@ Its terms and scope were far
from ‘clear: it spoke of
“nuclear” tests, which meant
atomic as well as hydrogen
tests.

@ It would be “a matter of the
greatest seriousness—as_ all
have hitherto agreed—for the
position of our country at
the present time” to agree on
a ban on atomic tests as well
as hydrogen tests.

@ The moment when the Soviet
had set off the biggest ex-
plosion in their power was
“not exactly the moment to
forgo any right to discuss the
position of our country at any
international meeting.”

@ A “comprehensive disarma-
ment agreement” was the
only final solution.

This week Eden informed the
House, in reply to a Labor ques-
tion, that his government would
not depart from its’ decision to
make the hydrogen bomb be-
cause Britain’s possession of it,
in the government’s view, would
be a “deterent to war.”

|Soviets legalize abortions

with health safeguards

The Soviet Union last week
legalised abortions in a decree
rescinding a ban which has exis-
ted for 20 years, with safeguards
to protect health.

A decree passed by the presi-
dium of the Sup reme Soviet said
legalised abortions could only be
carried out in hospitals and other
recognised medical institutions.

The prevention of abortions
could be ensured by extending
the state’s measures of encour-
aging motherhood and by devel-
oping educational work.

i

LONDON }.

’ “Crowds “like the waves of the sea” have cheered Soviet Premie Minister Nicolai
Bulganin and Soviet Communist party secretary Nikita Krushchev, shown here with
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, wherever they have gone in their tour of

India.

Soviet leaders renew
call for H-bomb ban

In Burma for a week's visit, Soviet Prime Minister
Communist party secretary Nikita Krushchev have renewed ‘the Soviet government's call

for a ban on the hydrogen bomb. and reduction of conventional

At a civic reception in ‘Rangoon
City Hall Thursday last week
a few hours after the Soviet
leaders arrived by air, from In-
dia, Burmese Premier, U Nu,
said that the Soviet leaders’ visit
would have “far-reaching: results
for the consolidation of world
peace and Soviet-Burmese friend-

ship.” -

International tension had re-
laxed recently, he added, and

RANGOON

Nicoli Bulganin and Soviet

armaments.

“the leaders of the Soviet. Union
have won the admiration of the
leaders and people of Burma for
their courageous efforts to create
a brave new world of their own.

“The only way to avert war
and to maintain peace is the
way of peaceful coexistence, to
which our two countries have
subscribed.”

The Soviet leaders were to re-
turn to-India on Thursday this

‘Friendship threatens

Friendship between India and the Soviet Union, strengthened by the Soviet leaders’
visit, threatens no nation-or people, Indian Prime Minister Jawharlal Nehru told a great crowd

here on Wednesday of last week.’ India wanted to e
covers the whole world,” he said.

He added that he had never
seen anywhere in the world a
crowd so immense as that which
welcomed the Soviet leaders that
day.

The vast multitude, which as-
sembled in the central Calcutta
fields, stretched for two miles
across them and was estimated

at several millions.
:

Federal aid sought
for U.S. education

WASHINGTON

The White House Conference on Education called for higher
salaries and greater fringe benefits for U.S. teachers to meet an
immediate shortage of 205,000 secondary school instructors.

The conference’s fourth gener-
al report also urged “more at-
tractive living and working con-
ditions” so more young people
will enter the profession. It said
the “prestige and status” of
teachers should be comparable
to those in other professions. |

Informed sources said a. report
to be issued on the controversial
issue of federal aid for education
would state that more than half
of the delegates favor federal
aid for the operation, as well
as the construction of schools.
provided the states agree to
channel such funds into poorer
school districts.

At round table discussions
during the conference, an over-
whelming majority of the dele-
gates have favored federal aid,
at least for school construction.
‘put most of these same dele-

gates insisted there be no fed-
eral control of school pro-
grams.

To get the supply of good
teachers needed in almost every
community, the conference said
that each local school system is
“obliged to provide personnel
services which have been recog-
nized as necessary for an indi-
vidual to achieve job. satisfac-
tion.”

Among these, it said, are
“more attractive living and
working conditions,” in - service
training programs to improve
t@achers, service awards to rec-
ognized outstanding teaching ac-
complishments, and strengthen-
ing of policies on tenure, retire-
ment, group insurance, sabbati-

eal and emergency leaves.

week for their main talks with
the Indian government before
flying to Afghanistan on their
way home.

In Burma this week they have
been holding talks with U Nu and
other government officials on
political, economic and cultural
aspects of Soviet-Burmese re-
lations — relations which until
recently were almost confined
tothe diplomatic sphere.

no one’

CALCUTTA

xtend such friendship “until it ultimately

Nehru said that the Soviet
leaders had stressed everywhere
their adherence to the principles
of co-existence.

‘He added: “The great welcome
our guests have had in India
has alarmed some of our friends
in other countries who cannot help
thinking in terms of rival camps
and military alliances.”

Visibly moved as the immense
crowd roared repeatedly “Zin-
dabad,” Soviet Communist party
secretary Nikita Krushchey turn-
ed to Nehru and said:

“The people look like.
waves of the sea.”

Then in his speech, Krushchev
declared:

“We are basing relations with
other countries on, mutual respect
of their way of life, the way
of life chosen by the people.

“Unfortunately, friendship be-

tween India and the Soviet
Union is not to some people’s
liking and they want to break
this friendship. We realise
certain states are making such
efforts. .They are afraid of
friendship between peoples
because this facilitates peace in
the world.

“Nowhere and never have we
forced our ideas and way of life
on others as practised by some
other governments.”

Then, dealing with the Soviet
desire for disarmament, he said:
‘We are fighting for a ban on
armaments, a ban on atomic and
hydrogen weapons. : ‘

“But unfortunately we do not
meet with proper support of this
cause from the Western states.

the

They don’t want it because the

monopolists are profiting from
the arms race.

“They don’t want it because
‘they want to compel us to allo-
cate more and more for arma-
ments so that we cannot help
other countries of lower economic
development .

“Our task is now to influence
actively those reactionary forces —
and try to compel them to agree
to a ban on atomic weapons.”

“Solidarity of the peoples of
Asia isa fatal blow to the world’s
colonial system,” he said. “There
are some countries which are
still sticking like leeches to the’
human body and sucking its
blood. I have in mind Portugal,
a country which does not want to.
quit Goa, rightful territory of
India. ;

“Friendship between the
peoples of India and the Soviet
Union,” he declared amid stormy
applause, “is growing and
strengthening the fight for world
peace.”

Two and a half million people
turned out to make the Soviet
leaders’ drive over the eight-mile
route from the airport to Govern-
ment House one ‘long triumphal
tour. : Ape
People swarmed like bees on

scaffolding and the tops of
trams and buses.
“Hindi Russi Bhai! Bhai!”

(Indians and Russians are broth-
ers) roared Calcutta’s welcome.
“Nameste,” called Bulganin —
then turned to, Bengal’s Chief
Minister Roy—asking what was

the correct reply. —“Bhai ! Bhai!”
amended the Soviet prime
‘minster. 3 ;

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