view raw text
r«- UNITED PRESS NEWS ROUND-UP ! FOREIGN: Molotoy May Disclose Peace Offensive PARIS, France, June 9. — Sovie* Foreign Minister Vyacheslav M. Molotov flew here today for a lunch date that may disclose the reason for Russias big "peace" offensive. Molotovs plane landed at Paris Orly Airfield at 12:30 p. m. 7:30 a. m. EDT, two hours later than expected. Three big black Russian limousines which were waiting at the airfield took Molotov and his party directly to the Quai DOrsay for the luncheon meeting. Attlee Re-Elected Labor Party Head LONDON, England, June 9. — Socialist members of Parliament today unanimously re-elected 72-year-old former Prime Minister Clement Attlee as leader of the British Labor Party. Attlees position as party head for the past 20 years was threatened by the recent Socialist election defeat. Left- and right-wing extremists of the party blamed the defeat on weak leadership and Attlees failure to win party unity. But today a meeting of nearly all the 277 Laborite members of Parliament formally expressed faith in the veteran Labor Party leader. Menon Says Cold War Tension Easing OTTAWA,- Canada, June 9. — V. K. Krishna* Menon, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehrus roving ambassador, arrived in Canada today and said the tension in the cold war was easing. Menon went immediately upon his arrival here to the home of Indian High Commissioner Dr. M. A. Rauf. Earlier he told reporters at Montreal that "Im not negotiating" and the Indian Government does not consider itself a "mediator" in the cold war. "But, on the whole, there is a tendency for tension to get lower, isnt there?" he asked. Hope for Railway Strike End by Week End LONDON, England, June 9.— Leaders of Britains striking railway men met for two. and a quarter hours today with government representatives in their second emergency conference seeking a settlement of trie disastrous labor tie-up. They adjourned the "ice-breakine" talks until 11 a. m. 6 a. m. EDT Friday, when they hoped to work out a formula which may get Britains nationalized railway system running again by the week end. Von Maltzan to Sound Out Russias Offer BONN, Germany, June 9. — West Germanys ambassador to Paris, Baron Voll-rath Von Maltzan, had been instructed to sound out Soviet diplomatic officials in the French capital on details of Russias offer of recognition, a government spokesman said today. The ambassador probably will hold discussions with the Soviet diplomats in Paris within the next week, the spokesman said. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, in an exclusive interview with the United Press, today described the Russian note, which also invited him to Moscow for consultations, as "too general." He said it required "prior clarification of a number of questions" before a reply can be made. Von Maltzan will seek those clarifications, the German spokesman said. Soviet to Accept Wests Invitation PARIS, France, June 9. — Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov today indicated to French Premier Edgar Faure that Russia will accept the Wests invitation to a top-level .Big Four meeting in Geneva,- July 18-21. Authoritative French sources said Molotov told Faure and French Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay at a hastily arranged luncheon meeting at the Quai DOrsay that Russia has no fundamental objections to the dates and place proposed by the West. j NATIONAL: TV Cable to Europe Seen as Possibility NEWINGTON, N. H., June 9.— A television cable on the ocean floor between the United States and Europe was seen as a possibility here today as workmen loaded a ship for a summer-long voyage during which the worlds first transoceanic telephone cable will be laid. William G. Thompson, vice-president of the American. Telephone and Telegraph Company, said researchers- hope eventually to achieve a cable with band_ widths sufficient to accommodate, the load television transmission would require. However, he would not make any prediction as to when such a TV-cable might be laid. Harriman Attacks NYSAA Opposition ALBANY, N. Y., June 9.— Gov. Averell Harriman yesterday attacked the New York State Automobile Associations opposition to a proposed 50,000,000 highway bond issue. Harriman said both Republicans and Democrats agreed on the need for the program and added that he hoped the group "would get over disagreeing" and "come along" on the issue. • i
