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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, February 20, 1950

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 11 the stars and stripes monday. February 16, 1950 t. Soviet peace9 move Vogeler trial enters forecast in capital by Edward Robert Washington feb. 19 up reports of a possible new soviet " Aace move circulated Here yesterday As sen. Tom Connally a Tex said the time May be near for direct atomic control talks with Moscow. Authoritative quarters said after studying press dispatches from Moscow that the user May be getting ready to suggest High level conferences with this country on major world problems including a the controls of atomic  eyes big 3 talks on a control continued from Page 1 framed the United nations charter heretofore has been advocating a Ion on atomic peace through the in. But yesterday asked about re ported evidences of. Soviet willing Ness to consider the question of world atomic control he suggested the possibility of talks Between the ., Britain and the user atthe level of their foreign ministers. Connally went so far As to say that if three Power talks could not be arranged then two Power discussions might be considered. Connally did not agree with Winston Churchill s suggestion for a direct meeting with soviet pre Mier Joseph Stalin of the Western chiefs of state Ori grounds. That pres ident Truman already has rejected any meeting with Stalin except inthe White  Connaly said the Secretary of state ought to be sent  remarks appeared to place  somewhat at Odds with or. Truman and Secretary of state Dean Acheson. Both or Truman and Acheso have stated that talks preferably would be through the in or regular diplomatic channels. Ingrid and baby leave Hospital for Penthouse Rome feb. 19 a Ingri Bergman and her baby slipped quietly out of a Rome Hospital Over the weekend and went into seclusion in the swedish actress Tarioli  Rossellini who says he is the father of the 2-week-old boy drove miss Bergman and the child away from the Hospital but their first reaction was cautious. They said such overtures in initial stages at least would reviewed Here As a peace offensive1 intended to make political an propaganda capital for the Kremlin meanwhile the Cio urged Secie tary of state Dean Acheson to strive actively and constantly for world disarmament and to pursue militant democrats policies a Means of strengthening  Inter National  Alexander Wiley second ranking gop member of Connally s committee said Acheson should sound out the world on the idea of an International conference to strengthen the in and control atomic  democratic whip Francis j. Myers pa., suggested the govern ment re examine the atomic control proposal it submitted to the  everal years ago. Diplomats meanwhile studied carefully a series of Moscow Dis patches appearing in the new York times  first dispatch said an important soviet Law journal Hac found occasion to View with special interest at this time a statement soviet Premier Joseph Stalin made to Henry Wallace two years ago. Stalin told the former vice pres ident that peaceful settlements o disagreement Between the  Rand the .a. Are not Only pos sible but Are also absolutely entail in the interests of general   Mormon group quitting Czechoslovakia Prague feb. 19 a eleven mormon missionaries will leave Czechoslovakia Thi week to com ply with a czech government Rul ing forbidding foreign missionaries to work Here Wallace Toronto head of the mormon Church an  said this policy of sending  Mormon missionaries out of the country will continue until the work of the Church is entirely inthe hands of czech converts. Miners wives on picket line picketing wives of striking Coal miners warm themselves by a. Fire at the new River co s Whipple w. Va., mine. The wives took up picketing duties when John a Lewis Back to work order made it technically illegal for their Hus bands to picket. Acme final phase today Budapest feb. 19 up Parade of witnesses and experts tomorrow will Cement the hungarian Case against  Businessman Robert a. Vogeler and six co defendants allow whom have pleaded guilty to espionage  the witnesses finish prosecutor Gyula Alapi who demanded death for Joseph Cardinal minds Zenty and Hungary s former  Laszlo Rajk will launch  indictment against the defend ants and demand sentences. Finally Vogeler and  co defend ants will have a Chance to say their last  these should come some time tuesday. Then if the trial goes according to pattern the court will recess wednesday and the defendants will be sentence thursday. I Vogeler irom Page i Robert a. Vogeler and Fiva other sin  the a asked the hungarian government last month for Permis Sion to admit its american Bureau chief in Vienna Gaylord k. Hodenfield to help Marton cover the trial. Repeated efforts have Bee made to obtain credentials for Hodenfield through All available channels of communication with hungarian authorities but thus far without  covered the treason trial year ago of Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty. At that time the a also sought to Send one or More of its american correspondents to cover the trial but permission was denied. No censorship As the term generally is understood that is the official Blue Penc Iling of news Dis patches is involved in the trans Mission of news from Hungary there is however what amounts to a responsibility  Means that correspondents in Hungary of whatever nationality Are subject to action by the government if their activities or their news dispatches Are considered objectionable by the government. Us minister scores tory policy Onrush continued from Page i Churchill in an address at Edinburgh thursday. Conservative leaders Noel Baker said destroyed Hope of russian co operation before the War. Time and again russian proposals through the league of nations for collective Security against the fascists an nazis were  who has forgotten that Russia was not invited to the conference in Munich in 1938? who has forgot ten that Russia s proposal for a conference in Bucharest in march1939 was contemptuously turned Down or that lord Halifax for sign Secretary in the Chamberlain Jover Ament could visit Berlin but could not go to Moscow to discuss Low Hitler could be contained but sent an official instead these alights to Russia Noel Baker said have made it impose Ible for conservatives to approach Moscow now. 2 girls killed when car hits towed Toboggan Elgin hi., feb. 19 a two5-year-old girls were killed last Light when an automobile smashed no their towed Toboggan. State police identified the de Adas Joyce Monk and Ann Allshire both of Winnetka a North Shor Chicago suburb. Also Riding on the Toboggan pulled by a car were Robert Ralph 18, and Don Ortegel 7, both of Wilmette a suburb near w i n n e t k a. Ralph was injured seriously. Ortegel was unhurt. Vienna feb. 19 is Morri Ernst prominent new York attorney trying to get to Budapest to defend Robert a. Vogeler today reaffirmed  belief in Vogeler s innocence and indicated he believed Vogeler was coerced into pleading guilty to charges of spying against Hungary. Ernst arrived in Vienna today from London anti immediately conferred with John Erhardt .minister to Austria. He later talked with mrs. Vogeler who is living in Vienna Ernst declared he would do everything possible to obtain a visa for Hungary to help defend Vogeler but indicated he thought  chances of obtaining the document were virtually  bitterly criticized the Hun Garian government s handling of the  declared worse than Hitler this is much worse than eve Hitler pulled. Even in the Reichs tag fire trial Hitler permitted out Side lawyers two from the unite states and others from France arid great Britain to defend the  Ernst said holding someone Lik Vogeler incommunicado for three months is certain evidence of  innocence. He said the state department had done everything pos sible to Aid Vogeler. He indicated he believes Vogele was forced to confess guilt either through use of drugs or some other method Allied mediation offer accepted in Trieste Trieste feb. 19 a the Al lied military government s offer today to mediate in the 19-Day strike of Industrial workers in Trieste has been accepted by representatives of both workers and  workers have asked for a 10 Cert a Day Cost of living Bonus. Soviet sentries try to seize 2 British maps by Ernie Reed staff correspondent Vienna feb. 19 is heavily armed russian sentries stationed at the soviet Imperial hotel last Fri Day attempted to arrest a pair of British maps on patrol duty in tha International sector of Vienna British army sources disclosed today. They charged that the soviets had definitely violated a four Power agreement and indicated that the British High commissioner s office will Forward a Strong  sources pointed out that tits British element is in the chair this month and As a result has military jurisdiction Over the International sector. Each of the four occupation Powers alternate monthly in As suming military responsibility inthe first or International sector. Only the nation in the chair i permitted to Send armed soldiers into the District under the four Power agreement. Stop British Soldier according to the report the two mommies who had been Riding in a military vehicle had attempted to Stop a British Soldier for identification on the sidewalk in tha rear of the Imperial when the two soviet sentries rushed out and intercepted them. The mommies charged that the two russians one of whom was armed with a Tommy gun ordered them at gunpoint to go into the hotel. According to the report the British soldiers refused to accompany the  four Power International police patrol was subsequently called to the scene and after much wrangling the British maps were allowed to go on their  russians charged that the British patrol had circled the Imperial with their vehicle twice headline Parade Lull to re weelt98 news by a. J. Ellis staff correspondent the atom bomb stirred Specula Tion on both sides of the Atlantic and topped the week s  Churchill world War ii prime minister of great Britain openly urged in a Campaign speech that the East and West make a new supreme Effort to Bridge the Gulf Between the two worlds by talks at the highest  Truman although throw ing cold water on Churchill s suggestion of a big three meeting abroad said that the  Door i always open to International negotiation for control of Atomi t weapons. British prime minister Clement Attlee also vetoed a big three meeting but announced that the us was ready and eager to discus with Russia or any other nation the control of atomic or Hydrogen bombs but it must be within the United nations. Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin dismissed Churchill s suggestion As a political stunt Ashe labor party and the conservatives waged a bitter Battle forthe National elections on feb. 23. Warning Oah bomb or. Elbert Einstein interjected solemn prophecy by warning that the a bomb would Lead to doom for civilization and All life on Earth unless Mutual fear and distrust is  Kremlin revealing no apparent interest in the peace talk proposals suddenly announced sweeping 30-year pact with. Communist China bringing one fourth of the world s population and one fifth of the Earth s land mass under the red Flag of communism. In Budapest Robert a. Vogeler american Telephone executive made i i i a  n a j i an1 it. I i sirt Buttes Reu t j out Gen acte Rei Aga in. I in i co the a full confession and pleaded guilty of spying for the  Bot the state department and Vogeler a wife were convinced that the hungarians either drugged or other Wise forced Vogeler into the confession. Although Vogeler faced a possible death sentence the presid ing judge promised to take i confession and Piea for mercy into  the form of train wreck tornadoes and ail crashes vied for the top headlines in the  Along with the soft Coa strike thai threatened to wreak havoc on the nation s economic  collision in Rockville Centre n. A 29 per sons were killed and 116 injured in a Bead on collision Between two passenger trains. At least 47 died and More than 200 were injured a tornadoes ripped through the South Ern  A .air Force b36caught fire Over the wild British Columbia coast and the huge plane was ditched. Twelve of the 17 per sons aboard were rescued with in remaining five still missing. During the search for the b3isurvivors, a b29 crashed after Tak ing off from great Falls mont., and eight of the 15-Man Crew perished. The b29 had been searching lot the b36.for the second time the soft Coal miners in the  Defied a Back to work orderly mine Ilion Boss Joto l. Lewis. Some 400,000 miners remained Idle As government Media tors Coal operators and Union of facials worked frantically to Setti the dispute that threatens to  railroads dim out Tif Large Eastern cities., and increase unemployment in Allied industries i it be i an is a re i. Of or in to to d i 6  
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