European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1959, Darmstadt, Hesse Fig i 4 the stars and sthip6s tuesday aug til 18red China Trade expansion called Challenge to West Washington a a private research organization has predicted communist China might Well decide to shift part of it present Trade with the soviet bloc to the free world significantly stepping up its economic com petition with the East. The National. Planning in a report that Mainland China s rapid Industrial growth and aggressive foreign Trade poli cies present a serious Chal Lenge. Which the West cannot fail to take into report prepared by a. Doak Barnett author and asian specialist of the association s Council of foreign relations embraced an 82-Page study of communist China s economic strategy. Although there is every reason to expect that piping will main Tain its primary economic Orienta Tion toward the soviet bloc bar Nett said the fact that since 1956 its Trade with the free world has increased As a proportion of its total foreign Trade is 1952, he said the chinese communists have actively promoted Trade with the free world and lifted it to a level of about $1 billion a year. Two thirds of this is with the asian african area. Barnett reached these other conclusions 1peiping s foreign Aid pro Grams to countries in the asian african area May Well be expanded in the years immediately ahead.2the psychological Impact of communist China s economic development will be widely Felt throughout the underdeveloped areas of the world.3it would take Many decades even at the present rapid rate of police form living Symbol of the spirit of free Berlita growth for communist China to catch up with either the . Or the soviet Union. But in certain key industries such As steel Pel Ping May in a relatively few years be Able to overtake or surpass Japan its Only important Indus trial rival in Asia at the present time.4the chinese communist Industrial development policy with its accent on heavy Industry is de signed to support its Large and expensive military establishment. An Nual military expenditures running Between $2 billion and $3 billion a year impose a heavy Drain Oncina s limited resources. But Mil itary personnel is used As labor uneconomic projects reducing the Cost of maintaining Large armed forces. Question Mark 5the biggest question Mark forthe future is the chinese com Mune system. If the chinese peo ple refuse to accept them in the Long run the communes could prove to be a great mistake wit heavily Adverse effects upon every phase of the communist program. 6a serious lag in agricultural production has created Basic pres sures and strains inside red China. Members of the Berlin police Force rehearse in Olympia stadium for their annual show aug. 30. Crouched or lying Down the uniformed police officers create the Seal of Berlin remains their organization and the slogan associated press photo no suit filed against Sophia Rome a the italian state Deputy prosecutor says no bigamy action can be taken against film producer Carlo Ponti and actress Sophia Loren unless charges Are filed by Ponti s first wife or Italy s minister of Justice. Neither has done Loren returned to Italy three weeks ago to make a movie with Clark Gable. Ponti joined her in Rome last Law does not recognize Ponti s mexican divorce from his first wife Giuliana Piastri. Complaints file since miss Loren s return a Genoa resident and a Chieti at Torney have been quoted by news papers As saying they had file bigamy charges against Ponti with the state Deputy state prosecutor Giulio Calvitti said we have had perhaps a Hundred of such private complaints filed to us. They Haven Legal Point s first wife whom Pont married in a roman Catholic Church wedding in 1949, has asked Catholic tribunal for annulment of the marriage. The request was refused but could be taken to a higher appellate court. Shell blast kills Farmer Arras France a a world War i artillery Shell discovered in a Field by two farm workers exploded killing one and seriously injuring the other. One of them hit the projectile with a Hammer apparently trying to break it open to Salvage the Metal. New York agent sold Booty Cairo curator charges Farouk looted museum Cairo a Selim Hassan emergency curator of the egyptian museum has accused former King Farouk of pilfering the nation s antiquities and Selling them to col lectors through a shop in new , who was once museum director under the monarchy was named last week to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the 3,3 Xiv ear old Gold plated scepter of pharaoh tutankhamen from a museum value of the scepter is beyond estimation although some sex 7 India legislators seized in Roundup Calcutta up police have arrested five communist an two pro communist members of the West Bengal state legislature in a Roundup of about 100 persons. The police moved under the preventive detention act to head off a threatened peaceful invasion aug. 20 of government offices court buildings and state minister houses organized by the anti government direct action planned demonstrations allegedly included raids on food an Grain stores in a bid to sell the food at cheaper prices by the communist dominated famine and Price increase resistance com Mittee. Elephants run amok Hurt 150 during Ceylon Buddhist fete Colombo Ceylon a More than 150 persons were injured 10 seriously when three elephants an amok at the Start of a Buddhist festival procession just out Side Colombo the first 10 of 87 procession elephants had been lined up when one wheeled round charged two others and then careened into the of 50,000 sending screaming men women and children up tree Sand Walls three attendants who tried to Stop the elephant by clinging to its Tail were Flung Yai is other two elephants also ran amok. My re than 20 persons Are miss ing after the Stampede and it isl eared some May have been drowned in a nearby Lake. Perts say it would be Worth at least $3 million to another museum. Hassan told the newspaper aka bar that Farouk through a Dummy partner ran a new York shop for several years just before the War. Items lifted from the museum s priceless collection were marketed there Hassan said. He did not name the shop nor give its precise location except today it was on sixth he did not identify the Dummy part Ner. Greatest thief Hassan said he and Farouk quarrelled several times concerning museum management. He described Farouk As the greatest thief of antiquities and implied that a Many As 23,000 items were thus taken from the museum vaults and placed on the world Market for the King s profit. When i assumed direction of the museum under the old regime Hassan said i was fired several times each time when i attempted to put some order into the existing chaos. A struggle went on betwee me and Farouk for several years. I must say in order to Clear the responsibility of certain other per sons that the sex King was unquestionably the greatest thief of Hassan said one occasion when he was fired was after he had Dis covered nine museum items in Farouk s Palace and sought touring them Back to the museum. 25,000 items lost the museum s registration of fice conceded last week that it was unable to locate roughly 25,000 items out of More than 2 million items listed in its records. Some of these May simply be misplaced in the museum s Jumble corridors. Hassan has been instructed to carry out the museum s first inventory in 30 years. As a Start he has sealed display cases and completely changed the museum guard and staff. Refugee braves red guns to flee to West Berlin Berlin up a 25-year-old East German said he broke through to West Berlin in a truck because he feared his wife would denounce him to the communist police. The refugee crashed through Barrier on the East West Border As communist police fired five shots at him but missed. He said he wife worked for the East German police and threatened to denounce him for making anti communist remarks. The refugee raced at full speeding a 3%-ton truck through a bar Rier on a Road Between the soviet zone town of Starken and the British sector of West turned his headlights on full to Blind communist police on duty at the checkpoint. Royal swedes end Holiday Corfu Greece a greek Crown Prince Constantine kissed three swedish princesses Goodby in a tearful Farewell in which Young Princess Desiree sniffled inner tiny handkerchief. The miserable look on Prince Constantine s face and the tears i Princess Desiree s eyes Lent vis Ible support to rumours of a Royal Romance Between the two. Princess Desiree and her elder Sisters Princess Margaretha and Birgitta came Here from Stock Holm two weeks ago for a visit with the greek Royal family at the Corfu summer Palace. King Paul and Queen Federika accompanied Prince Constantine tothe Airport to see the princesses off for Stockholm. Sex envoy grew s wife Dies Beverly mass. A Perry grew wife of former ambassador to Japan Joseph grew died in Beverly Hospital after a heart attack. The Grews were i Tokyo when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and were interned there until August 1942. European edition army Navy air Force col John d. Nottingham Usan editor in chief it col t. J. Cunningham jr., Usa Asil editor in chief Nathan j. Margolin managing editor Jack Ellis sports editor Homer a. Cable feature editor Elmer d. Frank production manager directory of Newi bureaus England South Ruislip a c Wallow 4300 ext 471 or 472. France Paris Balzac 5400 c ext 468 Germany Darmstadt newsroom c 75366 ext 16r Stuttgart c 84215 Spain Madrid 123 fue Carral bldg. 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