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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fog. 4 the stars and stripes saturday . Training Thailand army to fight Washington a . Mil itary advisers have started train ing Thailand s army to fight communist guerrillas apparently in anticipation that Thailand May be the next target of the red drive to control Southeast Asia. Informed sources said the new trainee counter guerrilla and coun Ter insurgency warfare began in recent months. Although there have been no re ports of significant communist guerrilla activity in Thailand officials of the pro Western bang Kok government have been increasingly concerned they May face such a threat if a communist leaning neutralise regime takes Over neighbouring Laos. Laos has been a staging area and an Avenue for communist North vietnamese irregulars try ing to topple the anti communist government of South Viet  forces in Laos have o operated close to the thai Border. Early this month the United states formally promised to come to Thailand s Aid in event of red aggression regardless of what other members of the anti communist Southeast treaty organization May do. A possible clue to a quickening . Effort to bolster Thailand against any communist offences came in an announcement that army maj Gen Theodore j. Con Way is being sent there in july to assume command of the . Mili tary assistance  is leaving the command of the 82nd airborne div one of the army s crack outfits. The 52-year-old Conway is no Headquarters bound Soldier. He recently was the first paratrooper to leap from a transport plane in an Airdrop exercise by troops of the 82nd, i Panama. The new commander of the 82nd, based at it. Bragg n.c., will be a Gen John i. Throckmorton now Secretary of the army general staff in Washington. Conway who was senior adviser to Korea s 1st army several year Sago will replace army maj Gen Briard p. Johnson whose three year tour in Thailand will be up in july. In recent years Johnson s work has been in the Field of Logis tics and administration. The decision to Send Conway to Thailand was not a sudden one but had been under consideration for perhaps six weeks source said. There was no indication of any immediate increase in the military Aid program in it totalled $58, More than one third of applied in South Viet the communist Dang critical for some time the United states military advisers Thailand s forces which t 100,000 men mostly in 1 the United states Thailand with Light tiers rifles and trucks personnel transport planes a and f86 Jet fighters patrol vessels. Harriman sees no 4korea in s. Viet Nam Tokyo _ Guatemala indicated widespread rebellion in the making. Us rights group rejects Appeal by use Koch Strasbourg. France a the european commission on human rights has rejected the Appeal brought to it by use Koch the former Witch of Buchenwald concentration Camp. She brought her Appeal against a German Federal court sentence of life imprisonment for her part in gruesome atrocities at the nazi concentration Camp. She was convicted in Augsburg in 1952 and taken to the women s prison at Richach in Bavaria to serve her sentence. Cited no article she cited no article of the euro Pean convention on human rights. Instead she charged the Augsburg Federal tribunal had wrongly convicted her. And asked the commis Sion to take action in her behalf. In rejecting the Appeal the com Mission said the sole objective of the plaintiff was to escape the consequences of her conviction and hence in con sequence it the Appeal is a Manifest abuse of recourse to individual  Brentano proposes Steps Forward unified policy urged for Europe s Bonn a a single foreign policy for All six member nations of the european Community has been proposed by former foreign minister Heinrich von Brentano. A statement by Brentano now parliamentary head of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer s Christian democratic party declared that the same step by step method now be ing employed to unite the common Market economically should be used to integrate the foreign policy of the six member states. The statement also proposed the gradual abolishment of secret diplomacy among the six Community members West Germany France Italy the Netherlands Bel seeing double Waynesburg. A. Up Greene county voters May be see ing double on May primary ballots for the Post of democratic Assem Blyman. Russell Headlee of  said he May file As a Candi Date and Russell e. Headlee of Girard port already has filed his petition for the Post. Food for peace Pupil lunches lauded Washington up school Lonca programs in foreign coun under the . Food Cor program Are returning greater dividends than any other foreign  the director of the program said Here. Exporting of a recent tour to Check food for peace activities White House Aido George Mcgovern told a news conference whereas some forms of Indus trial and financial assistance appear to bypass masses of people in the villages and Rural areas food Aid goes directly to those people who Are most in need. Indeed if the United states did not have surplus food stocks we would doubtless find it Wise to create them  Mcgovern said the United states should expand the food for peace program As a positive Long Range Aid to overseas development and that american farm production should be geared to meet foreign food needs. Mcgovern disclosed that formal agreement would be announced shortly whereby us. Donations of food would be made to Peru for school lunch programs. He said the agreement would make it possible to provide lunches for up to 1 Mil lion peruvian school children by1965. Similar programs Are being Dis cussed with other latin american countries including Brazil and Chile he said. Mcgovern said More than 30 Mil lion children in 80 countries were fed daily under such programs last year at a Cost to the United states of about $150 million. Gium and Luxembourg As an essential foundation of Confidence. The setting up of its own Community representations in particularly important Points. These would work in close collaboration with the diplomatic representatives of member states. Expansion of cooperation Between the diplomatic represent tall member states abroad. European unification is a Tion of survival of euro tons in Freedom Brentanos the Success of the existing unities has exceeded ail tons. Now there must be no Tion on the Road leading of european edition army Navy All Force col Ridgway p. Smith jr., Usa editor in it col John j. Caulfield Usan Deputy de Arnold but Nett managing. I Elmer d. Frank production i Sydney Lasel circulation i directory of news bureaus Germany Darmstadt Central act Vimy Hom a. Cable Newt Jack Ellis. 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