1S51 Ike in London On European ilitary Tour 18 Tha Stat man, Solent, Oregon, Sunday, January 14, By Glenn Williams LONDON. Jan. 13 -UPV- Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower flew into London tonight to draw together more f the threads of his supreme European defense command against communism. Waiting in a cold RAF hanger to receive him at Northold airport were old war-time buddies and high officials. Among them were Defense Minister Emanuel Shin well, Air Marshall Sir William El liott, the RAF chief of staff, U.S. Ambassador Walter Gifford and Charles Spofford. American chair man of the Atlantic Pact's council of deputies. Ike," as he was known here during the war, flashed a grin for the cameras and was quickly driv en to Claridge hotel. Guests in dinner jackets applauded as he en tered the foyer. British communist leaders, pub licly committed to disrupting Brit- , lsh rearmament, were prepared to demonstrate against the Eisenhow er mission here. They were in conference all day. Teaee' Council Thirty persons presented to the : X3JS. embassy a letter signed "Lon- j don Peace Council" and "The Youth for Peace Council." It urg ed the general to "please stay away from our shores and let us live our lives in peace and decide on our future." This was Eisenhower's third isit to England since 1945, when j the invasion he planned here led to Germany's defeat. It was his sixth stop on a circuit to find out j why European military prepara-, tion ticks too slowly. ; He landed directly from Oslo, 1 where he received the brightest -picture of western defense he had so far found on his tour of the cap itals of Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium and France. : In Norway he found a country i which believes it has a geograph- ical chance of defending itself, giv- j en aid in time, and is determined ' to do it. Nerway Program Norway has laid out a program of spending $60,000,000 a year for I six years for armament, is calling up more men for training and is purging its labor unions of com- I munists. A defense line has been organized in the north which would call for the initial sacrifice of part of the country. Norway is the only country among the 12 : members of the Atlantic alliance I with a direct frontier with the : Soviet Union. ! In Norway, too, Gen. Eisenhower received his warmest welcome. About 2,000 persons stood in the snow in front of his hotel and ! cheered on his arrival. In calls on King Haakon and Crown Prince Olav and a long conference with Premier Einar Gerhardsen and defense chiefs, he was filled in on the Norwegian de- lense picture. French Cain Defensively in Indochina Area By Kenneth Likis HANOI, Vietnam, Indochina, Jan. 13-P)-The French defensive position in strategic north Indo china has taken a decided turn for the better in the last three weeks. Three factors have helped brighten military prospects in the long war against Ho Chi Minn's communist-commanded Vietminh rebels: 1 -Indochina's new high com missioner and commander in chief, Gen. Jean de Lattre de Tassigny', who whipped through a lot of changes in his first inspection of French posts. 2 Arrival of long awaited rein forcements fresh battalions of Foreign Legionnaires, Moroccan and Senegalese colonial troops from Africa, new tanks, planes and artillery. Axsults Blunted 3 Blunting of massive Vietminh assaults on the Red river delta de fense system and a French coun teroffensive which cleared threat ening concentrations from the coastal salient to the northeast. The rebels fell back to mountain hideouts. Harassment of the French con tinues. A communique announced tonight a pro-French Indochinese platoon garrisoning a post in the Bacninh sector, 20 miles northeast of Hanoi, was overpowered in a night attack and only one man es caped, but the post was retaken by a relief column yesterday. The general attitude in this gate way between communist China and southeast Asia, however, con trasts sharply with a recent belief of dispirited civilians and soldiers that Ho Chi Minh was in a posi tion to set the future timetables of the war. "Nt Another Inch" Gen., de Lattre said: "No, the French will not elve another infH" He shook up staff and field com mands, brusquely snapped the - army out of its cynical slouch, pushed construction of new defen sive works and wiped out his pre decessor's order for evacuation of French women and children. Instead of retiring to the sunny capital of Saigon, 700 miles to the south, the general spent most of his time in the bleak north. 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