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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. The
long-term effect of his campaign
probably will depend on how
forcefully he is backed up by
France and the United States,
which is furnishing arms aid.
SEOWE2 GIVEN
. - EOS ED ALE The Missionary
Union of the Rosedale Friends
church met at the home of Mrs.
Bert Hamilton Thursday. In the
sfternoon Grace Ann Bouge was
honored with a shower.
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