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.^mmmmjjj.-! mK5HTING-U P TIME 6.47 p.m. Yesterday's Weather Maximum temperature 67.S Minimum temperature 59.8 TIDE TABLE FOR MARCH Sunshine *. 8.6 hours High low Rainfall nil ns» Water a.m. pjn. Water Sun- Sun- 1 00.03 12.18 am. pjn. rise set 2 00.54 1.08 624 6.24 6.47 6.17 719 7.« 6.46 6.18 VOL. 32 — NO. 51 HAMILTON. BERMUDA. SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1952 6D PER COPY French Assembly Scuttle Support Grows For Body Plans For Allied Defence Of Trustees To Take Up J Of Europe Against East Mental Home's Operation Whether the administration of £75,000 MORE VOTED TO the Mental Hospital is to be (Special through Reuter) U.N. Thrust Into vested in the Board of Health, a PARK, Feb. 29—The French Assembly's refusal to in- SCHOOL BUILDING FUND group of commissioners, the trus -•ease taxes by 15 per cent to help pay foe ber massive re- North Korea tees of the King Edward Memorial ja man-teat and her war in Indo China tonight alarmed General Hospital or a specially - created r j body of trustees the House of tsenhower's -t Supreme Allied Headquarters in Europe Board's Policy On Free Assembly still has not decided. | iHAPE) which counts on France as the keystone of the Seen Only Way Debate was once again deterred 'iropean Army. • Education Is Questioned yesterday when the Lunacy Bill TOKYO, Feb. 29 (Reuter). — came up for consideration in the The fall of M. Edgar Faure's Government in France's Vice-Admiral Charles Turner Joy, By voting £75,000 yesterday in Sessions House. jiird Cabinet crisis in seven months came as a bitter blow I chief; United Nations delegate at addition to the £50,000 recently Mr. A. D. Spurling offered a to General Eisenhower. Only a few hours before revolting the Pan Mun Jom peace talks, granted, the House of Assembly 3 lengthy amendment which pro deputies without support from M. Faure, General Eisenhower said bere today that a quick has enabled tbe Board of Educa poses the establishment of a body armistice could only be secured tion to Undertake its extensive ind the French Premier chatted optimistically at President to be known as the Mental Hos- if the Allies make a strong thrust programme concerning 11 schools 1 pital Trustees, and Assemblymen /incent Auriol's Elysee Palace. The ex-Premier is understood into North Korea. in the Colony and the building of wish to see it in print before jto have assured the worried It was either that, at the cost of a technical school in Devonshire. making a decision. General that Parliament was at j heavy casualties, or unwelcome The programme is to be spread Advocating the appointment of last ready to ask the French concessions at the conference over this year and 1953. The 11 trustees whose sole concern H Reynaud Called 1 people to jpay drastically higher table, he said. schools on which improvements would be to administer the Men- taxes as we price for France's Hie added that the Communists and extensions will be made, I tal Hospital. Mr. Spurling sug role in the anti-Russian alliance. j had built op ground strength either to the schools themselves gests they should number not less To Form .^-A^ The smile disappeared from the I during the eight months of rela ASTOR ESTATE SOLD. — The main residence on file 23-acre estate of Mr. Vincent Astor at or by the provision of playgrounds than four and not more than 10. 43-year-old- Premier's face when tive inaction since the peace talks and sports arenas, are Heron Bay APPROVAL OF RULES * I began. Ferry Reach," which has been sold to Mr. Alec Mitchell, of "Huntley Hill," Paget, who is to School, the Bermuda High School S$~ members of his own Radical His amendment also con' <ns New Gov^ment Party, including former Premier, WIDESPREAD BELIEF make his home there. (Story elsewhere en this page.) for Girls, the Central School, Saltus Grammar School, the j the proviso that any .rules aifec- M. Edouard Daladier, joined His statement seemed to bear [ ting the welfare of the patients PARIS, Fen. 29 (Reuter). _• opposition Communists and de Whitney Institute, Southampton out the widespread belief that the Glebe School, the Gilbert Insti- would have to be agreed to by the 'resident Vhcent AuripJ of Gaullists and voted against him. Communists have deliberately Legislature by resolution, while France tonigh asked _ M. Paul NATO ATLANTIC CHIEF I tute, the Berkeley Institute, Har The adverse vote of 309 to 283 | stalled the peace talks to build up rington Sound School, the Francis ordinary rules dealing with ad Reynaud, 73-yeir^d/efc-Preroler. i constituted a stinging slap in the their forces. Patton School and the St. George's ministration would merely lie on to form a new..Government to face for President Truman's chief "We are not," said Admiral Joy, VISITS THE ADMIRALTY Unanimous Approval Of Grammar School. the table of the House. combat ti*rg "financial' crisis that foreign affairs advisor, Mr. "negotiating from a position of From the general tone of "^jlg'-rrTorning toppled the ad-j Averell Harriman. It was Mr. strength, as we were at tile begin TOTAL OF £ 188,|23 speeches made yesterday it •""fiinistration of M. Edgar Faure, j Harriman, American chairman of ning (of the peace talks)." Adm. McCormick Has Talks I The £125,000 which has been would appear that Mr. Spurling's •Twfio resigned the North Atlantic Pact's "three He told Reuters that the Com* Pension For Dr. Hallett proposal will eventually be adop l'S M. Reynaud. Prime Minister wise men," who persuaded M. munists had strengthened their I voted by the Assembly this year With British Naval Heads will be added to the School Build- ted. When France collapsed In 1940, Faure at the NATO meeting in defence lines at a depth of about j| Assuring the House that he did Was dramatically summoned home Lisbon to raise French taxes by IS 20 miles. Air and naval opera- Tfae House of Assembly agreed i ing Reserve Fund, bringing the total up to £188,123. not hold himself out to be an from England by the President per cent to meet Atlantic alliance I tions had not been able to isolate LONDON, Feb. 29 (Reuter^.— yesterday afternoon unanimously authority, Mr. Spurling said he a few hours after* the Govern requirements. the front. Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, : to adopt tfae report of the select Once more Mr. H. T. Watling ment's fall and was asked to form ton, chairman of the Board of i realised that the Government had "Re-armament , is paralysed," As if to bear ont his statements, supreme Allied commander in committee which recommended [ many boards and departments. « |l Government "quickly." Paris-Presse-Intransigeant said 1 today's meetings of staff officers the North Atlantic, flew into that Dr. tfae Hon. R. C. Hollis Education, came under the fire of some members who criticised his had been suggested from time to M. Auriol put through a "private I tonight. and the prisoner-exchange com London today for a four-day con Hallett should be awarded an 1 time that their numbers should be telephone call to him at Oxford, LACK OF COURAGE mittee made no progress. ference with British naval annual pension of £500. Board tor allowing children out side the legal school ages of seven I reduced by amalgamation but where he was staying as guest of "The destructive vote is due The latter is still completely leaders on the establishment of j Previously it had been sug ^nevertheless he felt that the Men— "'he University. He drove Straight simply to a lack of courage,** de deadlocked on the question of his command. gested Dr. Hallett be' presented and 13 to obtain free education. On Wednesday Mr. Watlington | tal Hospital should, at least in the from Paris Airport to the Presi clared the semi-official Monde. prisoner repatriation. The U.N. I with a gratuity of £5.000 for his first instance, be administered by dent's residence, the Elysee | refuses to recognise wholesale This i*. his first visit since he I services to the Colony as Assistant was assailed for, as it was said. "Parliament is fleeing before its I was appointed last January. He Justice, and as acting Chief Jus permitting his Board to step be [ a body of trustees. Palace. 1 forced repatriation, while the "A department exists, a board *E M. Reynaud to! * reporters that j responsibilities," it added. Communists, in the words of a is accompanied by his British tice. This proposal did not meet yond the, bounds of its authority. Observers here predict that the ' deputy, Vice Admiral Sir William J with the entire aproval of the I On that occasion Mr. Watlington ! does not; and all that will be tk thought it was "feasible" he j U.N. delegate, win "never agree created will be a body of trustees ould form a Government. I whole question of how many I to anything else." tta&*I Andrewes, and staff officers. | House and the matter was sent to I scouted the suggestion, claiming ! troops France will eventually who will .operate in a manner He said tonight that he would Staff officers are still at'rffi im? | a select committee for considera j that his Board was following the contribute to General Eisen Immediately . after his arrival tion. [ provisions, df the relevanr act. similar to ' the trustees adminis ,;ee M.