Admiral Mountbatten Poses with Sea Cadets at Canberra
Lord Mountbatten met Sea Cadets at a reception hosted by Vice Admiral Dowling in Canberra. The admiral posed with the boys for a photographer and expressed desire for a group shot with the cadets. He spent the day in talks with Service Chiefs on defence, laid a wreath at the Australian War Memorial, and attended several social functions with Australian and UK liaison officials.
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Earl Mountbatten
Burma
United Kingdom
Defence Staff
Lord Mountbatten
Roy Dowling
Se of
Oung Sea Cadets
Canberra Times
Australian War Memorial
Parliament House
Stapleton
Joint Services
Royal Commonwealth Society
Victoria League
Canberra
No Easing Of Credit Squeeze In Near Future Says Spooner
Senator Spooner declared the government will not ease the credit squeeze soon. Holt denied plans to refund the 10 percent sales tax on new cars and outlined tax and investment adjustments for life companies and superannuation funds. Stock markets rose on car sector gains while import controls again drew support from industry spokesmen amid Australia’s strained international funds.
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Spooner
Holt
Menzies
Melbourne
Canberra
Treasury
Wackens
Sydney Stock Exchange
Motor Industry
Sydney
Rhodesia rejects MacLeod plan as troops called up
Sir Roy Welensky and Sir Edgar Whitehead reject the British MacLeod Plan to raise African representation in Northern Rhodesia's legislature. Four battalions of white territorial soldiers in Salisbury and Bulawayo are mobilized amid the deadlocked constitutional talks. African leaders condemn the proposal as disgusting and shocking.
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Sali
Roy Welensky
MacLeod
London
Northern Rhodesia
Roy
Salisbury
Bulawayo
Southern Rhodesia
Edgar Whitehead
Ban on Import of Unexpurgated Book Sparks Debate
Speaking from Launceston last night the official refused to comment on reports that the government decision to continue the ban contradicts the Commonwealth Literature Censorship Board which urged release of the unexpurgated edition. The board's stance was debated as Prime Minister Menzies and Senator Henty weighed ministerial opinion before final action.
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Launceston
CommonwealthLiterature Censorship Board
James Joyce
Menzies
Henty
Congo executions reported after Lumumba murder
The Daily Express says ten Congolese military personnel and five Army officers were executed by firing squad at dawn in Stanleyville after six days of mourning for Patrice Lumumba. Many others died from beatings in the day of vengeance. Officials fear eight Belgian soldiers who wandered from Ruanda Arundi may face execution.
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London
M.sp
Stanleyville
Daily Express
Patrice Lumumba
Ruanda Arundi
Congo Crisis Intensifies as Katanga Mobilises and UN Prepares
Reports from Congo describe Lumumba opponents killed and European victims in Opala. Major Gilbert Pongo, head of security, amid unrest as Tshombe orders Katanga mobilisation. U.N. Security Council authorised force to prevent civil war. Dag Hammarskjold convenes urgent Congo advisory session in New York.
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Lumumba
Gilbert Pongo
Mobutu
Congo
Opala
Stanleyville
British
United Press
Tshombe
Katanga
Geneva
U.N. Security Council
U.N
New York
Dag Hammarskjoeld
Security Council
Elizabethville
Moise Tshombe
United Nations
Congo Crisis Triggers U.N. Force Consideration of Major Action
Reports from Kitwe and Leopoldville describe chaos in Kivu after Patrice Lumumba’s death with hundreds of Europeans arrested and beaten. Clashes in Kasai and Rangoon protests linked to Lumumba and alleged arms sources. In Brussels, students clash with police near the UAR Embassy.
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Albert Kalonji
South Kasai
Security Council
Katanga
Brussels
Rangoon
Mr. Lumumba
Nairobi
Kenya
Africa
U.N
Congo
Kivu
British United Press
Kitwe
Rhodesia
Patrice Lumumba
Kasongo
Kampene
Leopaldville
Lulua
Baluhu
Tahikapa
Kasai
Lulumbourg
Killin
Lumumba
Burma
ILS
Arab Republic
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Q'Id
Reginald Wright
American
Associated Press
Hammarskjoeld
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