Australian minister to visit India and other Asian nations
Sir Garfield Barwick announces a tour to India Pakistan Laos Bangkok and the Philippines from late November to early December. He will discuss military aid to India and joint arms sales on cash or credit terms, and will press Laos neutrality under Geneva accords. He travels with officials J K Waller and G C Lewis.
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Laos
Bangkok
Philippines
South- East Asia
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Australia
China
Delhi
Foreign Affairs Office
Canada
Albania
Prince Souvanna Phouma
Wsit
Vientiane
J. K. Waller
Department of External Airs
G. CG. Lewis
British Families Flee Assam As Chinese Invasion Advances
All British women and children are being evacuated from Assam. The first group of 17 arrived in Calcutta by air from Tezpur, part of families of British tea estate managers and their assistants in the interior Assam.
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India
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United States
Britain
British High Commission
Brahmaputra
Indian Airlines
Delhi
Chinese advance nears Assam Plains amid evacuation orders
Reports state Red Chinese forces breached India's north east frontier and pushed toward the Assam Plains with Bomdila fallen. Nehru appeals for aid while Assam officials warn of worst, evacuation orders extend to Tezpur and Brahmaputra riverbanks as combat looms near Misamari.
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India
Assam
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Tezpur
Brahmaputra
Brahmaputtra
North-East Frontier Agency
Misamari
U.K. to Review China Trade Policies Amid India Concerns
The Prime Minister fears Commonwealth support for India is at risk as grain and rubber shipments head to China. Britain and Commonwealth partners have followed U.S. guidance on China, but Whitehall faces second thoughts. Australia, Canada and Ceylon will discuss initial steps as individual governments decide on trade controls.
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India
China
Britain
United States
Whitehall
Australia
Canada
Ceylon
Beauty Queen Tania Verslak Recovering After Jaw Surgery
Miss International Tania Verstak is convalescing in Sydney after an operation last week to remove an impacted wisdom tooth. She remains under medical care and is recovering from the jaw surgery.
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Sydney
Tania Verslak
Miss Verstak
Prince Philip urges science to save wildlife futures
Prince Philip warned that science losing interest in endangered species would “wall itself up good and proper.” He urged preservation of wild life, noting 1000 species with fewer than 4000 individuals and at least 10 Australian mammals extinct, calling for detailed knowledge and action in Australia and beyond.
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Australian Academy of Scien
International Union For the Conservation of Nature
Australia
Union
Move To Lift Ban On Sunday Work
The Plumbers' Union will move that the Trades and Labour Council lift its ban on Sunday work in the building industry. Union spokesman Mr. W. Andrews said the move follows lack of cooperation from the Master Builders Association in securing an ordinance to prohibit Sunday work.
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W. Andrews
Master Builders Association
Prince Philip Opens Commonwealth Games Visit in Canberra
Prince Philip arrived in Canberra from Sydney aboard an RAAF Convair and attended a Royal reception at Fairbairn. He opened the Commonwealth Games in Perth day after visiting the Australian Academy of Science, meeting officials and posing with the Diplomatic Corps before dining with the Prime Minister and continuing his Australian itinerary.
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U.K
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Academy of Science
Academy
Britain
High Commissioner
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Con‘yair
Prince Philip Becomes Royal Fellow Of Australian Academy
Prince Philip was admitted as a Royal Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science during a Canberra ceremony. Sixty five Fellows witnessed his election and signing of the Charter Book as Sir Mark Oliphant and Professor JT M Cherry spoke on science and welfare.
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Australian Academy of Science
Canberra
Academy
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