Soviet Union Offers to Share Peacemaker Role in Middle East
Editorial notes the Soviet Union seeks a joint peacemaker role with the West in the Middle East while Britain and the United States urge unity among the Big Powers. Moscow proposes private consultations and a Western-backed plan, but U.S. officials remain cautious about Russia’s true intentions amid ongoing Arab appeal and Soviet rhetoric.
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Max Harrelson
Associated Press
Middle East
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
France
Russia
United Nations
Vishinsky
U.N
Outer Mongolia
China
Japan
Bulganin
Khrushchev
London
Eden
Palestine
Security Council
Arkady A. Sobolev
Sir Pierson Dixon
Sobolev
Hammarskjold
Sia
West
Dixon
Dulles
Seaton Nominated Interior Secretary by Eisenhower
The President moved to fill the Interior post six weeks after Douglas McKay left for the Senate race. Fred A. Seaton of Nebraska was sent to the Senate as the nominee. Seaton backs basic administration policies on water resources and power and has served in the administration since 1953 with duties in congressional relations and interdepartmental matters.
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Eisenhower
Douglas McKay
Senate
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Fred A. Seaton
Nebraska
Interior
Seaton
Commencement Laugh and Car Theft Caper in Great Bend
In Great Bend Kansas the high school diploma ceremony turned humorous when Victor Unrich’s brother yelled a joke from the audience. A separate tale recounts Mrs Brown reporting a car theft after her husband drove off without notice and returned to a chase that left their car shot up. Dallas detective Douglas left keys on a sun visor in an unmarked car, and the police still search for it.
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Great Bend
Kan
Victor Unrich
Huriray
James i Brown
Brown
W. E. Douglas
Dallas
Det. Douglas
June events across states and global milestones
The schedule lists a Tuesday primary in California Montana New York and South Dakota and a Wednesday marked 12th anniversary of the Allied Normandy landings. A Saturday feature is an address by Secretary Dulles at Iowa State College in Ames. A Monday SEATO military staff officers meeting begins in Singapore.
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California
Montana
New York
South Dakota
Ntormandy
France
Secretary of State
Dulles
Iowa State College
Ames
Iowa
SEATO
Singapore
Conquest Raid Seals Casbah in Algeria Operation
French troops sealed off the Casbah of Algiers with about 5000 troops at night and 1500 police and soldiers swept the area by day in a house by house search. Two thousand Moslems were arrested amid discovery of military equipment leaflets a duplicating machine a radio transmitter and rebel insignia.
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Casbah
World War II veteran Montgomery predicts missiles to dominate future warfare
In Canada, Viscount Montgomery warned that guided missiles will handle half of long range bomber duties within a decade and replace 70 percent of tactical air forces. He urged planning beyond past wars while Gen. LeMay projected U.S.-Soviet bomber parity by 1958 and a future need for technicians, bases, jet tankers, and B52s.
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Viscount ‘Montgomery
Afrika Korps
Montgomery
NATO
Europe
Canada
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Soviet Union
United States
Russia
Curtis LeMay
Central Intelligence Agency
LeMay
U.S. Strategic Air Command
Special Armed Services
Sen. Symington
DMO
Defense Department
Nazi Footnote Desert Intrigue Reveals Saudi Rumors
A British publication of a prewar Grobba dispatch shows efforts to seek Nazi backing via Ibn Saud. Grobba reports the king’s hostility to Britain, willingness for alliance, and a demand for 8000 Mauser rifles with ammunition. Saudi Arabia stayed Allied, receiving lend-lease aid of 17 percent of a million dollars to 1946. Ibn Saud died 1953, succeeded by King Saud who has clashed with Britain over territorial claims.
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Berlin
Fritz Grobba
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Grobba
Hitler
Jidda
Ibn Saud
Britain
Army chief warns heavy war burden on U S Army
Secretary Wilber M. Brucker stated in a speech that the major combat load for any future conflict would fall on the U S Army. He said the Army would be the ultimate source of strength bringing victory in both nuclear and remote brushfire wars.
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Wilber M. Brucker
U.S. Army
Atomic power push includes foreign plant plan
Robert McKinney, Santa Fe New Mexican publisher and atomic energy expert, urged the United States to help build at least seven atomic plants in fuel scarce nations. He opposed Gore's domestic plant bill, arguing abroad construction could reduce costs and offer nations a share in the atomic conquest.
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Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
Robert McKinney
Santa Fe New Mexican
Authority On Atomic Energy
United States
McKinney
Sen. Gore
D-Tenn
Gore
U.S
Dulles open to major foreign policy debate amid 1950s election
The article surveys Dulles and the administration as they face a contested foreign policy debate tied to national elections. It questions congressional flexibility on foreign aid, U S strategies in Asia and Europe, NATO strength, neutralism versus active anti communism, and the risks of nuclear and reactor programs amid uncertain Soviet aims.
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Set Dulles
Dulles
Russia
Asia
Europe
Eisenhower Signs Compromise Farm Bill Ending Battle
President Eisenhower quietly signs the compromise farm bill to replace the vetoed measure. The law preserves flexible price supports and voluntary production limits, creating a $1.2 billion soil bank while acknowledging remaining shortcomings and no early soil bank payments this year.
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Eisenhower
Ezra Taft Benson
Presbyterians Approve Plan for United Church in U S A Union
A plan of union between two large Presbyterian groups was approved at Philadelphia's 168th general assembly. The merger would form The United Presbyterian Church in the U S A, uniting about 2.7 million and 0.25 million members, with final approval pending two assemblies and possible Pittsburgh 1958 formal merger. Some viewed the proposed name as giving too much prominence to the smaller branch.
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Philadelphia
General Assembly
Presbyterian Church
U.S.A
United Presbyterian Church
Pennsylvania
Knoxville College
Knoxsville
General Assemblies
Pittsburgh
Presbyterian World
Presbyterian Church In
U.S
In Short Opened Pittsburgh Labor Talks and World Alarm
Negotiations in Pittsburgh between United Steelworkers Union and leading U.S. steel firms aim to renew labor contracts expiring in June. Japanese scientists report instruments indicating a hydrogen bias test near May 28, comparing its power to a May 21 H-bomb, observed by civilians. Former Azerbaijan prime minister and three officials charged with treason and counter-revolutionary activity as accomplices of Lavrenty Beria.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers Union
United States
Azerbaijan
Lof
Lavrenty P.beria
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Pletcher
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Algiers
Nazi Germany
J. M. Roberts
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Alexander Wiley
McCarthy
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Truman
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