| 1 | Mac picks his market team . |
| 2 | Our man in Paris is no 1 aide to Heath . |
| 3 | By John Dickie . |
| 4 | Mr Macmillan has picked a strong ‘ brains trust ’ team to negotiate terms for joining the common market . |
| 5 | And he has abandoned plans to visit President de Gaulle this month to smooth the way . |
| 6 | General de Gaulle 's official welcome last week to Britain 's moves towards the six was taken as a friendly gesture in Whitehall , but no more than that . |
| 7 | So the idea of a personal mission by the Prime Minister to Paris was dropped . |
| 8 | Instead Mr Macmillan will rely on a hand_-_picked team under the leadership of Sir Pierson Dixon , Britain 's Ambassador to France , to back Mr Edward Heath , Lord Privy Seal , who is charged with the conduct of negotiations with the six . |
| 9 | In touch . |
| 10 | At the same time the Prime Minister has offered commonwealth governments every facility possible to safeguard their interests . |
| 11 | Seven commonwealth countries have told Mr Sandys , commonwealth relations Secretary , that they wish to be kept in touch in London . |
| 12 | Three of them — Canada , Australia , and New Zealand — will have strong delegations at an opening meeting in London on Monday . |
| 13 | Once the common market 's council of Ministers draws up the procedure for negotiations in a fortnight 's time , these commonwealth countries can arrange for observers to advise the British negotiating team . |
| 14 | The team is composed of experienced negotiators in several fields . |
| 15 | Sir Pierson Dixon has a wide reputation as a skilful backstage negotiator since his days as Britain 's chief UN delegate . |
| 16 | The team . |
| 17 | Second in command is Mr Eric Roll , 53 - year - old deputy Secretary at the ministry of agriculture , food , and fisheries . |
| 18 | The foreign office is represented by Sir Roderick Barclay , who has taken part in all the detailed common market exchanges over the past year with the French , Germans , and Italians . |
| 19 | Other leading members are : Sir Henry Lintott from the commonwealth relations office , Sir William Corell_-_Barnes ( colonial office ) , Mr G R Bell ( Treasury ) , and Mr G H Andrew ( board of trade ) . |
| 20 | They will accompany Mr Heath next month when he goes to Brussels , headquarters of the common market commission , or wherever the six decide negotiations should be held . |
| 21 | Some of the problems were reviewed yesterday at a meeting in Paris between M Couve de Murville , French foreign Minister , and Mr Heath . |
| 22 | Selwyn in strikeland . |
| 23 | From William Forrest Accra , Monday . |
| 24 | Mr Selwyn Lloyd — a man with troubles enough back home — seems fated to fly into trouble abroad . |
| 25 | Last year it was the riots in Istanbul , which enlivened the NATO council meeting . |
| 26 | Now we have the strikes and demonstrations in Ghana coinciding with the meeting of the commonwealth economic consultative council — the first to be held in Africa . |
| 27 | Only a_few hours after Mr Lloyd and his 24 - strong delegation landed at Accra this morning , hundreds of shop assistants demonstrated outside the British_-_owned Kingsway stores , the largest in town . |
| 28 | The stores had been hit by the same strike wave that has paralysed the port of Takoradi for the past week . |
| 29 | Root of the discontent : the austerity budget , including a compulsory savings scheme which the Ghana government introduced in July . |
| 30 | Ghana 's strong man is not here to face the storm . |
| 31 | President Nkrumah , having made his contribution to the neutrals ' conference in Belgrade , has resumed his holiday on the Black Sea and no_one here professes to know when he will return . |
| 32 | But in his absence his chief lieutenants have not let him down . |
| 33 | The strong arm of authority has been raised against the strikers and is now beginning to tell . |
| 34 | Today 's Ghanaian Times ( motto : ‘ the welfare of the people is the supreme law ’ ) reports : ‘ The government has been urged to take immediate action to deal ruthlessly with the strikers . ’ |
| 35 | The urge came from a conference of activists of Nkrumah 's convention party ‘ after powerful addresses by Comrades Krobo Edusei , Tawia Adamafio , ’ and others . |
| 36 | Ultimatum . |
| 37 | Strong deeds followed strong words . |
| 38 | In Takoradi a ‘ limited state of emergency ’ was declared , giving the government adequate power to maintain all essential services and ensure food supplies . |
| 39 | Thus it becomes an offence punishable with imprisonment for anyone who ‘ publishes a report likely to cause alarm or prejudicial to public safety . ’ |
| 40 | And up_to ten years ' imprisonment can be imposed on anyone convicted of sabotage . |
| 41 | These stern measures had the desired effect today at Kumasi where the strikers gave in , but in Takoradi , the chief storm centre , they are still holding out despite the presence of 1,400 police and 16 armoured cars . And how did the government react when the strikers demonstrated in Accra ? |
| 42 | At 9.40 Mr Edusei , Minister of transport and probably the toughest man in Mr Nkrumah 's team , drove up to the Kingsway stores and faced the demonstrators , most of them shopgirls in overalls . |
| 43 | ‘ If you have not dispersed by ten o'clock , ’ he told them , ‘ the police will act . ’ |
| 44 | At five to ten a posse of police arrived and in less than two minutes the crowd had gone . |
| 45 | If the threatened ‘ counter_-_revolution ’ was not enough to bring the President back from his travels it might have been thought that the muster from the 13 states of the commonwealth was an occasion worthy of his presence . |
| 46 | After_all it was Mr Nkrumah who suggested that this year the economic consultative council should meet in Accra . |
| 47 | It has been left , however , to Mr Goka , Ghana 's finance Minister , to do the honours as host , in which capacity he held a reception tonight in Accra 's Ambassador Hotel . |
| 48 | Phone taps . |
| 49 | Disarmers accuse the cabinet . |
| 50 | Police , on direct orders from the cabinet , are openly intimidating members of Earl Russell 's nuclear_-_disarming committee of 100 , the committee claimed yesterday . |
| 51 | It said pressure was being put on members and associates all over the country . |
| 52 | It alleged : |
| 53 | Phones were being tapped and going out_of action ; |
| 54 | Police were visiting people ‘ on no pretext whatsoever , except to pass the time of day ’ ; |
| 55 | Supporters had been warned — one that his connection with the committee was going too far ; another that anti_-_apartheid agitation was all_right , but support for the committee was not . |
| 56 | A third man 's house was watched for four days by plain - clothes men . |
| 57 | Committee_-_member Mr George Clark commented at a press conference : |
| 58 | ‘ The most extraordinary things are happening . ’ |
| 59 | Fifty committee members will appear at Bow_-_street today , including Lord Russell , Lady Russell , Lord Boyd_-_Orr , the Rev Michael Scott , and Mr Clark . |
| 60 | A ‘ plant ’ . |
| 61 | They are required to show why they should not be bound over for disturbing the peace and for inciting a breach of the peace . |
| 62 | The summonses say they are ‘ likely to persevere in such unlawful conduct . ’ |
| 63 | Lord Russell , 89 , was putting his affairs in order , and packing a case , at his Chelsea home yesterday . |
| 64 | His secretary , American_-_born Mr Ralph Schoenman , said : |
| 65 | ‘ He is not going to agree to be bound over . |
| 66 | That will probably mean jail and , though frail , he is very fit and will take the rigours of prison in his stride . |
| 67 | He hopes to be allowed to do some writing . ’ |
| 68 | Back at the press conference , Mr Clark said two committee members tried a ‘ plant ’ call on a suspect phone . |
| 69 | They discussed a sit_-_down at Watford at 5.30 p.m — none was planned but police turned up . |
| 70 | Sir Roy attacks Kaunda 's ‘ vicious monster ’ . |
| 71 | From Harvey Ward Salisbury , Monday . |
| 72 | Sir Roy Welensky said today that he no longer accepted the good faith of Mr Kenneth Kaunda . |
| 73 | Sir Roy , federal Rhodesian Prime Minister , said that Mr Kaunda 's united national independence party was a monster as vicious as the Zambia national congress , which was led by Mr Kaunda until he was outlawed in 1959 . |
| 74 | The record of lawlessness among UNIP supporters went back a long way , Sir Roy told the federal parliament in Salisbury . |
| 75 | He cited cases in which hundreds of UNIP supporters had been arrested or convicted since last year on charges of creating disturbances . |
| 76 | Convicted . |
| 77 | During the first three weeks of the present trouble 287 incidents had been reported in Northern Rhodesia . |
| 78 | More than 500 people — 167 of them members of the UNIP — were convicted last month in the northern province alone . |
| 79 | ‘ Against this background must be taken Mr Kaunda 's repeated statements that all he is doing is in the name of non_-_violence , ’ said Sir Roy . |
| 80 | ‘ I am now compelled to say that I do n't accept his good faith . ’ |
| 81 | He said Mr Kaunda must know that his statements had stimulated violence , but he had done nothing to stop it . ‘ It is true he made a point of again being absent from Northern Rhodesia when his followers have indulged in such violence . ’ But Sir Roy pointed out that a_few months ago Mr Kaunda said that if UNIP did not get its way what would happen would make the Mau Mau in Kenya ‘ seem like a child 's picnic . ’ |
| 82 | John Dickie writes : |
| 83 | Mr Macmillan gave top priority to the clash over Northern Rhodesia on his return from Scotland yesterday . He summoned Mr Iain Macleod , colonial Secretary , and Mr Duncan Sandys , commonwealth relations Secretary for an hour 's talks at Admiralty House . |
| 84 | A statement is expected today to hold the door open for modifications to the new constitution provided law and order is maintained in Northern Rhodesia . |
| 85 | Its terms have set the Prime Minister an exacting problem . |
| 86 | Mr Sandys has warned of the risk of a strong reaction from Sir Roy Welensky to any suggestion that there may be fresh concessions to the African nationalists . |
| 87 | Mr Macleod has ample evidence from talks with Sir John Moffat , Northern Rhodesian liberal leader , and Mr Kaunda , that the bulk of moderates and Africans will reject the constitution unless it is modified . |
| 88 | In Africa a clash : |
| 89 | in London a welcome . |
| 90 | A royal welcome for the Kabaka of Buganda ( King Freddie ) from Princess Elizabeth Bagaya of Toro , kneeling at the foot of his airliner 's steps at London Airport yesterday . Forty other Africans greeted him , kneeling with heads bowed . The princess , aged 24 , is now studying history at Cambridge , where she is a friend of Prince William of Gloucester . |
| 91 | King Freddie and three other hereditary rulers of native kingdoms in Uganda arrived for talks with colonial Secretary Mr Iain Macleod , before the Uganda constitutional conference opens next Monday . |
| 92 | The question : |
| 93 | their status in an independent Uganda . |
| 94 | The thorniest problem for next week 's conference is to settle the relationships between them and the rest of the country . |
| 95 | A government report has recognised their rights and recommended a form of federal association , but the four kings are not committing themselves and not attending the actual conference , although Buganda politicians have agreed to do so at the last minute . |
| 96 | Instead , the kings will remain in London and wait to hear the conference 's proposals . |
| 97 | Then their views will be transmitted back . |
| 98 | Russell jailed but ban_-_the_-_bomb fight goes on . |
| 99 | Rab cracks down . |
| 100 | 750 extra police will bar Sunday squatters . |
| 101 | By daily mail reporter . |
| 102 | Mr Butler , the home Secretary , has decided to meet head_-_on the biggest challenge to government authority yet presented by the ‘ ban_-_the_-_bomb ’ demonstrators . |
| 103 | Police leave has been cancelled and secret plans prepared to deal with the mass sit_-_down rally planned for Sunday in Parliament_-_square by the committee of 100 , the anti_-_nuclear arms group . |
| 104 | It was Mr Butler who authorised action which ended yesterday in 32 members of the committee of 100 being imprisoned for inciting a breach of the peace . |
| 105 | The committee 's president 89 - year - old Earl Russell and his 61 - year - old wife were each jailed for a week . |
| 106 | Playwrights Arnold Wesker ( the kitchen ) and Robert Bolt ( the flowering cherry ) were jailed for a month . |
| 107 | Measures . |
| 108 | The possibility that the government might invoke the public order act , 1936 , and declare the whole rally illegal — whether the demonstrators sit down or not — was being discussed in Whitehall last night . |
| 109 | It was last used a year ago , to deal with the St Pancras rent riots . |
| 110 | Today Mr Butler will have talks with police commissioner Sir Joseph Simpson to draw up final plans for the ‘ battle of parliament Square . ’ |
| 111 | Measures agreed so far include : 1 . a mass call_-_out of police , special constables and reserves , with 750 policemen posted from outlying districts to stations in the area — West End Central , Bow_-_street , and Cannon_-_row . |