“Covers Prince Edward leland Like The Dow”

The Guardian

BEAUTY

The beauty and splendor of Ball's Falls, near Louth, Ont., in the Niagara Peninsula, is

iON Charlottetown, Tues., Mar. 20, 1962.

ment plan costing $185,000 will be put into operation during the next five to 10 years by the

to be preserved. A develop- | Niagara Peninsula Conservat-

SPOT TO BE PRESERVED

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j fon Authority which acquired the 200-acre property last vear. The plan calls for the develop- ment of the entire area as a recreation site. (CP Pho'o)

U.S. Congress Is Jittery Over Hint Of Red Sales

By JACK BELL ,

WASHINGTON (AP) — Presi- dent Kennedy as stirred con- gressional jitters by what some members see as an intimation he is considering approval of | United States grain shipments to Red China and North Korea.

‘The subject apparently is so packed with potential political dynamite that a canvass o} senators has failed to produce | even one member who would comment publicly.

But from what they sald pri- vately, it 1s apparent that if an export licence were granted for any such shipment it would be almost certain to come under | attack in Congress as unwar- ranted aid to hostile countries.

The question probably would be asked whether this action

@ preliminary step toward ition of Red China. The reaction of U.S, allies, particularly Nationalist China and South Korea, obviously would be violent.

PERMIT SOUGHT

The only hard facts made pub- lic about the matter are that the International Trading Corpora tion of Seattle has filed with the U.S. commerce department ap- plications for permission to ex- port about $400,000,000 in grain to Red China and North Korea over the next three years and that the department has the ap- plications under consideration.

It is not known whether the Seattle company's applications are based on firm orders, or prospects of orders, or whether

Shadow Of Communist China Broods Over Geneva Talks

By ALAN HARVEY { GENEVA (CP) — As in all recent discussions on disarma- | ment, the shadow of Communist China broods over the 17-nation Geneva conference, remote yet ominous. |

ge China's mighty millions are | i del

not represented here, But gates are aware that some day. if any yards are made in dis- arming, the question of main- land China’s participation must arise,

The present Western plan ex- cludes China in the first stage of disarmament. Once the sec- ond stage is reached, there would be a world-wide meeting of all “militarily significant” nations, naturally including

China | Getting China to come in will | | undoubtedly be difficult but the price must be paid,” in the view of some conference ob-

Exclusion of China from the first - stage talks is the only way of getting a disarmament conference off the ground, they believe. MICHT SPURN BID China is not in the United Nations and probably would not join the discussions here even The United States wouldn't sit down with China if

she did come, and the Russians are noticeably unenthusiastic about welcoming their recalci- trant ally.

“I think it is significant that there has never been any sug- estion that Russia wants China in,” External Affairs Minister Green told a reporter.

Because of her enormous pop- ulation of some B . China is a force to be reckoned with both in conventional arma- ments and in her efforts to be- come a nuclear power,

The Russians have ho relish for China joining the nuclear club. Apart from military con siderations, it would diminish the Soviet claim to pré-eminence in the Communist world.

VESTED INTEREST There is a parallel between the position of China in relation to Russia and that of France vis-a-vis the Western powers The link is that France and China, while aspiring to nuclear status, have a vested interest in the failure of disarmament The problem of Mao Tse- tung's China has not come to the fore in the Geneva discus- sions but it is undoubtedly in the back of the minds of dele- gates, particularly those from the eight non - aligned nations. Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi was asked recently about attitude toward nuclear

“When China has them. the

be solved,” he replied.

jthe applicant merely hopes te | enter negotiations if permits are | granted.

| Kennedy's pu b11e comment | consists of three sentences at last Wednesday's press confer ence. Asked if Communist China known to be having food shortages—has sought wheat in tl J.8. and what he thinks of such a move, the president re- lied

“No, I have heard of no re quest from them for wheat. ‘There have been two companiet in the United States which have put in a request for a licence, One was the International Trad- ing Company, I believe of Seat- tle, and one other company which had put in requests for the right to export wheat to China, but there {s no informa tion that they ara working on an assignment or as an agent, and the United States govern- ment has no information that

e Chinese Communists have | requested us for wheat."

NUMBER UNCERTAIN

‘There was no explanation of his mention of two companies while other sources named only

One surmise was that he actually referred to the two ap- plications by the same company

-one for Red China and one for Communist North Korea.

Some of the president's asso ciates are known to feel that shipment of vast amounts of wheat. and barley to the two countries would illustrate dra- matically to the world the fall- ure of the Communist system to provide sufficient food for its people.

Beyond that, the disposal of 10,500,000 tons of grain to the two countries over the course of the next three years would | reduce U.S. surpluses to some extent.

To approve such shipments, Kennedy would have to waive the terms of the Rattle Act, which puts on embargo on the shipment of military and econo- mic aid to Communiist coun tries. However, to do this he would have to find that failure to make such shipments would be detrimental to U.S. security.

And the conjecture is that be fore any such licence were is- sued, the Communist countries would have to make formal re quest for it—so all the world would learn of their need.

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