Show World News Today Chinese Peace Parley To Commence April P ri 11 1 I IThe Com Compiled From Ch Chicago nulls fully W UP VP AP and d n Reports Report The Chinese Communists announced in a radio broadcast that peace talks to and the dragging civil war would begin in Pel ping April 1 The announcement followed reports that Nationalist forces had been driven out of on the Yangtze river miles southwest southwest southwest south south- west of The radio broadcast from said the Communist peace panel would be headed by Gen Chou En lai member of the Red secretariat The broadcast instructed d Nationalist delegates to bring with them pertinent data on Communist Mao Tze Tze-tung's recent point eight-point peace ultimatum German Politicos Defy Allies Defiant German political leaders said that they would write their own constitution for a new west German state and the allies ames can take it or leave it iL German politicians comprising comprIsing- a seven man steering committee I for the constituent assembly at Bonn broke off negotiations with I representative of the three western allied militar military governors for fora forSo a So Friday night The breakdown in German allied-German negotiations cam came after the American n British and French military governors go informed the constitution constitution con con- makers that the allies cannot accept German counterproposals counterproposals counterproposals to changes they demand in the original draft submitted by bythe bythe bythe the Bonn assembly Specifically the military governors objected to concentrating too much power ver In the proposed central west German government and contended that the proposed draft would not give provinces sufficient sufficient tax powers Other west German political leaders smarting under the allied occupation tion accused d the western powers of employing like Goebbels-like press restrictions and authorizing authorising ing outright economic annexation of west German Gernian territory by Germanys Germany's neighbors Russia Revives Defense Council Russia has revived its wartime state defense council and is re reorganizing reorganizing reorganizing re- re organizing its army high command reports reaching Berlin through usually well-informed well channels said American official quarters said the reports indicated Soviet an anxiety ety over the unity of the west under the thc Atlantic pact The defense defense defense de de- de- de council which piloted Russia through World War Var II has not been heard of since 1915 19 At that time its eight members were Premier Josef Stalin V. V M. M Molotov Nikolai A. A Georgi M. M L. L P. P Beria N. N A. A A. A L. L and L. L M. M Kaganovich The last four members to retain departmental portfolios portfolios- Molotov and have have been relieved of them during the last three weeks leaving them free to concentrate on policy matters French Elections Bode III Ill for Reds Communists are expected to take another beating at run runoff local elections all over Fr France ce Sunday At stake are seats in local general councils These councils councils councils coun coun- on the county level of government have little power in the highly centralized French system Nevertheless the elections are bitterly fought and politicians watch them to see which way the wind vind is blowing It blew clew a tornado against the Communists in the first round of voting last Sunday when candidates needed a majority to win vin The Communists received 2351 2354 per cent of the popular vote but captured only 17 of tl tEe trie e seats decided Before the election they held of those seats Britain to Cut War Material Shipments Britain Is s moving to lighten up on the shipments of potential war materials to countries behind the iron curtain Official al sources dI disclosed closed a list of commodities having possible military value is being drawn for addition to o the list of articles al already already al- al ready forbidden for export to dominated Communist-dominated countries The informants said the new restrictions will be based on a conid confidential schedule of goods and materials which the UI United ted States feels shou should not be allowed to reach areas in the Soviet orbit They said Washington has sent these schedules to the 19 countries which receive American assistance under the European recovery program Two of the American schedules asked for bans on the shipment to iron curtain countries of arms munitions radar equipment atom bomb material or anything which might be used in the manufacture of jet engines and certain precision instruments the sources said Divorced Iran Empress to Wed The beautiful beautiful Princess Fawzia former empress of Iran and sister of King Far Farouk uk will marry Ismail Bey at simple ceremonies CS in Cairo Monday The royal roal palace announced last Nov 19 that the princess who had haAl borne no son to inherit the throne had been divorced by the shah of Ir Iran Their daughter Princess Chahinaz remained with the shah in Tehran Bey 31 traces his ancestry through many generations to the royal family A graduate of Cambridge university he is a a. government nt servant and and has held several government posts He was secretary of the Egyptian delegation to the San Francisco conference at which the United Nations was conceived |