Miners and Merchants Bank
of Alaska
NOME, ALASKA
Whatever your New Year’s resolutions
may be, we know they were
made in the high spirit of hope and ambition.
Success to all of you.
Lomen Commercial Company
Slate Department
(Joses Hungarian
Consulates
WASHINGTON, (IP) — The
State Department disclosed Sat
urday that it has set midnight
Monday as the deadline for Hun
gary to close its consulates in
Cleveland and New York City—
one of two major steps taken in
retaliation for Hungarian treat
ment of four U.S. airmen. The
other was a ban on American
travel to Hungary.
The deadline was made known
by release of the text of a note
sent Friday night to Hungarian
minister Emil Aeil. It accused
Hungary of failure to “live up to
accepted standards of internation
al practice” and informed him
that the consular offices “are re
quired to cease all operations im
mediately and to be closed by
midnight, Dec. 31, 1951.”
The steps reduced contacts be
tween the United States and the
Soviet satellite to a bare mini
mum although a complete diplo
matic break was ruled out, at
least by this country.
U.S. retaliation for treatment
accorded four U.S. airmen by the
communist satellite nation came
swiftly. The four spent 40 days
British and Egyptian
Troops Set Up No-Man’s
Land In Canal Zone
CAIRO, Egypt, (/P)—British and
Egyptian commanders have ag
reed on a six-mile-wide no-man’s
I
land between their respective
troops along the Cairo-Suez road,
it was announced Saturday.
Gen. Saad El Din Sabour, Egyp- j
tian army liaison officer, said the
arrangement was made to prevent
possible clashes between the two
forces.
The new buffer zone starts!
along a north-south line a little
more than 37 miles from Cairo. |
Behind this, the Egyptians have!
strong forces guarding the ap
proaches to Cairo. On the other1
side, the nearest British army j
checkpoint is some 56 miles east
of Cairo.
in a Red jail. Haggard but jubi
lant, they won freedom Friday
after the U.S. said their fine —
$120,000. |
Retaliatory steps were announ-1
ced by Secretary of State Ache
son, coupled with a warning ob-1
viously aimed at the whole com
munist bloc that reaction to sim
ilar incidents in the future may
be much harsher. J
r
Let's J
hope |
you strike
it rich
this year.
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