BRITISH LEGATION IN BUDAPEST

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26059, 11 March 1950, Page 7

BRITISH LEGATION IN BUDAPEST

RECALL DEMANDED OF TWO OFFICIALS (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON. March 9. Reuter’s Budapest correspondent says that the Hungarian Government to-day demanded the withdrawal ot two British Legation officials and the closing of the Budapest branch of the British Council. The two officials are the Assistant-Military Attache (Lieu-tenant-Colonel P. C. Capron) and the Commercial Attache (Mr E. P. Southey), both of whom were named during the Sanders-Vogeler espionage trial. The Hungarian Note also repeated Hungary’s demand that the number of diplomatic and other officials working in the British Legation be reduced. Reuter’s Rome correspondent says that the Rumanian Government has demanded that Italy close its Institute of Culture in Bucharest. The Italian Foreign Office, announcing this to-day. added that the institute had been “provisionally closed to avoid incide _ts.”

ITALIAN HOUSE LIFTS IMMUNITY DEPUTY’S CRITICISM OF POPE (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON. March 10. Reuter’s Rome correspondent says that the Italian Chamber of Deputies has lifted Parliamentary immunity from a Communist woman deputy, Mrs Laura Diaz, who is charged with insulting the Pope. Mrs Diaz is alleged to' have said: “The Pope’s hands are dyed in blood. All the holy water there is won’t wash them clean.” U.S. HARD COAL MINERS CONTRACT SIGNED WITH OWNERS (Rec. 9 p.m..' WASHINGTON. Mar. 10. The United Mineworkers’ Union and the hard coal owners signed a new wage contract to-day. The contract gives 78.000 miners a 70 cents daily wage increase, and there is a 10 cents a ton increase in the industry’s payments to the union’s welfare and retirement fund. The contract omitted the clause which provided the miners should work only when “willing and able.” AUSTRALIAN TRADE WITH U.S. (Rec. 10.30 n.m.) SYDNEY. Mar. 10. Official statistics reveal that the value of Australian exports to the United States in January was a record of £7.226.000 as against the previous highest total of £5,764,000 last November. The greatest factor in the record was wool valued at £6,500.000.' For the first seven months of this financial year, however, Australia had in unfavourable balance of £5,397,060.