GEISHA girls on STRIKE

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27471, 4 October 1954, Page 11

GEISHA girls on STRIKE

Increase In Pay Wanted I ® ' TOKYO. October 2. ' Fapan h glr^s in Tokushima, western I SSSnSY* £° ne OD strike for another 1 JuL2 d) *2 hour - I strike began when | almond-eyed girls walked | Hits of the cit y’s leading restaurProprietors refused their 156 yJL demand for a pay increase to cf+Z an hour - jfctenriingffP 6 city's businessmen were jafrf tftftz* y lB evening at home—instead Manri lor hour after hour over saki cups of tea watching n >or ®°ces of Geisha girls. Japanese men no party is without Gieshas—trained £ win ia the art of entertaining.

The Belgian Foreign Minister, Mr Spaak, declared the conference a success tonight. After the Minister had cracked the arms control deadlock in a daylong whirl of crisis talks, he said a solution had been found, thanks to an important concession by Dr. Adenauer, who promised that West Germany would not make certain major weapons. including atomic bombs. Smiling, Dr. Adenauer remarked: ‘ Everything is in order.” Mr Dulles is reported to have said: “The Russians did not like E.D.C. much. They will like this even less.” Asked if the conference had been a victory for any one nation, Mr Spaak said the “most generous was Britain. It is a great victory for Britain.” One Minister was absent from the final session. He was Mr MendesFrance, whose insistence on reviving his sweeping plan to check arms production stalled negotiations. After the day session he had to leave the conference in Lancaster House and go to bed with a chill. Observers said he won another big diplomatic victory by clinging to the demands he believed essential to get the French National Assembly’s vital backing for the new plan. If the Assembly does approve it, the first German troops will be in uniform early next year. Safeguards Contained Conference sources said the new agreement contained nearly all the safeguards which France sought against any revival of German militarism. Under the new plan, Germany would provide 12 army divisions, a tactical air force, and some naval units for international forces under the Atlantic Pact Supreme Commander in Europe. - The Germans would not be able to expand their forces beyond this limit without the unanimous consent of a widened Brussels Treaty group—Britain, the Netherlands, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, West Germany, and Italy. The sources said West Germany would be limited to building warships of 3000 tons and submarines of 350 tons. An agency of the Brussels Treaty group would be responsible for control and inspection to ensure the limitations were observed. A German spokesman said tonight the nine Foreign Ministers would meet in Paris on October 21 to prepare for the N.A.T.O. Council meeting, which will take the final decision on the admittance of West Germany to the Atlantic Pact.