Geneva Police Guard For Foreign Ministers

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28889, 8 May 1959, Page 13

Geneva Police Guard For Foreign Ministers

(Rec. 11 p.m.) GENEVA, May 7. Charles Knecht, Geneva’s stocky chief of police, has the task of guarding the Foreign Ministers and their assistants when the East-West conference starts m Geneva next week. After the summit conference of 1955 at Geneva, he hoped he would find it easy, according to British United Press. There will be no repetition of events at the summit meeting, when American F. 8.1. men guarding President Eisenhower annoyed the Swiss by going through the crowds, efficiently ranoving hands from pockets “just to be safe” The Swiss have not forgotten. This year’s arrangements are relatively simple, and will probably be less stringent than those for the 1955 conference

For example, troops will be used only at Geneva’s Cointrin airport In 1955. they mounted machine-guns round the various delegations’ villas. But Mr Knecht and his police have one additional problem this Year. Some 600 Hungarian refugees who fled after the 1956

revolt are now living in Geneva Measures would be taken to ensure that there were no “incidents.” said Mr Knecht. A check has been made at all hotels and boarding houses just to be sure that the whereabouts of all possible trouble-makers is known.