SPAAK IN KIEV

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30178, 9 July 1963, Page 13

SPAAK IN KIEV

May Meet Khrushchev (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) MOSCOW. July 8. The Belgian Foreign Minister and former N.A.T.O. Sec-retary-General, Mr PaulHenri Spaak, is expected to meet Mr Khrushchev in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, today for talks on East-West issues.

Mr Spaak’s visit today and tomorrow is regarded in Moscow as part of the Western soundings before the high-level nuclear test ban talks between the Soviet Union, the United States and Britain due to open in Moscow on July 15. The Belgian Minister, said by Soviet officials to have come at his own request, declined to say anything on arrival He referred reporters to his statement on leaving Brussels. He said then that he would discuss with the Soviet leader issues including Berlin, East-West relations, and probably relations between N.A.T.O. and the Warsaw Pact. It was thought likely that the two would discuss Mr Khrushchev’s new proposals for a partial test ban and a non-aggression pact between the Western and Eastern military alliances. Some sources thought there might also be a consideration of the relations between the Common Market and Comecon, its Eastern bloc counterpart.

Schofields To Move

(N.Z. Prtss Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY, July 8

An appeal has been launched to help Mr and Mrs Jeffrey Schofield move from the Hammondville migrant hostel near Sydney to another part of Australia. Their only daughter, Monica, was found strangled, criminally assaulted, and buried in a shallow grave near her home on June 2H. A man has since been charged with her murder. The appeal for the Schofields was started by the Padstow United Charities Organisation.