Ruhr Steel Embargo

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 February 1950, Page 6

Ruhr Steel Embargo

The ban on West German steel exports to the Soviet zone will be lifted on March 15. The ban was imposed on February 6 after consultation with the Allies beacuse East Germany had overdrawn its credit limit under the East-West trade agreement, but the ban was also described as partly a reprisal for Russian interference with lorry traffic in and out of Berlin. — .Bonn, February 15. Austrians Cancel Demonstration The Vienna correspondent of the British United Press says that a joint demonstration of protest by both Houses of the Australian Parliament against the delay in completing the Australian peace treaty has been cancelled. It had been arranged to hold the demonstration today. No reason was given for the cancellation. —London, February 15. British Rule In Sudan Egypt might resort to “positive action’ to obtain Britain’s evacuation of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, said Egypt’s Foreign Minister (Salah Eddin Bey) in the Senate, He said that

Egypt could either enter into negotiations with Britain, take the matter to the United Nations Security Council, or appeal to the International Court, but in the end the Government might resort to positive action.. He did not say what he meant by. “positive action,”—Cairo, February 14.