POSSIBLE VISIT BY PRINCESS
No Invitation By
Australia
(Rec. 10 p.m.) _ n MELBOURNE, April 30.
The Commonwealth Government has not yet considered the possibility of extending an invitation to Princess Margaret to visit Australia after a visit to Malaya, and it has not yet been informed officially that she is going to Malaya, the Canberra correspondent of the Melbourne “Herald reported today. He said no comment on the possibility of a visit to Australia could be obtained today from the Prime Minister (Mr Menzies), who is resting after his strenuous official mission to the East. Australian newspapers today published a London message quoting the “Daily Mail” as saying Princess Margaret was expected to represent the Queen at the independence celebrations m Malaya in August. Federal Ministers say that when the Government learns officially of her visit to Malaya, an extension to Australia may be considered. Mr Menzies . may possibly discuss a visit in London when he arrives there in June. Provisional official reactions to the proposal are that the time factor will be found to make a visit to Australia impracticable at present, because of the amount of preliminary organisation that would be needed.
Youths Make Own Pistols.— Young criminals at Parramatta, Sydney, are now making their own pistols. Detectives have confiscated three of the pistols in recent gang arrests and fear other guns are being made. —Sydney, April 30.
A United States State Department spokesman said in Washington that the desert kingdom would be given considerable latitude in deciding how to spend the money. * Units of the United States 6th Fleet, which hurriedly put to sea last week, are due to reach Beirut today. They include transport ships carrying about 1800 Marines. Jordan and Saudi Arabia last night reaffirmed their adherence to national Arab policy, laid down jointly with their sister Arab States, Syria, and Egypt, in talks in Cairo on February 27. The affirmation was made in a joint statement issued after their week-end talks in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital. Jordan also announced that she would not invite to Amman the special United States mission which has been explaining President Eisenhower’s anti-Commun-ist doctrine to the Middle East countries.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28265, 1 May 1957, Page 13
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