Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-09-15
West Hopes
ToUseC
In 2 Weeks

to get their Suez Canal user:
plan in operation within two
weeks in the face Of President
Nasser's rejection.
Before leaving for Paris, For.
eign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd an.
nounced the Big Three sent in
vitations to the is other ma.
tons supporting international
control to meet in London Wed.
lnesday. Secretary of State
Dulles is flying here Monday tt
help prepare for the meeting.
Moscow radio announced Rus.
STA had accepted NaSser's invita-
ttion Of 10 days ago for rival
conference. This meeting viii
seek a peaceful solution Of the
crisis by setting UP an interna-
ltional negotiating group,
No date has been set for this
conference. The Egyptia r
Middle East agency said 20 ma.
ltions. including India as we'll al
Russia, had agreed to partici-
pate. v. K. Krishna Menon
Indian Prime Minister Nehru''
ltrouble-shooter, will be flying tC
Cairo tomorrow.
Egypt Applies Pressure
The big three's invitation tt
next weeks meeting said Egypt'S
suggestion for a Suez conference
would be among the questions
to be considered,
AS Col. Nasser spoke in Egypt
in opposition to the big three's
Iplan, his diplomats put pressure
on three Scandinavian countries
to shun the London meeting.
Notes to Sweden, Denmark anC
Norway said that to put the in
Iternational users plan into oper.
alton meant war.
The three maritime nation!
supported the recent Londor
Suez conference proposals for in.
ternational control of the Suei
Canal. But they were reported
cool toward the idea of a user
association. Their foreign min
listers meet in Stockholm tomor.
row to discuss the idea.
Hope for Compromise
Western diplomats conceded
the Big Three plan would moi
work without Egypt's co-opera-
ton. But they persisted in hop.
ing that Egypt would be willing
to accept some compromise.
Invited to the London meeting
by Britain. France and the Unit.
ed States were Italy. the Neither.
lands, Spain, Turkey, Australia
Denmark, Ethiopia. West Ger
many. Iran. Japan. New Zea-
land, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal
and Sweden.
These are, the nations sup
porting the original plan worked
out in London last month fol-
International control of the
canal. Egypt rejected that plan
The Egyptian Middle East
agency said one of these, PAX
1stan, had accepted Col. Nasser's
invitation for a conference.
Shipowners and government
officials watched intently as
President NasSer's Egyptian re-
Igime took over guiding ships
through the nationalized water
way. replacing Western pilots
and technicians who walked out
last night.
They expected the canal oper-
alton to be in chaos soon, with
more than 100 ships queued up
at each end unable to get
through, despite the arrival of an
Iunstated number of Soviet ship
pilots to help the Egyptians. The
Isnarl would give the American
British French sponsored users
association an opportunity to
take over.
Hope for Support
The Big Three hope the con-
ference--of nations that Joined
in the Dulles proposal last month
for international control Of the
Suez--will give backing to the
users association plan. Col
Nasser rejected the first Dulles
proposal for internationl con-
troll of the canal which was
adopted by the majority of ma
tons at the earlier Suez confer
ence.
London papers published de-
tails Of the Suez users associa-
ton plan today.
The project is aimed at keeping
ships moving through the canal
with cooperation from Egypt
The association would employ its
own pilots, collect tolls from
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