October 24, 1956

Bradley threatens coast-wide strike after unsuccessful talk with Maritime Admr Morse; ILWU pres Bridges tells Morse ILWU will tie up W Coast if ILA strikes; ILWU pact has clause granting it any gains ILA wins; FMCS calls conf; Bradley to conf with ILA execs on Anastasia; latter denies threat; Dist Atty to probe remark despite denial

82-stata conf unanimously approves revised statute establishing Agency; agency will act as banker and broker to provide fissionable materials and tech skills to nations seeking nuclear development, aid in setting up atomic plants for peaceful purposes, inspect results, set up health and safety standards and make provision against diversion of supplies to war-making ends; conf votes to set up 18-nation Preparatory Comm to arrange to put Agency into operation and name majority of Govs Bd; Bd will include US, USSR, GB, France, Canada, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Czech, India, Portugal and S Afr; others elected are Argentina, Japan, Egypt, Peru, Indonesia and Pakistan; Agency will be in operation on ratification by 18 govts; US named 'depository Govt' since 'instruments of ratification' will be deposited in Washington; provisions of statute will not affect bilateral accords between member nations, but parties of such accords may ask Agency to establish its health and security standards in their territories; original and revised versions of statute compared; conf votes tentatively for Vienna hdqrs site; many delegates laud Eisenhower, conf pres Muniz, vice pres Winkler, Hammarskjold and Bunche for aid in forming Agency; Zaroubin protests exclusion of Communist China; A S Lall (India) hopes steps will be taken to make agency 'truly universal,'

Eden, Lloyd and Pineau reptdly decide to reject Nasser's bid to reopen talks transmitted to them through UN and Egyptian sources; conf, London; Pineau says there is no Egyptian proposal which could be 'seriously' considered; Fawzi reptdly had urged new talks in conf with Trevelyan; Brit ship owners speed plans for larger tankers; details

French-Tunisian relations at crisis over French seizure of 5 Algerian rebel chiefs on way to Tunis conf; strikes, riots flare

Gomulka, in phone talk with Khrushchev, gets USSR agreement to end mil measures; to go to Moscow with Cyrankiewicz and Ochab for further talks; Khrushchev reptd cordial, regretful of outbursts while in Warsaw, agreeable to Gomulka policy; reptdly pledges Soviet tank force will withdraw to regular base at Legnica and cruisers will leave Danzig; map; Poles stress no retreat from demand for ties based on equality and acknowledgment of right to seek own way to socialism; Witaszewski ousted as Army pol educ chief; succeeded by Spychalski, rehabilitated with Gomulka in Apr; Witaszewski ouster seen measure of Army control by new party leadership; officials seen trying to dampen anti-USSR feeling shown by damage to USSR war memorials, clandestine anti-Soviet leaflets, demonstrations in Lodz, Wroclaw, Warsaw; Loga-Sowinski delegated to meet Poznan workers to explain conditions; Prosecutor Gen Rybicki says all Poznan rioters will be freed except those against whom there is proof of robbery or murder