Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 15, 1955, Winnipeg, Manitoba New free press phone number 93-9331 All departments lne Lutas clarified ads. Final edition Winnipeg saturday october 15, 1955 new bid on arms United nations . Special Nyht the soviet Union unexpectedly requested Friday night a meeting of the in disarm i week end stay at the Home of close friends ment commission for Mon Aret seems sure to marry t by Don Cook London special Nyht Princess Margaret and group capt. Peter Townsend joined each other Friday night for a week end stay at the Home of close friends of the Royal family at nearby Windsor putting All but the formal announcement on their expected final Seal of a engagement. A formal announcement concern ing the future1 of the Princess and capt. Townsend a 40-year-old divorced father of two children now appears unlikely before parliament reconvenes oct. 25. Since her 25th birthday aug. 21, Princess mar Garet has been free to choose her own husband without the consent of her sister. Queen Elizabeth. However if she has decided on marriage with capt. Townsend. A commoner she must renounce All claims to the throne on behalf of herself and her heirs. This would involve an act of parliament. Prime minister sir Anthony Eden will return to London monday after a week end in the country. At a Cabinet meeting scheduled for tuesday the question of parliamentary action and the form of a pub Queen phones Margaret see Page 6 lie announcement concerning the Princess future will be decided. The prime minister will then con Fer with the Queen who will return from a Holiday in Scotland tues Day. If the Royal family has Hao any doubts about the popularity of such a marriage they were swept away by Friday s London newspapers. Ali we can say is that if an announcement were made we Are certain that the British people would Welcome it for the Sake of a Day. The aimed at gaining a russian Initia Tive on the disarmament question before the big four foreign ministers discuss the Issue at their forthcoming Geneva meeting. The request for the commission session was made by Arkady a. Sobolev soviet representative in the commission in a letter to tur key s Selim Sarper this month s commission chairman. Behind the soviet move is believed to lie a russian desire to reduce the attention that has been Given president Eisenhower s plan for creating an Early warn ing system against the dangers of a massive Surprise atomic attack by one country on another. The plan would be set in motion through an american soviet Exchange of military blueprints to be guaranteed by Mutual air in inspection. Not among by Stanley Johnson Moscow ;