June 14, 1961 France broke off the three-week-old Algerian peace talks for an indefinite period of reflection despite protests by the Algerian nationalists. A group of United States farm machinery experts conferred in Havana with Cuba’s President Dorticos on the issue of exchanging captive rebels for 500 tractors. Prime Minister Macmillan sending some of his senior ministers to other Commonwealth countries to discuss with them whether, and under what conditions, Britain should join the Common Market. A Foreign Service officer was arrested on espionage charges. Irvin Chambers Scarbeck, until recently second secretary in our Embassy in Warsaw, was accused of having transmitted classified documents to the Polish Government. President Kennedy named de Lesseps S. Morrison Ambassador to the O.A.S. Mr. Kennedy asked Congress to modernize the nation’s unemployment compensation system by increasing coverage, benefits and payroll taxes. Stevenson urges free elections in Paraguay. British to confer on European tie. U.S. Steel revises pricing on bars.
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