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nt Kowloon Hospital, a fon.
THE DEFENCE OF WESTERN EUROPE
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 8, 1949,
THE EUROPEAN ASSEMBLY
The first meeting of the Con- sultative Assembly
the of Council of Europe will open on Wednesday at Strasburg, It
By A Special Correspondent
This bas
Now there is being added the institutions, the third set of Council of Europe. This Includes both a parliament, called the Consultative Assembly, and ecuncil of ministers.
is coming into 'being as the countries ot West Europe To see clearly what is happen- result of the campaign by dif- feel that they are too small to ing it is necessary to distinguish ferent leaders and parties all exist in entire independence of between three separate sols of Overlapping Functions
At the end of the institutions, one another.
First, there is the over West Europe to create a
war balance was fairly even military and defence organisation Western Union.
and the created by the between these trends
Brussels Fact old nationalist trends to division which was made between Great end disunion. The balance was Britain, France and the Benelux
of union by countries.
created a tipped in favour Nussia's military threat to the defence organisation for all these West.
countries presided over by Field The Council of Europe is not Marshal Lord Montgomery, the only expression of West In Europe's search for unity.
Institutions fact, so many new have come into being which tie Europe the countries of West together that for the casual on- situation is very various inoker he
confused,
The Council of Europe falls federation far short of being a
of the or confederation
West European countries, anit some of the enthusiasts who campaign ed for it are disappointed. Yet if the Council survives its Arst years-and whether it will do
nobody can sny-its creation will have been one of the really grent events of European history. The Council of Europe awes
the cxistence trends which have mude all the
to
Its importance has been much
There is bound to be overlap
and interests ping of functions between these three sets of insķi- tutions. The Council of Europe is not supposed to concern itself with defence questions, Blace theso fall to the Brussels Part committees, or with economic problems, since
these are the increased by the Atlantic Pact responsibility of OEEC.
But when, In à recent debate Mr. and by the commitments which America has under the pact and les the House of Commons, OEEC, which came into being to Bovin went over all the subjects the Council of Europe organize West Europe economical- which ly as a recipient of Marshall Ald. could not discuss, member, ask- e rather impatiently what was left fur it to do. Many of those who will sit in the Consultative Assembly will come to it feeling themselves pledged to act as it the Assembly Wog really the Parliament of Europe, sm
They Jive With Gl's And Hope For A Greater Reich
and
By
ANTONÝ TERRYgs back to where they
tons of ice cream, thousands of The joint Chiefs of Staff luscious tenderloin steaks, fried served waffles of the United States Armed chicken, and
with honey and real butter are Forces
visiting at present Europe to discuss the milit Salzburg's 80-odd hotels
boarding houses: ary organisation of the At-
Scarcely 10 miles
from the frontier, Salzburg has become a lantic Pact,
frontier of Bavaria, have met the
Salzburg, focal point for Austrian devoten States In the United
Zone of of the "good old days" under the British Chiefs of Staff in
Austria, has become the Mecca Fuehrer. of Americans tired of Army fare and willing to pay almost any. thing for a square meat in peace- time surroundings.
London and Paris. Their visit is admirably timed. Within a week or two at the most. the Pact will come into force, and it will be:
to establish A necessary Council and a Committee of Defence as laid down in article Eight.
Nazi Song Hits
um.
Under the big red table brellas of the "Grand Cafe Wink what they were. The Fuehrer's Salzburg's hotels and boarding lee which decorate the Monk's former "Eagle's Nest" has been houses have taken the hint.
Hill Rock, 300 feet above the love- turned into a smart snack bar.
Back in Salzburg
arg the average 30 miles round the "festival city"
ly city of Salzburg, pretty Aus- there's not a bed to be had burian girls dance with American British tourist is Inga interested in tween mid-July and the and of GI's who have swept up to the top the rise of the ex-Nazis or the de- Salzburg Festival, of the rock-face from street level cline of the August.
Several of Vienna's well known
We feed in an express lift built two years Sitting in the shady cafes which It will be necessary to night clubs have
line the banks of the roaring Sal- ago at a cost of £20,000. for
he can enjoy. business to Salzburg work out a common defen-their
What the girls do not tell the zach River,
as they fool in a week than ho would see sive plan for all the Atlantic the season. And in the centre unsuspecting Americana
of the 18th century city, hoar the " Powers and provide
dance is that the request numbora in Britain in a month. where Mozart
End composed machinery of co-operation
played, is
huge-ice-cream
par and consultation. The Powers four. Outside is o sign in Eng- must decide whether to con- lish: "Buy your lec-cream by the struct one single all-embrac-quart! If you want service, stay ing organisation to include taide, sound your horn and gu
on sounding it!" all members of the Pact, or whether to rely
on
three
Musically, the Salzburg Festi. val has been outshone, out- ar- ganised and out-performed by
or four regional groups only borgh for the last two years. loosely bound together.
Since the whole
Famous musicians who used to
Lo purpose cross the world
appear at Salzburg go to Scotland instead. music lovera from all over And mu
Defence Jitters In Sweden
these
consl-!
means
Chinese Proverb
Han oon is as Han son does.
•
An 800 ton ship has steamed through the blockade into Shung-
hei.
Well, it was smoller.
►
Sounds like swansong tor. Syngman.
The Thirst Regiment
Two thousand tankmen are ar- riving here very soon. Locni hostelries had better make thetr preparations...
I am told, on not very good authority, that a local schoolboy naked to write about the Arctle regions, put, "An Eskimo is one of God's frozen people.".
This will be especially true of the French, who from the start have wanted to build up Wes- tom Union as a genuine federn- tion or
Every as- super-state.
business
The sembly which tries to extend its powers.
Assembly has no
the govern Consultative power to override
Two girl snails were approach- the union. If will perhaps trying n fence, a slug following in
sembly and the governments of
the states
which brought the Assembly into being.
mony
Cx-
the
rear.
Sald one, "Don't look round now, Matilda, but I think we're being followed."
"Yes, I know," replied the other, "and by a nudist, too.”
Not BCA-rod Theral
is
Taiwan's provincial government
to
I conducting a "house to house Investigation"
ensure that Jandlerits and tenants stick to the rents authorised. Not like our
with its tribunals for the land- lords and tribulations for the tenants!
"I've had a dreadful day," said the young wife when hubby came home. "First baby cut his first tooth, then he took his deat fell and knocked step, then he out his tooth.”
"What happened then?" asked the husband.
"Oh, darling,” she answered In a. shocked voice, "he said hia Arst word!"
Capitalising On The Corpse
It will take more than a mere police verdlet in Japan to turn a useful murdey" like that of
common or garden case of non- Communist "hara kiri."
Shimoyama into a mere useless
か
*
Tell me not of mournful num-
bers Patiently at one and two Waiting with a hope that slum-
bers
For a ferry service new!
In a tense atmosphere at the breakfast table. the husband eventually broke the chili silence by saying, suppose you're mad because I came home with this black eye last night."
"Not at all, darling." cooed the bitter half. "As a matter of fact, when you came home you didn't have the black cycl" arc
the band to play are Fifty thousand tourists, most-1 Their aim: the reunion of Austria they ask ly Americans from Germany. with Germany' in a yet greater war-time, song hits introduced by the Germans. The musle remains will pack Sulzburg, Austria's Belch.
With Hitler's former "Eagle's the same; the wards, not quite "music city", this year. Wait-
suitable for present day or for Nest" at Berchtesgaden only 15 mocratic American eara, aro not ments of the member states of
across the German ing for them with hundreds of miles away
sung by the crooner, only mur mured by
..But with to go far beyond its constitution, the Ririn
and there may be a collision be the help of Dr. Kraus they hope
tween the
majority in the As were in before too long.
Every Sunday hundreds of cars from Salzburg speed a few miles wide concrete autobahn
Britain's Stand to into Germany, up the
Mr. Bevin and the British highway Berchtesgaden, to see the battered
concealed romnants of what was to be the Government have not Führer's last stronghold in the that, if such a clash takes place. they will be on the side of keep. mountains.
within ing the
the Assembly But things there are not quite its intended for it. It will be
to say easy
that this is an unimaginative line, and that the "Laughter and Team Ordinance British are living in the past and not working with the forces of the future.
But it is worth while under- British standing just why the Government is in favour of ad vancing cautiously. When West Union more
Arst became a popular somo of its champions 'Idea,
thought in terms of making all West Europe into a single unit economically. That 15, thera WGS to be a customs union, # common currency and freedom for labour to migrate uncontroll ed from one country to another. In the end this would certainly be an ideal state of affairs for West Europe.
But to bring about such a would cause the merger rapidly most tremendious dislocation in By RALPH HEWINS
the national life of the different states. The British Government of the Pact is defensive, and
While the Swedes are bask- tories, which are the only plants would lose its freedom to deve com-lop the economic life on the lines since it is impossible to
manded by Generni Bengt Nor- on which it is at present complain about Salzburg ing in tens of thousands on the of their kind in Europe). envisage where
attack
music that they
"have polished pink granite rucks of might fall, the second seems heard it all before".
their lengthy qastline and denskiold, the only air chlef in perimenting. A remarkable book the work who pilots his own jet, by the economist Mr. Hawtrey more elastic and more prac-
Tradition-bound. Salzburg's or sailing the great archipelagoes They have the strongest battle which appeared a month or two
on the ganisers rely on immense of the satin Ballic waters they feet in Europe after Great Bri-go has had great influence in tical. The European mem-
narrow ask what hers must decide how far reputation of the perfectly-train- are all the time conscious that tain, but whether their cruisers England in making the public exactly is Implled In ed Vienna Opera and the Vienna they are right in the front line could operate in the
waters
eult the various ideas of union. on commun | Philharmonic Orchestra to Bee they can rely
of the Baltic le Bee of the cold war.
One of the questions which in designing their them through.
problematical in these days of air There is scarcely action
must be faced at the Strasbourg In Sweden the holiday mood is power.
West Ger- change on last year's program.
meeting is whether armed forces.
is forecast there'll no more realistic or profound than me, and it
Sweden also has conscription:
be admitted to the With their experience of
the which renders all male citizens many can
Council of Europe. Those who the last war both Britain and be no change next year either. it is in Great Britain and
Still the most popular single comfortable Swedes are listening table to at least one year's train- drew up the plans for the Coun traditional for the crash. There is no dock ing. The iden is to bring each ell in the early spring of this France might argue that in item is the English
play,
"Everyman", strike, but the Swedes troubles
at least corporal's year assumed that West Ger- the last resort every natton morality
very similar to Britain's man up to which always opens the Festival. are
would be a member of efficiency. Behind Their dorable forces arc the great the West European family. In must be prepared to rely It is the story of the man who They have a dollar gap.
On the wastes on its own arms.
tris life in search of baste exports are too expensive. Swedish steel, engineering, elec- the recent House of Commons de- Bevin pleasure..
Taxation is as high as it is in tric and shipbuilding industries bate Mr. Bevin said he thought other hand, as Mr.
Great Britain and the Welfare which are still unsurpassed on the that this question must wait a But if West Ger- has long ago pointed out
Continent even by France. Anti- little longer. in the House of Commons, a Calories Vs. Concertos State is seen to be in danger.
Can the high standard of Swe- atomic shelters are being hewn mans are to become good Euro.
the sooner they at most industrial peons, rationalised system of de-
But business is business, and dish life be maintained without from rock
centres
defence budget brought in the better. capa
and the
There is a fair amount undermining the country's fence in which each nation with thousands Americans
of is allotted definite role booking up the hotels months in
Can a small bankrupting the Exchequer? That festival the Salzburg's would be far cheaper and advance,
In Sweden, with a population of less having seen the disasters brought fomenting He is the nightmare
and war, is sensible arrange- sponsors
ready take ₤1
up decided it was better Swedish minds in the watering than 7,000,000, stand the strain of only to rise u
Internation- to concentrate on calories than
alism as its new ideal. At least few places, in the woods where the this defence effort indefinitely? ment.
on concertos for the next
hikers hike and fish in droves
one, of the gravest problems of Congress is naturally an-
As one American visitor and in the towns years,
Swedes Are Anxious
Europe would have been removed country
If West Germans really direct xious to know before voting said: "If it's got to be vitamine
me the vita folk are rathering for attractions required or virtuosos, give
to the $1,450,000,000
the such as
giant gymnastic Swedes are anxious lest the their energies co-operating for military aid, whether mins." Wryly he added, "It's all festival (the Linglad) in Stock-strain should break them. They with, instead of fighting against any fuss at all-just wear your
Marshall Ald” anyhow,"
holm, the regatta at Sandhamn note that no relaxation of effort their neighbours. the European nations arc The result is that the food to and the tennis and golf weeks at is possible for another 18 months prepared to fulfil their pled-be had in Salzburg's restaurants
Banstad.
because no American ald the best pro-war fure=** ges of self-help and mutual equals the
Not
of even the end
meat become effective in Norway the a price. co-operation made in
With its musical reputation rationing, the re-introduction of Denmark until 1951 at the earliest, Atlantic Pact. There might overshadowed more and more by sun and the
whipped cream for the frult sea- If ever. For the Norwegian coast- numerous foreign line is so vust und so exposed to be grounds for confusion be- Edinburgh, Salzburg in developing coloured acts in the theatres take an attack from the East across tween planning under the another, less pleasing aspect.
from the grim strategic and
Likewise flat Denmark is wide Atlantic Pact and planning forecast by rightish political ad- Swedish thoughts entirely way Finland and Sweden.
visers over two years, ago, Salz- economic realities.
open to an attack from the East under the Treaty of Brusburg is becoming the home of a Swedes are wondering when, and however much the Western sels. The European nations now neo-Nazi ideology.
if ever, the famous Atlantic Pact Powers might wish to preserve have taken no action under Nordic-looking Dr. Hans Kraus, is to come into effect. They re- Hamburg as a base (shielded by Czechoslo Denmark) few people in Northern the Atlantic Pact because self-styled "leader" of the "victim-
vakia (another small, exposed Europe believe we could rely upon od Nazis" in Austris, is today member the fate of bumping the country with pre-em
democracy) and an attempted much strategie hopes during the election speeches modelled on those counterpart to the Czech coup in initial phase of another European Rs General Marshall said re- Hitter made in the 1920's. He has Finland 18 months ago, when the
the conflagration. cently, some have already his headquarters in Salzburg.
Since Norway and Denmark are Pact was Arat mooted. They re- His Houtenants,
introducet who
how
tha
United States
tes vital to the defence of Britain by given abundant proof of
their "leader" At moetings in chivvied the Swedish Foreign nen and in the air the Swedes their determination not only phrases so similar to those used offee all the latter part of last hoped that America and Britain to defend themselves with by the Nazie about Hitler that year and the beginning of 1849 would adopt understanding country's their own resources, but to audience roar with glee, think he to join up with the other Atlantic attitude towards
has a good chance of uniting the Powers. They note the repeated peculiar geographical position and -co-operate-in-a- general
million-odd former Nazis in Aus- Soviet protests to neighbouring consequent abstinence from the strategic plan.
tria, who this year can vote again Norway and Denmark about sign Atlantic Fact There is no suggestion for the first time alace the war. ing. on the dotted line. The
Instead Swedes are dismayed that either the States De-
Swedes also wonder what all the by suggestions that war material, hurry was about.
including aircraft (the vital item) partment or the
may be withheld by America and Chiefs of Staff are dissatis even if the Pact had never
Britain lest Sweden should fall. fled. The military assistance been signed. It is in the truc
into enemy hands. Swedes are dismayed .by apparent ;programme now before Con- sense "stop-gap."
also gress is essentially a short- The defence of the West- money and arms are not likely Western inclination to let thom in their own juice” because term plan to cover the most ern world must therefore to be made before January at the who is not with us is against urgent requirements of the be considered in two phases: earliest. They know that if will European powers until a The first problem which the take a minimum 12 months at the us Yel the Swedes know, even very best to train Norwegians and if London and Washington do not, wider defence military assistance pro- Danca to use any modern equip that the only available force for
sal. the defence ot.
and Den- Norway plan can be worked out gramme is designed to an- ment
put at their
disposal meme recent Soviet note to Italy inter-Scandinavian is at present in Sweden. through the machinery of swer is how the countries of Pigeonholed
defence talks earlier this year the Atlantic Pact.
Western Europe can be have also shown that only the tip protesting against Italian, ad- The military assistance made strong enough to stand of Denmark and Southern Nor-herence to the Atlantic Fact has programme is a, logical ad on their own feet and deter way could be successfully de- renewed Swedish fears of being dition, but not intended to any aggressor during the fended in another world war "left with the baby" and suggests complete it. It provides for next two years. The second even supposing equipment were to Swedish minds that
valiable,
„Russian : offensive assistance to countries such is how to plan the defence seanwhile the Swedes are only Fact in general is beginning BB. Greece, Turkey; Korea of the Atlantic Community Log cooselous that they are hold- Just at the moment when metiona and the Philippines who are so that they can enjoy peace in the fort. They have an air of the American Congress, and
force of 1,000 machines, including public appear to not members of the Pact, and and security for a genera-force of 450 jets. (many from about the financial and incisantekni would have been necessary i'tion.
the underground :: Swedia's fac- implications of the Treaty,
more
it is not yet valid and no machinery yet exists. Yet,
new
and
American
As
city to defend itself and without steadily mounts, country like agreemont that West
where
Still Long Way Off
They learn that allocations of
"sterw
the
can or
renewed
the
worrying
of
Germany.
•
A woman of recently acquir- discussing with ed wealth was an artist a portrait of herself she had asked him to paint.
"Shall I paint you in evening
he inquired.
dress?"
Hoh.
with a regal smile, don't make no," replied the woman
overalls."
Play Refreshed
Bettiod, undue authority of the Goon
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