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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1950.
Report on Germany -- No. 1:
THE LITTLE FUEHRERS
JOCKEY FOR POWER AGAIN
By Alexander Clifford
casily convinced
Good Morning!
Bit off more than he could Choat The former Luftwaffe pilot
This gradual hauling off or the into Nazlem Chinese cabinet to Moscow maker 24354 waved his beer mug through
and that they could just as coal- one wonder if indoctrination is 32312 the thick, smoky air of the dendence, confidence, resentment,, Ostau, Drel-there is no end to
ly be convinced again.
even longer than There is probably great dan-originally expected.
not taking restaurant, pointing to the are bubbling to the surface of the list of contenders.
ger in concentrating too much vistas of crowded, food-laden the German soul again. You can At least two rival organisa- on the idea that renascent Ger- tables. "Just like before the generic heading of national-Front" lender Otto Strasser, whn form of Nazism. For Nazism in lump them conveniently under tions claim to support the "Blackman nationalism will take the war, isn't it?" he said.
Is in Canada, Some work on the end was a failure, and its passing out." No amount of rubbing-in of the basis of fiercely irredentist successor—if it has a successor—— war guilt, or teaching of demo- terature from Argentina.
will have to be something dif- cracy, has been able to astuni this
ferent—something up to date and bright new growth.
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ism.
palpably
The nationalism there, and the Brst man who tried to harness it
Only one aim
beex tu
| basically almilar programmes.
Then his face darkened to ր bowl; and ho added: 'Except that the uniforms are foreign." Advertisements and Business He pointed to a couple of Brl- communications should be adtish soldiers, and made dressed to the Company CHINA | speech which I have hear n
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dozen times in different forms up
All have extremist Kuri Who and down Germany
Schumacher, the violent, rabble- their bonnets, though ali claim "Supposing," ho said, "that rousing lender of the Social De to be enthusiastically democratie. Britain, through a series of blun-mocrats.
All have long, flamboyant, and dern by her statesmen (and even He built his election campaign British statesmen do make blun- last. summer on a basis of aggres- ders), got herself into a war and sive nationallem, but he did not last 11, Supposing she was then win the elections partly because serupted by foreign troops deter his rivals entered into compet mined to ave that she
tion with him and never
adopted na- fought again.
tionalism themselves, partly be-1 "Do you think you would cause the time was clearly about forever in meekness
yet ripe. humility, perpetually
Since then the mood has deve your guilt? Do you think you loped.
The restraints on Ger- would try to change your nation- many's sovereignty have been at character?
steadily whittled nway. Her self-respect has steadily grown And now the Western world loud with talk of making What Germans soldiers again.
Mr. 1 Kom Tong and family tender their sincere thanks tu all relatives and friends for their kind expressions of sympathy in their bereave
maurt,
attendance At the funeral, wreaths and done. Bea to charity, and also to Brig. C. R. Hardy, DSO, OBE, and the 3rd Commando Bri- ande for providing the Band, the Hongkong Police Force, St. John Ambulance Brigade, District Watch Force and the Staff of the two Tung With Hospitals.
Ku and
wouldn't. No
s
All are ultimately aiming at national leadership, and string they all harp on tionalism.
"Drunkennen
gradually
How delightfully put...
42
But whatever it is the ex-Nazis
A news report says that a key are likely to join it. And rumour
hung outside the door in Sweden says that they have great hoarda
means that the family is not at of gold and jowcla and hard cur-home. rency tucked away down in the
Here of course it could
only Alps. If they can finance a win mean that the family is not all ning movement their power will there. be great.
There are many other people
the ready to fish these Germun
BA-
None of them is yet organicil on national lines. They are little. local mushroom growths, esch nucleus of an
wnters as Boon as they become really troubled.
There
enor-
the are, for instance, former Wehrinucht officers, sim- ple and often very honourable hoping to be the confessing
all German movement, and if people, who love an army career deeply and long to be able to re- they seem puny and laughable
sume it. now, they can always comfort And far more sinister-there themselves with the thought that
are the
managers of the and puny Hitler once seemed
mous Ruhr factories. Their pow- laughable.
er is at immense. At the mo- The nearest open thing to n ment they support the German nationally organised
movement Government Dr. Adenauer's * Dr.
Housseller's "German Union," which is in the process changing its name to German- Community I pretends to be, "above politics," as de Gaulle's movement used to do,
"Of course you large, proud, vigorous nation Cuki. You would be peculiarly conscious of your national cha-] racter. You would emphasise it. You would seek for ways of gro ving your qualities and your me. Fits to yourself,
you
expecte
"And you mustn't be surprised if that is
what is happening in Germany. Int fact, you would, be half-witted anything different.”
It is impossible, today, not to be aware of this psychological fermentation that is going on in Germany A whole host f vague eindlions like self-respect. patriotic pride, spiritual indepen-
Leagues and plots
So it is not surprising that the country is throbbing with lenta- tive parties, movements, leagues, and plots.
arc
of
++
Christian Democrats.
But
Cash or power?
Minall polentini Nazis. Their stronghold is If it is power, then they may be
what is it they really And underground are the old want? Is it money? Is it power? There fuehrers everywhere. Dozens of Bavarin and the neighbouring the greatest peril of all. For
involves factions aro jockeying for post-regions of Austria. They work power
1 resurgent. Uon, trying to canalise the rising a Munich-Salzburg axis.
strong, and ambitious Germany. tide of nationalism in their own And they have got a pretty And they will support the trends direction
tight potential grip On public most likely to obtain it. These parties are sprinkled all | life in those parts More than None of it is yet very precise. over Germany, and they are of 20,000 Bavarian pubile officials Nothing has really crystallised.
hewildering complication,
are ex-NazİN.
The German people still respond The amalgamate, split into In some Ministries they form to every quiz, probe, and Gallup assumptions and calculations, | fragments, change their Dames, as much as 75 per cent of the poll on the subject with an un- Britain will be hard put to change their leaders, and
personnel. Nearly half the local faltering and high-minded paci- terpret their programmes until
newspaper world is in their sm it to achieve a balance. It is the ordinary observer becomes hands. also made clear that between dizzy. 1948-49 and 1951-52, Britain must reduce dollar imports from $1,544.8 to $1,039.0 mil- lion.
CAN BRITAIN EARN THE DOLLARS?
Prophecy is always a dan gerous art, and when the prophet has to start from a number of basic assumptions which may
r may not be fulfilled, he stands In even greater peril. This must in- evitably be the broad judg- ment on the White Paper on the prospeels of Britain at taining a dollar balance by 1952, when Marshall Aid roines to an end. It is true that the figures in the White Paper are not put forward The White Paper envisages
an increase in United King- as a forecast, but rather as "designed to show the likely dom dollar exports from £170 course of development of the million in 1948-49 to £303 United Kingdom economy on million in 1951-52. Exports to the assumptions which have non-dollar countries will, IL been laid down." This distinc is hoped, increase from tion is fine enough to remind | £1,803 million to £1,772 mil-
|
rein-
But this froth of parties and This does not
mean that alif embryo leaders on the surface of The words "German". "unl these people BTC now actively life corresponds with something
"democratic," and have now been used
1t that "free" working for the Nazi cause,
is stirring strongly down In every does not even mean that they below You may
It argue that conceivable combination.
they are not all behaving itke does not matter what stirs DA There are dozens of parties, good democrats now.
long as they don't get arms. But and dozens of prospective leader e But I does mean that they that is what was argued last
Koegler, Lorits, Puler,
were time. people who
Von
were
once
Peasant
were They
dressed
in
one of the little girl who pro-linn. The likely incidence of denims. They stood at ease
tested that she did not kick her brother in the face, but only put her font against his cheek and pushed.
strong.
proclaimed
the
Д
into poilu
Forward the Night Drigado,
We
have heard of "midnight
"beleaguered
spectres vague"
Who olico
walls of Progue."
the page,
In Hong Kong history
the
turns
At midnight too, on a vanished
ago,
When forth from
shadows Blink
the city's
Creatures carrying chabis that
clink.
They
pass in their phantom twos and threes--
But isn't sulphur that scents
the breeze.
Puzzle
asking
writes
correspundent
something ງ່າ not acriously wrong with BOAC.
For two weeks the airmail has been on time.
"I hear your aunt's very rich. Does she enjoy good health?"
"Ye-gloats over it."
·
More howlers--just a few.
The chief cause of divorce is Biarriage
The Mediterranean and the Red Sea are connected by the sewage canal.
The difference between a king president is that n king is
of his Son
father, but president isn't
The government of Britain is u limited mockery.
and the
1
The Royal Mint is what the King grows in his pulace gardens. A viean forest is n forest in
By Hugo Charteris stoned rank. The pay is less than which the hand of man has never
id. more a day and the re- sponsibility is not commensurate aamall, with the only privileges sleeping
week.
set foot
•
German and Japanese com-
a background against
of the window to where petition is recognised, and due Nissen huts, cinder paths, fountain sprayed unto the air from in a separate tent and an extra Пloke know in London thinks
(packet of cigarettes por
his wife ought to be in Parliament. regard is also had to the dif- rolling plain, and grey drizzle a 20rt. pund.
We walked through the passage Neos in
in ceseruit camps--up to She's always bringing private flculty of predicting the fu- fraction of the raw material
many emblazoned battie the rank of sergeant-have, there-bills into the house. of Western Defence, of the st The first assumption is that
ture trend of export prices. French Army of tomorrow.
bonours. And at the end of the fore, usually to be "detalled.” the United Kingdom's Mar- We saw last year the adverse
pusange were "Resistance" photo- Main difficulty with training "Peasants" shall Aid allocations will be effect on
graphs and coloured dollar exports of ramp second-in-command
pictures of staff is that nearly all the best
Visitors to United Nationa war. $920 million for 1949-50, $720 even a slight and temporary loud voice, mostly from Brittuny,
troops are in Indo-China (130,000 And so to the next demonstra-men), North Africa, or Germany.
10,000 meetings note that the Yugoslav million for 1950-51, and $480 American recession. In other You might think they would need tion--tactical.
have ¡ delegates
Dow become The pay of the private soldier friendly. They answer pleasantly million for 1951-52 (ench respects Britain is also at the no training of a physical nature.
We drove past a burnt-out is a sore point (and an important when spoken to, and shake hands year ends on June 30). This mercy of the Americans them. But they do. Only their backs are Sherinan tank (for Piat practier) one for Western Defence). With
M instead of fists. and a branchless copse mortared large Left-Wing opposition to his of course depends upon Con-selves. Obstructive customs
HETT WE give them
four to death, and then we dismount- very existence and no trade union: gress. The second assumption regulations can be just as strengths-physical, morale, tac-ud by a deep dip.
support, he has not the best Today is that American national in-great a barrier as a high tical, and technical.
chance of getting a fair Increase. will's
see an aspect of each, come, production and prices tariff.
Even
in Indo-China after "Remember, they come to us as remain for the whole of these The general impression left ploughboys. In six months they On one side 10 Hotchkiss MG's year's service pay is only about three years at the levels at by the White Paper is that if leave us something like soldiers on fixed mountings, on the other, £10 a month. In France it is £5 which they stood in the mid-everything goes right, and if for a barracks in Paris. After an-targets; below the
lying short of open France's need dle of 1949. Every student of everyone in Britain is pre- other six months they return to platoons American economic history pared both to live and work Right carry on, Mon Capitaine." tunnels leading up to the targeta,ed to approve
stream, and finally wire their farms. They are 20 years old, ground, knows how bold this assump
"I call this the chicken run. defence last week. But there tion is.
shouted the Commandant. "Right 18 lot to pay for.
first
platoon, carry on."
A quantity of homogeneous Five Hotchkiss guns opened up small-arms equipment
in
as the present Government; desires, Britain may achieve
reserves
ment.
Jaços
Keen on service
for
you
move-
them
mixed
GIL
'The children run'
in the open,
*
Hotchkiss two
to £0 a month.
The French Assembly was ask- £420,000,000 fur
Teacher asked all the children to write down the name of their favourite hymn.
Everyone did except littlo Mary. "Come on, Mary, write # down," conxed teacher.dea
So little Mary blushingly wrote ""Johnny Brown!!
ha
This is
the Gin
GORDONS
Still, let both assumptions a dollar balance by the time A shouted command and the line)
Someone was telling me about pass for the moment. The Marshall Aid ends. But Bri- of bored grey bodies jerked into and the platoons rushed forward. hops be not the least important he had not long to live. Calling will per- the successful novelist who felt British White Paper contains tons are entitled to ask both Ufe and roughly similar
When they reached the stream a item. Whatever big supporting his wife, he gave her. Instructions further implicit assumptions, American and British Gov- The bad been waiting half an sergeant detonated grenades and bangs come from America, little that he was to be cremated, and
its turn. One is that ernments whether
this is hour in the rain. I scanned their high columns of water drenched bangs would always count, especi- 10 per cent of his ashes scattered
the mea, already wet, existing Government policy good enough.
faces for resentment,
ally in a country where the poten over his literary agent, la tin- The wire acted as both obstacle tlal Fifth Column will be continued.
is officially Many From the British point of spoken opinion about the value of
of and precaution. Finally, the 1,000,000 strong. people would prefer to take view, the White Paper has what they were doing and was platoon lay in a shallow trench France is in urgent need to: the agreeably surprised. They looked
It occurred to me last night February 23, 1950, instead of one glaring defect. It falls to healthy, fairly keen, and indir-r short of and 2ft. lower than tools if there is any possibility of that when Myrtlo; said, her dress June 30, 1952, as the limit of treat the British people as ferent alike to the vile weather the targets, while the five Hotch-a job being started, let alone showed distinction, she must have their forecast. Another is human beings, who work and to bearing themselves dis-kiss guns loosed off 100 each. It Anished. She deserves them now.I meant distinctly.
was explained that the present that there is
best for their fellows if they used as though they were not intake was too juntor to do a free- no gen- eral inflation in the non- are also allowed to work for there.
"A voice beside me said: "Their style attack with live ammunition dollar world and that the themselves. It is a pity that mothers hardly recognise volume of production and the authors of this document after they have been here a few breathless, but rather proud and The platoord came back trade continues to expand. could not have delayed their months-and none of them like
little excited. The White Paper rightly ad- work until they had been to leave for barrucks life."
The last demonstration mits that Britain's own for- able to read the recent an-general physical fitness was over evitably sketchy. Six months for The first demonstration of technical intruction - was In- tunes depend upon this last nual statement of Mr. Bibby, an assault course and was carried education in driving and main- assumption to a pecullar de- the chairman of Martins out in battle-kit under real gree.
Bank. Mr. Bibby shows machine-gun fire. The obstacles tenance, anti-tank guns, wireless
for the called, as usual, The White
and procedure, weapon hand- Paper gives clearly how excessive taxa qualities of tractor, horse, and ng and explosives is not long
Ling "illustrative dollar accounts" tion is eating into the liquid chimpanzee.
enough. for the sterling area up to
of businesses all
But the equipment availablo- June 30, 1952. It is hoped that over the country. He reminds
Morale training.
In small quantities-was as varied 09 tho
nationa
which
have foughtį the United Kingdom current us that rewards for risks 'Hordest to negotiate was a wet on French soll, and resembled a trade deficit will be reduced should be adequate, and that wooden slope as allmy as celskin. war muscum. from $1.007 million in 1940- successful riak, enterprise could be rushed, but not At the end of it all a veteran climbed. Only one man reached American observar of Franch 49 to $360 million in 1951-52. and initiative were the foun- the top.
training said: "I certainly never It is further hoped that the dations of our great foreign The course was basically the BAW
thenow
the sterling area will be shows how an out-of-date sault courses; and the perform
havopondent nothing to
wasn't bad,
ad, but probably matched
light Tils competito $100 million in 1948-40 to a terring workpeople from giv- that of a similar body of English Frilouse is one of 67 light
-comp
camps nurplus of $180 million in ing of their best, and nou- National Service men, -
scattered over France. Through 1951-52. The result is that tralising the efforts of em The Commandant stood at the 000 national conscripte
Morale training came next. them every year pass about 300,- $480 million of Marshall Ald players to produce more entrance ›02ja miess; hut which In 1951-52 would leave a cheaply and more efficiently branched into a passageway, de OCTU's avoided margin, were it not for one by forcing them to employ corated with 'bannera, Shatile] There are. OCTUS at Tours and ominous fact. That is in that the same number of people pictures, and quotations from Strasbourg, where three per year Britain has to make as before, even after they Napoleon, one of which said cent of candidates at the end of the first payments on the have installed now machinery simply: such men all things their year's service become re
are possible.quot
serve subalterns the the American and Canadian especially designed to save in here," said the Come gocrulf:
mo, that Loans.
labourg : mandant, “eve take care that the OCTUs are avoldest in spite of Little is said about 1952-53, The lesson which the na
The work the first year in which Britain tion has to re-learn is simple
a chance to relax, and ordand him is much, harder, Brid
por will have to do without Give the British people their
to justify it | Marshall Aid. It is clear that | head" and "they will påll
evon on the basis of these | through
.
-
Swedish
dollar balance for the rest of trade of the past. Finally he same as most British Army-And anything like this in 1930" ! transformed from a deflclt of | fear of unemployment is deance of the men wasn't excellent, compod
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