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THE FOUNDATIONS FOR
WESTERN
The man in the street In
Western Europe has yet to
feel that mútual help, co
SECURITY.
By Edward Thurloxton
iries may training. Y
go to America for
Useful advances have been
made by the Brusscia Treaty - "Cherring
Supreme
Boviet
operation and self-help under ́Brkish Commonwealth and ammunition, and help has been countries towards standardising votes to keep Stalla's government." the North Atlantic Treaty Western countries and to other given also with training in the ing methods.
arma and equipment and train- And there was I half expoeling 24864 with the vigour and single-friendly tiations. Canada, Italy, use of these arms, and this equip~| In, the organisation of the, they might vote him out of offico,
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BETWEEN SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS The news of the sinking of the two small coastal ships at the approaches to Shang hai is alarming, coming as it does so swiftly after the similar incidents at Swatow, Proof is still awaited that sca-mines were the cause The "Chaksang" disaster and recent navigation are reminders of other pos- sibilities. Two small ships from the North made the trip to Shanghai safely about the
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The question is how long the Coramos can stand this:
Common operational procedure
the same.
maps
and
charts.
I must reluctantly agree with
possibly call it the safety Valve.
Many - differences: and-Norway are boing supplied ment mindedness
with Do Havilland Vampire The United
Mutual ing services of the five countries make paper plans a reality. Oghters with Goblin turbo-jet Defence Assistance Act, 1049, have been so far adjusted that But it is more or less a fact engines, while Belgium, Holland, authorises a programme of mill the interchanging of divisions
Benmork
receiving tary aid totalling $1,000 million
between that in the short time, since and
are Meteors powered Gloster
by to European signatories of the the Treaty came into opera- Rolls-Royce Derwent and Nene North Atlantic Treaty, with tion much more has been a
engines. French, Dutch, and further sum of three hundred in the spheres of strategy and
The Overseas Press Club: ¦ of- achieved than is generally Belgian squadrons with these and fourteen million dollars for tactice is ensured by the use of
America has Hawley' dissoolated machines have already realised.
taken ald to Greece, Turkey, Perala, Language dimculties have been itself with the treatment of the The Western Union detence part in Western Union combined and countries in the Far East.
blacklisted correspondent The afd to European signatories overcome by the translation Tokyo. It does not make a SCAP system is now strengthened by exercises.
tactical and technical the United King- takes three terms: (a) chioby into three. languages and
mamuala In guarantees and mutual security dom firms concerned have grant- the supply in kind addition,
the of diference, they say, if he is co-operation covering the whole of the Western world including od licences for the production of United Blotes arms and equip provision of tri-lingual glossaries, critical of the Occupation or not.
and engines in ment, including surpluses; (b)
In fact, that is a siga of The There are also · frequent the United States and Canada. there aircraft
Times." This has made possible a supreme European countries. It is hoped assistance to these countries,so changes of officers and non- strategia plan for the North also that the European air forces that they can increase their own commissioned officers for courses Atlantie
soon will receive some of the new, production of armaments in use of instruction.
A good beginning has been: "A hospital spokesman said his for now going into produc- form of raw materials or machine, towards producing a joint pro- Bahters not, ditch as une Da tools procurable only from hardmade, but much remains to be
condition is 'catiafamtory," gramme for the
Have they tried panicillin? supply of arms and equipment.
making and Havilland Venom and the Meteor currency sources); (e) technical done to entitle the organisation to be regarded as effective and Meatures
for standardiaing]
production has also contributed schemes, among other activities)manent directing body has been a correspondent that you cannot
complete. The need for a per- equipment and training have
a large and training assistance. also been agreed upon between radar equipment for
of
recognised, European radar the United Kingdom, Canada and
As a result of the the
recent meeting of the Atlantis radar and the United States.
stations, and There is a
the main-
Council a committee of Deputies growing realisation, with which tracking systems on
has been set up and provision Did you hear about the card' increasing.
land of Western Europe have confidence
made for a' permanent secretariat player who named his dog Miscro, throughout Western Europe, that been thereby greatly improved.
becausa ha didn't have any Weapons and equipment which under a Director General. the Atlantic Treaty countries Another major contribuilon has
The United Kingdom's Cover- tricks? been warships.
may be provided under this pro- During World War II and gramme include tanks, armour-ment's recent White Paper on the lorries, rador equipment, subject, after emphasising the
significance since it ended, the United King-ed
has transferred, loaned, or signal equipment, anti-tank guns, cardinal sold over 450 vessels to other harbour, defence guns, ammuni- imaginative experiment in inter- the Tibetan delegates meet the countries, mainly British Com- tion, aircraft, and light naval national relations in the field of Communists in Hong Kong and monwealth
including und Western Union vessels,
submarines. defence in time of peace, com- either agree or disagree, it might lands, and also to Norway, Den- Atomic weapons are specifically ments, "It is the measure of the raise the roof of the world.
understanding! excluded because of the prohib! goodwill and In what has been done so far mark, Portugal, and Italy.
Ammy equipment transferred tion in the United States Atomic which exists among the nationa
The average man would, ba. to co-ordinate Western European
who share in common the heri forces Britain has played a lead- since the end of the war includes Energy Act, 1948.
carriers, machine American Instructors also may tage of Western civilisation that satisfied if he had the income hir ing part. As its share of the thousands of
mortars, anti-tank guns bo sent to the recipient countries, such a position should have been wito hopes the neighbours thinks necessary assistance to be given guns,
guns. and much and some soldiers of these coun-1 reached with such rapidity" to one another by the countries and other can transferred large concerned, the United Kingdom of material to its partners, out quantities of both reserve
and surplus stocks and out of new produc- tion, and plans to transfer moro still.
comes
through their combined resources In men and materiais amount to a mighty potential force for de- fence. They have a total popus lation of about 250 million, and together hold a vast proportion of the world's industrial SOUTERS.
has
Planning for the Interchange of material and the standardising of production is done through certain boards established under the Treaties, and these boards have headquarters in London,
dom
Weapons and equipment
of
pounds go
round
Himmler
round and
An envelope from the Swiss hazards
Fighter aircraft
.contribution
One of Britain's main contri- butions has been a substantial number of jet fighter aircraft to
tically affect the national economy.
disasters'
economy.
this
It is feared in London that, if
he has
•
An agency writer reminds us that Mr. Truman is ambidextrous. Some people call him a Righilst and some a Lettist, relay"
Japan is to restore to the Chinese Nationalists: 11,200 lbs. of cutton yarn looted, during the war.
Anxiety is being felt, however,
Gestapo Chlef Heinrich Himm- Scotland Yard. It was too late to
Bilis, millions of ** to the capacity of Taipon's" captives for experts in ovo which had been distributed to godowns in accommodating this police brought a £3 note: ler, after rombing his list stop all the White-haired Anton Adler, branch of printing and engrav-spies and Nazi agents if neutrovost shipment.
countries.
head clearing-house on foring, put 140 of them to work The "Himmler pounds" aro
gerles, scanned it under aan underground plant at Sachsen- on duplicating into complicated machines to identity papers, rubber stamps, test the ink and paper.
magnifying-glass, then put it hausen, near Berlin.
They worked
"No doubt about it,” he said anally. "It's one of Himmler's again!"
A file of his forgery bureau bulged with similar bills-nclea of £5 to £100-products of the| biggest counterfelting operation in history.
Still they come amount
have been trickling into
and
Australia,
the
and
of
juvenlie
only one of the headaches of Lges the club is being a police and banking, experts from tomorrow on 38 countries. They are faced with wherefores 8. general Increase in money delinquency. forging since the war.
"It is more dangerous becausa
By Daniel Schorr has become a big business,"
Unemploy" forgery, revealed by an escaped troops. One of them, a Holländer. / Austrian Army, he took it up ap
howed a sample British, note-intoj "- Не
Playroom behind the Curtain
For a hobbied a bureau in Viennois
the restoration of the Archduke, When Germany seized Austria in 1938. Adler fied to Holland
:
and reopened his bureau there, ." Actually, ・ dear," the train During the second world war he turned it this shape, but/the dodged the Germans again and tashion writers, havay; been worked for the police in Brazil,
raving about A.”
"You can,”, murmured the, girl. says. Adior.. "Before the war there "take me to the dance tonight if were 'Hitle
groups of forger you wish unless coyly "you using Improvised machinery: now meet someone more attractive, in mouth of the Yangtze and The irony of it is that the
banknotes of all sorts-every- we are faced with big interna- the meantime.
tional
"I say!" exclaimed, the young Taiwan. But whatever the intensification of the blockade
Kangs, heavily financed, thing the Nazis might need.
Biggest project was the print who have managed to acquire man, "that's jolly: sporting of agency, four disasters to ship--for that is what these four
ing of £200,000,000 in British well-equipped commercial print you. We'll leave it like that,
then, shall We?" ping in so short a time do im- recent
Another
difficulty another unfavourable to-synchronises with a series For five years, since the end currency, intended to be droppacing plants.
over London. change in the shipping of conferences and decisions of the war. "Himmler pounds" Special paper was manufac. many European currencies aro
in Peking over the whole Hague from all parts of the world. mark ink
The tured with the correct water more easily faked than before...
was meticulously
Most frequently forged cur- Taipeh appears to think fields of economy and taxa- And there is no sign of a let-up. matched."
rency since the wor is the much-| that the high-level American tion, designed to undo much
In-demand American dollar, of Mostly they come from Euro- He told the story which 350 counterfelts have been discussions in Tokyo may pro- of the mischief already done, pean countries, but some fillers
Germany was 'invaded before uncovered, apart from the work duce futher changes in the and to get the economic back from as for as Argentina
the forged sterling could be used. of domestic American forgets. situation. Hopes there are machine working again. De-"Heaven knows how many The plant was first moved to a Next in popularity are the Itallart, supported by fears in Peking, fects, mistakes, errors, and millions are still in circulation," cave in Austria, then destroyed ilia, and the Swiss franc. reflected in a sustained and other mildly-expressed sing says Mr. Adler. "About £200, to keep the scheme secret.
000,000 were originally printed, Most of the sterling notes went Began as hobby vehement campaign of broad- have been admitted, and and, while most must have been up in smoke.
Anton Adfer has been working cast propaganda against Gen-readjustments" decided upon destroyed, a good many are still
The majority labourers were executed. A few 1917,, when, as an officer in thei the slave at counterfck delection sirice eral MacArthur, coupled with in the field of domestic trade out
the story of
Himmler were liberated by American undisguised incitements
to and the Japanese Communists, to ment is now getting the atten. Dutch prisoner, is in the fles defy him and to "do battle tion formerly devoted to the Anton Adler's Bureau for the the sole of his shoe, made his way where his first big success was
Combating of with the foes." Peking des problems of famine relief.
Falsifications, a to The Hague, and turned it over, the unravelling of a plot by Aus- cribed "American Imperial-
The retreat concedes noth-branch of the International Police to the police with the full story trien monarchists.. to circulates
Commission.
Adler immediately warned New fake French currency to finance Ism" as a "paper tiger which ing in principle: it is what the the valiant Japanese people Communists call a strategic tear to pieces." This retreat, from what was in campaign is destitute of any fact a reckless and heedless thing in the way of political departure from the Common, wisdom. It will gain precise Programme agreed upon by ly nothing-it will lose much, all groups only last autumn. if not all. Those who have Private enterprise remains been trying to hard to find a the tool and plaything of the solution State. The State "allows". for each new problem as it private capital to conduct Russian children crowd life behind the Iron. Curtain arises, as well as for the commercial activities; It breader orientation of policy, "gives recognition" to the year-old. Susanna Jennifer house provided and furnished by
around curly-haired three-something of a strain."
"We live in a nive-roomed have a hard enough fight us existence and need for the Yates each morning as she the Russians," alle says. "It was it is. This sort of thing leaves development of all private plays In them without any ground to capitalist economy, but only Federick the Great's summer worry the Soviet authorities lob the grounds of a bit primitive when we moved in 18 months ago and we had to if it is in the eyes of the palace in Fotsdam. Susanna is before they would fit
Kitchen We may have to wait some Marxists beneficial to the the only British child who sink a time, before any official light national welfare and the lives behind, well behind, "They didn't think it was nd- is thrown on the decisions of people's livelihood, and does Soviet Germany's famous them that all houses in Britain exercise predominant Curtain." She even has above kitchen sinks. Then they the defence and peace, treaty not discussions in Tokyo. But control; which must remain playroom furnished, by Rus- gave us one at once, whatever they may be, the with the State: blockade problemn has already Even so, any system that been sufficiently complicated improves matters is better Alexis Yates, a duent Russian cut off at times that I want to to dampen new hopes. of than no system at all, and speaker, is an interpreter with the scream. When that happens my brighter trade prospects." certainly better than the Milltary Mission in that hustand and
Soviet garrison town of It is not easy to assess the anarchy and suffocation that To prevent Susanna feeling and fry to recover 'our
Potsdam to have a man. Into Berlin preciso proportion of blame followed the ong admitted lonely her mother sends her 20 proportion: for the economie plight, as be- boon of stability in prices and miles to school in Berlin's British! We can't hear the tween the blockade and the money, The readjustments sector school every day in and wireless in Potsdam, either, not ruthless sovietization and so far have chiefly concerned taxation policy on the main domestic trade, which is more A strain land. Certainly the two to- or less independent, of the fours MASAK gether produced a crisis such blockade. But it had been sus to smile, et curly-haired they are always correct and plea
Soviet officers (and their wives at omcial receptions, and though as China has never known hoped that the national con- susanna lahe and her mother sans they don't like being soon since the Republy, or for that ference next month on the mingle with the crowds in the talking with as much, yaviy mat matter since foreign trade be- Import, and Export-Trade smunds, of Potsdama......... palaces Camo a factor in China's would bring about a similar during the afternoon. She Open sesame economy. The welkin, used improvement
knows" several words of Rus- The Tates family llyca, mostly foreign men and can hold a conversation on Uritish Army Fallone which to ring about the misdeeds of trade. Now glas, the pro- 16 German.org the Tuchung, some of whom spects must be discounted by litha Yateses are among six Dri- were merely bandits: böth in tha dw and more serious amulch who live in Puts.
Flama. Erities background and..
middle-of-the-road
stand on.
But Kurdemaga, the
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