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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1950.
KOREA: A WARNING TO GERMANY
Germany the far-off
war seems unner-
By Kenneth Ames
vingly close on the doorstep.
Millions of Germans West of elections between August 5 and the Soviet zone frontier listening August 8. to the first coherent reports of
Righting rẻ figuratively nodding. "Theth suniversary of the
and telling their heads
cach liberntion of Korea on August 15 other, "This might have been us must be marked by the populn- if
tion of North and South Korea by reuniting of their father The "i" at present is a far-land," said the demand. off slender possibility. A pussl- bility which has now become suddenly more remote with the outbreak of war in the Far East.
At the ready
Today long queues walted patiently outslile zonal travel per- mit offices. Special editions of newspapers gluing up-to-the-
Good
Some Japs, still holding out on an Island in the Pacific, don't
They're not for wrong, at that. in antioipation of possible Gorman elections.
The Communist newspapers
Tobacco magnate leaves and radio blared out reports of £2,500,000, but the Treasury Meanwhile, the Russian "unprovoked aggression against takes nearly £2,000,000 of it. Western Note-passing game on the Republic of Northern Korea." Most of II. in fact, went up in
Similar "restrictions" have minute accounts of the Korean believe the war is over.
already been tentatively lald war were grabbed from news-
down by the German Communists vendors in a Bash.
all-
German elections continues un- abated.
Germany's mast influential The phraseology is uncannily akbi to that employed by the men
It is a party game which will newspaper, the independent "Dle Welt," commented editorially: working in Coebbels' renovated propaganda ministry in Berlin'e never be brought to a satisface | One's spine turns to leo when happinezy ***
tory conclusion unless it leads to Wilhelmstrasse,
As preparations for this elec- with- tion, representatives of ali politi- "If the Alles agree to draw their Occupation Forces cat parties from North and South from both East and West Ger- were to have conferred on the many," the Germans have been Korean border from June 13 to telling each other for months, June 17. "there would be, civil war within a year."
Two conditions,
out in high dudgeon, proclaiming dress rehearsal of what
it
Stretched along the tortuous There were only two condl-minny which borders on Sovici-
diately.
"My most exciting assignment"--No. 5:
could
A
smoke.
•
Wedding
"All music logs not
March.
brlag
for
The
India and Pakistan have been
exchanging lunatics,
Politicians In the Western world do a lot of travelling about, too.
•
"Raw!..... Ruggies......True life- drama!"
Of course, you have to be pretty wide or do i mean hep-to keen up with all these new words,
•
•
"The essence of sex, Norman said, is subtlety. This is what I mean? He exhibited a polt of red panties."
And was my face A subtle. pastel shade of pluk...
a renewal of talks, from which one considers that in the Far the Soviet will inevitably walk East we are now witnessing a Instance.
the wishes that the West is sabotaging their happen in Germeny
of the Communists are met and hopes for a free, united Germany,
all Occupation troops are with This, thon, is the background drawn, leaving conditions favour- establishment by of parallel events which last nigh: able for the
force of unked Communist- caused a stir of panic up and down that part
Western Ger- pattern Germany."
But it is now Inconceivable. 300-mile Soviet zone border-tons:
occupied territory,
after, the sharp Korean lesson will 30th slightly longer than the
In Western Berlin the nows that the Western Powers Parallel boundary of Korca-is) (1) That "all traitors of the stationed a fully trained, fully nation" should be excluded (the spread like a bush-Bre that "we agree to end the German occupa- cquipped Communist army of st shows that this Included are next-invasion may start any tion in the calculable future.
air- Travel offices, 50,000 men.
almost the whole democratic moment"
Certainly not with only a hand- South Korean Government). · lines, and railway stations were
rushed by excited Berliners ful of truncheon-wielding Ger- RIDING HIGH
The Russians still insist on re-
the force ferring to
515 the
(2) Non-nemittance of a UN anxious to leave the city imme- man police between the Soviet
zone frontler and the Rhine But they know, Commission. After a shaky period in the People's Police.
and 45,000,000 West Germans role of a very minor majority know, that if the four war-time the British Socialist govern- Allies withdrew their troops from Folice. the People's ment has taken on a new lease | Germany
artillery. of life. Yesterday's report on tanks, and embryonic air force.
full
equipped with the nation's gold and dollar would he ready to rumble aeross reserves will increase the the green frontier into Western volume of self-congratulation, Germany at the drop of a Krem- and this time rightly so.
According to Sir Stafford Cripps, the menacing chasm of the dollar gap has this year been closed, without taking Marshall aid into account. This, if not an over-optimistic juggling with figures, is a
remarkable truly
achieve ment, and proof that even Fabian planning can some- times achieve the desired result.
Naturally America will be
I
handkerchief.
To same pattern
The whole of Western Germany
SO
with
Big trouble from a very tiny source
con-
corridor!"
down 1 "I'll join you," he said.
looked sad.
Anti-Nazis
good
"It they come for us," I said!
H "we'll give proudly, account of ourselves."
"I hope somebody informs our Cimbassy," said Wilson.
In
the room our
Round pegs, round holes.
"School dentists Jobs."
get stop-gap
*
Malaya is urged to step selling rubber to Russia.
There has been E general feeling for some time that the USSR is showing too much bounce.
"Truman's plan voided: "Princess's confinement approaches."
And what, may one ask, was Truman's plan?
оге
Bicycle manufacturers suspicions making a useful contribution to were confirmed when we noticed Britain's export drive, that for the first time since the As we used to say, when there's
Dietrich. thea wheel, there's a way.
an area equivalent to England, When I was a young re- past me and vanished Wales, and Scotland), including porter my secret life was so the vital Ruhr coal and steel. evil that I got spots. This We complained to the manage would lle, on present showing. completely undefended and at the shattered my ego to such an ment. The manager mercy of the East German Army extent that I became timid. turned his eyes to heaven, shrug-
officers Sometimes, with its Soviet-trained
to avoid what ged, and said he regretted he
could do nothing about 1. I believed were the and political commissars.
The pattern of events in Korea, temptuous glances of passers-
in stightly smaller
walk Brea than by, I would
crab- Western Germany, has for wise in the shadow of a "I'll write a letter to The Times," Games began Dr. conformed move for move
telephone Press Officer, had omitted to have; interested, and it will not be the anticipated shape of things to wall. My nerves got so tight stormed Wilson "I'll
Vansillar, that's what I'll do a bottle of champagne surprising to hear the thinly-come in an unoccupied, divided that if anybody had plucked The incident so upset me that I our dressing-table. disguised isolationists asking, Germany,
me I'd have twanged like a couldn't digest a lump
of brot with more force than usual
harp, why dollars should be poured: into the British Treasury rence indistinguishable from without any hope of ever recent getting them back. It must Communist East German Govern-first and last time on the nape of my neck that mingled effluvia of
I mur sauerkraut and be admitted that such critics ment.
"Non persona grata," frankfurters mit worst, and I got a crick in which was unmistakably the hot the neck through swinging round muted, rolling the dread words off suddenly to see who was tollow- my tongue like a death sentence. breath of the Gesapo.
ing us.
But why? Why me?
The slogans are identical, the protests and professions of inno-
pronouncements of the
ended one year ago.
are amply provided with In Korca, across the artificial ammunition by the ill-judged 38th Parallel frontier, the cold and often unco-ordinated war has continued with increas
ing fury since Allied occupation statements of Socialist spokesmen, particularly under the influence of the current local ideology makes good propaganda.
You can imagine my fright, therefore, when I felt for
must they pick on me?"
"Why mo?" I whimpered. "Why
-By-
left on
I dreamed of being torture:i 511; all night,, Once I woke up in a sweat when I heard voices in. the:
Wilson only room. But it was
•
"British girl awarded £5,000 damage cost,"
This looks like an accident.
McKenzie Porter grumbling in his sleep about no Crooks, the well-known tenor,
champagne.
The next day I think I found At the Games Wilson whispered hoarsely in my ear: "Have you the answer. noticed that every time we speak
shorthand note.".
my newspaper and pointing to my
sald.
This blackest of cloak and The Soviet has worked con-
One of the interpreter girls in of dagger episodes in one of those German reporters the press box held up a copy of tinuously in the north towards longest establishment full-blooded career, which has always rivalled makes
pí people's republic. In the south, that of the great Waller Mitty,
I felt my spots coming on again. story of a smail lost boy.
"Did you write this?" Nor does their insistence on Americans have pumped in finan-began in Berlin during the high summer of 1936, when one Adolf
a mysterious the superior merits of econo-siat aid in an effort to sulpted Hitler made the Olympic Games girl reporter in dark glasses got "Yes!" I said, "why?"
41 floundering. over-populated
with an opportunity to show off Ger- into conversation agricultural democracy.
"But many's military might and to chill asked: "Would you like to go to the strip of spaghetti serving as a cate where all the anti-Nazis
gather." this writer's spine.
mic planning, make them any more popular with the free
*_Over-populated and burdened enterprise countries of West- ern Europe, none of which, with 4,000,000 unemployed for the
sume reasons as Western Ger admittedly, can compare with many, which now has to support Britain on any major count-8.000.000 refugees from the productivity, exports, imports employment. The re.
or
marles coming from Cabinet ministers or Transport House
Sovjet zone.
Germans shudder
And
Later
German
us and
it's wrong" she said. "Horribly Insultingly, revolting. ly wrong. You could be slot for this!"
Never believe Germans have noi sense of humour..........
One dull day at the Games I "No! Not" said Wilson, "It's was reporting by telephone to nothing to do with us!" London that I couldn't find a story
No No!" I said. "I've got to anywhere when I heard in the
That reporter who told me the arena a hundred thousand voiers get married next month!"
been! raised in what might have
hats story of the small lost boy, was That night we kept our
one Herr Klaus the love-call of a rhinoceros herd, pulled down over our
eyes and speaking of of but which I recognised instantly submerged ourselves
Kloppmann, a well-known figure In a cul attached to the Naz! Bureau of all
as the laughter of the Herrenvolk vivial throng gathered at a night Propaganda; the only man in the
Miniature 'Nazi
within 12 months at the moment are not cal-acceptance of the Soviet proposal culated to achieve the desired to withdraw. simultaneously
Occupation Forces from Korca, spirit of fruitful co-operation the cold war has turned hot. between nations on the free side of the iron curtain,
I rushed back to the press box Allied Chiefs.
Now Western here, end millions
Union. The shudders apprehensively.
For months now Allied officials
club called The Colden Horsehoe, opposite the Scala Theatre.
party who could make a funny speech, who was forty-nine years old, but who also happened to be
a midget!
In the middle of the floor was of thinking in time to see Herman Corring a small circus ring In which two It will be a long time mons, are acutely aware of holding up to the microphone alive horses were tethered. Wilson,
Ever since I've always checked before the bitterness dies the similarity of their situation tiny male figure dressed in the who shared my mood of impend
my facts before writing a story. down which was raised by with that of the divided country uniform of a Brownshirt. Along-ing disaster and swore he could Ever since my secret life has been the party manifesto rejecting at the other extreme of the Soviet side them the Fuchrer was rock- feel secret police all round us.
some as pure as driven snow. plans for European union and
man-in-the-street, ing on a sort of throne, wringing muttered "Let's be alone
his fat little hands and swinging where. I've something to tell you." and calling for Socialism and
his short little legs in mirth.
So we paid a mark cucu mounted the horses. We rodo state planning abroad, but
The miniature Nezl was talking round and round in the ring. The there has been no sign that in Berlin have been reckoning
and cheers of the crowd drowned the government is capable of with a serious Russian proposal to in rapid piping German
withdraw all Occupation Forces the uproar I couldn't tell what Wilson's voice. "I believe," he curbing the disruptive from Germany and allow
lips, the it was all about. I had left the sold, without moving activities of its left-wing Germans to work out a system telephone receiver dangling at the "that our telephone calls are being doctrinaire members. It is for holding a free, united, and rate of about 10 shillings for three recorded. Every time I speak I unhindered election for a central minutes and I was anxious. So I hear a click and o nolso like a time that those in charge of Government.
asked a German reporter what needle on a record." policy making realised that
was going on, the present attitude could re- sult in cutting Britain off dangerously from potential allics.
Whatever conviction of time. righteousness
his
Eastern propaganda, directed
"They're after us." I said. "One Eister under Politburo direction, curiously and then said: "It is eln by spry American emigre Gerhard This German looked at moj false move and-caput!"
they have "Tommy
go
in
has been building up towards shmall poy vat 'as lost is mudder mise to telephone my fiancee in Back at the hotel I kept a pro- these elections for a considerable Is name is Klaus Klappman. E England. My future father-in- know der Fuehrer 'elp everybody law answered the call. "Why home. Take Chairmany. Zo go to der hello!" he cried, horribly Jovial and it is obviously great-the Adenauer and Schumacher with Fuehrer's box and say: 'Pliss vil! Unaware of our dire peril, he fact remains that the rest of you, Tommy go home," bleats the you elp me find mein mudder?" said: "If you get near old Adolf a running the world disagrees with pathetically fuvenile propaganda De Fuehrer, ela very kind chen-
tlemans, tell der Reichmarahat or Herman give them Guering to old up der shmall poy kick in the pants for me!"
poy them and is following other policies. The nation's re- "Ledve us Germans in peace to to der mike zo te can tell 'is. mud-
Bad dreams lative prosperity has been hold our own elections and have der vere to collect 'ims. Now der shmall poy and 'is mudder and freely elected Government.” + made possible by a variety
Hell everybody is 'appy agains. But not in any circumstances❘ Hitler!"
serving, sald Elster, speaking for
of factors beyond their con-
machine.
t
trol, and notably by Marshall with a United Nations team ob- I ran back to the telephone and
J
Look again at 'Korea. A com-
United Democratic
I felt certain I heard the click of a gramophone, needle,
Quick as a flash I said: "Pick
I tottered back to Wition, who
the
ald and the astonishing, con- His Government recently. Under extemporaneously dictated e up the champs? Oh, yes, 1 pick| tinuous American boom. If the People's Police jurisdiction, touching paragraph which, ap- all the champs! I always Inter-
peared next day on the they want their own form of perhaps?
front view the champs." page of my paper. Socialism, they will have to consider that it is only pos-munique from the North Korean At the time I was sharing a was having a stein-full in sible with the support of "Central Committee for the room in the Excelsior Hotel, Ber- beer garden. Out of the corner of other countries.
Fatherland in, with another reporter called his mouth he said: "Over there, by the statue of Wolan. Don't look now." A few minutes later! The dollar gap has not been Front," dated June 8, demands Wilson.
the organisation of country-wide"
cautiously and closed solely by the success-
On the day my story appeared I turned round we were just leaving the hotel saw the mysterious girl reporter ful application of controlled-
when in the dark glasses. economy planning. An in paying its way again is the fovy rain began to fall: Wilson Then I looked at myself in the
the Olympic Stadium formed school of thought, in only thing that matters, went back to our room for mac- fact, claims that the result How long this can be kept up kintoshes. He returned, volcanic mirror and saw I had spots. has been achieved despite 'it.] is exceedingly uncertain, but with indignation..
Where are you going?" asked Vilso From the point of view of the then, most things in these There' was a man in there!". man in the street, however, middle yours of the contury he said. "Ia was going through. To lock myself in our room,” the fact that Britain is at last are exceedingly uncertain. all our papers. He Just brushed) 1. sald
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