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T.U.C. ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1980.
German generals look for jobs
Pen-conscious
veteran
By Kenneth Ames
Good Morning!
Int fund reputed to tetal severul It:filfo mails, the "Brueder- .schaft" is playing for higher stoltes. With several thousand In the village inns and the target for new overtures from the, adherents, all looking towards the day of Gornian national revival, coffee-houses of Western Ger- East.
the movement aims to insinuati Other European beauty queens many, the former generals
Ilasso von Mantouffel, math-its men into key administrative made a "pold war" rejection of The man who changed the and Wehrmacht staff officers spring of this ex-officers organi- positions throughout Western Miss Germany. writing habits of millions by are beginning to show vocalsation, former Lieutenant-General Germany. making the first ball-point signs of unrest.
and Hitler's shrewdest expert on cold panzer warfare,. turned a
Allied Intelligence experts are pimples, increasingly warmed pen in Britain has never seen one write. He is blind. Every week a new meeting shoulder to the Communist ad- becoming
But his
number of secret trips colleagues are at the of war-time Zellow-onlcers in vances.
Chap Eastward taken recently by Ger-
passing through Originally farmer, then 4d in some lonely village in taking furtive second glances. Naval officer, blinded by the first
Von Monteuffel believes than many's former military leaders.
Colony osks what purpose in bomb to fall on Plymouth, he is the middle of a heath or forest. the West needs him and his fol-
served by our pedestrian One of them, Alfred Franke- crosaina. Perhaps some kind Cricksch, leading member of the reader would like to answer that
on engineer working to Now
thousandth of an fractions of
By a special correspondent
inch and chief-designer to the company that make Biro pens. But 38-year-old ex-Lieutenant Richard Dufton seems so uncon- selous of his affliction that even after a whole morning with him that I found it hard to believe he really is blind.
"When I first realised what
Each week a new solemn resolu-: tion is passed demanding retorni-lowers, tion for the men whose only, pro- fession was soldiering and who' have been "displaced for the past five years.
person
They alleged frigidly that she was suffering from goose stop
Nearly six months ago now, in "Eruexlerschafts" "Taner Council," one?
memorundum to Camcellor made a hurled trip to Prague Adenauer helefphed "the needanty few days before tha
the
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"A man who admitted trying
last night, to see Prime Minister:
Aned 108. Clement Attice was
being drunk and today for disorderly."
ond the possibility of Germany "Little Coniintorin" congress lo to get into No. 10 Downing Street Allied security oflcers estimate contributing 30 panzer division Berlin Inst month, that there are as many as 15,000 towards Western European de- one-time senior officers of the fence. German Army now closely I touch with each other and awalt- ing the opportunity to go back into business,
On which side?
"We could now
Franke-Grieksch, son-in-lasy of Gregor Strasser, notorious pre- supply that war leader of the "Bluck Front, number of troops," Manteuffel is now known . be in close com- to be some weeks ago, because munication with Otle Strasser, at present trying to engineer a the young men now becoming o military service age are the first came-back into the Gerinan polt-1
tleal scene from exile Canada products of litler's Governnien subskilzed maximum birihrate'
Other senior ex-officers of the drive.
Wehrmacht recently made "un- derground" trips to Eastern Ger-
Cause to worry
bad happened to me I thought it; and work for these highly skilled" "could be incorporated Into the many and East Europe.
was the end of everything," he told me. "But Sir Ian Fraser, Chief of St. Dunstan's, sware that he would still make un engineer out of me-I had just left the classroom after sitting for my final examination when the bomb fell.”
But the big question-mutrke „n' resent is, who will eventually
fully trained military leaders, the cadre for a considerable fighting force.
"Thirty divisions," he believes, European defence scheme without "roviding a threat of any so it would be a force without arma- ment production, without an in- dependent General Staff.
Eyes East
There could, of course, have bren no other explanation,
the
Willi regard to Kashmir, Pakistani foreign minister would like to catch as catch Khan..
•
To spend an evening with our club bore is to prove that the night has a thousand 18,
Some doctors are sald to bo These and other very definite making US$1,000 a day X-raying in Eastern Germany thu
straws in the wind are giving drafices for the U.S. forces. Communists
Allied administrators Hassian-dominated
cause to. They are
having one grand have dropped all pretence at in-
worry about the growing, well- time. month ago at the nocence.
organised officers' associations. Sie fan wus as good as hla
Towards the "Bruederschaft" party's third annual (congrest in
Hitherto they have spurned any No, Myrtle, a banishee is not word, and Dufton left B. Dun-
Ceriin Premier Otto Grotewohl, hard core gradually drift those
an ear to an. Irish apirl that goes round stan's fully trained and equipped-Socialist, put his new masters clements whose conviction it suggestion of lending
walling at odd times. with a complete set of Braille viewpoint into a concise railshell that Germany's uitimate collapse anything they may have to offr measuring Instruments and tools. Those who have the power in can be averted, one way or the in the way of advice or exper]»Į
Dufton joined the Miles Al Western Germany have the whip- ather, by her strong-arm "Men ence. But now, the feeling is Private Ives.
growing that craft Company in 1942. With hand. The situation will be doml-Out of Uniform."
these professional two years he lud developed annates by might, not by zight. Wa
experts could present a very real
Fi entirely new four-cylinder air-
organised quietly and secretly threatas n murt enlist the aid of any gene- craft engine which is now flying mls or ex-Nazis willing to further nearly four years ago, the "Bruc- Column.
British helicopter. tu
almed originally to our cause, otherwise the party verschaft" blindness had been finally con-
For, make no mistake, the out.... will be deprived of valuable sup- negotiate pensions for out-of- quered.
work officers. But with the pas-of-work generals, the colonels, Towards the end of the war Eort."
sage of time the motives became and the punch-drunk majors of he was put in charge of pra
Germany's deelmated armies are Three days later the biggest steadily more ambitious.
They will duction and development of ball-
Now, secretly backing some of getting browned-off. representative body of Germany' point pens.
cul-of-work General Staff-the the more violent, rabbic-rousing, fight for the side which recognises "Bruederschaft" - became the right-wing parties with a fight their true worth.
In
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The principle of the ball-point pen had been putented, but be- fore It could be put into pro- duction there were enormous dimeuilies to be overcome.
Started
In Britain the trade union- ist is a power in the land. In Russia he is a cypher and a slave. The British trade unionist votes Labour and thinks more like Churchill than many a man born to high estate. In spite of all tempta- tion to belong to other nations, You see," Dufton explained to me, "no one in all the his- he remains an Englishman.
tory of engineering had been And, to quote W. S. Gilbert
Faced with the necessity of
It contains a good A book has been published in three of the big boys and almost enthusiast. again, that is "greatly to his maintaining a constant flow of
fluid over a continually rotating London which should cause a universally popular. This popu- deal of information about many
notably credit." The Trade Union
increased rather hazy episodes, and this Inrity Congress at Brighton has sphere, so there was no tais to good deal of interest in Hons when he gave the school bully may be useful to future histori-] once more, by an overwhelm- Bo on. We had to do all our own Kong. This is the reminiscences) (Russia) a good thrashing, made] enn.
re-
research. from scratch."
to
His own library
Dutton got down to it. Be designed completely new inuchingy
make
full-scale
him.
never
on mili
to
PIGGOTT ON JAPAN
only four years barrister
the by Uppointed
a legal adviser to
from 1922 to 1926 and again from
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WOR
Jealousy
"As he rose in the school, there was a certain amount of jealousy among some of the other boys, even among his special patron; and one or two slights and op-
By "Windrush," Special Correspondent
st
Those who, reveal
A superior exterior Often conceal-
An inferior Interior.
"Wattle scheme."
Surely. you meanWatta
achome!
11 certain Ferhaps there is
value In publishing historie pletures showing how they looked after several years' Internment, but wouldn't it be helpful to say 50%
Republicans in America would like to delete the first five letters from the title of their political opponents' party,
1
find the local radio programmes were educating, Every time someone switches on
For example General Piggott a set at my place, I go over to was negotiating very busily in the club library and read a book. • 1930 to relieve the tension bo- tween British and Japanese Tientsin at the time of the "face slapping" affair. It is good thing to have In print his account of the ins and buts of) this incident,
The book is full also of re miniscences of leading Japanese personalities, and of the notable
in British residents
Japan, especially of the famous ambass ndor Sir Charles Elliot, whom Hong Kong. will remember as the rst Vice-Chancellor, of its
University.
General Piggott clearly does. rot think the military history of Japan at an end.
hns
of Major-General Pigguit, whe friends with him Immediately i ing vote at the Brighton Con-
at critical perioos was twice afterwards, and showed fw signs gress, 'rejected Communism
British military attache at of cockiness. Tokyo. and all its latest works. The
The book is called Mr.
Broken Thread" and is pub- President, Congress
lished by Gale and Polden. Arthur Deakin, gave it a. new label. He called it "Red Inborniory tests. His wife 'helps
General Piggott has a long Fascism," and the vote show-ban by reading all the technical connection with Japan. He was ed that Britain's organised journals and reference books taken to Japan for the first time workers thoroughly accept | "
Any material he wants to keep when he was
who this definition. It recognised is clipped out, sent to St. Durt-pld: his father was t
was stan's, and returned to him bound
Japanese ar the pressing need for
in Braille. In this way be assist them with their new con- armament; it scorned the
accumulated a vast technical
stitution. As a young officer in bogus Communist peace cam- library of books
belure the Royal Engineers he returned paign, with, which Commun- translated into. Braille.
Japan as a language student during the Russo-Japanese war. ísma seeks to confuse de mocratic opinion in the West; by legitimate processes, but Just before the first world war he spent another three years lalson Engineer's it stands firmly behind the
a power they can extend and there as an United Nations in Korea, and maintain by a tyranny as ofeer. He was Military Attache massively endorsed the action absolute as that of Hitler or taken by the British Govern- Mussolini, resting
parent injustices, which seemed General Piggott's book is of insults to the new boy's sensitive ment in relation to Korea.
tary might, on secret police,
interest because he is an extreme temperament, produced unexpect The General Council's out on, imprisonment without
partisan of Anglo-Japanese ed and hitherto hidden traits in spoken Manifesto on inter- trial, and on the blotting out friendship. Argument by a more his nature. national affairs, issued
a of all opposition. Freedom is temperate supporter of Anglo-
necessary to pursue, the that will certainly have to be week before, was approved still the essence of the de- Japanese co-operation might have
been more convincing, but it parallel further? Disappointed considered in the forseeable by nearly 7,000,000 votes to mocratic faith, as repression could not be nearly so striking and hurt, all the worst elements future." less than 600,000. The min-is the essence of Communism. The exuberance, at times the in the new boy's character came of General Piggott's out, and were vented especially ority of well under 10 per The British trade unionist naivete,
About the suggestion implied former powerful; in this sentence, it is possible, as cent. no doubt included not has never forgotten how the views gives his book its rather against his
peculiar quality.
friends. He no longer trusted: only Communist regulars but Communists were mobilised
them, and affection gave place to with many other sentences in the book, to hold a different opinion. all that collection of cranks on Moscow's orders behind The odd thing
dislike, anger, and eventually to: hatred. The better side of his! and rebels of infinite variety the Nazi-Soviet Pact of 1939,
nature was 'submerged by the that cling to the fringes of which gave Hitler the green Piggott's view of Asian history, base instincts and passions which all typically British organisa-light, to invade Poland and almost of world history, can be had been aroused.
simplified to the statement that tions, who disagree often start the second world war. all was well while the
Anglo- "We all know the punishment even with themselves.
The Communists themselves Japanese alliance. was in good he received and his first reactions Moscow and its notorious detest' any harking back to repair; all went wrong when the to it. Have we any moral res
alliance was terminated and "volunteer workers" of the those days-and not merely Great Britain and Japan drifted ponsibility for the tragedy, or SSS have been working on because of the humiliating apart. The odd thing is that it
Who is likely to be convinced the British trade unionists way in which they had so never seems to occur to General for quite a long time. Now suddenly to turn in their Piggott that the rift was due to by this ?
fundamental organic develop- they have had a resounding tracks, eat their own words, ments in the body politle of demonstration of what the and make fools of themselves. Japan.
It is
not?"
·
war came ever nearer.
In rather similar style is his summary of what Anally caused Japan's Involvement in the war.] British workers really think It was their job in those days He is not struck by the spec- of their fraudulent devices to depict Stalin as the Great tacle of Japan deliberately or-
Strained relations and of how solid is the back-Leader of the Peace Move-ganising Itself for milltary ag-. ing which, the Government ment. They have had to try gression. The rit, according to him, occurred chiefly because of
"Relations with America bo- has from the great mass of it a second time, and they unfortunate accidents, because of came increasingly strained, and
the failure of personal. conneo- the people, as it sets about have again failed.
the clearcut issue of peace or between British and
To be the task of making the coun- It is all the more striking Lions
Japanese, because at try strong and resolute to re- because many of the trade times the Japanese were neglect sighting: this was the question, certain strangled to death or to go down sist attack. In its own way unions have been restive for ed, or slighted, or because o9- and for a warrior race only one it is as valuable as the de-a long time under the "wage portunitica to make gestures were answer was possible. The Pact with Germany and Italy scomed cisive stand of, the United freeze." Re-armament must lost or ignored. States in support of the Unit- affect their own hopes very General Piggott certainly. had to give Japan some chance at ed Nations in Korea in warn appreciably, and by driving a much more extensive acquain- least of a stalemate against the that combined power of the British The Em- what they have to contend harder for the worker, whose But did this enable him to under and she chose war with.
lot bas in many ways been stand the Japanese policy or peror in his Rescript said that Consider this decision was far from our There was a time, as the bettered since the war but, is Japanese psychology?
what he has to say about wishes'; one may well believe Labour Daily Herald" still pretty tough. Indeed, an Japanese atrocities in the last lum," admits, when many in Bri-idea was developed in some war. }
It is interesting to notice that, tain were persuaded there quarters that when the Prime There is conclusive evidence in the index of the bookt, under was a bond of sympathy be- Minister went on his visit to that the conduct of Japanese sol- the heading "Japanese
the war with Russia was! noteristles" General Piggott lists tween Kremlin Communism the T.U.C. recently his chief diers
the the following:
ing potential aggressors of up prices make it all the tanceship with Japanece
any other British officer in Japan. Empire and the United
States,
char
and Democratic Socialism. Job was to quell opposition. irreproachable. What was
reason for the marked dotor- That time is long past. It is Events prove the contrary loration? Japan has been des Courtesy, diligence, emotion, now clear that what the Rus Mr. Attlee struck a high note cribed as the new member of the excitability, generosity, gratitude, slans seek above all elso of patriotism in his speech, club of great powers. The an- lomesickness, loyalty, pride, sen- power, and that this is the The rank and file rose splen alogy of a new boy at school is timent, tradition. Excitability is not entirely inappropriate. Here about the only one of these char- objective of every group and didly? to the occasion, and was in very truir an interesting acteristics which is not positively cell of the Communist Party faced the challenge in terms new boy, well-mannered, clean, complimentary.
In all countricaę "Not, 63 of national self-preservation, plucky modest, intensely proud
of his family and homo, koen on But it would be a pity. It, the
dismissed merely na course, the temporary power not of party or class pre-work and play in short a para book was which other parties strive for
'gon, in-high, favour with two or the öxtravagant opinions of DI
Anny **The Imperial ceased to exist" and "the_new/ Japanese constitution renounces the use of armed force; never- teless the fighting manpower of this martial race of 00,000,000 people is an imponderable factor
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