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"SNOWBOUND"
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L-CENTURY-FOR
THE CHINA, MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY ́8, 1951.
Western Europe Lacking In Self-Confidence
Paris, Dec. 30.
The peoples of Western Europe will enter the second half of the 20th century at midnight to morrow, having recovered to a large extent from the ravages of two world wars but unprepared materially and psychologically for a third world war which already threatens their lives, their homes and their civilisation.
At the moment they live harried German lines of com- from day to day with two munication before the libera-
tion, outstanding hopes. The first
Throughout this part of the aro millions who have is that Russin, which has world the military might, will not overcome everything the Com- The mumists could throw against invade their lands.
them-from political stricea de- Becond is that through their signed io terrify to economic combined efforts, assisted strikes intended to paralyze. by the United States and
INFLATION TRENDS Canada, they will be able to
There are planners and wor- organise for defence under
kern who have restored bat- Gen. tered
Industrial the leadership of
economies, Dwight D. Eisenhower. production and agricultural out- These are hopes and nothing put have been increased to an more, because, for the time be- astonishing degree. Inflationary ing they do not have the power trends have been slowed down
from the if not
Rolling stacks If not stopped, to resist aggression
roads East and they are not at all has been manufactured,
constructed, Kremlin repaired. bridges convinced that the
Ins fleets enlarged, in- mere to mobilise merchant will permit them
re-ternational trade resumed. Much forces they the security
has been accomplished in five quire.
short years more than is gen- than erally realised and more Some determined men, never-might have been expected.
Yet, strange as it may seem, theless, are making an effort to
self-confidence of give these Western nations the the tools to work with and the will their belief in themselves-has They are been slow to recover. They took employ them.
studies,
their neievements for granted; making
co-ordinating plans and taking initial steps. they minimised them; or they Taxes are going up. New wea- attributed them to outside ns- Plentiful food sup- of pons are being tested, Train-sistance.
plies, better heating, clocks ing is being intenslied.
goods
were seldom as evidence of im- or strength.
They continued to trel
to
INTERNAL OBSTACLE
а
тет
there was
But the greatest internal ob- stacle these men face is a gen- eral uneasiness which goes un- der a variety of names. It is
of something fragile in the fabric dofcatism, sease called
They reflect~ vulnerability, delayed shock, of their society.
fear.
Whatevered the need for the comforting neutralism or
security of an armed covering the name, it is no illusion.
force--and leadership. This is runs deep. 11 a reality. It
As they enter the manifests itself in a multitude their mood of ways, and only a near mura-New Year. cle will replace it quickly with the primitive courage the world situation seems to demand.
however, there Fortunately,
It
is reason to believe that a near
sion
because
He's Learning Young
All bables, even dog babies, eat things which don't agree with them. Corky, a three-month-old pointer puppy in Chicago, has already learned that. When his rubber mouse was missing, an X-ray located it in Corky's stomach, bottom photo. It took an operation to remove it, and the pup's hunger for rubber seems to have diminished. (Acme)
WAR
CRIMINALS SENTENCES TO BE REVIEWED
Bonn, Dec. 29.
GAZINE
Path Behind the Bookcase
ITO
to
-It Led to Merlin's House-
By MAX TRELL
to Mr Merlin tho Magician's house, you had
creep behind the bookcase. was quite dark there. But let if you were patient and your eyes get used to the dark- ners, and then yon folt around the back wall with your hand, by and by you were almost Furo to find a little bell with a button to push. Finally, if you pushed the button and waited for a moment or two, a little door in the wall would open, not much bigger than a mouse- hole, and there would be Mc
the Magicus
dressed robo
for a
Merlin
In a long blue
with the moon and stora
and a tall pointed
stary on
hat on his
head. He would be smiling and
holding a
Merlin carried a candlo.
say.
lighted lamp or a
Hanid managed to break of
candle. "Welcome!" he would a little bit of the edge of the
Welcome
to the House moon and put it in her pocket
of Magic! Come in...if you for a souvenir. "It's a moon-
can you can"
could small
through
stone," she said,
meant if you
Largo Star possibly make yourself At that instant a large star enough to squeeze in with a long white tall came the mousehole door whizzing around from the
other side of the moon. WAY
It Knarf and - Hanid, the whizzed past the balloon and shadows with the turned-about then went whizzing off in the
ablo wero
direction to make, opposite
and disap- names,
So themselves as small as pins.
from sight. Peared they had no trouble at all get-
"That was &
Mr comet," ting inside Mr Merlin's House Merlin explained. "You've got of Magic.
to be
be careful of them, Half the don't know where they they're going, and they bump you've got
Yep
Quite Doop Down "Fine, finel" he said as they both Came In.
always right into you. I'm
to be careful of comets!" glad to have company. Follow
A
few
Mr minutes later to my Magic Room. me down
he Merlin pointed to several large It's quite deep down."
Sichte added.
into "Just step
this lights (they didn't look
stars because. they weren't blinking the way the
balloon." Sure
enough,
kind
of large
the
at the end of
hall was a balloon with a
size clothes.
like
stora
were) and said: "Those are
planets. That red one is Mars.
basket hanging from the end of This one is Jupiter. That large it. Underneath the balloon was
one
a deep dark tunnel. Knarf and Noth the ring around it is
down looked
and
"Con Hanid
we touch them?" Knart. couldn't see to the bottom of it asked. "Are they hot?"
Mr Merlin shook his head. Step in!
"No, Mr Merlin waa
they're cold, like the moon. But they're farther away
"Step in the basket!
Hurry now!"
saying Impatiently.
"Knari nna Hanid stepped in. than you think. We live on a Mr Merlin stepped in right planet," he said. "The name of after them. "Down
we gol" he the planet we live on is The said.
Then he pulled a string Earth. Ah-take a look at that?" looked. and the balloon instantly began
10 sink down, like an elevator.
Knarf and Hanid
saw a great stream of thick, 50 many of together they
that
For perhaps a minute it was stars, so dark. Then suddenly Hanid them, douted. Oh! Look: The moon formed what appeared to be a and the stars!"
To
Fold
stream of milk. Sure enough, there were the Merlin, "is the
Milky their surprise-and_dis- moon and the stars all around
seemed
neart-when the balloon They them.
at length at the bolta, to reach out and touch. "Better not enough to
Knarf and Hanid found touching Kry
Mr selves in back of the bookcase dears," those atars, my
It now remains to be seen whether Gen. Eisenhower, who will be arriving next week to assume command of the Atlan the armies, can perform the near miracle whether he can restore British logal experts will shortly bogin a review of iracle is possible France, Bel-to Western Europeans the consentences passed on German war criminals now in prison
which in the British zone.
The individual case records of tho the Netherlands, Itair fidence in themselves Klum,
continental and other
coun- they have every right to feel.
He is perhaps the only man 240 Germans imprisoned in Werl Gaol will be examined tries
who have are veterans survived occupation or suppres- alive will the personality and and the findings of the legal experts will be submitted to them be the British High Commissioner, Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick, who they the presilge to precisely have the will and the skill that lleve that they have a chance will send his recommendations to the British Government.
There are to survive on their fert. If he are needed today.
possibility A British spokesman said sidering the men and women who resisted succeeds, the second half of the
saying: and outwitted the Nazi Gestapo 20th century may yet turn out today that the review had general amnesty for war
05 "They're awfully hot. But you minals except those who were and underground fighters who to be an era of peace.
heen forecast in November. tried
under can touch the moon if you like. he shut the door to his wonder- Nuremberg
It's cold."
ful House of Magic. "He didn't The object was to help the four-Power jurisdiction.
take LIS Mr Merlin steered the balloon even The Dusseldorf paper,
to his Magic High Commissioner to de-i
that it came close to the Room!" Knarf said. But Hanid, g, argues that "an act of su
Kaart and Hanid in- after thinking about it, wasn'í. cide whether clemency could
must precede any peace stantly reached out and felt it, too sure that the balloon ride in be extended to individual
or contractual agreement
treaty prisoners who were in pri- between Federal Germany and
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1 Country house.
Bind
3 Shool of plant.
4 Minute opening.
5 Necessitato,
6 Rato
9 Quake.
11 Musical abow.
12 Shy.
1H
Calm.
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10
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19 Hang down.
22 Danger
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FERDINAND
Some Crust
at
of #
with Mr Merlin
cri. Morlin warned Knarf and Hanid. d-night--come again
Der
moon.
"It feels like a plece of the sky wasn't really better-
than any Magic Room!
son for war crimes and the Western Powers and urges round stone," said Knarf.
this as the first evidence that offences against the British the "war years" have ended
occupation authorities.
or
Sentences would be reduced
annulled only
on grounds of clemency and the legal decl- sion of courts which tried these prisoners is not to be challeng- ed.
He denied a report in the paper Die Welt that the High Commissioner had already drawn up a list of recommen- dations.
The West German press 19, indeed, once more taking up the question of war crimes with a will.
and the post-war era for Ger- many begun.
TEACHING WORLD TO
KEEP SHOP
Britain, derided by Napo- of shop- as a nation
There are four main reasons leon
for this. The trials of General keepers, is now teaching the von Falkenhauson in Brussels
In world how to keep shop. and of other France have exclted interest and adverse comment.
German
Germans
To London County Council's put College for Distributive Trades
public opinion has been out-
students from the ave;
raged, too, by numbers of Ger- come mans who have been sentenced continents, wanting to learn to death and Бест Hikely to how to display and sell walt indegnitely in Landsberg about everything
prison for sentence
led out,
to be car-kind wants to buy.
EX-GENERALS' APPEAL
just that TODD-
Among the 4,000 puplis who graduate there every year are girls and youths of many dif- The continued imprisonment terent races and creeds. of German wor criminals,
again, has been inked with the
Syllabus of the college.. conducted by a panel of 180 Includes almost
question of German rearma experts
grocery, vegetables
to jewel-
ment by such military apokes- everything from furniture to men no ex-generals Manteuffel and Guderian and by a num- ber of German politicians.
Last week it was
ject of an appeal
lery.
sub-
Part of the school's equip by ex-ment is a first-class grocers' Admiral Hansen for a general shop which never sells anything and for the release, and yet is always solvent. amnesty.
Its walls in particular of the former Along
are stacked Admirals Docnitz and Racder displays of tinned herrings, from the Spandau Prison рода,
the Berlin, where they are under cup, and other groceries.
the contents, desplie four-Tower supervision.
labols, are sand or water. Today's Die Welt writes that Students "play" at shops all three. High Commissioners they did at home when children in Western Germany are con--but with a difference.
By Mik
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Kupert's Autumn Primrose-18
The little dwarf liuzens'in surprise to Rupert's story, "I've been working in this garden all my life," he says, but I've never yet seen an Autumn primrose, and yet you say you've got one! You'd better tell my master. They find the Professor resting near his green houses. He smiles a welcome and
question.
puts his book down and Rupert again speaks of his quest. "You do bring me the oddest, and this
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