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GILES TOUR of britain
"I've chased you all over the Midlands with this, but I'm langed if I'm going
to chase you all over the Lake District."
Landon Express Servico
FUEHRER
FOURTH
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HANOVER.
HOUSANDS of Ger-
man Nazis in Lower Saxony have
Admiral Cunningham Opens Fire... Tells Why He Resigned
TRONG criticism of "un- justifiablo interference" with his control of naval operations in the Mediter. ranean during the last war is made by Admiral of the Fleet Viscount Cunningham of Hyndhope in his out spoken autobiography, Sailor's Odyssey.”
By GERALD PAWLE
Recalling the unflinching een- strangely, unrealistic project was and in the end duet of his scamen in conditions hotly reaisted," almost beyond human endurance, Azimiral Qunninghom had his Andral Cunningham add "A way. the hack of my aind there was the diskuubing thought that there "A at home apparently failed to appreciate what our ships and men had endured."
From the time of Italy's entry into the war, which found the British Mediter- ranean Fleet at a severe numerical disadvantage, and hamstrung by lack of air cover, he claims that White hall showed little realisation of the immense problems which faced him,
A stream of "prodding mes- sages" from Mr Churchi, and "constant advice from those who seemed to be unaware of the real facts of our riberation" eventually led, the vietor of Matapan to offer his resignation to the First Sea Lord, Askntral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound.
Admiral Cunningham records much
frank admiration of the
maligned Italian Air Force.
**IL
fo not too much to say that Adiniral Cunningham's roland the Italian high-level bombing less determination to engage the was the best I have ever seen, enemy is still a byword in the far better than the German," the Royal Navy today. The revela- Admiral comments in describing tion that more than one he the fierce rates on the Fleet the whenever they put to sza in the received messages from Prime Minister accusing him of early USER.” adopting unnecessarily defensive tactics in his operations against the Italian Fleet will be read
with astonishment,
straktenod resources were not an
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As the tile began to turn. Cunningham Was called to "Such messages to those who Washington to plan the naval were doing their utmost with side of the North African land- ings. He scon became a warm admirer and friend of General encouragement, merely an an-
Morcover. noyance. implies that something
tboy Eisenhower, but h's relations was with America's Chief of Naval Indking 191 the dirzelion of Operations, Flect Admiral Ernest leadership they dif positive.J. King, were never happy. barn. If Commanders-in-Chief on the spot, who know all the "He was lough, and filed to be risks aml the chances were not considered tough. At times he parpared to get at the enemy on became rude and overbearing, t every possible occasion they was not many weeks before we ought not to have been in the had some straight apealing over position they held."
the trifling matter, of “lending four or Ave Amorlcan sub- Admiral Cunningham further manines for work on our side of
the Atlantic.
He took this step afler the Royal Navy had suffered in- ercapable and heavy casualties criticises long-range intervention In carrying cut the evacuation of by the Admiralty at a crucial Crete. The Feet was left with store in his delicate negotiations LWB battleships, one heavy with the French Admiral emuiser, and nine dealroyers; well Godfrey. over 2,000 men had been killed.
REMER'S
REICH
must be more reasonable. The first thing is to get rid of the present London government.
should
"He was offensive and I told him what I thought of his method of advancing
Allied unity and amity Adenowledg ing King's capabilities, Cunning- ham deplores his shortcomings as a co-operator-"not content with fighting the enemy, he was turvally fighting someone on his
own side as wel."
After the fall of France, the tatler's squadron, who claimed that they could take orders only from Vichy, Jay defiant at Alexandria, Their uns were manner; one false move could have led to disaster. But at the inter-service rivalry shocked the The. Bitterness at Americza moment when patlent diplomacy British Admiral. The dislike alone offered any prospect of existing between the American sixcess Cunningham was ordered Anmoy and Naw was an eye- by signal to board the French opener to me, and was carried to warships before dark" And
extraordinary lengths. I some remove their erowa. The signal times wondered if it was drifted ended "Do not-repeal NOT into the embryo officers at West fail,"
Point and Annapolis," he observes drily.
*
re-
By CHARLES WIGHTON
"BUL
Britain
have
As
In his spare lime from 1. Cleansed and purified accepted Hitler's offer in 1940,
appeared as a major
political force. They openly
-
former
to carry
As night had already fallen at Alexandria bfore the signal reached him, was out of the question
out such
With the experience of 50 Instructions. This order "lled years antive service. which me with indignation. It showed
began as a midshipman in the no ecrpprehension of the explo-Boer War and ended as First Sea sive atmosphere at Alexandria. Lord, Admiral Cunningham's was impossible to views on Supreme Commanders, implement it, we ignored it which he reiterated forcefully to completely."
me in a recent Interview, deserve attention at the present time.
voted recently for their new being Fuehrer.
best Ideas of when he offered to back the Nazism-the
with hundreds Hitler and Goebbels but with- British Empire
(That such a signal should have Fuehrer,
General Major-General Remer works out the faults into which the of Major
Wehrmacht divisions. It been sent on the very day that Ernst Remer. It was the us a bricklayer.
lesser men led the Nazi party.
"I have never," he writes, Admiral Somerville had been was a great mistake to refuse forced to open fire on the French 'been Q
believer in great first time that the older
He denied that the Socialist
that. India would still have warships at Oran a fact which Supreme Commanders. With Nazis had put a cross against He explained in an inter- Reich Party was a revolutionary
British five but sald n Nuzi name since 1933.
known to the our own three fighting Serviers movement,
that he been
panzer was ander at Alexan- results are obtained if the tirer view how great numbers of would impose widespread social divisions could
working together, much belier Germans, "disgusted with changes to benefit the refugees that problem.
and made Cunningham's Corners-in-Chief are men
difficulis Thirty - nine year old German collaborators like and other dispossessed Ger- Fuchrer-Remer,-who-quelled-Adenauer-and-Schumacher,"_mens_
the 1944 bomb plot against are flocking to his new Nazi Hitler and was made A movement. Major-General on the spot, was, not himself a candidate in the parliamentary elec- tions in the British zone pro- vince of Lower Saxony,
2. German neutrality tween Russla and America,
#
be
have settled French
dria
more task infinitely
as surprising as another Ad- of the right type, determined "Britain's second-mistake miralty Intervention In-- -the- loyalty to support each other to
was when she refused the offer following year. On this occasion the mutual advantage. If all the was three Services in war are inter- Cunningham Admiral of Dentiz after Hitler's death
ordered 40 sacrifice one of his dependent and largely indivisible to make peace with the Ger only three remaining battleships they are at working to a com-
mon end. lan army, which could then in a sukeldal attempt to block 3. Complete evacuation of have darned on Russia. That the port of Tripoll,
Allied urmies, including Russians, from Germany,
was the real stáb in the back
the restoration of
the this time,
Said the ascetic Fuehrer, whose main difference from all Hitler iR the constant the humourous twinkle in his and
Reich. eyes:
1
war "But Britain lost the His passionately loyal sup porters, who ended their
4. No German remilitarisa- just as much as Germany did. "I am not a Nazi. It is tion unless Germany is freed. The British never understand electoral campaign by roar- not true. But I do believe and then he promised many the Germans. They must think
a
*
Such plan would, the Commander-in-Chief points out, have resulted in the certain loss of nearly a thousand officers and men, as well as the squandering of a fully commissione capital
"If this is borne in mind ench Commander-in-Chist will always be thinking of how he can assist his two colleagues and will not wait to be prodded by a Supreme Commander.
"Under a Supremo the heads tend to of the three Services drúfi apart. Without one they
ing "Deutschland Uber in the principle of authori- more then the ten divisions quite differently now. The British ship, the Barham; the chances of have to get on together, and if Alles," in 60 different towns tarian leadership. I want' now under negotiation. and villages voted for a parliamentary democracy- queer assortment of former but the Occupying Powers
NO DOLE
think now they have been in paling a port in this way in the they strive loyalty after the same face of intense enemy fire object they are bound to get Germany for six years they
were virtually negligible. This agreement." understand the Germans. They should realize that most of SS officers, Hitler Youth must understand that this THERE can
the be no talk of
Gomans they tave met loaders and Wehrmacht ex- must be modified to meet
wore u mask. One must know German rearmament so
how to approach the Germans, servicemen.
Germun needs. In our long as Manstein, Kesselring and and the German mentality. The parlimentary democracy, the Doenitz uro in Allied prisons, Germans must be given a firm dared General 10 percent elite of the best How
Hans Jead." former
minds, the young and front- Speidel Rommel's
chlef of staff negotiate
line fighters, must rule the rest,
SHOCKED THESE were the candidates of Remer's thinly-disguis- ed new Nazi movement--the Socialist Reich Party-whose
strong-arm
"However, I think there storm-troopers were banned by the Bonn should be
an opposition. government on the eve of Criticism is a good thing." the poll.
10 PERCENT
DOCTRINE
sald
with British and American generals while his brother REMER, who spent six months after the war in British POW languished in Landsberg as n WIT criminal? (This brother Camps on the continent,
he would like to visit London has now been released.) and explain his new Nazt Ideas to British statesmen. "If the
High reorganisation British
Commissioner,
5. Complete
Sir
Ivone Kirkpatrick,
of the German economy, with prepared to see me, I will be
In cars, farm carts and on REMER'S idea of an opposi- the fourth Reich, completely pleased to explain our point of hundreds of rusty bicycles,. tion, however, would seem the Bonn
self-supporting.
10
of view,"
Economics Minister
the Nazis flocked to the to be that it, too, 'should be Erhard, said Remer, will dozens of polling stations drawn from the 10 percent lead ·Communism In scattered across, the Lower elite who govern the rest of year. Saxony province, from the the Germans.
North Sea- to the Iron Cur- tain. Approximately 350,000 (11 percent) voted for the neo-Nazi movement.
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"Germany must be kept out! two of a modern war. Our task is not to defend Western Europe. I am not a pacifist, but I "We don't want American prepared to light only for Ger- "The Germans like to bo doles. We want to pay interest many. They may throw us into
ол the Marshall Plan. governed," said Remer, who want nothing from the Ameri- but that is our doctrine and we We prison, or they may hang us, strenuously denied Bonn, cons for nothing."
will die for it. official allegations that he gets his money from the
"If the East and West want to International businessmon
Remer, although he attacks fight it out, let them do it. But Russians.
bolh The Americans and the they are not to fight' in Ger- attending this year's Han-
Russians, is violently against many. We are not prepared to over Fair to buy machine "That is a dastardly le, American plans Europe, have Germany the battlefield tools were shocked to find just what one might expect "We want to prevent war, but between America and Russia," that they were in the heart from Bonn." Drawing him- the Americans ATO of a Nazi stronghold, violent self erect, Remar snapped: mongers." ly opposed to the Allles, "On my honour na a Germani
the war
Finally,
Remer summed up: "Only a part of the German people surrendered in 1940,
Western rearmament and officer, I solemnly assure you Modding fun of General That was the Wehrmacht; the particularly to General that I have received no Eisenhower's plans,
Remer Third Reich was in existence Elsenhower.
divisions untj) Adenauer started the soll- said: "He has va money from, nor have I had here and three more some out to, the Allies, Tall, thin Remer is cer Russians..
any negotiations with the where elson a' brane band.
In Luxemburg.” tain that the election is tha first step towards a triumi- \ Remer said this was the phant Fourth Relch, and policy which he and his party absolute power.
would put into Zorce:-
"Lot the world boware. The Germans
are no longer, to bei ordered what to do. The time Rarner attacked Britain for bna còme amin when the world her polky, swhich he sold was must request the Germans to always anti-European,” “Fritadei
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