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HOLD TIGHT LIKE ME!
NATIONAL
MAGINOT NEVER
PARIS. smartly uniformed aide any
day now thick will place file t on General Dwight D. Eikenhower's desk in his office overlooking the Arc de Triomphe..
The file will bear the words "Top Secret: Maginot Line."
After eleven
years the famed Maginot Line is buck in the news again.
French military chiefs want General Eisenhower glan
HE WON'T TAKE THE RIGHT
CURE.!
PERSIAN
OIL
The food they eat and how they eat
"The Cold Table"
●TOCKHOLM --- The
S
Swedish amorgasbord, or "cold table" is
world-famed, and is usually available at most places used by tourists.
A typical smorgasbord menu may include herring, salmon, raw minced beet and ex. smoked reindeer flesh, cold meat of alt kinds, poultry, cucumber, omelette. and 600- sages. Th0 emphasis la on "include." and even then the samorgasbord is merely on hors d'oeuvre. After that you start cating.
Most meals are cheap the more so, strangely, if they are
WAS
LINE DEFEATED
Stock of the great French defensive system known as the Maginot Line slumped badly after the German breakthrough into France in 1940. But some Frenchmen retained faith in its possibilities, and how it could be used by the Western Powers in the defence plans now is told here
*
By HENRY THODY
Government refused
loyalty of these men. Now back In uniform, they are maintain- Ing the line at an annual cost of £50,000.
These engineers have plenty to keep them busy. When the line was built it was a
A symposium spot- lighting the culinary offerings and eating habits of Europe and America, compiled by some of our correspondents
Small restauranta elve you only the choice, of beefsteals, veal or porkc chop, and the cost is not below is, More expensively tho beefsteak comes with a large nut of but- ter sedately melting оть 1። summit.
an
For
of extra couple shillings you can have à sauce bearnaise, or if your tastca ure democratic, you have mayonnaise-made with reat
다
eggs, and plenty of them – 10 eat with your chips.
Cho
most national of all food items
++&4n¢4374དི{nl“་་་««དི Mayonnaise is probably high-class. The Grand Hotel in Belgium. This it is which restaurant, representative of
Belgian
the best restaurants in Stock- adds the final charm to another holm, serves its main
with mayonnaise- for about 7s.
sleeped shrimps. You have to
lunch toes stuff crevettes-toma-
F
For this you can have pay 3s 6d for this if you want choice of hors d'oeuvre, 1 omelotte, AL veal, lamb, sausages, various egz ham, and countless vegetables.
Hundreds of restaurants in Stockholm serve a hunch con- sisting of bread and butter, one hors d'oeuvre, and one main dish for is d.
to be sure the Lomato has been properly hollowed out so that there's a good dishes,
supply of shrimps. The same applies to the shrimpiness of the popular shrimp croquettes.
Mussels are another popular delicacy. I know one restau- rant which has 35 Ways of serving them, and you САЛ meal of them
Even the rougher 'beer make a good cafes cannot provide anything for about 68. much cheaper. Evening meals
ches-with extra if the res- good is unimaginative. On the cost about the same as lun- Belgion cooking, though tourant provides music. Wines other hand, materials are un- are expensive, but guaranteed stinted, and plenty of butter good. Coffee is 1s a pot, or 4d is used.--Gayla Gordon, ă cup-Cyril Marshall,
Order Drinks
Sky's The Limit
YORK-The seams
mechanical wonder with Its 250ENEVA-A meat in Geneva N be the limit of prices
miles of underground tunnels, its own power stations and un- derground railways.
can be just about as ex- here. Go to a cheap cafe, for pensive as your pocket book instance, and you will find can stand.
that a teacupful of soup, a slice of real meat, `a minute portion of ice cream, and a cup of coffee will cost you 10s.
Huge armoured doors are
In the least expensive res opened electrically, All elec-
taurant lunch will cost be trical
circuits and
tween 6s and 7s depending on telephone whether you wires are duplicated.
have soup for Cables your first course or something how about celery, bread rolls, and wires are buried deep inside fancier. The rest of the lunch vegetable soup, a small
pork reinforced concrete.
to speaker propaganda, telling the A ventilation system in this to incorporate the Maginot continue the Line to the sea. poitus that the British had underground city of barracks, Line into the overall France fell, it will be recalled, deserted them, they were alone, food, and ammunition supplies SHAPE
the German attacking and Paris had fallen. From their kept the air (Supreme Head- with
pressure slightly Allied
underground positions Powers through Belgium and Holland. quarters,
the above that in the open so that 'Maginot Line men continued to gas or smoke could not affect Europe) operations plan. LINE HELD
the defenders.
blast the Germani. Has the Maginot Line a
When the French Government In mid-June, 1949, after the
FHteen thousand future in Western Europe capitulation of Belgium,
-workers the ordered the cease-fire on June
25 the defence? I went to the evacuation of the BEF, the col- Line were still firing, Seme forts fortifications. They dug up 15 guns of the Maginot toled seven years to build the French War Office to find lapse of French armies in the refused to surrender until July million cuble yards of earth and out. As I walked down long North, and the fall of Paria, the 1, when the Germans were poured 2,000,000 cubic yards of corridors from one office to Germans made an all-out attack forced to recognise them ás coment.
froops undefeated in battle and another and found the on the Maginot Line.
allowed the captured officers to Maginot Line treated as a
It did not, to their surprise, retain their swords. hush-hush secret weapon I fall like a bad apple.
the pounded it from the air, every WATCHING BRIEF decided that at least
type of heavy armour piercing shell was used, the famed Ger- man 889
At blasted it
French think so.
Slukas
If the Maginot Line is to be employed again, experts agree that i should be extended across Belgium to the seu.
Only one thing is' Ilkely to point From 1940-45 ex-Maginot make General Elsenhower say The report to General Eisen- blank range, suicide squads of soldiers took jobs as forest "no" to rearming the Eine hower will contain the findings ploncers tried to approach workers, wood-cutters, and politics. Rearming the Maginot of a French Senate committee cupolas and thrust explosive policemen in areas near parts of Line, the politicians say, would which recently toured the line through observation slits. and found it in excellent con- dition, 95 percent mulntained by a skeleton corps of army en gineers.
'UNPARDONABLE'
to
"It will be unpardonable neglect such possibilities of de- fence," said the senators.,
Large stretches of the 200- mile-long line with its 300 huge forts and thousands of strong- points built at the cost of some £200,000,000, could be rearmed at little cost and fit into the Western European defence plạn,: the committee stated.
At present the Maginot Line
But the line held. More than 0,000 shells were hurler at Landrefang fort alone, without success.
Then the Germans tried 10 persuade the defenders to sw' render with leaflets and loud
So
HOW
the line they knew. During the make the Germans feel that the German occupation they kept North Atlantic powers were an unpaid watching brief, so leaving Western Germany to her that mechanical equipment was fate to be Over-Tun by the not. looted. They greased Russians. machinery and pumped dry flooded areas.
it was fear of offending the Germans that prevented the The Maginot Line owes Is Belglans from completing the excellent condition today to the Maginot Line last time.
If that hasn't shaken
you
* two
might be made up of rlee chop and two vegetables, ("risotto" style), breaded pork
sundae and strawberry chop with chips, salads, fruit cups of coffee? Satisfied? You or ice cream, and cheese. should befor 13s ad. Nor have you got out of the res- Perhaps the most important taurant yet. There is a 24 thing to remember is that the table and cloakroom tip, and, drink something besides water cocktail, which will take away restaurateur will expect you to cf course, you must
have" a
with your meal. A small bot another 5s. tle of beer costa sling. coffee another shilling. Add 10 you will find percent. service charge and that your 73 lunch has now cost you most 103.
al.
will
you,
lucky But think yourself that you haven't been out fo dinner at the same restaurant. A dinner for two, including stuch devastating things 23 oyslers and roast lamb, Finally, in the expensive cost you up to £5. class your lunch will sort at 15s for sale or asparagus with If that doesn't shatter mayonnaise, chicken, salad, don't worry. Just run along ice cream,
cheese or fruit. to your bank and we will see Add the extras-say half what we can do at a really bottle of Burgundy-and the expensive restaurant Bome 158 somehow turns into £1 Os where along Third Avenue, 8d.-Victor Sankey.
a
There are two of you and if the bill has not separated you from your loved one for ever at the end of it all, then you will have "tairen her out 10
Classic Dish
BRUSSELS-The classic Bel dinner for a mere £38.
ginn dish is beefsteak and chips, You never escape the One could go on even longer chips, which are sold from and even more shatteringly. barrows at every street cor- but most of you will have ner at enormous prices the last interest by now-and any- minimum quantity, a
waltini mean way there is supper pennyworth, costo 8%d.
for me at home. ---- Rodney Campbell,
THE TRAP WAS LAID
FOR
WASHINGTON.
MAO'S MINIONS
By SYDNEY SMITH
and cat
On each side of the avenues
Meat Problem LONDON-Prices of restau
rant meals in England, have rocketed since the with- ́drawal of a wartime regula |tion-which extended into the
peace-limiting meals to maximum of 65.
A lunch at an exclusive West End restaurant now costs was the about £1 15s Inclusive of a night | cocktail and beer, but not wine. A bottle of fair quality wine will cost about 30s..:
'On top of this of course is the walter's tip of at least 10 percent.
is unarrita. In 1943 the Ger-
In the Pentagon they call sive artillery and mortar forces mille artillery strip, mans stripped it of all its guns. NOMETIME this week, the whole of
use of searchlights at "This is nothing to
from the red-carpeted month's
the past which "ranged in" worry
ready.
right on the wire. We learned Korean battle
the trick from the British on about," a high-ranking French|reatrum of Room 3869 in
the Rhine-searchlights officer told
"Operation Mousetrap." But me. "New
guns the Pentagon-the sound- would bo needed
anyhow. proofed briefing room-the they say the Chinese did not Arrierican factories could re- place these guns within a week.illionth Communist casual fall into it, were not tempted ty in Korea will be an into it-they were driven The economical French are nounced.
into it. "like cattle are naturally loath 10
driven in the runs of an £200,000,000 Idio-but
abattoir," said one officer.
could
the Maginot Line defend Europe
In event of Russian attack?
IN NEW WAR
►
nearly 300 degrees-
to the sides and behind.
re-
"
'un
of approach, artillery ranged in Sected off the clouds. through
"It was like shooting
For those with less money down by daylight, and the to spend there is a wide selec- the barbed tion of cheaper restaurants banzais diod, on
get a parmblo wire. When they came on where one can
from: 29 dd dead OUT units meal for anything over their
foreign
,stan- hinged back on each side, and to Gs, but by the Communists found theme dards the fore is very modest,
often indifferently cooked, and selves running perfectly
|uņimaginatively, served. - prepared gauntlets, with The whole pattern, as I saw our fresh mobilo reservics Allied Intelligence knew the It on a Pentagon map, looked waiting for them at the end. Communists had umed. liko a great hand-the knuckles
GA offensive, for about May, 15.
the
main line defence, the wrist, the second line, a mobile reserve division the arm,
Then out ahead went a series of tank-led aggressive, probing Whoever he that
is,
forces. They blew up and de millionth Communist has
stroyed enemy supples in the fallen already. He just This is how and why the concentration area. has not been counted yet. drive was made. He lles, or he is a prisoner, between two somewhere green tape lines that re- Russia made a frontal attack, present a 40-mile deep atrip Their concentration area Communist armies might well across the waist of Koren advance deep into Westers on the briefing room's map. Germany with spearheads reaching the French frontier:
A number of French defence Experis told me It could.
а
any war,
Those lines enclose one of re-armed, fully the biggest killing traps of: Then manned Maginot Line would
Allled forces Elva
vital breathing
space-time to re- group for counter-attacks, "Time:
a
It is the fighting area of to allow Allied air forces to the Communists' abortive smash enemy lines of communi- offensive. cations, time for the already planned
airlift to
Was
One of the cheapest meals available in London-is at, ond of the excellent “help your- set?" restaurants run by a big firm of caterers. Here you
a adiection Duf get
good, plain
"It was a slaughter trap, ond Its peak, posed directly above forces the out-stretched Angers, 000 casualties, a triangle, with Chorwon at and the disrupting probing their first drive cost them 72,- well-cooked 200
food, and can eat
the 38th Parallel.
drop
16 Ka Picasantly decorated Bu roundings
chestra
Meat of course is the main problem sid supplies aro strictly limited. In Soho, Lon don's famous "Little
restau rant" area, where foreign rta- taurateurs are mostly:
possible,
even antor- throw in free of Here is how that great limb "Their second drive, deh charge. A light meal here can worked, told by an officer who began last wook, we now cont as liftio as is üd depend- returned and whom I last saw
about a week beforehand, and General Ridgway, then com seven months
ago when WO it was an attempt to regain theg on what you choose. manding the Oth Army, at once shared
of bonded
balance. It has cost them 02,- -in ditch began preparing a main line of Bourbon
ndar 000 to 05,000 caminities so far. We had just repeated the trap defence. On the selected. Pyongyang.
system further back." "logical avenues of approach"
bulld-up- The Communladať. which he screened · with. hun
A Pentagon dreds of miles of barded wire area was being destroyed be
fare they could take off-thky Since the offensive began, three double aprons covered had to move down and they casualty ratio no far," not in- change It is generally pod the United Nations claim ar inninding fixed machine-gun came at least works be cluding South Korean, who to get steaks, but total of 102,000 to 107,000. position, patterned minefields fore they had intended, and took the heaviest Jones, are 17 they aro French army men point out Communist casualties, Thoy and trip flares.
overywhere, to the prepared Communist to one United well cooked by something Httle ·
however Watt--Nationa soldier., wt. realised in
Bathons prejudiced against cate Britain and America. In 1940 bring the total Communfat
Astrip eight-lo ten miles
Thursenest cuts, find nothing the Maginot Line was never de ensualties in Koren to date deep ahead of this line
Wus “One of the biggest killing Including South Koreans the unpaintable about them, feated. Before the war the Bate to 992,000.
"boxed" and "circled" by muam factors, apart from the pight= ratio drops to sight to oun yo Beary,
Atlantic
shuttle U.S. divisions into Europe.
EVCRUCI
estimates of the
chats,
probably
hru