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WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE GET OUT?

Bonn.

O sorry I am for Herr Wilhelm Girnus, For the past four months he has been the life and soul of Moscow's sudden "let's forget that Curtain" campaign.

Communist Like other high-ups in East Berlin, Wilhelm had been going all out to comply with the new Moscow directive,

"Make friends with in- fluential bourgeois West Germans" were his orders, "and never mind what they think of Marx and Lenin if they can be of use to us."

.Girnus, who writes the political leaders for the im- portant Soviet Zone news-

Here in Germany, a switch in Soviet

attitude towards The Phantom Army provides a clue... a disturbing clue

KIT

resigned from the compulsory mann, who and

the Government in protest against service through

of the camy plan, has formed present Parliament in spite

"No More War" party. the facts that:-

His

minde, and switched their rearmament taetics. In the light of the latest milltary developments

France and Germany they no longer believe

which that West German rearmament

message is the unadul- 1 During the elections is a danger to them.

put him and his Government terated pacificism of the religious

in 1940 not a word They

the in power no longer feel

conscientious objector, a doctrine the about compromise on was mentioned

which has never before had necessity

On or to elections,

wao possibility of rearmament. German West German anti-Communists, the contrary, Dr Adenauer only many adherents in Germany.

For in the Moscow experts' two years ago denied any revised assessment the new crming Intentions. German army will either:

ta

re-

re-

But now Germans, both ligious and atheistic, are flock- The demilitarisation low. Ing to his meetings in thousands. declared his has which outlaws the military Heinemann ONE: Fail to be formed, or TWO: If it is formed will profession in Germany and intention of putting up candi- paper-Neues-Deutschland,- constitute iruch 2 disruptive-forbids the bearing of arms, has dates in the forthcoming seemed to enjoy the new trouble-making influence in not even yet been repeated by freedom his instructions West Germany and between either the Allies, who imposed it, Wurttemberg elections.

He invited them to "discus- sion" parties, promised them fascinating contacts with his general Soviet superiors-the will be delighted to talk to man ke you"-suggested trips Poland to the Poznan Fair in and other satellite jamborees.

1 FEAR

and FROM what I have seen

learned on this trip across Germany I very much fear that go- these Moscow experts are ing to be proved right.

2-PART REPORT

Sefton Delmer

tuncs,

march through the Etreels," chortied the old Chan- cellor, "and all this will de over and forgotten. The G- man loves a soldier."

I fear this is a gravely mis- leading vlew. For though the German may love a soldier, he does not love Dr. Adenauer."

on

Wrongly, I grant you, the majority of Germans

today the 77 year old look or these trades Adenpuer

the obedient mann movement

as Communist-inspired. satellite of the Americans and unions They are not,

Herr Theo

trnde

boss unlon Catholic. who runs Adenauer's shadow making, War Ministry in Bonn, broadcast a radio talk recently on the need for rearmament. Letters denounc- ing him flooded into his office..

ourselves. They overlook, or Blank, the forgot, the shrewd and obstinale

night he has made and is stil

for concession after the victor concession from Powers of 1945. But they just compulsory will not accept military service ordered by him vated by his coalition as anything but compulsory mill- tary service imposed by the Allies.

ANALYSIS

IS generals and staff officers HIS

made a careful analysis of the rensons the crities gave for their antagoniin. They are interest- ing. Here are ten in the order of frequency:---

has no au-

A rearmament

WESTERN ALLIES

are

our

E

In such on army, I am positive, they will not servo willingly.

or Above all, the . Imposition milltary service without, the German public being consulted In an election is a reversion to methods the old undemocratic of the totalitarian past.

It must needs play into the hands of the undemocratic forces in Germany the Nazis, the militarists, and the Com-

that, fur or by the Germans.

PARLIAMENT trade union leaders. At Press con- Germany and France,

The two gave him. ferences he sat down beside from being an obstacle to the

The vast majority of the Vom Hoff and Fette, who had thority to pass

Inw. Soviet, it will be help. non-Communist newspaper-

German public is hostile pledged trade union support for to rearmament in the present set rearmament, found themselves men and started to talk to

up, and completely bewildered by disavowed by the rank and file, enemies, them,

They were faced with open IT IS UP to the Allies to de- When I was last in Germany, rebäition at a secret meeting of fend Germany,

trade union ómiělals from all

GERMAN soldiers' .honour munists of the Left. not quite eight months ago, was impressed by the vehemence

West Germany held in

has been besmirched by the with which Germans, young and over,

this week-end to Allied demilitarisation laws and old, turned down any suggestion Dusseldorf

a straighten things out.

the that Carmany should supply

crime trials - why to the European

should we fight for the Allies? contingent

Speaker after speaker attacked Defence Force and play her part

BEFORE any defence contri- in the defence of the West.

the now army proposals. Many

is made German ta they button of them threatened that

must have HIS PARTY would organise strikes rather workers

be wages than permit conscription to forced on Germany by Adenauer dillons. and the Allies.

togeUser

laid on.

been Eurone

of

Only with difficulty did

war

and

PLANS LAID

LL three are preparing for A their big day to come. Mos cow is only too well aware of chance in the now period. belter Orders have been issued to the better social con- Communist underground in West Germany to lie low and take. no prominent part in the anti-army agitation.

ONLY a volunteer

ormy

is

The rissh rearmament Germany is going to make the epoch beginning when the Allies But here was Girnus now at give up their occupation powers the most of in West Germany the latest Press conference all.

cutting his new tricky of all the critical phases He is

has. passed The bourgeois contactu.

get-

the war. Not only THAT antagonism is a hundred campaign had

many times stranger, more clamor auspicion of Germany. because called off as suddenly as it was in France will fertilise suspicion ous, and more active today. From

of France in

but, the soundings I have taken Germany, This is significant. For it was without the Russians firing so during the last few days, I find leaders manage in the end to

shot, West it spreads through all sections get a resolution passed demand- strength launched only because Moscow's much as a single

NO ARMY is possible until political experts were alarmed Germany is liable to be plunged and parties, from the neo-Nazis, ing, in comparatively moderate useless.

A general election

has been at the prospect of a rearmed into political and moral con- on the radical Right, to the terms, that

trade unionists and Social Dema- must be held before any rearma- German unity

stared. Germany joining up with

ment B is passed, crats on the Left.

HEARMAMENT means Atlantic Pact Powers.

civil war between the East and lald their plans, Adenauer's former Minister

switch in That West Germans.

NO MATTER what promises policy

the fusion.

For, now the policy-makers Chancellor

their mitted In Moscow have changed

But

as plans stand today. com- Adenauer Is

the permissible-conscripts are out.

RUSSIA'S överwhelming makes all defence

And don't make the mistake to bulldoze Germany's of the Interior, Herr Heine- of regarding either the Heine

·

THE MAJOR MAKES THE STARS

GGTM

TALK A DOZEN LANGUAGES

By NORMAN MOSS

They don't want to discredit it by the suspect Communist

presence,

Yes, there will be plenty of re time for the Communists to act later and for the Nazis and the militarists. They have all

15

not as ere made, remilitarisation will understand as some. restore the old Prussian bully Crill sergeant to power.

British and

American

diplo

mats have accepted Dr Adenauer's assurances paoh. poohing all this antagonlem to West German participation in a European Defence Force As merely a passing phase.

"Just let a battalion, headed

-band

the old playing

After the casting comes the Silvana," the

voice with by vr synchronising throaty, passionate

action. The mechanical part of voice saya. "You

a "detector this is done by a machine which wavy lane on Silvana Mangano. When "Bit- a called mc your Silvana ler Rice," her first film, was band." The trained writer can moves tape on which the Eng- once." Passersby in Oxford finally released in a "dubbed" then read this line in terms of lish dialogue is written past

box vowels and consonants,

hair-line, so that each syllable exact Street, in the centre of Lon- English-language version,

passes the line at the offices counted the pronts, and dion, stop and look.

This is important. Not only moment when It should be "riubbed" films had arrived.

must the translated dialogue spoken. The rest is up to the

and The wide, red lips begin

dubbing director, The man responsible for most match the original dialogue in artist moving again. "You couldn't Engilsh-dubbed films that have meaning. It is clear that when who rehearse painstakingly.

recent years, is the figure on the screen opens have forgotten me so soon. appeared in

his or her mouth to make an Don't you remember that Major William De Lone Lea.

"aaah" sound, what comes out in rainy afternoon in the rice

the dubbed version must not be barn?".

an "ece".

He and his associates, working In a shabby-looking set of off- ces in the heart of London's

The last part of the process Is the editing. Strips of sound The sentences must match track are cut, rearranged

a trained But the grafted by red lips and the six-foot model anything. An Admiralty in- syllable by syllable.

It must be recorded that the Soho district will try practically

of lush Italian film star Slivana structional film to be dubbed dialogue does not always match Just as strips of film are.

But into Urdu? They will do it. A sentence by sentence, Mangano are pasteboard. the voice currently luring pass beauty cream advertising film to

This is only fitting. For in the film, when audiences see the statuesque Silvana, the voice they hear will be that of Betty Dixon.

Another thing

the

and

editor

Until recently, the De Lane Lea Organisation was concerned almost aclely with dubbing films into foreign

always professional actors,

even

languages. enough

found

actresses

In

muy

most

ing Londoners in to see Silvana's be dubbed into 14 languages? latest picture belongs to a tall, They will do it. An Italian car-

fair-haired

After the script la completed, They young toon Into English or a Hollywood slender, actress from Sydney, Australia extravaganza into Arable? They, the casting begins, which is a

The Major looks and will do it,

(difficult job.

writers' Belty Dixon,

the resemblance to not for

language in London for is never of their Alms, an indication original voice that successful, they say but for that London is the most cos- Major De Lane Lea, a short, faithfulness to the screen chiar mopolitan city in the world

Altia "Habbibullah, the well- red faced, sharp featured, acier.

Major known Indian actress, and Aley cheery person,' is a man of parts. He has family connections with looks for, although some dub- Hassan, the Indian writer and is broadcaster, have worked with France, was raised in Britain her disagree with this, and French West Africa, trained physical resemblance. "A brunette them So have the press This is nothing really new. as a sound engineer in America, voice needs a brunette" I hoard taches of several foreign

an engineer and him say once, in a costing dia basales, and the ex-actress wife For years, Stewart Granger has and became

and ex Alm

ex- of one of the leading diplomats dubber, producer, ex- cussion (One notable been whispering his amorous

ception to the physical resem. In London. entreaties in Hindustani, and hibitor in four continents. Petula Clark has been singing He admits that his ability to blanco rule: Charles Boyer onc

The only gally in Swedish.

de that thing different d

Oliver Hardy). the Including now

West African, dialects, reverse has at last come about.

because of

of

Working both

at-

ent-

Into foreign the peak fluently zeven "languages, dubbed in French the punga languages and into English, the encountered до standarda Film Agures who have been busy its comes in handy in his They like to use radio people problems ·

their practised manifold:: Different:

that do known for years in French or The present De Lang Lea Fro- microphone technique. Brice of censorship, jokes.

Marion not translate, songs that must Italian households are now ap- cess, as it is called, is used in Belfridge, Howard pearing on the screen with France and Italy, as well as in Crawford, Valentine Dyall and be re-written, alms that have English voices,

Andrews as a singer) been slashed because of length, Britain. The intricate machines Julie used, all of the Major's inven- have often worked with them. the problem of dialects, The sales-resistance of the ion and design, are covered by Nevertheless, in every feature these and more are constantly English-speaking world to for 47 patents. We, flm tha Do Lane Lea group do, testing the

ocncelerious alim Alms, teated me and again, The process begins with the fifty percent of the artists are ingenuity of

dubbers.. was broken by the attractions of translation of the dialogue Into new fo dubbing work.

苦:

Imagination and

a

Moscow's difficult to

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