! Typical watch of the 1660%, thìa Engikh Belendar welch told thë bine, the date, the menths, and the phase of the thodn ---- but la accuracy was a matter of chate. (Reproduced by, kind permission of the Wonhistul Company of Clock- maker. The belainal forma part of the collection housed In the Chadhari Muneer, London.)
Three hundred years for an idea to flower
* year it was made was ayar of change
years before, in 1658, had robbed the seventeenth century of its greatest and most contravential Rane, and in the Spring the Becond Charles returned to the throne amid scenes of wild rejoicing. A man who was to inspire u great nation was quietly studying: and in October, William Penn was entered as a gentleman commoner at Christ Church. That was the pattern of the year 1660 — when this calendar watch was made.
A cumbersome, heavy instrument, inaccu- rate and unwieldy but it was the best they had, and its owner undoubtedly thought a lot
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Every Roles Dalisan bears the Rolex Rod Saal, Iy in m sdgo that the weich to which it is attached has passed the stringsat kends of the Borla Government Texting Stations, and has been awarded his own Oficisi Timing Certificati, sád the proud title of clopotitter.
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BETWEEN-
row would you feel if you saw a Communist flag flying, say, from the top of the Admiralty citadel overlooking the Mail?
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Probably as horrified the police I saw in Athens last week pulling down R Communist banner, which flapped for half an hour over the building housing the top secret and closely guarded offices of the U.S. military and economic' aid mission to Greece.'
NATO's American chief, General Matthew B. Ridway,
ONDERIIN
TORKEY
By FRANK
SERGEANT MAN BEHIND DOENITZ
SPEAKS OUT
Kiel.
MET him in the com- fortably furnished
any country In such a would be how to get hos sub geographical position to Russia marines, out, before their bait
Unless
Director's office of a channels were blocked. 100-year old private bank in Russia could get her submarines
distributed under the scentis this city.
As he swivelled round in war, she would ve Bulbreht.
chante his chair and Ineed me it of
them afterwards.
a cart into thd was hard to realiae that
acholarly-looking Black Sea and only a very tow
bottlebecks in the Balule
and the
this
62-year
old successful Russian submarines will be able
director with the happy is wriggle out.”
sense of humour, was once
-not. Bo long ago the
submarines
brains behind Germany's # Russia could not get- her submarine 'flect.
blače under.."the This was Admiral Eber- oceans before any outbreak of hostilities then she would have hard Godt, the Admiral in only one alternative, and that charge of all U-boat opera- would be to do what Germany tions. The Admiral who attempted-make a break for the of St worked hand-in-hand with
Atlantic Prisht Nazaire Brest and
with ruthless Grand Admiral her armles. Karl Doenitz, Commander- These ports were in-Chief of the German useful for sending out out masa
attacks made up of ? 20 and
and more Navy.
*
U-boats, but" and, hare, the wiry Utilo Admiral became qülte emphatic "But I believe that pur
unique in Half-way through the inter- mass attacks were vlow I fired my leading question: history, and I have great doubts "What did Godt think of Russia's it Russia could chances in submarine warfare?" them."
The ex-Admiral then went on to explain his statement. He explained that what would worry
ever
repeat
"Russia's submarines," said the Again the ex-Admiral gave his ex-Admiral, "should not be over- reasons. "The Russions captured rated."
quite a few of our latest. U-boats towards the end of the. and
War, boats werd know that these capable of 24 knots on the astrface and 10 knots under water against a previous nine knots. The Russians may have possibly improved our super-bube which we never had the opportunity to really use.
beginning a two-day ayo-witness report
by SEFTON DELMER
JORDAN
THE EVE KOREA
-THE EYES
"Even if they have, however, the days when you could get Bubmbrinca lo ah husembly point for a inass nitath without being ended with the last war, spotted The
latest ahli 'submarine devicts-nadie, redar and a few. others-make the job of con- centration alitet Impossible. That goes for the Allattic, the Mediterratiean and the Pacific."
The interview was drawing to end. I asked the ex-Admiral about his peacetime hobby. His Bnswer was quite blunt. badn't bny. His only hobby. Was contarling and looking after as many
of his old U-boat crews ↳ as possible.
Today, seven years after the war
Ex-Almiral Godt khows exactly where everyone of his commandore lives, and how he lives. He knows that all of them are in the West and that not one of them is in Russian hands,
Finally, I asked the ex-Admirat If he had ever had any to?
Contact with the Russian submarine crews. He replied that, during
caught.
only.
was due to arrive in Athens munism even us an underground becauso NATO's planners are. The committee had. chartered the way Germany later that day. Spelled out on movement has been crushed out not yet ready to deal with it. Italian plants, hire Italianone Red U-boat. · "They were a the banner hanging from the of existence. parapet was a message for him
in crude Greek letters of white paint: "Go Home Cholera- General Ridgway.”
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QUESTIONS
Middle East.
pilots, and used Italian airports. poor Zot, commented Godi, Tito of Yugoslavia, after years But the direction of the enter-"My staff shidled all the secret Rudely and insistently
the of fence-sitting, hos at mast been prise was Albanian, not Italian.papers found on
board, and !! questions hammered at me ready to enter into staff talks Albanian. Why could not some-mander was hardly allowed to
brought to the point where he is And the agents dropped were appears that
even the
the com "Are we bungling our defence of with the Grecka and Turks for a one have told this to the Greeks sneeze without permission from this bastian? Have we in fact common defence plan. But he and Yugoslavs and saved all the base-and that, when In sub fallen for a Kremlin ruse?
"Have we let them trick us into tying down too heavy proportion of our forces
to the defence of
will have to be put off.
NATO's Eastern Mediler-
Western can..
and
heartburning?
DIPLOMACY
marines personal freedom and initiative is
"
is more important than in any other arm.'
The ex-Admiral was speaking From 1943 THE U.S. since 1947 has spent from experience,
3,000 taillion dollars in onwards he gave his U-boat aces Turkey alone. Britain, too, has the right to decide for themselves spent many millions of pounds on all action once they had put on bolstering up Turkey, Greece, and the rest of this area.
I sat in a enfe watching the banner come down, all
a rancan planners have not yet those questions came popping up
and got a plan to discuss. - again in my mind which had been suggesting themselves with resources
Unnecessary Jealousies ever-increasing urgency Buring Berlin in the West and Hores in suspicions due to a bungling lack my late tour of the Near and the East while the Russians are of co-ordination, and sometimes, secretly planning their main too, political cowardice, spilt the The trip had taken me all push here in the middle? around the Eastern Mediter- "Is this dileged strongpoint in
from Israel, through reality a fatal
chink in our Cyprus and Lebanon to Jordan,
defences?" on to Turkey, Anally to Greece.
1. could see no aim that our In the eyes of our planners. this area and particularly the Planners had drafted their dis-me, had been lying over Com-, Korea and Berlin really deserve Greece-Turkey portion of it positions to take account of the munist Albania dropping agents, their present pribrilles;
leaflets, and parcels of food by ARRANGE for vital defence bastion of the new situation in Persia. West. While we hold it we can,
palathule for the starving population.
rancan
according to them, bar any JEALOUSIES
sudden thrust by the Ruslans
troin Europe.
Greeks and Yugoslavs, I found, were full of distrust of Italian ambitions in Albania.
Italian aircraft, Greeks told
to seize Suez and sever the East DERSIA today looks every bit This suggested, they argued, close to joining the that the Italians were up to their Soviet camp as Czechoslovakia old trieter, trying to re-establish But there I was, sitting in the did in 1947. The Turkish General foothold on the Balkari main Athens cate with a newspaper Staff is alive to the threat which land, in front of me telling of mob this means to Turkey's casten riots in Persia and military bank and is appealing to NATO. insurrection in Egypt.
for further support. So far, pone
The truth, I found; was very
I fear it will all be wasted unless we and the Americans mbke haste and
MAKE UP our minds whether
to вел.
Operational orders came from base, but how those orders were executed was entirely up to the German offibers.
Explained God, "our submarlles
were
caught..by enemy firo at sea and faced with tactics or new anti-submarine
by the constant new surprises Of your radar development. It was Immediate
up to the commander of the boat the Middle to call the whole bruise off."
reinforcements of East and the Eastern Mediter- anean to meet the new Persian danger;
RESTORE to the Middle East countries a respect for Western justice and Western pledges by
fearless diplomacy...
Is there nothing at all en- couraging to report from this "There is. You shall hear of
Across the street police were has been forthcoming.
The "Free Albania Committee," trip? searching for the Communist Incredible as it may seem, an organisation sponsored by the agents who had got into the top one of the most encouraging Americans, had been indulging it— secret
buildingníthough, diplomatic developments for a in a warmish phase of cold war dicator Communist according to the Greek Govern- long time is being left to go against ment and Greek police, Com- unexploited for the time being Hodza.
JOHNNY HAZARD
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The interview closed with a warning from Godt, "Your Russians are experia in mine- laying operations, and if they can't get their own subs to work they will certainly do what
they "In the event of another war can to wreck your navies. everything in Europe will depend ori America's . convoys getting through. The Russians know it but then,"
concluded Gods "you know it too!"
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