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lasts for twenty years
1931, when tho Rolex
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then wrong-twenty years of
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OFFICIALLİ ÇERTIFIED WRIST-CHRONOMITER
Problems For The Prime Ministers
W
(By A Special Correspondent)
row ment
of the
resources
FAILURE OF
A
MISSION
By Peter Lovegrove
LBANIA is an ideal or half a dozen Commandos, but guerilla country, In the Mission failed completely Ho to accomplish anything. this amall, wild and found himself pitchforked into rugged country, border an extremely tricky polittent Ing on Greece and Yugo situation, with civil war about slavia, tho roads
are to break out, all the parties.
mainly interested in manoeuvr few, tortuous and illing to control the country anca maintained; there are no hostililles between
the railways; the mountains are Powers had ended, and some Italian troops
Dig
hard even for a mule to 40,000 to 50,000
at large sinco the collapse of
A Prisoner
TROTSKY" segellated with
cross; the valleys are often Italy complicating the issue, boggy and the coastal plain Is malarial; the people have '. a long history, are tough,. very proud of themselves, and are wont to call them. selves the "Eagles of the Mountains."
110w
all the groups-the well- under Enver Hedia, who organised Communist pirtisans
controls the country and da close- ly linked to the Comdinform; the It seemed to the Allies in Ball Kombetar and
Zogisty 1943 that it should not be too difficult to
of ex-King Zog), who (supportare kindle and fan eventually collaborated with the guerilla warfare along the Ger- Germans. At Arst they agreed man lines of communications to drop their differances, and there as in Greece and Yugo- all seemned
very keen to say slavin which would` become they were fighting the Boche more and more intolerable to without actually doing so, the
enemy. He would' thus
eventually be faced either to "I sighed to think, what wo accept defeat or withdrawal, could have achieved had the with all the loss of strategical genuine will been there to fight advantage,
men, material and to free Albanli," he wrole. prestige that would involve, or "There were too many political to reinforce his garrisons, with groups, too many people ready consequent advantage to
the to lot others to the ilghting
everyone looking to the postwer position."
Allies on every front,
British Military Missions
Scon these groups Wexe were sent to all three countries fighting among themselves, and to support and develop the the British aistance movements. books have been
themselves party Several
A were the victimg of partisan about their achievements and they were moving south with published lack of discipline and foresight. fallurcs in
Yugoslavia
and Hadja to avoid a resolute Ger- Greece; nuw with "Illyrinn man drive to round them up, Venture" by Brigadier Dovies, Trotsky" Davies we have the detailed
and the wounded in the body and fell pressing story of the Albanian into enemy hands. Mission, and the picture is com-
plete.
mission
to
the
of
was severely
Nightmare Trip
com-
His
terrible *x-
tion from the notorious Colditz
Brigadier Davies, of the Royal Ulster Rifles, as dogged and tough a Regular as the British THE Brigadier never Army ever produced, led the pletely recovered from his Ill-fated
wounds. "White Land" of the Balkans, perlences from the time he was the capital to He HEN the Common- the land and into the cities main for many years to come know where
He went through life with the hit by Spandau fire in a moun-i
biller Balkan nickname It with its capacity to carn dol- finance It is to come from,
at tain path in the "Troisky." gained at wealth. Prime began logically enough,
lars, it must, at the same time, Ministers meet in started as a means of in- concern itself with the
Britain's part in the develop Sandhurst for his display, in the winter of 1043/44 to his libera-
Commonwealth
words of one of his instructors, castle by U.S. forces London on Thurs creasing production in order material needs of the rest of must be to
switch
in May of "independence, Intolerance,
a most deal A good
1045. provide of away from the consumer goods
striking robustness, a keen Rence to offset wartime shortages, the world.
record of gallantry, and oh- raw materials will be satisfied capital goods, and also to earn bolshevism."
extraordinary mixture of brutality, stupidity and kindnes
He had a nightmare journey down the steep mountain paths N outstanding leader in both on a stretcher, ice making trea- peace and war, he won the cherous every step his bearers Military Cross in the first few took. He had a
succession of months of his service
operations in Tirana hospitals, Mesopotamia in 1920, addeti a the first of which he describes bar to it, in Palestine in 1938, as follows:, and earned the DSO when the record of his gallantry in Albania became known,
to discuss economic day problems, they will have before them a report on one of the most exhaustive in-
quiries ever conducted into the question of Common-' wealth development.
has
OFF RAILS
one.
on
The Task
in
follower
respected to increase by only 20 sterling regains convertible
ible find out which were really away-
рег
I... heard.
but continued after the war potential American demand for intustries into those producing humour and a kind of disciplined durance ---- End of the Ccmans' when government policy at home by the development a large enough surplus, an her was preoccupied with the of synthetic materials, but balance of payments enable
10 to provide some of the rapid development of a full- there are other important in her
dustrial countries which have finance needed for overscas de- scale industrial economy.
helther the technical facilities velopment. But, as the Finance to Ministers clearly recognised The Australian experience or the same pressing need to
concentrate on the large-scale when they discussed this has not been The report is the result of
a happy
production of substitutes. These lem last January When the post-war boom came weeks of patient work by
countries will in all probability capital will have to be sought to ал cn'd, the Australian
continue to regard the group of Commonwealth
Com- to fill the gap between what Government was compelled 10
pro- officials which began soon
to monwealth as the natural source the Commonwealth can take emergency
measures
curtail
their vide itself-and-what is needed all of supply for many of after
cut down imports and the Commonwealth
curtan
"I was fully conscious when de- raw material requirements. The development plans of
of the
to carry out large-scale
he started to operate. An Finance Ministers' talks in
Slotes. Meanwhile,
velopment schemes. London last January. It has
The Paley Report has a par
His Mission set out from orderly held a towel in front of primary production
fallen; Aus ticular message for the food
But they also acknowledged Middle East towards the end of my face so that I could not see not been published, and no tralia, once a great food ex- producing countries of the the fact that outside capital 1943, und parachuted Into the the surgeons. I felt him mako
mountainous centre of the coun- hint of its contents has porting country, is now in dan- Commonwealth. While Ameri- will never be forthcoming in
then an a long incialon, and ger of becoming dependent allowed to leak out:
until ury, Its task was to contact the other. At some stage they roll- adequate been
quantities can consumption of wool is ex-
ita former leaders of the resistance groups, ed me on to my side to Brain! but there can be no doubt outside sources of supply
-part-of-its own food require...
the... blood. per cent over the next 25-years-statim as a freely of its importance.
ments.
n huge increase is forecast for currency. A consideration of fighting against the Axis and American imports of food the possibilities of restoring back them with gold, supplies splash on the floor and saw the What it contains must, of
stuffs. Dairy produce imports, at least a limited measure of and ammunition; teach them surgeon taking his feet out of course, remain a matter for
for example, are expected to sterling convertibility is there sabotage and show them how to range of the drips. I passed out. I next remember being speculation. But it would be PUT Australia is not the only the by no los than 400
German lifted off the operating table foie necessary for a full undor- ambush and shoot up
Convoys, surprising if the views ex- country where cecnomie de-
and carried back to my, ward, cent during the next quarter standing of the problems which
He quickly appreciated that but remember litle more for a Prime gane
tho off the of a century.
Commonwealth in any pressed in it differ
he could have brought the The aim of the
Ministers will try to solve. Prime
with country to a starkistin essential respect from those Ministers conference must
(To Be Continued Tomorrow) two brigades of British troops store the balance, 50 formed privately by many to restore
Commonwealth. to enable the independent observers,
the "THE Banker" comments to take advantage
this aspect of the Report: The document can hard- natural resources which it pos "It seems clear that if New Zea- for land and Elre succeed in ex- sesses in abundance, and ly fail to stress the two which there is an
expanding
Ing panding their exports of but- curdinal points in any consi- world demand. At the same ter and cheese to the Ameri deration
development time, of
industrial
production can market, (which is at pres must be concentrated in those cent effectively closed to such problems. These are:
countries which are best equip imports American
Unport and agricultural Commonwealth ped for the task,
policy) and 1. That
And development is not simply a
in declding
which in diverting meat exports to dollar markets, they should be Commonwealth Industrica mutter of producing mort should be developed, the Prime able to toxic in Wolla
look forward to Ministers will по doubt be Similarly if Australia manages
Bonn. Elded over the secret meeting in producing.
guided by the recent Paley
to prevent its exportable sur EVEN of Western Ger, that has united Government and ing to the front.
his official residence, a meeting movement with fire before go- Report on the likely trends of United States demand for raw pluses of foodstuffs from Smany's leaders, meet int has uniter Government and materials over
clining to 25 the next
ten or twenty-five ing in the closely-guarded, a major issue. years. There are important the next
11 should find A new gleaming white Schaum- lessons to be learned from this years, report, and one of them
Es doliar
market opening before that Commonwealth ment must take the form an expansion of primary pro- tible to
2. That if the Common
is to he developed wealth so as to take the greatest advantage of its enormous economic potential, forms of production must be expanded and other cur- tailed.
some
at has
duction.
of
DC
as
NEW MARKET
on
a can-
to vanishing point
de
Iri
{
German Challenge To France
From Denis Martin
With him were his most hitter
leader, coalition representatives
month.
Then came more treatment in a Belgrade hospital, a month in the Benica Concentration Camp, where 17,000 inmates were shot In batches of 450, soveral Vienna gaols; a a foreign workers' punishment camp at Ober Lan-
zendorf (where Englishwomen were imprisoned); where 122,708 Allied prisoners were done to
to teath; a
a Stalag for other ranks, and lastly, chained to other prisonem, to Colditz,
Close beside the Stalag was a battle school, where formations were sent to polish up their
it. I should be remembered burg Palace, on the Rhine, opponents, bespectacled tubby Ollentrauer, Socialist develop that the demand for many food have hammered out Ger- ch
products should be less suscep-many's first major postwar American recessions challenge to France. And to the development
of
of
Lerritory.
.
Death Notice
for the animal management of the
been
-
derly
Alting harness.
The
told has horse,
the
overworked and under-fed, with
afficer those are prisoner of captured from the Poles
and parties (except Com French. Therefore they have munists) have sunk
their twice as much work on hall": differences, and German rations. You do not expect us optimists predict a 30 to 40 per- to treat them the same as our cent abstention at the polls. own good German horses, do
your" Three lenders of the forbidden German Parties" in the Soar
was interested Wehrmacht, horses being kept and members of the Ministry for with letter et condita,
well-ütting saddlery," "all-German questions."'
wrote. "I could never un'er- According to the Paley Com- synthetic substitutes than that It is a challenge that threateng
some units had no And now arrangements are far stand why UNECONOMIC mission, American' demand will for industriel. raw materials the achievement of the United advanced for a bitter campaign pride in their animals, which
increase enormously in the This Lo therefore, a. market Europe, European Army, and on the snow-swept mountains of were in poor condition, hait
materials that is particularly worth cul- ratification of the "End the Germany's border with the Saar THERE is probably no future for such raw
Occupation" treaties. country in the Commons cobalt, bauxite, copper, lend, tivating."
chrome, manganese, and
But unless something drastic wealth which does not sup wool-all important
For the seven men have Common- Demand for in done to expand Common-launched a new, nationalist and port at least some unecono-. wealth products,
wealth production of the row all-party appeal to the 1,000,000. mic industries. All over the tin and rubber is expected to materials for which American inhabitants of the bitterly- expected to rise, contested cool and steel border- world there has been a ten- decline, but that for dairy pro- mind is
duce, sugar and wool should the actual dollar earnings of dency since the war to de-
increase. velop secondary industries,
the sterling area will be less land of the Suar. in 1875 (at 1950 prices) than "Don't vote," they urgs) in and this has been done only
they are at present. To offset the elections of November 30, It at the expense of agricul
in United you do go to the polling booth, the expected recent article on the States imports of sterling tural production. Declining a
tin make your vote invalid.” davelopment needs of the and rubber, the Commonwealth rural populations have had Commonwealth, "The Banker must therefore begin now to to support an increasing analysed the Faley Report and expand output in those indus number of industrial noted, with some concern, that tries which promise the greatest
tho workers, with the result sterling area's four
rewards in dollar markets. earners today that food exports have tin, Jute and wool - may all This Calla for Immediate fallen while consumer goods face a rather gloomy future, measures to develop Common- flooded the world's markets.
is obvious, therefore, the wealth and Colonial mining. in- "It
Germany demands freedom that a poper suld.
In at this major dustries. It The post-war development witch within primary produce however, that
point, of speech, freedom of assembly the Common- and freedom of political parties of the Australian economy tion In the overseas sterling wealth Primo Ministers wilt in the Saar, aterritory long con is an extreme example of area is needed, as well as a came up against one of their tested for by both Germany and this tendency to misuse na- major switch from the factories greatest problems. It is one France. tional resources. The move Though the Commonwealth's tion to concentrate development Seventy-six-year-old Premier, percent of the Searianders voted the head of the firm ment of labour away from main, preoccupation must oogle, but quite anather to Konrad Adenauer himself pro- to return to the Reich.
GLOOMY
to the fields. «
Germany,.adds the proclama tion of the, soven, will never recognise the results of this eles- flop.
the thing to decide in which direc= | |
ין
The wonder in that Brigadier have arrived in Bonn and were Davies can have gone through. given a place of honour at the all that and then come out, olivik, parliamentary session,
and able to carry on his work th the Army as a tráiner and The Saar, separated from commander of troops. He went Germany at the end of the war, on to, command an Infantry has since then bean economically Brigade in Greece and another linked with France.
in Palestine before he took i up Youth, But
Territorial formation, the old. Hiffer Slogan | Waton "Deutsch ist die Saar" (the Saar While there he worked on his. is German) is heard again. on story in his spare time, and the all sides, And Germans remem day before he died the posted ber the great. Hitler triumph of the final draft to the
publisher: January 13, 1980 when over 00 it actually reached the denk/od *} notics of his death niMATİT
his final commanda