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By Norman Lindhurst ·
Today, the American cfficers who have been conducting some strango training with -the Legion, boast in private — that the Blue Leglon "eon nut. fight the Foreign Legion any day, given six months of actual combat."
Frankfurt. and year-by-year, the Legion "ITHIN firing distance has slowly been honed into a
of the Iron Curtain sharp-edged fighting feree. an American colonel sips scotch and soda in a cosy Officers' Club. Sudden ly he thumps his drink on the table and explodes:
"The Germans! The Ger. mans! Ten years from now the politicians will still be going ynckity-yackity about rearming the Germana! I Bay let's forget the darned Germans and get on with what we've got!"
His 'explosion over, the Colonel realises that he
Strange training? Yes, ba cause, with the Legion there is none of the showy
marching. the big war games, the photo- of Blue Legionnaires graphs
leading a tank thrust.
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then back out, however, he continues in lower tones:
"When you command a reg. ment within gun range of the Russians as I do there is only one thing that makes sense. You need the guns, and the men to match the guns and the men across the border.'
The above explosive comment isn't anything unusual round- obout the Allied Zones of Ger
these days. Expeelally many the American Zone. As for the Colonel's comment "let's get on with what we've got"-he was referring to the American backed Blue Legion.
Hush-hush
cuse you THIS Legion, in
haven't heard of it before (which is quite Ilkety seeing
For
An
Highly-trained INSTEAD, the training is done entirely on the company level. Almost every Legionnaire is a the Legion is not an army, but a highly-trained cure for army not yet in being.
Now and then the curtain lifts.
A photographer slips At through the light security
Kosciusko, near Mann- Camp hein, and emerges with pictures of blue columns of marching men, of machine gun and anti-
ank gun drill.
that it is treated with a hocus- of noatlanon
Camp Koselusko is a far cry fan the fletion glamour of fact Sidi-bel-abbes, but it is that the Blue Legion probably furnishes a home to even moro afferent nationalities than does the French Legion. In the Blue Legion ranks are men from every Eurorean and Baltic land behind the Iron Curtain.
Further, there are Turks, Ber- scattering and slars.
nationalities caught in the upheaval of war and east into the path of the
ancing Russian armies. advancing
, like the Foreign Legion. ARL in America's Blue - Legion
Erinkled with ex-Wehrmacht born velerons and young Germans when sitra ed to a uniform, paru- American refugee camps were curly an American uniform. uver-run with anti-Communist
mean
poeus of hush-hush) is a poly- glot force of bitter exiles from Communism, leavened with tough Lough-x- --and Wehrmacht veterans right up to the grade of Lieutenant-General.
The Blue Legion was
in 1947, innocently
Aghting
from men
Poland,
60,000 Strong
La
Czechoslovakia, Hungary and TN fact, nearly half of the Bulgaria.
Muny were
There were fessional soldiers.
und several hundred Generals Colonels, And thero were several thousand junior officers
and non-coms.
as it
Бау
Logion's strength of 60,000 now consists of Germans. And it is obvious to a U.S. officer who has trained Blue Legion units that the American Army. by offering eltizenship at the end of this In the camps and
five-year enlistments, could sign caught the. cyc of
American
many volunteers Generala were live thousand up as
cquid equip. Polish veterans.
Lieutenant-General Manton S. American:Commanders, with one eye on the cocky Russians Eddy, the American commander
in Germany, had this to on their own about the Blue Leglont and the other fast-melting forces, who were Their discipline and morale being demobbed as fast as shipa could carry them home, decided have been good. We have never had any trouble Alling their on a fateful gamble.
ranks. The commander of one of the units is an old friend of THE bitter hordes of homeless mine, Lieutenant-General Karl
Wilhelm
von Schlleben of the men packing the refugee Wehrmacht. We met first at camps were quietly-very quiet-
1044, 20 the Cherbourg in with ly offered Jobs
after the Normandy Amerleans.
landing. In less than six months the I captured him,"
thus pointed up another krown to strength of 40,000 curious side of the Blue Legion Legion had been born and had
Eddy men. The tattered exiles were Once bitter foes, Foles and attired in U.S. Army uniforms Germans, Germans and Ameri dyed blue hence the christen cans and Balls and Poles pull ing Blue Legion and issued together in the Legion with rore US Army carbines,
harmony. The present hatred of That was Ove years agn. Soviet Russia has all but ob Since then. month-by-month literated the past,
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Trying to Break The Deadlock
S
BY PATRICK · MAITLAND, MP
IR Winston Churchill completion would depend actions were sluggish and several times de their readiness to accept a discouraging, But from
his Great from
Power meeting. then on he has, each time, parted
there prepared text when Perhaps
is more given a little more welcome
£1
document Tantalising
restrained reference
of
not
the
AMERY SPEAKS
OUT 999
by.
"Mark Jevington
3 and 19
broad-headed, freckled, small of stature but as tough and enduring as the ponies of his native Dart- mcor-such
was the phy- sical aspect of the young Journalist who waited (upon State Secretary Reitz in Pretoria with the strange request that he shouldbe. accredited as Times corres- pondent to the Boer forces in the war about to start.
Even stranger, Reitz fell in with the plan. Strangest of all, General Joubert, whose
commandos.onewere then massed on the Natal border for the Invasion, gladly accepted the pre- sence there of the enter prising stripling.
Only when some of his cfflcers, threatened to exe- cute the "English spydid Joubert change his mind, lest an "uncivilised
act"
occur.
Young Leopold Amery- for be it was then optimis tically suggested that, he should be allowed to ride Into Natal to rejoin his own countrymen, but genial old Joubert was not as simple ns all that.
'He is unfit'
tho
FTER: the Boer War,
audacious Leupold.dem termined that the weaknesses which It had revealed in the British Army should be put right won a single-handed victory over the War Ofee. Redvers Buller, architect of the disasters in Natal, was, made GOC Aldershot,
to their own
nada
his own admicwledge and by mission, de unit to
hold high feld,"
command ththe
The War Office surrenderad. Such was the mettle of the little man whose voice, 40 years later, was to ring through the corridors of story hurling ṣat Neville Chamberlain the stern Cromwellian Injunction: In the name of God-go f
'Liar' shout
DISCIPLE of Joseph Cham- berlain, Amery's passionato aim throughout: his. Ute was to secure a united British; Emplie. cemented by a protective system with preferences in favour of Empire countries.":""
to brought
Its service glorious punch. His own party Icadors, when they wobbled about Empire polley, had as much cause to fear his Inver
Π
he delivered an altogether of a distinction here than a to those who suspected that
Amery offered instant:
int: battle, momentous speech to the difference since the Prime some transformation might published the telegram in which House of Commons last Minister. did keep
Buller had ordered. White, de to Mr be proceeding inside the
fender of Ladysmith, to sur Monday.
Eisenhower's principle that USSR.
render. and ...wrote::
"I must At that is the chief clue to Sir In one departure ho such deeds as a truce agree-
..the repeat my charge agolast Winston's presentation of the He ment in Korea or an Aus- fs, his choice of a posebic
Government that in appointing digressed about Israel.
Sir Redvers Buller to the com- said that he had long, hoped triun treaty would be taken over of the European crisis
mand of the First Army Corps Tight that the two great men of as evidence of sincere good-sorang
from ho own they have appointed one who, experience of foreign affairs the Israeli and Arab worlds, will,
eather than from his study of Dr Chaim Weizmam and
Sa from his recollection of King Abdullah of the Jor-
prewar propositions, originating dan, would reach an under- standing. He digressed a BUT far the most interest in the mind of the great French
ing, and tantalising, came this
Foreign Minister, M. Barthou, little,
also, about Egypt.
do **I project: He went out of his way to passage in the oration was believe that the Immense
Lo pro taunt and flay the Egyptian affairs in the Soviet Union.
reconciling of Rusia with the Premier with being a die For Sir Winston said: "The freedom and safety of Western
dictation
Insoluble The tator suffering"
he supreme event which has Eu then from his junia;
Locarno Treaty of 1928 has been occurred since we last had a in my mind...It was based upon recalled that as it was debate on foreign affairs is, the simple provision that if Egypt which had first asked of course,
A the change of Germany attacked France we for the present conversa- attitude and, as we all hope, should stand with the French, tions, only Egypt stood to of mood which has taken and
France attacked Germany we should stand lose if "that oligarchy or place in the Soviet domains with the Germans. I
have whatever it is" chose to and
particularly in the
the feeling that
moster "wash its hands" off the Kremlin since the death of thought which animated Locarno talks.
Stalin. We, on both sides of might well play its part between While the Prime Minis- the House, have watched minds of those whose prime Germany and Russia in the ter's speech was, of course, this with profound atten- ambition is to consolidate the based on Foreign Office tion. It is the policy of Her peace of Europo. Russia has a tive as had the free traders,s! advice, the production Majesty's to to feel Intleed his own, in a fashion avuls by ever meats-in-sa-hunes strangements-can-rur-once-pompotaly-declarat-as-a-
party conference, that is less the case with their power doing anything the terrible ovents of the Hitler invasion will never bo repealed, Mr Eden and was little the or saying anything which and that Poland will remain a case with the late Mr Ernest could check any favourable friendly Power and a buffer, Bevin. For example, no reaction that may be taking though not, I trust, a puppet." advance text was available place and to welcome every "Third Force” to the press;
nor was an sign of improvement in our authorised text available relations with Russia....
TERE was the Prime Minister "It would be a pity if the H proposing anew the idea of immediately afterwards. In-
mutual assistance treaty be deed junior officials were natural desire to reach a still
precisely general settlement of inter- tween Russia, Poland, Germany to and the United Kingdom. That what the Prime Minister national policy
is prematurely crystallsing the any spontaneous had said three hours after impede
thought, and, doing so ahead and healthy evolution which both of the reunification of he had sat down.
may be taking place inside Germany and of a final settle
the Palish-German Russia. I have regarded ment of
frontier which, as he recalled, some of the internal mani-
was reserved for the peaco and
apparent treaty,
But in reviving M.. Barthou's Winston's speech broke change of mood as far more away from the pedestrian. significant than what has conception, which at the Ume I ani was ruined by the intrigues of limits of routine Foreign happened outside.
Col. Beck, the pro-German Office thinking. For he anxious that nothing in the Prime Minister of Poland, then had opened with these presentation
foreign by Hitler's and Ribbentropp's
Winston Sir words: "My knowledge, (of policy by the NATO Powers entourage, be put on bread and water for dollars-( £17,850)-a-year boss of foreign affairs) is not main- should, as it were, supersede presenting a new idea to break
days-on the Ford scienço . staff, believes ly derived from books or or take the emphasis out the Europeon deadlock.
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Awk
U.S.
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more than three then only if he is aboard ship.
unaware
An Invitation
his staff of 150 inventors to IN ita conception, too, Sir festations plan for the 21st century.
They are already working on atomic operzy for the car of A.D. 2001,
They also dream of otceironie systems to signal unsafe con- ditions before accidento happen. Andrew Kucher, 50,000
and then allow candy to be his nicmoirs. Bold in school,"
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of what may be profound
ing,"
foreign affairs, but from living movement of Russian feel- through them for a life
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What about Joe?" shouted a volce. It was the voice:bol young Amery, praise bien ch
usually Imperturbable Balfour almost rocked on his
On another scension": Wel- verhampton dignitary shouted the
word "lar at Amery, while he was speaking" "on"hla favourite theme. Next day the Incensed Leopold" enlied at his offer, demanded an apology. was refused, boxed the mon's ears, and gladly paid the Nine,"
Tho struggle as
MR AMERY,Din in^-epsy, colloquial prosa", calls the story of the early years pi pollical struggle with refaith still undimmed in the rightness of the Empira cause He fought fearlessly for that cause vallant pocket battleship, whoke guns never stopped firing.
It may be that the guns-were not:qulia heavy enoughglenbut that makes their handlingiall the more herole.
The
second, and more tim portant volume of these memoirs will describes tha continuation of Bir Amery's nght for a national and film- fece perial economie policy, in of the stubborn resistance of a free trade, Chancellor of the Exchequer and the "Inertia of, a lethargie Prime Mininter
Mr Churches heavier. fortunately, werd" the Stanley Baldwin, although „feso well armed, proved quité *ún- sinkable,. Hence the need for Mr Amery's call today for a British Declaration of Indo-
runk,
precondition was a treaty cars are bound to go faster and
with Austria, and hence faster. So safety must increaso
Rudan withdrawal of military. "LOT mochinez selling sweets with speed.
forces from the Balkans, Song removed
But here was 2 fro
serious, High Cannelton
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ingenious, proposal designed to from his Hawallan holiday, Saya
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meet the fears that may indeed Harry S. Truman is back at his a dentist Steinsberger.
and
compel the Soviet Government about relaxing 11B member of the school board: office desk in downtown Kansas "It is a farce to teach health City, working on his mail and now in the idea that a Great THOSE words, match the
Power meeting should bo whole series of answers grip on the Danube Basin.
A major distinction was as "The mall, mountains of it, proposed, Sir Winston was which Sir Winston has sorted about the Far East, Tho mostly consists of congratuta- ready to suggest that it given to Members in the Filme Minister declared that ho tions for his 00th birthday."
could take place before a House of Commons asking doubted whether "there could Da former
AR WALLACE E. HOWELL,
what he would do to bring be any agreement at the present Harvard professor NINETY.convicts at Jackson settlement in Austria. and the rainmaker who is Gaol, South Michigan, have But the basis on which about a Great Power meet- he differed boldly from tho credited with breaking New agreed to end a sit-down strike the Western Powers had ing. Until the critical week- petition taken up by the York's 1050 drought, has offer for an increase of five to tea ed this rainweary city-sun cents (44 to 8d.) an hour for been ready to go forward end of February 21 (when American President and ovipendence.
their work.
was an invitation to the the Foreign Office received dently popular with Congress EELDAN 2'TAHW They have been convinced USSR to join in completing important Information from other emphasis of his oration lig says he could probably they must wait for the next the Austrian Treaty, rank- the Embassy in Moscow) Sir Winston was hinting at a produce rainless day for State Budget, which iloping it clear that upon such the Prime Ministers re Third Force position. 10,000 dollars (£3,570), simply time to sit,
shine...
time on a united Korca." Here
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