The Return To Westminster
By LES ARMOUR
LONDON, would have sufficed
BY train and bus, limou- afternoon's questioning.
sine and bicycle, 617 "commoners" and a score of Lords (spiritual and ten- pornl) returned to West- N. minster the other day- itching to get on with the nation's business.
Not at all.
for an
In the Commons, Mr Norinan
Dodda, (Labourite from Darlford, Whore curlounity ircm conliation for onges gipsies to recognition of China) the enquired acidly whether
Minister knew "on
For sightly more tian Housing half of them, attending to what
date the Air Pollution
the nation's business con- Committee, held its first meet- sists mainly in applauding ing, how many
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1953.
meetings had
£1
"By the time we're a 'undred some bright client'll decide we're not too old to go back to school."
London Express Service
the glittering array of since been held and when Ministers who inhabit the could be expected..." Government Front
Rench. con-
WAS
followed. by Brigadier Medrott (Tory) as possible for the who badgered the same Minis
For the remainder, it sists in making life as dif- ficult Same Ministers.
That is, naturally,
Jer about rent controls before Labourite Sir giving way to
an Richard Acland,
who appealed
over-simplification: British to the Works Minister about h
democracy concerns itself more exolle matter-permission not alone with international to zing
Christmas Carols in
crises, industrial controls, Westminter Hall.
and rate of the income inx but also with the welfare of pigs, allocations of bird- seed, the colour of postage stamps and the construction of drains.
Question Time
On many of these, a man mny ponder as he pleases,
In any case, there is al- ways Question Time,
The irreverant enl The Children's Hour.
it
But
Sir
Light-hearted
,not Richard did
say
whether hr. personally, pro- Sir David to sing birt Fed
him colemnly Ereles assured that the matter would be in- vestigated.
Thit this was all lighthearted
debate was under way over the designs of portage slawPS,
banter. In the Lords a serie
a
JOURNEY FREEDOM
Na hot summer's had left his
dlay a few weeks ago a dilapidated taxi left Potsdam, the traditional home of Prus- sinn militarism and now the
centre of the Soviet occupa tion forces stationed near Berlin.
It aped through the town, now a shell of crumbling 18th century stucco palacea. Inside the taxi were two
Lord Elibank said that "small
NI stamps Cenomination
would, prave pletorial notare** an immense boon to the tourist Industry and would enrich the
with
food of
young people, a man dressed it is a daily time of delight, Treasury
pennies from stamp collectors in a cheap tawdry suit of mny when the humblest
Lort Selkirk retorted rather "nationalised" material, and question the exalted about
artly that he had no intention his wife. anything which might
allowing the monarch's Nervously they watched -- be con- of however vaguely
by be replaced strued as falling within the portrait to
Ferners, though the Fostmaster- the road ahead as the an Five cient vehicle pulled up at a of "ministerial General would certainly sphere
Russian checkpoint just out side the town. The Soviet satised guard, his hand on the trig question ger of his tommygun, eyed them and the driver of the the Commons taxi suspiciously.
niteuijon
responsibility."
O opening day, might have thought
alleged redness Guiana, the
consideration...
Lord Elibank indiealed the naive
that the he was by no means British and would raise the in non-co-operation again...
By that time, of foreigners in the matter of "Trieste, and the learned de- bad turnicit
liberations of the Big Tarce, canned pineapples,"
Pick a pack of
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Coldo
Even the slightest cold
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Do not lot it spread! Defeat it from the start
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that
to
"You go where?" he ask ed gruffly. The young man leaned out. "I have to go to Berlin for hospital treat ment, urgently. This is my wife." He produced an iden- tity card.
Near Berlin's East-West
*pot, crossing order
muniem.
Youth.
INTO
This is the story of a Red dupe. Antony in Berlin, Terry, Special Correspondent
brings you the true narrative of a young couple who came through the Iron Curtain.
11 10
start
"Early
work in
In 1940
East German "The Reds reckon I takes a Communists year to make sure that man decided to form. is fully trained in Moscow's
"People's men at gymnastics.
the
the local 1940 for a new
the army which had secretly I took the I was
called which led to my joining Police",
", and those who joined slep
East German Communist it
were care- in those days
"I joined the Politkultur class the
Felected for "political in November 1950 and left it a later, fully-trained, with Communism. I joined the reflebility"-even as they were year arms-and my ultimate break fully.
Savlet fauntieal Polit Kommissar.'" Laught Free German Youth, the Red being equivalent of the Hitler Youth, tanks, guns and equipment. in 1949,
"I was regarded as just the "Life in the training school at were Torgau was mary, discipline, "The blueshirted "FDJ" are kind of youngster they
under
one like in the army, except that real fanatics of Communist looking for-bom
over in the army Germany today. I was one of dictatorship the inost fanatical.
the
All the
and
to usq
taken
that
at Hans began his life identity card
the story. It took several bem. It worked--though Russinn insisted on the toxi- days to tell. It began men leaving his car paper at with the Hitler the cheekpajat "just to be sure ended with the realisation that council offers.
and lying are force, brutality you come back."
Slowly the vehicle drove not on ideal way of living. And
through it was
love the love for the thugh East Berlin,
wife treets covered with Communist girl who is today his Peace. "Freedom, slogan,
That cured him forever of Com- Friendship between all nations, they read. The young man and
"For the firs: 13 years of my his wife leted tech other life I krew up under the Nazis,
Courteous and smiled, grimly.
Hans told the quiet,
vds German police omelet. "I
tho the brought up under
he Prussian discipline Brandenburger Gate, they paid clicking
demands even from hero-worship which bad swt Pilessly into another. off the taxima. Trying to lock which compered they boarded a tube schoolboys that they lle down
and de for the Fuehrer and ine train going to the British see-
they for a Ton
Ger minutes later
glorious greater many. were safe.
folied The young man bad
lanks of the 2,400 offecis and men of the East
German who
have this army
year freedom in the Wesl chosen
steel- "Today in East Germany rather than stay in the disciplined Communist machine.
But new it was going to be there is the same unquestion- hard to convince the West Ber- ng discipline. But today It Is Communists, not the had for the authorifles' that they
forced to escape, and, Nazis. been harder sill, that they were not "My parents and I went on until East Prussin just one of the thousands of living in Soviet spies who are put acrass
1944, when the Ruslans swept the German armies back across. the Iron Curtain frontier every
the German frontiers. was week
evacuated wastwards Into Saxony, in the heart of.
Gor- many, to avoid them.
101.
Jin
diequiezd as "refugees from Communim," with halv raising but wholly Imaginary tales to tell of their escapes frem Red Bullets.
New Life
Hitler Youth
Ca
one occasionally
had time off,
're
"In the Polit' reboot one was
discovered Into
Youth. Bability also depended on not the Hitler
In Stalin's having been a prisoner of war never alone-never, not even In carried me along
or France. one's skep and certainly at no il in Britain, U.S. brigades and Into youth relatively responsible, post In Anyone who had was automa- time in one's waking hours. leally barred from Jelning, the Always was the feeling- am the Red Youth machine.
'People's Polles.'
being watched. obecssion. The only way to break the tension of watching every word, every movement, was to watch others, Spy and be spied on.
"I knew by this time that who officials The Communist run it had decided I was the fanatical, stop-at-ndhting type When they were looking for.
the
Danger Germ
It
became
an
Heds started organising
"It was assumed,
perhaps children
harvest into the
"Our timetable was not easy. rightly, that anyone who had brigedea was there shouting the erders teaching them to other countries even Ds. We rose at 6 am di PT until PoW might be infected with 7.15 am, when we had half on march in step-just as I had
a dangerous germ-freedom, learnt in the Hitler Youth,
Guns Blew Up
1
gun-small-bore mass-produced "It"
The
have no
18 מט ניט
hour for breakfast. From 8 10
Polit Training
"Polt training' Was Com-
"This did not apply to me. 12 there was four hours of found the discipline in the 'Polit training which began former Nazi Cavalry Barracks again after lunch and Josted at Torgau exactly as harsh an it from 2 pan. io 8 p.m. After that had homework-studying was 'n the Hitler. Youth, but we "Later tho East German I liked it. In fact, it had been Karl Marx. Lights were out at It showed that he was a
"In my Hitler Youth uniform blucirts
Stalin's adopted becumo
from Hit's 11 p.m. member of the much-feared
first children's in these days I felt myself
army in the Wehrmacht,
Before we could outside the loyal bulwark of the crashing world-
Soviet East German Police army.
live in the barracks we had to the khaki-uniformed Volks-
Today the young man is in Nazi empire. After the Russiatts countries.
scar up the rubble of the passed
Communists arrived and the polizei, whose task is to West Berlin.lic has
me "In their spare time these bombed buildings and help to
a rebuild them." Communist officials the final screening of British, took over in. 1945. It took guard
U.S., French and German in- seme time to get readjusted to young people learnt to use and brutally beat down any teilleenes offeints. 11 has clear the new way--the Communist
in these days the East Ger- munism in every possible form, hard rides, issued at the rate of one attempts at semi-starved ed him for onward flight by a way of life. I found
21 man army had 60 to 70 men in mest of it as history', which and dissatisfied people of British airliner to West Ger--not-to-roke my hand in the to every 16 chlidren, with
salute many. There he hopes to start autematic Hitler
but range of 100 yards, but enough cach company-half their correct consisted of the story of the East Germany.
generation strigth. Today even batiations Communist Party in Russia and to teach an entire a new life, to work his way instead to cheer when I saw a
How 10
more than 00 to 100 the history of Germany from the The Russian eyed the card. back 15 normally.
picture of Stalin,"
"They even killed the child- men owing to the Communists' birth of Karl Marx onwards, He
particularly in- was not
the whole For 21-year-old Hans Baris-
found that lie rea
on Everything else in quality habit of "setting Hans soon T East
semotimes. pressed.
German chal is no normal refugee. He
the barrels was ecllection is ene of the men Stalin und under the Redshirts was not so l
sa poor paper before my have the men wide world, except where it army to him' was a of
paid mercenaries, cheap his henchmen picked to be the very different from that under that they often blew up in the trained for them, Hars went en: affected either of these,
Ared
Igatred. Quislings whose only use was political indoctrinators of his the Brownshirts, except that children's faces as they
shortage "Manpower
hns to hold down their own
fellow Gc.mans--||
there was less to eat. He went them. man the
"We worked a five-day week, But all that happened later. always been one of the problems try men.
Communists were so sure they on:
"In school-1 was could trust that they confided
14 when When I left the marching blue facing the Reds in East Ger- and in theory cur weekends
they in
youth columns guarded the war ended-we were taught shirted
leave the barracks many. This year, to provide a We fres. In fact, we were not dose with a secrets of how to everything
still only Propaganda
part-military, huge pool of trained mat for the allowed to But he let the taxi pass the lie theat
confuse the Communist propaganda, even and mixed with boy scout and Kremlin's East German forces, it in case we might mest someone
and checkpoint on is way to Ber- troops of Moscow's Red Ger te mathematics. I went to a girl guide. type outings
was planned to make all the who would
(tho official school at a place in singsongs. Village It was during the next 25-man Wehrmacht.
Party Communist mlics
"In the Free German Youth 1,200,000 Sitting in the office of a Ger- Saxony called Kotlewitz, that the young men in
Idently, man polico offletal next day left I in 1947 when I was 15 they called for volunteers in members undergo three months' name of such a person is 'clasa entmy) into our cars, or go to the car rwliched his
training.
a movie which contained some Fee the Brt time in his carcer
another
"Then came he became
the riots and subversive thoughts, persoa man travelling with the identity
Moscow's New Look' pelley in *Ils card of the taxi driver.
the satellites, and the p'in was wife became his "girl friend."
suddenly dropped. But it still to I had cost him a liver
exitia on paper, ready to be put дег
the
taximan
swap
ever de- into effect if Russia identities. But it was the only
cides the nods tome castly- the freedom. When hope of
irá ned cannon fodder,
Jin.
coun-
Cost A Fiver him their dicrely
and
to
tax! slowed down at the "out- akiris of Berlin's Saylel sector he knew the test ad Failure now meant death an executioner's bullet.
come. by
Casually he flashed the taxl driver's identity card in front of the stolid Soviet sentry. The taxi driver produced his drive ing licence, murmured that he
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BEAUTY IS
IS NOW NO
LONGER BRAINLESS
By DENIS ATHERTON
ог
Then Riots
murmur
Communist idea
was
an anti-
Foreign Films
"Despite the Red stranglehold on ali means of propaganda In Eest Gumany the authorities have been forced to allow in some foreign films. This is be- cause the puble simply refuses LONDON. tional valuo of a trip to London Youngest of them all, Ingrid
to go to the cinemas which show Jchansson Paris,
(Miss Sweden) is TS the cutie with the curves
"But in 1949 the East German the dreary, badly-made nadern And Isn't it a fact that the only 10. The thrill of all that
and or the beauty in the
army was still in its beginnings, Seviet, Bulgarian, Czech human
pretty had happened since the won a race would be bikini bad for masculine hard to find at this juncture of local competition and set off One of the teething troubles in other satellite films.
evelution If the mere male had for London rebised. her morals?
of those days was the Communists'
"Some of these foreign films always scerned my
those British," lady's words: "When my parents first noed, for a corps of 100 percent
cepcelolly The Bishop of Lewes charme?
hear about it all they cry: Oh, party fanatics who could be ar Pundits say that beauty and our poor little girl. Whatever trained in the Sovies manner to which contain, in the eyes of the reported to have told 500 is gorgeous girls aforemen aided in her delightful nccent. (England) thinks so. He is healns don't mix. Not truc! The will happen to her?" she con- indoctrinale, spy on and bélray Reds, a 'mutál lerson' agat their fellow offers and inen the West, Sullably cut and
with and
German edited women: "The type of girl or tlened are proof of that.
"Now she added, "they until none felt sure his neigh- woman too often photo-
realise the trip is doing me a
bour was not werking secretly d'alogue, they are used as a bait to get the audiences into the lot of gend." graphed
for the system": contestants daring dresses all Frankly, I am prepared to Another of the
"I am ashamed now to admit movies so that they can be shown glamorous flimsies is not declare emphatically that the who takes life more seriously that I was one of the first they dull propaganda "shorts" and than her present activities
is suggest
picked for this work. But may newsreels. lovely contributing to the gaiety of world would be a pretty poor might
"But not even auch dangerous. place without semo curvacious Mf."
Havatzelet Dror (Miss Israel), be in the long run it was a good:
'inflammable': idcas beauties here and there. Nor
know ly thing, for by getting belleve that of do 1
A line.of Having
met 15
and understand the machine allowed for us the cltcied just
parading in the world's
I worked for in all its rottenness standard bearers of the new beautiful beautiful girls most
the
Communist ideology. We were to Beauty contests she would I was able to escapó eventually, women, I can justifiably say bathing costumes arouses
deelded on three Irifle wrong kind of thoughts in the like to sea
ba kapt pure, that the bishop is a
**** average. young
"Unfortunately for the Reds. man's mind.
"My first step into the spider's qualities. sweeping in his views.
Surely that kind of thinking "The judges should look for web of. betrayal, surpicion and they could not control human There was definitely more to
andles came when I was sent to emotions as much ea they liked. them than is revealed by the vanished with the dark ages deportment, Intelligence
then beauty. In that order," she take a course in a "Politkultur For instanco, they could not bathing costumes in which they or at least the 18th century.
for the thought those. 15 lovely told me. "It is not enough to school in Torgau, near the Czech control me failing in love in the
girls might
that Ferhaps Buy
Mir). Mirs World' the tempo of the contest, with just because chance has given its everlusting. publle ap- fer a beautiful figure." pearances, posing for photo- Even
In the so-called
parade as candidates litto. "Miss World."
declare
a
I
border.
wero
of 1950 with the girl middle who is now my wife. It is to. Politkultur is an abbrevia- this ecricusly-minded uan of Political Culture, it has Christa that I owe most of the break with Com. I can see nothing naughty in graphs, interviews plus all the young lady laughed when
mundem and all that it means,” the display of feminine charm. trimmings, was too tough go asked her if she thought beauty carcely anything to do with courage
politos, and certainly containe 巍 bad contests were thought ing for a temporary title. theso girls Most of their chances of winning the Not a bit of it. With just one "No, no, no," she cried. "They no culture. It is the method by thing For all the wich Moscow warps the minis two exceptiana, each girl, are a good title were #lim. The great al-or traction, apart from the pub insisted that the competition girls concerned they are a good of men licity for thore aiming at a fim from beginning to end had been thing."
Well, she should know! lor stega: career, is the educa- the biggest thrill of their liver,
thing.
so that they begin to baleve that black is white and wrong is right.
(Hans continues hlad story tomorrow):