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Red Propaganda Comes With The Bath-Water!
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By SEFTON DELMER
Baden Baden, table heavy or medium brmour. HE marksmen of the How different things would be if we Germans were building Soviet propaganda the NATO panors."
batteries have been
even," he added generous- doing some pretty ly, you British, Your Cen- subtle shooting during these tarlone and Carnarvons
quite good." last few days.
And they have been acoring remarkable hits.
beauty land I watched a plumb in the slimming tub next to mine.
(Yes, I am still at it in the German
house dicted,' batlied, and massaged to remove some of those extra Mayers with which my fe
cure
hotels and restantante exorably
endows me.)
being
-
"So, chuckled my cure com- rade in his bath he is a former builder of Atlantic Wall Sig- fried Lines, U-boat shelters, and is today making fat pro- fts building atriields for the Americans.
"One might have guessed fi," he said. "Thanks to their roly- ing on American equipment the NATO forces now have no
re-
are
Which, I am sorry to say, ko Just about What the Bevlet propagandu chiefs wants hith to say.
No boos
M care-house comrade Was fresh from reading excerpts from a 41-page article by the Soviet tank expert Colonel T.U. Wrangel in the Moscow Military Review.
No
to leak to the West. First- class!
Colonel Wrangel exploits the fact that the Americans have their stopped production of medium Patton tank and of their heavy M-47 tank. The for this, of course, la that they now wish to replace theap models by better and more effective now tanks.
rcason
10
But Wrangel uses this make out that the Americans have been forced to stop pro- duction because appalling deflelencles have mechanical been discovered in these tanks. And my German (low-simmer the follows his arguments to las logical inflexion.
So subtle
says that the Magnificent touch this by the RANGEL
American manufacturers Kremlin propaganda men.
wanted to cut costs and speed blatant radio talk, booing, and yah-ing at the Antericans about production and therefore with their bad tanks, which every the connivance of the American
Would listener
immediately authorities have for the past identify as the propaganda it is. three years been using poorer No, instead a solemn plece of quality metals than originally prescribed. As a result the closely-reasoned technical analy-
in ar
Yugoslave the technical Turks. obscure sis journal which has been allowed French, the Danes, the Belgians, the Dutch, and the Italians, all of whom have been receiving Patton tanks from the Ameri- cans, now and themselves. cording to Wrangel, oquipped with dud armour which cannot slund up to even four weeks of
let alone. serious campaigning. resim a direct hit.
CHURCHILL AND THE
C
TORY
ONSIDERING
London. the
time of the year it
was a lovely, sunne tay
and 1 do 201
REBELLION
By Beverley Baxter, MP
doubt That Sir Winston Ma +1 1 Churchill's
soared Werknaster spirits #N he Fu the short Quest
10 No.
to
the
journey
Downing
from
Street
House of Commons,
int
the
EC-
"And that is the stuff,” Bald my engineer friend, "the Ameri- cans want to hand to our new army when it is created...
Yin, a buil-eye for the Krem- lin.
Wrong!
VERY time I visit Germany
autoinst Nazi Germany from the EV struck by the way
orc
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44
first day to the last and paid u terrible price in gold and blood, No one wants to be reminded of thal--certainty not the U.S.A. and probably not the Common- The old actor who tells Wealth ynical eveli enemy camp
he is either the everyone that he once played Borough of being
But now we is a bore. Axl
Wis still cruel to his comrades in battle Honourable or Right Honourable Hamlet is a
new and heavy Tine the MIS had who had become the casualties gentleman.
Like
hts
in the cause of Western + perret
#fler to phrase the protests in the
We have defence.
Lo compete Therefore Legge-Bourke's form. Interrogatory
"15
patience we exhmsted,
against "Tut
countries his ange ference to Churchill was one of economically Friend Hom.utable Right
bil keeping
U.S.A. which never contro! hr
and calculated mutiny The Soctalists like the Fuse aware" demanded Keeling. "that under
He was endured the direct destruction pointed by Anger at Shenwell, spotted reply and the decision of his
war. We have to fight our wholly inunting him and the Socialists addressing Churchill as one out-of 1 House was
Government
for side the party. for this audier sympathy
way back In a world that is both sides of 2.30 p.m. 05 usual. There unarpeptible on
think 11
rather weary of our reminders would be an hour for questions the House?“
ex-officers.
shouted
Colonel Lipton, the Socialist,, that we were and are a great he
above markable,"
the Right: and ministerial replies, followed
"So Lipton, ranker- the din, "that Mr Shinwell in sneered: destiltory debate 412 by whether or not
231 humble ach-cor ex-Regular, asked from the long years in which he and Honourable and Gallant Gentle- is no longer dress should Ire presented the Socialist benches whether his colleagues were in office, it man (Churchill)
Honourable and Gallant that he was they fell so strongly on the the Majesty
Churchill realised Her
(who
not deal with it Gentleman's friend now?” away) praying that the Trans- creatus the repression that he malter, did
Art of 1943, wanted to solve this problem by themselves.".
I do not amal and dwindling to expir should be allowing
number of men tu die out ul-
which swept gains! The tendency together?
Tim
atst
een a one year
The meeting l
new lease of life for WES His one of Pinse bread and butter daga when a godt housekeeper tiding things up
Li-Col.
U
The only chance of any co- traversy lay in a group of ques- tions put down to be answered by the Parliamentary Secreliny für Defence. There were seven of these questions. altogether. six in the time of Tories and
"Answer!" shouted dozen All of one from a Socialist.
was taken up by them wanted to know from the Junior Defence Minister whether hers on both sides "Answeri
Churchill Answer!"
Rushed The small and aged group of retired regular oficers-number-grily, but made no attempt to rise. He was going to let the 359were to have
term expend its fury before he tried to ride it.
ne *re
Their panstons raised from the
1910 level on which they were still bused.
VOJVON
re-
ix
of a writer
power.
naned Brigadier Peto, "that the
Are did not join In the uproar for the, ex-officers, Every process
you aware,"
your ansWCY
bad to
Does anyone Poor Churchill Imagine that he begrudged the few paltry thouards of pounds that would have done justice to
д want to pose as less than
battalion of ex- But even that did not allay detached arbiter of such a scene. officers? But on a wide front, 19 extended to the limit, a com- Not content with the storm
a degree of reader cannot give way at any that eruel thrust Lipton asked: the Prime Minister from both always to retain
The un detachment which is probably point. That WAY Churchill's view of the very small sides of the House.
chief reason why writers position. amount of money involved will indest cut came, like the thrust the
risen to supreme the Prime Minister not recon- of Brutus against Caesar, from have seldom
Every beat of my heart is for this
Tory wi sikker
veteran power in polities. Therefore, 1 deplorable gullent very
"Do not position?"
formidable of the mind says: simple but
or the today will be re- reason that
the prestige I could see some- lessen
authority of the man who re- garded by those few old fleers thing in both sides.
presents his nation to the out who still survive, despite the
side world" I agree that there cut, as n betrayal of the frust
is nothing herole in backing they previously held in you?"
the leaders of one's own Party In the noise and excitement
but that is exactly what I intend Undoubtedly Churchill
to do. Pelo had forgotten the rule of
If it brings sneen 1 do these questions he House that
of referred
not care a tinker's cuss. on M.P.
Chancellor Rab Butler. If whatever rank must be referred knew that there had been such Now I must knock off for a to in the third person and nut
n conference I would not set it few hours because 1 must go lo in the Brst.
down in print, but simply as a secret meeting of the Con- the political servative members of Parliament an observer scene i assume that the matter where Eden and Butler, on be
half of ChurchBI, will face the rank and file of the Party. Q.C., who sls for Brighton-on- hurt. No one
Again, pursuing the path of Therefore, Sea
If you will forgive declared that if Churchill was deeply resentful. But he
thot logic, I imagine
Butier than
I shall me have been less
lay down my pen did not alter his deplorable de- would
***said: "Prime Minister, these cision there were many Tories, human if he had not risen to
have an undoubted unt later in the evening when ex-oilcers
I shall make such further re- including himself, who would' declare: "I was well aware claim upon 11%, and if refuse to vole for the Service that the answer I gave would Estimates.
not be received with satisfac an isolated case I would grant port as the situation allows.
their demands. But we must MIDNIGHT:-A® you will tion, but it was for that reason This was something new. This that I felt it ought not to be given remember that we are the Cop understand, a party meeting Was not only mutiny but a by a departmental Minister but crvative Party. If we selected held behind closed doors-must this solitary example the be secret and therefore I cannot rebellion. A Government that by someone speaking with the Socialista
Ista would shout that we disclose what happened. It is adrult An
fellow
Service considered Carry Its sitting could
Her only recognised the claims of sufficient to sci down that beside me whispered "Winston's Estimates through would have
the poor and under-privileged neither Eden nor Buller over- going to hand out some ollipop to resign. It would mean that
when they happen to belong to played their hands, and that End wants to get the credit for there would be no pay for the
officer class. It would make most of the Party realised that The comment was not - regular, forces nor the expenses
my dellberations with the Trade the problem was not so simple Lended 10 be sardonic nor of normal milltary requirements.
Unions more difficult and it as it seemed the day before at flatterion....It WW just Lie If the Socialist had been
Just for the moment the tem- would bring all sorts of claims Question Time. British House of Commons in wisc they would have kept pest lessened. We are a strange of ex-Clvil Servants, old age qulet and allowed the Tories lol in the British House of pensioners, Bervice pensioners to play the
Pleador to their Commons but as a unit we have and widows upon us. Hard as But when the questions come own Bull. But in the exclic- n swift generosity that can ex- it is--and it has brought a row to an end and Churchill rose ment and the sense of drama
of
Suddenly from bis own rmuks The astonishing thing is that only a denunciation Churchill kept his temper, No came not To the surprise of the H but a threat. Anthony Marlowe, one doubted that he was deeply was so discussed.
Sir Winston resp when the questions were reached, "I have asked leave," he said, "to reply to these questions insself and, with the permission
of the House, I still do so at the end of Question Time,"
its usual mood.
nut
doubted that he
authority Majesty's Government.”
1
it
there was no Father Christmas our old friend Emanuel Shin- tend at times even to our op from our own chops we simply
ponents, We realised that have to say that the recovery power that man reach for it
smile on
I wonder what there is about Obviously well his face.
could not keep
Churchill had deliberately gone of the nation must be put be- like starving beggars for food, he was going to make
After all he had been Secretary to the storm centre although fore the claims of any section Churchill's immortality is assured announcement that would bring of State for War in the Socialist there was no logical reason why of the nation." thunder about his henti. That Government (although he had the Junior Minister should not
not only by his actions but be was why he had taken the mat- never seen active
cause he has written the history of his time.
ter
service as have taken the brunt
out of the hands of the soldier) and he had a priority attack, Junior, Minister. Churchill Mas right to intervene.
his faults but running awny
from the storm Is not one of
them.
ho ck-
but firmly Quietly pressed sympathy with the plight
* * *
Ars Carefully he
asked
of the Now, I ask any reader to say what be would answer it ho were Prime Minister and it
There are no glories to be think too the Chancellor of the Exchequer added to his excutcheon, no new to young put those arguments to him. I laurels for his brow. Yet from to drive must go further and ask myself the pomp and panoply of war
what my OWL attitude as A. he is now British MP. should be.
.
Right
But, cruelly, and I cruelly, it was left Major Legge-Bourke home the knife.
"May I aak the of this small group of pensioned Churchill how much it would Honourable gentleman.. ex-Regular officers, Be utl- cost to. give the pensioned mitted that there military officers the increase that was. To the public that is quite servinta of the Crown, like being suggested. After the harmless. To the people in the their brothers in the Ciu
galleries it
hardship beonus of the failure
The
- be regarded ns sub- was the
stantial. Once more we hoard
old,
the rising cost of
Churchill us ba
Government Bald
the
old plea that the babybilen.
meant
benches it
the
engaged in mundane business of trying to make the nation live on its earnings,
Thum in his 80th year he faces trouble. disappointment,
I do not doubt the complete infine and the Impatience oven Service, were suffering much are had been given Shinwall publle
if Churchill would not nothing. But to those of us on sincerity of any of my Tory of his own supporters when pohadon "réinement of re- ches who opened fire on adething like this of pensions to keep path with hardly" so small a sum could the Parliamentary
It takes consider episode occurs. Which, I agree,, requites able courage in a political part
to attack your
the kunder in It is harsh chasin' whén, à, to the was such a
little one.
two kinds of MP10
Prime Mhlaber heses the thy end of his statement, rogomsijos Thi
for in an British politicnd parties; open All my sympathies were with the Title forgotten berid
of "Shame!" from his own tive hardship....but have como Churchill.t in hot in his the few who aro Bivy or halfantarved sæc officers living followers. Bat I must wat doven to the conclusion that it would nature to offer the other cheek Councillors become My Right bist a
humillating that on the wretched,
following XM6Yzba: nat be, possible to treat tais but mther to return two blows Honourable Fried to members existenteion something far worse looked neither troubled” nor problem as a special case at ́s for one, and he Bad been bbw of their OWN party or "My than half-pay. time when so
too much WIMB
monde aré, prvoditel“ other de- having with ectrúordinary pell- Honourable Friend” if they faro mezelik #cutely, cosiscious diet
control, For aim of all people, just ordinarykki23.3. “Whốin & Churchum position, an wamesuden iho storm broke, to be denounced as the expleler party lefor one on lisa tour of t
jumped
Wiliam" of "this helpless veteran officest fie diese - 1.4 Friend, of upne. “There i ktory "waiid: Konser For him to BORG LINE OR WHO" CUINA DE CHA DUIET WELLS in the Cirekt Bittain tentan
polico and newspapers here are criminal allowed to pre-judge prosecutions,
Before man has even been arrested, lel alone been tried and found guilty, the police tell the public through the news- papers they are hunting for the murderer So-and-So. And they give his name.
It is considered quite satisfuc-
for tory newspapers to print alleged confessions by arrested men passed to them by the police before these men have even come before a court.
Chancellor Adenauer and his Ministers are themselves among the grossest offenders.
Last
the spring, while Chancellor was in America, the German police arrested a num- suspicica of ber of being members of
Soviet spy Ting. The Government,
ค
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