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THE THIRD FORCE
Bonn.
R KARL GEORG PFLEIDERER,
D Nazi diplomat until the war ended
and now EL bright, upstanding member of the West German Parliament, has been carpeted by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
After
in talks long
Dr Adenauer's study he
ia
pledge
now
under virtual
of silence
017
THE KEY WORDS
REVEAL A PLAN
TO PUT GERMANY
BACK IN POWER..
DA, PFLEIDEMON
by WILLIAM HAMSHER
his favourite theme: the would have been struck by the of red dois (Did you sending of a West German number
to fun that Dr Adenauer has a Moscow delegation to arrange permanent diploma- tepation in Liberia?), what im- tic representation.
Because 31
Why should this be a barred involves tople?
just opening a new more than cmbassy.
It is a question of launching a campaign to win for Germany friends in the East: a campaign 10 make Germany independent of the West, to build her ino a Third Force that could play of East against West.
This does not suit Chancellor
lience hi Adenauer-not yet
ban.
THE DOTS
TUE present
Dr
Phelderer
Third Force agitation which he is an- xlous to kili began, almost un-
Pile noticed, last Apr). Dr derer enlivened a slumbersome budget session in Parlament by suddenly bringing up the ques tion of diplomatic relations with the Soviet.
A 65-year-old them the Swabian-hey call
and tough Scots of Germany,
ard-elted and canny they
world which Dr of the Adenauer sem to the foreign embassies and legations in Bunn. It has a red dot in every city where the West Germans have an ambassador consul. While
map
or n
anybody
n
leust a else
Headaches BAYER
Toothaches
Colds
are quickly overcomt. by
CAFASPIN
•
the
pressed Dr Pfleiderer was wide open
spaces Moscow, Peking, and places cont-where There is no German diplomat
Our
"And it's about time," he said, "that this gap was lied. German existence is closely with this question, bound up which cannot be postponed "
Dr Pfleiderer is peok ssionally interested in these regions. tween the wars he went to the As an envoy for Hinden-
Fast burg
He was promoted from Peking to Moscow, kept his diplomatic post after Hitter look over Berlin, and then joined the
Nazis.
in
Today he stands high in the rounsels of the Free Democrats, the party which, even more than has behind it the Adenauer's, money bags of the Ruhr mer-
chants
SURPRISE
PFLEIDERER must have been surprised to find how
DR quickly the party and though tess openly-the
bags backed his cause for West Ger- man diplomatic representation
in Moscow.
money
The Free Democrat Party executive let it be known that, thanks to contacts at Russian headquarters in
むせ visas could
arranged, So unanimously voted
they
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 6, 1954.
America, recommended friendly dening with the Soviet as the East and only way to reunive
The only way West Germany back to strength for Germany,
that (8.
So the debate went on uni), tass month-n month after Dr Poelderer had started it all -- suddenly Chancellor Adenauer announced that a risumption of diplomatic ties with Moscow could!
"Vie fore- within coine seeable future."
he
werk later the Chancellor
That hedged and secured meant only that the question of sending envoya to Moscow should be re-examined "at proper time
the
Finally, aiming to end the du Dr Phelderer bate, he called into the study.
IT'S CLEAR
PEASON Dr Adenauer wants Third Force to still these
it is due to his volees is clear. desire to see Germans rearmed as quickly as possible.
He will allow nothing to take procedence over puting
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THE WANDERER IS HOME
A
By H. E. BATES
best-selling novelist who has been in the South Seas most of last winter
I could don had about it a great queen-
liness.
FEW weeks ago i throat and that was standing on a cheerfully have run home to tiny coral island, on England if there had been the Equator, in the any way of running. middle of the Pacific, at two o'clock in the morning.
under arms again. tuinly not any change man policy towards the East. For the West could well take
For the next few weeks we Ger-
• steamed in the South Pacific. the view that sending man ambassador to the Kremlin
lived
the under
exotic Slars of most splendid We
of luxuriance
18 amazing might be Adenauer's Arst step
might rouse tropical brightness quivered flowers: hibiscus,
bougainvilla, towards a Bonn-Moscow pact.
This first slep
black sky and orchids, lies, gardenins, frangi- France in a warm, Britain, America, and
white coral pani. into killing the scheme for arm- all about the ing Germans, even at this late sand glittered under the stage, when the names of 100,-
оп
The trees of the incomparable squares breaking into leaf, the marks full of pink cherries-and one magical glimpse of Kew on Ц hot afternoon with white
petals dropping magnolia
litac emerald grass and new breaking against cloudless sky,
Englan wonder
you what Just quite realise have to offer? Is it just possible Then once or twice we remem- that those who stay at home are said: "The snowdrops will be of this isinnd as those who travel over by now. I wonder if the far away from it? daffodis have begun?"
you
East Berlin, 000 would-be recruits are med light of a refuelling Strato- bered that it was March und we not so alert to the enchantments
favour of sending a parlamen- tary delegation to Moscow
normalise" relations.
Voices outside the party ranks enme out in favour of the Third Force policy.
a
nway.
in
Bu once West Germany is
the divi to strong enough; once
then the stans
forming. are Oventures to Moscow might well in begin, with West Germany a better
bargaining position. That wo
would scem to be the way Adenauer's mind is working.
against Dr Adenauer is now
to Moscow making an approach to ensure for Germany freedom of manotuvre between East and
He is
against lt this only West. month and next-until his act- diers are on parade.
One was that of Dr Heinrich German Bruening. pre-war Chancellor, who gave place to the Nazis and who is now back from America as a professor.
He told a Rhineland political club that
Germany's present foreign policy is "loo dogmatic." The
ED20% he said, was extraordinarily an
period."
the political balance."
come a
Third
have
others will broke with Hitler, Dr Rau- which schning, also just back from reckon in international fields."
to
to
cruiser.
A signpost under a paim tree said: "London: 11.000 miles."
Never in my life had I been so far from England.
Fijian family
was a
I'
Not so green
Perhaps distance has unduly sharpened my vision--but it is nevertheless true that not all my thoughts on returning home are pleasant ones.
was April before we were Of course, there is now ample home und already the butter in the shops: my wife is daffodils had begun. But the happy.
all wives are, that oaks were bere and the fields shopping is no longer a bad- were brown. This was a slight tempered nightmare. But we do any shock to us, for naturally every not live by butter alone,
that his more than we live by butter- greenest in the cups.
bare.
is the
Appalled
a70
&
CO.
POPOV
SHOW ME WHAT'S WATT
Rene MacColl, back in Moscow after his journey through Russia,
brushes up his history
EUnion knows that it
Was
i
MOSCOW, strating the world's first electric VERYONE in the Soviet light bulb in St. Petersburg in
1875.
Let's sco-1075. That would Alexander Popoy who be about four years ahead of invented radio. When I got Thomas Edison. back from Siberin the other Now what have we here? A day I thought I would go model of a steam engine (which
delicately constructed along to the Polytechnic one of the custodians set going Museum here in Moscow to for US) invented by II. contemplate the record of Polsunov In 1708. this and other marvels.
This
Lime the
Decompany- ing notice say's
right out: The Polytechnic is a big before that of the Englishman "Polaunov's engine was 20 years pink job. It has a decorated John Watt." (James Wath, a entrance, and inside it is Scot born in Greenock, invented not unlike the Science his steam engine in 1774.)
are
all
сим-
elderly phic
Museum in South Kensing. A little further along we find:
"The first electro magnetle ton, except that its
the apparatus in todians
thai of P. L. Shilling, women carrying dusters, demonstrated at St. Petersburg with scarves over their in 1832. So that puts poor old Morso in his place; he devised hends.
his code in 1837.
world's
Some of the most popular among
the general
exhibits
refrigerators,
radio
washing
and TV seta,
Upstairs we found the Popov include exhibit... "The
Arst machines, Tadlo apparati Popor's and gigantic automatic record teireless telegraph," said the changers.
But notice, and alongside It was un
my favourite
ell painting of the great man Poisurov's steam engine, looking pensive,
Right there for all to see was his Arst working model made In 1895,
the same
year that
Marconi stole the limelight.
"Would
work?
you like to see t beamed the guide and
I'm Off Again
THEY
was
ARE whooping it up
in the Ukraine this year to mark of the anniversary
he inserted a rod through a hole the 300th in the glass case of the crudely Hi
union with Russin, so I'm hit- This is n Ung
the road from Moscow once
contrived receiver. wooden affair about the size and again. Maybe I will come across shape of a cigarbox with a dry some of the festivities.
My train trip to Kharkov, the cc battery and door-bell at- tractor-making town, will take
tached.
Kiev,
the
The guide tapped a remote 24 hours, and I plan to go on to cradle of Ukraine control key, and a shower of sparks flew from the coll, and the civilisation, by car. door-bell rang furiously. Λ I shall probably wind up buy- of those Ukrainian blouses with red or blue needle- work down the front.
Ukrainian dancing Is nellon-packed
group of boys and girls on touring one gazed in admiration,
as a cloudburst,
In an adjoining room was an- and the dancers look as if they all been on an adrenalin other drametle oll painting. i had shows a collection of greybeards diet for three weeks,
Moscow has been having one In a lecture room applauding exeltedly, while someone, stands of the worst- boatwayos i have. on a dal brandishing a small, ever experienced (and 'that goes objcel.
for Washington too) ∞ I pray Who is this? Why none other that it will not be so hot down than A. H. Lodigin demon- in the West.
Newell Rogers' American Report
Tickets To Russia Are Free
New York.
NY American
A thinks them ho ports are in fact, sterling
now go to Russia-free.
The House Foreign
to
of
Sir William says the outlook
good. In
sterling Im-
Newest sales sensation: small way of life is better can British lawn mowers for odd patches of grass. Nobody, in America had over thought making small lawn mowers.
STRONOMERS nt. Indiana University have charted or bits of 800 asteroids of small "I hope the rulers of the planets which circle the earth. Soviet Union will counter this Reason: to eliminate them vote with a similar offer to traffic hazards for space ships. enable residents of their country an
Affairs Committed voted to buy a ticket
Moscow for
such any American on condition he stays there for ever.
to come to the U.S.," the chair-TOLLYWOOD
立日
TWO days later my wife and I were visiting a
Indeed we did, until The Chcellor was a long Fijian family in their na-
we saw the astonishing Pileiderer in ahe. J of
green- way Buccessful
The family This is tive hut. broaching the subject.
ness of the grass in the Pacific parenta, grand- islands so much loved by Robert the painter That was because Germany, how he put his views before his children,
parents, aunts, uncles-sat Louis Stevenson, of treaties with the help
first party four years ago:
and the authors of THERE
things- "A Federated Europe will be about the floor on
other clean Gauguin, with then with Moscow and
"Mutiny on the Bounty." Foree in the
deeper, older, more precious the had grasped
A ale West,
mother strong as Russia mats of straw,
things. And one of my Impres- chanee of
"playing mediator world, not as
brown, a
new. But there was no denying it:sions on returning home is the by holding or the United States, but power-nursed
England looked brown and guiding Europe
and chill thought that we are doing ful enough to intervene success- | born baby.
also very clean and But
destroy our perverse best to Next, up apake another free- fully, in a decisive moment,
On a side table
bore. Winter had scoured and some part of what they add up lance: Dr Hermann Rauschning, safeguard the peace. Germany Nazt boss of Danzig until he has again become a factor with picture of her Majesty the scrubbed her. After the exotic, toin other words, our heritage.
over-ripeness of Tahiti her face Queen. On a little dressing was like that of a well-scrubbed I am shocked at several trends. table stood tins of baby schoolgiri shivering in a frosty After ilving for some months in
The morning. It was refreshing, but countries where villages powders and brushes.
truly villages those of Samon, baby began to cry, and the hardly seductive.
for example, are among the mother kissed it and croon-
prettiest in the world-I WHEN Chancellor Adenauered it back to quietness.
appalled to find that the charac ter of the English village is rapidly altering disastrously.
Everywhere a great urbaniso-
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WHE refers to "a Federated
Europe" his friends and his For some time we talked laughed with the
critics assume he means just thal. But it would be a federa-and
lon with Germany as the do- children and gave them minant partner "the factor
be reckoned with"
Those German divisions,
sweets,
They were very pleasant children, and
I
though the jackboots were only know that my wife, like my- faintly heard in the background,self, was sorely missing her would be ever-present, holding own.
the balance, in any "decisive moment" of intervention, even intervention to save the peace.
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"Surely it could be rather a2 grateful?gedtura, if we were to offer ike American Fruit Compunétourdis Finterested Tassisdner »LY
Three days later we were in Samoa, still further from home. Rain streamed down for hour after hour like hot soup. We walked through bright red mud to visit the local school, where a class of Polynesian boys and girls sang songs for us, some of them Maori, and performed those long, sinuous dances'. of amorous invitation that evon the children there acem to understand so well,
Emotional
Then the primroses began. Then the first pure white flush cherry-blossom on smoke
of
IL. E. BATES
black boughs. Then great bursts of evening and morning thrush wong and a cuckoo, calling in
are
am
In my own beautiful adopted
there county, Kent,
now hardly a village that is not sick with the scarlet fever of a kind of jerry-building of which even the Victorians might well have been ushanzed.
AN
Unforgivable
ND as villages arrogantly spread themselves, churches
antiquity of splendid
fall quietly into decay, There is hardly a village, church, in the country that is not appealing desperately to save ita fabric. Many of these churches con-
man said slyly.
MARILYN MONROE can sing,
spirits ara high. London reports say the Board of Trado will let the
tako inovic-makbra
As many dollars as they want out, of
75,000thlon:
AL
they are limited in of box-office sterling into dollars. The limit is 17,000,000 dollars. (£6,000,-
too. Her first record, a bar- room ballad "I'm Gonna Füle Britain. My Claim," has sold copies in three weeks. Say the critips: She sings the way she walks.
000), plus some bonuses for in-
A British
Maples, sycamores, and ever CITATION WHAS's 2,000ft. TV green trees are dying. For 13 tower in Louriville, months they have not had Kentucky, will surpass the Em- enough water.
-In Needles, California, the pire State building by 750ft, temperature reads 116: The the Eiffel Tower by 1,018 record, set in 1913, is held by Furnace Creek. in, California's Death Valley: 184.
CROWNED
Delaware
"queen"," cooking contest after beating 42 girls: 15-year- old Charles. Voorhees, Movernor FTER signing a seven-year, Theodoro McKoldin, of Mary nine million dolle (£3,314,- land, crowned him, but tact 280) contract to make TV films, fully omitted the Kist scheduled comedian Eddle Centor, aged in the coronation ceremony. 02, has entered the Mayo Clinic
in Rochester, Minnesota, for a FUE Brish Travel Associa
Tour New York office is completo medical check-up,
putting out 75,000 bócicletu-tona)
of
Parents Magazine as this on bind B17 Awarded Its Family Modal tain. It prints. to the firm of the royal tour, of' eating places for ILS. ATA
darkness. A good half hour btain a thousand years of his fore began.
LOTY. It would be a place of
contemptible, unforgiv And presently the towers of sad,
Theme of the whole white chestnuta and the run-ahlo folly if they were allowed Queen Elizabeth and Phillp
Incidental warning: good TEACHER said: "Now ning fire of bluebells in hazel to fall into irretrievable decay. for the scene of family reunion roast Beef is back and eating in
outside Tripoli, copiés. And all the little cot- the children would like to go gardens flaming with Tahlil, they will tell you, simi sing to you in English," and Bowers.
or used to be a paradise. SCOTCH selling even faster Americans accustomed only to Samoa, tho. Bamouna say, is the than a year ago what it lagar should approach it with at once the entire clasa got
original Garden of Eden, sold in a merry flood reports Sir. caution.”
William Wireman, chairman of New York's t But porttaps it is only those the New York comunities of the New York of the whether we are queen Follar Export Counsells
But coming back to England up and sung, in a strong in; not, merely, coming back Samoan accent."London to a countryside. What of Bridge Is Falling Down,” London?
-to-say
or commoners who come di Fietside this as he and home Morimoto place, out/ wiserirrings, mesteck; in thes
**I am not ashamed to say It is no exertion vollers of races who 3 automary for London Co
that at this moment there „with the, lawárinus) of: New realiam, whithin plang can was a stupid Jump in my York fresh in their minde-Lon
strong.
Hay Cushman!
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