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FIGHTER PILOTS LOOK
AT THE WAR IN THE AIR
The GERMAN searches
for scapegoats
The BRITON refuses
to admit defeat
by ERIC WILLIAMS
Author of The Wooden Harın
N June 1940 it seemed to there, because they hudl
been taught to give up. except our-
everyone selves
WOB
Germany
War.
LUFTWAFFE PILOT
Peter Henn
THE
CHINA "MAIL, MONDAY," DECEMBER 6, 1954.
bringing down enough enemy What excuses can I Rereplies. Inakto
to our compatriots of
Essen, Hamburg and Cologne when they come out of their never shelters after Josing all they possess during the bombing and What
1
that
1 have just been reading "The are mourning their dead? bad
the
All Last Battle" by a German fighter can I reply to the wives who ask Europe inl been overrun, phot. Peter Henn was a young me when this swinishness will Luftwaffe officer whe began to end? can't merely tell them The enemy was massing his y in operations in 1943 when that my fighters are a bunch of
the landing barges along the tide of war was turning und coward const of France. The United the pote
of the Gartnamas straw your attenti
dres fact that States of America still stood fires were begining uneasily in the touchline, craft that were equal to, and shall send the first man who is
Alone and ill-equippext, we were preparing to repel the invaders.
It was then that Sir Winston
meet
more than equal to, their own.
GOERING
Churchill's challenge, we
herm
猪 **morale-
Churchill made Ins fundus In direct rontrast to Sir Win- teellation that we would fight stun is the Helds, Bol u the streets reod
1 * "Wo shall
PACE SOPuunder
31 was then that a handful of
ant week-ethi witte Fexulat few this teen hours a day against seemingly impossible odds, "ight- ang In thed aircraft, Bot von- vadering defeat but Bghtag th
simply because the enemy
"This
is
THE MOST
AN EN
boosting" wisht 10 Lieutenant Henn's squadron by a powdered scent J Rechinarschall Hermanus Goering.
"Children." he said, "I'm very You're not nispleased with you.
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my appointment with despuses everyone who was not engaged in yng the worn-out | Ben-Gurion in the heart of Messersebulis, whose pune per- the desert. Mrs Ben-Gurion formance he blames for his lack fat success a schooling down the Chorden of American aireraff he
was called upon to undercept.
NO HOPE
There is no patrintısın here, no Joy in the fight, no humour and no hope of vichogy.
in
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concludes his series on the new Israel
Ferm that has not been are for at least 1,500 years
1 got a foretaste of the
remarked upon my unpune- tuality
uncertain terms. Among other things. she said that I would not even wilder scenery I was have kept Winston Chur, to find later in the sun- Imhed, thirsty desolation chill or Dwight Eisenhower
father south. waiting.
i meekly suggested that Churchill
You skirt great sunken and Eisenhower valleva that look as though harl 72412
yet disappeared the lattom has dropped out After reuding ***** 1st
The wilderness 1106 f the land. with Battle" I went inmestiately to into
riven my bookshelves and took down gone oft to ruminate in mountains rearing up from
The Last Enemy," by Richard timeless space.
the depth as flat-topped fighter pilot Filtzarry
mesas or jagged pinnacles, Battle of Britain. It Ly erly
One If you see a shrub or a path of green, you note it as an
the
Eul she was right.
when Poter Hem describes his ought to be punctual when parachute descent from it [damaged aircraft, or his terror one is keeping a tryst with event.
when leading a squadren in thistory, even when it means
on
JIJI
land in a thick fog, that his book
the following
patriarch is lifted into Hillary's clam, Hare Henn's writing trak
from the Well of Abraham furgency that is born of remem- to the Fields of the Cattle
bered fear, and the render him- self somersaults through thoat- sands of feet fumbling for the {ripear? that he connat find, teurs
men.
And it is history, when
The Bad Lands
Then, on the plateau in the
there clistance,
appears
cluster of cabins with a stock-
ade of barbed wire and, is a al his chest until his nails are the man who first announ-
Stale of Israel, tieth century, a radio-mast, On
slight concession to the twen broken and at last releases the feed the white silk, atil 12,000 feet above fought a war to make its every side stretches the mean- the ground, and swings sicken- Ingly for a quarter of an hour at the end of a disintegrating yura chute before landing in a tree.
DIFFERENCE
"The Last Battle" and "The Last Enemy," I think, illustrate not only the history the war in the air from beginning to end. but also an important difference in national character. There is Hillary's personal cynicism turn- ing to
to patriotic hope, and Henn's political cynicism turning to a personal hope of survival when the war is lost; the British pilot's dogged refusal to admit defeat, the German's frantic quest for
biome scapegoats to country's lack of victory.
for
his
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Mtun- u settler but as a scholar. Prime Minister for five de Gurion wants to make cisive years, decides to walk ful out of power, not into the proverbial wilderness of the politicians but into the ac- tual desert of the Negev, to adopt the role of a modern Moses.
A Foretaste
the
had done duty in The
Negev and find deridisk thut here in the forgotten Fields of the Castlemen they would dedicate their lives to desert recOVETY,
Today there are 22 full mem- burs of the settlement, with ten others who are trying it out" before they join. And 1 met a crowd of youngsters from the towns and older settlements who had volunteered to work in their vacations, There are now seven women and two bables, one just a few weeks old.
The sellers Were experi mentalists, undiscouraged by the wiscarres or their own biller rebuffa from nature.
To Ben-Gurton, unensy Jest his people should succuinis to the flesh-pots and lose thal dynamic force
which had brought a State into being, they were an example to he <- couraged, At the age of 87, he renounced the Premiership and joined the settlement.
The Long View
"This desert.” he wuld
inc, in ancient times supported at lenst 300 settlements und several substantial elties-like Subetio, beyond those hills and Abdeh Just to the south of where we
are.
of
the
"Here the Fields Cattlemen pastured herds, And we shell Herefords are cattle
Of course, we talked polities A sentinel slands armed in In the two days I was there
the in his study-hit scorching sun-not
bodyguard uf a canteen surrounded by bolster. uniformed
We dis- desert settlers. statesman but a young soitier ous young in overalls alert for any in- cussed Israeli Dolites, Middle where truders. For this is the Bad Lands where marauders from Egypt or Jordan are able to
swoop.
Three times, in the two years of Sue Boker's existence, death
politics and work none, Eastern polities. But when, afterwards, everyone whom I met asked the question, "Is he coming back?" hazard the
I could not
answer.
even
The Soft Life
The
have them again. extremely hardy which can stand the sun and And forage
There
10 be appears
resecu
"But
wiil we
the desert around here with grass. We will create a cattle ranch. And we will have sheep ranges Do well. And we wilk breed horses-Arab herses.”
Approved By Some, Not All
By Les Armour
CURI
London, NURIOUSLY, the term "Approved School"" does not mean the kind of school which you would ap- prove for your children-at least not in England.
It signifles, rather, a kind of erass between an old fashioned reform school and 11 post boarding school, It is approved not by parents bul by the
Judicial Dubhorities, und its pupils are juveniles who have become much of nuisance to
is the community that it wise to send them away soMIC» where.
Many of them are housed in what used to be the stately England. Their designed to inake the children an artegratid
homes ak
curricula are
of the community.
Discipline is
part
not firm but harsh and education, 1100 punishment, Is their moin concern.
LESS AND LESS
In the moin, they seem to be Successtul enough. In 1951. 43.800 Juveniles were convicted of offerices: last year there were than 38,000. This year there will be all fewer if the present rate continues
And less and less Juveniles come back for a second try at crime.
All
thus despite the Teddv Boys, despite the readjustments Imposed by Nalionul Service, despite a frightening shortage of policemen and the gross under- staffing
probation
service.
of Fina
So onc would hove Thought that the "Approved School" would get a pat on the back anst be allowed! present course for FI while longer
tu
steer
its
But there are still erhics. Take Mr H. R. Dunnico. chalian of the Deacon free Juvenile Court.
Mr
hrea
Dannico temes from no Britain's which includes biggest slum resettlement pro- Ject-- orca where smal}' Döys'
01
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be
and rough
nat tough, and people have quite overcome the tendency to duck when they see a policeman coming.
Recently, he went to look at some "Approved Schools,"
He finds that boys and girls in them are allowed to have pin- ups on the walls. He finds them enlling their masters "Mr" in- stead of "Sir."
Worst of all, ho Ands that when he visits these institutions the children do not all spring smartly to attention.
Instead they go on "swinging from the branches of trees in the grounds."
IDEAS DIFFER
From all this be concludes that
in "there is no point"
"with sending juveniles there the idea of instilling discipline, respect
a and social cen"
science.
All of which shows that Mr Dunnico Rnd the penal authorities have rather different maka ideas about the way to good citizens. And Mr Dunnico (No "We hope ..." but "We is not the only critle. There areo will....")
mogls-- probably thousands of trates who agree with him.
The authorities
reason that most delinquents are rather lost
The road to Sde Boker, has slruck in ambush, The the Fields of the Cattlemen, "Hymn of the Shepherdess," where Ben-Gurion has set- the dirge of Sde Boker, laments tled, goes beyond it for an- the shepherdess, killed and her of
the death of Barbara Popper, He is a determined man, fuil
vigour and vision.
"When we get sufficient water other hundred miles to the flocks carried off a quarter of desert has claimed him. He (and we will bring it south from next settlement at Elatt, a mile from the settlement. Accs it not only as a source of Beersheba if need be, or we the material needs of his coun- will bring sen-water and distil on the Gulf of Akaba,
I knocked at the wire-netting try food, minerals, possibly it), we will have plantations, door of a cabin a lttle bigger oil but than the others. It has to be a people. little bigger because, behind lis plywood walls, it houses the "Ot course," he said, "the books
which
Sinte Ben- among
needs Industries and Gurion pursues hig
trade classical foreign
need but We and philosophic studies. It is something more -- a co-dedica the only concession made to tion to the soil of Israel." the ex-Prime Minister of Israel.
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and faightened and there they are only made more bitter and nasty by chain-gang discipline; Mr Dannico reasons that some- body ought to peare the pants off them.
The authorities reason that the children should be made to "A Californian cotton-grower
feel at home and part of has been here. Ho says this
friendly community; Mr Dunnico soll here will grow excellent reasons that they
should not cotton. Sdo Bokor cotton plan-
He was severe on the luxury. tations will have to wait till we be left in any doubt that they Bettlers in the big towns, on the get enough water, but he has are in prison.
The cuthorities reason that prosperous complacency of the shown farther north that cotton
visiting justices should ba older settlements, on the relue-de an excellent industrial crop looked on as friends; Mr tanco of meny of them to ac- for Imrncl. Next year, with
Dunnico reasons that they should cept immigrants, and on those the extension of the settlements
be looked upon as Very Im Immigrants who became squat in the Northern Negev we will iers rather than settlers.
have 20,000 acres under cotton." portant Persons,
He spoke of the possibilities tell.
"Industrial of oll, of creating one" in the desert, to mine the minerals as they did in King Solomon's day.
Mrs Ben-Gurion answered my knock-and reproached me. But do not get the wrong Impression, Everyone in Israel His hopes lle in the younger
If knowa Paula Ben-Gurion, who generation. only he could nover minces words nor attract them
desert into the neglects a kindness. She was away from the soft life of the New York nurse who married towns, recruit. them from the an obscure Zionist agent. She, older bottlements, merge them with her three children, fol- with the youngsters Ingathered lowed him through adversity from the ends of the earth.. and danger to the premiership.
And she has followed
him
into the desert, to help in tho
The Flesh-pots
two different things. It will be "I foresee Sde Boker becoming
the bar for the cattlemen and the shepherds of the ranges. But, around here, we will have our felds, our
vegetable イ ground,
our plantations; our
actilement cookhouse. She If they aro to have milk poultry... does not pretend to like it. She and honey let it be from the longs for her home in Tel-Aviv. desert. He promises them no He paused. We were stand-
But there she is, roughing it qualis nor manna from Heaven, ing outside his cabin looking at and staring the chores as long He promises them nothing but the naked landscape, he was
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"And we shall have trees," ho sold with an arm-ww/dep over the desolation. "I hate a pinco without frecue
Ben-Gurion rose from his
His own example is gym camp bed to greet me. The bolle. For a practical example working day at do Boker ho points to the young settlers. begins at dawn.ond Ben-Gurion of de Boker, who precoded."
And with an abrupt gesture, (after all, ho will tell you, he
Jika Aaron striking the rock in anger, hoʻstamped his heat into came from Poland to Palestino Bda Boker started in May the ground. 48 years ago to work and farm 1952, with a group of eleven labourer). Then, he rents and men and two atria, at the end of "Tross shaltgrow here!" ho studied and writes. So I was their military Orvice, They ordained.
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