Salzburg Is a City Of Gloom
AS THE GI'S SAY GOODBYE
Salzburg.
THIS music festival city
of Salzburg looks more like a city preparing to meet its doom than one eele- brating Austrian indepen- dence.
Salzburg is probably the unhappiest liberated" city In history. Bars and cafes are getting ready to close down; merchants
are re-j
ducing inventories and cut- ting prices, and the city has appropriated emergency un- employment relief funds,
Why al the gloomy The tree-Spen:ling American GIS are leaving. There are nearly 10,003 American avons stationed in the i Salzburg area, and they spend rtney like water. Salzburg has nuver in its history bcon mm. prosperSUR-Unks
GI
spending.
Income Cut
S.zme 500.0GD,A00 chillings have droppisi ant Salzban g's cach boxes through Americ. sukliers. New Salzburg will have to
to face a 50 print cut in Its inmr. Three of Ave cuffen houses will have to chan dawn when the Fist roldiers leave Austria, and some 1,000 people will he unemployed when American fees ebakdown.
By the middle of Septender, when Mozart's muste i resound- ing from the municipal Justival hail here the U.S. 200DBİR forces in Au-trin will 'have all but withdrawn.
They will take with them memories of a pleasant tay. The Destreichbehur and the Bristol here provide some of the most comfortable accommodation in Allled occupied countries.
Not far away at Camp Rozelani which is still under construction. the most mediern army school in Europe lies rongily—neva used by
the Americans. Some of the 350 rtments
at Can Roeder, befieved to be The mest pacients and modera. military bush on the Con-
tinen, have not only never bren need but will only be occupied lober by Austrian families.
Great Problem
Living in Austria for the American occupation troops and their dependents has been easy, with
one American dollar
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1965.
SHOULD WE BEWARE of
SMILES?
Love from Dulles
Love from Nehru
Love from Eden
GENUINE REFORMED
SINNER
Fo
"Maybe if WE had cut someone's throat' and then repented WE'd be popular too."
HE CHANGE in Russia's attitude to the West has amazed tho world in the past six months. Smiles have displaced scowls, and the Soviet rulers have exchanged the seclusion of the Kremlin for gambolling picnics in the country.
Is Britain in danger of being lulled
and deceived by all this into drifting. away from the United States-our staunchest ally and friend outside of the Commonwealth nations?
This vital topic is discussed below by RENE MacCOLL; who is uniquely qualified among the journalists of the Wastern world.
I love from
Love from
Everybody
Allove
Faure
Cummings
He was a wartime liaison official for the British Government in the United States: successively Washington Reportor and Chief American Reporter for the Daily Express during the exciting post-war decade; and, in the past 18 months, ho has made three visits to the Soviet Union and one to Rod China.
I URGE Let us NOT forget the friends
who have stood by us
L
EXT
role
Orly Airport.
me play the THE TIME: "January 1951.
of
PLACE: political THE
Paris. chartered ac countant and' dráv
having an exchange rate of 20up the international balance fragments
schillings. About 85 percent of
spending has been in sheet. the Salzburg area. Americans have been able to buy the best products of Austria with strain on their budgets,
Als
problem
considered gre
the claimed 1,250 illegitimate "Decupation"
Europran morale
in was There was talk of The Russian Army being able to reneh The Channel in thre In France there was
by
RENE
MacCOLL
WGS
ten and New York. It was three independent and freedom- tuxcd money-It
money loving States of Lithuania, made by the work of millions: Latvia, and Estonia. That was of ordinary Americans. Do not in 1940, when we had our hands let us ever forgel thal.
full with Hitler.
Right. Now let's have a look al the other page. Credit colunin first. Russia has:-
ONE: Agreed to an Austrian treaty and milltary evacuation of that country.
TWO: Announced that slic id cut her proposes
urmed forces by @40,000 men:
THREE: Suddenly started to behave in the smaller matters,
To this day the Russians re- fuse to allow Westerners 10 visit those three "Sovlet Socialist Republies,” because she knows well that the sight of an Englishman or American stroll- ing the streets would provoke nostalgic pro-Western demon- stration:
Since 1945 the United weeks.
near-panic. States of America has:—
unfinch- The plane touched down art Steadfastly and ingly stood by a batlerce
out stepped the man who WAS later to become
TWO: Russin bolsters the patiently,
America's provoked among the Commun- such as tourism and social Communist President. Eisenhower had come istx-the
of Governments tactfully,
chalk contacts, in the same way as do Poland, formidable job
Hungary, Rumunia; on its to do the
of which they have wasted over the majority of normal civilised Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and building up forces which would the years in scrawling "Yank countries.
East Germany with the machine stand a chance of stopping the Go Home" under railway
guns of her vast army. Reds if they moved westward. bridges.
on the
by the Austrians are and groggy Europe,
eluldren born in and
whule the city of Salzburg, alone. At helping to get it back present about 500 of them are fout. belug cared for by the City Youth Offee.
of
the
2 Poured out thousands upon dollar-raised by taxing
thousands of millions ordinary citizens of the U.S.-- successive and generally successful attempts to help the European cemamy.
On the sitive side, the with drawal of occupation troops will help the housing shortage,
Since the departure of Ameri-jin can troops will close about half the taverns and coffee houses in Salzburg, officials are not issuing licences to any new establish- ments,
It is estimated that about 2,003 Austrian girls the girl friends of GIS-will now have to go to work. But where, nobody knows. Many of the girls, how- ever, are tackling the problem Ey emigrating" to Germany, which still has GIs.
W
John Harper
broken with the
THAT CASH -it was taxed
RARELY have I seen to extra-
aimount
of
RECALL
IIS
the other side
On the money side there are, of COUFRE, milliaus от who feel that Brilah should never have nccepted the Ameri- can loan of 1940 an other tremendous financial and economic gifts which the U.S.A. has proffered us.
We blame
THREE: Russin talks peace- but maintains a vitriolle anti- Western campaign by means of posters in the parks of all her T course
the advantage of cities.. behaving outrageously over a period of years is that when you suddenly decide to reform the effect is that much
Fill the O
more
Clean
ordinary a change in nimo- whole historienl tradition
sphere. The very presents of and instinct of American isola this smiting, courageous soldier
the politicians devastating. timism by sending hundreds of seemed to infuse all who saw the British politicians for that. thousands of her young men 10 him. For this American brought
Dickens wrote a whole book Better to have tried to make about it, and human stand guard with us here in
with him the most priceless of it unnided, however tightly the being what it is, wo are apt to nature Britain-10 help keep the pence. all spiritual commodities-hope. belt had to be pulled. But that make more fuss over a reformest
One little scene will always
consideration does not for one Sercore than the quiet,
fellow for
whel sum up the
The measure of American instant détract from a heart- who has disilayed nothing but inspiring and reassuring part saelty In thus deciding to worming net of friendship. played by the United States lu stand
unobtrusive kindness all his life. firm
alongside US
All that money did not just Debits? ONE: Russia forcibly these troubled years,
proved by the rage which I grow on the trees of Washing- added to her empire the
סון
A Sentimental Journey
tal journey to the
old
foreign concession. My tiny
"That's Japanese,"
the fault of
Into
By RUSSELL SPURR
FOUR:
Russla says religion ers and maintains
unimpeded within her bord-
□ Govern- ment sponsored Anli God Muscum. It is in the crypt of the former Kazan Cathedral in other day. Leningrad-where I saw it the
FIVE: Until a few montha and the West "Co Britain generally were the targets of a deliberate
campaign of abuse, distortions and hatred in the official Press and radio of the U.S.S.R., the violence and exaggeration of which finally deprived the words used of all. meaning. Their campaign has now halted. But-permanently?
CHURCHILL-
says 'Hold firm'
ET us keep ti rense of propor- and LTs in this country are
77HEN in Hankow re- dening for exercise. but in places the white nnts neglected garden. Others had post through the jerky chords of
cently, I made the there was more than two had ravaged.
stood there like me, blinking in the afternoon exercise music, inevitable
the bright afternoon sentimen people could handle,
sunlight,
Chinese the but then there had been
The an
officials who grumbled the care- awning overhead, deck chairs have
their alrendy slacked The Consul General's Laker. "When they lived here and glasses with cool tiniling elnim in a corner of the Con Russian car stuttered down heuse had been destroyed during the war they only wasted drinks,
Fular offices were huffing neat little tree-lined avenues in a World War II air raid. the doors. They didn't polish
A pulling among the weeds. The awning posts were etB1 cadre leader kept them at their specially liable to react to a that were starved of traffic. A one-storey office had been them."
there. The awnings were gone devotions,
emilo and a nice gesture. We Unruly grass sprouted from rigged up over the ruins. He gestured, helplessly.
with some forgotten wind. "The
nre a little apt to conclude that skeleton of a "That's how the ants got in," sun-bleached,
"Swing, the DIMS the pavements. The walls
out and if a man has a pleasant expres- single desk chair owaited the bend the trunk down. Swing aion then his intentions must and fences that once main- The Consul General We clattered together up the white ants.
the hips left and swing the hips be pure. tained the foreigners in moved without incon- carpetless statrense and peeped
right." comforting isolation
the bedrooms. A child's silde stood among. were venience into the Number furtively
Memories are short, I know The shüllers were. closed, the the woods. Two ilerelict poste The battle hymn of the new, but while, we read the cracked and broken down, Two house next door. The looms were musty, None but the presided over the ruins of the antisepile China blotted out accounts. of who sang what at
staff had been sharply re- ugliest Works Departinent furni- tennis court.
the busy babble of the birds and the Moscow dacha' party let us The big British Consular tiuced even before the Reds ture seemed to have survived.
becs,
not entirely lose sight of the compound recalled what arrived.
grimmer, harsher background 'The Edwardian elegance of n
The radio announcer chanted of the things that went before. well-bulit British house nad
on, the officials Jarked Sin gone with dis
The
Then the music stop habit of taking owners.
And let us not slip Into the unison, garden wall and the lawn and I stood for a fleeting moment ped. The bureaucrats trooped
the American the smug red briek had deiled conjuring up visions of young bnek Inside fresh and eager for ally for granted. Friendships The caretaker who show- The caretaker held open for years the foreigness of the consulur emeials in well-pressed their unknown tasks.
among nations, is among in- ed me through the rusty a rugged screened door
Chinese city that bounded this fannels expending their enter- "You should have seen the dividuals, requlfo stoking; little piece of Britain,
gles with suitable, young ladies, place in the old days." gato had worked there since let me into the hall.
in the approved British man The carotaker, sighed at 1982. He led the way broken window-pane was re-'. Now the tall icel flagpole nor.
the desolation. through overgrown lawns paired with brown paper, proprioters were beginning and flower-beda, apologising cobwebs festooned the ex-move
oncé had been. It, too, would'
soon be Chinese property.
to
A
was rusting, emply... The nuw
4ch "Your serve, Mavis"
"Jolly
Well played, old girl!"
for the wilderness. He and pensive panelling, the I paused on the peeting. The muted middle-class his wife did a little gar- parquet floor had popped up verandah, moking down into the cents cante, floating out of tile
The greatest Englishman
nil them all, Churchill, has to
peatedly exhorted in to slick by the American association whisf- “fim | ovor", "diga «betide. And, as his« wäe |tóry Ins, ahown,, his, is adviče
hot to bờ dlatitarded,
(coorfiider)
I waited for some unflatter ing comparison with prosent. But not there nothing more to ady:
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