GERMANY WANTS TO BE WEAK IN NATO
By
James Wickenden
【WESTERN
W dock to
German K
bustling fac-
tories through war ruins which still stand. Record
outputs and good wages“ beckon to a bright future,
But the ruins them of war's chaos,
remind
Even the four months' old freedom for West Germany does not stir the jackboot fever predicted by some,
Last October, the German Defence Ministry announced 140,000 applications from volunteers to join the armed forces. Three weeks ago the figure had reached 150,000 an increase of only 10,000 in about a year,
Out of this grand total nearly a fifth want to join non-combat units. A half of the rest are probably unit
for strenuous work, says the Defence Ministry, and will be rejected.
As in Japan, the wound of war has gone deep into
German the
soul. The
H-bomb may have affected the Big Powers in their search for peace. But the countries who most sense is doom
the defeated- Germany and Japan.
are
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CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1955,
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BOBBY
A RENE MacCOLL SPECIAL.
NINO
THE PANTS,
as Runyon might have said
is along towards 10.30
In the morning, and I am Bitting in a sixth-floor bedroom of that hotel near Marble Arch, putting a large number of questions to this Nino, who is lying in bed wearing blue pyjamas and reading a Cuban magazine, and getting all the answers from Bobby (the 'Body- Bullder) Gleason, on account of Níno
can speak English and Bobby speak enough. for several.
no
manager
Nino Valdes, the 6 ft. 3 in., 15 st. Cuban contander for the world heavyweight championship, has just arrived in London, accompanied by his Cuban trainer, George Molina, and American Bobby Gleason, to fight British champion Don Cockoll at the White City on September 13, RENE MacCOLL has recently delighted readers by Interviewing the famous authors Raymond Chandfor and P. G. Wodehouse in the idiom of their own novels. To Interview Valdez-and New Yorker Gington-MacColl takes the style of the late, great chronicfor-in-chief. Damon
Runyon, Broadway
that when he enters the ring he going to find a way not to Nino is very impressive is likely to harbour black encounter Nino. hunk of material, even while
thoughts against the opposition lying in bed, his shoulders and should try to keep his heart stretching from here to there, white, and wearing white and
giving a gerioral impression trunks will help. that if you
wanted to make un- couth remarks in Spanish to
anyone late at night in a poorly
it ailey, Nino would not be the
guy you should choose,
First off I ask about the white trunks which Nino wants is wear when he Oghts Cockell and the British authorities don't want him to, and Bobby the |Body-Bullder explains that the priest back in Havann tells Nino
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try to find out about them? They
difference is that we don't all of
"Personally" goes on Bobby, think it's just a lot of the old ackaramuckuss, and so long as the guy gets paid ond better still wins as well as getting paid, he can to in there wearing a kilt or nothing at all and it don't hurt my feelings any."
This Nino looks very cool and relaxed, and Bobby says he
thinks he is too much so, and he often wishes Nino would get real mad and worked up.
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NINO
quito, right' becauso he explains where he was born, which was at Cobleskill, upper New York State, in 1898. Ho himself nghts As a bantam from 1903 to 1912. but this is before the day of considerable cucumbers, and Bobby only drags down 10 of 25 smackera ner night as his sharo of the
is not to which scratch, compared with the number of cucumbers which Nino splits with him now, and which per- mit Nina to wear a nifty gold wrist-watch oven while in bed, and a gold medallion of Santa Barbara hanging round his neck..
be
The boom
This prospect worries Bobby
DOBBY runs. two separate gymnaēlums in New York the way they start wonying DL Epsom when they hear the
one for boxers and another for "So if a guy coughing in the stables, because body-building, Nino is 30 and Bobby himself comes to mo," he says, "he can 1983, although he looks almost either be a pug and be ugly.or middle-aged silll, and he figures he can be beautiful, it's a matter
If the Rock keeps giving that them the old run-around for another few years, by the time they finally meet it will be 'a bath-chair convention.
I
The blame
at
ASK Bobby how
many cucumbers Jack (The Fish) Solonions la silpping him and
of choice."
But Bobby is not only not account of sleeping good on worrying about the Rook not agreeing to a flat-fest, but ho has another worry since arriving in London, they having told him they watch einsely for low blows in Britain, and Nino's most exalted punch being a left hook to "the solo plexus."
So now Nino is aiming to
Bobby says that
when they Nino for mingling with Cockell, drop the boom on Cockell by are In Dortmund, Germuny.
but Bobby clams up for once hitting him ceaselessly upon his inst year to put the zing on
and says he regardis that Heinz Neuhaus the local school-
na head, figuring Cockell will like almost a sacred topic, and would that the way a debutante Ukes children take such a yen to like it if someone asked me u red nose.
how many cucumbers I had in
Nino they start following him down the street. "It reminded the me of that guy Pyo the Piper," explains Bobby,
The worry
N"
TINO has just Anished, four Cfm. two plates of ocreal a stack of toast, which is and
through necessary to see him until dinner, when steaks and other articles of food described "strictly in the
Dublin. The man who wrote the book "No Flies JOURNALIST. "Why should we KILL" That is in China" goes to Dublin to report for want what we want. The only the headline you the other side of the I. R. A.. story, us like their methods." across a recent issue of the broadsheet
Not one Irish newspaper has
editorially or British commented
on the which proclaims the official shirt and only a slight Irish attack
raid at Arborfield, in accent, said: "It is the policy civilians, and promised only to arms Re-
attack the British Army-the Berkshire. Not one Irish They picture their coun-policy of the Irish
of the Council of the I.R.A. "ormy of occupation." they call journalist tries to find out about by Bobby as not to talk to anyone. will be on offer. not want to know our policy, it's prevents the unification of Ire cian of note has said anything: mean that the 1.R.A. was in the United Irishman. land into one republic.
1..es churned and destroyed in the role of battlefields between the Great Powers
publican Army,
That headline did
licensed to kill. It meant
But make no mistake
He spoke to the other man in the room, with long black hair: "Give him some recent issues of the paper."
Ireland.
Irishmen
I asked people their views on
this.
The tragedy
HE LILA, lives under a pro- THE flourishes because scarcely any
tective shroud of silence. It
one wishes or dares to denounce "History," sald the PRO- it ..for if he did he would FESSOR, is on the side of the be denying the glorious heroen IR.A. Everything that Ireland who beat the British. has won it has won by violence. It has won nothing by modera- tion."
To Germans this is a certain that the I.R.A. thinks that about us, follow the example the L.R.A. is licensed to kill, if "If you want to write Most of Ireland believes that prospect in war.
the reserve police of Nor of all the other journalists by killing it wins unification for While the rest of Europe thern Ireland are licensed to that come to Dublin and use, nned itself beneath bright | kill.
your imagination." parasols on pleasure beaches this summer, the Germans about it. The LR.A. also watched a massive NATO thinks that it is licensed to military exercise "Carte kill. Blanche."
Study this also from an broadsheet: Instead of
"An the parasols 1.R.A.
tenet of that their vision filled with the essentia! black mushrooms of over doctrine" ("the gospel of 250 atom bombs supposed to Irish nationality")" "was the acceptance of force as the truly sary means of attaining and preserving the nation's freedom.
eir
have been hurted on eities and fields to halt the
enemy.
The result, in reality, would be the obliteration, of themselves and the future
manly
and neces-
The poster
600.
"The finest young men in Ireland," said the old RACING TIPSTER (who was once in the married), are in the I.R.A. I.R.A. but who got
That is the tragedy."
There are
probably fewer than a thousand members of the 1.R.A. Perhaps 500 IWAS handed some copies. Their leaders are men who were Most I looked round at the map. rank-art-filers in 1930, pins. They covered the court Some have been trained in the There was
no pattern of of the members are in the early twenties. Some are students. try indiscriminately. A poster on the table said:
Join the 1.R.A."
British Army,
There is tension beneath the
to kill do next? easy-going surface bere. What will the men who are licensed
"God Is on our side," mid the PRIEST. "As long as they don't kill will be all right."
But they may kili, and they
$14
But it does not mind running
"Recently politicians de
All of them, young and old, educated or not, believe in a of their country, Such nounced force. Such denun-
"Are you Rossa O Broin?" dream, a
myth, a nightmare thoughts strengthen the ciation Is the negation of
manhood and an invitation I said. Rossa O Broin is one Ireland have been yearning in martyrs.
that for 700 years the people of may get killed or hanged
murderers and turned into new strategy whispered
of the names of the recruit their bellies for freedom. among the remnants of Ger-to eternal serfdom.
No "Only men in arms are ing officer for Dublin. "No,"
I don't think this country here one in Ireland thinks many's strategists.
Let the West withdraw respected. Men in arms alone he said. "Who are you?" I these men are criminals, "Fools, public, Government, Press, the spilled. damned fools, they are," Bald Church wants blood
of the Rhine. For propos do they deserve it.
long as they remain armed tell you," he said.
going to get me calling them. hot young men play around I described him to somo bad men,"" ing this with ingonlous
with dynamite. "Why “Original sin has ordained Dubliners. "It sounds like
should.
bother we reasons -- Colonel Von
with the IRA.?" said the it so."
the man who signs himself Bonin was dismissed from
Diarmid MacDiarmada, the West German Defence
adjutant-general of the Ministry แ few months
1.R.A." said one. ago,
its forces, they say, to west win freedom. And only as asked. "I am not going to the DOCTOR. "But you aren't the risk and letting the white-
WATERED DOWN
The traders
But it
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SAM WHITE'S PARIS NEWSLETTER
The Fashion King Buys A Farm
No one knows in Dublin' THESE are the words of who runs the I.R.A.; who is someone calling himself in it. No one wants to know. M. O. Cinneide. They are the The IRA. is an illegal or Although officially dis-words of a man who wor- ganisation in Eire. graced, Bonin spoke for ships violence. They are the openly recruits.
In the Wicklow Moun- most people in West Ger-words of a dedicated man. many outside the Adenauer I wanted to find out what tains, and over in Galway, it administration, which pro- manner of people they are runs training camps and mised 12 divisions of in the I.R.A. how strong they calls them holiday camps. It NATO in exchange for
soare, und what the ordinary publishes Its propaganda AT
Irish think of them,
without hindrance. Up to six} 47 vereignty.
I went to the recruiting months ago the police here a life of easy retirement. to prevent a resurgence of office of the I.R.A. in Dublin, used to tell Scotland Yard the recruiting drive The address is imposing: everything they knew. Now dons, They Sean Treacy House, Sean there is a strong suspicion
"demo- Treacy Street.
that information is with- held.
<
The government also promised
Nazism in for tho 12 attemptat to do so by craising the armed forces.
The svolle High Command,
fired
But there is no Sean by Prussian ideals, which Treacy Street. It is called
drove Germany's past wor
machines, was taboo.
swryants,
Like the Talbot Street, because The promise
to
own
Paris. T 61, Captain Edward Molyneux, MC, former dress designer, is a man who refuses to come to terms with
It is now five years since talling eyesight forced him to give up his famous Paris fashion house. He has spent most of the Intervening years in Jamaian perfecting his considerable talent
as a painter.
During that time he has exhibited annually in Paris, and each succeeding exhibition has been more successful than its predecessor, He found that as his painting improved, so did his eyesight that painting was in itself a vitally beneficial treatment for hla eyes.
Now Molyneux, a wealthy man (He has an interest in an- other Paris fashion house and continues to run his prosperous perfume business), has decided that even painting palis as a full-time interest. So he has bought & 18th-century derelict farmhouse on the Riviera between Nice and Antibes which he intends to convert luto a lower farm, growing roses and tulips for the exotic Nice flower market.
A NEW HOBBY
Japanese Bushido warrior code, it the mail-order traders there was to bo watered down to did not want the name staid patriotism. The military machine
commemorate THE IR.A. runs its was to be controlled altered severely by plain-clothed civil Treacy, who was killed fight- youth organisation on ing the British in 1916. The the lines of the Boy Scouts. traders did not object to It is called Flanna Eireann, Treacy, but did not want to and its mottoes are: "Purity He will spend seven months of the year there growing his in our hearts. Truth on our flowers and taking them himself to market every day, and the lose business.
The office is up a rickety lips. Strength in our arms." rest of the Ume in his Jamaican home, where he will devote flight of stairs above, a There are a couple of himself to painting.
cycling clubs which are used I knocked on a door and to recruit members into the
The result of this collective NATO palley has been to remove the glamour of Q purely nationalist German army career. Its effout is shown in the recruiting, figuris,
Also, the youth of Germany men's outfitters, know that wages in Industry will
be higher than in the new forces,
hot
"I think I aim to be enviod," he remarked to me when dis- curing his new project,
But Molyneux is doing something more than that.. Ho is, at
demolishing most of the outward aspects post life and
The erect of all these things went into a mean'little room. I.R.A. and also provide the amou la phononenal muccess at a Brite designer in Paris
boon to emasculate the There was a long trestle handy excuse for cycling all German military spirit-for the table, some box files, a map over the country with bulky
being at any rate, No dought good by NAT Conovest pins, and a brown dog on. Some illegal organisation! But The collection, when neveral Degas, has been sold, to an
was a consciously of Ireland covered with knapsacks.
this
but one which carries with it the floor.
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in the interwar years. He is selling, his large dat on the Quai d'Orsay, and also selling his famous collection of impressionlet plantings.
which includes 20 from his bewi
Dovernment here tolerates it. American woman on condition that it will be bequeathed to the
will not find a strong ally in Two men were the Four years ago, I am told, the Washington Gallery, Molyneux refuses to disclose the rinme of
مال
an inevitable result-the West
inardiera horei
West Germany
con room.je
な
(COPYRIGITT)
lendira of the reconstituted the buyer or the sum paid for the collection.REPARA Ons, about 40, with wiry Bubun Government and said give me a new hobby its shall now begin to collect the world TRA: pecretly Kapryschoder the wean sind. Have sold Chem Molyneux told me, "I will ginger hair, an open-nocked that the kita, would no longer j'of modern young mittareiz
bunk,
and,
cucumbers
on
anyway, the this occasion Important as the chance of getting at the Rock,
GO
The mood.
because Bobby figures that £ 66 LTHOUGH we are think
Nino can put the whams "A ing about Cockoll, we are
shave
Cockell in less rounds than the dreaming. and breathing, and Rock took (nine), then It would yearning
about Marciano," be only purely logistical for the. Bobby assured me, "You could Rock to give Nino his chance. call Marciano our Holy Grupi if
you were in the mood.” Bobby ruba a little after- lotion Into his map,
"Ain't that right, kid?" he axes a right handsome tie into says to Nino. Nino looks up position, and explains that it from his magazine. "Con mucho helps no end, Nino and The Eye gusto," he says and yawas. It Moline both being Cubans, bo is the first time he has sold a It develops that Nino is sleep- cause that way they are always word. ing good and so is his trainer steaming each other up and
What it means la "With great George (The Eye) Molina, who reacting back and forth, but that sleeps right there alongside him when things go wrong they both pleasure," and I am still trying In case he is needing a glass of turn around and blame him for to figure what is gives him
that it. water in the night, but
pleasure-hitting Cookell on the Bobby is not sleeping so good
head, or calling Martiano his
clano, the Champ, is somehow because he fears Rocky Mar-
I ask where Nino was born, Holy Gruel. and Bobby must not get me
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