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**Do tell me, Air Marshal, have you ever blacked out due to tightening {"
LONELY HEARTS GO
TO THIS PRIEST
FROM
Bernard Ronald
MEET
Naples Father Liggeri. the priest who is run- ning Italy's most success. ful murringe agency,
cerning Cupic!.
the
OLD IRONSIDES
Are the new Nazis
till
just waiting he finally goes..
..?
A
BY
SEFTON DELMER
WHO MAS BEEN HEPORTING THE GERMAN SCENE SINCE THE RISE OF ADOLF HITLER IN 1028.
Reds in the struggle was coming..
that United States' most trusted Continental
YOUNG captain Cologne, is the greatest of a reliable ally against the the Germans are the named Hana Fries them all. WaB one of the
Could anyone
have pre- hundreds of visitors
dicted this ceremony in
3. THAT West Germany ally. who came do greet Chun-
Was a
the I crawled in A
disciple of May 1915? cellor Konrad Adenauer in
American way of political the heap of Bonn on his 80th birthday. Jeep into
life,
for yearned that
All more welcome stinking rubble
and American - type United to the dour old civilian than bombed-out Cologne
watched
States of Europe, and was the Americans young Captain Hans.
friends with its old enemy, France.
None was
Wehrmacht.
Already,
of
מנוW
It was a day of cere- rounding up the tattered, extremely anxious to make
the monial.
was dejected remnants But nothing more symbolic than the smacking,
then, Konrad Potsdam - style salute of the young captain, Adenauer was at work.
From the in smooth and smart
monastery new dark-grey uniform of where he had been awaiting Germany's reborn
he had man- Wehr the collapse
aged to send a letter to the macht.
the
ela-
That is still his line to- day. Does he mean it?
THE ALLY
The French, pre- occupied with North Africa, are nowhere. Is this trust justi-
fied?
From a first-class source I have a re- vealing
on report Adenauer's reaction to criticism by his Cabinet colleagues of the recent Moscow deal between Aden- auer and Bulganin.
"This will shake
confidence:
As the captain announced, incoming Americans. It was
HAVE not forgotten the "Captain Fries reporting a long letter with an
account a nationalist de- for duty." It was as though berate concept for the
reputy gave me of the "off- Western whole generations
us, Herr Chan- the-record" of Ger- generation of Germany.
and "strictly in
cellor. It has been man soldiers were up there
between-you-and-me" argu- standing to attention be-
HIS LINE
ments with which Adenauer a terrible shock to side him.
in 1949 sought to convince the Americans.”
such "Good for them," replied pression
B clause him that concessions must be made by Germany to Adenauer in an afflux of makes in a treaty of friend-
Bismarckian Realpolitik. the French.
ship.
Scharnhorst, Molike, Ludendorff,
Seeckt
ЯLTI-
they all stood there nouncing through the mouth counsellor on matters con-of young lians: "Reporting for duty. We are back, [Thank you, Herr Chancellor. You have worked our mar- vel again."
Lonely hearts flock to his office in hundreds. Father biggeri listens to them all. And he promises to help-- a pretty wife for Angelo : home-loving husband for
Gim.
He hus a record that is the envy of his country's ten other mariage brokers-1,000 couples "hitched" in five years.
A priest who publishes books
women
on "What Every Fiancee Should Know.
A
who man
tells they
too Bro
old to marry if they are over 40.
Father Paolo Ligger has the backing of the Vatican. His "Gold Ring Agency" is the Arzi to be sponsored by the Church
Auly.
It is virtually í non- making concern. for husband hunters nud brick seekers pay only 34 shillings for the agency's help.
pro
Father Liggeri is
in DYCT-
worked man today. He has no deputy, and has to deal with all the lonely hearts himself, It is a job that keeps him busy from morning to night.
Warm Smile
I found him looking far from fatigued when called at his office In the Via Mercall here. Bespectacled and 44, Father Ligger greeted me with a smile that had all the warmth of his native Sicily.
The room was dimly lit, but a
OLD RECIPE
AMONG the German gen-
over
it.
the hitch-up with America.
concession
re-
Mr
THE Americans liked
They
appointed Adeuauer to the post he had
Here is the gist of what
"At Geneva we Germans
McCloy, former held from 1917 until Hitler
trembling lest the United States High Com- sacked him in 1933: Burgo- he said on that occasion: were
others would do a deal with missioner: Oh, all right. "We must hook ourselves the Russians at our expense. That makes the 122nd master of Cologne.
Adenauer had taken the on to the Americans.
It is their turn now.
Allied concession. first step in the big political "We must be ready to game for Germany's re- make any
"Besides," ho added, The Allies gave way to storation as a world Power quired by the French. adopting a nationalist argu- Adenauer's blarney, and "Then, when the French ment which his critics had failed to insist on this pro
"up tection of the Germans who fail to honour our gestures been bandying about,
fol worked with them against the to now we have been return them, Americans will be dis lowing the Americans like Hitler. And today influential
to the French. little children tied
& Germans are gruntled with
demanding like "The present pro-French nurse's apron strings. Now publicly that a man most policy of the United States it is the nurse's turn to former Security Chief Otto not John be put on trial will be changed into a pro follow us."
mercly for his alleged trea- German policy." 2. THAT West Germany
son while in the Soviet zone Konrad Adenauer,
100 Waa
percent anti- Well he has certainly
but for having helped the ex-Burgomaster of Communist, and therefore achieved that plan. Today
British against Hitler during the war.
erals and statesmen who
the centuries have worked the old Prussian recipe for revival after de- feat-playing East against West, Czar against Napo- peon, Lenin against Clemen-
ceau → the
TV
His recipe Was to con- vince the Americans:---
J. THAT the new post- Hitler Germany was truly democratic, in fact the democratic country in Europe.
and the.......................
and
GREAT AWAKENING
WHAT IT MEANS WHEN A CROONER CLOSES WITH A HYMN-AND A COMIC PRAYS IN 100 MILLION
From JAMES COOPER
HOMES
H-bomb generated humility as well as hydrogen.
New York Peale, of "The Power of H In the
Positive Thinking" fame.
N the middle of
People are
frigeration
ed as they never were before
BLARNEY
Now, this Machiavellian-
ism may, of course, be just a pose to impress his critics--as friends of mine suggest. But, as I see it, it
As yet neither our own policy- makers nor the
Americans are worrying overmuch about these Adenauer Iinesses,
when
is just the traditional Prus- The problem that worries sian recipe for recovering them is who takes over strength after a disastrous the old man goes. defeat.
But, as I see it, the question
There le a significant is not "h" but "what." passage in Adenauer's
official blography.
Adenauer is negotiating
with United States
THE BOGEY
when High MY prediction is that Commissioner McCloy-who, rst continue much as they are Adenauer goes things will
by a piece of typical Aden- today, both in home and foreign auer fuck, le linked with policy. him by marriage. (They both married grand-daugh- a growing demand for increased Soon, however, there will be ters of the same German trade with the Soviet world and American chemist.)
China.
televised house party Life magazine telescopes
inding that and automation shaded desk lamo Illuminated red-haired, befreckled the last issue of 1955 and
are not his face. It was o face
enough with comedian Arthur Godfrey the first of 1956
10 produce into an
serenity and peace of mind, character, n fare that reminded
Dr Adenauer: Article 6 It will coincide with thio stopa to count his blens issue devoted to a report me strangely of Sir Laurence
nationalist demand to drop the that ings and to thank God for on Christianity,
Says Father Lafarge. editor 8ayS
anyone co- Olivier.
and loses
Western apron-strings., of a Jesuit magazine: He said to me:
"People operating with the Alli¤μ **[ have
them.
five cents on the combined of all walks of life are interest- must not be discriminated The bogest ith problem. There is a shortage of
At the end of one of price.
» Adenauer today seeks to frighten men on my books. My files are
hia Western nurses full of pretty girls.
America's top variety hours, They would
will then News magazines devote in the very simple question of against as a "collaborator."
why they are here in this Think what a painful in become REAL make ideal wives. But finding barber-turned-singer Perry supplements to the revival, world, what their own existence suitors for them is difficult."
Como, "the hottest thing in and booksellers report that means, what source they started He glanced at his Index of
closes signorinas, li TV,"
on from, and towards what marriageable
by singing this is the 170th week hand ran
sheaf of hymns.
the ten-best-sellers list for life is driving them." pictures of dark-eyed bruneties
"A Man Called Peter," the Says Protestant Dr Peale: auki smiling blondes.
"The current revival is marked story of a Scotsman, Peter
of by a sincere seeking
faith Marshall, who was Chaplain dividuals for a personal to Congress.
that is not alone for Sunday. personal spiritual rebirth People 4770 translating this
over
The job is getting too much for me, but I cannot back out. 1 shall just have to work harder and harder. I am even getting letters from abroad now, I shall do my best.
"Finding husbands and wives
for clients right here in Italy is one thing, but finding marriago partners
Chain-smoking
Edward
re.
may
R. Murrow-you call his report on the big R.A.F. raid on Berlin - devotes more than half of
end
tri-
and
Pealo's "Positive Think- ing" is in ita 166th week on experience into a concern with
social problems."
his radio newscast to re- porting the birth of Christ this list. by "those good reportera”
for appliconta In St. Matthew and St. It's genuine Kenya, France, Britain and Luke.
Conanda is another."
Embarrassing
П
of
Says the Reverend Reinholt Niebuhr, famous theologian at a New York interdenominational college: "The moet immediate of the revival is that Any Sunday morning BUT though_TV pro- caso
alternate secular schemes there are six religious pro- grammes, books, and salvation have been refuted, grammes on New York's magazines may indicate
"Americans need a religious and
don't on the revival, they
con- fe more
than any other Father Ligger stroked his TV stations,
Nor do Hoard- nationals, precisely because we chin. His white, delicate hand radio one can tune in to a atituto one.
most consistent in tho looked even whiter against the service, on one wavelength ings "Attend the church are
determined pursuit of tho stubble of his "Ave o'clock or another from awakening of your choice" - sprouting calcal goals of äfe."
"I believe in doing a service at nine am. to tea at on all U.S. highways.
shadow."
to humanity. Every man and 4.45. p.m. woman has the right to marry,
A woman's mission in life is to bour children," he said.
"Most girls meet very few men,
These
This is a genuine revival, not Men of faith
a revival. merely
of IGA..K
are the outward hysteria, evoked by hot gospel- TN other words, the American, signs of what is being call- lers in tent meetings..
ed the greatest religious
.with his fallsh to make good, If they do not go dancing or revival in American his-, steadily increased by 12,000,000 all if it does not make him
● Church attendance · has, wonders what good it is – after make acquaintances. at work,
people in five years, with a good, e Jump of 8,000,000 in the inst
their circle of friends is usually | tory. very limited. Men have the same difficulties · Tliled in 201 lawyers, doctors and industrial- Ista
even WOLEO off, especially if they live in small towns or villages,
arc
The signs
your,
On any
who
'President Eisenhower, has joined the Presbyterian given Sunday: Church, rummed up for the 49,000,000 attend service out of nation when he said: "By the adult population of 100 millions we speak prayers, THERE are many other an "They have told me how em-
estimates aing - hymns-and- no matter million, and varying signs that this country, report that beween 68,000,000 what their words may be their barrassing their position is which is the epitome of and 93,000,000 of a total popula- spirit is the same in God is They cannot cultivate friendship easily in their own little centres, things material, is turning tion of 100 million say they are our trust. If they went out a four times as never before to matters affiliated to some Church. with a girl they would be under spiritual. whether they thought she would On TV Catholic Bishop earlier ones, it has occurred not reflecting the glory of Godke make a suitable wife or 'not.” Fulton Sheen has one of in any depression but the And to that 70-49,000,000 Most of the women on the the highest ratings, and on height of prosperity, American will say "Aisen" this priest's books are inrod between
Church landing way that it :le Bunday, and what is most Wigrid- 35 and 33, and 80 percent of the radio-so has Protestant born of the Room, not in spite. Bewart of Till they will be, ivering. men man batween 30 and 40% 3 Doctor Norman Vincent ath, and, inmyli lay as if the It. 15 chirali.
an obligation to marry her
(eg, “Religion nurtures « men .of
falthy men" of hope,men A most astounding feature of love;, much men are needed, in the revival is that, unlike all the building of a new world'
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