R
EMEMBER Daisy Schlitter, the Ger- man diplomat's wife
who, two years ago
in Lonodn, was said to have
referred to Britain "enemy territory"?
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Well.
A. NASSER PREVIOUS
CONVICTIONS 1.BLOCKADE OF ISRAEL SHIPA 2. INCITEMENT TO
MURDER
3. THREATS TO
DESTROY ISRAEL
4. THEFT OF A
CANAL
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FRAU DAISY-BACK AGAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF ONE OF THE YEAR'S MOST SINISTER ROWS
INTELLIGENCE
REPORT
Contributing writers: STEPHEN CONSTANT
Under a speelal U.S. law the Americans are probibited frant allowing other Governments to have American atomic «xilo- alves,
The weapons which we shall
help in cutting down the hum- and the rust of willent visits by German dignitaries to 1545farin ata British dignitaries to Germany.
be arming in this way are the SIGNS OF "Corpora!" rocket with
an
huur-the
E disappearance
75-mile range and a speed of TROUBLE 2,000 mile she is still big political news "Matador-a top-secret gulded melle of about the same size today.
as a jet fighter-Honest Jobn" -un artillery rocket with
This two-year-old rumpus range of 20 miles and "Atom has now developed into the Anne gigantic gun drawn central element in a story by two tractors.
of international, diplomatic
intrigue Anel backbiting LESSON IN
which looks like playing a
part in the coming German HOW TO SAVE
elections.
blackinal, H
off, British uncl to Taxpayers, diplomat Ernst
Allegations of currency schoggling by diplo. German mulie pouch, arid secret Guenther Mohr, documents all play their Kinister part in it.
the
A question has been put down about the Schlitter" affair in the German Federal Parliament, lawsult is due for bearing early 1.ext month and Gerinan Foreign Office ધ divided Into two parties the Dalsies and the anti-Dalsies,
What of ex-beauty ex' Daisy Schlitter herself?
She
continues to ilve in London, even though her husband, tem- porarily suspended from
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German Diplomatic Service, nu
longer has a job here.
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Her 14-year-old son prefers
go to school In England
rather than in Germany. And her daughter is in England es well,
If this is "enemy territory," Frau Schlitter certainly lova her enemies,
HOW NOT TO RULE A COLONY
there is fresh trouble in
Department of the Colonial omico.
They Bro moving their officers from post to post In Kenya in a mod musical chairs, giving them no chance to goi to know the district and win the trust of the inhabitants, Normal stay of district officer in one post is two years.
The important district of Malindi, to take one example, has just said goodbye to its Afteenth district officer in four year.
Herr Mohr has just returned
to Bonn after a three-day visit to London to seek
in
Whitehal
MAURICE COWLING
The man who has reappeared la radio pidier of fortune and -Goebbels broadcaster Yums Bahri,
Bahri was last heard of when he took up broadcasting for young King Hussein of Jordan, just before the king sacked Glubb Pashu.
and plous
"We shall only intervene in Egypt through the United Nations."
LAUGH FROM A RUSSIAN
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FRENCH colleague of mine was stopped by the Russians he was leaving Hungary taken to Russian head- and
will you
write
quarters,
"And what when you get out of Hungary?" asked the colonel in charge,
Replied my colleague. point in to two Moscow newspapers lying on the colonel's
shall write oli that e Pravda"
(Pravdo Truth) "and all that is Izvestia." (Lzvestia News).
In the hurly-burly that of une followed, the king was made to man and the reappearance asck Yunus Babri as well. Now another spells trouble la Yunus Bahri has turned up in Persin and Iraq, two Middle Baghdad, and is broadcasting taughter and let him go.
of
East territories where Western anti-Nasser stuff from there, influence still stands high,
The man who has vanished: aged Ayatullah Kushani, Berce anti-British priest who. as he has told me himself, lends un Organisation of assassins.
Kashuni, the Teheran police
has left say,
his house "gone underground."
should feel happier if this Jinx were broadcasting under { Nusser's auspices,
IKE & ZHUKOV TEAMING UP
in and WATCH
Without any doubt this means that
Kashani is preparing to Jaunch a new anti-Western drive in league with Nasser and, with Moscow.
PŘIT ETAJO MIRECTIUM HONON MECTO-
пребывание коровы. По сведенних auzxERcxol raseri «ženax accupecca, Kopona cantoro Credana Ostia JOCTAB- 25 США в западногерманский rogor Bachares cpaly me nocat HAND- aurrexa & Bearpas. Kopens aROBL
MOSCOW'S Izvestla stuff reads this column, Here keves- quotes my $25- formation about Hungary's St Step ht's crewn being taken to Wiesbaden.
1957 for A diplomatic drawing 10- gether between Eisenhower and Moscow's Defence Minister, Marshal Zhukov,
ike is 110 more
Immune than
other any
soldier- Statesman to the flattery of the "we-soldiers - can settle this- between-us" approach. And he is going to get plenty of this from the Red marshal ut the coming year,
lavour
Point in Zhukov's with Ike: While Krumichev and Bulganin, during the recent Suez crisis, were nwuthing about sending Soviet võju.icers to Egypt, Zhukov poured cold water on them with o sober
·MOSCOW REPORT No. 2 By COLIN LAWSON-
the things he can tell now he's back in Britain
makes
My old suit
young Dmitri
HEY stopped me on my way to the 1
mausoleum where Moscow's grue- some twosome Lenin and Stalin, lie 2 perpetual state.
"You foreigner?" they asked. They wore 3 decrepit homburg hats, old, old overcoats which just retained a smack of their original Western cut, and shoes which many years ago might have trodden Loddon's Bond Street.
Could we talk? We could.
They explained their bizarre dress. Some ATOM WEAPONS had been acquired from tourists, some bought in the second-hand shops where Western diplomats used to sell their old clothes. FOR GERMANS BRITAIN is going to supply
nov West German Army with atomic war-henda for rockeln, gulded missiles, and atomic artillery-the thing the U.S. refuson to do
All three said with bitterness: "Anything Western, however old, is better than anything Ruslan we can buy. And those old fools in the Kremlin think we don't know 11.”
It was my first introduction to the youth and students of Russia. Through them I met and talked with many more.
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More clothes, of variety,
cry-
better cut and greater
Greater freedom to criticise and to plek and choose the people who are their masters. Pretty girin, smartly dressed and with an air
of Western chic.
Above all, a chance to earn real money, own motor cars, travel, and develop a sophistic- ated cultura
I went to a party in a miserable one-room flat, lived in by a student and his wife.
She eight years older than he is. The and had the room. I plgged it with three student frankly confessed: "She was a widow,
brothers, my sister, father, and mother in a single room, She wanted a husband and I wanted a taste of more privacy."
There were no girls at this party. Sald one student--whose
hose father died in a concentration camp, whose mother was the daughter of a wealthy merchant: "Our girls are ugly and fat. We see pictures of Western girls, their vomart clothes, slim figüres, and faces which are alive" I gave 21-year-old Dimitri an old pult, Ho posed, pirouetted, and itberally cried for joy.
The next day he brought me 500 roubles- Western 200 from bin mother, the rest from selling 30 of
his home-made records.
They drank to forget, and in lipsiness blurted out their bowdered minds. They all
The undertaking to supply
Germans equipment la part of a general
recent wald the same thing. agreement
ent made at the top-secret Nalo meeting in Paris under which Britain will be supplying all the Nato armies "Three year ago we would not have rinked ......... I explained It was a gift. - In Moscow, he
our opinions. A Siberian rest cure was just not worth It
with alomic explosive.
What we shall be doing, I the understand, in to provide atomic war-heads for U.B.-made rockets and cammons which the U.S. will supply without war
"We want desperately to meet poople. We want to know things.
"But today the worst that can happen worker, being sacked from high school or university."
said, a shoddy, ill-fitting suit would cost 1,200.
•roubles-two months", wages of a highly-drilled
The old Reds are worried.: Where to ind the dedicated Communists who will inherit the Soviet Unlear
I found that youth in Russia is now thinking, furiously about things for diyoresd from the stern dimands of pure Communism.
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desk:
The colonel roured with
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CONTINUING THE PERSONAL STORY OF A GREAT ADVENTURE
MUST say it never occurred to me that there were pirates on the Ganges. But there are, and when i met the owner of the boat which was to ferry me and my Lanu- Rover down the river from Bhagalpur, In North-East India, he said I couldn't leave yet.
I remonstrated. I was already late, sard, and was quite prepared to run the risk. But no, he had his responsivtirties.
It was then four o'clock in the afternoon, and I should have to wait until two o'clock the following morn- ing, when the dangerous area would be clear of marauders.
So I went back to the club at Bhagalpur to wait.
Just before 2am. I arrived at the ghat, I host landed the car on to the te bout carller in tie evening. It only re- mained to rouse the crew,
This took if an hour but eventually they als crept put, yawning and greading, from beneath the foredeck. The boat – WES obout 05 ft long, broad in the beam, and had a shallow drought.
It had one most to which a village to buy some food. They now write less than two days sail was attached by bamboo were away an hour while I ride from the Burmese, fron- booms.
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afterdeck was strolled about and watched tier. plastered with a covering of dry earth. The foredeck consisted of short bamboo slots,
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Five Indluns formed the crew, and as we pushest off from the bank to begin our voyage over the glassy moonilt waters one of them took an annful of the bamboo slots from the foredeck and kindled a little fire.
Burning his own boat so to speak.
We were punted Into mid- stream and then we continued for some time drifting listlessly on the current.
There wasn't a breath of wind but it was chilly and the Indians squatted round their little fro yowning away.
I dozed in the car. At 5.30 the sun came up over the water in steamy clouds. The moon soon AL melted away in is glare. 10.30 we put into the bank, and the crew walked off to the local
some villagers at their moming It was just before Shillong ablutions.
that I had a bit of bad luck.
The last co miles are A Men and women, they came "gated"
whero road
trafle to the river's edge with a little passes in only one direction of brass vessel ng à plicher and given times of the day. stooping in the water splashed it over their bodies.
We set off again. The sail was hoisted but hung limply, in the will air, and the sun beat down,
The timekeeper handed me my ticket and I reached for my wallet. It wasn't there....and the awful truth dawned on met I had put on the bonnet of The crew, two men, to each my car while changing my car and one at the tiller, rowed leather jacket some miles back. on steadily, resting only when the boat got caught in the cur- rent and was carried along more swiftly than by the oars,
It was towards evening when we arrived at Karagola Hond, the road-head on the opposite bank. It had taken us 14 hours to cover 45 miles.
Twice I have seen the mighly Himolayas on my journey from New Delhi to Shillong, where I
Anyway I must have made a nice Christmas present for whoever picked it up.
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