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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1957.
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T
E Man Who Came Back will be wearing rubber- and jackbeats when he comes.
of conversation, There is ad.
When this German officer crosses the Rhine miring talk nk, he will be trending very, very softly indeed.
For Hans Speidel -nge: 69); occupation: Lieutenant- General, German Army it will be quite like old times. The last time he saw Paris as a senior serving officer he was Chief of Staff to Hitler's invaders.
And now, on April 1, the day on which couscription begins in Germany, Gerenral Sueldel is to become Commander Aled Land Forces Central Europe. He will leat both the British Fretch Armies on the Continent.
and
the
As a practical man, Cleneral Speidel does not expect a warm welcome, In Franec. his appointment has Crused uproar
would arise Britain should a former U-boat admiral be appointed th Cum mand the Hume Flect.
I
that
HOW LONG?
Suy
that
Laseless to Speidel himselt will be sub. ordiante to the Fronen General Valluy The appearance of thia efcient, intellectual, and diplomatie German general at the Fontainebleau headquarters will touch the sensitive nerves Jay every Frenchmon enlleg Honour....Gloire....Patrie,
Bul how deep-rooted ' are
How these ubjectinna?
-long will the uproar Insty
com-
who had been inilnunte with our
He Hanoverian kings. plained about the high cost of living in France; double that of Germany.
Germans mosl
Rommel by both
and British, because of the Germans werd "Rommel boya,"
General-Major ilelnz Tretiner head of the logistics division, conmmanded a parachute division in Italy and both Americans and British wani
hear about Cassino from the other side of the hill."
I found myself enthralled by cutivoy batlle described by Korvetten-Kapitan Thomsen.
As he told how British depth Then I asked him the embar. charges had burst his external tark neath the Irish rasing question that had to furt
"Dow
have you been Se, he said, "I have met the received by the French"
captain of that English frigate, Count pulse was unruffled. He repiled: my
An
Von
Cummings
MOT PERMITTED TO DRIVE OVER
FRENCH SENSIBILITI25
"Yes, yes, perfectly comfortable thanks, Herr Gen. Speidel-it's just that we've never sat behind a Sérvion gat before "
WHEN A MAN BEGINS TO SAY
Kielmansegg's He showed me photographs of FROM STEPHEN HARPER
30 (1
the surface. He
was here in 1940 you know thought he had sunk me.“ Most of us here served in France.
We believe that the distinction ሚኒ
French made great
between
the
German
forces and forces
the Nazi occupation
"There are no difficulties.
'LOYAL'
D" O these sutprisingly friendly
man-40-mat relationships
We discuss the old days with at SHAPE mean that, at long
P
...NEW DELHI
REMIER NEHRU, the man with sweet-smelling roso in his buttonhole and frequent sour temper for the masses who
both the Brilish amel the fast, we live buried the battlesblindly worship him, has grown
big one
We now feel we are French. all part uf fandly.
" Doc it mean that the Speidel us Nato tow over General
been whipped up by the politielans and journalists?
OLD FRIENDS
TE
He turned
U-boat
The truth is that, behind the smites and the back-slapping,
the Germans
Hod their new
to Korvette aflics walch ench other with Kapitan Thomsen, a former cool, appraising cy€9, Over
commander
from which they are determined the Schleswig-Holstein "You find
wool shall not be pulled. In the North Atlantic Treaty this, too, Thomsen?" Organisation it is hoped that "During the Atlantic Aghting A senior British officer told the arrival of the Queen for I
"Tho Germans are the her state visit to Paris a few Brest," replied the representa- most efficient and effective allies days later will serve to distract Live of the new Kriegsmarine, we could want. The German "Yes, I have been back there officers here in Nato are loyal to meet old French friends,
Germany. Germany 19 They still remember some loyal to Nato and
attention.
Fleld-grey is already much in the Nato hend- evidence in
There quarters outside Paris. are seven German officers, I cluding two generals integrated with
officers other Natc SHAPE, and soon there will be 40.
at
A the Fontainebleau heath- quarters there are now 10, und afler Speldel's arrival 20 per- eent of the staff there will be German.
besed
on
Lorient and TS:
gamble
חנ!
tired of democracy,
The 67-year-old Premier, whose word has been law in India since is moving fust independence, towards dictatorship in name well as in fact.
as
This clearly emerges from the turmoil of the world's biggest elec- tlofis, now going on here, which have foreign visitors singing loud praises of Indian democracy.
At the same time a few Indlins have seen the ominous warning: signs, most notably elder statesman and scholar Dr Chakravarty must Rajagopalachari, old adviser | Germany staying
of Nehru and lust Governor- General before India became a republic.
erux
We
German words,
OLEY
officers at Gerinan SHAPE
have picked up the that way, threads of the life they left
That 13 the
of the problem: can WO trust the suddenly in 1944.
Une rides at the same stables
Germuns? in he patronised
A 1940 number have returned 10 restau- favourite Left Bank rants, They are fluttered to be remembered by hall porters and
barine.
Inside shape
A most significant thing about, days" are these officers is that they repre- sent the ono Nato army which
in expanding fast,
This year three German motorised Infantry divisions divlslutty sưte and two panzer being formed as are the cadres of an alpine division and an airborne division.
By Christmas 135,000 (jermans may be under ams, only about 10,000 of them conscripts, The new Wehrmacht will be D strapping lad.
not
When I drove to Supreme Ileadquarters, Europe, to visit okr now allies
I did know what to expect, Memories of other German officers kept crowding back. Twelve-year
old memories.
itself "the old
D favourite topic
Tom Pocock
THE U.S. UNION PROBE
New York
NTO the white-marbled, 40-foot high
THINGS
LIKE
THIS:
*I DO NOT LIKE
ELECTIONEERING
WHEN I HAVE SO MANY IMPORTANT DUTIES THAT NEED MY ATTENTION
"Instead of quarrelling with one another all democratic and progressivo
in forces
India should endeavour
in to think positive terms for the ameliora- andon of the masses.
He came out loud clear in a speech at Madras. He said: "I am convinced that to save parliamentary government in India in the real sense efforts should be made from now on to build up a strong Opposition party."
SIGNS
have
tu
tend-
"When Opposition parties try to encourage reactionary forces (familar phrase} for short term political gains the Congress and national leaders bend their energies for facing these wrong trends and encies. Consequently, various plans for economic development of the people suffer and slowed down unnecessarily.
"There has always been suffi-
self-analysis and Con-
I room they paraded one by one last week: the tough. WHAT are the signs that surowanie analys
burly, confident men; the shy little trembling men. the women who almost had a past.
And the learned doctor, who grew organisation.
knows Nehru so well, has
It was a first-rate cast and a first rate show. Theseen? They abound. long awaited Senate inquiry into racketeering in the trade unions was on.
The Commitico-improbably mony if they believe It might but delightfully called the "Im- Incriminate them proper Activities Committee The hearing rapidly developed was assembled for the first time
under its grave, determined
chaka, Senator John L. Mc-
before the
Clellan the German I remembered
First to appear ollicer corps in defeat. Offers
of Russian committee was the Teamsters" with the horror
Pallid Union, a nation-wide organisa- their eyes. winters in officers from the U-boats. The tion which hokis the whole Savage 5.S. Exhausted generals) the road transport Industry who had lost their armica. ith grasp.
PANZER MAN
THEN
colonel's
of in
The Teamsters claimed that i was all a plot, n plot by reac tionary employers to break the union and to interfere with its legitimate functions.
into
drama and
the
And the election, in spite of the apparent contradic tion of every man from the deposed maharajah to the ill-fed peasant having a vote high allegations included one that the he can cast against the Gov- Teamsters had planned to tale ernment, has brought all the over
the whole political opsigns into focus. oratus of the State of Oregon and that they used political and polico Influence
rackets in which they interested.
Rre
"Opposition parties in India have thought fit to run down Congress and its leaders day in, day out, almost in abusivo icrITA Instead of following a parliamentary system of democracy almost blindly it is imperativo to devise and evolve a better system of democracy."
HIS FEARS
thought
Nehru's speeches have been a THERE, almost in cliches of protect pointer. to
He has often told I Commhunisan, you have a were voters petulantly: "I do not like
process
which by électioneering when I have
for Congress is Nehru, many important duties and Nehru, worries that need my attention." has got around at 67 to Bome- thing he feared in himselt as a Imagine the reception that promising beginner in polities. would get in Dagenham or Darlington.
Power and crime have tenkied to go together in U.S. history.
Political organisations have re- gularly become involved in
By Alexander Broad
HEN I met my first German officer since 1945. Haupt- munn Freiherr von Rosen He was standing beside a British But George the deak, heels together, Meany, head back. A tall, blond panzer president of the 15 million strong reclecteering and, on the whole. captain who had fought us in AFL-CIO, the al-embracing the stronger a political organisa- Normandy.
federation of American trade tion in a given area the greater unions, apparently did not think the livelihood that it is or has the committee been commected with organised so. He promised "every bit of co-operation asked for."
His loose-fitting grey battle- drees and
shirt looked whito unmilitary. But the new uniform and the rubber-soled Jackboots, nicknamed "deno- cratie gumboots," will change
all that.
crime.
As the trade
strong
•LUXURY.
He wrote of himself then: "Men llice Jawaharlal Nehru, with all their capacity for great have little idea of what. It to democracy. A little twist and Jawaharlal might turn into a dictator, sweeping asido. the moving pamphernalia of slow. democracy.
N speeches reminiscent of totalitarians gone by, he has countered growing talk of the HC might still use the need for à strong | Opposition
language and slogans of de unions' power with the argument that onemocracy and Socialism, but wo party is necessary for all know how Fascism kas And the first week's testimony has increased they have fallen
stability.
fationed, on this language and did not suggest that the inquiry prey to the same temptation. An
then cast it aside is useless was intended to interfere with organisation capable of bringing
Mr Shriman Narayan, general lumber. labour-management · relations. a community to a standstill is iu
of Nehru's all- Witnesses testified that the a position to offer powerful pro- secretary Teamsters had gone into the tection to a criminal organica-powerful Congress Party, hos gone into the problem more salvo business, into the gambition.
the prostitu- ing business, into
Racketers are always pre-deeply in the party's fortnightly Lion business.
pared to pay heavily for thrin economie review, The woman who almost had a
Port of protection. We talked about the weather,
Ann Thompson to the most past Mrs as he 10d_me
said that she had been approach Important German there, the man, who directly represents ed by union men who had asked to set up a chain of bawdy Government: her to set
Ver Rosen was charming. Like the other Germans SHAPE he is hand-picked., Pleked for skill in diplomacy, tacflés, Attulegy, diplomnaty,
logistles....diplo. diplomacy,
.macy.
the German
But that is not all. It is fairly easy for racketeers to infiltrate
organisations-just · such Communists do,
Brigadd-General Johann-Adolf houses in the Pacific Northwest 1 in not, therefore,
Graf von Kielman egg.
A familiar, high-crowned, German cap hung on the wall,
toki But when they
entirely
of
her, she surprising that allegations would have to turn over halt racketeering should have become her takings, she said "the heck, so edmmonpince that the Seurate „decided that it must-investigate, Two,undon men brought to the What is encouraging is that
There,
smoking an English | with it.') cigarette, was Count von Kiel mansögg, every inch a Corman officer and Hanoverian aristo- crat.
We talked about the weather,
Here are some of his points in An article entitled "Opposition in an Under Developed Econo-
my."
Part of that useless lumber ja the gargantuan general election, many voters, (203 with million) that it is taking thres works to complete the polling.
And it is true enough that it is useless against the impossi- bility of unseating: Gandal- hatted Congress members from "The fact is that parliament-lhe majority of ponts, in the ary democracy has not boen rubber gachpod Parliament here found to be a perfect instrument in New, Dohi, of democratic process even in Western, Countries, a
"Econominally crudcler-dove- ata pleaded the Fifth Amend the majority of trade unionists ment to the US, Comitutions have welcomed the investiga loped countries Honours
Congproam, tua kentrenched itself in power too well for that. Itw members toestrol, Jobs In
at State
an
the amendment which gives tiori. They are, on the whole, hardly at afford the luxury of industrien. Bien, in privato bundi witness right in some cir- grotend corpore map in corportion only for the ance of new particularly those in need shetrandi krionet loetions,
Fly
find it expedient to give guner- Gusly to Congress funds,
An enormous amount of tax- payers' money is spent
11:0
propaganda about the Govern- ment much as Congress achieve- ments and plans
But the election is a wetui demonstration of democracy although
most of the totexe have itlis Ides of what it is about. They pass the acid best of whether a man can speak or vote against the Government in power.
Indeed one powerful, and well-hated local Compes encier was heavily defeated at Lark- now and the whole town celo- brated
In spite of that, the, election is a luxury Congress can, welk affordů.. 19. arkis to
predige abroad, and bow. Indians love
It allows self-dejusion, in muldst of simple faith ani hard cynicism at home,
"Dat with an Opposition worthy of the: name it, could ba
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