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YNDERNEATH a suburban lawn once owned by Mrs Kate Meyrick, the night-club queen of the 1920's, and
a mouldering fortress, built by Prime Minister Palmerston 100 years ago, a variety of admirals are now beginning to stick little paper ings into ocean charts,
This is not us fantastic as
it may sceni. The headquarters outside Paris, has yet quarters of the Atlantic and naked a German colleage and, Channel Commands of the quietly and courteously, asked: Why do you want another North Atlantic Treaty Or- navy? ganisation happen to be you?" buried beneath these an- cient monuments,
But what may seem fau tastic is that some of these Angs represent the German Navy or, as it was known quite recently, the Kries- marine.
The fact is that German warships are preparing for their first sep exercises with both the navies they defeated and the Royal Navy which defeated the Kriegsmarine itself.
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Reborn
IT may come as a surprise to those over the age of that there is, at this moment, a German Navy.
This has,
very recently, been reborn, with Nato as midwife. There is, in fact, already a young, healthy Kriegsmarine, and it is paddling lustily in the sea.
The present German naval programme-the one that has been made public-19
for some 170 warships and
20,000 trained men. The war. ships, they say, will not excred 3,000 tons, and their strategical purpose will be defensive.
Modest...
ON the face of it,
this
sounds modest enough.
It sounds particularly
modest when compared with
What good con il do
Or, more pertinently, he might ask, "What good cnn i do us?"
Because i mycslf can visualise no possible warlike situation in the foreseeable future in which a German Navy can be of the smallest assistance to Western
defence,
BY TOM POCOCK
"I HEARD YOU WERE
GOING AROUND THE COMMONWEALTH FOR.. A REST, HAROLD “
→IN THE MEthod school of acting
The Teacher. Too, Is A Cry-baby
EDUCATIONAL TOUR
the present Americon and You meet a German naval Russian Navics, the latter oficer and tell him this.
I HAVE just attended
£2-a-term crying class. Not that my tear ducts need exercising, but to watch, dry-eyed, English pupils of the American "Method" school of acting.
The Method School, as you know,'ls the fashionable means of wringing performances out of Hollywood's top stars. UP
an alley in New York is the Actor's Studio. Here Marion Brando spends happy evenings Impersonating a cashi
register.
Marlyn Monroe might give
here
the performance of her career as wastepaper basket.
But in England the "Method" has been modified to the British
why;
way of life. American Bab OʻNell, tall, handsome teacher at the
Crying class explained "We belleve," he said. "that all acting must be related to some genuine human situn- tion," The nearest his pupils ever get fo Impersonating inanimate objects in protending
thal a poker is a bunch of ftovers, a diamond necklace or a cup of tea,
A large mirror
The English Method class room, like its American equiva lent, is up an alley. But this one is off Marylebone High Street and also up three flights -of-stairs,
of
Here on bare boards in front large mirror candidates
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They say the Kriegsmarins treaty limiting battleships to He is for
coastal defence. But $5.000 tons.
having now replaced the wil disagree. Probably you what sort of defensive weapon Royal Navy as the second cumint help ting him.
most potent sen power.
and
therefore
He has a seaman's clear eyes and Arm handshake and quite But, modest or not, what possibly he is a Baltie German virtually is surprising is that there Scandinavian. should be any German Navy
at all.
is the U-boat?
The submarine is extentially offensivo-a killer.
That, the Germans will now say, was a Nazi trick. But it is worth remembering that most of the senior officers In the new German Navy held Important appointments in the Nuzi Navy jobs they could not have held had they protested against the treachery
they about which must have known.
Therefore when the German
The U-boat nearly defeated Britain twipe within Perhaps you And that you
25 And now a sunken were on opposite sides in some years. battle when the sea was the U-boat has been raised and is a worst enenty.
training ship with the new Gur- You may talk of the Brother man Navy. The West German minesweepers steam out of Cux- Now, people with short hood of the Sea. memories may be able to But, then, when you asi bim Government has promised that haven for exercise It may | accept the
what he is doing back in noval no new U-boat will exceed '350 be worth cold-blooded
uniform he will say that he is tons, which is quite small for these are the heirs of the arguments of military men now responsible for coastal u modern submarine.
fleet which became, by reason that a new German Army defence.
of politics, geography and tem perament, the most devastating ico-killers in history.
is needed to try to keep the Russians east of the Elbe. They may also accept the contention that a new Luft-
A killer
But recall the recent past. 10 may be churlish to men- tion it, but we did trust the Germans before. We trusted waffe should be an integral means to defence of the the size and power of warships. them when we signed the pre- war naval treaties governing part of the now Wehrmacht.
a German, coastal defence
Tatow, shallow
Kerritorial
In terms of inter-continental
missiles,
...
remembering that
Tell us
oversCas
be
BVIOUSLY, Germany is not to limit their rebuilding its fleet for the They are, after all, meant waters in the Baltic, and the They agreed
of West Europ to defend the frontiers of approaches to Hamburg, the Hipper-class cruisers to 10,000 defence
Kiel Canal, and the North San, tons, but built Western civilisation against harbours.
them as occan because it is not needed. rolders of 14,476 tons: Russian aggression.
Germany has no They sald their battia possessions and no merchant
that connot But, somehow, there has tallinle
and shipping hydrogen cruisers Scharnhorst crept into these, practical
Gelenau displaced 26,000 tons, defended in war by Britain
and America. bombe, and BOLLSPOČ tank when the truë- Agure was 0,000 Nato plana the German
tons mure. Navy.
oharyès, that particular form of; (3
Then why are the GermanES Thomasaiva Bismarck atid` again taking to the sem? Tirpits were mensters of 42,800 ions, In spite of the Ceributi algnature to the International
I wonder if any British European, defence · soczas. Tory admiral, drinking his gin in magnificent Indeed. the bar of the Nato hood-
20%
They should tell us.
SARAH FROTHSCHILD
All are unu me girl were sabbing
for future Hamlets and Hedda Gablers flex their Reting muscles,
There were about 12 pupils, most of whom seemed to be modelling themselves on some great exponent of the Method. Unmistakable was the Brando slouch and gloomy eye of one young actor. Likewise the peroxide hair
nad
fumillar
wiggic of one of the girls---
A pretty dark-haired girl next to me dabbed some scent, called Shocking, behind her ear and the crying class was under way.
sald
"Now listen here." schoolmaster O'Neil. "I do my best for you kids, but you've Kat pull your weight, - (00," A dozen pairs of painted eye- lashes drooped apologetically. O'Neil straddled himself across the desk in front of the 12ft. by 8ft. mirror. "It just won't do kids," he scolded,
n
There was
a puuse, then Nighting change of mood: "Hands up there who have prepared their emotional memories? A sparse tutter of varnished fingers reached for the ceiling. Also on padky Brando hand,
The dark young actor loped
forward on to a chuir. Не burled his eyes in his banda, Five minutes' ailence ticked by, One
pony-tailed brunette reached for her handiserchief.
Still huddled
Suddenly the door was flung open and in walked, an attrac- Live blonde, plus a jewel collared poodle. For the last time, bellowed teacher, "I will
not tolerate dogs in my closs.". The mood was broken. The Brando-like gure Wos huddled in silenec on the chair. The emotional memory, Sort of British equivalent of a Holy Roler impromptu confession, was not forthcoming.
The next emotional memory hort been properly prepared. Joe, dressed in shocking pink, walked with that wiggle 'up to the chair. Perhaps a future Lady Macbeth, she buried her face in her hands. Soon she falicred, "I am eight years old....in a. farm.... here k 21 boy.. don't like him....ent's just had kittens....he's going to
drown-them.
The rest of the sentence was Jogg. In torrential tears. Heal salt-water tears. All round me girls were sobbing into their handkerchiefs, The poodle barked excitedly, Moaned the pony-talled brunette:. My inarcara's got into my eye."
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Little moans.
Teacher went over and gave Jose
the a friendly pal on !houlder. "A very nico emotional memory, well done," he said.
"Please may I pe and powder my reso?" she asked. After sho had gone on! O'Neil paced the leor, soliloquising: "Discipline, discipline, discipline."
Finally tenchor O'Neil proved that he was not only familiar with the theory of the Method. He, too, could be a cry-baby. Lillic moans of protestation and cries of "No, no, I can't bear it," came from the girls. The performance which followed would make the blubberings of Johnnie Ray seem positively arid. "I am in bed. alone...
it started. Then facial contortions only. com- parable with the convulsions of comebody having an impacted wisdom tooth removed, without An anaesthetic.
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Personally, I would prefer to watch somebody pretending to be a cash register, especially if it was Marlon Brando.
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