THE CHINA MAID, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1958.
Germans show off
THE pride and joy of
the new Wehrmacht went on show recently to wind up Germany's 1958 manoeuvres the first to be held under combat conditions since Hitler marched into Poland in 1939.
The German general staff is all set to show Britain, the United States, and all other Nato nations that she has found the most eff-
#time
'ideal' force
for A-war
From COLIN LAWSON: Munster Lager (Germany).
he has ever attended were red-more
before. has never put on a uniform.
cient fighting force for army exercise. He boasts he
modern atomic warfare,
The German, are confident that their ideas for the army of the future will be accepted" in the main.
Here in the middle of Lune- bury Heath one mile from a British war cemetery and with the remains of Belsen Camp just round the corner! the headquarters directing two formations which the Germans are showing to 500 milliary ex- perts from all over Europe.
F
Now Panzers
The
found
He came with Defence Minis- ter Strauss and was closely lectured on the operation by Wehrmacht "bright boy" Briga lier-General Multer-Hullebrand, who is directing the exercise.
Eighty-three-year-old Aden- auer asked: "What are the ad- vantages of this kind of force?"
Now power
Proudly General Roettiger, Inspector-General of the army. told him: "We think this is the many problems in answer tu
The Americans have tried war. Arst force,
which is out their pentomile division, but simulating Russian attacking I learn they are not at all happy. formation, is the new
Panzer
"Our formation is, we think, brigide group of two armoured
one. 11 ident
small reglaments
and ong motorised the
enough to be mobile and highly infantry regiment.
Bexible, and large enough to have big ring power.
The second, to be used where tonk country is sparse, is grenadier Brigade of Lwo inoturlaed infantry armoured regiments.
arad
ont
"in the old days a division In war look up to 80 miles of road when on the move. This is
no
than
ever who have continued its develop- ment to the present stage.
And I and 'the Germans mak- ing a new claim about this rockel, the SS 10.
It was developed, they say, by Germany in the last war. The plans were seized by the French
The Germans are showing equipment which they claim is the most modern in the world. It even includes a unit for re- pairing battle-dress--a caravan with electrically-driven sewing and darning mächnies;
ROUND-UP
ADMIRALTY PORTER
TRAMOUS and oldest part of Admiralty headquarters Whitehall the Ripley Building had again a holl porter at the "Colonnade Doors" wearing a rock coat with gold lace on the collar and lapels for the re-opening of the main entrance on September 29. The building has been und rgoing reconstruction and redecoration from Ore damage in 1955. The porter's uniform was discontinued at the start of World War II. The historic main hall is mostly unchanged. According to legend, one of the heavy oak doors in the hall was taken from one of wrecked. Spanish Armada ships. Nearby is "The Captain's Walling Room" where Coramonders-in-Chief are briefed before holsting their ings. Known as "Nelson's Room," the famous Admiral's relics are to be rehoused there.
Eond in eternic warfare. Our CALL ME MADAM” Chancellor Adenauer visited formation takes up much less the KUNDE:VTesthe first room and is more easily pro-
ARTIE.
"It might be all right for Sophia Loren to dress like that but can I have my
shirt back!!".
"That's a new one on me..
it's got 'Made in Britain
on is...."
tected,"
they Are-
The Germans believe have attained as big a power with this small formation of up to 5,000 men s the old division of 20,000. And each brigade is self-sufficient.
During the exerelse 30 electro- nile-controlled anti-tank rockets
CIERGEANT-MAJOR Shirley Kitchen, a chief Instructor at the W.R.A.C. Physlenl Training Instructors School at Aldershot, has among her pupils her twin sister, Sergeant Ann Kitchen. Ann was recently posted to the school for a year's course. The Sergeant- Major, who has been in the Corps for five years two tower than her sister says, "Ann will have to call me 'Madam' like the rest of the girls. I shall address her os "Sergeant.'" The twins, who are 24 and live at Normandy, near Guldford, Surrey, hove both represented the Army and the county at erkeket and are well known in Surrey for the table tennis ability.
THE PRIVATE
LETTERS OF:
NIKKI
THE BEAR
YOU haven't forgotten, have you, that Giles has exclusive rights in the correspondence of London Zop's bear Nikki, the gift two years ago of Krushshev to Prince Charles?
dean Comaade Chi-Chi,
WELL, how do you like life under the bourgeois capítalist bensts ? I o you'ta complaining already. No bamboo shoots to your liking, not satisfied with your accommodation #tried to escape twice they toll me). Belleve me, Comrade, you'll have to get used to worse than that before You've been over here much longer.
Let me introduce myself.
My name's Nikki-Nikki the Bear. I am in a cell a few blocks from you with a pretty stiff guard.
Our reasons for being here are somewhat different.
You tried to sell your soul to the warmongering Americans' zoo, but they refused entry as an **legal Import from Com- manist China," so you sold yourself to Regent's Park for a miserable £10,000 and therefore deacrve all that's coming to you.
*
Mine is a different story.
I was brought over per- asonally by Comrades Krush- they and Bulganin with all the trimmings,
Unlike you I was given everything a bear from Siberia Could wish for unlimited eggs, butter, milk. sweet roots. bath, and altendance. front page coverage by overy newspaper in the decadent country-and I tell for it.
They took me to Windsor Castle
to ace the Queen and the royal corgl taught me how to play biting Guarde- men's ankles, and all very pleasant it
WAS.
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*
I was given a personal cell-mate- a little brown bear named Rusk, and it was only when I discovered this son of a Ruskoyavitch was nothing but a member of M.1.5 in disguise (Ổ.G.P.U. to you) that I realised why they were laying out the red carpet. Red carpet hero, by the way, le not the same as they used in the Kremlin for putting redundant comrades on.
They're a queer crowd aver here, for
FILES
THE DOCTOR'S DOWNFALL
by Anne
Edwards
LONG I'VE WATCHED HER
· AND I KNOW JUST WHAT BROUGHT THIS..
POOR old Flossie Bang-Bang! After 14 years as a top boss in the Socialist Party she's been turned out by a whacking drop of over 2,000,000 votes.
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THE FAST-CHANGING FORTUNES OF
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BY MICHAEL RAND
although no one has ever seen one, they all firmly believe in a thing called the Iron Curtain, and when I caught on that they were trying to pump me about what goes on behind this Iron Curtain I played up morty Moscow with 'em.
I made it so hot for Comrade Rusk that they had to put him in a separate cell. I never did hear if he got over the last towsing I gave him. Instead of making a fortune for the Regent's Park Basses by ente.taining all the little capitalist children I got 10
swiping
the keepers about, And although this entertained the children far more than standing on my head It didn't entertain the keepers,
Bo I was removed to a stronger cell in the internment block and was never mentioned on the front page agaksi.
⭑ ★
Yes you сап саке It from me Comrade Chi Chi Kai Pandavicch. they haven't paid £10,000 for you for nothing, although even for capitalist beasts I reckon they've paid enough
You sound a poor buy to me. And all this flm star stuff about must have only young. alender falconerl bamboo shoots... You've picked up the capitalist way of life" fast, Comrade
"What's wrong with a good honest worker's meal of old bamboo nail. stands ? And a good job we, didn't rely on giant pandas to build our army in the East. There's only three of them -one la Moscow, one in Peking, and you
As for not knowing your sex. Comrade, If you come round
OUTA
We were struck by her extra- ordinarily self-effacing husband who allowed his children to To which I remember that I take his wife's surname; and replied:
about her surprising statemen's on feminine equality.
Dr Edith Summerskill's career in politics has been marked by some of the most astonishing bricks ever tire of her.
ance, her own party has got majestically (na Under lenge anyone to tell the dif dropped by
Secretary to the Ministry ference blindfold." arty public figure. Ever since she And yet she is probably of Food in wartime) over u stepped out on a political the most successful woman party given to try to per career she has been treading in polities since the war.
suade women journalists to like on the corns of the very
snock- people she wanted to help-
greyish South African pike, the women.
which she told us was good as salmon.
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A landmark in the Kirtory of Time motiuPENDENT
She has been an M.P. since 1938. She was on the Socialist Party executive for 14 years. From 1945 to 1950 she was Parliamentary Sec- Her 14 years at the top retury to the Ministry of
Snoek
Food.
have been 2 remarkable fribute to the patience with From 1950 to 1951 she which the British regard was Minister of National
their politicians-or the in- Insurance. difference.
Some of her public state- ments have made them at first gape, then laugh, then gasp, until reaching the
From 1954 to 1955 she Was chairman of the Socialist Party.
mauseous,
And Then-
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She capped this some time later by informing us that no one could tell the difference between butter and marge.
"People are acclimatised to the new food," ahe said, The first time I saw Dr "snock, whale-meat, limits of their British toler- Edith she was presiding marge and butter. I chal-
R.A.F. May
and
"Memo to Dr Edith. Whitehall's famous cook, Buiter to to marge
What salmon is to snock."
I must have irked this earnest, courageous woman that for many years people have joked about. her hats, which Mr Frank Byers cnce sald, "looked as if they had had a direct hit."
"Jook forward to the time when marriage is a real partner- ship and when he woman will be privileged to allow her husband to pledge her crodit."
Motto
Some years ago she said that ir she could be 21 Bank she would live her life over again exactly as before.
We joked about her letters to her daughter: "Now that you are 11," she wrote to her little girl. "I think it is time for you to give But, what, I wonder, has been serious consideration to the The use of lighting for women's problem of the emancipation of rights when at the same time wonen....I hope you have you are misjudging women, spoken to your head master misunderstanding them, alienat- about elimir tting boxing from ing them. the school curriculum,"
Buy Transport Planes
In U.S.
BRITAIN'S Air Chiefs have decided to ask the Government to 1. The number of planes needed is too small to justify the high
D buy a fleet of U.8, transpoet planes for the R.A.F. The first
order would be for about 12 Lockheed C.1391 or Dougins Globemasters, but more are likely to be needed later.
This move, which would cause a political
uproar, has dismayed the British aircraft industry. For year manu- facturers and politicians have urged the Government to order at Icast ono| new Belfish texasport plane,
Now the Air Chlefs have doolded, in
costs of developing a new Reiifsh freighter. No new British plane could be available within the next two years.
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
view of the diflculties experienced during the Jordan airlift, that they must have a now plane immediately to move the mobile Army ROSCTVO,
Aircraft manufacturers have warned the Government that by giving the freight market lo’Amerlos they will ruin the Beliksh ladustry. There is a big future in air freight. 80 Britain must spend money on de- velopment if the U.8. is not to take
over the entire market. Said a director of a Belfish firm: "The polley of purchasing U.8.
planes may have a superficial attraction.
The Defence Ministry la understood to favour a 1.8. doal at a “In the long run it can lend only to further contraction of the
vost of about £1,000,000-per-plane, for two resnatzazn
Belilah airorati industry.”
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When, ofer 20 years articulate, serious, hardworking, high purpose lito in Parliament) your publie image (whatever she may be like, in private) wemains unfeminine, humorous, and unrelenting.
un-
Would Barbara Castio please note that Dr Edith's motto was
to keep on shouting for what you want.”
It seems to be the mistake of women in politics that they shout too loud and too long...
And, in the end, no listens.
one
Yet I had to hand it to her, for I watched her face closely on the TV screen as they cheered at her defeat, and she took it with the impressive courage of a tough old trouper,
to my cell some time maybe I can put you wise to a few almple facts of life.
*
However, if your bamboo shouts haven't turned up.by teatime I Hope you'll enjoy this letter.
It might be bad for both
of us if it tell into the bands
of the Zoo guarda.
Keep nibbling.
Yours for the asking.
nikki.
ཙ་
PS.: Re the Krusbeber- Bulganin - Nikk! the Bear trip 10 London-I hear Comrade Bulganin didn't come of much better than I did.
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RESTORER
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