THE CHINA MAIL
TUESDAY, MAY 31, 1960.
Germans find new land
of opportunity in Eire
TWENTY years ago almost to the day, I travelled from wartime Britain to Dublin to investigate the infiltration of Nazi agents into Ireland. They were there all right but were difficult to discover. in Eire. If the There is no difficulty at all in build castles discovering the Germans in Eire. castles are surrounded by arable today. They. are there in force, land, they immediately revert to
So great is their number that type and start farming. the German Press devotes con- siderable space to describing the German post-war invasion.
Uncomplicated
Land which has not been
But Eire is not only popular tilled for years begins to bloom as among German tourists, Scores the German invaders set to of their countrymen have settled work with true Teutonic fury. there buying castles and land, The yield has proved highly starling new satisfactory. building factories, industries.
Tax bait
Chief among the reasons fr the German: Intux is given as the abundance of labour available-- a boon to West German Indus- trialists who are hampered by a desperate shortage in the Federal Republic.
that Another advantage is wages are low, land is cheap and the Eire Government offers in- dustial immigrants un to 25 years tax exemption for ex- port production.
But there are also deep psycho- logical and political reasons. In spite of their economic progress, West Germans suffer from a feel- ing of political insecurity.
In Eire, they say, polities are stable. There are no Commu- nists, no Iron Curtain, such as the one at home.
Escaping from the oppressive atmosphere of aggressive D-Mark materialism in West Germany, wealthy Germans compete with each other to acquire and re-
Herr Peter Bickenburg, for instance, a former West German higher civil servant who bought £3,000 derelict farm with credit some years ago. has al- ready repaid the loan and bought a second farm. Other Germans just like the quiet uncomplicated life.
Ernst The former Prince Heinrich. of Saxony, heir to the "kingdom of Saxony" and Dir- trich, Count Doenhoff, who used to own vast estales in East Prussia, are now content to form
hundred acres each. · Like the farmers, the indus- found conditions raliste have most propitious, At Killarney a new West German crane factory is already employing 300 Irish workers and the owners
For plans
From
WILLI FRISCHAUER
Bonn.
cox's will soon enable him to compete seriously with French and other famous
Camembert cheeses.
No wonder that the sound of
gutteral German is beginning to mingle noticeably with the Irish brogue in the eccktail bar of Dublin's Gresham Hotel.
the
And some ominously familiar German figures bestride scene the glant Count Doern- berg, for instance, who, as Chief of Protocol, was never far away when Hitler received foreign statesmen, is now the Squire of Glengariff.
There he owns a castle, a park resplendent with mimosu, a har- bour and 3, small off-shore island.
The beginning
am a
AUTHOR NORMAN
The last time
I was in prison
WHEN I was 20 1 stole to live. Now I'm 30 1 write to live. Today I comfortable distance away from my past life so I can write about it. "I don't think that if I still mixed with the villains I could do this.
I still write in slang, but I no longer talk it-though I could pick it up again easily within half an hour. The point is: I don't think it. "Slang has become a fashion, a fad, rather ridiculous, really.
was
up
by FRANK
NORMAN
Author of 'Fings Ain't Wot They. Used T'Ba' talking to
JOHN CRUESEMANN
their mistake. But there are self-contained. always others longing
As a matter of
to and fact, prison is quite good for I don't particu- cut.
them, you, although 1 am bored by especially these pound note larly like it. birds (high-class girls) trying to talk slang, which only makes me laugh. I don't like thera trying to come down to what they think my level is.
A substitute
Writing is a fantastic sub- I like it down here by my--
The self.
truth is, women stitute for almost everything.
write about things i think they are all angry know their position the You can
In
and things you'd well and bre you've done world today wo against each other.
Yet they talk like to do. And if you do that you are in a way actually ex- periencing it.
It's not
is
"Inferno" just To be a thief is very limiting. read Dante's You're always thinking about for a feat; but I read it again how much you can make on a for itself because I wanted to.
Then come the Hangers-On, flash with it. little, and about getting caught.
I remember one clear night the Mob building up a lot of hot about equality of the sexes.
Take Colin Wilson seeing. know villains without fear. But
from my little etone air.
Just take a girl out and buy they're without imagination too, looking.
Box
and himself as a genius. into the sky
does she buy 1 don't feel like a scar-faced he's not off his her champagne,
in champagne you
return? ex-jail-bird. Now I have come in seeing the stars, and I thought true because The last
1 time
on the furthest head enough. if you stood
Women ought to be in complete full circle. Once I had nothing. serving three years.
That meant freedom of a sort. happened 10 me
side of a star what would you Immediately beyond it?
submission to men.
Then Reading sec all the way round.
came jobs. And thet Because of this myth about limited freedom. So I. broke out. and thinking had a lot to do all thought took a leap forward and life didn't seem so limited
And after unsuccessful with Then came prison. me any more.
women (or I am just unsuccess that I discovered I could write. ful, anyway). It's not that they I became successful. And there disappoint me so much as I dis- was freedom again:
They make a appoint them.
There's a lot of Now I just want to go on writ- grab at me. violence but no affection. And ing. Most of all I'd like to There is a write for Alms so long as the 1 crave affection.
isn't terrific lack of affection in these script
tampered with. affairs.
are exciting things.
exciting.
exploit than with it.
Olto Skorzeny who, not long Brian Horrocks ago when Sir told his story on television, was to Britain, refused admission has also discovered the beauties and advantages of Eire.
Skorzeny.
former S.S. claimed credit for leader, has
cap-Erison, rescuing Mussolini from tivity (although German mili- something
exports put a somewhat try lower estimate on his part in this spectacular Britain's gallant Black Rod).
Hundreds of lesser-or less well known Germans of this sort have made Eire their new have home
West expansion With Lebensraum in
Germany so restricted, however. scheme.
Other German-owned Ictories i am
German told that the are producing knives, motor ear invasion is only in its beginning
textiles, plastics. and
liable Is
10 other accessories.
momentum as the months and medicaments. furniture.
years go by.
a VINT
A Bavarian cheese manufze- lurer insists that milk from Irish
(London Express Service).
KENNEDY KILLS
LOG CABIN
Charleston. don't have to be
So you in a log cabin
to run for President.
Not, anyway, if you are running here in a State that abounds with these traditional symbols of American poverty.
In
derelict. depressed-area West Virginia, JACK KENNE- DY, wealthy son of a million- aire, trounced Hubert Hum- who muver phrey, the missed an opportunity to boast of what he liked to call humble origins.
this
1230
of
his
Kennedy spent money to win
Lots election. Humphrey didn't have much to spend.
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So true
Up till then I'd never taken prison very seriously (I'd been four times). But then 1
because
lasted started to read big books → mostly longest, which was important --- like Taylor Caldwell and other novelists, American
Then I
LEGEND
By MICHAEL WOLFF
HIS ABILITY to win the is: Can they afford
Despite nominale him? support of labour. official union backing for
Humphrey in some areas, Ken nedy won a large measure
of
big industrial centres.
or from unionists in the
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He impressed them with his sincerity. And he reminded the old-timers of no one more than President Roosevelt, who saved West Virginia."
"the man
For
failure
tu
they
That may sound high-falulin but is true. I thought I am only going to live another 70 years at the most. And when a judge says you will go to prison for 90 many years that means you are dead for so many years.
That is why when I came out nothing would induce me la zo What is back to the old ways. more I didn't even know then that I was going to write. That only happened three months Jater when I realised I could put down how I had lived.
Nonsense
The one man of my genera- I like enormously tion Brendan Behan. He is not like the others with his fantastic humour. He's been through a lotunlike the others, who are so bored because they've had everything done for them in the Welfare State, That's just their trouble, they've not known trouble.
Invention
I like pure convention, a bit What I do writ- of fantasy. ing is to fantasise the truth a bit but it's still true, because it's an enlargement of what happens in life.
are
1
But
(kings yome shame. In this country if one 10 be published one I know they say you can't wants
can't be absolutely DOTTO- beat the System. I have in a
K silly. be- way, Most people like to have. Eraphic-which
the cause life is crude after all a ty at it by winning
And because it's crude doesn't pools. I did it by writing. What
It's mean it's ugly or untrue. I have done money-wise is to
part of our hypocrisy that Roosevelt. Truman, and now establish myself so that I can
trying to be truthful venerable Speaker Sam Rayburn live as I've always wanted to, people
just so truthful all have been his sponsors. He which means living my own life can only be and no more. Southerner, a Texan, with, no interference. which is a handicap.
is
1
Take me. I like, to I have developed a sense of responsibility (I think I needed about women all the time. that), A writer is like an know
not to
He is a Right-wing Democrat, which is not.
nominate
He may well arrive at the many
had
with as
Catholic and Liberal voters as
write
I
an
because I've got entertainer: I realised after I inferiority complex about them. written my first book My mother should have left me alone. Kennedy on his showing so far Convention
Bang To Rights," that if you put things to readers in a funny would be taken by the nation's delegate votes as Kennedy.
Third, always waiting, always way they are inclined to take
reluctant debulant, is more notice than if the STEVENSON. Two things to them in a morbid way. I find there is humour in all
It's all things, even death. question of the way a writer approaches his subject.
a sign of the very bigotry of which the party chiefs say they are afraid in the nation.
But looking over the should- is of Kennedy supporters the ghost of Catholic Al Smith.
ить
ADLAI
time luser, but to what an opponent.
It could be he who holds the
Even the Bostonian accent is He won the West Virginia pri- key. It might be the loser the same. It was
memory mary handsomely in 1928, but that night's vote.
by Herbert that was skilfully jogged by was overwhelmed the presence of F.DR. jun., Hoover in the Presidential elec- campaigning on Kennedy's be- tions that November. half.
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And among tite Stales he lost tn Hoover was West Virginia.
PLEDGE
I
you put
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Incidentally. it's important to write of things you know about.
No respect
am I
Words Language
lilce stinks, but,
I can accept. violence easier than affection. So it's hard for · Life women to be really nice to me, said, it all depends I suppose. Prison has made me approach.
I
on your
DONALD CAMPBELL'I NEW BLUEBIRD
WHEN A WIFE
HAS TO COPE WITH AN OBSESSION FOR SPEED.......
"YOU
I don't really have respect for
I've had more un women.
affairs than love successful anyone I know. That worries Women are fascinated by Other writers of my genera-' me. tion e John Osborne and the violence they think they see John Braine are so deadly in my life. They would like to in me come carnest. Why must they be so watch the villain
Their subconscious makes think they've out. In the course of his primary afflicted?
Humphrey missed the point, of being alive. then want to get mixed up in
something squalid. campaign Hubert has picked up a small but signi- ficant
number
delegate
I hate their possessiveness →→→ of
my votes. They could be decisive.
that goes right back t Life doesn't start and stop at wanting to do what I like as I In his statement conceding
This may sound Donor the kitchen sink. The pretence like. Now that Humphrey has with victory Humphrey pledged
remains of himself, to work
theis futile. I am not sold on this ceited, but I always seem to be for
Women who marry men with said, "It is a curiosity he has those officially announced: nomination of a "liberal candi-Big Realism. It whines so, running away from them.
I' never They tell you a load
get married to a compulsion for the dangerous that nothing can ever satisfy. STUART SYMINGTON.
Jack A date." He did not mean former Air Force Secretary, a Kennedy by that, but come July nonsense in which there is no nobody again. Oh, girls who Ute are usually pretty quick at developing their own little philo- sophies for coping with the gentle man, who looks like one and all might be forgiven yet. truth whatever. imagines a President ought to
It is ironical that the man he
strain, look; amiable, quite liberal; whipped may yet hold Kenne- enjoys the support of Harry dy's future in his hands. * HIS ABILITY to overcome Party.
Brother Bob Kennedy told Truman..
within me triumphantly that three hours of the polling
HIS ABILITY to make his personality felt wherever Who are the men who may With the help of the local he goes. The smile and the still bar the way to Kennedy? "organisations" that manoeuvre handshake radiated goodwill and the electorate in the right rebounded from all who came voting booths at the right time, within reach. Kennedy won.
But the victory is. founded on more lasting assets
OFFERS
however,
in
These assets are not lost than a good local organisation, those who sbek to guide the destinies of the Democratic
1 the religious handicap of
being a Roman Catholic.
In a State 95 per cent bonths being shut the other
Protestant he succeeded in
night, with barely ten per cent
drawn only one
WAITING
The other night, when the two candidates posed for photo- graphs, as Humphrey stretched out his hand to grasp Kennedy's. Two others unamnounced are Humphrey joked: "We bave burying religious antagonism at the results in the telephone waiting. The most powerful in done this a lot in the past." and even making the people calls from the party's mighty terms of Convention voting The chances are they will be ashamed of it.
is LYNDON JOHNSON, doing it a lot more in the future. anes all over the country were power
majority leader of the Senate, And it may be Kennedy who pouring in offering to help.
Can the trained from his earliest Once it was asked:
po is reaching out to grasp the as litical years for just this star- other fellow's hand. Democrats afford a Catholic candidate? Today the question com.
Kennedy is believed to have picked up many middle class votes cast just to prove there was no religious bigotry.
-(London Express Service).
•The Co-existor
K-The Cold War Warrior
tourist
•K-The Peace
“If only we knew which Mr Khrushchev was going to speak,
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Lover
of old
have known me have realised
BUY A CAR AND
YOU MAY GO ON
A
FREE SAFARI
New York.
OU can die," said speed-king's wife Mrs Donald Campbell, "of two things-boredom anxiety. I would sooner die of anxiety."
a
Donald Campbell is not competitive man. The records he breaks are usually his own. His wife, watching the astonish- To a mere flances, this danger ing performance of the famous is excitement. When a fiancee Bluebird, feels nothing but prile becomes a wife she waits, be- Heving that one day things will be different.
"He only wants to break such and such a record, then he retire." she says.
and excftement-and what she describes as a little pinch at the heart."
"I would be silly to say he does his work with me as an He would do. It inspiration. anyway.
It is enough for me But
Inlle what if he never does that sometimes he will give up?
about his rudders and off-side wheels. I can't understand very That is why Tonia Campbell's much about it, but it is flatter- defensive philosophy 达 an unusual one.
CUSTOMER who buys a car in the United NEW ATTEMPT
States today can also get a free Savile Row
suit, an ocelot, a Hollywood screen test, a trip on
If you can't bring yourself to
an African safari even a free psychiatrist. It accept the dangers of life you all depends upon which car the customer chooses.might as well stop living.
In. May last year the undis
39-your-
ing to be told."
What is she like, this girl who watches and waity?
She is a cabaret singer- Torta, Bern. Singing engage. ments are becoming a bore, the says, but I want to keep on ...afler all Donald did fall hi love with a singer.
She is tall, blonds, full of life
This car-plus-luxury-gift idea three months from a reputable puted ace on water, is part of a frantic campaign to psychiatrist. To date he has had old Donald Campbell, announced and femininity. And very happy. "win customers for the record, no complaints from dissatisfied that he intended to pack up his 0,500,000 automoblies which are customers; but other dealers "life of speed and danger" for expected to roll off Detroit's throughout the country have the sake of his new 20-year-old
Iwife. not been so fortumate. assembly lines In. 1960.
Hollywood.comedian Jerry The Hollywood dealer who
"swift trip car promised Colonna, who also is a
In your new car" peed-this time preparing for dealer described the situation startom
a
The Donald Campbells K seems, are about as tense as a retired publican, and His AWLS Worry simply has no place Now almost exactly a year their lives. Well, almos to Inter he is still engrossed in place.
in these words "Once you could ran into trouble when women an
ro out and just buy a car, drive began
attempt on the late Johnz When she left me complaining about Cobb's land speed record of Campbell had a long
it home and that was that. But their screen tests.
not now, brother, not now!”
Screen tests
And the Chicago dealer who up.
en African offered, a trip on
"I'm sure 394 miles an hour...
by car in front of! I suggested a train there wasn't even fim in the
Perhaps it is only his wide faster: camera," one woman said.
who knows he will never give
"But I'm not adored on trala. Donald forbids me It is the husband who take near a railway, sution, sinc about the quiet life somewhere tell between a mod In the future. Tonia Campbeli relapse Into normality and reckles
It has been estimated that in saferi is being sued for nearly the last 12 monthe New York 250,000 by three women who dealers alone spent neatly & were hurt in a jeep accident, she is arver Hirely to train door the wor milion pounds on sales choutune mairobi. micks" designed to Sure:
customers to their showrooms.
They claimed that "since his don't particularly want representative was host for tho either. One New York dealer oro- occasion all ability reverts to mised, customers a certicate the dealer, " guaranteeing free treatment for
all the time--becam
"He wild always wonder if a Sally Vincent:
can go just a little faster," she