THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1960.
AND SO
I WAVED
FAREWELL
YOU'D think wouldn't TO
you, that between
the Russian Consulate
and three travel agents THE
somebody would have
pointed out that you
need a Polish visa when TRAIN
travelling by train to Moscow, even on the
first, tourist-encouraging
through trip.
But nol The Russians handed me my visa, the agencies hand-
ed me my tickets, everybody
metá -
phorically speaking patled me
on the head
and sent me
on my 1,800-
mile way.
The first
FOR MOSCOW
by
Patricia
Lewis
faint shiver of doubt pama 1 looked out et the slanting made it quite clear I would be
Liverpool station.
at breakfast after we had left rain and recalled that I was sking off the train at the next East Berlin. The ether 10 7181⁄2 miles from passengers had their passporty Street Station.
out ready tor crossing the had brought my walking shock. border and I noticed a strange
A shart, flushed Sea-Green emerald-green card slicking out man arrived. Behind him was
from all of them.
"What's that?" I asked. "A Polish visa,” they, said. "But I haven't got one." "You haven't opt une?" they echoed.
"How do you think you are going
to get through Poland?
The border was approaching. What should I do?
CHOICE
L short, SQUITO woman.
I was glad I 1 tried everything -- anger, lears, smiles French, German, swearing-it was no good. Off! "This is no way to treat a prospective tourist," I shouted This is supposed to be à good- will tour."
OFF!
Sea-Green
"Visa?" said the man There I sald, pointing to the Rusalan one. He shook his head. "Poland visa."
*I'm
1 spread my hands. terribly sorry, but I don't have one."
1.
The army listened this time with a little more interest. The argument went back and forth. Finally: "He saya you can stay on Poznan."
"He will send a man to lete- phone Warsaw, at the next station. The decision will he telephoned to Poznan.
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I beamed my thanks and, to my surprise, the army and the two Sea-Greens beamed too.
He shrugged his shoulders she shrugged
mansstive her Brazen the whole thing out shoulders, and they both lum- publicly in
dining-car? bered off down the corridor. Plead feminine Innocence from The train gave a lurch and we
rolled on into Poland. KOSY confines cf
the
in the lavatory?
the
my
sleeper? Or simply lock myself Two minutes later they were
back again with a tall your in army officer. "Mein announced the
Officials
We stopped. khaki and sen - green leaped aboard.
kamarad onizier,"
чисткал
and
When the fountains run with
claret...
by
PETER FORSTER CHARLES II had, said somebody, never a thought that rose higher than his stomach. Yet how shrewdly he handled his restoration to the throne waiting in exile in Holland, trying to gauge feelings in an England he had not seen for 10 years, the England sick of Puritan rule, where Pepys had just started to keep a diary, and a new game called cricket was being evolved in villages,
By the time we drew into Pozhan we were toasting each other
AMIHO
"Dinger, is this bird calling us Squares?"
Lension Express Bervies
Khrushchev's cunning
So
O Mr. Khrushchev has done it again! While the West was still
in Polish vodka and struggling to get over the shocks he everyone was sure it was acing administered in Paris he has struck to be all right,
But 15 We said goodbye again.
another Sea-Green boarded the train. He shook his head. He spoke quickly. Everyone shook their heads.
new
But this time in a very dif- it does not seem to mo neces- Berlin has sary to invent any reined ex- ferent direction, given way to China as the great planations for what is going hadn't unpacked central issue, and so by sub- on. much, because I was off that stituting one tender subject for train in 30 seconds flat just another he is able to maintain
Luckily I
it was moving and much to the maximum pressure on the the astonishment of the www | West. Russian Wagon-ht attendants.
NEIN!
Now was really difficult, The Army spoke nothing but Polish, The Sea-Greeps had about 10 words of French and
This is the true explanation
A much more fruitful cecu- pation for us is to decide what to do about it. Some learned psychiatrists I see have written letters to The Times, urging us
of last weekend's speech. We not very flatteringly -to can now see why he made the learn from Pavlov's dogs. visit to East Berlin, and why he threw that cold dothe over the East German Communists,
It
"If only we ignore, every- the psychiatrists say, thing," "nothing can worry us.” The heat is on America, that seems to me you have to be English between them. We is the great point. And he pro- very clever to see things 36 settled for our mutual 30 words poses to keep it there. The U-2 simply as that. There are others of German.
Incident was, after all, a great who just answer "Stand by our shock to opinion both among allies and proclaim the great
"Ich muss London telephonen. Zu mein bureau.... mein zeitung." I demanded.
"Neln, Dein, nein. No telephone."
"Then Ich muss telegraph was has zu mir gerhappen.**
"Nein, nein nein. Eventually, after a tantrum. they permitted one cryptin message to through ex- plaining my oredicament.
go
TIRED
twist
IF YOU WANT MY
ADVICE YOU'LL IGNORE
THE SUBTLE THEORIES
by
GEORGE BROWN
America's ellies and, perhaps, power and strength of the LABOUR SPOKESMAN ON DEFENCE
even more su among the nower alliance and all will be well." and less committed nations,
A wedge
Soviet leaders not unnatur- ally see in this a magnificent opportunity to capitalise it in both directions.
But that doesn't get us very far either.
cause. one nation something stupid.
has done
If we are not careful we shall
This has been true over dis- be so busy telling each other armament and over nuclear how strong we are that we shall tests. It was true over Suez not notice the changes taking place around us changes which and North Africa, have already given the word strength a somewhat ironical
sound.
North
They hope to be able to drive
We have to be much more a wedge into the alliance and
And the at the same time restore the, realist and positive. So what do you do on a rainy neutralist onlook of the others, more one feels, as I do, that day in Poznan, while you wait which had been growing loss in present world conditions the three hours for a Berlin train pronounced That is why. Mr maintenance of the that is already 100 minutes late? Khrushchev does not shrink Atlantic Alliance is essential, The train arrives, only 120 from continuing to ridicule and then the more urgency there is in reviewing its policies and minutes late. We pile into the humillate Eisenhower,
organisation. restaurant car the Army to He is not seeking to prepare escort me to the border and the the way for a serious negocia- others to drop off at their home ton at the stage so the Ameri- towns on the way.
The Army hands me over to cans' reactions do not at the In this England of 1680, the do. There is no record of any the East German police. They moment much trouble him. Lough professional soldier fainting on parade, but then decide my East German visa is
He is after much bigger poll- General Monk was emerging the Brigade of Chuards was not out of order too, but this time (how little the pattern changes properly established until later everyone is so tired of me they tical staker than that, a witness Turkey!) as strong in the year.
let me through.. mian in charge during troubled times.
And bow nearly (as "1680. THE YEAR OF RESTORA TION," a fascinating, day-by- day account shows) Charles did not return.
Banquet
At St Georges Fields, the Lord Mayor and Alderman of London met him. The King knighted most of them, then dined in a special banqueting
As late as February 21 Monk tent. was telling Parliament there should be no recall of the Stuarts.
On March 7 a group of Army. officers threatened mutiny un less he remained firm in this resolve. The monarchy was brought back because it seemed the least of the feasible evils.
Birthday
At half-past four, on horse back, he crossed Landon Bridge and moved into the City, The King of England had re-entered his capital.
The City streets, hung with tapestry, were lined by the City public drinking Companies; fountain's ran with claret. Cheers were deafening, especi ally at Charing Cross, where 600 pikemen had assembled, veterans who fought for the King's less lucky father.
Bonfires
Houses
On March 27 Charles inter vened directly with a con- cliatory letter to Mogs which turned the tide in his favour
The wisest of the Barts, be... watched events with humorous At the Royal Palace of of resignation on the long, Whitehall, both Augubribus face which fes Parliament awaited him, and pealelly when he wore his loya addresses were read. A wig) makes it seem so appro- service of thanksgiving me priate that a bpe of spaniel Blanned at Westminster Abbey. should be named after him. But it was already-seveni But now be was a spaniel o'clock; the King had been on come to judgment. It was his the move for 14 hours. He did 30th birthday, and he greeted, not attend the dawn at Rochester, four days after he arrival at Dover.
în a coach, at the centre of the procession, he moved to wards London. At Blackheath 50,000 soldiers of what was now, again his Army were drawn up to greet him
Yet his writ was unquenched. Before retiring, he remarked that he could not think why he had not churned sooner, be cause everyone he met seemed alwkry to have wisbed for hij return.
Outside, bonfires were ill-and-
The ĉi troops were to bear a
fireworks exploded, and that
heavy part of the day's exhaust ing programme, we troope always
night, by all accounts, the town got exceedingly "Fight.
All this happened exactly 200
Consultation
THAT IS WHY the allianc needs a political strategy.
THAT IS WHY we cannot gr en behaving as though Com- munist China does not exist. whatever the feeling in America.
THAT IS WHY we 'cannot trest smaller of newer nailons like junior members of the family whose eldera will arrange everything nicely.
AND THAT 18 WHY we cannot go on tolerating racial policies that insult the· vast·· majority of our fellow citizens whether they occur in Nairobi, Cape Town, or Alabama,
Because if we do and pt the moment we are doing all of these things-then we hand # to the Communists on a plate.
Out of sight
They can do just what Mr Khrushchev is doing at this That is not to say that it is moment. They can switch the not required. It must be main attack from one sensitive area tained in accordance with to another at will modern developments. :
They can concentrate at any But while military power moment on whichever of the may maintain the status quo by allies. is currently most ' un- making it too chancy for any popular. And then just sit back And it is repeatedly true aggressor to risk an attack-by and wait for the rewards, about American policies on For the very same token It is no use mosa and China, to say nothing to us as a method of bringing These are easy to see
West becomes weakened by of the peculiarly timed military about change elther.
internal Washington
bickering and pronouncements
And with the emergence of so uncommitted become much capacity for destruction It Soviet propaganda. frequently issues.
So the first thing now to do is not surprising that nations
And Hungary and all is to press for more political get uneasy. They seek for
and cohesion change If only In the hope of other Communist attacks
reducing the
The freedom are safely tucked under. consultation among the allies.
Not only over problems of the rewards go to the side which cover and out of sight, alliance, but also over the inde offers the best chance of escape. pendent foreign policies of the individual allies,
De Gaulle has been saying We shall not weaken Western this for a long time and Britain unity by insisting on a more thould recognise that he has a effective political partnership considerable point in his repeat- among the allies. Quite the ed claims for a wider directorate establish and co-ordinate Nor do I believe in this facile contrary. It is the continued to
for each of us to polldes of the West. pursue independent policies clack. We are coming into East talk about Mr K having to toe tendency Berlin. Out of the station, into Moo's line,
which is causing the damage. the deserted street. Here comes a miraculus taxi.
Crickety clack . . . clickeby
"West Berlin," I say.
-London Exprga Servies).
No doubt from time to time top Communists tog have their differences, but in this shutido
The whole of the West is far too often on the defensive be-
The second great and urgent requirement is to get more firmly. Into our heads the limita- tions of military power.
MA
risks.
the
ripe for
the
Of
-(London Express Service),
ASTER of the Royal Mint of Norway, 47-year-old Thor
Hjulstad; has been arrested at Kongsberg.
He is suspected of stealing silver from a refinery using a vault key be kept when a company took over the reduery from the Mint-London Express Service.
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