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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, NOVEMPER 19, 1960.
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Washington.
of the THE confusion over Britain's control
Polaris missiles carried by United States submarines to be based in Scotland spotlights the greatest problem of the Western Alliance: The allles must be assured that there are enough safe guards to prevent any premature firing of nuclear
weapons.
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Yet the Russians mus be convinced that these safeg are not a rigid that they v delay the rapid launching c the webpens in reply to a surprise Bovjet attack.
The Anglo-American arrange- ments made to achlove this balance cf riska are bedevilled by political hazards in both countries, apart from the im- merge technical difficulties involved.
The United Slater Govern- ment dare not suggest that the British have y Arm control over the enormous mass of weapons the United States tax- payers have provided to defend the American homeland.
The British Government dary nol amit because of outery from the nuclear disarmers— that the United States has the independent capneity to loose off an H-bomb war which would destroy, Britain,
By CHAPMAN
*
PINCHER
Russian attack without British consent, this veto does not apply
any of those planes which Aight be on airborne patrol when the attack order arrived. Such planes arc under direct control from Omaha.
**The sime arrangement applies to Polaris. If the submarines using the Scottish base were at sea.
which is almost certain, they would receive their orders direcl
from the United States. Communication with
the deeply submerged submarine is the weakest point of the Polaris set-sip.
As 谁 result Lhe whole dangerous position is covered by nothing more than unwritten
understandings.' which might by well prove meaningless in an. emergency.
Te indisputable facts about the Anglo-United States con- trol which I have unearthed after talks with defence chöpfs
on both sides of the Atlantic
Are:-
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It cannot be weakened further requiring communication with Britain too.
is
The inescapable truth is that
Government ough the ab olutely convinced that the Americans will never strike first at Russia 11 can no longer megine any situation requiring hueleer retaliation which would fail to involve Britain from the start.
that The greatest danger is the Russians might be misled into helleving that the Westem deterrent is so hamstrung with THERE Is "gentleman 3 technical limitations and politi agreement"
the ent strings between
round the safety- United States President that catch that it could never be used neither
unlensh will
quclear in time. weapons without consulting the other,
So anything which increases the "credibility" of the de- Th's
understanding terrent in Russian blanket
cycs such covers the Polaris ubmarines even these outside British territorial waters.
But both British and Unlied States defence chiefs privately admit that rapid communica tion between h3 two leaders might prove impresible in
DA the emergency, especially Russians would make every effort to disrupt submarine cable and radio links.
in that ense, no Ualted States service chief I have talked to double that the retaliatory strike would be launched by the United States alone if necessary,
This
is what Mr Macmillan. was hinting at when he talked about the fullest possible previous consultation" Over Polaris,
The veto
EXCEPT for the relatively few United States bombers ond the 00 Thor missiles based
in Britain, the British Govern- control whatever ment has no over the immense United States deterrent
forces which King located mainly
North Jn
Ameri:s.
The British right to velo on the use of United States alcmic weapons was traded for Mar- choli Ald by the Socialists 12 years ago.
If the Russians attacked the United Glales these weżpons would almost certainly be un leashed on Russia whether the British creed or not.
Indeed if the United States curial: control base ct Omaha --which is not H-bomb proof... were destroyed, focal United States commanders' would un- doubtedly take the Inluative if it became clear- that tho Ruins wero staging a mess attack:
The patrols
THOUGH United Statis bomber based in Britain ere not supposed to take off on
3 providing bases for Polaris submarines Increases its espability for preventing war,
-{London Express Service).
Chess News
By LEONARD BARDEN THERE were surprises galore 10 last week's Paignton tournament with all the com paling internationals receiving unexpected setbacks.
Milner Barrs. one
the Or favourites, never got among the loaders, and the former Czech champion Cenek, Kottnauer was on the verge of defeat agains the virtually unknown veteran LT. Sifton
The biggest shock; were reserved tor the last round when Peter Clarke and myself. who seemed booked to share frat prize, both fast by blunders. The two who defeated us A. W Dowen, of Orpington and Q Girling, of Gravesend. shared first prize with Kottnauer Half polot behind was the tournament giant-kier. Peter Harria, of Birmingham, who won against Clarke and drew with Kolthauer, Mardie, and myself
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Politicians undergo security check
Is it possible to be
From WILLI FRISCHAUER
Dusseldorf.
member of Parliament and a security risk at the same time? This is just one of the incongruous questions arising out of the arrest recently of Herr Frenzel, a Social Democrat member of the Bundestag, the West German Federal Parliament in Bonn. Frenzel, it has been announced, was caught red-handed in the act of espionage and is said to have made a full confession.
The Frenzel Casa has A Sudeten German, he is sold caused consternation in to have publicly advocated the expulsion of the pro-Nazi Bonn, where it is feared sudclens from their homeland
may that it
undermine after the war.. Western ⚫ confidence In Germany.
In any case, the affair locks like developing into a major pendal. It is the talic of the day and the main topic in the West German Tess which, Un- inhibited by auch British notions as "contempt of court" and "Innocent until proved guilty." is indulging in the most lurid descriptions of Frenzel's activi- ties and suspected associates,
A blonde
No single ingredient of the traditional spy thriller is miss- ing. The talk is blackmali. "dead-letter-boxes" (the German intelligence
agent's lechnical
description for hidden reposi- teries of secret information),
clandestine couriers,
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Inevitably,
s there mysterious blonde with access to top secret naval information end a villa, not for from Bonn. where she throw parties for high ranking German naval officers.
It sounds all very funny, yet it
Army visits
When he returned to Germany and became an MP. Czech secret agents were said to have played on his fear that his war-time views might become known. It would have spelled the end of his political career.
Was about to take a similar highly route, Microflim with Incriminating materiai AVEN found on him.
This arrest enabled the West German Intelligence Service, to complete the case against Frenzel. The government wis Informed, and the President of the Bundestag-equivalent to the Speaker In the House of Commons-was called in. Herr Ollenhauer, leader of the Social Democratic Party, was sum-→ moned at the same time.
Frenzel was addressing a group Thus Frenzel was "persuaded" at resistance fighters in a room to supply the Czech Intelligence of the Bonn Parliament, When Service with secret information he emerged from the meeting about the Bundeswehr and he was placed under arrest, NATO Installations in West Confronted with the evidence, Germany,
he made a full confession,
Although it is now claimed that West German counter- espionage ogente have kept Frenzel under observation for over a year, it seems that they have not been in a position to, prevent him from taking advan lage of his position as an MP to pay frequent visits in German army units and allied military installations."
'Naval guests'
But before the authorities had time to throw their net over all of Frenzel's accomplices. Herr Schoeffer, Minister of Justice, revealed his arrest at a political gathering. This enabled some of the Czech agents to escape
used three weeks holiday lest
It is now recalled that Frenzel capture.
The Government has instit- Summer to inspect" units in tuted an investigation to dia... Bavaria end Northern Germany
Escape by air
cover every German officer or
soldier with whom Frenzel has been in contact during the last few years,
throws into sharp relief the unhappy situation in divided Germany. where there are thousands of people with divided
It is pointed out that, general- loyalties and many more liable It was only a few weeks ago
this surveillance yielded ly, all politicians, civil servants to fall by the wayside in the when
the dramatic espionage and propa- sufficient evidence,
even Frenza, and
members, of worked between Wect apparently,
hand-In- Government have been the sub- ganda Germany and Best European glove with Czech, agents to ject of a security check.
whom he passed on his informa Communist satellite countries.
tion and many secret documents which the Czechs photographed on mirevolim.
war
Herr Frenzel ment the war years in Britain as a political refugee. If one is to believe the more creditable Bume of secounts, was in London where the seeds of his treachery were
Liddvertently sown.
At the moment is not easy to determine the connection of the Frenzel ease with the arrest of Fraulein Rosalie Kunze, a Frenzel's secretary of Though
in the noval depart- pecompilees is said to have got ment of the Honn Ministry of eway (by airplane to Vienna), Defence. another was caught just as ho
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The highly reputable Frank- furter
Allgemeine Zeitung reveals
Kunze that Fraulein occupied a room in the naval staff offices in which she worked alone.
At her house, not far from Bonn, however, she is said to have been rarely alone-her guests having been chiolly high- ranking naval officers.
She is held under the sus- pících of having worked for the East German Communist secret service;
The East German Communists have dismissed Frenzel's arrest as a stunt to divert attention from West _German_rearmament. con Express Servicet·
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