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Are we really
DURING the Napoleonic wars, a comic poet catalogued the ills of the day, including the weather, and blamed them all on the French.
He ended with the famous line: Who is the butchers shope with big dine flies?" The answer, of course, was Napoleon Bonaparte,
who
Nowadays it is the Russians are supposed to All the butchers' shops with big, blue Alles There is a cries over Berlin, a crisis which may lead to a world war. Whose fordit? The Hussians."
the They
threatening are freedom of West Berlin.
They are challenging the rights which the Western Powers have had there for years pasl
Again the air is heavy with redioactive cloud Who put it there? The Russians, in order to tarify the rest of us.
The Soviet rulers bring much of this ovudemuation on them- selves.
The political spadem of Rumela de a dictatorultip candy slightly less tyrannical than in Stalin's time.
The Soviet people are Hol consulted They are not told the truth They are not allow- ed to decide their own destinies
Even
worse
The satellite countries are in an even worse state. Soviet rule over them is more oppres sive than anything in the annals of Western imperlatium.
Yet the truth is that, what ever the evils within Russia, Movies foreign polley in repetat montha has been moderate *nd -cautious. It ther offers of conciliation, not ours, which are brushed aside.
by
A. J. P. Taylor
The Americans have not only made West Germany prosperous. They have reared the Ger- mans and turned West Germany £1 formidable military into
power.
Is it surgiging
that the have become sud- BusSİMDE cious and resentful?
Encouraged
For years past West Berlin has been sustained with a flow of money and moral encourage- ment. Was this from an abstract love of freedom and democracy?
West Berlin was kept going AS the future capital for
It was the reunited Germany. centre from which Western pro- pegands could be pumped into the Communist world.
B
We have gone un believing that Communism was on the point of collapse and that we needed only to walt. This was the will-o'-the-wisp preached by the Late Mr Dulles still sought by many Americans.
and
Of course, the Russian want
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Political trickery has come
are few States in the world we talk like a bang on to te should recognise.
No one in his senses deDIOS -
Mr Heather also siku thas we recognize the Odet-Bipisng frantier between Germany and the evils in the Soviet system Poland. We refuse. Yet this of government, são one in skia frontier was actually drawn on uses tagines that the Soviet the initiative of
sey Bunning over with President rulers Roosevelt and Sir Winston Pacific benevolence. Church.
The world of the present day is harsh place. All the more
It conceals it from us.
The Soviet proposals are fair and reasonable. They would reason for our Government to end anxiety over West Berlin, tell us the truth. It knows it.
us more peaceful and give world. Last August the British Government, anci
the American Government, thought
so too.
even
They were on the point of agreeing Then they
basted Why Had they die away. covered some hidden sneg?
I wilfully deceived us over the effects of the Soviet tests. It has deceived us over Berlin. It represents Soviet polley there aggressive, whereas it is the Russians who are conciliatory and who offer a sensible solu
tion.
It was once the proudest boast of British Governments to preach peace between nations. This, and this alone, should be our policy at the present time.
Not at all. Dr Adenauer forbade it. So we are being dragged by German ambitions into crists and perhaps war.
This German ambition, and
By all means, let us oppose this alone, is the cause of ten-
Maybe our Government the Russians when they sion. wishes to back German am- wrong. All the more season to bitions. If so, it should tell us show understanding and sym- so franky. After all, it is our pathy when they are right. lives, our future, which are at
--(London Express Service). stake. It is que avho will die to destroy the Oder-Nelsse line.
Instead the Government avoids negotiations and weeks to blame Soviet aggressiveness. Its behaviour over the Sovlet nuclear iests has been even
For months now we have to end West Berlin as a source been haunted by the question of provocation and unrest. But worse.
of Berlin. It is many years Mr Kruschey has offered every since
great
international conceivable
security for the
over and over again.
We were solemnly warned tha1 it might be necessary to
milk. But what was the truth?
are
1981:
Harold contemplating the bust of Supermac “GOING, GOING, COME . . .
Zonam- Express Sarmies.
Alexandra-the Japanese
Tokyo.
problem has been so sedulously political freedom of West Berlin provide infants with powdered This was Britain's week in Japan as Princess misrepresented to the people of this country.
Berlin is certainly a great problem. And Germaniy greater But the Russians did not create it all alone The Ger- mans created this problem by supporting Hitler in aggressive
War.
The victorious Allies per- petuated this problem by quar- selling among themselves.
Germany is divided Who
Why have we evaded these offers! He makes demands in return, but these demands seem to me reasonable, and it is in our own interest to accept them.
Reasonable
The Soviet Leate have sošually proved less poisonous than previous American and British testa.
It
based on
Her and
Alexandra captured the hearts of 90-million people who still cling to the belief that Royalty
is far removed from ordinary earthlings.
vivacity, cheery waves engaging smiles for all, melted reserve and quickly dis-
Before Alexandra's arrival, it persed any
doubts that a Bri- Was learned that the Queen had tish princess might be exalted the Order of the Garter which restored to Emperor Hirohito, aboof. Her girlish spon-Thad
been suspended in 1941. tankety in hopping into a tiny This brought wide editorial rowboat for a close-up look at acknowledgment -- and remind- the diving girls at Mikkmoto
note sesnices of the days when Japan pearl farm, even had Japan's and Great Britain were close wurgh press corps calling out:
out: friends and allies, "Be careful, Princess"--and "Mind your hand" when it was noticed she was clutching the side as it neared the little pier.
The moral outcry against the Soviel tests has turned oul to be a moral fraud.
was not
any and There is great talk of Allied genuine moral feeling.
It was gave the signal for this? Not "rights" in Berlin. Who cares simply a political dodge to stir the Bussions. It was the work for these This if the freedom up our own people and to in- of Ernest Bevin, opce - of Berlin car be secured in fluence neutral opinion. garded as a great man, now other ways? repognised as the most disastrous British Foreign Secretary in modern times.
The Allied troops in Berlin ure hostages. We should actual- ly be stronger if we took them
away
Deceitful
The Western Powers created a separate West Germany in the
The false alarm has misûred. belief that the East German Mr Kauschev asks that We The Western Governments, by rennent would prove unwork- should recognise East Germany, exaggerating the effects of the able and that the Russians What is wrong with that? East Russian tests, have ended by world be forced out of Europe. Germany exists a separate creating the impression
What modern men must know
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The British Embassy had not expected such heavy press rear- tlon which grew stronger daily--and hasty conferences had to be called to explain to frustrated cameramen that pool- ing would have to be agreed on By sheer weight of numbers mede accommodating all, im- possible.
.
It now looks obvious that the end result of Alexandra's wisit will be AR Infinitely greater understanding between the two countries and a deeper feeling of cordlality,
Not a happy one
loved her
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THE CONSCIENCE
AT
NKRUMAH'S
SIDE
Acera.
THERE is a dangerous stretch of just outside Aceru, a stretch along which Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana, often travels..
Nowadays, the treacherous bends of this
road above, the sea-facing precipices Care flanked and rendered innocu- ous by a stout guarding Wall, several feet thick.
The wall was built at the gentle insistence of Mme. Fathia Halen Nkrumah, the 31-year-old wife of the President
And this salcitude for the estety or her bust and is charac-
Sociable of witego
be
among the wet selfredane of samtemperity kop waver
About five years ago when Independence was looming for Ghana, Nkrumah decided it was time he married. Because of Ghana's teasing tribal problem with all its ancient feuds and jealousies, marriage to a Ghana- lan woman was pretty well put of the question..
INTRODUCTION
So Nkrumah, oasting about for a suitable consort, sounded out his friend Nasser of Egiat. And Nasser, as it turned out, and Just the ticket?
Ghana's Best Attorney-General, began coaching Fathia In E lish. And she proved a ready learner.
He introduced Kwame Nu- mah to Fathia. It was, of course, a marriage of convenience” →→ but Fathia was French-educated, and she is chic and cultured.
They were married with the minimum of publicity in Accra cent higher thow last a 1957. Communication between them was difficult for a time year's.
Fathia, spoke only French and Construction companies, steel Arabic. Nkrumah spoke English works and shipyards are pay- and some African tribal tongues. ing out as much as Y100,000 = But Mrs Geoffrey Bing atte (100) to their workers. Few of the British QC, who was others are paying out less than Y80,000-except for some the textile companies which have asked their
workers to accept "payment in kind" as
Fathia knows about "food, about music and pictures, She they are so short of cash. But,
also knows how to relax and apart from this case, the ready
To make 61-year-bid how spending money Japan's labour
Nkrumah relax as well she farce will have this Christmas, adores children and has two of ensures a nation-wide spending her own, three-year-old Gama- spree on a grand scale
la, a boy who much resembles Japanese shipbuilders for the his father, and a girl, Samia, fifth successive pear, have taken with her mother's eyes. top placeaunched during the as a youth his fear of women
in world for new stipe April/September period. With "was beyond all understanding" and that he had never outgrown that feeling With Fathia di As clear he has succeeded in put- ting matters sight, G
At Nara and Kyoto where she 1,280,000 gross tons, Japon was visited
temples and buildings away in the lead from Britain which the Japanese hold in (900,000) and West Germany "A policeman's lot is not a great reverence, be broke (7880000 groes tone), happy one," certainly applied to custom and tradition by lumber- Inspector H. M. Scott, Alexan- ing around with his shoes on- dra's security man. He had to an almost sacrilegious act,
WHEN THE BAIT
IS ADVENTURE... GRANDMOTHER might not
tish girls are stepping out into the wor days with all the aplomb once associated sively with mad dogs and Englishmen.
OB
A few years ago daughters dutifully escorted their parents the annual trip to East- bourne - while adventurous trips abroad were left to their carefree brothers.
Today's British Miss refuses to be denied her share of excite
ment.
EXCITING
Only recently Brenda Joyce.
| Smith, a 24-year-old Hirming- Tham girl, found herself in East German captivity for four hours on the Berlin border. They even
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By
· ROSALIE
MACRAE
Another "first" is in the One horrified Japanese making for Japan with the woman Journalist asked me in for a tanker of 130,000-dwt keel-laying ceremony just held quaint English, -"Were British
This monster will measure 281 sollcomed not wurat mammers metres long with a breadth of and respect?" She said he reminded her of an Amerleau Sergeant a type not
look rather silly racing along in barefeet on Japanese pebbled courtyard. She wasnt con vinced this was the right answer and continued scribbling notes which I'm certain didn't fatter the Law ss personified in the form of the herty inspector.
Relaxed
Sir Philip Hay and the
tor. The temperature was in the the sultee 100's and Judy cared for the Hamilton man, on a makeshift bed on the with the trailer, until they reached ordinary hospital,"
Da-nhi from
INCREASING
#pokesman for
tried to persuade her to become biggest travel agency ald London: Every year, morE more girls from the Brenda was just an ordinary onwards go abroad girl In pursuit of a holiday out not on conducted tours. of the ordinary: Many other
gele stilarin outlook to increasing and we Brenta are dinding de abroad are all for 1" equally appealing...
One problem
Take Judy Pode 22-year-old le local Romeos daughter of steel chief Sus of adventure
and her friend
The Yvonne deldara. Five months the beast 10 they set off for a hitch hiding holiday in Australia They will return home two days
Christmas
otres. It is being built for hauling
oll from the Persian Gulf to Japan.
POISON
Niks is the season for gata ng slogu' or as it is, known in other parts of the world, blowfish or globe Sahı, Accord- ing to andumets, Zugu la a une delicacy. However, the fish is extremely polanouk Prepared by
Nkrumah has confessed that
have
TACKING"
perhaps the royal vuit may for someone who shunshe beena a bit of ab poscal crowd as much as the does she has played up nobly, but girls
rarely seems to say anshing She a content to decorate the cocasion,
One charming remark is how- Leversbeing,
asked
lish word described
eaving rapidly from side
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