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HAVE two words of
warning for Mr Harold Macmillan as he gets ready for his Ber- muda talks. While he prepares to discuss just how far we can concili- ate Mr Krushchev with- Western
out offending tell him:
Germany,
Remember Rapallo!
Remember Rapallo
Ta
clan, Rogallo e simply a pleas Son Padion seaside spłot some
south of Genoe
But tray years ago meant much more it meant shock and chagrin and humaha- tion
The date wa 1922 A: Conference
Genoa 111 yotoa tions an Th Great Was bad the delegates from: Lana's Russo on the mat
The conference was to selție The conditions
thr on which bullawed Soviet Union woulei be allowed back into the fold of enviased nations. Stern terms were being discussed for com- pensation for the Western assets Which: Lean hed notionalised.
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Also at the Genua conference were delegates Ima deleated. Gemmany far
favoured Russians They Tou were there for discipline They were told that, if Russia proved suitably humble, they Yug hove to
to aliw be prepared her certain war clams agust Germany 1 return
The bulwark
Such was the sikalon Faster weekend began in 1922.
Then,
A BRW Germans a Russia were bitterly opprised be each other.
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KATANGA
"At last, gentlemen! Tshombe has fled, and the riches of Katanga are yours!"
How far can
we trust
the Germans?
Then, as now. the Germans misisted that they were the onfe ral bulwark against the flood of Commanka
Then, as now, everybody said that we must keep the wonder. but new German dem erary on our side
Indeed.
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even more often than today
that were possible), the Germans them- Belves kept telling As how wonderful and democratic they were.
On Easter Sunday the dele. gates A Genom took holiday Bul As The
wore day rumours spread that the Soviet delegates had motored of to Rapallo, 15 miles down the coast-and that for some strange Tesson the German delegates had motored there too.
At midnight in Genoa, Mr Lloyd George. leading the Bri- Ush delegation, was handed Н dcament At first he could not believe his eyes.
It was a copy
of the treaty. Watch
the Germans and Rus- Stans had signed at Rapallo that afternoon They had agreed To exchange ambussadors, 10 give earl other most-favoured-nation reatment in trade, to cancel all las against each other.
The Genus Conference cultap XEM1 The entire peacetime strategy of Britain, France, and America had cracked and cram
den during one holiday Sunday.
While the arbitrators dallied the rival outlaws had settled the deal With complete disregard of the roles expected of them. the bulwark and the flood had embraced each other.
Mysterious
Could it ever happen again? Would it be possible in these days for Western Germany to turn ultimately towards Russia?
by ROBERT
PITMAN
for his Adenauer now relies majority, had moved in to sup- port Kroll's negotiations.
The Free Democrats, of course, are on the extreme Right of German politics. They include many ex-Nazis.
just as Kroll himself is an ex-Nazi.
They are prepared for any- thing, even for a treaty with Russia, provided that Germany is strengthened in the process.
This is not
merely Free Democrat or Nazi-minded по- tion. Herr von Herwarth, recent- ly Ambassador in Londen, is an extreme anti-Nazi. but he too has always privately wanted dral with Russia
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Piecing together
a_jigsaw puzzle
THIS week, at the No. 1 hangar at Mascot air- port, six teams of specialists will begin piecing together the "jigsaw puzzle” wreckage of the Viscount airliner which crashed in Botany Bay They want be on November 30 during a heavy electrical storm.
chame to send and their feelers. ener more into such countries 1- Hungary and Rumania. where Gemuan was once lan- Kuage No!
The answer
The parts have been salvaged from the ocean bed and fron Ite beaches where tides have washed in toys, log books and from the other articles many airliner, and these have all been
Who Las all these things
for to peced together
aviation offer Germany" Net America
technicians to make a thornigh The Russians. And or sure it is the Russians 14 whom Ger.investigation as to the cause of
any's leaders will soort be the disaster. turning.
You
AUSTRALIAN NEWSLETTER
BY EMH
The main purpose is to find ciation and more than a dozen may ask "Here comulci
out why and when the plane indoor tennis Krasnchey possibly want their
courts which, crashed, and so prevent a simi- would be available to members friendship?"
Such a question supposes that lar tragedy in the future. Krushchev thinks and acts simply as a Communist lender. I forgels that above all he is the leader of Russia.
at all times. If this scheme The six teams of five men accepted, the rental would make each will examine that section the NSW Lawn Tennis Associa
of the plane they are specialists on the wealthiest tennis orga solve "the mystery of alsation in the world.
lapse of time when the aircraft last
Again and again the Krem-in, and lin's policies become understand- the 30-secund able, and far less sinister, if we from remember that Russians tend to
behave like Russians 1: may be made radio contact to when it inconsiderate and odd of them disappeared and crashed." but that's how it is.
The ex-Nazi Kroll and the And how do Russions behave Liberal von Herwerth are Two towards Germany? The answer typical German diplomats. They of history is clear. They always do not divide the work into fear Germany, they always hale Communists and enli-Commun- Germany-and they are always Isis They divide the world into ready to do business with Ger- the flares and the Have-Nots.
many
By which they пагал. 1: Those Powers who have some- thing to offer Germany; and 2: Those who have not
Good reason
Ever since the war ended the Germans have rated America as easily the top nation among The Haves. With good reason. Until now America has had all the things that Germans wanted must
and America has obligingly poured out the lot.
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Her taxpayers have financed West Germany's recovery Her
I say that it is not unly leaders have backed West possible. There are signs that it
is beginning to happen at this moment.
Already we have had the mysterious affairs of Herr Hans Kroll.
Do you remember how, a few weeks back. the world suddenly became aware of the existence of Herr Kroll?
over
First there were reports of an extraordinary new deal Berlin offered by Krushchev to Kroll, the German Ambassador to Moscow. Then it was learn- ed that the deal had been sug- gested by Kroll himself.
Germany thin.
through thick and
The Americans even helped to the plant an entire university, size of Cambridge, on West German soil the Free Univer- sily. No name was ever more apl, for much
of it cost the Germans not a penny.
But what has been the effect of all this on America's rating among the Germans?
been
The ironic result has at she has moved back into the Have-Nots. She no longer has anything that the Germans have not got themselves.
To those commentators who As Krupp now applies for a had forgotten Rapallo, the whole further extension of the reprieve thing was a giggle, a joke. How for his empire, he knows that could West Germany, which was he will get it, whether the eally the most intransigent of Americans support him or not. all the Powers over Berlin, offer Germany Do longer needs
deal to Russia?
America as a patron.
Kroll, laughed the commenta- Indeed, she is now an indus- tors, was a mere dreamer, a trial rival. For the West German whimsical fellow who would economy.
nourished by the soon be put in his place by his Americans, mirrors the Ameri- own Government.
can economy almost exactly.
And, sure enough, Kroll was Who, then, is likely to suc- promptly called back to Bunn ceed America as the chief Have Kroll, everyone, said, was about nation?
to be rebuked. Kroll was to be sacked.
Can there be any doubt about
the answer? The West Gorman Yet within a few days after people have achieved prosperity. talks with Dr Adenauer-Hans Now they have wider ambitions. Kroll, unrebuked, unsacked, was They want unity with East back at his post in Moscow. Germany.
What had happened? The ax-game planation le that the Free Demo
They want, at any rate,
Furais, - on Whose võies Dr. sliver of the lands they lost
Wealthiest
That Was true in the eighteenth century when Russia on the point of exterminating Frederick the Great, suddenly
IL decided to become his ally. was true at Rapatic.
Above all i was true in 1939 A when, having forgotten Rapalio, the world was astounded by the photographs of Stalin, in his peasant's jackel, signing the Soviet-Nazi Pact with Ribben- trop
Stalin had a motive for his Let volte face-opportunism. us hope that Mr Macmillan and President Kennedy do not provide a similar motive for Mr Krushchev.
organisation
Sydney Development Com- pany has approached the New South Wales Lown Tennis Association with a view to
acres
acquiring five
of the White City Tennis Courts for a £3 million multi-storey drive in shopping centre.
The company is prepared to
the NSW Lawn pay
Tennis Assn an annual rental of more than £15,000 on a 99-year lease.
Already, by ignoring his peace offers, they have left him with no other vent to his sense of The land is valued commercially impotence and frustration than
£280,000, but over the the testing of as many H-bombs period of the lease would return
the
£12 Association nearly
as he could muster.
may
at
Now that the Germans are million. The scheme would in- veering towards him he
volve 15 grass courts and this decide that a pact with Western would leave the LTA 25 courts Germany could give the West a which is adequate for tourna- worse shock than a whole salvo ment play. of 50 megaton bombs.
-(London Express Service).
Soviet
planes
Two Soviet planes are due
Од
榧
to land here shortly record breaking flight from Moscow to the Antarctic, and
these will be the first Russian aircraft ever to visit Australia.
The
(our engined turbo prop IL18 and AN10 belong to Aerofiol, the State owned official Soviet Air Line, and will carry 37 passengers---14 polar scientists and 23 crew-- and a large cargo of freight.
Permission has been given by the Australian Government to the Soviet Government for the planes to fly across Aus- tralia and land at Darwin and
for Sydney
re-fuelling on their way to Mirny, the main Russian Antarctic base about 2,500
Bouth-west miles
of
Perth.
is
travel to Aus- They wUI trulla via Delhi and Djakarta, and then to Christchurch in New Zealand, through Mc- Murdo Sound, Antarctica, and on to Mirny. At present they Bre delayed at Djakarta.
If the plan Bccepted, the development com- pany would build an ultra modern clubhouse for the asso-
The largest vessel, ever id pass undig, the Harbour. Bridge tobka el At. her way beneath the arch recently. She is the oil tanker, Philine under to the Shell: Company,
This 46,000-ton tanker hus bronkit, n'carta, of oli from the Mtei sii fields to the C Clyde refinery si Gore Cova. Four high manoeuvred the S50 Yards long up
is decked with dogs wire made her way to the anchorage,
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