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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1961.
Whoever wants more troops in Germany our generals don't
SOMETHING pecu
liar has happened to the military mind when a general ex-
By TOM POCOCK
presses dismay at the more soldiers on the ground in Rhine Army would mean that Germany now. Soldiers who no unit would be able to can show that the West is achieve the minimum standard equally ready, to defend ils of field training. frontiers with conventional as with nuclear weapons.
thought of having his command enlarged.
But this aberration is com mon among senior officers of the British Army of the Rhine, recently I have heard several apparently able, ambitious off- cers deplore the demand to send more British soldiers to Ger-
many
This
Overcrowding
com-
This demand, British manders in Germany Tejeri demand was
made firmly on of Mr Harold
practical grounds Watkinson, the One officer told me bluntly that Defence Minister, at the North to increase the
Rhine Armo Adăurilic Treaty Organisation now would only conference in Paris last week whole outfit."
deaden at
It is supported by Genera Norstad, the
NATO
Supreme Europe, and the United States and Germer Governments.
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ment, Although they have been there for about three years some 40 families are still liv- ing in German hotels. This can mean that a soldier and wife must share a room. one or two small children.
Others have married quarters
his
with
A
30 to 50 miles away and spend hours travelling every day, sergeant told me: "If a man hos Secondly, there is the housing housing trouble it shows in his
British problem. For
work." troops,
Commanding officers in Ger- "home Germany counts as 3
Thus
soldier may many agreed unanimously that posting
years there be any large increase in the num soldiers' wives and tween spells in. say. the Far ber of East and the West Indies But children-they already worsen the
is such 36,000 would housing shortage
bad housing cannot ready that ousands of men have their families with them, intolerably and affect morale.
Another objection is far more or, if they do, must live in ap-
serious palling conditions.
Spend three
Not enough
300 have
оссир-
Foreign population jolted
Japan newsletter from David Gordon.
Tokyo.
The complacent Japanese and practically the entire foreign population - have been còn- siderably jolted by the arrest of 13 dra- rightists who were plotting a bloody wver- throw of Japan's government. problem
number the al-
This is the British belief that the NATO ambition to match
Com man for man with the ramolate is dangerously wrong.
The reason is overcrowding Even now, with the new Get-
One senior British officer told man Army, completing the ninth
A programme to build nearly of its planned 12 divisions, there
8,700 more married quarters has me: "My commend is trained to Ger- even being suggested is barely room in North
beer approved and the first fight with conventional or nu- by
Rhine only
clear weaping-but it can only many for the existing sending
already been
effectively with nuclear soldiers to Germany, can Britain Army.
icd But this programme will fight effect prove herself a loyal member of Firstly, there is the problem not be completed until the end weapons."
There is deep mistrust among NATO and worthy of inclusion of training areas. These are 50 of 1963 and even then the de-
the British of the vague NATO in the Common Market.
few and so small that the Bri- mand will not
be satisfled. But this the British Govern- ush, German, Dutch and Bel-
Some 200 caravans have been hope of "forcing a pause" with
conventional weapons.
They mert, it is known, does not wish gian troops of the Northern ordered to ease the strain and
know that even if the NATO to da And, in Germany, I have Army Group must queue to use many soldiers have
armies could initially match the found that the practical soldiers them and even so every forma- the: their families can only be Communist armies between the feel the same way. Behind this tion seriously lacks field train- housed in Germany if they are North Bee and the Alps the ronflict lies a confusion which ing.
so far away that they can only limitless Russian trained reserves- is seriously weakening Western Hener, German tanks must be together at weekends.
would be decisive--unless defence
use firing ranges in Pembroke, A: Hameln, where the housing clear weapons were used against shtre British commanders are problem is comparatively easy, them. convinced
un enlarged I visited the Middlesex
--(London Express Seruice).
Clear cut
The facts of the case are clear cut. Britain is committed to maintaining in Germany-as part of the Northern Artny Group an Army with a peace- time strength of 55,000 men. In an emergency this would be increased by about one-third to war strength
Al this
moment! the Rhine Army is short of its peacettine strength by some 4,000 men. The most acute shortages are of drivers, signallers and medical staff but,
claimed, it is
the Army's fighting quality is e affected.
been
told
that
Regi-
nu-
It
is much too early by Japanese standards to expect a revelation of all the facts and more important still--the "big name" people who are involveri in some manner or form
The arrest of this group
does
that imply
of
the
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at
possibility of a coup some future date, has been eli minated altogether. Rather to the contrary, it indicates the existence of a stubborn ele- ment in Japan which not hesitate to resort to mass murder to gain power.
would
CENTRAL FIGURE
Kawanami Wan
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merely “purged” by the occupation. After being "depurged" 'a couple of years later, he started
the Kawanami IndustŸja) Works and for some time made considerable Bums
of money through manipulating the com-
pany stock.
One of his favourite tricks was to announce to the press that he'd received fw order to build two or three super tankers for a notable foreign shipowner. Up would go the shares in Kewanted kans
would be extended by the
Toyosku central figure in the plot, was a close personal friend and henchman of General Tajo, Japan's wartime leader who was hanged as a war criminal.
Kawanami the banks
INSTANT READINESS!
It's Strauss's subtle sell to get Germany's finger on the nuclear trigger
THE
HE full extent of the German drive to secure control of a nuclear striking force has now become apparent following an analysis by In- and now being made good and telligence experts of the activities of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer
Most of these shortages are
within three months the pcave-
tine strength should have been reached and-if the 3,000 troops
his henchman Franz-Josef Strauss.
Strauss, West Germany's
in Berlin are included-exceed-thrusting Defence Minister, tour-
|∞,
ed Washington's military depart
The
But this is unlikely to satistyments and peddled this persua NATO
sive
e argument Prime Nor, at the moment, does the
advantage of the British plan to Rhine Army in an
strengthen the nuclear-tipped Pershing rockets
emergency. which Germany is buying from Details of this plan are BecTel.
their U.S. but I can say that I could entail readiness for Aring. Aying tens of thousands
Unlike the Thor rockets f soldiers to
Germany, in a very | Britain, which take at least 15 ment few days.
minutes to fill with liquid fuels, The reservists, who would go, the solid fuel of the Pershings have all been earmarked. A job can be set off at the touch of a
une button. has been picked for every of them
In Paris
in
by
CHAPMAN PINCHER
君
Despite vigourous denials by
the shipowner's local represen tative, Kawanami would selfi maintain the preterice.
On one occasion, the ship? owner's agent in Japan inserted photographic copies of cables of denial from New York, in very expensive advertentedts in the press. This find little effect on Kawanami who is as unščṛu- pulous in business as be is ruth- less in politics. 【STRANGE MANNER
The Minister of Justice has sworn to throw every charge-in the book against the platter, but with the quaint state of the law in Japan and the equally in which it is strange manner - İn administeret it is a quite safe immediately bet to say these 25 Wall til soon and the case be out on against them, if any will not get into court for a year delo. A final værdlet here ond take be would be as long as ten years to hand Kennedy said "extremely reluctant," to see the
example of As an
this state Germans acquire nuclear wea of affairs, it is tów sbout six pons of their own.
years ince
But Adenauer thumbed his nose at the Presi- dent by declaring that reuni- fication is to be the prime West German aim.
of
be
down.
the American
Rad two of the
Adenauering company were charg
ed with embezzlement, least conver
Oluridis Conversion few other counts.
A
But, in a manner reminiscent manager of a worldwa“ DARLIER.
days, pre-war brashly decleared that while Japotere Germany renounces the use or threat of force, Nalo which will He wants to shift the power instari advantage be taken of instant
of decision to unleash muclear soon be mainly Germany-must readiness.
given H-bomb strength equal Strauss is to apply this argu- war from Washington and Lon-
to the Russians. the Paris lalks to dun to Europe, which the Ger-
no sound military the 500 longer-range H-bomb mens will eventually dominate.
He wants Germany's finger sugument in favour of nuclear rockets which U.S. Nato chief
nuclear weapons for Germany, East and General Lauris Norstad wants to rmly on the Nato
have more than and other trigger. For though the fingers West already supply to Germany
Nato nations may They too will of 14 other Nato countries,
may enough for mutul deterrents. hove "instant readiness."
also be resting on it, the pres- Unfortunately the U.S. Presi- dent does not seem to have the Alone may sure of Germany's one day be strong enough to pull resolution to get tough with the
Germans. 1.
Their equipment - from bed- rolls to tanks -- swalls them in Germany. Well within a week the Rhine Army could be above
So why should German rocket its war strength.
commanders nullify this great In addition
there is демал
advance by U.S. scientists by forming in this country a heavy wasting time on the long-distance division which could be ship-telephone to secure the U.S. ped to Germany, at short notice President's permission 10 fire as the Rhine Army's immediate them
Only by having on-the-spot But even these elaborate plans decision in Europe and prefer- do not seem to satisfy NATO ably in Germany, where the What is needed, they say, are 'rockets are sited can military
serve.
Danger
To put political punch be- hind this argument. Adenauer has told President Kennedy that as Germanyussian nuclear at
stands in greatest danger from tack in Europe she should have a major share of the Western nuclear weapons and some dan trot over decisions to use them.
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Adenauer's purpose is to secure greater political power for West Germany through increasing con- trol over muclear weapons and to build up a military machine ultimately big enough to bring about the reunification of East
and West Germany.
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was to possibility of German control over Britain was planned the drivers to "act more reunification so long 19 the to last a thousand years
cautiously.
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