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LIEUTENANT FOUND
'FOOL'S GOLD"
By John Deano Potter
`ADMIRALTY BAY
(South Shetlands), Mar. 7: TEUTENANT FERNANDO DEFONZO of the Argentine Navy is only 24 years old, and that may excuso him.
For he is sure he has unibcked the secret.of the Antarctic, especially the bit of it Argentine is claiming.
Fernando was still sleeping it off in hila rabbit hutch home ten yards from Admiralty Bay's ice-laden beach, ten yards also from the British base with the Union Jack flying over it, when a member of the British expedition climbed across a fence of giant whalebones surrounding the hut and knocked,
The astonished Argentino woke up quickly enough when he saw the long grey shapes of the cruiser Nigeria and the sloop Snipe riding at anchor a hundred yards, offshore among Icefoes and swimming penguins.
They had made a night voyage among the locberga from Deception Island..
Major Geoffrey Wilson, of the Royal Marines, con- fronted the stili dazed lieutenant and handed over the British official protest at the Argentino's occupation of a British Antarctic Jaland.
This was the second personal de- ~~~~₫ livery within two days. Yesterday the Argentinos on Deception had re- ceived theirs.
nation was ripened for the plucking
DEFEAT WITHOUT ALIBI...
T
HE Czech crisis was a struggle between the London gang of politicians who spent the war in England and the Moscow gang of Czechs who spent the war in Russia. The Moscow gang won.
It has now become clear (1) how shockingly the other parties were outclassed by the skill, suddenness, and force of the Communist attack; (2) there remaing nothing for the Allies to salvage in Czechoslovakia; and (3) there is simply no alibi for this total defeat of the West.
The chief remaining anxiety of the Allied Embassies is to pre- vent the Communists from convincing a lot of the world that so quick and bloodless, was also the change, because it was constitutional.
General Svoboda, a proclaim-
council
nise
this
SCRIBBLED PROTEST Lieutenant Fernando scrambled back into the hut where he sleeps solo with two sailors, Argentine's representatives around here (all they have to do is see that Argentine's blue and white flag-fics all the time next to the Union Jack), and hastily scribbled out his protest at the
Sunday, February 22: The Czech of non-party "man" who TU.C. called 8,000 works declared that he was "faithful delegates to Prague. The Communist British landing.
trade union chairman, A. Zapetoelty, only to the President, became had warned the nation (and Defence Minister. In fact, Bones) a few days before that he was a Communist. Thus the Would be the real Parliament of the second element of force, the
ULTIMATUM army, was soon riddled from within.
PROMINENT among those attend the gunboats
nation.
Next, Communist
ing were General Svoboda and fellow-
a travellers organised, from 1946 Flerlinger, who masqueraded as
Social Democrat and who is how ex- on, militias in every workshop pected to succeed Dr Benes as Presi- "to avert sabotage and defend dent.
Gottwald finally threw down this the factories in case of war.'
Benes) thinks we are talking hot air, Prague students were refused challenge: "If anyone ("anyone was own he will be terribly disillusioned. The permission to form their militia: the Communists fore- working class is ready to win by all saw even the university revolt. or any means." The third element of force was thus prepared.
It remained to capture the radio and Press; these organs were already tied up by agree. ments which forbade attacks on muted internal Russia,
and made their criticism, writers into mouthpieces for the permitted parties: The news Papers were anaesthetised.
The
This
his duly found Mr Miles Cord, Governor of the Falklands, who is touring the
the Dependencies in,
Licut. Nigeria.
But despite the incident, Fernando-and remember he has not even a radio, his only contact with the outside world being the Argen- which sail up and down these islands despite protests did not seem very interested.
All because of his discovery.
while He made it the other day walking among the snow-covered rocks where seals bask and penguins waddle.
HE HAS NO DOUBTS It was shiny. The lieutenant's eyes must have popped. Goldi
Well he fished up this shiny sub- stance; and he has rushed it off to Buenos Aires. It is all tremendous- and ly exciting for him.
the
you
Ad-
says.
Benes had the night to study the ultimatum: either the Communists would have their way or the country would be opened up to chaos
"I've no doubt It's gold," he told civil war.
Monday, February 21: Benes de- the British. "But I shan't tell
it as there's a lot more elded to put the issues to the people where I found in a radio address; this war vetoed by of it there, and it's valuable." Gottwald, and in the morning
Well, of course, it may be gold.
21-year-old Eric Platt, of Communist militia marched through But
Halifax, Yorks, who is the leader the elty.
Ministers of the British expedition in non-Communist were still at their desks, since their mirally Bay does not think so.
"There's no gold here," he accepted. resignations had not been
found 15 rupper So demonstrations were organised "What Fernando outside the Ministries, while action pyrites.
Some people have another committees of Ministry employees Lot
for it," he added. "They call busy inside.
The first to be thrown out was Dr Fool's Gold." Transport. put transport in hands of the Communists, who pack- ed all the trains and buses bound for the capital with their supporters.
munists from the provinces- Thursday, February 10: Two men brought to fill the streets of Prague arrived in Prague-Soviet Deputy with clamour.
SILENCE But the modern State does not fall in a day. How was it, done? Commissar Zorin and Mr Lawrence
Not all observers in Prague accept the view that the Communists staged their coup to avoid defeat in the May elections.
#1 Many believe the Communists would have won the elections anyhow, but that they wanted a clear victory
May in
ALI, NOW SET
advance as an example to the Italians, who vote next month. By the beginning of this year the Trl, Slovak Demetrat periste the
country was ripe for the silent
revolution that The proximity of big brother Russia facilitated the Communist revolution-
was 10,000
task, but physical factors do not explain the ease and smooth- made with 8,000 rifles and being In that one day 130,000 Com- ness with which it was done. "Political warfare" experts tommy guns without a shot
own to the most profound admiration for a beautifully con- ducted operation:
BY CHARLES FOLEY
fired.
A. Steinhardt, the United States Am- bassador. It is a measure of Allied
were
inck of preparedness and reality that E next building to be, stormed Mr Steinhardt confessed that he had was the Ministry of Posts, from returned from America for the pur- which the Minister, Horla, and tils
Friday, February 20:
The пол-
were forced into a showdown. Token Communist members of the Cabinet were resignation to the President offered by 12 of them.
rmed workers.
500 queue
to see a HYPNOTIST
By FRANK MacGARRY
name
it
YEAR- pose of getting Czechoslovakia to re- Chief of Cabinet were expelled. This TWENTY-THREE -
OLD John Willgoss took a consider her rejection of the Mar- gave the Communists the radio and
orders sewing needle and a 5d. ridle Next, to First thing that "put the
placate the Com- skall plan, whether Russia approved the telephones. Emergency
went out to the army, police, and in a No., 54 bus to Lewisham skids" under Czechoslovakia was munists, Benes agreed that the or not.
Tuesday, February 24: Light and Town Hall one night recently to volun- the agreement at Yalta that the four Left-wing parties were to
Opposition Press. The Opposition teered. Czechs should be "liberated" share the monopoly of political
paper supplies were cut off from the hypnotise anyone who
Five hundred people queued out- leadership found itself finally with-
their activity in the revived republic.
side. Two from the East alone.
out means to speak.
hundred fought
doors were From the start there was to be
On Wednesday, February 25, Benes way in. Then General Patton could easily
Now the Communists demanded that the Ministers' token resignations surrendered. He told Gottwald he closed. Mr Willgoss took ten people
would accept the
Cabinet resigna-and began talking in a fired, yown- - did not want have captured Prague; United no open Right-wing opposition:
Jan ing voice. The first election campaign should be accepted, and that they all ions. But he
In four minutes, three appeared to States advanced elements were
should be replaced. Benes, who Masaryk to resign. Nor would he
himself. The Communists sleep. He took one, Mr George already in the capital when found the Communists pos- secretly supported the Ministers, re-
uled celly on their belief that Kirby, aged 22. of Peckham, and ordered him to sessed of big prestige advan- fused. Eisenhower
and supported him in the air with Saturday, February 21: The Com- Benes would remain in office,
chair back under his neck withdraw. So Prague - and tages and, a bottomless
So now the Communists hold 12 another under his ankles. Mr Kirby Czech politics are dominated voir of the new Czech currency, muniai Ministers called a mass meet again they were right.
the traditional centuries-old with "purged" representatives of the Then he was taken to the plano. He by a giant Russian tank high They won 38.5 percent of the ing at the Old Town Square.. This put of the 26 seats in the Cabinet, slept on.
square in which the mob has always other parties in the rest. Thus they began to play. But a photographer's concrete pediment total votes in a free election.
can argue that, with 38 percent of bulb flash woke him after six notes.
Mrs Elleen Tozer, was next. She- tank to
Interior Hradeamy Castle where Benes now the country's votes, they have taken first
The Communist
only half of the seats in the Cabinet, was taken back to her schooldays.
"Look at Minister Nosck soon trebled the
Socialist Govern-
On the third sleeper, Miss Pamela.
Communists
up on a "The Prague."
enter
reser-
been incited against the rulers
sat.
In
อ
and'
ho
The resolved: police force, colonised their phatically demand that the President ment in England," they say. "They Davis, nged 18, of Greenwich the Communists, ranks with Secondly,
accepts the resignations." Delegates had a smaller. percentage of voles at demonstrated the anaesthetic. value- the General Election and they have of hypnotism by pushing the needle immediately the war
ended, militarised them. Here was the marched up to the castle.
taken all the seats in the Cabinet." Into her arm. Mias Davis said she
From encouraged the Czechs to offer a first clement of force in Com-
point of view the felt no pain, a specialist At this point, in the Old Town
produced his Communists turned the weapons of Mr Willgoss looked at his watch hostage to fortune by driving muniat hands.
Square, Gottwald Sudeten Germans
trump card-the action squads. In democracy against the nation in and regretted that the room was too 3,000,000
of crowded for mass hypnosis. One hun- The army Was a. tougher every town and village, in every face coup that will rank as a classie from their homes. The Czechs
the revolutionary technique. No foreign dréd and ninety-nine people left. At least a third of tory and workshop throughout
threats shouted
Mr re- problem.
From a reserved front seat, Across are terrified of a German
uprising.. And for an Joseph. Willgoss looked at his son and venge, and they feel that Rus the officers were strongly anti- country, the Communist cells, 10,000, troops, no of them, had been prepared for this Europe, no
of said: "Marvellous how he can con- sin offers the only certain pro- Communist. So General Svoboda moment. Their job was the leader- enemy like Jan Masaryk plenty
flowers, by request. -
centrate.' ship of the armed' militas. tection against this fate.
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