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THE BEATING-UP OF MR. MUELLER
Sefton Delmer's NEWS MAP attends
a minor focal police court in Germany to tell here the story of a trial which could decido. how firm Britain intends to bo
time.
But the news magazino Der Spiegel manngod to obtain a copy all the same. And they published it showing both Mueller and his "friends."
When at British Insistenco the German police arrested a number of suspects, the prison doctor declared n number of them "medically unfit" for Imprisonment. Which did not, however, prevent their march- ing triumphantly in rows of three through Dortmund with the rest of their party who had been let out on ball.
The irony
dinand
Marx urged
that
and
Delmer talks to Mueller at his bedside......
HOPE, I hope, I hope. I viously at the rows of trium- suminoned before a German hope that Mr Bevin will phantly smiling accused. "Tho denazification tribunal. He was
to answer the charge of having German lawyer Dr Fer- not devoto all his time will look after them."
Three of Germany's ablest joined the Nazi Party in May this Mueller case was a purely to the pious illusions of the advocates had been
briefed. 1033 and of having been, a Internal Germun matter European Parliament in The firm lind seen to it that manber of the Nazi works should be transferred to a Ger- Strasbourg,
special food from the works counell in the Hoesch concern. man court. I hope that instend he will canteen was sent daily to the where he was a foreman at the
"Mueller," he said, "was not mobbed because he is a dia. devote a little of it to the four man in custody.
Nowhere did I find a German It did not matter that Mueller mantler and a servant to the impious realities of the who was prepared to velend already been dealt with by Beltish Military Government, Ile situation in Germany. In publicly his disapproval of this a denazifcation panel on was mobbed, bernuso he is a |particular I hope he will call attack--though I did find come November 1, 1940," Or that Nazi."
for a report on a case of who did so privately. When orders had been given by tho Strangely enough exactly the common assault which camo not speak up one of them was
I asked them why they would British that no fresh denazifica- came plea had been put to the before the summary tribunal the editor of a big newspaper on proceedings are now to be British regional milhor!tten by started. The joke of turning representatives of Herr Arnhold, the Christian Democrat Pre- the procedure by which Ger-
to be democratised micr of North Rhine many was
West- and pacifed against its allied phalin, and Dr Menzel, his
of sponsors was too good to forgo. Socialist Minister When he has read the
the In- And behold wint day was terior. report I hope he will at once rute truth is that the Germans axed for Mueller's denazification In both cases it was rejected. urge Military Governor have started their Arst trial by the Germans? Why. Yes, Mr Bevin, I think there is (and High Commissioner- underground
war against one July 21, of course, the day of something for you to look into to-be) Sir Brian Robertson of the occupying Powers. which he was duc 10 give here. to consider:
Not against the Russians or evidence before the British. the French: they are too tough.
of the British Military I got the same answer each Government in Dortmund time: "We have to live here" recently.
1-Whether this case is not
too grave to be dealt with by a summary tribunal, which deca not inflict sentences than a few months' imprison ment,
2. Whether,
Underground
Nor against the Americans: Mueller obediently arranged they still want dollars too badly. it so that he could be present, Tati against the British, whose at both. A crowd of workers of more Government's weak and vacillat- from the power station was in lug policy shows them to be the gallery of the denazification nud target. As Dr Adenauer. court. Snid works director A good if the charges leader of the great Christian Ohme; "Who am I to stop my against any of the 31 Germanos Democrat Parly. proclaimed men from attending a denazi- indicted are found to be just publicly and unambiguously in fention
court
their de fed, they should be sent for Hamburg recently,
"OUT
mocratic conselence bids them!" ap- trial before the High Court,
ponents today are the British." which Inflicts Jonger
Dismantling, which I myself heavier sentences.
disapprove as 1-timed, waste- 'ful, "and useless, is only a
text,
At the bottom of the
FOR the
unct
pre
Interruptions
Tost case
LL through the proceedings there were Interruptions accusation against whole movement in the desire from the gallery, The choir- those Germans has cer- of
convalescent Gerinany to man tried to keep order. "You tain points of similarity to show her national strength and must keep quiet here," he said. the case in which the three solidarity at the expense of one "I don't enre what you do Canadian seamen from the
of her occupiers.
outside." Beaverbrae were recently xent
Whether or not there is a What happened outside for trint at the Old Balley.
They are accused of beating secret general staff at the back heard from Mueller himself as of this underground campaign he ky in bed at his home sick up one Erwin Mueller, a con.
the bashing
had as some say, it certainly shows from tractor whom they consider o blackleg, n collaborator and admirable co-ordination. traitor "because he has been Mueller case is a good example. carrying out British orders and dismantling former German was plants.
a
men
of occupation troops right away: For no German will be able to
carry out their orders without
The story
As soon
The received.
when
ground.
10
-(London Express Service)
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• Bldg, when
From Page 5 of Der Spiegel (July 28) "The Dismantling of Mueller.”
The men in the Amethyst did not appeal for American aid. They did not bother about sending delegations or abdut Trade Union rules-and they finished the job on a Sunday.
What Britain Needs Now-
A Leader with the
Amethyst Spirit
HE House is up. Members have gone Into the country, and Ministers, deserting the Socialist Paradise of their own creating, have fled to various resorts abroad, to recover from it.
The
Against this combre back- ground of fuillo irrelevance, of drift and indecision, of acquiesoence in the downward slide Instead of energetic effort to resist it, the episode of the Amethyst camo like a heart- lifting shaft of light in a sullen sky.
fo In
The Amethyst found herself
Britain In trouble, "ar trouble today. But unlike Britain, the Amethyst got her- self out of it.
Sho did not appeal for American aid. She did not nwalt the outcome of discussions in Washington. Sho did not send delegates to the Counci of Europe. She did not walt omnipotent a supposedly Government to solve her prob→ lems for her.
for
"As was going down the stairs of the courthouse some- one Jumped on my back," he said. "We both crashed to the All round me there This is a test case. If these begins on June 15,
Mueller takes a parly of were men licking me, bashing Germans pro indeed proved to be the
who beat up men to dismantle what remains me with their fists and brief- bo in the bomb cases, which seemed Mueller then they must be of the refinery
There is a political vacuum, But, then, there was wrecked Dortmund
I managed to get up paraffin loaded. punished with severity.
For
is works belonging to the Hoesch and escape into an office. But if this "heroism"
the officials there would not help a political vacuum all through the last session. found to be
I asked them to call the only difference is that, for the next few weeks, there profitable and concern, niere six-month sentence Eight British officials accom- police. No one knew the num- will be no sittings of Parliament to disguise or conccal would make it so then we might
en they her. Then the mob got in and the vacuum. as well withdraw our garrison pany him.
arrive A group of about 60 pulled me out again." German workers crowd around
Somehow, despite it - all No Parliament, no Govern- jostling and threatening Mueller Mueller managed to arrivo atment, can wholly control events. and his (The demonstrm the Military Government court, Certainly not in
inch.
British Public Safety as German re- where fors were not,
Immediately had his our economy is the least self- werkers officers ports sald, paraffia
contained, the most exposed to
She did not resign herself to losing their Jou as a injuries attended to.
dismantling.
the impact of world conditions, of
Parliament's all-night sittings slow starvation by the cutting Picture lost
of any. But our present Parlia- have been concerned with such off of supplies. She did not things as the Steel Bill, which allow her capacity to save her- power station, the only active
"NEWSPAPER photographerment, our present Government in all probabuit, will ever self-to-be regulated by trade- It is not I found myself back in the part of the plant.
took a picture of Mueller not only do not control events: come into effect, and would only union rules, or by 25,000 State old
of aubsidized being dismantled.)
almost completely make matters worss if it did. atmosphere Chuggery and cowardly con- Mucller's men thereupon re- being beaten up.
it with only irrelevant to events, the authorities fused to carry on. Proceedings paper published nivance at by
which brought were begun against a number Mueller showing. and the public
sent to ask for Polles were of them by the British Military the Nazis into power,
negative, which showed A German behind me in the Government. Mueller was eited. the
only
his Mueller but tiny public gallery gave the as a witness for the prosecution, not
Hardly had July clúc "None of these men will
20 been assailants. "Very sorry," they ever again need to fear unem- fixed as the date for their trial reported. "A fire has destroyed
than Mueller ployment," he said looking en-
was suddenly the negative.".
risk of persecution.
Looked after
OW grave the situation
is fearful of
was made clear to me when
consequence
HOW
I attended the first sitting of They were workers from the the Dortmund court,
One news- they
C.V.R. Thompson Reports
The American Scene
mas, that the average worker's wege will be £13 8 4d. by the year's end and that businens will start turning upward soon. The next big test will be the summer of 1950.
are
Britain--forby W. J. Bro
TAKE the economic crisis. That crisis is due to condi- tions, some of which are wholly within our control and some of which are not.
We cannot control, • say, American willingness or willingness to buy British goods,
1357-
Government and .Parisu- ment have been
equally Irrelevant to the insanity of the London, dock strike. And so, it must be sndly admitted, have been the allelal trade uplons.
-Britain's greatest trade gale--
world has been way to the Blockaded for weeks by th silliest strike of all time. Com- munits got the men out. Com
regulations.
༔་
She measured the job that had to be done, and then did it.
Britain's problem is nothing use so difficult or no dangerous as that which confronted the Amethynt.
munists kept them out. Com our statesmen and politicians,
our captains of industry and munists took them back.
our trade union leaders, our Government, Parliament, foremen and our rank-and-fle Committee, Dock hind one-half of the courage and
end thereby enable us to earn Emergency the dollars we need. But the Labour Board-all might just as resolution of the men of the level of production in Britain, well not have existed for all the Amethyst, our dificultice would and thus the prices at which wo effect they had on the course of rapidly be overcome. can sell on the world market, is events, within our control,
:
of the two
Our ship of state would steer through the KULTOW and dangerous waters and come, like the Amethyst, to the wide, mic, and open sea.
The Amethyst had but one
NEW YORK. cinemas. But it refuses to sell R
UBBER ROADS for America tickets to Washington's Negroes,
The length of the working.. are urged by Harvey Firo- And it will not change its policy
of effort stone, the rubber mangnate, not during the Almm's run.
week: the intensity only because they wear better DICT issued by, the Inter-
the working hours; during and would increase Mr Fire-
mantenance, or the abandoning DURING the session we have
had brought to light the elec- captain and but a single chart. stone's pront, but also because State Commerce Commis
ORGEOUS GUSSIE MORAN of restrictive practices; the atti- they would provide dollars for slon: Fare for elephants on the
New York to New Jersey ferry announces she will not show tude to the use of machinery to tion programmes tho British Commonwealth
is to be increased from 7a, to all that lace in the tennis supplement mon-power all great parties. The programmes If he had had many captains through increased sales of
these aro
out things within are as irrelevant to our situation and lots of conflicting charts her she is 14s.
tournaments in which
Journey,' if it had ever been Malayan rubber.
as are the parties. playing at home this summer. centrol.
started, would have terminated INEMA PRICES will be cut All tho excitement "'bored"
The Socialists propose to carry in disaster. TREASURY OFFICIALS are almost "to
But the proceedings of Parlis- pre-war levels hier.
dev Lond considering a plan to re- (21, Od. everywhere, except in
ment, and the activities of the further a programme
Hr crew had one common duce income taxes on foreign the royal circle) this winter. PINCOURAGED BY the success Government, have been irrele forty years ago under conditions
number of earnings, to encourage private
of FOR
jun, another vant to these things. True, we radically different from what objective, not a
ones. They dollar investments in Britain THE WORST of the slump is Roosevelt fon, Elliott, is thinking have had a two-day debate on prevail today. And the Con- my hostile. and other countries.
over for this year, accord- of running for Congress in his the crisis, but it resulted
servatives propose nothing sub- subordinated all koser loyalties
to the supreme loyalty. ing to the latest report from pre- father's ·
stantially different. home constituency, nothing more Un unhappy
In all these things there is a HOLLYWOOD'S Brat Alm con- sident Truman's economic ex- Hyde Park, New York. Another acquiescence in a programme of The ono document is animated
demning discrimination perts.
brother, James, will probably now cuts and austerities, the by hate, and the other by fear. moral for Britain. against Negroes has been book- They predict that employ», run for the Governorship of effects of which we shall fod. Both are evil counsellors.
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