C.V.R. Thompson
BIG CITY
STEMS
KEY MONEY
New York.
[ILLIAM O'Dwyer, New
WILLIA
York's mayor, has pub- Bished a lavish little booklet explaining why many New Yorkers no longer have to pay £150 "koy money" for somewhere to live,
The booklet explains 1040 this since January
that
city
alone has built fats and houses for 140,000 familles.
This has been achieved by a partnership of the city ou- thorities and free enterprise.
The city has financed, bullt, and let according to the prin- ciples of Mr Bevan-12 housing projects for 47.000 familied, ali of them in low-income groups.
Private builders have put up 33,044 "rental unlis" and 32,000 private
homes.
Then "quas-public" projects, vast developments by insurance companies with nid from
elty, trave
the
provided another
10,740 flats. The remaining 6,000 homes will be ready in a work or two.
ONO
Mayor O'Dwyer glosses over highly interestinst fact Average cost of each dwelling built by the municipal u thorities was £2,833.
But the average cost of those
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER.
Same idea, lower key
by GILES
SULES
"Charlie likes this Beecham idea of giving 'em a dusting down before we start."
-{London Express Service)
Life grows tougher in smugglers
paradise
ANDORRA.
erected entirely by free enter-THE young man in the
trise was only £2,062 10
T grey chalk-stripe suit
Icaned back in his
CITY: Wall Street in watching chair, sipped his cognac. with fascinated interest the and said: "I need more biggest struggle In years tourists, I must get them
think bulls (who business is going to get better) here-in ̈really large num- and the bears (who think it in bera." Kong to get worse).
tween the
He signalled to the ob- .1h0 bears, who "burrow" sequious waiter to re-charge and added: stock, sell it at its market value our glasses, In the hope of repurchasing 11
Also, I must get this coun- Inter pocketing the profit, now hold try on to the international nearly two million shares. This telephone system without
lower price
and
is the largest bear interest since delay." 1932.
Fo
the market
and Drug Administration,
Since 1278 the Republic
SIDASTIAN
by R. M. MacCOLL
Predu 10906
"Andorra-a thin, rocky gash through the heart of the Pyrenees."
car
all
buy a
T
1949.
LAST
CHANCE TO
TEACH THE GERMANS
by:
THE trial of the former German field-marahal von Münstein before a British Military Court in Hamburg is the last major war crimes trial.
Also it will bring to an end a controversy which has raged for months,
on' the
rights and wrongs of the trial of the German fleld. marshals.
usually try
shals.
Anthony Marreco
Barristern Nuremberg In 1945 Chief Staff Oficer to the Political Adviser to the British Military Governor of Germany, and British member of the Four. Powered Directorate of
. Internal Affairs from
1945 unit 1949.
that it was stabbed in the back by Socialist insurrection behind
to Binos.
This "steb-in-the-back" myt saved the face of the German "Omcer Corps" and gavo im- petus to the kind of rationalism which gave birth to Hiller,
*
Is the same thing happening again?
The 1945 version of the "tab- In-the-back"
myth was carly afoot, General Keifel and Military courts do not when confronted with Hitler's General Jodi, Admiral Raeder
and Admiral Docnitz brutal crimes, which are shown hell mar- to have been
Goering, within their Luftwaffe,
for speaking general knowledge, they say
ulce were at Nuremberg that I was. Hitler, the amatour strategist, incgalomaniac playing at
the
to
A precedent was estab- they disobeyed. lished by the trial of Field - The truth is that they ac- the Marshal Kesselring two tively participated in nil there, soldiers, who was to blame for crimes or sat allent and ae- the fallure of the German Army the proce- years ago, but dure was criticised at the quicocent, witnessing the com- to reach its objectives,
mission of crimes on a scolo time.
larger and more shocking than They declared that the Ger- the world has ever had the man Army would never have Moreover, the Lord Chan- misfortune to know. This must been defented if Hitler had not cellor
interfered. to the Iouse of be said. Lords last May that "we shall conduct the trial in ac- cordance with our traditiona."
great
FEELINGS OF UNEASINESS
the
In fact, Hiller and the Nazis tre whipping-boys In Genoty today for the mess that the Germans have made of the world.
MOSCOW DELAY PROLONGED WAR
King's Regulations say: The evidence which formed "As many members (of the the basis of the charges after- of visitors. They will love it court) as possible will be held marshals was not available
wards preferred against here,
officers who have held or to counsel who cross-examined, "One thing I believe I've got fixed. Andorra ought to be on
are holding commands them at Nuremberg.
One night Inst winter 1 paid the International telephone equivalent to that held by
It had been stored
a call on General Dittmar, well- trunk system by next year. At the accused."
away In present we can make only in-
the Bles of the War- Omee, and known in the war as a radio fernal calls.
But none of the eleven Americans, who had heard of
came to light only wa.h the commentator broadcasting from
Berlin. Why? Jealousy between field marshals on the active its existence, asked the British France and Spain. Nelther wanted to see the other get the
list was appointed to the Government when the trial was
It was dark when I arrived.
valuable concession "But
court, The president is going to take place,
An oli lamp was set upon the found the way out," says Mr Lieutenant - General Sir
fable, and Frau Dittmar lifted Generally speaking. senior Frank Simpson.
a piping-hot dish of macaroni officers in the three Services do from the hob. Then glasses and not accept the judgment of a bottle of 'schnapps.' Nuremberg on the generals and the admirals, and tongues have not been lacking in Govern ment circles to give voice to
Reig.
From a
Joudspeaker Radio
Andorra, whose repertoire
seems to be made up exclusively of unclení
almost
can dance records, starts to blate
"Blow My out
Away,"
"Ah, Radto Andorro,"
Ameri-
Blues
Says
H
'DISGRACE TO THEIR PROFESSION
After the war von Brau- Mr Relg. A nice property. It is chitsch, von Rundstedt, and at present a State enterprise, von Manstein were prisoners but in a few years time it re-in England, verts to us to the people."
un
their uneasiness.
But the view prevailed that if there was a prima facie case for trial the trial must be held.
AGE
MANSTEIN'S AND HEALTH
In the low-ceilinged parlour of his cottage in the Lower Saxon village of Holzminden, the general it his pipe and pre- pared to talk.
I asked him if he thought that the German Army ever could have beaten the Russian winter and tho expendable supply of Russian manpower. "Jawohl! Naturlich! But for Hitler's delay before Moscow in war would
Lors
ΟΙ
But the bulls, confidant that of Andorra-a thin, rocky someone has mysteriously intro- there. Then suddenly, it
duced a thick dash of the Rue became "big time."
They were taken to ນ the stump is ending, are
Meal for two buying. The result is that, for gosh through the heart of de la Paix, a strong hint of the
Nuremberg to give evidence And Andorra's big profits are Pyrenees is the the moment.
between international Black Market, and often perfectly legal, too. From going up. Within the next France and Spain, which all the steaks you can eat.
THERE is much to entrance on behalf of the German month, one or other of them will supports 6,000 citizens-has out of every three of the braw now
the end of the war until a year the visitor in this slightte High Command, indicted as Imagine, moreover, that two ngo it was possible to
without a criminal organisation. As the case was being
Von Brauchitsch died while autumn 1941 the Kot tripped.
the wilting paradise even been
American ruled by two co- Highland lassies, in the
prepared; have been over by Chrisimas." streets Toulouse black market, drive it the improvements. The sky is a group they were acquit the charges against von Rund- princes."
are sporting nylons and
-I asked him if it was not a ultra openly into: Andorra, buy An- blue, the sun shines.
ted, because the High Com- siedt were dropped because of MOOD: A warning that the
fact that the atrocious treatment One is the President of smart hair-dos, and that
the dorran number-plates, and then And a meal for two, consist-mand was found not to have the probability that he would by the German Army of the increasing use of synthetic
village youths, instead of wear-
d'oeuvres, a huge foods
people's the French Republic; the ing rough shepherd's garb, are on into Spain, where it could be ing of hors may endanger
sold at 100 percent profit.
been risotto made with shellish and
"organisation" have a heart attack and die in civilinn population of the health was given by Dr. Paul second is the Bishop of in dazzling draped lounge sulis
Those days are over now, meat,
rump ateak with within the meaning of the the dock; but preparations for Crane
the trial of von Manstein were welcome the Germans as libera- who were ready to Dunbar, of Amerien's Pure Food Urgel, in Spain. But today of excellent cloth, and Holly- they sigh. But Mr Reig, co potatoes and salad cheese, fruit, charter which set up the ordered to proceed.
there is, to all intents and wood-type dark glasses.
Prince the Third, is in no mood almonds, coffee, a bolile
from the tyranny of Nuremberg Tribunal; but to watch Andorra slide off its wine and liqueurs, costs as little Lord Justice Lawrence, now given as 77, and he is described single fact, made defeat in the Then imagine that the village prosperity peaks without doing as 10s.
Von Manstein's age is usually Moscow, more than any olber pub and many of the
something about it. buildings on the rocky
East a certainty. By next year, If Mr Reig has Lord Oaksey, said:
as nearly blind. street are neon-lighted.
"P, the nlried!" he cries. his way, you will be able to They have been a dis-
possible telephone home to Aunt Gertie grace to the honourable pro- early sixties, and when
In fact, he is u man in his But he would not have it, It say it isn't among these mountains." But I in Contraband
Manchester from
ho was Hitler's hisltation and in- Les say it is, Swiss surveyors have Escaldes
fession of arms. (clicap
Many of appeared at Nuremberg he was ability to make after rates
up his mind men found one place where it is seven). This may spoil the place these
have made a in good health and in full what be wanted....the stab-in- that feasible. The landings would be a littlo
the
the-back. per
purely mockery of the soldier's oath possession of all his faculties. perfectly okay,
escapist's point of view, but then of obedience to The take-off is perhaps
Two German lawyers were a Mr R. wants the telephone. shade more
orders.
briefed And when he wants a thing.
for the defence-Dr He owns the country's two And then, Just as you are de will come the planes full of then I think my money is on Mr
When It suits their defence Laternser, who defended the ́DOLITICS:“EvenTMgolf is being cinemas-the-lucrative--tobacco-ciding-that-this-is-some-whim--tourists from Paris, Home, and
they say they had-to-obey-High-Command-at-Nuremberg. garages, sical jest perpetrated by a film London. monopoly, a string of for political used
and Dr Leverkuhn, a German large company on location, n flock of
Intelligence agent in the Nent paganda in the growing Ameri-mber interests, and a
sheep baas its way down
East in the war.
Disclosing that 500 chemi-purposes, a third; the young cala are now used in everyday man in the chalk stripes. foods, in spite of America's
plenty, the doctor said: "When
nature he should be sure
a man staris competing with
his
Biggest noise
IS name is Julian Relg (pru-
formulas do not bear the skull Huced Retch). He is. 31.
and crossbones before he starts
using them.
what diseaseg may cause."
We don't know and he is the biggest noise in these chemicals this quiet valley. He owns the
hotel-Andorra's plushiest.
-pro-
can struggle between Left and Right.
Democrat Ralph Yatos boal Republican Robert Taft, and
other high
INALLY, imagine
the shops in your Highland village are crammed to Blowing.
horse-breeding concern.
|
But Mr Reig is น shuda street. worried. For slim times threatening.
arc
The frontier
ol forward. His shots were in-luxury motor-couch from the been doubled. English
siloed towards variably
the little French town of Ax-les- right-and so he did not win." Thermes.
over-
the
What Is the explanation? An- dorrans make no secret of it. Even so Andorra-when you "We have always lived by con then issued this criticism of his anally ret there provides ntraband," they tell you gaily. opponent's game: "He could not paradox of prosperity among "Or export-import, if you pre- keep his eye on the ball and the beetling erojis.
fer." kept looking backward instead
It takes four hours by non-
guards have people get through easily enough, but everyone else is submitted to a most thorough search.
Special attention Is belog given to huts and berets, Every Iining is turned inside out the hunt for gems and drugs, spected singly in the search for concealed watches or cameras.
Unul 14 years ago it was
smuggling. among petty coltages bit of tobacco here, some Jace
INTERTAINMENT:
ncs.cc,
Ing horses.
in
You whirr on down the val- broom, FiThley, among the yellow censors in Memphis, Ten- wild azaleas and herds of graz
and Birmingham, Ala-
Then suddenly you reach Les bama, both Southern cities Escaldes ("Our most cosmopoll- Even sheep in docks are in- have banned "Lost Boundaries, tan village, moneleur," says Mr the Hollywood him which urges Reig) and the shock starts.
tolerance for Negroes. Imagine a small village in the Their reason: "It is contrary to] Scottish Highlands, the public good.”
whose blate-roofed
more
Where
tricky. Ah. When
Hundreds-thousands
from
-(London Express Service) ·
old lady
Tough old
of the desert
ONCE HIGH DIVING CHAMPION OF BRITAIN
By Bernard Drew
"for tiny study was piled books and periodicals. Her living-room was much the
a little red mud house IN
in the heart of the with Sahara Desert two Cam- same; there was a single deck-
4
A He bridge undergraduates met chair bought some 20 years ago remarkable 70-year-old in England for 35. 4d, and plies cf books, many on Tinnagh. Scotswoman.
the ancient writing of the Tuareg people.
This langungo is Frances Wakefield's life.
they get things done
THIS is how they build THIS
By GERALD SCHEFF
arc
In the restaurant` roasts in Free Belgium, served from a silver trolley.
Three people are employed where bureaucrats do not solely, to arrange the fresh-cut thwart enterprise as in flowers in rooms and lounges. Britain. Last November a A few miles away a decision was taken to build block of seaside flats was an hotel at Albert Plage,cently opened. near La Zoute.
materials and
A lako was dredgod and All-, shops.
712
and
days,
F
never
Yet the Ostender: is without his dolly beefsteak, his glass of bock, his cigarettes, and
is now sull.,
tho
superior
PUBLIC
APPEAL
FOR DEFENCE
A few weeks ago I met Dr
Leverkuhn in London.
HITLER'S BLUNDERS
The latest example is a book just published in, Gormany, called "Hitler on Field Marshal,” by General Halder, Chlef of Staff from 1938. until 1942,
It sold 100,000 copies within a day of its appearance.
It is concerned to destroy the legend of Hitler
as a military He had gone over to obtain · genlus, ond replace it with Onancial aid for von. Menstein's another-that the German Army defence (which the Government opposed the war, and would bad refused to grant-why the never have committed the fatal: money could not be raised in blunders that Hitler made Germany was not sald).
Halder describes the mistakes
His visit resulted in a pub- Which Hitler maua lie appeal, which rulsed
In August 1941 he launched £1,020 and enabled von Man- the Battle of Kiev in disregard stein to instruct
Lead his defence,
a KC, to of the general staff's insistence
The K. C.
has since does not intend to take a fee.
announced that he that Moscow must first be cap-
tured
Then he was obsessed with The evidence against von the need to take Leningrad and Manstein relates to his know. Stalingrad. ledge and responsibility-as of Army Group
Dr. Frances Wakefield Sir Wavell added that, as a Commander
Bouthern
His obsession led to a series of "unmilitary" decisions,
cul-
thu of
"She has dono translations of young woman in the gay nine-South, which covered roughly minating in the disaster to von
ties, his aunt was a remarkably the
third'
Sho is Dr Frances Wake- field, who took her M.B. · and degrees at Edinburgh Ch. B. University in 1905.
She lives at Tamanrasset, a small oasis
800 miles Old Testament stories and hopes town south of Algiers, garrisoned by to influence changes which will dae swimmer and a high diving Russian front-for the atrocities Paulus's army at Stalingrad. the French Foreign Legion.
nako the language more easily champion of Great Britain. against the civilian population
Towards the end of the 1014-done by special wrillen and thus prevent 18 war she went out to Palestine commandos, or relatives include Her
face of the Wavell Wakefield, Conservative dying out in the spread of Arabic.
as a mechanile, and stayed out pea" as they .were M. P. for Marylebone;
afterwards among the Arabs Nearly 1,000 documents will be "She has a theory about the All sorts
of people have run into produced by the, prosecution... language. She holds that the heMS A MAN, the R.A.F.,
hase, run in characters were derived from
•The indictment itself. As.39
'Like a babe'
Str.
Resembles code
I was
mass-murder "Einsatzgrup-
called,
|to last three or four months.
OFFICERS WHO
DISOBEY ED
7
As Commander-in-chief Hitler refused to allow any with
inctical situation, and officers' who disobeyed blå order were * relleved of their command,
with grave, anxiety the leading derman #genarais: watched the course of events.
TRIAL TERMED TANE AS VINDICTIVE
And the cheapest thing buy in Belgium today? Found re notes. They are plentiful at 13.
1 145, Đại cách.
Tho undergraduates, Harry the solar system, the North Pole, stationed at Uxbridge in the sheets, and the trial is expected. drawał regardless of the locali Norris and Derrick Stenning star being represented by a carly, Sterling was once of higher bave sent the following acount single fixed, dot, the remaining named
1920s, another officer An old It was put up by a group of
Jones and I had value, who pooled thult
of their meeting,
letters increasing in complexity Christmas dinner together.'' ол the casino was demolished. builders
The bank clerk who
of savings when
evening cashed
our and variability. of positioning
"Soon Thon 800 workmen took business was slack.
afterwards he my traveller's cheques secured
arrival at Tamanrasset, we
was posted to Palestine, and force- 100 gold sovereigns at the time out to find her, "An Arab guide over.
landed among what he thought But Belgian resort are not of the Munich crisis; sold each led us to a little house, which
IL, would bo, qu... understato- Their efforts to save the were hostilá Arabs.. worked
Must for 40 times its value, and lived seemed to be uninhabitable, In shifts having an easy time. They
"It may be written" in any..... throughout the day and night Britons are spending less than comfortably throughout
“As he waited for them, to ment to say that this trial is German troops, from Hiller a Anyone, at home, we called. 'direction, the position of separ £233n, •head—mostly in food German occupation. The hotel walls went up.
#gun, unpopular in Germany at a stupidities were înna ective,” A a pauso camo the ate letters having an effect on approach he grabbed
Suddenly, a woman's voice said, time when party politicians aro Even today, with the board reply: Those voices: sound de- their meaning. ** ed Motor-boats were ordered Many stay only a few
gone, he says: "My salary hos lightfully English is it two "Titnagh, she says has no aunt
'Don't worry."' Out stopped my anxious to turn atiy such in-But-Halder does not day what".
eldent to 'needunt" Tho: Germans those sorts were 4 Perhap and diving boards erected for and stagger home with 25 lb. one up four times, and my young inen from Cambridge vowels. It is more like a code:
aunt from among the Araba,
insist it is á vindictive trial of a ''' von Mänstein' willäisen er floodlit night bathing,
more we heard food parcels containing hams, wife Ands she can save
were coming? than language, I have derived than over
before."
"At home" Wakofield unlatched, her Flower gardens,
Whatever blad, von "Manstein i tennis butter, cheese, milk chocolate, puts and
The average Belgian does not wonten door. She was barefoot what I think are. vowels, from courts, and terraces, made gay bananas, while Hour,
boileva
I venture to hope that as the Wis responsible for, as fold- something for nothing. in a blue print dress, her grey In
various solar positions."""; 20 "Jones, I can tell you was
commanding wArmy: evidence is presented, and wit-marshal with tables and chairs of white raisins.
HA UNAN For very pleased to see her. hair
Dr Wakefield is the youngest Ostend is a dead town. Only has been hard work encouraged tanned a deep brown by the daughter of the late Mr William she asked. Jones, replied, Why Iderwork wrought Iron,
nessen examined, another con- Group South, he was no much one of the casino's. 12. roulette by the incentive of a conlented desert sun, yet sull unwrinkled. Wakefield, of Birklands, Kendal, yes, we have just had Christmas lald.out.
why,troversy may be settlod
as any man responsible for the defeat in the most whichs Crimson and blue sluttes tables is in hetion on week stomach f
A ghost stalks abroad Inspeded defeat in the West, wore equipped with oun bal days. Except at week-ends the That, and not uranium in the She carried her 70 years, as she who belonged to the banking dinner together! conies, private safos, post boxes, tables are taking less than £10 Congo; is why the shop wine said. Like a babe. Med firm of Wakefield. Crewdson:
Germany, today. It can be laid Her sister, Miss Isabel Wake once and for all time in the Counsel, both for the prosecu and patent shaving mirrors!?
{Ini alx months; the hotel (wari Weeds overrun the ruins of lows of Belgium are how ́aven Frances. Wakefield, tho, and Co, of Kendal NEW BAR neid, of Kendal, said to me Hamburg courtroom. And, it tion and the defence, ówd it to:
beller. Olled than they were 12 years. Sit in the garden and I have lived here 15
Sir Wavell 1 Wakefield told me "She loves her work, and feels will be sur Inst chance to lay world peace to dispose once, and Anished. Today, business is in the king's kummer palken,
pastries months ago, and why the goods Mounds ofTM cream
talk to
forever of the myth that the full swing.
My aunt is pretty tough and much more at home among the mey There are 12 chefs under hopefully prepared for visitors they display are cheaper and
"Her garden le á plot of aarid a most remarkable woman, wo Araba (16 than he does n
In 1918 the story was put German, Army wEL DEVEL * some:10ft square, which boasts, . "I recall, her-as-small... and
England." Belgian-bom Parmontier, once are nightly consigned uneaten of Improved quailtysi
about, that the German Army fealed in the field, NADING A British Army-paratrooper me-to-cafe-dustbins/
London Expedia feruice) ilm single stunted ́fig: treesji Laglio with very decided viewz.”
---(London, Express" Berites).
was noyer defeated in the field;
were
סיל"
I'm
defeated hero
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