THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY,
(RER 80, 1950.
How quickly
could Germany
raise an army?
BERLIN.
APPER Sir Ivone Kirk- patrick, the stripe- trousered Foreign
Olice diplomat
who has
succeeded General Robert-
It is a pertinent question for the
week when the
son as Britain's High Com Big Three pledge
missioner in West Germany. has been saying in New. York that Germany does not want a new army.
Now that, coming from
aid to Adenauer
by
100,000 old Wehrmacht man in this police force, completely capable of realsting any attack 011 West Germany by the German Communist ariny East Germany."
Dittmar, whose
WILL INDIA GO RED?
IN A SPECIAL INTERVIEW WITH SEFTON DELMER
Nehru
says 'Force is no
answer to Communism'
Her trade as a consequence is practical · purposes," he sold, and Communiam almost exclusively concernede rest do not matter"-le would prefer Communism,
in India, he. with the West. Only an in- meet the Communist advance in finitesimal part of it goes to the Ala not by force of arms but. 2. Amedican Intervention Communist-controlled world. by removing those factors which against Communism in Aria
encouraged Communlam.
must be rejected because it sup- 2 Sho dependa on Western
These were the poverty, of the ports colonial regimes like that Inanco, know-how, and workers, the land hunger of the of Britain in Maleya and France equipment for that progressive peasants, and above all the con- la Indo-Chinn. Furthermore, it development of her resources fined domination of the Asiatic smacks of colonial pretensions which aluno will raise living coples by
Western
colonial of its own standards of her population. Powers or their Aslatie puppels.
3 Indinis n member of the The Western use of force to In my opinion, this stuffude British Commonwealth. Her drive out Communism from of Nehru's is so dangerous that navy, army, and air force are Aala, he said, would only rally it almost nullifies the achieve- trained on British lines, British Nationalist Asin against the ments of his colleague, Sardar equipped, and *111 have • West in support of Communism. Patel, in putting down Com- number of British officers. Here Included India among those munist terrorism in India itself. newspapers and radio draw rallying.
news from British sources.
But as I listened to Nehru
talking, my view changed,
I did not get up na I YN
n
'Just Slays'
Communism
munism.
by
Prime Minister? You clothes men-whose fares and his Home Secretary, Sardar al Poland, Czechoslovakia, and A, De
"Oh, Rumania."
Greece
of tho
The and-American lead given has the Prime Minister caused a wavo of the billcrest anti-American feeling through- entered the room, but remained, any case, he suggested,
In Asla was but India, Most of the country's unanliing, at his desk, an im- Ile added, waving his band:
pressive figure in while not the same as Russian Com- youth, I find, favour the North Koreans in the present war. All nationation Asintie "Of course, if the Russians came
homespun Indian suit with A in, too, that would be a different alory-but it would mean war
NEW DELHI, It mattered little that the fron waistcoat over his shirt. Waa co strong, he said, that it the Indians I have talked with I asked Nehru why he did not would impose its own atamp on speak with indignation of the
"American bombing with the West."
THAT would you say security police hud hours of
Join General
the West in a common any new regime. "The day has *nimble brain defeated
If you got on a plane work checking the passen- front against Soviet imperialism, passed," he said, "when peoples Korean civil population.""
can be dominated by colonial I drew parallel between Goebbels and other top Nazis
to fly to Glasgow und gers on the plane and plant-
administration,"
For a base? Communist violence and In his radio reports
among (was found yourself sitting next ing
them plain
"Not In Europe," I said. "Look terrorism in India, which always
ways in
Ta political cocktail party danger Sir Ivone, whose job it is to Selkirk Panton a wartime head to the
they art
naked by high keep his boss, Mr Ernest what you like, Communiam or lines pecusing me of attacking would 18k the steward had
to be paid by the Patel, had gone all out to crush, Slavs," said Nehru.
dignitary of the Government The Pandit and Communist violence in the Bevin, informed on German Rest Imperialism.
Goebbels"), fold me that the whether you were in the Government.
He added that the distribu- whether I believed the Ameri- had Eight million refugees from find step necessary in Germany wrong plane.
domonstrated his international field-in trends, is a very impurtant
17 Fant zone now in Western is what he call "moral re-
scrupulous logic to himself, nearer his home, in China, ou of the land to the peasants cans would occupy India if there
going to make was a war with Russia. in China was statement-i£ true.
Indo-China, and Burma and true or habilitation."
Not so, however, in India. and his public.
Maluya.
complete communisation im-
Indian journalists told me mean that in der Germany tell stories, It wond
possible there, as the peasants Embryo army I was out at Delhi Airport yours the German pemple, from false, of the trials under the
the that the United States favoured would never consent to Russian lash before they left,
When I called at Nehru's being the most JUHresive
The stories are reiterated
HE
TE means that the sentences one day recently when the
collectivisation of their property Pakistan in the Kashmir dispute militarists Europe bas seva in
because they want Khilghid as a refugees
Republic's passed on Germany's war- Indian
Prime modest office-much smaller
once they had got hold
bombing base against Russla. hi past three generations, have by the 50,000
every month, fire from the East time leaders, particularly Field Minister, Pandit Jawaharlal than that of his head civil
HE Boswer was an attack on
I sald
that Westerner like nimost
overnight Leconve
zone of Germany for suceur in Marsian)" Von Biznatol. and Nehru, and a number of servant-I was prejudiced in the policy of the United myself did not really mind what
This is creating an atmosphere nation of fate-playing
the West.
others. for alleged crimes
States
am opposed to ter- klad of Government the peoples
which, even Lombar
other Ministers drove up. his favour.
If it is not Im- They are ready to fight for against partisans
Russin,
rorism and violence, I have of Asia had, provided it was not
Lo mediately favourable
the their wives and families, if they thould be reviewed.
Without fuss they joined
I had seen how there had said so
again and again. In Communist,
Indian Communist Party, is are given the weapons, rather Said Dittmar: "Perhaps these passengers waiting for ;
We clear
objected to Communism certainly been
favourable to ex- none of the mad Korea, where there than
through
in gaol, might beplane NA
men, now
Bombay, and
we voted because the countries where pansionist ambitions of the Soviet of aggression, iconoclastic rush here to for UNO action to stop it. tried by a court of me who
had established itself-mostly in Asia. have been up against the Com-boarded it.
wipe out all traces of the
"But the Americans are clearly by force of arms or terrorism munist partisans in Korea,
which preparing for a third world war had been closed to Western It is rllowed to continue MIE German wortine generals They would know more of the THE
previous regime
This deprived both them unchecked, I see the West losing Borlay I' ant arking problem."
have so often found in other against Russia and her allies in trade,
present hold on there has Asia. I do not believe in war us and us of commodities essential its countries where
cans of gaining a political to our prosperity and progress, strategically vital sub-continent been a revolutionary change, objective, for war substitutes a Pandit Neliru seemed to regard of India. And once that hoppena
As a rule, this as
Communists, dignified In typically selfish and objective has materialistic Westem attittle more as the champions of Asiatic end Indian nationalism, will not only reguin the ground lost recently,
H
-
periences again.
their
How long
who,
ex-
to
I told Nehru I thought it was a little odd for the Prime Minister not to be using his official aircraft.
Could even the mu zanguine
paid "re Britain's highly lucation tean In Cennany-- it was their job to make Ger mans "anti-militarist democrats"
make a claim like that? As far as Sir Ivone is cerned, the trouble is that Gei
many today, as an army, and
whether there will shortly be Germany, he believes, should by population p, tog tunes
some form of Germa army, now set up its embryo army in the Iridische military police, nililia, or garde addition to the semi-military stronger than
Weimar e mobile, but how long it will polles force established to pre- permitted
victorious Allies take to set up some fusce in vent any Communist attack. public by the
Nehru looked at me with been erased. That was all. under vs Treaty of Versailles the West which would hold up
A German army would be the mocking and slightly The streets of New Delhi after the Kale' war.
Any Russum plans for an attack no threat to the West," he said, arrogant expression he keeps have still kept their English
the East. Hitler's
tank t
thoroughly
English. in fact. for simple-minded Wester- manies. expert. General Harso von Europeanised RIMI completely
inntouttel, sage an army will merged
official within 111 Atlantieners. "My dear fellow," he has remained the tuke two year; to build,' But Treaty force."
drawled, "why?"
language of the country. today his view was contradicted To arm a German force would
I could have pointed to the to
foremost by Hitler's
fewer U.S. weapons for
Her interests carbine
Indian carrying -5. S. men, trained in the militady scientist, General Kurt the other Western countries. in modern weapon, is on the Dilmer, Nazi radio comunezita- But Dillmar and his wartime police constables still stand- wrong side of the Iron Gustain, tor.
colleagues, and a lot of other ing at intervals of 70 yards Datimar--"} an people, believe
On wrong side
fartaer trouble that
▲ this army, more than 200,-
0 strom with aeadrest 50,000 touch ev-Wehrmacht and
* ་
ts Communist in East Orr- enang, keyed
From
No-Nuzi
marat
must be
that the US.
brunt of
-
But I said nothing.
'So I pay'
trip
behind his
case
The answer
when the
we are
was a
An
of it.
this
once
A few G.I.R. crowns had milare an
been gained, the political objec le nade no reply.
end ive has vanished. In the
in greater difficulties,'
Bitterness Nehru diermissed {LL
They will exploit the popula-- irrelevand fact that the Soviet quE views of India's Prime ton's growing
discontent with Union had been arming at top Minister, I found, bolled the Congress Parly, and their speed for five years and com- down to two main points:-
desire for more lool, to drive nitting one legality after an-
out Congress ika they drove other.
1. If there has got to be a
Chiong from China. lie urged the United States choice between continued
-London Express Service)
WAS prepared to belleve, and the United Kingdom-"for Western colonialism in the East
as I had been told, that,
I
his occasional anti-Western speeches were merely
politician's concessions to the anti-Western prejudice
is porters.
70- WILL OUR
MUTS has died at 80.
Show, at 34, is a weaken-
ing mau. Churchill is In
to march against paulomate Prussian and hated chiefs are coming round to the long his route. the West on orders from the the Nazı!"-Udked one for idea that they should put their Kremlin, instead of being anti- two hours about the future money on Western Germany, 95 Communist in Word Germany, German army," I met bim i percent passionately anti-Com- Lopared to defend the West the tiny villa the bank of imunist, to bear the
on against
"Kurea" lack the Weter River
in Central y Eastern spearhead drive. IN my view, the thinking of his Nationalist sup- from the East,
Germany where he lives in a
'A lesson' Hutter's wart.ose general are couple of rooms with his wife thirt this problem and family.
AND thu. you begin to under-characteristic of this man That, In fact, he had dealt They are beginning to creep out Hi talk" boiled down Cu stand why Sir Ivone's re-who, as Prime Minister of sternly and firmly with the
to the warnith of a future this-
mark in New
York caused the 350 million-citizen Re- Communists when they had Webermucht But, where
have no doubt that within eyebrows to lift in top U.S. and public of India, holds today's made trouble in India, and had rain they will have the besi- one year West Getmany could German circles in Germany, clicking. The lating, and the build up a para-military pollee Americans
most vital position in non- sut embarrassed us abroad. In Germany wee
This seemed logical enough, honours they love.
force, with the aid of foreign laughing at a new Communist Communist Asia.
as a policy. India is bound to weapons which would be able slogan which has mushroomed He was flying to a Con- the West by every to stop any second Koren in all
over the Soviet zone and
grass Party rally. There interest. Germany (This is the period along the aulobahn
to West fore he was
not flying on which M- Shinwell, Germany.
1. Her geographic position Minister, With unconscious irony, its Government business. separates her from the hopes to get another armoured Author screams in ift-high "Ergo," he argued, "I am Asiatic mainland by chains of age, are men we can ill afford to spare. What has rejence 10 letters: "Korea is a lesson and not entitled to use a Govern- the es ber access instead to say about the nccepted span of
the world's highest mountains, Said Dittmor: "Within 2 In Warning for the German ment plane. I must pay my
Can cur-less if we have enough propie.".
cus controlled by the merchant three score and ten? drive-we could have iture Uten
-(London Express Service) own fore."
Powers of the West.
They know. THERE, is one chic
Imany which exista ofher country west of the tum Curtain: the Germans know what occupation by the Nummas MOLINS. They know better than ingrong cles in Western Europe what Russianism means-call it
within Britain's
Bel
Defence
division to Gerinany.)
tie ut self-
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The CHAPMAN PINCHER Column flies out to one of Europe's top scientific centres
A strange
device
to save
eyesight
STOCKHOLM. un a couch, with a metal band
N ingenious machine strappe:l round her forehead.
which detects minute
Wires led from the band to the machine.
Plectric currents Karpe explained how, months generated deep inside the ago, a steel splinter had pene-
eyes
is being used
Swedish professor
event blindness.
to help with
At-
trated the girl's left eye. by a
tempts to draw out the splinter powerful magnets tand faili. To remove it surgically would be risky.
By glancing na churt which records the currents as waves, the professor can
So long as it showed no WAN
of rusting the safest thing was to leave it in. But if it began
diagnose certain vyo to corrode it would have to bo disorders long before any extracted, as rust poisons the other symptom appears. So rs, eventually causing blind- treatment can he startet
}
ness.
The eye-wave test be Wiz
before the eyes arg about to make would show im- Karpe that the splinter was not', seriously damaged.
mediately whether rusting hit threatening the girl's sight beren.
Which the lightest trace of The professor alled a small rust is present in the eye the electric wave. Je #lass eye-cup with liquid, parted shape of the the girl's fids gently with his abnorinal.
machine in saw the action at the superbly cquipped eye clinic of Stock- holm's ultra-nodern Karn- linska Hospital.
The
Jean Costn Yuzin
2
slim surgeon's Angers, und Afted Karpe 4 also using -flo the cup to the affected eye with machine to save old people from a spring clip. Then he fixed a the ordeal of operations which stiver rod in the cup so that would be useless. just dipped in the liquid. A
*
**
Some cases of cataract-cloud-
mon who
drvised it, wire connected the rod with the ing of the lens-are not in- 42-year-ol Professor Cad-band.
Karpe (pronouneed Karpay), led me to cubicle, completely lated with aluminium
foll to conluct stray electric charges, away which would interfere with the
eye-wave recordings.
proved by surgical treatment because the retina also happens to be damaged. Until DDW Everything was now ready for doctors have often been unable the test.
to detect such damage before- A bright light flashed sudden hand. 1y in front of the girl's cyc.
The professor has used tho Immediately the reina the machine sucessfully
light-sensitive was dark execut eye's
screen than 1,000 patients, ranging In for the flow from 240 responded by generating a small age from seven inenthe 19 86 flash-lamp held by the pro current, which was picked up fessor's woman assistant, sitting by the silver rod and recorded by
the machine. at the
panel of the control cream-and-chromium inachine.
The room
years.
on more
Super-rabbit!
Tuis is the first pleture of the giant
It
animals now being produced in Sweden by means of a drug treatment, was taken when I visited PROFESSOR GUSTA HAGGQVIST, the man who devised the experiments, at his laboratory In Stockholm,
He bred the bir rabbit he is hold big on the left by treating Its mother with colchicine—a yellow liquid extracted from the autumn eroeus i grew much faster than lix parents and when fully grown will be about 50 percent, bigger.
The
colchicine produced a permanent, change in the hereditary units controlling the rabbit's physique, So Harzqvist hapes to breed a race of giants from it which will give giant offspring without further drug treatment.
The smaller unireated rabbit I am holding is the normal alzo for the breed.
Ultimate object of the experiments is to produce giant sirains of pigs, citile, and poultry which might be more economical to feed than existing types.
normal newborn child generate beyond vaguely distinguishing no current, even when stimulat- between light and shade, Karpo's When we looked at the re- Fils results have convinced
ed by the brightest light,
discovery is clear-cut evidence cording It had the normal lilm that all babies are ' near-
that the rolina of the humni A patient,
attreelive hump-shape produced by blind until they are about four Doctors have long believed eye is not fully formed at birth. shredista „giri, kynż żyług quietly healthy
eye. This antisfied months old. The eyes ot a that young bables can see little
London Kxpress Service).
SIHL
BE
MIDDLE AGE?
▷ JOHN POMFRET
his prime at 76. Einstein into a rout. But whether we shalt Then the doctors said: "You is reported to be working on be able to stretch our allotted are as oki as your arteries," lg- a new theory of the universe yan still further......
noring hale octogenarians with There lies the great question arteries like gas-pipes. at the age of 71.
mark. Perhaps it is as well.
Lashion Glands are back in loday among an Oxford group of are investigators with a Nuf- feld grant behind them. Trans-
These, among the great of our
EATING GRASS
The secret of extended youth plants an Voronov lines ΩΤΟ
agent, but injections are in.
Testosterone, for instance, can
extended middle we or even i hope to live longer now?
might have a catastrophic effect on already serious food and be lodged in the body as boost- The answer is "Yes," if by population problems,
sellels. The rejuvenating power live we mean increase the, ex- Science has so far reduced the of cortisone is being studied and pectancy of life. An ancient number of deaths in early years, the pituitary gland is regarded Roman could hope, at birth, for not late.
as the leader of the endocrine perhaps 20 years, compared Nowadays at least a dozen re orchestra. with the 00 today of Anglican searchers into gerentobiology, as Dr E. Geiringer says that in clergymen, notorious long- they call it have a dozen 60 or 00 years" time we may Ulvers,
theories about inervaring longe, live to 150, but he is not yet It has been said that the next rily. They range from crank prepared to say how. ten years may see the refrent of diets to drugs.
So for near-immortality has infectious diseases converted The Brillsh Association advo- been achieved only by a culture cates meals of garlic, lentils, of chicken muscle in a labora- barley, fresh meat, and fruit. tory dish and by certain lowly A few hearty olt people are annale. Man has all too evi- eating grass. Most of us would dent limitations. rather die,
COUPLETS -Introducing baby
To proud father: "You
do
"'GAS-PIPES"*
In fact, a poil on the subject showed that only 40 out of think he's beautiful, don't you?" every
To rich aunt: "See how he's wanted to reach 85.
100 people questioned
smiling at you, just as if he knew you were going to be kind to him."
Women are rather betler off. There are far more centenarians
if
emang them. They live much jonger than men, especially burn of young molliers.
IDLENESS KILLS
A mere 19 percent, coveted Elderly Folk, men the century mark.
and
women, are often kept from Before the war they would the king lethargy of old age have pinned their faith to an foday by daily doses of ben- trandparcules operation by Voronov or Stel zedrine, the long-term effect of "He's Must like pictures of me asnach, which might have cost which is simply not known.
To maternal
500 guineas.
baby."
Enforced Idleness, useless To paternal grandparents: Voronov used monkeys an a vegetaling in a rocking chair is "He's the image of his daddy." reservoir of glandular
aged. parts for the
spare as deadly as the hypertension Several of the neurotic.
To landlady: "One small baby famous men tried it, but the "Conserve a spiritual pension"
won't take up any room."
to breathe."
To housing committee: "Now 1ejuvenation was ustially brief. is the advice of the psycholo- Steinnch redirected the hor- gists. Certainly naturalisis, gar- baby's arrived, we've no room mone activity of his. patients. deners, people with seasonal In an carlier age of enemas, rports or hobbies to enjoy and letchnikov preached that death look forward to live longest. vas caused by the absorption They want to live. of toxins from the intestines.
-London Expreta Service)
To clinte: "When he cries, it's temptation to
such an awful buy him a dummy.”
To potential sitter-in: "He's no trouble, but my husband and I do wish we could sometimes go out together in the evenings"
To knllung friends: "He grows so quickly that he never seems to have enough woollles."
To bulcher: "Could we have his ration in steak?"
To income tax office: "Сал we claim any allowance for him this year?"
To bank manager: "No, baby won't make our overdraft worse, because it cosla practically nothing to keep him."
To dressmaker: "So sorry not to be able to settle your secount this month, but baby's such a terrific expense just now.""
To husband's bom: “His daddy says it's wonderful having some- thing to work hard for, even if
almost
Impossible it's manage on his present salary."
To everybody else: "Meet the brat!"
bo
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