THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1950.
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EISENHOWER'S POWERS ROXY Final Say In European Defence Merger Germans To Be Treated On
A Footing of Equality
Brussels, Dec. 20.
General Dwight Eisenhower, Supreme Commander of West Euro- pean defence, will have the final say on the merging of Western Union and the new Atlantic Pact Organisation, decided on today by the Brussels Treaty Powers.
"SCORPION USED HER
CHARMS
Augsburg, Dec, 20. Professor Werner Leibrand, a psychiatrist attending the Ilse Koch murder trial, said today that Koch was like a "scorpion" who used her sexual charms to attract victims in order to torture them.
At the 10th Consultative conference today the five Foreign Ministers of the Brussels group
decided that this was a logical consequence of the action taken yesterday by the 12 North Atlantic Treaty Powers.
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15 Years For
Sabotage
Berlin, Dec. 20. The Best Getman Supreme Court at Bernburg, Saxony- Anhalt, today sentenced four de fendants in East Germany's biggest economic sabotage trial to 15 years' hard labour each.
The four are former, directors of the Belgian-owned Sovay Company at Bernburg.
They
are August Kaste, Otto Boekel- mann, Erich Fluennecke and Konrad Bluetchen.
They were found guilty of con-
spiracy to evade nationalisation sabotage and of having smug-
the
works, of economic
gled industrial secrets to the West. Reuter
Darwin, Dec. 20. A duck swallowed a wharf
The five Foreign Ministers of Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxem- bourg-in a formal statement after their talks, worker's 10/-note and waddled had announced that the Western Union Defence off to three other ducks in the
yard. Organisation was to be reorganised.
The wharfie could not be which bird had the sure touch with the military men he money, so he gave them all the has picked as his subordinate benefit of the doubt.--Reuter. commanders, said the sources.
A spokesman said that "the Western Union General Staff" would not go on as it was now, but there must be individual commands for each region.
"The Germans will be treated on a footing of equality as far as possible that is the attitude of the Ministers", he said.
Commenting on her allegea interest in human tattoos and other parts of the human body, Professor Leibrand, the head of a sanatorium in Bavaria, said ber "fetischistic tendencies" were one more sign of her "polymorphic perversion."
"Give her a stack of men there would be and she will broaden the key-about it." board of her perversions and invent new outlets," he said.
The Professor said that was fully responsible for actions now and in the She had an abnormal. sonality and was "a chopathic Case devoid of warmth of feeling."
Asked what region Germany would be linked with in the new Atlantic Command, the spokes- man said that this had not been raised "but I should not think much doubt
The Ministers had insisted that the defence clauses of the Brus- Kochsels Treaty signed in March 1948 her would not be changed, he added, past. backing up the Ministers' state- per- ment that reorganisation would psy-"in no way affect the obligations any which the five countries have undertaken in virtue of the Brussels Treaty."
her
He had spent. many weeks investigating Koch's past. Her mother had always found very secretive, Her brother said she always had a marked tendency to social climbing and had taken great care about her speech and accepted and evidently enjoyed the ease and luxury of what she considered to be the new aristocracy of the S.S.-Reuter.
same
Once he has found the men he wants the nominations will go to member governments for their approval.
of
General Eisenhower will have a free hand to pick the best men for the job, irrespective nationality, said a North Atlantic spokesman.
TEDDER TIPPED Marshal of the Royal Air Force, Lord Tedder, is most strongly tipped as second-in- command to General Eisenhower, During World War II a most effective professional painter- ship developed between General Eisenhower, as: Supreme Com- mander, and Lord Tedder, his Deputy.Reuter.
The three Western High Commissioners in. Germany have been given a free hand in their negotiations with the Bonn Government on West German to participation in the Atlantic
INTERNATIONAL STAFF General, Eisenhower has al- ready started to build up an International General Staff assist
ì
him in the defence
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Telephone calls and cables are pouring out of General Eisen- hower's office, keeping him in
open question
Western Europe, quarters close label quarters. to the Atlantic Organisation
It is still an said.
how far the Atlantic Powers' gesture of proposing to permit German tactical air support will convince West Germany that its military service in the Atlantic Army will not be of an inferior grade.-Reuter.
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CALL FOR UNITY
on
Denver, Colorado, Dec. 20. General Eisenhower said Wednesday it is time to stop playing party politics with thei international situation, and call- ed on all Americans to unite in the present emergency.
The General believed "150,- 000,000 united Americans are so strong, they can do anything in the world."
The General said that the responsibility of any nation which undertakes
fare must hot robal wat
minimised. Without mentioning any coun-. tary by name, he said in answer to a question: "If they are choosing a global war they are not showing the wisdom they have shown in the past. I see no reason for the United States to act in an atmosphere of hysterical fear," he stated.
"It is silly to be too frighten- ed or indeed, too bal- ligerent. A calm, determined America can get this job done.” -United Press and Reuter.
MOSCOW REACTION
London, Dec. 20. Moscow Radio's political ob- server said today that
"the West European Governments had embarked on a direct vio- lation of the otsdam decisions".
re-
The Soviet Government, he sald, commenting on the Brus- sels meeting, "has constantly stressed that any policy nouncing the Potsdam decisions is fraught with the most serious and dangerous conseruences, the responsibility for which would he squarely on the Gov- ernments of the Western Powers."
-Reuter,
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