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quickly out-1 A Grim Museum ancient buildings that survived. stripped

There Aro Boveral hugo Thus much of the character of beauty to the battlefields of vehicle graveyards. In three this lovely part of France mny Normandy. In the rich and fields south of Bayeux you will not be lost for ever. fertile countryside of Calvados, see nearly every type of vehicle 24051

I have written only of the west of the Orne, where the which landed. D.D. tanks, arm-country weat of the River Orne. ilberation of Europe began just oured cars, accut care, carriers There is still one area which two years ago, the scars of war and trucks stand a long lines, even nature has so far failed to are healed.

Tanks which did not "brew up' reclaim. I took the road now The sleek cows with their still bear their unit and forma freckled faces are grazing again tion signe, white stars and in the lush meadows and or-

In the mass they make chards. Two Bensons have ruts, the lit trenches and the inke

Outside the bridgehead it will effaced the shell-holes, the tank grim museum.

longer to collect those litter of battle.

relics. Along the road which leads to Falaise and Argontan, where a German army was des troyed, the path of the retreat is still clearly marked,

It is startling and moving to ind that this extraordinary in Normandy makes fertility the worst damaged towns and

By

THREAT OF CHAOS

One result of the Foreign By contrast there remains the Ministers' Conference lias been to frightful havoc man has bring to the fore the crucial neces-wrought against things made, by sity of administering Germany as man, which do not grow natural- an economic whole. Mr. Byrnes ly ngain: the shattered West- has taken the lead in urging the ern Wall, the counties wrecked danger of dismantling industries vehiclse, and. worst of all, the

fallen towns and in accordance with the Potsdam Among these, if the visitor

villages. agreement while the country re-secking traces of the Normandy mains "split into four almost battles, he will find enough. watertight compartments," and I began at Benouville, where while the victorious Allies are still the airborne spearhead dropped without any clearly defined policy on the night of June 6, 1944. for her political future. Mr. Their memorial, which is the Bevin professed that Britain had Airborne pign, with a brief in- "a completely open mind" on the scription in French

lish beneath a porch, marks future of Germany, and wanted what is now called Pegasus to learn the views of the other Bridge over

the River Orne. Powers--a somewhat astonishing | Of their arrival there is, of statement if it means that Britain; course, no trace, has no concrete views of her own

erect.

and Eng-

Beach Wreckage

WILLIAM F. DEEDES,

"Daily Telegraph" Special Correspondent

without

WAY

By Beachcomber

The headline "0,000,000 yards of corsota" seems to suggest that the women who want to: Wear them, if laid end to ond, will reach from here to Hudderailokt. When the steel industry

called La Volo Sacree frumnationalised, steel cornets will be Lion-sur-Mer to see a beach Gayernment affair, and private cemetery at Hermanville where corseteers will have to drag gir- many of the 3rd Division oders by night to their secret workshops, to ensure a supply of Tf you continua south and travel steel. I only mention this in case. the triangle Caon-Thury Harcourt-Falalso you will find in skeleton Orne.

the battle of the

In Passing

A writer, referring with un- easy complacency to the Stovenogo affair, sald that the new plan Leafless Trees

will involve alsplacing the in- Just before the 7th, 11th and habitants of one not very excit Guarde Armoured Divisions ng street." But etrects that are crossed the Orne and thrust for not very exciting to writers con the open plain

south-east of tain the homes of those inferior Caen several thousand bombers people who do not write. What is

At Issue

not whether more trade went in and cleared their patli, will come to Stevenage or whe- In a few hours they obliterated ther the evicted people will have many square miles of country accommodation provided for them side. Thousands of trees have somewhere else, but whether died and now aro leafless as if Englishmen have or have not a it were December.

right to live in their own homes. The Huntingdonshire Cabmen

Villages such as St. Andre, May, Rocquencourt and Gar- celles are only names on the

knew.

mere

the the no means "ass="

monotony, but the alphabetica arrangement of the names keeps the reader ever on the alert for the unusual, the fantastic or the commonplace. There are

-

Everyone knows what bombs and with an economy of

Orne

which recalls the young can do to cities. The battlefield, its boundaries still Turguenev has confined imself to

presentation of names of thean by no marked by burnt-out tanks, is the something new in milern wateteas citizens. One might expect fare, which even Flanders never

1 The Normandy pessants, aB yoor as their cows are rich, re- na they were

about their homes. For two

on page 240, shouiri, of years their women and children course, be rugsten, T. L." and a noted ave faithfully tended isaluted why is Itockweed,

enbman

Later editions omitted? British graves,

will

doubtless remedy these de- The New Cemeteries

admirablo fects in an otherwise Near the main battlefields lie analysis of the present cabnian

situation in Huntingdon,

yet, and the dif of concentrating and marked in grave mude battle still goes on. There is not much one can properly, say of this except that it is being done care and with extraordinary skill.

sur-

Upward And Onward

(reviewed by George Wawple) villages the least remarkable.map. Their sites are marked by

There are two ways

of ap- Often where houses have been stacks of stone. The fields and pronching this subject. The cab- razed to the ground the grass meadows are partly overgrown, men maz he treats a ran o. 1

but sometimes horribly dis- cabmen. The author of this pre now grows knee high.

Tilly-sur-Seulles, where thetorted,

sent work has chosen the second 50th Division fought so bitterly, tre advance. Russia alone gained. From there to the western substantial food resources in her limits of the invasion shore no has now been reclaimed by the fund. Cattle are grazing there. is required. The zone of occupation, which com- guidance prises the principal agricultural beaches are still littered with and without a map i would have

the heaviest

we ckage which parsed through regions of Germany. The indus-

24 hours for commising the few stone houses four tiden each

which survive to the east, trial areas held by the Western two years could not remove. The Allies have had to be supported by sea has been less merciful than

Town Wiped Out heavy food shipments. Mr. the Bocage, At

They said that Aunay-sur-main as stolid Carsaulles, Byrnes has revealed that the Vir-sur-Mer and Lio-sur-Mer Odon was the worst of at when the invasion was swirling prisingly few errors. "Gugston, United States will have spent no the anci.nt

this I can battleships and

believe. Only ONL less than 200 million dollars by steamers which made the bar. thing as me than a fent

thnt June 30 on importing food into hours still stand encrusted but high and

is the ancient grey stone tower and steeple of its zone, and expects to spend as

Along the shore. pushed to the the church. Everything. else much again in the following limit of the tide, you can see

has been wiped out, and -the twelve months. Not unnatural- the German underwater ob-wilderness of gross and wild ly, he declares that his country stacles, landing craft, Ducks flowers covers the foundations the new cemeteries. They are

is not prepared to accept" such and bits of emergency harbours. of a town where 1,600 people not finished a financial liability. The burden The vast

Mra. Alcombe, the first rocket- semi-circle of Mul- once Hved. No one, I think, ficult work

plane passenger to h taru gt of feeding the Germans has fallen berry still stands before Arro- could stand beside that solitary

the moon. i. yesterday: "It just as heavily on Great Britain. manches, battered and somewhat tower in the bright light of a Dr. Dalton disclosed in his last displaced, but forming a fartas- suramer day without a sense of

was all very odd." "Did you reach the moon?" I asked. "Yes," sho immovable deep emotion. Budget that the civil administra- tribute to British ingenuity and

tic and apparently

said, "At least I suppose it was In Villers-Bocage, where the

the moon." "What did you ser tion of the British zone had cost thoroughness.

7th Armoured Division plunged British taxpayers 80 million so It will take

in and out soon after D-Dny The now cemeteries in Nor- there?" I asked, "Nothing," she

"there wasn't that they were, as he remarked, | Channel

storm to shift Mul- and which soon after received a mandy, I think 18 in all, ere time to look at the moon?" "virtually paying reparations to berry. The inhabitants

fearful bombardment from the not vast affairs but small plots incredulously. "Then what did you Germany More than a year pleased to have it there, be- RAF, 400 people of the origin- where lie the men who fell near go there for 7" "They didn't tell many of them me," said Mrs. Alcombe, "I think has elapsed since the capitulation cause, like many other ple- al 1,500 are said sill to be liv. by. I visited

how good this ar it was just a sort of trip, or relies without coherent organisation of resque

of D-Day, ing, where I could not tell, even and saw

rangement-la.

something." after Anding digne people in one production in Germany. It is not It looks

↑ "C'est bon pour les touristes.

At It is difficult to as if it will survive small room.

the Bayeux cemetery, for want of a plan, since the of

several seasons of tourists.

believe that some of these ruins biggest, there are already 4,000 about the same Garnlan noi- cupying Powers announced weeks

will rise again.

This is a square plot diers are buried there, too, nod Uncleared Minefields ago that they had agreed on a A few hundred yards inland the 49th Division, is like an un-off, and each

Fontenay-le-Pesnil, taken by of perhaps three acres, fenced their plots lie adjacent to the detailed programme for the econo- the seaboard is less interesting, kept village graveyard, although by a white metal cross bearing of work

grave is marked British. There is a good đều! mic future of Germany. This and much less good for tourists. there is scaffolding round ode the name, rank and unit of the of work being done. Hottot, do and a great deal provided for the limitation of in- In--the wilderness, which covers

of the two once beautiful chur soldier. Very few are unknown, which is terraced and beautiful... dustrial capacity in various speciall but main reads to the ches. Hottot is the same.

In the centre of overy cemeteryly laid out, is boing elaborately fied fields, the climination of cer- benches tattered tape, conven-

In Juvigny, Christot, Audrieu fluttars a Union Jack. tional and unconventional signs, and a dozen.

decorated with coloured stone. tain war industries, and an upper mark countless minefietils. Most where some

more like them. The smallest cemetery I saw On many of the graves thora liit to foreign trade. Obvious of these signs may be liars, but bridgehead battles were fought. There are only 50 graves here, of the men and women of Nor. of the bloodiest wes near Jerusalem cross-roads.are flowers. It is to the honour Ir, however, it is quite impossible no one is anxious to discover there is primitive life among lying at the bottom of a little mandy, who have suffered and tu impose any such plan of overall which control unless the country is nd-

lost-so-much-that-they-treat-tho- ministered as an economic whole.

there are 1,200 | British graves with as Mitish) re- There can be no room for doubt as to the answer which must be given, and given promptly, to Mr. Byrnes's question, "whether the after leaving the beaches.

which the vehicles made soon In some places, and par zone boundaries should continue

ticularly Caen, of which one- Every other man and boy third was destroyed, restoration as demarcation lines for occupa Avears some article of Army is twofold. Temporary houses! tion, and not as barriers to econo- dress, mostly British. A few of wood are going up for im- mic exchange within Germany." hundred quarter-masters would mediate needs.

more than a

Are

graves,

In all the seaside towns the ruins, beauty and fertility meadow beside the road

surplus paraphernalia

among devastation. Neat

square

Near Tilly

UNS

said

has been put to good use. Miles that they will rise again when le-Pesnil and say there are were those of their own people..

of War piles of salvaged stone suggest graves. At Hottet, Fontenay-verence and devotion as if they of beach track and matting now transport, labour and materials fill the gaps in walls and fences allow

SUPREME COURT FEUD

Washington, June' 20. Iwas proposed today by Besides these, A sweeping investiga-Senator Eastland who Whatever long-range plans may find cause to raise their eye-salvaged stone is being used for tion of the United States earlier joined with Sena- be matured at greater leisure, it brows. Denims is imperative that the German very well indeed, and so are off-houses which will match the Supreme Court discord tor Bridges in demand-

economy should be made to func- tion, so that the country which is already a severe drain upon Europe's resources may not drag the Continent down in its own collapse,

GRATUITIES

sking.

are

wearing

Inland, as I have said, it is CARNIVAL rather different. All the Army signs, except those of the 50th Division, who painted some on walls, have gone. Off all the main roads most of the wrecked tanks, carrlers and trucks have been dragged into huge molun. choly dumps, and so has the buklest debris.

to

The official replies to questions The wonderfully rich pasture, in Legislative Council yesterday in which COWB can graza the on the subject of war period year round and which tank com- salary payments and the award of panies cursed in the summer of gratuities did little to clarify the 1944, conceals almost everything position.

olse. You can travel the hard- Further consideration!

fought road from is being given, recommendations

Bayoux to Tilly-sur-Soulles und on will be prepared us expeditiously Villers-Bocage the network as possible, the position is more of roads around Fontenay-le- complicated than was first realis- Pesnil and Aunay-sur-Odon and. ed-and-every-endeavour will-be-find-hardly-more-tracs of war made to speed things up. In outside the villages than can short, nothing very concrete be seen in the lanes of Kent emerged and no specific promises or Sussex. were given. It is, of course, a

Very occasionally down less froquented ways very complicated business, and it

one stumbles over the untouched, skeletons of

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D'o'clock!

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By Dick Turner

go home and and out what the luvlig to put up with all day!"

ing that four Roosevelt appointees to the Tri- bunal be removed.

Senator Eastland asked that all oight Justices be called upon | for public testimony on tho court "feud" before the Sonhto Judiciary Committee which will consider the constitutional amendment which he and Sena- tor Bridges introduced.

The amendment would force tlig retirement of four of the present Justices, by limiting to three the number of court mem- bers who could hold appoint- mont by any one President.

The places of those retiring would be alled temporarily by House election of Lower Court- Justices until a now President chore the successors.—

Senator Eastland claimed that the present dissension has pro duced "inoxcusable chans" in the High Court. The amendment would have to win two-thirds approval by Congress and then Fratification by three-quarters. of the Stato legislatures. Most senators doubt the move will be successful.—Associated Press.

"DEVONSHIRE” IN MALTA

Valotta, June 20. The British transport "Devon «hira"" arrived at Malta yesterday From Egypt, with the heir: mp- [parenty. "Prince Mohamed; All "aboards. The prince who

ennisin of Klism Farouk, is to visit Enghul-Associated Praia,