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IS THIS A NEW KOREA?

Within 36 hours of the U.S. landings at Inchon which marked the turning point of

By John Larraine

are finally gaining the upper handi in this slow-burning war.

Hirohito is now being told

The main cities of Hanol, Jal- the Korean campaign, the Langson and Caobang. It runs side, or organiss an ambush near, gon, Hue and Nam-Dinh aro

The latter strongly held, and in most of the Quid pro quo. Vietnam rebels of Ho Chi for most of its length inside a some of the bridges.

treacherous Jungle are so vulnerable to sabotage that rich coastal areas which run from Minh launched a full scale ever, mostly between high ridges each convoy takes along bridge- Souti: China to Stam, the Govern- must pay income tax. This would, scum attack against the French- or rock over some 43 small building material for use along the to which France has granted the opportunity f

ment of the ex-Emperor Bas Dai

BOMA of 32312 held posts along the Chinese bridges.

equivalent of Dominion status war-time friends to help him. border.

functions well. In the past four explaining how they manage years the guerillas have fost many escape paying it in Hong Kong important strong-points, and, in-

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For French Intelligence ofcers engaged in this murderous guerilla war, the logical connection bo- tween these two events is only too apparent. Thwarted in Koren, Stalin's minions are attacking elsowhere. The Soviet plan for the conquest of Asia is working like clockwork. One war ends ad-another threatens to grow worse.

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THE MEETING AT WAKE

Correspondents on the look-|

It is oxnetly five years since the war between France, former ruler of the whole of Vietnam, and the rebels of Ho Chi Minh started in this forgotten corner of South East Asia.

Next to the road is a route. single track rallway which onco led into the Chinese province of Yunnan and now stops at the frontier.

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All the French can do is to keep the rond open whenever it is needed. To cut across the jungle Only by day, and then only in and force the guerilna to a fight deed, millions of adherents,

is useless and dangerous; many large numbers, con French troops men have been lost in these vain move along Route No. 4. Long attempts. And for the French, convoys, headed by three or four with long lines of communications train and with cach armoured cars or an armoured and costly transport, losses are

vehicle hard to replace. o

the wheel base, are used to supply covered with steel plating down to the dozen forts strung along its length.

The guerilles, who now number about 140,000 up and down the country, have no such problem. The hills of the back country are Ahead of the armoured cars " thickly populated, and if Commu- Jeep patrols of sappers and cn-nist indoctrination falls to rustle gineers, whose job is to remove up volunteers the Press gang con The ever-present mines laid by be brought to bear. the guerillas,

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urging Moscow is

Russi But today they still hold the refugees in Britain to return mountains and the backward vil- the USSR. "state," the People's Republic of state for the, well, unfair state. lages of the interior.. Their Thus exchanging the welfa Vietminh, with Hạ Chí Minh at la head, makes the laws and collects

the taxes. That it is a fully- blown Communist regime there in little doubt. It has been recog- nised by,all Russia's satellites.

An amah is reported to b won $132,825 in the sweep, doesn't know what to do with I understand aoveral volunte have come forward with help advlee,

The war in Vietnam will ser tally grow more serious in the next few weeks, for it rages in one) of Asia's weak points. Anda 44,000 sliout demand for 'm2 weak point is what the strategists houses at noisy Tory, confab;" What they were really after be grabbed while the a prefab. West is not looking. perhaps

out for "hot" copy may have she has received in Marshall Ald less than three miles, these men peninsula is, strategically speak- of the Kremlin like best. It can

A high price

Indeed, a high price has been paid to prevent this rich rice- producing country of from falling completely under

Last August, in one stretch of detected no less than 129 mines. Each time, of course, the convoy must halt and wait.

Press gangs Altacks are frequent along the road. A small force of guerillas may come Aring down the hill-

This extreme North of the

Vietnam and it is there that the ing, the most important part of French are weakest. The forts, strong stockades made of cement, mud walls and wooden barracks, can usually stand up to attack But in between les danger.

During these five years, France has spent there almost as much as been a trifle hurt by the as-

from America. Her armed power tonishing brevity of the con- has risen to 150,000 fully-trained, ference at Wake: all the more full-equipped men including unils of the Foreign Legion. Her losses so since the story was told in

in this pitiless war of jungle and detail by the President him-swamp now reach 30,000 killed, self, But no others on our wounded and missing. side of the fence should feel aggrieved. It was, in a sense, a meeting of two great powers. But both belong to one State, of which President Truman happens to be the head, General MacArthur the The fact that the Supreme Commander is also the agent of many other masters by virtue of the role

More than a million young [ 1. Britain and U.S. are trying | subscribers by Baron Huns von of the United Nations in

Government. It was to

to prevent Germans have started again to get Germany to form an army Stauffenberg, one of the founders Korea, merely emphasises the this from developing into a fully to indulge in the favourite which is to be used as cannon of the German Union". Week by basic relationship between blown aid system that the French Teutonic pastime which led fodrier to defend Western Europe week it contains veiled accusa- those who frame policy and built Dong-Khe, the fort which their fathers into such trouble while the Americans get awaytions against Britain and Amer-

Whether Vietnam will develops 1 to 1. into another Korea dependa en- Judging by the communiq tirely on how quickly the Western Messrs. Truman and MacArti Allies — and especially the United reached complete unanimity-- States can act to contain and deciding to get away from e Elsewhere in Vietnam, however, repulse this new Communist of-

the earliest possi that the French fensive. there are signs

arm.

those who execute it.

Communist control.

Vietnam

This Intest attack took place In a highly vulnerable area, the wild, mountainous region bordering on Communist China, For some months now the rebels have been

with arms by the Peking

the rebels captured last month,

the East, was captured by the re- bels after three days' fighting, and retaken by the French during a vast counter-attack involving the use of paratroops, tanks, armoured trains and air support. This time, the blow fell without warning at all.

The Dong-Khe attack, they be lieved, was the start of a plan to throw the whole Chinese frontier wide open to help from the North.

SECRET SOCIETIES IN WESTERN GERMANY

By Antony

Terry

unless Germans are allowed to

conmand it.

to conduct her own alfairs free from Eritish control"

Ray of humour

When one discovers that the

sume

other at moment.

Seems as if the UN troops h not the slightest hesitation Suun the bankrupt North Kor forces,

No, Myrtle, It wasn't al carpet they put down for heads of the security following the second burglary a royal residence.

Rusaio is now

will

sho

"The numbers of pedestri

in the streets is increasing."

By leaps and bounds?

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offer co-operation and peace. exculpations of leading and the British retreat onto their ica,

This is all due to Stalin island.

Nazis convicted at Nuremberg. only a few years ago.

2. No German will agree to elaborate whitewashing of Krupps Good, who wrote the plays They are joining and forming It was neither the time nor

It is the second to fall since lusi

German industrial Shakespeare and few miles to dozens of secret political societies join any European defence force and other the occasion for academic May, when Phalu,

"scini - illegal

baruns who helped Hitler's war invent penicillin. and horderline

and machine,

arguments for which are worrying jousting on Oriental reactions.

groups"

"the right allowing Germany British and U.S. security officials It is true that Asians, like most others, rally better to

who ferr any one might crystalise

new "Fuchrer" cult. into strong and forceful leadership.

Some ace even known to toy It is also true that they also

with the idea of an alliance with the Communists as the price for rally to conciliatory leader-1

group of ex-Wehrmacht What the L.

Don't know how you feel; "unifying Gemiany" behind the ship. But they rally to neither

Amer

officers who started the "German when I hear about a dentist be back of the British and

Uinion" is also behind the alone. The best results are

icans.

"Brotherhood" of former Nazi allowed to "practice," itse

little shivers running up attained when there is a pro-

While Allied troops remain 3. Britain is Germany's bitter "ro per balance between the two,

there is no chance of such a plan enemy in the trade field and will generals who now advocate a new

German Wehrmacht of 30 divi- down my molars. being more than a dream. But

sions

the "shape of things to and the next stage must con-

This frontier, some 400 miles the young plotters continue their stop at nothing to steal her mar

kets, using her position as un

No sist largely of efforts to at-long, and in paris less than 120 secret Society activities--which occupying power to gain an unfair Come" begin to appear

one knoy's racly the miles from Hanol, the capital of so far have been mostly limited advantage over

poor, helpless,

of associations like membership the French-sponsored state of to hanging banners and flags from hamstrang Germany.

cyes? Vietnam, is very hard to defend. public buildings, scrawling slogans 4. Germany cannot possibly be the "German Union". Probably

tho after the fashion of walls atte

asked to contribute any more they are smaller than the or

ganisers like to

But The Russian Orthodox From South East to North West

costs arising

has announced "newsletters"

Win USA anti-British

and out of the

a million. Gerranns ar bon of a road which, on French Br in

conclave secret

Anglo-American-French garrison over

Russia. maps is simply called 'Route Colo-meeting

Western zones. throughout the

in the Western zones because the merabers of one or other of these severing of all connection.

which pander to the ninle No. 4 French troops Bght-

Security officials who watched

One can't afford to take troops are only there to protect groups ing there over the past two years call it "The Road of Death" and

and not to defend Germany. with justification.

tain that balance.

The keynotes of the Pre- sident's statement were given in the enunciation of the

an

three assets with which the runs a roud, a thin, pot-holed rib Conimuvists, issuing tendentious i towards projected increased Allied Officials estimate that well |

dangers ahead are to be sur- mounted. They are (1) an

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"MacArthur flies back front."

To keep the smoke out

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unqualified devotion to peace i have another name for it. They in vain for signs of Nazi "were- | ürettish and American interests" Teutonic love of secret societies. chances with J. Pomell The

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It also symbolises the deter mination that it shall be con- solidated by statesmanship, for peace in Asia is a problem of many facets, of which the constructive aspects are now more vital than ever.

Nations. This phase would end with the withdrawal of all non-Korean forces of the United Nations.

wolves" after the collapse of the Hitler Teglinė are afraid th present growth of cabalistic Beti- viles are a delayed-action result of plotting by the Communists.

Nationalistic

the sam

Britain is travel-minded

Britain, long regarded

as ar

Where the money ecines from to support these "pressure groups" is not clear. That they mustice financed from sources

Fortunately a ray of humour

has been brought into all this out on parole. plotting by a West Berlin nuste hall comedian Werner Finck. Finck, who was often in trouble

their membership fees is obvious. during the war years for his of caustic quips about Goering and It is also evident that much of other Nazi leaders, has formed a their slogan painting and pro-

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(2) unity with other peace loving members of the United Nations; and (3) "our deter-

About 130 miles long, it is the and growing only direct link between the two strength." Formosa was not main posts on the Chinese border, mentioned in the Presidential statement. That does not down into three phases. In

Most of the resociations have pagandising follows along lines Party of the Radleal Centre".

hole in

in the middle held together mean it was not discussed as the first security considera- outwardly nationalistic leanings. not altogether unwelcome to cer- 15 emblem is a white sheet with:

powerful

Ruhr interests"

safely This, Finck

pin. backing part of the general picture. tions will be paramount and They have names like the "League tain

Bays, Indeed, a very brief statement General MacArthur will be of Youth" the "Brotherhood", the by General MacArthur in the supreme authority. It will "Searchlight", the "Hedler Youth" the same groups whom a senior is a suitably nonsensical party Co nare designed to sound like British official recently described symbol to make every German realise that politics are only really dicates that it was, but this be a period of relief, establish- Hitler Youth), the "German Na- is an off-the record talonious worth a good laugh!

"Friends of band

f dangerous and

But the final humourless result. time in relation not to Korea ment of law and order and the tional Party" the

from the Bas

East German They but to the security of

German newspapers and perio-came the creation of local government. Otto Strasser (the former Nazi men."

leader) and so on.

Communlet government. various parts of the ordered the secret police in the Philippines.

This phase, it is hoped, will be

Their members, mostly young dicals in The Supreme Commander's brief. The second phase en between the age of 18 and British and V.S. zones are also Soviet zone to arrest a member historic triumph in Korea in would last until the elections 30, seem to be led by a hidden behind the propaganda with every of the Radical Centre for being passes without front-page pictures a number of a "subversive poll- many ways solved the major are held and a national gov.ulding hand", their utterances method of persuasion. No week of

and activities follow

the peaceful reconstruction of part of the Formosan pro-ernment takes over respon- basle lines. Here are some of the of German soldiers in uniform, tical association aimed at sabotag-

Nazi leaders, and other former blem as it had presented it-sibility for a unified country. current propaganda slogans:-

reminders to their readers of the East Germany, on orders of the British and American imperi- German alists." self during the Korean crisis. During the third and final

"good old days" when armies were advancing vic- But the shift of ground does phase of the military occupa-

toriously all over Europe. not imply at the moment any tion, the Government of uni- material change in principle.fied Korea should assume au- The meeting does, as General thority, and only a minimum

Today the plctures are coupled MacArthur said, symbolise of United Nations troops

centre, iet with assurances,that no 'German the determination that peace would remain, consistent with international tourist shall be secured in the Pacific. the objectives of the United herself becoming the world's most wants to join another Wehrmacht. After British oficials who keep a poll country, travel-minded reading end-of-the summer re of German public opinion note parts from our correspondents as that constant repetition of plctures

more smart wurtinio far afield as Sweden and Austria, of soldiers and airmen in their

uniforms there is little doubt, that Britons than

before are wearing Iron Crosses and other Meanwhile, the Interim

decorations tend to have the op- holidays. going abroad for their

the poulte effect on the average Ger- In Sweden this summer Committee has already de- cided that the authority of British tourlet "Invasion" hos man's mind.

xs Mali In Frankfurt on B group The President and the the existing Government of broken, all records. Before the Supreme Commander went to the Republic of Korea shall war, writes Ralph Hewins, British of ex-soldiers formed a "League

visitors to Sweden never number of German Front Fighters. the meeting fully primed and be confined to the South-a reed more than 21,000 a year. Last aim is to represent the "sdcla! prepared. Mr. Truman made solution accepted by President year they totalled 45,000 out- and moral interests

Boldiers." On the face of it this scem18 Ú it clear that he had carefully Syngmann Rhee under pro- numbering even American tourists front line digested all the reports sent test. Any changes in land by more than 5,000, Now, the

that this laudable enough sim. But in the in by the General, who had reform and nationalisation summer's British visitors totalled second paragraph the founders

announce.

co that they intend to also, no doubt, received demeasures introduced by the more than 60,000.

Freed from earlier currency res-"continue, the tradition of the Stabihelm, the militaristie Stoel tailed statements on the Communists in North Korea; policies of his Government, are to be left to the Korean trictions, the Britons crowded to Helmet League" of between-wars which formed the batis for This included the statement people themselves, after uni- such places as Gothenburg in the

and was Hitler's forcing

for his officer presented on Friday to the fication. War criminals may coast, and Rattvik in the cultural UN Interim Committee on he tried by proper tribunals, heart of the country,

Meanwhile in Austria, the State another group cf conspirators Korea by the deputy United but no person is to be subject

or reprisal Tourist Department has just one which claims to have the most States representative, Mr. to prosecution

that more 75,000

one, its organisers-is, the John C. Ross. This formed the simply because of service in Britons spent their holidays in peaceful, nimis until one talks to major basis of discussion at the armed forces or adminis- Austria this summer four times Gernian Union

was formed Wake Island. It reiterated tration, or because of mem-fas many as last year. Ten thou-This

twa

This argenteation-wo

years ago by young man that the United States has bership of any particular and of them travelled by ear

1,500 by air, and the rest by train whe new linids a leading position

the The only complaint that the at Fonni,. scat: of the German no territorial ambitions or political party. any desire for bases in Korea The President will be tell Austrians have against British government Last week the Gor and that the purpose of the ing the world more about the tourists seems to be that they man Union" was responsible for do not spend enough. The average illegally, bo-flanging the Bean military occupation of North matter in his broadcast from tourist has been spending £20 on parlament witht. His own resign Korea is to establish peace San Francisco tonight. For his Austrian holiday. Amoriens, of een hanter, and for hanging and security, so that the the moment it is sufficient to French, and Italian tourists, say similar emblems from town hall Koreans themselves may solve know that the talks at Wake the Austriacs, spend at least twice and public buildings all over Germany, including the Britien sector, of Berlin. their problems with the ald were highly satisfactory and

Austrians do admit of the United Nations revealed a "very complete But, the Austrians

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