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Naval defence co-operation

An officer in the French Ad- miralty picks up a telephone and speaks to a Commander

of Britain's Royal Navy in London: "Next Monday we

sailing from have a cruiser Brest to Toulon. If any Bri- tish ships are anywhere along the route, we might arränge a joint exercise: What abou! it?"

in action

By LIEUTENANT COMMANDER

TREVOR BLORE

*Holland bought a light carrier, the Venerable, from Brl- 'tain in 1948, and has in hor Navy many other smaller ships of Unli

Across Europe by taxi

By

ed Kingdom origin. Belgium ro- Michael Manning

cently negotiated the purchase of

13

En-

Good

hath

Woman ansaults, a polle who, she said, bad stepped of foot.

Hall

nofury

li

This Hong Kong trade ma

nix Algerine class minesweepers A 30-year-old London taxi woman's, corns, " from Britain. Denmark in 1910 carrying three university students chartered three submarines and and a load of equipment, has also bought two frigates and a reached Athens after crossing corvette, while many of Norway's four frontiers and running for towards closer understanding for warships are of United Kingdom more than 2,500 miles. It retains to the Philippines has occas the picture of North Atlantic sca- construction. All of which goes to only one of its original springs, considerable and Der. Everything is laid on quite in air defence is not only confined promote better technical under- but still has the same engine.

who This achievement is formally. Or a Dutch naval officer

standing between the men

dug to Western waters.

tirely to the courage of three may casually telephone Britain's

In recent months for example, sall and fight these ships,

"Missas bridesmaid we There is still, however, a long friends who, from Trinity Col- Admiralty and say: "We've got a there have been joint naval exer-

gown of Cambridge, commissioned

set oui for floor-length nowly

destroyer

in way to go, and much has still to lege,

Henry Arthur organdle and carried a bouqu working up. How about. sending cises in the Caribbean area

which United States, United be done before the naval Inte Grecce with her to join one of your flotillas

Kingdom, Canadian and Dutch gration envisaged in the North Thomas grant-Peter N. Green, Peterson, brother of the brid Specially scent for the occa for experience."

Those

are just two Illustrations warships have participated to Atlantic Treaty is achieved. The 26-year-old graduate, who is in

mutual advantage.

development so far is well sum-terested in classical research; Ed- of the spirit today inspiring the

marised by Britain's Admiralty, Ward J. Kenney 26, from Tor- navies of

A study the North Atlantic! Much to be done

In announcing the summer pro- quay, who is comp, and 21-

Myrtle was explaining to d on Ovid's "Art of Treaty nations. From the navel

Another fortuitous link in this gramme of naval visits and excr-year-old undergraduate John S. arrival last night that if y U.S. POLICY IN ASIA Chef presentatives on the subder the part, Britain his tional naval collaboration on the he is interested in getting his de- crossings, it doesn't count.

down through| great defence partnership at sen cises, when it stated: "interna Cassels from Edinburgh, who says run over on one of our pede Whether or not there will and

Standing Group in Washington been privileged to play in helping scale visualised hus never before

gree. the Regional Planning her friends in Europe to restoru been known. In times of peace; Having purchased the tax in .... be a prolonged guerilla cam- Groups in Paris, London and their shattered fleets. France, for it demonstrates tho growing London for £45, they had it paign in Korea remains to be Washington, to the men in the instance, was lent the light fect millfory effectiveness of Westem completely overhauled by a Cam- seen, but in any event an ad- hing-ail are fast learning to carrier, Colossus, as long ago 06 Union and provides experience of bridge mechanie, loaded it with

think together. ministration for the entire

1940, and she also bought six an order which would normally canned food, tents, and baggage, Such understanding, to be fos-frigates from Britain and many be out of the reach of almost all then set off across Europe to see country will have to come

tered and developed by the North smaller craft.

the participating nations." into being very soon. Ameri- Atlantic Counell of Deputy Minis- ca, as the principal bearer of ter in London, manifests itself the vast cost of rehabilita- through a variety of channels, but above all, through joint exercises tion,will certainly have a do-which develop not only minating voice in the carly stages, as she still has in Japan.

of

com-

mon tactical concepts, but pro- vide that essential human con- tact between the officers and

Practical understanding

From now on the attitude ratings of the respective fleets. and methods of Washington will be watched with greater interest than ever by the peoples of Asia, many of whom have an entirely dis- torted idea of U.S. policy in this part of the world. This despite precise definition by President Truman, who again recently disclaimed on behalf of his country all aggressive ambitions, in contrast to the "new colonialism" of Russia. U.S. action in Korea, he in-

i

The Warsaw rising

By Ernest

Reoch

they held out for 3 days while Warstow was gradually reduced to ruins. The men, women ond children who fought with home on from made weapons were gradually overcome by German planes,

tanks, artillery, and the panoply of power.

Exploited

whole

"Hong Kong, views. "Xmas cards.

"Pictorial in quality!" There could be no objecti

for themselves what they had↑ that. learned about Ancient Greece,

"We looked like a colossal

joke", said Peter Green. "Wher-

ever

we went, in France, Italy,

Presumably one

must s

Yugoslavin, and Greece, we had standard, but this changing a hard time interpreting the clocks strikes me epithets people addressed to us. backward move. Once an Italian boy doubled up laughing so hard when he saw us with the

that he had to be

Caf

carried away."

"Warmer cold war seen." Some Americans fear ther distinct possibility that it not be Baked Alaska,

An Italian barber called the taxi an "18-century-vehicle", while a Greek shoc-black, more than 10 years old, described It as a hearse.

Greek policemen at the Greek- Yugoslav frontier looked at them

When a girl discovers sho

in amazement, for they had never the only pebble on the beach seen a car like it be ore. In fact, becomes a little boulder... so far as any Greek can remem- ber, it was the first London taxi to cross the Northern frontiers of Greece.

It is to the fasting credit of the Poles that almost alone among the occupled countries they never threw up a Quisling. In the Atlantic,, the Caribbean, Instead, they battled the Mediterranean and the Paci- tie fall of Warsaw in 1939 until fic, close collaboration has been their heroic rising in August and maintained by the United King- September of 1944 when their re-

In that time there was con- dom and United States navles volt within the capital was finally

stant radio contact with London important, has been the practical since World War II, and, equally crushed by the Germans.

The Russians, who looked on and with the users, for the development

that of understanding almost passively from the other essence of the Rising was between the navies of Britain, side.

"Escaping from the Gestay of the Vistula, watched the Warsaw should be liberated from us evidence of Polish France, Holland and Belgium embe

embers of revolt being finally within

In Yugoslavin the taxi way takes refuse with the family out. Then, in their own sovereignty, and the Allies from highly honoured. lc was the first charcoal burner," ander Western Union.

stamped

came to rule East and West were expected to good time they

car to drive over the new Zagreb- Rubbish! This was expressed by Bri-lant by remote control and give all available support. tain's First Sea Lord, Admiral of Polan

Belgrade concrete highway on sisted, has been taken under the Fleet Lord Fraser, when he crushed any hope of freedom or

the day that it was omcially Independence.

opened by Marshal Tito. the auspices of the United returned recently from visits to

But the book does more than This is the tragic episode that

The fact that the vehicle suf Norway, Denmark and Holland.

on detailed record Nations, and seeks to defeat Referring to the Atlantic Treaty Komorowski in The Secret Army Warsaw Rising. It was a faciunt tyres was unimportant, the Yugo-

the by General T. Bor- Place

fered B number of punctured aggression, not to practice it. he said: "We have done a great (Gollancz.). He was the celebra- study in underground operations, siave said. It was only due to the Her citizens have a deep dent of planning- although WAY

" ted General Bor who rose to by a nation cruelly placed be nails that dropped from the hoofs sympathy with the people of have only been in action eight a

Germany and Russla command the Polish Home Aring tween

of farmer's horses which wera Asia. They are moved by the months. We should all be very and led it in the Warsaw rising cruelly exploited by both, and using the rond.

Western

Union -spectacle

grateful to the of dire poverty countries which two

which was aimed to confuse the just as determined to assert its

independence.

wen they crossed the French years ago Genmans while the Russians, 05

Into Italy, the adventur- which so many lands suffer established the basis on which we Allies, entered the capital.

Many Britons who spent the ers had a a slight accident. Know-

Myrtle thinks Tasmania from, and want to bring are designing the North Atlantic

war years in captivity in Poland ing nothing about the price of crazy stuff that Russian American progress to re-

plan."

came to know, and admire, the fuel in italy (which, indeed, they agency puts out," incorruptible bravery of the Poles, found fairly expensive), they took

was, therefore, the

more the precaution of strapping two surprising to go home and find cans of French petrol an

on the that the Poles in Britain by their hood of the car, but they had deeds (or

(or misdeeds) had allena-, travelled only a few miles under are very small caters" ted much

ich sympathy. But that is a blazing sun along one of those another

magnificen

ficent Italion roads when story. For security reasons little has one of the

Cons dropped off. The been said since the war about lid opened, and petro! poured out. the liaison between Poland and

move

"Exercise Verlty" might well the ox-cart and the

be described as setting the pat- wooden plough.

tern for the development of sea- Only the biased extremist ward defence under the Treaty. could argue with this pre-It was last summer that a veri- sentment. It is a fact that the Britain,

table armada from the navies of

Holland France,

and United States has no territor-i Belgiam took part in this exer- ial ambitions in Asia. It is a cise. and, with the co-operation fact that the majority of of Britain's Royal Air Force, Asiatics suffer from abject practised all the evolutions of poverty which could be less- ened by the use of Western techniques, especially in agriculture.

The moral

It had been calculated that this Underground Army might hold uut fyr seven days; but, in fact,

NEHRU MAKES A BELATED DISCOVERY

ΣΕ

They stopped the taxi and col-

"Most of the money went for food and petrol," they said. "We numerous, pound a

tried to keep food down to a

day. Now the friends are visting all that is

is worth seeing in Greece. They will return to Athens, and visit Delphoi on the Arst stage of their way back.

was

that de-luxe

My love for you in like th Mighty, turbulent and fri You are my soul, my al

life!

Mv-scram, you wench,

Here comics my wife!

..

"As a rule, professional b

Most of them live on scra

Tolsm: A type of rust

SOCIALIST

HAVE "LOST ∙FAITH-

London but General Bor refers lected the can with what petrol affects tron curtains." repeatedly to the courier service remained in it, but as soon as war from bombardment and con-

New York, October 28, to and from Poland. It is a dis- they got aboard agajn they heard and forperio-boat attack. Belgian papers said in an editorial today, voy protecting to minesweeping

Scripps-Howard The

news-arming phrase

"Whooph covering exploits

behind them-and of the highest order in breaking there was the highway on fire. United Kingdom, French and

Three Italian policemen up- Dutch ships were closely inter-India's Premier, Jawaharlal out of a German-dominated Eu-peared, but, to the relief of the Where such need and such ringled,, with amirals of the Nehru, seems to have made the rope to reach Britain.

The exact details of this courler

"tourists" who

be expected to various nations giving orders to belated discovery that there are nervice presumably remain a arrested, they began amusedly generosity co-exist, it would all in various phases of the no dividends but grief from a service be deplorable if the malice of exercise.

secret but it is a known fact that explaining to a crowd of people policy appeasing Communism.

"Alarnied by the report that many British POWs were chan how they thought the incident outsiders kept them apart.

Communist Chinese troops have nelled to Britain by the Polish had happened. Yet of that there is real dan-

Tibet, which Underground, while others oper Green, as if anything could be

They all looked at us," invaded autonomous

said ger. In South East Asia sus-

from Red

China.

ated with the so-called Partisans separates India picion has been persistently the planning of "Verity"

is re- A commander who initiated the Indian Government

either in Warsaw or in the woods expected from the crazy Inglesi". The trio spent only £70 in one excited against West Euro-

and ported to have instructed its de- and country districts.

month to roach Greece. saw it through to successful cop-legation to the United Nations to

De-luxe scat peans and Americans, first by cluston pointed the moral. "From make no further efforts to

Chinese the Japanese and later by the the very outset of the planning United &ations until the Tibetan Britain were

in the Communists

Escapes from the Continent to fairly Russians, both of whom car- there was perfect understanding ried out propaganda to which and collaboration," he said. "At situation has been clarified. Us- mostly after arduous

been til now, it has no point was there even a hint of til no

the Indian the remarkable thing about the

Polish

Underground no comparable answer was friction

or position that giving China's seat precedence over

almost a un made by the West. And a riority. "Verity gave

to the they put a small in the United Nations

the service. I

knew personally peculiarity of suspicion is example of how dignified sur- Reds would solve most

Enst.

many Britisir POWs who were that its arrows stick, even made by all for the benefit of all

renders of sovereignty can

bel probleme in the Far

"This reported change in the noro or less picked up when those who shot them an example which might serve that Mr. Nehru has been actuated to

Indian attitude

indicate camp gates and conducted back would

to Britain. have been discredited.

for other fields of collaboration" tolely by considerations of his assume that all this was part Thus the Japanese have This "get-together of the national interest in espousing the and parcel of General Bors" earned unpopularity in al- Western Union navles

cause of Red China. Арраг- Underground Army which, most every Asiatic country; smaller

peated this year, though ona ently he had no fault to find with course, owed. allegiance to the scale. In "Exercise the Chinese Reds when they Polish Government in London no one can say a good word Activity", in which airerait, both were charged with supporting the and dreaded occupation by the for them; yet the suspicions naval and RAF participated. Invasion of Korea or Ho Chi Russians, they injected still rankle. The overall command of a

While "Verity" was under the minh's Insurrection in Indo- He does not conceal his dia-

United China. same is true of the Russians.

appointment that greater supplies "Eut he seems to be vigwing could not be flown from the West Outside China the Commu Kingdom Admiral, "Activity" was

commanded by a Dutch Admiral the Communist problem In a to support the rising. But Anally, nists are everywhere small and the plans were formulated more realistic light now that the after a BBC code-aigual, it was to made known that a force of Fly- though fanatical bodies; but by the Staff of the Royal Nether Rçds have announced plans though what they say of landa Navy in co-operation with move in as his next-door neighing Fortresses would arrive on themselves may not be be- British and French naval and bour."-United Press. lieved, what they say against

air'orce oeers.

was re-

"Exercise Activity" is only one

us is. So when they allege aspect of the naval programme that the Americans attach for this summer. Coastal

forces are to "strings" to their offers, they of Britain's Royal Navy

visit Norway, Denmark and easily obtain credence, be-Holland. A French destroyer and cause the very idea of disin- submarine are to take part in ad- terested action would never vanced anti-submarine exercises occur to their hearers.

with the Royal Navy's Third Thus the American policy Training Flotilla off the Scottish

coast

of Britain's

of

Political crisis in Cambodia

at tho

They expect to be home this month-that is if the 30-year-old London taxi survives..

of

September 18 between, 11 am. and noon.

I was at that time in a comp near Torun on the Vistula a hundred miles or so from War- saw and have every reason to re member these planes flying in for they were the first Allied planes we had seen for fully four years.

Inspiring

They swept

It TYEUX, 18 General "Bor" notes, a fine, sunny day with a Saigon, October 28. cloudless sky. in Asia may not be an easy British. French and Dutch ships The French Government has majestically over our camp in one to make succeed. One of will participate in minelaying and naked Norodom Sihanouk King the direction of Warsaw, It

W3S the main difficulties, is and minesweeping exercises off of Cambodia, to reconsider han inspiring sight for us: how Japan. Washington has al-Bust directed by a French Flat announced intention to abdicate. ways aimed at the fostering Home Fleet are to visit

Omfeer, and units

Observers believe that his state-uch more so it must have been for the Poles 'defending Warsaw. Scan-ment, made three days ago,

wa Alas the containers fell of some strong embodiment dinavian ports, Even this is only the

result of internal politica

mostly boyond the Home Army's lines and the author comments hat he will actually take the step. that if they had been dropped

The difficulty stemmed from earlier the whole of

Warsaw onflict between ex-Premier Yem would have been taken by the Sambour and the present Pre-Poles. mler, Prince Monipong,

of democracy in Asia. Origi, part of the programme leadin meulties, but do not believe

nally Ching was designed for the part, but that was before Kuomintang corruption pav-ty of the Japanese will dis- ed the way for Mao.

appear for decades.

The book is written modestly The tendency is now to

Meanwhile, in every coun-

Yem Sambuur, and two other but with an underlying resent- build up Janan as a substi- try which was overrun by Ministers resigned from the doyment at the Rusalang cynical tute, and there is no doubt the armies of Nippon, it is insistence that they stay disappointment that the Allies did rument in spite of the King's attitude and a scarcely disguised she is giving a reasonable regarded with fear and hatr Yem Sambour has an Impor- not In the end ensure Poland's imitation of embracing deed, and the suggestion of tant following among local chief freedom and independence. mocracy at the moment. It is anything like a partnership which might cause most unlikely, however, that between them and the ment if he were pushed into this goes deeper than the Americana right for the late rition of open opposition to th surfaco, or that the bellicoat ter prove a fatal handicap, led Press.

embarrass-

King and GovernmentAssbelat

But the activities of the Under ground Army, dve testimony to the Polish spirit and it is fair to

believe that, it survives even tom day.

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