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But by 1953, if we get this breathing space and the Ger- mans consent to come in, the backed (population North Atlantic forces,

105 million) by strategle and tactical alr marched, across

forces, could look pretty good:--- the Elbe this

63 Divisions. winter the force they could de-

THE big appointment ploy to block her would be has gone to the big smaller than MacArthur's army man. General Dwight in Korea

D. Eisenhower, brought back at 60 from the cloisters at Columbia University to be Supreme Commander of the

new

Atlantic Army, is trusted and respected by the West as few American generals

been have

in modern history.

This assignment ig tough even by Eisen- hower standards, for gun-power and the ighting strength of an army, the prestige

not

The front Eisenhower must the from Lubeck to defend,

frontier, stretches for Swiss more than 500 miles. This is more than twice the width of What the Korean

peninsula.

does Eisenhower land force:

TODAY--forces over take immediately ready for use the first week of a World War III. in the West?

ROBERT JESSEL

SIZES UP THE JOB FOR THE MAN

of its general, win bat- tles. And THIS is NOT the same job that he held back in 1944.

In

Commander's

The Supreme Crst roll-coll would this:-

British U.S.

French

It

Others

LAST TIME he was answer- ablo to Iwo strong Govern- ments.

The It was wartime.

and the heavy big battalions bombers were on his side.

in the always except

of Ardennes offensive a war attack,

British U.S.. Canadian

French

10

(perhaps) 20

Belgian

Dutch

3

German

10

Note, however, three points:- FIRST: In 1945, Eisenhower had, and needed, not 53 but 00 divisions for his victory over 55 German divisiona in the West

Thirleen of the divisions were British, 01 from tho U.S., £ve from Canada, ten from France,

and one made up of Poles... plus, of course, the efforts of the Resistance.

French

London Express Sergio

Headline in U.S. papers: "The Hope of The West."

Many people think they should.

Titled owners BRAATHENS

A

of London are selling out

BY PETER DACRE

BOUT 200 years ago But it is a sign of the times that 8,040 acres, about 10 per- cent of the County of London, is owned by the County Council. Another five percent belongs to British Railways.

one of Lord Portman's family was put on a diet. of asses' milk. To ensure R steady supply his lordship bought a herd and some pasture land.

In the years between the Portman pastures have become one of the most valuable parts of central London.

For people in 5,000 acres spread throughout London, the land- lords are the Church Commis- loners. The Bishop of London rents from about has drawn 1,000 acres around Paddington, Bayswater, and Moldo Vale K you walk along Oxford ever since the land was pre- Street to Selfridges, up the sented to the Church by Edward Edgware Road or through the VI.

Gito of Regent's on Portman

Clarence Park, and.

'you are

Its 200 acres include Ave well known squares Portman, Bryan- ston, Manchester, Montagu and Dorset. The estate includes a dozen churches and 40 public houses.

Church owns

Much of Golders Grem balçanga to the Church, besides areas in Stoke Newington, Willesden, Brixton, and Barnes,

Central London is dominated by the Commissioners of Crown Now the present Lord Portman Lands, who own 3,500 buildings is selling 20 acres. It is the bringing a gross yearly rental of

£1,500,000. latest evidence of the allent revolution steadily gaining ground among London's golden

acres.

4s. a year

Only a few of the many ducal Iandlords who once owned large chunks of London remain.

Duke of Westminster's GrosS-

They aro landlords around Regent's Park, almost the whole of Regent Street, and in areas near Plecadilly Circus, Trafalgar the Strand, the Mall, Millbank and Millionaires' Row in Kensington Palace Gardeos. They also own na estato around Victoria Park in Bethnal Green. land- One of London's biggest

Biggest and richest is the lords is the Prudential Assurance venor Estate. Just over 350 years Company, which has £50,000,-

Miss Davis married into 000's worth of property through the family and brought a farm- out Britain. slead as a dowry. It was valued An estate expert describes its at four shillings a year.

holdings as "tremendous," Cer-

ago

a

Companies buy

Now it is Belgravia, part of tainly the "Pru" has property 600 acres running from Oxford in the City, the West End, and Street to the Thames which Kensington, where It has taken before the war were valued at over part of Lord Kensington's

£20,000,000.

estate. It also reaps ground Eisenhower's first job will Westminster's estate includes rents from most of the suburbs.

Lane and the French Park

Grosvenor be to convince

Gold the above all the Square. He recently Ministers-and

on the West west side of the square French people--that

and Con

will be

The modern trend is for Lon- defended, 999-yoar lease to the American

Government for around £1,000,- don.to be owned by many com- given the will,

000.

paratively small companies and For war material is pouring Lord Howard de Walden's trusts. into Cherbourg and there will estate stretches between Oxford In the City, where the livery shortly be no fewer than ten Street and Marylebone Road, companies own ground, the City of London Real Property Com- American and British divisions and includes Harley Street. on the ground in Europe.

Between the two wars his pany has 80 buildings over 18 father sold over 100 acres for an estimated £7,000,000. Now the estate is operated through a

of

This was the great act faith of 1950. He will ask the French to match it in 1951 by have included, forgetting SECOND: I

their fears of a To like optimistically, ten German divi-

rearmed Germany,

by and the French still putting

their backs at long will not agree to the forma- last-into re-creating a French tion of German divisions

army in Europe. such.

10 Divisions.

in

Б

sioni.

But

ag

trust.

a

Out of slums

acres, worth an estimated 211,- 000,000.

Another typical property com- pany is Mr Harok Samuel's Land

Securities Investment Trust, which owns such London landmarks as Lansdowne House, House, Mayfair Large areas around Blooms- Devonshire

and the bury are owned by the Duke of Court, the Adelphi, And afterwards?

Bedford, while parts of Chelsea Ministry of Civil Aviation head- They

Lacon agree to the inclusion

Cadogan, quarters at Aerial and If Eisenhower is resolved to still belong to Lord

turned aluma Houses. of 150,000 Germans, in brigade have Germans in the Atlantic whose ancestors groups of 0,000 men aplece, in Army and Air Force he must into high-class residential One of London's newer land- He could add to that any

a European Army, This army try to persuade the 12 Foreign district.

lords is Sir John Ellerman, who indirect aid which isolated

would be separate from the Ministers to offer the Federal In the cuburts Lord Northamp has bought property in Chelsea Allied garrisons

Berlin, British

and United States Government much better terms ton has large leaseholds in Toot and the West End. In 1025 he Trieste, Scandinavia, armies. THE

Austria, TIME he will be an-

be a mix-terms It would

it can accept withouting and Camberwell. Parts of bought 40 acres of the Howardd Ad- swerable

ture to 12 Governments, and Italy could provide.

of French, Germans, losing office.

for Lewisham once owned by Lord de Walden Estate of which the most important ditional divisions might arrive Dutch, and Belgians.

This will be the first public Forster are still owned by the estimated £3,000,000. from his point of view the from Britain and the States

The era of the ducal landlords his "supreme" fantly through the Forster Estate The Germans are not likely test French-is also the weakest, three to six months later,

Development Company. authority.

is fading. It is peacetime. His army and

to accept this plan.

Some 74 acres of Kennington air force, at any rate at pre-

THIRD: The forces of the

-(London Express Service) belong to the Duchy of Cornwall. sent, are badly outnumbered.

the Army defending Atlantic vitals of the West do not in-

any 23 Divisions. clude

contingents from Spain (population 23,000,000), Portugal (8,500,000), Turkey Switzerland (4,- (8,000,000),

For the Arst time, East and West will be watching Eisen- hower as a defence planner.

Ministers of 12 Allied nations (total population

330 million) which appointed halm know that it Russia

What will be the situation by the autumn of next year, all goes well? Eisenhower should have then-

British 0.6. Canadian French... Belgian Dutch

4

(perhaps) 10

(19,000,000),

000,000),

Greeco Italy (45,000,000), 1

(3,000,000).

от Ireland

HITLER'S GENERAL WANTS

NEW WEHRMACHT

From CHARLES WIGHTON: Dusseldorf,

HITLER'S famous Panzer of the Atlantic sea and air

Heinz Guderian, in a bitter

in

Those two Powers appear to hope that, in the long run, this attack on Allied prepara- would mean victory," says 57- tions to meet a possible year-old Guderian. "They do

consider what Soviet attack, today accuses not seem to Field Marshal Montgo- would happen to the people of Western Europe in the interval. mery's Western

"We Germany know better.

Union

Headquarters of defeatism. Central and Western Europe

in 3

"What comes out of Fon- today are so poorly defended tainebleau is anything but against invasion from the East encouraging," he says

that the aggressors would be at newly published book, in which the Atlantic coast before sea- he asks, "Can Western Europe borne afd could arrive. be defended?”

Guderian believes it can--but only if a resurrected Wehrmacht Is the foundation of the Atlantic Pact.

Says Guderian of Mont gomery's headquarters at Fon- taineblean, near Paris: "From information which comes from

for

"The consequences of invasion

the inhabitants of these to areas would be similar to what

theso

bas happened in Korea and would consequences cortainly not be eased by the hope of subsequent beration by the Western Powers,

GUDEZIAN

of

WHITE

(London Express Service)

un

SQUAW IS ON

THE WARPATH

From PATRICK NICHOLSON

Nipissing Red Indian Reserve

my

Shortly afterwards, with "Under the terms of the old treaties between the gentle summer breeze fluttering peace the buckskin fringe of her first British Government and ROM her wigwam on Red Indian robe, and the wild husband's Red Indian ancestors,

beside the

Red all we Indians are wards of

Wost la defcatist...

Sufficient rearmament by all Westem European countries meet attack.

4 A broader base of West European operations by in- cluding Afrien in the area of European defence.

Modernisation of the

Government,"

she

rocky shore of heart, she walked In tribal pro- Canadian Lake Nipissing, an English cession to the Uttle white- told me. schoolteacher turned Indian painted wooden church of the After 12 years of the primi- squaw is fighting a one- Ojibway Indians. There sho live low-budget life in

Ickway woman battle to preserve became the first English girl to wigwam, Antoine's

knows only too well how the the culture and race of marry a Red Indian pen-pal.

official policy of second -class Canada's Redskins,

Her wedding feast lasted for citizenship has reduced Canada's

nights, first inhabitants to a days and three

pitiful Twelve years ago, as London- three

plight. born Glacia

and their squaws Almgren, she was The braves teaching handicrafts to white only interrupted their

Instead of the present policy

assimilato at Overstone, monial dances to gorge hunks of of trying to

the girls at a school

their cul- In Northamptonshire. Today, moose roasted whole over blaz- Indians and subdue while tomorrow's Red Indian ing log fires and to taste Indian ture, Antoine's lekway believe that Canada should copy New braves are playing at "cops and delicacies such no caribou Zealand's treatment of the palefaces" around her wigwam, tongue soup and unsalted' stur-

found this squaw teaching geon's roo.

older Indian children how to paint pictures on birchbark.

Attractively dressed in Indian style, in frilled buckcakin

shirt

}

Primitive life-

cere-

Maoris, and foster a pride in the

Redskins' history and traditions,

As an associate of the Royal College of Arts in London and experienced handicrafts (THE pipe-smolding chieftains teacher, she is able to guide made interminable speeches. Indian children in learning and skirt, with rabbit tolls Chief Simon, who recently died their colourful crafts and also decorating the beaded headband in his 112th year, described to to adapt those crafts into forms "Rather the contrary, 5

10

bride how her husband's in which they can be commor. Strategic and tactical prin- holding her fair plaits, she the Western Union Headquarters because war, with all its fury, ciples of the entire Allied High described to me how she cx- great-grandfather had carned

alalised. one reaches the conclusion that would pass over the same land Command in the light of now changed the pent-up existence the proud name Commanda there they think only in terms twice-our country!"

for, from her ancestors, the British 'weapons and technical possibl- of an English schoolmazını of defence.

"If Russia attacks, the British Hilles. "They think only of lines tales will be

left in the same

the high-riding life of a Redskin Red-coats, as their ally fighting

the Americans, just as the French thought only position off the coast of Europe

chieftains's bride. of the Maginot Line. [Guderian an Chiang Kai-shek's Formoan mada the Ardennés offensive in 1010 which shattered France'e Dow occupies off China.

defences.1

measures

taken

Guderian says all forces must be concentrated in the "decisive area" and advanced positions abandoned. Holding on to these positions (apparently

Tribal ceremony

the

Indien

—but it's carefree

tho, flickering

CHE enjoys the healthy care- ▷ free life in a wigwam in this

wild Then the fingers of the bride beautiful

bush country. and the old chief wero pricked Even when Antoine, la away "It will be reduced to un

and their blood mingled, to hunting, she is happy spending American basa... ́.....'

Pyat bearing Grey Owl signify her adoption futo tho evenings on the ahore of the How then is Western Europe the Rhine) would weaken the

east of A lecture on Red Indian ways Ojibway tribe, and the wus lake, watching the glorious The

by to be defended?

and naina munsets strength of Western Europe to her pupile this teacher naked given Western Union Headquarters up Gülerian makes these sug without in

any way contribu-him for the name of an Indian "Antoine's Ickway," meaning Northern Lights. to now are more like prepara- gestions:----

with whom she could correspond "Antoine's woman." ting to its strength.

This afternoon, while hor tions to hinder a pursuit rather

And Guderian lays emphasis to learn the native dialect. Grey Less romantically, the Cann- Indian brave is hunting a mooso Immediate relaforcement of on the creation of a than a genuine defence plan."

friend'. Owl suggested his West

'dian Government

dinner, she is writing a Guderian, Arst senior. German Allied troops In Western European Union in

promptly for Commanda, which all Antoine

great- strategiat to give, his views on Europe, including Germany.

of the famous Big listed her officially as "No 214 speech about the Redskins raw countries would rank as equal grandson

of No 10. Indian Reserve,” just deal, which she has been asked Europe's defence saya Western

partners.

Chlof Rotten-Wood, freedom

She hoped that Ike-a prisoner in a concentrado broadcast Europe cannot be defended by Complete

Britain, he says,, muit bo So Gisela wrote to Antoine. Lion camp. For in this picture woon her efforts will arouse existing forces or those likely equality for West Germany to appost in the near future. in human, political, legal, and included in this tinion; other After two years of correspon- que marriage ceremony, she sufficient Ampathy

that the "Allany, economia affairs, This would wise it would be a body with-dence course the White Ladys had become a Red: Indian, and white Canadians to win a New

and

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