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GERMANY'S THREAT

FROM WITHIN

W

BONN,

Prior to the recent Lawer

own

By KENNETH

AMES

ILL Germany's Saxony elections, the West Ger

frail, parliamentary man Federal Government got as

far as banning Remer's ship founder on

storm-troopers-the jack-booted . the rocks of renewed Nazism, or will it resembling nothing so much as young thugs of the Reichsfront, be navigated successfully Hitler's SS. It was Remer's through the hazardous practice to harangue meetings Remer and his comrades_carry waters ahead? That is the from a platform draped with a the campaign Into the Industrial question which

alarmed red, white and black flag with Ruhr-land and the dockland of Allied and German officials the German spreadeagle on it,

Hamburg. here are asking themselves surrounded by a bodyguard of following the most startling his troops. evidence to date of a return to Nazism.

In a meeting with the Allied High Commissioners, Adenauer reported: "The SRP's rise to popularity is a serious threat to the democratle idea in Western Germany," but he added that his government was quite cap- able of taking preventative mea-

sures.

LEGISLATION

vene,

new

An analysis of the election figures shows that most of his support was recruited from the ranks of the traditionally right wing farmers, from discontent | ed expellees and refugees, At meetings which Included

the popular trappings of the he captured their

New Knight Of The Theatre

By

RONALD ROPER

London, June 7. both lively composers and per- N the sphere of enter- formers in the orchestra pit. And I shall certainly expect to be tainment only the cinema hearing more of Geoffrey Beau- seems to be unrepre- nost; his tingly infectious sented in the King's Pirth- tunes and rhythms set the entire audience's feet tapping, mine day Honours.

along with them,"

Tho new theatrical knight, Godfroy Tearle, who was born in New York and hos lived in Cornwall since he withdrew from the stage about ten years ngo, made his first public appear ance in 1893. He was last seen in the dark days of 1940 in Emlyn Williams's "The Light of

WILE the Arts Theatre is producing is "Flashes in the Cam" the older established Festival at Cambridge gratefully remembers the original touches

Heart." With him the stage lost a very youthful newcomer. Tyrone Guthrie, in whom the a noble voice and a heritage in governors of the Old Vie have the Irving tradition.

will again vested with confidence the long be remembered for his theatre's future policy.

He magnificent Othello, Brutus and Henry V.

scarcely have Conferment of the CBE on chosen a more versatile pro- Margol Fontayn recognises her ducer and playwright. Since he in English ballet, relinquished administration of

THEY could

Sy, the ballerina admits the Old Vic in 1945, after a 12 Publicly from which it may be

to indulging in no years reign. Mr Guthrie has

BOLS

produced

"Oedipus ery

VII" at StraMord

and,

a few

*

intended to deduce that ballet is Hebrew) at Tel-Aviv, her work and ballet her play.

À similar award

to Pery months ago, his own play, "Top Ashcroft who, though mainly a of the Ladder." at the St James's. serious Botness, happens just And when Liverpool stages on now to be delighting Old Vic of the most ambitious of the audiences by cheerfully kicking Festival open-air demonstrations over the traces as Mistress Page

98 outside London

don next month- in "Merry Wives of Windsor." It with 10,000 performers in street is nearly 20 years since she first pageants much of the credit performed there; her stage debut will be due to Mr Guthrie, who was as Margaret in "Dear after nine months as master of Brutus" at Birmingham in 1928. the elty's ceremonials has been A distinguished figure in the released from the post for his tonours List is A. E. Matthews, new job. the veteran actor, whose OBE

Motion with frequent men- may be regarded as some gesture

and

of "German tion

blood honour" by branding the men of Bonn as "traitors collabora ting with foreign powers" and by advocating a complete all occupation troops. evacuation from German soil of

An

to screen as well as stage. octogenartan, he is still capable of filling a role.

Miss Isabel Baillie, the singer, and Madame Adelina de Lara, the planist, are also honoured,

opening in the presence

THE

of the Prime Minister-of York's revived cycle of mystery plays so impressed one London

crilic that he confessed himself absorbed by a spectacle such as has not been seen in England for 400 years.

But the realism of the Cruel-

of Jesus is taken by a 33- Irishman, Joseph curly-haired,

of ย

clean superb

Is anti-Western a few hinta Örst from Southend shaven and passeared on the

SECRET PACT

new

their way, there

If Remer and his party have will be no

WO current impressions from Two contribution to

Western De- the provinces are evidently fence, but there will be on

meant to be taken to heart in fixion scene, if not the white At present the Allied authori-

"combinations" of newly-created independent German Army of tire Metropolis. ties have no intention of step- the old Prussian pattern.

ra. "Ger-

A Home Counties visitor to the Adam and Eve, offended the

susceptibilities of some people. ping in to stamp out the rebirth man blood," he roared at

al one South Bank Exhibition, after

It is now disclosed that the turbulent

much- the his

critical look at meetings,

London, vent-old In the elections of May 6 in

of Nazism. They consider of

be shed of must be

for Germany, publicised Lights

went the to cover no; Lower Saxony, the comparative

would weaken the position

home disappointed and cowardly Only retreat of Adenauer's government.

Western

armies." asking "Why didn't they take O'Connor, Reich Party, ly new Socialist

cope with the His keynote openly backing a revival of Nazi

if they fail to

voice, He has or Blackpool?" re- ideas, made sweeping gains in

problem, will the Allies inter- Allied, anti-Russian a

establishment of Germany of

And a Fleet Street critic has stage in the West End and at af Cambridge that Regent's Park. Having a passion discovered the State Parliament, With a

the pre-1939 era.

for ideas and efficiency exam- der religious roles, he will shortly Unfortunately, *the total support of nearly 400,000

cramming undergraduate meme acting as Pilate In threat has become manifest at a voters, 11 percent of the elec-.

bers of the Footlights Dramatic play at Windsor. critical moment in the life of torate, the SRP gained 10 seats,

Club, putting on the revue "A the young West German Re- COME political observers have Flash in the Cam," can give a a substantial proportion of the T is probable that the next public. With the Western found it curious that the SRP lead even to the West End. THE palm in A memory 158 seat house, Calculated on a few months will see a running Allies preparing the way to und Communists have never Chiof credit," writes Harold marathon

goes to John rallon-wide basis, this would fight between the Bonn Govern- giving

up their

last control openly attacked each other. It Conway, "goes to 28-year-old Clements for his feat in facing a and the SRP, mean that the new party is ment

The rights, Bonn Cabinet Ministers has even been whispered that fan Kellle as deviser and pro- Prince's Theatre audience for Federal Government will und that they are receiving in the new Nazie have a secret ducer. He steals a march on the over four hours, during a great -likely to run up a total of over-doubtedly ask the Constitution creased freedom on one side, pact with Russia. Remer's re- London professionals by using part of which he is declaiming

2,000,000 supporting voles in a al Court to outlaw the party, and on the other are fighing fort to this:On my word of the two exhibitions,

1851 and Show at his most shattering in West German general election but the court does not meet until to preserve it.

honour as a German officer this 1951, as a pictorial inspiration "Man and Superman."

Nobody else a rolid

Esinc for his revue-and expanding the core of good, old- the end of June and it is likely

is strictly untrue."

except to be several months after that fashioned Nazis.

witly Pency (on this occasion in the some idea to take in before any ban becomes effec- Allied observers in West Ger- The coming months will burlesques, of Radio Scrapbooks, guise of the Devil) ever tackled tive.

many suffered a shock as a

prove to be the first real test Festival Shakespeare and ballet, the double role of John Tanner result of the sudden revelation of the fledgling

German Re- Adenauer told the High Com- at the Hanover polls. But public.

business.

Man and Superman"-Don "11

have mere and we they senior oMcial in the British nissioners, however,

show-all three hours of Juan in Hell, which itzeit takes ruder the growing threat from within High

hours to play is Commission, com- find there

rarely shocks is no

coming as the SRP steps and divert constitutional

popular sentiment it went with a speed and pre- 24

for that very reason Its campaign, joined almost into more menting on

results, sald: machinery to deal with this up

harmless channels, cision rarely achieved on a performed cách week by "Our expert-

This, al- But Shaw enthusiasts flocked to anticipated that threat, then we will introduce neo-Nazi party. "That was our worthy

a new minor then It will have proven itself London first-night. the SRP mi... gain five or six

of playing an equal though the production is back to this special treat, which for con- new legislation." Until then, frst bastion,' boasted

after Remer role in international seats in Lower Saxony, but 10 with no central police force after the

affairs prewar scale with 30 items and vonience had to begin Hanover successes.

other West with

European some quote ambillous stage railer than early dinner, "It represents a minor landslide."

under its control, the Federal "We shall carry our wor

doubtful, however, whether any now nations. Let us look at this new pheno- Government can merely request into the other states, into the

may wall hear more in disputants could make the tor- loen! State authorities to keep industrial heart of West Ger- But It is likely to be a the next few years of Ken Ferris rential conversation sound na

under meetings

of remarkable control

as it strikes the us many."

and Andrew Davidson (son severe test.

Viscount Davidson), who are reader.

A

SHOWPIECE

menon of postwar Germany which has suddenly succeeded in appealing to section of population with its call for "restoration of the good features of Nazism."

The Party's "showpiece," the man who whips up popular sup- port with his Hitlerian brand of tub-thumping, is 39-year-old Ernst Otto Remer. A former officer

of the crack "Gross Deutschland" Panzer Division, Remer became Hitler's favourite ard was promoted overnight from lieutenant-colonel to major-general for folling the

The Federat Government, and

If it can face up to wood and Wall Street big and Don Juan. The third act of

A MATTER OF INTELLIGENCE' AND 'SECURITY

Top 'secrets' for Europe? Eisenhower's problem

July 20 Army Staff plot against DIFFICULTIES over "In- date organisation in the world, they yet might indicate

Hitler in 1844.

the

It was indeed this need for

telligence" and "Securi--the Joint Intelligence Board, sources from which they had ty" have arisen in building

been obtained. It has been customary aver Sald Remet (more recently al up the North Atlantic Trea- the past three years for all bricklayer) In un clection speech: "The men who plotted y Organisation for the de- such information to go freely secrecy that resulted in De to overthrow Hitler then wire fence of Western Europe. traitors to their nation. They will ultimately all be brought to trial,

THE ELITE

Each

ularly

Great

between British sources.

country, and partic-

and

-100

certain

and U.S.

Ghulle complaining before D Day that he was not being kept in close enough touch with the com- whole picture, allled

This has not been. the V.S.

full to municated In feels Britain,

Continental Powers, pelled to impose security in order to protect its Now, with the presence of own secret sources of informa- many high-ranking officers of lon and knowledge. secret specialised equipment.

of its different nationalities at HQ

the question has arisen whether General Eisenhower in the procedure should be changed

.་

such Intelligence made Supreme Commander

of the and organisation..

more freely available,

The breaking of a "code" systern might well result in ten years work being destroyed, of and force the replacement millions of pounds' worth equipment.

COMPROMISE

Some

of

DEMER does much to sell his party line on the 'old Nazl "leadership principle-a ruling of the country by 10 percent of the people, the chosen Elite. He and his Beutenanta advocate, the neutralisation of the two. Ger-

form of compromiso manys, East and West, and a re-

Both US and British mill may be possible; but a ruling unification under one dog, with

A HITCH

tary circles are against a on inter-Governmental levels out foreign interference or us

change.

will have to be obtained 18 alstoned from East or West, A Firet indications of a hitch

SHAFE" (Supremo Head popular theme calculated to a came

the in

Intelligence

Ailled Powers In On the other hand, high quarters, peal to almost any German "au- branches of the Services, ranking "foreign" officers in Europe) is to be regarded as dience.

whono reports alter into the chargo of stall sections at HQ. an operational H.Q. Chief of the Intelligence, Ma- rech they cannot "plan" malls- "NA Behind Rener stand twotor-General Sir Terence Airey, factorily without knowing all fanatical men, the organising at HQ in Pariag

the facts." brains of the stripling party; BN

Some light Indication of tho almeulties occurred in the fir Western Union naval exercises

Count von Westarp, who care» Top Becret British Inteli!-- But such information maset in the summerd of 1948- who fully grooms his moustache sa genco · is provided from the inevitably, he passed down: to "Operational messages had to an exact replica of Hitler's, and intelligenco "branches of the lower officera, oba ofher, pa- be passed din clears; to: ayold. Fritz Doris, poker-faced : Are Admiralty War, Office, and the tionailion,

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