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The army that Germany wants

How the ex-generals have now disclosed their plan at talks in Paris-with precise proposals to make the Wehrmacht strong..... by CHARLES WIGHTON

are

BONN. dark-suited Hitler generals - in the Ministry of the THE German General seven

Interior alone. Staff, that ruthlessly Key men

the clusive efficient military generals behind the barred win

former German High machine which planned 100 dows,

Cominand Operations Chief years of European war, has ADOLF HEUSINGER and Rommel's ex-Chief of Staff made its come-back.

HANS SPEIDEL. It has a new plan for a

Neither of them was a Nazi, new Wehrmacht which will

German, General Stair for, no give Germany the most ofteer was permitted to join the formidable single armed parly. Both Antshed the war, force in Western Europe however, as lieutenant-generals, but nobody knows what they today-if the Allies agree.

really thought about Hitler.

The Bonn Gaverament, back- ed by the Americans, is urging his new German General Stall plan on the rest of the Atlantic Fact nations.

So secret

until he

5.. LUFTWAFFE of 2,000-

fighters.

position to No. 3 and No. 4..

are

UNDER-COVER GIRL

"H

Washington.

1

★The mother who was shunned as 'a

traitor tells FREDERICK COOK: How I

worked in the Communist headquarters

She married man who *USH moment, did not know sho was a Christine," said the counter-agent, for the FBI dark-haired young and he is the father of four- mother. Sho passed her, year-old Christine. baby a toy and turned again How did it feel to live a to talking about the days double life? How did it be when she used to hear gin? people muttering about That traitor" as she puss- ed on the street.

Mrs Markward, 29 now; says: "I felt terrible-people mutter- Ing about one being a traitor, One bitter day came back my name in the paper, people to mind with extra clarity, me in public.

I'd known all my life anubbing

.

the day they brought homé the body of her brother. "It all started one day when killed in the war for burial an FBt man telephoned and in the little church yard of asked if he might see me. Chesterbrook, Virginia, just "I had no idea what it was all outside Washington, where about. I was simply a beauti- they had both been brought clan, looking forward to being

up.

On my husband's 'first leave I thought I Had better tell him! He was a bit scared but he was very understanding."

Mrs Markward grow in -im- portance in the party. Soon sho was a district leader and was alven the job of inltrating the unions in the big steel mills pround. Baltimore, Maryland.

Since February of this year she has, been telling what. Bhe knows about that In locked- doors sessions af the! Un- American Activities Commitee.

SHE RESIGNED.

"

May, 1949, Mary Markward's health cracked. Sho-had, an attack of partial paralysis. Six later, come another months attack, and she took the oppor tunity of resigning her Com munist activities."

married shortly.

By now the heat was on and "He came to my home and soon afterwards Mary read in That day people were explained to me how the Com- the Daily Worker that she had murmuring about what a munist Party were operating in been "sacked" from the party as shame it was such a fine the USA. He asked me to help, a stool. pigeon. young fellow should have a "Orcourse, I agreed after

om glad it's over," she says. husband-he's sister like Mary Stalcup. Why couldn't she be a loyal American like him?

thinking about it a while. I did "My baby, my

once, though we were to be our not say a word to George, my been marvellous about it-and

four-room married very soon.

enough for me.'

Communists."

to the paper.

on $1.9

on

bungalow are

I asked Mrs Maskward if she

Washington, they picked on her. had any idea why, out of all

It was the only question sho ducked. With a smile she said: "I think I do, but I am not at liberly to say. At the time. I

'THE NERVE"

What people did not know

"A few days before he went overseas we did planes, all Allied manufac and what she could not and he still didn't know that his get married, tured, Including 300 jutell them was that listing bride had signed

of her name by the Un- under-cover worker with the 0. NAVAL SQUADRONS fur defence In North Sea-American Activities Com- and Baltle.

Imittee as a leading Commu- Mrs Maricward studied the had no idea."

New York Daily Worker for a Allled diplomats taking parinist was all part of the while, then one day walked into In the Parts negotiations say that | game. She could not very the Communist headquarters, the French are adamant in on- well explain that she was not for the wanted to bribe ONE thing she learned as an the Under-cover Girl No. 1 and said she wanted to subscribe The French too late. for the FBI inside the head- When with Britain

and quarters of the Communist "It happened they were having Americu, they agreed Jast

a party that night," she says, December to negoitations on a apparatus in Washington,

"and I was invited. That was German Army, they themselves

surprise No. 1. I saw there one DOUBLE LIFE created the new German General

of my customers from Staff-and the German generala

beauty saloon. were not slow to seize their

TALKED with Mary the opportunity.

other day. Her name is Now America, disappointed by Markward now, French. and

atc for defence plans, has Western. started a major boost for the immediate creation of the army.

Benelux

American High Commissioner

John McCloy said in Bonn re cently that there will have to be compromises, "Great and fundamental strategie decisions," sald Mr McCloy, "are awaiting the solution of the German Was the rearmament problem." Fuchrer's constan: com- Only Britain is silent. No high Allied observers in Bonn, panion for years at his Russian official statement of policy on

Within a few months, believe HEUSINGER the German General Staff will Frent headquartens, almost

get certainly

was arrested the "go-

Wehrmacht.

Behind barred windows of a four-storey red brick buliding In a Bonn back street two Hitler generals, with a skeleton staff of aristocratic former colonels and majors, today are planning the last details of that new Wehr- macht.

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1944 the German Army has been ahead" signal for its new bob plot, when defeat seemed issued since a formal announce-

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-(London Express Servicu.)

For more than a year the two AMERICAN NEWSCOPE generals, with thel: chief assis- Colonel Count tants, former Kielmannsega and former Major von den Bussche, have planned in their half-hidden Bonn War Ministry. The Germans describe it oficially

as "The Service Offee of the Federal Prime Minister."

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"In time they gave me a paid job, and I was soon on good terms with the top people:

..

under-cover girl, noi to reliance on place too much people.

Why, lols of the very poople who used to call me a traitor come up to me now street," she says, "and have the

on the

nerve to say that of course they really never believed a word of

It even at the time.” (World Copyright Reserved-London Express Service.)

The SENTIMENTALIST

★ At 47, Cecil Beaton reveals a new side to a sophisticate as he adds another career to his list.

by KENNETH TYNAN

STRANGELY revealing_little_play

| Aλ called "The Gainsborough Girls" had

its world premiere in Brighton..

The author was Cecil Beaton, and the revelation was that he possessed a simple and senti- mental heart. And it was stronge; because for most people Beaton has always been a model of urbanity and sophistication. It was as if an avocado pear had been, squeezed and discharged syrup.

Cool Beaton, photographer '4) royalty, whites, artiet bad-stage designer, was born by London. Want to Herrew and Cambridge. Made his name in the Resting -Twentiae. In Watif War 11 took. photographs for the Minierry af Intumatlan

Suailarly, Beaton's Going borough "snaps" his guests; banging down a cup of tea and creaching on all fours he cries: "Don't movel 1 want you just like that!?!

I mentioned the parallel to him. He smiled Jesuitically, like a cat slowly unsheathing its claws.

remarked

More than 20 years ago, he told me, he saw his two sisters appearing in a tableau vivant A5 Gainsborough's daughters; how, and It was, someone him, that the younger daughter had gone mad. He has wanted to tell their story ever since, "I'm not interested in Gainsborough · himself," he added bithely.

He Anished the play about three years ago; it is his second. The first one, he says, "was all about the difficulty of writing plays." This he showed, to his

- Garson Kanin,

the

possible for a painter to become Benton tells tho story of a poet, or a sculptor a flim Thomas Gainsborough's director. daughters in the manner of early melodrama; and if one thing To the "Man of Feeling," skill friend stamps

those old plays it is the is secondary; Beaton does not American director, who was un dramatists trusting and un hide his horror of technique. "It impressed and offered him some AMERICANS who, aided affected belief that life happens is the spadework involved in tempting advice about about

by the women, smoke As it happens in a boy's picture arranging each sitting," he has things you feel about."" far more cigarettes than book. "The Gainsborough Girls" written, "which mitigates

NEW YORK.

B generals have even German the big tobacco coing fro

plans to Allied diplomats and ofrers in Bonn.

For although each year sets a new peak of cigarette con- sumption reached, the rate has been sharply slowing.

The Allied Foreign Ministers* conference in Brussels at the end of last year, which agreed

Last year's sales were only 2 to the formation of a German Army, let the generals come out percent. above 1940, and

the Into the open. But the Ger- industry has been used to seeing man General Staff master plan them climb comfortably between is still known to only a few 10 and 20 percent. every year. Allled officials. Recently, at

his

Friendships

against the pleasures of photography" anyone else in the world, is as innocently credulous as an

anonymous eighteenth-century a sentence containing a disarm face a terrific now

The result of months'of· féel- on-novel by a strayed sophisticate; ing hint at the spadework

kind of book slaught of advertising from the

usually involved in English composition,

Gainsborough ing was, "The described on the cover as the Beaton flies at all the arts with Girls" and rays, Beaton: "Kanin work of "A Man of Feeling."

own kind of audacious loved it.” humility,

disregarding obstacles At 47, Beaton is a writer and like a child in

Beaton is old-fashioned enough in a race.

to base his life on trusts and photographer, In 1940, he was He enters a room like an actor friendships, and it is hard to stage designer as well as a even an actor, in the Broadway who has just made a splendid imagine what else Kanin could production of "Lady Winder- exit; you feel he has just left have said without seeming to be mere's Fan."

some gaudy, and exhausting zout stealing candy from a schoolboy. on the next floor. He strides He rates kindness higher than lightly towards you, smiling almost any other attribute;to intimately, souplessly washing him Garbo had a wonderful Chapin his hands. His "Hello" is a com- quality of kindness" was "amazingly kind!" miseration; like much of his quizzical, talk, it emerges as n

Since his play was bought heartfelt sigh.

early this year, Beaton has He will drop naturally into his devoted himself to working on pointed like a dancing-master's, the dresses in shades like right hand on alp, and the head, crushed cummation and fee-cream Photography, he says, dates a benign and greying, tited to orange.

He will be man more rapidly than any catch the light.

The first-night curtain came other medium; his early pre handsome and flawlessly dressed; down on an accurate and not ferences a gleaming background the waistcoat usually bearing

་

Restless

The pursuit of a single career at the Paris talks 50 millions more in money enervates him; not all the forty on a European army, the Ger-will be poured out to get mif- volumes of photographs, bound mans demanded that their plan lions more in anckes,

in red leather, which swell his should be accepted-complete.

BOOK PUBLISHERS are in library: not all the royal favour

which his method and will have to put up the prices satisfy his restlessness. of books-the ordinary, hard- backed kind, that is,

his

French out with memories of the dumps, and they say they manners have brought him, can favourite posture: the left foot the sets and costumes, splashing three German Invasions in 70

years, were alarmed.

Other Ailled observers thought the German generals showed an overweening military ambition who had suffered

defcat only years before.

This is the master plan--still

in

cathofontos...

an

M. Lur Letols, Pete Johnson & “Albert",

Among

Their sales have been badly

hurt by mushrooming paper

six backed editions, which are 25 transparent screens, a halo of lapels, the trousers pipe-slender, fænoble picture of the author, a

1. A WEHRMACHT ́of 250,000 German.. conscrips, serving two years each.

percent cheaper...

of

whone charm is closer to Light around the silter's head

nursery banier than coffee-house Tact silky-Madonna smile on A MAN who beers one of the and a omeint recret-to which

wit, whose Georgiani - "senst- face are outmoded; his Britain hos not yet agreed and most famous names in America | her

billy" is not unmixed with to which the French are firmly gives this "recipe for happiness" more recent choice of frame-

Beaton's voice sounds clammy

Victorian sentimentalism opposed;

to 100 boys just starting out, in work, a prospect of

of eighteenth-

and his smilla is tired. He will He is now at work on a third tury boskage has

with a con already life after spending two years atomed up "bchlud" too many, pass his fingers, over his fore play, a comedy

school "for the under-privileged

*tting. ("It takes temporary setting. ( and matadjusted" nt Dobbs it is not every day that he at the next table he may caico, quite near Towcester). Between beauties, royal and theatrical; head to suggest strain, suddenly,

catch place

Northamptonshiro subject. Af can hope for subjecte as striking without lowering his voice he

sight of Ferry, New York:

while there will be more photo- "There are two simple pria- as the war wreckage in Libya, ciples, find out what it is that

will mimie her: "Do you see graphs, more books in a way interests you, and that you ca So Beaton turns playwright. that

cigarette wil

without

relung ab Delacroix: The

shoko

to him the disquieting repark of unit should be more than well, do, and when you find It And the very, caruminess of think Woman trying -toj smokava ; is a tribute to 'Boaton: to apply.

put your whole soul Into it transition expose another kind in her eyor?”—ald much will Ger-overy bit of energy and of senilmetallem, this time of his fact that abe will hot notice, does whatever he wants to do. ambitions and natural ability the mind. For he balleves, quite "Not long ago. I should have The man of genius done only that you have got.png Idealistically, that all the gris are swathed her in brocades and what he can doly T

Name of speaker John D. open to you, if you have the male leopard sins. Now I want her (World Creynicht Rockefeller

for any one of them; that it is as she is???

2. STX ANSIY. CORPS, cach of two divisions 12,000 men strong (despite French Insistence that, no German 8,000 to 8,000)

4. REVIVAL of the

man General Staff,

49 CREATION of a der civilian War Minister

man War Ministry with a

mán og taloni