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T THE - CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1951,
MY
KOREA NOTEBOOK
T
Malaya, Java
and going (not far behind the lines) fantry humped their weapons
until the winter set in
got
URNING the early through pages of my Note Indla.
and ammunition (as well as book I find that
1 The Americans never
But despite"""weather treu thelt hopes of a "Home by used to British officers carrying bles"-water was always freez- Christmas" victory) back 12 months ago walking sticks into action.
over ing and at times the apparatus the Chongchon River in Novem- heard my first British But they thought the customs did, fco 80 percent of our Re- ber, over the Hm in January. shota fired in Korea. I can "kinda cute," I've got orders servists had dental treatment by Oflen T heard the criticisms,
of March. hardly believe it is all that for three "genuine London the end
"He only comes when we are could get a temporary set winning or when something ex- You time ago.
walking sticks" for American officer friends in my pocket of dentures in 72 hours and a citing is on,"
permanent sot, beautifully made, In between six and eight weeks. Incidentally. ever had your
now.
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Yet, at the same time, it Acema that many
more months than 12 divide that sunlit morning on the
Only 48 hours before, incident- Naktong River and London's ally, the first British soldier had autumn. Korea is like that. been killed in Korea.
Our troops say with wry. He was a young Middlesex humour: "Out here a day is private named Dick Streeter, hit like an hour; but every week by miper fire while driving a
jeep is like a month."
on patrol. His family might like to know that the "Dichards" haven't forgotten him.
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dentures freeze up? Mine did Co
("OMMONWEALTH Brigade
there ever Was a single
parade
once, overnight.
had a Padre called "Gus". strong, let me have some hot one and all-except on Sunday But my driver, Johunto Arm- Jones, "Gus" was popular with
water from the ftep's radiator which he
to used
call hlá to thaw them out.
"operational day."
For winter weeks on end the Brigade, by some chance coin- eldence, was ordered to move- usually in haste and in retreat-- British soldier in Korea who on Sundays. had a good word to say for And the more complicated THE British had been in the Only the other day, in Hong- MacArthur I didn't meet him. were "Gua's" church
line, northwest of Taegu, kong's New Territories, his Frankly, I don't think there arrangements, the greater the for eight days before "A" Com- name headed the Roll of Honour was one.
rertainty of a move or a "bug British troops the Middlesex-then read out in a drum-head memo-
have one ou?" to borrow the American pany of commanded by, Major D. Itendell rial service for those of the bat peculiarity in assessment of expression then in vogue.
their commenders. They do -brought back our first 50 North talion who fell in Korea,
Once
In the middle of a Sun- like to
see them around when day flap, as the Padre's clongat- Korean prisoners after a short, sharp little night.
things go wrong.
ed and
and determined figure hove Rendell was one of the first-
MacArthur was never stand up amid the "Dichards," their Eritish officers to carry a walk- PRIGADIER TOM BRODIE'S Ing at the roadside during the Adjutant, Nick Carter, was Brigade brought out big retreats, never to be seen heard to cry: "Keep away from ng stick in Korea. He bought D 29th
the us, Padre, there's enough trou- it, he told me, in Cairo In 1942 with t a complete mobile dental smiling from his jeep as and
It did carried it. subsequently, unit:
not really get tired, freezing, dusty U.N. in ble ns it is!"
THE
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WILLIAM BARKLEY'S NOTEBOOK
CROSSES THE CHANNEL
SO THERE THEY WERE
T
-FIVE OLD FACES
BONN. HE Government was
attacked
from all sides in the House of Commons. I beg
I
in the mean pardon. French National Assembly,
There, I'm wrong again. I should have and the Ger- Parlistment in Bonn. Because that is where I am.
man
To my astonishment, expect- ing contrasts, I found resem- blances between the three in- : fitutions.
2
Rudolf Freidhof (Socialist, Hesse) presented petition that North Hesse, including
declared CORRC, should be
would distressed area,
As it
free
Here it is at last the story of the British and Commonwealth soldiers who for the past year, have been fighting under the United Nations flag in Korea. J. L. HAYS, war respondent, has been with them in good times and bad. Back home on leave, he looks through his Notebook to tell a great story .....
cor-
especially
spontaneously from their cover thel: ups and downs. Of course and stand cheering, like specto- they have. lors at a football match: "Come Early this year, on, 'A' Companyi Come on, ladst when the big winter Get at 'em, boys!"
south from Pyongyang ond Even now my spine tingles to Seoul were the memory of these young, harsh things to say. about the excited voices calling over the American soldiers and Ameri- misty hills.
can leadership.
Ď
on, our
retreats
men had
And, in return, the Americans the mengreness of our share in did not pull their punches about
the Korean fighting,
DOUBT whether there is a single British unit without its Korean mascot some MAYBE because I am a Lon- pathetic, homeless, parentless 1 doner myself, I admit to a walf dressed in cut-down jungle soft spot for the predominately-
Cockney Middlesex Regiment. But, by and large, on the They certainly provided me "soldier-to-soldier" level, both with plenty of laughs on days sides get on well enough. when laughs were as welcome as mugs of hot, steaming ten. One of my happiest memceles There was the time when is of British wireless operators, they "flushed" o Communist drivers, cooks and clerks put-
green, boots and beret (com plete with badge), medal rib- bons, stripes and insignia, Most of them have a
nem_na few words of broken English; know how to salute an officer
Indeed, must units unofficially carry a host of Koreans of all sizes, ages and both sexes on their rallen strength. This cart of thing is all right in its way. path of
The British soldier has never Mr Woodburn then gave the been lacking in kindness and leader, enters. He lost a leg, Germens a pretty stiff lecture generosity to the innocents in
the
he populations of Commons, the and he cannot use crutches be on the House
smong. cause he lost an arm, too, He entirely to its advantage. He
But some day, soon, complete members. arm over showed how private
Pritish walks with his left
units will be leaving officials the shoulder of a
keep Ministers specially
and
Kores. What happens to the stepping smartly, as he knew stout party member.
Secretary for mascots? when he was Scotland.
done much, but there is need
Schumacher, the Socialist
for more.
to speak-Dr Adolf Arndt,
He puts up his labour expert splendid parliamentary a figure,
broad more thau ofl. high, shuldered yet slim, dark-hair
cloquent ed Anc-featured, and practised barrister.
The barrister is not a boggar
"We are not beggars of the Federal Government, We are freely elected by the people to, represent their views, We have elected," been directly Arndt says to Government man Sabel, "and we should act in the interests of the people who elected us."
then qualify fcr special both Cavernment grants.
to pursue the
democracy.
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I wish commanders
Aghts
would
SLANG
Two Korea itonit for collectors of British Army slang.
"A" HARPIC: Some- body who has gone "clean round the bend.” SHARP END: The
front,
me
Red cashier's flee in Sariwon, North Korea's Aldershot.
Jubilantly they showed packs and pockets full of crisp, Communist banknotes- milijons of North
now
I asked Communist Renner Love this issue out with their he thought of the speech, men, point out that they are what
dig at the introducing children to a type and, with Socialists, he said: "It is quite of life which cannot prevail. clear he was telling the Oppo- perhaps tantalising them with sitlon how to be an Opposla vision which is unlikely to be
1 calised. tion."
odd thing. Whenever
But one possible way out for literally Socialist Woodburn wanted an
all concerned: It would not cost Korean yer, tempting, but eb example of parilamentary eff-
the British Government a good solutely valueless to U.N. clency or humour, it was al- ways Mr Churchill he praised, deal of money (sterling still troops. it never once mentioned Mr counts in Korea) to establish an Attlee-not even to blame him. orphanage for such British-
protected waits.
Loyal slonaries are available.
Mr Woodburn must say it again
He had a fine piece on
the
ting on a Thanksgiving Dinner America G.I.s attached to Commonwealth Brigade Head- quarters.
My
They cleaned out a farmhouse, laid the tables, and, Dy the light of flickering candles, acted as waiters while the Yanks downed prodigious quantities of shrimp cocktail, turkey, fresh vegetables, mince- ment and pumpkin sie.
And British officers were among the walters,
"Why not?" asked Captain Andy Craighead, the Camp Commandant.. "We do it for our chaps at Christmas. Well, this is a big occasion for the Yanks,"
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URS la the best-fed British force ever to serve, over- SCIS. Very rarely (and ; then only in selion), do our troops "But you never know, mate," have to rely solely on tinned they explained patiently, "We American combat ration or may be pals with, the old Com- British "Compo" with its and devoted mts- mles, yet you know what the plethora of steak-and-kidney politicians are, And, in any pudding and bully and biscuits. case, the dough will be useful if we get put in the bag."
Most of the time ample fresh So for months they, carted rations are available from
the US,****
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Sooner or later, of course, we will have to pay for them
in dollars. .....
sold the Iron Curtain had He cut off Hesse from its natural trade with Thuringia. Although 4,000 badly bombed, It had building workers unemployed. cent of the
ent of 10-410 M.P.8-ate British Press, I think we are infantry have their own around with them vast parcels Amorean sources in Japan and
UR Twenty-one factories had
fortunate in Britain compared battle-cry when themo of yeṇ, directly elected. The votes of with you," he told the Bundes- ment comes for the last 25-yard. dismantled. Refugees poured the unsuccessful candidates are in from the East;
tag, or Federal Parliament, desh up the rack and fern increasing totalled, and 40 percent of the "because our newspapers give a strewn hillside to the lips of the TUEN there were their unemployment.
the self- House is selected in proportion great deal of spice to He spoke from a rostrum in- from the party lists.
what Chinese weapon plts.
When styled "barrér boys" of happens in Parliament.
only to four microphones. Until re
ог four five seconds "Dog" Company, who For instance, no Communist "Every day there are
once What the Americans call "the" the shock propositioned me: "What abaht special increment", makes avail cently his voice would
many separate them from have was elected, but the Commu- people in our country
who and fury of hand-to-hand fight a Russian jeep, mate? Fifty able fresh eggs almost daily; thundered through the restau- nist votes through West rant, too, but that was found many were sufficient to secure first of all,
Ger- read the news from Parliament ing, the clash of bayonets, the nicker, and the first we pick up and turkey, chicken and aldaics to interfere with the important them 14 seats.
That story drives dusty barks of grenades, is yours" even the im stars of the
But they were still without And American doavez pro-
once or twine a week. German industry of eating.
Minister of Economics Erhard "front page more than in ony It is: "Remember the After nine minutes, a white happens to be an elected M.P. other country in the world.
their captured Russian Jeep á Glosters!!!
few days later... -.--
duced by field bakeries, are ex- light shines on the speaker. At He fussen down from the dals Yet we have no P.RO. to 10 minutes, a red light. Freld- to a tent which he possesses stimulate interest. This is be
Pointing up at a fight, of cellent. hot should have stopped, but on the floor also, and directly cause what happens in Parlia- Secui echoed with it as Britons, cannon-sparkling American So help me, I have heard our he went on for minutes more, faces Amdt, who demands of ment in Britain is news to the Canadians and Australiana all Mustangs, they explained dis- infantry complain; all parties listening in gloomy him why, for three months, he man-in-the-street. Political took it up with sudden, surging consolately: silence to the tale of woe.
anger, has promised 4,000 tons of coke activity has all the interest of a The Ministers alt on a dais for a furnace in Hesse which football match."
at the right of the President, has never got it. or Speaker.
£115,000 promise He announces "The 4,000 tons private afterwards.
are now on
In May the hills north of
1
2 chicken again! . ...”
"What
No eads for business, these Yank pilots-hashing up all the One Americòn | rationTM Item Commle transporti Frowing which we must in future supply money away, that's' what' it is."....from our own. sources --- tinned
fruit juices. ;:,,,,
They are excellent sensible
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"Am I not a lucky man?". I Erhard whispers to an
om said to Mr Speaker Ehlers, who then then jumps to the rostrum. had a long chat with me in THE Middlesex had a custom
"I come
of their own, Wheneverˇong the way."
all the way to Bonn to hear a of their companies was ordered Pacans of victory from the mons from Mr Arthur
lecture on the House of Com-in for the last rush, all these IT would not fool anybody to and veraille.
Wood-oldfers not engaged on provid- suggest that Anglo-American Dr Erhard. plump,
burn, along with an Illuminated ing covering fire would rise relations in Korea have not had I look round the semi- and puffy Minister of Econo- circular Chamber, built in six address to the British Press. mics, bustles to the microphone months and occupied only re- and says there is not enough cently by money to take over the whole
brings a laugh
Socialists,
blond,
Parliament.
the
two-year-old
"Next time Mr Herbert Mor- rison thinks of setting up a Press Commission, I must get of Hesse under federal control,
col, Then an awful thing hap-
Mr Woodburn to repeat by the but he will be responsible for a part of 1
pens. As I look round I think banks of the Thames the senti- and promisca I see Arthur Woodburn, M.P... Khine."
ments. he expresses on the £115,000,
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(More Tomorrow)
INSIDE INFORMATION
By MERCURY Ministers get cars
LONDON.. Arm for coastal movements in with flags
AN Intelligence report his national defence plan A reaching Washington Russia has. open them. I see
East black spots in front of my eyes get £1,000 a year, with more Mao Tse-tung his urged for the carrying trade.
Members of Parliament here from China indicates that European states to make a bid Fred Bellenger, MP Nigel for committee attendance, pro- Birch, M.P.
day,
more
directed.
......
The Scignory, most select country club in Eastern, Canada, will be closed i to members for one week-end during the Royal visit
to the ban on the use of electric
the
fres during peak; periods; { has
cross the floor of the Germani "We intend to do much Chamber in a tarton tie. more," he says, at which the I close my eyes. I swear I Socialist Opposition hoot with only had one glass of beer all laughter.
day. "Do you want this debate to continue?"
asks the Speaker. Fifty hands go up. It continues. Dr Leuchtgens (German
vided they clock In every sit-Moscow to let him resumo Far East and break Party, Hease) takes: the It must have been that huge ting. If they don't turn up or full-scale war in Korea. American blockade of China. been recommended to "the rostrum. This is a cariconist's pork chop. Heavens! I can see send a note from their mam-
... Ms. Ministry of Fuel, and.......... Power paradise. He has a ragged, Mr W. M. F. Vone, M.P., and. mies to the Speaker, they have
Poland has bought twelve by the Ceal Board.. East Germany has issued to crown all, the Eart of to pay a forfelt.
merchant ships; for its Far Buckinghamshire,
Ministers get £4,500, and a a postage stamp with the Eastern servico, One Bf-liem, Certain departments of the As German Party, he Is D 1 Oh, lor" I've got the horrors, motor-car with a driver, as in head of Mao Tse-tung.
the Warraw, now on her Coal Board estimate that tho. Tory diehard supporter
of Why did I have that third help- every country in the world
way to Shanghat" with;'n cargo coal deficit this year is 20 per- Adenauer's Christian Democrat ing cf raw beef? Let this where they have Ministers.
Czecho- cent US. firms loaded with de- of ammunition from
higher than the an Government. But representing thing pass, and I won't touch These German ministerial cars fence orders will be en- slovakia, 99 PACT C
nounced ngures · of :··4,000,000 Hossé, he protests hotly, П meat for a week.
now wear a flag with the Ger-couraged to sub-contract, in
tons. Government man attacking the
man eagle on it and the police Britain and Europe.* Government becauso of con=
are instructed to saluto it. alltuency pull.
Attention, MP Coldrick (chairman of the Kitchen Com-
shoggy white beard that shakes to in hla dilemma.
"What the Minister says
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Yes, they were
there all right
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The Comet airliner - is. to start its Middle East service. Tankers building in Britain on January 1, 1957, A special be runway is being completed at mittee, London, England). The for foreign firms will not
180,000. catering is run at a profit here. releaped until an undertaking is Cairo, costing
They had the original notion
given not to: use them trade mann Ehlers, standa up and of putting it in the hands of a
with the Persian Ol Board. the openly admit that he saw them, freo enterprise Bonn hotel- too. Ho is big, bluf, and keeper, who throws: open the
something we have heard over and over again. What we want in something new.*
Great cheers
from Socialists.
when the Speaker, Dr Her- A most reassuring moment,
1.
A large increase in Aus trailan mution', supplies” to tho United Kingdom will follow the fall in world wool prices.
Hussle has offered to sign a A US, business murvey. re- commends that Britain should aggressich pact with any
Arab country wishing to: abro overcome manpower galo is treaty with Britain. to by admitting numbers of workers from to Europe.
oll
Only six hundred foreign Then
Sabel, Anton
of hearty, with a very Nerdle Rhloe terrace to the visitors technicians have applied Adenauer's party, saya sourly: Iconine head and-blue eyes not on Saturdays and Sundays and Perila for Jobs. At least two unemployed "Maybe. Dr. Luchtgens will sit given to haliucinations. **Borves them with meals, drinks, thousand would be needed fil the Socialist Party one day." --- He warmly welcomes the smokes anything they want to work the Abatan all installa
This is one joke. Ho visiting parliamentary, delega- pay, for
kan tions, P speaks the party line. "We had tion from the House of Come" · "And he has 'n man going armament work: under: · Hitler" mons and hopes they will be round with a tray containing *Marshal. Tho has ordered in Hame. The Government has panured that - dermans means" 27 variaties of cigarations two dying bants from a British
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The Hungarian · Government get her ordered that “stroplam oln and other rarer drugs span be Cominform radio stations prescribed only for party mem- forecast that Floid-Marshal bers¿ Tubercular, pallonis map Montgomery will visit Marshal plying for mich, treatment must Tito Too.
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