1951-12-29 — Page 11

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GENIE: MASTER, I OBEY ! {BUT DON'T OVERDO TE-),

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About the beastly dollar gap.

Face the question posed by Fals-

Will America join the British Empire.or will Britain become. The 49′′ United State ?

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1951.

LOW'S CHRISTMAS PANTO

THE MEN

WHO FLEE

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FROM

STALIN'S ARMY

SEFTON DELMER has been given access to an official report which

for the first time goes into just the sort of detall the Iron Curtain was meant to conceal - Instalment One of Private Lives on a Soviet level . . . .

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best way to get rid of this to get it

problem was to get out of Germany Twiers Germany the last few days! wwwvised -tartling

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that they would far laul

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98 percent

THE document is a con.

Fir

prehensive bregovicowa e first AWS FOOT was of reports on rotulitions JB: when I met at Wietara, the Soviet Union given the political brain od West the British authorities Formaren Nan Remer the most recent fugitives Jarly

from Stalin

aften und hayne elaxlestine relation

The room!

BY TELLING THE TROOPS of the fate that awaits their families if they desert;

MY TELLING THE TROOPS that the Western- ers do not accept deserters, laut send them back to thei Soviet lines.

thre Broadest triks on by BBC.

by freshly arrived sabliers and officers Inve done much to kill the force ! of this throat,

will the Societ authorities, Ninety-eight percent of Lomalous the refugees are ofikers, men of the of NC.O., and

in Soviet occupation army Germany.

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Here

he hi firm belief. Colt . tra the Russians

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The Boom Is On -But Be Careful!

From R. M. MacCOLL

WASHINGTON, Washington, attending a con- Hair is always fall of the

[ERE in Washington the vention of 300 mayors.

sound of voices.

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Just now ther

an extra burst of talk is a shot or ex- poris lake Lo the aurie to tell the people aboal the recnomor out- look lot 1952.

Says Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer The busines tau look is gond and will continue gond next vea.

But he wurs

There Is a

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AN anonymous donor bits given New York City 38,000 follars, with the stipulation that the money must go to building "hers and draughts play ang sheiten "an Central Park.

HIGH State Department officials are going to press Con- Less 101 relaxations in the prosent extremely tough Ameri- can laws relating to the grant-

great danger that the American of entry visas for foreigners peuple will get excited about the pinch and the cust rte fence, that they will not do what they must to keep the peace.)

Then there is Leon Kayserling.

B

ong af Truman's cjusest eronamic advisers Prices hug" Y45- but then RO ATP Incone Alld the American people have higher standard of living than at any previolks periad an the

non's history

Michael DiSulle, the controls boy, comes in with "Amen is engaged

in the greatest de- fensive effort W Our history and we novd entitrals to stave off inflation

What tuned the trick was the Campos over Dr Ernst Chain, British-naturalised Nobel Priz winger, who www twier told ht uld dot come to America even briefly

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Immigration men need never give the reasons. for their do- cisions, and it is only guess" that Chen was banned because he advised the Czechs about a penici!lm plant

THE FIRST Negro ever has appeured on the G-men's hist of America's len most wanted men. He 1 48-year-old Joh Hill, trum Chastei, Maryland. and he is described by G-chief Brown, Edgar Hoover as having “no com - Republican (Buta

punction about killing any person Government

who to further his Own interests."

This is quickly s. oud by Cm gressman Clarence

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HOW THEY

GET AWAY

FUGITIVES' accounte al escants suggest that Stalin's secret police are far from belug all knowing. For example :-

THIS is the story of the Com

manist political commissar artillery captain (party organisers." they call them Loday who was discovered having a forbidden love affair with German girl.

HE WAS stationed at the Lime in Kaliningrad tformerly Koenigsberg)"In East Prussia. WHEN the commissar found he was going to be thrown out of ike party and sent back to plė mother Russia, he got b German girl friend to fix blm up with the papers of a German workma IL and travelled to Leipzig.

HERE he was drafted into a Soviet-owned quid run urgnium mlae

HE HAD been there a few weeks when it came out that this "German" could speak Ruent Russian.

SO the director of the mine and his Bussian seoret police adylwer ordered him to report for a special "training" course for foremen.

BUT the ex-commissar decided that this was tempting furtune too fur. He and his Germay girl friend made for the frontier, and a few days later he was telling his story te British authorities.

Special

ha screening been introduced for soldiers

One unit I know of host four being posted to Germany se men m six weeks. All four were that units there shall in- valuable infurmants

They have deserted from clude no unreliable elements. To the Intelligence exports of the West this information is in- units, crossed the Security controls. 4511 the

for the detail it giver Yuhuable and given frontier have been tighten- of Soviet military and industrial

the ed.

withdraw their thavar owenpation troops zonal frontier,

tu up we themselves Westermers would with British.

from

Germany--IF

draw purs as well

of course.

to

Many more,

surrendered have The Russians would be quite ready to sacrifice the French and Americans.

German Communist Party, The information these German civilian and their own hold on East men are giving to the skill- tion. Germany, he believes, if ed questioners who examine

na tallations, the light it throws the Kremlin's secret plans and intentions. The they are making.

progress

Above all, an attempt is to eliminate the being made

thank the fascinating thing all contact between the

is the simple and sober picture nccupying forces and the

lile under Stain given by popula- the cross-section of everyday Ru stane trom all walks of life and all parts of the Soviet Union.

Now you may say: How do 19 British cu.horitles know that these fugitives are nut stool pigeons plante: on us by the to Soviet to mislead us and spy on in us?

there were created instead a them is, as I have been able Much grumbling

unitet Germany indepen- to assure myself, of first- dent of both East and West, rate economie, political, and

military value.

The Russians see it as iL kind of buffer between the two camps.

A document.

GERMANS who used

wait on Russians

It makes up just the kind Soviet Army nesses and of detailed picture of the transit hotels are being re- Soviet Union which the placed by Russians. Iron Curtain was to prevent

it from getting.

German barbers are Ground never before re- longer being allowed

Westerners NOW, as I told the count. vealed to

is give shaves or haircuts

this

like a

I can assure you that in every case this possibility has been considered. There is a long and careful check by highly Ex- no perienced examiners well versed to in the tricks of spies and counter-

spics.

to

Only when they are perfectly

deflector and "rellable source"

sounds to me just covered. For these reports Soviet soldiers for fear piece of Soviet pro- come from men who:-- that their conversation satisfied are the labels genuine paganda excellently calcu-

might prove subversive. appended to a fugitive report. lated to encourage Germans BEFORE being called Soviet troops are barred from. All the reports forming the basis

up occupied the most all visits to Germm places of carry this label. in blaming the West for diverse positions in Soviet amusement, their present uncertainty. life; und

in wishful thinking and

But-only a few hours

later I found new

reason

be-

They are strictly forbidden to make friends with any German girls.

of the document shown to me

Two pictures THE picture

LIVED and worked in

The result is that although re- Red Army men in Germany are

Soviet widely separated

of the to think he may be right in

Union that these reports add believing the Russians gions of the US.S.R., many better fed, better housed, and

better clothed than at home, up to is that of a drab, dilapi would like to get out of Ger- of which have never

they are all grumbling bikerly, dated country inhabited by fore been described in the

ill-cloibed many if they could.

a cowed, underfed, West.

"Being posted to Germany people, with inefficiency, sloth, today," said one young Soviet carelessness, apathy, and corrup- offler, "is like being sent to a tion everywhere. concentration comp,”

It is a picture hard to recon- of the Kremllu These Red Army men comello with that pare the standard of living in herrenvolk, producers of new guns, tanks, and plaños, ambl→ And

This reason I found while studying a British official document which donon- strates that the deteriora-

Bid to frighten

way.

yot reconcile it somehow WO

tion in the morale of the SOVIET authorities in East Germany--a long Soviet occupation troops hu Germany are justifiably below that of West Germany tlous to boss the world. Germany has become alarmed about these doser with their own miserable home major problem of military tions. They art

doing conditions. Reports come through must, Judge for yourself on:-

of successful desertions, The and political security for everything possible to stop frontier la close at hand..

them.

the Soviet authorities.

missar or the party organiser

I would not now blame They have tried to And before the political com any member of the Polit- frighten potential desert can do anything about it, an- buro who decided that the ers

other deporter is on his way.

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