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OUR WAY

By Marshall Pugh

Steyning, Sussex. T the end of Steyning High Street there is a sign that reads DEAD SLOW. VERY DANGEROUS BEND. Be. yond the sign lies. Wiston House, where the Foreign Office is teaching the British way and purpose to 300 Germans a year-at a cost to us, the British taxpayers, of £30,000.

Wiston

out

BULLSEYE FOR HERR DOKTOR

HERR DR. SADTLER

*An excellent idea

then

A £10,000 man with sun-tan is back from the jungle

by JAMES LEASOR

T

London.

O look at hita, you would never think ho lived by the gun. His name is George Michael, he is 87, and he is one, of South Africa's top big-game hunters.

He moves quietly and talks softly. He is not tall, and in a city crowd you would notice him only by his sun-tan.

This

On the elephant trail... Au African golate out to hunter

George Michael the dialant cloud of dust which gives Best news that a berd is stampeding.

from him. Usually they run into. the wind, but or a still day they run anywhere."

Mr de Sauamorez (he is a Channel Islander) såld; "It is quite useless teaching Germans to bo little British democrats. Wo are not

oven anxious to get only friends of this country lo come here. We would na- furally not choose people to sabotage Wiston House. But the Germans themselves havo an increasingly large say in who should come."

House has 35 rooms English licensing laws, and 11 acres of land

for its sald:

"Lots of Nazis, eluding paplis, What are these puplis concenta ation сатр Juris,

were anxious to become demo laught?

They listen to lectures about erats. But they have been made Wiston House used to be

country,

out outcasts, thrown into the lands about of the a finishing school for young Britain, about

new Nazis, Young 59 France, about. Indies. Now it looks like British foreign policy-lectures men with a useful role to play being a finishing school from both

cialist in the new Germany have been and Socialist Germans indefinitely, standpoints. They choose their branded as criminals."

What check is made on thess discussion own subjects for

Germany, und their activities Kroups.

subjects; the Saar and "Have the Allies after they leave Wiston House? criminally treated war crimt- Suld the Warden: "Any Forela bals?"

British tore. Office follow-up would arouse

tutors, mporarily Foreign Offee men. 50 much suspicion that it would for business--and makes & towards me. I shot it and ran Michael finds between 30 ind

defeat its object." freely express thetr OWTI political opinions in these dis- cussions.

for

Mr. G. IL de Sausmarez, dean of the college, shows a visitor around.

their own

Tory.

Favourite

Tha

In-

But Wistan

is the

man who came to London the other B0-minute day with an colour film of one of his own icopard shoots. He plans to sell it in Britain..

He explains the krst question first. "As a boy I ran away from hone. I was mad on shooting. J Michael ran away from borrowed a gun and walked home us

a boy "to shoot from a country railway station. wild animals," Now he combines his love of big

"It was so 'jungly' that I kept game with a natural fair Then I saw a leopard walking near the tracks in case I got lost.

back to tell the station-master, He didn't believe me ... 'until he came and saw." For some years, as South

Since then his. gin has been Africa's cruck big-games- George Michael's life. Early on ad-man, he has been on call he collected trophies of most to provincial and State wild beasts. Then he gave up Governments who may shooting for sport.. love big want game reducing in game," he says. "I don't like to their areas.

Local tribal just for killing's cake chiefs send out runners to

"Now the only commissions I him, asking his aid when accept are if the beasts have to their villages are terrorised be killed.” by lions or leopards.

of the course the As part

Ilouse tutors Germans Visit places of terest in this country in there are tour, plus two cluding a brewery and a Bor- tinistration offleers and cual institution. But what they general staff of 20-visit Ger

in discussion after many each year, gather the old like best classroom hours. They agree boys in their sectors and discuss developmeats. On the in chorus, that Wiston House is new

place lo B perfect

indulzo bunks of the Elbe, a purely German discussion group has their enthusiasm, for talk about Geen formed by an oid boy of politics.

the school. Tutors call there to discover, in the Dean's wards: "Whether the dane of Wiston House still burning brightly." There, the Dean discover the Ger- man with the lowest

fends to win the argument.

this Originally Wilton Park, near Beaconsfield,

aver

Is it not true. I suggested, that down the conturics split hairs nuus have polities, and finally split skulls i.stead?

be 90," said Mr ***That

may de Sausmarez. "I sometimes take a jaundlood view of the Germans myself. But you can't put Wiston House down as a

of 1094. Out complete

300 cople who come here, 150 will be swamped when they return 10 Germany. But the other 150 are well worth all our

Course No. 48 has just efforts and money which,

ended, and · courses have after all, is only

already been arranged until sterling 1954.

taxes.

spent. In and collected from

Are school teachers, minor

A course lasts a month servants and trade unionists the and is taken by 50 Germans people who can really influence

at a time. They are special- Germany's future?

"Selection," sald Mr do ly chosen, from all sections, Sausmarez, "still leaves much politics and interests, on to be desired. There are too the-ground-of-their-poten--many school teachers. But some tial ability to mould German of the others will be of in- fluence." He picked out two opinion.

Guch men for me - Rudolf Out of the 50 doing Course Erberich a trade union official 48 there are 24 in Government from the Ruhr, and Ferdinand or local government service, Doerbeek, Nuremberg journal- eight trade unionists and seven school teachers.

ist. I talked to both of them. Eiberich said: "I don't honestly care about Krupps and his for- tube, That purely British and American Affair,"

Doerbecit, the man from excellent Idea,” said Nuremberg, was more interested Herr Doctor Siegfried Sadtler, i war criminals. He farmer

Nazi Party member, plained about the cold rooms of captain in the Ninth Wiston House and the barbarous Division, now in the

An

former

Panzer

Federal German Transport Ministry at Boan. He added: "We should have such a school

In Germany for training the English."

Engine

at

com-

-

shcut

comfortable £10,000 a year from both.

HE GETS IT

George Michael has turned big game into big business by tourist hunting parties.

Sgs he: "I charge them £200 a week. No extras. And nothing guaranteed. You can often hear.

roor when the lions

you're round the camp fire, but next morning nothing's in

In sigtit." At this £200 a week foe,

parties & year anxious to go. There are other Zucrative aldolinos. Sample: Three ard a quarter million ceres of bushi had to be cleared of game that cattle could graze there. Michael's advice was asked.

40

u

60

area

THEY PAY IT

this 710 exterminate. man. So he rented the whole would be impossible for ont

are for £2,500 for one season and let it out to hunters at £2 a day, with a minimum time of 20 days."

When Michael shoots, ele- phants for the Government or a local chief his fee never varies. Always he takes away the tusks. These may weigh 90lb, aplece. IT is on this theme that with ivory fetching 12s. to 158. owning a gun-store and school was at

16. this covers his expenses. He may shoot 30 head of ele- phant at ume. How docs George Michael

Elephants nake

are dangerous much

money by beasts. Says Michael: "They ac- trudging through the bush with count for 15 percent of hunting

and the German students are still called Old Wiltonians. The Dean is considering Instituting an Old Wiltonlan 1fe,

GERMAN WOMAN STUDENT At a college lecture

he and a photographer friend shot his flim, "Afri- can Fury."

50

Ho also ickes care of the outer edge of big-game business by ruraing a 35-man factory to make itshing tacide; and by sports outfitters in Pretoria.

After all, big-game hunting and old age often don't go to- gether Says George Michael: "The elephants nearly always get you in the end,

"The usual life for a profes-

a gun under his arm-and how casunities. They strapéde elther slonal hunter is eight years, I've did he start this strange life?

towards the bunter drawpy Jasted for 15. I've been lucky...."

This 99-year-old Strike

NTRIKES and stoppages

•

Still Goes On

By J. W. TAYLOR

are by no means con- fined to present days, nel. ther are the main causes peculiar to modern times.. Here are some of the lesser

more unusual stop 13th century when stonemasons known to drag on for months, pages of the past:

but

working in Salisbury Cathedral even for years, before a netilo- The pit ponies that struck struck for increased pay of a ment hus been reached. A because they only wanted to be farthing a day.

world record has been set up sworn al; hose makers who

by the minces of Nanaimo, crazed work not for a rise, but First ever recorded in history. Vancouver Island. They “struck" for a cut in their wages; masong was by the Israeilles against in the year 1853, and they are who downed tools for an extra their Egyptian employers, due to still on strike! farthing a day; children who the poor quality and short supply hud a cinema sit-down strike for longer programmet,

Britain's first

recognised industrial strike occurred in the

ISLAM FIGHTS COMMUNISM

From Thomas Clayton

Former Nazis are received Wiston House. So are new Nazis. "We always welcome extreme German nationalists,"

Cairo: For Sheik Hussein is the Rector ploitation! Then study the con- said the Dean, Cecil de Saus- marez, "and give the others a SLAMIC religious leaders ut Al-Azhar, Cairo's mosque dition of Communist countries university, toral point of the Ruling offcials live in Czarish chanco to argue with

them. throughout the Middle Mohammedan religion in the luxury; workers leading the can remember only two fanatical Nazis. Cestapo men East, alarmed, by the suc- Middle East. would not,

think, be wel-crssful infiltration of Com- "Islam • approves private come. Conumunists? We have munist agents into Arab cwaership. It moderates its de- not had Communists for a num-countries, have instructed fects in the individual, not the ber of courses.

Mus. system-by urging the wealthy Is not our function here "preachers" to warn

זין

to convert, them, or to preach lims in the mosques of anti- to Icoic after the poor.

drabbest lives cannot change their factories,

of straw from which the former In 1894. some miners at # had to produce a given number North of England colliery struck of bricks per day.

in support of thei: demand for a Stoppages, however, were not reduction in their wages. Similar known as "strikes" unili 1768, sation was taken,

by zeme when men employed in the Bri- Leicester sock factory workers Lisb

NAVY

revolted against un a demand for sevenpence- official orders, thus forcing the halfpenny cut in their weekly Naval authorities to settle their this would force down high Wages. They maintained that alleged grievances quickly.

and

Strikes in Britain ara most commodity prices, being proper

ity to the industry and also orderly affairs compared to American disputes. Their trade or some of the unemployed

In the city, unions, however, aro powerful menacing, as the twenty Indicates, in the USA are million membership and strikes

A religious revival brought really Big Business. Clashes about an unusual "strike" in the even w

with the police aro common- Welsh coalfields, Records have place features over there, and it that when I was at its height, the use of tear gas, bondres, that they abstained from using "pony boys" were so converted frightening methods enliven the bad language when handling the proceedings of industrial dir- underground pit ponies. Such

sudden change from the age-old curtem of being continually sworn at so affected the ponies that they staged a "strike" und oficiai records they finally relented and adapted In Britain, disclose that strikes and dis- themselves to the now, treatment

Muslims share their antagon against Communism, with hos all religions, but Islam even greater reason for.doing so. For Communism 15 more than a faith, it 1& a financfol. Communist "Islam also recognises that and social system. reports on down-activities have inspired Sheikh men have varying abilities

to the converted."

Red propaganda.

The staff of Wiston House, from Mr Heinz Koeppler, the German-born warden,

And

knuckle dusters and other

putes.

words, recoll in horror from Mohamed al-Khedr. Hussein to enabling them to achieve vary- And whatever its agents may putes lost nearly 400,000,000 at the hands of the "converted" um suggestion that Wiston propound Islam's omelul attling degrees of material well-cay, Communism eventually working days and about

three masters, House is "re-educating the lude towards Communism

43 being.

To protect the poor ends by persecuting any re-millions In pay in the years History also records that a capitalist exploitation glous system. from Islam prohibits usury

Islam must remain- foremost "Look at the Communist among all those opposing Com- claim to have eliminated ex- raunism.”: .

Germans."

guidance for them.

His words have the same in- Arduente as those of the Papal Nuncio In the Catholle world.

Re

"Please correct that Impres slon," said Mr Koeppler. education is the horse by rogance out of Ignorance."

JOHNNY HAZARD

POSTMARKED ZURICH! NOW ~ WHO IN THIS CITY WOULD KNOW". EXACTLY WHEN "PUICH'S" PLANE

WAS LEAVINS..

"AND MAIL HER A BOMB...TO MAKE SURE SHE, VOULD NEVER GET TO HER DESTINATION!

WHO..........?

By Frank Robbins

between the two World Wara body of Chinero priests refused Rarely have striices in Bri- to continue their customary tain lasted longer than two or paying until they were three weeks, but in other parts guaranteed adequate financial of the world they have been remuneration when officiating at

certain meetings.

"MARİFİLLE

Castrol

THE MASTERPIECE

IN OILSTE

There was a quile. occasion when a French town! recent council went on strike as a protest against the last-minuto reprieve of a condemned; mur- dérer. A Ceen post office stoppage resulted in the damon- strafors severing, a:,number at telephone wires and causing confusion by wrongly rejoining the ends to other lines.

Texas schoolchildren, dimati flea with the length at their elnoma progmmune, staged nişli, dayn sirike in a local cinema, and 000 of them refused to bud unfil the management" "assured tham that longer: proaytonnes would be provided in the failure. It is interesting to note r Great Britain ts in recent year LOTTORDOIA) working! through deputet? than