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THE

VONS

TO

-they make me shiver

By COLIN LAWSON

10 Dr. Konrad Adenauer, were to ant victory on Der

West German Chan Tag, eagerly helped.

And now, busy in the new cellor, I said: "And what shadow War Ministry, over- happens if Germany regains looking an independent army?"

the quielly flowing

Rhine, are the plorners of the new Wehrmacht.

of

Blenkly he smiled: "We Instead of the handful Germans do not want, ever generals of 1000, the few again, war. Our fate is hundreds of 1919, the new many is to have 40 generals, 250 bound up with the West, colonels, 000 lieutenant-colonels, and any army must be dove- and 20,000 majors and junior tailed so that no single coun- officers. try can endanger, another."

Now, in spite of such soothing words, I shiver.

The cause? A book, written in cold, analytical lawyer's language.

Brigadier-General Telford Taylor, of U.S. Intelligence, was chief of prosecuting. counsel at Nuremberg.

His book, coming when so many volumes of apologetics on Germany appear, is a dispassionate history of the German Officers' Corps and its relation to the Nazis.

Through the pages of the German Officers' Corps for over 100 years march the same formidable names-14

Von

Kleista, 10 von der Goltzes, the von Leebs, Man- steins, Kressensteins, Guder- lans.

AND

REPETITION

so I shiver and re- flect on the monotonous repetition of German armies beaten in war patiently re- | built, each time greater than

the last.

It was back in 1806 that Prussian generals thought up the first scheme to chent treaty (the Treaty of Tilsit).

A

World War One. defeat, and shrunk by Versailles.

an ay

flow did recover?. It had just

poison gas.

The secret build-up started. Subnarnes? A Krupp dummy worked out Ger- corporation

How many of them will be the same old familier nemes from the Officers' Corps lists?

And so I ask Dr Adenauer again: "What will happen when you have this new urmy?"

POCHET CARTOON

by OSBERT LANCASTER

"But, darling, I only said 'Wouldn't it be funny 18 the Russians were to send over a Test team.””

* TEN TERRIBLE

ULLY dressed as Ger-

man officera we waited through ten minutes of terrible suspense as Pat Reid's wire rasped again and again on the rusty metals of the lock.

Suddenly there was the noise of old hinges creaking. A quick snap and the door swung open.

MINUTES

"THEY HAVE THEIR EXITS” Chaptor 11

"Good luck," Bald Pat Roid By Airey Neave, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C.

and shook hands. We crept. carefully to an open door on the other side of the attle A wire- less in the guard-room on the ground floor was playing org

music. We walked quickly down the first flight of stairs. past the door of the officers mass on the first floor where a light showed beneath, down

through

darkrices into the passage beside the guard-moon. The guard-rocm door was half- open, and I caught a glimpse of

(PARIS NEWSLETTER]

THE RICHEST VISITOR

Paris. in

richest man

from Sam White

Emir, with his stal of four, is With his sceretary, chauffeur- living in two sultes In Faris's interpreter and two body- most expensive hotel. This is guards, the Emir follows

TParis at the moment Paris, and the fuld routine.

is also one of the loneliest of the City's visitors.

fle is 62-year-old Sheikh Abdulla at Salim of Subah.

Emir of Kuwait, whose in-

come from the oil wells of his tiny state in the Persian Gulr is estimated at £50 million &

year.

French Foreign Omice were anxious to provide him with the pleasures of the capital- interspersed, of course, with a few business talks.

Emir hos

To all their overtures

the

He has plcationresponsive.

that this was

strictly an unofficial visit; that his only language was his Wearing a black camel-hair native Arable; that he ob- turbon and a brown cloak served strict dietelle rules; frimmed with gold over his that he suffered cruelly from billowing while robes, the rheumatism.

RED

a.m.

2

• He rises at 5

for payers; takes his breakfast...... u gloss of milk and come dates - at 7,30. At 10 he leaves in his car for a sightseeing tour.

He lunches in the hotel dining room off chicken or vigen and rice. At 4 p.m. he goes for another drive, He usually dines out returning to the hotel 11 p.m.

between 10 and

YUGOSLAVIA

SURPRISES ME

After four months in Titoland, Special Correspondent John Wren sums up life

in a strange democratic dictatorship.

VERYBODY in tain now Marshal

Tito

Titoland?

now

many's rs 250-ton submarine. following an anti-Moscow, the since

prices,

R was built-In Finland-in 1930.

The LG. Farben corporation, chemical empire and wizards of Erratz rubber and petrol which

Up

"Sword And Swastika." Brigadier-Generat Telford Taylor (Gallanez, 211,).

recently

German uniforins inside an wo In two hours we were in the marched martly into the bind- outskirts of the town, Dutch' ing whiteness of the snow under officers In Colditz had nequírod the ore lights.

by bribery a thinetable of the The testing time had come. I trelas from Leisnig to Leipzig. atrode through the snow tryinn. We therefore knew that the Braz There workmen's train was due to start to look like a Pruslan.

It was too cold to talk.

slo:d the sentry, the fallen snow at five o'clock.. Three hours covering his cop and shoulders, nassed, stumping his feet just as I had. We walted silently for the train pictured him. He siluted looking towards the town, promptly, but he stared at us. When the trains was due we and us our backs were turned I slowly approached the entrance felt him watching. Then two

of the station where a small under-officere talking loudly came from the Kommandantur. group of German working people They began to march behind us. had collected at the gate. When in the doors opened and the crowd I felt Luteyn grow tense beside me. I clasped iny hands behind troback with an air of uncon- ecrt. In a moment of excile ment had forgotten my part.

"March with your hands at your sides, you-fool," came a Nerce whisper from my com- panion.

節

urged forward to the ticket office we followed, and Luteyn, who spoke the best German, bought two workmen's tickets Leipzig.

Here

เ

to

were we, escaped enemy prisoners of war standing on the platform of the little station, iningling with ordinary people travelling to their daily work. The train

puting with AS Luleyn opened the fateful determination through the snow,

Awicket-gate I watched the halted and we climbed into under-officers, their heads bowed wooden carriage.

the

ལ..

to the driving snow, march on We were herded together in across the meat bridge. Down we the semi-darkness. 1 bowed. went into most stumbling my head and dozed beside an

A soldier and Upping.

come old market woman. Suddenly towards us, stopped and

stared I was awakched by a sharp deliberately. I hesitated for B.kick on my shina and looked

to moment ready run, but up in feor. met the half

1 Luteyn turned on him quickly smiling eyes of Lubeyn. He and in faultless German said cat hunched in a short, light

why Crossly.

do you not overcoat, his

ski cap

on one salute?"

side. Then I realised that f

and

shaken

we

窦

瓿

T six o'clock we drew in to the great station of Leipzig. We followed the crowd towards a

barrier where we gave up our. tickets.

gan to climb towards the east envelope of ́· unccharing d

ង-

1.

The soldier raped. He salute must have been talking English still looking doubtful and began in my sleep. We did not look to walk past. back but hastered on to the far side to the high oak paling which bordered the park. Lifting our- selves quickly over the paling we landed in thick snow among the angle of trees.

With

numbed handa

We wandered timidly. round climbed the outer storie wall and for a minute sat breathless in. the station watching the In- the cold air clinging to the cop-

dicators for a train to Ulm, and train left until Ing and then jumped a distance found that no of twelve fest, We fell heavily 10.30 in the evening. It dawned on the hard ground in the woods on us that we must stay..in. Bri-

with nowhere In nearby rationed satellite ally elected president

grounds, Leipzig. outside the castle bruised knows Bulgaria a doctor gave a patient by his two chamber parliament

and shelter or sleep for many hours. 17 generals, 105 colonels, and

Entering a tea-room we order- frightened, some pills, telling him to take in secret ballot, and one MP of 4,000 Junior offer. No aero- piznes, tanks, rubmarines, or Yugoslavia. But what of them after meals. "But doctor, voted against him.

"Let's go," I said, and we be- ed coffee, supplied with a mall I don't know where my next But It is unthinkable that any in Tholand could meal is coming from," replied major move

coupons, required seeking the direction of Leishly, What is the truth about the patient,

be carried out without Tito's

a small town six miles away.

looked around me at the Hitler's wor and victims of this Soviet blueprinted. In Titoland

there is today

personal approval.

At ten o'clock the snow was

hope felt a great pity. The Communist

It is Tito in person who de- to cal, at reasonable state,

plenty

falling less thickly. Beyond the lessness in their faces brought Tito abolished elded to abandon farm collecti-

trees we stumbled over frozen

a stark realisation of suitering, unpopular Russian-style visation, to decentralise industry

who reintro- felds with hearts uplifted. As Musing, I took from my pocket pro-Western-path?

collectivization of agriculture. In and government,

we felt the hard surface of huge bar of Red Cross After four months in fact, some 40,000 British tourists duced competition among state

tories to Tito's country, I feel quali. are expected to visit Yugoslavia enterprises, and encouraged fac-road I turned up the collar of chocolate and began to en

A youn show Western-style my dark blue jacket against the

woman with, flerca: cold. I had left the warm green hysterical, eyes gazed at the fied to make a few observa-sunmer to share some of

initiative. this

overcoal behind me burled with chocolate as if she had seen: tions on everyday life inside

House fare.

still a major prob- Certainly Tito is a dictator.

the rest of the uniform benenth ghost. She spoke to an old Titoland.--

lem: I overheard a British off but he is a popular, benign one.

a pile of leaves and now.

side her and they woman beside One hundred thousand people I have recently travelled cial here say, "Just seen an ideal

looked give him Д

at me in anger, ITT)». freely through the heart of Trouble is there are six Yugoslav venuine, rousing welcome home

little house I'd like to rent, turned out to

mediately the crowd nest us Yugoslavia. I have walked families living in it!"

began to talk in threatening Scotland Yard-like precautions, my head 1 wore a sky into numerous small town

Still short

and the crowd surged around and village cafes and

turned I noticed one Yugoslav R.A.F. trousers were now turned chokolade many Umes. Luteyn "ONSUMER goods are still short him. restaurants, speaking still

and expensive, But now Tito reporter using Tito's back as a down over my boots. From this angrily.

were moment Luteyn and I only a basic Serbian, and has

desk for his notebook. switched

Dutch electrical workers with the accent from We used to pray someone have been welcomed every uneconomic heavy Industries to would kill Tito," an old-school, papers permitting us to go from where

in South-Western with

unlimited consumer goods, giving kitchen ones-prosperous Yugoslav bus- Germany. Leipzig was twenty- many months.

Leipzig courtesy, and never with pota, alarm clocks and lipsticks nessman told me.

"Now, we two miles from the castle. suspicion

priority over steel mills, more pray he will live a long life. planned goods

appearing in the Otherwise it might mean a re-

to are dally

reach it by walking Tito's youth all seem to shops. As stocks increase, 50 turn to Russian Communism, or the six miles to Lelanig, and be studying English prices are slashed.

a bloody revolution."

there to take an early work- VOLUNTARILY; & short Moreover, the old Communist,

Tite explains his liberalisation men's train. time ago they were learning strait-laced, proletarian attitude by quoting Lenin: "Having ac- to life has changed. You now complished our revolution, wo Russian BY ORDER.

sce smartly-dressed people are relaxing the power of the First, let me stress that around.

stalc," 17 million Yugoslavs are A Yugoslav woman told me, On religion genuinely pro-Western, "Two years ago I dared not wear thankful that the

a Spring hat or lipstick. I would INALLY, what of religion? Me un- have been labelled a fascist or Churchill said in the House fortunate Moscow adventure pro-Western reactionary. Today recently, "Relations between all is over, and that traditional I have three new hats."

the Churches and the state and ties with the West, Even in the remotest villages now undergoing carnest review especially Britain, have been I saw girls using lipstick and by the Yugoslay government:"

TRO's relations

the youths in jazzy American neck- renewed.

ties, sent by their Uncles in Vatican-which he charges with Milwaukee. Two years ago to being anti-Yugoslav-are of rock bottom. Also his relations with wear any sort of necktie was an certain Yugoslav Roman Catho- Invitation to join a forced labour

Church leaders, whom he collaborated with the спету in the war, and did

THE

HUNGARIAN PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC

APRIL 24th to MAY 25th 1953

LING NAŃ CULTURAL PARK

CANTON

Allies in war

from Britain. There were no

alleges

with

WE British have a vast re- squad.

servoir of good will The Tilo regime has a slogan, among

the tough Serbs. "Forward with Tito to a brighter nothing to prevent the massacre future." Politically unblased of non-Catholic minorities in They will never forget webservers here believe Tito is

Croatia. were their allies in two really striving for a better life However, Tito's relations with world wars..

Near-disaster

for his countrymen, and is now "the Orthodox Church (largest religious group in the country), the Moslems and the Pro- testants are good and improv TAROM 1945 until recently, how ing, Airo the government's re- ever, Tito followed a strict lations with Catholle clergy Communist path, which brought have recently improved, and Yugoslavia within A hair'a .priests now receive social breadth of disaster. No man in security benefits and pensions I seen any fear of the police, history made so many mistakes, like any worker. or 'heard of any oppression, and remained in power.

Certainly there are no restric- although I have heard much fearnt to walk," Yugoslav Everywhere I have seen packed

tried to run before we tions

personal worship. criticism of the inefficiency omeinis now tell you. "We tried churches

had

As far as the Americans on the right road. go, every Yugoslav seems to have an Uncle in Milwaukee, who emigrated during the twenties.

Nowhero on my trips have

ол

and stupidity of local Tito to build motor trucks before Driving one Sunday through government officials, and of bicycles,

steel mfils before the ardently pro-Tito town of Jajce Tito's wartime GHQ- I Tito's bureaucrats in necking out of my window I had to stop the ear in the high Belgrade.

can ree visible evidence of one of street, so muny people were Tito's cubjects today think Tito's biggest blunders, a vast pouring out of the Orthodox themselves not, too badly off ghost city of unnlated sky church. That is when compared to Tito-

scrapors a white elephant cost-

up. Titoland is utili land of two years ago and

far ing millions.

paradise, but when when compared to their Balkan, This was to be the new Bel- compared to any country behind Soviet-ruled neighbours.

grade, to house an army of new tie Tren Curtain it is a land of In a restaurant at Smederevo Bureaucrats. The project was milk and honey, ma

Burning

the Danbdwhere the top-heavy, for Yugoslavia's Tito may be no angel, but as, customers, all workers, wore ont- young Industry, and had to be an American official hero ing a wook's British meat railon, abandoned,

colourfully put it to me the

in one meal they told me this Tho a dictator? He says other dayı, "He is begining to

he le note: He was constitution- sprout wings."

joko.

5

made of blanket and my

to Uim in

We

whispers. I heard the word

10

me and frowned

I had committed terrible, blunder, Chocolate had been uh" known to working 'Germans for

199,

Tomorrow: Wa Singe

with the Nazis.

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