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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 18; 1953.

BRITISH FOREIGN OFFICE

UNIFORM 1/1) FATIGUE DUTY

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MACLEAN

'No, no, no, Mr. Malenkov-Under-Secretary' Nutting wears it like THIS!"

I Am Guarded By The Red

HAT way no ban," suid Jose of the white boots laconi cally, as he caught a glimpse of the frontier guards and led us out of their sight..

Every one of us Was exhausted. Several times it seemed impossible to carry old Mr Roberts any more, and he was in some danger of lieing left behind.

The end of the journey come quickly. In the darkness we erouched beside a roughly plus tered wall in a Spanish village, waiting for the signal to advance and then, sill following the white boots of Jose, we reached the railway paniing and cursing in our exhaustion.

We came to a rough wooden

faint light show.. platform and

ed from a shed. In its doorway wis the stout Agure of a man who stood aside as we blundered who the shed and itung ourselves

on narraw bunks.

S

WHEN. I recoveted a little W

ruse to examine with

I terest the stout mon. who wel- comed us. He was dressed in a smart prie grey sult with a pearl in his tie and wore a hat at a rokish angle. There came from him a strong Parisian scent. He greeted us in broken English: "Welcome to Spain, gentlemen. now ane Hest yourselves. It is o'clock and the train for Barce- lona arrives at six."

"Where are you taking us?" said Woollatt,

"To the British in Barcelona.

I have friends among the police the train. You shall who control sce. It is always dangerous to be warlime," without friends in

little

std Pedro. He made a Resture with his hand to in- dicate the passing of notes.

We lay down in our wet clothes to sleep.

The cold air of the mountains blew into the shed at dawn and there came the rumbling of a train. Never have 1 seen such a

Provided with Spanish suits of

Woodla greenlah-bkie tweed and I spent several days hiding in a Spanish workinan's house in the suburbs, visited occasionally by a pretty Englishwoman from listened the Consulte, who patiently to our loud demands to be taken to Gibraltar at once.

At dawn on May 1, 1942, n large Ben les picked us up from our hide-out and hummed its way over the long, dusty roud to Madrid.

THEY HAVE THEIR EXITS

-(17)

By

AIREY NEAVE

DSO, OBE, MC

wr

London Express Service

Again Caps

as

Lines Spanish frontier guards argued cynically

about our papers, and when we reached British territory all

last we had, owing to some misunderstanding. not even been heard of by the military authorities. An hour feet we stamped our outside an orderly room guarded severely by two Red Caps in we should escape back to

officer,

ទិវ

Appar Sprin Next came an intelligence

who remarked that ht was Saturday afternoon-Satur

There, in a large worden building in the Embassy garden, the Bishop of Gibraltar held a day afternoon! Fancy escaping short Conimunion Service before from Germany and irriving in a

British fortress on we jointed (wen'y or thirty men

our departure from the Embassy, afternoon! I remarked to Wool- So Wool drinking beer and sherry. They

After breakfast we rushed latt with simulated embarrass- came from every Allied Nation,

l of them tough, hard and like schoolboys to a large orange ment that we had called on the

motor-coach driven by a small determined escapists. I heard my name spaken, and turned to see grinning Gibraltarian. Mysteri- wrong day.

After two days of beers, pink ously we were Philip the familiar face of Major

ere described on the

the and yarn-swapping Rins M.C., of the documents

carried

received orders 10 Newman, D.S.O.,

Medical

Corps. students under the charge of old escapers Royel Army

board

the troopship for 2

climbed Here was a strange coincidence. Mr Roberis, now recovered from. Philip Newman hnd 11ved before his journey, and who alone was Journey home. As we the war at Ingatestone, near to above military age and safe from aboard an official of the Foreign Omec mel us and arranged to my parents' honing was in the We shouted and laughed in Cind in a battledress without

send messages

to our our next meeting camp at Spengenburg in 1940, several languages, as the coach badges of rank, I felt incon He escrped from

a hospital in crossed the Tagus and climbed France and over the Pyrenees to through the mountains. Some of Bruous. I carried a new suitcase Spain, arriving shortly before I these tough men, in their excite and I still wore the same brown did. We remained together for ment, bounced up and down in Army boots I had worn when I

was captured at Calais. the rest of the Journey to Eng their seats like little children, land.

ma

At length the Rock showed it- I slept that night in great self us a dark shadow against happiness. At eight next morning the clouds. At the gateway of La

families.

Tomarrow: Home at Last.

HATE...NOT FOR

MY CHILDREN

Pretoria.

As part of the South Afri-

cun

news picture you must meet the taxi-driver I had in Pretoria the other night, a monstrous great chap with a Ronald Colman

ragamuffin crew as we were moustache and hands that we boarded it. All of us were

grey and tired, caked with clay.

could crush your bones. His

f a long, Brst-class compart-grandmother died in a Bri- ment we promptly fell asleep. tish concentration camp in The train, stopping at numerous the Boer War. sunions, collected smart business men in black suits, with pointed shoes and pearl tle-pins travel- ling to Barcelona.

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A tall, hawk-uke person with trim moustache, dressed in a dark brown sult and hat, welked between the rows of seats, draw- ing back the lapel of his coat to five-starred shining, 4

show

police bidge, Walking beside

His English was shaky

and, his wife, he said, spoke none at all.

By Bernard

Wicksteed.c

"But you have to understand,"

the

he said, "that a republic is the the white to unite only way people in this country.

that, "Once we get English-speaking South Africans will stop thinking about the Queen and we shall all be one nation."

"But," said I. "that's Just what the Crown is for. The whole idea of the Common- wealth is that allegiance to the Crown unites us all."

"Perhaps it does," he said, "but the trouble is it unites the African natives too, and we can't share опу common allegiance with them."

All through Natal, the Now meet Mrs Schmit, а A perfect Nationalist you most British province great, big, blonde housewife of

And yet, as of the would think.

Union, I found 35 who canvassed for the Na- tionalists in Heidelburg, Trans- voul.,

him in a mincing fashion came get Pedro.

out his pointing Iriends." The detectiva smiled with a twirt of his lips, and glaring fiercely at the business demanded their identity

men cords.

翡

TOWARDS eight a.m. the train

The

we talked about the election, English-speaking South he told me he is going to Africans who said they were "Why don't you write the Rhodesia as soon as he can getting ready to go.

truth about us in your papers overzens?" job there. Why?

she said. "All we There was the innkeeper want is an Africa that is safe "Well, don't you see, man, from Devon who put me on for the white man to live in and there's too much hatred

English-speaking full. here. I didn't speak English sofa because his im was we are going to get it.

people won't come the whole till I joined the army and

"I came here," he said, way with us they can get out. then I found that some of thinking that South Africa They have somewhere else these Rovineka (Britial im- migrants) were good-fel-

was part of the British, Em- go. But we Afrikaners haven'

We have been' here 300 years I joined the army and there is nowhere else that lows, see, But now the Na- pire. tionalists tell me they are no here, and tried to make my we can look to as home," good and we've got to turn self a good South African. I dare not..... them all into South Afri "But now these Nation-

ran Into Bercelona. We walked, still dazed with sleep, to the exits of the statica, confused by bright colours and sounda. Formidable police stood at each cany.

to

allat boys who come into my TUE last South African I will mention is the valet at the doorway ready to pounce on us, ""I don't want my children bar tell me that I'll never hotel who pressed my suit. He but Pedro nighingly marched to grow up with so much be a South African unless used to be s bus driver at were a party of hatred around, so I've asked I stop thinking of Britain, Woodford, Essex, and wishes he us as 1, we school-chlidren into the air outside where stood an old

to get:

Job driving lorries England, and Devon, and was again.

He came out here because his in Rhodesia."

work to make the country a taughter Its driver was a young

married a South Englishman from the

the British

republic. So I'm getting. African, and he was prepared Consulute with

milltary

to settle down and become in with

out." moustache and a green felt hat,

South African too."

саг.

warm

As we drove pero alperd

Not only one

I put this Englishman's "But I daren't speak English HE is not the only one. So point of view to a young into at night in the streets last glimpse of, Pedro shepherd- ing the Poles across the street. many South Africans are Nationalist reporter who Johannesburg for fear of get- Years afterwards I heard that he pouring into that land of shared the Press table with the beaton upther night

working for both sides, promise that the Rhodesiana ma at a political meeting.

Why the

I was. taking money from British and have had to alow down the

punched on' 'the nose in a bus He was a nico fellow, who queue because somebody heard Germans alko, I believe that France had him shớt,

│rush,

said he did not hate anybody, me say 'Bilmey?".

Was

Malenkov Gives China A Choice

By Patrick Maitland, M.P

London agriculture. Collectivization,

FULLER, though stili in- which depends on adequate

. are

ore..

complete, texts of Rus- machinery being available, is to be drastically slowed down. A sin's latest economic pacts directive issued at the end of with China have now reach- 1951 is thus reversed, ed Whitehall, They confirm told: "Individual pensat CCR

Now Party members that Malenkov told Premier nomy will prevail for a con=" Chou En-lat plainly that siderable perlod. Precipitate Russia could not continue haste and adventurism in form-

collectives" would her support of China's war stitute deviationism.

13።

in Korea and nt the same More than this Peking has time provide for her indus- made another important dis- trialisation.

closure. Throughout the whole vast area of China, not more China could make her than ten tractor stations will choice; But it is clear that be set up in 1959. All wilt be Malenkov explained that if "experimental and what ap- China

wanted to prolong pears to be the largest will Bull

receive only

a modest alxteen the Korean war she might tractors. have to do so unaided.

On March 26 Peking and Moscow announced several agreements, One dealt with

SMALL SCALE

imali scale on which Nussia

....

AT illustrates the relativaly the two countries' trade for has agreed to provide machinery 1963, another with Russia's for agriculture to help expandi promise of $300,000,000 Chinese experts which will pay for more Industrial plant for credits granted in an agree the Five-Year Plan. ment in 1950. Yet another Such parsimony matchen In- concerned Russian help in junctions which the Russians China's

Industrialisation have not blushed to broadcast. For Moscow Radio has been programme.

brozdcasting a series of talks in The available texts are In Mandarin

on "How Soviel tantalisingly general teams. But Rusia became a strong Industrial the protocol to the credit pact is

nation." the key.

foreign loans, for the cany

Russia's credit peumbe was These werË mast revealing talk explained that spread over five year, China is The first known however to have uses Russia in the early days of her Whit

up in the first eighteen revolution could not rely on months, that is by mid-1951.

The new agreements are not nations would not grant stated to include any extension Stalin had shown that there was, of Russian credits. If they had, in consequence, a single path: Moscow would have trumpeted "The people must accumulate such generosity. even If China cspital for socialism by their remained silent. It can be con own energies." dused, therefore, that no furthe credit is forthcoming. The credit agreement must therefore relate to repayment.

EXCHANGE

Thysages trade agreement

were

It is a theme not unlike the jereminds of Me Butler, as Chanceller of the Exchequer, at the Commonwealth Economic Conference last autumn. It la paraphrase of the slogan "Trade, - not aid."

The second talk outlined «Aves envisages an exchange of Hus-

ways in which Russit had ne sian equipment to help China's

from her metallurgical, mining machine- cumulated capital

own resources, The...country's lool, power and chemical indus-

Transport, banks, 43 well BS dries,

providing land,

home and foreign trade transport

modern equipment,

nationalised. Next, foreign in- agricultural machinery, pedigree

debtedness Incurred by the cattle and seeds,

Czarist regime was repudiated. In return China is to send

Thirdly the landlord Bystem non-ferrous metals, rice, vegel-

WOS abolished, freeing the abic oil grains, meat, tobacco, ted;

fruit, wool, Jute, raw silks, farmers from the need to pay

Then production

costs cloths,

hides and leather goods. rent.

"cut and the remulling Since there are to be no credits, were this is a direct barter arrange Bavings used as capital." Final- Government issued of ly, ment. Previous experience

that bonds and borrowed from the Russian practice suggests exchanges will not only be re people's private ravings. quired to balance up but must do so at prices acceptable to the USSR. In the past these have market been well above world prices.

the

IMPLICATION

TAKE

together, the' Import

of these folks is clear, with

The scale of Russia's exports regard to Sino-Soviet economic to China will in future be mea- relations. But there is a "mant- sured against China's efforts. It-test-implication.

Q war,

in

is, therefore, to China's advant- If both parties prefer la-

dustrialisation age to increase those efforts. It can be assumed that China which Russin will only help Ilmiled scale the such China on would seek from Russia machinery as would help her to adventure in Korea must seein

machinery Con-

coally extravagance.

earn more

霜

d

of Russian No doubt there have been

volume of

sequently, the agricultural machinery to

be bitter exchanges as

to tho

supplied will give a clue to the wisdom of having started the scale of the whole project.

-China has long sinco

war.

The agreements were publish- wished to end it, if private a ed on March 26. Two days diplomatic advlees reaching the later the Chinese Communists outside from Peking are 1 issued a

on guide.

now

directive

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