1953-11-02 — Page 4

The Return To Westminster

By LES ARMOUR

LONDON, would have sufficed

BY train and bus, limou- afternoon's questioning.

sine and bicycle, 617 "commoners" and a score of Lords (spiritual and ten- pornl) returned to West- N. minster the other day- itching to get on with the nation's business.

Not at all.

for an

In the Commons, Mr Norinan

Dodda, (Labourite from Darlford, Whore curlounity ircm conliation for onges gipsies to recognition of China) the enquired acidly whether

Minister knew "on

For sightly more tian Housing half of them, attending to what

date the Air Pollution

the nation's business con- Committee, held its first meet- sists mainly in applauding ing, how many

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1953.

meetings had

£1

"By the time we're a 'undred some bright client'll decide we're not too old to go back to school."

London Express Service

the glittering array of since been held and when Ministers who inhabit the could be expected..." Government Front

Rench. con-

WAS

followed. by Brigadier Medrott (Tory) as possible for the who badgered the same Minis

For the remainder, it sists in making life as dif- ficult Same Ministers.

That is, naturally,

Jer about rent controls before Labourite Sir giving way to

an Richard Acland,

who appealed

over-simplification: British to the Works Minister about h

democracy concerns itself more exolle matter-permission not alone with international to zing

Christmas Carols in

crises, industrial controls, Westminter Hall.

and rate of the income inx but also with the welfare of pigs, allocations of bird- seed, the colour of postage stamps and the construction of drains.

Question Time

On many of these, a man mny ponder as he pleases,

In any case, there is al- ways Question Time,

The irreverant enl The Children's Hour.

it

But

Sir

Light-hearted

,not Richard did

say

whether hr. personally, pro- Sir David to sing birt Fed

him colemnly Ereles assured that the matter would be in- vestigated.

Thit this was all lighthearted

debate was under way over the designs of portage slawPS,

banter. In the Lords a serie

a

JOURNEY FREEDOM

Na hot summer's had left his

dlay a few weeks ago a dilapidated taxi left Potsdam, the traditional home of Prus- sinn militarism and now the

centre of the Soviet occupa tion forces stationed near Berlin.

It aped through the town, now a shell of crumbling 18th century stucco palacea. Inside the taxi were two

Lord Elibank said that "small

NI stamps Cenomination

would, prave pletorial notare** an immense boon to the tourist Industry and would enrich the

with

food of

young people, a man dressed it is a daily time of delight, Treasury

pennies from stamp collectors in a cheap tawdry suit of mny when the humblest

Lort Selkirk retorted rather "nationalised" material, and question the exalted about

artly that he had no intention his wife. anything which might

allowing the monarch's Nervously they watched -- be con- of however vaguely

by be replaced strued as falling within the portrait to

Ferners, though the Fostmaster- the road ahead as the an Five cient vehicle pulled up at a of "ministerial General would certainly sphere

Russian checkpoint just out side the town. The Soviet satised guard, his hand on the trig question ger of his tommygun, eyed them and the driver of the the Commons taxi suspiciously.

niteuijon

responsibility."

O opening day, might have thought

alleged redness Guiana, the

consideration...

Lord Elibank indiealed the naive

that the he was by no means British and would raise the in non-co-operation again...

By that time, of foreigners in the matter of "Trieste, and the learned de- bad turnicit

liberations of the Big Tarce, canned pineapples,"

Pick a pack of

SAXA

the pick of packet salt

Saxa Salt is available in cartons and drums, plain or lodised." Trade enquiriaz (v John D. Hutchison Or Ga., Lidu. Post Dex 47. Hong-Kong.

Coldo

Even the slightest cold

is to be feared

Do not lot it spread! Defeat it from the start

by taking1 or 2 CAFASPINS'

CAFASPIN GAZER

THREE

SILENT

that

to

"You go where?" he ask ed gruffly. The young man leaned out. "I have to go to Berlin for hospital treat ment, urgently. This is my wife." He produced an iden- tity card.

Near Berlin's East-West

*pot, crossing order

muniem.

Youth.

INTO

This is the story of a Red dupe. Antony in Berlin, Terry, Special Correspondent

brings you the true narrative of a young couple who came through the Iron Curtain.

11 10

start

"Early

work in

In 1940

East German "The Reds reckon I takes a Communists year to make sure that man decided to form. is fully trained in Moscow's

"People's men at gymnastics.

the

the local 1940 for a new

the army which had secretly I took the I was

called which led to my joining Police",

", and those who joined slep

East German Communist it

were care- in those days

"I joined the Politkultur class the

Felected for "political in November 1950 and left it a later, fully-trained, with Communism. I joined the reflebility"-even as they were year arms-and my ultimate break fully.

Savlet fauntieal Polit Kommissar.'" Laught Free German Youth, the Red being equivalent of the Hitler Youth, tanks, guns and equipment. in 1949,

"I was regarded as just the "Life in the training school at were Torgau was mary, discipline, "The blueshirted "FDJ" are kind of youngster they

under

one like in the army, except that real fanatics of Communist looking for-bom

over in the army Germany today. I was one of dictatorship the inost fanatical.

the

All the

and

to usq

taken

that

at Hans began his life identity card

the story. It took several bem. It worked--though Russinn insisted on the toxi- days to tell. It began men leaving his car paper at with the Hitler the cheekpajat "just to be sure ended with the realisation that council offers.

and lying are force, brutality you come back."

Slowly the vehicle drove not on ideal way of living. And

through it was

love the love for the thugh East Berlin,

wife treets covered with Communist girl who is today his Peace. "Freedom, slogan,

That cured him forever of Com- Friendship between all nations, they read. The young man and

"For the firs: 13 years of my his wife leted tech other life I krew up under the Nazis,

Courteous and smiled, grimly.

Hans told the quiet,

vds German police omelet. "I

tho the brought up under

he Prussian discipline Brandenburger Gate, they paid clicking

demands even from hero-worship which bad swt Pilessly into another. off the taxima. Trying to lock which compered they boarded a tube schoolboys that they lle down

and de for the Fuehrer and ine train going to the British see-

they for a Ton

Ger minutes later

glorious greater many. were safe.

folied The young man bad

lanks of the 2,400 offecis and men of the East

German who

have this army

year freedom in the Wesl chosen

steel- "Today in East Germany rather than stay in the disciplined Communist machine.

But new it was going to be there is the same unquestion- hard to convince the West Ber- ng discipline. But today It Is Communists, not the had for the authorifles' that they

forced to escape, and, Nazis. been harder sill, that they were not "My parents and I went on until East Prussin just one of the thousands of living in Soviet spies who are put acrass

1944, when the Ruslans swept the German armies back across. the Iron Curtain frontier every

the German frontiers. was week

evacuated wastwards Into Saxony, in the heart of.

Gor- many, to avoid them.

101.

Jin

diequiezd as "refugees from Communim," with halv raising but wholly Imaginary tales to tell of their escapes frem Red Bullets.

New Life

Hitler Youth

Ca

one occasionally

had time off,

're

"In the Polit' reboot one was

discovered Into

Youth. Bability also depended on not the Hitler

In Stalin's having been a prisoner of war never alone-never, not even In carried me along

or France. one's skep and certainly at no il in Britain, U.S. brigades and Into youth relatively responsible, post In Anyone who had was automa- time in one's waking hours. leally barred from Jelning, the Always was the feeling- am the Red Youth machine.

'People's Polles.'

being watched. obecssion. The only way to break the tension of watching every word, every movement, was to watch others, Spy and be spied on.

"I knew by this time that who officials The Communist run it had decided I was the fanatical, stop-at-ndhting type When they were looking for.

the

Danger Germ

It

became

an

Heds started organising

"It was assumed,

perhaps children

harvest into the

"Our timetable was not easy. rightly, that anyone who had brigedea was there shouting the erders teaching them to other countries even Ds. We rose at 6 am di PT until PoW might be infected with 7.15 am, when we had half on march in step-just as I had

a dangerous germ-freedom, learnt in the Hitler Youth,

Guns Blew Up

1

gun-small-bore mass-produced "It"

The

have no

18 מט ניט

hour for breakfast. From 8 10

Polit Training

"Polt training' Was Com-

"This did not apply to me. 12 there was four hours of found the discipline in the 'Polit training which began former Nazi Cavalry Barracks again after lunch and Josted at Torgau exactly as harsh an it from 2 pan. io 8 p.m. After that had homework-studying was 'n the Hitler. Youth, but we "Later tho East German I liked it. In fact, it had been Karl Marx. Lights were out at It showed that he was a

"In my Hitler Youth uniform blucirts

Stalin's adopted becumo

from Hit's 11 p.m. member of the much-feared

first children's in these days I felt myself

army in the Wehrmacht,

Before we could outside the loyal bulwark of the crashing world-

Soviet East German Police army.

live in the barracks we had to the khaki-uniformed Volks-

Today the young man is in Nazi empire. After the Russiatts countries.

scar up the rubble of the passed

Communists arrived and the polizei, whose task is to West Berlin.lic has

me "In their spare time these bombed buildings and help to

a rebuild them." Communist officials the final screening of British, took over in. 1945. It took guard

U.S., French and German in- seme time to get readjusted to young people learnt to use and brutally beat down any teilleenes offeints. 11 has clear the new way--the Communist

in these days the East Ger- munism in every possible form, hard rides, issued at the rate of one attempts at semi-starved ed him for onward flight by a way of life. I found

21 man army had 60 to 70 men in mest of it as history', which and dissatisfied people of British airliner to West Ger--not-to-roke my hand in the to every 16 chlidren, with

salute many. There he hopes to start autematic Hitler

but range of 100 yards, but enough cach company-half their correct consisted of the story of the East Germany.

generation strigth. Today even batiations Communist Party in Russia and to teach an entire a new life, to work his way instead to cheer when I saw a

How 10

more than 00 to 100 the history of Germany from the The Russian eyed the card. back 15 normally.

picture of Stalin,"

"They even killed the child- men owing to the Communists' birth of Karl Marx onwards, He

particularly in- was not

the whole For 21-year-old Hans Baris-

found that lie rea

on Everything else in quality habit of "setting Hans soon T East

semotimes. pressed.

German chal is no normal refugee. He

the barrels was ecllection is ene of the men Stalin und under the Redshirts was not so l

sa poor paper before my have the men wide world, except where it army to him' was a of

paid mercenaries, cheap his henchmen picked to be the very different from that under that they often blew up in the trained for them, Hars went en: affected either of these,

Ared

Igatred. Quislings whose only use was political indoctrinators of his the Brownshirts, except that children's faces as they

shortage "Manpower

hns to hold down their own

fellow Gc.mans--||

there was less to eat. He went them. man the

"We worked a five-day week, But all that happened later. always been one of the problems try men.

Communists were so sure they on:

"In school-1 was could trust that they confided

14 when When I left the marching blue facing the Reds in East Ger- and in theory cur weekends

they in

youth columns guarded the war ended-we were taught shirted

leave the barracks many. This year, to provide a We fres. In fact, we were not dose with a secrets of how to everything

still only Propaganda

part-military, huge pool of trained mat for the allowed to But he let the taxi pass the lie theat

confuse the Communist propaganda, even and mixed with boy scout and Kremlin's East German forces, it in case we might mest someone

and checkpoint on is way to Ber- troops of Moscow's Red Ger te mathematics. I went to a girl guide. type outings

was planned to make all the who would

(tho official school at a place in singsongs. Village It was during the next 25-man Wehrmacht.

Party Communist mlics

"In the Free German Youth 1,200,000 Sitting in the office of a Ger- Saxony called Kotlewitz, that the young men in

Idently, man polico offletal next day left I in 1947 when I was 15 they called for volunteers in members undergo three months' name of such a person is 'clasa entmy) into our cars, or go to the car rwliched his

training.

a movie which contained some Fee the Brt time in his carcer

another

"Then came he became

the riots and subversive thoughts, persoa man travelling with the identity

Moscow's New Look' pelley in *Ils card of the taxi driver.

the satellites, and the p'in was wife became his "girl friend."

suddenly dropped. But it still to I had cost him a liver

exitia on paper, ready to be put дег

the

taximan

swap

ever de- into effect if Russia identities. But it was the only

cides the nods tome castly- the freedom. When hope of

irá ned cannon fodder,

Jin.

coun-

Cost A Fiver him their dicrely

and

to

tax! slowed down at the "out- akiris of Berlin's Saylel sector he knew the test ad Failure now meant death an executioner's bullet.

come. by

Casually he flashed the taxl driver's identity card in front of the stolid Soviet sentry. The taxi driver produced his drive ing licence, murmured that he

SALESMEN

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Largest Morning

Largest Afternoon

· Largest Bunday

Circulation

Circulation

Circulation

of were

and

.

BEAUTY IS

IS NOW NO

LONGER BRAINLESS

By DENIS ATHERTON

ог

Then Riots

murmur

Communist idea

was

an anti-

Foreign Films

"Despite the Red stranglehold on ali means of propaganda In Eest Gumany the authorities have been forced to allow in some foreign films. This is be- cause the puble simply refuses LONDON. tional valuo of a trip to London Youngest of them all, Ingrid

to go to the cinemas which show Jchansson Paris,

(Miss Sweden) is TS the cutie with the curves

"But in 1949 the East German the dreary, badly-made nadern And Isn't it a fact that the only 10. The thrill of all that

and or the beauty in the

army was still in its beginnings, Seviet, Bulgarian, Czech human

pretty had happened since the won a race would be bikini bad for masculine hard to find at this juncture of local competition and set off One of the teething troubles in other satellite films.

evelution If the mere male had for London rebised. her morals?

of those days was the Communists'

"Some of these foreign films always scerned my

those British," lady's words: "When my parents first noed, for a corps of 100 percent

cepcelolly The Bishop of Lewes charme?

hear about it all they cry: Oh, party fanatics who could be ar Pundits say that beauty and our poor little girl. Whatever trained in the Sovies manner to which contain, in the eyes of the reported to have told 500 is gorgeous girls aforemen aided in her delightful nccent. (England) thinks so. He is healns don't mix. Not truc! The will happen to her?" she con- indoctrinale, spy on and bélray Reds, a 'mutál lerson' agat their fellow offers and inen the West, Sullably cut and

with and

German edited women: "The type of girl or tlened are proof of that.

"Now she added, "they until none felt sure his neigh- woman too often photo-

realise the trip is doing me a

bour was not werking secretly d'alogue, they are used as a bait to get the audiences into the lot of gend." graphed

for the system": contestants daring dresses all Frankly, I am prepared to Another of the

"I am ashamed now to admit movies so that they can be shown glamorous flimsies is not declare emphatically that the who takes life more seriously that I was one of the first they dull propaganda "shorts" and than her present activities

is suggest

picked for this work. But may newsreels. lovely contributing to the gaiety of world would be a pretty poor might

"But not even auch dangerous. place without semo curvacious Mf."

Havatzelet Dror (Miss Israel), be in the long run it was a good:

'inflammable': idcas beauties here and there. Nor

know ly thing, for by getting belleve that of do 1

A line.of Having

met 15

and understand the machine allowed for us the cltcied just

parading in the world's

I worked for in all its rottenness standard bearers of the new beautiful beautiful girls most

the

Communist ideology. We were to Beauty contests she would I was able to escapó eventually, women, I can justifiably say bathing costumes arouses

deelded on three Irifle wrong kind of thoughts in the like to sea

ba kapt pure, that the bishop is a

**** average. young

"Unfortunately for the Reds. man's mind.

"My first step into the spider's qualities. sweeping in his views.

Surely that kind of thinking "The judges should look for web of. betrayal, surpicion and they could not control human There was definitely more to

andles came when I was sent to emotions as much ea they liked. them than is revealed by the vanished with the dark ages deportment, Intelligence

then beauty. In that order," she take a course in a "Politkultur For instanco, they could not bathing costumes in which they or at least the 18th century.

for the thought those. 15 lovely told me. "It is not enough to school in Torgau, near the Czech control me failing in love in the

girls might

that Ferhaps Buy

Mir). Mirs World' the tempo of the contest, with just because chance has given its everlusting. publle ap- fer a beautiful figure." pearances, posing for photo- Even

In the so-called

parade as candidates litto. "Miss World."

declare

a

I

border.

wero

of 1950 with the girl middle who is now my wife. It is to. Politkultur is an abbrevia- this ecricusly-minded uan of Political Culture, it has Christa that I owe most of the break with Com. I can see nothing naughty in graphs, interviews plus all the young lady laughed when

mundem and all that it means,” the display of feminine charm. trimmings, was too tough go asked her if she thought beauty carcely anything to do with courage

politos, and certainly containe 巍 bad contests were thought ing for a temporary title. theso girls Most of their chances of winning the Not a bit of it. With just one "No, no, no," she cried. "They no culture. It is the method by thing For all the wich Moscow warps the minis two exceptiana, each girl, are a good title were #lim. The great al-or traction, apart from the pub insisted that the competition girls concerned they are a good of men licity for thore aiming at a fim from beginning to end had been thing."

Well, she should know! lor stega: career, is the educa- the biggest thrill of their liver,

thing.

so that they begin to baleve that black is white and wrong is right.

(Hans continues hlad story tomorrow):