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Gould By Julius

Lecturer on Sociology at the 'London School of Economics

HE Communist cam- Mulenkov in his New Year able. And since Stalin died, the

paign for "peace and message declares that "govern- rulers of Communist Europe have.

ments connot fall to heed the been forced to face up to this. "national indepen voice of the peoples and to reckon Throughout 1959 the "contradic- dence" goes on unremitting with their growing desire for a tions within Communism" were ly. It is the greatest de- lasting peace.".

shown to be violent and deep- seated. ception of the century-m The Communist line instats that but Moscow's allies' and the leaders of the free world For years Communist govern- agenta never let up. Even have been in some special way ments hed devised grandiose "coerced" into "relaxing world schemes of economie develop- when faced with fallure and tension under pressure from the ment. For years they had tried to exposure, they keep up the partisans for peace!" Were the operate these schemes in the face "party line."

Issues less desperate, there would of growing tensions between be high comedy here.

Party and people. For years they Over

Пve years, the last

relied upon The British people certainly taming the "masses" they claimed

two weapons while shouting about "peace"

national In- the Communists have launched sock "peace and n ruinous,

to represent, First there was the aggressive war in dependence"-for themselves and Korea, and

maintained (with their colonist territories. They terror of the police State with varying success) armed rebellions are not interested in what Mos- its apparatus of aplos and con- centration camps, And the second in other lands in

South-East cow calls "peace", that is, sur-

the hatred of Asin, The record seems very render to Russian strategy: they weapon was the wicked

foreigner, strange in Europe they talk of are not attracted in what the peace; in Asia they shed blood Communists call "national in "entireling" capitalist,

de",

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In this the

British

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And, now with

now Moscow regine and the

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"To me that was one

the war," he said.

of

nisery and death.

Yot both these weapons falled. Neither the terror-State nor the

the Poles, the East Germans also despite the most sustained and wanted national Independence" savage pressures, human nature -the great enemy of Com- -but the Russian agents and Russian tanks destroyed their munism-has proved very, very stubbern. So in 1053 the brakes were put on in Communist Europe outburst of "liberalism" we, may be sure,

freedom.

True facts

No, if world tension relaxes, it will not be because the British,

from an

but because of sheer necessity, political and economic,

Da the Communist Powers

all have been victories Instead of defeats had the Offer Согра had their way.

Now that a resemned Germany version. In the first place Com- becau

** ony other peoples, have seek to "go-slow" international- become gullible! For Communist ly as well as at home? We have actions have spoken louder than yet to see whether they do. We

huve Communist words, louder evon

out what yet to find than the double talk of the World the vague phrase "relaxation of "Peace" Council.

world tension" remily means, But hen, and if, such "relaxation" Tho

when, and if true facts othe very different from the Communist

ex-

comes (and to date it is for from certain

will not be that it will)

restful old follow

the great turning points of failure of the fighting troops as of Goering's promises that the count of the trogle fall of France failed to break. Communist travellers could swallow that! It of Dunkirk, and Germans were far from super-pansion has been halted at heavy will come about because Soviet

cost in Korea and elsewhere.

security Collective

..against

is almost with US ogain; ir

because the free peoples have munist expansion has provoked a been is important that their true arm alliance

seduced by the World among the free "Peace" Council or because Mr soldiers and the Army High believed that evacuation by ses value as fighting men be properly

And this detailed ac- Peoples, an alliance which Mos- Malenky wants

cow's tricks and promises have MER

avage, Only fools and Command, but it was as much a would be impossible in the face assessed.

It was Luftwaffe would destroy It was of the generals.

the reveals that even in victory the not due to any orders initiated port facilities

that

ambitions have, for the moment, the advancing German men. **! I had bad my way the by Hitler," English would not have got off

And Major Ellis has dug deep infantry would have plenty of

And, just in case we have for-aggression is no dream, as it was outpaced Communist strength, finish off the British gotten, this book reminds us that in 1930, but a solid fact with into the War Diaries and Orders time to

it was not the French and Poles which an aggressor must recken. written at the time to prove his force.

This evidence, he

and Russians alone that were contention,

Secondly-and just as impor- But does it really matter who

victims of German brutality, tant-tho strains imposed asserts, shows conclusively that

this order - Rundsted! "A hundred men of the 2nd Stalin

Russia japon the first order to halt the Ger. gave

Norfolks were tanks

was given

taken satellies have proved unbear- by or Hitler? Yes, if the German Royal

the house in Rundstedt, not Hitler, on the omeer casto is to be prevented prisoner when evening of May 23.

from talking themselves out of which they were surrounded was finally overrun by troops of the S. 3. Totenkopf Division,

"They had fought hard, many were wounded. After being disarmed and searched, they

ordered to

in march

so ty at Dunkcik. But my hands were tied by direct orders from Hitler himself.

"While the English were off the dlambering into slepo beaches, I was kept uselessly

unable outside the Dort

mave."

It was a fow

to

months after the end of the war und Rund- stedt, in a prisoner-of-war comp In Wales, was answering questions about his part in the defeat of France in 1940.

my

As Commander - in Chief of Army Grontp A, his armoured forces had mashed through the Aatiennes and reached the Channel coast at Abbeville

May 20, only ten days after the German offensive had begun,

The order

man

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RY the 23rd, German panzer Ddivisions were poised on the Gravelines St. Omer-Bethune Canal ready for a final assault against Dunkirk, less than ten miles way, The

capture Dunkirk would have the bulk of the British peditionary Force.

Then, according to Rundstedt, не riccived { mysterious telephone cald It:cm the Fuehrer's headquarters oder ing the tanks to halt on the fur of

canal and advance no closer than medium artillery range (eight or nine miles) from Dunkirk. Runddeft's p:o- tests were outly dismissed.

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Tactical situation on the day the German tanka kalted

were

and

single alle past a large barn.

"As they did so, two machine 300 guns, which had been set up yards away, mowed them down. ...Any who still showed signs of life were shot and bayoneted.

"It is noteworthy that the (German) Army authorities left the crime unpunished, though it was fully reported to them at the time."

Never broken

THERE is not much that is new in this dry and technical ac- count of those terrible days. The furnace of defeat always yiekls up red-hot ashes of inefficiency,

and despair, misunderstanding

But, under Lord Gort, the Expeditionary Force, I was only on the 24th, 16 the blame for two major military British

mali and under-equipped as it hours later, that Hilier first defeats.

this order from learned of

The leaders of the Wehrmacht was, did all that was expected Rundstedt himself and endorsed have always been adept at ex- broken. It fulfilled the task of it. Its front was never it. And in the subsequent at plaining away their own-in}~

the laid on it by the French High tempts by other officers to get competence. Treason

Command. divisions not until May 27- the panzer

moving home front was their excuse for

And the men of the three three days Tailer that Hitler again it was Rundstedt who losing the First World War. Now permitted the panzer

divisions supported Hitler's view that the they are bully fashioning a fighting Services came back from to advance. By then it was too Dunkirk country was unsuitable wreath of blame for the last Dunkirk with the conviction that late, The breathing space had for tanks and that they should war and laying it at the clumsy on reasonably equal terms they could defeat the vaunted given the Biftist

to be preserved for the subsequent feet of Adolf Hitler. strengthen their defences,

fighting to capture Paris.

Dunkirk is but one of a long Wehrmacht. The renewed German assault Does this mean that both series of errors attributed by Neither the excuses for after- WNG held

generols generals 338,000 Rundstedt and Hitler were pre- German

Hitler's thoughts of German Afied troops were taken off the pared to "allow the British to personal interference. Stalin aro now likely to make them beaches and lagaled in England, escape? Not at all. They merely grad, El Alamein, Malta would change their minds.

and

over

By June 4 the "miracle" of

Dunkirk had been accomplished. But as the decision to hali 遗迹 tanks outside Dunkirk

Hiber's along? Not only Rund- steal bub Guderian, Blumentritt, Kielst, Halder, and other senior officers involved in the caru- paign insist that it was.

'Nervous'

THE

THE opportunity was wasted owing to Hitler's nervous- nesa,"

writes Panzer Geceral Guderian, The reason he subae- quently gave for holding back

to

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