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THE CHINA MAIL," TUESDAY, FEBRUARY, 9, 1954.

Marine Condron Tells Why He Quit

ing.

From RUSSELL SPURR

Panmunjom. DROVE through Com- munist lines to ask 20- ard Royal Marine w Cendron, the only prisoner of war in

lr me.

Mo

13

me

only Briton in of three United correspondents

into Red territory

and last con- with these strange

Contron vlir men.

the from ular Choking and smil

With wrack

his well-groomed realy Gammed

monache

Comp trai,

asist ht.

I wanted to know what made Marines, and work for what you him change his mind, what bellave in?" minde hun opt fog exile.

WIR

be

"I wasn't a Communist when

captured,"

rald thrughtfully, "I wasn't anything. ctually thought I was going be phot. And all In the 19 of freedom,** Another unfident smile.

13

By reading

"Aa a matter of fact I wor very much painst Communism 1 Art, when't imprested by Eve Knap rudy (indoctrination} mrse. 1 davéloped my present political views through ecading.

"They been a great rend Soviet Jr. but pene naves and began to realise the

hur 1

CONDRON and, in the beret-RUSSELL SPURA.

It was below-zero at the "Peace Pagoda *

hetkel like

cident draper't

the

The mile temporarily faded, "That's a dimcult quesian. really need more time to answer Britain It. I admit that In

persecution Isn't political

As the United States, vinlent as but the difference isn't one of principle, but of degree."

time ho

"Anyway,

Was

For the first Kroping for words.

I can do more here than by going home,"

"How?" I asked.

That's my business," he said. The smile faded again when I asked about his family, Ho suddenly seemed genuinely moved.

"That was the hardest decision "I have very of l." he said. elese family ties. It took a lot

break them. Of course,

I have written to cxplain why."

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"Any message?“

"Yes, say this. Please don't worry. I realise what I am doing. Don't have any mis. givings. It in beir 4 dore of my own free will. m, certain everything will work out all right and I will be able to sve you all again.” “

It was hopeless, but I had to ak the question no que else from the UN. side has been able to pul

Would you

with me now?"

care to return

"Quile definitely

sald. Then, after a

not," he moment's

hes.tal.on: "One day, perhaps,

Rues ans were real people, just you'll believe me," like you and me,"

"When't there any other catus for your decision," some personal grudge?"

I had heard,

for instance,

made my man tit tor two weeks come back about before repairint on." he told me.

a long that he was depressed at having about it "thight

another five years as t'me, and carefully sided the to serve

a Reguiar prisoner-of-war agreement - fore coming to a decision." He

"I was rather mixed up before smiled southwards towards

capture and I couldn't see much U.N.-held hills,

ehead for mo

life," he ndmitted.

aiwnys "I wns

I strong individualist. prout of being in the Marines you ca нау I

well couldn't w any future ore I was dis- charged at the

e of 30 1958.

B

(BAYER

Headaches

Toothaches Colds

are quickly overcome by

CAFASPIN'

indoctrinated--but

Woo

was

w da

in

ان

our

He smiled for the last time and vanished into the crowd.

Let me take you back to the time

arrival that morning.

3 was driven by back roads to the wooden peace pagoda" where the armistice was signed, tu hear the prisoners "osk" the Communists to release them.

Unguarded

NEHRU'S

THE COLD WAR ON ICE

Work! Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

It's all part of the propaganda ·service

SO A MOTHER KEEPS

the

He

-T was 1 walter in a

roof-top night club in Warsaw who gave me

idea of going to Otwock, said it was only 20 miles away and a good place for fishing.

HER BABY

KENNETH MACAULAY conclude's the report of his in Red Europe investigation

over

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AMERICA COLUMN

from

KEWELL ROGERS

Too Many Amateurs

New York. OTHERS are arguing

Mwhether

too many amateurs can spoll a baby boy.

Yes, says a man, Mr Roman Hameski, child welfare chief nt Illinois.

Dr R. G. of Eastern

He condemne Buzzard,

head Illinois State College, for taking over the baby, aged alx weeks, for the rest of the school year. DR BUZZARD passed the erlid on to supervisor Ruth Schmolhausen, who teaches

student

home management.

In her house girl

take turns at looking after the

baby

They bath him, feed him, and

icm

do tll the work. At the end-of by Get back to mother. says

Miss Schmalhausen baby, girls, and mother benent, Not baby, rays Mr Harneski,

He says: "A child's pattern of security begins le crystallise in the first year of life. All bables reed the continuous care of one mother,"

And now Mr Harneski has ordered welfare officer to investigate the case.

#

TAROM schoolroom to court- room in one day is the strange "lesson in living" be- falling a mother in Half Day, Hilonis.

1

Mra Mary Dawson's son Frank, 13, kept running away from school,

so they expelled him. Mrs Dawson took a fall- three ing chair and sat down in his classroom. She said she would stay all day, every day, until

had 4

Jusl baby months old.

"Tell thi: journalist," said the interpreter, "the arrangements the factory made for you.”

Said Arenskaya (who, for all her Russian name, is Bulgarian born): "The factory released me

for

they took Frank back.

took ber

policeman

to

court on a charge of disorderly conduct, And a petition has been flied against her and her farmworker husband. It could make Frank

a ward of the. court.

IN COURT at Warren, Penn- sylvania, Norman Meon pull-

baby was born and Czech R.A.F. squadron. But we on full pay a month before the two can't talk here. Follow me."

We walked and talked in a months after. In addition to asked State maternity benefits, 1 got quiet, side street. He me exactly the same question the birth bonus of 160 leva the family as my Pollah friend at Otwock: (about £8) and "When are the in to set to fish coming allowance of 12 Jeya a month] ed out a gun and shot Judge

(roughly 125.). I had to tell

m, too, that

I shall work two hours world interfering with other

ก day less for the next six nations forms of government. months, and I can go on light He said: "It is very difficult duties too, if I like, without lots for us to put things right

un- of pay. alded and by ourselves, but we They told me

it

"NOW

not be more than two or three about golling rid of the system that our business to go about factor that I am back at the

With a bit of luck, he exception from the Baltic to the

Block Sea. 'added, I might even meet

Not one of the Communist Marshal Rokossovaky, who regimes in Europe was elected sometimes spenda a day with a majority at the polls, ro there when he is not too that it is a fair question to ask: What has happened to the busy being Poland's Minister

millions who voted against? of Defence.

Have they been won over? If The walter Bald there would not, are they doing anything was

Or are hundred Russian tommy-gunners that rules their lives? on guard up the trees or in the they just waiting for the clouds reeds to see that the marshal to roll

through didn't fall in. Onco

In Prague, if you keep your that cordon I would doubtless eyes open, you can

zee the find him a most approachable initials T.G.M. chalked up on an kind of fellow, They'll say any inconspicuous wall. They stand Garrigue Masaryk. thing for a lough, these Polish for Thomas secret

night club walters,

the great Czech patriot and first Pro-ident of the Republic. They show that some people at least have not forgotten the days of their country's true democracy.

They have been sitting un- guarded in their secluded com- pound since

January 22,

when the Indians declared they could no longer keep any more Korean war prisoners in custody.

A spluttering Russian truck A mall crowd

North with a chcerful Chinese driver Korean and Chinese journalists

took

to our had gathered

this rendezvous. We stopped on a

overlooking unusual interv'ew.

"North

to

of

heat

me

blonde Pollsh, where Condron and his

Two pretty women from one of the neutral artistice teams hovered at our ritow. From time to line there was a murmur of agreement.

Imperialist

of euurse,

031

on

I look *Now.

imperialist Britain 415 country"-th t same bright smile elieve the British ng 3. "1 Government. Socialist or Tory. works against the interests of the propie."

for

comrades have, for the post four months, vainly awaited explanations.

buta

Préparations for the parado were already under way. Small figures in faded blue Communist uniforms darted

the among thatched cottages which house the 325 renegade South Koreans, A cluster of flags and banners fluttered between two pinewood where Condron and the Americans live in comfortable sectu den!

Prempty deloven they eatne

three arching

sorry! threung the wooked compound "But surely that's no reason a cs. First the Americans and refusing to go home," I Condron, a tati, slender figure, said. "If you feel so strongly cunyang yellow hug. Them a about these things, why not long line of South Koreans. secept repatriation, leave the All were singing "Sidarity

for cvar, the party melves

to the bune of "JJ strong" Brown's Bcdy."

After a paire for photoaupha the prisoners filed Into

through the camer UN. en'cance. They settled in a solid phalanx of sted fzters on one side of a lang, blanket-covered table.

I got a front seat on the other side with

two American my colleagues, and was immediately

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HIS waiter and I had got on friendly terms in a curious way, "I was with a party and

Thumbs up'

we asked if there was anything TT was in a market town 220 miles cast of Prague that I belter to drink in the place than vodka,

found myself standing

in

the

do

But it has to be recognised that the satellite countries have: some solid social achievements to show for their regimes.

at the clinic

what we cen. Онг best that I did not have to keep the weapon is passive resistance, go baby if I did not want to, but Sometimes things go wrong." he it for the Arst 20 days. After slow and bad workmanship. they would expect me to nurse

that it would be adopted by the added ambiguously.

"For

instance, there is a Slate." station near here with

Arenskaya, however, dild keep tractor

Only two of her baby so the State will give ten machines in It. them are working-and they'll hor a 20 percent increase in be having mechanical trouble by pay until the child reaches the Monday,

school leaving age of 14.

"You see."

said the guide, "we have progressed beyond the bourgeois-capitalist concept of a child being illegitimate."

be Communism, it cannot

the pre gainstld, is

of the "new look" that Corn- are free secondary education technical training. There munism gives to society is the and case of Arenskayo, whom I met are industrial and widows' pen- in a Sofla textile factory.. sions, cheap rents, holidays with

pay. It was explained to me delicate but completely un- All this-but, as you will have embarrassed way that he had gathered from these articles, not omitted to get married, but now freedom too.

Pay for it

in the Inter- INTERESTING as an example viously. There

He disappeared for while rquare next to a man who was a furtive "thumbs-up" and then returned with a bottle giving of French brandy hidden under sign to British motor-cyclists his jacket. How much? A mere driving through 1,680 zlotys (call them zwattles), national Six Days' Trial. which at the present rate of I said to him casually and in English: "Where did you learn exchange is about £150.

I thought this could be my to give that signal?"

Ho turn to get a laugh so I said: "T tell you what, I'll swop brasard, issued to all reporters you a motor tyre for the covering the rally, and brandy."

whispered: "I was a pilot in

A silly thing to say, really, because the only way of getting

a tyre in Warsaw is to jack up steal one of the wheels. a foreign diplomat's car and

The waiter, however, took me "Sorry," he said, "but,

I

the, and enough money to make up the difference. You'd want 2.200 zlotys for the tyre, wouldn't you?" Which would make the difference about £50.

my ot

provided with scented tea by a Korean prisoner.

Condron sat down to right, shifting uneasily in scat and getting up from timo to time to survey the

other prisoners. He had an air of slight authority.

Forgotten

Then Condron left the hall, borrowed a Russian truck, and ran back to camp when sOTIO

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my

Press

then

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Allison Wade dead.

The judge had just called him

ran out and

to the Bench to explain why he was, not keeping up payments for bis wife's support.

Moen

drove away. Police chased him for six miles and then a Bullet stopped his car.

Moon Bred one more shot →→ and killed himself.

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ARE THE CLERGY SLIPPING

BACK ON DIVORCE?

APPILY married for 39 years, A. P. Her- bert addresses him-

remover

from heresy

modernism."

THE TRADITION. These facte, however, lie in

the

The right to marry" was move, although it is doubtful

....

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By George Malcolm Thomson

if the bishop, ban had any The of the marriage advice in these

fore, and doubtful - it Ah chips! self with fervour and learn as a semantimes alleged.

could do much with posi- circumstances is of very long modena Roman Catholi of those son is known to be rigid. But standing indeed, Dean Rashdail, offending clergyma beyond HOWEVER, the day I went to Ing to the cause

being

objectionable" VERY Otwock, there was no sign who are not so fortunate: divorce has always been per who died 30 years ago, said

Marshal Rokossovsky. the men and women whose mied in the Eastern Church, that it was a "Fuble scandal" them.

which is ce far us possible to assert that the Church has Now it is proposed to give made one of the villagers first marriage has come to

the bon the always condemned" divorce, ar

inus of Canon 4-present of a bottle of Danish an end through divorce and

Thero quaations appear b Law. All tour Houros' of Con- beer and he rowed me out to a whom, even if innocent, the

show rome confusion of mind; vocation have agreed; only the place where he knew there was

Herbert, thinks then they Indi- consent of Parliament is want- Church declines to remarry.

Worse-regres- ed. cate something

The triumph of the "vigo- We fished and chatted. His Sir Alan has particularly the background of Herbert's slon. He thinks, that the church English surprised me until he mind the Church of England. revealed that he had been in Presbyterians, who are certain main task, which is to inspect of England la less on the side risis and seactionaries in the England during the war.

not tax am moral questions, the practice and theory of the of charity, then it used to be Church of England is all but

Ard ho quatos bitter and complote. Anglican Conumunian,, to

A NEW ACT?! "But," he said, jerking his have a more liberal attitudo

this marriage problem. Yet he He has no difficulty in show bigoted remarks made in the 19xt fow manibe by Anglican head in the direction of the

village,

Against this dinger, Sir Alan don't tell them points out that, for the Church ing that the outlook of

clergymen about living "stales- or for

that of Church of England was, not

raises his volco in urliano Fut one found that copies of the that. Someone would only go of England,

Scotland, marriage is not a always so severe as it has re- and over publie figures.

He finds that the "right to cogent crgument. He and tell the police that I have a

Elizgesta that the prisonerz joint Press statemen¡ 'record" and then I'd bo in gaoi | Sacrament, See the 39 Articles. cently become, and had been forgotten.

appeal to "tradition is, in this marry has been wltiled down that the paillon might be

Bitco HIS APPEAL

1857. In that year. the rostered by a new. Aet declar- case, Ilable lead to embar Act of Prellament which set ing that The statement followed theas 'politically unreliable."

while no clergyman rassment. Be politely submits to tho'

up the divorce courts laid down can be compelled to marry The

of Archbishop - York

that no Anglicam clerle could person. whore marriago, has America, "puppet

times of fish and chips in the clergy that "puppet oppression"

criptural evidence for declares that "The Church is be compeitted to marry anyone for any reason been dissolved, Road: Edgware In South Korea, and In

The 1

foundation the strong

of divorced for adultery but, if he no clergyman can be Then he 'wald: "Why don't you "American occupation."

a rigid' ban on

second Holy Scriptures in refusing to chore to do so, he was not to if he does m

penalised the Americans come in and marriage is and

not conclusive. was below zero and time

As a final gesture of liberal- Gospel suggests wish to re-matay while the and we asked free us? Even a war would be Malthow's

irm, he proposes a change _in than better

life under the that, in certain circumstances, previous about

for wife is

the wording of the marriage Herbert himself had a hand yow that,

10

when asked. prisoners have any organisation?

But Rendaft Davidson

(Arch In the whistling process, His whethe ho or she will - love ("Only a number of elected West and, besides, you'd win." ang

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to run our day- representatives

1 Bald: "Do you suppose

Where thealinglans, prelates

bishop of Canterbury, 1903- 1937 Act, which extended the end cherish as long as ye böth Herburt British and the Americansare and churches diffor to-day affairs.")

decide. 1930) Batly denied that subse grounds for divorce to cruelty, shall live the answer of hus»- chance going to start a third world does not presume to

quant Did they have every

marriage after divores desertion and insanity, said that band and wife/will be mor to Scek" repatriation if they so war just a obligo you!" His appeal to dementially other was windll as Mandall Creigh Church of England clergymen wil but I will endeavour to

philosophy) desired? ("Evey chance.")...

he salu Chris I asked! Ale it true that it for us, than to the phrasing of a anzio 400 (shop of London, 1997 could refine to marry anyone to do, God boing my helpor

1001) said, "I could not advise divorced on any ground,

In other words, the liChurch "nimbly takes from the Angloni some of you have or had wouldn't it?”, shpjeg

any of my clergy to refuse to Wortern

The tradition in the Christ,

wonaise a marriage of an in nood not marry, either the innd baptism of adulte And prevent wavero Noilons that the

Like Mar nocent 7-party who genuinely coast or the nations might sond armies fan Church as a who The American Inughed, "No" crusading into Europe are, come neither, so clear nor“, BO wald Condron, their spokesmanā mon daydreams behind the Iron Buktiotal of the divorce: SCAN TIRE". E Bald." Tws:2568" Curtain, pid it was:) "inentioned

He talked wistfully of Britain. familiar pattern. It condemned. McCarthyism and the colour bar He said he still dreamed some-

n

It

Britain

give is blessing to those who bo ctrsured.AMI BANK

for on-camp lie. Did thesalan, They'ro'acared of the divốnse; and `ánów, marriage still lykke, me

Ho sighed. “No,”

',

„God's blessing, 1. proter

„Elanopy of the divorced

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