1954-08-21 — Page 13

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1954.

SEFTON DELMER Opens His Notebook

To Reveal What Is Happening In Germany Today

They're at it again -so be WARNED!

EXAMPLE: Adenauer has 190 more staff

BONN.

HEY Je 11 very Jumpy buh these day at the "Office

Augmenta fur the

tion of the Allied Forces,'

Chane Hor Adenauer's War Ministry is

aliv

und euphemisti-

Lithu When i first allowed it to ise. bea that I might Waterp all them, the Fe

int

officer flared up fue fury of protest.

1

17th mag Delmer turns up has per

hu anti-Geran withi

Auts-N in there Carles to apuengous with auft- have him Brawn out I will be a pleasure.

privilege."

ال .

The offer apologwe most

The Rugtefully later angrifeed

い

י ה'

patient hus varation to met je

Achim Chater, the chief of the

Department, Intelligence

even

WILS

***

more staldent must be arrested," he said sod I am assured he was not joking

YET

were

HAVOC

in secret Ministry

Tinot blone them for being a little testy

There

why

former

very good reasons

of these the HerVES Peteris, cufunels, and majors of should be Hitler's Weturmacht rayhttle at the edges.

One, the Dr John bombshell. The disappearance of West Clemany's security chief

after

officers than Hitler had in 1936

FIRST of a series of articles that

will make international NEWS

ut what If you are shockerf

Dr 1 have

about to say Adranuer's tricks. Just ask 11 this record of his rearmantent

on from 1947 to today.

Glowi

la

11 In 1947, after the break-

Moneyew Bi The Four conference, Adenauer,

wultation with sonic of Trends, decided that the time to buy wengripes for Germany her way back as a big lower by the an offer of armed and to Americans and the West,

Early in 1048 he got Generat Hans Speidel, Rommel's former chief of staff, to draw up a plan for him providing for Germa LE it European Contingents Coalition Army.

He passed this plan on to his Agerican frierel Mind you, ! This time

not Adenauer WAS yet Chancellor. He was merely s private individual head of the big Christian Democrat Party

Union

The Speider's plan attracted

who hud Pentagon officers, themselves been playing with the idea of tough German 5.8. Bolillers fighting in units com-

unded by Americans.

In 1149,

the after German Government was form. ed under Adenauer, he immedi- lely set to work on the army. The Arst thing he did was to luke

Aside tenders

opposition

Individually

the

study military group to plan a was set up in German Army Bots.

Into key positions of this Brst shadow War Ministry Adenauer muck liks sulti miviser Globke, Tate of Himmler's Ministry. the Interior, pul number of July 20 plotters.

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Why?

It to provide the com

officers and N.C.O.. Because

the Afrika Korps was taken prisoner almost in its entirety. It preserved uniformity during Imprison

other Germun ment lost by Army units later in the rigours of the war.

Moreover, the WIN capturedt

Afrika Korps at It time when Germany had not yet been beaten to her knees. It is would believed that Its morale the

be better for that reason.

And

of

Its calculation was that these men, by their record of anti- Hitler resistance, would provide of public opinion a guarantee abrut the anti-Nazi demneratin chugarter adtoy once the activities, which were still denied, were revealed. the same me that he appointed another July 20 later, namely Dr Otto John,

of to the chairmanship what was to become West Ger- many's M 1.5

11 time

WIN

Into the shadow War Ministry marched mes like Axel von dem

the Busere,

fair-haired Bal young offleer who had plotted to parate 1 frest of the Fuehrer for tapertion with a bomb in his Rhipsack and blow himself and the Puchrer to henven. But Hitler conevlled. the inspection,

MORE MEN

in the Ministry now

AS the movement for Ger- many's Inclusion in a Euro- the pean Army gained support

BO

Right-wing did the need for more and more parties. He warned offlers, technicians, and plan

ners Lo enter the shadow them that it might be necessary

Ministry. the make concessions 10 French lu order to get Amerleun backing for Gerninny in its fight to recover an anny,

& Wead Berika

10 Commemoration of the service for the martyrs

(to kill lifter in Judy 20 plot 1944) and his blithe reappear- bee in Soviet-controlled East Herin

cused havoc

Boun's seret War Ministry.

For it hos burst right inko temaflefle of (won) the Beree underground faction fight now being fought between the

loyaliste ntrol of

**rmitor"

nnel the

(to Hitler) for

new German Army.

the

Everything that 1 Bave

learned and seen during thiz somewhat hectic

visit to West

really

HIS POLICY was brilliant

DERE

his exact words as

Today i hus 420 more officers than the Hitler War Ministry trad in 1836 when Hiller was well on the road with his war plane,

Hier had 10 German staff olfleers in his War Ministry 1990

Adenouer's

in

Bhadow

Herken on that don and Ministry. under It's civilian reported to me by one of leaders he talked to:--

the

trade union

must hook ourselves on ter the Americana,

We must be ready to make concession required by the

Germany tells me that despite a

ench order that when the French resistance

fati

These to return nost gallant

Nas The LITERENT pro- United Into

{r!t

the "traitors" have had it.

The

fellow cene of their "traitos Dr John,

the Soviet

whether voluntary. ZUR. Is the vast majority ut ther German publie is ronvinced, or it voluntary. 0.5 Allied In- telligence officers and I myself hold, is a handicap in the buttle which the "traitors" are liot going to be able to overcome, Already John's departure being most successfully exploit- ed by the loyallats officers whose proud boust it is that they remained true to their Fuchrer. These men are now putting out the suggestion that not only John but other July 20 "traltors" also may have had secret laks with the East zone.

French

the policy of the

States will be changed pro-German polley.“

I congratulate the Chancellor on the brilliance with which he bus followed that policy.

A mouth later, In December

1940 the Chancellor told Wash- Ingion that he considered

But within a few hours almost of making these proposals to Washington be was signing the Petersberg agreement

the un mourwin just opposite

from where I am writing.

Theodor

be-

The

to

The Press chief himself said to me that ho thought that within five years of the forma- tion of the German Army the West would be strong cnough and not to have

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to contemplate "Well, mecting Д Russian

attack me my purely defensively. victor

Also careful records bave and been kept by the ulicers N.C.O.. concerning the haviour of Liicir

men in the have

remaining strongpoint divisions. Others refer evon prison

They camps.

of the White enemy, which we 30 und 36 divisions us the Ger- screened them

for enrefully

in our mon aim. those who remained loyal Nazis Reds had by-passed

cleared up with the and those

collaborated advance, who

heavy armour and the heavy with the Allies.

weapons I now brought in from on whom across the Elbe. The whole Need you ask me the chalte is going to fall for thing was over in two days."

the

burk The colonel aut new army--the Jobs in

laughed with pleasure. collaborators or the Nazis?

dear Gieser," sald my

were friend, "you

"By then," he said, "we are then. But what in that case do confident that we shall hold our

back with you think of the prospects

own and hit our miserable 12 divisions?”

counter-offensive deep into the that 18 Soviet area." "Oh," guld Glaser,

another quite

matter" And he let it be understood alightest that no one had the

German War the intention to

the German Office of limiting

it

for

One characteristic of the new German Army I find is agreed un by everyone I have talked with, including that really very pleasant "loyalist" Press chief,

The German Army will not be the army for the defensive, will be the urmy for the often- sive. It will be no use in retreat, But if, instoud of having to fall back through West Germany

12 divisions. to the Rhine further west a "contribution" to progress In which German He is quite right. For every soldiers, it feared, will melt one I have met here today

of 20 their homes leaving talking of a minimum orms behind thom-it

away their

tu

advances eastwards to meet the Soviet attack then it should be very good indeed say

experts.

NEW TACTIC -on wheels only

The

TERE I should like to tell you

no fewer H the story of Colonci Gleser.

a

Blunk. has already than 230 staff officers.

Needless to sty, the few He is a former stoff officer, "traitors" have

newly recruited one of those German officers swamped by then go been good "loyailat" type, of course, "loyalists."

brought in

for

occasional Clashes 01 policy quick- exercises at the War Office and They are not pit, where new lactics and ly developed settled yet though some of them strategies are tried out. have been won by the "traitors."* Gleser told some friends of Axel von dem Bussche, how mine of the very Interesting and number of other invasion exercises held at the July 20 men have preferred to War Ministry last March. leave. Von dem Bussche has "I commanded the Red taken a job in the Foreign Invasion troops," ho said. Offer.

"Eighty-six divisions 1 had. Said he to one of his friends: Russian-sized divizions, you

the "Under Hiber

anti-Nazis know, much smaller than ours. to break

I

PVET,

German Army contribution in the Foreign Office took "My Job Was within the European framework refuge In the Wehrmacht. through to the West Against m absolute necessity for Western Today the anti-Nuzis in the me Wus

American staf survival.

War Ministry lake refuge in the officer commanding 12 German Foreign Omlee."

divisions armed and equipped Which is saying something. just as our contingent in E.D.C. For von dem Bussche knows is to be equipped, plus two full well that the new Foreign armoured U.S. divisions. Once of Dr Adenauer is far "Boy, dia

give those from clear of the tate Ribben- Americana a shock! I produced He stated his solemn pledge trop gang.

an entirely new tactle. I lett On top of thin comos (three) "that the Federal Government

all the heavy armour, all the the new anxiety that the is Armly resolved to maintain

tracked vehicles and heavy guns demittarisation Western Powers and the Soviet the

of the

behind the Elbe. I attacked on Unle may yet come togethe Federal Republic and to prevent

wheels only. in a European cold war truce, military units of any kind ever preserving the status quo in being formed here

here again." Germany for the next 20 years.

THE START -armod old offer

DUT in my view the progres- Bsive

elimination of the "traitor" element in the German War Office was inevitable even without John.

Scockt and

MORALE

an easy choice ONCE the army itself comes to

That Wos up to the best be set up, the "loyalist" cic- Stresemann-Secckt technique. ment will be stronger still. For Came the Korean war in 1950 the intention today is to rely und the Americana gave secret on Rammel's old Afrika Korpa approval to his plan. The first 'as the main skeleton.

"At the same time I put seven airborne divisions down behind the Rhino, In 24 hours the entire area between the Elba and the Rhine was overrun. In other words, the whole of our Federal Republic.

Magic Eye Takes Over Traffic

New York. DADAR is being used to

Rok trafic lights for

the first time.

1

AMERICA COLUMN

from

sales, Kentucy, for a chestnut colt sired by Nasrullah.

Nasrullah, was third in the British sires list when it was sold in 1010 by the Aga Khan to an American ayndieste, for

€182,867.

British record for a yearling is the £29,400 paid at the Newe market sales in 1945 for the Gackwar of Baroda's Sayajirao. OVER SEVERSON, 46-your- old Boy, Soout worker, was to demonstrate to the asked Scoula dally good deed television at) Los Angelos,

Escort Uion........ elderly

For, as I see it, it lies in the whole development of this new German Army development which, for its Becrecy and willness, matches well the pro- cedents set in the twenties or The magic eye discrimin-

NEWELL ROGERS ates. carly 'thirties.

It ignores parked The tricks and deceptions by cara, records only moving which

General

gorge of the Niagara, while General Schleicher rearmed the vehicles, makes mental hundreds of tourists watched. Germans while the oh! so pacific note of each approaching A fow hours earlier cracks Dr Stresemann covered for them car and the distance of the had been noticed, and the area with protests of good will and one behind it so that all a irfangle containing Toft, of ropod off. The breakaway was good Europeaniem have their

have time to cross an inter- the brink of the falls and 180ft. counterpart today.

Hilter came into power when section.

of Prospect Point, where the the secret reannament of

honeymooners stand. Its memory Sceckt and Schleicher had gone

is Info FERE QUIETLY. the US far enough and when those who never forgets the count in Germany felt they motorist trying to enter a mali could afford to come into the thoroughfare from a side stress on the loyally and character of open with him

Norwalk, Connecticut, is the every man Beeking an appoint What an saying here with city where the experiment is, most as comuni dooad of non- apprehension today is that there being tried, and the company commissioned officer. may be men among the newly which make the device' also special attention is also being influential groups who, drunk makes the kadar trup for spoede paid to doctors and sleestists with

the power of regained ing motorists, que van

Moves drafted into the Service. sovereignty and the vital poel This time, it ways, it ti makinig sind date or the wa tion of balance hold by Western Amanda. Germany between the hostile Bast and Wort may try nogrie new ainister : folly.

solitary

YOWN -- PLUNGED 266,000 AWE

ph

Army had ordered a cback women across th08-127%, von wán

tons of rock Into the lower just:

at the

told u

But fra Wallcod away, Severson approkuhaa.. the thin. Thers Dame's cry of recogni at that street corner, and

in the homes of the thou

A

All I hope is that it does not come to any of this,

But make no mistake

German that intended ag an 47ZKY

about Army is of the at has no seUSO

it,

offensive. It

all otherwise.

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