1954-10-25 — Page 4

SEFTÓN : DELMER UNFOLDS

THE CHINA MAIL,

OCTOBER

∙HIS

IRON CURTAIN NEWSMAP.

THE NAZI LOOK FOR CHILDREN IN BLUE

A

Berlin. wicked feudat barbre and land- and how they had S far as the schools owners

of East Germany go exploited the peasants at the there is little to fear of the Middle Ages, About re- Nazifica-

31 Was

this Dresden school that some- thing like 30 percent of the children had not joined.

Usually they are the children of middle-class. parents, who are excellent Marxism, afraid that if even the West

over there may be dis 'carned their lesson well. They been able to see they have gave all the right answers. They Communist

organisations. were the eltizens of totalitarian- As I was leaving the rchool I never been de-Nazified,

im in the making

noticed a group of young round the camped Now

if you think that this Pioneers.

"What are door.

doing you Balule milltary

was here?" I asked, because

tion. From all that I have cleverly put over. The children takanation against members of

Only one thing has been changed. That is the colour

of the shirts. They are now

business

blue instead of brown. And just the eccentric idea of 25 school had already closed.

Bane.

young master, let me tell you iz the rex classroom 1 of course, the name and the hat slogans are not quite the visited the Bitle boys and girls were put through exactly the sume ritun exerpt that here it But the helplme, the techni- was conducted in Russian and

was not n your que of leadershly, the standing the teacher to attention and the general pre- thats in a white overall but a In red as middle-aged and girls of boys aloves of Η Totalitarian regime bobby-rocks.

1'19

are all

W

the same knew under von Schluch (nos In Spandau po atal bas bers Inter

woning

A barrier A MASTER

told me: "Some I went with an escort from

pupils ger on quite well with the Box German Foreign Office

Bu with others there a Dresden co-ethicalionas Hirslan

zeems to be a kind of psychom primary lol, pas lng on my

of Jogien barrier. This, I believe, way terug the desolation

is usually due to the parenta what once used to be the lovely centre of Dresden, which in al- a kleet of stupid and patty to the

inst the inst days of the war great Soviet Union If I suspect was laid waste by air attack.

thin 1 rend for the parents and

As I I watched the men auxplain the error of their ways.

work in the blands of Tat usually works wonders." women at

constructions putting up new

Phools, Fath technical

administrative

enn well imagine it. For a

hospilp

www lack of sympathy for the Soviet

buildings and, above all, Huck, of Rats 1 thought:

1. Ulion is an even worse erime in

E Germany than a "nega-

there is anywhere in Germany e attitude"

where totalitarianism and re-

be dead

gimentation must

ever it is here."

Attention

I

WAS wrong. And

was

for

Title girl with fair pigtail, and blue eyes who showed ne i was wrong.

"Class 7C ready for lesson," she reported to the form master

in the best military style.

"Are you

form master.

ready?" asked the

The

ciuss

"Always ready," roared buck in obedient unison. Little Greta saluted again. furned smartly on her heel and raced down the hall to her desk. Then the lesson beyan-a history Iessur all about the

We

evening.

will be

ury caring and!

the

are the gunrd," they sald.

Tho headmaster explained that the Pioneers would stand six o'clock that until

teaches them re- "It ward volutionary watchfulness. It prepares them for the time when Into factories going to

keep out strangers, subateurs and spis."

Of all the East German youth that which re- organisations, minded me mos! of the Nazi the very modestly period was

Society mained

for Sport and Technic,"

Its activities. stated Melalty to "ach East Germany's youth defend their fatherland," Innocent enter- tainments

"flying sports," parachute jumping, rifle shoot-

mprise such

Ing. en spork,

and training in

Refugees

the German How does all

Dunderathe Republic itself.

Young

who Cireta,

this go down with the young East Ger- mans? The best answer I can And is that cluse on 80 percent The part of the sergeant of the refugees still pouring in nr for

}{lper4

ta

Class των

from East Germany to the West Young Pioneers re under 25 years old. number of the

of the Corps, Junior division

I found hundreds of them at

brother of the

class leaders

This organisation.

The

--(London Express Service)

DAVID-HANDIEST

LOW and Bofficelli

SPECTACLE AT BLACKPOOL ·

ON

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Field

re

WHY LEAVE

HUSBAND OF ALL when he remembered) was

From DAVID LUDLOW

New York.

the

"SO REFKENED! NOT AT ALL, LIKE THE -COARSE GOINGS-ON AT SCARBOROUGH"

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

I DID NOT

LONDON

By SIR BEVERLEY BAXTER

very

well

thoughts

slowly re-asserting itself.

DECISION

0.9

WES

decision. I would not take a

The

POSTMAN DIDN'T

KNOCK

By LES ARMOUR

IN

London.

the small town of Dole

Eastern France, a shy little man walls through the streets. acknowledging the proud salutes of his fellow. citizens, pausing now and then to accept a glass of wine or a cup of coffee from an admirer.

Strangely, the little, man is unemployed, He has just been sacked by special directive from Paris. But that has served only to in-- | crease his füme,

Until recently has was postman. But unlike the gentlemen commemorated across the front of the New York Post Office who "through snow and hail and elect... "got the malls through, he won, his fame by not getting the mails through.

HATED THE LOOK

THE mails concerned were

the annual income tax notices.

Ho simply stored them in his basement,

Why?

"Because I hate to see the

look on people's faces when I give them income tax de- So I just did not deliver them and everybody was happy."

Eventually, somebody in Paris, wondering why no taxes were paid in Dole came out to investigate and found the terrible booty in the postman's basement,

He was sacked and the citizenry got new sets of tax demands.

But the story doesn't quite end there.

The postman's trouble now is take. to decide which job to Everybody in town wants to hire him

Thus does man's humanity to

man display itself.

HERE are times when itself, and in order not to plays! How could that brillant. I went to it like a lover to his

every man must face denude our London house of but dark-souled man create such mistress.

It was small lovely nonsense?

for decisions

not staff I hired a very that

The people in the house on Shakespeare to write the ting mands. affect himself man ns chauffeur, golf cad. only

verbal musio of "In such a Free German Youth," to which the reception centre in Berlin's but the immediate members dy and bottle washer in, our right were not only friendly night" but here was a man who excited because had decided en murder, who and young Fast Germans must Markenfolde suburb the other of his family, It happens auch spare moments as he but pleasantly

Just delivered had passed from power to the to us all, and it is a wise was not taking my Sealy their bitch bad belong if they want to make a day. career in the Socialist States.

They WITO waiting to be wife who recognises that on ham "Disraeli" for a swim. herself of. six tiny puppies. prison cell, who was sitting in It is the twist

doctors,

When these occasions her husband I must confess that at the The maternal instinct is always my garden with his lovely im- Hitler Youth, 'LS I discovered, examined by

they are passed they are flown As I followed her form master and has tuchrers,

is not only lord and master end of the holiday he looked an impressive thing but I have mutable wife whose to a youth camp near Bremen--

than when I never seen

a mother so bored were her own,

WAS also a message into the classroom, little Gretu, and youth meetings.

hired him. parcat who dis. and there they wait to be en- but specially endowed with even smaller

with her offspring as this parti-Thero Wue to the front of her

from Lord Templewood, whont standing it in

rolled in the new West German vision and judgment.

cular bitch. We went into ap you will remember better called them smartly to catages his child from belong- National Army. males,

When the family had

propriate ecstacies but I must Sir, Sam Hoare, saying that lo attention.

A Then lie clenched ing

Out of the ene, frying pan into The roles of husband and her right ist above her flaxen mister or the youth leader will the other.

wife

like those of settled in and arranged such confess that our rupture was was sending me the proofs of vall for

at of his book of political memaits, matters BB somewhat lessened when · an explanation of his head in salute.

tute Even

I found at

General Montgomery and mundane

Marshal

Alexander establishing friendly rela about six o'clock in the morn The telephone had shaken off ita dumb summer allence and the. when they planned the Bat- tions with the butcher, the ing the pups, began to howl for rhythm of London life tle of El Alamein. Alexan- baker and the general store their breakfast.

Nevertheless the place, was, der was responsible for the man I went down to join them for a weekend from

How invigorating strategy and Montgomery Thursday to Tuesday. The enchanting

before breakfast to put on weekend was "invented by in charge only of the tac- the English but they are pair of shorts and splash in the WHEREUPON I took a firm, tics. In drawing this com apt to stretch. it a bit. By set while Disroll my Sealyham parison you will realise that confining my stay from terrier chased the gulls in all house at the sea except for

The cynical will write off the the husband is in charge of Thursday to Tuesday I felt directions. When I returned to August and September. On the

head and a frightful saboteur of over-riding strategy that such an example of town on the Thursday I felt contrary I would loop my town little postman us a mere block- winter and a summer holiday good, government as well. They Do-it- and the wife has to work devotion to duty could not that caly a madman would house and live in it except for a

widows out the details. There would pass unobserved by the spend his days and nights in What in blazes is to be gained will point out that

such a monstrous tuberosity na be happier marriages if it neighbours.

this vast motropolis called Lon- by gazing at the sea which is would get no: pensions, little education, and completely unconcerned as to children

politicians no Jarge, government were more widely realised:

whether you gaze at it, de not...

Automobiles to ride, about in if And it was then that I took. And when the day i was over every postman behaved thus, the great decision, We would my mind went back to 1919 A greenhouse with electronic round supply of ruit and furnished house at the sea- JP to my arrival the sum or house brico dat which when as a Canadian subaltern I

have a small service flowere, from tomatoes to side. Our daughter Meribah mer, even for an English would do when Parliament was Lord Beaverbrook for the ed but not till then had I met who was inadvertently left summer, was unspeakable. sitting. But the rest of the time we had correspond- orchis own home, which has behind in Vancouver last England had become a god- we would live by the sen. Juist this vital enigmatic genius who throw at one another, either, high fidelity music in all rooms, and doors that open at approach; summer was coming home den mass of murky swamp. think of the pleasure of writing was to alter the whole counso

A meat-grinding machine for her 21st. Her brother, Talk about the monsoon! It on the, verandalt with the

breathe khore, and to

His words at the end of our that will also scrub his wife's Clive, would have leave wou be mero, drizzle ng waves splashing against the of my life: pots and pans, and, sweep and from his job on Lord compared to the English contaminated air.

if they wETO, polish the cors.

Beaverbrook's London rain in the summer of 1954. moderately interested in the conversation came back to mo For sons Gary and Owen, aged

idea but rather shook me by s clearly as

uttored only yesterday", darling. If Certainly. 10 and cight, there is a minia- Evening Standard. The old My family seemed to be saying

"Hundreds of years ago," he ture railway in the garden, man, that is the author of

sed, "the hairy Britons stood. pulled by a steam-engine they this, would keep, the house slightly impatient about the that's what you want you shall con drive.

wonderingly on those shores us About that electronic brain. open in London and divide weather and talked to me.

the wind álled the sails of the Mr. Boyd calls It Albert his time between the metro as if they had been maroon- ed on a tiny island, not only

mighty Roman gailech setting Einstein, and it can do nearly polis and the seaside.

surrounded by water, but

off for Imperial Home. London as much as the professional,

worst is the Imperial Rome of today drenched with it. million-dollar computers.

THAT is one of the W and you must make your career tackles 10 mathematical opera-

aspects of the feranie of the here unless, of course, you are tions at once, 60 times a minute.

specles. They lack logic. Thes Boyd's employers, on oll com pony, a truck it

Wonderfully well designed then Hinta are. They are equipped with the latest labour-saving devices for the working housewife. And all at umaringly cheap rente fish. Frample, for a four-room letchan- and-bath fut with parquet flours, central Heating, and itgts).

Jor

Dold

has

No. 1, AVID BOYD, a 40-year- America's

chemist, yourself expert.

named

HE HAS BUILT

Chiengo

just been

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An electronic brain from army spare parts;

It

ever there are abstruse calcula- tlona to be made.

He has had no engineering training.

This summer the Baxter family decided to lake a

_NOSTALGIC

IMPATIENT

have it."

the un-

My wite

RETURN

a now

el

CONVERSATION

DUT

GREAT GULF

they forget that soldiers Dwould get no A-bombs-to

And it is just possible that, If the widows of Dole, got no pensions, someone in Dole would shortly be moved to do some- tho thing thout it something citizens could see and not some. thing dispensed with impersonal bureaucracy from

Paris.

The citizens have long faces. when the tax demands turn up in Dole, because there is a great gulf between their contribution and its results scross which thos cannot see.

Money paid to the Income tax collector is just money lost and gone forover, der

And money, spont on

pubile services in money which comes," mysteriously, from the gover

ment

Perhaps it would do overfono.

postmen, Just for a few months, emtilated

How odd of them to take that view. On the night that do not understand the necessity content to watch on the shores WB found a delightful I got there a full moon had of considering every aspect of a like the halry Britons."

house at Cooden Beach, appeared and there was not case, I had irrevocably deter

A & tiny residential settlement a wisp of cloud in the sky. mined to live by the sea, but

wife should not accept the ida with one hotel, one golf It was sheer magic. So as I her husband had merely course, ond estate agent, a bright was the moon, so

hat, YOUNG Mr Bryant Bowles, railway station and a few clear was its radiant beauty, buy a new grey haven PONDERING on these words as good. I the world's

Montgomery must have spent I sat in my garten I remember- E boss of the Association for neighbours with houses that so sparkling was the glean some time discussing tactics: ed; that: It was time to set off the little postman from Dole, the Advancement of.

to the Carton Club whero White also gazed at the sea. There ing diamond reflection on with Alexander.

friend from Montreat was to People, was arrested at Harring was a certain nostalgie ap the rolling waters, so lonely tofi, Delaware, as he stepped

The week-end passed by and dine with me. So I dialled i peal to me because Cooden, was the intermittent blink- from a plane..

He is accused of conspiring to Beach is only three miles ing of a lighthouse that I on the Tuesday returned to bad and and the following

London again. The sun was conversation took place. violate the school attendance from Boxhill where in the felt a sense of absolute rap radiant and the garden was laws moaning that

rich in

·anummer's he old fashioned war of 1914 ture.

Poolour with encouraging white children to

fullment Among my letters was an invitation to the first night of the Old Vic Production of Macbeth which had won wich at the Edinburgh

go on strike at: schools where 1918 I trained as a funfor Negro pupila ate admitted.

officer under Brigadier

NALE A MINUTE about Critchley now unhappily

H

I hundred words was cut off blinded and later in the

ENCHANTING

lawn of cur house was

Mr. Bisenhower nationwide TV war convalesced at Earl duke the deck of an aircraft-

and radio campaign speech from La Woft's country house in carrion and there beyond the . Then Denver White Home ane night i Bexiud, which had been shore was the ocean, in all ita" je

And it was no accident.Tho Republican National Commitico given over for the recuperarelle grandeur Itmado. Ho

me think of the fast acape had paid for half on hours and tion of Canadian officers the Merahant of Ve öven a President has to stick to.

Lore and rules. He was faded

irmo

Chicago

Hó

of mild interest

that:14

„relatives, 68-year?

telephone rang, and

The

64 Hamilton

what?!"

rfen, Hamilton"

•Place!!

érrico and

was home, araid, a How

fool as

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