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GANGSTERISM
TERRORISES
E
some
Djeurfa, on the edge of the Sahara. XCUSE me if I'm
panting a
bit. But
#
I've not done any climbing for quite time. And what climb this has been,
With a party of Foreign Legionaries to escort me in their green drill battle- dress and floppy hats they look just like our own troops in Malaya-1 have just clambered, heaved, and levered myself up 500 ft of hostile rock.
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סור?
THE SEA of HATE
London Expines florvios
A Report on the
AFTER ADENAUER, WHAT?
By COLIN LAWSON
Berlin.
HANCELLOR
CAdauer's illness has
spotlighted Germany's burning question. Who can possibly succeed the man called the "Old. Fox" by friends and opponents alike?
There is nobody in the Government coalition of Christian Democrats, Free Democrats, and German Party of Adenauer's calibre.
Yot the pitch of power which Adenauer has attained for Ger- many demands a Prime Minister completely who allies himself with the West.
is for a man of ability at the top.
before, Germanyday, as never Even so, despite the legacy of success which the Old Fox will bequeath to Western Germany, he has done nothing to groom a successor.
He la nourly 20. His vanity, I believe, has led him to think of himself in terms of GCT-
many's leador for another ten years.
NO OPPOSITION
He has brooked no opposition among his own party. Po cally, ho has crushed the chief contender for party leadership, Jacob Kaiser.
Kaiser, now Minister of All- German Affairs, is cynically described by some "Minister
Non-Existence."
When Adenauer gave up
the
Mediterranean Foreign Office he appointed Von
ALGERIA
By SEFTON DELMER
=MEDITERRANEAN SEA
ALGERIA
Guerilla country
0
MILES
And here I am now looking first stage of my trip around down into the black, venomous,
this Mediterranean sea of hate. shark's mouth entrance
What is the motive, I have series of underground caverns
isked myself and galleries which until
Rnd again nights ago were quite certainly again, for these apparently ran- still the lair of "Alred" and dom assassinations of the man-
in-the-street his immediate staff,
Moroccans and that is the
Algerians who, so code
far as the "Alfred," name and nickname under French police know, are just or- which
with the fanatically anti dinary folk unconnected French
and anti-West
young any organisation, guerilla commander-in-chier Si otherwise?
French and the he bands
Messaoud is known to
troops hunting him Algerian terrorist Leads.
political
or
"Alfred" and the men hehind
"Everyone known to be pay
Brentano. But Brentano is weak character, dominated by This boss, and has never fashioned
policy.
Ludwig
Who else is there? Erhard, the Economics Minister who has carved Germany's post- war miracle? He is widely re- garded as the most probable. But expansion.
his heart is in Gonnan trade He has no feeling
I am hopping from one rebel-for international politics. infested district
to
д has
He
reputation for another. also (I am helicoptering because arrogance.
Voo-Chancellor Bluecher is a motoring without the protection of a convey him in Cairo and in Tripoll do ing taration must be shot, Teli question on
is out of the Free Democrat and therefore account not want sympathy from
of rebel unacceptable to the powerful the people," the directive goes ambushes Helicoptering
in Christian Democrats. fellow Moslems so much 38 a on, "that on no account
ma cheaper and simpler than discipline based on fear.
they smoke or use tobacco. All ranging a convoy.) 7. order says:
EVERYTHING
their
The
ar-
Home Secretary Schroeier is
:
for
International
DARK HORSES?
a third-class, politician; Finance persons smoking will be shot,” Nevertheless, a substantial Minister Schaeffer a human useful to the There you see it. You are number of these non-sympathicalculating machine and quite
shot be enemy musi
destroyed. not
the sers living in bolated hill'dis- unfitted you pay tax to whether
French. It is a mosque,
You are shot if you tricts, and in the low-lying negotiations. school, or just an ordinary
smoke a cigarette and thereby coastal arcu have
monopoly terrorised physically house. Destroy the telegraph support the tobacco
of the French. poles. Attack repair men.
psychologically into co-operation Then the directive
Take my w
word, launches
not by the rebels, into
Д campaign of termor just an idle threat A Moslem against the French and the attting in a cafe has been shot at Moroccan troops.
terrorist because he sight by was found puffing a cigarette or
this is
and
cholce Christian to
The rest of the Cabinet re They are supplying the rebels experts in their own fields such with food, money, recruits.
as transport, food, housing-but little else. DARK AGES
A few dark horses have been NO PRISONERS may be taken, sucking at his hubblebubble. THE only man who is doing mentioned, such as Karl Arnold, Only really important chicly It is incredible. Can you good business in Philippe-Prime Minister of North Rhine are to be made prisoner". imagine a more random form of ville, set in the rich lowland Westphalia. But his
than this ordering to areas, is the furniture remover, would murder
the split CONTINUE setting fire to
the shoot al! taxpayers and all He is moving out familles of Democrat Party from top farms and all homes of smokers?
French settlers who have been bottom. goumlers. (Moroccan
Believe me, though, it is a farming in the district for are called youmiers.)
highly effective form of terror generations. NO PITY may be shown, for the in this Moslem world where The destruction of Roman families of goumlers or other right and authority ore always civilisation witnessed by the Moroccans
supporting the on the side of the strong and turns of a town over which a repeition of affairs in Germany on my wDY here made after World War One Germany, when powerful Gustyy Strese« thousand years of poverty for marin died.
French.
Ievies
TRY
to kidnap the children of the goumiers. Calds and tribal
ruthless.
TERRORISED
chieftains appointed by the I.
French must be shot down.
and I estimated that there are THE WIVES of settlers
about 4,000 guerillas roving French civilians must be kill this vast area of eastern Algeria ed. All tax collectors are
to where I am now helicoptering ba killed.
between the Mediterranean and of course, is fairly the Sahara. All this, traditional with such move- ments.
ឥ But then there is
But there are three and a half the million French Moslems who sentence which shows up recklessness and ruthlessness of have not the slightest sympathy
with the rebels. Alfred and his group,"
Must terrorists not fear, have wondered.. that these in- discriminate shootings and bombings will turn all potential A VOLLEY.
sympathisers away from them? TT is always possible he is still
Well,
of this sheet' T
paper arre-crushed to death and which one of Alfred's guerillas burled by a fallen boulder in must have dropped in flight one of the underground galleries makes it quite clear that these random murders are not random at all but part of a plan.
of this warren of caveTTES.
Legion volunteers have been down there trying to get him with grenades and tear-gas in a mad, frustrating, real-life ver- sion of a Third Man hunt.
to
For the tunnels are so narrow at many points that there barely room for one man wriggle in-all right for de- fonders but suicide for attack-
ehe most courageous, French Captain Shibechir. crawled within three yards of the cavern where he could bear Alfred talking with his men.
were
con-
He called on him to surrend- er. All the reply he got was a volley of shots from a carbine.
The Legionaries fident they had got all possible exits blocked. that they would get him when starvation at lust drove Altred and, his party out A Legion party crawled through and explored the entire labyrinth. "We found Just truces of, where Alfred had been," one man told me,
NEWS
FOUND?
JEWS has just come through by radio that contact was. established with B guerilla
30 about
20 Group
strong miles to the south of
F
population and the
And the same can be said of other minor figures.
So that everything points to
He was the Adenauer of hy beginning of the Dark Ages for day. He brought Germany bock Europeans as a whole,
I cannot help admiring courage and resourcefulness "Alfred," it is true.
to
the
of
play a dominating part in world politics-and killed hi self by his efforts.
With his death Germany way are plunged into bitter internal con-...
But I know this also. If Alfred and his men not wiped out soon it will be just the French who suffer.
It will be all of us.
(COPYRIGHT)
not fusion. From the cauldron arose
Adolf Hitter.
Will the same, happen again when Adenauer disappears?
(COPYRIGHT)
The Treadmill to Oblivion
FRED ALLEN in an
Tealise that
interview with
they
·
the when
zip and the more determined fastener come in all the button are to keep on. Jukes
And went out?
the refrigerators have killed off all the jokes about ice delivery
men."
"If they fall off they're dead because there is no other work for a comic in America radio and TV.
than
DAVID LEWIN-S
"And at his age-30-he has those small-part bankers, but
to go to a psychiatrist two three times a week.
Counting
or because the climate is did and they don't have to spend a lot of money on clothes."
Allen disclaims this by saying: "With money I'm just a cloar ing house for the U.S. Trea mury.-
I left film and he went back "We finished the programme to contemplating the auto- at one o'clock in, the morning,
Mr Allen paused to sip a rich,
favourite Mr. Allen has not to worry. creamy sherry, this type). "When I was on audio about money. In his career he with a weekly show what time han occumulated a dollar for- Allen's face muscles were sot In characteristic gloom. (He is "And if they stay on they go did I have to myself? I'li til tune and, it is alleged, kept it:
as you just half an liotur in a the man who once said he was tight to oblivion, because hoping to find a way of with- they got older and grey-haired week. drawing from the human race) the only thing left for them to do is to act mall parts Like they bankers at a time when Mr Allen in London for a London.
holiday with his wife, Portland can't look their bank manager RED ALLEN, one of Huffa-is not
in the face. actively now America's top radio engaged in radio, and confinen “
"At the end of the treadmill walked over to a delicatessen to biography he is writing. In his TV appearances to "What's comedians, sat
an occasional there is no money for thean-eat steaks-sicak at that time in
"Do you know," herald, his London hotel My Line? and
they've spent all they have the morning!--and then guest appearance.
30 when I was writing for radio us and talked-gloomily-of
earned keeping on the treadmill. minutes later got down to I always kept a complete set of are hiding in another the present state of humour.
"How did I got off before ob- Worrying about the next week's Shakespearo in my office. stronghold of cock ravines, and
livion? I had a heart attack forlifed caves just like this one
"Humour," he said, "is at Djerufa,
just getting more mediocre. He has honors the First get off
He has been in the business of three years ago and I had to 30. men they have.
billing then already lost seven in this labost I wrote one original joke World Wación
"Now I look around and I seo | clash-may well be Alfred, and in all my life... It was 80 used to show a tombstone with that my heart attack saved me. Bygroves, and Norman Wisdom, and his hands stretched out
kis party popping up again, 22
the thription Fred Allen: Look at Bid Consar, the top TV Well, I am mort som l'have Yours ago and it is the gas born 1894. He was a
"It is not the joloos that make ratio
comedian in America at the me laugh," he said." "It Is the missed him. But this climb and about the brewer's dray star for more than 20 years,
moment, nil my ruffing and penting has falling on a man and the way.
doct that I don't have to get boen well worth, while all the man says 'At last the drinks me this" he said in his twangy
““Redio and TV havo, taught
"He is just turned 30 and no on the treadmill of TV to make same for the legionary, has fuat shown me a paper he has found are on me, donde grating voice. Any comedian earn $25,000 & wook. Think of audiences happy that please
$25,000 a week-that' in one of the caves, which "It is still going rosód: today in Amación, is on a treadmill to that,
what, znore itman £8,000 in your “In Amerion the men on provides the answer to the with variatiorm, but I think X' oblivión.
money--and all he does is treadmill hire contindeuti which has been started it first,
The more successful, they worry about his show, No-tigre- formleg whether sou, son the castar nós the tronchiali zor auribing: also.
here
Those
..
puzzling me ever since I arrived, "Progress is wiping out whole
French" Nority Adrion or the sectiorm of coursedy,
Billing
гостите."
took up that much "They For a moment Fred Ailon
space"--he fraid out, this hands cheered up a bit when he con-
a fow inches apart "but all my widered the English comedians; writings took up this much"
the Crazy Gang, Max
me.
to mo
B
yard
sport. The comparison pleased me. had so much apore, 9.3 "But now 12 stopped and people corget.
But Shak
doing very nicely, very nic Indeed.
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