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THE CHINA · ·MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1957. *

Much of the Western hopes for Europe rest on

THE

A

NOT

Bonn.

FLASH-BACK story is as good a start as any to the present age of Chancellor Adenauer's iron determination in face of stormy political waters..

Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had accepted an in- vitation to dine with a small group of favoured German correspondents. As the journalists' luck turned out, the afternoon of the dinner the Chancellor suffered his bitter political defeat in the teeming Ruhr state of North Rhine-Westphalia but the Chancellor, kept his dinner appointment. At the time Adenauer was bitter over the toppling of his own Karl Arnold as chief of the Ruhr state's government through the defection of the Free Democrats, supposedly the Chancellor's ally in the Bonn government.

Germany's "Iron Chancel- lor" Is Facing His Toughest Battle Yet

the

The exchange between German reporters and the Chancellor became stormy. Finally, Adenauer bluntly told off the reporters as only he

can:

"You wille #

I don't always

truth either."

lot of lies but

tell you the

What the Chancellor meant

was:

I know how to play the

game rough, too,

re-

A few days later, while the Journalists were busy wriling about the Old Man's political eclipse and speculating about his carly retirement, Adenauer engineered another of his

He markablo

bio political triumphs. obtained-by methods still ob-

of agreement scure the arch political foes, the Social Democrats, to support the vital rearmament Legislation to come before Parliament the following month.

VANQUISHED

BUT VICTOR

his

IMMORTAL ADENAUER

was

as usual was a burning"ague, The European Defenco ·Com- the arch of tho: Chan- munity, cellor's foreign policy, mired in bitter discged in the French National Assembly. It was not a picasonet political plc- ture that the Chancellor con- templated timt lovely day.

The Chancellor, however, was not discouraged. "The problems

FRIEND OF CHURCHILL

are endiveg" ho granted, "but by exercising a streat deal of patience we can solve them -- all of them.”

From this perspective the political picture In West Ger- many has not radi- changed

cally in the in- tervening years. Foreign and domestic opi. nion on

Ger

meny and its

At the age of 80 Chancellor Konrad Adenauer finds stormy waters surrounding him as he heads into his final period in office and the West German elections in September.

He says he is sure of victory. His popu larity appears to con- firm it despite some setbacks at home.

But it might be a serious thing for West- ern planning and the NATO organisation if the fron Chancellor should fall, or vanish.

-by

problems tends NORMAN LINDHURST

to be volatile

new

and alarmist. As each crisis bursts, it his increasing political dumcul- is accompanied by gloomy ties might suggest? There is forebodings and dark prophecies solid ground for belloving that that the Chancellor "now really unother flash-back may shod is in trouble." more light on the answer 40 this question....

On an Indian summer after- noon a few years ago, Chancellor Adenauer looked wistfully from the windows of his second floor office in the east Rhine-bank corner of the Palals Schaumburg, the Federal Chancellory.

The lawn of the Palals' gar- to the Rhine, dens, extending

with autumn was soletched leaves. On the Rhine strings of moved up and down the

This had been the point to Adenauer's defeat In North

Free Rhine Westphalia, The Democrat defection

and their alliance with the Social Demo- block crate was Intended to

of the West German to permit passage of the arms legislation.

But having been handed vic- tory, returned

the Social Democrats

It to

I wish I had the time for a

In

the the garden,' Adenatter. Why? Obviously, the walk Chancellor had engaged in some Chancellor remarked, "but there handbolled but adroli political is no time-not

walk, manoeuvering.

Is Chancellor Adenauer really

boreyed stream like corpuscles in the bloodstream of German

even

for

A

Adenauer, за

usual,

Whe

on the way down-and out-as hartled by problems. The Saar,

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Somehow, however, Adenauer manages to patch up each crisis and sait on to the next one, The Chancellor's six years have been, in essence, an unbroken criats. So far, however, he has surmounted every crisis and pushed ahead with the task of consolidating and

him. But Adenauer has passed down word that there is to be no "Anthony Eden buildup" of Brentano. Brentano is being left to qualify for Adenauer's Job on his own merits.

Some of Adenauer's advisers stato candidly that "one Aden- nuer is fine but one-for the moment--la

They enough. mean that the Germans presum- ably would resent an effort by the Chancellor to hand down his own iron-handed rule.

national

In September, 1957, when the

German extending next West

elections

arc held, Adenauer will be well his 82nd

FRIEND OF IKE

Germany's come-buckt great power,

Into

Plainly

15

the

at

BILL

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YOU AND YOUR, FAMILY SLIP IN AND YOU ALL LIVE HAPPILY

EVER AFTER **

SALES TALK

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

accrets of their long life and good health,

Most wouldn't take the slight- est netice of me but drank their beer and stared vacantly into

the islands of the Southern Pacific.

The last time I was in Corn-

"And make it mappy, wil vou?"

"In two minutes, sir."

Postscript

As the new

S we have only just arrived

nest it is im coconut pussible to tell you of all our

excling adventures in transit.

S the span of life in- creases and more and more pictures appear in the

wall during the winter a gole newpapers of centenarians

whistled down the winding sitting up in bed with a space.

streets, lashing the cowering birthday cake trying to But I always held my trump natives with ley whips of steet. Gathering my waning So, remembering Cornwall's CITY. Nikita Krush blow out 100 candles I think strength, I would shout, "What sub-tropical reputation, I sald Chev pointedly it a pity they are not so do you think of the modern to the hotel waiter: reminded

be giri?

"This

won't do the cross as they used to Chancellor

That never failed to rouse proves much good." Moscow, Aden-about the modern girl.

thanh Going a deep purple auer is not im-

"I beg your pardon, sir?" One

cat 100-year-old hep

and rising, shakily in their

I said: "This pale won't do mortal, and his

sald

could recently that she

wrath, they would thrash the the coconut groves much good." uctive loader-

see nothing wrong in rock 'n

air with their sticks and let Ho said: "No, sir.” ship of

roll, und D nonagenarian off a' ́stresin of umprintable "And it's pretty rough on the would only go so far as to Inventive.

hula-hula girls dancing about say that she "does not entirely

with nothing on approve of the modern girl."

skirt. Are there any white men "Doos

entirely ap- prove?" Apart from the

He roared back: "I don't do modern girl what is happen so bad for an old 'un." Ing the modern e- tenarian? Where 14 the spirited denunciation of cock- tail drinking, elgarette smok-

Bonn gover- ment must in-

evitably draw to a closa.

The prospect of an Adenbiter- less Germany dismays the

49 a West and cheers the Russians. It is a forbidding prospect, so for- bidding in fact that Russia op- pears to be marking time

Only now has the Chancellor been hit, at one swoop, with moro perplexing and

grave problems than handle.

even he

can

There is Teunification and Communist: subversion and in- Altration. Defeat of

the "Europeanisation" proposal has landed the Saar problem back on the Chancellor'a desk-more inflammable than ever. Euro. pean, integration. the corner, stone of Adenauer's Foreign and domestic policy, hoa ground to a halt.

seams.

many West

the

on

German problem while waiting for Adenauer's passing.

Some observers are even fore- casting that his leadership will crumble even before his term ends.

Close analysis and evaluation of the facts, however, does not support these dire prophecies. On balance, there appears to be a solid basis for optimism over Germany's future.

The Chancellor's prestige and authority will ebb and flow. But there is little prospect that the Chancellor

will lose his firm control over the Bonn Sov- ernment before 1957.

Moreover, West German re- behind animent. elready schedule, is creeping along at snail's pace. At the same time the Chancellor's four-Party gov- ernment has come apart at the It is also unlikely that his own

and finally,

on

the personal prostige among the economic

Ger- German people will decline inflation and eerlously and it would be dim- labour unrest aggravated by a cult to over-estimate the serious labour shortage.

Chancellor's cunning Chancellor Can the

master litician. this formidable complex of problems? Nobody knows. Not Adenauer's mission to Moscow even, I expect, Adenauer him- and the ensuing release of Ger- self. But, as his supporters like man

prisonera wor

made to point out, thus far the Old Adenauer a hero in Germany- Man hoe surmounted or side- despite the misgivings his trip tracked every serious problem spurred abroad. to face him'in his six years as Germany's "Iron Chancellor."

DOWN BUT UP

as a po-

not

ing husales?

In the days of my youth-o

There was only one exception, a man of 104 who misunder- stood the question.

In darkest

Cornwall

out

my desk before moving

here?"

but a straw

"White men, sir?" "You're not deaf,

walter?"

But for those who may be wondering how Lotile the Dovil Cat survived the ordeal; it may be said that she is doing nicely.

are

We now live in a district called "selco!" by uld- fashioned estate agents, and surrounded by retired Service officers whose wives still call

caris. are you,

and leave their

Nobody has called on us yet--

sir. Not at all, Yes, there maybe they have heard I was are widte men here sir. Quito cace a corporal-except a largo n lot.

black cat with a white shirt- front giving the impression that "A few overseers, I suppose.

he is always dressed for dinner. And

nen remittance

eating their

whiskers are stiff and hearts out for the Old

military, and he arrived at Country and drinking them- selves 10 death."

the front door instead of the "That's it, sir. Can I get you

back like common cats. Lottie greeted him with n Ho

long ego now that I can't re- WHILE I was turning member who was on the throne W

a specialist in Inter from the Sea Nest I came across anything, sir?" -1 was viewing centenarians

Sometimes I would sit for hours with male centenarians buying them beer and asking them what they thought about Gladstone, how they proposed marriage, what they als for dinner, how much they drank, what they read, and the

an old brochure on Cornwall.

"A gourd of native beer, I straight left to the nose. The enthusiastic author thinic,

took it calmly like a gentleman. inle, waiter." wrote:

sir, Anything When she swung a right to the cire,

Jow he retired in good order. "And a native

If I know anything about girl with a tom cats gentlemen or not, ha varland of flowers. You know will call again. And again and

"Comwall provides 273- alloyed happiness for the Jaded worker,

and the auftumn and winter visitor will find its sub-tropical climate comparable

with

Snesxe - time finds

what I mean."

"You bet I do, sir," said the again and again. walter, winking.

the scientiafs

hot on the trail of the mysterious Factor X

Would you like to

catch a good cold?

Gold coming?ent are a colony told

IT'S HEADS I WIN

HOT a cold coming? Then you are a medical mystery AND TAILS YOU LOOSE

Research Unit at Harvard Hospital, Salisbury (in By deliberately slowing down England) have been trying to sort out for the last 11 rearmament, Adenauer has been years.

Each year volunteers with or without colds are able to spill much of the wind 18.00 Adenauer announced his intens from Social Demands called for for a holiday in the lab. Fares and board are

towards tion of remaining in office until to popular antipathy 18.00 the 1930 cloction, "Den rearmament,

$9.50

25.004

Before Chancellor

Konrad

8.50 polls The results showod

paid, and if you went you would also get 88, a day Alto" (the Old Man) has order- oda auries of public opinion Garmin membership In NATO

Most Germans now accept pocket money-in return

snezes. as a fact that cannot be altered for 25.00 according to Adenauer's ardent

that the Old Man's without costing Germany 35.00

with rank-and-file support of the West, 7.50) Gormans is close to lis

when" Adenauer peale

In

other

the

East. Germany's proclamation of rearmament has sobered the to West Germans, and helped

pressure

1953 swept 7.50 the national ballot.

auer's political difficulties offect the anti-NATO Adenauer's 5.00 at Bonn bear no relation to on Admauer. No West German 10.00 popular sentiment.

wants another Itören. 4.50 words, everybody is out of step accept Allenauer and the volors.

Not even the Social Demo- 1.00 The Old Man has uncanny feel arata would countenance the 3.00ing for popular opinion and he withdrawal of

Western well

be glzhe may

forces and the cancellation of 1.50 Adenauer's associates declare West German rearmament,

all

armed

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. ued to be Forelin, Minister

1.50 the Chancellor is convinced he leaving the Bonn slate st the

will sweep the 1957 ballot as he mercy of Communist .30 dir that In

In 1939 and he plans on 30 continuing in office after the orces.

elections, for as long as he`lu .30

Whither Germany? For the Whysically ablo.

forcsocable future Germany Adenauer's successor seems destined to continue, with What of the German Anthony Eden, re- a few, zles and zage fière and there, on the same course, it has Heinrich von Brentano?'m boon heading for the last

Brentano Is Lodeed the, Chan years an influential and rapidly cellor's present vlagios_ta mitoceed prospering nation,

HONGKONG

KOWLOON

six

For eleven years the scientists have been puiting down a sub- lainest barrage of cold gens, They have bombarded over 5,000 victims with all types of natural and artificial coldy.

ELUSIVE FACTOR

What is the point of it all? The rúsearch scientists are try- ing to identity. Factor X-the mysterious facfce ·which' ontasOR our resistance to colds to vary so wideży,

Half the volunteers at Salis bury never catch cold, whatever the scientists do to them. But this does not mean they Immune, Two weeks later they

next.

PETER CHAMBERS

(World copyright.)

.DANGER. POINTS

1-The most easily intactas -484-grappa sre 25-34 and

under four.

Z--Children with a cold are

very infectious

3-The easiest place to catch a cold is in your own home.

4-The most infectious period of a cold is the first 48 hours.

5-Cure: no known cure. But bed, aspirin and bor liquor kaip.

6-Prevention: no

known

preventive. Bur food, fresh

air and exercise build up your resistance,

closer to suCCESEL The research unit has recently auroéeded in growing "dino viruses," which produce a favorish infection of the common cold type.

CONTACT NEEDED"

There is only one way to catch a cold, and that is from other people. Eskimos and Spitzbergen Norwegians, in their freezing Arctic climate,, remain free from colds until they are visited by an infected European. Then they go down like ninepins within 72 hours.

For oily dwellers, it is almost Impossible to escape infection, If you lived and woriced in: a polythene bag all day, your resistance would bocomo so low that you would end up with a worse cold, than an Eskimo. but it will not be pinned down. Drugs, drums, pills and peni

Fon 10 youre the Salisbury eliin are as useless. os rubber research team, under De C. H. daggers in Oghting the common Andrewes, has been trying to coki Ita impervious to the grow the virus in the laboratory, intest anti-biotics. It has desled where the characteristics can be all the resources of medical

inviable Kellow... | virus hon redared to show any-

It the research team at Salisbury can isolate Factor X they will be well on the way to their Meces a cure for the

· common cokā............

may catch a colt if they are Colds are caused by or virus-studiod in Isolation. But the clenco Ightly breathed on by a strap-traveler, which rides in every where except in a diving human But scientists are suit on the

hanger in the Underground,

frain, trem, bus--and adores being or chimpanzee.

track counting red nowe ́at

·That is : Tactor - X. at work closed rooms, and air-condition- Patiently, the scientister koep Balisbury in the priest, SEILE=am on Wecol, domu thụ ánada da eyesombero about im ON SHTINË. They ary, waitingTM" Factor 2.