1957-03-16 — Page 5

Page

German Army Rules

Roost

THE

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1957.

GERMANY'S SHARE IN EUROPEAN DEFENCE/

PARIS.

PANZER CLASS TACTFUL

GUARANITED TO POINT EAST

T

E Man Who Came Back will be wearing rubber- and jackbeats when he comes.

of conversation, There is ad.

When this German officer crosses the Rhine miring talk nk, he will be trending very, very softly indeed.

For Hans Speidel -nge: 69); occupation: Lieutenant- General, German Army it will be quite like old times. The last time he saw Paris as a senior serving officer he was Chief of Staff to Hitler's invaders.

And now, on April 1, the day on which couscription begins in Germany, Gerenral Sueldel is to become Commander Aled Land Forces Central Europe. He will leat both the British Fretch Armies on the Continent.

and

the

As a practical man, Cleneral Speidel does not expect a warm welcome, In Franec. his appointment has Crused uproar

would arise Britain should a former U-boat admiral be appointed th Cum mand the Hume Flect.

I

that

HOW LONG?

Suy

that

Laseless to Speidel himselt will be sub. ordiante to the Fronen General Valluy The appearance of thia efcient, intellectual, and diplomatie German general at the Fontainebleau headquarters will touch the sensitive nerves Jay every Frenchmon enlleg Honour....Gloire....Patrie,

Bul how deep-rooted ' are

How these ubjectinna?

-long will the uproar Insty

com-

who had been inilnunte with our

He Hanoverian kings. plained about the high cost of living in France; double that of Germany.

Germans mosl

Rommel by both

and British, because of the Germans werd "Rommel boya,"

General-Major ilelnz Tretiner head of the logistics division, conmmanded a parachute division in Italy and both Americans and British wani

hear about Cassino from the other side of the hill."

I found myself enthralled by cutivoy batlle described by Korvetten-Kapitan Thomsen.

As he told how British depth Then I asked him the embar. charges had burst his external tark neath the Irish rasing question that had to furt

"Dow

have you been Se, he said, "I have met the received by the French"

captain of that English frigate, Count pulse was unruffled. He repiled: my

An

Von

Cummings

MOT PERMITTED TO DRIVE OVER

FRENCH SENSIBILITI25

"Yes, yes, perfectly comfortable thanks, Herr Gen. Speidel-it's just that we've never sat behind a Sérvion gat before "

WHEN A MAN BEGINS TO SAY

Kielmansegg's He showed me photographs of FROM STEPHEN HARPER

30 (1

the surface. He

was here in 1940 you know thought he had sunk me.“ Most of us here served in France.

We believe that the distinction ሚኒ

French made great

between

the

German

forces and forces

the Nazi occupation

"There are no difficulties.

'LOYAL'

D" O these sutprisingly friendly

man-40-mat relationships

We discuss the old days with at SHAPE mean that, at long

P

...NEW DELHI

REMIER NEHRU, the man with sweet-smelling roso in his buttonhole and frequent sour temper for the masses who

both the Brilish amel the fast, we live buried the battlesblindly worship him, has grown

big one

We now feel we are French. all part uf fandly.

" Doc it mean that the Speidel us Nato tow over General

been whipped up by the politielans and journalists?

OLD FRIENDS

TE

He turned

U-boat

The truth is that, behind the smites and the back-slapping,

the Germans

Hod their new

to Korvette aflics walch ench other with Kapitan Thomsen, a former cool, appraising cy€9, Over

commander

from which they are determined the Schleswig-Holstein "You find

wool shall not be pulled. In the North Atlantic Treaty this, too, Thomsen?" Organisation it is hoped that "During the Atlantic Aghting A senior British officer told the arrival of the Queen for I

"Tho Germans are the her state visit to Paris a few Brest," replied the representa- most efficient and effective allies days later will serve to distract Live of the new Kriegsmarine, we could want. The German "Yes, I have been back there officers here in Nato are loyal to meet old French friends,

Germany. Germany 19 They still remember some loyal to Nato and

attention.

Fleld-grey is already much in the Nato hend- evidence in

There quarters outside Paris. are seven German officers, I cluding two generals integrated with

officers other Natc SHAPE, and soon there will be 40.

at

A the Fontainebleau heath- quarters there are now 10, und afler Speldel's arrival 20 per- eent of the staff there will be German.

besed

on

Lorient and TS:

gamble

חנ!

tired of democracy,

The 67-year-old Premier, whose word has been law in India since is moving fust independence, towards dictatorship in name well as in fact.

as

This clearly emerges from the turmoil of the world's biggest elec- tlofis, now going on here, which have foreign visitors singing loud praises of Indian democracy.

At the same time a few Indlins have seen the ominous warning: signs, most notably elder statesman and scholar Dr Chakravarty must Rajagopalachari, old adviser | Germany staying

of Nehru and lust Governor- General before India became a republic.

erux

We

German words,

OLEY

officers at Gerinan SHAPE

have picked up the that way, threads of the life they left

That 13 the

of the problem: can WO trust the suddenly in 1944.

Une rides at the same stables

Germuns? in he patronised

A 1940 number have returned 10 restau- favourite Left Bank rants, They are fluttered to be remembered by hall porters and

barine.

Inside shape

A most significant thing about, days" are these officers is that they repre- sent the ono Nato army which

in expanding fast,

This year three German motorised Infantry divisions divlslutty sưte and two panzer being formed as are the cadres of an alpine division and an airborne division.

By Christmas 135,000 (jermans may be under ams, only about 10,000 of them conscripts, The new Wehrmacht will be D strapping lad.

not

When I drove to Supreme Ileadquarters, Europe, to visit okr now allies

I did know what to expect, Memories of other German officers kept crowding back. Twelve-year

old memories.

itself "the old

D favourite topic

Tom Pocock

THE U.S. UNION PROBE

New York

NTO the white-marbled, 40-foot high

THINGS

LIKE

THIS:

*I DO NOT LIKE

ELECTIONEERING

WHEN I HAVE SO MANY IMPORTANT DUTIES THAT NEED MY ATTENTION

"Instead of quarrelling with one another all democratic and progressivo

in forces

India should endeavour

in to think positive terms for the ameliora- andon of the masses.

He came out loud clear in a speech at Madras. He said: "I am convinced that to save parliamentary government in India in the real sense efforts should be made from now on to build up a strong Opposition party."

SIGNS

have

tu

tend-

"When Opposition parties try to encourage reactionary forces (familar phrase} for short term political gains the Congress and national leaders bend their energies for facing these wrong trends and encies. Consequently, various plans for economic development of the people suffer and slowed down unnecessarily.

"There has always been suffi-

self-analysis and Con-

I room they paraded one by one last week: the tough. WHAT are the signs that surowanie analys

burly, confident men; the shy little trembling men. the women who almost had a past.

And the learned doctor, who grew organisation.

knows Nehru so well, has

It was a first-rate cast and a first rate show. Theseen? They abound. long awaited Senate inquiry into racketeering in the trade unions was on.

The Commitico-improbably mony if they believe It might but delightfully called the "Im- Incriminate them proper Activities Committee The hearing rapidly developed was assembled for the first time

under its grave, determined

chaka, Senator John L. Mc-

before the

Clellan the German I remembered

First to appear ollicer corps in defeat. Offers

of Russian committee was the Teamsters" with the horror

Pallid Union, a nation-wide organisa- their eyes. winters in officers from the U-boats. The tion which hokis the whole Savage 5.S. Exhausted generals) the road transport Industry who had lost their armica. ith grasp.

PANZER MAN

THEN

colonel's

of in

The Teamsters claimed that i was all a plot, n plot by reac tionary employers to break the union and to interfere with its legitimate functions.

into

drama and

the

And the election, in spite of the apparent contradic tion of every man from the deposed maharajah to the ill-fed peasant having a vote high allegations included one that the he can cast against the Gov- Teamsters had planned to tale ernment, has brought all the over

the whole political opsigns into focus. oratus of the State of Oregon and that they used political and polico Influence

rackets in which they interested.

Rre

"Opposition parties in India have thought fit to run down Congress and its leaders day in, day out, almost in abusivo icrITA Instead of following a parliamentary system of democracy almost blindly it is imperativo to devise and evolve a better system of democracy."

HIS FEARS

thought

Nehru's speeches have been a THERE, almost in cliches of protect pointer. to

He has often told I Commhunisan, you have a were voters petulantly: "I do not like

process

which by électioneering when I have

for Congress is Nehru, many important duties and Nehru, worries that need my attention." has got around at 67 to Bome- thing he feared in himselt as a Imagine the reception that promising beginner in polities. would get in Dagenham or Darlington.

Power and crime have tenkied to go together in U.S. history.

Political organisations have re- gularly become involved in

By Alexander Broad

HEN I met my first German officer since 1945. Haupt- munn Freiherr von Rosen He was standing beside a British But George the deak, heels together, Meany, head back. A tall, blond panzer president of the 15 million strong reclecteering and, on the whole. captain who had fought us in AFL-CIO, the al-embracing the stronger a political organisa- Normandy.

federation of American trade tion in a given area the greater unions, apparently did not think the livelihood that it is or has the committee been commected with organised so. He promised "every bit of co-operation asked for."

His loose-fitting grey battle- drees and

shirt looked whito unmilitary. But the new uniform and the rubber-soled Jackboots, nicknamed "deno- cratie gumboots," will change

all that.

crime.

As the trade

strong

•LUXURY.

He wrote of himself then: "Men llice Jawaharlal Nehru, with all their capacity for great have little idea of what. It to democracy. A little twist and Jawaharlal might turn into a dictator, sweeping asido. the moving pamphernalia of slow. democracy.

N speeches reminiscent of totalitarians gone by, he has countered growing talk of the HC might still use the need for à strong | Opposition

language and slogans of de unions' power with the argument that onemocracy and Socialism, but wo party is necessary for all know how Fascism kas And the first week's testimony has increased they have fallen

stability.

fationed, on this language and did not suggest that the inquiry prey to the same temptation. An

then cast it aside is useless was intended to interfere with organisation capable of bringing

Mr Shriman Narayan, general lumber. labour-management · relations. a community to a standstill is iu

of Nehru's all- Witnesses testified that the a position to offer powerful pro- secretary Teamsters had gone into the tection to a criminal organica-powerful Congress Party, hos gone into the problem more salvo business, into the gambition.

the prostitu- ing business, into

Racketers are always pre-deeply in the party's fortnightly Lion business.

pared to pay heavily for thrin economie review, The woman who almost had a

Port of protection. We talked about the weather,

Ann Thompson to the most past Mrs as he 10d_me

said that she had been approach Important German there, the man, who directly represents ed by union men who had asked to set up a chain of bawdy Government: her to set

Ver Rosen was charming. Like the other Germans SHAPE he is hand-picked., Pleked for skill in diplomacy, tacflés, Attulegy, diplomnaty,

logistles....diplo. diplomacy,

.macy.

the German

But that is not all. It is fairly easy for racketeers to infiltrate

organisations-just · such Communists do,

Brigadd-General Johann-Adolf houses in the Pacific Northwest 1 in not, therefore,

Graf von Kielman egg.

A familiar, high-crowned, German cap hung on the wall,

toki But when they

entirely

of

her, she surprising that allegations would have to turn over halt racketeering should have become her takings, she said "the heck, so edmmonpince that the Seurate „decided that it must-investigate, Two,undon men brought to the What is encouraging is that

There,

smoking an English | with it.') cigarette, was Count von Kiel mansögg, every inch a Corman officer and Hanoverian aristo- crat.

We talked about the weather,

Here are some of his points in An article entitled "Opposition in an Under Developed Econo-

my."

Part of that useless lumber ja the gargantuan general election, many voters, (203 with million) that it is taking thres works to complete the polling.

And it is true enough that it is useless against the impossi- bility of unseating: Gandal- hatted Congress members from "The fact is that parliament-lhe majority of ponts, in the ary democracy has not boen rubber gachpod Parliament here found to be a perfect instrument in New, Dohi, of democratic process even in Western, Countries, a

"Econominally crudcler-dove- ata pleaded the Fifth Amend the majority of trade unionists ment to the US, Comitutions have welcomed the investiga loped countries Honours

Congproam, tua kentrenched itself in power too well for that. Itw members toestrol, Jobs In

at State

an

the amendment which gives tiori. They are, on the whole, hardly at afford the luxury of industrien. Bien, in privato bundi witness right in some cir- grotend corpore map in corportion only for the ance of new particularly those in need shetrandi krionet loetions,

Fly

find it expedient to give guner- Gusly to Congress funds,

An enormous amount of tax- payers' money is spent

11:0

propaganda about the Govern- ment much as Congress achieve- ments and plans

But the election is a wetui demonstration of democracy although

most of the totexe have itlis Ides of what it is about. They pass the acid best of whether a man can speak or vote against the Government in power.

Indeed one powerful, and well-hated local Compes encier was heavily defeated at Lark- now and the whole town celo- brated

In spite of that, the, election is a luxury Congress can, welk affordů.. 19. arkis to

predige abroad, and bow. Indians love

It allows self-dejusion, in muldst of simple faith ani hard cynicism at home,

"Dat with an Opposition worthy of the: name it, could ba

HONG KONG AIRWAYS VISCOUNT

SERVICES

Fastest, quietest and most comfortable

WHEN YOU FLY H.K.A. VISCOUNT you will be impressed by the noiseless, vibration free flight the air conditioned comfort and amazing visibility from the large 'panorama' windows: you will enjoy the attentive service by a cabin crew-trained to attend your every need. Book now to fly H.K.A. Viscount.

Fly H.K.A. Vlicòlint to MANILA every Sunday. Wednesday.

SEOUL every Monday &

The 'Panorama' windows of the Viscount are the : largest of any airliner in the world.

The Viscount soars above bad weather yet at 15,000 feet, the cabin, altitudo Is-only 5,500,

The reliability of the Rolls-Royce Jet-Prop Eng has made the Viscount the most talked about airlinen in service today.

*Contule your Trued Agint by Cel

Hong Kong Airways, Alexandes, House, Des. Voe Road, Hong Kong, wate Also at the Peninsula Pinta)) Köklöör, Réservations Tal, 44869 (24 hr. (Prsteny

HONG KONG AIRWAYS

Page 5Page 6