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THE CHINA "MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1957.

WHAT KIND OF GERMANY HAS RISEN

FROM THE DEBRIS OF THE WAR?

HUIS letter is being written on a tiny flower-festooned Tulent in Bay Buth, Germany. My wife, my daughter and myself managed by considerable effort to secure tickets for the annual aummor Wagner Festival which has raised this provincial town to the level of a musical shrine which draws its devotees from the whole civilised world.

"

Having driven our car from London to the coast, with my two females alternating at the wheel, we were put en board An aeroplane which whisked us across the Channel in less time than it would take for n. London.

At West- ulica diatani. to an end.

Poor Hitler! How that must torture Hitler's

taken In fact as we were terror minster we used to watch from For a manise he had some darn- spirit if there is any contact from one district to another, we the terrace as the bombers ed good ideas and one of them between this world and the mw this clly which in the war

over us in an endless was to bulld dual highways next.

no often "target for tonight," passed convoy of death. They few in which would permit him to There are some advantages transformed into a community at ghining in being a member of Parla- of vilins embroidered with perfect formation and at their move his armies

merely speed from one front to the ment and one of them on this flowers height seemed to be cruising. Squadron ntler other. On each side the roud occasion, was a message from Every town planning ofcer squadron, so close that their is divided into two reelions the Mayor that he was serving in Canada, América and Great wings seemed bound to touch. with the left hair for those who his principal housing offleer to Britnin should be sent to Frank- how Frankfurt bad. furt to see how beauty and Their target seemed always the want to travel at maximum chow us game-the ancient elly on the speed and the other half for dealt with the problems of re- utility can be wedded to the Whine.

mere pladders at fifty or sixty building itself into a city when delight of the senses and tho

the war ended. Like Cologne, exaltation of the soul. But humanity has a stubburn miles an hour.

All for survival and the

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To use the language of more elegant times our obfective was to "g" at Brussels for the first right ut our trip. Thus ve began our drive across Belgium and saw the famous beaches of Dunklik now crowded with people lying almost naked in the sun or plunging into the waters that had saved civilisu tion by their kindly mood in the hour of fate..

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For those of us who were in the first war

four 0 Western Europe 14 always Every fraught with niemaries, river in France run blood and every town in the North seems to have given the name battle.

Waterloo

-GERMAN

neroas

LETTER

by Sir Beverley Baxter MP

world.

damage although Bayreuth

our

horror and destruction had rained all nound it. The only

It was almost with sadness possible way of re-creating

that we sald good-bye and Frankfurt was to place the

(urned

car towards whole thing in the hands of the local council aided and partially Bayreuth-that shrine and home financed by that inspired net of of the Wagner family where the American generosity known as inmortal Richard wrote music Marshall Al. It is easy to of such neurotic genius that it salirise the Americans but there made ordinary Germans imagiso themselves na gods in Valhalla are few things in history more worthy of praise Dan the way and where Adolf Hitler came to before the were poured into the bow in vengrulion

continent when dollars

the Aintable Siegfried, the son of stricken

Richard, who had few of his father's gifts but enjoyed tho blasphemy of war had ended.

visits of the greatest of all ham actora, the Führer,

But raodern city has arloen on is the towns and villages the lorry Cathedral

be

The

fall asleep monotony

Now we shall set our com- pass for Munich where Chom- berlain was either the dupe, or

His unbrella, ho else, with

theories on the subject. When so that they could get air into and night over the roads that What then of were to make Hitler the con- for the third time we passed their cellars. our hotel which

we had left Cologne today? Its elegance queror of Europe. Because the two hours ago we threw in sur and beauty are gone but a nick highways were built away from hand and accepted d2feat. now I know what Wellington ashes. Once more we have drivere sometime meant when he muttered "Night this soap box architecture with from the unbroken 10 A

and bloody disaster ensues. But wisely the city Cathers at or Hlucher." Wellington had endless windows cut to an exact

We pattern.

had to It was about 10 o'clock that Frankfurt refused to take the stayed in Brussels und probably utility know how difficult it was to destroy Cologne to save elvilisa- night when we, reached Frank view that houses must be rushed tricked Hitler into delasing his was better fort and pulled up at the hotel into being with no thought of war unul Britain find the battlefield.

tion but in the process civilisa-

where we had engaged rooms, the future. Thus when they prepared, Just one last word about this bien peld a heavy price.

That is the verdlet It was shortly after eight

city which will

Two small boys in page's uni- built post-war housing estales yet to be declared by history. o'clock

form smilingly welcomed us no near when we reached the historic

tho cathedral R WHA Afterwards we shall visit the

where famous square of Brussels and visited next year by peoples Frankfurt

the mad King If the whole thing were part of planned that nothing should ob- castle a modern Rosenkavaller put up at an hotel that is as from the whole

The struct the view of the enthedral Ladwig was 50 overcone by modern and shiny as anything character has changed remark-

There is one clement, how streets were crowded with spires. The children playing Wugne's genius that he used New York could offer. Brussels, ably with the impact of modern

both black in the grass allotments could to have private performances ever, which mocks the carnage American soldiers, incidentally, is in a state of architecture. It has as many

the nearness of of his operas in a castle pitched neon lights as Chicago on o of war. You can destroy a cily and white, in convoy with the not only feel Its great exéltement.

long

Saturday night and the office but you cannot destroy the good local girls: and from the cafes the cathedral but see the steeple precariously on a mountain top. planned exhibition will open

In and dance dumps corne

their are like tall biscuit earth of the countryside

the with

eyes. Wherever Will there be another Wagner next year and In preperation buildings

there

u chance to give some day? Will there be an Was France, despite sound of revelry by night. slits of glass for Germany and thereof

second public boxes with every

was Yet there

the allotments the other Hiller? one thing, horizon to

Germany is tho As far as the ex- their endless wars, the rolling windows. building is either knocked down

Lig query on the map of Europe, or having its face changed. As crlors are concerned they could farmlands and the leafy woods seemingly unimportant yet pre-planning authority acted e-

In the cordingly. Thus they went second only to the riddle of the have been designed by a buck proclaim nlike the Immortality nant with meaning, for the roadways there are so

booklet of the week's of the soil and the spul,

events, minat the very basis of the Russians. many temporary detours that word boy of fifteeri.

by doing character early supper at en handed to us by the courteous German After an

But if Europe is ever dealroy- open air

avolded by a Nuelent war, civilisationa Tow Д

miles hotel manager, there was the everything possible beyond Cologne we began our anouncement of the weekly uniformity. Even the shops Itself will be buried in the Journey to Frankfurt some 120 meeting of the Jewel: Society, were brought into the scheme. ruins,

even the traffic police ran only Cologne

wave their hands like an orchestral conductor until in desparation we take any road that offers

clear hundren yards.

Fortunately Die

Roman Catholic Church admits no com- promise. May my grandfather After some argument with (who always rode a white horse my two ladies I secured their on Orangeinen's Day) forgive agreement that we would visit me

for these words but

the house where the great ball Catholicism seems the one un- was given on the eve of Water- changing loo, and would then motor the necessary ten miles and have

Its

Influence In the Western Europe of today. spirea, so carefully and ciever-

a look at the battlefield itself. ly unbombed, still reach to the They said that this would alter sky, Gur tirne-table and that we And 50 in due course we' could see the battlefeld another time but I insisted that it was now or never,

Unfortunately no ane In Brussels seemed to know where the battlefield really was at though

most of the people to whom we put the question had

that lovely to Cologne, came ancient city on the Rhine which was reduced by the R.A.F. bombers to a deflant cathedral and a mass of rubble where the people breathed through holes and lived like rats until day- each night of light brought

Paris Newsletter

Behind the new

Aga stands

WHO

the Begum

Paris,

HO will be the effective Regent, as it were, during the early years of the new 20-year-old Aga Khan's spiritual reign over 15 million Ismailles?

Referring obliquely to this problem after his grand- father's death, Karim said: "My grandfather advised me to turn to his widow, the Begum, for any advice I may require."

What Karim did not reveal then, and what has not been revealed in the details of the late Aga Khan's will, published last week, is that, in fact, he made binding provisions on this point before his death.

The Aga, in his will, stated that he wished the Begum to act as the sole adviser of his successor for seven years after his death.

The only reason this provision in the will hirs not so for been

by

SAM WHITE

rande public is a desire to spare was half-British which, herself the feelings of other members

of the family and especially the

Frenchwoman, she regarded us

cufe

to

THE POLLS

U.S.

ARMS BILLS

ON BRITAIN

"WAGON WHEELS CARRY ME HOME

NASSER'S FRIEND

moves in at Geneva

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By ERNEST Ashwick

CLOSE friend of Nasser has moved into an unpre- tentious block of flats in Geneva's business quarter

Egypt's first consul-generat in Switzerland.

His new offices are to become the headquarters in Europe of the fanatical West-hating Arab League. And Geneva han again become Europe's city of intrigue and espionage.

Bre

more

Arabs than

Long before Suez, paid high-ranking commercful dew hirelings of Nayser and the legation through which are done: Arab League trickled in and set most of the transactions between up shop-many as students at Aruba and Russians. Genova University, whero today there

And it

That is. reported Swiss.

the Arab countries are to open The vast majority of these a private bank in Geneva, with a nominal capital of £418,000. have part time students

Ali transactions between jobs, with the Arab Lagoa Russia and the Middle and Near new Aga's father, Aly Khan, a great esset. With this decision, the lato Agí It is an astonishing achieve-¦ propagandists or paid informers,

Other Arabs come as Import East countries will now par Hus placed enormous power in meet by this woman, born in the handy of this remarkable Adest circumstances, in a small export merchants to sell cotton through this bank.

South of France provincial and buy arms. Others pose as He has also run the risk, of town, who was a noted winner rich people needing cures in which the Begum is perfectly of beauty competitions she was Switzerland's spas. conscious, of straining family a Miss Lyons, then Miss Francf relations,

of-your-old woman.

-before she married the Age Jn 1980, to achieve so much power.

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This new bank will fall within the Swiss hank secrecy list. So Its transactions will be difficult to control even for the wily Swiss,

Reason for opening the bank Since Suez, Arab delegations is said be the large number international of Araba in Switzerland at this

A GREAT ASSET · Sho is convinced that bor The Aga Khan is at present sweetness of temperament and staying with her in her South to the numerous her great lact can assuage feel of France villa, Yakymour, She conferences have increased out moment, and the fact that the Ings already bruised, in some has not left the villa since her of a proportion to the work big Swiss banks have been

dono.

worried about the enormous quarters, by the knowledge that husband's death, partly because

Consulates and siffering fram, «

embassies transfers she played a considerable part she is still

of money from the in the choice of the new Aga nervous depression and partly, have doubled their staff. Cars Middle East to Switzerland.

Just before the Suez criate tho too, because

plater, adhering to the with Arabic number Hor own thinking on the rule Age's wists, think she should not from Relle Royees and Cadillacs amount of cash flowing Inlo ject was influenced by two con wear mourning, she retains a to Volkswagchs, can be seen by Geneva alone was estimated at thone, then £10,000,000 Today sideration (1) Karkn was not true Trench provincial'a horror the dozen in Geneva's streets, thm › most of, any, of cớ thị Aga's, of appearing in public without) To keep in 'Ung with the Arab in conservative ́estimato. is. 10

Moses this amount,-- brevious wives and (2) that to the outward signs of mourning, countries, Rumis pas set up a

Khan,

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