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'THE CHINA "MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1959.

BRIAN_GARDNER reports from the two different worlds they call BERLIN ^

Saxophones play on, but thejoy

is forced now

THERE never was a city like Berlin. Great powers squabble for it, not because they particularly want it for itself but because it is a vital pawn in the chess-board of the world's strategy. Neither side is. likely to give way.

What is it like to live not on, but in, a keg of dynamite? At the moment it is covered in a thin wafer of snow. From the window of my hotel room, seven floors up, the distant parts of the city are surrounded in mist.

"Now it is used by the East East clothes are dull and colourless, 1 am looking out over

to be plenty German authorities for the Berlin, across the Iron Curtain. But there seems

food. A fmv men with same purpose," he said. "The

ulong hurry

the same building. different people." Down the Unier den Linden pavements. Pollee and Russlan

the Govern- are the wretched remains troops stand by

what was ones a nation that ment buildings,

HUer's bunker, now only R set out to conquer the world.

blocks of few crazily angled

wire concrete.

I have just retuned from the of land of Big Brother. After a briefenses pussport check from the pollee, I drove through the sireets, it I incredible 14 years after the war to see the ruin of East Ecrtin.

le scen.

The cliffs

of

3s behind a fence, lonely and deserter. Not

sout in

Behind this nightmare elty Herbert Gundlachi, a West is Stalinallee. A massive canyon Berliner, who fought against of a sireet built in the Rus- the Russian 01) the Eastern lan style,

the show this fa Front, was with me. He slow place of East Germany. White Ilke 2410 Gocubels's old ed

pro- concrete buildings streich

clifts on elther side of the street.

There seems to be no end to the cragged walls, the shells of houses and the ruins. Here end there is a curtain in a window, where someme lives on in on otherwise descrled house.

There is hardly any trak. The

shops are shoddy, the paganda headquarters.

THE SCANDAL OF

NHURSO (population

3.582) dinge to the

storm-riven north coast of

Scotland. Peopled by descen-

dants of the Vikings who

THURSO

swept in their long ships PETER BURGOYNE'S...

across the North Sea, it is

a quiet little town, a place apart.

man runs

News From Britain

Then suddenly Thurgo become the centre of an affair recently which the more dramaticoity- minded

who handles such sive type it could find to splash were Saying roule Advocale,

the Agures "621,000" across Its develop inte another "Winslow matters for the government in

1be Scotland, has said there is not front page. Thego were Boy" ease.

figures given a few hours earlier The Whaslow Boy" was the enough evidence to justify an

in Parliament by the Minister of Rattigan-dramatised version of inquiry. That may have satisited

famous true ease. ni, a the poveruneat. But it has not Labour as the number of un- at mid- middle-class

in Britain the satisfied the House of Commons.

cmployed M.P of all January. gaun of the judlelary and the And recently Itgislature to prove that his son partles angrily demanded an in- They were, said the "Herald", has been falsely accused of quiry by the government, They "The Grammest Total for 19

they were turned down. But being sneak-thief).

Years", A couple of paragraphs that father down, they conceded The Thurso story starts une. made it abundantly plain

frum that this gare had been well night In cafe. One of the-the Waters Case

forged during the 1947 el customers ta  15-year-old finished. youth of "excellent character," In a country where the police crisis. At that time a Labour

government was in office. Enter two policemen who want keep their hands to themselves,

That, however, does not to talk to Waters about his be any suggestion that they have citizen can

detract from the seriousness haviour, Exactly why, is not roughed clear. Rut. anyway, they have readily be blown up into major the problem facing the govern- so it mont. A probiam they are going their Interview and as they are scandal-particularly

to have to solve before they dere leaving

that there is the slightest excuse for Waters nollers somehow during the "talk" his whispering that the government go to the country. coat has been torn. He runs

is trying to hush it up. after the police officers to com- plain. The police officers Bead him into a darkened alley.

When next-Waters is seen he is bruised and bleeding.

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up

is far

Weapon For The Left

D

E Waters case could add devastating

weapon to the Soelatiaty ciecioral arsenal, but 11 Is plain that they will rely mainty on rising unemployment Baures to attack the Conserva- tives.

Seventeen witnesses, including a doctor, testify to these fucts. What happened in that dark alley? John Waters swears he was beaten up by the policemen, The police remain silent.

Waters' father, like the Winslow Boy's father, has vowed to apend his last penny to set. Recently the Labourite "Dally justice for his son, But the Lord fferald" used the most impres-

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The Causes

of

A cently defined the main

DIVORCE Court Judze re-

causes behind Britain's broken The marriages.

Judge, Mir that Karminsky sald Justion.

immorance of Бех these were and money matters, lack of re- Helon and mothers-in-law,

He told welfare workers in London: "Many people go into not only without marriage

without sexual experience but even rudimentary knowledge."

He addet quickly: "I am not saying that to have sexual experience is a good thing. 1 must draw a line of distinction between innocence ала ignorance.

Hope

FROM Broadmoor, the

mont

dreaded name in Britain, recently camo a ray of hope, Broadmoor the prison where the worst of Britain's fossne criminals are kept. Many of the inmates are violent killers who have to be constantly watched. Recently, Broadmoor's medical superintendent selected 100 of the 800 inmates for tests with new super-tranquilliser drugs. And this week the Ministry of Health wevealed that results had been "most promising."

Boisind "thio cautious summing-up Jay a story of almost 100 per cent Violent murderers had been transformed into passive, rational people.

The big question now is how effective will these British drugs be in the long run?

Dr Oswald explained; "People think of sleep as lying, down Uke a log and going off for sight hours.' But it may mean sicoping for only two acconds at In time,"

Some of his human guinea- pigs showed signs of light sleep for a minute or more, Seemingly they wont to sloop between beats, but continuod to malo rhythmic movements. They also began to breathe in time to the munic

This last, Dr Orwild, thought Important. "My experimenta

that show that because of tendency to treatžic'in tamo bo' music people can breithe 00: fast and 300 hard...Ovor": breathing greatly reduces the bloot Bow to the brain and (och) Mértolaky, kúpele, a ponton's

concious

Hɑevastating to the son of

20 Tris, 21 Sotibus, 20 Report, 27 Moderate, 28 Fleet, 29 Dressers, teenage rodem, rufe kols to Downs & Cram, 2 Agile, 8 Benor, 4 Port, Retail, Dasied, 9 think that these fans haven' Amends, 11. Elber, 12 Danas, 14 Dezert, 15 Strip, 10 Recur, 10 really beenwoodog, but just Dunmed, 19 Fiddle, az Reefs, 20 Oozed, 24-Stalo, 25 Arms[-falling asleep on their fort,

Back in the ruins there stands one of the enddel sights in Europe. The Adlon Hotel, oper one of the greatest hotels of the world.

Now all that remains is one

10 wing attachod

Д ghostly akeleton. Wo vent through what was once the tradesmen's entrance, now the main door.

stayed

I had a bottle of Czech beer in the hotel. It cost about 4s, And it was like drinking in a morgue.

and Back into West Berlin, a different world. Here is a microcosm of world poliiles,

"The East Germans enn visit

any time," sald Her heig Gundluch,

Propaganda.

can

Before the war Herr Gundlach was a bell-boy here.

"All the

"They have eyes, cristocracy

they here," He said. "The maha- nee. This is a great prépaganda

That la why rajahs from India carne with centre,

the

all their servants.

Russians want it so badly." "Nowadays the hotel in used Here a modern city is rising mainly tay delegations from from the ruins, Immense blocks

and China and Rusia, 1 do not of late, banks," business the strecta. Bulidings ina recognise the place now.”

Wo hung our coain on the Nearly 100,000 people are con- with the building stand in the dining-room. There nocled

Bulidings ilke Lo were about 10 tables, Only one industry.

staff

Corbusier's. 17-storey block of remains. of the original

the Russions entered flats-the living machine" When Berlin, all the other members it is called here are as modern

as any in the world. of the staff were sent home with

And everyone wine each. two bottles

Practically everything was perous, looted.

The restaurants and the night Except the mattresses. It is said they are stil the best clubs are doing a roaring trade. in Berlin,

But there is a sense of unease

seems

and forced gniety. The nudes have frozen caniles, and the bands play out of tune in awful desperation. Everyone is wait- ing.

Godot seems to be just around the corner.

While Dulles ponders, and SAXO- Khrushchev plans, the phones Bein play on.

Enormous stock-plies of fuel and food are stored in the city, is ease of another blockade,

Why do people stay?

It is our home," sald Here Gundlach.

down "The population is 750,000 on pre-war-days, but fo 6!! the home of Berlin nearly 3,500,000 people."

I went down the Autobahn to the last checkpoint before East Germany. Polico with revolvers stood oround in groups.

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Trucks and cars stopped the checkpolnit and then

al

dia-

on

appeared down the road tho

their controlled drive

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It was cold and I turned up the collar of my overcoat.

There was a cold wind blow- ing from the East,

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