1959-11-09 — Page 6

THE CHINA MAH,

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1959.

The Man Defending Western Europe Talks About The Prospects Ahead

PEACE? STICK TO THE FACTS. SAYS NORSTAD

WITH the Summit meetings under discussion, with talk of disarmament,

with the sudden, dramatic thaw in the Cold War, there is one man whose opinion of the international scene must be of the first importance.

He is the man charged with the defence of Western Europe. A 62-year-old airmen from Red Wing, Minnocots, called General Lauris Norstad.

I went to Paris to ask him the questions on everybody' mind, and although much of what he sald cannot be repealed or quoted directs, one Thing bycare Immediately cleor.

No change

FROM TOM POCOCK: PARIS

Middle East, has now completed In the centre of The Shield the first year of a complicated there aro 6141 errious ve-year schedule at the end of deficiencies. France has with which, he believes, the defences drawn more than half her of Wezem Burope will be ground forces from Germany to ready.

fight in Algeria, and Germany has formed only half of the 12 promised divisions..

Some European parikaments That is that Norstad is a man will be asked to increase their for sticking to the facts, Cold defence spending. If they hesi- clear facts.

tale, General Norstad feurs, even

Nato Supreme

tinue"

Solution

"[ Sk by the facts," the only by postponing port of the Commander programme for three months, told me. "Before your General the whole plant might be thrown

If his five-year plan can con- uninterrupted, General Election I heard hundreds of cul of gear, In fact, Nato Norstad feels that his command prophesies,

But went by the might actually backslide and be could only be "approaching its Londen bookies, the men with cone militarily weaker than at minimum requirements" in, a every drop of sentiment dried present.

Year's time.

out of them.

That's the kind of judgment you want because any other kind it going to be distearted by wishful thinking."

And to it S that Geneal Norstad Ancs 1:0 reason to suppe that Communist ambi- tions have been changed in any

way

He believes, certainly. tal Russia needs und wants peace but he also says bluntly that an every peace or distumament proposal put forward by Mr Khrushchev the Russars stand to gain.

Se far

Russens the

had agreed to no disarmament plans that could be enforced and,, he belloves, we have at present no Krounds

trust Russian promises

1

First year

There had been thaws before, General Norstad

sud, and he reminded me of the sighs of relief after the friendly Geneva conference of 1835 and how, the very next year, came the Hun- garlan revolt ειπεί unuther agonising balance on the brink.

Now

General Norstar is not

In the corner ul General Noslad's office stands a rubber plant, all as a pantomime bean- stalk.

If Norstad had ever sern Jack and the Beanstalk he would note its symbolism.

Gigantic

Since he joinea Nato

ዘ።

得

senior air commander in 1951 he has as Nato Jargon would have 1. quired a glant-killing capability,

I then orket General Norstad about the race to Join the Nuclear Club, à race that was not only totally unnecesary for collective Nato defence but one which might financially cripple the planned defence pro- grammes.

Prance is soon to explude her first nuclear weapon. Already West Germany, Italy and Belgium [LEND lechnically able to manufacture atomic bombs, and both the Netherlands and Denmark may be shortly.

Will there then be any way of effectively controlling the distribution and use of these national stock-piles?

"When I came here people wer!! laying bets ON which month the war would start," he sald. "Nobody does that now." In fact he maintains not only that Nato has successfully defended Western Europe and ambled the West to talk with the Russians from a position of strength but that this gigantie military effort has been res- ponsible for what he calls "this This would undoubtedly re- great explosion of prosperity." duce the danger of an accidental Nato, he said, had given Europe nuclear war,

a sense of security,

Even so, Norstad is not satis- led with the forces now at his disposal. His main concern is

not

much with the "word

A solution might be found by a scheme under which nuclear warheads and bombs "would

be handed over from national to Nato control

Relief

Personally, I have heard it

forces the long-range bombers said. General Larry Norstad

in

expecting war but he is worried. and missiles--but what is called looks like a Hollywood star play- He fears that Ruedan smiles "The Shield," the vast defence ing the lead in The Norstad and talks of peace and disarma- complex stretching acre Story. ment will full nations into a Europe with its slowly growing

Perhaps it was this theatrical false sense of recurity,

strength in what is knowi allusion that, as we talked, made His Nato command. shetch- current military jard

the cast the General in

As he reluxed Arelle 10 the atomic delivery systems,"

Westem movie. ing from

in his tipped-back chah, talking crisply and trughly, be reminded the suceweful peace of rificer who has just run the badmen out of town.

BR

the

Just Fancy That!

Bedford.

PROTHERS Henry and Arthur Gregory, who met last month after 27 years' weparation, were separated again the other day when a judge sentenced each to caul for being drank while driving home from their get-together celebration.

★ *

Ancona, Italy. WARDEN EUGENIO TADDEI "regretfully" refused a request from Francesco Tocus, who recently ended a 14-year murder sentence in the prison, to be allowed back insira because prisun he was "Too difficult,"

Stanstend Abbots.

noa-

RCHIE MILLER, who for 30 years had kept his own coffin

manding on ensi in a curner of his bedroom, died the other, day at the age of 93-UPI.

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you realise you might QGI six of the bost for this."

London Axpress Service

Logan

Gourlay C

WHO KNOWS AND TELLS

IN HIS OWN' UNMISTAKABLE WAY

AM chary, as you may have noticed, of gushing

grudgingly.

So there was this

superlatives. I bestow them carefully and 322-pound tycoon

But I cannot describe Joseph Fenston except

as a most remarkable man, A highly fascinating with a hot character. He might even be called unique.

He likes to call himself an Impresario. A flexible word, but it doesn't really cover all that Fenston has managed to do.

Krown

water

bottle strapped to his heart...

He has traded in China in of his big-game hunting expec- diamonds and jade antiques; tions. Mark Hambourg and coped with managed concert planists like

Fension zen, who weighs at lepst 322 pounds and looks like [operatic prima donnas;

11 domestleated oranges in Brazil;

hippo, was represented

behind the desk or peated Irving Berlin; imported Havana

rather around the desk. cigars for disunguished CLUS The pusse disperses and the tomers, including Sir Winston thrifty cluzena aleb with Churchill: played championship relief and decide to pay chess written a couple of books; the peace officer's deputies. But he knows that the badmen are still up in the hills. Maybe they will reform and become good citizens. Or maybe they will | ride into town again to rub the

bank.

Until ho

staged

"Chu Chin Chow":

celebrated

bis

In satin

can

krow

MISS ELIZABETH

CAMPBELL has been called, by one of her boy friends, "the wealthy sheep-shearer."

She has called herself "a flock

mistress."

D 50

Reporters have described her beautiful, 28-year-old Australian heiress who owns "1,000,000 sheep, 1,000,000 pounds, 20 diamond! necklaces, 10 diamond bracelets, bolt a dozen minks, 100 dresses and 85

This is not siricily accuraly. Mies Campbell's grandfather was a sheep millionaire and she

He said: "All the specialists future of mankind, sex, and im- pairs of shoes" don't agree,

But I

the morality. bottles are good for me. They draw the blood away from the heart so it's not overstrained

"I've had two heart attacks, taining, There's too but I'm in great shape now. trash at the moment about cow-

boys and detectives.

any

"We plan to do quality stu!! which will have some appeal to the mind but will still be enter

Colourful

about his

more

much

interited some of his fortune.

"But she told me, "some- body has been counting too

figures by more than half you get nearer the truth; Nobody has 20 diamond necklaces. Still, - I'm reasonably rich."

"My doctor gave me a check- up recently and told me I was "I think the public aro getting mony sheep. If you reduce the Just like a man of 50. He said fed up with it." dabbled in the aircraft industry; all impresarios do, and clutching non-more

He was making a cigar as I was something of a phenome- and nirted with South American

energy than two hoi-water bottles as only other three men. revolutions.

Fension does,

"50 I've decideri 10 Recently he

She is certainly rich enough 70th birthday by announcing

picked Apart from his other mani- started again and I've

I asked if be planned to make not to have to work. But that tire youngest medium-tele a series that, after a few years of semi- fold" achievements Fenston

own Bie. knows for sure,

is what she has been doing, as the peace officer is

la moving into claim to have discovered the vision. it needs youngsters like which has then

adyen- Going retirement, he not

a model, nightclub singer, and television business in

turous and colourful than the house ageal. a hot-water bottle treatment for me with ideas" to unbuckle his guns and he the

As his big way." He invited me to see heart trouble, whieht, la not fully

associates he has average TV hero's. wants to korp the posse

chosen the him on the eve of his birthday endorsed by Hadley Street. within call.

producer-director Wherever he goes,

team of foward Connell and is exactly in his Mayinir office-a large That, in effect,

Q building theatre, a resterent, and of Dennis. Vance who are about would believe L what General Norstad is dolu panelled room in What worries him is that, now owned by his son Felix, the course to bed, and whatever the hall Fanston's age,

temperature, he takes several of the badmen are out of sight, the property dealer.

I was greeted in the hallway his miniature hot-water bottles posse is getting bored and wants to go home.

by a full-size stuffed tiger, shot tu smooth satin cases. They are presumably by son Felix on one rolled at regular intervals.

"Cummings

(London Express Service).

Sorry- Can't come till properly

dressed

de Gaulle

to

a

"No, I don't think the public

For the rich

"Besides it would cast 100 Their Arsi offering is a series much. If we

At the moment she is running wanted to do It called "Bertrand Russell Speaks well we'd have to film against limited whith, as the name sug-

an outfit called Luxury Un His Mind" in which Russell dis- the real backgrounds and that

courges

on the II-bomb, the would mean travelling all over Bests, is an agency for the rich,

DO IT YOURSELF

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"But Harold, couldn't we lend him one of ours, If that will get him to the table quicí

the world.

"I'd like to do really good operatis variae. Opera la my great love. I knew and worked with all the great singers, like

Tebald!

chair).

providing everything from plush flats to trimmed poodles.

She told me: "I'm the first member of my family since my mandather even to think about work

"Callas? Her manager sat "Its not that I want to make there just the other day," (he fortune. I just want to do tateresting and polated: a hot-water bottle at a something

armsteading."

Mlicy – Campkieki;..... wabies, metonita to being "a night girl," who goes to bed lite and sleep all day when she's not working, pointed out, however, that she wouldn't dié boredom If sho didn't have a job.

"Sitte hamn wondentil: volos, though I think she's straining

it by singing too many parts.” A secretary came in with sheat of traveller's cheques and a servant with a reallod, hot water bottle.

Fenston: "I'm going to Paris for a few days. I want to enjoy discussed the object with Bord She explain that she End myself and give a little party. Kimberley, one of her frequent I've invited Noel Coward.

escorts. The items have "We're very old friends. I readed Prince Bity, the Marquis member one of the first time at Milford Lion, and mul we met. It was: in, a cantou Adat playing baccarat. I think he

loot. I won about £300.

She said: "H another age

"I love gambling. Upad: to do people like Jobánie. Kimberley (a lot of it in Bhanghai with, and myself wouldn't have basa

thở Chiriean,

expected to do anything. But "Yes, I'm a rich ma. But we have to adjust ourselves) to don't call me a- millionsirë. My 1950;

son's the millinnstre.

“I'm proud of him."

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