1960-03-29 — Page 1

THE CHINA MAIL,

BONN BUNDLES START NEW COLD WAR

KHRUSHCHEV'S DEPORTED EX-GERMANS

SAY: RED CROSS GIFT PARCELS

TO US ARE - AN INSULT ΤΟ RUSSIA

Moscow.

THE Russians are angry with the West Germans again. This time it is because the Red Cross centre in Bonn persists in sending “bundles to Russia" for Soviet citizens of German origin.

The Communist authorities say the bundles are not sent in charity but as "provocative propaganda." And that, say the Russians, is cold-war behaviour of the worst kind.

Jivo

Down in Tajikistan, where most of the Russian-Germans many were deported there at the start of the war from their traditional homes along the Volga — a campaign. of denunciation has been Inunch- ed.

The Tajikistan Communist Party newspaper says: "Of late the Red Cross In West Germany has been showing bustling c- tivity.

'Hand-outs'

turm and we shall treat you to honest-to-goodness "Soviet citizens of German 10-rale nationality living in Soviet Tali-fee and an omelette of real

to receive fresh eggs, that gowdered." kistan have started parcels labelled Help from the

“Our Soviet working men Fatherland,"

don't need any sopa trom the

taster's table.""

"The Soviet citizens of Ger- man nationably citizens uf the Soviet State and full-fledged and equad members จอร์ the mighty multi-national [rmily at Soviet peoples are indignantly spurning the miserable hand-s of the German gentry.

Underwear

Herr Shoerer

fumes:

"'1

e malder the parcel

me and its contents — a set of underwear, a warm undershirt.

"They justly view the doings pair of socks, and a pair of

of the West German Red Cross shoes an Insult to the dignity

as an affront upon their dignity of Soviet citizen."

and honour and 28 one more Althy provocation."

The

Collective Tarmer Wallz says

TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 1960.

CUMMINGS--THE CARTOONIST WHO IS ALWAYS ON THE NEWS

ANNM

"FREEDON"

Cummings

The white man's burden and the black man's burden

London Express

Service.

PART II OF A LOOK BENEATH THE SURFACE OF EUROPE'S MOST FASCINATING CITY

VIVA IL PAPA! Long live the

Pope! Pope John looked down from the window in fatherly fashion and gave his benediction. The pligrims went away happy, feeling Bie was of more meaning because they had crown seen the man who wears the triple

and is, so the faithful believe, the repre- sentative of God on earth.

save

This Is the Rome of the faithful, the Rame of 1,000 churches. Rome the centre of international Catholicism, Rome of the kneeling multitudes, who

up with szertice to come to the sacred city.

This, the Rome of the Vatican, is an other faith at the city built on the even hills the clly that ruled the world.

It is not easy to understand what of the Church means.

Rome

On the one hard it is the centre of a faith with all the administrative and educa- Uonal institutions which are needed for world organisation,

But on the other, this Church

of Rome plays a preponderant part in the life of Italy. I same-

times feel that the Church owns

that he received three parcela; newspaper publishes a series of indignant letters from from Germany last year. "Each taly and every time I come

here I hear it is getting richer. dehydrated people with names like Herzog had egg powder, and Schoerer who complain: "A

rule most of the parcels con- tain ea powder and spoiled braces." coffee.

milk, and a jar of honey inside. One had a shirt and a pair of

of

I too was indignant about "One wants to tell these un- this "Insult to the dignity known sendera: 'Herren bene- Soviet citizens." factors, come to our collective

----{Londen Eryret Serules),

"For heaven's sake, Martha, the man is waiting

do I or don't I like this suit?"

MARRIAGE

AUTO LIGENTES

"I don't care if you are divorced, you get no refund hore,”

Spread

*

This other

aristocracy

of shrewd

THE TWO FACES

intelligence OF ROME

The Papacy now has only a lent of Cabinet Ministers - the token force of the Swiss italians have a virtual monopoly. Guard dressed in its striped Renaissance uniform,

And, in a way, the Itaflarım, who, charming as they are, are But the Papacy has conquered a concelled race, take a plea. more efficiently than Cosare sure in the fact that fellow now rules countrymen run the Church in Borgia. The Papacy the whole Italy the real Rome from Pope downwards, source of power here is not on the Quirinale where the Presi dent lives, but in the cool quiet offices of the Vatican,

Its investments are vast. They are believed to be spread among public utilities water, tele- phones, electricity, transport. 1

Indeed, I consider it rules Italy owns banks, hotel companies, as a temporal power more flour mills, farms, newspapers effectively than it has ever done and Alm companies.

in the whole of its history, The,

The

able men of the exception is Sicily where the vory Vatican administer this great MAFIA holde sway. patrimony with just es much

It has been a brilliant cam- skill as Charles Clore or the paign which took just under a managers of the big banks and century to complete. insurance companies in the City.

But what is more, apart from

or fesa

tho

all this economic power, Church, has more the Italian Government since the war.

Brilliant

But then this celibate priest hood thinks in terms of centuries here in the Vaticon the tradi- subtlety are tions of skill and

It is an aristocracy of faith and intelligence recruited not by inheritance but by choice.

It gives them an International to their material and political power altogether disproportionate

strength.

Even Italians of the Loft take a pleasure in this situation.

As a non-Roman Catholic it has always seemed to me extra- ordinary that the great bodles of Catholics as for example in Canada, the United States or South America have allowed Italians such a hold on the leadership of their Church.

By his latest creations on March 3 the Pope has raised the nureber of cardinals to 85. The Itallon total storids at 33.

Roncallt, Pope John, the suc- cussor to Puceli, Pope Pius, s on old man who was appointed

as a compromise.

by DONALD EDGAR

Pope John has altered all this He has not removed them. He has just laken away all their real power. And no member ut his family has been appointed to any position.

The new Pope is doing every- thing be can to make the parish priest the pillar of the church. He has clipped the power of the Jesuits and the Do- minicans, who were becoming in his opinion altogether too wealthy and too pervasive in in- fluence.

is the Sce of the Supreme You can live di amusing, gay Pontiff, centre of the Catholie tite here, and probably somehow world and a place of pilgrimage And enough spending monay - the Italian Government will but it is just as well to be a have a care to prohibit in Rome faithful son of the Church. everything which is in contrast with its character,

But, the Church, now that it runs Italy again, is iberal to her children.

She is not harsh here as she is in Ireland and Spain.

Otherwise, things have a way of going wrong. There is one thing not to forget about the Church of Rome their Mass may be said in a dead language. their priests may wear the The rule is tolerant. Much has habiliments of medieval times been done since the war to ease but their minds, are as acute .. the lot of the downtrodden and ready for the problems at pensants of the south.

the future as any Communist official.

Sinister

For I believe, the task the Church has set itself

But delve a little beneath the destroy Communism.

la to

Now, due to Pope John's inter- vention, a man in Orders in the diocese of Rome should not look at TV without permission, can- not go into a bar except in dire thirst, may not wear a beret, may not drive a car without surface, and the situation is permission-In fact the whole sinister. code of behaviour has been

Italy is in fact asham de- Maybe not this century. made more strict to separate the mocracy-heavily supported by the long run.

America.

-{London Exproza Sorulca).

priest from the laity,

The cost

The pleasure that the Italians take in the Church International being a largely Italian affair has cost them a lot.

The Christian Democrat Parly, which has been continuously in power until the resignation of Signor Signt last month is even unmatched even by the de- more dependent on the Church dicated officials of Moscow,

But now that he holds the than the Labour Party in Eng-

keys of St. Peter he has shown land is on the Trades Unions.

an independence of spirit which The Church In Italy has turn-

has shaken some of those who ed the tables or the Liberal

The Treaty with the Vatican who under Garibaldi united this

I should say that the young thought he could easily be dealt

that Mussolini signed in 1020 country in the last century and Monsignori the priests selected

favourable to the Pacelli, of brilliant mind, avid was vary destroyed the temporal power from all over the world to serve of the Church which had lasted in the Vatican's ministeries ---

of work, more or less ran the Church,

Because of the Church there 1,000 years.

are probably the most brilliant Church himself.

His three nephews, Carlo, is no divorce in Italy. Under the Borgin Pope, Alex- Intellectual ollte in the world

Giulio and Marcantonio, were Because of the Church adultery ander VI, his son, the Duke of today.

crime punishable with given great power and became is Valentino, carried the yellow and white standard of the Papacy But, when it comez to the rich men. It was strange to see a prison. The Church has treaty through Italy, killing, plundering Heads of Congregations the Renaissance nepotism Bourishing rights over the whole of Rome and conquering.

Cardinals who are the equiva- in 20th-century Rome.

with.

Not today, not

DITO.

But in

Bennie the Human

Cannonball becomes

a

museum piece

By PETER WOON

...."because the Eternal City THE name is Bernard Lynch

Some good news for people

A SUN-TAN

soon.

pill may be produced

A number of manufacturers are looking into the idea of a tablet, which could prevent burning without impeding that golden glow. Many sun- bathers, they believe, dislike the feel of a protective oil on the skin.

Such

who

like to lie

in the sun

}

PETER FAIRLEY talking to Dr GERALD EDWARDS

"Bernie" to his friends. Age: 41. Disposition: jovial, Girth: considerable. Nationality: Irish, and proud of it.

The other day his name and thought I find a pretty good his feat were recorded at Soul chance. As it was everything Kensington's Science Museum worked pretty well." as part of

short but achlevemnt - packet acrOLIDU- tical history.

Mo

Beside the much-and-string pleneer planes of yesteryear and models of today's powerful jet. Incre was placed the Lynch Scut,

8,000ft. up

Since that July day 14 years ngo Bennie has made 35 moro ejections.

At

wns

Thanks to the fearlessness of Bernard Lynch and the 'genius of Jimmy Martin and the rest of his team 333 pilots of many riations are alive today. the musoUTI In it, on July 24, 1948, the the first of the survivors. The un-tan fed in becoming done. Most lotions now contain

then slender research emplog Joe Lancaster of Armstrong company. Whitworth. On May 30, 1949, almost a medical problem. More a chemical "mu-sercon,"

who had never been a plot ho and more holidaymakers embark as tonic reid, which filters out its last eclipse. Many of them feet do influence the nose-vis of the Martin-Bakor

made the first Red ejection bent each year on an orgy of "getting the ultra-violet light before it used negatives or tinted glasses the blood circulation.

And several Doctors who treated them brown," under fierce mins, with reaches the skin.

Now a group of doctors claim test in. Britain or the US. the apparent to have proved it. They sat

Eight thousand Utile heed to the pain and new chemicals are being stalled, were startled, at

foot pe in cold baths. ponible long-term effecte, Sales including some used in paints to ignorance of parents and school with their feet

Oxfordshire, in the rear cockpit misters on the subject of lock- They measured changes in their of a matined. Gloster Meteor 8 of Jamos, for the winter, pro prevent deterioration by am-

fight. going up.

circulation.' They found that flying at 320 miles an hour, bo. ing at strong light.

much less blood passed through || shot himself into the empty From them has developed There is still a long time to do the nose and tongue membranes skies. until the next calipse.) Ampte Immediately the foot touched time to rwn home adhuc cold water. needed Icapon. DO NOT WATCH IT. There is only one safe way to see an odipeo,

In a book. Oy in a newspaper, began. after the ovent.

DON'T LOOK

A tan in paychologically gob). But too much sua, or too much lamp, causes wrinkles and priminture ageing of the skin. Look how much older Mediter«

They will not help a lon. But irancan women apper than

they may allow many, who are their sisters from the Forth,

forood to seek the shade," do Ultra-violet auya do the share that feeling of well-being damage. And remember, they enjoy dd by the others, can be just a pots when re- flected. An Ambrella sand lo not enough.

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This slow-up lasted three, to five minutes. Then a violent in circulation counteraction

mado the "malden" emergency election from the tall-less AW82 research plans. Laticostor's peat la In the museum too. So is the cockpit of a Meteor.

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the Martin-Baker, tradition, far He

remembered: > "The "bringing them back allug" old min (that Was Jimmy - whatever the flying conditioris, bons of the company SPEED? Johnny Squier of Martin,

cut at and ejeolfan designer) said per- English Electric ca

of speed haps I would like to try out the nearly twide sant, I had down in lut never sound, actually piloted a piano. I HEIGHT? · De Balls and Lowe took a special parachute course of R.A.F. Bomber Comman with the R.A.F. and then 1. ejected at 50,000ft. went up.

DEPTH? A Sea Venom pilot would you frád just ejected from below the

Lunden Express Nervlet),"

So they suggest that tho Do wet feet bring on a cold, with blood stems not in per Obviously, the tiny gems which fect order may be particularly Spanking, at the siz=8omo indama "the membranes ly 109. Hablo to get a cold from wot

"Ecared?—what 400 people in Britain, mostly and throat are not cultured shoes, because their circulation!ve been! But after the tests des surface, | For the unfortunate ones with children, have damaged thélt in wet shows. But doctora bave rasota Top quickly,

being sight permanently by watching. thought for a long line that the

sensitive skine, majcht is

~(London Express Service). I we had done with durante 1