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THE CHINA MAIL WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1960.

What must the West do now?

AT a moment when Britain and her äillos face the critical point in foreign affairs- prompted by the startling events of recent weeks, the Chine Mall in examining: the question: WHAT MUST THE WEST DO NOW? Today's expressions of opinion come from France and Austraila, from America and Germany, from the British Left wing and the military command, starting with the views of an Influential American.

WE MUST

BE

STRONG

our

SECOND DAY OF AN INQUIRY PROMPTED BY THE SHATTERING

EVENTS OF RECENT WEEKS IN THE REALM OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

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This is the fundamental reason by which the West is bound, the for the outbursts in Japan. Natos, Seatos, Centos and Young countries wish to pursue forth, foreign policies which mean that they are not allied to either the Western bloc or the Communist bloc.

I think that some of the same logic applies to us in Britain.

We would be safer if we were not subject as we are to the military policies decided upon by the Pentagon.

Japanese.

we

I am not for a moment sug- gesting that these treaties should be junked. But I do suggest that, like insurance policies, they should be taken from the drawer and looked at quite often, to en- sure that they are up to date and in keeping with changing conal- tlons.

by Senator JOHN KENNEDY possible candidate for the U.S. presidency OUR TASK is to rebuild

The H-bomb bases which

Originate a massive and strength and the have on our soli do not proteel

drive strength of the free world- us any more than the H-bomb carefully co-ordinated diploma- to prove to the Soviets that bases in Japan protect, the tie-plus-propagandu

improve various barrier conu}- They are much more likely tions" which we have grown to time and the course of his. tory are not on their side, to be magnets for attack. So take for granted. that the balance of world what must be done in the next power is not shifting their way and that, therefore, a peaceful settlement is essen- Our task is to devise a strategy based not on 11th- hour responses to Soviet meet created crises but a

tial to mutual survival.

few months is the complete re- shaping of American policy and Britain will be able to play full part only if we abandon the pro- led to all American policies in

position that Britain is commit-

advance.

The real challenge we have to from the Communist

In education, or technical train-

com- countries is economic. They are prehensive set of carefully spending much more abundantly prepared, long-term policies ing, and on scientific research

increase the than we in Britain. designed to

of the

1 we do not shake up our strength

non-

ideas on all these matters we are Communist world.

going to be left behind, and apart from the effects WE MUST

economy, the weakness of Bri- RESHAPE

OUR POLICY

by MICHAEL FOOT

Director of 'Tribune'

THE policy which has

on our Own

Iain's economic position w

injure the possibilities

of our

giving aid to the new countries

of Asia and Africa on anything

Communist countries will

be

like the scale on which the able to help.

WE MUST

CHINA

collapsed is the RECOGNISE American idea (a) of pretending that Com-

by RENE MacCOLL munist China does not

Chlef Foreign Correspondent exist; of (b) trying to organise the whole of NOW that the ruins of the rest of the world in the Summit: have military pacts against been the Communist coun- tries.

This polley just does not work, It is not a question of the per sonality of presidents. It is a n defeat for the question of whole

with Western policy

Dulles which the name of Mr was primarily associated and Government which the British has been prepared to accept quite tamely.

overlaid by the

*

accept with scarcely a shrug the

KENNEDY

FOOT

› MORGAN

that maintains new

HERWARTH

MENZIES

REYNAUD

countries such help-but on their world today. However, there is

MACCOLL

For centuries our rulers have I have formerly ̃hrèn a dis We all fake for granted the latest affair in Toky found that it is cheaper to pre- ciple of that school of Western own terms, Israeli-Arab glowering. And we Meanwhile, it seems a pare for peace and improvise for thought iron frost which remorselessly. good opportunity to in- wan, Surate fully the fallacy of African countries should hasten WE MUST exists between the U.S.A. and dulge in a little realistic this point of view.

thought following ́ ́this latest warning to be added to the list of long warnings we have al- KEEP REDS ready been given.

Communist China.

There must be some things which can be done, if only in a

all way, to try to bring about quarrel. And which nation is better placed to try to bring it

an end the America-China

with

about than Britain which main- tains diplomatic relations both?

WE MUST'. DRAW CLOSER TOGETHER

to appreciate fallacy of slowly towards independence. I

do not believe that any longer.

These diversions in Japan are serious. The

of fobbing off

WE MUST

One remembers the series of FROM AFRICA

warnings that came to us from Hitler's Germany in the Rhine- land, Austria, in Czechoslovakia, and finally in Poland.

Is this 3 similar series

ot

warnings coming to us now?

Our first thought should be that this is not an exclusively

American affair. We are all in by HANS von HERWARTH it together,

Let us spend no more time German Ambassador to Britain criticising our friends, least of THE free nations of the all criticising that great, good West should be guided in man, President Elsenhower. their policies even more than before by their close community of interests.

"By uniting we stand: by dividing we fall" - these words.apply to all of us and particularly to Europe.

We shall preserve peace and defend our freedom and

our

civilisation by over coming old divisions and

splinters of America's drawing even closer to Far Eastern policy, what gether." should the West do to re- trieve a situation in woe- ful disarray?

They must do three things:-

Wait with what patience can be mustered for the next Ameri- can Presiden! to make his ap pearance in six months' time. The new man will not of neces- sity produce a new polley nor inject a new dynamism into International could.

the

WE MUST STOP BICKERING

by General Sir FREDERICK MORGAN D Day planner

Clearly, one of the things we must now recognise is that

IT will take a little time Communist China is here to stay,

to appreciate to the The policy of trying to get all the nations outside the "Com-

he full the misfortune which munist world allied in defence

has come to us from the pacts with the United States will Start to reconsider the exist-- not work.

ing network of military treaties Summit failure and the

scene-but

MISSING HEIR TO

'MY FAIR LADY"

FORTUNE

CUT OUT

Eisenhower constitutes a notable SUMMITS

about this show in

victory for the Communist pro- paganda machine. There will be similar meves for such a success by a minority rabbie which will induce minorities to be a nul- sance elsewhere. It is all part of by ROBERT MENZIES the Communist programme but Premier of Australia don't let us forget Africa is

thinking West must not be Japan. diverted by propa- ganda uprisings Japan but must concen- trate upon giving aid to new African countries.

THE

in

Political independence without

economic stability could bring these new countries into confu- sion and that we must watch and help. Perhaps along the Colombo

Plan lines. Remember this. The

F

by PAUL REYNAUD

ex-French Premier

IRMNESS and bold- ness in face of the challenge from the East and a planned drive to outstrip Soviet science, That is the answer.

There is a danger of war com-

ing by accident, provoked by the

Soviet is anxious to give such acute state of nervousness in the

not much to be done at the 'moment against this possibility, but the West should set itself the teek for combaing the

of ger

premeditated by striving for

dan+

wor

on equili brium of strength, and that would tend to ease the state of nerves which could produce war by accident.

To solve the West's problems there should be more talks with the Eastern Bloc countries... but not another Summit.

I am against Summit confer- ences in principle, because there can be no appeal from Summit

talks, and another Summalt con- ference which ended in deadlock would produce a really goes

situation.

CONTINUED TOMORROW.

-(London Express"Sérvice).

What a free-for-all

Leopoldville. ROUGH, tough stuff from the Congo. In its first active day of life the Congo's Parliament de-

manded that no Government representatives from

by GEORGE

GALE

South Africa, the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland and Angola should be allowed to attend the Independence Day celebrations here tomorrow.

They also passed a resolu- the wives), casing the joints furious, with: "How can people which they think be elected to our Parliament tion demanding the release be- as it were

In just after they have stopped become theirs on fore then of all political pri- will

killing people?” cautions dependence Day.

Which seemed quite a sound soners despite the

Ten days to go and down of one member who said: "A

observation, Parliament or at least tried

man in the streets might cut to business get the Congo your throats next day."

There's lo be folk-dancing, hard to. bands, bicycle races, parades

and historical pageants.

FARCICAL

SILENCE

The Mother of Parliaments At one point a delegate from would have blushed! with rich Katanga Province, who shame or more likely laughed looked as if he might be un- its head off at the splendid, seated; threatened: "If we're preposterous, farcical and pos- kicked out we will go back to sibly even tragic antics. Katanga and proclaim our in-

dependence."

First they had to decide whe- ther they had all been properly elected or not. This took al most all morning.

On on

group of members they couldn't agree but by agreed to let it slide.

the

cars provided for members: room-a long, thin room with one senator, he declared with desks looking exactly like a When a senator had classroom. outrage in every nocent, actually had to walk.

wants to speak he raises his hand for all the world as if he was going to say: "Please teacher, may I leave the rooin?" Back in the Lower House 1 are get heard Lumumba on the sub-

BLACK BOOK

U declare: As we

TP got one logical fellow to

tear

ling our freedom we should ject of amnesty remind them ask for the freedom of all all that countries getting in- their up sug- dependence Black and white," and to

records. Lumumba gest that East Germany be ex- criminal with

South has one for embezzlement, so cluded along

he should know.. Atrica,

He also told them. that bew The man from Praydá look- ed up at this and promptly took fore they sit down and elect a down the name of the offend Speaker they first ought to ing member in his little black have a Government, but heard for his pains the observation book.

Someone else wanted to in- that the Congo people didn't vite the provisional rebel Gov- care who was the Government ment of Algeria as a gesture so long as they got indepetid- of friendship "to our brother ence and results. Africans," a phrase which will delight all Arabs.

THE GAVEL

But that's not all. Tomorrow, leaves of grass, placed in steel boxes

Momentarily bored with the buried in cemeteries,

motion was pressed that will be invaded by neighbour

the Katanga members be de- Congolese Commons, I wan-

into itic Congolese ALL the time the anonymous ing spirits from coffins and be

clared not elected until the dred turned into

A Belgian guided them in Congolese 1,000-

told Senate. pressing it was man franc notes.

The Commons is a great big their deliberations, that is the Belgian advising That's what some of the Con-

that circular chamber draped with right word. Acting Speaker

He even had to tell the golese think will happen on After a lot of argy-bargy one if was carried he would green and white hangings and Independence Day, anyhow. fellow got up and said: "Lel's lose his own seat as well. That was originally intended as the Acting Speaker, Mr Peti-Pet,

Belgiar Governor-General's when to bang Other optimists have

his gavel. been stop all this and get on with scared him into swift silence.

Timidly Mr Peti-Feti banged paying visits to remote Bel- the business of getting a Gov- Suddenly, in the middle of ballroom. gian bungalows and

The Senate debate Looking ornment."

was what was his gavel. got up

supposed to become the dining over the properties (including

chap, and asked why there were no Up Jumped another

а

someone

-REWARD OFFERED Flaming June!..

by DUDLEY FREEMAN

THE missing heir to an estimated £50,000-a-year fortune from the profits of the smash-hit musical "My Fair Lady" may be living in the grimy in- dustrial suburb of Neukolln in East Berlin, He is a blinded German ex- prisoner-of-war named Peter Bibelje-Pascal

bur home in the The blind German is the 33- Gallico, ex-wife of author Paul with us at

Reichkanzler Platz (later Adolf year-old illegitimate son of silm Gallico. producer Gabriel Pascal, who Said Mrs "Gallico; "Even Hitler Platz).

Then,

the died six years

when

Nazis ago leaving after our divorce, in 1935, I con- 90,000 and a share in the film tinued to be a close business refused a visa, for him, wel and musical rights to George associate of Gabriel It was returned him to his real mother, Bernard Shaw's plays.

his dying wish that his son Anria. She married a cobbler Gabriel Pascal, Hungarian should be found.

ahid was last heard of in the who became a naturalised Bri- "I notified his executor, Dr suburb of Neukolin. Both she tish subject, won tame as the Edmond Pauker, of the probable and her husband are belleved man who persuaded Shaw to existence of an heir. Together, to have died during the fall of allow his plays to be filmed. He Dr Pauker and I then registered Berlin in 1945. made a fortune from the film this fact with the Chase Still in contact

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version of "Pygmailon." And National Bank of New York,

he was the first to see the wild had charge of the estate. "Peter was conscripted into possibilities of turning the play "It we can find Peter, he can the German Army towards the into a musical

lay claim to a share of the end of the war, and later we estate and to part of the profits heard he was

of

Long legal wrangle from My Fair Lady. I eti- war in Allied hands in Bolglum.

mate he might easty

When he died, aged 80 in awarded 250,000 a year!

1954, no trace could be found

of his only child, Peter, born to

a German nurse in Berlin in

prisoner

be When be returtied to East Berlin, the Russians took htin

'We had to flee away for forced labour.

"I made constant' Inquiries Mrs Gallico went on "The through the Berlin authorities 1927. After a long legal wrangle last time I saw. Peter was when and International Red

But for the past six years Gabriel's first wife, the former Hungarian Baroness Karius end

H

Cross,

his estate was divided between he was a little boy in Berlin in but I heard nothing more until hig brother Eugenio and 1934.

two years ago when a Berlin Gabriel's divorced second wife, "His mother was a nurse, a friend wrote and said Peter had Valerie.

working-class girl named Anna Been released by the Russians Bibelje, Gabriel, signed a certi- and was now blind, ficate admitting fatherbood.

"I went to Berlin imme- "Because Gabriel was Jewish diately, and people in Neukolln now Mrs Pauline Geuleo, has we had to flee from Berlin in commet may he was allye- been searching for blind Peter. 1934, and we divorced the tol But nobody had seen him for She Berm

believes he is now: in lowing year. But I twice retung several months," Newbolin and recently offered #ed to Berlin in 1933 and 1018, Mrs Calico added" £400 reward for friformation to eattle school fées for Peter. still in regular contact with whicit would lead her to him, as He was a hellilant boy and friends in Berlin who knew The other night, in her fill in the Nutls refused, to allow na Peler. As soon as they, report Sussex Place, Paddingtón, Lotte to bring him to Britain and that they have seets him. again

He kroed very mods, and [Thall ny there immediately?

Pity poor little Mr Pell-Peti!

by GILES