1961-03-18 — Page 14

. BY THE

WAY.

by Beachcomber :

Hefshki, hla hands round the root of a TRAFFIC will play its part in Surbiton furniture depository. the scheme for new He was quealloned by the poller. Piccadilly Bundreitew. Perhaps

the Strablanús Plan will be CALLING at a lonely farm- house near Taunton a Grek revived.

Ballor

"I am Protesser

eastbound trafle should, on reaching the Circus, be diverted westwards coming from the north, and southwards it coming

with the champagne atmosphere, of Paris.

THE CHINA - MAIL, ・ SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1961.

'The rats will be only victors in another war SHALL WE SEE

The sage suggested that all Kindlemen's grandfather, and INLESS some untoward obstacle turns up am Baturated with marmalide." I shall, in the next few days, fly to West Allons-y!

| Berlin and then motor to Leipzig which, as They will find all the plea-you are aware, is behind the Iron Curtain, from the west. Westbound sure of air cruising, combined My companions will be Lord Boothby, who traffle would reverse and back

was elevated to the House of Lords after many northwards to meet the south ward flow of northbound traile

(Advertisement) years in the Commons, and the third member of Lehterarily diverted before pro-

me the company will be a young Tory M.P. eting along the south side of

Circus. The Circus itself down with an lee-burket Presumably there will be banquets and I do would consist of five concentne when, at 45,000 feet, an air-

not doubt that we shall be expected to admire the began to sing. "Ce n'est pas re-constructed_city prospering under the bene- rigolo," while the models were ficent rule of Communism. parading between the seals.

Prodnose

heavy sarcasm); I presume you drank from their slippers.

inner rings of roadway zig-

Lying at fixed points. Here, there and

everywhere

THE Great Yarmouth fron- female menger who found a

cust in a potato has won 418 de. Did., in a local badminton rally.

GIVING the name of Shrivel a retired engineer. walked on

you could have knocked

hostess in a backdes mink tunic,

Ayself: No. The one win wore Russian boots served to offer a more capacious receptacle for a

thirsty traveller's needs.

London Express, Service

It may be only

(1=

to Canada

reacon

that

IN

PEACE OUR TIME?

-LONDON LETTER-

by Sir Beverley Baxter, M.P.

L

right word-for

the colossal days after the war had ended achievement of Adolf Hiter in I went to Berlin. So dreadful was rising to the height of Fuhrer, the destruction from the Allied although he had nothing but his, bombing that the German mad cratory, his relentless de- caplial seemed fit only for rats termination to rise to supreme to keep alive. But as always ↑ power and his. shrewd knowledge the human spirit refuses to bo of the weaknesses

the Ger- crushed, man charactor.

So there came, the war trials true, and I think that there is Kaiser Wilhelm had a shrivelled

But how was he to achieve at Nuremberg and I went there something in the theory, it ex- arm which, It is said by the conquest with its

Sunday Times. How plaine not only the

power and for the weakling Belentists, made hien determined glory? Germany could not fight far it was strict justice and pompous Kaiser Wilhelin who to go to war in 1914 to achieve at that time

how far it was revenge imagination the hill-hearted war my

will a war against caused the Brst world war, but glory and conquest on my part but on several visits.cestor went North

also the manine Hitler who also florification.

self France or Britain and certainly always be a matter of debate. to Germany after the two world for the sufficient

ono gleam of the But there was net against Russia. Then set the whole of Europe In ware I had a curlous feeling of the Americans

of the destruc- solution came to him. Why not ton of victors and losers alike were shooting

hope Because flames.

Hitler? being vaguely at home. Per quite a number of mercenaries.

wage war on the Jews who had It might well be that war on haps it is because my maternal It is said that the Prussian. In assessing the Teutonic

no army, no navy and no Air the great scale had become im- And what of Hitler? In the Force? Dy ancester was German nier by nature, is Incapable of character it must always be re-

possible, cenury lighting in the pay of understanding er achieving de- membered that it was in Ger- first world war he never Toy Nazis could take over the in- "In fact if there should ever ba the English against the Ameri- mecracy. He wants to be other many that a scientist discovered higher than a corporal although dustries, the banks and confls-

n third world war, the rate cans. When the Americans won a ruler or a stave. If that is the inferiority complex, Thus there, is no reason to doubt his cate the bank savings of the will be the only victors.

Jews.

In other words we shall not As a runner in the army he Yet what of America where sea world war or world peace risked his life but no matler Jews play such an important in our lifetime. how hard he ran he never gol role in the financial life of the as far as the third stripe which great republic? And what of would have made him a sex- Francy with her bitter menorles geant.

of the 1914 war that had drain- In fact it might well be that ed her cruelly? What of Great Parliamentary colleagues, I am frustration and tack of glory Britain with her mighty navy? going to the splendid city of may have been the beginning of The answer is that Western Leipzig. Our hosts will be his inferiority complex which civilisation had lost its vision Communists ultimately haunted him by day and its spirit. The young men exists by permission of Com

because Leipzig and night.

who would have normally supe munist Russia. We shall soc

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courage.

this mends the

And now, with mu threa

Yet there was an artistic side piled leadership were burled in splendid art galleries and con- to his nature. After the first the war graves of France.

Not prank

cert halls, we shall be offered choice wines, the shall sec modern schools, and we shall almost certainly hear opera at Its beat.

war he went to Vienna and studied painting but showed no talent at all. Failure

and frustration haunted him where-

It was not merely an under- ver he turned, and there is no graduate prank when the under- submit to an enforced partition But how long will Germany reason to doubt that in the dark graduates at Oxford University which is Communist 1 the hours of the night he realised carried a mallun pledging them East and capitalist in the West? that the German sense of in- selves not to fight for King and When I last visited Berlin three feriority could be developed to country. Quito rightly a point where he would become nation was shocked and shamed time in both

the or four years ago I spent some supreme leader of the nation.

sections of the and there is no doubt that the city. In West Berlin everything But how could he go about nowa of it went straight to it was booming: in East Berlin 11? The German navy did not ler's maniae traju.

there was stagnation, weari- compare with the British. The German my bad game to rot

But on looking back over the ness and indifference. after the end of the 1914 war. years we can understand more the day when West Germany. Inevitably there will come France was still a military nation clearly why the undergraduates supported by the Western although the terrible losses in carried that motion. It was not Powers, will demand the re- the 1914 war had weakened her that they were pacifists or unification of Germany, eranks or lacking in courage. 1 America with its dread of was an incoherent

cry

from world communion will give full youth protesting that it should support, and Western Europe not be sent to war against the along with Great Britain will So there was born out of youth of Germany.

follow America's lead, frustration and ambition the Of course when the time Again I use the word "in- Nazi movement. It was blas- came they fought and some of

evitabio yet I hope against phemous inasmuch na

Hider theta

that the unification hope death himself was to be the only God penalty of bring young. I

pald with

the West and East Germany will they recognised. Weary not doubt that

do not take place for a long time, the maniacal

physically and spiritually.

that

Credit

of

ind frustrated after the defeat Hitler, with his vast Ignorance controller of aircraft factory of the Kaiser's war the Germans of the outside world, was

co-operation in the Hitler war had neither the courage,

en- I know how close we were to a wisdom nor the morale, to create attacked Poland there would be been for the vanity and stupid

the couraged to believe that if he German victory. If it had not a strong democratic state.

upon

nothing more formidable than a ty of Hitler in bombing London It was in that period that protest from the League of instead of the industrial centres Hitler began to see his oppor- Nations. Thus does paçilm be- in Lancashire and Yorkshire I tunity. Why not ervate come the enemy of ponce. mighty movement based

cannot see how we would the interiority complex? . The So the second world war was

have won. Kaisers were no more, and par- fought and lost by the nation And do not forget that if liamentary government could that had brought it about. Adolf Japan had not obligingly B1- not exist in a nation that knew Hitler, perhaps the most evil tacked Pearl Harbour I doubt if nothing of democracy.

creature of all time had com- America would have come into

At this point we must pause mitted suicide and his body was the war in time to achieve the bo give credit-if that is the consumed in flames. A few defeat of Hitler's Germany,

A MILLION GLOSSY CARS

⚫ New York.

KENNEDY'S Ameri-

ca is beginning to

GO BEGGING

puzzle me. Panhandlers And so do some very shabby citizens

have suddenly appeared

on the streets.

Tyle the ether day I was DON IDDON'S

stepped on Broadway by chabby

men asking not for "a dimo

for a cup of cawfee," but for a

quarter (about $1.50) for scaremongering. It is food.

The queues outside the unem- ployment

DIARY

the to do something about it. I ex-

truth."

pect huge Government spending

to prime the ingging industrial

offices here in New In the broadcasting studlo pump. York City, which is a market where I saw Goldberg was the More stringent curbs on the place. not a manufacturing or Conservative Senator Barry Stock Market bre

Industrial

possible. centre, are getting Goldwater, the leader of the Even today on the longer, and along "Automobile Right Wing who insisted that made. I have to hand over hit money I Kow" the car showrooms are things weren't as bad as Gold- w the Government as capital almost deserted,

berg outlined, "The country is gains tax. essentially prosperous," he said.

Sneezes

The sales manager General Motors

on 57th-street said to me: "When Detroit sneezer we have cold, and, belleve me, Detroit Just now has pneu monia,"

Profits

That is the paradox of Ken- nedy's America, One side, the Administration, Bay! the

country's in poor shape and the Certainly the news from the other side tho Republicans, car capital, the one-time arsenal claim that the Government are of democracy, is black. Produc- pver-ntressing the bad news ansi tion of cars down 300,000 com- could actually talk the country pared with last year at this fato a real depression. Ume; more than 1,000,000

Yet the buffing thing is, as brand-new, unsold cars; fac business slides lower and un teries working at only 40 p.c. employment rises, the locks capacity: 100,000 car workero market la climbing to dizzy unemployed.

heights and approaching, all- There has not been such a time peaks.

The only fortunate feature of the whole business a that Anterica will face any crisis with an inspiring young leader who has int # fame in U country, in much the same way

did Roosevelt.

Colours

nensitive,

Floyd Patterson, a shy person, demanded that there at his recent fight with Johant- be Lo segregation in the seating in race-conscious Florida, Otherwise he refused to Aght. He told me to phono froNI Miami: "I'm no crusader, but

bitterswinter of discontent in know several men who have I cannot stand this negregations Detroit since 1952, In Detroit made between HK330,000 and nincs I have had trouble the workers don't, talic about a HK$130,000 this year alone By about recession. They use the word proft taking, "depression."

Facts

houses buying

PV hotel rooms becaus I made ink$9,000 by buy I'm..

renting

a negro and my Ing a stock called Universal Öll wife was given the brusle oft (which is supposed to suivi Lon at a beauty parlour until I Angeles mog problems) and called my lawyer. Now, at lengt, selling it after a 18-point riso, I'm having no, segregation fr 1 went along to sco Arthur There ja something unhealthy the seating at the fight. They've Goldberg, the crinkly-haired, about this. A two-minuto tele- guaranteed that bouncy Becretary of Labour phono coli neis me" a neat sum. › Pattern is omething of a who has scored a spectacular Yet good mon, not drifters or mystic. If used to think Jesus success an a strike catüler since drunks, are panhandling in the was a white man. All the pleś (7) entering the Komedy Cabinei, atrocis and women and children;" tired

i've ever. Bears, of flims

Ho said: "Wo have to face the are queueing, up for food, in' showed flim a while man, ikit facts. We have 5,000,000 unem- the Bronx and Brookcyln." st, I can no longer mocopt that, fla (ployed, the highest (gurn, since relief contros,

Ni mithor is'n. Jestem of ing polottir

the great depression of the 30's. Goldown pledges – that Frode or a Josue with skla tak, de mil This is not calamily howling or dent. Kennedy and his sro, going colours,"