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THE CHINA MAIL

THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1961.

Why do we let the

Do you

remember

those tense summer weekends before the war?

It only needed a trade trom Germany for British Ministers Lo come trotting back from the troul streams aid for British polley to take a new twist or wringe.

Such were the summers of bunillation. But it is precisely the came kind of humiliation which have felt during the last two weeks,

What an extraordliary change those wieks have brought to the policy of our country.

Two weeks ago we were moving towards negotiations over ferlin. Our Ministers had gone o calmly on holiday. I was sold tha: British forces in Germany were unlikely be reinforced.

Now, it has wuddenly been un- nemend that a division is to be formed and sent to Germany. More RA.F. plates are on their way there. Lord Homo has scurred back in alarm from The S.

| Why? What has happened to elatut even thang!

Was if the East German devi- tion to a love the orelor frontiers

L. Berding But that was not

Meximeted,

What new has happened?

Ha Keusebey withdrawn his ちがいよ to arrange

treaty In

which access to West Burlin

would at last be guaranteed in

black and white? Has there

beut new military threat?

Their call

Germans push

us around?

The magic hardly seems to work, when Hitler's scheme of emanate from Geromy iseli, conquest was swinging into Though 29 unimaginatively ortlön, when refugees were hard-working as ever, the Ger- flooding from Germany with mans have rarely been less tales far more terrible even inventive than now, either in

than those told by the refugees from East Berlin today. Industry or in other fields. In the arts they lag pitifully. They are pruducing no novels, fing or inusie worth mentioning In civil aviation, in medicine they are nowhere.

Tardiv the hallmarka of n new, wise, inspired master-race. So why is Britain ro wonder- struck. so well, su alarmed wherever Germany Is nien- fioned or whenever a German politician lets out the mergat cheep?

4 line disease which has reettrrently allerted indianerstial Triple $1 Buatain Its chief

by ROBERT PITMAN

yimplata is curious attitu

Gemuanya mixture of for giveness, dintration, and sub- servience. With it goes an old No. Two things alone have faith in a close alliance between Javmentarity

reversed Britain's Brion wise polley. A speech by Dr "xample, Adenauer and a speech by the inent Mayor of West Berlin, Herr Will Brandt.

Dr Adenauer has threatened an econbaie bekade of the Soviet zone of Germany. Herr Brandt went even further. He accused America and Britain of

acting strongly no!

enough against Russia. He called for

"actions not words."

He worked to fever pitch a mass meeting of nearly 300,000 people who carried planards de- claring: "WE WANT COUN- TER-MEASURES.“

and Germany. For

rend this state-

Such is the German hypnotism exerted from time to time on otherwise sune, responsibly and decent people in Britain.

If it could be exerted then, how natural that It should be even more powerful today. How natural that its victims should rebuke those of us who are stil suspickats of Germany as if we were tribesmen trying to keep up a foolish and ancient feud.

"Let bygones be bygones,” they tell us, "These are nOL· the same Germans. You cannot pixit Die sins of the parents on the children, You cannot hate Jor ener,"

Yet I say that it is not 31 Celles Int 1}[ haired but of vantina. Caution which proceeds from the simple eafculation tit ebnost everyone of 31 or over o Germany today either works- ed at fought for Hitler or woe ducated for at least 15 years under him.

Unchanged

How then can anyone in his MEDALS SUY that these are not the same people? They are. quite literally, the same. They may have changed their ideas, But they cannot change their upbringing.

It declarey that "[ clear Naturally they include many understanding with Germany charming or noble individuals. trould have Consequences more But in the mass? The best and profound, and more conducive t Knert evidunge about to a stable peace than any Germans in the mass Comes from those speeches which were object of our foreign policy.

made by Adenainer and Brandt themselves, who are now rivals for the votes of the German electorate,

For how has Dr Adenauer

It points to the existence af a new and reformed Germany. I stresses the need for political and military co-operation with Cermany. must be bygones.

It says that bygones

Naw where do you suppose have taken that statement from?

bld for those voles? By mock birth of Herr Brandt. ing crudely at the legitimate

How has Heer Brandt, m "NOBODY From one of the British news anil-Nazi, delivered his counter

bid?

By marshalling maas- meetings behind those warlike, placards.

EVER

STOPPED TANEH papers which have been pouring WITH PIECES OF PAPER." ut propaganda for the Com- "WESTERN POWERS, DO mon Market and defending the YOUR DUTY, TAKE ACTION." decision to Bet German troops.

You may think that those occupy part of Wales? German demands which are No. I take it from a booklet tantamount to saying "March published in 1938 by the Anglo- intu the Soviet sector," "Fire German Fellowship.

several ot across the border at their tanks" whose mezubers, were later de-

ure frightening enough.

falued as potential traitors by You may also think that they the Churchill Government. should have been net by a cool The booklet describes the The

and dampenthit resetina from Fellowship's netivities for Britain. Not so

rus-

in

previous year a dinner in

at visit of Hitler Youth Iraders In Britain, a musting at which members gave enthusiastle re- ports ull the Nuremberg Con- gress.

Not only were mur temps and London attended by Ribbentrop, planes alerted in dutiful ponse to the Berlin pinenges. In addition, ԼԵԼ Մ wobassador Boun actually convened a Press conference in order to say that eventually we may indeed turn from words to action.

re

How live the Germans gained such influence over us?

For this is not the first time In recent

Wrens

That British policy has been made in Bont

The Center Market #twit

Yet mest fascinating of all is a list of the Fellowship's mem burs. They include Mi Duncan Sandys and several other Tory M.Ps who still sit in the House today: they include Mr Clement Davies, the Liberal leader: they include financiers such as Mir Henry Tiarks: they include

was in many ways a German many well known peers. concept, engineered and headed by Hallstein, fessor promoted above all the German Governmeal.

a German

EPUUÇUDBINZONINIO

which were erded to her vicilm, Foland, in 1845.

More than anything else it is that demand-so reminiscent of the summers before the war- which is holding up agreement un Berlin.

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do not suggest that we should hate the German people for appinuding the demand, 'I do not deny that we must have them. friendly relations with But I say that to allow British policy to be moulded by them is not only humiliating. It is disastrously stupid. London Express Service,

NOT

EAST CERMANY

C

CHINA

Cummings

**But, Mr. Krushcher, how can you expect me to recognise the little letter, when I can't even sea clearly enough to recognise the big one!**

hen a Queen

opens her heart

BY PETER FORSTER

TOT since 1883 have we had a new book by that well-loved author, Queen Victoria. Even so, she remains the only reigning British monarch ever to have set up seriously as a writer, for our royalty has never been very literary-minded.

Her grandson, George V, once saw "Hamlet" would abdicate rather than sit through it again.

But in 1808 and 1683 Queen Victorin published selections

It doesn't indicate that these from her Journal, in which fin wondered that it is like two, who should know, believe she took great pride: the guile to be on the inside at one at that Germany has been rful Disraël often got under these great ceremonial occasions, eduented, does it? when

Particularly her guard by storing a sun- that both fence, "We authors, Ma'am.. We remember men are united in demanding (In passing, the question oe- that Germany must keep the curred to me whether royalty sight to recover the territories † received royalties: i find that the Queen's earnings were paid into a fund called the Balmoral Fellowships,

educate children estates.)

Wavell's

nine fateful words

By TOM WILSON

ONE sentence

ם

the

her Scottish

Happiest

Now for the #rst time there

to be on the balcony above the is said cheers, to catch what inside the golden carriages, çan

and said that he

the crinoline

Victoria's

London Express Bervica

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Private Lite. by been lost: I find it decidedly E. E. P. Tull (Jarrulds, 21. odd that he made little This is likely to be much effort to follow it up, discover discussed because it brings up who sent it, and what might

the lie behind. very frankly, again, and

widowed In his desire

to prove of the question Queen's relationship with her Queen "besotted" with Brown, Tisdall makes Scottish glilie, John Brown.

On the face of it, the idea of Queen Viclorio as a forerunner condes- of Lady Chatterley, cending to her gamekeeper, is indierous. Would she who

is seen for the insisted on the dead Albert's

night-stri being faid ou beside her own every night,

first time in England.

Then,

the

John great as that

play with such facts she loved to dance with him at

the Balmeral Gillies' Ball-but then she had always loved dancing.

Indeed, it is surely possible to explain the Queen's undoubt- od dévotion to Brown without

a few months later, who had Albert's pleture hung smearing her moral character? over to Paris, and an enthusias- above every bed she slept in. A lonely, vain, fervent, after- especially tic welcome from crowds and ever for a moment have fallen tion-starved widow,

In love with I susceptible to the rough, Scotch here share a Queen's-eve-view troops, including the Zouaves, passionately

friends of my dear rough,

drunken romantle gallantry of mannerless. of the colour and

Manners--what confusion. the

more natural And exelting of Guards,"

ban Scottish servant? not a meluc work

(however inappropriate it might This is

quets, and a fox-hunt. and

seem to her courtiers) than to history, but it is great fun.

balls, And Orders to be re-

give speelal licence to Brown? For Victoria was now at her ceived and bestowed. And a happiest-35, bilssfully married, long private conversation with mather of eight. Queen of the Emperor, warning kim England. A delightful story is against his brother, whom the

Queen told of the

and the Queen found most sarcastic. Empress Eugenie in the royal box at the opera-or Eugenic, unused to her high rank, turn- ing before she sat to make sure

is published for publle sale [ a chair was in place, while

a

third book, Leaves from a

Victoria simply sat down with Journal by Queen Victoria ou looking: those born to be (Andre Deutsch, 21s.), which Queen know that chairs will Hitherto has been available be there.

only in a small edition private-

familly and friends.

ly printed for the Queen's own

Д comes appropriately In this

I: is an Recount which

Excited

Ironical

There is one

Ingenious

Yet there is no denying the fact that this belief was widely

Endearing

fils form of flattery was to

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go

expressed during her lifetime

in Punch, nolably

in the be no respecter of her person days when i had some-and-and since she terrified every- what Mr Tisdal tries hard to show body else in England,

more likely that the rumour was not with-

than that she snd, ironical out foundation. He plays al should And this Irresistible? touch-dear Albert's birthday, least

Ingeniously strong And rough he might be, but he August 25, and the entry: "May card by suggesting that Brown was not without his endearing we ever be together to our possessed

spiritualist powers side. When the Queen remark- lives' end!" She was not to which gave him a speckl hold ed of a certain High Church know that there would be 40

that

would over the Queen, as incdium for bishop years without blm.

the messages from

departed straight to Heaven, Presbyter- Prince.

Inn Brown multered: "Mobbe, in The Royal Family is repre- prosented in the list by the late

In his informative introdue-

when he is My own view that Mr but God help him So here is the Queen excited- tion, Raymond Mortimer writes war report started centenary year of the Prince by Marquis of Chrisbrooke. The

meets John Knox" his of Consort's death-of one of the ly welcoming the French ruler

"shining Tisdall fails to make out the Queen's Jato Lord Halifax

Marshal gave his Field

Lord

case. One principal character": 1

piece of In order to make us Join blessing to

No, Mr Tisdall's seems to me to London-wary of the Em simplicity of uppiest, most successful enter- the

nnsly a rather

book, gradually Hallstein's scheme

would have thought her rather evidence, for example, is

altite Fellowship's Wavell's slide in the prises in the Queen's married peror at first, then solemn activities. which--the booklet

life--the chorus warned:-"Hurry inside shows were duaneed by many estimation of his Prime visits in 1855 with the Emperor ing when he spills coffee over

exchange of state serumbing to his charm, gleel complex in some ways, notably photograph of a letter from the specially in its lack of com-

with in er relations

her Queen, reconstituted from torn- passion

the or German will dominate it. of the powerful business finis Minister,

I and Express his eneked hat, impressed by family and attendants. Cer- up scraps, addressing Winston Napoleon

John Bereavement and loneliness, and Hurry inside or the wonderful which have recently backed the

and Brown in loving terms-which for the Queen's hugo services Germans will push you out of campaign

Eugenie of France.

the dash with which he dances tainly there are curious for

the State.

Dru We

pot the world's markets."

And what a gay, fresh, lively the qandrille. She Is Impressed, controversial aspects to her life, is certainly starting, but Thall

these and dress- und too, by the looks

are revived by came by this letter over 20 umused. What accounts for this newly- Yet this was at a time when cher's bill not necessarily indica- is! We

The rentence: "Heavy bút-writer the young Queen Victori

outsiders

and it has since new book, Queen years ago,

-London Express Service} sense of the Empress, or whom another who have restored magic the word the concentration camps in Ger- tion of good tucties." "Germany"

many had already begun their Brigadier Bernard Fergisson,

Markel.

the Common Churchill.

How our forces are

rising-by Germany

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Amaz soldier, Luftwaffe pilot, and U-Dori commander In the British mind was Uued from Bonn recently in the form of

44-page booklet.

The bookini, in«ned shortly before the German Pangara

dam In ATO

Britain, alven charis like the one above showing the build-up of Ger- man' forces over the last few yours. The combined foroge already, Bolal MOTO Lanzi

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250,000 men aud will be rabed La 310,000 br 1908. Of iltovo the German Army will have 200,000 in 18 divisions. The ham Italtwate will have

190,003 men with 12 wings of Axlters, Nadler-bomotiers mul other airplanes.

Total cost of building the poel-war forcen ao fur in usare than 66.100 million,

The booklet siromen that the Glavican forces are cam- pletely controlled by Nato, -Londen Kapresa Berrien

ex-Chindit leader, then Wavell's

affle de campi. reveals the

| Ineldent in a new book on his

Hold chief, "Wavell Portrait of a

Soldier."

Churchill had called Wavell to

London in 1940 as the Italians advanerd in Somaliland,

Churchill said

With we

Somaliland WE

must be held at all curis.

Wavell replied that he had left

E are going, they tell us, to have a

that decisinst to Generni Sir National Theatre

Henry Maitland Wilson. then of these centuries.

Commander-in-Chief in Egypt,"

one

It is going to be a fine, up-

and he was not going to indulge standing building on the South

in backseat driving from Lon-

don.

Ite could only promise the

troops would fight,

Bank, handsomely got up by Mr Scan Kenny.

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for

.

Women's

bouquet and club

await Peter

That boing so, it is now paz- able to make a fairly promising

Quess at the sort of National

By the time Wavell was back It is going to have a bust of Theatre that a National Theatre

at his Cairo headquarters, Wil-the Chancellor of the Exchequer run by Mr Hall will be.

anya Ferguson, that the Prime over another, Minister accufish Waveli of nol The Old Vic. Sadler's Wells, fulfilling his promise to nicht. and holf a dozen other unlional Then the Itali casualties institutions, are, soing to be become known. With five times moved in there, lock, stock, and wur number of troops, they barrel. thut enabling their auffered 1,800 enstalties,

present buildings to be pulled Wavell signaled the facts, down to make way for re ending with the fateful sentmce, affee blocks for more office

Seven months later, he heard blockheads. Churchill's reaction from Field

Marshal Sir John Dill,

then

Chief of the Imperial General Staft

Charming

by BERNARD LEVIN

Then Tybult kills him; the Hall has his way the stage wit

our

son had evacuated Somuland,over one door, and of the Leader For he has been directing the now that he is dead is greeted be a prosceniumless apron, many Casunities were light--so light. of the London County Council Royal Shakespeare Theatre at by parts of the audience with of the groundlings will be in a

fur Stratford-on-Avon

Mr handy nesition for looking up two tears of laughter, and if reasons now, and has also had all thinks that 15 a criticism of the actors doublots to see if

than season in charge of the project the nudlence rather

of their ruffs are on straight, but

for little rise. he devised and carried through him, he is much mistaken.

Come to London, For 14 London home (ut the

In other words, if Mr Peter modern classle. Mr Hall ha Hai is appointed to ru given us Olraudeux's "Ondito, National Theatre we will have Aldwych) for his company.

On Tuesday night he directed complete with a scene in which in charge a man who balioves fomeo and Jidha" at Strat- set of singe-hands play batile- that

National Theatre la the ford; led us stort from there, dore-and-shuilicenck with cheese

wijd experiment, If Mr Hall runs

plave for the Nationat rolls and then get

themselves trickery.

Juckety, дл

anch Theatre and this production is wedged in some step-laddora,

generally making what should anything to go by (and it fa) just as comedians used to do on he a National Anilkulon algh links are clearly going to the ends of the fern sophisticated notional scandal. Said : "I don't think

The Queen will make a chatz be the order of the day. plers before the last forgive you foring speech at the opening

When the Montagues and the three. ceremony, Armly repressing. on Capulets fight in that last sentence;"

The Vervna Churchill's case in clear. One the best commitutional principles arves, baskets of dirty washing. glimmer of military glory in any uten she might wish to make are Hume about with gay"`nban- those dark 1940 days would have for the Inclusion 1ghtened Dritish morale; but pertoire of "Salad Days" and do, to the huge amusement of any idiots who may happen to Wavell took a Beld commander's The Bride Comes Back."

The Government will take the be sitting in the vicinity." | view and lost his Peline Minis-

When Mèreuila dighis a duet And then Mr Peter ler's confidence — and all the grean. brilliance of his desert and Hall will move it to run it. At with Tybalt ke Boon Inne Abyssinian campaigns could not least, notandy seriously Imagines middle, produces a Spanish wine reggin it.

tlins the offcial announcofant bottle (you may well anke), Wavalls Portrait of a folding of Mr. Hall's appolniment can squirts the wine bizh Info the

The (Collins, 12h. 60).

anything mora thane alt, and catches H in his mouth, matter of time.

Then he sargins witka 11.

i will Over

madhendon, Baprasa Bervice),

ho

In the re

Scandal

but war

hia

Is that, we have got lu nsk, the sort of man we want to run the National Theatre?

My answer is n loud, furlotts, urgent, and absolutely unquail

led YES.

go much for Et short, but For the theatre-and the more representative, Hat of the trige National it is the more true this Me Hall will pisy, upon becomes-muit bo

continually fogged and battered into weird National Theatre authors

What about kie National niid surprising shapes if H-is lu

Soma of Ilve. Theatre Auences? them, I fear, are golis to fol The theatre is not predictable that they have not got full valus You ganjot sayin qovance, for tyske ticket-money, as if Me' what will be the effect of a new

Hall

piny, a new idea in production; new sets, new seats, new play- cry, now nudiences.

are

Vituperation

You can only put them on the'

them around and stage, move stand back and watch the result. The text is all too often a entumn and n halt of vitupera- llen from the cantankerous criiles, and a sharp mase move- ment away from the box office by the customers. Never inlnd: there is always next time,

The olher Peter (Mr Peter Book), himself no stranger to what happens when traditions upset (he ran Covent Garden for a short but hectic time) has suggested that there ought somewhere to be theatre na subaidired that would not matter if it was completely emply every "night,

This is perhaps an extremo : claw, But It is better, for the National Theatre, than to num at productions and playa thạt will koru a theatre completely full evory night. For the only way you can do that, is tủ DIRE. safe. And playing anfe mpana death to the living theatre.

==(London Express Service).

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