1961-09-08 — Page 1

Freedom's bastion? To my generation it will always be the city of Hitler's bunker

BERLIN'S

WALL:

AS IMPOSING AS A SANDCASTLE

THE Germans have a

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER, 8, 1961,

of it in terms of Hitler's bunker, But, one would be allly and

fact, the Berliners have had a rough time.

phrase, "Ich habe By DONALD EDGAR human nut to realise that, in

die nase voll," Literally it means, "My nose is full." Idiomatically it means, "I am cheesed off, browned off und fed up.

And the phrase suns up what must reasonable people feel gifs ter experiencing in Berlin what has happened these last 10 days,

My nose 174 sin full 132! 1':1} beginning to get optimiste. It alt so childish, so' crazy, that 1 feel ordinary people all over the world who their politlent headers that their noses are also

Tell.

So stupid

you

CRI

frengine anything more stupid In un man of R bombs and Trips into space than u stupid ile wall 4ft. high which could be knocked down if you lented un it, dividing the East and West.

as imposing

It's Just about

as a sandcastle built by child-

Apart from the wall there I this fats barbed wire put up by the East Germans niso. ta fect it's only a few strands. The only efficient harbed wire

pst

up in Berlin in the inst few days Is the 1,088 yards of it the Bri- . th have pit up munt a Rus- siatt war memorial.

British troops in netive service

kit patrolling its perimeter.

I'm a bit ut a schoolby prank

a rather nasty - infuled schoolboy to put up barbed wire round a memorial to men who tri fighting against the Nazis.

t

Whatever the faults of the Hiller regline may have been, most Berliners fwel they have sulfered enough. By their he- havlur see the war they have proved they are worthy of run- hing their own destiny.

The Berliners are also a rather - sailed people, They play on it like spolted children to a certain extent. Since the days of thei blockade they know that the

Americans consider Berlin to be one of their frontiers. That is why they Battered Lyndon Johnsum so much the other day.

But mie cannot look at West Berlin police looking at Enst Berlin juller, over a barrier and not realise that they also have their noses hill.

Bul then that altitude is typical of some strange form of madness that seems to exist in Bertin. For example. Major General Sir Rohan Delaronibe, The GOC at the British garrison

there, has been putting out low tanks, enlling out his troops in the middle of the night to Imprens the swortel lut the Brittis are on the ball.. Wus! really do a few Centurion tanks As I am writing this I think and belgie of Infantry mean? the situation will undoubtedly What, for that matter, is the get worse. The West Germans siltesner af 1,300 Americans do something against the East -arned with the equivalcht of Germans. pea-shooters as a reinforge

ment to Berlin?

And what madness has over-

the East Germans comm

and Russian friends to build their stupid little walls and indulge

in the childish jibes over loud- speakers when Dr Adenauer was at the Brandenburger Tor

Suffered

My generallon will never have an affection for Berith as symbol, It's all very well for Mr Kennedy to talk about it as like tu sge a "bastion" of Freedom. I think

3 must confess I don't like to

seu fu I don't

And then the East Genugns do something against the West Gernians, And all their friends from Washington or Moscow feel a little huppier.

The great danger Js that although both sides have prob ably deelded quite reasonably that there will have to be dis russions about Berlin, they have ld their subordinates in Berlin to indulge in pressure so that their cards might be little stronger.

But the madness of this game is that any time, any day, sume- thing could happen which could ent but only the story of Berlin, but the story of mankind.

-London Express Survtead.

Mr Miles wants

to be everybody's brother

Mermaid

MR Bernard Miles, actor, manager of the Theatre, was talking about brotherly love. "Above my bed there hang two slogans. The first: 'I am my brother's keeper."

"The second: What, where, why, and when? They are the only things worth know- ing."

He was explaining his offer

of employment to Frank Hazell,

thought" demtersey Dught step in."

All-party

to

Thus: "After reading this

WELCH REGT BERLIN

Resta

"Just let him say once more Taffy, Mein Herr, I hat two sohns serving mit der Panzers in Wales.'"

IN THE SHADOW OF AMRITSAR'S GOLDEN TEMPLE, WHERE SIKHS WAIT WITH CUTLASSES AND KNIVES

THE

London Express Bervios,

FAST TO DEATH

OF MASTER

TARA

THE little old man of

Agam the Intense, Inquiring stare. The parrot nodded off.

76 lay huddled on "Good. Well, i struck a blow his side. Beside him on for democracy. I sent the following telegram." He cleared his low bed were 41 is throat and read out a copy sheath knife, a pair of of the telegram in lovely actor's voice.

spectacles and a string of beads.

A brilliant blue turban covered his long, hair, arranged in the Sikh top-knol. morning's Dally Express the

His board and bushy eye- Mermaid Theatre, strongly de-

bruws were grey, but the brown mocratie, all-party, inter- work once more denominatiortal, multilingual or cyes were surprisingly alert canisation motto 'Live and Let Master Taru Singh, leader of

and bright. For This Live, coexistence, the only hope the Sikhs and now in the 21st for humanity, Invite you to join day of his Jast-a fost the staff as stand-by electrician death. for the next production,"

I woke the parrot up and teased it in high, maniaca) voice. Suddenly he said: "It

the former Communist general would go to secretary of the E.T.U. We were with the whitewash brush and sitting in his office overlooking that would be tiresome. the Thames, Jack Sprati, Mr Mr Miles, articulate, relaxed, Miles's parent, was siting on is anxious that people get his perch looking disenchanted message of brotherly love, He aboti serthing or other. inquired, looking straight at me with eyes the colour of pale ale, if I was on his side, I said maybe,

Miles

"You ought to be. You must exuding brotherly love. I had I am understand how I feel. Now, I brother's keeper painted oldn't offer Haxell job as n mny over the door there. But one publicity stunt,

Whitewash

was

day someone on the staff who two PCEDOS.

didn't believe in it slapped

whitewash all over it."

He said he ການເຂົ້ bothered to have R because if he did,

BERLIN,

that

Serene

was

unto.

SINGH...

BY RENE MACCOLL

against Communism. If we are to let life slip from him in destroyed, then the Punjab will gentle pursuance of his political go Red-and after that all of ideals. India."

But it seems to me there may Later in the day Torn Singh be nothing gentle about the flatly disobeying the pleadings reaction if and when Tara Singh

of his doctors insisted on being does die. placed on a stretcher and car- rled out of his roam. The stretcher was set on a high

table where he could be plainly seen by a vast crowd which had gathered at the Golden Temple.

Tension

the

While prayers go on night and " day in the towns and villages of A roar of accisim went up.

the teeming Punjab sort of There were shouts of "Long uneasiness and tension hag live Tara Singh" and a great settled over Amritsar. brandishing of spears, swords, Ав I pas ed through cutlasses and knives by the Golden Temple my bare feet, the Sikhs stand no the whole scene wrapped in not currying suffocating heat which a wildly spectacular thunderstorm did Many of the women could not nothing to alleviate, I was follow the dying man's instruc- aware of the tension on all tions about tears and were sides.

men, for

nonsense

weapons,

about

weeping wildly as they held up

All police leave has been con- their tiny children for a lock.

celled, the Home Gunrd is alert- After a few moments Tora ed, and special patrols guard Singh sat up, staring about him. bridges and telegraph stations, Then, with an effort, and sup- while the unusual step has been ported by his followers, he rose taken of commandeuring all the to his feet and gave the boxers' taxicabs in town. salute to the crowd.

One of Tore Singh's friends

I must say he looked uncom- told me! If he dies we hope monty froli standing there. mat there will be no violence, To me there was something for in that Way we might lose errie and threal about the scene, the hioral authority which we It secihed hard to grasp that now enjoy.”

to me. And those about, in- n.ent with the Delhi Govern- is obligatory on democrney to The six doctors who attend cluding two sons, a married ment and to let no stigma give helping hand." sidered this for

He con- the venerable leader twice daily daughter of great beauty, and a remain on our tionour,” a while and are Issuing increasingly omin- group of close friends and

While one of les sons, a gum- twent sall: "That's good, I ous bulletins,

counsellors, showed no signs of smith

atarted by trade,

to this lie white-garbed crenture I would not bet on It though. like that. I might stick

But inside the tile white grief, coneem. sense of Im- massage the old man's fingers, who has now lost almost a The Bikhs are in an užly washed room which is withta pending doom,

Turn Singh. a former school stone and a half during his task food—and a Sikh in an ugly the precincts of Amritsar's

"That is what Tara Singh has teacher, udded; "A nation like and who allows himself only an mood is no man to cross, famous Golden Temple, I en- ordered," said one of those at the Sikhs stands as a bulwark occasional sip of water—muans -London Express Service. countered an unexpected atmos- the bedside. "He wants no phere.

weeping or walling during his ordeal."

I diet it for up above the door."

"Firstly, I wanted an Elec- MICHAEL

trician at I'm told he is very

never good. Secondly, I was annoyed PARKINSON

replaced when I read in your paper that soincone prople had refused blin jobs. I

VICKY'S BERLIN

{Potsdamer Plat

[Ptsdatter Strate

A WALL NOW DIVIDES THE POINDAMER PLATZ,

ONCE ONE OF BERLIN'S BUSIEST SQUARES.

REFUGEES Am

MARIENFELDE

-London Express Service),

NOTEBOOK

Teru Singh himself wal serene and cheerful as he talked

'ARMED WORKERS" AND "VOLKSPOLIZEI ON GUARD AT THE BERNAUER STRASIE, THE PROMTER BETWEEN THE FRENCH

SELTOR-AND THE EAST,

THE RUIN OF THE KAIKER WILHELM MEMORIAL CHURCH, Á STARK. REMINDER OF THE LAST WAN AND THE HOWLY BUILT BELL TOWERS, ALREADY KNOWN. AMONG BDALINERS AT THE GASWORKS* AND'L IMTHOUSE*

As two grent electric

fens revolved above us, Tara Singh, voice which showed only perosional nigus of weakne53, buld me: "Nothing will shake me now. Perhaps I can keep it up another 12 days. After tho first two or three days, All thoughts of food disappear. My minds occupied only with thoughts of succeSS in pur struggle."

Tara Singh Is fasting in an effort to persuade Indian Prime Minister Nehru, to agree to the

DID

RADIATION

START LIFE?

It's the latest theory from a top American scientist

17HAT started life on

Earth? Could

renton pinabis quase W

It

The World'

of Science

spawning of fish, birds. animals, men?

state here in the Punjab, which have bech a chemical re- would be dominated by the Sikh action that profaced the cmmunity. Nehru says No. That strikes the 7,000,000 sikha as grossly unfair because in the last few years Nehru bas set up similar states in other parts of Inila.

Fighting

ot

Scientists, philosophers, men religion Drgue Inud and

long about the creation of all

things living.

by Peter Katriny

atomic rallation may have been of such High energy that it "Bitzed" straight through the ktmosphere to act as the main aparkplug for the chemical reactions.

It is is theory, not mine.

Weather silence

The radiation changed gosea Now A leading American such as ammonín, hydrogen and scientiat has come up with on methane in the air to form, the The photographs showed Went, on Tara Singh, fixing fagonlous theory: It was radia frst pre-life molecules.

clouds, over Russia, as seen brown eyes on my face:

flon from outer

Space that These diamived in the ancient from a US. Tiros "weather "We are fighting for our honour began it all.

Bens, and eventually combined satellite." row. We feel that we are being The scientist la Dr Hubertua emerging as proteins and Miscriminated against.

Why Slighold respected As the amino acids. Life then larted. ahould we not be granted what "father" of space medieing and other parts of the nation have now adviser on the subject to alrondy received? Nehru treats the United States air force.

an inferior people, he un da

An obstaclo wishes to demoralize us.

Thick bands

.

Then someone in space head-

Washington, had quarters, bright Idea-mi the Fustana A set of complimentary prints. When the U.S. Explorer katel-

A set wan nirinnlled, with: liten began courlig space in request Tor details of what the The British used to get their Radiation is of great concern

1030 they discovered the pres weather wt ilke below-in enve of two thick bands way with us by kindnem and to him today: it in an obstacle

of Rimala--that day. Bacle chine dignity-but not these people in to man's Journey to the planets, radiation around Earth, now Thank you" from Moscow. But Delil

Dr Birughold believes that called the Van Allen belts,

A refusal, to say anything about *Democratic nations

The outer of them. Dr Slug the weather, kuch neigh energy forces such ; na Britain and Amorien ought to lightning bolts and ulien-violet hold suggests, played a vital

Auch in the spiki. of inter- try to teach Nobru some lessons rays acted on the primeval port millions of years ago.

national co-operation The bell aph in at the Poles. Went and East today. At these poliste, The says, the

in democracy. We want to havė | atinosphore surrounding the A honest, reasonable #gree- | Earth,

between

mclanden Kaprara Berulce).