1961-09-23 — Page 13

IN THE WISTFUL HOURS Electrolux

OF THE NIGHT- JUST WHAT ARE KRUSCHEV's THOUGHTS

PARLIAMENT is enjoying its usual summer siesto.

The

But Berlin is not Germany.

It is in tact a show window for

Finally there is a _tits Russla which can no more bu dammed than the tide of the sea. The real rulers of Russla Inday are the growing man of industrialists. In fact Russia is steadily developing into a bour- geuls state and the emergencs of the middle class spells the doom of despolian.

It may be a bloodless re-i volution but It is a revolu- ) tion just the same. Despite freedom in the Kussion press on Russion Perlin. ment the economist, the merchant, the manufac- turer and the banker are steadily extending their power.

In West Berlin there is the sad impressive monument of a there may be a monument there. dead Hussion solider, Some ciny

to Kruschev as the man who unintentionally brought the

an industrial, commercial and military alliance and turned back the tide of Communism,

Destiny is always at work, just like the tides of the sea. Let us

theatres have to compete with the lure of the open road and the vibrant West and the sod- the warmth of the sun. Even the criminals seem to have eased dittedly in East sige he had lost the Battle of nations of Western Europe Inte off for the time being. In fact it is good to be alive.

Yet if we can borrow Shakespeare's words, there are "naises off" which remind us that the war god Mars is in his most dangerour scoton, It is in glorious summer that the ground is hard and armies can be swiftly moved from point to point,

Once more we see the punish ment and the curse which Hit- ler, the madman, brought

had paid a terrible

to

be the price that the Germans would have to pay.

It was a eruel declaton but justice is traditionally armed with a sword. The Russians price at the hands of Hitler's armed hurdes and It was politically impossible to restore nationhood to a country which had proved how it progressed from the

a curse to the civilised world, weakling Kaiser Wilhelm 10

The dreadful losses of life in Hitler on Dictator and then the Russia's armies demanded on

that Anol net when Hitler, having Germany would no longer be lost the Second World War, lock

acmitled his own life rather

the comity al than face

nations. the Judges and history.

Not only hud Hitler lost the War, and ended his lite, but his defent had brought about the partition of Germany. The shrivel-armed Kaiser Wilhekn and Hitler the mad dictator had at least assured that we would not in our life time be co- fronted with a mighty united Germany threatening the peace of the world. At least that is what we believed and what we hoped.

his people ond, to a lesser ex- tent, to all. Europe. He was a genius and a maniac but his hungry vanity could only be ussuaged by the march armies

PUERILE

of

Perhaps in all history there is no story tu equal his inesmeric his uncontrollable power and inferiority complex. In the first war he rose no higher than corporal and when he tried 10 feed his hungry vanity

after

Germany had been defeated-ye

was driven almost mad because ALTERNATIVE?

the art

dealers

In Austria

his puerile

would

buy not Juvenile drawings.

What is the matter with the Germans

race? Perhaps the answer is that they have never understood democracy.

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They must have a leader and so it was that the Kulser Wil- helm put the world to thes sword in 1914. As a result the throne was Bu more bul the

alt- Was

It is easy after the event lu see the mistakes which are made by victors in a war. Should We have given Germany other chance when Hitler consumed in the names?

The answer then could only be "No! No! No!" Germany had lost its right to the dignity of a free people. Yet what was the alternative?

Germans found themselves like Russia had fought a Bercely

a nock of sheep because they and

had no leader.

But the Inferiority

complex

to self-

is a close cousin glorilcation. I was said at the thne that the Kaiser went war in 1814 because

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was shrivelled and he wanted to feed his hungry vanity,

And when the Kaiser's Ger- many was no more it was the madman-genius

Hitler harnessed the inferiority plex to his self-glorlácátion.

who com-

With some Justice Germany has always dreaded Russia yet in the Second World War it was the madman Hitler who hurled his forces FPGlossl the Soviet. So there carne disaster and defert. Hitler took his life, and his body was consumed in the flames.

DECENCY

Victory is one thing but the aftermath is quite mother. For reasons whleb reemed Justified at the time the victorious allies set up the war trials at Nurem- berg.

"I went there for the Sun. day Times and watched the trinks day by day and then the sentencing. Ta the atmosphere of the time per. haps the trials had to be taken but they had

dignity or decency.

So as we look at the

little

story

of the German natios we Bec

SU bravely that the Western Powers could not ask her to accept Germany as responsible nation..

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What of France which had endured her third invasion" by the Huns? What of Poland which had been bled near to death from the German on- slaught? it was Inevitable, that the partition of Germany would

ASSISTANCE

BA

Yet the decision of the vic- tors created a new and menac- ing problem. The only possible solution was to divide Berlin into East had West Just Germany as a nation had been divided.

So it was deerced by the vanquerors that there, woujif be East and West Berlla Just us there would be an Rast Gor- many and a West Germany

A unce the Western alles mathey got together and gave and assistance 10 re-building their part of the city. Almost as if by mugle the new West Bertin came into being wide roadways, and fine hotels, and omlee buildings stretching into the skies.

With

combination idralis und malian the

cen-

Germany there are elles such as Leipsig which maintain their historie dignity and 19th tury charm, but the feree glare at history is centred on Berlin and It must haunt Kruschey in the hours of the night.

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The truth is that Russiu is faced with

double-beaded problem. How can Kruschey maintain friendly relations with the Western Powers and, the same time, declare that it Is his intention to destroy the Free World?

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And further how can he proclaim Communism the most successful pallti- cal creed in existence when the escape and attempted escape of thousands of peo- ple frum East to West Germany is like a mighty tide that never recedes.

OVER-SPILL

But is it not a fact that Com- unist munist China

Russia and Com- are the most powerful alliance in the world? Physically-yes. But spiritualy

ru.

of

Ils dreams haunt the critel hours of the night.

From the standpoint of pro- erlin os shown by the crowded escape route which the Com munisty had to block. He sees Western Europe lcnping ahead while the Communist nations of Eastern Europe--such 05 Po- land and Hungary-are struggl- ing in maintain mere existence. And now he has to en- dure the crowning shome of East Berliners risking their very lives to leave the "Communist Paradise" be- kind.

BOURGEOIS

Communism seems to present a remember that when

united front which can never be rivalled by a free CCR- imunity."

Hitler suid that the British Empire was held together by mere moonbeams. But when you have cut a moonbeam what have you cut?

Freedom is on the march avon though there are steep hills to climb and deep rivera Kruschev is a man of courage

will deny that to cross. I believe in to- and a stubborn sense of duy

morrow and tomorrow's world according to his rights, cut in without end. Amen,

No

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• BY. THE .

WAY

by Beachcomber

THIS morning, at the top of a THIS

Pyrenean pass which is the

frontier, Franco-Spanish

the anntal ceremony of the Tribut des Trois Vaches takes place.

It dates from the fourteenth The peasants the French valicy of Baretous and those from the Spanish val- ley of Roncal meet at the fron- tler stone, and the French hand over three cars in the presence

century. with

of

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The population of China is in- creasing at such a rate that it must look to that portion over-spill And where is the the world where it can send its

answer to be found? Only in the wastes of Siberia,

It requires no genius of perception to understand why Mr Kruschev is haunted by day and by night with evil dreams. His people are obedient and

frcin

of the dignitaries of the various

.cupying Americans proceeded to plan the new

dare not etticise their dictator villages in the valleys. skyscraper elty

but what if a modernised Chinn of West Berlin,

breathing space demands Siberla?

SHAME

In

Motor cars swept up and down the wide drive-ways, and blocks of office buildings rose as if by magle.

Mr Kruschey had wanted to display the fai- lure of Communism he Think of his secret thoughts could not have proved it as he looks out on the world of glant of more clearly than by the re- today and sees the

Ameries, the community of birth of West Berlin and West European nations, and the the dismal dirge of East

ever growing strength of West Berlin,

Gemuny. Is it any wonder if

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Then there is a feast, with singing and dancing. The origin of this curious ceremony was a treaty between the two valleys, a paizarlo, as they call it.

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surely the time is ripe for an attempt to push a lawn-mower from St Margaret's Bay : Am- bletquse while standing on cork bath-mat.

ye olde Englyshe

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