THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1961.
Palm Court classics, long faces and whispers along
the Bosporus as Turkey awaits the general election
In fear
fear of the hangman's
Istanbul.
THERE ore long faces among the waiters in Istanbul's Park Hotel, beside the Bosporus. The hotel orchestra, which usually thumps away regardless, is playing Palm Court classics like a funeral march.
There are long faces, too, among the 16 Turkish Cabinet Ministers who resigned over the hanging of ex-Premier Adnan Menderes and two other Ministers and were then talked into unresigning.
The hotel stuff was think-
ing about the permanent was tested by a bloodless coup
sute maintained at the Park
ind by General Cemal Gürsel.
But the army, who engineered And the en, wanted blood."
by Menderes; the sumptu-i os parties he threw there for his friends and girl w they've had their way.
friends; and the thumping tips he handed out.
Precedent
Backwards
1 as if Farid-Mursbal Moaingomery And con
out of at the head rethement
uf hanged Mr group of officers. Macmillan, Mr Selwyn Lloyd, and Lord Home, jalled the rest of the Cabinet for Jin, and M. 19 sentence all Tory four years.
All the politicians were think- 11 at the three men whor they now personally, And they were thinking: too of the Basly newsent that had been set for Fusta
change of
11 power
By the hangings. Turkey has Turkey.
slipped back a long way.
deal of A Erval Menieres, worshipped by, Bla
had been proeediare. Wis peasants of Takey,
10 h Promine for anchallenged
years, Sixteen months ago he cuted
EIGHT weeks after
the death of Dr Frank Buchman, founder of Moral Re- armament, no domin- ant figure has arisen in the public mind as his successor as lead- er of this thrusting International fellow- ship.
COY! theable.
PXP
Into Tine
Western protesta. The hangings have out drop Turkish life for a long to contĽ,
The delighted Turkish Army bas eirenlatest macabre pleurs of the excetitions, The fate, agal Alaturk. who ordained that Turkey should switch over From sprawling Ottoman im- perialist power
modern $17 (1 Western Slatte, must be furnity! in 103 magnificent Ankara Bausalem-although he would huve disapproved it Menderes's return to mosques and Islam to gain favour with the peasants.
Elections
The
in the "young Turks" swadern army are ever reparted were politicintas
there were the face of a ztam oohappy that
rope... by
ROBIN
STAFFORD
mere executions 13 "justify" Yet General Cemal Gursel's men donned their coup,
But in their 16 months in power the army has made little jrogress. Many is tighter, juba are hard to gef, and education remaius puoIY.
The Türkish people will get their chance of showing legally what they think of the execu Tons this month. when Dew elections are to be held.
The elections will be held under the new Constitution
of democracy
the white shroud tułby army junka has ordered at the ́eondemned. that the verdlet. inay, not be One keystone discussed in public or comment is that ousted Ministers should ed on in newsputes. Which leave power without fear Books, as one Turk whispered to their lives. me, as H Ghusel has violated the new Constitution already.
Again?
Their
point
Cabinet Ministers
for
STRAUSS... HE IS THE HE MAN TO WATCH IN GERMANY
IT looks as if 85-year-old Dr Adenauer is going
to carry on as Chancellor of West Germany. He says he does not intend to resign, And that his Christian Democratic Union will rule without forming a coalition-though it has no over-all majority after the recent elections.
Yet, whatever Adenauer
is saying now, he is clearly Fon the way out. His sucessor will almost certainly be his who have Economics Minister, Ludwig just. withdraws their resigna-Erhurd. Should there ever be another tons
vader
Iran freedom of
pressure The force In Turkey, General Curset have made their und "coup sperch, Presin
Gürsel rand his
Democracy ght be point.
doesn't two indivlačle under exactly The Henrish under the shadow of
for
recusations
those the harteman's noose. and his
--(London Express Service),
which
-guarantees
Chenght,
religion.
Menderes Ministers
were
tais hunked
nut violating the old Constitution!
Is this man
same
for which
stepping into Buchman's shoes?
Buchman recognises Howard's calibre many
years
When foerd with a knotty dificult decision, he sent for Peter Howard.
This is in accordance with "abinet. the wishes of Dr Buchman. Among his followers, Frank fas he is stil know to them all) was regarded as ulicial lender.
NO CHAIRMAN
-
He planned that when he died
no une nuntansid step into his Instead, 1 overall
zhuet.
BY TUDOR JENKINS
We talked in one of the many Peter Toward, former jou7|3--
caps Mayfair mansions that belong at Egland rugby
to Moral Rearizament, ton, will be 33 in beerniber, ie
Hr told red with three children. mu that none of the top men in
2.
By Carnedd his back a Plent- The fellowship has str in 1991 warm has joined his wh. Aleral Rematest and became ist successful publicist.
direction of policy staald be in femel pan in a profusion vf
the hands of a "éabinet"
J
is home
CRITICISM
Book and pinys have downl
popaganda. Tow days "cabinet meeting in Laverne.
Before leaving, he suggested that I should have a talk with r Jela McGovern, the former Ciraleside retje) MP. AL 74, Mr AleGovern is a lending figure in MB in this country.
That He left England a Co to attend 點
was an
1 was
籍
Por Ove yente Marxist studen in Glasgow." he says, "oul i never became paily member. Many of the afins of Communism are shared by us. What we object to about the Communists is their method of achieving their alns. Passion- ately, we abhor violence,"
Can be oriunisatiti like Moral surprised me, for in Rearmament exert any ponder- on international Who's Who Peter Howard gives able influence two addresses: one In Charles affairs? Members of the move
Square:
ment have no doubt about it. street. Berkeley other at Sudbury in Suffolk, Look at Brazil, they say, "The
fact That the "Both places."
crisis Says Mr
become a revolution McGovern, "belong to MR."
It was at Sudbury that Mr
due to the work Howard entertained ex-King Brazil," the Brazilian Michael
Rumania Fast Bethlem is quoted as saying.
Cyprus. And farin
lonk, too. al Moral Rearmament etalmx large shore in securing peace in that bloodstained island,
16
PETER
HOWARD
A profusion
of
bropaganda.
S
Menderes
basis for
then there would be a peaceful settlement."
Makarios was interested. He did not talked to Mr Rossides, Greece's is largely man at the United Nations, MR does in Peter Howard then took a hand. General Rossides flew to see him in less Angeles. Howard decided that Mac- Rasside should see Mr milian at the earliest moment,
But how?
3
Is UG and But Erhard, who not In the best of health, would he unitely to hold the job for lunk.
The
Ch 10
the watch in manoeuvres now going on over the Chancellorship is Dr Franz- Josef Strauss.
Strauss, architect of German rearmament and Defence Minister in the last Germani Government, is one of the men who are today ganging up on Dr Adenauer.
Another is handsome Eric Mende, the ex-ariny major who leads the nationalistle Free Democrat Party.
With the loss of his parila- mentary majority it was felt Dr Adenauer would have to form an alliance with Mende's party in order to rule,
et
Refusal
But Mende, who was decorat-
10 lines
while fighting
the any which has Adenauer 03 Chancellor.
Russians, refuses to join Coalition Government
-by- JOHN
ATKINSON
he did become Chancellor, what would be the effect on German policy?
The arrogatice and swagger of Strauss, ils nody of ap- proval while Wehrmacht chiefs lecture young
officers on the ormy's role in war, his claratur for alomic weapons ... they all add up to a dis- turbing picture,
And whether Strauss intends to do so ur not, he gives the impression of a man who might one day be a headstrong and troublesome ally within Nato and an outright menace if he decided thai Germany should break away from Nato and defy the alliance to curb her.
Strauss studied at university and graduated in Latin, history, and philosophy. He fought in Russin as an anti-aircraft gun- ner and after the war founded the Christian Social Union in Bavaria. The American occupa- tion
him. nuthorities approved of
A plot Is reported in Boan. Mesde is said to be backing Strauss as the next Foreign Minister. In return, Strauss Strauss would support Mende as the new Defence Minister.
Together they would strive to. have, Professor Erhard, the present Economics Minister. innde Chancellor in Adenauer's "ministers" Buchum chure for their personality, de-
Ha visit was not recorded, place. But from It, claims Mr Mc- Erhard is the free-enterprise votion and qualities of leader. sitip. They have been exercs
turned post-war stetied Govern,
peace-un- geus who
Germany from gloom to boom. in increasing power for severaj
easy though it be-in Cyprus.
From that time Buchma arew old.
Peter By having him as Chancellor, yours he
Strauss-Mende plotters They come from many countries,
Howard's place in the hierarchy the have no fixed chairman; any one:
of Moral Rearmament has not believe they could persuade the German people that prosperous of them mag be keti to pres
bea challenged. For half-a-century, Melkvern
with Lalked
John Memes will continue safely. side over a meeting.
was one of the inost turbulent month. "Produce of the But whenever you have gavellaws in putities;
Govern for two hours. He is But observers bellove Erhard guês to other MR centres," says
a sincere and fluent propagan- wind be prodded into retire- Uy commilles or
MP for 20 years. He was one McGovern.
dist. Honest, too.
ment by the next election in cabal, sooner tater there of the inventors of the "Sit- One critivism brought against
Fivel street-trained Peter
"Two men," he says, "have 1905 at the latest, leaving the emerges as who by application down" protest,
it hoa grow rich In 103, when M is that
Howard has experience of the had great influence on-my life; field clear for Strauss to stand nd natural gifts glands out ending a
"We have too quickly.
highways of diplomacy and the Frank Buchman hunger march from
and Jimmy as Chancellor. 11 12 whose opiniony
Scotland to London, he and his blessed with many
hyways of intrigue. He decided Maxton." derisions are relved with more marchers lay down in classical bequests to carry on our work,"
personal
approach - Frank Was the visionary. says Mr McGovern,
It all began with what John through Sir Hamilton Kerr, Jimmy was a agnostic. Another criticism is tha! its Mcfiovern als "the frankest MP. a former Parliamentary
Jimmy Maxton was John Mc- talk I ever had." It happened in Private Secretary to Mr Mac- Gavern's the religious force has dwindled and
political colleague It has developed into a political New York. The man he was millan.
'through 40 years of bitterness instrument aimer! inainty at talking 10 Wils Archbishop An appointment Was ar- und class-war #trife, You Butcher's son from Bavaria who "Did you eat?"
This Mr Makarios.
ranged. Rossides flew to Lon- now," says McGovern, in his married a brewer's daughter, is "Oh yes," says McGoven,ghting Communism.
McGovern refutes holly. He is "I told him." says McGovern, dun, went Into 10 Downing way of life he was a far better 40. He is grappling for power on "that if he would denounce the street, entered mysteriously by Christian than most people." with enormous cunning and
murder and violence of Boko, the back door.
(London Express Scrulce). bull-like strength.
ווייוןןוןיוס
and
21spect Brn the words of any Princes-street when the Edin. eller,
burgh aulhurites refused 10 supply accommodation for
217.
SUCCESSFUL
That man becomes the lender. Unofficial may be, but just as strong and recognisable as if he had been voted to the post by popular elaniour.
This is what has happened to Mr Peter Howard, the only Eag- Bushman who is a member of the
asked,
been
f
and
told the authorities that if they something of an authority did not give us food. I would Communism, tell my marchers to go in and
get it meant it, too."
Nuw John McGovern looks frail. He walks with stick. He
had a stroke earlier this year.
£50m. HQ FOR MUSIC
AND BALLET......
Dream that has become a living reality
New York.
A brilliant audience of exquisitely gowned
women and distinguished men will gather in
a glass building in the middle of a cluttered con- struction site on some September evening next year.
There will be a dual tuning- up of musical Instruments, the
conductor will raise his balon,
new home on the western side of the plaza,
Д expectant hurt will fall A new theatre for ballet and upen the gathering.
operetta will open under the
And the £50 million Lincoln auspices of the state, a repertory Center for the Performing Arki drama company will be estab in New York City will be in lished, and a band will play co business.
the corner of the plaza.
100
of
An
Set in an area that was once Visitor to the World's Male in
Manhattan's ugliest slume, the Lineola Centre is expected to be the most split did achievement of artistle endeavour In the United States,
1964 and 1900 will have oppertunity to share with Now York people some of these
opening nights."
Lincoln Contro la being bull Just a few atreels west of g
"Opening nights" outh-west corner of Central
In the months Iminediately Park.
following the inaugural concert Jolin D. Rockefeller
III s
in Philharmonic Hall, the litter chairman of the Centre corpora,
of the construation alte will be tion and probably the man moat replaced fry a beautifully land responsible tor turning reaped plays.
INTERESTED
on &
1
diena of a great arts centre, ir-
“Bø calm, Miss Mildred-that which fell upon your head was not, radioactive fall-out,"
-(London Express Strojen),
The Metropolitan Opera Come to, a living reality, pany will move into its' spaglöüs
Swagger
Franz Josef
Strauss,
Loudon Kaprys Deztice.
1
boosted: "Farm party, make it a success, and you are on the road to power."
His arst step was to bring his
own party into Adenauer's Christian Democrat fold.
The Old Man was impressed, He made Strauss his Minister of Atomic Affairs. Strauss sald on his appointment—and this is typical of the mon—"It is in- tolerable that же Germana be the bow-and-arrow should foolsinggers for the alerte knights on horseback,"
He
Jackboot
inunched a crash pra- gramme to overtake Britain in nuclear research by 1965:
Adenauer promoted hơm to Defence Minister. Sald Strauss: "We lost the war but not our reason. At a Nato conferencu the ment a note to von Brentano,
the Foreign Minister, who was speaking, (elling him: "Don't be so apologalic.”
For the army, Strauss intro- duced what he called the de- mocratic Jackboot-with rubber soles, That sparked the com- ment from Premier Mendes France in Paris: "Now we won't.. even hear them coming.""
Strauss delighted German when naval officers last May he wangled permission from Britain and her partners in the Western European Union to build 0,000-ton warships-big enough to launch atomic rockets. The Allics hnd restricted Germany to post-war destroyera of not more than 3,000 tons, But Strauss declared; "We mat have bigger ships to carry-out our Noto commitments."
In
ex Major Gele Mende, Strauss has a likely ally for pulley of power. Mende, who is 44, runs the Free Democrat. Party with near-illiary" "dis elpline. He wears the Knights Cross, won in the war, on CVCTY possible occasion.
Mayda urgez a inore, indepich dent course in foreign policy He says: "We will never bo’a" partner to Der Bettlerenti which recognises the "border" running through the clly, We, refuse, 10, sanction the Uivisión of Cihmany
So,
Worry
There speaks the voice, k German nationalism, Addin
Konrad Adenaue bonders gravely, In fis Hardeb mor the Dragon's dipole on the thine, Il scema tank dragotik teeth are pushing up, i Bonn, the, capital, a few uller, nway.
Adenauer is, on record ng saYK.
Hing:
"I don't worry," about, Gelmait behaviour "Wille I'm Chancellor." ILI WAL wit happeeť
when I'm gone" (flar -London Exptage Servizos.
worries me"!
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