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BY THE WAY

by Beachcomber

THOUGHTFUL render knock, knock," they should bo A

clashed rently Ave times. They * suggests that I should re-

can also create singe thunderfor port the fifth Test match, charades, and may be used to box: without bothering to go to an Intruder's cars and to тая? Australia. One thing is cer. potatoes in a rough and ready way. tnin. I shall be able to

see Ole! from here whether our hats- men were really out or not. In fact, I can solve that problem before the match starts. They

were not.

to

I could imagine the scene;

SOCIALIST M.P.'s description: of the people of Spain dancing: in the sirects when the Socialist Government come into power in England moved me (almost) My correspondent encloses D tears. piece of constructive criticism from in all those little towny of Aragon, one of the reporters of the third where nothing but such news could Test. This critic says that when have kept the jota alive, I saw batsmen

are a daring mood, the the Castillans interpreting. having a go at everything, they with stately steps, the triumph of

bowling Mr Attles over Evil (the Conser be stopped by cas, straight and well up to the bat, so vatives); and in the Trians quarter that if they miss die ball it hits of Seville and the Paralelo

Who'd have thought Barcelona, gipsies, thieves the wicket, nt that? Another way is to ket sallors singing and prancing them caught, by holding

Any night through, with cries of joy. catches they give - But don't tell As for the Basques, it was carnival Bradman.

for a week in the Labourd and the Soule. Pamplona had a ten-foot effigy of Sir Stafford Cripps out- ride the Perla.

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Keep a live:

BACKGROUND OF THE PALESTINE INQUIRY

n corner-

HE first extraordinary ses. sion of the United Nations Assembly Inid stone, for peace in Palestine.

The building plans are now in the hands of 11 neutral investi- gators who start on their sum- mar-long task with a fair degree of optimism prevalling.

Belind them ate the largely un- horded reporta of 18 previous com- inittee inquiries into Palestine.

A summary of the arguments before the United Nations Assembly, and the solutions that might bo

recommended

possible

By LARRY HAUCK

(Associated Press Staff Writer)

After 18 days of debate and de-

.Russia was defeated liberalluns, the

in demands delegates from 55 countries accomplished just what the for Big Five participation, the United majority had set out to do: They Stoles, Britain and China felt that established a small investigating small "neutral" countries, free from commission to delve

unrestrictedly pressure and commitments, could do into the age-old problem of the Holy

a better job of inquiry, Land and bring back recommendo-

tlons to the Assembly in September. Three great baties, of the special Two big procedural issues showed session ran' as undercurrents through on the surface in the discussion:

1-Whether the word "indepen- the speeches: dence" should be written into the commission instructions, and

-Whether the ve big

powers should serve on the Inquiry body.

UNDERCURRENTS

gation on the grounds that the U.'N. chatter made no provisions for such and that all Buch participation groups should testify before the in- quiry body. After Russia went so far as to

before to demand o hearing the Assembly itself for the Jewish agenty, Austin agreed to a proposal for the Jews to appear before the 55-nation political committee. Ac- tually the committee had the same.

Success member, but met at Lake

the Assembly Hall rather than in al Flushing Meadow.

1-Jewiah Inimigration Into the Zionist Holy Land and the linked demand for a national home here. HOT SEAT

2-The Arabs big bid for undla puted regional power and prestige The Arabs lost their independence in the family of nations. demand because the overwhelming majority contended that inserting such a term would prejudge the in vestigators'

denied, however, that independence did

work.

be the ultimate goal.

SOME GERMANS MAY NOT

TH

SEE HOME TILL

THERE are 382,000. German war prisoners. Teams of intelligence experts are moving among them, classifying them, and sending at least some of the undoubted anti-Nazis back home.

But at the present rate of reshipment-24,000 a year--it will be about 1960 before the last POW sees Hamburg again. Though the Government is being badgered to begin bulk transfers, there is no sign of П

in change Cabinet policy.

So

THE 'AMENABLES'

do it looks ns if lots of young Ger- mans are going to go on'sweep- ing up English leaves, hod-carrying British bricks, and binding English sheuves for a long time to come.

That is the background to what I saw and what the men snid to me.

I went to four camps, containing 3,000 men in all. I spoke-in Ger- Dian-with 200. A few were young men who had been captured in the Channel Islands towards the end of the war.

They know how completely Ger- many had been defeated. The colonel in command called them the "amenables." They gave no trouble, They were eager to help.

But the bulk of the men were Afrika Korps veterans. Tough lads, taken when Germany was still rid- ing high. And they arrived here with a grievance.

"No one told us we were coming to this country," sald a former ser geunt on Rommel's staff.

in

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had been treated well America, told by our guards that we were civilians, given good wages and

and allowed to use the cante,

No more soft times after that. A colonel took them to their first camp, on a rubbish heap at the end of an East End street where the Luft- waffe had done its worst.

A few stones were hurled at them

their lorries drove up,

The colonel spoke to them. Like this

Say to yourselt: Germany has been defested. I must bo

worthy

of a

a New Germany." It may get you somewhere.

"As to your jobs. You are going, to work on

on the housing sites of these London people. As we say in York- shire: Tha knocked 'em down, tha's going to build 'em up.'

"On how well you do it depends what's going to happen to you in the months to

come.

A Fleet Street re- porter gets the first 'Sce-it-all' pass to the POW camps in Eng- land to see why the Germans want to

escape

BY

LEONARD

MOSLEY

"Now, I have asked you to be decent and 'make the best of things. I am telling you now. 1 will punish you the third time."

Then these tough German soldiers began at last to get down to it. And now this is their life.

DAY in

6/6 A WEEK

camp begins at 6 am., when reveille sounds. The two-llered prisoner rolls off his bunk, washes in a communal wash- room, shaves, dresses, folds his bed- clothes and arranges his belongings according to strict military formula. He has a cup of tea and a slice of bread and margarine.-

At 7 a.m. he leaves for the build- ing sites. There, inside a wire cage, he works alongside civilians af non-" skilled jobs.

After an eight- or ten-hour day, with a break for a sandwich lunch. un- he climbs into his lorry and, escorted, drives back to camp.

1960

3--Quiet jockeying among the tive great powers for position on one of the world's inest deilento problems, IMMIGRATION

for

-

on

The British, sitting on the hottest seat in the hall, said almost nothing and thus kept out of trouble. Good- ed into making a statement ལ་

of any British acceptance of U. N. de- Sir Alexander Cadogan sald merely flat Button wando U. 3. member and naturally would accept any verdict but could not be ex- peated single-handedly to enforce a decision which did not have the sup port of all parties concerned.

Gromyko's big speech was "y" and devoid of a firm commitment, but he did suggest a dual nation and partition as Russia's number one and two chalces, respectively. He also recognised the plight of the

Jews officially but was careful not to de- mand free immigration into Pales- remained tine. Actually Gromyko about as much in the middle as United States and Britain.

The Immigration situation Is this: The British, administratorn of Palestine under a League of Nations mandate, have reduced Jewish entry to a trickle. The Jews demand lift- ing of the bars because they want

Jewish homo in Palestine thousands of Jews in displaced per- son camps in Europe and other un settled Jews around the globe. The Araba hold a two-to-one, edge they live built their cinemas and Palestine's population. Most of the in rehearsed their own plays (❝d, ad- mission for a commercial Aim violence in the Holy Land today once a week),

centres around this Jewish demand for free entry,

The Arabs, with an eye on their Uruguay, Canada, Peru, Guatemala

is during such intervals

that

and

present population advantage declaring that Palestine always has

the

of

The investigating commission will be made up of representatives Austrálin, Iran, India, Czecho- They have built churches and gar-

Slovakia, The Netherlands, Sweden, dens and Ret up reading rooms. They get all the British papers, and

and Yugo-Slavia. There are rough- German popers from the Fronch,

ly 10 possible solutions which they British and American zones, though

could recommend on September 1, not the Busslan (no one seems to been and always must be un Arab the deadline for completion of their know why).

country, insist that Britain hold un job. But at such times the

ordinarily the bars. quiet POWs get restless, and Ideas There are five Arab countries in of breaking out are born.

There are plenty of incitements, the U. N.Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Many women have made casual Iraq, Syria and Egypt-and two out- friendships with these Germans, side-Yemen and Trans-Jordan, mostly through the coges on the These seven countries, making building sites. Notes are passed by

the Arabs League, long have realised the women. Most camps have a fle

that the outcome of the of these and they ire eyebrow- lifters.

These women pass the men street maps of the district, cigarettes, Eng- Ish money, and help 'them after the break is made.

up

THE 'SOLUTIONS'

They run ilke this, with, the first four calling for independence almost Immediately:

1-An Arab-Jewish duni nation.

2-Partition into individual Jewish Palestine and Arab countries,

case will go a long way toward de-.. in future international bargaining. termining their strength and prestige

front

The Arabs look upon Palestine us the breach that must be closed on Another encouragement is to see the Eastern Mediterranean other German prisoners walking of their oil-rich domains. about free. For there is no difference in political character ARABS ALOOF reliability between a prisoner on n farm and a prisoner on a building

site.

to sleep out, and be gets the occa- sional humanities that belong to this sort of life.

3-A Jewish country.

4-An Arab country.

Placing Palestine under U. N. trusteeship, with Britain as sole ad- ministrator,

6-Placing Palesting under U. N. trusteeship, with several countries an Join! administrators.

7-Placing Palestine under U. N. trusteeship with the U. N. itself as (Such a plan Wis

•

The Arab countries reserved the position of their governments as to

administrator, But the farm prisoner is allowed future action after being defeated in

the demands for immediate inde- Buggested by former Secretary of Henceforth they will be State James F. Byrnes for the Italian pendence.

colonies). guided by the support they con mus- ter for their cause.

BA Palestine government along the lines of that drafted for Trieste this system the Holy Land would be In the Italian peace treaty, Under placed directly under the Council, with that body to name a Security

Governor and supervise the adminis tration through him.

Once the German decides to break, there is little to prevent his doing so.

LONG WAIT I MOST of the barbed wire has been

let-to

removed, and what is quote the camp colonells to keep people out rather than the prisoners

in."

The builders pay the Government Most camp officials are surprised full union rates for these prisoner not at the number who escape, but workers. The prisoners get three at the larger numbers who do not.

camp

"You want to know why?" asked farthings' an hour in token

one young forester from Brunswick. money.

"It is because we are waiting for When the builder reports that the news. Cruellest thing in the camps worker is willing he gets three-the only cruel thing-is the uncer- halfpence an hour. The maximum tainty of our imprisonment. is 6s. 6d. a week.

Food does not have to be paid for It is good, honest and sufficient, just below the British calorie level with a special bread allowance for manual

workers.

There is ment stew nearly every night. Fish has just been added to the diet.

from

"What we want to know your Government is not how long we are going to be here, but when we ure going. It only you give us a date, no matter how far

away."

could

It is the Germans who have given up hope of ever getting a date who break out. Of the rest, the colonel There are no free issues. Prisoners says his work would be halved if must buy their cigarettes at retall there was some approximate date of prices-with a maximum of 25 n repatriation. week.

of

#

That was taken badly. The men They can buy a small amount didn't like being jeered at by the Nan cake, and a pint of beer local people. They resented coming week at. 1s. a pint. They must buy to a camp and having to build their razor blades, toothbrushes and tooth-

own homes. They were dissatisfied with food and conditions.

and.

I

pasie,

Worst time for the prisoners is

The five great powers, except for one major speech from Russia's An- dret A. Gromyko, watched, waited and deftly guided others through the 18 days of meetings.

The United States consistently re- fused to be drawn out, Insisting that any stand it might take now would prejudice the work of the investigat- ing commission. American delegate Warren R. Austin was forced, how ever, into taking a position on hear- ing the Jews.

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protectorate relationship auch as France has with

Morocco. Under this plan, there would limitations on Palestine's foreign re- be lations and its military outlay..

10-Some type of Interim govern- The United States frat

ment, probably under, the U. N., to hearing any non-Government organi- be reached.

opposed take over until a Anol decision could

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

LONG WAIT 2

21

22

ASKED him if he thought our rehabilitation methods have "cured" many prisoners.

its

"Some." he said. "But I would be

When "crimes" mounted and when they fall out of work. A u fool if I didn't admit that many slovenliness

spread

they were building project comes to an end. of them could be turned back into assembled once more by the colonel For a week or so, until the next is Nazis overnight by the right political

.told this:--

ready, the men are penned Inside injection are better men than when "In my factory back in Leeds their camp with little to do except

have a notice on the wall; play cards or study,

they first came. But how much I ASK YOU THE FIRST TIME. IN They get no pay during this better we shall only be able to tell TELL YOU THE SECOND, I FIRE period, and по pay

in fifteen years, when they are back YOU THE THIRD.

cigarettes.

in Germany and settled again."

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