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LUFTWAFFE OTTO

GOES TO ETON

HE last time 31-year-old Lieut.-Colonel. Otto Bert-

ram of the Luftwaffo saw London he was spiralling down slowly towards Dartford with his engine shot up and a Spit- fire on his taй. ·

·

JOHN DEANE POTTER

reports on a group of Germans sent to Britain to learn in theory D now way of life. Ho is now on his way to Germany to report on the other side of the picture .

Recently, I drove up a long private road to a big oblong Georgian house at Wilton Park. near Benconsfield, and Bertram was sitting under a tree eating a plate of porridge sprinkled with salt and reading his notes on a lecture on the British Press. awarded the Knight's Cross of the His record would cause the Heart The ex-colonel is in Britain for highest Nazi decorations. From the of the least susceptible Gretchen to six węcka at the expense of the first day of the Battle of Britain he flutter. He has enough Iron Crosses British Government. ite came over was in his Measerschmitt trying to to start a foundry. from Hamburg-one of 50 Germans beat of Spitfires, invited to Britain-to "bridge the gap between victor and vanquished,

Those selected are in the main journalists, local government of cials, teachers and trade union leas ders-anyone who is likely to have Influence in post-war Germany.

Son of a German airline director, "I couldn't care less" and "poor he was a regular nirman, and was type" stud his conversation,

IN

Envy of tourists

order that he can take his place as a good European In the post- war world he is being given a quick, comprehensive look at the British.

view way of life-a cross-section that any ordinary tourist would

envy.

Tall, blue-eyed Bertram, dressed in shorts and a sweatshirt,, sald with grin: "I am afraid I am one of those claimed casualties which were mentioned in the House of Commons

day I was hit by a Spare over London, and realised my only chance was to dive as though I was out of control. I managed to pull out and crawl back to my base at Cap Grisnez."

War record

of my

the

Admire us? No

"There are many aspects, how-

ever, which make us believe the work io

bearing fruit," he said. Typical Instance was when the should-Kessel:lug-dia controversy was raging in the

the British Press. One of our ex-officer students wrote piece for our newspaper in which he mentioned everything that had been favourable to Kesselring and

Printed

nothing against film/

£1

That is characteristic of the type unfair argument we are trying to teach

them to forget. So we werO

of

of the

delighted when, in the next issue, one others quite voluntarily wrote ex-officer, the case."

most bitter attack on the giving the other side of

Analyse the three men I have shown you. The young trade unionist is keen and malleable. My only fear about him is that he arrived in Eng- band possibly beenuse he had too. much dufluence at home,

IX U boats were shattered under Schafer, the U boat boy, obviously him either by bombs or mines charmed his way over here, With and when the war ended he was his outlook he tins a muen chante commanding the new 1,800-ton U ef becoming a democrat 2001, ready to pounce on more Allied Wilhelm hud.

as Kaiser

is shipping. Young Wolt rather The one who' Impressed me most boastful In a Juniterish, aristocratic after hours of talk was the unassum- way, but you cannot prevent your ing Bertram, You had the impression self from thinking that he will not that he was basically good and eager be turned into an admirer of English to learn. institutions In six weeks-or even six years.

Corduroys

"England" he said with a charin- HIS two brothers were killed in the 18 smile. "I am having fun here.

I am trying to wangle it to

stay PERILAPS one little incident depicts longer.

the character of the men, - Two He has 1stened to lectures by the Battle of Britain.

"I was the only son left

Coming out of a lecture on Tory M.P. for Kingston-on-Thames,

the ex-officers asked me where they J. A. Boyd-Currenter, and the So- family, and Goering made me pro sritish monarchy I met another type could buy a cheap pair of corduroy cintist M. for Somethwick, Patrick mise that I would not fight again, of German, dark-featured, Intense trousers in England." Gordon-Walker,

The Master of he said, I became a lieut,-colonel Wilhelm Walt, from the Ruhr, who, While they were talking the young Datlial, Lord Lindsay, lins lectured training fighter pilots for the rest of at 18, is the youngest trade

union

U boat commander with a grin pro- ometal in Germany. ills father, Was dured a well-cut pair of corduroys him, and he has asked questions of the war."

trade union leader who somehow out of his case. The others looked at the President of the Oxford Union

10 Before he made his promise at a braing trust.

managed to escape the eye of the them wistfully. One felt that Schofer Goering he had shot

eight down

Nazis, Spitfires, When Germany lost Wilhelm freely admits he got his will always know the secret, no mat- war, he became a reporter and cover job through his father's influence, er who rules Germany, ed the concentration camp trials. When he talks-he is the only one "That opened my eyes," he said. I met who did not speak English- I never knew about these things. he Even if I did, I

could

Alps have he not

earnestly through the pages of his notebook. discussed them because as a com-

Two things impressed him, and manding officer I had to be loyal he could not stop talking about

One was that a Negro-Dr..

him Geoffrey Campbell-lectured on racial problems, and his visit to the House of Commons.

"Anyone could go in," he said in a bewildered, awed, tone.

He has been to Elon, walked In the cool cloisters, talked to the boys and the masters. He has talked to factory workers in the East End and compared their working conditions with his own countrymen's in Ger. many. He has visited

A Borstal institution.

Bertram, who sleeps in a room at to the Government, other- Witon Park with

two other ex- wise I could not have demanded them. German officers, is allowed 10s, a loyalty from my men: You do see week spending money, and he can that, don't you?" ruam about where he likes when he Sharing a room with him is n man who could have walked straight out It is not expected that his trip to of the Teutonic hero legends. Britain will turn him into a demo Twenty-five-year-old Wolf Schalper crat overnight. The results will not Gen Schafer to give him his name be seen for years. Perhaps not at full-say's of himself with a faint all. But what sort of a man is Otto smile. "I am what

you call

NOW the principal Wilton Dertram, the ex-German age? And Junker." At 21, he commanded a Park, Magdelen don Dr Heinz why was he selected out of millions U-boat.

Koeppler, who runs special studies of Germans to come here?

Blond, barrel-chested Schafer is for prisoners-of-war side by side He did not come to Britain because the sort of man they used to show with the civilian course, is not too he was once a German wing-com- on the Hitler Youth posters. Yet happy about, the sent of candidates mander that is incidental-but as a he has a complete command of who are being sent over from Ger- reporter of a German news agency. British Forcas slang. Phrases like many.

is not attending tectures.

'Bearing fruit'

ot

GOOD SENSE By John Tilsley

An independent, forth. right little book that will probably be as popular now it has been reprinted-as-when-Mr- J. B. Priestley first wrote it twenty years ago is his survey. of the English novel

of

REPRINTED

SP

NEWSREEL

USED CARSO

"My mother was

BY THE WAY

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in

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every-

OME business firms are Myself: Sleuth You run

complaining that the Suct thing to earth, don't you? four-way registration system "Starlight and Slime" takes no account of cases which, instead of going to and T any moment now may begin fro two by two, the registration the must astonishing serini ever papers come and go in threes; to appear in a daily paper, Any that is to say, when three are my own

delay in printing it is due solely to amazement. Its theme with the other people, one is is the attempt of an with the Department, and when sword-swallower to necustomi that one is issued, the three self to swallowing more up-to-date

guns, Oerlikons and

come

unemployed

mortars. Ho

MERICAN schista arc still working on an invention which

back together, leaving weapons, such as Bren guns, Bofors one with the applicant as 8005 meets a down-and-out fire-cater as he has received it, on des- who has not had a square meal patching his three to the De- since the fuel crisis. Together they partment. Suet, interviewed wander the roads of England, un- last night, said: "If the papers them and gets them jobs in a local U an old, magistrate inkės pity on were properly marked 'up' and museum. The ono cats all the 'down. this could not occur, as swords, the other swallows the fire the back and forth process in the curator's office. In the back- and then turned from the radio to all his books his powerful religious works by twos." Auked what ground hovers the Ogure of a beau- the books.

feelings are much in evidence--many

tiful woman. Watch for "Starlight What I like best about Mr Priest- people would say too much in evid he meant, he said: "I have and Slime." Jay's book is his chapter on the ence, ruining more than one other-nothing to add to my answer of "Mid-Victorian Novel", "The stato Wise Brat-late novel,

January 3

In passing fiction in the middle of the nine- "Small wonder," apys Mr Priest- teenth-century," he writes, "can be suggested by the title of one of its ley," that the novel came to have Interlude

a direct political purpose, shaping novels, 'Yeast. The author of that its fable to throw into cellef some THE headline: "Wanted By The will make advertisements smell of novel, Kingsley, wished to call at- terrible social evil. Dickens himself Yara: 149 Women" must have the things they. advertise. The tention to the social ferment. Fic- led the way, and some of the others made cannibals prick up their only fun to be gat out of this will tion itself was also fermenting." who followed- Disraeli, Charles years. Or were they to be used be from mistakes. The public will

RISE OF THE BOOKSTALL

Reade, Kingsley, Mrs Gaskell for measurement, or for Iining cases be angry if an advertisement for a were, perhaps, more effective than of fruit?

motor-car smelis f Osh. And he was."

what the novel readers of

about ndvertisements for With the spread of literacy the demand for novels

Prodnose: Scotland Yard I sup- chemical fertilisers shown on the posterity, urges the author, must be increased. The quite heartless about this. "A post,

screen in filin-theatres? growing demand made it possible to novel may have worked kindly mar- run circulating.

libraries, increase vels in its day, may

luve stirred their numbers and stocks, and make the whole nation to a generous in- them pay a good profit. The growth of the railways produced a potent dignation and have freed a host of children from the factory, but if off-spring-the bookstalls. The book- gfhlis had a

"influence

we cannot enjoy such a novel wa a marked

ов the cannol enjoy it. As a social docu- the

rather the or

The

ment it may live, but a work of art three-

And we must not he passen- it is dead.

us they

TR J. B. Priestley's publishers MR

knew what they were about when they republished just re- cently one of his books, written before he was famous, titled "The English Novel". It is a small book, a compact survey of the main English novelists and their work from the eighteenth- century up to today. And the author is so sensible and forth- a book could not surprised if so many of these novels right, so independent of the only read on the train but handily with a purpose, dietated coteries of the ninoteen twenties. carry home

to finish. were by the noblest feelings, seem novel was poor faded stuff now......

SOCIAL PROPAGANDA

the shape he

decker

ed:

with them

that the book reads as freshly. The short one-volume

tho

is when first published in 1927.

result.

►

With typical acumen Mr Priestley points out that if you look for the

greater drawing power of Mr Priest times soclety women wrote society, have usually discovered some drst-i ley's

name, but because the big olghteenth

ning mes century fiction demand.

and

I shouldn't be surpriced to And Now that i was so popular the that more people read' it now than novel became like a kind of news read it then. Not because of the paper, reflecting in various forms weakest woric of this period, then all the different interests of the seck out the poorest chapters, you novels; soldiers, such as James rate are still in heavy Grant, wrote military novels: hunt propa

my opinion the The usual reason given ing men like Burtees and Whyte author has not lived who can combina for this is that readers Inve turned Melville wrote hunting novels; and good novel writing with propaganda 10 the old books because

less even a philological vagabond like of any sort, though a fairly good. modern fiction has been published

queer 'since 1939. This is true but there

Gaskell

Borrow turned

bla

nineteenth-century social propaganda. In

7.20 & 9.30 p.m. another important reason-the policy stances to good use in volumes approach to it in this period was Mrs j

MC-M HAS MADE

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The Green Years

CHARLES COBURN

336+

· DRAKE -TYLER-CRONYN

thuit are, perhaps, more like novels

of the British Broadcasting Cor- than they are like anything else. And even this may be an illusion, poration in giving a continuoUIA OI growing interest was the social because so much of her propagandist series of the old masterpieces, ably condition of the country. Charles writing has a direct bearing on events presented in serial form. Many Kingsley took fo the novel as the in present-day England. In a book people who would not otherwise most graphic means of expressing Wke "North and South", for instance, have read "Dr Thorne" or "Bleak his strong views about the position our twentieth-century minds House" heard them first on the radio of the agricultural labourer, and in

(Continued on Fago `8)

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THINK I'LL DROP OVER

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HOUSE

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