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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1947.

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GERMANY: A REPORT ON THE BRITISH ZONE

Bring home these men!

Corrupt, lazy, they discredit our rule

THE German comedian strolled on to the stage of the Hamburg Alkazar, befóre. the war one of the great cabarels of Europe. Now dúcty and dingy, it is still packed with hundreds of Germans drinking a pinkish liquid that tastes like parafin.

Ye-loaked at them for a moment init asked with uplifted cuebrows: "Well, how are you getting on under

mocracy?" Roars of laughter.

By

JOHN

DEANE POTTER

who recently returned from Hamburg aflor an 11-weeks Investigation into life under Dritish control.

"But," he went on anziously, "are you not warmed by the democratie aun 7. It's a funny thing about that sun," he went on, giving his version of a current and now uniuersal Joke. ft tнrns some of us red and some of us brown again.

This convulsed his audience. They choked over their drinka and threm cigarettes at him-the highest compliment in Germany today, where English cigarettes cost four shillings on the black market.

throw out

con-

sit at breakfast (bacon and eggs Public Relations Officer in the

they hide-out. Said he: "I was

they can see the lovely lake in we had the Press under and orange juice for two shillings) Services during the war. Then the centre of the city out of the trol with censorship und window, and the hungry Ger- security; now they seem to be mans standing patiently waiting able to do what they like, and for them Lo cigarette stub.

amy job's getting very hard.”

I don't quote the bad Spivs, Every night at six o'clock of which there are scores in there are dozens of Spivs, walt- German jails for offences rang- ing outside the long bar in the ing from stealing jewellery to Atlantic for the doors to open. giving forbidden English cur-

Within ten minutes of

Germans. Ï' ignore rency to

WAS the only person Spiv signed up on a two-year If they go to Hamburg for the Twenty-One Club in Her- present who did not smile contract at a four-figure salary, the week-end they can stay at ford, which is Spiv's private nt that incident. The He spent several months in the Atlantic Hotel. As reason why democracy is England on full pay before he a laughing stock in Germany was sent to his Geiman job. Those of you who examined today is due to 20,000 Britons. Now he has bought himself closely no doubt noticed n number

All were called C.C.G. (B.E.). The best a Volkswagen for £160, or per- printed inside the circle. Laifferent, пла these 3,702,421 of them admit ruefully this haps he has managed to wangle (numbers have since been shaken up stands for Complete Chaos a requisitioned Mercedes. This a hat, and 12 of them drawn Guaranteed (By Experts). he mostly uses on his own con- For the Control Commission fession for "swanning." That Readers holding tho following includes far too ruanr maggots is, disappearing for days on numbers win a talking parrot feeding on the corpse of defent some nebulous expedition, using

nhould be claimed within one week. otherwise theyed Germany.

petrol, and rations provided by the accommodating taxpayer.

Spiv's excuse for this is that his short-term contract makes him uncertain of Before the war, Spiv was the future. That is also aged 24 and a salesman. He was his argument for trad- not a very good salesman, and ing cigarettes and coffee when he was commissioned in on the German black the Army, his allowances soon market for watches, rose above his weekly, pay pac- cloth, or anything else kot. He came to Germany in he can pick up. a minor staff job after living a luxurious life in Brussols when the armies had swept on.

will

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all be sold to defray expenses:- Here is a picture of a typical Control Commission official whom I will call Civilian Officer Spiv.

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Can they have been all different. Sly boots.

THE newspaper heading, "Fel- stead's New Hend," kave us to think. Has the Turf sunk so low the ine to copy, the goings-on at

more questionable dog-race tracks and go in for disguised animals does this mean that the old 1928 Derby winner is to be fitted with A false head and entered as a two-

we asked ourselves. year-old

We didn't got a sensible miswer. Later, much later, we discovered new It was something about a headmaster's appointment at Felsted School,

We did feel a fool,' Wheels within.......

EAR SIR

DE

I have a bicycle which, although not very old, 25 opt to smeli

slightly when it gets near the fire.

Our sitting-room at home is some

He liked Germany because it provided everything that a man of his mentality, could There ля unlimited want. drink, from champagne to beer, cheap food, and German women to wait on him in any сара- city.

its opening there are 50 hundreds sacked for in- of them with their

wives drinking in the

bar.

This bar and others like it scattered over

the British zono are the.

efficiency.

HIS MISDEEDS

is a painful portrait I have

painted of Spiv, but here'

centre of what they are two examples of what he themselves call the Old, can do. Boy Network. This Hundreds of gallons of anti- means that Spiv, over a freeze were ordered for Volka- drink,

tries to cut wagens. This may not through the morass of surprising to you unless you red tape with which the know these vehicles do not use

water they are air cooled,"

sccm

Perhaps Mrs Spiv has joined him and they have # five or Bix- roomed flat with two or

*Their life bears relation to three German servants, ita background..' who are not really in terested in money but only C.C.G; has surrounded itself. in left-over rations. Mrs Spiv

But most of the deals I The Germans were ordered likes it in Germany

more heard them negotiating were to build eight fishing boats for than Mr Spiv because she has personal ones, such as new tyres their own use. These boats no housing or servant problem for the car, or fixing up a little were designed to catch fish for ay she would have in England. illicit leave.

a German hungry for any sort You' could forgive the Spivs

of food.

HIS MOTIVE WHEN the time came for Spiv a lot if they were doing a to be demobilised he ex- good job. They fire perhaps perienced a feeling approaching not bud at heart. But the whole panic. He did not want to go atmosphere of Germany breeds back to austerity England and laziness and corruption like a struggle in the open labour rank tropical weed.. market. So the Control Com-

his

HIS WEAKNESS

Something went wrong be tween the blue-print, approved WATCHING Sply and

colleagues, I found myself by C.C.G., and the design. When getting into the same dispirit- found they were 2ft. above the boats were finished it was irritated state of specification. So in spite of

times quite unpleasant after it has spent the evening there and although I hesitate to do so, I feel the only solution is to put it out

yard.

The Spivs RE spivs-on an mind that I knew perpetually German protcats they Have you any Buggestions? Yours pic, etc. Dear Ete

into

the

In the first ense

JAP

you sore

ed, cynical during four years in India.

destroyed.

the of

But in that country if you

were

miasion was his natural outlet, economic desert island. Their

It was the only hideaway in life bears no relation to Having entitled a harsh world where he could German gulping his bow! yourself on this point, try giving keep himself on the artificial watery soup for lunch, or the were in the civilian administra- are costing Britain £150,000,-

PS. If it has no pedals but standard of living to which he British with their shilling meat tion you generally had to have 000 this year.

it is a bicycle?

it a bath.

barks it is probably a dog.

had become accustomed.

ration.

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COMMUNISM and Capitalism rub shoulders in Prague in a practical fraternisation never predicted by the theoretical

mind of Karl Marx.

By DANIEL DE LUCE

raising productivity 10 percent above The air force is steeped in the tradi- the highest prewar level, was draft- tion of the RAF. ed by a Social Democrat.

A foreigner finds that a Czechoslovak There is no taboo against honest visa is one of the easiest in the world pro's. Retall trade is mostly in to obtain. Tourists with "hard private hands. Unashamedly a money" are welcomed with

In this city of a million Czechs, government prospectus asserts: arms. whero the Communists aro

"Czechoslovakians ore, keen business- plurality, thera

no soap-box men" and adds: wor and 11 dimpaign for class

proletarian dictatorship,

Prague's standard of living is one of the highest in Europe.

open

Talk abroad of an "iron curtain" and "Kremlin stooges" was at first bitterly resented there. It has now become something of a popular joke. Visitors are asked whether they have

"Although planning in Czecho- slovakia was based on experience guined in foreign countries, mainly In the U.S.S.R. it is not dependent yet bumped into the curtain.

If there is a middle way for East and West to follow, Czechoslovakia on foreign models, for the Czech m:destly

has its own economic Republic suggests

development, tradition and peculiar example.

itself

IS

an

American-Soviet

•

friction makes erenomic structure, and this is why the government unhappy, and the It looks for ways and means of its ordinary citizen is angry and fearful More girls wear silk stockings in own which conform to the character over what is described as na Ameri- can effort to rebuild Germany into St. Wenceslas Square than on the of its people."

a great power. Hatred of the Ger- Champs Elysee. Bookshops feature

Czechoslovakia is ruled by a na- ma

mans is at white heat, although more new English and American volumes, lonal front of all Czech and Slovak than Film thea

Reich. theatres are playing to capacity political parties with a Prime Minis, the occupied Reich, been expelled to ist The. Slavic repopulation of the audiences with Д budget of 80er from the largest party, Communist Hollywood films a year.

seed Sudetenland 13 Klement

nearly completed, reign Minister Jan Masaryk Father Jaroslav

Gottwald. He

replaced

dreada Sramek, of the but Czechoslovakla

that Foreign welconies foreign visitors of all Catholic People's Party, who political hues. The government runs, down to second Deputy p Ped Germany, for generations to come,;

will not accept this as a final sohi- that President Edouard after the last voting gave his party smoothly Benes, doughty father of the Seond third place.

For fundamental protection against Republic, spends most of his time. writing his memoirs,

from formal democratic con- Suviet Russlu. The, German issue not?

The black

market is dispersed, it cepts, the Czech coalition has smoth- appears to overshadow every other 1 destroyed A steak costs leas

than .erod 'n host of old internal squabbles question on the International hort- US $1 at the best restaurant.In town. and permitted the country to con zum To date, there has been an Czechoslovakia is 31 percent. Com centrate on Its physical reconstruc- ahsence of Soviet interference in the munist, according to the 1040 Lon.

internal affairs of the Czecha. Tho National election, and 51 percent of The Czechoslovak Army appears to citizenry I obviously encouraged to its total labour force is now em-have absorbed successfully in its staff belleve it the country can con- ployed in state-owned Industries. not up many veteran officers from tinue to evolve without direct dieta- Yat its two-year plan, almed, at both the Western and Eastern Fronts. Lion from Moscow.--Associated l'ress.

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NANCY A Backward Student

DON'T BE SO DOPEY SHAKE - HANDS WITH YOUR RIGHT PAW

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PAW

NOT YOUR

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YOUR RIGHT

PAW

an honours degree to obtain a |post of responsibility. You do not need that in Britain's newest Colonial Service.

Men who do things like this

Most of the Germans are cynical about Spiv, like the Hamburg comedian. The more If Spiv is well knitted into Like the German Liberal, who thoughtful ones are just sad. the Old Boy Network-he--will spent a year in a concentration remain as long as the. Control camp, to whom I talked in a Commission lasts.

Berlin cafe. Said he regretful- Spiv has one great fear-the ly: "If we were never Nazis Press which exposes the before, we are today." scandals and muddled staining

I think it is high time, for the administration. like mud the sake of Britain and the splashes.

future of Europe, that the Spivs were sent home and quickly. A Public Relations Spiv ut- Sent back to work-while they tered a wistful squeal to me in are still capable of it.

CROSSWORD

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6. Pus that pin back.. (3)

a. Heo Across

7. It's not a photo, but it's often

mounted. (6)

D. Disturbance. (7)

10. The art of äfvenging man in

battio. (7)

might be given to Evercat. 14, 17. The end of the iTunate.

18. Fleron,

t

B. Bort at person you expect to find 10. It may be a prop. (5)

where ignoranco la bisa. (0) . Jasper taken it to hours, (3) 11. A Dame spoiled to the boat

quauty playing-caran (0)

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