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"Don't be silly. Florence—no one's going to wrab you up in an iron, curtain and send you to Siberia"

WHAT THE

HAMMELBUNG.-The bodles of

about 13,000 Allied prisoners of war from seven countries, includ ing Britain, have been found t 68 mass graves "discovered in atrip of woodland near Hammel- U.S. burg in the middle of the zone of Germany. The graves held the bodies of British, Australian, French, Italian, Belplan, Russian, and Yugoslav prisoners of war.

BIG 4

DE GAULLE'S BROTHER IS MAYOR

By Gordon Young

•

PARIS.

THE famous name of de Gaulle leaps ahead

dramatically.

The general's bank clerk brother Pierro, who is almost everything that the general is not, has his first taste of political glory, with his election as Mayor of Paris by 51 votes to 33 (the Com- munists and Socialists voted against him).

When you go to see 50-year-old Pierre de Gaulle in his apartment near the Invalides, you find he is so overcrowded he even has a double bed in his study.

These days the general has become aggressive, almost strident, but Pierre remains so quiet that he is almost colourless. He looks exactly what ho is an assistant bank manager.

He has been with his bank in the Boulevard Haussmann since he began as a clerk in 1921: And when he spoke to the foreign correspondents at a luncheon last week you felt that at any moment he might say earnestly: "Tell me now, just what are your personal troubles?"

Sefton Delmer's NEWSMAP

today turns to Lancaster House, London, to give you the background story on the Four-Power Conference

Instead, he told the Anglo- American newspapermen, There is nothing I can say that my brother cannot say. better there is nothing I can offer except my name."

Contrasts

manner,

Unlike the general, Pierre is modest. Tinlike the general, Pierre drinks and is a good fellow in company. Unlike the general, who has always bad Lo contend-with-a-gawky, sol

Pierre has dierly worldly charm. But he thinks his brother is a great man, and has all the popular postcard. photographs of the general pinned round on the walls of hie Paris apartment.

And today, because Frenchmen are desperately: anxious about the

the

postcards Keneral's remilitaris-future, and reach tical

economic position of Germany-re-Nazified,

of Roosevelt and sell like those

Even end. Tomorrow the clarification either met with ob- Communism in Europe would be so ed, and rearmed by the West.

Churchill during the war. strong that the collapse of Western

the Kremlin That is a bogey which, as I have the way that Pierre de Gaulle was Foreign Ministers of the four struction or proved unsuccess- capitallan--which

regard 03 Inevitable-seen for myself, is very frightening elected was typical of the present

T

LONDON, Nov. 24.

HAT item appeared in newspapers this week-

They will be sitting down around a table for what, one of them-Ernest Bevin--has call- ed "perhaps the most vital con- ference in world history,"

ARE UP AGAINST

Repeated attempts to

The reply

حودة

Lost hopes

that

There was biggest and strongest of the ful. And gradually it became theorists

would follow very quickly, thus to Poles and Czechs, and most tension in France.

their quarter of an hour's uproar in tho countries for which these clear that the Russians in, their making the world safe for Marxism effective in rallying them to

Sovlet protectors.

city hall when the results of the prisoners suffered and died will zone were going ahead with a at last.

policy of their own, differing in

shouted be meeting here in London.

They will play up to the Germans, voting were announced.

proposing that all Powers The Communists essential points from the policy

evacuate Germany, that the German"Vichyltes" and the de Gaulle men which we and the Americans

people be allowed to decide Its own shouted back "Go home to Moscow." At the end of the row the 25 Com2- react: True, future by plebiscite. were implementing, and which THE West began to

nunials walked out. we believed to be the agreed Germany become a base for an at- they had no intention of letting

policy. For example:

tack on Soviet Russia and thereby

peace a threat to that world The Russians made the Soviet which the prosperity of their sen-

economic system He has called it that because zone contribute reparations of sitive

from

satellite the individual its factories, although it had But they in turn made it clear that apart

Sovlet they regarded problems the conference has to been agreed there should be no Germany as a menace. solve its overriding task is to such reparations until general restore among the Big Four- agreement had been reached. Iritain, America, France, and the Soviet Union-the old war- time spirit of community.

And it is felt that if this conference does not succeed the breach will prove irreparable.

Lost spirit

far have the LREADY SO

from Big Four got away

the spirit of which these dead of Hammelburg are the symbol that the Foreign Ministers' de- puties, who met in advance to prepare the agenda for the conference, were not only unable to agree (1) in what order the subjects should be taken, but (2) on the form in which their inability to agree was to be re- ported to the Foreign Minis- ters.

n

Br

depends. MOST of the Americans have also before the New Year.

made up their minds to

The tussle

and

That was a small showdown, but

feel Increasingly Frenchmen France's big showdown may come And it is a one which will be critical not only breakdown. They have

lost for France but for all the Western patience with what they consider Powers, including Britain the deliberate obstruction of the America. They preferred to see Germany Soviet nuthorities and would prefer adopt the Western way of democra- a showdown to the present Indeći- tle life, attach herself to the Wes- sion.

The final count, Frenchmen They also took over German tern economic system-if the world

be split-and must

They have made all preparations think, must be between the Com the for the creation of an independent munists and the Rest. concerns and German cartels-prosperous.. bulwark against

the West German Republic just as the and turned them into Soviet spread of Communism and

At this monent France's Com lower standard of living it brings Russians, have prepared for the pro-

clamation of an East German Re-munist leader, Maurice Thorez, is with it.

public.

in Moscow, getting new instructions When the Russians nt the Moscow

for the French political "war." The Americans, I am told, have a Moscow, no doubt, feels that Thorez conference continued to refuse every compromise, the British and peace treaty ready in draft for West must return with clear new orders

Germany.

the The Russians are pre- because in these last months determined Americas

Communists have been unilateral action in their Joint paring a treaty of alliance for their French

outsmarted and outmanoeuvred in zones. Without consulting the Rus new East. German satellite.

-Information box: LANCASTER HOUSE Lancaster House, meeting

place of the Big Four. was ones the most sumptuous private palace in London. It was built in 1825 for the spendthrill Duke of York with money said to have been advanced by the Mar. quess of Stafford. The Duko of York died before it was completed.

A Stafford House it was occupied by the Duke of Sutherland, and for cearly TO years it was one of the greatest social centres of London, Chopin played there; Garibaldi

welcomed

there,

was

In 1032 Sir William Lever. later

Γιατά Leverbulme, bought the lease and pre- sented the house to the nation. After World War 1. # became the London Muscum until the Foreign Offca requisitioned in 1047.

the

become

on

sians they raised the level of indus-

above what trial production

been prescribed at Potsdam.

The Americans launched a

against paganda campaign munism and Soviet Russia.

had

EL

Yes both Russians and Americans all directions by the talented men

de Gaulle. around have made such ample preparations

many These Goullista include for the breakdown that they will, I

men who in war days were lenders pro- belleve, be almost embarrassed

in all the tricks of sabotage and Com- there isn't one.

political warfare... They know how They know

Pretty tough on the dead of Ham-tu spread a rumour.

how to start a riot.

General Clay,

Commander-in- melburg. Chief of the U.S. zone, at a meet- ing with German journalists which I attended, hinted openly at the de- sirability, in his view, of the forms- tlon of an independent West Gér- the based on Government present German bi-zonal adminis tration In Frankfort.

man

What now?

TUIAT is the essence of the situa- tlon. The tacties likely to be the

In both instances the Soviet properties, although it had been delegate found himself holding agreed that no Allied or other followed at the conference by

four delegates are fairly clear. Each

out in a minoricy of one against foreign firms were to be allowed will try to prave to the world that the three Westerners.

to acquire German property if there is a breakdown it is through

no fault of his. without general agreement.

But I believe that all the delc. The Russians launched. an gates at this conference have made open propaganda campaign in up their minds already that

will be a breakdown. The French ourselves with regret-the

Too vague?

there

WHAT has gone wrong? Way the German Press against the and

back in 1944 and 1946 the Western Allies and their ad- French, because it will rob them of ministration, although it had slaying neutral between West and East and because it will sharpen been agreed that no such pro- the civil conflict in

France; the paganda was to be permitted.

British, because we don't want see increased tension between Americans and the Russians.

Allies had reached agreement on Allled policy in Germany: first at Yalta, where Churchill. and Roosevelt called on Stalin and drew up a very general then, halfway agreement, through Britain's General Elec-

Russian plan

b

to

the

They decided. then that the crea-|

That the Russians are resigned to a breakdown became manifest when turned down the Marshall allow their GRADUALLY what had first

only been a suspicion be. Plan, and refused to tion, at Potsdam, where Tru- came an accepted fact: that the satellites to come in on 11. man, Stalin, Churchill, and Att. Soviet Union was determined lee patched up a more detailed to bring Germany under her tion of a West European bloc, in- political and economic domina- eluding Western Germany, was a Iesser evit than the commercial tion.

penetration of Eastern and South-

American Eastern Europe by the The Soviet motives for this in the wake of American economic policy are:

agreement.

ald.

But the drafting on many points was vague. Maybe it had been deliberately left vngue

is not 1 Fear that if Germany

After all, their political warfare so as to get agreement. Any-.

brought under Russian or Com- would still give them many possibl- how, the result was that on munist domination it may one day lifes of undermining the American many points the Russians had again become the base and arsenal hold.

for an attack on Russia from the their interpretation of Potsdam and we and the Americans had

ours.

West:

As for propaganda, they will ex- ploit to the full the opportunities 2. Chiculation that with Ger the conference gives them of con many under Soviet control the poll- juring up the bogey of a resurgent i

DAVID. LANGDON CARTOON