1948-02-14 — Page 6

I bring back this warning

AFTER THREE THOUSAND

MILES IN THE MIDDLE EAST

-STOOD in the courtyard of the King's Mosque in Baghdad and watched them raise the red and white flag of the Holy

Iv

"Red for blood,” said the Arabie dedication embroidères on the flag, "white for the winding sheet.”

About 500 men paraded before the flag in the mosque, Volunteers they were, recruited that morning, all of them men who had done their bit of military service with the British- trained Iraq Army.

Ten days later I landed once more in Baghdad --- on my way back this time from Persia, And right there at the nirfield were the soldiers of the holy war against Zionism ---- waiting to embark in transport planes to take them to "the front.'

They had been given there unt- forms to the meantine: British khaki battle dress of the Iraq Army. Arab bend cloths. and green an41 black armlets to distinguish them from Traq's regular army.

And now, buck in andre after 3,000 milles by ale and end, through the Middle East, I read that armed

Kroups of Arabs ira baltie dress have attacked Jewish settlements on the Palestine frontier; that there have been anti-British riots in Baghdad with machine guns firing' in Rashid- street:

that the Regent has been forced to reject the freshly signed

which Anglo-Iraqi treaty,

A few days before he had saluted with Jubilation.

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there a connection? Certainly there is.

And 1 warn you it is time this is appre- cinted not only in Barthelad and London, but in Washington and Lake Success.

The Americans have been gulity of a grave political fault in pressluit the partition of Palesinté on UNO, and thus jeopardising the security of the Middle East for the sake their Internal clectioncer- ing politics.

of

For the record

Budapest quote by 11 gary's "regnumi / Gtesafor, Sollan Vas, uts his suvertis ments Budget difficulties: ".... trouble is, wo have nationalised no much of our industry that there area't enough private con-

cerns

Betelt."

Dr Schacht

Lo

pay

for the

was at one lime i

Minister of Hitler's Government with Hitler and

But he disagreed rezimed.

Like Dr Mugiler, he.opposed and criticised Hitter-a more risky pro- ceeding for Schucht beesuse he was a more prominent figure.

Like Dr Mueller, he tried to get in touch with the Allies, and per- suade them that are was a German opposition anxious for penes,

Dr Selucht met Montagu, Norman

Newsmap

by

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1948.

POSTCARD FROM THE BRITISH SKI TEAM

BRY

"Garcon, would you mind fetching us a can of water for our cocoa?"

CHARLES FOLEY examines

GILES

THE NEW GERMANY

Thread your way through the ruins of Frankfort, in which Ger- mans grab for scraps, show your

BY THE

WAY

by Beachcomber

HEAR that for the next Ex- hibition at the Royal Aca- demy a daring experiment is to he tried.

Since it is the fashion to make Old Manters brighter nut cleaner. the authorities have decided to make New Masters dingler and dirtier. The lossy ladies and gentlemen will be rubbed with a special prepara- tion designed to dull and darken the cam of the paint. We can then have a prolonged row about how any noses June, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs le Grifin, had be fore her face was dirtied by experts. Complaint

A

GENERAL

Was complaining recently in print of the trouble he had had with the foreign troops under his command. Louis XV. ince sald the Same thing to Count Dillon. "My Irish troops," he said, give me more trouble than the entire French Army." The enemy. alre," replied Dulon, "make the same

'omplaint."

Aftermath

THE words "a

THE

sap

In an cựg" should have read "a gap in A |hedge." As it stond the senience made no sense. No horse cbuld be expected to go through a map in an erts, even if it were the egg of, say, an ostrich.

The truth comes out "AND where

passport at an army post, and you walk straight into America's Middle-give up your life of wandering from

West,

would we live?" asked Vito. "I suppose you'd

hotel to hufel?"

Here are the duplex apartments, "I've heard you talk, my dear, of the shiny. big cars-herrenvolk- some old family place." wagons, the Germans call them-the snackbars, popcorn stands, and

quor stores. And here, behind the "That's it. Meadhall, What about eight-foot wire paling are 3,500 living there for a bit, until we got Americans living. In this outpost of our bearings?"

untam free enterprise, a We purest com→

"Mandball?"

event of war Russia might Stand in the dusk with a 1. BERLIN

quickly overrun Continental group of Berliners outside a Europe, they assert that this town mansion bright with light NU.S. military headqun would only bus the first stage of and music, watch the stream of Iters, seated at a desk flank-.

a campaign that Moscow could limousines arriving.

and Med by eight-foot standards.

not win. Moscow, they argue, then see the German faces as and behind a plaque bearing his

the cars disgorge, not a ruling name, title, and the four stars therefore would not start it.

easte, but-bunches of top of his rank. I found one answer Americans see the 250,000)

sergeants and their wives for a Lo the Russian question- British and American troops in jam session at the Zebra Club. General Lucius Clay.

Europe as the thin screen be-

Watch the face of a Russian cracies will build up prosperity week's purchases from army hind which the Western demo- soldier as a G.I. ambles by with and strength.

dozen packs of House and furniture are supplied man," she said, "it was mortgaged by the American military supply long ago, and I've no money to get organisation they call Ongus. Junior it back." goes to an. Omgus school in an Omgus bus.

Faulenough choked back an ob- The German parivar- maid is screened for English ("Yeah, scene oath. "You've-got--no

he come right in") and fed by Omgus.money?" repeated slowly, Ongus supplies the Two-tiered and in a horrified tone of voice. trolleys used for shopping

from

the

"No, Didn't you know? Umgus store, Axes hours and prices couldn't we use some of yours?”

Clever, forceful, never afraid to shock, Clay left me in no doubt of what would happen if the Russians tried to expel the Allies from Berlin.

were

stores-a

the not

They believe that in time Camels, a big box of chocolate Poland, Hungary, and the other mrs. a pocket radio, a bottle. satellites will find courage to all in a string bug. in Switzerland in 1940. Dr Mueller U.S.-Soviet relations are at break away from Soviet domi- made a trip to the Valtean,

downs in Something Like Dr Mueller,

For the first nation. Schacht con-breaking-point.

and it is spired with Rightwing time since V-Day, greetings

Russian's eye for Hitler's cards Renerals

The British attitude is more proletarian contempt. 201 exchanged overthrow,

between the American and hopeful. If, between the angry Like Murler. Schacht was in close touch with Russian commanders-in-chief at sessions of the Control Council, the who tried to New Year. Those Russinus who there is in 1948 un opening for blow is Hitler on July like to fraternise with indivi- moderation and common sense, .ሃ. He even proposed dual Americans now call after I feel that our quiet, shrewd himself as the head of the peace-maker Gavern- nightfall, leaving their cars. General Robertson, British C.- ment that was to follow some distance away.

in-C, will take advantage of it. the bomb plot. Mueller

U.S. opinion in Berlin has In the struggle of ideas one the arrested by arousing passions not only against azis before the plot, Schacht after hardened to the acceptance of unpredictable factor is the in- the Zionists but against all foreign it. Both somehow survived.

big risks. While Americans fluence of the American way- concede that in the unlikely of-life as it is seen in Germany.

UNO's dreision to set, up an independent. State of immigrant Jews from Europe in Palestine bas started fre

a

In the Middle East which may yet destroy much of the effect of the Marshall

SEFTON

millions in Europe. DELMER

For

against

the

the

huly

Zionists

will.

Arab extremists and opposition leaders are trying to turn the holy war into. revolutionary movement to drive from power such regimes as that of the Regent of trag, which they denounce as instruments of British and foreign interests.

tried

was

men

ກ Wir

Tot whereas De Mueller WAN quickly released and treated by the Ameriests and ourselves as a treat hero, Dr Schacht paid the penalty of notoriety. He was kept in prison,

Nuremberg s at criminal,

released mequitted-and The position of such Governments aule to be rearrested by the Ger- _is_dificult.Eor_the_war_against_the_raans and condemund te eight years! Zionists is something about which detention in a labour camo and loss no Arab Government can afford to of his 1,190,000-mark fortime. be lukewarm.

The riots in Baghdad and the re- jection of the treaty--even if it turns out to be only a temporary move. - are danger signals. They must not be ignored,

And to those who say this is a purely German devlalon, I say the Allies Have intervened 24 many other de-Nazifcation enses.

M

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You may argue. "This Selacht is n dangerous fellow. He was only against Hitler because he was doing the job badly."

Maybe.

Chnos In this

Now, area-vital to Europe for its supplies of all fuel and for the trade routes which pass through It would be a grave, blow to all reconstruction plans.

Two men tell

OUGHT Schacht to be in prison

don't think so--I don't think he ought to be any more than Dr Joseph Mueller, who, far from being In prison, is Deputy Premier of U.S.-controlled Bavaria.

,non-cumpeAKAYA,

Vita laughed bitterly. "My dear

Why

for the Ompus beauty shops, cinemas, and dance halis. Life m "I haven't a penny," sald Foul- sheltered, scheduled, and strictly enough. Vita gasped. "I thought

she began, and then stopped.

the room.

A heavy silence seliled down on

British and American teams are friends in Western Germany. making

Certainly American criticism of our methods he often a whisper of admiration.

Station.

1

VARIOUS TYPES

OF DRUNKS

New Jersey Police Chief Ryan Vandervalk has classified 12 types of drunks police are called on to

They include: handle.

Leaning drunk: Wants to lean on Ko hungry something or somebody.

good

2. DRESDEN Laaldo the Soviet Zona

maintain, and if possible, USSIA'S muni an is to

enlarge her sphere of influence,

Bizonla, after all, is El To this end all methods are,

house built good however unorthodox.

for Germans 10 Live ML

but it is Already, I am told, a German hard to reconelle these words of a shadow Cabinet has been form- German Minister: "OL

course ed in the Soviet zone to match would not dream of trying to the

.on my officialration!" with the German "parliament" we

of a German porter who memory have set up in Anglo-American pocketed a slice of dry bront left Bizonia, New Soviet zone

over from my breakfast at Bielefeld currency is ready printed to counter the "westmark" when it appears.

Their handling of Germans is Bavarians feed rich milk to pigs,

will not part with more adroit and certain than farmer By Dr. HOPE ROBERTSON, M.B., Ch.8.

food for bad marks. ours, and in practical affairs the they show a lack of prejudice The gasping occasioned by

Immersion

vitality and a grasp of political expedi- gives MOST doctors are forced to

devote their lives to curing (the breath of life) to the body, ency that owe nothing to Karl

of giving Mars. sick people. Some few are able

Other simple methods to study how ordinary people energy to the human body are walk-

First, the Iron Curtain. I can become really healthy and int barefooted sa ceste, paddling in motored south from Berlin for to benefit from her 10 percent. Conmemey, or anything else in pockets.

through the more energetic.

People who worry and de- sea or stream and smelling flowers. hours

Rain for fatigue zone of Germany without see many. velop nervous disorders should

fatigue Anyone suffering

maying a check-point or being ask-

Uunderstorm) bath for immediate

How to cure that tired feeling

sudden

wel stones or concrete,

The black market in Germany is unbelievable and' uncontrollable. While Rhinelanders

SUMMARY

RUSSIA

the

Singing drunk: armiesa, but a nuisance.

Crying drunk: Wants to weep on a sympathetic shoulder. whil keep

Running drunk: Half ruits, half Allied Control Council alive staggers. if only to exploit her grip one Western Allies in Berlin, and

Russian munist

know the foods most beneficial take a rain (preferably after ed for a pass. Puzzled, I drove

Not equally you might say the that matter, of author Dr Glscylus. to them,

me thing of Dr Maviler, or, for

They both belonged to the espionage

organisation of Admiral Cumarls.

Despite Hitler's calegorical com- mond that no kind of preparations chokes. of defent, Canarls decided to were to be made for the eventuality

Potato skins, I am sure, have not been generally regarded as a health what they could to take out a rein- food.

the policy with

Allies--

do

with the same effect,

the secret.

General Dudo-

nation.

Charitable

drunk: Gives

away

influence in Western Ger-

Religious drunk: Makes for nearest RUSSIA, while constantly church, goes to sleep in pew. forcing

to tuke the Initiative. will make the

t In

Important drunk: Feels important,

Amorous drunk: wants to hug and

Other

by the sentry boxes at Dresiten, maximum propagandu use of every and knows all "big shots." These are onions, potato relief. skins, olive oil, mushrooms, Cold or hot tap water exposed to passed under a string of fairy measure which divides the German

An equilibrium may be kiss every woman he sees. fresh pineapple and globe arti- thunder-rain in a bowl can be usedlights, and called on the Mill-

for the in-lary Governor.

1840. Bizonia needs food from Eastern

types Usled by Vander- tien te mixture of air and water Isrov

Dudoroy shrugged. "People Germany: the Russians, once over valk include the wife-beating drunk, their alarm at the rebuilding of the the suspicious drunk, and Die voluble Hair is an important excreting 01-

speech. I shall be surprised if you don't with whom, nnyhow, he had to keep i grated into an ordinary frying pan ping the fingers in

After washing, the skins can be fan, and can be treated by the Arc- cross over by the footpaths be- Ruhr, will accept the industrial out- drunk, who always wants to make a

water and rubbing the scalp gently, every day. Why fuss about the

There are a lot of people whose skin is covered over with a dry motor roads we don't do secretion, which, if brushed vigor things for form." ously, will come off like a powder.

Pores become covered over by this so-called layer of dandruft.

the

agree with me afler reading two books* published concerning wartime underground in Germany.

For both books have a lot to say about Schacht and Mueller.

surance

in touch for espionage purposes.

and made into a kind of poncake.

Better sili, they can be put raw If Hitler came out on top, all he into a salud. for

a teaspoonful of and his agents had been doing was

raw potato skin equals a tablespoon to deceive the enemy and discover ful of cooked in tunte value for ner- his secrets. If Hitler falled, why vous people a member of the Germs military then, his men had been great undar-

Dr Mueller during the war was

of the

side in the evening merely by dip-tween the Soviet and American put of the West.

a bowl of soft zones in scores and hundreds

This needs brushing off daily until pores can be seen.

Try a 'chain'

Take sour milk and politicnt espionnige organization round fighters, deserve. known as the "Abwehr." Member C enemy's nimtration.

and Worrying can cause minor diges. ship of the Abwehr puts a German future

live troubles, and the best cure is today ic

"automatic arrest" the

I believ

il is perfectly possible

of the sour ilk, the pentellin category with the Alles, and en-

for a Gertaan to act in this way bowel.

A fired man or woman really titles Germans de-Nazification court and be sincere in his condemnation

Morning fosts can cure many crawls along supported from the to send him to a labour camp and of Nazi practices and Nazi ideology, minor disorders. No food or drink ground upwards. confiscate all his worldly wealth. But I cannot imagine it is really should be taken until activity has As an experiment I suggest that

Schacht, of whom It Is cicarly probeen stimulated in the flow of bile such a person should visualise that sunts in contradiction of Soviet

ke man

sound policy to punish a that he conspired against his Govern- from the gall bladder.

tarlanism to revoli.

All that, in

needed is

יח

chain, with

be, is supported from above his cars the usual by a chuin which lifts him so that "To The Bitter End," by Hans ment. Think what you may of his movement about the house, a short his feet just touch the ground. Bernd Gisculus (Cope, 18.), and motives, that is hardly the best way period of abdominal breathing exer- "The Von Hassell Diaries" (Hamish to encourage the victims of totall-else, or repeated pressing of the gall imagination, he can feel that every If a person has a good enough Hamilton, 153.). '

bladder itself, which can be treated bone in his body is being held up of gently minisaged under the lower he the

a tremendous right rib border.

asing of his tired feet. Five, 10. or 15 minutes at an open

energy Everyone has an the window with

shining within him. Bun massaging the head and face with wet fingers, is far more beneficial than just sitting in the sun.

One should not sunbathe without water-even a film of water.

Now they can go rolling

home with a light heart

A chronic alcoholle is much less likely to die from heart disense than a moderate drinker or a tectotaller, says Dr. Charles A. R. Connor of New York.

Dr Connor is Medical Director of the American Heart Association.

He. sald: "Heavy drinkers seldom develop heart disease.

*If you went through the alcohh- le words of New York's Bellovuc Hospital, selecting the most extreme types, the chances are you would not find one ease

hardened of artories, thrombosis of the heart, .ør angina pectoris,

"This doesn't mean that

man who downs eight cocktails every afternoon won't die of cirrhosis of the liver.

Value of water

bomb

The body fluids should be chiefly crystalloid (like a sugar solution)

in character, and if they become too

Bolshevik textbooks seemed far away from the Lord Mayor's parlour at Dresden, where the rebuilding of Germany's woral- hit city produces a daily battle between baroque and modern . in the land office schools where the big estates are being parcelled out among the pea- collective farming theories in the variety theatre where Russsian officers and GermaNS roar at jokes of a decadent capitalist type:

Nor was the ideological struggle pronounced in the summer palace. of the Hohenzollern Prince Chris- tian, now used as an Intourist hotel.

There I found Czech, Swiss business. men cating drinking Swedish, and cavlar to colloid (starch solution, for exa the musle of a swing band,

from crystal used by the circulate freely vodka enough and the energy bomb will kings Saxony, talking export

with the Germans, be used largely for keeping the cir- business

And culation going and less for produc-being presented on departure with bills made up not in marks, not ju the new-look rouble, but in the capitalist American dollar,

ple) they will not

The energising effects of water are not properly appreciated. A sudden five work. immersion or even a partial appli-

you wish to release your energy "The chronte drunk may develop cation of cold water to the body im- bomb you must step up your excre- high blood pressure.

mediately on rising is of immeasur- rion of waste material and ingested able value.

polsons. If there is a completo Immersion

"Heart disease causes one-third

of deaths in the United States.

"We don't know what causes 11.

"But we do know that if a man's a heavy drinker, he probably won't develop any of the three heart discasca I mentioned,"

By pushing the foods I have men- - cold bath-it should be sudden, tloned into diet, and by taking some quickly in and out

of the simple exercises outlined, This causes a span of the mus many able-boilled people will And encircling the pores, causing they are able to ride casily along hem to emit their polsons in the with the dolly vexations, and they ame way as a band grasps and will feel as healthy as they really aucezes a tube of toothpaste.

les

are.

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of

ar

3. FRANKFORT Anglo-American Headquarters QIX HUNDRED Britons who

Joining the Americans mirendy here to form one big administrative unit will find themselves transporterl Into what is undoubtedly the Brst wonder of post-war Europe.

"As a matter of fact, I don't really want a hat at all, I just want to show my wife what. It's like when sha buys onaf

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