POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
Why have
"First you purapa da o!! out of du ground, then c goes thousand miles through pipe, then alla da way across da seu to England, then da Government he putta you in jail if you use im. Plisa, -L no unulerstand."
C.V.R. Thompson The Look
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they been
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this news
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1948.
Britain to release Nazi
bosses-even the
so quiet? 'dangerous ones
T Lish zone of Germany are
the
for
T:
their
fenred yet heard of the release polley, THE Nazi bosses in the Bri- cision because it was
that if it liberty they might is all being done to quietly.
When they do the protests are Unobtru constitute a threat to world bound to cotne. The Communists going home.
Théy,might agitate are sure to denounce the new polley sively and without publicity security.
further Allica, it was as
eviilence they are being released from against the internment camps, where thought, plot for another Hitler favourite bogey. The theme is that the Western Allies are deliberately rebuilding an Imperialist Whzi Ger they have been shut up for two Reich and another war. and a half years.
to serve as the vanguard of many
against the capitalist aggression Soviet Union and its satellites.
Each is given a little present suit of from you and me-a battledress, a pair of atout Army boots, and in special Then they cases a greatcont. are handed their ruilway fat and taki to go back to the towns and villages where from 1933 to 1945 they were the all- powerful big shots.
I must say 1 should like to be there to see some of them ar rive Particularly the husky, pink-faced young man with the fair, curly hair whom I found dressed in a cook's white uni- form in the kitchen of Falling- Hostel Camp.
In the British zone we think that no longer-not since the breakdown of the Big Four Con- ference in London last Novem- ber.
First it was decided to relense all the youngn- ters.
inter- who
FLOUR hud been hors
since 1919. Most
Is there, in fact, any donger to fence from the release of these men?
the Poles and Czechs or to world
Sefton Delmer's
NEWS MAP
of them were home in time for Christmas. Now it is the turn of the oldsters,
As WAT
3 di not think so. And, bel
lleve me, not because I found that ali The S.5. lea- ders I spoke tu had over- night become innuments who had no idea
of the horrid things that had gone thought the Gestapo was a bicycling on in the concentration camps, who club, that the Jews had been given
that
network, and funds abroad.
The only Nazis who will re- a yellow star to wear on their coats
as a reward for bring good boys. those con- main in jail
criminals by I am fully aware that the S.S. have 11 had been a Nazi Party demned
they have planned. CNPE Kreizleiter (pronounced cricé. British war crimes tribunals, or ceret organisation in Germany, routes, an excellent communications lighter, and meaning district condemned to jail sentences by much the special German courts, which Pommissioner) in it
are trying them for belonging in the "criminal organisations." None, it, is intended, shall !C main interned purely on security grounds. ንጻ
state, of chaos beeuse all the bombed town.
nghting with all the husbands are
wive
with
"Have you any misgivings Its loubout your reception ?" I asked
The New Look, swirling skirts and Ughter corsets, recently came to Sweet Ilona.
The women adopted it wholesale.
The women decided housework until the bearshs rurae niT.
Remalt dradlock,
hint.
"Good heavens, no.
one
Even 30 I do
not expect ning ructions from them. Not yet, any
For how.
thing, the political altuation is still too nebulous for them to be able to formulate clear aim or a clear policy-essen- tial to any resistance movement.
If there's the slightest sign of your old tricks we'll have you in again, And what you've experienced here will be a paradise compared with what you'll get then. Verstanden?"
I would like to see, these men re- leased to le citizens in a Cermany in which all men are equal before the law in which no man can lose his liberty beenuse he has incurred the suspicion of an offelal. Where before a man is julled he must have been found guilty lu a fair trial
All the same, one thing does All me with foreboding. While we are releasing these men we are at the same time cutting the staff of our Intelligenen Division.
THE DANGER
DY April 41 the establishment of will the Intelligence Division have been reduced by more than a third na ngainst Apt 1 last year. And a further cut is to bo mado after that in the same proportion ns in the other divisions of the Con- trol Commission.
are
the
By all means cut down the other divisions until they do not exist. They
doing work which Germans
for them- can do better selves. But keep the intelligence, political and public safety divisions intact so that we can keep an eye; and an car open for what is hap- pening in Germany.
Then we shall not be taken by
surprise.
SIDE GLANCES
By Galbraith
1
Y MA PIRVEL ING. T. M. APO. UTE. SAT OPT
"I'm beginning to lose faith in Dr. Brown-he never talls me I've got what I think I havol
LONDON SHORT
OF
5,000 POLICEMEN
a
by ex-Detective Superintendent JOHN SANDS
The intelligence officers and re-
More important still: Germany The men aberteif, called a meeting still very popular, they tell me."
And the old boy with the view horrds attached to the camps and deviled to grow bearch, until March 17 in protest.
Adelheide have been ordered to reconsider im- herself is incapable of making war flowing beard al
luve graded as category two-"too Camp, who used to be the dia mediately the cases of all men they for many years to come."
I would go further than the pre- trict is in his home town of dangerous to be at large.
sent
decision and release all these I would not the National Sorialist People's
They have been given to under- men unconditionally. ile fold
stand that their superiors hope that put them under the chilgation of re- Welfare organisation.
Why, my when
revision is completed it will porting once a week to the German me: "Misgivings?
1 be found that this category has no police as we are doing. Nor would dear fellow. they love me.
threaten them with arrest and casts), housewife replied: "Frank shall be carried shoulder high." members.
reinternment at the merest suspicion Sinatra
of subversive activity.
D[
te des- America broad-
ASKED in a rare qui
the Voter (Government propagaħda
TAMES PETRILLO, Musicians' Junion boss, sert sites t
to beat his ban on gramophonď re-
THE FEAR
I
M
He has too
permanent corporal.
Policemen
acting
or
In
sergeant
need an Incentive p3 much as an industrini-worker,
They have few free week-ends; no easy a.m. to 5 p.m. shift. all weathers, at all times, they are on the streets keeping their vigil. No five-day week for them. Small wonder that there is
rash of recruits.
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Paper work
one of The Yard's 'Big Five' till he retired in 1942 URDER of 12 London surprise on his side. policeman and the recent many dulles which tie him down to debate in the House of certain places at specified times.
The police box, designert to help Lords on conditions of service
the controller of the in the police forces draw atten- the pubile and to relay information, tion to a situation which is be has become.
policeman's movements, coming increasingly alarming,
He must telephone the station The same process will be applied
When Viscount Trenchard, four times in every tour of duty of to Nuzis and staff officers now in
me too much
of the eight hours. Failure to do so means POW camps in Britain. Egypt, and. All that reminds
former Commissioner con- They will be brought to of a scene 1 saw in the Nazi
centration
of Sonnenburg Metropolitan Police, pointed out that he must leave a report. camp
Tlus
gives the criminal ship and discomforts of system Germany for grading and release.
Goering invited me to visil that the Metropolitan Police was
ut the policeman's men's life. pre-knowledke 5,000 men or 26 percent-
mevements, and lessens the risk of under strength. Viscount Simon detection. said:
cords by making them in England. ROUGHLY 7,000 internces will cewhere.
OBERT KENDELL, prestent of the American Feline Society, saya it wants 50,000 cals catch Europe's grain-enting rats.
to
THE BOGEY
when
be released. Nazi political
it in 1933. bosses, officers of the German
A cowed and beaten Communist General Staff, generals, ad-
brought stood before the Nazi director of the being released as mirals, diplomats, Gestapo offi- So for this decision bas
no protests from the Czechs camp. He was cials, higher grade civil ser- d Poles, who are always scared "cured." \NCE a guori salary, £2,500 a year
"And mind you behave yourself vants, Bulustrialists-men whom
of the possibility of a Nazi revival. is now so little that President
The have been holding up to
reason for this I suspect it when you get outside." roared the Truman emnet finel anyone but military men to fill three important † now under a Control Council de- that the Czechs und Peles have not director. "We shall be watching you,
ONCE
Government posts, Eurit
will not have military men.
Congress
London, CORRESPONDENT in
George The New York Post's Cassidy, asked Mr. Marshall to hurry If he takes much up with his plan. longer, said Cassidy. Londoners may become, like the Parisians, Neapoli- tans, or any desperate people, ready to break rules. He added that no Londoners are still far from broken. but some are beginning to bend dangerously.
DRITAIN, "despite her economic
Belich, is thend ng Amerion
136
What a brain!
·OW-is-your-brain working.
H today? A bit slow? Well.
try putting your feet up.
It ought to work better then. At least That is what Mr Chap- in developing aviation, according to
You can Congress Tragh Arman Pincher says. Warning to Scerelary Stuart Symingtoti
Anl
quate him if you like, next sa is Russia.
time the boss comes in and finds RANISHMENT of the word billion you sitting inck in your chair D from the English language is with your feet on the desk. proposed.
If he argues the point you
The trouble with billion,
a word so casually thrown around in can give him this little lecture Washington these days, is, according to
on brains that Mr Pincher gave Compressinan Robert Twyman, so confusing that people often say me. million when they mean billion.
America Added confusion-in
TRUMAN'S
DEMOCRATS
been confronted with
One of the chief attractions offered by the police in former times was the pensión. Bul under the new everyone wil get a pension, Act without having to suffer the hard-
police
*
nder with clerical work. which
Men of the C.L.D. are nowed under tends to make them less effective. More and more paper work has thrust upon them. Nearly of their time is spent percent,
C.L.D.
see the chlidren Then he must across the road to schoni. A neces-
been
"Burglary is so rife that every- one begins to wonder when his sary Job, but one, which should be 50 tumn is coming. The number of done by the school nuthorities. undetected crimes of violence is
and the Increasing.
situation which has grown in the last few years is positively shocking."
Tough crooks
Figures confirm the truth of that In 1939 there were 2,800 statement. crimes of violence. Last, year there were 6.000. And 20 murderers are stili evading arrest
BERNARD & CHAP
WICKSTI
Teople who have lost an arm or a teg will confirm this.--They often-Ja-1039.
there
were
52.000 cases
tion.
Bigger 'beats'
At some stations in the Metro- politan area there are only ten men on duty, where before the war there were 30. bigger.
typewriter.
For hours every day the
answering man is
correspondence from other police forces, filling in forms describing wanted Dersons and stolen properly, investigating anonymous letters, making inquiries
Ministries. for various
Regulations
Beats have been made Defence
'made.
have in-
Offences involving ratlon But many more men are employed creased the number of reports to be
drivers, tele- books or identity cards draughtsmen,
require phonists, rates and warrant officers, special action. and storekeepers.
Deserters and absentees help
ta
with fair
10
14-hour day न well the volume of work.
Most detectiva work an average of 14 hours a day instead of the con- tracted eight.
ond often They start at 9 a.m. causes of discontent finish at 11 p.m. Sometimes they
have to work on their day off.
These men are keen on their job and mostly very efficient. Their job is their life,
Comanaudomotion has always been one
10
of the
The appearance of a glamorous premiere denudes the surrounding- feel a pain in it years after amputa- of burglary and housebreaking actress from Holywood at a film
Each Umb has a part of the 1947 there were 120,000.
aren of policemen brain reserved for it, a sort of pri- This situation is not entirely due
During that time a robbery or an
place vale switchboard handling incoming to shortage of policemen. Criminals ind outgoing calls, and it may go on of today
are tougher and better assault can take
ever. thon working long after the lines are dis- trained ther
training taught
climb, connected.
burgle, and kill with skill,
Many men who had this training THERE are dozens of these switet-have turned to crime.
somelimes boards, and
they
man primarily responsible like of that, says Mr Pincher, ac- get their lines crossed. That's what
the beat policeman. cording to whether you like cats best, happens when you see snakes on the for combating crime is the ordinary
ceiling and pink elephants at end of your bed.
But today he is bound by routine. an intermediate
has the clement of tween
In proportion to the rest of its body the brain of a cat is two and
a half times as large as the brain
THE of a dog. You can make. what you
or dogs. +
Your brain won't work with- #
have
Republican election slogan: Don't be
a dem fool-vote Republican.
אן
a 2,500-word message to Con- asked stress, President Truman
for powers to force distillers to use less grain for whisky. And the dis- tillers sent 10,000 words to Congress saying that such a move would bring back prohibition.
JESTS
AND
JEERS
11
cars.
Wan
man
who of Crotona,
Rhythm
for a word about brain-
Messages
und the visions
cut
The
Jola
chief In the police force.
When
they are men
one That
of ambitious.
the reasons for their selection. But they soon find that promotion is, for the
They become disgruntled. Another rank is needed. I suggest very few
appointments be constable and sergeant-a
Their foe: Fascism And
Anti-Semitism
A curious thing is that although
a rabbi, and the pains of the body are really felt
NLY a few people have yet lawyers, doctors, You CRB quite insensitive in the brain, the grey matter itself is
All are subject to the iron disel- in nline of Arnhem Military Medallist pieces away and the patient feels Group" with headquarters
But Gerald
one Flamberg, nothing at all.
Bayswater Road. London. the Group will soon make headlines.
Surgery
J
waves They are electrical and MANY people think that brain
new, It started 18 months ago, all parts of London.
of
the
But they get no overtime for any extra work they do, only a small refreshment allowance.
their All those hours spent in office mean that they cannot patrol their area or keep in touch with the underworld.
The art in catching thieves learned by long experience thieves themselves.
You do
*
F
13
of
not
find them in police stations unless they can't help it.
The job of a detective calls for He high Intelligence and integrity. must match his wits against brilliant met He must criminal brains.
any
of
cars
But
ractio mast
The first person to put it on re-
It so happens that the switchboard He no longer cord that the brain was the seat of billion is a thousand million. in out a good blood supply, says the intellect
nated handling conjured-up pictures of the Britain a million million.
lived mind is next door to the one dealing Mr P., and putting your feet Alemacon
So up helps it to get this. The around 500 BC. He was a pupil of with messages from the eye. higher you put them the better that schoolboy's hero, Pythagoras, you've only to get a crossed line be- tween the two boards and a picture, that originated in the mind appears the flow to the brain and the the geometry man.
Before then everyone believed tha better you can think.
that all your actions were dictated to be a real one from outside. Hence that people "saw It is not the size of your brain by the heart. Now it is only people a lot of the hosts you hear about
people from all walks of life. in love who think that. much with
Yet the pay of a superintendent that matters 50
Alemacon was right about the with their own eyes"
is lower than that of almost had another theory It is the fuel situn- brain, but he thinking.
junior executive in Industry. A brainy man with that hasn't stood the test of time.
With the increased use tion.
motorist He said goats breathed through their anaemia is like
the police for criminal purposes. without petrol coupons.
have become highly mobile. Plenty of people with big
the founders,
Last July the first edition of the their vehicles have become too ste- reolyped. They are long, black brains are complete idiots and Now
Group's paper On Guard, made itzalcons, many with
at Fascist meetings in sticking from the top. those with small brains are
appearance sometimes very clever. The can be measured. Various parts of operetions are something
were done in the when present chairman Geof- Published by a limited company
It's the Police! main difference between them is your brain are at different electrical but really they
potentials, and if you connect two Stone Age, with knives of fint. What
When the famous "O" cars started, It's a fairly general wish-that the that the genius has bigger points, with a wire a current will is more the patients usually survived. frey Bernard and 12 ex-Service under Geoffrey Bernard's managing colleagues met to consider what editorship, the four-page monthly
to n circulation of 15,030. they were disguised as ordinary penec news were as good as the war
blood vessels in his head and pass along it.
How do we know? Well, skulls active
steps could be taken grew t
Produced largely by journalisis vans, fitted with powerful engines, arews used to be.
dur more of them.
That is the principle behind the with holes in them have been
resurgence of working in their spare time, On They were very successful and had Women will be glad to hear brain-wave machine with which up. The marks of the flint knives to combat the
ubvious Fascism and anti-Semitism in Guard Included anong its cat the thieves at a disadvantage. are still showing, and it is
and Wyatt MPs Woodrow
But the present "Q" writers
Car 11 Blesk When speaking of their past, men this because their brains, on an scientists tell how hard you are
mind is at that the patients recovered because Britain.
and Mr D. N. Pritt, KC.
saloon. it could almost have the average, weigh 5ozs. less than thinking. When your
the bone round
Forty-three Group node "Police" sign on the front. men's-19ozs. for a man and rest these brain-waves have an even
hole hnd caled.
They went into action- the rhyllim about a dozen a secondt.
The criminal of today plays for form 44ozs. for a woman.
was erected.
holds no Prison stakes. But the moment you are asked to
One skull found in South America first time when Mosleyite John sence felt wherever a Fascist plet-
Many thieves I tlo a sum in your head or to remem- had five holes in it. Why did they Beckett's British People's Party "Aren Commands" were establish-
have sent to geol are still in Lon- her why you've n knot in your hand do it, these people? Possibly to re- had held
a meeting at Saint ed throughout London, and an intel-terror for him.
agents inside
don, apparently prosperous. kerchief, the voltage changes and lleve the pressure on the brain caused Ermine's Hotel, near the House, gence unit planted
Fascist groups.
For them crime is a paying pro- CHINESE have bigger brains the brain-waves How thick and fast. by an injury to the skull.
At 11.30 p.m. on December 17
force is to of the police
their than Europeans, and Euro-
New-born babies have no brain-
After a scuffo the Forty-three three men rung the doorbell at the position, and the present condition- Several primitive tribes used to ones than waves.
advantage. door peans get bigger
They begin to develop when perform the same operation until Group retired, ruffled but trium- Bayswater Road headquarters.
The girl who They thought it
The Government is to start on Negroes. The biggest brain on the child is a few weeks old, and quite recently.
phant, cured headaches by letting out the
Inquiry in 1949 Into conditions of record belonged to Turgenev, at the age of nine take on the same
evil spirta. It must have worked Since then progress has been found herself staring into the barrels
of three revolvers. the Russian novelist. It weigh rhythm as adults.
But the armed rald drew a blank. service, pay living accommodation, not have spectacular. Membership of the When you got very old the rate sometimes or they would
Group is a closely guarded The Group's papers were safe be- and promotion. That inquiry might ed 74ozs., but didn't make him slows down again, and goes on slow gone on doing it.
well be speeded up. hind a steel shutter,
great ad- twice as clover as anyone else. ing as you get more and more senile.
It might also be All this sounds very painful, but secret, but is certainly not less
today Even
Said chairman Geoffrey Bernard:
to About ten years ago some scient- Does thin Interest you or is in it probably wasn't.
"We have become the most powerful vantage to have an Inquiry as ists dug up the skull of a man in Ing you a pain in the neek? It is surgeons, use only local anesthetics than 1,000 and probably more.
Although predominantly Jewish, and most militant organisation for how the present undermanned force
Fascism. and the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, that Well, that's just your imagination. for many operations on the brain.
anti- could be used to better advantage, Well, I must Anish now. I'm tired many Fascist-hating Gentiles have combating
Britain. active Semitism in
Our strength If the atrangulating office work must have contained a brain almost You only think the pain is in your as large as Turgenev's. But there is neck. It is really in your brain. of writing with my feet in the air, joined the Group and are
brings with it new awareness of our and routine jobs were cut down and
The Just as you see things in the brain and, anyway, the part of the brain members.
next fow the men released for patrel duty, no ovidence that it did him any.
responsibilities. Party politics are taboo. good, and with a hend like that he and not in your eyes, so you feel that should be telling me to
Membership Includes company months will show how fully we ac- they would prevent crime and éalch probably found it very awkward pain there and not where you think home, has just received a message
directors, that I'll die if I don't have a drink.
barrow-boys, scientists, cept them." getting in and out of igloos.
boast while women confess.
a bottle of whisky taste as
11 which
a temperate household. In
long as a bottle of ink.
Woman would have a better chance of catching her man if she kept her
trap shut.
Reporter (referring to distinguished visitor); lie's incognito, Isn't he?
Hotel Porter: Well, I wouldn't know. But he's certainly had few:-
a
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of Commons,
opened the
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