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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1948.

T

SEFTON DELMER'S

Berlin again talks war

Myself, I see

NEWSMAP. This famous feature is

BERLIN.

WICE in my life already have I arrived in Berlin when it was under the threat of war.

The first time-July 81, 1914 I was a small boy going back to school from my summaer holf- days.

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resumed today-datelined Berlin. For some days now Delmer his been In Germany-talking to the people best qualifled to assess the situation in Berlin which General Sir Brian Robertson flow to London to report In detail to the Cabinet. This is Delmer's story of a capital in crisis

and his estimate of what happens -

now.

it working out another way

Signs, sighs

In Berlin, extravagantly gay and some. confident in a glitter of neon lights, shining new limousines, and impres- When I got out of the train sive new buildings, everyone wor at the Potsdam Station I found talking of war. My Nazi friends in atmosphere throughout

were patronisingly. sympathelle myself caught up in a mob of about the fate in store for us in hurrahing Berliners deliriously Britain If we were foolish enough celebrating the Kaiser's mobili- to stand in the way of the Fuehrer. sation order which a policeman

And here I am now in Berlin once

say

the

It

at

How soon,

and the They may reject the protest: Soviet clearly does not want to start. The second was in August. Although the Kaiser

outright. If they do, the any indiscriminate hooling, but

Nevertheless, there are dangerous. 1930. I had just finished my policeman in the spiked helmet are

dead and gone, and Hitler's Now Westerners will take this to mean summer love and was driving Look buildings are ash and rubble. that Moscow is determined on war. factors in the situation. my car across Germany to and weary, battered Berlin esce The dispute will immediately be and to what extent, the Russians Danzig and Warsaw, All the more the centre of a world situation refered to the United Nations. back down depends on the Kremlin's might not hold estimation of the firmness of the Ones more the talk is of war: things up much.

Western attitude.

the strength way up the autobahn I met long just about as trick, as it could be. That, however,

"before-two, mapihs are... up,"

I fear that, despite the The Russians may propose fresh

Notos, the convoys of motorised troops.

discussions between the com- of the three Ailled manders in Berlin on the currency Kremlin may yet be inclined to resolution of the West. dispute and on the transport doubt the

and that is just the kind of doubt question.

which has led to wars in the past. For example, Moscow no doubt They may propose a fresh Four- Power conference on Germany, has not forgotten the recent Brilish conditions military threats over Radio Berlin, possibly stating certala

to ses which after being uttered were not which they would want agreed before the conference starts. carried out.

My own bet is that the Russians will fol- low something like the third

**After line, some negotiating the blockade will be lifted -the Westerners are determined to accept nothing less and then there will be Four-Power another

in a spiked helmet was reading again at the end of my summer to them.

SWITHIN

JANET...

leave.

the weather man

the witch, and

'TOM THUMB'

TOT all men have it in them and in which our Queen Elizabeth No cut much on the or in stick of history.

against

city is thick with criais. I landed hit me the moment Gatow. R.A., bombers and troop- carriers carrying food and fuel were on the tarmac being unloaded by gangs of Germans.

landed and Two more aircraft began unloading while the officials went through my baggage and pasa- port, and then another took off.

At Halensco Station I found Д crowd gathered around a polles car But it was a very different crowd from the one at the Postdam Station in 1941. A German radio announcer sat inside with a blue beret on his "conference.

head and a interophone in his hand.

Но

was reading to them the latest news bulletin-in case the electricity cuts, as he said, made it impossible for them to laten to the news their radios at home.

on

"On the Thuringian frontier," he said, "a bus service between tho

There are snags to This conference. For the Americans

pro

As I see it,

there are 3

ways Russla could answer

We asked them to evacuate Radio Berlin. And the Russians said in effect: "Come and chuck us out if you darc.".

We left it at that. And today we have even not cut the power Berlin Radio supply of in common

amon with the rest of our sector. -

Even so, it is my

bunch that within the to wo ten

days or

determined that it shall in no way shall see the first, signs of Russian Interfere with what is now being conciliation. done for the reconstruction af Western Germany and the establish- ment of 3 German Government there.

Two reports which have come to me from Germans close to the Rus slons seem to point this way. The Soviet and U.S. zones was resumed this morning, But, ho added,

They will refuse to agree to any Arst says that Marshal Bokolovsky is Western to bo promoted and replaced by an- of pausing dramatically between each economie union between She had one son, the heir

the train service is still at a Germany-which is receiving 1,300,- other commander in Germany: This Glamis. But Janet had a bad re-d

000,000 dollars in American ald-if true-might well mean the first The crowd sighed and looked and the Soviet-controlled Eastern step towards taking up a now line. There are enough, however, putation. Three separate charges standstill now as before."

This tiras thero arc no Germany, which paying out The other says that during the last to produce strange contrasts of witchcraft were lauld

cheers from the Berliners. They are millions of dollars' worth of repara- two days an impotant detachment of among the jostling anniver- her, but she was too well-connected Blum.

for them to be proceeded with.

afraid. They have reason to be, tions to Russia from current agricul German telephone technicianis has saries of the human almanac.

tural and industrial production.

been sent from Berlin to Leipzig. Consider this month, in which

However, as I say, the Russians is commemorated:

They have been sent there, I am have left plenty of doors open for bellove themselves through which they can told, to install vast new, telephone

possibility which is being seriously their present push is getting them move of both the German and the watched, not only by the Berliners, nowhere. but by the British, Americon and French authorities here in Berlin, and therefore you and I, too, must face it.

inaccurate gather forecasts than plety,

A witch who was the ancestress of our Queen, and

A spurious general 25 inches high.

No prophet

BWITHIN, of Winchester, :

Janef shared the lilgh ambitions married of her brother. He had Queen Margaret, mother of James

him.

Getting tough

NOW, I do not myself

there will be war. But it is a gracefully retire when they and switchboards in preparation for a

Soviet zonal administration to Leipzig.

The empty riflos

The attitude of the British and

Y THINK it is significant that the

My German sources say that if

13

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A saint mora remembered for V., and dreamed of supreme power. He set about getting it by assas sination, bribery, and civil war Robbed Finally he was defeated. of his protection, Janet was now freshly charged with witchcraft.

She

accused of weaving Was spells with the express Intent of

1 Russians have recently improved Leipzig became the now zonni cousing James V.'s death and of a

ever heard from diplomats, even in points in Berlin, and in the frontier its communications to the West and cordoned off politically and THE first, of course, was BISHOP more practicable attempt to pousou Berlin is tougher than anything I the quality of their troops at key capital, Berlin would be given back THE

the last days of August 1939.

zones, where they are likely to come then The allude and there is little in contact with the Western Allles, economically.

It would bo'excluded from the As I see it, they have not done between that of the Bri-

"There is this because they want good troops Ush and Americans--is:

they want intelligent be allowed to servo as a bridgehead no going back now. If the Russians to fight with the Westerners, but Iron Curtain and no longer would it

ally want war over Berlin, then because

Western infiltration. Which we soldiers who will avold becoming for thuy wat war anyhow, so

clearly' would be another way of \ So Janet went to the stake on July might as well have it out now over entangled in dangerous incidenta

The Russian sentries on duty at achieving the main Soviet object in Berlin as later over something else." When an old woman slipped in 17, 1537, for witchcroft.

The experts I talked with believe the autobahn barrier in Helmstedt, Winchester market and shattered her basket of eggs, St Swithin is Six years later, when James died, that there are three different ways contrary to the general practice of all this Berlin campaign: namely, the rifics. The contagion from the Communist East. said to have re-assembled them for the Red Douglases came back in which the Russians may reply to Russian sentries, bave empty clmination of Western democratic

of Janet's son was made Lord Glamis, and he lived to found the the Notes:- The old man was simple-living. family of which our present Queen

walk. Ho rodo nowhere he could When he gave a banquet he invited the poor only.

"St Swithin's day gif ve do rain

James was still afraid of the Red For forty days it will remain.”

Douglases and threatened, by sound St Swithin died in 862. The only of trumpet, to declare a traitor any extant "Lifes" were written three one of them who ventured within 12 centuries after his death, and credit miles of him. him with 'miraculous powers.

her.

is a member.

'Royal' midget

A

open, FINALLY the little man. He was

Before he died he asked that he

the should be buried in where the rain of heaven fall on him in his sleep.

might

of Win- In 971 Bishop Dunstan chester decided, to remove his bones to the church and he chose July 18 as the day of the translation.

But as the first sod was turned a terrific thunderstorm burst.

It went on raining for 40 days until Dunstan reluctantly abandoned the idea.

betler S. Stratton, Charles known DS "GENERAL". TOM THUMB. who died 66 years ago on a Thursday,

The great P. T. Barnum discovered him in Bridgeport, Conneelleut, in 1842. He was then said to be five years old, 25 Inches tall, and 151b. in weight.

Barnum secured an audience for the little fellow with Queen Victoria, The general strutted up the picture gallery of Buckingham Palace piped cheerfully," "Good evening. indies and gentlemen."

and

That was the story, and it be came an accepted belief that every July 15 the saintly bishop gave ad- vance Information of the weather. Victoria granted a second audience. But St Swithin is a bad prophet. Such recognition scaled his fortune. There was an occasion in 1893 when At the Egyption Hall, London, be Unfortunately St Swithin's day that year had been dry and fine.

magazines in

their

Reporting America

•

By C. V. R. Thompson

wait six to must still you NEW YORK.

18 ONE U.S. FAMILY out of four is debt, says a Government on the months for a new American car. You cannot turn

Then they are cheaper to sun, as survey. Reason-high cost of living. radio these days without well as to buy, than American cars.

And in the most hearing perhaps smashing song-hit America has ever known.

Called

Its

overcrowded American

cities they are easier to park than TOLLYWOOD thinks the war is the bigger, flashier American models now far enough away for the public to enjoy war pictures again. Finally, these officinis thought Actors are dualing their uniforms for "Nature Bey,” It lo

that, as thefr. Government's policy a dozen films with war backgrounds catchy tune with an obbligate and a was to provide Britain with more which will be produced in the next

dollars, their purchases would help... six months. lyric idolising nature..

But they have now cancelled all 37-year-old composer, eden their orders for British cars and shhez--all small lotters because they are queueing up for American CONGRESSMEN have thought up a new version of an old trick to "capitals belong to God" has `or- ones.

want rived in New York from his natural

Their plans reached higher quar- sobotage laws they do not surroundings to publicise the song tera, and from there it was discreetly passed. They add to a Bill an collingfor anti- but fimly pointed out that it would amendment

lynching, thus ensuring that "God dictated" to him,

bearded, he not do for a Government official to

Southern States Long-haired and

Congressmen will peacetime conscription and repeat of bag atop a garage, and kept In

discriminatory taxes on margarine.

it did rain on 34 days out of the 10, was on exhibition at £100 a night made his headquarters in a sleeping own anything but an American cat stop the Bill. Threatened laws-

She was burned

THE witch was JANET

After three years in Europe, during touch with nature by staring at a ARMY ESTIMATES for the coming year include £17,500. for rubber which the general earned Phineas shrubbery in New York's Central

erasers, which is sumclent to buy Barnum £150,000, he was taken back Park. to the States.

But at night he regretted leaving two for every soldier in uniform.

California woods. Tho city He returned to Europe again in his OF 1864, and by this time, he had ways of city folk caught up with ALTER WINCHELL, the colum-

an him.

nist, has forgotten only yester- TGLAM, a to New show married Miss Lavintim, n

Inch

shorter than Tom and

He was served with a writ to de- day he said his anti-British attacks tho

fend himself against charges of are against the Government and nut daughter of extremely tall parents.

Latest insult: The Her full name was Lady Janet The child of this Lilliputian plagiarism on the ground that "Na- the people.

Yiddish reason for Danny Kaye's popularity Douglas, the third sister of Archi- marriage was "a female infant of 3lb,,ture Boy" is just an old

over there is that he is a master at song with now words. of Angus, but she died before she was three.

double-talk, a British specialty." bald Douglas, 4th Earl chief of the Red Douglases who Barnum recused the general of

that it was nonsense to call her a witch.

NSWER by the U.S. Government to a question, whether it will nationaliso railways as the unions ask is one word-No.

11 warned of a possible oli famine HOLIDAYMAKING motorists were

A result Palestine war. Marshall plan oll shipments will probably have been made from the U.S., already short of oll, instead of from Middle Eastern.

this

summer na

of the

At 2.30, 5.30, were only equalled in ferocity, am being a miser in his youth, but in his SOME minor officials of the

bition, and cunning by their cousins, little manhood the dwarf squandered, U.S. Government in FIGURES released in New York areas.

today, show, the progress of the 7.80 & 9.30 p.m. | the

the Black Douglases.

a fortune on yachts, horses, and Washington decided recently to planes versus ships battle of the HOLLYWOOD "Is married Janet

beauty

first jewels for Lavinia. He died at 45.

Atlantic. In the part year, planes 1 worried about the John Lyon, 6th Lord of Glamis in Lavinia survived him until 1919. buy themselves British cars.

Their reasons: First, British earn carried 103,000 passengers, ships threat of television than it was over-

the Britizli"-tax.. Angus, master of the castle in She was married again, to Count

aro immediately available, whereas 452,000. which Macbeth murdered,;, Duncan, Primo Magri, an Italian dwart.

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