1948-11-27 — Page 4

C.V.R.

Thompson

Too true to be good

NEW YORK. TN the middle of the cam-

the radio, the comics, and books for inspiring criminals with their thrillers, two. Ameri- can criminaly outdid fiction.

In New York a Negro stole a bus. but he did not take it away and sell it.

Instead he just ran it up and down Eighth Avenue and pocketed all the fares.

With his pockets full of dimes he jumped out of the driver's sent and into the underground escaped station at Fiftieth Street after he had run the bus into a taxi and cap- sized it.

And in Morristown, Pennsylvania, police arrested another Negro, 30- year-old James Johnson, and charg- ed him with the murder of two men killed in a train wreck,

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They reported that Johnson, ex-convict. had signed a confer- slon admitting he wrecked the train. And his reason? He hoped to get money by searching the pockets of the dend and injured.

closed for Armistico Day, Wall Streeters #ave up their holiday to a concen- trated debate on their bl; question bear n blg of the moment--has market (in which the trend downward) started?

WITH MARKETS

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1948.

They're in the Hunt Again

by GILES

“Not, a word. Colonel. Remember they're our guests and allies."

Ther

WILL WE WITHDRAW

FROM GERMANY?

is

IVE years

was

ago.

Allied

policy towards Germany to "pastoralise" the Their pet theorist, Justin Barbour, says yes, because new, unfavour-country, remove its industries, able conditions" are foreseen, includ- and police it with allied forces Today the for a generation. Ing the threat of an excess profits

boom tax and a slumplet in the

Elsewhero opinion is complete reversal of this policy, next year.

originally American, is most almost evenly divided.

apparent in the American Zone of Germany.

Now it is reported that President Truman was not such a good Just 96 hours prophet after all. before he was elected President, he said: I guess I'm lleked. but it's worth the fight."

But it is from a British'

that has

come the source boldest

of official hint new policy towards AND WHEN Secretary of State entirely George Marshall resigns, America's Germany. General Sir Brian his gave it Labourites who are not Socialists Robertson

the

yet--are urging President Trumat "personal opinion" that to appoint one of them to the post. Their argument: The men America's withdrawal of all occupying are not forees may be the only solu- Foreign Ofce deals with top-liat boys but ex-worlding mention of the deadlock between like Ernest Devin.

Russia and the Western Allies top rocket in Germany. He qualified this FROM AMERICA'S

engine expert. Dr Fritz Zwicky, with an incidental retgark that came the prediction that war max the Germans must be literally KO underground in the

Dr Zwicky's anteed the power to run their not-too-distant future.

"terrapulsa" engine own affairs. now Lov-a which will drill through the earth Uke a mole.

Threo

can

DAVID TEMPLE ROBERTS takes soundings

in

Whitehall

Moreover, the Government we ex- pect in Frankfurt in January could be offered a peace treaty and, with good fortune, and political wisdom that might cope with responsibility, German could rally around it ali

The future. n energles to, bulld "Battle for the soul" of Germany would then begin without the soul shop. itself being in pawn in one with the pawn-ticket held in allen hands.

But how does this plan of with-

drawal look. to European eyes? For Russia and America, it is an ad- vantage to control their respective sphere of Europe through alliances--

other in of one in the East, the

West. To Europeans the scene

French Initiative

the

is

The army nobody took seriously

by BRIGADIER FITZROY_MACLEAN, M.P.

OR more than two thousand

FOR

years

ever

The Jewn were largely. volun- since the teers, fighting fanatically for a

capture of Jerusalem by cause which meant, everything to

Pompey in 65 B.C.-no one had thought of the Jews as a

them.

And so, after an initial advanco Desert into the barren Negev, an advance, which

military force. An intellectual, across the Sinal artistic, financial force, perhaps; was only successful because it was unopposed, and which gave them unduly prolonged lines of com- tho Egyptians soon

but not a military force.

Now the sweeping victories of the munication, Israeli forces, their emergence as a found themselves engaged in a bitter, small but very effective modern cavaco war, which from the first army, have basically altered not only seemed unlikely to provide the casy the military but the politieni situn- victory which their king had hoped

for. tion in the Middle East,

No one was further out in his estimate of Jewish military effec- tiveness than King Farouk of Egypt..

Here, it seemed to him, was heaven-sent opportunity of restoring by a successful war his own position, threatened by n hostile Wafd.

the

D

of convenient to regard as their Arub

brethren.

Nothing left

'.

The result that nothing is left of the four Egyptian brigades which entered Palestine save a few pockets of demoralised troups, cut off from their base, and that practically the whole of the Negev is

hands.

In

Jewish

King

for

the

It seemed an opportunily, too, of sterling a march, on his oily and rival, King Abdulla of Transjordan.

that Another result is With flags flying, drums beating. and a special issue of postage stamps Farouk's protege, the Mufti, and his to celebrate his victory in anticipa Government of Arab Palestine, have tion, Farouk sent the Egyptian Army had to exchange their precarious marching over

Croatier into seat in Gaza, now completely en- Palestine to the aid of what it was circled by Isnell forces, made. Then the Government

security of Cairo. Frankfurt will be on lis feet.

Nor have the Israeli forces been Dismantling for reparations 13 Unlike the newly created Israeli less successful elsewhere. They have being speeded to a close. Denazica.

Army, the Egyptian Army had a tion und war crimes trials are also

more than held their own against being pushed to a conclusion. The certain military tradition. For 40 the invading forces of Syria, the First World Lebanon and Iraq, while in a brief Western Powers will make the deel-years, until after the

abandon War, it was equipped, train, and offensive they completely routed the slon which involved the

guerilla Army of National Libers- ment of Berlin to its fate. If they above all, ofcered by the British:

tion led by the Albanien Moslem and decide in favour of withdrawal it

No experience

Kauki, will be to exchange a moral initla-

adventure, Fawzi occupled the whole of Galilee. They.. five gained with transport_aircraft to

than now effectively control morn Berlin, for another moral initiative in forestalling the Soviet Union.

half of Palestine..

I will not dare predict that such a policy will be followed. But if it is, It will be chosen in the interests of "the Giant Powers"-for

both will see a better hope of peace by the present backing away deadlock.

from

Un-European

Blg forces

and

But thereafter, to spare the of the Egyptian susceptibilities nationalists, the British officers were sub- Egyptians withdrawn i

stituted. British equipment, British- type uniforms, and the elements of British parade-ground drill remain- ed, but Brillsh leadership and or ganising ability were lacking.

Also lacking was actual fighting experience, for in two world wars the Egyptians had wisely left the defence of their country to the

ences

between

withdrawal immediate Western forces from Germany. differently set. The British Foreign TO this winter such a solution British Army.

office mus to consider these European Tzeems "un-European" Many who This is a sudden, and at first sight,

careful points of view-although, even since surprising suggestion. But

Union, there have been moments readers of the articles of the Ameri- Mr Bevin's speech on

columnist, Walter Lippmann when the interests of what are sail- will have noticed that his vague thesis that the United States should ed "minor powers" have been some-

from Europe," has what neglected.

by "withdraw

narrowed down recently been that commentator to the proposition guar- that American troops should out of Germany. At the same military guarantees backed by staff conversations with the powers rere

Brussels pact-Eng- sented in the land. Benelux und FraNEC.

American The idea that British. and French troops should withdraw from Germany would entirely change the International balance of forces-if it were carried out

Now, the British Foreign nims Office

disclaimed quickly HOW BUSINESS:

have running ол Broadway

Litles... Old General Robertson's personal "blood" in

report timers Department: Gloria Swanson thoughts. But I

their

pull

time

Standing firm

Today, of the five hostile "armies" which a few weeks ago threatened the new Jewish State, only one is. still a force to be reckoned with.. Well disciplined, well equipped and

led,

King Abdulla's Arab well Legion, standing firm on the past- tions which it occupied at the outset remains unde- of the campaign. fcated.

he has

This was one of the chief differ- If anything, King Abdulla's hand. favour it argue that for the

tho Israeli Western Powers to draw back their

and has been strengthened by the set- from the centre of Europe would be Egyptian Armies. Most of the Israell backs of his allies, which equivalent to liberating Europe. This troops, whether Jews or soldiers of certainly done litle to provent. seems incorrect argument.

fortune, had experience of modern From the first there has been little warfare, gained with the Allied active co-operation.

had no. For America and Russia to leave Forces during the war, In the The other Arab lenders

unite Arab two halves of Germany to their own European resistance movements, or wish to see Abdulla

to Transjordan and competitive devices would be

to in the guerilla war against our own Palestine

emerge as the ruler of a Greater It was to kill that fear Germany.

Arab Stalc.

to come to Winston

In the Israeli Air Force' were 250 Church!!!

I Abdulla is ready Russia trained pilols, most of whom had terms and It, as is generally for ever that necepted an alliance with in 1041. He had Europe in mind. served in the RAF or United States lieved, the Teraeli Government Withdrawal by the Big Powers who Air Force."

also prepared to talk, it may well The Egyptians have taken on the responsibility of

were conscripts, be that the temporary eclipse of,

will in against their

the more intransigent Arab powers eliminating for ever the fear of fighing Germany would be to abandon the foreign country for a king who had will open the way for a compromise

between Transjordan and Israel done little to endear himself. just war aims of 1930-1945.

he asks America to enter into firm the, east and west of Germany, revive in Europe the fear of a new forces in Palestine.

Poland and France must, as so

often, share something of the same attitude. Id Parts, the French initiative to make rapid advances towards proper Western Union comes from

for once, Arm a desire

to have,

guarantees against a German can

is leaving Broadway soon for a fim with certainty that the airlift come-back and Pola Negri is leaving to Berlin, which has given Hollywood to do a Broadway play London and Washington time

Marlene Dietrich is thinking

Gene Tierney to think, is persuading, men of doing writes that if her baby is a girl.the highest importance as ad- visers to think seriously, in she will name her something Irish with her married to go

an space available, of

ព

of Cassinl

TOVUD..

name

this

Moscow-fed news circulating in the Russian Zone is the basis of this digest of the Soviet viewpoint

The Russian Window

BERLIN,

NATURAL gas, in huge quantity, is

more than a pipe dream.

ENINGRAD

is now hooked up

to the unique natural-gas sys-

Conducted by DETER 4B8RCHETT

(legitimate). of the two

tem operating. over large parts of 5s. European Russia.

chickens,

Soviot Satellite

NATURALLY the Big Powers

Britain, the United States and Rus slabove an inclination to with draw from Germany. Russla is now

announce the with expected to drawal of her forces from her Eastern Zone after the conclusion of peace treaty with an Eastern zone government..soon to be set up. This new Soviet satellite would found its strength on the newly drafted Ger- man armed police. Since the Con- ference of Eastern European Foreign

early. Ministers in Warsaw In the summer, this has been the obvious denouement of Soviet policy in Ger

many,

vance.

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ad-

of

the vulnerable to France feels Red Army, and the only consolution she has had recently has been the assurance that if the Red Army ad- vanced towards the Atlantle it would

contingents the small meet American and British forces in Ger- presumably The result, many.

retaliation. would be atomle withdrawal of troops from Germany that we are considering, would leave France and the Benelux countries, (and neutral Switzerland) defended only by an alliance that has not yet been translated-into-sound-military terms.

In fact, thore is still confusion in Western Union. Whether and how the Iberian Peninsula can be a part of western strategy; how many, and by whom equipped, shall be the land forces in France, Belgium and the does Netherlands; to what extent Anglo-American strategy regard Western Europe as a "defensive belt" rather than the Inst line of a defence these three multiple ques- or tions must be settled in favour of the French viewpoint before the men of in Berlin to that of the Western the Qual d'Orsay will agree to

from elements In the Control Councils polley of troop withdrawals

and Germany. And the French control that ruled Hungary, Rumania

Probably these steps would have been taken sooner if the blockade of Berlin had had the expected re- sult. That expected result was elther the withdrawal of Western personnel from Berlin entirety, the decline of the status of the West

Bulgarin before the concision of an important zone in Germany; that

satellite irenties.

is often overlooked by casual com- mentators-British and American.

The

ΟΣ

A second batch of 20,000 KES

But this has not happened.

other end Turning to the During the war, when Moscow was sent to the same incubators, and was isolated from the coalfields of again all but 1,200 were eaten by the Soviet Union has had to delay Its

"Russian and other the Don Basin, engineers completed staff. Krokodil concludes: "There is polley for Eastern Germany. It has Europe the position of Poland, par- also, is worth nothing peculiar about that. Eggs,not abandoned the policy. Instead, ticularly, the pipe-line from the Caucaslan specially the yolks, are very good the Western Powers have been given sphere, countries" oilfields to the Soviet capital.

Officials sing very

the opportunity to make this vitally notice. Do Poies believe that the from They tapped the gases which lie for the voice. above the vast underground lakes nicely in the Incubator centres of important gesture the withdrawal withdrawal of Russian forces

Eastern Germany would mean their of occupation forces-prior to

frontier withdrawal to the present of all-usually lost in the spectacu White Russia. Director

similar Russlan gesture. sings especially beautifully."

of the Soviet Union?

Moscow.

lar gushes when a new oilfield opened and piped it to There it was lald on to heat and light factories and homes, and saved the tens of millions of tons of coal burned to provide ordinary

mercial gas.

com-

Shurayef

EVEN if Zhdanov is gone, nobody is

to be allowed to forget him.

MARIUPOL has been

Alexandrov

renamed

a

Future Of Poland CONTRADICTORY reports of the Army of the Red numbers

Since the end of the war thie Mariupol, Zhdanov died suddenly in danger of a war, that neither of the stationed in Poland filler westward,

system has been extended to many other cities.

in While the tension continues Berlin, American and Russian forces unother at the stand opposite onc

While the Brandenberger Tor honour in

of forces of the two giant Powers are Zhdanov. Born in so close

together, there is an acute two Powers wishes. (I make that Certainly many Polish Army officers Moscow on August 31.

carried It follows that both can speak Russian belter than Polish,. Monuments to Zhdanov are to be assumption).

Even Communist in erected in Moscow and Leningrad, these great, Powers, and Britain as Would not this process be

no future in his and theatres, universities, and indus- weil, are tempted by the prospects further?

which would pre- Poland can see trini plants all over the Union will of withdrawal,

vent their forces coming into local country following the small Baltic Soviet States into the status of a n now bear his name.

and damaging conflict.

Republic. 10,000

the

With their passion for statistics,

that Russians estimate the

with supplying of one city, Kiev, cheap us saves annually one mil- lion tons of Donetz coal, half million tons of wood fuel,

tons of peal, and 80 million tons of TITO STILL hopes to do one kind Political Advantage

petroleum products.

tho

It does it to got away from the

of deal with the Soviet.

of

JATURALLY, helther

spectacular

a

in

with

I can well imagine, too, that how- ever many assurances are given to of those YUGOSLAV trode mission,Powers will withdraw,

Poland, any far-secing Follsh leader at any today is fearful that the SED TROUBLE is incubating in the little

headed by, the Minister. Lown of Kripitahy......

Foreign Trade, Popovitch, has gone price. Both reckon a withdrawal Germany. will be bolstered

with advantageous, if it can be engineered offers of fragments in Polish Silesia KROKODIL,

Russian comic to Moscow for trade talks paper, has found an answer to the Soviet Union. This is the first to given political advantage. Part of that was cut from Germany under

the political advantage will, of course, the Yalta declalons. the Russian equivalent of the ques official Yugoslav delegation to the Co. since Tito and the Soviet Union

be gained by whichever of the two a hon cross tlon, "Why does

No European historian can forget were expelled from the Cominform. powers first made the топат

The economic sanctions applied

Kesture of leaving German govern that at the Treaty of Rapallo after little White Russian town of by Russia and Cominform countries menis at least, apparently, to their the First World War, the Soviet

look

Union scored a diplomatic coup by own devices. over had caused the Yugoslava to

making a treaty with Weimar Ger- the exclusion and The elsewhere for their foreign trade.

In the assessment of possible poll- many of The Yugoslav trade mission

present in London is trying to buy tical advantages, the Russians must consternation of Britain, France and In May, 1947, 2,000 eggs were put oil, raw wool, and cotton yarn-all reckon that their, disciplined SED Italy. One cynical Pole sold

previously imported from Russia and party and their new police force, will what he feared most was a similor Into incubators in the town. They

their treaty between Russia and her SED keep Eastern Germany

Ratollite, Wittily, to call- were inspected frequently. In fact, the Eastern European countries.

Large British purchases of Soviet own sphere. Against that the West German they were inspected so frequently

Russians think, have Loan reckon that the Marshall Plan ed it the Treaty of Zacopan, the were maize, the five that in the end only

aničk lowered Yugoslavia's hopes of pay is showing is worth, and that there favourite holiday resort in southern ing for her British imports with her are powerful movements of hidden Poland of high-ranking Polish

Eastern Russian leaders. It would be at the opposition to the SED in large maize surplus.

will, some day, expense of Poland, NE Germany which bring back all Germany to the In January the decision whether "Western" fold

to withdraw troops will have to bo

Krivitshy, where eggs hardly get a chance to hatch put. local bureaucrats pro too fond Sthem.

left.......

The survivors were put under 'a han; she succeeded in hatching out two.

Cost of these two eggs to the State was £1,500; tevenue from the sale

at

The Yugoslav delegation In Mos- cow will try to make a trade with the Soviet for 1040.

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