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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1949.
KREMLIN PLANNED TO KEEP
US OUT OF GERMANY
It was
to be the Red Army only': Success of Normandy invasion upset the plot Secret Molotov, speech that started the 'cold war': How Stalin seized half Europe with a bunch of Kremlin-trained quislings
N December 1946 Molotov arrived in Berlin on his way back to Moscow from
a bitter wrangle with the West at UNO and in the Council of Foreign Ministers.
Ile addresned IL restricted meeting of the higher S.M.A. (Soviet Military Administra- tion) personnel, and was in a belligerent mood. He conveyed the following ideas:-
The Americans think too much of themselves. They are rich and arrogant. They are determined to make Europe an American colony.
"We have a different aim, a united Democratic Germany, with Bertin as its capital.
"We shall deliver a hard blow in the face of the Western Powers, whp are the real enemics of the working cluses of Europe therefore of the Soviet Uniun."
OPEN PROPAGANDA
DOLITICAL propaganda
POLITIC
10g
and
by......
Lieut.-Colonel.
GRIGORI A. TOKAEV
a highly-placed Soviet officer who fled to the West to fight for Freedom. He carried out secret tasks for the Politburo.
Its land frontiers Impinite upon nine different countries and it also has maritime frontlers with Finland, Sweden, Norway, Great Britain and the Baltic States—so many convenient thresholds for Soviet infiltration.
In measuring Germany, the Politburo is also motivated by the Marxist theory that Germany. of all the European countries, is most vulnerable to Communism,
Two crushing defeats have supposedly con- yulsed and riven the nation.
According to Soviet theory, the huge masses of German workmen are ripe for proletarian revolution.
CZECHOSLOVAKIA
HUNGARY
UMANIA:
BULGAR
never
The failure of this Sovjut- violence
revolution. to make manufactured against Western democracies was headway has been a bitter dis- Inounting even before this meet-
appointment to
But while vituperation ceased, the Politburo,
There can be no secret of Soviet THESE are six quislings of the After it became even more
and understanding praise And represents
most serlous intentions.
The real Iron Curtain Kremlin column.' Through took its place. open, course, and intensive.
defest in world politics.
is the virtually impenetrable veil them the greater part of Eastern Mololey's On Mo
instructions, Sher- teryakov, the Soviet Consul-Ceneral
But the Politburo has not been of credulity which in Berlin, entrusted me and several put off in its plans by the stub- manages to draw ncross the mind Europe has fallen under Com others
with the task of obtaining born refusal of the German work to shut out unpleasant facts. munist control. Togliatti, alone, as misch Information
possible ing
classes to behave like the
is no longer in power. concernlag conditions in the proletariat of Soviet theory. Wes'er zone.
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Domination of Europe and the The miscarriage is explained by communisation of its nations and a standard argument that, owing peoples is regarded by the Politburo to Western Interference, the Com-
as the deciding fuctor of world munist leaders have 110! Been It is therefore Task One able to reach the industrial masses power, and it is
In the Western zones.
of the world programine,
ure
war".
The aftermathi uf the leaving Germany ruinett ad Europe hapaverished and
confronts the
Politburo
opportunity which,
31
the
divided,
MHE
FATE IN STORE
re
10
human nature
То understand where Soviet policy is headed Оле must trace it back some distance in time and
space, -
sense
were
Was
tem-
forbidden.
One day you will learn, if tho history of those lost countries is over. told, 'how a dozen or to Kremlin qulilinga were, put above the headl of the countries they had, betrayed by Soviet military might
But the success of the. Normandy invnalon took the Kremlin by surprise. The power and mobility revealed by the landing armies, gave rise to a near panle that they would be in Berlin before the 1044 winter,
"Hurry, hurry, hurry," became the alogan of the Soviet High Command
Yet, though the Red Army strained every nerve, the race seemed hope- Jess until the Western advance was
suddenly halted. The
action was
ADMIN'S MORE LEMPARIN
1019
"You must be the young man who' Marola sayo has, hidden.
Lalenis."
Kreeted in Mocow with incredulous U.S. CABLE-LETTER
relief.
SUCH BENEVOLENCE
TOR was that the end of Western
NOR
TRUMAN MAY
benevolence. When subsequently SEND MOSCOW
the Western Allies agreed to with-
draw their troops
from Thuringia
an
and Saxony, Soviet cynicism was at #1 luss to account for such unrealistic action.
staff
Zhukov's
never Certainly expected the American to agree so from these rich easily to retire
provinces.
From
Zhukov's my post. nt residence at Karlshorst I was in a good position to
the observe Politburo's efforts to extort the last from Western uunce of tkivantage gullibility.
ENVOY
By FREDERICK COOK
NEW YORK,
UST because President Tru-
JUST
япув man
he has not Mr changed his attitude to Stalin that he will not go to Moscow to see him, but would be glad to talk to him here any time he cares to call--it Zhukov and Sokolovsky occupied
1. and a
should by no means be assumed the ground floor, while
Kudryavtsev,
Soviet there is not going to be a now 19 Major secretaries to the Control Council, approach. had the floor above.
heavily guarded. The house
required Specini passes were penetrate this holy of holics. Direct telephone lines connected it with the Kremlin.
Was
The
to
to
not at
as my
In the West the arators praised
I met General Eisenhower the grand coalition. The Soviet
only at the Control Council and "teaders" regarded it cynically us a the various banquets, but anarriage of convenience.
was in the second office in Berlin things contrived to Twe
end same building and practically next was the door to his, I had many opportunities this Iruce in 1943. One
after Stalingrad and to see him. reallation El Alamein that Germany beaten.
I
Was
idca
of a second Mission
from Moscow 142
dead. far Nobody, in fact, would be much surprised if the President should send another per- some day soon sonal envoy to the Kremlin.
Best estimate of the President's point of view just now is; He still- does not believe that his iden of sending Mr Vinson to Russia was a bud idea, though he may concede that the timing might have been better in view of Mr Marshall's talks, at the time, with the Russians at Uno.
He cancelled it reluctantly, out of deference to Marshall. Now Mar- shail is gone. And the President still feels or so informed people be- lieve that there is nothing to lose and perhaps a lot to gain.
Who
be? will the could well be Mr Averell Harriman. Rough ride
iller struck first, and his lunge
Personally, I Hked and respected Hitler fooled Stalin. The Polit- to the East ruined that monstrous
him. Zhukov admired professional and the exchanges buro had no intention of entering ambush. Between 1941-3 the Sovlet
The other was the disclosure of competence, the European war, at least before Union had to fight for its life, and
Churchill's. plan for un Anglo- between them were most pleasant. the issue had been decided.
the great dream of a Communist
American thrust into Europe from
But the prevalling feeling in the in Europe
the Balkans:
that Elsenhower was Hence the
S.M.A. was non-aggression pact hegemony
threw the soft and one could usually get things scheme with an
of 1939 satisfied both Stalin's crude purarily shelved. instant
Churchill's they
ahle
mil Stulin's command
the By of opportunism and basic
out of him. Europe is
Kremlin into a state of turmoil. ro, then-according to the
Marxist theory,
standard Soviet criticisms of allowed to recover, may never recur. theory-the Germun proletariat
that this society
The Kremlin fcnred
Montgomery, on the other hand, Germany
The Soviet Union would arm Western first
and will see the light.
Britain down Germany
Discussions of to bring battleground. probably decisive
Anglo-American plan, if boldly carried out, wouldt spoke a language the S.M.A. under- direct, and con- Apart from its obvious industrial I Am Appalled by the relvet and the US. Then, when Western affairs Inside the parly councils put the Anglo-American forces well stood--hard and
of the people of the West society WBS bleeding to power its commanding geographical unce
death, during this perlod set standards ahead of the Red Army in Western structed largely around the word No. irresistible to perceive the fate
and of propriety and restraint previously Europe. would intervene position excrts
the Soviet Bolshevism
Church! be- Montgomery and Union is preparing for them.
dominate the void.
unknown in Soviet life. attraction upan Soviet strategists.
DRAW OFF strengtH tween them administered the Polit-ride
Under the buro is one setback.
for the partition of THERE is a carious illusion in the agreement
Schleswig-Holstein urging Germany, West that Stalin, in Roosevelt and Churchill all through to be occupied by the British. Bui 1942-3 to attack instead without Stalin hoped to solze it first.
Channel, delay across the
was
the ignorant of
complexities of amphibious warfare, and under- estimated the risks.
an
THE HAM YOU CAN'T CURE!
F you've had much to do with schoolboys you may have noticed thut a fair proportion of them have curious kink about radio.
it
into the question and found that
cover.
wave bands that
talking for hours on end about their aerials and ohm troubles.
by BERNARD WICKSTEED
1s. short
curney.
which
Their "wallpaper"
The home life of a ham is peculiar because there are very few female: hams,
A married
Actually, the contrary was true. The Soviet General Stoff was sure the Anglo-American forces faced a ham I heard of in virtually impossible task.
the
TASK ONE
Was
Marshal Rokossovsky, comunander of the northern group of Sevlet armies, was 'reprimanded for having lost the race to the British.
BALTIC CONTROL
STA
STALIN'S
desire
10
German
Dccupy
envoy
It
is clear now that the President
have 庭 la oing to
rougher than some thought with his Civil Rights programme,
It would give him great salls- faction to wipe out the stain of for the second-class citizenship 10 percent of Americans whose skins happen to be dark---
are
und
the
men
But the programme 13 guing to be harder to put through than some of his other election pledges.
Js strong, The opposition determined.
In Straws
tho wind cynical
Georgia-in acquittal in minutes of two white accused of lynching a Negro, and the introduction into the Legislature that State of a new white supremacy programme.
20
to
of
action
Navy cut
1
Some of the bands have close As one ham said in my hear ing. "If only everyone was like seasons, like pheasants and North London, has a waterpipe from
Schleswig-Holstein was dictated The Atlantic Wall was judged to by the fact that the Politburo plans To a lad so afflicted the inside us! There would be no wars." fish. The 10-metre band, for the kitchen running through his be almost invulnerable; and it was Included Sovint domination of the of a set isn't a jumble of multi-
a common lan- instance, closes down most of They speak
shack, and the sound of his wife assumed that the Western armies whole Baltic basin. In order coloured wires and bits that guage derived from English, a the summer.
banging on it to fetch him down to would either
thrown back or achieve be
this, it is necessary to be of code words, tech- This is due blow up when you touch them. mixture
to atmospheric supper is familiar to his radio friends would be too went to penetrate master of the Klel-Copenhagen-
line. This is Malmo
Impossible and the sort of conditions. It's something he can love and nical terms,
can be pre- in five continents. They call it old deeply,
Linar competition understand.
thing you hear in a school dor- dicted with mathematical ac- Go's grape-vine.
But, whatever
outcome, the without holding Schleswig-Holstein. battle would draw the main German Churchill I've often
a mitory.
saw the danger. The DEOPLE here have fallen in love wondered how
the new British liner Oddly enough sunspots, Another ham for whom everyone strength from the East; and, at the British armies shot forward and Beat childhood like this affects one in
The temples where they per- which can interfere with com is sorry has a shack in a cupboard opportune moment, the Soviet Arny Rokossovsky
This to it.
Caronia. They flocked down to the Hudson River while she was lying later life. So this week I went form their devotions are known mercial radio, are often a help in s daughter's bedroom. This would burst through, take Berlin, incurred Stalin's displeasure.
there. But her arrival has stimulated least as far as the as "shacks," and range from on some of the amateur bands, was all right when she was a child, and roll on at
Haine.
The Kiel-Copenhagen and Maimo talk about giving Britain some com- those with a case history of humble cubby holes under the There were five glorious days but now she has grown up he's al-
Iine is vital to Sovelt strategy in pelllion. radio fover never fully reatairs to magnificent quarters of maximum sunspot activity ways being driven off the air be-
Northern Germany. In the event of They last year when the hams went cause she wants to change her clothes
an armed confilet the Soviet forces ibeir first blow Outwardly they seem normal in the spare bedroom.
have no social barriers such as mad.
or something. The big nows in COVIET policy from 1044 on was will probably aim
TH
TE Navy are having some trouble enough. Some oven murry and
British ham circles last year was that Germany
should be in that direction.
following presentation of the by Soviet
Next year only have children, but they never we know. If you take a squint
the opening of the two-metre wave-Joccupied at all costs
After the occupation of Berlin the President's Budget. troops and on no band.
account by any Soviet policy was based on the £13,000,000 are set nside for ship get those megacycles out of the at the SUs or the EP's (ham for turning your aerial in the direc-
others.
under construction. That provides for the struggle for German unity .system.
【PERATORS who were used to
conversion of six destroyera to "other local
For months they had been building purely
work suddenly
By that time the Tune in to any of the short. tion of Egypt or Persin) you
Politburo had Communist control.
anil- , for (presumably talking are used by might find yourself talking to a found themselves
to other home-made sets to use on it, and
types" The plot was to seize political submarine work). stay-at-homes in Australia and New bang on the stroke of midnight one begun to look beyond the German defeat, already assured. They had they all be deter
through amateurs and you will hear them prince.
Zealand..
night in September
control,
puppet moved on lo Task One-Europe.
complicate the organisations, and gan calling one another at once.
Only one new ship is planned, an Naval con- I was in Moscow when the Western positions of the Western Occupation auxillary minesweeper. When two hams meet on the alr
Wishing to report on this bean-Allies landed in France. The news Powers.
struction, In effect is thus nt they send each feast, I travelled down to. Tun-aroused in the ruling - cisles any-
standstill, until the admirals know At the present moment there ALTERNATIVELY you might for the first time.
ather a greeting card confirming
bridge Wells, where a man known thing but the expression
Unfortunately for the Soviet rulers, just what ships will be needed. are 6,500 radio hypochondriacs. have an experience such as the contact.
as 'C2UJ has over the age of 16 licensed by befell an acquaintance of mine.
a two-metre sol. I one right have expected from a the Germans showed themselves to
Atom guess These 'cards arc the Postmaster-General to dis- Ho was talking from London to
called will expected absolute chaos on the air, hard-pressed nation given reprieve be more Intelligent than they were
a through the " gallant action of its given credit for by the Kremlin. cuss the symptoms of their sets a stranger in Yorkshire, and in paper because, when you get one, but actually we heard hardly
PROFESSOR J. A. Campbell, of Allies. Lound, you stick it up on the wall of your
Stalin rent a Although on the air. The number is in the middle of a friendly chat on shack just as other
of congratulation, message
the people pin up |
Oberlin College, to the latest Waited 4 years · creasing daily and is already electrostatic flux density, or pictures of Betty Grable. ✨
chemist to make a guess at one of atmosphere in the Politburo belied his expressions of joy.
No far. the lolitburo stands frug-
the world's top secrets: How big la doubled what it was before the something obscure like that,
atom If you collect hundred pieces of · FTERWARDS we learned that In various premises of the
the explosiva charge in an Irated, But the struggle is certain the other fellow suddenly went wallpaper, each from a different our signals were pleked up in supposedly. defunct Comintern to be resumed violently at the first bomb?
part of the Empire, the Incorporated Surrey 35 miles away, but no one situated near the Kremlin and in the favourable opportunity,
He thinks the answer is: About tho Radio Society of Great Britain got through to uz” When they made contact
bullding of the Pan-Slav Commliteo
The fact that the German police size of a cricket ball and about 20 to GZUJ wasn't in the least dis-in Kropotkin-strect, Moscow, were and inliitin in the Soviet zone are 801b. In weight. again some weeks later the York awards you a certificate and a badge.
Campbell adds that from known Every month about 00,000 of these couraged by this. When
moment he first congregated at that
the being armed is an ominous sign that ham apologised for the inter-
of Aasionable material important events are in the offing, deposits on the 5-metro
bombs could be, ruption. He got his electricity cards are received in Britain and started operating
He believes that any U.S.A. and Russia through a meter, he said and about the same number go out. The band, he said, he was calling on and future Soviet Proconsuls of Europe It is probable that they are destined about 10.000 atom
an "Armed manufactured. Russians play the game as charming off for four years before anyone Otto Kuusinen, of the Karcilan Re- to play the role of
country with AL considerable land- the shilling had run out.
ly as everyone else. They send answered him."
public; nokosi, of fungary; Anna Nation" in a popular rising.
is bound to have available EVEN Russia has a thousand Being unemployed he'd had to about 4,000 a month, and those sent are addressed to Box 80,
My belief is that when this force material to make bombs. Naturally people like this are Pauker, of Rumania; Dimliray, of
Blorut, of Poland; a rendy you will see a demand from or so, and in, smaller num- wait till he could afford to put them
Moscow.
wickedly exploited by Governments Bulgaria;
Latsis and the Soviet Government for flie with-
Comeback. bers they are scattered over in another.
and scientists, who throw them un-Kalnbersin, Karrolamm, tho entire globe - 100,000 Hams tond to specialise in the The joke about this is that in the wanted wavelengths to play with, others of the Baltic States; Togliatti, drawal of all foreign troops from
love and and then take them awny if they of Italy: Gottwald and Needli, of Germany. grown-up mon united by a com- wavelength they use. The band ham language 08 means
prove any good.
Czechoslovakia; etc. mon love of the valve and the around 160 metres is suitablo kisses.
talk to aver for local social calls and half a Don't these people condenser.
Every single frequency now used They were all under the wing of may get each allier about anything else but
in commercial radio wan Art the Central Committee, V.K.P. (b) Thoy call themsolves "hams" dozen radio friends
Communist ploneered by these guinea pigs on |(All-Union
Party -abbreviated from "amateurs" together on it for a cosy talk their radios, you may ask?
or anything their home-made Politics, advertising,
sota and then Bolsheviks]), and Lleut.-Genero) and talk with emotion about without fear of being inter-
but chats taken from them. But still they 80 Gunderov, chairman of the Pan-Slav controversial is barred, "hama rupted by someone in America about home life are allowed the the "ham spirit" and
on, for you'll never curo this sort
Committee. or Australia. across the sca...
war.
In America there are 30,000, off the air. ·. and they have a book of their call signs and addresses that is nearly as big as a London tele- phone directory.
ham code
of ham.
of rollef
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