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LACK UNIFORMED German police sprang to attention with ១. military salute as a long. black limousine edged on to the_Godesberg-Koenigwinter Rhine ferry.

The mature

car.

pre-

Report from the spot whore Hitler mot Chamberlain by

CHARLES WIGHTON

From that day he has been He anti-British. He Bull is, de- 'exact

For the limousine's elderly passenger was 73-year-old Dr centre Konrad Adenauer, chosen in tise recent General Election to head Germany's ew Govern- inent.

Arey

quibbled about words-but the

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A NEW FLAG FLEW OVER THE PLAIN

STRANGE standard flew proudly for the first time from the top of Long Barrow on the bleak Imber range of Salisbury Plain the other day. It was composed of black, white, red and green slanted stripes on which was superimposed, in the centre, a rectangle of three horizontal black, white and red stripes of equal dimenalons, and a white crown,

"It is so how that it doesn't ship and set an example to appear in the raference books tens of thousands of lit

yet.

nomads.

It is the Dng of the Hashemite” Their policy paid dividends Kingdom of Jordan, better during the Arab rebellion... in known 题 Transjordan the Palestine between 1038 and Middle Eastern Arab late 1938, and the world conflict bounded by Israel, Syria, Iraq which soon followed. There was and Saudi Arabia, and it perfect law and order in Trans- heralded the presence of its 67- jordan throughout. year-old King Abdullah Ibn

Hussein at the School of Infan-. Fine Behaviour try's spectacular demonstration

of a modern altack by a force As soon as World War Two of all

on strongly broke out, Abdullah offered his defended enemy position.

army and his country to Great

accom-

King Abdullah, a dignified Britain, and repeated his offer little aguro with twinkling in the dark days of 1940, when brown eyes and a nest greyish all seemed lost to many foreign beard, who was on a fortnight's eyes. TransJordan was the only visit to Britain, wo!

Middle East Country whose panied by his

forces served outside her own second son,

In Prince Naif, Fawzi Pacha Mulki, frontiers.

1941, th his Minister of Defence, two mechanized' regiments of the military attaches and the Arab Legion carried out desert of reconnaissances, harassed the Major enemy, protected lines of com- General J. B. Glubb Pasha, munications and guided the Im- CMG, DSO, OBE, MC.

perial Forces through strange who country.

famous British the Aral

19

Wunder

The last named officer,

arded дя the present-day They led the British column Lawrence," belongs to

that which relieved Habbaniya in

little band of Englishmen who Teng, and fought in the Syrian devote their lives to the study campaign against the Vichy of the Arabs. His chamcter and French. Their troops became personality have earned him the in great demand, and by respect and esteem of the wild, end of hostilities, they were virile tribes of the desert. spread far and wide over tho

whole Middle East.

some

A Miniature

вол

More

the

Christianure and chess, was the prime Plywood Armour

the

The fine behaviour of these men who had left their remate Abdullah rulcs over only mountain vlilages or wandering 400,000 people and has desert.fribes for the first time been a king' little more than was the subject of many three years. His country 15 tributes, not the least being about the size of Britals, but that of the senior British officer,

ibat sald three parts desert; and Glubb's who

best- command is a miniature com-

om disciplined troops in MEF were pared to modern armies. But the Brigade of Guards and the these two men and that country Arab Legion.

And in their three years' ser- palice, slightly

have played an important part his of Cologne, Ruhr steel baron with

Middle

affairs vice in Iraq, not one Eastern their greeting.

Alain and ex-Nazi

ncrioua industry in

case of miscondnet came to the were much more polite than if spile half-hearted denials in Gluck. He is alleged to have commissar in Serbia Hermann during the past generation.

Ideas It had been a British ceneral's the past few months.

about a new German Reusch, and head of the

Jordan is entirely Abdullah's notice of the Allied High Com Hostile to the first British Army, but he has never made

e Sengoeder

Dr creation. The second

mand. of

recently, the Army of the Rhine, this then them public.

Robert Pferdmenges.

the Sherif of Meceu, a descen Legion proved the most emcient

military forces party Lord

dont of the Prophet

of Mayor

Three days, before the Berlin

Moham- of all the

the fired with French attempts to blockade was

during lifted Mr Bevin The Christian

Democratie med, this gentle-spoken Arab the Arab world set up a separato Rhineland

not Dr Adenauer at Sir Brian Radleals, headed by Soviel with a passion for Arab litera- fghting in Palestine. State.

Robertson's British zone castle. expelled East zone It was not

Jacob mover behind his father's sc- a very Suc-

Democrat chairman Kaiser of Berlin, and devout tlon in throwing in his lots with

In the early stages of the but, liberal Karl Arnold, Ruhr England against the Turks in

to World War One. During the war, Britain was unable Prime Minister.

→ supply international

weapons and cquip- ment to the Legion.

which.

formidable

he seized the

territory Acult Dr Adenauer is to

home-made armoured care came to be known Nazi land in the early twenties. at Bonn to the

Minister Pre clalist Union, heated by

Ford chassis bought in USA Party retreat

For 16 years above Koenig-

Tranjordan, and has Dr Anzi sident (Prime Minister) of He who is marked for high office, 1921, Britain being responele between to cause the bullets to

Adenauce take office LS

complished Dr Haris Chart, under

ruled it which they covered with mild- winter.

since zicel British man clung to omce,

sheets with plywood in. That night ex-Lord Mayor of within a Iow days, of taking

and by ex-German secret ser- Cologne Adenaver, fød

for foreign vice agent Josef Mueller, war fence against external aggres Lewis machine-guns of the first his power in 1933, sacked him.

splay-rifies, and Vickers eight chickens and worked in He was twice arrested by

time envoy to the Vatican of his rockery just cross tho the Nazis once on the "Night anti-Socialst, and committed

the anti-Hider ploilers.

sion,

Complete Independence world conflict. was granted in May, 1940, and Rhine from the Godesberg Ho of the Long Knives" in 1934, to leave the Rulie war arsenal

It was equipment of a dif- when Hiller liquidated his in the possession of sull fur-

and his Ca- Abdullah then proclaimed him- But Adenauer

ferent kind which self

Jordan's midable German big business. S.A. chief Rochm and other

binet will not have the last king. carly Nazi leatiers.

leaders sow on Salisbury Plain. pressure from word. Under strong

Abdullah had to start The sovereign_nutharlty

from Britain's newest and finest was Ume was ten years later, when widely differing wings of the remains with the Allied High scratch. Most of his new sub-f Democrats, Dr Commission-British Christian

RAF action. They all other Adenauer, with

Str Brinn lects were nomadic Beduin, Va ро

bound to Robertson,

Vampires from No. John who had not been subjected to Squadron shooting up German 10 tential

Opposition Adenauer is almost two-quarters-leudera,was arrested-after-the-follow the only at McCloy and French Francols, any government for Cures positions-in-a-copse-with--their- or peasants tribally organised four 20-mm cannon at 400 miles (1) July 20 bomb plot on Hitler's ceptable to all 100 percent. Poncet.

against au-Allied, and

an hour,

and the artillery lay- occupation.

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He still held the key post of In this dark, clerlent

Mayor when cessful meeting. suit, the toll, unsmiling leader Cologne's Lord

big

baron burlness of the Christian, Democrat mu-

Mugo Stinnes and German organised jority in the new German par labour combined to divide thu

Pressure

tortuous

that

So-whi

moves

iament was on his way home Allies in the Ruhr and Rhine- NOW anti-British, grim, dif. 2 Bavarians — including the followed the end of host- operated in Iraq and Syria with

from the new

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former

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Dr Adenauer

American

The second

Federal

will

now

Gorman

public.

His Government

Re.

130

Three groups

ETWEEN three

pressure, groups

different He must

In and out home above AME spring 1945, when the

CA

Army First has been the drove into Cologne. To Ameri- Agure in the can political officers Adenauer try to keep the balance:-

Aght

between was the abvious choice, and he became Lord Bonn and Frankfurt as the seat once again of the new German Govern. Mayor of Cologne. ment. He has

still to per-

The Americans

went-and

suade his new parliament to the British military govern- ment took over Adenauer's

remain in Bonn.

For the second time in 25 etty. years the Germans have

By October 1945 British chosen a repte genarian, a retelligence

had found lure to

tired professional man, to ho look up the old card index of

their leader.

The first time it was a gễn-

who

the first Adenauer

occupation — and summarily

was

eral-the cenilo Hindenburg. sacked for the second time. for the way prepared

For that he will never for→ Hitler. Now it is ex-lawyer give the British and he will and und civil servant Adenauer, anti-Nazi undoubtedly, repetiany

equally "

but

ver forget. never

But he still pretends friends with the French.

to be

tionalist.

Under today's Sushionable

Extreme reactionaries the almost medieval Car- dinal Archbishop Josef Frings

Christian

American

mandale

relations and de-

and resentful of any

adminis-

New Spirit

Crabs with their flails. Janes through

and

247

enemy

From their

trative control headquarters in the massive Petersberg Hotel

Sherman UN the hillside- above Aden-

forced Duer's villa, the Western Allied

minefield: For internal security, a will dominate High Command

tiny crocodile flame-throwers roasted the German Government on all Arab Legion was formed under

out enemy strongpoints questions of foreign policy. Captain Peake, of the Duke of hundreds of gallons of blazing

but.. disarmament, dismantling, and Wellington'a Regiment,

and a variety of bridge- forein trade.

ever-present problem of tribal unarmed Churchill with tread-

carrying -(London Express service raiders, this force was split into ways

British "Hustle'

Has Them Jittery

NEW YORK.

when later called on to face the fuck tanks-the.

sections,

portion

Ark.

with

an

Vehicle as ramps, the two

wearing one. trousers and spliked helmets, tracks being used as the centre of the bridge, the being delegated to the Fettled Churheill Bridge Layer, with its areas and aerodromes, and the 54-foot bridge hald aloft,

desert patrol, wearing skirts, turbans, picturesque red cally In 1

A

wiilch it places in position automati- minutes the cloaks, attend to the more

general purpose Avro (Assault military side of the Legion's Vehicle

for RE's) and the work.

Assault Small Box Girder John Bagot Glubb, a Sapper Bridge, which discharges its 32- who had passed out of The American manufacturers Woolwich Shop" first in

the foot bridge by explosive--over- his come the obstacies of an anti-

two

Hot Fire

another

they term, carned the MC in France, tank ditch. FOR n change, an Ameri- had talked of

years' dreaming before

was appointed can industry is show went to work seriously. Their patrol. In 1939 he

organise the succeeded Of the Americans Dr Aden- ing signs of worry. over target year had been 1050.

to the supreme command of the auer enid, life-they

Legion. support British enterprise and Bri-

Then up came the Cromwells clunk

democracy of

Dr

But they have suddenly bo his party's Gerran "free en-tish hustle.

created a new and the Centarians, and the . These men Adenauer and his Cabinet col-

come afraid that British con spirit in Transjordan, a loyally Armoured Personnel Carriers, terprice and they provide the leagues may give yet another dollars.

petitors will be ready to de- which has But let Mr Truman Ever since the war, America's ilver planes to the British alr

stood the test of driving through the lanes in the meaning to that much-malign- beware it the dollars stop.. acruplane makers have been lines by 1953 or 1954.

many troubled years.

The minefields and over the bridges, ed word.

In a bid to heal all To Adenauer and his friends British omcials early this year

Emir got to know at first hand to complete the assault 'under sores confident of dominating the

And Pan-American, the the lives of all his mubjects and hot enemy fire. world's markets indefinitely. democracy means just what tried to persuade Dr Adenauer

largest US ocean airline, has practised that accessibility This realistic demonstration-- over Germany wants-and no to visit London.

Even British. airlines, they warned them that they will which is in the great tradition live ammunition was used interference from anyone. For He hummed and hawed. he have sald smugly, are forced have to order British if no of Arab sovereigns.' Tribal throughout and one fall Dr Adenauer is unchanging.

official invitations, to use "our superior aircraft." American plane is ready“

raiding was brought to an end was put out of nation-is staged and finally he did not go. But But for the past few weeks time.

in a

a few months, not by repres- every thres months by he did go about the same time ever since the first made-in- This threat has the American slon and imprisonment, but by School of Infantry for instruc 10 a conference in Switzer England Jet airliner made its industry in what the bureau-threwd handling and under- tional purposes. Among the THIRTY years. have passed land, and caused an interna-Aights-they have been, getting crats call a "state of urgency." standing of Beduin mentality spectators were Lt General L

since the carly middle, tional fuss by denying that the bothersome questions from Desperately they

General asking shown by Peako, Glubb, and Byers. Chief of the Bre

the Soulfi aged Lord Mayor saw British German people surrendered in America's great airlines.

African their engineers to find them their devoted force, which is Staff of troops march

Only the Into his native 1945.

Wehrmacht When, they asked, will an some short cuts,

recruited from practically every Army, elght Dutch, two French

which and two Belgian: city and start the first oc surrendered, Adenauer is American Jet transport plone be

country in Arabia, and

'officers of cupation of the Rhineland. alleged to have claimed.

ready?

-C. V, R. THOMPSON has established a moral leader- (Continued onˆPago÷5)''

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