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SEFTON DELMER'S Newsmap Examining today-three-never-before-disclosed inclúents which illuminate the pressures and purposes behind the Kremlin's policy.
SPENT a large part of a week recently with the man most qualified to speak of Nazi Germany's Eccret, diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union- in the time when they were friends and in the time when they became enemies again.
The man is Dr Peter von Kleist, a German and a former official of Ribbentrop's Foreign Office. He had the diplomatic rank of Minister Extraordinary.
To some this fact may prejudice everything he has to sny. In my view, however, his unique experience makes him a voice worth hearing.
Dr Kielst was
ONE: The man whom Ribbentrop chose from all his experts on Soviet Russia to make the first delicate contacts with the Russians in 1980. They led to the Soviet-German pact that summer.
TWO: The number one expert who accompanied Ribbentrop to Moscow for the critical negotia- tiana with Stalin In August 1939.
THREE: The German whom the Russians singled out for one of the most amazing moves of their wartime diplomacy.
FOUR: The expert whom the German Institute of Foreign Political Research in Hamburg has selected to make a study of Soviet Foreign Policy...
How
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they think
into
1. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SUSPICION
absolutely
According to Kleist, Alexan- éd a delighted Stalin to beam drov said: "The Soviet Union in return. 19 not willing to fight one
Instead, he saw that Stalin than day more
aback. His usually necessary. She does not want was taken to find herself standing ex- bland face wore an expression hausted over the body of of shock and concern.
defeated and prostrate Get-
It was several seconds before many only to face the gleaming weapons of the Western Powers, he had recovered sufficiently to unblunted by a single fighting come forward and embrace his
'new ally.
blow.
"Up to now the British and Americans have not uttered a word about their war alins. Rudolf Hess is being treated by the British 05 an honoured guest. All the fighting against the Germans
la left
to us
LEIST himself told me of three most reveal- ing incidents in the secret his tory of Soviet-German relations. They have never been disclosed Russians before., But they throw
There is no second front in sharp relief a complex of mo- France, or any thought of one any psychologist The landing in Africa looks tives which:
like a flanking move researching the Politburo mind more would almost certainly put at against the Soviet Union than the top of his case-history.
on attack on the Axis,
2 the
14
........
Either- —or
Africa slaughters her big game
NATIVES KILL, CRIPPLE AND ARE-PAID TO DO IT
Len
"NTRAINED native Elcowhere, it is mald, the toetse hunters armed with fy has been controlled by clear- ancient and unrelling the bush,
In Tanganyika, Inalcho able guns are leaving such a years, 1,150 square miles weru dreadful trail of maimed cleared and 45,300 people re-
settled. and dying animals across British Africa that game in these territories is being killed off.www. "murdered" would be a litter word.
Dollar carners
Why not concentrate on DDT chlorine and pyrethrum spray- Ing to get rid of the fly. It is Theso men rarely keep to asked.
To this the Southern Rhode the code of the White Hunters....
Government replies that indeed the law-that wounded slan animals must be followed and their policy is to sef up game mercifully killed, whatever the reserves for animals. tost.
Vanished species
It seems remarkable,
All the African territories. must work towards the preser-
vation of big gaze.
then.. daly
are vast, carners of potential with their
10 tourists and
But the slaughter goes on.
that the Government of South- attraction ern Rhodesia should continue to wealthy hunters iasuo guns.to African natives to add to this indiscriminate - slaughter, a slaughter in which, in some areas, many species have disappeared entirely.
In the period 1924-1947,
Helicopter ban
In Kenya, they have even had to reimpose a ban on the use of
362,671 wild animals were killed helicopters for hunting game!
A game warden in Tan- in Southern Rhodesia alone in ganyika, with 20 years ex
that illegal "tretze fly operations."
perience, told me Last year 22,180 were killed- hunting by natives in the wilder WAS decimating his 37 diferent species from pl parts phant and rhinoceros down to the Hilo dulker. The beautiful oland, rapidly becoming ex-
Reichswehr during the allianco tinct, suffered 3,883 ensualties.
Canaris's service perjod."
obliged.
Heydrich's party forged docu- mentary evidence Implicating Marshal Tukhachevsky and other Soviet officers in forbld-
Without feeling
charges.
According to Negley Farnon, the writer on Africa, slaughter In Tanganyika dwarfa even litat of Southern Rhodesia.
He estimates that natives are killing 180,000 head of game a year in that country.
The high price of meat, is one of dio principal caus
African Native
hunters-by
CX- making an tremely Food
den contacts with the Germans, the bush has little humane feels standards--and wing by the
this
Natives, paid as official hun- ters, are-kling "irrespective of type, age, sex, or condition,"
The average African native of ing towards animals.
In the Gold Coast was shoot-legal killing of animals, fur called better than they would make locally ing what was
Ono of my from honest work, From there, President Benes "wild
turkey," himself received it and in all "boys" shot a monkey, which good faith passed It Sinlin
They
pasa managed to evidence to Czech agents.
on to
In June 1937 Tukhachevsky was shot, and with him many
of the ablest staff officers of the Soviet Army.
the heavy
crashed
through away undergrowth screaming.
Huge profits
lle and his comrades collapsed Then there are huge profits with mirth. When I berated waiting for ivory, skins, and them ther
Amazed and hides. Too often Indians have nam confused.
were
been in tho backgroun
of organising this vile business;
Ivory and rhino horns fluid a particularly easy and profitable sale in India.
In Rhodesia, thousands Suspicion of foreigners and of head of game are crippled and 1s live out their lives in misery, particular Westerners in
than ever it because the native hunters are stronger today was, and of supreme psycholo- irresponsibls and untrained in gical importance in the fashion-the humanities of hunting. ing of Soviet foreign policy.
I have an explanation for 11 which Dr Kleist will not like.
German eyes
מנם
There can be no doubt that Tanganyika, among territories, has the
record.
Tthat
Tsetse blamed
for this What is the reason campaign against the game of Southern Rhodesia?
It is because
large areas of limit. land
dominated by the toise ny, which transmits sleeping all sickness to man (it once killed FOR generations
Russia's ideas of the 200,000 people in eight years in have como from West
her Uganda) and nagana to cattle western neighbour Germany, and game,
It
claimed that wild Under the Czars, Westerners in
of German nobles animals are the great carriers the shape
the best land and of the fly.
But the method of were given the mightiest positions in the
slaughter is Aercely condemned, State:
Russians regarded as typical no agreement of all capitalists these Germans who recognised as-binding and know only the Inw of their own ImmediateTM In- terest.
and
at Moreover, they looked Britain
and the France MUCH later through his United States through German MRussian
contacts eyes, read about them in Cler learned Kleist
that when
man textbooks which reviled Ribbentrop and his men left the democratie merchant demo-
had the room Stalin
turned
cracles of the West. Even their
camo stoff: "Libau," he said Marxist doctrine to his drily. "was Germany's dechra Germany, and with it a false tion of war on the USSN."
German-made
It would have been that toin. whatever form Hliler's answer had taken. Had Hitler refused,
To
3 που
from
pleture of Bri-
Brilleh blackest
huge, wild country
Africans are able to take out a shilling, licence which, entitles
to ill
almost without
It is to be hoped that the new and energetic Governor, Sir Edward Twining, will find time to investigato the activities of the killers not only of the gunmen, but of the poisoned- arrow specialists.
And Britain is directly re- sponsible for what Tanganyika.
goes on in
-(London Express Service)
C.V.R. Thompson
Reports The
Scene American
third
TITL
CHOSEN
TITLE NEW YORK.
are SALESMEN
was::
by Robert Sherwood New York's versatile author-Abe this day I And Soviet PRITISH
popping up et over Now most
Brent, re Lincoln in Illinois, the musical Mr John
and comments on scriptions and
licacy
firms, "The British and Americans it would have meant that ho propaganda repeating the do-York
has announced the Hopkins White House Diary The way I read them these
aready ad- for his first oil painting Americans, life I first read 35 years ago in psychologien appear to be planning a second wanted to hold Libau as a base Bitel and the British way of presenting several, London de comedy "Miss Liberty,"
and incidents reveal
Lion couchant
orried. dicted to drinking apple, prune, principles as fundamental to front in the Balkans, This is against the Russian Navy.
Gossip had it that he meant Soviel thinking and Soviet po- highly undesirable.”
When he yielded it up, it my primer when I was at school that
apricot and grape julees, may
Sherwood, as when they look licy today
of Britain, ended Kleist bitterly blames Hitler only meant to Stalin that Hitler in Germany.
good friend But this German doctrine, has now add British-made black- the British lion." preparing to pounce on place.
with: "Nothing. currant fulce to the list. and Ribbentrop delaying too was
gosalp Another salesman, has arrived at long and allowing the meeting Russia later and get it all back done more than make them sus- picious. It has given them the
ten. A could have been further from. It is the MOM.. IN THE carly summer of Foreign Ministers that au-
hng announced the my mind. RUSSIA'S idea that however ruthless they to boost a brand of of 1943, soon after turn to clear the air. the battle of Stalingrad,
enemies can exploit are in the methods they adopt
haddie" direct from the Russians, says Kleist, mado
wariness in their political war with the arrival of the first shipment of ion.".. THE SECOND, in- her psychology of
Aberdocn.
DOLITICS: The Republicans: her is West they are only aghting the "Annan a tentative approach
cident revealed by and suspicion against
decided to abandon State- Germans with a view to nego- Klelst took place at the critical shown by this third revelation West with its own traditional | **
[JONDER WHY, a three-year- iam and Welfare State as cam-
English
̈ammunition against To many of us, therefore, the WONDE
racehorre, paign Dr von Kleist was himself the moment in the Moscow conver by Kielst,
and between Stalla
Truman and 'his: Early in 1937, when Stalin
pattern of Soviet diplomacy is sold for 70,000 dollars (£25.- President target of that approach.
Ribbentrop.
Democrats, Reason: In by- had launched the monster purge
even Republican. by Stalin, who was still undecid- of his old Communist comrades, an old-fashioned pattern of an-000), was doing just that when
the nexation, exploitation, and opit arrived at the docks to take elections not through to
have been excited up a new career. It has been voters a diplomatic mission to Stock- od, suddenly demanded that the a call came
vast bought from Frank Hartigan by them. It fritters away Germans should concede the headquarters of Germany's off pression.
most the King Brothers, who own potentinilties glance
this Soviet Baltie naval base of Libau, near cial Intelligence Service under move in the hour of victory the East Prussian frontier, as Admiral Canaria. It was from modern of weapons, the inter- one of the top stables in Holly- Wonder Why's next national mass appeal of Com wood. being within the Soviet sphere Heydrich, the chief of Himm- seems inexplicable...
ler's rival cloak-and-dagger of lußuence.
stage will be by air, munist ideology.
a door-to-door campaign organization,
CARS will all throughout Fennsylvania to Im Not so, however, when you
the advant read, as I have, the explanation When Ribbenim-after tele-
have automatic gear-chang- press on citizens” given for it by Alexandrov, the phoning to Hiller-came-back
ing as "standard" by 1952, ages of the American way of
life-that is, free enterprise.. Russian intermediary, as it op- to the conference mom beaming
Detrolt announces. pears in Kleist's noles made-ut and triumphant to announce the
Fuchrer's agreement he expect the time,
tiations for a separate peace.
It was made while he was on
holm,
At first
NANCY
sations
That Covers It!
OH, DEAR --- I SHOULD HAVE MET SLUGGO TWO HOURS AGO
HE'S TAKING ME TO A COSTUME PARTY
He said: "Please let me hava the signatures and handwriting worked with the specimens of any Soviet staff officers who
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LONG?
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