Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1950 — Page 12

Britons Sing Praises | en over hE 8 J A Flattering Book | a EL, : On Ex-Enemy Rommel mies

| wiping out the final trace of 10

German General's ‘Fair Fighting’ im Africa - |years of f00d de te of ra.

Arouses Crown's Sense of Sporfsmanship toning was scarcely noticed by "FIN: P {the average renchman, e By WILLIAM McGAFFIN; Times Foreign Correspondent | monthly four-ounce allotment of

LONDON. Jan. 28--"Desert Fox” Rommel, who nearly drove : * the British out of North Africa, lives again. Soffve per Jerson 220 50 tad ep " a flattering book just published here by Desmond *IU% a any ; "Young, a adler who was once oné of the German generals feeble : 3 prisoners, revives his memory. “Rommel” has had reviews in nearly every London newspaper— coffee was abundant on the

— | Black Market. most of them rave reviews, | e Ah Frank Owen, ex-soldier editor |Prisoners decently according to Nevertheless, the 10 years

of the Dally Mail; calls the jate International law. brought about a radical change Erwin Rommel “the British | This hymn of praise about a ip living for the French. Moral army's favorite German gen- German general is dangerous, ists consider rationing impaired eral” He recalls that for quite a Mr. Kersh thinks. He points to the integrity of even thé most time during the desert war it was What an effective use the mill- honest citizen, and they wonder “something more than a joke” |tary revivalists can make of it how long it will take Frenchmen that Rommel! was the most popu- in Germany. to forget the intrigue, fraud, _ lar general with the British army.. Numbered in this small .mi- doubtful exchanges and general “A good number of arguments nority of disapproving British is trickery which rationing imposed in the field developed on the basis Malcolm Muggeridge of the Lon- on the most straight-laced citizen of ‘now, if only we 'ad that there don Daily Telegraph, who agrees if he wanted sufficient food Rommel’ Gen. Auchinleck found With Mr. Kersh. Mr. Muggeridge clothing and fuel it necessary to issue an order put it this way: « u = telling his officers’ to discourage % “If Sermpny as Ye an Jevauiy THE moralists go so far as to go much ta “o » 0 Ss come » RS auc, "» Ik about ur friend family of the Christian West, she trace much of the present social ir. Owen se¢lected the book as must get rid of her Rommels, get agitation in France back to the the Daily Mail's: book of the them right out of her system, qays when less-favored citizens JHE, So an Xe Being Btaa- ¥ioiieh re and sver that overheard their luckier compatriard which refers to it as “the C 4 - , fascinating story of a Roadie Arn tive schizophrenia whereby ots exchanging addressses where ling general.” ‘honor’ in toe western desert is butter, meat, cheese and eggs ‘Fox’ Fought Clean unrelated to unutterabie dishonor could be bought without coupons

Geoffrey Cox of the News at Dachau, and ‘chivalry’ towards, ,... people in France have

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Chronicle, who saw action 8 captured brigadier is no wise oo gotten what rationing meant against Rommel's forces, praised incompatible with® a foreign|, “%. qari days of occupation the general for fighting clean and policy of consistent perfidy and a| +" (or two years after. Two described how he won the re- brutal disregard for all the ele-| = =. =. oot weekly, potato apect of the British Sth Army. {mentary decencies of civilized be- coupons, the monthly egg the Back in Germany, Rommel havior in disposing of displaced long hours spent standing in line plotted with a nandful of men re- persons and other unfortunates. |, ....4e 1004 stores and the furtive solved to save the Fatherland. “The pity of it is that a book|yisits to Black Market back-shops They were going to seize Hitler like Brigadier Young's ‘Rommel’ | goom a long way off. Today, food and force him to announce his can only serve to revive the NOW| gioreq are spilling over with goods resignation over the radio. faded prestige of the generals ,¢ 5); kinds, available to anyone Then Rommel was to take over who, on Hitler's behalf, carried wi, can pay the high prices. and seek armistice terms fromthe swastika through much of "rye salient fact is that French-

The name of Rommel who, un- and Chicago Daily News, Ine |

two of Hitler's gestapo generals. Now, a British lieutenant Loses Chance to

general, Sir Francis Tuker, re- : viewing the book abou. a, OEEC Chairmanship

that the British army which| Times Foreign Correspondent

battle “would have given its right though Paul-Henri Spaak, former ssed | hand 10 orre hem Dome Hr a or tang understood to have express ful death at the hands of hisland written himself out of a very/® desire to charter British countrymen.” [tee job as superman of western ships for China coastal trade, ! ‘Could Secure Peace’ {Europe. e Nationalis Moreover, Gen. Tuker thinks! The American proposal that Mr. ag iregpensd by th . lonalist that “if Germany had many more|Spaak should be elected perma-| =" "© DOCKAGE. like Rommel we could with their nent chairman of the OEEC--the . help secure the peace of Europe.” permanent organization of the 18) BRITISH diplomatic circles are The rave reviews are typical of Marshall Plan countries — has! gossiping over the possibility that] a peculiar characteristic in the been turned down cold because Gen. MacArthur will be “removed British-—a deeply ingrained sense of a holler-than-thou lecture Mr. from his command in Japan” this| of sportsmanship reflected in the Spaak recently gave in the United spring as a consequence of disadmiring comment, “by jove, States and repeated In the form agreement with the State Depart-| good shot” of their eenemy comes Of & newspaper article syndicated ment strategy of abandoning

through with one, even thoughi2ll over the world. { Formosa. it may carry mortal danger with] The burden of Mr. Spaak’s re-| . 2.» it. /marks was that while the British) THERE may be two general

There is the reflection, too, of (Were very brave during the war elections in Britain this year if] the English habit of admiring and while Mr, Spaak was really the Soclalists come back with an anyone who does a thing well and pro-British down in his heart, unworkably small majority in who plays by the rules. Many of | Britain had failed lamentably to| February.

these reserved for Rommel their Play her proper part in the organ- LE supreme compliment: “He should | ization of post-war western Eu-| A NEW Swedish rifle, weigh- |

have been English.” rope. i ! But a few Eh voices have| J Spaak’s remarks also came ing at aS Fade Mud, Bring 1 been raised in England against| ONE Just in time to reinforce] \,,.k out a heavy tank.

as a god a German neral who! ation of a superman tp represent! . _ was god country's genes only All of the Marshall Plan coun- AMBASSADOR - AT - LARGE five years ago | tries. {Phillip C. Jessup is touring the Cyril Kersh, writing in the | Most Marshall Plan countries Far. East with a staff of only People, asks: “Why make a saint | Dad deeply resented this Ameri- three persons including Mrs. Jesof a man simply because he obeys can proposal on the ground that sup. Most VIP's travel with a the law?” — such a man would simply make retinue of aides, specialists and, Rommel would not let his It harder fori them to impress | press-agents.

troops beat up prisoners. But Mr. their problems on the Marshall! * = =

Kersh' points out that the Ger. F'n chiefs in Europe. | JAPANESE are running their| mans were supposed to .treat| , Despite these objections, W.\own tankers between Japan and —— pap——r— —— . | Averell Harriman, Marshall Plan the Persian Gulf oil sources. | ambassador - at - large, ECA Ad-| . ® a | ministrator Paul G. Hoffman and, WILLIAM J. SEBALD, ranking {finally President Truman himself American diplomat in Japan is in |continued to back Mr. Spaak a curiously uncomfortable posi- | The pressure was so great that tion. | the Europeans had just about, As chief of SCAP's diplomatic {made up thelr minds that they: section and chairman of the Allied {would have to elect him for a Council, he is Gen. MacArthur's trial period. mouthpiece. But he is also supThen Mr, Spaak came to their posed to represent State Departrescue by shooting off his mouth. ment interests. And it's wel So on Thursday Sir Stafford known Gen. MacArthur and the |Cripps, British Chancellor of the State Department don’t see eye to Exchequer, felt able to tell Mr. eye particularly on Formosa. {Hoffman bluntly that Mr. Spaak sr ® = would not. be accepted, Gen. Mast who was recently

= A Matter of Paddles—

British Study U.S. Method Of Landing Carrier Planes

Times Foreign Service WITH THE AMERICAN FLEET IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, Jan. 28 ~While the United States {8 learning jet flying techniques from Britain, American carrier pilots are sharing their methods with British airborne sailors. The ticklish task of setting a fighter plane down on the heaving deck of a carrier is undergoing specific changes. In London British | officers are studying American - methods, and in the Mediterra- The cooled-off engine may fail to nean they are carrying out what catch, and strew the plane and & they learn 2 pilot amid those already landed. A group of British landing sig-' The British’ are now taking nal officers recently put to sea Over the American method, which from Malta with the American is to keep the plane In a regular carrier Leyte. When they came flying position ready for the moback they had changed their style tor to be gunned again, if necesof signalling to an incoming pilot, sary, until it actually rolls down changed his method of flying into the deck. the deck, and even got themselves An American saying is; “You've new sets of signal paddles, only done one-fifth your flying| | The American way of wigwag- When you cut your engine. Until lging to an incoming pilot is to YOUre actually on that deck,| tell him his position by lifting the| You've got to be ready to fly orange signal paddies high, or|&WAY again.” putting them down low. The Brit-| The Americans tried the Brit{ish method has been to try to Ish landing paddles, which were! {give orders to the pilot, correcting| PI, solid and heavy, cut out of|

£ % Morris Plan Savings, = him rather than merely telling Sheet metal. : him his flying altitude. ’ “These are all right on a field

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with $3 to $30,000. £ | [a |g ha. been to float the plane onto, The British officers went back ithe deck, trying far, a delicate Ashore with six new pair of U. 8. its cable. The trouble here is that(be fitted with bright ribbons and, if the plane comes in crooked; Weighing only about one-tenth {and has to fly away in a waveott, their or sets. : :

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the last year of rationing, when

x himsel l . resident et rman Of Wo rld AfHfai S | (UP)~The city had to ask for alPMd been discreetly covered With ,oover 4 700-pound headless | old. Reich, got back to Hitler. a S e r 'new eligibility list when all three cushion of Towers, | plaster model of a soldier, stolen] Some say it was old age. Others

Hitler’ gave Rommel the choice of taking poison or going before Excerpts From Correspondents’ Letters |appointments, approved only the|'0 Pry the flowers loose to see .we can't even figure out the special diet of grass, tea leaves, the People’s Court (which meant 1 Of The Times Foreign N Servi | week before, refused the jobs. |“DAt the real name of the de-| ive and without a motive tobacco, and cigaret and cigar certain execution), Rommel took | 0 Ig 0 @ limes ign INews service | The three war veterans said) Ceased was,” said he. | where do we start?” they ex-|butts Judas lived on. the poison which was brought by ™ RUSSIAN submarines are reported to have been exer- they had received better offers. |“™™ithh B80? Fi jofacaii, "™* plained. Co Chicago’ Dally News. Tne. 1 oe

Get cising recently off the coast of Norway. The U. S. Navy ‘has been invited by Norway to conduct anti-submarine {exercises off her coast. . , . Some guided missiles developed writes in the Manchester Guardlan| py WILLIAM H. STONEMAN by America have a range of 200 miles, according to reports strove to destroy Rommel In| PARIS, Jan. 28 — It looks as current in England. . .. China's Communist government is

| zine of mot being able to keep

“this. book which glorifies almost | ToTe basic objections to the cre- . a. TLR properties tn Peking:

/halt from the tailhook catching !l§ht aluminum paddies, ready to} |

Service CATAGO BY PAIL 8. KATIGBAK of the MANILA, Jan. 28 Taking | wd he he 1s an. a because snow | It is a sacred donkey Se . religious festivals, leat from Uncle Sam’s book, the! °- The Swallow is permitted to wander about town at will, to enter

merit basis. ) > residences or school rooms and, ' his | “That is the idea of & bill fiieq|10. Cat AnVEhIng that sates Vest-Pocket Art & J gros w, uninvited, ambled into . oy man Diosdado Macapagal, whose|t house and made himself =e Chg Big Hit aim’ is to “improve and ‘stren gth- at home. After sampling a few W S , of the room and baried| Calligraphist Wins

en” the foreign office of -whichine corner he once was an executive. | nis nozzle in | maamcy atter i ane a ~ Gets a Snoutful | Fame in Asia 3) vice Act of 1046. It stipulates) 1M ee et ee MANILA: P. T, Jan. 28—A one- | that this country’s diplomatic set] ¥ith Pisco—a favorite west coast ha . |up. here and abroad, must be|Intoxicant with considerable voit- Wes art show could . . {hidden in your vest pocket 1s

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‘and women appointed by com- ues It is a penmanship collection by petitive examinations, promoted frained from interfering as The Wan Wing-sum of Hong Kong, on merit and bent on life careers Swalow jo st ho time In Being one tiny strokes have earned “The American people have Then? Well, then the him the sobriquet of “lynx-eyed

For 10 years, dining out like this was a rare event for the

average Frenchman. Now that rationing is over and there's plenty |tound that a a orn ae ' calligraphist.” "oe a 1 Tne’ most Sheen fed organk| ONE. Ate most of & bowl 86| (LJ, ub guieast Asi Tor hi did In pre-war days, simply:be- even 50 meat remains the most zation abroad.” says Mr. Ca- Bowes Chewed traw mat |unexampled genius in this miniacause they have lost the habit.|expensive item in a town-dwell-| Pagal in support of his bill. “We on which BL aps oan ture art. He can write several More bread, for example, used to|er's family budget. {should profit from that experi- THREE. Kicked a hole in the thousand characters within the

be consumed per person in France| Consumption of meat has de-| ence.” \ried Space of & square inch and has than in any other European coun- ereased in town and increased tn|COPTERG Bitats Dally News Tae Tt wll when ae ut the Sussts penned full chapters of the Bible try. Now the French eat 20 per rural areas as compared to 1939. FOUR. Went out in the front On paper the size of a postage cent less bread Peasants who in the old days ate > ] stamp. This also applies to wine. meat once, at most twice a week, Morticians Rattle Yad ond Jaye tuousy. the| To the naked eye, Wan's script

Obliged to do without it, which now eat it at least once a day. * lock {seems like so many particles of was practically what the monthly| According to Marcel Drugbert, Family Skeletons i adking the eit and, ust. Only when magnified many

ration of two quarts represented head of the butchers’ syndicate, ogt A move to demote The Swallow | times are ‘his characters legible, to the average Frenchman, they the medical profession has as In Reply fo Critics and put him to work in the fields| This is Wan's first exhibition have not regained their erstwhile much to do with the decrease in has been blocked by Catacaos’ | since his successful tour of Macao, drinking capacity. Cost is another the city meat appetite as high SYDNEY. Foreign Boruiss 2 Sie (Haiphong, Hanoi, Saigon, Camfactor; prices have Increased In prices. » Australia, Jan. 28 —| "gy of , |bodia, Bangkok and Si t . us scourge our hearts of | a, Bangkok and Singapore a the proportion of 34 to 1. Many doctors have said it was Funeral directors simply don't|g.cusations,” I t h e/the outbreak of the Pacific war. s & = bad for people with high or low ston to bet looked “rm | Copyright, 1950, by The Indiiapolis Times cotton to ng loo upon as padre. “This is a season of for-| and Chicago Daily News, Ine.

shops have been plentifully sup-| class family cuts out meat in the OWR way of getting back at thetr| ¥hat he Je It ue tau. Jor Double-Crossing Judas plied. Competition is again in full evening meal. That is why the] critics. Let the incident be forgotten.” Meets Death at 25 oreign Service

swing and is slowly bringing French Government is able to| ttle ily skel Ton. Et F down prices. Pork has gone down export 3000 head of cattle month- Just rattle 2 few family a ve] Ene Ouro Dali” News: Tne. Twas, SYDNEY, Australia, Jan. 28

the Western allies, Their plot was Europe, and, by their eager and " | tons. Sept——————————————— discovered when another plot,ipunctual fulfilment of Nazi men eat and Arink less than theyi40 per cent since early 1949, but y. - RE —. , as = Plaster Model Theft for Judas ne niack shespr ove Whish hu 2a simple objective of orders, made Himmler's vile work ° ‘World War Il FOR INSTANCE, one director In his heyday Judas led 14,000 x Hiling itler, went wrong in June,! possible. On 1 © | nsi © | A recalled the woman who died as Stumps Police Force trusting sheep to death at ; Copyright, 1950, by Bat Indianapslis Times | Veterans in Demand | the wife of a man she had never yArIFAX, N. 8. Jan. 28 (UP) slaughter yards here. Now death

| WATERTOWN, N. Y., Jan. 28 ed. Her coffin name-plate _pojce are finding it difficult to| has caught up with the 25-year-

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» » # THE KREMLIN has a tartar on its hands in Mao Tse-sung, Chinese Communist leader, That's the explahation of Mao's long! visit’ in Moscow. : | He and the politburo had a lot to] talk about, true, but there is good| reason to believe Mao was not as| elastic to Kremlin demands as he was expected to be.

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» ” » RINDERPEST, serious cattle disease which has ravaged Africa, | Asia, and China in the past, has broken out in Afghanistan and Iran. . . . Food and agriculture! organization of United Nations! has sent American expert veter-| . inarians with virus for vaccine! production to affected areas. i

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