European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 18, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes sunday october 13, 1944 red China s entry into a club upsets balance of Power an a news analysis by Bem Price Washington a a world coexisting uneasily Between two nucleic Power bloc to now confronted a Ltd three the division came with red China s announcement that a nuclear a air Nuto it in her Western reaches. And bed China did it beginning almost from scratch. In Lix years of incredibly intensive work. According to intelligence sources Here. Red China did not embark formally on nuclear program until the summer of 1158 with the construction of a nuclear reactor near Pekin with soviet assistance. This Plant was capable of producing 2.5 kilograms or plutonium year enough for one bomb at he end of two years. Since then intelligence sources have figured there Are 15 atomic research laboratories in peking alone and it elsewhere in red China. The explosion was no Surprise to . Officials. On sept 2.secretary of slate Dean Rusk said he chinese communists t weve approaching a Point where they might he Able to detonate unclear device and that it might occur in the near future. Back in 1858 Gen Liu a Lou commander of the chinese no Force said China s working class and scientists will certainly be us t 3 ."l, up to Date aircraft and atomic bombs in thenot too Distant future. Sumi."1?1? an ther cd turning Point will probably breached in the International the general was right on both counts China docs have anatomic capability however negligible at the moment and this Possession does Mark a turning Point. North the soviet Union has stood supreme in the communist world but no More. The soviet domination of the communist world by holding up the Only atomic deterrent available is broken. China does not now have the facilities for mass production of nuclear devices nor a Means of delivering those produced to lstsksmss1 " but the explosion probably Means that any Hope of a deep Cut in the . Defense budget Over the next 10 years is Goethe area Over which the . Missiles must be targeted to de stroy the War making facilities of potential enemies Over the next10 years has been increased abruptly from 8.8 million Square Miles Russia and Siberia to embrace China s 2,279,134 Square Miles. One third of the Earth s land mass much of it Remote an mountainous has now become a potential hiding place for missile Sites aimed at the United Means further enormous expenditures Lor intelligence to plan a Plant those Sites. But it does no Good to know where a missile site is if you do not have a missle to destroy it. And this in turn Means that missiles in sufficient numbers to deter Russia alone must be increased enormously if red China is to be deterred also meant that. If and when the United Stales develops a reliable antimissile missile there will have to be More of the stationed around the perimeters of the nation "iro111but there Are other angles chiefly the probability that military by nations associated with fed China will of Imit Riib Wiki Neo Oiin win increase a China rattles its atomic Power toward the United states and maybe even toward the soviet Union Small anti Western nations May feel free to undertake non nuclear attacks on their neighbors Indonesia against Malaysia or Indonesia against Therou Lippies for example. Asu bolder5 wbk i a common "1 8ucrr"1 � in Southeast certainly twin entry of red China into the nuclear Field is no going to make either India or Pakistan feel safer. If the United states and its allies Are to continue in their roles protectors of the freedoms of Small nations the red chinese explosion May also Force expansion of non nuclear Force the red chinese entry into the nuclear Field May make sex ,0 toss site Talari " imperative. Hitler forced his suicide former troops pay tribute to marshal Rommes memory Herrlinger Ger Many up the wife and son he died to protect joined More than 200 veterans of the afrika Korps in a Mist shrouded cemetery to pay tribute to Field marshal Erwin Rommel on tenth anniversary of the death of the desert Fox forced Loco Mit suicide by Adolt Hitler. Frau Lude Marle Rommel,70, on the Arm of her son Manfred. 35, a High Rankin Baden Wuerttemberg slate of Al Cal heard Gen Hans Speed cd Rommel s chief of staff Eulo Gize his wartime chief As the Paragon of a Brave Speed cd suspected like Nom me of involvement in the july 20, a 4, plot on Hitler s life but who managed to survive his vengeance said the grave is an admonition for love of coun try and conscience. The True Ideal of nationhood can sur Vive Only in the air of free Dom history to a re Tearesa .--.,but Rommel Caa withstand its of culpa said Breuel who became North Atlantic Ai Llanee Gromad forces comm Nader be fore i retirement last year. Rommel probably nazi Ger Many s greatest Field com Mander and praised even by his foes for Lair play in Battle was forced to take Poison Orris reprisals against his fam ily by Hitler. Although Rommel s sympathies with the conspirators he probably was nut directly involved. Most historians among them Desmond Young maintain the order was a re sult of Hitler s hatred of Horn Methe outcome of violent clashes about military Strat egy in which the Field mar Shal warned Hitler s decision would bring disaster. With disaster looming on Al fronts Gens Ernst Maisel and Wilhelm Burgdorff brought Hitler s ultimatum to Rommel recuperating at Home from wounds received in France. He could choose so called honorable suicide and a hero s burial or rial As traitor execution and disgrace and possible harm for Fra Rommel and Manfred. With the Swift decision that earned him the respect of Friend or foe alike the desert Fox made Bis Choice. Assured his family would be spared the Brilliant Rommel whom Winston Churchill spoke of As a very daring and skill Ful opponent went to his death. Brave Rommel said that Black autumn Day bidding a last Farewell to his Wile and Admiral unruffled at news of China a bomb san Francisco a Ali Navy in the Pacific will re main unaltered despite the sex Plo Slor. Of communist China s first nuclear bomb 1st flee commander vice adm Lawson p. Ramage said. Their nuclear explosion Oes not indicate they have n usable nuclear weapon nor that they have the capability of carrying it Lucia civilly Ramage told a news conference aboard his flagship the heavy Cruiser St. , with the 1st Fleet on a visit to san Francisco said the chinese bomb does not change our strategy. Weire ready to react to any action nuclear or otherwise. At least half our ships arc always ready for said citing the Fleet s nuclear capabilities. We All expected ibis to Hap pen. The theory of nuclear Fis Sion is available to everyone. It s really a matter of translating the knowledge to a usable on while the two general waited outside. The service was the second memorial a Remony for rom Mel this week. At Helden Helman Der Brenz several Hundred afrika Korps veterans paid their respects in an Observance of what would have been Rommel s 73rd birthday. What might have been rom Mel s Fate had he lived to Cele brate that birthday Manfred Rommel said in Aupi interview a few Days ago he Felt sure his father Wouldhave used his talents in the de sense of the West a Galen soviet communism. My father always Felt hit Ler s War Ngn Insl the Wresl was tragic misfortune. I a sure my father would turf or Muny s present Alliance wit the West us Good and right a the realization of his own believes in which he Mould in operate in Liny Wiy i Rommel said. Rommel was born nov. It.1wi. He entered the army us a Cadet in 1110 and distinguished himself in world War i. At the beginning of world War ii he commanded la 7lh in nor div which advanced rapidly to in English Channel in May. It. In february of Imi he be came commander of German Art. It drove off followed by Carload of armed guards. According to Maliel the ear halted 300 Yards Down the Roa and Rommel got handed. The capsule of Swift acting my the generals had to withdraw to Tunisia lie later led an army group in France and was wounded in an air raid which led to his convalescence at Home. Young said Hitler s real motive was haired of Rommel for being right about strategic mis lakes a were leading to Ger Many s certain defeat and Lor having had the courage to say no. Malsol told postwar Al lied homme chose the honorable Way. He bade a Brief Farewell to his wife and is minutes i shall be dead he whispered an begged them to be then he Gol into the Slaff car with Burgdorff and Mai Erwi. Rommel the Honoraya we along. When Maisel re Entwit the car Rommel wat dead. A half hour after his it bar left the House the Lele Shoaa rang Manfred recalls. Fra Rommel answered it to by told the Field marshal had suffered a heart attack and was dead at nearby Ulm Hung up wordlessly. Nazi propagandist mad Abin thing of Rommel s death which they blamed on a brai Haemorrhage resulting from his wounds. Hitler telegraphed his sympathy to Frau rom Mel and a nazi bureaucrat wrote to ask permission to Pat a huge Marble Monument Aahis grave. Frau Rommel. 70, who is bring with Manfred and his wife in a mansion near Stuttgart fun of Memorabilia of her husband never replied. edition col Radii was p. Suitt col William w. I Arnold o. Frank it nov i Epstein army Navy air Rocc. Cauffm olm production. "�"bb3tt Sanaa Fri ssh Mem is mint i a a Tel �"%3i." Illus Italy luh.,o. B., i Spain. Hunt Sci Jumpot. Tel civilian Nui
