European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 31, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse Page8 stars and stripes thursday. August 31.1989 plan to Aid East germans reported red Gross May move hundreds to West from Hungary Vienna Austria a inter National red Cross is working on a plan to ferry at least 1,500 East germans from Hungary via Austria to West Ger Many in next few Days an austrian government source said wednesday. The source who asked not to be named spoke amid mounting speculation of a solution to plight of thou Sands of East germans hoping to flee West from Hungary before they Are due to return Home when East German school vacations end this weekend. At least another 200 East germans arc holed up in West Germany s closed mis Sions in East Berlin and Prague Czecho Slovakia hoping to go to West Germany where they receive automatic citizenship and generous assistance in starting a new life. West Germany dispatched one of its most senior diplomats on a Surprise visit wednesday to Vienna where West military Roundup German envoy met with austrian for eign minister Alois mock foreign ministry spokesman Walter Grain cart said. Michael Jansen head of West Ger Man foreign ministry s organizational department thanked mock for Austria Srole so far in offering help to thousands of East germans who have fled across newly porous Border with Hungary Grain cart said. He declined to comment on speculation that Jansen was in Vienna to help implement reported red Cross plan. Last week Hungary allowed 108 East germans holed up in West German embassy in Budapest. Hungary to go to West Germany in a scheme also organized by Geneva based International red Cross. Both West Germany and Hungary stressed that this was a one time occur rence and not a signal for East germans to flood West Germany s closed missions in Budapest. Last week s exodus consisted of a Spe Cial charter flight to Vienna and a bus ride to West Germany Southern state of Bavaria where an official said tuesday that four new Camps Are being set up for some 5,000 expected East German Arri Vals. The austrian source who reported new red Cross plan said it was not known whether next Batch of East germans would leave Hungary by plane or train. In Budapest senior foreign ministry official Gyula Szelei told associated press that Hungary is in Contact with both Ger Many Over Fate of East German vacationers. Speculation of an imminent solution to their plight was fuelled by approaching end of East German school vacations this weekend. Thousands of East germans will have to decide whether to return Home or have their absence noted immediately by Security forces. Both West German officials and Szelc denied a report in Munich Abc Ndoci Tung that 15.000 East germans would be allowed to travel West from Hungary by weekend. Szilei also denied a report on bavarian radio and conc Bayern that 1,500 East germans had already been permitted to travel direct to West Germany on West German passports issued in Hungary. There arc at least 1,500 East germans currently waiting in three Camps in Budapest to make their flight West and some 150,000 to 200.000 other East Ger mans on vacation in Hungary. Hungary s leading opposition group hungarian democratic forum Esti mates some 10 percent of East Ger Man vacationers would like to flee to West Germany. Dar schedules 1 St meeting of chapter in Germany Wurzburg West Germany a chapter of daughters of american revolution is being organized in West Germany and will hold its first meeting at i . Sept. 9 in Wurzburg. The Dar is an organization for women whose ancestors were involved in american Revo Lution. Membership is open to any woman 18 years or older who meets that requirement. Overseas chapters already exist in Paris and interested in joining German chapter May Contact Chris Laccy Moyer. 462, Apo 09031 or Kitzinger Strassl ii 8711 buc Brunn West Germany. Mover s Ger Man Telephone number is 09321-5651. Sex chief chaplain to speak at Retreat for methodists Frankfurt West Germany adm. John Mcnamara retired Navy chief of chaplains will address annual european United methodist Retreat set for october in Bavaria. The roman Catholic priest will be joined by methodist Bishop Sharon Brown Christopher to speak on people of god prophets priests and Retreat sponsored by division of chaplains and related ministries of United methodist Church will be held at Alasu Stern hotel in sont Hofen West Germany about 15 Miles South of Kemp ten. Sessions for clergy Start oct. 29, and ses Sions for laity begin oct. 31. The Retreat ends nov. 3.deadline for registration is oct. 1. Registration forms and Cost information can be obtained by calling chaplain capt Robert Friend at ets 322-8575 or writing to Friend at he del8th Maint in office of chaplain Apo 09165. Mock bbl newscasts re creating final Days before Start of Wii world today construction Accident kills 4 working on stadium Palermo Sicily a four workers were killed and one was seriously injured wednesday in a construction Accident in one of soccer stadiums that will Host matches of 1990 world cup police said. The incident occurred one Day after top ranking officials of International soccer federation visited Favorita stadium As part of their routine inspection of world cup venues. Police said workers were killed when a Metal support Structure collapsed while being Laid on Cement injured worker was rushed to a Palermo Hospi Tal where doctors said he was in critical condition. An investigation was ordered. London a Good evening headlines tonight sue Lawley announces to bbl to viewers. Britain has sent a warning to Herr Hitler we will stand by Poland whatever there s an eerie Quality to news 39," a we Klong series of mock newscasts that marry 50-year-old foot age to High Lech television to re create last Days before world War ii. With her reassuringly English tones As Well As period jewelry she bought especially for program this doyenne of British television seems natural in role of wartime newscaster. But at 43, Lawley was t even born when War ended. And computer graphics have an unsettling Impact As they mingle with Grainy Black and White photos germans and Gas masked babies. The reporters on 15-minute news roundups arc real like Tim Sebastian reporting on evacuees coming Home from continent or Charles Wheeler bbl s White House correspondent now reporting from Berlin and appearing in color against a Back drop of Brandenburg Gate in Black and White. Britain is being deluged with memories of sept. 1-3, 1939, when Adolf killer invaded Poland and Britain declared War on schedules arc saturated with documentaries and drama. Newspapers Are publishing special supplements. More than 100 new books about War arc being published from fresh histories to Coffee table volumes of photographs. The emphasis is on Small almost forgotten details of life on Home front. News 39" even claims to have unearthed a 50-year old scoop newly discovered footage of crowds falling Over rubber balls that were strewn by an anti War protester outside prime minister s Downing Street residence. This week will be a time of sadness for Many. For some it will bring a nostalgic smile a memory of a Small but personal part in says Paul Fox managing director of bbl to. For i Host born after event it will be a Lime to learn what happened and but for some it s too much. All those Trench Coats. All those tin hats. All those smiling Cockney with a Mug of Tea amid sepia ruins of London. I can t face it. I m off wrote Stephen pile an iconoclastic sunday times most britons War years have taken on a burnished nostalgic glow where there is never any doubt where division Between Good and evil lies and where there will always eventually be a Happy ending As Christopher Booker put it in daily Telegraph. Although collective memory is of a nation United making huge sacrifices in Noble so of causes anniversary is also reopening old controversies. Historians once again arc debating whether pre War British government in seeking to appease Hitler s territorial demands in Europe was abjectly Craven or playing for time to rearm. There is even a debate about whether Britain should have joined War. That argument was rekindled by Cambridge univer sity historian Maurice Cowling who argued in sunday Telegraph that from a purely conservative viewpoint a victorious Germany would have been bbl to commentator sue la Ley presents mock news cast of events preceding Start of world War ii. Preferable to a postwar Europe dominated by soviet Union and United so staying out of War he wrote Britain would have allowed Hiller to destroy its natural enemy bolshevism and left he British Empire intact. It is wrong to assume that a dominant German would have been More intolerable to Britain than soviet Union was to become or that British statesmen had a duty to risk British lives to prevent Hitler Schav ing intolerably to germans and others he wrote Cowling conceded that these Are harsh judgments which will be offensive to men Osgood will and flood of outraged responses to Telegraph proved him right. Professor . Allbones who worked on development of atomic bomb wrote that had it stayed out Britain would eventually have come under domination of a nuclear armed Germany. Other historians said Empire already was disintegrating before War and lord Glendyon a former tory minister wrote that War saved civilization and i am deeply thankful that i was old enough to join
