CIVILISATION AFTER WAR

Press, Volume LXXXI, Issue 24631, 30 July 1945, Page 6

CIVILISATION AFTER WAR

* MONTGOMERY SPEAKS AT CHISWICK (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 9.30 p.m.) RUGBY, July 28. Wearing a black Tank Corps beret, and with his battledress ablaze with decorations, Field-Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery returned to his boyhood home town of Chiswick on Saturday to receive the freedom of the Borough of Brentford and Chiswick. Acknowledging the presentation, Field-Marshal Montgomery said: "The foundation of a post-war- civilisation must contain a good leavening of spiritual matter —if we- build only on material matter we shall fail. If we want peace, we must understand war. We must not be caught unbalanced and unready. We must be prepared and trained to fight. “We must be so strong that never again can a tyrant consider he can safely twist the lion’s tail. If the war had gone on any longer, the home front would have been made to suffer to an ever-increasing extent. But both civilians and soldiers have shown the true British spirit of determination to carry on, in spite of every difficulty and every danger.” GOERING SUFFERS HEART ATTACK TRIAL AS CRIMINAL NOT PREJUDICED (Rec. 9 p.m.) LONDON, July 28. “Goering suffered a heart attack during an electrical storm on Thursday, thus raising the question of whether he can figure in a war criminal trial without endangering his life,” says the correspondent of the Associated Press in Luxemburg. ‘‘A surgeon attributed the attack to Goering’s fear of thunder and lightning.” It Jhas been announced at United States Forces Headquarters in the European Theatre that Goering’s slight heart attack will not prevent his standing trial as a war criminal. The attack was no more serious than other previous attacks, which have been fairly numerous. Goering has lost a little weight, but is not confined to bed. INHUMAN CONDUCT ALLEGED INDICTMENT OF ENEMY SEAMEN (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON, July 27. A conference of the National Union of Seamen in London has carried a resolution indicting enemy seamen for inhuman conduct. It reserved to the Seamen’s Union the right to take any action that might be necessary, and expressed regret that as yet no body of seamen of former enemy countries had shown in any tangible form their contrition for these crimes against the code of the sea. The resolution declared: “Until such time as they do, and we can be satisfied that they repudiate all the crimes committed, we will not allow them to sail in ships with seamen of this country who have suffered so much at the hands of the dictators whom they have supported.” “EJECTION SEAT” FOR AIRCRAFT (Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 28. In the closing months of the war, the Germans perfected an “ejection seat” to catapult the pilots out of planes travelling at high speeds when they were unable to bail out. Colonel William Lovelace, an Army Air Force surgeon, who recently returned from Germany, told a press conference that the United States now has all the data, and will use the seat in fast planes in the Pacific war. Explaining the difficulty of leaving a plane travelling at 500 miles an hour without some kind of propulsion, Colonel Lovelace said the German seat was actually exploded through the rool of jet-propelled fighters by a power charge activated by pressing a button. Colonel Lovelace held many conferences with leading German aviation experts, who readily supplied information, even offering to advance plans for research. COMMUNIST PARTY IN U.S.A. r (Rec. 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, July 27. The Communist Party of the United States has been re-established, 14 months after its dissolution. This action was announced at the Communist Political Association’s national convention, The announcement said that the president of the C.P.A. (Mr Earl Broader) was not a delegate and did not vote. However, at a session last night. Mr Browder defended his policies, which were unanimously rejected by the convention in its decision to reconstitute the Communist Party. World Zionist Conference. —The World Zionist Conference will open in London on Thursday. The first-meet-ing will be opened by Dr. Chaim Weizmann. There will be about 90 delegates from all parts of the world. This will be the first occasion since 1939 that the various groups of the Zionist movement will meet, after a separation enforced by the , war.— Rugby, July 28. '•