GREAT BRITAIN: Friend or Foe?

"Is it wise, is it in the interest of security ... that this ex-Nazi should be permitted an inspection of modern British arms?" The problem cropped up at question time last week in the House of Commons. Labor members were objecting to the presence of Major General Hans Speidel, wartime chief of staff to Field Marshal Erwin ("The Desert Fox") Rommel, in a group of 100 allied officers invited to inspect the British army's latest infantry weapons. Speidel, no Nazi Party member but a willing soldier of the Third Reich, was tortured...

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