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Hist. Opens with

Bang

"Christ, Class and

Communism"

A Controversial

Meeting

T~mE Hist Inaugural kept up the age-old tradition of openingeetings by being minus its two star speakers. MichaelFoot was unable to come because of the Cuba debate atWestminster and Commtmist John Gollan cried off, too.

But, as the Chairman Mr. Justice Kingsmill Moore said,most people were not sorry that they couldn’t come, becauseof the excellence of the stand-ins. The Meeting was a completesuccess.

Auditor Michael Newcombe’spaper, on "Christ, Class and Com-

munism," was controversial anddelivered with customary panache.

He was (and is) an utterly com-mitted Catholic, who was not afraidto come down against the Church.

He blamed it for its failure in the19th century to provide social helpfor the poorer classes, and implied

that this failure was the starting-point of Communism. He traced theparallel and conflicting develop-ment of these two great forces in

&e world, and dwelt on Ireland asan example of the inefficiency ofthe Catholic Church’s social pol-

icies. The address ended on aquestion mark. Which of the twowas to gain control in the emergentnations? Mr. Newcombe wishedfervently that it might be theChurch.

Mr. Bill Carritt is a member ofthe British Communist Party. He]~ the epitome of the leftist intel-k~ctual, with lean and hungryhmk, a high forehead and impres-sive spectacles. He plugged the

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party line by a careful manipula-

tion of history, and quoted everyonefrom Brecht to C. P. Snow. His~cpeech, however, took an abruptturn into the path of moderation

towards the end, and he closed withan appeal for Church and Com-

munism to work side by side.Donal Barrington, founder of

Tuairim, filled most of his speechwith heavy criticism of the address,but he lost most of his effect by

attributing to Mr. Newcombethings he didn’t say. Mr. Newcombe

had spoken of what still remainedto be done in Ireland. Mr.Barrington countered convention-

ally and illogically by pointing outwhat had already been done.

Canon Luce rolled his R’s andwas plaintive about new-tangled~hings like Communism. In thebest (because the most entm~ain-ing) speech of the evening.he predictably based his wordson philosophy, religion and theclassics, and pointed out thedifference between class anvl caste.fie thought Mr. Khrushchev shouldread Mr. Berkeley.

Dr. Skefflngton, who can takeconsolation for being a last-minutereplacement from the knowledgethat he is the best possible, was incomplete contrast to Dr. Lute. A~tream of rational thought pos-itively poured from his lips. Hemaintained his position as a neutraland a free-thinker and held upboth the Church and the Commun-is! ideology as totalitarian.

That the second best can oftenbe as good as the best was amplyproved by the meetin~ as a whole.

(PROFILE: Michael Newcombe-- page 4).

The Kurfiirstendamm, West Berlin’s main thoroughfare, by night.

FOCUS ON GERMANY ~ PAGES 2 AND 3

STUDIES NO LONGERSO GENERAL

AT last Mondays meetingof the S.R.C. commentwas made upon a view,which is becoming widespreadaround College, that fromOctober 1963, no overseasstudents would be allowed toenter the General StudiesCourse.

Mr. Sehmi, the representative,

of the International Affairs Assoc-iation, pointed out that lnan5, OVal’-seas ~’overnments stipulqte thattheir students, in order to qualifyfor a grant, should do GeneralStudies in preference to a more(’onfined HonouPs Course. It i~obvious therefore, that should such:t ban be made. the un(le.rora.:luatepopulation in Trinity would h,,drastically altered. The Council(!ecid~’d {hat until this step is

Fees for 1962-63

Please note that fees for 1962-63 were due on the 1st ()ctoher

last. Unpa (! fees must be paid immediately. If the.* are not

paid on or before 15th Noveniher fines become payable in

addition. Accounts are not sent 1o students or their parents.

officially confirmed, no overtures to

the authorities should be made.At the time of going to press

n(, confirnmtion or denial could begleaned from the offices concerned,as there was a Board Meeting insession. Spokesmen in the relevantdepartments, however, had noknowledge of such a decision. It isexpected that next week TrinityNews will be in the position tocarry a fuller report.

C. I :llissionTonight a series of talks on

Christianity begins in the I’;xam.Hall. The speaker is the Rev. Joh,,Stott. Mr. Stott is Vicar of AllSoul’s, I,angham Place, l.,mdon.His reputation as a speaker, and\~riter, and the success of hisrecent tour of some Afric’,tn Uni-versities encouraged the Chri~ti,’mI-nion to invite him to speak inCollege. During the past two termsthe preparations have been eoinoon. arranging the meetings in theExam, Hail and ~he additio,~:llmeetina’s in the GMB and in theCU Rooms in No. 4. Publicityreu

TRINITY NEWSA Dublin University Weekly

Vol. 10 Thursday, 8th November, 1962 No. "2

Chairman :Godfrey Fitzsimons

Vice-Chairman:Des Harnmn

Editors:Andrew Whittaker, John Cox, Jim Bird.

Business Managers:Hugh White, Colin Smythe, Neff McAuley, John Kelly.

Secretary:Diana Elkins

OH WHY ARE

WE WAITING ?SO they finally appeared. The Mod. results, we mean.

Economics, Ancient and Modern, and Mod. Lang¯ werepinned on the board last Saturday, and History, after agestation period like an elephant’s, came to light only onTuesday.

Fates were at last sealed and burdens lifted. But what astrain it must have been for the candidates, who had sat inthe Mod. Room or wherever as long as five weeks ago, and whohad been biting their nails ever since. Is it fair to keep themin suspense like this? Agreed that external examiners, withtheir comings and goings, add to the time required formarking. Agreed that there are other papers to mark. Butfive weeks !

Apart from the mental stress of waiting, which must havebeen considerable, there are more mundane considerations. Wein Trinity have come to accept October finals. We have resignedourselves to the impossibility of getting a teaching post forthat year, and we are prepared to accept the system for itscounter-balance of advantages. But what of the people whoare going on to do a higher degree here or elsewhere, andwhose term started weeks ago? Many need a further educa-tion ~-ant for this--a gTant which they will not be given untiltheir results are known. Their future has been even moreprecarious than most.

If there is a valid reason for this seemingly unaccountabledelay, let the schools’ committees come out into the open andgive it to us. Public relations, or at least staff/studentrelations, in Trinity are notoriously bad. People like the Agentand the Treasurer are prepared, and have already done much,to try and ease the situation. Is it not time that the academicauthorities, too, came down from their ivory tower and put usout of our ignorance and suspense ?

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Thu.rsday, 17th August, 1961.Wednesday -- a day which will

~ot be a pleasant memory to me.We were unfortunately two daystoo late. Yet another decree hadbeen issued. We went with aBerliner to look at the bordm~the last bit had not yet been walledtip. But the risk was too great andI am not all that ready to die. Nowi~ has all been stabilised. A wallabout 5’ 6" high, and about a yardin front of it a high barrier ofbarbed wire.

On both sides, about a hundredyards from it, stand mothers anddaughters, brothers and sisters,waving to one another and weeping.It is pathetic and hopeless. Later(’13, anyway, we were up to theborder in a car. The next we knewwe were imprisoned and underclose observation. For three and al:alf hours we waited in suspense,without an idea of what wouldhappeu to us. I had already almostanticipated a summary condemn-nation. Only trust in God restoredmy courage and peace of mind. Itwas ahnost a minor miracle tha:each one of us survived the cross-examination and that there was no

LETTERS TO THE EDITORjust as repugnant to the studentsas it would be to the Board.

Yours sincerely,F. C. Wirikelmann,

Treasurer.I"Trinity News" apologises for

the typographical error in the firstsentence of the story in question."£50" should, of course, have read"50 %"--Ed.]

3rd November, 1962.Dear Sir,

So this noble University is beingrun as "a huge hotel so far asstudents are concerned" (Mr. F. C.Winkelmann in your interview withhim last week).

Thank God that the buildings ofTrinity will still be standing (wehope) when the Treasurer and hiscronies are dead and gone. Themore we become aware of themachinations of the ’faceless’ menthe more does Trinity seem toresemble something out of Kafka.Is there not a single one of our’rulers’ seeking to preserve all thatTrinity stands for?

Are our interests really con-sidered when the "higher powersmeet together" -- and, fro’ thatmatter, the interests of theCollege ?

Yours truly,Anthon:,, W. Harrison- Barber.

P.So If Trinity is run as a hugehotel for us why is the managementso impolite and the service soabysmally bad? Dammit! It is ;,four-star hotel afte.r all.

37 College4/11/’62.

Dear Sir,Matters of the utmost importance

will be raised in the Senate in thecoming months and it is to behoped that Trinity’s three Senatorswill not remain silent. A fortnightago police dogs were set upongraduates and students of thisuniversity while they were engagedin a peaceful protest. It hasemerged that dogs can be used asthe guards see fit; this is obviouslyv. power which needs to be severelycurtailed by legislation. A verysevere Ofi%ial Secrets Act is atpresent passing tMough the Daft.i.t will give the Minister fro" Justicevery extensive powers to proscribeorganisations, to try members of

them in camera, and to decide whatevidence shall be admissible.

Both these matters pler~ent avery severe threat to freedom ofthought and action and SenatorsStanford, Jessop and Ross mustspeak up if they are to prove then>selves worthy of the support Ofthis university. Senator Ross bparticular has yet to prove whetbm.price of his election, the ejectionof Dr. Skeffington, was worti~paying.

Yours etc.J. B. Houston.

Treasurer’s Office,Trinity College,

Dublin, 2¯1 November, 1962.

Dear Sir,In your front page news last

week headed "Fees increased byfifty per cent," the second columnof your article reads "Perhaps themost sinister clause in the noticeis that the way is being left openfor the increase to apply later toh’ish students as well." If this hadread "Perhaps the most sinisterclause in the notice is that the wayis being left open for an increaset:o apply later to Irish students asweIl," I wouM have been quitesatisfied. There is certainly no in-tention, at; this time, of increasingfees paid by students whose homesare in heland by as much as fiftyper cent. This would be quite m>realistie in view of the substantialsupport given by the h’ish Govern-ment to this University. This lastremark should make the positionquite clear, that the level of feesfor students from h’eland dependsupon the amount of money whichwe get from the Irish Government.If. in the future, the Irish Govern-ment is unable to meet inflationaryoressu.res, normal salary incre-ments, and a small amount ofhnplovement, then we may beforced to increase fees. If tbiswere not done, the only alternativewould be a reduction in standards,-rod I am sure that this would be

Erika yon Hornstein’s book, " Beyondthe Berlin Wall," has just been pub-lished. We print here se=lections froma correspondence between a Germanstudent in the Eastern Zone and afriend in the Federal Republic. Tt~eletters were written just after theWall was built by the Russians inAugust, ]96L They have been collectedand translated by DECLAN SMITH.

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We were even given back ouridentity cards, and left the policebuilding some four hours late~’. Butnow my name is on the black-list.In spite of that I do not give uphope of finding an opportunitysomewhere sometime . . .

19th August.

It is very important for us torealise that we are now, since 13thAugust, bound together more thanever before. It was a hard blow onSunday. Everybody had to reckonwith it, and yet nobody wanted toreckon with it--l~he thought was

too cruel, too dreadful. And thensuddenly it had become a reality.Too late! How many people arenow torturing themselves over thismove of fate? Although I knewthat i could not go, because no manexists in isolation, and consequentlycannot act because one nmst thinkof one’s relatives, the tragedy ofthe event seized me with all itspower. Now we know that we arecaptured, that we have no prospectof coming together again. How.demoralising it is when one cannotget rid of this awareness. Up tillnow everyone lived on the reassur-ing thought that when the situationbecame completely intolerable therewould be a way ,out. People livedon this hope! Now it has ahnostcollapsed. The effects are total. Thegreater part of the population nowv~:getates away--not because theirmaterial situation has suddenlydeteriorated, but because their lifehas lost its one support, its onehope, indeed for many its verysnbstance. That is v:hat it looks

like in their inner life. And on tht~surface people laugh at their brokenmorale. The effects are huge, aswas expected by any person whodid not himself live in this hope.Resignation. Everybody is waitingfor the great training-point, butknows perfectly well that it wmftnmterialise. I know some peoplewho would prefer war to waitingso hopelessly. But then they do no~realise what that means--WAR!

¯ . . On the part of the govern-merit a panic-stricken fear. Everyimportant buiMing is watched. Forexample, in .... they phone uponce every hour to ask if the at-mosphere is still ’ normal,’ if peopleare still going to work, if the fire-brigade is ready for action, etc. Inaddition denunciations are takingplace . . . Some time ago I laidhands on the "White Rose" of IngeScholl. I ahvays read from it, andevery time I realise more and morethat the sacrifice of Hans andSophia Scholl’s lives for freedemwas a sacrifice in the face (,f in-sane delusions. You absolutelymust read the book; it fits oursituation exactly. How those peoplewere able to die!

September. 19(H.The happenings of the l:~tb

August and the consequences forthose living in the Zone have so~pset people that in private dis-cussion one meets only weepingwomen and pale-face.d, sibnt mere

The Iron Curtain has no\v finall.vfallen for those completely, and thehole has been sealed, which gavethem the reassu.ring thought of anescape route. The doctors, who upto now have been treated especiallywell to prevent them from fleeing,

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BERLIN is a microcosm. It is a symbol of a divided Germany,of a .divided Europe, and of a divided world. In Berlin thegulf between Chieagoan and Muscovite, between Frenchmanand Pole, even between the German from Frankfurt and theone from Leipzig, has been narrowed until it separates Berlinerfrom Berliner.

The vagueness of the Iron Curtain has been distilled intosomething much more tangible, and only too real. The Wallhas beeome a symbol in itself--hence its capital W. It hasbeen seized by the young, and especially by young artists, asa motif in their expression of the division they feel so deeplySeveral prominent young artists have produced stark paintings0f the Walls’ unmistakable profile--the irregular stone-workand the sinister Y-shaped barbed-wire top.

The Wall is not a remarkablefeat of engineering. It is not, asI imagined, an unbroken stretchrunning for three or four milesfrom north to south. Apaz"c from

a few fairly long sections, it wassimply a matter, on August lgth,1961, .of blocking off street-end._-’.The rivet" Spree forms a naturalboundary between East and West.

for a considerable distance, and inthe suburbs the Wall is replaced

by a double barbed-wire fence. Butthe frightenin~ aspect of it is thata thing of such simplicity, even

crudity, can cut a community intwo as cleanly as a knife throughan apple.

And yet, along with this im-pression of finality, there is thedisturbing one of the fragility of

the Wall as a barrier. ForBerliners. of course, it is impen-et.rab!e. Eas~ Berliners cannotapproach it nearer than about twohundred yards. Right along its

length there is a devastated no-man’s-land of rubbb and Fartlydemolished buildi:-gs. Those whichhave not yet been knocked dowqby the bull-dozers bare their win-dows bricked up to prevent any

escapes by jumping. But a small

hole is left, so that an EastGerman guard behind can v:atch--or shoot. West Bet’liners car" g~right up to the Wail They often

wave to people, perhaps relatives.a~ windows on the o~her side. Butthese return the greeth~g only v:ithcaution. They can be fined I00marks if caught,

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For foreigners and for West

Germans, to cross into East Berlinis without complications. Commun-ist red-tape means that your pass-port is checked perhaps six timesin twenty yards, but apart fromthat there are no difficulties. Thereare only two entry-points -- the

S-Bahn (nmnieipal railway) toFriedrichstrasse station and thefamous "Checkpoint Charlie."

Tourist coaches go through"Checkpoint Charlie" daily, and

the East German Travel Bureauprovides a guide. But the coachesattract attention. Most people stop

and gaze curiously at the WestGerman markings on the side.Others look away hurriedly. Are

they frightened, or antagonistic?Curious, or confused? It is hardto tell. Perhaps the?, give a secondEl-race at the slogan on the wallol)posite: "gs bleibt dahei, West-berlin wird frei!"--"It is agreed,

West Berlin will be freedF’

Perhaps too much has been made

of the shabbiness of East Berlin.It is "t mistake to suppose that\Vest Berlin is a glittering metro-polls against the vast slum of theEast. Certainly the standard ofliving is 15% lower than in the

West. And Unter den Linden mayhave fallen far below the grandeurof its heyday. But the Karl Marx

Just a year ago " Trinity News " pub-lished two articles on Berlin byWilliam Oddie, who had gone thereon the invitation of the GermanGovernment to study the situation. Inthis article GODFREY FITZSIMON$,who has also recently been in Berlin,indicates h o w the position haschanged and contributes some personal

impressions.

Allee and the Alexanderplatz, thehub of pre-war Berlin, are deserv-ing of a place in any capital. Theymay not have as many bourgeoisfluorescent signs as the Kurfi~r-stendamm, but they do havean undeniable grace and even

glamour. On the other hand, out-side a radius of about a mile ofthe centre of West Berlin are to

be found some of the dit¢iest andmost depressing buildings I have

seen in any Western capital.In the Karl Marx Allee, formerly

Stalinallee, formerly Frankfurter

Allee, I visited an exhibition in theHuge Spm¢s Hall. It was entitled

"The Truth about West Berlin."Apazqc from the expected fulmin-ation against Adenauer’s "revan-

chist government" and the "BonnOAS," the main theme was centredon the "Sex, Sadism and Rowdy-ism" of the decadent West. Therewere photographs to prove it.

The Western propaganda machine

is almost more frightening thanthe Communist one. Certainly it is

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As Sam goes Swerling from theWicklow, having repassed in Ray’s,we have been given our cue thatthe usual round of parties aretaking place. We see, however, thata few changes have taken placewith Jeremy Ca(r)hill gettingengaged the centre of gravitymoving from the B. to the O.S. andRah McCluskey getting a haircut,but Harry Graham needs a newhat. He now wears it J.D. style.The ghost of Dan "The Debs’Delight" Corbett still lurks some-where (did you look in the cellarsof the B. ) Perhaps that is whereArchie Orr-Ewing got his shiner.Did I see it running in the rain?Oh yes, I ahnost forgot SimonQuick couldn’t find a party.

Ttmt most progressive of soc-ieties the Phil set the ball rollins"with their party following theOpening Debate. They had all thebest people there in that placewhere "you have a ~ood view ofCollege "from here," as Melissa

Stanford was heard saying to BrianWest. Irving Shapiro was over-heard saying to Mary Kelly: "Idon’t like sex." Chris Wood themost eligible bachelor of the even-inK was viewed flying from Bobby"of the Long Walk" Hoskins toEileen Keohane and was then pur-sued by Nicky Grant. Frances-dane, or Miss French as she iscalled now, kept an eye on pro-ceedings over a game of chess withMike Newcombe, but she stiii"can’t tell lime from gin." ThatN.P.D. pair Jeh and June seemedto be hiding behind each other--from what? From alsatfans, mygood man. Paddy "Love can do alot for a man" Baekman waspleased with the way things weregoing, except that he didn’t thinktbat the Right People were there:while David Challen was taken tipwith his quiet American. Rosemary"Dare me" Gibson blew in but showas ]:uno’ry and perhaps suffer/refrom exposure. Andrew Whittaker.

the host, had Valerie Paul there tokeep him company. The hit of thefreshets was Debbie Trenarry orso Louis Courtney thought. Thingswere swinging so well that all thatLaurentian pair, Gay and Amle,could salvage was cake for break-fast.

We then took a stroll to Balls-bridge area (everyone’s goingthere now) to the affair given byMarion Hall and Moyna. All theusual crowd were there includingthat bundle of radiance Jill East.who was heard with HughMcKeown, while Mark Wade wasta ken up with Sheila Lovat.Charmiau Reynolds was scene, andJohn West in the corner withC e c i l v. Grog " Tile Duck "McCaml~ridge and Mick Rochewere nowhere in partirular andMason Beggs took Tessa home. Asuccessful expedition scaled theback wall led by Gaffer and h.tsmate Rad. No bottles were broken

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SCHWEPPERVESOENOE LASTSTHE WHOLE DRINK THROUGH

THANKS to the recent| Caribbean Carnival, we

have all been closer to thebrink than ’ever before. Infact, we even had a peep overi~, and some interesting sights

there were to be seen, indeed.The West of h’eland made tile

news as a good fall-out-freesmwival area. Cars in Dublin werekept ticking over, loaded withfags, beer, and brown-paper bags("Nothing !ike good old brown

paper for keeping out the radiation"--and if you don’t recognise thatby now, I’m not going to help you),and pointed towards the eaves ofConnemara.

But I suspect that Connenmra isalready booked. What would .really

IUVENALIA

have happened, of course, wouldhave been that our survivor, arriv-ing in the farthest, forlornestWittgenstein west, would scrambledown the cliff, run eagerly to hiscave, and find it sealed off with anenm’mous leaden door bearing thesimple legend: "Krupp: Irlanderverboten."

Those people aren’t here for fun,you know -- and after all, youcan’t whack a good, clean, well-equipped underground bunker inan emergency. Well, hardly ever.

Someone who actually did g.oWest was Miss Pat Arrowsmith, ofthe Committee of 100. She wentwith a friend, to make sure thattwo of the species would survive.(Only two? Not a very imagin-ative picker of friends.)

Glorious macabre visions arise ofwhat would have happened hadMiss Arr.owsmith been provedright l

Imagine a world in which theonly representatives of the humanrace were half Gaeltacht and twomembers of the Committee of 100.What a cradle for future eivilisa-Lion that would provide!

After a suitable pause to let theradiation radiate, the whole worldwould be at the feet of the Irish-speaking wooly-doll makers andtheir left-wing visitors.

A synthesis of their two culture~would be the first step, and a fewgenerations should be enough toproduce the required amalgam ofIrish Catholicism and Russell-esquehumanism, Gaelic games and

passive-resistance, left-wing pur-itanism and poteheen. The resul-tant creed, which would make JohnWyndham’s "Chysalids" look like alibertarian .romp, could then spreadto cover the entire planet. Hownice not to survive into that world.

But if nuclear war makes itsopponents behave oddly, just lookwhat it does to the officialdom whointend to wage it for us.

During the Bath (Somerset)Festival earlier this year, theFestival Authorities borrowed anumber of handbells from the

local Civil Defence unit. Thesebells provided melodious backgroundat a festive outdoor evening. Butwhen the C.D. asked for them back,ten were missing. A C.D. spokes-man, taking a grave view, ex-plained that the bells we,re a vitalpart of their arrangements forletting the population know ofimpending nuclear attack.

Presumably, the street Crierneeded the bells when reading outa prepared proclamation to theirstreets, as soon as the beacon fireswere seen or heard on high Cots-wl d.

"Oyez, Oyez, Oyez. From HerMajesty the Queen, to all and(singular) to whom these presentsmay come, Crreetings.

Whereas it hath pleased theQueen’s Majesty, in Council assem-bled, to reject utterly that unworthycommunication entitled "Ultima-tum" received this day from theChairman of all the Russias,demanding instant evacuation ofthose Our military bases beyondthe seas.

And whereas the hour appointedin that document as the last hourfor compliance is now a.rrived:

Know ye all men by thesePresents that this our Realm willin four minutes from the startingof this Proclamation, be subjectto merciless Onslaught of Battle,Murder, and Sudden Death.

But We admonish Our peoplethat they be not dismayed, butremain Steadfast unto the End,secure in the knowledge and loveof God, and in the assurance thatOur aerial forces are carrying outMassive Retaliation in Like Kind,for the Means of Grace and for theHope of Glory.

Rest assured that within twominutes from the ending of this

Proclamation, the worst will beover. The work of Disposal andReconstruction will begin nextweek.

God Save the Queen."Or words to that effect.

"ALL FALL DOWN" Capitol

I.~ERE is a film which ought to be seen for its visual as wellas its dramatic qualities. Directed by John Frankenheimer,

a new name, it deals with the conflict between two fundamentalhuman needs--the desil~ for liberty and for stability andresponsibility.

Warren Beatty plays Beri-beri,

who escapes from the phoneysentiment of his American small-town family--misplaced egalitar-ianism of his father (Karl Malden),uncharitable religiosity of hismother (Angela Lansbury) -- toseek freedom, that most elusive ofall absolutes. He profits by hisirresistibility to women to exist asa gigolo, and violently rejects anyresponsibility which this mightimpose on him. But he ’hates Life’because it can give him no morethan jaded sensual pleasure, andthere is latent in him a desire forthe love and admiration of hisfamily, of which the youngerbrother (Brandon de Wilde) pro-vides a sample and forms a link.

At Christmas he returns home,and the decisive crisis arises--is heto forsake his liberty by marryingEcho (Eva Marie Saint), a girlliving with the family who is sur-rendered to him by Clinton, the

younger brother ? His two conflict-ing instincts make him postponethe decision, and Echo, believinghe has forsaken her, commitssuicide. The faith which the fatherand brother had in Beri-beri isdestroyed, but his mother, no lessa victim of his sexual attractive-ness, weeps out her love over hisphotograph.

Clinton sets out to avenge Echo,but cannot carry out his intentionswhen he sees Beri-beri in despairat the realisation of his errorstowards himself and others. Butthere is no forgiveness, and Clintonleaves his brother in unwillingsolitude. All illusions have fallenwith the wind.--D.W.

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IN his first term at Trinity, Michael Newcombe wrote his firstletter to the newspapers" It was about the irreverence in

Irish church services and the excessive speed of Mass. Sincethen his pen and his tongue have seldom rested.

Michael was educated at Stockport Grammar School, whichhe insists on calling a public school. Tradition is a large part,of his make-up, and his predilection for it found expression inhis decision to come to Trinity when he failed to get intoOxford. He took to the Hist like a duck to water, and it isthere that his gift for the outspoken expression of strongconviction has been nm’tured. He is unabashedly proud ofbeing one of the youngest Auditors that the society has had.

His complete Englishness era- ct!sm, however, runs a strangely

barrasses him just as little. He bqcengruous vein of liberalism.felt ill-at-ease in France this Michael is a firm Catholic, perhaps

summer and was relieved to be one of the most devout in College.

back in England. Although grate-ful for the opportunity to tasteanother way of life, he was swiftto reject it.

His teIwn of office as head of theHist was launched by a firm policystatement on admission of womento the society. Michael Newcombeis no woman-hater--on the contraryhe vevels in intelligent femaleconversation. He is simply con-vinced that the essentially mas-culine character of the Hist mustbe maintained.

Alongside this strict conserv-

MICHAELNEWCOMBE

But Catholicism for him is notnecessarily the Church, which heattacks fiercely. One of his deare~wishes is to see a Catholic chap-lain in Trinity, and last year heengaged in a virulent con-espon-dence with several prominentmembers of the hierarchy on this

subject. He ix loud in praise of the]iberalising influence of Pope JohnXXIII.

Occasionally, however, this tol-erant outlook slips. He does not

st~ffer fools giadly, preferring toignore them rather than insultthem. But all his friends aret~eated oh an equal level, for he

does get on with people. Amplewitness of this is borne b:.- tlne factthat he is well into ]-,is second year.,~f domestic harmony with thesame two wives.

His intellect appears at firstglance a rational one. But this isrx)t so. His concern for contem-porary problems and his attitude tolife are humanitarian, influenced byemotion. Gerard Manley Hopkins,and B~itten, and "Grand Marnier"liqueur appeal to him on anemotional level, as well as thesocial obligations of the CatholicChurch. Unfiappai.!e on the res-train, he neveYthe!ess undergoesmental stress in private. Playingthe ~reoorder, which he does ably,i:~ for him a relaxation.

Since his rise zo prominence hehas cultivated his public imagewith a rare delicacy, but withoutarrogance. His latest addition to itis an odd-looking pipe, which hepuffs sagely and with affectation.He is at home in the limelight, butthis is probably :he result of alegitimate awareness of his owncapabilities before a crowd.

It is people like Michael New-combe who will derive most benefitfrom their time at university. Hedoes the minimum of work, but heis scraping the barrel of his talentsin an effort to get the most outof himself.

(For new readers: It is custom-ary, at this time of year, for thetwo heads of the Major Societiesto be dealt with in a double Profile.However, since Andrew Whittakerwas "done" last term, we havedevoted this Profile to MichaelNewcombe alone.)

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Peter MartellIn a final attempt to impose its

views on the nation by demoeraticmeans. The Campaign for MoralDisarmament has extended itspolicy of peaeeful aggression toaffect the truthfulness of itsfollowers, so that all CMD-supporters speak nothing but theopposite of the truth. Having heardthe frank revelation of Christine,*the hoekey-player, the ConsumerResearch Association’s investiga-tor determines to experiencestudent feeding facilities for him-self, and after a vain circuit ofBotany Bay he asks a group ofthree students to direct him to theDining Hall. He first asks onewhether he is a CMD-supporter,but the youth mumbles his replyinto his beard. However the secondstudent assures the CRA-man: "I’mthe only one here who tells thetruth, so you had better follow mydirections." The remaining studentof the th.ree begins to explain thatthe bearded student had deniedbeing a CMD-man ....

Which one(s) can be trusted?*Answer to last week’s puzzle.

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LAST WEEK (]F THE FLAT

This week marks the end of thoD~glish flat toeing season--Satur-day’s Manchester November Handi-

cap being the last star attractionuntil the Lincolnshire late in Marchof next year. A large field ahvaysturns out for the £5,000 "November"but this year the race appearsnmre open than ever. Espresso iscurrently the most popular tip butl cannot see him defying topweight of 9 stone 6 lbs. When suchgood old stagers as Robson’sChoice and Dalnamein are lowerin the list. The ante-post favouritehas been Peter Jones who wasprominent fo.r 1} miles in theCesarewitch -- he will be bettersuited by Saturday’s distance.Bahrain--Ireland’s only represent-ative--is outclassed I feel. WaterSkier, trained Locally by ErieCousins has been disappointing thisseason but could neverthelessspring a surprise. For the winnerI look to Mosquito -- a filly byMossborough out of an Alyudonmare:

Mosquito has won three racesthis season already and for thosewho must bet in this difficult ,racea few bob on Jack Colling’s lastrepresentative before he retiresshould provide value. For thosewho really want a long oddsgamble try Disco in the followingrace.

Although Silver Green only&liged for us last Thursday, mytwo predictions for the IrishCesarewitch could only managesecond and third places but eachway betting would have shown aprofit.

At Naas on Saturday I expectForfinbras to follow Irish Harphome in the first race and keepyour eyes ,on Kerr’s runners in thesecond. For the Naas NovemberHandicap I like Flora best althoughSolpetre should again figure. ThePlandok was prominent early on atthe CulTagh and may run into apmee over this shorter trip. The~[addenstown ’chase has sometalented performers on the list ofprobables. Gay Navaree should begiven a second chance but lightlyv:eighted Mr. Moonlight may provebest.

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SOCCERC.X~.M.:~; Trinity: 2.

For the first thirty minute~,Trinity out-played their opponentswho included four ex-League of

Ireland players. The forwards,playing with great gusto, hadseveral chances of seorin~o" earlyil~ the game. The approach workwas good, with Conway outstandingas the initiator, but poor finishingcontributed to Trinity’s failure 1osew up the game in these earlystages. O. Ntima opened the scor-ing after 15 minutes with a lowdrive from 15 yards, and 10 minuteslater E. Conway added a brilliantsecond goal after a 40 yard dribble.Two defensive errors allowedC.Y.M. to level the scoring shortly

before half-time.In the second-half play swept

from end-to-end and this openstyle resulted in Trinity’s downfall.The team’s stamina was taxed tothe very limit and lack of coveringin defence was exploited by anexperienced C.Y.M. team whoscored two well-taken goals.Trinity continued to fight and inthe last twenty minutes had muchof the ball but lack ,of punch inattack and failure to fill the mid-field gaps allowed C.Y.M. to main-tain their control.

Without T. Lunde in attack theforward line lacks a real goalscorer and the defenee is stillshaky. But much valuable exper-ience is being gained against theseA.U.L. teams and this will servethe side well in later games andabove all in the Collingwood Cupnext term.

Hockey ClubA score of 2-1 against was :~

disappointing .result for the 2nd XIin a hard-fought and chancy gmneagainst Aer-Lingus on Saturday.There were many attacking move-merits, and some very skilful playby the Trinity defenders, but theinability to adapt their tactics to arough pitch coupled with their in-ability to convert penalty-cornersinto goals lost them the match.

The 2nd XI is a strong team thisseason. Veterans Shirley and Clarkeat futlbaek would be worth theirplace on the 1st XI, and thenew-comers to the team showconsiderable promise, particularlyMeLoughlin at centre-half. McGar-rifle at inside-left is also clearlya strong contender for that pos-ition on the 1st XI. Provided theysucceed in adapting their tactics tothe various pitches and styles theywill meet, the 2nd XI should acquitthemselves well in the league.

DU~{LIN UNIV. 0, LANDSDOWNE 17.

THE record of the first fifteen is new beginning to Iook some-what grim to say the least of it. During the last week inpartietdar nmtters have taken a distinct turn for the worse,lorry points with only one penalty goal cn the credit side. Itgoes without saying that this is a serious state of affairs; allthe fact being that in two games the team has eanceded overthe more so in view of the imminence of the Colours Match.

I am all for giving credit wherec~’edit is due, indeod it might besaid that this column is regularlyover-lavish in its praise, hutfrankly one can scarcely say any-thin~ laudatory about Saturday’sperformance. At its best it wasmediocre, and at worst it wasdownright dreadful. It is difHcultto understand how fifteen more-than-competent footballing indiv-iduals can play as badly as a team.Could it be that they are notsuffieiently fit? Is the leadershipperhaps not sufficiently enthus-iastic ? I can find no single answerto the present lack of success. Itis true, of course, that there havebeen many injuries, but I recallthat Trinity sides of the past wereinvariably dogged by injury, andyet nlanaged to win. It is likel.v,therefore, that the selection com-mittee will have to do some seriousre-thinking before November 24th.

/Poe& outplayed

To turn now to Saturday’s game.Both sides were understrength:Trinity without Read and Argyle,Land~lowne without English andCross. When I say that Lands-downe were understrength thiscertainly does not do just;ce totheir substitutes, out-half Dugganbeing undoubtedly the man of thematch. The same, I am afraid,cannot be said for T.rinity’s sub-stitutes. Landsdowne were twopenalty goals to the good withinfive minutes of the kiek-off, where-upon their forwards certainly tookcomplete control of the Trinityeight. With only a limited supplyof the ball, the home team’s three-quarters had few opportunities to

¯ eathmea’sImmaculate. This inadequately

describes the performance of theGentlemen’s XV which emergedagain victorious from Saturday’sforay. The forwards hunted relent-lessly and it was immediatelyapparent that they could contain,nay, overwhelm, the opposing pack;this actually happened.

The backs, fed well hum bo!htight and loose scrimmages, swungthe ball about with a jute de vivrewhich surprised eveu themseh-esand certainly exhausted the omni-present pack which was continuallyin support.

The Gentlemen’s opponents re-ceived a superlative display fromthe ubiquitous back row whichcontribute.d enormously to tireefficiency of a team which is rapidlybeing moulded into a formidablescoring machhze.

The final score was 14-0 infavour of the Gentlemen.

Suecosshtl Ilegatta oason~-’OLLOWING some disappointing performances at thel Trinity Regatta held at the end of last term the Boat Clubvisited several Regattas in both h’eland and England wherethey were far more successful. The season, as usual, endedamid the high class rowing and the fashion of Henle.~where the 1st VIII performed creditably.

round, after racing neck and neckwith hnperial College, London, in astorming finish they won bylength, in the time of i; rain. 4ssees. This was the fastest time in~he Ladies Plate during the wholeof the Regatta and the secondiastest time ever recorded by aTrinity crew. Unfortunately, on thefollowing (lay, after a terrific fight:~s far as the .Mile Post, they werebeateu by the favourites, QueeiFsCollege, Cambridge, who went onto win the event.

It is hoped that during" the com-ing season the Cluh will bel~efit1 i’olll the new l’owil!~ tank anddins rise to even hiaher achievv-~uents under its new Captain,Rbhard Taylor. The list Freshmen:Trials. held on Saturday last. we>.,’.1" a hi~’h stal.,dard, and althouoi~only 3 of Iast year’s Senior VIII~cmain. a eonsidorabb nUll]bar ofkeen .luniors and Maidens are siiI]av:libhl(,.

At tim Cork Regatta the JuniorEight fought a keen race against afitter U.C.D. crew, but lost ~ lengthin the last minute. The MaidenEight once more raced with Com-mercial and narrowed the marginof their defeat to { length. Thepositions were reversed a weeklater at Metropolitan Regatta.where this enthusiastic Trinitycrew gained a well-deserved vic-tory in their last race at Athlone:they rowed well to finish second hnthe Maiden Championships.

The 1st VIII after winningevery Senior event at Cork crossedto England in high spirits. AtMarlowe Regatta, althouoh un-used to sprint races, the3" reachedthe final of the Thames Cup Eights:.ruder the guidance of Pat Bradley.After rowing to Henley, the crewcontinued to improve, a:M, 4 daysbefore racing began, took overtheir new boat, whicb was a tre-mendous DsychologicaI boost. In the

::~ounL ~tt~ir" worthwhile attacks.There was aIso a tendency for theeentres tv hold onto the ball fortoo long, which is a particularcrime when you have two first-ratewingers. Trinity’s defenee, how-ever. held strong until the dosingminutes of tb, e half, when Dugga:l+ant hfs centre in for an excellentt~ y, which was duly converted.

.Io StantlnaThe Trinity forwards commeno-!

the second half in a nmch morepurposeful manner, and there wasconsiderable improvement in theteam’s play as a whole. Indeed ithegan to !ook as though Trinitywere at last going to exert somesuperiority over their opponents.and make good the arrears. It wasnot to be, however, for in the dos-i:~g stages Landsdowne came backmore strongly than ever, scorin;.two further tries, one of them withalmost ridieulous ease.

I have singled out none of theTrinity players for particular men-tion: let it merely be said that few,if any, added to their reputations.This is basically a good Trinityteam which certainly does not lackfor individual talent. They will~turn to form no doubt, though at.~.tae moment one can see preeionsfew signs of them doing so.

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Congratnladuns to Terry Walkerwho has stepped into ’Josh Wilkins’shoes as the hard working AssistantSecretary of the Rugby Club, Terryhas been rounding up 150 playersevery Saturday this term to pl:tS"in one of the ten Trinity fifteens.

5latches to watch: Rugby it~College Park. Trinity 1st XV v.Old Wesley.

Harriers were narrowly beateninto third place by Donore andClonliffe in a four-cornered matchat the Phoenix Park (; mile courseon Saturday.

A. Shillington with a time of:]g.29 came well up in the fiehtdespite the strong opposition. S.)usten. R. Harvey, R. Plant andT. Stainer all returned good timesfor the first competition race ore:.’d~e long course this season. TeamResults: 1--Donore ’A’ .51; 2--Clonliffe A 79; 3--Harriers ST;4--Avondale 111.

Squash

The Squash Club began theirmatches last week with wins fori’,oth ’A’ and ’B’ teams, and seemwell equipped for a successfulseason. The ,response to the Trialsshowed the interest there is inCollege for Squash, and consider-able talent was found amongst thenew members. This coupled withthe experience of Rice, Evans,Sprawson and others should enableu~ to keep our usual good recordin the Leinster League.

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Hie* The thing that stops your leg falling off. See alsowith it. See also The Observer.

READING TEE OBSERVER Knowing what gives.

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preferential treatment. They are so

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only two assistants, had to care fortwo hospitals with about 260 beds¯

There is a great shortage of med-

ieine and personnel.

. . . For the youth the problemsare and will remain particularlygreat. Military service in thePeople’s Army is supposedly volun-tm.w. They get their signatures bythreatening expulsion from thefactories and universities. Usuallythey are obliged to sign up for aservice time of two years. I wastold again and again that it wouldbe a better thing if military servicewere officially introduced. Thewhole world would then know ofit, and the intrigues and signingunder threat would have an end.Term began with a harvestingcampaign in which the inmates ofthe universities were transportedin special trains to somewhere inMecklenburg . . .

¯ . . In the factories suspectedpeople are being arrested daily.The jails are overcrowded as neverbefore. No allowance is being madefor youth. Eighteen-year-olds havealready been condemned to ’life.’The People’s Police have had toleave the Church during the lastsix months if they were stillmembers of it . . .

¯ . . Almost all the televisionaerials pointing westwards havebeen taken down. Food supplieswere not bad during my stay. Itwas only potatoes which were notto be had at any price, noe eventwo pounds of them on the speciallyintroduced potato-ration card. Meat,fruit and vegetable supplies werequite good. Naturally fruit wasnot always available and wheneverit was, then only in restrictedquantities of whatever was ripe atthe time.

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¯ . . They a.re reckoning overthere on the signing of the peacetreaty in the near future. That willmost probably mean that customsduty will be put on parcels comingfrom the West, and eventually theintroduction of a travel-visa forentry. They view this developmentwith horror but are neverthelessconvinced that the treaty will besigned soon . . .

¯ . . I was there for the Sundayof the elections. The town was asea of banners and the streetsswam with uniforms. The polling-booths opened at 6 a.m. Whoevervoted that early was given a bunchof flowers. The farmers’ coopera-

tives had to vote before 8 a.m., andeveryone else before 10 a.m. Evenbefore 8 a.m. organised groups(railwaymen, Free German Youth,the pioneers) were on the streetsshouting election slogans in choirs.From 9 a.m. on the Free GermanYouth rang on the door-bells andinstructed the people to vote. Theyall went with indifference to thepoll. "Just don’t think too much.Everyone knows what sort of anelection this is!"

P.S. No-one believes in a second17th June (1953). Any attemptIagainst this totalitarian regime andthe Russians is bound to fail ....

This is John West. He was bornlast term in No. 34. We have beenunable to establish whether he wasnamed after the well-known Corkeconomist or the man who took thebest.

Anyway, his two brothers (ormaybe they’ve sisters) are stillaround College. They are mostlyto be seen around the Theo. whichprobably accounts for the expres-sion "Holy catF’ They have beengiven neither a home nor a name,like John West was. "TrinityNews" offers a free copy everyweek for the rest of the year to theperson submitting the best namesfor the two kittens¯ Entries byMonday, please to "T.N.," No. 3College¯ Winning entries will bepublished next week.

Careers

talkMr. Peter Bond, who is in charge

of ,recruitment for the B.B.C., wasin College on Monday, and he gavea talk on careers with the Corpor-ation in the Appointments Officer’sroom in No. 5.

It is only comparatively recently"that the B.B.C. have started to lookfor new talent among universitygraduates¯ Mr. Bond indicated thevide range of scope that +.here wasin the world of broadcasting andtelevision, and described in somedetail the fascinating and nerve-v;racking job of Studio-Manager,who is the brain behind the pro-duction of most programmes. Acheerful note: except for thehighly competitive General T.rain-in~r Course, which prepares theentrant for the top jobs, theCorporation makes no speeiaIdemand for academic qualifications,preferring instead a thoroughknowledge and appreciation ofartistic subjects of all kinds --cinema, music, drama, etc.

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GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIICI’Y

;n his Presidential Address onWednesday 31st October, J. H.Andrews, M.A., Ph.D. approachedthe topic of "The Discovery ofIreland" from the evolution ofcartographic material. Recognisingthe enormous scope of this subjectDr. Andrews restricted himself tothe chapter of records left fromthe Ireland of Queen Elizabeth 1.

"These maps" said Dr. Andrews"represented Ireland as a rectanglein which ever.~#ching known wasthrown inside to occupy as muchspace as possible." Continuing, heoutlined the advance of Military,regional and administrative maps,with slide illustrations of unpub-lished manuscript surveys whichdepicted a range of topics -- fromCrannogs valiantly defending them-selves to statie idealised plans forPlantation Towns; from the forti-fieati,on cartoons of StrangfordLough to the effective representa-tion of the Carlingford Peninsulav,’ith its roofless chapels andrugged shoreline. Passing from theindividual sm’veys of Lythe, Brownand Bal-theist to that of Speed in1610, Dr. Andrews revealed theheirlooms of Irish Cartography.

In closing the meeting the Chair-man, Mr. de Courcy Hill, thankedDr. Andrews and announced thenext meeting for Wednesday 14thNovember when the sueaker willbe Prof. Jones-Hughes of UniversityCollege Dublin.

institutions sacred in the Icisho rder--Clongowes, the school forlazy country gentlemen. Tullabeg,t!:e ’gr.,~yhound’ training groundfvl’ the Indian civil service.

The ancient customs of s~!tHn-boat marriages and steamboatdegrees were explained to the un-initiated: The former consisted ofparties in a mixed marriage cross-ing the water for the wedding--an extremeIy unedifying practice--though very melt’y! The latter isquite topical. At one time T.C.D.was once again, low in funds, sothe bright idea materialised ofoffering a degree--on payment ofa modest £30--to all women whohad passed the degree examinationat Oxford or Cambridge, but who,as members of the fair sex, wereunable to be conferred. The ladiestook a day trip to Dublin in honourof the ,occasion; thus ending (tern-porarily) the financial embarrass-ment of T.C.D.

Other stray thoughts of note: itis good to be a rebel in one’syouth; religious communities thriveon being in debt--Holy Poverty,and finally, by some law, tax orother rule, it transpired that there.ore the public drank, the moremoney there was to be spent onsecondary education -- a thoughtwith great appeal to many under-graduates.

At a well-attended meeting inthe Laurentian Society rooms inNo. 5 on Thursday November 1st,the speaker was Eoin O’Mahony,K.M., noted raconteur, radio andtelevision personality, and a grad-hate of T.C.D.

His stray thoughts had, as atenuous theme, the position ofCatholics in Trinity; as originallydefined at the foundation, asobserved in the past, and comparedwith the Colleges of the NationalUniversity. The statesmen andchurchmen of the 19th centuryPeel, Newman, Manning and Cullen,who figured in the formation of the~ttitudes towards T.C.D. and thefoundation ,of the N.U., gainedmention, mainly honourable, fromMr. O’Mahony. He commented on

The G.M.B. burst at the seamsfor a most successful Mod. Lang.Inaugural. This was undoubtedlyon account of the society’s scoopin obtaining Micheal McLiammoiras one of the speakers.

The chairman, John Rawlins,gave an entertaining and sym-pathetic address on Oscar Wilde.Ulick O’Connor stressed the in-fluence of Trinity on Wilde, l~of.Edwards provided an academicviewpoint, McLiammoir gave acolourful performance, occasionallymentioning Wilde, and Jack Whitemade the satirical quip of the even-ing on the architecture of theG.M.B.

It was an entertaining and wittyevening, but with an inevitablesuperficiality; not because of thespeakers, bu~ merely of the natureof Wilde’s genius.

BERLIN contd.more subtle¯ In the entrance hallof the Ministry for All-GermanProblems there are huge blow-upsof the two photographs which werecirculated to the w, orld’s pressabout a year ago. One shows anelderly East German couple lean-ing piteously from a window andthe other a group of weepingwreath-bearers at the grave of anescape-victim. The Ministry’s infor-mation-service is keyed to a highpiteh, and a special fleet of loud-speaker vans ("The Barbed-WireService") broadcasts across theWall to East Berliners.

The Wall has become part of thelife of the West Berliners nov,-.From the newspapers it is easy toimagine that West Berlin is asmall concentration of people ofintense political awareness, acutelyconscious of being the fuse ofWorld War II.I. But this is afallacy. You have only to listen toconversations in the street or atthe next table in a care. Peopletalk of the same things as they doin London, Paris or New York --rent, new elothes, the pictures--allthe trappings of a conventionallymaterialistic society. Their aspir-ations are more t, owards an apart-ment in the plush Hansaviertel, ora weekend cottage on the Wmmsee,and German l’eunifieation remainsa vague notion in the back of theirminds. It is a handful of idealists,s~udents or simply teddy-boys whocarry the crosses, lay the wr,~athsand stone the Soviet buses.

On the Bernauer Strasse--sceneof many of the dramatic escape-bids, where wooden crosses, hungwith flowers, mark the spot wherevictims fell--you can buy a packetof photographs "of Wall with theBarbed Wire" for two marks.Tourists are encouraged to visitthe Wall and take pictures of theEast German gua~