THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 6, 1989.
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THE GROVER ROMANCE Briton To Be Allowed To Leave Moscow With His Russian Wife
Released From Prison: Meets Wife For First Time In Four Years
London, To-day.
Brian Grover, the British engineer whose illegal aeroplane dash to the Soviet to help his Rus- sian wife moved the Russian authorities to leniency, is now completing formalities for the release of his wife from Soviet citizenship. Grover, it will be recalled, hearing that his wife was starving, threw up his job with a firm of consulting engineers, bought a plane, learned to fly, and landed in Russia, after a permit had been refused him.
He was arrested and found guilty of illegal entry, but the Soviet authorities later relented and
An ex-midshipman of the British Royal Navy, the Reverend David Mathew, Chaplain to the Catholic students of the Univers.ty of London, has been appointed Bishop to Cardinal Hinsley, Archbi shop of Westminster. He was in the Royal navy during the latter part of the Great War. He became a priest in 1929 and next year became assistant priest at St. David's Cathedral and chaplain of Cardiff University. He is also the author of a number of well-known books. Photo shows the Reverend Mathew, prostrate on the altar, during the ceremony which appointed him a Bishop at Westminster Cathedral. He has also been made titular Bishop of Elia.
granted permission for Mrs. Grover to return COLONEL BECK
to England with him.
QUAKER CENTRE TO BE FORMED IN SHANGHAI
London, To-day.
Mr. and Mrs. Grover were ex- pected to leave for
night via Warsaw.
London last
VISITS
It is now revealed that Mr. Grover HERR HITLER
was released from prison at mid- night, when he met his wife for the first time in four years at the department of the Commissariat for Home Affairs.
NOTHING BUT COMPLIMENTS
Mr. Grover said to Reuter that he had nothing but compliments The formation in Shanghai of a for the manner in which the So Quaker centre of reconciliation and|viet authorities handled his case. friendship, proposed in November last year, has moved a step nearer realisation.
T. Silcock, Yesterday, Mr. H.
to Chinese director and adviser students at the Universities China Secre- Committee in London, and tary to the China. Society, left for China.
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Sailing from Liverpool in "Britannic," Mr. Silcock was companied by Dr. Herbert Hodg- kin, son of the famous Dr. Henry Hodgkin.
FIRST TO AMERICA
They will first go to New York, and will then 'spend ten days Philadelphia and Chicago.
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They plan to sail from Vancouver Russia" on in the "Empress of January 21, and will stay in Yoko-
He added that they treated him extremely well and courteously in the Lubianka Prison.
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Mr. Grover revealed that he had
personal interview with Livientiberia, the new chief of the Commissariat for Home Affairs, be- ing the first foreigner to be ever accorded such an interview.-Reu- ter.
LONDON SATISFACTION British Wireless says that great taken in Mr.
Berlin, To-day.
Colonel Joseph Beck, the Polish Foreign Minister, who is visiting Germany, had a long talk with Hitler at Berchtesgaden yesterday afternoon...
The Nazi Foreign Minister, Herr Joachim von Ribbentrop, was also present.
-ANOTHER- SUPREME COURT BATTLE?
Washington, To-day. Mr. Felix Frankfurter, a Pro- fessor at Harvard Law School, Associate has been named an Justice of the United States Su- preme Court by President Roose- velt, in succession to Judge Car- dozo, who died last July,
Professor Frankfurter, who is of Austrian Jewish descent, is an outspoken champion of Liberalism and is highly sympathetic to the New Deal objectives.
His nomination is likely to lead to a struggle in the Senate when it comes up for confirmation.
-Reuter.
CLAIM AGAINST FORMER ENVOY
No statement was issued regard- Ming the questions discussed but it is understood that the matters may have included the question of Jewish refugees in Poland, the minorities and Danzig.-Reuter.
BREAKING A JOURNEY
Montecarlo, To-day. Colonel Beck, the Polish Foreign
New York, To-day. Professor William Dodd, former Minister, who has been spending a short holiday on the Riviera left
in- U. S. Ambassador to Berlin, has for Milam yesterday. It was Grover's case, and the British au- thorities in Moscow have done their timated here yesterday evening that been sued for $50,000 damages be- utmost on his behalf, so that there Colonel Beck would break his jour-fore the Richmond Court following Munich for the purpose it is sup-down and badly hurt a four year is considerable satisfaction in of-ney home by leaving the train in the accident in which he knocked ficial circles as well as popular gratification at the ending of the posed of having an interview with old negro girl.-Trans-Ocean.
Hitler. Trans-Ocean.
Beck travelled by special train to Munich.-Trams-Ocean.
interest has been
incident.
hama a few days contacting Ja-and Japanese is always an import- panese friends.
They arrive in Shanghai about the middle of February, and hope that the Quaker Centre in Shang hai will be established at the be ginning of march at the Y.M.C.A. in Bubbling We'l Road, where it is likely a room will be provided.
ant objective, London Quakers em- phasise that mothing will be done which is in any way susceptible to political activity, from which it is! the Quakers' fundamental rule to abstain.
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Before leaving London yesterday, Mr. Silcock and Dr. Hodgkin| Mr. Silcock and Dr. Hodgkin will keep in the closest touch with terviewed local Quakers, on whose advice they Chinese
COMMUNIQUE SAYS NOTHING
Berchtesgaden, To-day. The following communique on to the visit of Colonel Beck
issued yesterday Hitler was evening:
The Fuehrer received in, the presence of the Foreign Minis- ter, von Ribbentrop, yesterday afternoon at three o'clock at the Berghof, the Polish Foreign Minister who, on his return from Monte Carlo to Warsaw, in spending two days
i8 Mr. Quo Tai-chi, the Ambassador, and Mr.
depend in planning practical work. Mamoru Shigemitsu, the Japanese,
NO POLITICS
While the hope of working for
Ambassador.
Both Ambassadors expressed deep wished them good interest and
a better feeling between Chinese fortune-Reuter.
Munich."
Colonel Beck after taking tea With Hitler left Obersalzberg for Berchtesgaden at about a quarter past six.
From Berchtesgaden, Colonel
NO OFFICIAL INFORMATION
Berlin, To-day.
is forthcoming No information concerning the conversation which Colonel Beck had with Hitler, but |informed quarters emphasise that there could be nothing in the way of surprise and still less of sensa- tion from a purely private visit | such as that" aid by Beck to Hitler. It would, therefore, it is added, be erroneous to indulge in exten- sive political speculations in con- nection with the event.
It must, however, be presumed that questions interesting both countries were discussed. Trans- Ocean.