THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 24, · 1952.
Look........... this is how it happened... Four minutes of my life that boosted me to fame..
YOUR minutes is the time it took me to crash through the gaolers and roach Mussolini. The otide against us were fantastic. That is why I knew we could not fail.
The bigger the guard the safer they feel. The better. the troops the more automatic their reflexes. They are trained to obey, to wait on a command. Under orders .`· they will fight like copybook heropa. Without orders they are lost.
beropa.
One thing more I have learned. I the surprise is - blg enough you can always, always count on threo full minutes of confusion. In the case
of Mussolini it took an
extra minute, but we
pulled it
That
extra
minute
won a year of freedom for Mussolint.
anatched him from the air just as he was about to be handed to the Allies, He was grateful to me.
I was
·louded with presents and a photo- graph Inscribed "In truo
Dul
for
man's
vitality was gone. I
saw him again for the
last timo Just before
esraival of Milan.
There'll be
no hiding-place,
I tell you, for
future fuehrers
He talked for hours about the catastrophe facing Europe from the Asiatic peoples. sad , decline.
for
INSTALMENT TWO, of
THE TOUGHEST MAN ALIVE Presented for the first time....the Aghting philosophy of Hitler's Boldler-Without-a-Textbook, ex-95-man, OTTO SKORZENY, Do his exploits entitle him to be known, as The Toughest Man Alive", .,? Well, judge for yourself.
As told to CHARLES FOLEY
lived to Sght 230 Italiung in The hallway was full of entrenched positions.
Italian troops. Before they could We rushed our pluris.. We begin to think I forced a way fixed zero hour 2 p.m. through the mob with the butt instead of waiting for next day's of my tommy-gun and rushed the Thai meant landing in stairs three at a time, I turned full daylight against incalculable down, a gallery, threw open a
door at random,
dawn.
'werin air currents.
Another bombing raid came we left, and two of just before wo
Surrender
12 gliders hit craters taking off. That leli ten. Half- way there, at 12,000ft. the twa I saw Rudolf less after the war leading gliders simply disap- HERE was Mussolini with two
Nuremberg. in
He flew to peared. They were to have led Britain on Hitler's orders to seek us down and covered the attack. peace, and he was disowned as a madman when he failed.
Climax
Italian officers.
In a moment I was joined by a friend. He thrust the officers out of the room, banged the door. Mussolini was in our hands.
Drawn by ROBB
We lifted just enough to taka the jump, hit the ground again. see-sawed over the edge of tho fleld and down.
out a
Jew
wifed for the crush
evened Girinch hundred feet over the valley and flew through a Cap in the mountains towards Rome. Our landing gear was damaged in the take-off. Girlach made a two- point landing. We were there.
Long faces
In all things.
there is only
ONE
BEST
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hla end came in the bludy Student. Only three other men I have no doubt he meant it in Italy were tet into our secret. Mussolint had been spirited away by his captors. Tho
STILL laugh to think of the · « search was a desperate. race
long faces at the Fuehrer's across false trails laid by the
headquarters when I left Hitfor Italians, At last we found he
later on after receiving his con- was immured in the naval
gratulations. fortress of Santa Maddalena. hair stood on end when I found WITH a knife I slashed the
By now slx more gliders · bud - The staff were
horrifled; it that Mussolit had been taken. W fabric between my fest to landed. The last was washed Mussolini could be kidnapped -over-the-island to re-off that morning- in-a-white-ace where we were going. The to pieces. Still no shot had been one day, then Hitler might be connoitre. British fighters forced
ambulance plane. For me it was Gran Sassa swung below. The a narrow escape from the gadded gliders were released. cell.
Another shock: the field be-
The luck of that extra minute made me famous overnight. I om nover allowed to forget it.
Mission
-I-few-
my plane into the stars for rescued by an Italian cruiser.
they could not
Before the final assault on Santa Maddalena I visited the island disguised as a sailor. My
Through a series of ruser we ho had been trans- ferred to an Alping hotel 0,000 fent, up the Abruzzi range in
lialy Every pate was cut off by Italian troops..?
Fon' me, it was one missien my erraid. I had tom of my among many. For Germany, uniform. A naked man offers the propaganda value was beyond few clues to his identity! .price. It inspired the last war
buljgting to ba broadenst with When all was ready for the victory fanfares,"
assault we were staggered by a counter order. Admiral Canaris, Hey counted it a great batile Chief of German Intelligence, won. Ho ordered' a brother claimed that Mussolini was not offteer in Vienna to hand me on Santa Maddalena, but on his own Knight's Cross so that another island near Kiba, which Ishould be the Brst soldier to we were to attack at once with hotel was a fortress be decorated on the vory day of paratroops.
the uction:
The story bogan when I was
suddenly fetched by special plane, to the 'Fuchrer's head-
Warning
quarters. This was. the first moDAY we know that Canaris lizo I saw Hitler.
did not want. Germany to, He told me Mussolini had been win the war, He gave Hitler overthrown and arrested by a false Information. If we struck treacherous new Hallan Govern- at the wrong objective it would ment. He said:—~
be fatal for Mussolini's chonces. It would also justify Italy in
In the hotel, he was guarded with orders to fight to the death. by 250 crack mountain soldiers
I flew over ·In, a plane. su
The
on a jagged peak. In the freezing sky hung from the waist out of the plane to take ple- ture: while my adjutant held my legs. Then it was his tum to try.
We, Bew home to land and found our headquarters bomb- ed to bits. Fighting had also begun be tween German and
Italian troops round Rome,
fire.
CAMB
The Italian commander carried off the next. Into the room. I gave him
00 seconds to surrender.
For hours security chlofs
hind the hotel was as sleep as a ski-jump and I was strewn with boulders like bathtubs, me. To the victor, he said, triving new defences.
General Student had forbidden
Thoughtfully, he filled a goblet grilled me on the operation. Wo drove round the headquarters with red wine and handed it to looking for weak spots and con-
But, take it from, me, thero will- never be
certain safeguard for future fuehrers.
I drank it. I was thirsty.
A shoot waved train the
us to crash-land. Must we, then, abandon the attack and window. My men swarmed in sail down to the valley? Orders, You cannot foresee everything. Umes be disobeyed. in my philosophy, must at proper We had planned to take Musso
lini down the mountain-side, but I shouted to the we could not get contact with
troops below. pilot: "Crashland." our paratroops
NEXT SATURDAY
That Bomb.. chaos and one soldler's chance...
We hit the ground. Then I s saw German observa- We tumbled over the tion plane-a Storch-hovering rocks.
I got the troops the hotel. I over I was alive, I tum- to
cough runway and bled out of the signalled the torch and, wreckage with Captain Girlach, Student's several men behind personal pilot, stopped. out, me. First thing I said he must lift Mussolint out. saw was a corner of He went pole. I said I would the hotel with an
with them. He said: In- Italian sentry.
Now the climax. the ground.
possible. We would never leave Even a tiny plane The soldier was like this
must have a proper stupefied when we runway." crashed out of the sky, I knew what he wanted his abul
cries out for orders,
Our pictures showed a rough or at least for fire to return. We
до
Take-off.
"Italy is on the verge of cross- somerspulling Inis the Allied ing uver to the Allies. Mussolint camp. must be rescued before he is handed to Eisenhower. I entrust
So with Student I flew to the field behind the hotel. The did not Are. you with this mission. Whatever Fuehrer's headquarters. Then, only hope was to land gliders on the dangers you must succeoa. as always, I expressed myt, to strike so quickly, so sud- me i ran past him to an open
With my men panting behind I appealed to him. Even if my 15 stone increased the The effect on the course at the opinions frankly,
denly, that Mussolini's Guards door. Another
soldier was prospect of disaster it would, be war will be incalculable."
Hitler decided Canarls was would have no time to resist, no sitting at a radio transmitting better that we should all le
that from together than
I should wrong. He approved my plans time to carry off their prisoner set. I kicked the chair for
attack on Santa above all, no time to kill him.
under him. I smashed the radio survive alone to give Hitler the Our experts said "Impossible." with my gun.
news that in rescuing Mussolini Maddalena by land, seu, ond
we had killed him. air. Then he added utis un-. That put fresh heart in me be- cause the enemy would think zo
We raced round ancthor We squoczed in together. comfortable warning-
100.
corner of the hotel. There, at a With soldiers hanging to the "If the rald falls I may have The experts sald we could not first-floor window, a familiar wings, the engine was started.
Mussolini! We The soldiers let go. to repudiate you. I shall say put down more than 100 men in shaven head.
Rocking you acted without orders. You such a space; never had gliders dashed for the main entrance. helter-skelter as it bounded over must not defend yourself against landed in such thin mountain Two machine-guns. We knocked the stones, the Storch gainod command of air forcs General this accusation."
air; we would be lucky if 20 men them over.
speed. Ahond was a crevAESE..
False trails
AMino-hero-worshipper. Yet that Hitler's
I must admit
Haze us he shook hands conveyed a hypnotic conviction.
I went out to Rome under the
an
THE NINE MEN WHO BOSS TRUMAN
INE
NIN
Washington,
men now stand in the spotlight in the
USA They are the judges.
who make up the Supreme
Of his eight associate judges to time sending scribbled notes unwary by striking matches on
So-and-So, not Mr Justice-the disrupt the gravity of the pro- two most often in the headlines ceedings. are Black and Jackson, for they have a long-standing personal
By Frederick each is addressed as plain Justice to his colleagues which often the rent of his trousers,
Cook
yend
They have to decide Court sit on, the bench like a calm and stuabama. gentle, during her recent visit here. In the lone Republican. He is 64,]
RUVATO
as "the
Eight of the nine beleng to the Democratic Party, Burton A story is told of the Queen's of Ohio Harold H. Burton, former Mayor of Cleveland--15 The Nine Men who make up vendetta. Black; 46, is a South- encounter with Frankfurter Court of the United States, the Justices of the Supreme emner from
He is the one of the enterooms she asked amable, easy going and known "What do to some disrespectful barristera whether or not President row of black crows on a tele antithesis of 60-year-old Robert, one of the justices,
son, a forceful, vitriolle, you do in here?" Frankfurter
pruse." Truman has acted illegally of Jackson,
the pageantry of English
Judges outspoken New Yorker.
got in frat with the answer. In sharp contrast is his neigh- In seizing the steel induatry:
tie
bottomed wigs, no Jackson prosecuted Gooring This, madim," he said. "la bour on the bonch, Tom Clark. and putting it under nosegays, ne semlet and gold. and Ribbentrop at Nuremburg, where we make our mlatekes." A big flamboyant Texan
with Government control, to pre- They wear black gowns over He looks, and sometimes is,
and cold: a. lawyer's And when the Queen's party loud bow ties and flashy sults. yent a labour disputa from their dari dults; that is all.
As Judges go, they are rather lawyer with a handsome face strolled into the cathedral-like Clark-baby of the court, is $2.
Lust of the team is Skermon shutting it down.
young. Not one of them is 70 and a prim, somewhat acidulous courtroom self, With Ita 24 Minton of Indiana, 61, who Unlike Britain, tha yet: one is only 52.
mumive expression.
columns
Sienno of
makes few headlines. With marble, its medallions United States is a country
,and horn-rimmed glasses high up on They are headed by the Chief
panels and blood-red velvet cur- with a writton Constitution. Justice, solemn old Fred Vinzon,
Then there
tains, Frankfurter added: "And his wrinkled brow he looks like Is 67-year-old Vinson This is an 18th century 62-year-old Kentuckian.
Stanley Reed, also from Ken this, madam, is where ve ana wise old owl, document that lives in a revels in the knowledge that he tucky. He is unspectacular, nounce 'em and make
official," hermetically sealed cask is quite uncommonly ugly. His
What do the Nine Jaw, conservativa by
Men Next kept in the Library of Con-aging jowl and long, hooked statistical expert strong on cor
Elis to Frankfurter ows and fur poration grose just across
Instinct and inclination with William O. Douglas bard of as they are called Get? the rowed forehend give him the
pensive sheep dog, pince-nez, perched estride his
muscle, crapgy-faced atreet from the Supreme look of
Will They got security the Jos are theirs for life. They get At his feet, as he sits on the thin nose..
Rogers type who takes off at Court building.”.
bengh, Vinson keeps a largo One only, of the nine was not every opportunity to climb top-shelf social standing and, swien what is extremely rate: far brass sultigen.
bom in the United States. This mountaina, has
they got Off duty he favourd a cream, is the oldest, Felix Frankfurter. badly hurt on them and once American publie
almost killed. Douglas
‚a' high degree of He was bom almost 70 years o
Public reipack came Also they are well paid (Chief law passed by Congress wavy-brimmed Western hat. funlike a inw. pasted by Parlla When he goes holidaying with ago in Vienna, was Dean of Her homo recently from the Middle Justice Vinson gets 9,100, his
Last
and: wrple R book from ment) can be challenged on the "zlend.. Karry Kruman be vard law school when Franklin ich appears that Persians, Pappiate Justices £8,925 each)
Sanders-of-the-River Roosevelt round that it is inconstity wears 4.
enlled - him- to the Indians, Egyptians and Above all they get power with flobalSimilarly enynellan sun haimet at impeccable whited bench. Fundame, is tans are just simpler à capital Pi-Tha Presidérik
decisions home-loving people, all of whom Statek, and 160 million
Congrem, the armed for taken by the President can be ncis But for going to court he teacher still
the challenged in the same way. The dons a black hamburg or a brim sound like classroom
lectures
people all must how to the decisions of Eupreme Court can it wishes up formal Panama, according to A. sharp le sparrow of like Americans.
redelther Controns еда
person... Vinson is an avid poker man he is barely, Visible on the At 68 Douglas preters cowboy the Nibo?? Mm, Fram: “Din oldal by declaring Fact or player and one they say to beach grocking back and forth hats and bool to formal attire there to no ayosaliphat
lah matalinong in his past their ind fram fime chews gum- und startless the worldi.
nose, shaggy brows
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