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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 5, 1952.
WHAT MAKES A FIRST-CLASS
SECRET AGENT?
by STANLEY MOSS
AUTHOR OF "ILA
NEY BY MUOKLIONY."
SUPPOSE I know anxious to secure for veniently short memories of erst-
while aliica her as well as any her. Englishman
Christine Granville was a Polc. -Chris-
As for her wartime at The Yalta Conference had taken tino Granville, who complishments, they would place before she parachuted into died with a charge of mur- fake a story of heroism un France. She know that her coun- der following her death. paralleled. But Christine try had been sold to Russia and Granville did not have a that she herself would not only be unable to return there Bat book written or a film made would also be deprived of every- about her exploits. Yet thing that she had
striven" and she operated as a remark fought for ably successful agent, not merely for a year or two, but from the first days of the war till the last,...
Wra
She
a person who never spoke about herself nor divulged anything of her feelings, accomplishments. or aspirations.
She used to raise an im- perceptible barrier against deep personal relations with anyone.
She would never accept an invitation to any party or social function, and even if you asked her to your home she would come only if you previously assured her that there would be no other guest present.
During the scores of times that I met her I can- not recall a single instance when she uttered a word about herself.
Just a smile
་་
In a sentence, she had nothing whatever to gain; but her life to lose, and yet she was not for a moment deferred.
She continued the struggle, "Just ng the Polish divisions on the main battle front went on
Captured twice lighting, long after it was known
she
TWICE was captured by
the Gestapo and on both occasions she escaped By her own
devices.
She malle 19 parachute jumps, She rescued three Allied om- cers from the condemned cell of en 5.5. grol.
When no man could be found to cross the Carpathians in the Inid-winter of 1940 to retrieve some secret documents
from
Poland, Christine Gravite vol
unteered to go.
Not only did she go, but long- handed she returned there five
IF, in effect, I ever asked times and was successful on cuel
that Poland's causo had been snerfficed for the common bene it of the other allies.
LONELIEST EYES
Only two people can be found to whom everything in life lacks every colour
By Joseph Garrity
On two years scientists have been looking for people who are totally
It hat, I see, been stated, that she sometimes dined in a small restaurant with a Polish friend, who was described as a small-colour blind. time builder and decorator, what has not been said was that They have found only two the small-time builder and de among Britain's 50,000,000 corator was a major of pathhur Lancers who holds not population. only the British Military Cross but was also twice awarded the Polish Virtuti Militari, the equivalent of the Victoria Cross.
Our debt
the Car
Now the scientists the Vision Research unit of the Institute of Ophthalmology -urgently need a third to carry on their researches.
UDWIG POPIEL Is this man's
Ono in ten men and one name. He is one of the in 500 women suffer from bravest men I have ever niet (he won his M.C. for capturing some form of colour-blind- German machine-gun nest when ness. armed only with a handful of bricks), and so is his cousin, who But to two people the was Christine Granville's closest world is permanently grey. Sunsets, paintings, flowers,. trees, a child's bright eyes
In his little bungalow this ALFRÉD JACKSON—TOTALLY are just a dull shade. be- good-humoured, bespectacled ex-
COLOUR BLIND tween black and white, Serviceman Jives д normal
A "man in fty million,"
her a question about her occasion. work during the war, she
Characteristically, the sought Iwould just give a self- no reward for her achievements, effacing smile and change and it was only through the in the subject.
tercession of those who appre She would accept assist- cinted all she had accomplished that she was persuaded to accept. ance from no one; and the George Medal and the O.B.E. friend.
This cousin, whose entire when, after the war, her
It was not difficult to under- family was butchored by the estates in Poland were con- stand w: y Christine was such
Germans, lost his right leg in an fiscated and she found her brilliant agent. Her reticence, accident just before the war, but self jobless in London, she even amont close friends, was this did not prevent him from preferred to seek employ- sufficient indication of her stub- becoming a parachutist and an
What is life like without family life with his wife and extremely active secret agent
baby son. But recently ha ment as a hotel receptionist boraness if confronted by n It is people like
Gestapo torturer. Her coolness, -
colour? First meet:- him, like
leaped to fame, Major Popiel, Uke unusual
Christina
owe
or a stewardess rather than her modesty, and-an to take advantage of For- thing in present-day spies and, Granville, to whom two eign Office or similar posts agents-her great beauty of facy a debt which we can never pro- which many of her British and figure thoroughly equipped perly repay. Too long have these friends and admirers were her, for this
most perilous of people who live in thousands among us been denied any open- jobs.
But there is another point acknowledgement. Perhaps, then, about her which 1 think we this is a fitting moment for much would do well to consider, for a gesture to be made.
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THE MAN
LFRED RAYMOND JACK-
"The scientists," he said, "fell me that the nearest, uhdlogy of my condition is that I scolifo bs a three-dimensionat. mario-
handed gesture of friendship and. A SON, 85-year-old clerks, of Chrome movie.
-(London Express Service)
Welwyn Garden City, has al- ways been a fellow who would pass in a crowd.
HIS LORDSHIP DEALT
IN MILLIONAIRES
TOE DUVEEN was popu By GEORGE. SCOTT art,
JOE
lar with deck stewards
never
on Atlantic liners. But he could
understand their delight when he tipped them a mere 100 dollars for moving his deck-chair.
He transformed U,S. taste As the American dramatist S.
N. Behrman says, in a biography
"I muddied through my boy! hood years mystined and m barrassed, But now I can identify many colours by experience, deduction, and common
He pointed to my penell, "To mo that is the lightest shade of grey," he said. "Experience has told me that yellow, dirty white, and pink fall into that tona category. It is unlikely to be white or pink so I would............. say It is yellow.”
Hls deduction was correct.
Mr Jackson first described his own front door as red, Alber He would subtly deprecate the of Duveen published recently an aston'shed protest from his value or blatantly deny the he "forced American collectors to wife he ecretly identified it authenticity of works of at that necumulate great things, infused as green.
them with a fierce pride in
were not his to sell.
MRS GRANT-AND EMBROIDERY
Each twist of coloured milk is tabbed for her.
A rival dealer said of Duveen-collecting, and finally got their "My problem was largely when he died in 1939, aget 69: collections into museums, muking solved when I married," he said. A trifle, admittedly, when "We miss him, but we are glad it possible for the American" enn play snfe now by, leaving I the final result of the chair- he has gone,'
people to see a large share of my wide to deelde about colours. the world's most beautiful art
i ured moving is remembered
"When I was younger without having to go, abroad." the passing of 5,000,000
Money, rower, and intimacy to make some shocking blunders when buying clothes. I once dollars into the hands of Duveen's cardinal dictum was: with the great and noble-Queen bought a frightfut' green het with many more delicato tones
was his Duveen, the world's most "When you pay high for the Mary. for instance,
priceless you're successful art dealer.
Eetting it friend and patron-came to Joe thinking it was brown, I' over- He made largo profits Duveen, cheap."
So did a knighthood, ing dir ensemble of tray and Deck
stewards, valets, out of his clients his biggest, and, In 1933, a peerage, butlers, were the instru- eingle:
·Brought him
self.
•
came this by permanently wer
mikroon-shaded easley" fë, me id guess."
in it."
Mrs Grant, mother of three, is attractive, with a jolly per
abic.
zonality. "I dare not use rouge,, she laughed, because I do not ments with which Duveen £7,000,000 for 42 items but
know what my complexion is.. Mr Jackson lot been amateur arranged "chance" meetings he paid out immense sums, bim-
Lord Duveen of Millbank, As
"Mother on whom rely with American million-
he called himself the man who photographer. But, he He bought eight, large collets he been born over the Huff d
cannot 101 the mainly for guidance in all mat- aires.
tions in 60 years; invested delft-and-furniture shop of a difference between photographs ters concerning colour, selected £0,000,000 in them,
Hand paintings."
a Upstick with a number.
But Dutch father-knew he was a His clients often owed him great man and liked to be told
Although he is fond of his I never leave the house unleas millions at a time, but he never go But his philanthropy was garden he cannot pick out many assured that my face is present- These meetings blossomed charged them interest. It enst as generous, as his conception of Bowers from the grey, back- into friendships with a happy him nearly £200,000 a year his own importance.
ground of daves, When ho "My sight is partiet in every ending. Happy for Duveen, and run his three establishments in
To save friends in trouble ho photographs his ruses he, sica ofier respect, but my mirror happy for the millionaires,
New York, Paris, and London, would pay "Duveen prices for them as different shades of grey does not tell me that I have
In 1908 he owed 20,000,000, their These Industrial
were as they appear in the finished golden hair and blue-grey eyes magnates
paintings, which who came to wealth in the virile When he made his last sale, worthless to him. Ho Eave print
or that I have made a mess ora of American adolescence, after half a century of specula £200,000 to the British Red
applying lipstice or powder." had immense power, but lacked tion, he was out of debt, hid Cross, presented the gallery for the trappings of majesty
Mrs Grant never discioses, her disability to shop assistants. Sho zaid:Dross shops used either to take advantage of my colour.
offered them beauty, 700,000 in the bank, and the Elan Marbles: fo the Bri-')
Duvcen
worth £2,000,000. and,
tinh Museum, made large gifs aven,
"In America," he once said, to the sort of immortality a
Tale and National want only He could change them from "they
the top- Galleries, mere magnates into art patrons, notchers. If I had the Sistine
Altogether he gave away, more He convinced them he was Chapel, I could sell it tomorrow
than 23,000,000, the only man who could give half a dozen times over." them this boon. To this end To satisfy the millionaires tie ho was ruthless with rivoj art deprived Britain and Eumpe of dealers,
some of their finest works of
JOHNNY HAZARD
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in
THE WOMAN
MRS JOAN GRANT. 31. blindness or they would embarks
Olion, near Birmingham, Is the woman
on boring questions,
"I have developed mucii. "It is really no great hardship cunning in discovering - thé to me" she said. "I see the colours of materials: without world as a photograph but having to aste anybody.","
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