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London Express Service

THE SPY CICERO, played by James Mason in the film 'Five Fingers,' gave D-Day secrets to Hitler's agent, Papen. Were the British fooled? Today, Papen tells his story. SEFTON DELMER demands a sequel-

On Istanbul-Ankara

Express.

LD von Papen is at it nguin. It is just 121⁄2 years ago that

1 climbed on to this train to travel up to An- kara to report what this ablest and most polished of Hitler's agents was plotting against us in his new role as Hitler's ambassador to Turkey.

Here I am now on my way up to Ankara once more on a very different mission. But lo! von Papen is with me again.

As the last glimpses of the Sea of Marmara flash by my window I am study- ing the old intriguer's last sting

his memoirs.*

The most poisonous sting is for Sir Hughe Knatchbull- Hugessen, Papen's British adversary in Turkey. With

Shatter the lies

about the valet-spy!

the end of

1943, of tian in order to exercise a re- war by Cairo conversations between the straining influence on the mad Turkish Prasident, Churchill, proletarian dictator. and Roosevelt.

"We

Never once picture of Papen the ambitious baron, who He quetey telegrams ver having tasted

power wanted glving their num- batim,

to slay with it. bers: And he says:-

As evidence of his devotion to Western civilisation

Paper mentions that he was in 1820 strumental in founding the Association for the Maintenance of Western Culture.” What he does not mention was that as secretary of this society he and his friends appointed one Wer- ner von Aivensleben,

also learned that the possibility of an Allied attack on The Balkans through Salonika could be ruled out. The Supreme Command now realised that the only real threat with which it had to contend was the invasion of France ........

"We were thus able to ap-

a superb show of dog-don't- ` prectate the Intentions of our bite-dog chivalry Papen eremit in a way that can tells how unwilling he was hardly

of

have 21 parallel military history."

thia Now

con-

FRANZ VON PAPEN Germany's envoy to Turkey 1939-44.

rushed

Berlin, a story which Hindenburg into making Hiller Chancellor."

Look it up in the cuttings,

Herr von Papen,

May I also give a word of advice to Sir Hughe and the Foreign Office? From what I have heard about Operations Cicero here In Turkey and elsewhere, you have got

Papert's had shattering reply

same the

A BOAST

to have the story told

after Hitler how a German agent re-

allegation

of THE day

seized power this moved a safe key from the Fapen's is going to have

sitting in repercussions in the Alvensleben, siderablo

particularly in offices of the cacciation which United States,

Isolationist camp, which Paper had founded, boasted to

accusing

the me how it was he who had is always. British of hopeless incompetence put Hitler into power: "It was the story that and insecurity, and urging the 1 who spread

had

the ordered President

sharo Scaleicher not lo

Potsdam, garrison to march on secrets with such allies.

H. KHATCHBULL-HUGESSEN Lavey to Turkey 1939-44

sleeping ambassador's trou- ser pocket and then photo- graphed top secret docu- ments in his aafe.

"I wanted to spare (him) any embarrassment."

the

HIS PLAN

-exactly what Papen wants to dis- credit the British in American eyes.

THIS I believe is

The whole book tends to re- present Germans, and purtica- larly Papen, as good Europeans whose noble attempts at European understanding and unification have been constantly frustrated by Britain's tfivide and rule" policy.

THE

accusations.

to

You may not want to use it because It Involves revealing secret. You would rather go down to history as fools than do that I admire this self- sacrifice. But snap out of it. Let's have the truth.

-(London Express Service)

Sitting On The Fence

By.

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

I never thought I would read again, but there i was in a dear Hulle woman's magnake "Despite severni nccidents in the hunting field, sho's will frights 'hily fond of horses."

HE'S frightfully fond

of horses

for

Though accidents in-

little redder as he flounced out nt the room.

Talking to Yourself

"I am

Krent talker. If

can't find anybody ok to talk to swelt′′*—

Confession to a columnist.

SAID to the manager,

That the horses she's so I said, I won't put up with

fond of

Are not so fond of her.

For horses, they remember

As well as elephants, And women they don't care for They kick them in the pants,

They throw them over hedges

And into Icy prola And laugh a bitter horse laugh

At sprawling, muddy fools. At night time in the stables, They're smiling in the bay And dreaming of the accidenta

That make a horse's day.

it any longer, I said,

"Twenty-five

I've

worked for you, I sold, and

the last riso

years

got was D

measly £1.a week ten year

ago.

There you sit, I said, fat and.amug, leaning back in your swivel chair telling me that you can't afford another £1 a week becauto times are bad. They're not bad for you, I sald, yu great, overfed ab. I said.

"But for the work I've done

hiero, 1 said, you couldn't afford 10 send your mentally retarded son to the university. rer give champagne parties to parade your hideous daughter

Very Red Dean before the eligible peerage

the

like fat stock at a cattle show. DACK from China, where he You'd better get her off soon, has been investigating al- 1 sald, before she gets foot and legations of germ warfare, mouth disease.

"Who better Venerable N, Ġubbing,

said, to are you known as the Red Dean, more marry your daughter into an account of his high colour peerage, I sald. Why, I said, it braing than his politics, was interview if you hadn't used my

to make your money the ed by reporters.

peerage wouldn't let you in at After stating that he had Ir- the tradesmen's entrance, let refutable proof that the United alone into the family, you com Nations forces had dropped la- men little upstart, I said. fected insects on Chinese terri- tory, he was asked, "What sort jof Insects?"

He said, "Bluebottles," He was asked, "How many bluebottica?"

He said, "I can't count the bluebottles in China.""

"How do you know any them were dropped by craft?"

"For 25 years I've wanted to give you a smack in the puss,

sald. And now I'm going to do it. Take that, and that, and that and that."

"What did the manager say?" all asked on Interested bystander,

dodging the blows, of

air-

"Because some of them were atrick.

"If the bluebottles were in fected with a discase, what was the disease?"

"Influenza." "How do you. influenza?”

"Because mary

were sneezing."

Assuming the

know it wRS

bluebottles

were infected, how did

influraza

to

"The manager said 'Comey-➡ croft, as you have made your request in a proper nud respect- ful manner I will put you in charge of another ledger at extra 10s, a week, You may go now."

Bedside manner

DR

P. T. O'FARRELL'S 20- více in hip presidential bluebottles: address to the British Medical they Association in Dublin, "that the the doctor should be quite

franic and positive in his state- "The Chinese cat live blue ments to patients," is fully en- bottles when they can't get birds' dersed by his colleague, Dr nests and boiled pekingese."

the Fleet Street

convey

Chinese?”

"What do they cat them with?"

"Chopsticks."

who is notorious for his frankness.

To a patient who complained "Wouldn't it be difficult to of "a feeling of fullness" in his Gubbins said, catch and eat a live bluchottle stomach, D

"Tour stomach feels full be- with chopsticks?"

"Not if it was weak with in- fluenza,"

doc-

"How are the Chinese tors dealing with the ten?"

cause it is overfill; and it is overfull because you're a pig." To a patient who wanted "quick cure for a headache," situ Dr Gubbins said:

"As

the

"By putting them to bed and giving them aspirin.”.... "The Chinese?"

"No, the bluebottles," Red Lean Gubbins, going

LONDON RUSSIANS

WORK A MOSCOW

(BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

DAY

sald

VE stately mansions in elemu where only Russian films of the cenbaasy, mostly in the

Five stately mansions in ciemu whe

known as Millionaires' Row

Notting Hill Gate area.

And regular checks are made

.

quickest cure for a headache is decapitation, perhaps butcher will oblige:""

your

Το another who sald bo could't sleep, felt sick after every meal, had floating specks before the vision, dull singing in the cars, rheumatism 吧 every jolat; and didn't think life worth living, Dr Gubbins advised, “Cimb to the top of Nelson's Monument, and throw yourself of that is, if your Theumatism isn't too bad."

his

Dr Gubbins is equally frank with paying patients who want to discuss their imaginary Supplies are shipped from to ensure that "foreigners" are troubles with psychiatrist. He accuses Britain of having are the centre of the Rus- Russia in the ss. Beloostrov. not being entertained there. A man who thought he was

a war inevitable slan world in London. In- Every three weeks it brings

a failure in life because made the 1914 by her alliance with Rsssia, Hoxide the mansions work consigament

Wives of Russians living out father had hit him when he was hams, of Hinried says that when he was on the Stalin's official emissaries to bacon, tongue, red and black political lectures, which are com- had hit you harder and more

have to attend the embassy for

u boy was told: HIS your father fringe of a wide understanding

Britain.

Caviare, jams, and frozen pulsory for all the staff. So are often pou. with Franco in 1932, Ramsay

might have been vegetables. MacDonald stepped

English lessons.

earning a lot of money noto Fresh vegetables are bought Week-ends bring a break in Instead of wasting it here. That

will be twenty guineas.", embassy routine. The locally by one of the domestic the

Another who said he could diplomats and many of their staff staff. He shops accompanied by go to Seacox Heath, on the Kent-make no headway socially be- A plain-clothes guard. Bread. Sussex border, where the Russians cause of "an uston that milk, and meat ore delivered own a £30,000 mansion bought ho was unpopular", was told: from Lord Goschen. His butler, “It is no tilusion. You are un- daily.

Thomas, remains as caretaker.

He tried to "have the stopped · it, Operation Cicero manuscript

suppressed," (How? Dues Stafford

in and

1940 Slu He says that in

Cripps In Moscow this mean

Germany's former offered Molotov the Dardanelles espionage servico still hos a and a free hand in the Balkans security censorship over Its - at the expense of our Turkish members?}

Here the lights burn Inte. They do not click off the switches before the lights go out In the Kromlin.

For the Russians in London and Balkan allies if Russia work a Moscow day. Their Ume- head- Ger- table matches that of would come in against

quarters, which in turn is geared to the personal habits of Stalin

many,

He says Churchill's famous

A few selected Russians do no! the embassy. There is no live room for them. For since the war the staff has swollen,

"However," says Papen, tears old trickling down his honest cheeks, "as Moyzisch agreed to plan for invading the Balkans himself. submit his manuscript to me, I in 1944, far from keeping the Messages are exchanged with was able to prove to my salls Russians out, would inevitably the Kremlin by radio from No. 16, So to overcome this housing faction that he had described have brought them in.

the case with completo faime]}," Then he really

sets to work.

"What I do reject most em-

phatically Is Moyzisch's as-

'ONLY ALLIES'

+

Kensington Paloce-gardens,

F

SOCIAL CONTACTS ARE FORBIDDEN

Opposite, at No. 13, is the ambassador's residence. There

LL stuff "designed, if I read sertion in his book that prac A my old Papen right --- nad tically no use was made of the I have had many years of ex- Information obtained. During perience of his methods to Andrel Gromyko, Stalin's latest the period of Foreign prove to the Americans Ministers meetings in Morcow, the only really competent, re-envoy, will preside over the rare. diplomatic funcționa to which liable, and

truly "anti-Com- of the Teheran and Cairo Con- muniet'allies for them in Euronoh-Russians are invited...

the

ferences, and, indeed, right up are the Germans.

Cicero's priecienu "value" ra

that

The embassy staff, numbering

to February 1944, the flow of What I admire particularly about 200, see as little of Lon- Information was of in this smooth mixture of truth, doners as Londoners see of thom. falschood, surprise revelations, with few exceptions, social con- and distortion is the way intacts are forbidden. And the which Pupen tries to rid him

security police are there to if of all complicity in Iltier's enforce the rule. advent to power.

Clecro, says Popen, kept the German Government fully in- formed of the Moscow decision to compel Turkey to

Papen, pictures Tapen as the They are helped by the self- declare perfect, gentle knight. who contained, organisation of the Tagged along with Hitler from a embassy. The Kensington man- Memoirs of Franz von Papen, lgh sense of duty to Germany, alons have recreation rooms, Andre Deutsch, 254,

Europe, and Western civilis-brary, dining-rooms, and

shortage some have to live out. But all have flats within a mile

No, The Homs in London of 'Stalin's ambassador,

RECENTLY, THEY

HAVE RELAXED

Other travel is severely limited. To go outside a 25-mile radius of London the Russians must Brat notify the Foreign Office...

This is a recent restriction made in retallation for a travel ban on British diplomats behind the Iron Curtain.

The Rusalan trade, delegation, who live in lighgate, are luckler. Provided they give nolice, they are still free to travel anywhere on business,..

In Hampstead also the Rustions used to run private school for children of thair staff. There were about 50 pupils. But orders from: Moscow the school was shut in 1048.

on

Older children now go back to Russia for their schooling/ (The under-bavons have "dafly, lessons at the embassy,

Recently....the Ruisinha have

· showzi" "sicas · of · relaxing their social aloofness.

That will be fiftu

popular. quincus,"

-(London Express, Servsco)

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

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