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THE CHINA 'MAIL THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1952.
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(By CHINA MAIL CORRESPONDENT)
London, Aug. 6. limelight He worked hard, saw, As a. popular hero?. The name TILD
BILL" few of the British political and of the Fighting Sixty-ninth and military leaders he knows, took the two Hollywood films. (the Donova. te time out for entertainment. other, is called "0.8.S.") ach America's plc-
count for that. Few other people with 1 turesque soldier-hero, diplo.
-similar career could have avoided mat and lawyer, has done it publicity as much as ho. No one Arabsirike one as the "Wild Bir again. Won another victory photographs the General at home type. A
medium-built man. and kept quiet about it with his family; he seldom gives dressed. In a conservatively cut interviews.. Yet his record in suit, with a placid, forld fece again.
itself is a sensational story. and strong, spirited blue eyes,
This victory is in the I managed to meet General Judicial Committee of Her Donovan towards the end of his Britannic Majesty's Privy visit at Claridges. the olegant Council, where. Major. hotel favoured by Royalty. General William Donovan He would say nothing about the
he had fought the last round of the case;
already spoken an. Amorlean two-year-old, million-pound strong words to
Congressional committee on the case concerning 40 Chinese subject and he only touched on aeroplanes in Hongkong. parts of his own. lite history, i
In the First World War, às à
Не American airline, Civil Air tough, loud-mouthed New York into the Transport Inc., which claim- City Irish-Americans ed them.
09th
Infantry brigade of the Rainbow Division. It was. the brigade which became known as gave
represented the goldier, he formed a bunch of
the "Fighting Sixty-Ninthalm
its name. to
Worked Hard Sir Hartley Shawcross Q. C., (with George Brent as himself) Attorney-General the last and was immortalised in the play Labour Government, was one of "What Price Glory." He led it many battles, was the British lawyers who pleaded through
the
appeal
on CAT's behalf. But wounded three times, earned a the man who directed it and hus chestful of medals from: Allied as the Con- fought the case resolutely since rations as well it began is the fabulous Donovan, gressional Medal of Honour, whose name
America's highest sward, and the was scarcely mentioned in the proceedings.
name of "Wild Bill".
He has just ended a two-week stay in London, was in the thick of the case--but out of the
NO SMOKING IN THE
SULTAN'S
Istanbul. FIRST heard the story in à bazaar coffee shop where wrinkled old Turks were puffing their hookahs.
HAREM
By HENRY THODY
of
barricaded himself in the inner harem with the women. But, he was still strangled.
The decline of the great. Ot- toman Empire began with weak
harcm.
Cloak And Dagger
In World War II he became a Major-General and globe-trotting head of the cloak and dagger in- telligence organisation, the Office of Strategie Services. The
General Donovan,does not at
GEN. DONOVAN·
(CAT' Photo).
OSS was active in crushing the just what he is about. He seems Axis fifth column in America, too genial to be tough, too against which he had long been substantial to be wild. sounding the warning.
He also looks twenty years
As a private individual with a younger", than his "sixty-nine reserve commission in the U.S. years:
Army and a péculiarly intense
interest in his country's welfare, He is aa friontily to newspaper-
be "looked in on" every European men
as a man can be who
war since 1918, the Russian usually just won't talk. civil war, the Russo-Polish war in 1920, Abysinnla and Spain.
"Which side did you see most of in Spain," I asked this staunch Americon. Catholle,
"The side 'we had to be on
His reticence is not due to ox- cessive modesty; he admitted to me that the reaction of ex- soldiers of the 60th to the film about the regiment was: "George. Brent wasn't tough enough."--
The Difference
was shown secret rooms In the harem they still tell of Sultans resulting from inbreed= | guard against: The German hidden behind huge mirrors the most ambillous harem girl ing end being cooped up in the and Italian side," he said, A diver swimming deep or bookshelves of red of them all-Safiye, the red- beneath the palace water- leather-bound books where headed Venetian favourite
This attitude was hardly likely At home he campaigns for The tour of the barem over-to please his fellow-Catholics in Eisenhower. I asked him if this. gate came up screaming win the Sultans enjoyed special Sultan Murad,
I had visited some 300 rooms-I America, most of whom favoured meant that he had changed h terror. Down below he had tete-a-tete privacy.
came out on to the Sultans Franco.. But Donovan, did not political' views sines 'the days seen throngs of beautiful·
She had 19 of Murad's sons famous hanging garden with its alm always to please people. He when he worked for Roosevelt, by other women araassinated, so young girls standing on the
fountains and was turned down for the post of He answered sternly: "Roosevelt sandy bottom.
As the current flowed the lovelies swayed rhythmical- ly, thoir silken robes swirling around them as if they were still alive and. moving to the music of a phantom orchestru.
These girls had been strangled in their sleep by jealous harem rivals then with weights tied to their feet dumped overboard
· from a small boat.
Such scandals of-the harems under the old Otto- man potentates are still whispered wherever Turks gather.
Beauty Ruled
old
A
"
many
trees.
marble
Cabinet because of pressure by my political leader. There's o anti-Catholic, Klu Klux Klan- lot of difference. led elements-and because he opposed prohibition.
The size of the harem, that her son would rule after galaxy of imported plants and Attorney-General in Hoover's was my commander-in-chief, not may be judged by the fact Murad's death. that often one sultan
had an entourage. of 150 lovely young slave girls, while the self might have as many as potentate's favourite her.
-100 servants.
I
Palace Scouts
Then, when her son became Sultan, she surrounded him with bewitching girls to keep his mind
But the from ruling malters so that she could continue to run the Empire.
harem women against her and Safiye was later found strangled.
New Bill
Diplomat Also
An unswerving patriot, he fa stem about the Interests of his country, and bus spent a good deal of his own time looking at DOWN below us was the Bos-
As a diplomat he came to other people's wars to see how phorus where, I recalled, the Europe on a series of hush-hush he diver had made his macabre dis-missions for President Roosevelt need arose. He warns against could best serve it. If the covery on the sandy beltom.
in
destroyers,
The harem favourite frequently
1940, and visited every an enemy fifth column today as ruled the Empire. Mihrmah The Turkish Parliament has European capital outside Hitler's he, did before Pearl Harbour. once demanded
that the navy just approved a bill permitting He took a close look at Britain, domain, from Moscow to Madrid. SAW the huge kitchens Maltese galleys
should capture Malta Because female descendants of the Otto-announced that if Hitler invaded quaint ideas, I discovered, about General Donovan ́ ́has, some hed seized where food was prepared merchant ships loaded with new Turkey became a Republic after back to urge Roosevelt to push. he is not a professional soldier, man dynasty expelled when he would be beaten, and went General Donovan. He says that for the girls, the servants clothing for the harem girls.
the first world war to return to through the deal giving Britain but just someone who is called and a small army of negro In spite of this limitiers luxury, their homeland,
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to defend his eunuchs who guarded the fear dominated the harem. When
country when A
there's a war on, just like lots of harem beauties,
a lawyer, he heads other fellows." I asked him if a new Sultan, was proclaimed he
If any of these now aging prosperous New York law firm, he had any interests qutside. his Immediately. imprisoned his many women return to the scene of has held a number of Govern work interests half-brothers in a cage In the their former triumphs in the ment posts including that of dinary, quiet, home loving. harem grounds-to prevent them resplendent- pulace оп the Assistant Attorney-General, and person might have. condi
Bosphorus, they will shake their was from Intriguing against him. the
member of the American heads sadly at the "Don't Smoke" he looks like a lawyer who knows and "Please Do Not Touch" team at the Nuremberg
crimes trials.
To find fresh beauty to
please the ruler, palace
scouts scoured sprawling Ottoman Empire,
Sultan Ibrahim was an terri-
which once stretched from fled of assassination that he signs.
the gates of Vienna to the sands of Arabia. Such pul-;
To visit the scene of these chritude wa B jealously
scandals I applied to guarded. enter the Seraglio Palace harem-the setting of a In the Sultan's thousand-and-one fabulous, reception room the floor is still nights, some more grue covered with lovely some than exotic.
braidered carpets the work of
great domed
hand cm-TN
the harem girls themselves.
at
A CITY GOES
Madrid. Spain this is the season of two capitals. It is
GOES OUT
By Cedric Salter
#
that an or
"I am a quiet, home-loving war person," he excalmed ;, with
honest surprise.
OF TOWN
To us who live in Spain, the
At any rate,
tourists;
when the first the Spaqlarda
against a fountain, 'I asked him why the photographs. He re piled: "But what else is so worth the photograph}"
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After several weeks' wait-
the season when Madrid. It at least means that we For when the Sultan was out, remains the capital as for who are left can get on a coming of the tourlet in some- the huge, forbidding, brass-
But the temperature still soars, studded harem gates were legions of lovelies busy
the Queen Mother kept her son's as the map is concerned, but bus without waiting in thing of a phenomenon. Perhaps and trying to write of something
in actual fact gives way to queue for endless minutes. come to Spain are so obviously hopeless task.
it is
is because the tourists who other than the heat is an almost swung open.
household duties.
San Sebastian. The reason In addition, most offices tourists. Or perhaps it is bo when a kind Information bureau, The more so The harem, a complete It was here the Sulton would is quite simple. It is hot in change their working hours cause Spain does not fit into with the help of an energetic city in itself, was until re- summon a new young beauty Madrid - very hot with during these three hottest one's idea of a country going all statistician, has just worked out cently a
out to attract museum. "Don't who had taught his eye. Ho shade temperatures hover months.
some heat wave facts. amoke" signs are posted in would sprawl on comfortable ing round the 100 mark. It the Sultan's lavish sleeping window couches, while water is cooler in San Sebastian, Work starts at 0a.m. until 2. visitors arrive quarters; "Please do not bubbled from marble fountains where the breezes of the Then 'a break until 5.30-and welcome them heartily- During these ultra-hot months touch" by the artificial and scented wood burned in the seaside resort keep the tem- work again until 8.30. The prepare for. quite a
lot of Madrid's inhabitonta consume waterfall in the extravagant huge wooden hearth.
amusement. At the moment the 600,000 iced beers a day, 250,000 perature down.
hours may seem odd but no one Americans are the object of this feed "harchutas"-a bitter non marble bathrooms.
• dreams of having lunch bofore And so the high-ups in 230 or dinner before-0.30. As hall skit focuses on the Ameri- vegetable root. It locks Ilko
Artusement.
Every Madrid muste alcoholic product made from Now the harem is shut
but is much more re to the public. Floors are
Legations close down their don't exist.
elderly visitor. from the USA, wearing a "bikini" shirt, shorts, 400,000 "gastosis" (and I chal- sagging, gilt paint flaking, HIS new favourite would sit at offices in Madrid and follow tapestries torn and fading- his feet strumming a guitar, the Spanish
colossal sun goggles and a solar lenge you to find a more descrip- Foreign
topec. or in a domestic scene sew huge Secretary to the cooler
Plus, of for the modern Turkish diamond buttons on to his tunic. north coast. Left behind tourist to come ot
the tive word than that for a fizzy course, The one millionta foreign inevitable luxury camera-used fruit drink!) Government is hesitant
Spain this to take countless photographs AS about alotting funds to re. She would be dressed in are such "riff-raff" as year arrived the other day and of us, the quite normally dressed While I'm about it, I might as
It libidinous gossamer pantaloons of sheer second and third secretaries minded as any atore the
is as publicity inhabitants of this city: appears,
well report that in bats alone state white silk, with strings of pearla
in America.
restaurants excluded, that lawG memories of Turkey's scan threaded through her Jasmine whose job it is to stay and The tourist was
"But gracious aren't they in Madrid eat 580 kilos of fresh was met on scented hair.
perspire in Madrid's mid-'
arrival,
cute!"
prawns every day, 040 kilos of given a grand - reception' by 'à
green olives stuffed For hours I walked, this The Sultan himself might be Bummer heat.:
special committee and was guest
fresh fantastic city where beauty Tomlim always wore priceless
quite a sight, 200. Sultan" But staying behind. La ameiar and not so lucky other, day I saw one posing cuts, 121 kilos of salted almonds, of a grand banquet packed with own back occasionally. The sardines, 147 king of cheese bis- once ruled a vast Empire. “gema in his luxuriant beard; Madrid has its advantages, tourists,
American touristá carefully ate. No wonder we're thirsty!
The South China Morning Post dalous past,
PAINTING DEPARTMENT
1
Gems In Beard
the various Embassies and for breakfast and tee they just can tourist--the "plump and ming and much cooles. Also
But the Spaniards got their anchovies, a10 kilos or with ́