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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1952.
"Odd thing-they fly faster than sound but you can still hear thom"
Exercise Mainbrace is all very fine,
DON'T TRUST
London Express Service
very fine, BUT-
OUR
SECRETS TO PARIS
An investigation by IAN COLVIN
Author of 'Chief of Intelligence," the much praised analysis of Admiral Canarts, Hitler's 'master-spy'
another notion.
AM seriously con- questioning the cerned about Main- dorde of a brace, the vast air-sen exercise Launched by the Atlantic Treaty plan-
ners.
the contrhl outside military spy-busters.
of the which make
paradise.
Paris
In
It is Paris isolfa huge la ternational sieve, the centro of the most intelligent Communist Party in Western Europe.
It is also the centre of resis- alliance with security stan- tance to military
which from the Germans,
gives a colleague
further Impulse to espionage.
an hour away.
The two American colonels in charge of security at SH.A.P.E. were frank in their comments.
"Certainly this is Intelligence
number This particular operation turgel
one," "And no pass and alarms me because of the admitted.
itself is of danger
top screening system by pooling
perfect." secrets concerning the de-
There are no names now on fence of our country in a city which in terms of officers' doors. There is no toll- tale notice board 1ke that out- security is the worst in side our War Once in White- ball which solemnly tells entrants that they must show their passes today, thus inform- ing them beforehand which are the easy and which the "tricky"
Europe.
It is a danger British people should be aware of, and are not,
days.
A danger which I main- tain is insufficiently under- stood in assessing the worth of the European Army.
Whatever lessons are learned O'
Girl suspect
NE suspect has already been
sorted out in Versailles.
from this exercise, whatever im-
A pretty young woman on the provements result, they will be cleaning staff, who spoke four distributed to a languages, was noliced to be récorded and
and dozen nations working in Paris, above-averagely talkative within close range of the biggest oncoming as she cleaned up the
in offices of SH.A.P.E. Soviet, espionage network Western Europe.
Spies' haunt
H. A. P. E.; the Supreme Headquarters near Versailice, is without doubt the primo Intelligence objective for Stalin's sples.
She showed more than usual Interest in papers left lying about.
The security men figured out that with her qualifications
#t
Half
from
#
apy's
AMERICA COLUMN
NEWELL ROGERS
Mermaid Showman's Goodbye
R.
H.
New York. BURNSIDE,
a Glasgow-born show-
man who amazed New York by sending 48 chorus girls B tank of walking into
water, is dead at the age of
82.
And with his death a chapter of Broadway's history closes.
He was the son of an English actress and
theatre a Scota He ran away from manager. home three times to go on the stage.
The third time he became a call-boy for Gilbert and Sullivan shows in London's old
Savoy
Theatre back when Queen Vic- toria reigned.
#
•
THE TURNING POINT in his life was his meeting with actress Lillian Russell. She was impressed by his work as
She in- playwright-director.
to sisted he accompany her Broadway ad her manager. Charles Dillingham made him producer at the Hippodrome.
Burnside produced, wrote, 200 shows. For
Some of the most serious and staged leakages come from the "II.M.S. Pinafore" a full rigged "neutralists" in French Minis-ship floated in a tank on the stage, The Hippodrome drew tries.
2,500,000 people a year, Burnside grew rich.
"Neutralists" pre men who belleve 'in ndvertising their belief that the European Army will never work.
TE BOUGHT
+
And
millionaire
HE distiller's 22-room mansion;
Their object is to soothe "Pine
• Russia with a show of weakness
Lawn,"
on North Maple and reluctance as in the pre-wood, New Jersey. There he
Avenue, in fashionable Ridge 1939 days.
entertained theatre stars.
But as the years passed he stayed at home and Broadway Saw him no more, The Hippo- drome was torn down. His wife died, and he lived among his expose and packets of programmes, play dank to a massive scripts, photographs, and cos and lose the French security cars punch through the Ardennes. tumes.
Recently there was a dispute between French and Dutch planners on the extent of land aid to be given to Holland. than cars faster even
The French are not anxious to French traffic, the Iron Curtain make another headlong advance memories-more than 70 trunks
diplomats shoot from the pre- north, as in 1840, and mises they own all over Paris their right
which try to trail them.
"It is an almost hopeless joo to keep track of them in this city," a French official confesses.
'Only political'
And now the final curtain.
•
•
(VOLONEL FRANKE CLARKE, Conadian president of a paper
He delivered
elections.
with diplo- polled 3,000,000 votes in the last political differences, they say, tobacco in 1947. ever since-
'Neutralists'
All over France small-group THEIR, views and Dutch indig-company, arrived back in New
TH French Communist Party, are cussed and
described in the London mission, S.H.A.P.E. is the Soviet Em- Frees, grafted into the nation were soon openly dis-York from an Important bassy. It has a declared strength working for the enemies of the French newspapers.
of Cuban cigars for Mr a supply of 30 diplomats on the French West.
Officials in Paris are resigned Churchill. diplomatie list. But the Foreign
He and Churchill chose the The Communists, remember, about these leakages. These are
It has been of 175 Soviet Ministry knows citizens in France
stored not military.
in casks But matic immunity, and more than
sce it differently. I say enough to make 10.000 cigars. three times that number who
that out of Paris, a stream of Clarke sees that supplies reach ostensibly 25 drivers,
Information is almost certainly the Prime Minister regularly. serve
flowing to
to the Kremlin,
He says Churchill smokes eight clerks, and domestic servants.
I believe that outwitting the a day-four or five of France has asked the Sovict
this eight-inchera. CINCE the open demonstrations Soviet soy network in reduce its staff Inst spring against General capital of liberty and fraternity Embassy drastically, but without effect.
Ridgway were so promptly sup- is one of the hardest operationsALIFORNIA scientists have flown over Our Dewest Then there are the Polish and pressed, and the general strike in the cold war.
San It appeared on Blasco, Com- Let's have an all nation volcano, Czechoslovak embassies, the threat became Hungarians, Rumanians, Bul- munist tactics have switched to Security Exercise after Main- Benedicto Island, 760 mica. garians. and Albanians, the long-tenn undermining of the brace. It might show astonish-south of San Diego, seven weeks
and ago.
every 20 erupts But ing results, cultural insti- Allied military structure. travel agencies,
cabarets, tutes, suspect
com- because they have switched they What a place to put a head- minutes. The scientists think it
will quieten down soon. quarters! mercial Arms....all "Junnels" are no less dangerous.
to
them
Sitting on the Fence
BORTIVE conversation
with a constant reader. Constant Render:
"I
was odd that she should be con- thought your little piece tent with 110 francs, or 2s. 3d.,
She was quietly and, was jolly good last week." an hour.
justifiably taken It turned out. off the strength.
Then
there
was the mystery of the brief-case-a British official
I
One of regret to say. case,
Uncle Nat: "Thank you." "Or was it the week before?" "How should I know?” "Well, it was one of them.
that tickled to laugh,
Everything flows through it. There the lessons of Mainbrace those black cases you see every Just something will be collated and shared out day in the train or bus on the mo. My wife had
too." to the member nations.
way up to Whitehall.
In
and around Paris the milltary planning for European dolence goes on all the time.
It
was left in a railway carriage between Versailles and Fontainebleau by a staff officer. It had secret plans in it.
For 24 hours it was missing. this day nobody knows those -secrets have
When General Elsenhower for political reasons selected France and to as the site of the Supreme HQ.
whether.
he was so concerned for security reached Moscow,
that he took over a clear bulld-
ing site on a farm near Versailles
and built his headquarters from
the ground up under US, Army supervision. He regarded that
Slackness
as safer than using existing IT needs much tact to suervise the security mindedness of 14 nationalities.
buildings.
Target No. One
ARRIVED at the gales of this S.H.A.P.E, camp as staff officers were hurrying off to take part in Mainbrace.
Nevertheless much more could be done.
It is not expressly forbidden, for example, to take military papers home.
An imperative order forbidding In all it should be issued languages immediately.
Another example of security
slackness:-
•
"Had to?"
"Really? Melancholla?" "Oh, no. She's a bit of s highbrow.' "I sec."
"
Gubbins by Nathaniel
That would make the con-
versation more interesting."
"Funny, isn't it?" "Terribly funny,"
Advice to humorists
RE you shy?
ARE
If so, think it over before you take the advice of one of those scribbling doctors
who
Ingredients: Chop, ables, water.
veget-
Method: This is an Ideal supper diab for chops who are This is merely because he is going out for the evening and
a natural man (quile untike are scared of self-inflicted those you have already met) wounds with a tin opener after who rightly demands the cle- cocktail party.
mentary comforts of life DC- 'cording to his means and who if he is disappointed, fixes the blame on the person respon sible and acts accordingly and Immediately.
i
row
Assuming you have a chop, put it in the casserole, add á cupful of water, sliced potatoes, ringed onions, car- Frien rots, salt, and pepper. shove it in a slow oven, and
For your benefit we will go out,
As the chop in the casserole
"Well, she doesn't often wrote the other morning—
"Shy people ought to make imagine that Mr Albert Smith, laugh."
a point of talking to at least a typical British working man, will improve with cooking, you toel has returned home hungry after can go on to another cocktail one stranger a'
thrown supper party when you are them jokes if you can. Col- hours of toil to face
which h'a wlte has cooked on cut of the
first. And to leet half a dozen of the best the advice of foolproof,
surefire
woman another, if you're that kind of stories.
a beast. fresh and up to date, and see
"Here is my menu for A
much great many warm, friendly laughs" labouring man;
scribe. "It For instance, you are Dot
calorica..... likely to get # warth friendly laugh if you
"She thinks the papers are a lot of rot."
"Does the buy, many?"
"Oh, quite a number. Of .course, she has to read some- thing."
"Of course."
If you don't get a
and
happen
to pick on a „dest stranger,
Not only will your natural red-Lacod
"I heard a jolly funny story shyness change to the other day."
"Did you?"
"Yes. There was an English man, an Irishman and a Scots mon...."..
"Sitting together in a train?” "Yes. How did you know?" "Oh, just a wild guess," "Well, I've forgotten how it Roes now. But it's jolly fun ny. I'll send it along to you it you ko...
That's dam decent of you!". "Not at all. Well, I'm jolly. glad to have met you."
Superficially there appears to be an efficient pass system, with out the usual. Nonsense of bayonets and tommy guns,
A second security barrier
--I called at European Army within surrounds the most secret In Paris. There officers planning sections.
escort are obliged to
their the main security visitors. My escort left his room But pust
"I thought you'd like to know desk, which with its near-by empty and unlocked and his safe newspaper stall looks rather like open
minutes my wife and I had a bit of a for nearly toa
out of the laugh. I wish I could remem
ber which day it was.":
"So do I."
an airport hall, streams a flow of while he saw civilian staff.
me
"The pleasure's mutual."
and a score of building. different uniforme.
The officer of one station is But the main place of leakage, "And I wish I could remem-: understandably difdent" about the most dangerous of all, fal bor what it was about?”,
journalist.
squeaks
the
contains
3,000
the
In
When you return, later, first lay your table
dining-room. Then make carefully, "Supper: Eggs, potato, let your way to the dtchen, and.
approach the oven tucg and tomato salad, brown
with a disheñch in your right' bread, margarine, cheese, hand.
orange."
embarrassment, but if your tere?
story is a vulgar one
(heaven
Don't retreat before the hot MR SMITH: Wot's all this blast that hits you in the face when you open the oven (nervously): door. That is the act of a
coward. Press on regardless;
Mns
SMITH forbidl) you are likely to get
MR SMITH (surveying the arrested for bawling obsceni. It's your supper, Best. ties in the public streets.
salad): Ho, it's me supper, lo Also, be careful not to select it? Wat do you take me for; a large, angry-looking strangers famin' rabbit? who might resent your intru
For your next', mova`- you MRS SMITH (in a panic): really need a pair of. boxing slon on their privacy. You are The lady wot wrote a place in gloves, but as these are not al- just as likely to get a great
Working man's callouses...
dishcloth
10 your left
of
:,་་
match
wallop on the car as a warm, the paper sald it was a pro- ways handy, transfer part of
perly balanced meal for a the working man and It's got 3,000 hand and make a two-handed at the red-hot casserole. friendly laugh.
Don't mess around. Grip (it a There is the sound
dull. Brmly, pull it towards you, smack, a squeal, and a thud....Half an hour later turn onartly about and un there la a smell of frying like mad for the drong-room. rum Ten: to one you don't "inako steak.:
Your ft without burning:
supper
PROBABLY You
Aru
too
the British workmen and Cookery Nook trop the cassorole on Thu
about the British workman and
fly well-known habls of clip
.ping his wife' over the
when he don't like the din--
ESSON" THREE... in" Uncle Nat's Cookery Bachelors'
Der she has prepated for him. Béak:
floor la
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And stop, ueing that dis-
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