THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY,
OCTOBER 25, 1952,
Soend I howe
driving the
1952 PACKARD
D
"Now the laps'll send us a
bill for Board and Lodgings for the time we spent with them.
Should we
let him
we let
put
name-plate up again?
Munich.
From
to
one country OCTOR HJALMAR another he lles, dispensing HORACE GREELY advice on high financial 'SCHACHT, Banker policy. No. 1 under the Hitler ro- gime, is back in business.
he
Only four years ago was freed from guol with just s. and the manuscript of a book in his pocket.
Gone was his Brandenburg
extensive estate with
its 28-room mansion and its 20 families of retainers..
He has been in Spain, where
he was greeted at the airport by Otto Skerzeny, the Nazi tough who rescued Mussolini. He was recently in Egypt, where General Negulb gave him a banquet.
- Gone was his · position asije
president of the
Reichsbank.
never
German/
From Frau Schacht comos the first report on "How my husband climbed back” ****
by SIDNEY RODIN
HJA MAR SCHACHT &
OUTSLUE AN OFFICE IN HAMBURG
omées dominating the elty's gorian-born blonde, now in her Lombard Street already boasts a carly forties, whom Dr Schacht -brass plate "Hjalmar Schacht wed in 1941 as his second wife.
She is the mother of his two and Co."
banker's licence- Pared
Seba
•
of five To
"London Express Service,
his
And is his record quite so clear as he would like the world to believe?. He has himself admitted that he failed to realise Hitler's criminal early enough nature.
question of the There is no fact that he joined other big industrialists in urging Hitler's appointment. Nor can there be any doubt that without Schocht's a financier the brilliance
whole.
economic basis of Hitler's would
rearmament
programme have been threatened.
Schacht has, already testined that he Ands it useful to be doubio-faced.
Yanaree weeks' agó`ho
Perhaps that is why, when he was on holiday in Kashmir recently, he gave an interview of the expressing appreciation
in by Britons Since Schacht applied for a daughters-Constanze (10) and part. played
and when he was in this spirited woman ago, however, the star Cordun (1) have been idle. For the Ham- Schacht ta, u great man. She told a reporter: "Britain is the burg Senate Implacably opposes is indignant at the difficulties cause of all the economie ills in He only had his brains-- Before that he was in Indo- the licence.
placed in his way.
"He is the world today: She no longer and
to treat others as me Schacht nesla, and later in Persia (he Two of the 12 senators went to fighting for
the knows how เท asset which
under found Dr Mossatier "charming concentration camps because of children," she told me.
human beings." himself has
Many How has Dr Schacht carried
Germans, I find, lack and cultured"). On his return
the Nazis. Others exiled them- valued. "Few people are he offered his services to Britain
confidence in Dr Schacht. Sald to escape the same on this fight? selves clever enough to talk to me as a mediator in the oil dispute punishment. In
Dr Harms; a spokesman for the their eyes, YEARS IN GAOL Senate in Hamburg: "He may Soon he will be off to Syria.
record Schacht's
makes him on my own level," he told a
According to Dr Schacht, two unit to be a banker. doctor at Nuremberg.
His wife related his sufferings have been, acquitted of crimes but to or- South American republics cre
local court, however, de-how from 1944 Today 75-year-old Dr niso eager for his services.
he had been agafilst humanity, cided that Schacht ought to gaoled for more than four years, dinary people his morality as a Schacht is once more in de-
But the magic of Dr Schacht's have his bank. The Senate first by Hitler, then during the fancier is stained, mand, Roiul the world like name is a little less potent in his lodges its appeal against Nuremberg Trials (acquitied) SELF-PROPAGANDA afrock-conted flying bank own
this decision. It necessary the and through the de-Naziileation Hamburg,
to the Supreme trials.'
"We think it unfortunate that messenger he goes, pulling Schacht has been trying to start light will go
His pension-as-former. Reichs-this-man-should go about the nestly--banker-in-foreign trade. Court in Bonn.
From Hamburg I travelled to bank attracted reputation
president,
thio according to world appearing se as big as Mr Churchill's, 1,000,000 marks (£80,000) in Munich. There I met Frau Frau Schacht, meets the necessi- presentative of Germany when,
attractive Hun- ties of life. though not so strong.
capital. And a top floor suite of Schacht,
in fact, he docs not represent He runs a £480 Volkswagen, the Germans of today. which he drives himself at
of on- "He is making use breakneck speed from town to tagonisms to draw attention to airport. And 'Frau Schacht is himself. He is a master of self- resident at the best hotel in propaganda.“ Munich.
The
British authorities in goes to trouble spots to Hamburg are inclined to agree. If he can cleanse
om Dr Schacht is already putting them financially and to help Britain," himself forward as the Indis- she said.
"He was invited to pensable mediator- sort Indonesin, Persio, and Egypt. 20th century Talleyrand..
Only his But there are many who can
black Benzil cigars
Is
country.
In
Bridge Of Three Friends
THE
By RITCHIE MCEWEN
see
did
no fees,"
not
ofter.
his
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E day I went to Yugo- side had been hastily made the police wearing threadbare white night before by wives of the and grey uniforms and caps with slavia without a pass-lagors). In pride of place, in celluloid peaks stood in a semi-exponaes were paid. He accepted do without his help, port the Austrian villagers the centre of the bridge the circle with Findgona villagers Dr Schacht,
wife added, the 60-mile long. Union Jack flew alone, along
looking dazed and bewildered
agile, iri Two British winding country road lead-
soldiers fainted at the immaculate."capitalist" was still remarkably interminable, yet uniforms and the well-dressed inind and body. He smokes four or five cigars a day, but does ing to the frontier turned during the
Inevitable speech- making in Ministers and diplomats.
not drink. He likes to sleep out in free wearing the German and Serbian which
| eight or nine hours, but can go gay, colourful costumes of followed, while their comrades
with little rest for days at the district to cheer us on presented a united pleture of
stretch. That is a useful ac- complishment for an inter- our way.
national financier.
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.
complete boredoni! When H For five years they had been came to his turn, Sir William told that the Western world was In the cars ahead of us sat was commendably brief and very their enemy. Now, it seemed, It must the Austrion
it was the reverse. Chancellor with much to the point.
of Peace. have been so very confusing for
It the villagers.
"This is 27 bridge ini guest of honour, Field Marshal Sir William Slim, the It was not built for wor British High Commissioner Sir will carry any load for peaceful Tarold Caccia, #brace of purposes, but it is not strong Ambasadors, Provincial Gover- enough to take the trafic of war. nors and sundry exalted police It cannot take, a tarik," and government ofletals.
Rad-
Our destination was kersburg, a sleepy little Styrlan
DOUBLE-FACED
But there are others besides In a few minutes we were
were the Hamburg Senate who may the return of D: back again on Austrian soil for question
the
a "Jause"-refreshments on the Schacht-the man whom premises of the local branch of U.S. prosecutors at Nuremberg the Bank Co-operative. An called the facade of starched hour later, as dusk fell we re-respectability" for the Nazis the was denounced 19 of Three man who crossed the "Bridge
իջ it by
who did not openly by someone After this, the Frince Bishop Friends," This time,
the atmosphere was com foin the Nazis until they had village on the Yugoslav border, blessed for bridge, the bustrian pogle different.
very excellent Chancellor cut the ribbon, the famous for its
Bustling, won or openly desert them until
had lost, sweet white wine.
the At four band played
national smiling villagers and Communist they o'clock, the "Bridge
Today his wife says: "He has ree anthems of Three
and wa marched off Party officials led us to a grassy
been agrinat secret Friends" spanning the River across the Mur.
bank on the riverside, where a blways As Sir Willam and the Aus long
of trestle tables
les denis; his.
policy
and thought Mur and linking Radkersburg with the Slovene village
reached the covered of rian Chancellor
straight- with spotless, white have always been. Hadgona, was .to be cere middle of the bridge tablecloths were set out inden forward, honest, and clear."
the Slovenes
But In Germany people still the on
other side with a tremendous moniously opened.
spread of clapped loudly, und then cold meats, country cheezes and recail Schacht's testimony at abruptly-there was complete fine wines,
Nuremberg "Many SuccessCS could be scored in leading people on by not telling the truth."
Men al"
row
silence. Unkempi, wide-eyed The "Bridge of Three Friends" three nations haul Yugoslav frontler Cuort's and became a reality.
helped to bulld the one-linc, temporary bridge, which replaces the stone bridge destroyed during
the win Austria last
On holiday summer Sir William was told
about the damaged bridge and offered the help of British Army engineers. Yugoslay and Aus- trian engineers built concrote piles on ellier side of the river and last week, the Royal Engineers -set up a three-span 350 ft
Muroy Bridge cross, the
The flags of Britain, Austria, || and Yugoslovio flow side by side' on both sides of the river. (The Large Union Jack on the Yugoslav
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