THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 20; 1953.
SECOND DISPATCH FROM BEHIND THE IRON CURTAIN
An American Woman Inside The Kremlin
T
Moscow, April 5.
EN members of our
By-
party got into the Jane McIlvaine
Kremlin today, storm-
4
with
the best in Moscow-of the early Elizabeth Ardon Lype mahogany antique wash-basins, jusk #demask-curtained slcove
off the lobby, and an adjolning, shop and manicure barber's
tables.
American editors was
teatr.
90
ing the 800-year-old walled who spent Easter in fortress with cameras and Moscow with nine other flash-bulbs.
It was
the usual con- ducted tour. It with an important, unprecedented four-hour difference: were per minutes.
We mitted
photograph We
the the dial of sow points of interest within. Supreme Council, where Stalin made his last speech during the So for as we are able to 19th Party Congous last October. In this building, once the Czar'a determine
the
paluce, we many reminders first Americans ever per-
of pre-tever the mitted to take pictures in- nicle.
were We
stay
Thin concession is just one phase of the Rus sian attempt 10 go all ont to make pleasant.
Among other things they their most
• produced famous hallerina specially for us.
HUGE CROWDS
eo-educational-men
and women awaiting haircuts and shampoos.
Few
wear Moscow Women short hair. Those waiting with me had shawls draped over their heads and were double-breasted silts with peace medals.
Conversation was at a premium. One bit of conversation directed at ine went like this:- **1 am First Russing woman:
The apurtinents ist which glad to see you in our country." the rulers of old Russia hung Second Russian woman: "I would their owns are covered with hope to come to your country- sim brocade and garnished with more gold that there is in not I, but any child might," Knox.
or
There are rows ol Tow of - crowns, lots of royal raiment in Breceded and miak, 4. no saddles and stirrups encrusted with pearls.
crowded of them
than
First Russian woman agafn: "We will all come when all the wild is Communist."
I GAVE IN
The Kremlin ivan with tourists, many students
Bamber FROM Mosrow to Miantepsis - quite
beauty shop: tre pretty much Chinese.
difference is same. The There
11 hundred Chinese in the audience here you all do your hair one way your op:rator tonight when we saw "Swan way--he Lake" at the famed Bolshoi wants to.
I LEARNED also today Theatre.
from the British Naval
were more
#
Attache, Captain Roy Tal- ULANOVA TALKS curlers all over
lot, that
to
the
planning to send
take
· part
Russians
one
the
in
1 wanted the waves of the future. I wound up with whe my head. No "nyets" ("No") did any good.
began Steel girdled heads ballering,
dancing, popping out from under electric
the dryers.
to
are their newest cruisers Rova, top Coronation Naval Review theatre to talk to us. at Spithead on June 15.
Talbot said he had been Trying to get an appoint. ment with the appropriate Russian authorities roughly a year.
DUSSIA'S K
was not but she was brought
After the third net we were taken backstage, all done will red brocade, satin, and gilt, and inet the cust, and Ulanova.
for
I
All eyes were trained on my towards despairing gestures peace.
15
My friend the interpreter came She is blonde and unglamorous: in. I explained-I wanted my the great She had no make-up and wore a hale straight like plain black dress, and the only altrina Ulanova. ilccoration was iz red ribbon Lights flickered In his eyes like Suddenly, last week, the
nevoss her chest showing that the bulbs in my marble bathroom. Russings summoned him she had won a Stalin Prize four
So it was 'braids 1 wanted. I and advised him of their times.
needed braids about as much as I
who She
need the little man told me that she decision to send a cruiser to
visited China, but not the United following me around Moscow, the review.
States
or Britain.
Weakly I gave in. Our com- as snarled as whether she younications were huge holiday Today
When I asked crowds milled in Moscow's would like to visit London or my locks and, besides, we were
Yurk, she was na keeping other people walling. streets in beautiful spring New
I shelled out ten and a half weather. Today, also, for committal, Sald she: "There is
much work to be done here in roubles (about 23s 3d) said "Da" the first time during
pur Russia."
(thanks) and wound up the loser stay, the American lag'
in a battle where the cods were against me from the start, Buttered above the
Eni- bassy. It is hoisted only on holidays.
BATTLEGROUND
Because of our jammed TLOST the battle of the Russian
schedule we made the tour
beauty parlour today. The battleground
was
the
of the Kremlin, usually a National Hotel's beauty salon-
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go at moon children while in postcards. carpets, and burying mocn father alive.
Moon Easter eggs. 14. Some of the they have a chance. 11. Moon fathers discussing in children having a go at Vera's family retiring to the space
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grandma sucking bull's- chance. queueing to see moon
T moon the moon before. ryes and discussing rheumatism. booked for parking by Butler Sow." on "What the
Uley Gile: family decided on the moon
"complete change." and "away from it all" as all that.
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moon.
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BEGINNING TO-DAY the remarkable story of
AIREY NEAVE, D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C.
They Exits
Have Their
of the Secret HE man I had come member
Council. member 90 far to meet was Cabinet waiting for me. He of the Council of Ministers stood with his back for the Defence pf the Reich. to the window of his cell in
It was my duty to set in the autumn sunlight. He was tall and grey and with motion the grent proceed- tired eyes he watched our ings which were to end in his little group as-it-entered-execution as a common mur the cell. It seemed that derer.
Ills field-grey tunic was
his mouth quivered us he waited at attention until Thorn ' of decorations and
Andrus, the
"Yes,"
bren 10
wear
his on
stand
feet
slone floor of a
In spite of his ridiculous ap- pearanco wore д better
Keltet at Nuremberg
The cell door opened... There was General - Field - Marshal Keitel in carpet slippers.. wanted to laugh my head
ސ
The wheel had turned a full ment and bounced off the walls circle. Could I forget the Jew with a noise like the crack of
and there pushed from the pavement by a whip, Here the S.S. men, his hot spinning white face showed at a cellor in the wind? Or the silence of grating. And in the heat of great dark Polish forests as that afternoon, as Keitel was Crouched among the pine trees telephoning his Fuchre or- in the biler night?
ders to the west from the .com Or the
fort of Berlin, I felt a sharp moment when tentry tumed his back before I crossed the frontier into Swit zerland at the end of my third escope? Or in later years, the old French woman who refused to betray hidden British pilots to the Gestapo?
the
Or the Dutch Resistance with' wham "I worked to long after- The Battle of Arnliem?
沉
・DEFEAT. hnd
come' to
the
B20:00w remains of Hiller's 1,000-year Reich, Generals, admirals and poklicianr, - they walled for me that autumn day, looked again at Kellel's blank; mizerable Prussian face. and thought of 1940 and
the
the horizon over
bal-
great black cloud of smoke darkening Dunkirk.
* THE AUTHOR
Airey Neave, born 1916, was educated at Eton and Oxford; joined the Territorials in 1935, went to Franco jas a gunner lieutenant, and in 1940 was wounded.
and captured. Ho escaped in 1942, helped organize the escape of others until 1944, when he returned to, active. service in North-West Europa. He served on the Nuremberg Tribunal " Staff (1945-46). His decorations include; the DSO, OBE (MIL), MC; Dutch Order of Orangës Nassau, American Bronze
Star, French Croix de Guerro, Minu ligu
Colonel
badges of rank and he wore n Governor of the Nuremberg General Officer's grey, breeches Prison, had taken his place with a red stripe. Then sud-
denly I saw bs feet. beside the bed.
They were swathed in felt slippers "Wilhelm Keitel?" I said. many sizes 100 large. I wanted
to laugh sny head off.
lenst But at he Was
bot
I had come with my "I am Major Neave, the forced as I had
tery from Arras to, Cela's to officer appointed by the In-
clogs or
take pai da the last stand ternational Military Tribuna! with
Dunkirk. Along the off..but at least he was not before reads
straight to serve upon you a copy of bare
Past Vany SI, Omer 10 ર the indictment in which you Gestapo son forced, as I had been, to stand Ridge and
prison.
village outside Calais called
the with bare feet on the stone Coulogne
straggling are named as defendant."
every road. ter floor of a Gestapo prison" columns of refugees
Led by thel I watched the man gather
blow in my side. I crawled his courage. His square uniform than the one in which temp's in twenty months of im- priests, they wandered like
Spies and
I felt the blood head was held high and he man prisoner of war comp.
Ger priinment to escups from Ger- forlorn crusade.
deserters, refugees from Hiller, few yards.
running down inside myntotheg many. My thoughts stood there immovable and
returned to Keitel never tried to escape to companiment of sticks and trickle to my stomach
an that counterfeit. German military yet utterly woebe form which I had deviced with no only a technique but a voluntary coldters
unt from Nuremberg, for escape is
from the dying. And WC, I got to my feet and Jeant
and Con
tur wall, ABE against the hour of such care and patience gone. It was
but ph lcsophy. The real escaper is
medical- orderly Fuch General which had suffered on more than a man equipped with scripts of His Majesty, ready spectacled retribution for
Jgnomin'ous end.
end. It was colour compass, maps, papers, disguise to die. or at any rate expect came up to me as if from no
stcod amid this where. He squinted's attełko : Ing to die, Field-Marshal Keitel, Chief ed with scenery pains from the and a plan. He has an inner turmoil with two anti-tank wound and grinnes maddening
of confidence, a serenity of spirit of the High Command of camp theatre which, while
an authentic field-grey in die which make him a Pilgrim. For rifles to meet the might of ly |the German Armed Forces, dim light of my prison quar. Kellel there was
no Promited Rommel's panzers. Hopefully
THU we dragged tables and chairs. "You're a lucky one, SL tara, shone bright Land to seek.
placed
the 'Arf an inch from the emerald green un- Now I saw that Keltel's lips from the school, der the are lamps were quivering. He has had village hearse across the road Only a fest, wound. 35417 cutside.
looked his day, I thought, this broken and waited: a demon martinet.
his Ho has only
I irled
"Stood amid this turmoil with two anti-tank rifles to meet the might
of Rommel's panzers
escape from a
more like In
A
than
on
choked
The first mortar bomb Was
Bindaged and faint. I came to the a vast stone hotpltal near the pantomime memories. A Field-Marshal's nearly fatal. It burst on
caping baton from the Fuchrer; vic-root of the Mairie and shower docks, and all next day the pitooner. The bentory 'n the West and Deutsch- ed es at my feet. Beside me Slukan came and went at will tries laughed when land Uber Alles at the Pois- lay the dead body of my dis But there was no surrender,
on the they caught me and damer Bahnhof: all the pomp patch rider, wearing a walle
e platforms of the Cato that even a mortar bomb could led me off to the and .: glory.
Prussian of
not effoed.
Maritime where a few months militarism, in the service of a
before travellers had started maniac. I had my memories too,
gally for Paris (the Just stand though Keitel was cut enough
was made among the wagons to be, my father.
WWE were ordered to retire from lits and in the Kond, dunca, keca I remembered the big groy the shattered village to man that himself with his own“ afternoon in tourer that brought Goering to
cells.
麗
鼠
̇ 局
12.
ON that October 1045 when I first Calais in the summer of 1940, await the enemy in the sand rifle in an entered Keitel's coll passing the Brilish wounded in dunes on the west side of the housed the regimental aid post. my thoughts were a cloud of dust. The little Ger- town. Over my head the shells beside me a young Goldler whe
orchway-which-
of my own excapes, mon under-officer at the Tran screamed and as Calals became crying quietly.G
1 looked at the sit Camp at Alost in Belgium, still and dark they burst with
bare white walls, crimson with anger and wound- a staccato crash in the docks
barred window
the
A field-grey figure-appeuređen
window ed pride, shouting at captured behind us. And then out of shouting and waving a revolver, high-above, Keitel's British officers as they laughed that heavy, silence came
the hen a huge man in German
head and 1 felt deamily at the mildew cover sound of a gullar. A baby uniform and a Red Cross: ardeie again that urge to ing their ration of coarse brown cried.
Towards the break out. It had bread. always been with "Stop laughing, English May
[
the afternoon 24 tanks began
mo since my two gentlement" Hands on hips, he break through, I was sent to of the the CRIS side of "the","town" unsuccessful and ranged in emulation
where bullofs struck the pave
end successful Cut=mælirca.
band put me:@gently, cont@gmai stretcher. I was a prisonen; DE WOS- franbôb, kinjuctis" Tomorrow: To Stalog XXa
and the first escape plan.uw!