T
THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1953.
Central Africa's First Governor General
honour
By Yorke Hendersen
benches, London, Dunkirk
Colonel he still brings the cool-minded, upproach of the one of unflurried, 10a, sixty year old Llewelllu, regarded as
the Government's most effective lawyer. But it is an approach Dorset bachelor has
younger members, was switched tinged with almost schoolboyish the into been accorded
the Ministry of Aircraft bumour. first Production. of being Governor-General of the
Throughout the fateful African liew. Central
summer of the Battle of Britain Federation,
Into the dark winter of blitzes followed und beyond, he The job will be no' sine- that cure. The eyes of the entire stayed the pace with his exacting
boss, Lord Beaverbrook. will Commonwealth watching Central and the man at its head.
Lord to ald-Elonian, But Llewellin, the job is a challenge will enjoy -a challenge he meeting
Le Africa
For John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st baron, is no fair weather pilot.
Sineo ha
emerged from
political obscurity before the Inst war, he has been handed one stugh
assignment after
another.
Tig
first,
DG
Civil
the
Lord
of
W.L
Admiralty. overshadowed in the late thirties by lowering was clouds. He was a key member of
bed
to
the team which
Ket undor. navy
pitifully
Strong
н
inte shape
the
come.
for
By the time they both left the Ministry in the summer of 1941 British air power was beginning to hit back and made itself felt. Lord Beaverbronk went on to
of State
and become Minister Colonel Llewellin into another top-pressure post, Parliamentary Secretary to the vital Ministry of War Transport,
Frony By Bench standards
he was still a
Junior. But, as
Parliamentary Secretary of B key member of the Cabinet, much depended
on hils executivo ability. His work had not passed ununticed by his m-war critic, The Right Hon- curable Member for Epping, and in June of 1942 a £3,500
LORD LLEWELLIN
given WOR
war everyone knew must he
When the break, Colonel
war
war
really believed that
of the
a year salary increase and the
Board
Trade.
But
and arrange
of
П
Ho might have been D 'is one of his new. surgeon—is colleagues Sir Godfrey Huggins, of Southern Prime Minister Rhodesla-but, na he admits s
fastidious for hose too secting rooms put paid to that. is Ills stalus is a bachelor
a talking point for providing
Who, poctally-conscious,
will be his they want to know, his hostess in Africa? In Dorset home he lives with
Mayoresa of Poole, sister, the but she will not be travelling to Africa with him.
the
Another poser is where Lord Llewellia will stay during his first few months of office, For, until the Arst Federal Parlia- the site of the men decides
no permanent capital,
official residence can be bullt for him.
THIS
MUST
T
rc-
HERE is n file at the Foreign Office about whose existence the British public mains only dimly aware and the British Government obstinately silent,
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Dourlein's attitude is similar: The main purpose was perhaps to take no chances with his until
after D Day."
There Gre two views In Holland about Englandspiel.
The first holds that there was treason in London, No proot has been produced in support of
fore be dismissed.
The second-and by far the most widespread-view is that S.O.E. was guilty of sustained and fantastic negilgence.
Not the least wearing aspect Presidency of the of an already hard job was the
what He held that post for incessant berrage from the Right
record. Honourable Member for Epping must be a short-term
after taking up who had his own sturdily inde- Three weeks penden! views about the Navy's his appointment he was trans state of preparedness and could ferred back to one of his old speak from personal experience. Ministries, Aircraft Production, this time he was the His name: Winston Churclull.
head man.
The file stays closed.
Colonel Giskes, with whom I out of the country in a British this charge, which must there clouds chil
That something was gravely Nine months Inter the Prime
and Down from J.J. Llewell Mialster
sent for him to tell despite questions in Parlin wrong with the Special Opera's talked recently in Hamburg, in- freighter,
ment about it. But now tions
was formed me--and I believe him Gibraltar to England. Executive service was Parliamentary Secretary to him he had been chosen for
a job new and vital post, Minister in the Ministry of Supply..
the book, "Calling. North apparent, but he did not learn that he had an aversion to decoy-
Dourlein, anxious to make he worked at enthusiastically Washington for Supply, His Pole," that first told the unth later that for 18 months ing ardent young patriots into
to suffer death at contact with his superiors in thought it Holland only be to
the British S.O.E co-ordinato Job would throughout the months
Ho S.O.E., wished to set off at once was in contact the Dutch the hands of the Gestapo.
with "phoney
when people British and American war pro-story of how the Germans Britain has. "the boys duction
for the hoodwinked
Resistance Movement when secured from the head of the for London, but was taken in-
"Yes," said Dourlein to me, in armed camp at special ateak to an the counter - espionage to the been published in America. really it was dealing with
To his horror, he Amsterdam: "Groes negligionco. will be home by Christmas." allocation of supplies
his branch п writton statement Guildford.
was under seems the only explanation." It is receiving very pro- astute Colonel Giskes and
not realised that he able Beutenant, Herr Hunter that the captives would
barely concealed arrest. minent attention.
"Yes," said Lauwers.
"Our Tireless Efficiency
mann, both of the German be killed.
Agents in Haaren prison were
When he did reach London, instructors in Britain werd first- the counter-espionage service, the North Sea tireless, quiet
but the executives were No fewer than 50 agents were duly assured that they need have
It was not to report to his own rate, by this time Dutch sull talk of Englandspiel
One man chicts but the no fear of execution.
be interrogated by not up to their jobs. However, "the English Fame." The dropped into the orma of
however, was not convinced hallmark he
call it Nordpolspiel, Nazls organisation Germans
Pieter Douricin. He made the an Intelligence officer who was when a general makes a mistake decision of his fedo less interested in Englandspiel which costs thousands of lives, little is mid of it, and that is its teething troubles after a wartime codeword
These names are shameful to
Incredible how we must regard England- smoothly before,
It is time the British a year later, the final wartime Britain. call on his versatility was people know how they came to
spiel." be bestowed. The file should be In November of 1943 he re-reopened. turned from America to take the Lord Woolton over from unenviable job of wartima Minister of Food. He held the
British
way back
And. various theatres of war. battalion to the
Then came the crash.
broken fought their
as
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through
and working
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new
Across
Code name
The enemy also collected half wisest a million rounds of ammunition, escape. thousands of pounds of explo- The 40 Dutch agents at Haaren sives, Sten guns, Bren guns, remonths later were transferred to volvery, radar equipment, radio the notorious Mauthausen camp: sete, clothing, and more or less where they were massacred in everything the Germans cared the most brutal fashion.
to roquest.
post until the end of the, war Amsterdam and elsewhere 1 radio communication with Loo~
have seems
The answer
than
in Dourlein. Having suffered hardship, including the crossing on foot of the Alps and the Pyrenees, and having run ap paling dangers for the Allied cause, he was now committed by the British nuthorities to Brixton Prisou.
After he had been kept-in captivity for over four months, Dourlein was released on the urgent representations of the Netherlands authorities in Eng- land.
The Dutch people, who feçi strongly about the tragic busi- ess, are not anti-British. They are passionately pro-British.
Rewarded
Lauwers, and
Morcover, through control of TN
have talked with men who dop at one time they operated and his elevation to the peerage. know much of its contents from ho fewer than 10 "lines" — the
hoblitated to burst One of Germany Bul, lesting as all his jobs personal experience.
were able the Llewellin them is Pieter Dourlein, who into Lord
Dutch Resistance been,
on escaped from occupied Holland Movement and arrest its mem- thrived to have
berg by the thousand. by motor-beat in 1941.
Dourlein made his way to be Prince Bernhard's
in offter Englandspie! began when the Germans captured an S.O.E. bo and applied to of London, bulk
now a heavy trained as a Fleet Air Arm pilo.. agent named Lauwers,
superiors had other dental surgoon in Utrecht But his time for
Lauwers, obedient
difficulty.
10
The quiet-voiced, andy- hatred man refused overawed by sheer work and even under
could and pressure outside setivities, While he was ideas for hun. And no wonder.
10 the
ONG before then, Dourlein Land Johannes Ubbink had
UEEN JULIANA hos rc. made their escape from Haaren one night by forcing the rot
redeemed from dishonour by the barred windows of a washroom
posthumous award of the and climbing down a rope made
He entered the Fleet Air Arm Bronze War Cross the memories of their from strips
maturcaca.
death in Germany. squadron. They were helped over the an sir-runner in a Dutch of the 40 brave men tone to Dourlein and his companion, barbed wire by a providential
Why was he thus treated on
Ubbinke, have been thunderstorm, which drove the
his arfival in England?
the of with
highest order sentries into their boxes.
I put this question, out and exhausted Often hungry and
knighthood in the power curiosity, to Colonel Giskes. privation, marviving lanun-
course," he
of the escape British decorations, especially contrived to travel by way of from Haaren Wo radioed to for Dourlein, would also be Antwerp, Switzerland, and oc- London that
the men were fitting.
But best of all would be German agents, who would cupied France to Madrid.
probably try to make their way thorough inquiry into the whole to England.
ghastly anals,
crable
Hollywood's
gravy train comes to a sudden halt
By DAVID LEWIN
London. was a wonderful honey- away from the
mon
worrica of income tax. It
was fun while it lasted for the Hollywood stars who found that travel not only broadened the mind but im- proved the bank. balance, They could just stay away from America, work over- seas, and keep every cent they earned. No tax to pay at all. That was the law.
Now
It is over. The long trail is winding back home to Holly" wood. It all started In Decem→ ber 1991. Then the U.3. Con- gress passell a new law which Said that any American, who spent 17 months out of 18 away from the US, would be excused paying American Income Tax during that Ume.
The law was intended to encourage American oll workers and key defence men to leave home and toil in not very ap- pealing places like Alaska or the Middle and For East.
BU
Capital gain
»UT in Hollywood the smart,nc- countants and lawyers soon realised how the tax-free `offer could benefit their ellents loo
"Go to Europe," they said, "and make pictures there. Your salaries will be paid in dollars
and
you will bere in Americut aby have It
de- ductions when you get back bome. What a capital gam!"
Studios. with frozen
funds here--money which they cannot
send back to Hollywood - happily agreed to put stars in pictures in British studios,
Now Congress has changed its mind. The tax-free gravy train bas come to a halt.
In future any American who stays away from home for 17 months at a time will be per- initted to keep up to £7,000 tax free. But the tax collector will deal with the the usual way.
Among most of the Hollywood colony in London, fotlay there are long and axious faces. work- Gregory Peck Has been ing his passage through tho studios of London - and Ger- to many. Errol Flynn come
to ther
went on England and
; Italy to alm sunt
Kirk Douglna went to Israci Arat and
Italy. Land Turner and Ava Gardner are both in London. Gene Tierney went from Britain to Franco. Claudette Colbert, breaking new ground, even tried a picture in Spain
G
ENE
He's lucky
KELLY, * 39-year-old dancing star, has been. lucky. He was the first Holly- wood actor under the tax-free tapa. At the end of his third he recently European Alm rewarded
of
went smartly back home richer by around. £140,000. No tax to pay at all. Kelly came here just after the law passed in December already
Civil Land of the Admirally he | Intelligent, quick-witted, stend- orders ho had received in Loo- by in narrow escapes, the pair soon as we hear uplied, "as their sovereign to bestow, also commanded, a Territorial fast, strong without being burly, do consented to work his radio on German Instructions Artlilers unit and he still is tough without being aggressive, but withheld his identity checks, President of the Royal Society Dourlein, of the Royal Nether which consisted of a mistake at for
the type of of the Prevention
Ac lands Navy, was
of every 16th letter of his message. nian who forms the backbone of This would inform London that cidents.
service. He started his career as
and any fighting
he was not a free agent, Will you
return to Holland would enable the British Secret barrister and to all problems
by parachute as an agent of the Service, through him, to mis-
he lead German Intelligence. British Secret Service?" was asked. Dourlein agreed.
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As the plane droned over the sea, he nerved himselt to deni with whatever might lie ahead..
Warnings
be
Fortunately for his peace of B warned. Arrangements were mind, there were things he did not know.
As he touched ground, two men, flashing torchlights, came
>UT London refused to
made with him — that is, with the Germans - for further agents to be dropped. These were captured and their
In response to London's ur geal orders, they were smuggled
Fastest way
to slim
is plenty of fat!
CHAPMAN PINCHER's Lawsnews-in-science column
towards him. He hid in the agents, ndio sets "played bushes until he heard them call back" by the Germans. cut "POL." This was the code name given to the drop.
Reassured, he left ils
cover managed
fats, and carbohydrates
of
may ly. The symptoms return when than treatment stopped.
M.
1.
be even more important the total bulk.
Veterinary Surgoons Some of the patients who Lawson and L. E. Rowson, cut their Hally calorie-intake who treated the animal, did from the average of 2,200 to not have enough of the expen. about 1,500 did not lose weight sive drug to go on giving it a
at all.
In desperation,
three times message to embody the word and went to meet them, as did "caught. To no purpose. TheTHE quickest way for a be tried only under his two companions. Others then appeared. affable meeting.
It
Woo
No joke
an
THE dropped men, relieved to THE
▸
to
Hollywood
comp1851
made
was
hove
plans:
their moet the new situation. Twentieth Century Fox - "be- cause we have no suitable sub- Alm-
Scots will suspend ranking in this country for at least year, M.-G.-M., - with studios at Elstree, will continuo making alms with big stor namics.
Fewer films will be made but stara under contract can' still be sent to work in England, like it or not.
Only the "free-lanice globo trotting store will stay under Californian skies.
set back to
Soon their accountants will more routine of methods
keeping down budgets. The big bonus days will be just a mink-lined
NOTE-Fat-rich diets should regular dose,
Bo the first, bult to get coril-
memory. medical sone treatment for its rheuma- Englandspici flasco went on.
get supervision as they can causa tism is now beef. Fortunatoly for Lauwers, when slim is to go on a diet with unpleasant symptoms in some Ivo eventually staggered out
people..
THE fot
to person
of Oranienbung concentration plenty of fat in it.
4
camp, he was interviewed by That la the surprising Major Klaas do Graaf, O.BE claim of London doctors
bread
MARKING THE SPOT
FLUORESCENT paints,
HERE'S HISTORY.
AN OPERATION which mado medical history was
an alert Intelligence officer who who are trying to find out which make posters more carried out at Guy's Hospital, flew the same day to London be among friends, chatted and examined the actual exactly how reducing diets conspicuous, are Eeing tested London, a few days ago. gally. Then suddenly, Dourlein's
as a possible means of saving new friends seized his arms and ages which Lauwers had trans- work. mitted.
who They confirmed hip
have The blood-flow through handcuffs over his anapped
Professor Alan Kckwick and the lives of filers stowy,
patient's heart was completely Dr G. L8. PAWER gave comb down in the rea wrists. Thinking that his com-
Confronted with this evidence different kinda
for RAF Belentists have devised stopped
many minutes of alimming posure was being tested, he the British officers made
covered -- while surgeon Russel Brook replied calmly: "I don't think attempt to deny that Lauwers the Middlesex Hospital.
no dlots to overweight patients at a large floating mai
**with- red fluorescent paint, operated on the valves Inside much of these jokes."
had withheld his identity check, "It is no joke," he was told. but said they had overriding in fata (ko butter and cream) being spoiled by a passing air- cause
They found that a lot rich Tralied from a dinghy it might it.
increase a survivor's chances of This could be safely done be- the patient's body. "We are Dutch Nazis, and you reasons for their belief that the but
hardly containing are a prisoner of the Gestapo." mesenges ho
craft, especially in. moonlight. and other agents
bren de temperature has liberately lowered from Dourlein was sent were genuine. All other starchy food (such
ita Soon afterwards, In a prison call at Haaren, one "agents were German opern- and potatoes) brought about the PATIENT A BULL normal level of 80 degrees Fali-
most rapid weight-loss. hand bound to his chair, under "toral
renheit to only 73 degrees. There were other warnings. going prolonged interrogation
This "refrigeration” to enable. with arthritis has been surgeons, to perform bloodless day
Ho tried to feed his captors imprisonment, mruggled out a staroby food weight was lost successfully treated with
cor-operations - wie : ploneured ; by with falso information. It was message giving the alarm. It w
slowly
tisone, the anti-rheumallam French doctors. David Boas, upoless. They knew far more reached London. No notice was All fat people must cut down drug.
young
Guy's_surgeon, hús†, dm-, The bull, a Shorthorn at the proved in their methods about the London set-up than akcent
on their food the total num-
The Frenchmen »
** lower the he did.
Colonel Somer
of ber of chloride" per day-be Cambridge. Arificial Insemina- head Ho recognised as fellow-cap- 3.1, the Dutch Intelligence fose they can lose weight. But tion Centre, had boon
given body temperature, by wrapping kind of patients in, rubber tubes, filled tives in the prison Dulch ogents. Bervice, told me when I maw him those experiments prove that almost every other he had seen in London, in a' at Hilversum that be too had calorie-cutting alone not treatment, but was getting pro- with fen-water, In the Brium
meihod bloot is withdrawn training camp at Reading, and given 6.0.E. the most emphatic always do the trick who gresslyely worse, while.
of coursed near Mag warnings that the Geneng had The proportions of foods in a After ten dally Infections of from the palleng, cooled, and chester and in Ecotlatki.
penetrated its orgazada Conta slimming diet the proteins, cortisone it could walk normaly pumped back
.
On the reverse type of diet-
and night, with little sleep. Dourlein, in the curly days of his | Containing little fat but much A PRIZE· BULL" "gricoled
POCKET CARTOON.
by OSDERT LANCASTER
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