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The forment in so many parts of Africa has apilled over Nyasaland..
From JOHN REDFERN
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1953.
PRIVATE WAR-
Wear Your Best Suit
Blantyre, Nyasaland, and bougainvilla glow richly and
self-rellant breed,
are
Tla 6.46 p.m. and under the sun. But the lovely scared lest they be out of step
The spread of springtime flower and in the Morris dance,
lent is frayed by fear and torn
I nearly dusk.
watch, pulls out a pencil, and switches on the radio. A crackly, ramrod voice an- This is Blue-
a
briet
of Nyasaland and the Rhodeslas, Fear of change, fear of different poliates for the African peoples. The ferment in so many parts of the African Continent has spilled over Nyasaland.
Pushful
nounces: band."
The stiff, official speech the police comes from transmitter, only transmit- ter in Nyasaland,
There is
Sin Kenya, one tribal group cni- As
in the predominant Africanais "Forly munique:
who armed with sticks and knives affected breas Africans
originated in Portuguese Eart are reported near Choto.
hundred Africa and came here to work. A patrol found one
passionate yards of telephone Une down. These are pushful,
people. When a bee buzzes In Fifty-one arresta,“ Then comes the keep-lt-dark their bonnets it maken a ferrible opot; "Orange and white 1900, rucket.
Unlike Kenya, apart from mumber 12," and such-like stuff.
Here is the night's Instruc- lashes between Governinent Uon for the special constables, and the mobs, there have been The Bwana Axes his blue ann- no attacks, on Europeans as
such. band and goes out to lils car.
There are 400 of there specials in a country that only the the other day was plugged in travel shops as "Darkest Africa in fairest mood."
Name-Smith
JOW strange that this coun- friendly I try, famed for its tribes (3,000,000 of them and only 4,500 whiter), should keep providing these blueband blues demonstrations, burned huts, riots; the well-thumbed pattern
revolt! From a headquarters in ordinary
looking house
near here the name at the entrance is "Smith"-patrols are puslict nut daily into an area of nearly
square mile.
of
1,000
an
comes
This is PECFORCE on the job. The first syllable from the initials of the Provin- clal Executive Committee, special body on which the Army and police administration com- bine.
For any news about such "war" na there is, you have to
to the Secretariat at Zomba, passing-ah, delightful surprise -an hotel named the Pig and Whistle, and complete with dartboard,
The Government is housed in A plain red brick building the Im- but contrives to give pression that ivory with a tower would have been more suttable.
the
There, on the foothills of the 6,000ft. Zomba mountain, Government takes a lofty view of the disordered southern pro-
vince.
The "war" is really rother private. All information la re- thin communique duced to which everyone knows does not tell the whole story.
Frightened
TN fact, it looks like corsbr.
ship-without the handcuffs showing. For subordinate am- The wicker riot shields, the cluls are frightened of saying batons, the rifles, the armoured anything unlikely to be covered cars, roll into countryside like in the communiques issued by
Mr a splendid patchwork quilt.
Martin Morris, formerly The
planintions are notable as the compiler of the
the
tree Jacaranda Nyasaland
guide for visitors.
emerald green;
***** La
the African r al' jern for his master,
Even the District Fioners, normally a
Commis- confident
Is This The End Of 3-D?
By LEONARD MOSLEY
London, Oct. 3.
S the craze for 3-D films
Is with glasses almost over
in Britain? Not much doubt about it.
What is behind the decision
to throw the glasses away its national showing?
for
Near Blantyre town hall, on a tree trunk, there is a poster: Dance at the Welfare ""Grand
dressing but Club, Optionat
The choose your beat utt." Government does give the Im- pression that this is a best suit business,
Not so Mr John Tennett, of
Bradford Luchenza,
man who came here 81 years back. Shirts and shorts and resolution do for him.
Tennett'a windows were mashed by rioters when the trouble started. Ife
has
not been to Bradford for 30
years. This is Rome," he says, waving round his attractive lounge. Then he odds! "We are in the position of Kenya about three years ago. Recently
hove lost 25 head of cattle, 23 sheep, and most of the oranges off our 80 acres.
+
we
"But they won't dig me oul of here unless there's
ย big funeral."
Somehow I like that more than the bland best-suit patter at Zomba,
POWER BLAN
RIVIERA REVERIE
World Cuparaphi də arrangement with the teacheter Overden
THE RED WHO FREES MEN KEEPS A JOB
E
By SEFTON DELMER
to
VER since I first heard the prisoners' relatives and
of It I have been friends.
How do I know that Herr trying to find an ex- Nuschke's racket is known planation of the mysterious the Boviet Secret Police? case of Herr Otto Nuschke, Well, one of Herr Nuschke's 20-stone deputy-Premier of more recent clients is a top the
diplomat In so-called "democratic Dr Theodor Auer. And Dr Auer Western Germany, republic of Soviet Zone has not only told the story of Germany. But none of the how Nuschke was paid 50,000 many authorities I have marks to release him to old consulted has been able to friends like mysolt. He has been going around Weat Ger- help me.
many telling the story of his experiences to numerous societies and study groups.
Com-
Here is the puzzle:- How is it possible for Herr Nuchke, who is not muntat but a member of the Soviet Zone version of Chan-
Christian cellor
Adenauer's Democrat Party, to retain not only his personal liberty but also his Ministerial portfolio in the Kremlin-controlled Govern- ment of East Germany?
It is inconceivable that his story has not by this time penetrated to the M.V.D. in Karlshorst and to Comrade Beria's successors in Moscow.
What is the answer?
A: mystery
DR AUER himself is another
mystery. Among all the members of Dr Adenauer's new Foreign Office he is the only one known to me as an active anti-
For it is certainly_known to the Soviet Secret Police that Herr Nuschke is being paid large sume by West German Industrialists and financiers in Nazi, return for his releasing prisoners from Communjst gnols..
It is no secret to the Russian Intelligence теп that Herr Nuschke and his agents in West Berlin have a regular scale of accordance | charges varying In
with the financial resources
Melinda Maclean's brother-in-law, Alan Maclean, says of her:
'THE BRAVEST WOMAN
I EVER KNEW'
"How pink she is!_! think we will call her Mrs Pink Rose. How ittle could anyone have cuessed, when Master Fergus Maclean leaned over his stater's cot in Tatsfield, that the secret services of the world would pore over the riddle of "Pluk Rose"
telegram in a cryptic sent from Terriict in Switzer- land a few weeks ago?
By Ian Colvin
And how did she shake down facing a state to life as the wife of a British Press. diplomat? What was her back- ground?
af slege by the
quietened
down
Lite Switzerland, became agreeable.
of
The rest were either activo pro-Nazis, like Adenauer's right- hand man, Dr Globke, who was responsible for drafting the Nuremberg racial laws, or anti- Nazis whose opposition exhaust- ed itself in whispered criticism of the Fuhrer:
Hitler guoled him from 1943 until two weeks before Berlin fell. But
hardly
had the Russjons occupied Berlin than
be was arrested by them. They accused him of being a Nazi diplomat war criminal, held him first in Soviet prisons, then in the German Communist gaol at Waldheim.
"Hitler's gaol was a humani- tarian heaven," kaya Auer, "compared with the Communist Boots."
'Reinstated' Now how do you think
Adenauer's Foreign Office treated this anti-Nazi whom everyone had believed was dead?
They gave him 'the rank where it had painstakingly toes, they reinstated him ali be explained that they were in of Minister, paid all the buck fact sister-in-law and brother salary he had accumulated rooms, during his nine years of im- in - law - "separate
prisonment. They are paying please."
him his full salary today.
But have they given this man, who generally recognised as one of the ablest German officials, a job? No, sir, not yet. Theodor Auer just draws his
the official work.
Evidently one spot on earth in where the Maclean mystery was more quite unknown.
On June 14, 1951, the second
The boys were necepled at Win born, after school. The Swiss Melinda was the daughter of Melinda
third
The name stuck, and it must a Chicago business executive, Cesarean operation, her have been a comfort to Melinda "n nier old boy" who went to in three births. Maclean,
whom England during the war and got Alan Maclean, her brother-in to know. the Maclean. family,
the woman.
law, described to me as "The braucat woman I ever knew."
I had been told that Melinda was a brave woman.
She
was a girl with a passion for reading and talking about the books she read.
She read everything
Next she went into a period of acute depression as the first excitement died down.
her
ROM the start it was Kofica
F
colony
own
She was
school-
Decision
of Burgess and MELINDA talked of a holiday gay but is not allowed to do any
J
D
Of his
liberation interview
Auer tells a
for | ed-with every conceivable de
licacy from caviar and vodka to pale de foie gras and chickon in aspic. He invited him..
115 to join
Shocked! WHILE he stuffed down in-
of food
teachers were splendid.
The shadow
next in Paris, with Maclcon did not darken the embassy mob. boys' lives there.
Meanwhile the
were with Nuschke, boys Melinda spoke occasionally of" doing well at school, and things dramatle story, "Being released
when divorcing Donald
the were quietening down, and the at the same time as myself
·was a banker, for whom his. statutory three years were
up autumn term was on the way, from
there were clothes to mend and. friends had put up 30,000 Shakespeare. to
She
And gradually the drabness of next summer.
marks. Nuschke received us in no badges to sow on. She
10 seemedi
have an amazing marriage. could hold
with life in Tatsfold began almost to
And then suddenly the grim his private room at his Minis- overwhelm Melinda. She was animosity. There was no other Courtship in Paris Donald's Intellect, during the
Dark, with a pale complexion, worried, though the village was man. But she wanted to give lug cane, a whisper in the dark try. A cast table had been load- phoney war
fresh start in and another big decision Melinda. of the boys life. period of 1989 was followed neatly und simply dressed, she kind and forbearing, by such the children a was an efficient housewife, and casual remarks
Her spirits were reviving. She, by a blitz wedding.
brought order into Donald's life, playmates: The Twentieth Century explains
German
"Your dad is wanted by the was brighter, and enjoyed like I was midnight a week after panzers
disappeared again. There was a happy little Melinda had police." "It would have
No blue-stocking It by saying:
were pouring on towards
That decided her to move to excursion into the mountains that Alan Maclean reported to only a limited showing if re
Paris in the summer of
with brother-in-law Alan, who me 'Lost wock. for instance, one leased In 3-D, as the number of
"The bravest woman I ever. Ma blue-stocking. 1940.
MELINDA was definitely not another atmosphere.
In 1952 Melinda moved front was as loyal as any man could of Hollywood's major companies, theatres at which it could be
Blying be.
met. You may say I said that."" The British not an- presented would probably
the of serious, without being earnest Tatsfield to Switzerland Twentieth
And to Melinda, facing 裁 And what a joy to find with Fergus, Paris nounced that its latest pleture, exceed 120. Thousands of houses Paris was pouring out. The about politics. Her whole back through
In little inn the mountains, unknown, I say that too. "Inferno" will be released in can show it as a flat flm."
chaplain had gone with the ground and outlook would not Donald, and "Mra Pink Rose."
at a Communist pattern. Britain as a "fat" film.
But what seems to have hap-rest of the embassy.
began The brillant But it was made as a 3-D pro- pened this: "Interno” is the
A handsome young British period for Donald. As firat duction at an extra cost of first 3-D ilm which is well
diplamat and a dark, slight
enormously £100,000; Lt you go to see it on directed, well
and neted,
American girl of 24 were run- swollen wartime Embassy in Its pre-releaso showing
in equipped with an exciting story ning round trying to get some- Washington, he scored his great London's West End, you must It does not need tricks to turn
one to marry them. wear glasses.
it into entertainment. In fact,
There followed a whirlwind success. the special glasses hinder rather drive
The Foreign Office thought so than heighten the enjoyment. There Melinda had to make highly of his gifts that he be- came the youngest counsellor I said in my own review of another big decision.
Her sister and her mother ever promoted in the service, even better Westem if I had not were taking ship for America, and was sent to Caire in 1948.
There the rot set in. Heavy had to wear glasses to see it.' then neutral and far from
drinking and violent brawls. That, apparently, is what the Hitler's bombs.
Early in 1850 Donald was sent customers have been saying, too.
home suffering from a nervous breakdown.
Even that did not cause
Century Fox,
Against
skin disease and itching
Miligal
AOCHVINE BAYER'PRODUCT,
MANUFACTURED IN SEVERKUSEN, GERMANY
BAYER
THREE
the film: "It would have been an
So the producers have
have put
It turns out to be a better picture that way,
the
Channel ports.
Chose England
Channel.
Then
secretary
under.
of the
WILLI FRISCHAUER sends an on-the-spot ·
report from the city of intrigue
Mrs Maclean Passed Through Here
ncross!"
mclued
Nuschke chatted with us about our experiences in the prison, pretended to be torribly shocked by, what we had to tell him. Then, in a small cabinet room ho said to me: 'When you Ket back to Bonn tell Adenauer this from me.
"And then he spun the usual story all collaborators tell. How he was really a German patriot doing his best for his people circum- under very difficult stances, etc., etc.
VIENNA. tion officers, Eastern agents, There are anti-Soviet Hun- armchair garians and Bitdapest Bolsheviks, THE tall, bulky. diplomatic experts,
would-be
"Then he insisted on driving corres- Erlends of Tito and loyal Royal strategists, Egyptian in a dark- blue lightweight suit pondents. Everybody insists on Yugoslava, pro-Magsaryk Czechs me in his own private limousing
and Soviet telling you something.
Czechoslovaks, to the flat of his West Borlin spoke in English, and for a hundred years ago-every- Polish Jews who have somellow contact, a certain Herr
Von moment his raucous voice thing in Vienna starts at least a
the concentration camps Gerlach.
ex-Nazis, There hundred years ago on Austrian and German
"Sold Nuschke: 'I frequently their stocks of 3-D glasses into
attracted the attention of
atatcaman remarked: "Russia arc, of course, the British,
go into West, Berlin. I have storage. A gimmick that was
Breakdowns are not the other guests: "I told begins at the Landstrasse!"
asse!" French and Americans, Italian many good friends there." going to save the film industry MELINDA chose England with suspicion.
"And then my brother arrived. has been quietly dropped over- her husband. They spent the uncommon in the Foreign Omeo the people in Budapest last the Landstrasse being a Vienna glamour girls and stodgy Swiss
mile from the tourists. There are also a few He and Gerlach and Nuschko board, "Inferno" goes out as a honeymoon in a collier in the when paper work gets man week," he was saying that district less than
Since then Viennese.
left the rest of 135 for a few "Mattle."
will get the licences centre of the city. All the same Melinda thought you
minutes to dicuss little private The Macleans took a flat in
that mile: now the Russians Ask for a lager of the Soviet- business. It was then that the the West End. Melinda was in 1950 that she could not con- and will get the goods the Russians have advanced
trol Donald.
walk in the shadow of St rum Grand Hoted and you run 50,000 marks changed hands." bombed out twice.
She left him, but after a The dapper Viennese opposite Stephen's Cathedral.
the risk of being taken for a Well, I have no doubt Hest short time in Spain she was him tugged his moustache, bit They are cleaner and tidier Western spy,
Otto Huschke devotes the cash persuaded to return.
his lip and looked embarrassed. than they used to be, although
to a worthy cause. In the pleasant house at Tats But the Interest of the others their cheap-leather jackboots
But what are the Russians field, Surrey, with Fergus, aged subsided as quickly as it had still flap around their legs con-
getting out of it all? six, and
fashion and their thin,
That puzzles me. ! Don Donald aged four, and flared up. They turned to their certing
the respectable drinks, and the two Iron Cur-
crumpled grey-green
tunics Ask for a Vodica at the Bristol atmosphere as bead tain traders continued to talk contrast with the shiny nylon Hotel and the Americans who occupy it almost exclusively will Near the Bundeskanzleramt, give you a dark look. Only the International Favourite TOPIC the Chanceliery where. Metter Sacher is really
tich
organised the Dancing and serves Dry Martin's and
of plmost Dollfuss Slivovicz Congress and where
equal They were sitting at a smali was murdered by Nazis strength.
In table in the Sacher Bar, which 1934, Soviet soldier ghis are overflows
Rallway stations on to the pavement eileted pretty girls, hatless,
like hotels fact his disappearance while the weather is fine. The little hefty perhaps, in brown have a distinctly Allied flavour. must have surprised this house- bar is in the shadow of the frocks on which the shape of an The Western Station, (where Mrs wife in Tatsfeld as much as massive building of the Vienna army tunic is outlined in thick Melinda Maclean was at first
State Opera-repair of the 1945 red anyone. Ilow did she face it?
piping pockets, belts, ported to
SILENT
SALESMEN
Whitehall
of the American Department, business.
things might go right again.
If he ever revealed to Melinda
any sinister secret about Com- munist, such as
his
Blooths.
bury set allego that he once blurted out certainly never repeated it,
***
Largest Morning
Olroutation
Largest Afternoon
Circulation
Largest Bunday
Circulation
cups
she
shints of the Americans.
With the utmost cold calm. So bomb damage to be completed epaulettes.
composed was Melinda that collapse or
breakdown would have been a positive relief to her family.
Determination
EASY TO TELL
DARK LOOK
bave arrived)
the French sector, but the Southern is a Soviet preserve sand, travelling on its trains, you
are ilable to find yoursol alt=
Here and in a hundred other bars and entes, trade across the Iron Curtain is a favourite topic It is onsy to tell a Russian man ting next to a Soviet soldier en
inmen or materials, in Vienna, even if he does not route to Baden,-t
-the Russian HQ, refugees or refrigerators, the wear uniform. The cut of thele a few milds south of Vienna.
scents exchange of
of clothes datos they look twenty
--trade
of..
B forthcoming.
PUT that collapse was not currency. You can take your years behind the times. But it But nowadays nobody takes
pick.
For Melinda was now within
two months of giving birth to Vienna is a reporter's nightmare,
Is most impossible to diatin» much notice of the occupying
ther Hungarians, powers to "They, NEW
to merely, symbole nie dwindling
the Pink Rose. She determined It is impossible to escape from & Germans the whole bewilderman Auriclan told me. It's really not to break down, She went, permanent avalanche of new," ing notum of the real and, the Carible. Boon we shall not even on with her housework, getting it is being peddled star cold war which has swept over be able to grumble about them the two boys or to school, and commodity by Western Indostan Aland A
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT-LANCASTER
“But] Alt; if it's no^uicer
cier than the other, why.