"THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1954.
The Personal Story Of An Exiled Monarch
MY FATHER KILLED BY
AN
TRAVELLED incog-
nito as the Count of Rudnik.
The
sadness
of
ASSASSIN'S
BULLET
By Ex-King PETER of YUGOSLAVIA
ble to X-
that
and wretchedly parting was perhaps lessen- plain that Yugoslav youths do ed by the thrill of having it wear them.
passport impres- my new sively stamped by Austrian officials, and by feeling of driving on
the
k the
left side of the road instead
doner, und was
of
I went
to the cinema twice and once to the Zoo. I now nil lal to offer 1 that landom the
between the preparations school.
Jor
sent ex my Parly to best, all on one night.
Mv grandmother wha My
Duke cd the Was daughter
and Arad-daughter Edinburgh
The eldest of Quer Vietoria. and inveliest of four beautiful with my sisters, she harf married Ferdin- ny long
The an
then Crows line of Human2,
The first thing rhen followed a suit with lưng bought for me was underpants.
trulisers, a bowler hut, uni black overcoat,
As if to impress me as jouch
Tomulon shops, Parrot took me to
of the right, and waiting sable with the wonders of Prince
for what seemed to be the inevitable accidents.
We arrived in Salzburg in time for dinner, after which we went by rail 16 Paris.
On our
remember that Mr Parrot (the English Tutor) asked me what I would like to drink, and in a very lordly fashion 1 replied "ginger beer."
It was the first time I had any. I found that it tasted like soupy water. I drunk four bottles, nevertheless.
awe.
We rushed 'bgek to the hotel to try out my new toya
being
1
was
dumbfounded,
but
shouted back, "Nobody can be King: only Pops can be King."
They took me to the reception Wog where everybody as room,
wife crying. The Minister's held me in her arms and I cried
What hos shoulder. оть her
I
asking кере happened?" "What has happened to Papa? What will happen now?"
penter's shop attracted me much as anything, particularly since a friend and I wore able to play an electric railway
and of it
at
בארבל)
town
I went to lunch at the
On Sundays I was allowed to
to go up to London, generally grandmother, wearing
*** Brst
Ly trousers for the
grandmother. weekday had to go to Landoti Tower of The mysteries of the to see the dentist, and on that
went to a loy South occasion. Museum 1:3
shop where hought presents both Kensington absorbed me. There
friends
at schoul my was nothing in London that I for Iled botter,
Lor myself.
when extremely young. Science
awe me
owd she was the inst
Just before I was due to to Sandroyd, King George and Queen Mary invited ine lunch at Buckingham Palace.
Al
I fell foul of the masters on care occasion for talking in the corridors-bul in Yugoslavin
Ko V.
no one
for long.
keeps his mouth
The only time I really
my temper and fought use
shut
Then they told me. My father had been shot by an assassin in Marseilles, and as his eldest son
was now King.
EY also said that tomorrow tnorting my mother would come to meet me in Parts and lost take me to Belgrade. They ex- of plained that I was to have a Re-
the other bogo, red head, was gency Council and my uncle Paul wheft he called me a "sixing little Balkan prince."
a
would be one of the Regents.
me u
La
many
and We
Mitzi's Last Waltz
MIT
ITZI can waltz. Mitzi can pirouette, Mitzi capti- vates audiences with her frilly ballet skirta and pink parasol. But Mitz) must say goodbye to the stage. Mitzi has got to raise a family. So said the judge in a British court. And Mitzi, who is a poodle, has no say
How her two The Judge heard the story of Mitzi's career. owners wanted her to have a family and how another woman to was loaned and who had her trained, wanted her whom Mitzi stage career to continue.
two hours to reach a settlement, Legal minds strove fur Finally I was agreed that Mitzi would have a litter, and the liter trained Mitzi who would go to her two owners. The woman
Later cream coated, 11 inch tall Mitzi, gave would buy the dog.
Hero her 1st dance recital-the other 20 have been for charity. she is in sequinned bullet skiri, jewelled necklace, lucey parasol before performing her act of spinning and waitzing.
many years CrowIL a large West End department Privyss is! the Court of store, where 1 gazed around with Feridundo amele, King Carol Silva, 1. WE Queen Commen fite Afternoon I had a the great less, who had no pleasant surprise. although I children of their own. ended rather badly. After lunch Parrot gave me a few pounds out
Sho always remained very of the
provided by my British of all that I have journey by the father when we left, and look ever
na to a big toy shop. I was dynamie She was a great force Golden Arrow to London invited to buy anything I wanted, in Romanian itical Affairs AK Paniol dropped me at the and decided "un 4 steam engue and her influere was stronger man gates and left me to
I only stayed a few hours at thama her shad
fore- in court walk alune through thr
After he had "fallen" over the Legation, Everybody was and a dynano.
elrekes. She had played an ad- court, where 1 wo imposing the banisters without hurting very kind to me and did their mirable part in World War 1.
guardsmen
busties himselt (much) I told him that best to console me. wewrlag Ber meinesta make fascinating presented army with u grea. if he were ever lo mention the
Mr Parrot had been out and
Unck us du bur reading.
electric with tales of tourists.
incident to a master or pre..... Hiprabian
I was escorted upstairs and feel I would give him such
train which he hoped wouki peasnul life.
in the matter. Bittle. Later Many of these tules were presented to Queen Mary, who beating that he would
distract never REMEMBER that I was told take
tu Whe Ritz, where was taken from real life--people renunded me very much of my walk again.
had lunch with my grand- that my grandmother, Queen and incidents which she en own grandmother, Marie of Rumania, wann 1 loved countered on her own entatom She talked to me graciously
mother, my Unele George (King DUXT very misch, would be coming to or while travelling
King about the for a little while, and
of Greece), and dinner, and that I was to tidy
members of the family. George came into the room. H country.
Inade cotil I
anbracevi My delightful
grandmother frull of gruff but kindly manner
APART from that isolated in- Aunther The crossing from Calais was myself up, after which i
cried Acident life was peaceful 1 Inclination was me feel a little nervous, though
ከከር the her Iterury
warmly rough. I dragged Part to the play with
colbertion of fabry stories I susi
childish worked just hard overcame my the
* together. The others were calita Lows where we got soaked, much bathroom,
began to joy "get by" sufely, and dodged as awkward, though kindly enough to his annoyance, I had to have There ametung went wrong which she wrote and published tinkity and
shy with much as possible, like the rest with
me; more everything
there company, my trousers dried on board.
Look
anto my in several churning books.
George V was my godfather, of the boys.
i with them, There
bedroom in the hope of aclues- was a magnificent re-
but George VI, then Duke C
The tragedy had passed cluser Kreater ception at Victoria Statkm, from Ing
York, had acted as proxy Ior After my experience on the to me than to anyone else there, lain. This lunch was therefore first day I was relieved to find the devasion of our Irst meet-
112.
There were just four of
Uncle Berlie, and show him the perfomanee, to her room in the morning present, myselt,
May--as we called the Unfortunately, I had forgotten while she was still in bed and Auers
Queen within The King and to take the paper off the sately that to her. valve, und, while I was fetching
When she paid an ufficlas family-mul an equeITY.
They asked me a lot of ques- Parrot, who was taking a balli, viit to America on behalf of
al nome, uncl U dormitory early one October formal dress who made a deep tions about life
and In the baler blew up. The paint her husband her almost Amer!
morning when someone shook "Greetings, your Maj ty," and Vivacity and Tirelessness
Kenilly and whispered: burst into tears. I broke down, visits to Corfu and Montenegro hep
very popular. In
Peter, get out of bed, before the Balkan warS,
bring
too, heuring my own language Detroit
the Chrysler When my grandmother came,
factory
Sunday clothes, Wasts They spoke well of the school your a
come and ne, quickly, and
have again and being reminded that she was not so displeased by my delighted her by taking up that had been chosen for behaviour as
In parts to her she might have ear
room at several members of their family breakfast with Mr Ozane
and I was King. Hotel She just kissed me, toid the Book-Cadillac been,
having been suthufactorily me." I had been naughty and that putting it together again there, educated there, Ric I ought to have done what I to surprise her when she came
King George told me how was told.
In
much he Wi looking forward muster's wife.
ย
DO
engine MY
lot of top-hatter gentimen, dressing-table. who set us on
Our WILY in Claridge, where
Success
my
soked up the ngit like well
good QE wire sise of the first peo- a really my room was and truly, gol
D
and was ple I blaze going under the boiler, atırl
remember Belgrade. I used to go went next door to fetch Parret often as
on the second floor.
UNDER WENT
was searched off the table and I can
ordered 01 take was
made
my first or deal next morning, when Parrot took me out to buy my school clothes. Inside a shop Che assistant told me to off my trousers.
IL WAD-20
this tee which sent the bot blood rushing to my face, but ruther more the fact that, having taken them off. was obliged to stand there naked in the middle of the shop.
"Why don't you wear under ~ Perhaps 1 had been punished T crowded in as many things pants?" Parrot asked me sternly, enough. I lost my engine, misa- as possible during my slay.
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and
King George told one of
Us
to any father's visit to London
It was
enough
ine
and there was little they could do for my grial.
that we had to have a bath on Saturdays
ᏓᎦ two of unily.
We left on a special train for Nitting Lugether In A tubs, Paris that afternoon. When the with matron scrubbing
cur
bout arrived at Calais wo were backs with a loofahi At least met by a number of high French tall
we were clean once a week.
e
1 was sleeping peacefully in
It was Mrs Ozune, the head-
officials, including a very and corpulent gentleman
Dow
Servin
said:
I got out of bed
obediently left Calais by special train towards
the end of without
making t
sound, again which stopped unex- September thill I Was driven collected
my things, and W LES
Dlarnier belonging to the
slav Legation in London.
We were met by Mr Ozane, the
who headmaster, duced me to the matron and
439,
intro-
Was the
EMPIRE WINDRUSH
W
sabotaged?
An astonishing report by ANTONY TERRY
Berlin. port
now
installations,
groups
ΟΙ
to
TEST German M.1.5 selected "tramees" from the Red "Kari Marx University" in Ber- officials are
are taught how to plant convinced that surly, bomb in a ship's hold so as
Woll blow out the vessel's side when bullet-headed Ernst
shu
the from milos 15 000 to Sundroyd in the lapidated led down to the headmaster's Pectedly outside Paris, This was
weber, old-guard Communist, for security reasons. Yugo study.
nearest land,
and how to attrt There was no staton there, sabotage expert, and former untraceable" Ares with chemi- Mr and Mrs Ozane had break- but only a sleep incline over
dock strike leader who to cals mixed with the ship's fuel. Just with me, after which
Lud Mr which boards had been
East Germany'a Under the innocent-sounding Parrot arrived and announced
I got of the train, walked down day runs ко to the improvised rump to the Red Gestapo, is behind re- name of "Minisery us salpon
Technical School, 4 where thoroughfure
cent explosions and fires on Division," the school for saboi- asked why and he told me number of cars were waiting board a number of British age includes Communists from
Here I was met by a
a group of
Britain, France; Italy and other who are countries, French dignitaries representing
Europeum them in the President, all of
orders The German M.L.5 agents sent there at Moscow formal dress and top hats.
so convinced for "special duty," We were all plied Into the are, in fact,
Wollweber is respon- walting cars, my grandmother that
to a few of my room-mates. To quietly that we were to
London at once, my horror, the tron
made
me Juve u bila amest us soon By I arrived, though I already had had one that morning.
not to worry and that every- thing would be all right
"Say goodbye to Mr and Mrs Uzunc," he said, "as you will not be coming back for KOMA time."
main
ships.
Subjects Taught
THEN, together with the other
I asked what had happened, getting in beside me, and driven sible that, in a 32-page re-
Head of the course is a former new arrivals, I was taken but Mr Parrot's only reply was all to Paris.
port, the Bonn security
German merchant service cap- round the school, and that that he would tell me every- Wo arrived at
their midnight, agents have set out
Lain named Ernst Brundert, who night in the dormitory the boys thing in the car. So I said stopping before the private re-
member for who had
already been some goodbye and went to the front sidence of our Minister, Spala-reasons for believing that has been a Party
the man who was one of the 32 yours. time at Sandroyd gave me A door. Outside on the road was jkovic. Mrs Spolajkovic met us Jut of Infornuation about how a large Daimler, and, more at the entrance. entered their leaders of the German navy
to behave which, came in very curious still, two London useful later on.
$4
The DUW arrivals, myself
them among
wenu given general knowledge best the first morning. I was first put into 7b, but they seemed unable to make up their minds about me I was transferred to three di ferent classes during one single dny.
"bobbles," complete helmets.
No
with
over the
private suite, said goodbye
after which my grandmother,
told me to have a Mr Parrot bath and go to bed.
While I was getting undressed at British shipping. and waiting for the bath to all the gas geyser suddenly started
the
In the end, however, they banisters or, more likely, did manage to reach a decision a rule about the possession of and cried to Mrs Spalajkovi | them before they can plant plecing together of information
on my "IQ." They enthusiastic about my
were
"excellent."
I soon felt very much
not
a portion of my sweets under bath, enveloping us in steam. at my pillow, and had stuffed
I
was
Secret Files
to have an
Other "special subjects" taught mutiny in 1918 is today in at the sabotage school are,
How to amurgie arms and control of a world-wide
supplies to Red agente in sabotage network-directed Middle and For East.
mom- How to "remove" bery of the organisation who are Since this report was not quick en
enough at carrying West German out Moscow's orders. NO sort of explanation offered
to make extraordinary gurgling issued the
3. How to organlso "wild" ing on. I miserably concluded that the safety valve.
itself to me for what was go- noises and steam poured out of police have started a fresh it must all be connected either
drive on Wollweber agents strikes among dockers in a score of countries to alop Western I had already had some ex-in ports like Hamburg and with my throwing "S"
arms supplies. with periences with scampus, Bremen. The aim is to catch Years of patient mosaic-like
you
don't turn off the gas sweets which I had broken. Te
obtained by the M.1.5 men; has the secret satisfied them that from his English was a hard and fast rule that quickly the geyser will explode, the bomb or
as there doesn'
scan to
chemical capsule which may useful key position ol Becret whenever we bought sweets we nor my Latin, which was all
enough water going through."
wreck a whole ship. were to dispose of them on the
dn police enler
Eart
Berlin, but non-existent. They founa
Too label Before she had time had day of purchase. I
Wollweber holds the threads nuk my mathematics "very good,
to turn off the gas there was a done so. and my modern languages (ex-
Red sabotage all over the world. muffled roar ond the whole room
Woll- There is at least one cluding English,
The evening before I had put was transformed into a Turitish suppoon,
Explaining these moves, on weber sabotago expert in every West German security official big port and naval dockyard in commented:
"We cannot afford the West. These men are tre home with the boys and began them into my pocket on rising.
Empire Windrust quently left for several years by friends making
and enemies
incident happening after a Bri-
ine Hussians before being given almost from the start. I wa
tish ship has left a German port, an "asignment." impressed by
We know too much about the Mr Ozane, or "Tiz" DS we THE tension of the day was
West dilapidation of
methods and tricks of our old have
in Dr Toubert, called him, was a older boys' outate and followed "Ma Tiz" was in tears, I could amusing episode, and I went to mercifully broken by this
friend Ernst Wollweber to take formerly one of Hitler's top in their footsteps.
any chances."
and propaganda experts Оло
Perhaps bed in a more relaxed mood.
Meanwhile, secret files on the working for the West, To run a thing that rather took not understand why. me aback was the public nature they were sorry I had to go to After breakfast I was taken
55-year-old master spy Erust public campaign Chanced by prison. A police offices got into round Paris in the Legation car. of activities which had former-
Wollweber show that his Mos- the Bons, Government to focus ly been privato oxies for me. It the car and we set off,
At midday they told me I would
ship sabotage public attention on the Woll- Soon after we started was some time before I was at Mr Parrot, tried, in the gentlest went to the main reception room
poor soon be seeing my mother. We cow training in
and arms waggling gone back weber "apy, machine."" cige, with the dormitory life and the mass taking of showers, way, to break the news to me. of the Legation, where there quarter of a century,
The report points out that He told me that my father had were
drosised
Round The World many people
recent incidents on board British accident had a very bad
on sombrely in black, including a
a striking reser- They also aim to provide in- arriving in France.
heavily veiled lady whom I re-ships bear
successful sabotage formation for Britain to prove Ho said that from now on my cognised as my mother when blande
to that Wollweber and his sabotage against ships carrying arms life would not be the same and the lifted her veil,
General Franco during
the gangs are planning to disable * that I must home.
20 and destroy doteke of Brita nearly Spanish civil years ago. At that time Moscow ships with mysterions dres and top priority orders to Wollweber explosion. explosions
The Moscow-trained ex- (operating from the Boendingen
directed
at docker, who holds the rank of countries)
Red using accidents to stop sup- Basejor-General
and Italian Army's intelligence corps plies of German imma reaching Franco Spain, - row to head the East Glenda
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I also did lola of swimming La the fine but ice-cold pool, where, my prowicus helped to mako/me accepted as an awet to the school.
Whatever it was, obviously being arrested. British Justice worked fast,
THE a kindly soul.
We
embraced
and
to
War
Calfany's security men
the
now
I did not know what to think, together. I was both tremendous a special friend of a lively I was shocked to hear of my ly upset and very happy to see young fellow, dark complexion father's ocident," pleased to her gain, it as myself.
be going, home, but sorry to That evening my mother, my leave thy school friends.
grandmother and I were taken "will"i be able to come back to the Gare de l'Est escorted by soon I naked, but Mr Parrot the Republican Guard There was evasive.
we were met by the President, On our arrival in London our M. Lebrun. We were excom- During the few wook of my Minister, whom I had thought panied in great pomp to the directed at Britain and America drive actually goer rid of his short stay at school I had a had no emotions at all, broton Arlberg Exprow to which the and most of the scents are predecessor, Zimowy by betray- workleeful times, I did moderate down and embraced me, saying: Royal Yugoslavian and Clermins. ly well, in (class and enjoyed "Terrible things have happened. Rumanken carriages were at- every minute on the playing You are our new hope. There finde fold.
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The terrorist camps....the.
sabotage
many, Here,
guilt of Fascist Italy
|-it, and erickety but foutised, its our. Kingh and be pelubed, me
I became a Boy Boout, I sup for the first time with Long powe that the work in the chew Hve your Majesty!'!: