"PEACE HATH HER
VICTORIES, EN.COMRADE ?"
Geneva News STAFF TERMS FUTURE OF KRANCE? NATO?
THE PEACE-LOVING PEOPLE
[ THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1954.
The 39th hearer 1)uardia
SCAPEGOAT?
★Today a war-time secret agent opens a campaign to
Did Captain Start
cleor his name of suspicion. collaborate with the Gestape in Occupied Poris? Or has his case been used to cover up the blunders of his chiets in London? Start now makes public his version
of his dealings with the Germans...
N the night
August fulf
of
the
1942 British agri,
ende-mine Emile, was para
chuted inte
field 11
THAN Valence,
111
France. His job was
to net as food expert
to the ideal resistance
x11s.
The
had asked for one.
-or
CAPTAIN STARR
Now aged 45, he has come to London trom his Paris home, with his wife and three children. In clear his name
FAILURE?
But Einile, according to
his own story, was
food expert.
tok!
B
2
Agents walked,
dropped, into rather
CFT
the
He had been hands of a Gestapo recep-
bis mission only before the three days "drup." shown round the
in committee.
The Germans, he said, had shown him exact copies of
London ment market and all the written communien-
ordered 10 patriots.
"bluff"
the
Having landed he looked for the serond paraghute that had brought down his temporary rations. He found tccording to his story) that they had been packed in one huge crate, which he was unable to lift,
t
ions which hul passed bes tween London and the Paris agents.
No one
A
WHY
comment.
With Les Armour In Britain Today
T
The "Billy Graham”
1
Of Siam
London. Whereby, uur friend decided tent himself with contemplating E arrival in London that he would henceforth adopt the English way of life.
the "Buddhist mithade" to the With an air of gracious detach of a gentleman billed Treasury. In less exotic tergas, ment he Kits In an eighteenth Siam's Billy he determined to contemplate entury house in posh Berkeley Graham" on the same day the Treasury from time to time Square, once Inhabited by Clive but to take no action in regard of India, and watches the world that iLTi Englishman ex-
to it,
go by. plained to B bankruptcy court that he had adopted "the Buddhist attitude" to the Treasury is not pro- pitious.
A late while ago he extended "The Buddhist attitude" is the Exater Bankruptcy Court and. for taking no astion upon being urdered to appear there
He was
slapped into Exeter
troubles utta Fathers,
AJL
HIT
He eats only two meain a day, smoken and drinks not at all. and he is honour bound to have nothing to do with woren,
For money he has "no use"-- mooning noi that he hates It but
The neon signs and the hoof ing horns of London's gay West
The Englishman presents following a little friendly adview there is nothing he would want to do with it. His simple needa a sad spectacle. A gentle
from the peace-loving man, this nearly L
ched are met by charity. bird watcher with the not inconsiderable distinction of having been the first man in the world to photograph the Jeelandic Falcon.
always that he does not apply the attitude of The Buddha te the afairs of Hor Majesty's Government any longer.
All this is bound to stimulate Interest in the arrival of Mr Phra Pannonanda, the aforg But, somehow. untrusting mentioned
an
"Billy Grahain of soul. Before the war, his froth Slam,” who comes 20 us from in the future of sterling fell so the Buddhist monastery of Wal wow that he salted away most of Mahath in Bangkok. fib capital in gold bullion and sovereigns. That brought him
The nature of his mission is tinged sightly with mystery.
He the Defence tells us But he will stay in (Finance) Regulations under
thal,
into conflict
with
London RX mouths but
which his gold wus condisented and traded off for unspectacular though he is a frequent speaker on the radio and in the temples poumi notes.
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Some of these Her Majesty's and meeting halls of Stam, he will not Speak here for the Government tak url self Tey
e enough
reason that Ane and Some 11 way of refined to the fathless harder anglich 't quite up to it yet. For the moment, he will con- of gold.
End are of no importaneo,"
What matters is the improve- ment of the soul and the con- templation of Higher Things.
Charming, delightful - fier. haps admirables.
But certainly disastrous There is a dark moral to be drawn from the bir wutcher who "detached himself from the Treasury
TKJ
The moral is not Drat the Treasury has
king for Higher Things. but the rather cahier une that it all of บริ detach ourselves and devote our- selves to simplicity and con- templation, we wil all slave to stesth
eburgatestty nad de-
Bgh fully to all the zom14
George And The Gargoyle
10
Wonderfund and He tried to this remark sound acid,
didn't find t
C ott very well. He had been part of the British way of life too long to sound really nasty.
(ELL. sud e Feursono Alice
It Cinderella next?" Gargoyle righteously. took six hundred years. But at make Lisd
tational The decency has made self tel
Lion, George, the cast-iron bunked sleepily. Muppose VARI refer
18
to the sudden discovery by the Swindon magistrates that Boconcelo's Decamera un abscene book."
"Exactly." The Gargoyle prred
the White root from which
and down on
hall ministry
זיי
bow
abomination
he had surveyed the steadily decaying world since the cariv dayy ot Queen Victori simply can't understand we tolerated that for so long.”
George the Lian looked down It was the streat at Big Ben, Just 3 am. He had still an hour before ho was due back Trafalgar Square to take hig place umong the national There WAH no
He ta scurry away. would have to make the beat of it.
monumenta
ut
The
even didn't Gargoyle bat an eyelash "Just su. There's a horrid bit in 'Alice' about the Walrus and the Carpenter. Tricking all those Oysters,
"What sort of morn 19 fur little children?
"AB
that
for Cinderella! The whale stary's a glorification of 100. party crashing.
Freud, Masquerading as a princess tu
into get
What ball!
will become of our young women if they are exposed to that kind of thing?"
George grained gently. "You into might throw Peter Rabbit the flames while you're at it,
animal nr
which Glorifying upsets the national agricultural
effort
"But that's hardly your meat. to ban There are Lot Thone current
+1
he suppose, that you
will want
reflected,
R
COLONEL BUCKMASTER
did almost For a yeti, Story everything the Gestapo wanted.”
EPORTS clavision
In
Colour Off
art
in
ta
The
the courage to
sure, but dead
of
Han b
your
bopka deserving censure. How about banning
*1984'7 Sug- George Orwell's Kesting thun over-government may ruin us and all that khud of thing. Inviting anarchy,
other "And that
anarchist, You really ought to Priestley.
toser ail ħls magazine artletes into the fire, you know."
The Gargoyle grinned a warm- ly he ever allowed himself to grin. "Now you've got the right iden. We're getting obscenity What under control, all right. we need to do now is to launch into subversion,
"History shows thal when Law you lose your respect for and Order and Regulation,
went
Perhaps the Gargoyle on with that speech all night. Ho George never found out. went back to Trafalgar Square stood and two no-good sallors on him and sang songs would have sent the Gargoyle shouting for the police.
which
From the top of his column, Lord Nelson smiled.
Rails
that it seems too much to hope stay that Scottish trains will in Scotland or that the CITY- barrassment involved in, having phinly English trains crossing the border can be avoided.
to Once it is possible tinguish between the two, the af an English train sight
the border... screaming across
dit-
that the Scottish Equally, no one has done any British Rail- serious research into the prob- Starr got a cool reception
ways will shortly be granted lem of "appropriate colours."*** from his chiefs in London.
accused him of
permission to repaint its trains especially in Scotland.
Probably, even the Scots will "appropriate colours"
try not have anything: bis report
causing marked disquiet
mother Royal Stuart, nor will accepted without
humourists One learned journal has dis- they, as unhappy But he learned by devious martialling him; we believe England.
chance in letting bygones be by.
covered that the old Deeside would have it, dress the fre- ways, through the
men in the kilt and substitute Days later, he rrept back words of strangers, that he gones."
Miss Overton Fuller, after Railway once painted a locomo-
Stuart tartan bagpipes for the steam whistle. a hlasing symbol of the foreign tive in Royal
prove tyrant—may
too much from British, and used
any it daily 10 carry la there not over to the spot with his ill was officially regarded in
for the natives. collaborator inquiries
It might and dispatches
foundations in the rumour that French and German wit-government
itself running out of per- nourished resistance friends. London us
with the Gestapo. They opened the crate.
Starr says that Colonel ases, has reached the grim Queen Victor when she was the Scots will replace the Bri-
tish ilon, now painted boldly inanent way. chocolate find packets of
coach, the side of every have on Writers to The Times Section found
of with a heraldle drawing been
Tevive trying to
the with English wrappers, and Buckmaster said nothing to conclusion that the French living at Balmoral.
dynamited pillar box? to ancient tinned foods, all with labels him, but that be said to an
controversy 0.8 printed in English.
whether trains ought to blend inquirer: "For a year, Starr unt of their blunders em-
with the countryside was did everything, or almost barrassing, and used him as
a scapegoat. If everything, the
employed, instead, She tells how, in her Lon-
the landscape, thus were don inquiries, efforts was wanted."
cheer” to lonely, villagers. made to dissuade her from
No one, howOVER, publication.
Jament tho passing of, the dirty scarlet and sour cream which now distinguishes all the stenin trains in the country.
Emile's real name Captain John Starr. commander in London
Colonel Maurice Buckmaster, head of the French Section
of the Special Operations Executive, the organisation
Gestapo
Explanation
T the Paris 1.Q. of the
in which Odette Peter Chur Security Police. Starr had, chili and Madeleine operated, in fact, enjoyed u favoured Starr has told his story position. His explanation is to Jean
Fuller, that he Overton
WELS horrifled friend and biographer of the extent to which his Lou Madeleine. Published re- don chiefs were being fooled
At
Starr's ac-
or
Start Who is right, Buckmaster? On the evidence available I am not prepared to Buy.
But I recall Buckmaster's book, Specially Employed, it is a success story, with of captured
cently, It will make him a by the Germans, and he mention
radlo Beta, of "double" controversial figure. its au- sought any means, however, thor, and Starr himself, slender, of sending a warn agents, of entire assistance areas rounded up, or of hope it will provoke a public ing.
He had everything to gain agents who lacked courage. inquiry.
And nothing to
Arrested
STARR made
2
lose, by
keeping in the Germans'
"good books." He claims he
Airing
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As for Scottish trains thunder- ing through the quiet English countryside, farmers will blench as oki racial memories come surging
back of raiding, horse thieves and cattle rustlers.
But it is not improbable be that, being Scots, the railway to brighten men will decide on a money
"bringing saving decor of splashed mud,
All
in all, it would even that they will paint a bold "There Are Heavy Penal- safer to stick to dirty
Valid and sour cream. Mr Eden is tles for Riding Without Ticket" sign across each coach, having enough trouble without The dificulty from the Eng- having to exchange stern notes lish point of view, however, is with Edinburgh.
to
A THING
OF
acem scarlet
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bowl, made to 1490, wont for Totly the thing of beauty
century German £040- dotted print, "The And last furniture. At an- that's a joy forever. Age, coloured
POPULAR PUBLICATIONS also, hae Its pride of place. Madonna Nourishing the Child," other Christie sale, an 18th ing (18 inches x 13 inches) of armchair was bought for 440 flowers in a glass vase resting guineas. The back, scat, and The D-Day Story In Pictures more cherished.
lodge, by a 17th writing of some of these
collectors are on a abone
this armchalt were This in Hong Kong (now ready) art
century Flemish artist, was covered In the Official owned for their aptitude in
Scho tapestry, woven Injoyable Cookery by things
Baby Book... Secrets Act," Buckmaster seeing the true value of old bought for 1,250 gulnens."
with a floral rmchair no Military medals, 100,
once What masko ns organiser of a sabotage material assistance.
They discovered he was
me. "Of others, itpicos.. group in the Dijon area. He
Recently, I have been watching they are old, fetch high prices. valuablerWell, they say that Was he used 3, and spent and an expert calligrapher, would not have been in any the London side rooms to spot Three, satalogued, as the "pro- beauty lies in the wo of the
ambushed and arrested by profession a poster artist told
fetched beholder. And valus Her in the the sort of objectes est
awarded to eye of the bidder.! the rest of the war as their so they gave him maps to one's interest to write."
Of Miss Fuller's book up and the prides they volon copy and a table in the
Christie's, an auction a Sergeant of the 13th Light with all its unwelcome re
It's Fun Finding Out 2nd series prisoner.
Included On his return, after the guardroom for the work velations, the War Office record was struck when £1,850 Dragoons, they
The English collector, like his (Bernard Wicksteed) Other prisoners saw him
At the Adedal with four claspa,
Victoria war, he wrote a report on
Cross, and the counterpart anywhere dlac, must Rupart Adventures (Annual) Turkish Crimen Medal.
Have the means to gratify his Mote Adventures of Rupart" (Arinual) what he had learned of the installed there, and jumped have said: "No security as bis for a silver coffee.poi.
So runs objection can be taken to its it was made in 1730/
A Face Chelsen, proclaim the home. Rupert (Magazines). activities of the German to conclusions.
of a fishermen. (04 inches high) the Englishman takes his time. etandionet a tree trunk. And he never pay £100 for an The Magic Scroll Security Police during a Starr's version. What does publication." year's stay at their Paris Colonel Buckmaster say?
Buckmaster 18
a against the national Interest
The buyer, of course, might and bold a not containing artide which he links be cars No Hiding Place (Behind Scotland Yard)
at the Gemon Marise Food-Fishes of Hongkong: headquarters.
(second enlarged edition) Ife had learned that the civilian. In his office in that the "scamy' sido o pra thought that there word "Or his, left shoulder, "est, Latar/for-P
espionage should get other
features. It wonthera fan in His right risk of losing 16/ dedeoating
Sometimes the Enigahon.sini regularly Regent Street he told me: Gormans were
og Miraitični, en moulded, hind, Tatched £1,200.
Published his 1936, an unbound who talks-artis naglo ay figure Weights & Measuremento operating the radio sets of "Starr was not a tralbor occasional airing,tay captured agents. They were He lacked the courage of Secret agents are not foot with a plata tapering Body
to arrange some of his colleagues when always heroes; nor any bizo walitego of the first odtion of the of fun, But enuine Chinese Creeds & Customs (V. R. Burkhardt) using them
constring of 14 long his whiple or make art For ad rubstancë i seadurally
On Sale rendezvous for new agents it came to the test. Faced Organisations which soutrol At its ploviotis auction 44 years Systems Nature of Carolus Collector rect
them invariably ukamulos of
donalders Important, B Beht out from London. The with imprisonment, he food
and history are off SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST od" #ilver spoon greater valgo to him, then maco, HONGKONG miso with ivory,hackle, A. Queen with the Virgizi, wind heart finial/appearance
now
the line of least resistance in and helped the Gestapo. Start Affair Overton, Fuller. (Collanen, 150. da). There was no point in court
I cannot believe that it is
The main feature was
was
£2,900 foris Des
"
Walter Schwarz and cover movered juridik similden
on one skia
4th Impression.