THIS IS
WHY
CHOSE FREEDOM
M
By LORD RUSSELL
ANY people will read
for the first time
Germans in the last
A
"The whole treatment of the subject, including the publisher's
wrapper and most particularly
true account of the the photographs, are such as to the stir up hatred of the Gorman crimes committed by
war people as a whole, and therefore when my book "The Scourge to give support to the opinions of those who are most strongly
Germany
opportunity, by rearmament or otherwise, of exerting an influence in world affairs."
of the Swastika" is publish- critical of the policy of giving ed.
Many more, who did rend about these crimes when the Allies uncovered them, will be astonished to find that their memories are so frail that they could forget such terrible events No quickly.
I believe that in the in- terests of world peace such eventa should not so easily be forgotten.
FORGOTTEN
So when I found that my own friends were forgetting the les- som of Belsen and Buchenwald, or were finding them difficult to believe after lapse of only few years, I decided this book,
L
It had no olher purpose. emergence at a time
happens 1
write
19 when ' 51- be politically
wint the expedier to recall
when they were Germans did armed is purely coincidental.
The book is a shocking history But it is of shocking crimes. history.
No harm can ever be done by printing history-the documented truth. But great evil can be done for political by suppressing it purposes, however well meaning.
When the Lord Chancellor saw my book he complained that it was not "fuctual and historical," as I maintain It is. nd implied degree in Bume that it was opinionated.
This so disturbed me that gave the book to several legal
- friends to read.
SUSPICION
I
They all told me that they could find no foundation for the Lord Chancellor's assertions and confirmed my suspicion that it was the historical facts about the Germans to which the Lord Chancellor objected.
This suspicion was fully con- firmed in the next letter from
Chancellor. Lord the stated:
which
An
DETERMINED
From the moment of reading when I was com- that letter, plutely sausfied that an attempt was being minde to centor historical truth for political pur- of my posca, the publication book was assured-whatever the personal cost to my career.
The Lord Chancellor took
to exception
descriptions of German brutalities in Rucin which were accepted as true evidence at the Nuremberg trials.
He objected to a statement on many occasions un- that armed British airmen who had been shot down over Germany
beaten
by and killed German crowds.
were
He did not like the evidence that a large section of the Ger- public knew about the crimes being committed in their name in concentration camps.
Now that have resigned to ADVe the Government einbarrass- ment i am moro certain thon ever that I was right in deciding not to give way.
SUPPRESSION
If we begin to suppress true Information about the Germana - pr indeed about any other who knows where it nation will end?
It must be apparent to every- one, as it is to mo, that to re- arm the Germans must involve some risks. No one can come to
a balanced decision on this vital question withoul weighing all the possibilities and considering all the facts.
I realised that an attempt was being made upon the ground of political expediency to keep many people in ignorance of some of the relevant facis,
I knew I had reached a point where I had to make a stand or be false to my beliefs,
That why 1 chose freedom.
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DON IDDON'S DIARY *
I Didn't Need My Key
to San Francisco
San Francisco, Tuesday.
D
it has dig- market "INSOLENT": of course it does,
nity. tradition, and the roots British Socialist are deep.
C
*****his I visited the ble white stone where the United tour to Red building05
life, and began its China,
stop-over in Nations with Moscow for consultation, is very where Alger Hiss glided and
O not call this city "Frisco," and never word mention the
China-
Oh! The trouble Mr. Zukor had with the stars
TO film star is a hero to his own, producer. Inevitably Grand Old Tycoon of American filme, evidently believes that a film star should be a hero to overyone else. It was he who invented the star system, which is merely hero- "worship on a commercial basis.
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A star's less admirable or less heroic or less generous qualities have to be curbed or concealed, he believes, Even if, in doing so,
the producer
has to "inter-
BARRYMORE ·PIOKFORD
VALENTINO
Air, Zukorla temperamental stars.
of United States
+
fere with the lives of to the top others."
Steel."
"There is no doubt," A
"of the cash-register of a segment of her
As soon as Zukor heard rumours of a romance be. Zukor, tween Mary Pickford (then nature married to actor. Owen' brain." Moore) and Douglas Fair.... banks, he went to Mig ford la described: "Now Pickford's mother.
An incident with Miss Pick-
trouble begun to develop.
.
Her
"The smallest breath of costumes did not fit right. The scandal can ruin Mary's directors career," he told her..
To Mary Pickford
Baid: "What
were making 142]- reasonable demands. The stories
here were no offered
good,
Was he This
not Mary's true
If Owen nature, I know. It was Mary's
Moore aues for divorce nam- way of opening salary negotia- ing Fairbanks 83 co- tions."
Or his wife respondent? sues him, naming you?"
But Miss Pickford "The public will stand."
said: under-
Her technique was evidently successful. At 23-to the public sho was then a girl of between 12 and 10, who must not be to smoke or drink or uss lipstick she was carning more than
the President of the United States. But not even' this was enough, Miss Pickford had to be placated with
BAR TO BAR Before the marriage
be- million dollar contract.
were explosions, but they starting a
A
Shejk, world-wide crazo
and a lasting legend.
ALWAYS BROKE
It is true the great port is insulting. Perhaps it marks sometimes strutted on the plat-tween Fairbanks and Pick- Zukor starred RUDOLPE
as busy as it was when
I was disappointed ford could take place "there VALENTINO in The "earthquake." The not
It was the main gateway to the answ the world tragedy of the form, and abbreviation jars San Fran- Orient and some of the dock decline of the British Empire." at the smallness of the crowd. ciscans and reveals you as a look forlor. But mostly I got Now, hearsay leader writers There are far more people were kept muffled."
around the earth on impression of sold prosperity. always hit too hard, but a lot of rubbernecking and stranger,
The shops are superb, the res- thoughtful San Franciscans are town, with its bazaars, novelty "Many a star, temporarily shops, tea-rooms, overwrought, is unable to taurants the best in the New less than enthusiastic about the and souvenir World, the hotels excellent. Attlee trip. The, stories about restaurants, its five
drinking .and the
language newspapers upset this day and night clubs.
And there are far more people
quake is ignored ΣΤΗ B strange malice that should never have happened to what ia
I caught a cable-car cutskie the vodka undoubtedly
the St Francis Hotel, where I pay picking have am staying, to take a trip up usually sererle city. Nob Hill and down to Fisher- man's Wharf.
He's no help
America's best city.
any
Otherwise you can what you want and do what
In San want
Fran- you cisco. This is a mellow, ur- bane, mature city.
It contains such enchant- ment that it should belong
In any other city the cable- cars, ancient clanging con- traptions which buck and rear and swing giddily,
would be condemned os obsolete and per- haps dangerous,
A group of forward-looking
•
Chinese-
But ho was not 29 over whelmed with Valentino as the
and its judge clearly the public's
reaction to a given incident,' says Zukor in his autobio- publle-who were never wrong, graphy. "The Public Is Never A his life," he says,
"Valentino was in debt, Wrong"
one dollar to 100,000, according. to his status.
to the world, not merely to citizens did try to get the cable California ho gets acres of space of American beatball. My guide for Mr Zukor.
Mayor's gift
In a
vars
Scores of people just hang on the back, on the sides, on the
too much crowds. here to have fun."
attach
from
"He became dissatisfied with quarters, wishing to be surrounded apparently in the splendour of a powerful sheik of the desert."
pects in an autobiography. Night and day
on Fisherman's Wharf, sampling the shrimps, the lobsters, tho crabmeat, gazing at the fishing
In this book he also sees tooking at the big boats, and
bareball outside Joe to it that the public is never disenchanted. At any rate, course,, we have not been blown-up helped much by Senator Dimaggio's father's restaurant, William Knowland, of California,
not about film stars who are his dressing For the uninformed, Joe the Republican majority leader.
Don Bradman still alive and still working Dimaggio is the As Krowland comes from
told me: "I shouldn't newspapers.
to the Only about the famous in the Californian the
Zukor, who came to America United States.
significance they got His family. scrapped, but
Incidentally, owns The cable-cars are
After all, people are stars of the past does he at the age of 18 with 40 dollars sense it does belong to the nowhere.
some local papers here. here to stay. Anything goes on
permit himself the degree and became a millionaire, sums world.
the cable-car.
He talks about breaking diplo-
of candour that
one ex. up; matic relations with Russia and
Strike-it-rich people have 'n' he threatens a walk-out from
United
JOHN tendency to spend their money the
Nations. This
told that We are
lavish display and high Jamps, and the steel posts, and wouldn't matter it his views
BARRYMORE was apt to dis-on
including dissipation, away you go. It is a kind of
the inhabitants of tho were not given such extensive TULEY are undoubtedly here appear during film production and HAVE been here four times lark, yet it is also a ritual.
circulation and if he hadn't for that.
San Francisco's and would have to be traced
movie colony followed tho before, and once, when I
The driver yells "Lean to the such a big following here. night-He seems to go on all from one bar to another. "Once was reporting the tour of Lord
Knowland is considered the night.
in bed," we are told, he was pattem." Halifax, then British Ambassa- right-straighten her out!" And
in
never in any hurry to get up. der to the U.S., the mayor at the the passengers grin and pull and hardest-working man
the No one, not even
All day the trippers go speed-And when he did get up, he has who local bey Senate,
Gate Goldco time. Angelo Rosal, gave me a drunks, ever seems to fall off, really made good in the big in
over the Jarge gold-coloured key to
the and
and begin to there
hardly
It would Bridge, the world's largest single was likely as not to forget all city.
is not golden but paint," accidents. When you reach the time of Washington.
be unfortunate if San Francisco, span, which I brought it along in my bag- end of the line it is your duty which is the birthplace of the painted red, but very beautiful,
resident
Nations, were to listen and cver the Bay Bridge, which gage and put it on the dresser as a pissinger and a
United
a half miles long In my hotel, thinking it might of San Francisco, temporary or teo intently to this aggressive is eight and
and is really a roadway. open doors. The floor manager, otherwise, to help swing the ear and ambitious politician. spotting it, said: "You won't round on the turntable for the need that here-San Francisco return journey. welcomes everybody.“
It does more than that. If you do not fall in love 'w!th Sant Francisco at once it is bound to
seduce you in a short time. believe it ho
I
sway.
are
Proud of past
any
particular SAN FRANCISCO is proud
to the British. When I of the great days. It may
ct about 11
In the oven boast
aring fog shrouded the
of the Great Fire,
the vice and tong wars, but it
bay
55.
cool.
The sun came out in the afternoon, but the sunshine was
future.
the
the film about
which
But Zukor himself has lived and modestly, relaxing on
for a tycoon-fairly quietly farm" 1,000-acre equipped with an 18-hole golf MARY FICKFORD, the ecurse, swimming pool, movie sweet and gentle World's theatre and free petrol station. Sweetheart, "could have risen for, guests.
THE MURDERED TSAR'S SISTER
T
is
HE original White - Russian colony of quickly London
By Francis Martin
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the
ture across the corner in gold. Inlay. "Unique work," he claims. *"Modem craftsmen are bailed. They don't know how. It was done"
escritoire Propped against pillows, the Duchess sits at her Prince Grandt. Duchess reads until two, and writes the latest Romanov of 70-year-old
Once a cigaretia was "taken raising Vladimir Galitzine, one of or three in the morning. Her gossip to some old emigre-friend
or relative-maybe to her sister from Alexander III's caso by an taste is for biographies of
as Mrs Koulikovski, of ant. The occasion was a mess known
party during the Cookaville, Toronto.
war when Prince Dmitri was a lleutenant- She Ands line most days to do commander in the RNVR
Ho 41 asked our guest doubles three or four tiny water colour
You do not get a heat that centre, a baseball park, and the colony's lenders, is a re- great and memoirs of Russia as the Grand Duchess Olga, better unwitting (Soviet naval lleulen-
it now
-is
+ for
Convention
A project. local minder of time's toll.
"San Francisco Thirty-five years have passed the room-and since London was hit by
it.
It w Was "before the deluge," as
and the temperature was around is alive to the present and the dwindling. The recent death
Just $20,000,000
emigres
put. bakes your brains out, and the big housing
ackpots who thrive in Los editor seld me:
She sleeps unill 17 a.m.; when Angeles couldn't draw a small needs room-living
it im't easy when you face the first big emigre wave of ber Mother Martha, who San Francisco, says Willam Saroyan, "makea ocean on three sides and are gored nobles, denuded bankers the roles of dietitian, nurse and paintings of bouquets which she where he was born, He said friends of thieves and opens its backed by mountains. But we and proscribed intellectuals lady-in-waiting, sends in coffee picks and arranges; herself. Gatchina. As it happens, I was
tho which followed
Lenin- and toast. When a lei, Mother These minimiures she sends out born there, too, in the palace
as greeting and Christmas cards; a small house with a thousand Trotsky revolution,
Martha was betrothed to
hesrooms, now a museum. Russian noble; became a nun In The best of them shy But there are some notable a Greek Orthodox order when framed. survivals. In two rooms out of her flanco was killed fighting
crowd here.
very nico
heart to faints,"
to the. It is also
I only hope in the process not people in between. At the too much of the old and the moment the city is crowded historic will be pulled down. with tourists.
are doing it."
Fashion notes
"I made it clear to this Soviet Navyboy that I know the. palace pretty well and that it was, in fact, my, birthplace, "What is your name?" he asked.
At Wilderne House Mother Then there are visitors. Of her Dmitri Romanov. 1. said. You seven children-ix Romanov, ore one of the Romanovs, then?? Martha, wearing the black habit
am a nephew of the late of her order, wields quiet princes and princesses four å authority. Over gassings in at have either permanent rooms or Tsar. adjoining klichen, she cooks plade-a-terre at WildernICOS Russian dishes for the Grand
House.
· Duchess,
I must not overdo the eulogy 22 at her grace-and-favour res- the Germans in a crack Turist Her visitors --some things have irritated ma dence, Wilderness House, ad regiment. here, not the handsome city or joining the Hampton Court its polite people but the opinions maze, lives the Grand Duchess
The visit expressed.
Mr Xenia, sister of the last reign- Atilce, Mr Devan, and the resting Romanov, Tear Nicholas II. TOURISTS might appear in of the Labour Group to Moscow sun-burst Hawaiian shirts and Rod China bas angered a lot
Coffee, toast › of people here. the first day, but the next they
"His eyes popped out of his will dress
hood. Then he shook my hand sberly, and more
1 went to a party the other
Fifty-four-year-old Prince warmly. He'd always wanted to perhaps even put on a tra. Till night where there was a mixed
The Grand Duchess is small, of Americans, British frails Her clother have no The Grand Duchess prefers to Dmitri drives down thowt week- modu, Romariov in the flesh, tripper, San Francisco's, women and Chintre claim they are the smartest here, and Chinatown le to meet her (an unlikely prose even intimates, tend to disturb where he sells rum and, whiskyg drossed in the world, and they blagost Chinese centre outside pect: the has not been outside her nerves. Her afternoons are for Montreal firm/ ona. Many such stories are told by could be right--although I think China, Ibset); and while the
Wilderness, House for 10' years) spent partly in her garden if sumptuous scales (last year. second-generation emigres who/ atarted
politely enough, you would take her for another there's min, and partly in her in America alone, we sold as British; omcers, found tha
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