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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1955.
AUSCHWITZ-THE DATES THAT LED ONLY TO BEATH
I take a trip to the most hated place in the world
F
Krakoy.
For where the
OR a matter of 58. by KENNETH MACAULAY and
you can take an ex- cursion train from the old Polish capital of Krakov to a small Silesian village which is nothing except that it bears the most hated name in the world.
It is called Auschwitz. Here are the remains of a prison camp which became, perhaps, the greatest famy of
age, Here people of
in-.
Above the gates a sign..."Freedom through work"
ran
contaified
A
Little remains for the tripper but somehow fascinating, model to see of the gas chambers and of a gas chamber crematorium. crematoria. Tho Germans There is a huge ple of caply line ends wrecked them before they on each side of it for their lives.
Bub chambers and
con peer about Has
Jou among the ruins if you like and ferocious [race the
ingenully with which the Germans work- They say that the recoril e
and was 24,000 people gussed burned in one day.
were men at a time, crematoria.
account
of
Is completely
official In an destroyed.
Auschwitz just published by the The
second Polish Government, a survivor hold 80,000 named Jakob Gordon from men in bar- Vilno says he arrived in a train racks built for carrying 3,050 people on June
-22, 1943.
the
truier
Polish Army. The Three thousand three hundred third, which contained of the people on that 30,000 women and children, walked straight into the
chambers. Among them were was partly domolished by his wife, his four-year-old son, the retreating Germans. It his father and mother. is called Birkenau the were killed by men of the birch grove.
4,000,000
our
iations died miserably
German 8.8. Corps.
28
or
Neither Belson, Dachau nor any other wartime camp this holocaust, can match and memories of how these people came here is divid- ing many of their des cendants in Israel today.
GROVE without birches
a
No birch there.
trees grow
BUNKS like trays
The red brick entrance to THE tripper from Krakov walks through this inno- this camp is long. narrow, cent-looking gateway into wide and unsinister. The Nazis green lanes dividing the brick- never intended that it built huts. should look otherwiso
for,
You leave the camp through
which sters chemical called Zyklon. Twelve ins of this
generated enough hydrogen cyanide gns to kill 2,000 people.
But one is not prepared for the scene on the next floor. Here, in a great room and be
a gato in the electrified barbed hind an expense of glass as big
are
as four Oxford Street shop'win- which wire fence-on
wom.cn
together,
the prisoners in countless numbers dows put
of throw themselves to escape the plutul personal possessions horror that wolted them when thousands who died at Ausch- they became too ill or too weak witz. to work.
Aurchwitz
children village
the
Countless baltered suitcases, have damaged the wire some bags, and grips bearing what in recent times, crawling names of those who were duped through in chase of butterflies, by the rest camp promise stare
Beyond the gate and last to from behind the glass.. entch the eye is a large
and
tion dedicates it to the people of Israel. Here are enclosed the ashes of the last victims to be destroyed before the crema- toria fires went out.
sombre stanu um whose inscrip-
CORN, NOW for company
NOTHING
ingly packed up their traps Along cach wall and occupying the end of the line just as it long row of artificial limbs and
These were the bunks.
In
the confident belief that ing were, trays 8ft, square in pleasant walk they were leaving the dan- tiers of three, IT is
from the little country ger areas of Europe behind station, past fields where them and journeying to the corn stalks are bowed rest camp in a safe corner had six inches of bare board on with their weight of grain.
But knowledge of what happened beyond the bend of this lane oppresses the heart intolerably.
MUSEUM
so gruesome
ing death.
#
shone
LEONARD MOSLEY, back from Venice, reports a lovely new face on the Lido......, and the year's most striking film 'double!
Another
GRACE!
Another
KELLY!
MET her in Venico on a quick trip to Italy last week-end-a gay girl with an exquisite figure,
a sensitive mouth, A Volco like a dove, and the friend- liest and most expressive eyes I have over seen.
Her name is Jacqueline Collard. She is the answer to the Italian film industry's prayer, and wherever film folk gather in Rome or on the Lido these days every- one calls hor Italy's Grace Kelly,
The parallels are striking. LIKE KELLY, Jucque. line comes from a rich, talented, and striking hand- some family,
Her tall, dark father was born in Belgium and is to-
day
One of the
Says Charles Fawcett, an who stars
richest men in Italy. COMPARE KELLY AND COLLARD American actor
firm controls shops,
His factories,
chains of hotels. Her
fair-haired mother is
a fascinating charming
and
woman, and her 19-year-old sister is a delicately lovely blonde,
summer
Jacqueline Collard above. Grace Kelly left. The same sparkle in the eyes, the same firm chin. the mame Nice Girl look. And behind the faces, the same Rich Girl story. . . .
with her in the film: "It's astounding to see her in the part. Here's a girl who is s0 graceful in real life she could be a mannequin. But when she walks in the film she walks like a country girl would-flatly, solidly.
NO FAKE TEARS
"In we scene, Jacqueline's the supposed
on
replied
dire
to run towards camera, crying. She really cried as she did it--no fake tears but real, heart-breaking sobs,
"And you know what Kalians to By the time she got
JOTHING at Auschwitz tears so much at the heart es A young Pule, Theodore It is moving in its simplelty
But there is yet more. by a ghastly irony, count Thomas, who was only 18 when and symbolism. The
rallway this. less thousands of Jews and this placo was built, led the track ends abruptly at the very Here is a pile of perhaps 10.000
and here one of the huts, 45 fout of this urn, so that death shaving brushes, Hungary and Austria will way Into
LIKE KELLY she went Italian film industry. I can yards long by 14 yards wide. stands now and for all time at
best schools in turn oven a laundry girl into crutches taken from the lame to the
genuine lady and came to Auschwitz in the centre space of the huid did 10 and more years ago for
the millions who were brought after they had Humped, to chok-Florence and Switzerland, a
toured Europe, turned up at screen." to this place,
the right times at all the
"That, signor." It was quite dark outside A
fashionable
and Jacqueline, "is all right. But ery brilliant Cyclops' from a watchtower searchlight. winter resorts. She speaks I will really believe in your are,
werd, director, camera-men, One's shadow grow fantastically Italian, French, and English talent when you tell me you the camera, why, there we all longer and longer on the walk fluently.
can make a film in which we
extras, lookers-on-all crying between the lines of Lombardy
turn a lady into a our hearts out, too." you poplars,
the
There seems no doubt that genuine laundry girl."
can Jacqueline Collard
FLOW prison buildings keeping order-
In fact, it is as a seam- have the career in films sho ed rank in the rear.
LIKE KELLY, she went into films against her par- stress in a mountain village wants if she wants it. But ents' wishes,
that Jacqueline stars in her like Kelly again, she is an inde
pendent gle. Tho parts will
if the film The first time she was first film, "I'LL NEVER
have to please her cath railway hooted far away.
and back introduced to a director, he FORGET YOU." Four years men want her to play them.
When you have talent, charm, on the road to this place of four offered her a part, "Don't in dramatic school, learning
and a rich family you can afford to chouso your own path to fame.
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a sach tray slopt 12 women who
to lio. The weakest which of Poland,
crawled into the lowest berth The railway that brought awash with mud and filth. Only
Sensibilities NE turns away. make the them noross Europe passes the stronger could
the effort to reach the upper bunks, are numbed. The wicked through an arch like
ness of it all staggers the mind entrance to the yard of an 4ft. and Oft. above the floor.
But there is much more come.
Of the three camps in old coaching inn. Two hun- This but was shelter for which this legion of dred yards beyond Jewish and Polish men, gate these peoplo paid
children died, their disillusion with women, and the first, enclosing 40,000 lives.
this 1,200. It was hoated through for the bitter Folish winter by two their to boil a nightwatchman's tea brick stoves hardly big enough
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with
darkened
There was no sound but the stumbling of feet on the rough stone road. An engine on the
Outside the camp
HER RERLY
Behind the double wiro that
the other remain ing cage encloses
at Auschwitz is a museum that should haunt the
dead the corn stalks worry about not knowing how to walk, move her face conscience of mankind for ever, million
her too, The exhibits are arranged in were still in procession.. four double-storey
barrack- one was glad of their company, anything about it," he said, and hands, modulate
"I am the Pygmalion of the voice preceded her debut. buildings. There is a gruesome,
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and
JILL CRAIGIE asks a question that must occur
to every housewife at some.
time or other.
intelligence.
WHAT IS A GOOD WIFE WORTH?
T
More than rubies, said Solomon
Much less than husbands-to-be, say juries
the
case of Mr either unwilling or hesitating thousand pounds damages of
about to be married, their loss is considered a knock-out blow. T is cheaper to steal
As husbands, judges and jurics a wife from someone
hardly know what to make of to have
them. Time else than
and again the woman who uses
who another woman second thoughts about your
for enticement of her husband own sweetheart. You are
has been awarded three to four less likely to land up in the
only red with a married woman
£3000. The Consider Winsmore Mr than you
You would think the for the husband to be awarded to have it halved, with aro
& price was high even for those Devlin.
damages, reduced to a farthing on ap- high
peal. spinster. It is less costly to days. But Mrs Winsmore diod, triangle diuation resulting from comparatively
before the the arrival of a lodger was also Such a case does not qualify as
Perhaps the attitude of most break up a marriage than leaving £30,000,
Yet when a mere everyday story; It goes CASH was over: No one could an averyday story. an engagement.
have denied that Mr Winsmore Mr Daviin claimed that he and straight into the glamorous people has been best expressed
perfectly happy enticement? class, perhaps be- by Mr Justice Hibery.
scems such a pity," he said, Those who have secretly had lost something of commercial his wife were
until the lodger arrived he was cause good cooks are so rare.
Parker,
Spector when Mrs
claimed of Mr The case- cherished this view might value.
not even awarded £100. His lat like to know that it is up- Ever since Solomon men have was a farthing damages, without upholsterer, against Mr Harris, damages against Mrs Solf alleg
grocer, proves this point. After ing the luring away of her hus- held in law. Such is the tried to assess the value of wives. casts.
the death of his wife Mr Harris band, "to deal, with unhappiness thom far above
of this kind by means of sign- Alice-in-Wonderland state of He rated
was in the habit of dining rubles. Sinée the caso of
tho
ttom." Ho Parkers.
constants praised Mrs Parker's cookery. Ho also brought her groceries. "There must be real pressure to was more lavish both with his his presents then 411 Mr Pr
our litigation in dealing gese v. Groenbank, English
and juries have stepped
with emotion. A comparison between actions for breath in where Solomon feared to They seem to have' şot a to tho value of a wifo Wherops
ther, about £3,000.
rouno
Exact Degree
or hesitating praise on en un viiiins
such Justify woman to
th
"..
Who To Blame?
Te
Mrs Parker left home All the world knows that in relationships between men and
of promise und anticement
conclusively proves wives are rarely valued as in actions for breach of promise action" said Mr Justice Talbot. And became his houseiceeper.
If Justice is to be done, it would Taking 75 minutes sum up, women to bo legally in the right highly as are potential hus a potential husband, might be seem that only a psychic jury Mr Justice Cassels said that it is not necessarlly to be morally rated as high as 211,000, even could possibly assess the exact was a tragedy that Mr. Pariser in the right. Who can possibly £2,000 for an enticed wife is on degroe of pressure or reluctance had lost a wife who was a good assess the causes of falling in the high side. The average is since these arts nearer £200,
banda.
Declined In Value
·
are usually
and out of love? Conaldering private. As the law cook and housekeeper. practised in
He pointed out that it was no how often frustration in love is stands a weak-willed woman When p fisherman, George
claimed £1,500. who is likely to succumb to out- & husband writing in a diary physical in origin how cen that he had 'a' In a million judges and know is In a world of rising costs, it Henry Fricker, might even be sold thus to Haram to believed to have side pressure is considered of far if he did not tell to the wife to od juries now who is value than one who as well. Despite this rebuke, Mr ever be fairly attributed soldy is the one commodity which has enticed away his wife, Mr Com- greater
Parkur was awarded £500 to one of the partners? slightly declined in value. This missioner Temple Morris, QC, knows her own mind.
weak-willed or damages, enough to employ. a. In allowing people to Beck despite the shortage of servants said it was far too much. Mrs. strong-willed, there is one kind really good cook for a year or monetary compensation for the
woman's increased earning essewing the
shillings and of woman who really simplifies two,
loss of a mate,” marriage is not capacity.
Fricker in pounds, h
If by now, women are slightly only degraded, but the adminis Way back in 1745 Mrs Mary penco, he considered £100 was en dation for enticement. It is Winsmore wes induced, ne they maingh on the ground that it a good cook. The wife with a deflated by their low rating in tration of justice becomes a
la Saw, men have nothing to shout farce. say, by Mr Greenbank to leave was not "glamorous entice hand for
bad
In
Tournedos
her husband. The jury awarded meni"-just an overyday story, Bournalso need not appear to be about,
JOHNNY HAZARD
JOHNNY'S REACTION TO THE GENERAL'S UNEXPECTED APPEARANCEL IS NETINGUYE
SHARI DOWN!
[BUT SHAI THINKS JUST AS QUICKLY AND AS SHE GOES DOWN, ME GRİPSİ
As Prince Charming
By Frank Robbins.
JOHNNY JOINS HER IN THE LAKEĮ
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Can Miguel