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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1955.
SHE WAS HAPPY 'AS ONE OF THE HITLER YOUTH, BUT
NO UNIFORMS FOR
MARIA'S
T
CHILDREN
Rhona Churchill concludes her
series on Germany reborn
learn
to
Sund
not
HE time is February She'll soon
think whole world. He should Efferently,"
have let us taite on America." less Seth ago. The She was Marla Janke thei
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carlier today Atene Monschau. Tuday she is Frau Bierganz, that the Hi Jermad! was first German town mother of two de girls.
'big swindle,' yol ten years ago Last week I knocked on the you told me you'd feli
your captured by the Allies. We door of her modest home to children they were the hoppiest are discovering how con- and out who was right, Could years of your life. Which J pletely Hitler has dominated one undo the damage wrought correct? What wil you tell the minds of Germany's in a girl's seven most impres them?"
sionable years? What Wis
the happies! hia adolescents through
"They were Marta. Now 27, teaching her years. We had wonderful times youth movements,
children of Hitler? Wes she outings. sports,
handicrafts. adhering to her threat to keep We had ideals, felt importank, felt we were doing something for Germany. I'll tell children how it was.”
Gangs of Leenagers are Hitler alive ne a hero?
sabotaging communications.
wrecking jeeps, stabbing soldiers. One, Heinz, is caught. Intelligence officers I
Typical
of
Maria wag typical then her day and age, she is even search the home of his girl more now. Her fance in the friend, And there's a diary 5.6. nevOT returned. into which she has poured married
she
my
"And when they ask you who starled the war?"
"I know Hitior was willing for it to start. He felt he must rescue the Germans who were Polish a refugee from the being ill-treated in the
Corridor. Hitler felt he had to former "Polsh Corridor" who her thoughts--adoration of took up bricklaying. Both have recover that land, even if it You and France Hitler. blind hatred of "come down in the world" meant war.
They are had no business to stop him. re thanks to the war. Americans, plana for
It didn'l concurn building their own house, partly tell my children how it was."
you. I shall venge.
with their own hands, and plan to make It also home for Maria's refurge parents-in-law, Meanwhile, Maria lives wit
Did his job THEY arrest her as dangerous and present her to the world.
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het mulher.
"A Both women renembered me
{1 typical cie-hardened and their welcome
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was warm
"Nonsense"
Invasion of
ND the
Holland?" "Hitler bad Come to
An
For * while we talked of agreement with Queen Wilhel- and only loter of mina to let him occupy Holland. one of countless generalitics
Her sollers disobeyed her and Her stole Maria's beliefs and opinions. whom
fought
Hitler WIS VCTY surprised."
product of the eradi.
She thousands from their parents at ten and Indoctrinated as Nazis with the deliberate intention of turning them into fanatice.
Her youth leader did his job. well When I visited her 151 her prison camp she told me:
Hitler-He
Come from
God
Or Nazism-It was a wonder ful ideal. Perhaps we tried to full quickly.
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'Big swindle"
Trat she told me only what she thought I wanted to hear. She spoke of the Hitler- mad as a "big avindle," said it had turned ber against her mother, and that, as things had worked out, her mother had had more sense than the
rest of the family.
the
"And the atrocities. extermination of Jews, the con- centration camps?"
"I'm sure Hitler didn't know about them. He'd never have allowed them."
"And the Nurumbeng trials;** They were a lot of nonsense. You
shouldn't try people according to laws that didn't com- But then, as she warmed to exist at the time they her subject, It all cTIO
out,
while her children played be-
mitted their offences."
All Bus Marta said in the charming Germans have when they wish winning way that
to be friendly. She mentioned that times weren't as easy
the Hitlermd - The happlest years of my life.
Of her future-My fiance La In the S.S. We shall troch our
side her. Immediately after the children the bigh ideals We learn in our youth movemenda. defeat of Germany she felt very
Of Hitler's
future-Should bitter and disillusioned.
for capture you
him alive
" was prepared then even to her as they had been under the should forgive hin, He meant olme Hitler. but know now
Nazis.
father had owned a How well, But I think he will kill J WIN not his foult that we
factory in Cologne. He was himself rather than fall into lost, she said. I shall tell my your hands
children about his high ideala.
think be expected others be as good and high-endnded as he was, and they let him down.
"Do you think he made any mistakes?" I asked.
these
Then ahe added ominous words: While I and my Keneration live, Hitler will never be dead."
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"Yes, one."* she said "He charge. "But we shall teach her expected too much of us. He the truth. She's intelligent thought we could fight the
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DDON'S DIAR
of the
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, THIS town of 6,000 people in the foothills Blue Ridge Mountains expects the ar- parly member. His business rival of President Elsen- had prospered. Being the wife Thower within
a few days. of a bricklayer quite
foreseen Then, according to all the residents I have talked to, and I have talked to many, it will be the new capital of the United States.
was well-not
what abe had when Hitler had been virtually promising her the earth.
Faith Intact
ERTAINLY she had bad
enough of war to last her a lifetime. Something would, of course, have to be done sooner for inter ubout poor Germany's
Some people-local boo- sters-have
said: "Gettysburg will be the
even
lack of lebensraum, which was capital of the Free World wotse now them in Hitler's when the President gets
Ume, wasn't it?
She had painted a perturbing pleture of herself as the mother and guide of two new-generation Germans. She had forgotten nothing the Nazis taught her. Her faith in Hitler was intact.
I felt that if the Nazis should
ever march down her street again she'd be out there waving and cheering.
Then she said something that cast a ray of hope-something
that Hitler with.
never
rockoned
"I shall never, never let my children Join a youth ment."
move-
"Why not?" I asked. "Bechuse the Hitlermandl
here."
London Express Bervios
IKE TAKES OVER FROM
ABE
you are at the Gettysburg exact total in millions of national museum you are dollars has not standing in the centre of the estimated. world's greatest battlefield
the battlefield
covers
There is a sentry box
Paul Roy, editor of the There are several signs bear- been Gettysburg Times, says; ing the word "Private," guards "Gettysburg awaits the pool the area, and two tele- phone cables, each with 26 pleasure of the President. lines, have been strung Into the All we want for him is to house.
Becret get well and enjoy a good at the main gate, and life here as we do. There Service men arrived here weeks will be no fuss or fanfare, ago. The community has been
thoroughly checked. His arrival and period of convalescence will be treated with the same restraint and is
The shops in the little 16.0 16,000 acres, there are 62 town
feature battle
sou miles of roadway, and 2,889 venirs, I hope the people of Gettysburg do not plan any monuments.
exploitation of Mr and Mrs "Because of the size of the Eisenhower's residance here. field and the great number But after seeing Eisenhower of highlights you have to mugs and Jugs, Elsenhower dignity." spend a week here to under- books, and printed pictures stand it unless you see the of Ike and Mamie in the electric map re-enact the stores, I have the idea that bering this? battle."
business is again moving in.
Bad Taste?
WHEN I went into the
Excited
Gettysburg Hotel restau. THE town and the towns- people are - naturally This is the site of the rant for a whisky and Moda famous battle--the turning and sandwich I saw on the excited. There are scores of point of the Civil War menu, "Battlefield Special workmen behind the Gettys. Hotel turning the where Abraham Lincoln Sandwich," which offered burg made, his historic address. cheese and ham and chili. I auditorium
said to the waitress: "Isn't headquarters, this rather bad taste?”
Are the businessmen remem-
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Two signs that read "Here the battiofald," noar the Baltimore road that runs close by, have been taken down.
THE
First home
Mr Eisenhower's farm is not more than a mile or two away from the actual balilmield, THE farm is a two-hour drive which
hugo cemetery from Washington less in studded with enormous monu the poilce-escorted Presidential ments to the dead. It is not the limousine and there is a small of place should have cirport nearby for any emer- cort
gency visitors, Mr Eisenhower chosen myself for a refuge."
is not expected to fly a great There are dozens of motels deal between Washington and
Gettysburg.
close
to
into
batüefield and Eisen- therefore close to the hower farm. There onc the Press Battlefeld Motel, Home Д
Home Motel, and the Light Inn
the
Thist
Sweet
wiil
Peace
real
home
be that
the Arst 100 and
Monuments
I have been slightly sur-
Carpenters are com- prised by the commercial exploitation of Gettysburg. But she didn't understand pleting offices for Jarnea the President's I had not been in the place me and said the Battlefield Hagerty, five minutes before I was Special Wax the tastiest Press Secretary, and a suite DEOPLE in
in the hotel has been set PEO handed a pamphlet in red. sandwich in town. white, and blue, which said: "The most visited battle-
made me and my motherfield museum in the world,
enemies. I wouldn't listen to home of the electric map. ber afler I was twelve, I'm not letting any youth leader steal The electric map is a copy my children from me. I'd rather righted feature." die than see them wearing the uniform of a youth movement."
I wonder.
A printed
letter said: "Dear Traveller, when
open
Mamie have
39
hod la their
years of married
They have lived at Army posts, hotels, borrowed villas, even castles, the cottage on the golf course at Augusta, and in the White House. They have never had a place to call their own.
Gettysburg now say: "Abraham Lincoln was aside for Sherman Adams, Number One man hereabouts
No wonder Eisenhower, when Seven hundred thousand the President's Chief As- for years. Now it will be
he visita Gettysburg, stamps the visit
Elsenhower." Gettysburg sistant.
earth and says: "This is the people
fieldx every year and the
Stacked Fannonball rusty only "Piece of America Iown, outside are strewn with All the rooms in the hotel fel plects and sone) monu-dant to haply on to monuments. Gettysburg for have been booked for weeks meots line the Gettysburg-to-
The President has put a cat years has been making
flagha a by the newspaper,
news Baltimore road
the Esidower pre rý
money in the proty. rocs His wife originally television
chose the and good thing out of the battle agencies,
br been built
tay old Pennsylvania farmhouse In and the speech, although the radio networks.
entita 409-
30, but in the Men- hower has poured in $300,000 ving surrounding land, beide fig new wings, installing andr conditioning plant stoves re- gerators, expensive ken equipment. The original : une om have been expande to eight bedrooms and seven baths
OYSTER BAY........WHERE LIVE THE
I
BEAUTIFUL AND THE
for twelve
N the weirdly rich residential "colony" of
Island, tho handsome, rented
multi-millionaire thousand a season. youthful, William G. Woodward jun.
$18,00
18.00 15.00 25.00 8.50
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By
RENE MacCOLL
DAMNED
There were
the Isovitable any old doutakers. One of the meg, feared of all wangu Ma Phày, who Wagwont be wrpet
But
which Mrs Eisenhow call "big and homy haspeed retained und in the south why there and tall Toome for the Fresident's
hisolmoq and judy. White the Caffade dimensings In the second half of the last at the easy-going ways of today, H century a small
of with stroup
famillar words: Make Yourselves will be held is hot leaf No Our Blangy,
bere and leve me, there is one could tell me Perhaps Americans POSSLssed among manners and aloppy, clothes. is accidentally shot dead by colossal affair by any standard fortunes ever known in
ey have to be held in "The one on my right was a them
no one who fishes you week Bomo of the hugest
the Ritchen The hens has no on there more than I dofTM---- the
But even then there was his beautiful wife-and the it was a factual Imitation
locally name end is, ki A. Mrs Eric of modern world. Not only possem- occasional rebel.
Tebay-well toda shot stirs the ghosts of a some hotel de ville in Normandy, ed them-but kept them intact Archdeacon,
a society high-up still an Oyster Bay, where quite vanished era.
with a tower on one side, spank too, for taxation of 70 years ago complained that Tuxedo Park
a number of people rich by the ing now under a beard of raw was risible.
(another famous society strong standards of 1956 hang out. the Wy, and a marble ewimming
hold over on the mainland, In Even pool, and more than 40 acres of
the un-state New York) reminded wn and garden?"
as recently as
fool Mra Fish, ninoteen-twenties, Scott Fitz- her of a beautiful cemetary."
wouldn't approve, It la a Bont of marini aristocracy, Lots heart attack
TVEN before gerald's time of palety and melancholy, temnation had only Just started to gnaw away. ot "the individual riches of America.
Oyster Bay la on 25.00 north side of Long Island, 35,00 only a short journey from 7.50 Now York. As "Egg Bay," 7.50 it is shiningly described in his wonderful book "The 5.00 Great Gatsby" by the late 4.50 F. Scott Fitzgerald, 4.00 dipsomaniac chronicler of 1.00 the twirling 'twenties. 10.00
:
the
BAD TASTE
eyes on one of thow nko-
DOWAGERS
BUT to dive you
I
resis
BITC,
Not a rich man
of big car still, of course but not nearly so many chauffeurs friends
were
the President's several clos convinced
that
retire here to drive them. Many of the old Elsenhower would a notion of Houses are down, or standing after his first term was com-
Pro JNTIL you have actually set
In the nineteen-twention what sort of scale they lived derellet, or taken over by m-pleted. They say: "The teenth-century American resorts there were still plenty of ser on in those factory dogs, there possible, people like the Soviet for the very rich, you could not vants in spots like Oyster Bay is the pleasant story of the Embassy. believe that so much of wealth, liveried footmen, butlers, plenti-, young
acion of 4
aldent wouldn't have put all that money into this place if ho didn't intend to live here."
of ostentation, of frighteningly fui upelaira maide, armles of Hundred" family who wired his I wonder if the great Gatsby
Mr Eisenhower is not a rich bod taste, of sheer architectural gardenem to lend all those mother at Oyster Bay: Plan would like it any better then
Ho has spent lavishly on 15.00 Fitzgerald called Long Island Incongruity could possibly exist, broad acres, platoons of uni- ning arrive" for week-end to Mrs Fish if he came back to man
Hard to tell. But then, livestock, particularly un' herita 1.50 Bound on which Oyster Bay
formed chauffeurs to drive the night with 90 friends from day? ́mori domosticated gives-the
There they stand, cho tung Chandler and Essex
those haunting of Black Angus. cattle. Ha 1.50
and Harvard," to which she rejoin- you remember
Fitzgerald wrote hopes to make a profit out of body of water in the Western mansions and casties said kooper Duesenberg care; the imported od: "Terribly sorry, dear, rather words that
the famin, but some people in Hemisphere, a great, wat barn- and manors of that dead day. Hispano-Suiza Rolls-Royces, full this week-end, can only put about him-on his font page?
Gettysburg tell me that he will Colossal 5.00 yard."
"Swiss chalota” are and Panhard-LevneOLS,
"Galabý believed in the green be lucky if he does not lose check-by-jowi with "Norrman abbers steggeringly
Vast
rules Life was very formul,
The pantion, of course, were of light, the future that year by money. houros are bedecked with every, very strict, ⠀ clothing meticu- a scalo to match the houses, year recedes before us. It eluded
Here, as in every other town house was at the very conceivable
Tone us, then, but that's no matter.
run againy Tomasiona would line when the doll went stretch out our are farther. Will Ice KOWLOON from the Bound, nod: squeezed was a line - for orientation tremendoul
And one fine moralsg==" answer is: Yes--to Gettysburg: between two huge plaosa ther`and pothing was stinted, have recoiled in absolute horror considerably more than NOW,
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