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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1956.
TWENTIETH CENTURY TREASON TRIALS, NO. 2
Hanged By A Passport He Did Not Need
HIS is the story
T
uf
Irishman, American, EL 71 Englishman and 11 German. They are one and the same person, William Joyce, who required each nationality by Inheritance, birth, implied allegiance or to England. tutturalisation.
By NIGEL GEE
The Joyces, fatlar and son, ok sides with the party of law and order, and when this yield- ed to revolution, they withdrew
Within the limita of
choice to dis- The from
redam Joyce had
de-
right hand of the leader, Oswald Mosley, but never accepted by the Bned element which controlled the party hierarchy.
in his aliment the Joyce Chooses
Granted free entangle bimself
Troubles," He had served n accidents of chonde, Juyce might an Intelligence capacity" aceted to be British, but
Love No hunger him.
dearly."
ኩ።
with
WHEN
On these two counts however,
ROBERT COLEMAN TELLS HOW THE FABULOUS TAJ MAHAL AT AGRA WAS BUILT
TRULY ONE OF
THE WORLD'S STRANGEST STORIES
W
ΣΤΗ rations of mouth, flower soft and sensi- meat live....high girl breasts; A raw
shawl of blue," fastened beneath their enddles, the
Her sari was a tissue of rose with golden the defence won. By establish-yellow-skinned, flat -nosed, silk embroidered ing beyond doubt his American savage hordes of Tartare necklace, a long collar of gema peacocks and cypress trees. Her birth, Joyce was seen to have and Mongols (or Moghuls) known as the nine lucky stones
acted within his legal rights. He had gone to Germany as 2 Sir citizen of a neutral state, and as
could broadcast he was such he
und more re- change his nationality with
impunity.
On that score Britain had no case against hlm, nor had America, which at the time Joyce became a German was a
neutral bystander European struggle.
third count The
in
the
LOVE STORY IN MARBLE
fall upon India and her of India," squares of gold en- Shahjahannabad, the original grew and grow until it becama crusted with diamonds, rubles, name for modern Delhi. In what some have without henitn- treasures in 1399.
emeralds, sapphires, opals, tur- the middle of the town ho tion claimed to be the world's quoise, cnl eyes, chrysoprase, built the great mosque, the most beautiful building. and moonstones.
Jamma Musjid, which could hold a thousand worshippers.
It was said of the Moghuls that they "built like glants and And finished like goldsmiths,"
The Moghul leader was Tamerlane ("Great Wind of the World"). In his train came rough, jolting carts heart for
Shali Jahan quite lost LEA
It is a dream in white, a tomb bullt of pure white marble standing on
Д vast marble terrare
crowned by A great done in the centro and smaller
Joyce mys he was brought up liller than to the dictator whom necessarily invalidate this countled with gems, gold and "He preferred in his heart the tally although Shah Jahan domes at cach corner.
the British forces. The granting W evitably, Joyce stumped off of high treason to the dates be was more the break came in specific. It confined the charge circumstances and the star he of Horne Rule, then, to his chose to follow were irrecueil- dissident compatriols seemed no
to form u splinter group of tween the outbreak of war and Fascism, the able. He was swept into a cekin, less a betrayal of himself and
British National July 2, 1940, the date on which for which "The country which his
which us family than vf Britain's Socialist League,
its Joyer's British passport expired. Britalb. traditional roku.
name implied weaned nearer to Is American citizenship did not
the Fascists had taken as their Though Joyce had led in extreme conservative ideas," His
moriel, Mussolini,
to obtain a British pompork, so with imperialistic
From that point it was a short long as it remained valid he Was the philosophy of the bright
the ultimate end. When enjoyed its protection, uniform, every man in his own
And place As the gunboat dia- war cume, he faced Internment he enjoyed its protection, he ከነሮ A patched
on Joyce chase vason. nwed In return a temporary rebelikou or treason
A few days before the declara- allegiance to the Sovereign. In mainspring of Britale'n might,
be left for Germany. In breaking that alleginace, his 1940, no longer was so. But dryce his uggage was the British pass- could be held to
was not growing with the times, port which was to hang him.
Protestations of love from convicted tracker fall Batly on the cars of the betrayed, Yet It is probably true that from his adolescent yours, when statement
ماريا
tu
distant
Was mode, to his
his parts If that had oner been the
let
the Ruble
in 1940
Gernung citiranship Jayce was guided by a love f What he concelvid Britutak role to be, and by the means
necessary
Je
Avisithet vol
to achieve that end. The British people and their elected iraders had betrayed themselves. Joyce mast himself in the role of Moes. and through him they cinterge from the wilderness,
wold
-
Iriali
Like The Army
step
11051
His work for the Germans is
well known. He served them
treason,
commit high
silver; and with the jewola least ringlet that curled
women; always Women torn from their homes and Down her exquisite neck to the
throne of the world" husbands.
Young
Shah
Jahan the ("King of
World"), born in 1592, was destined to become the fifth Moghul Emperor in Delhi. Every girl in India or Asia,
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MUMTAZ MAHAL
throughout the war as a broad- Judge Decides Fuster, his voice gloating, wheadling or threatening to his JOYCE went to Britain em- British listeners. At one time he UCH was the case for the matter how influential her
bittered at the treatment of commanded
considerable
prosecution. The passport his family, perhaps in material audience. There were those who system had developed faster family, would have counted respects with some justification, turned to Hamburg
than the processes of law, and it an honour to be beckon- curiosity, out of desire to hear no ruling on this point existed.ed into his harem. Both After hearing the submissions of
out
but he set off to build his He with sides, for the strange sensa both sides, the judge ruled that ? public opinion and the laws
1.1
tion
ment
071 unseen
were
in. The pattern he had always intended He nursed the ambi.
of hearing
amuse- the holder of a British passport of India at that time beechne an officer in the enemy, or simply for
Crown unanimous that no restraint Whatever the motive, it owed allegiance to the was rarely the one which Joyes even when he was outside the should ever be placed upon had intended.
realm.
the love life of a Moghul That ruling encompassed the Emperor. downfall of WilMam Jayce. He was sentenced to death, and the
That Juyve WILS Jann UNI American la now beyond pute is far, emigre, became American Irefore British Army, and politically he Joyce was born
Yet his Amer inclined towards the Conserva- can nationality hand hulle sigal tive party
119 life exept, legally, at a close Inheritance Though be attained #high la often stronger than the mere Intellectuat slature through an Juwa
and Joyce, hours of nations,
degree ut
Beuner
London "Jairmany Calling"
W KNO fully renounced University. 2011 ubserver more America, in his early childhood, conversant with the ways of remained predominantly Irish. English fe could
Spied For Britain
con- Fascist
SUCCESS
was
of
the
conviction was upheld by both the Court of Appeal and House of Lords. He was executed on January 3, 1946,
But to have the right to all girls was, in his case, to long for one. We are not quite sure how he first mot her, but one account
says that at a sports meeting on
Jumna
the the sacred banks of
she admired his skall with the javelin.
bave wold HS
negligible. and his audience shrank as him he had Tuttle hope of atcrming these two bastions of the war progressed. He was In-
comic title traditivo. The glass of academic vested with the
Juyce, then, was hanged by Lord How-Haw, the Lord education could not obscure
und it must his possession of a British pass have been
a bitter disappoint port. peasant within, and he was re- ment to Britain's self-appolated no need of it, but he may have As un American he had was to the land of their buffed in both ambitions, I father that they family
savlour, when He was then a natural
carried on
been the victim of a mistake, stretcher after his capture, returned in 1000. There they re vert w the Dascent
Re either through his own wishful mained until common prudence Party, trumpeting in grotesque the nasal tones of his call-sign, status, or through
heard British troops mocking thinking and uncertainty of his bade in sall the Irish Sea to and puerite vulgarity thuvugh
a deception THE GALAXY "Jairmany calling." To the Inst consciously practised, England, Native Irishmen were the streets, us unsure of its at that time in two
British, who had camps Ultimate destination 118 the
never his understood him,"rebuffed him.
son, by his father Michael those who prayed and fought to Gaderone swine.
Joyce. he was ultimately Here aliva oppressor,
Again and those who empared the to be denied positions of
The underliness of the British raj, equality with
leaders. which they respected, with the Through
affrays wildeal conspirators
who
were his natural talents for leader- their despised fellow country, ship and discipline had pro- anted him to sit even at the
be rid of the
net
nis kerbside
WELL, WHAT D'YOU KNOW!
They Use Millstones For Money!
W
IY people say they "shell out" when they pay their debts may seem strunge-until you re- member that sca-shells have been used as money for centuries,
The must common type of shell is money-cowry, found mainty in the Indian Ocean. It was once accepted us coinage in Bengal, 3,840 shells being worth une rupee. The annual Importation of money-cowry was valued at 30,000, which was "shelling in" in a big way.
In Portuguese West Africa, the shell of the land shall is used as money. It is usually cut into rings, which are strung together. The North American Indians had their own form of shell currency-Wampum. Wampum cume two colours, while and purple, each colour having its own value. It circulated in some parts of America until the 18th century, and so completely look the place of ordinary coinage in trading between the Whites and the Indians that its value was fixed by law!
There have been many other odd forms of money-rock salt in Abysslala, hoes in the regions of the Upper Ne, iron and cloth in Central and West Africa, stone axe blades in New Guinea, sperm-whole teeth in Fiji, and brilliant red feather bands in Santa
Cruz.
But perhaps the queerest currency of all is the millstone money of the people of Yap, one of the Caroline Islands, There is no metal on Yap, so the natives decided to use stone as cur- rency. Then they agreed not to have their own stone, but import a special kind from the Pelow Islands, 200 miles away. TWELVE FEET ACROSS
to
The idea was that if their money were to have any real value, Et must not be too common. It was felt, also, that great labour should be spent in howing it into shape.
The natives of Yap certainly go for big money-the shape they decided on was a millstone! The stones vary in size from one to 12 feet across. The islanders make holes in their income --but only so that they can carry it about on a pole.
Value Increases with size, but the quality of the stone is also a factor in deciding the amount of the owner's bank balance. The Yape call their giant coins "fci."
Fortunately, for Yap women on shopping days, the millstone money is not usually carried about. When a deal is completed,
the native acquiring the coin just leaves it where it is, even
the
But criminal responsibility is
even on
She was his priceless jewel... He wanted the world to remember her... 20,000 men worked for 21
years enshrine her memory
to
in the most beautiful building in the world.
អស់ name was Arjamand father was in no doubt Banu and she was 10 years of not necessarily in proportion to about his own nationality, butage on their wedding day in
1012 a little old the success of the crime,
for The for reasons best known to him- tempt is enough, und s in self
Shuch he loid
Oriental bride, another
Jahan son, due course William Joyce was Quentin, never
gave her the "palace name" of to mention it. brought to the Central Criminal In 1934,
Mumtaz Mahal, when William was The jewel of the paluce," and which means Court to be indicted on three the midst of street battles, counts for high treason.
Michael Joyce
performed the when he looked at her the last symbolic rite of renuncia-
Koh-i-Nur Diamond adorning tion by burning bis American the grave of his grandfather
the palace grounds might have been no more than cut glass. And he became Prince Khurram. The £0,000,000 Peacock her. Throne, a glittering galaxy of gema ono of which weighed 80 to 90 carats from which he ruse to take her in his arms
The Defence Scores passport.
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Was
was Just a handy armchair
In statements both as a young N the first count ho was man before by became a Fascist charged with traitorously and after his Anal arrest, dhering in time
war to the William Joyce had owned to the King's enemies, being a person doubty about his nationality. owing allegiance to the King, by but had aimed at the same broadcasting on dates between time that he believed he September 18, 1939 and May 29 British, only because in Ire- His wife was all that mattered, 1945. The second count charged and and England the family and he loaded her with him with high treason in the had been treated as such. same terms by purporting to citizen on September 28, 1940. become naturalised as a German Had. in fact, Joyce been British citizen, he could have offered little defence
to either charge, for he did broadcast and he did become a German citizen.
a
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NEXT SATURDAY: The Private Army Of John Amery
treasures.
What exactly did she look like? Edwin Arnold, describing miniatures which still exist, has pletured "A face to win worship ...kind but good. Love-lighted eyes curtained with long, fine, sweeping clashes, Sweetest
ЗНАН ЈAHAN
But perhaps the best way of describing her is to say that she looked to him as any wife does to the husband who loves
in this happy atmosphere (which has tended***** to exasperate historians in ita absence of lusty conquest and promiscuous living) there entered a new golden age, the age of Indian architecture,
Just
began by using the warm red sandstone of the country, he
came eventually to use marble IN BLACK more and more. He favoured the Inlay of precious and semi- precious stones upon his build- lugs, and simple decorations of flowers and vines.
art
Inside she illes, and no words can describe the soft beauty of her burial chamber, the inlaid precious stones, agates, blood- stones, jasper. There inscriptions one of which says The illustrious in length. High above the sepulchro of Arjamand Banu noble columna, written In Begam, called Mumtaz Mahai; golden Persian script, was the died, 1031."
built
The years passed. Shah Jahan his own palace with a special audience hell, 370 feet simply,
incription: “If there is a Heaufin
it is this."
on earth, it is this, it is this,
'GOOD-BYE'
visit
Mahal know that it mirrors the
Those who
the Taj
moods of the weather, In moonlight it is pale, ethereal, ghostly--appearing to rest be
At tween heaven and earth. sunset the rays will catch the Meanwhile, his wife at her jewels, turning it golden red.
husband
side advised and hoiped him in governing the country The
Fortunately, Shah Jahan lived coins of the to see the completion of the Taj realm at his wish were stamped Mahal, Ho had, however, with the Inscription "Gold has planned to build another tomb a hundred Umes the splendour for added to it by receiving the im- pression of her name."
himself exactly opposite, This was to have been of black marble with a bridge of silver connecting the two.
The
mind
теся
at
the
Shah Jahan went on building happily. There were the garders of Shalimar at Kashmir thought of two Taj Mahals, one where each summer the court
Agr
In
went for a holiday. Then at white, the other in black and #joined by a band of silver-like he built the Hall of lovers holding hands across a Private Audience, the marble stream. But when the founda- topped
Tower, the tions of this second tomb were Mosque of Pearl, the Mott
Jasmine
Masjid, where reflection of light being laid the rebellions of his Alled the white arches with But what matter.
sons put an end to his hopes. His plan for shimmering colours, the thahg Mumtaz Mahal was complete. ing tints giving 0 Stric el musle being played.
How
Mahal
And the youngest daughter, long could it last, the Gushar Arahé adored her, ренес, prosperity and
love? hardly
letting her out of his Eigh; handsome sens Mumtaz sight, At the age of 15 she
bore him and six
was badly burned by accident, daughters with the promise of Her unhappy father asked an their mother's beauty.
English doctor who had a small factory on the banks of the Hoogly to attend her. He saved her life, and as a reward Dr Gabriel Broughton was granted urgently to her bedside. She permission to trade with the whispered 1 word of love, Dutch and Portuguese on equal asked him to look after the terms. children and said "Goodbye," Then she was dead and Shah Jahan in a torrent of tears.
One day, when his wife was near to the delivery of their 14th chlid he was called
It was all over in a moment The chlid, a daughter, named Gauhar Ara, lived,
as a man works best HIS GRIEF when happy in love, so Shah Jahan pursued his passion for bullding He built a city and called
after
it
himself.
GERMANY AGAIN EYES COLONIES
Berlin ERMANY'S yearning for
Golonies is awakening
By GEORGE MANNERING
over
seas research and development work, otherwise Africans and Aslane will learn to out-class
again. After Hitler's Reich
The reopened school fiery Bavarian General Ritter them in industry and agri-
von Epp. A diehard German culture. collapsed in ruins, Germans paying lip service to changed
coloniat, Look conditions will be named direction. were kept busy rebuilding the Institute of Tropical
general their own country. Now, and Subtropical Agricul- school, was to keep alive
Often, say the spokesmen, with
His job, and that of the Germany is asked to send young Germany booming, ture.
the technicians overacas. But the clamour for colonial territories technicians young Germans are eager
have not the right with their raw materials, even kind of training to suit condi- though Hitler was really more tions: there. Interested in a grandices schema for carving colonics, out of the Ukraine, the Balle States and
to go overseNS,
The places they should locally by its old name.
But it will still be known most like to settle in are
The original school
ritories in Africa-Tangan-
was
men
Future Tasks
aro
A REVOLT
But tragedy still stalked,
On June 3, 18650, one of his suna, Aurangzeb, revolted against Shah Jahan, turned him off his throne and usurped his rule
Aurángazeb's first action use to
imprison his father in Jasmine Tower in Agra
WIS
Con- the
tower that Shah had so lovingly bullt
years before.
His grief was terrible. temporary accounts say that his Fort--the hair anal beard turned grey. He Jahan would not eat, He wanted to resign his kingdom and talked of going away into the wilder- ness. For two years the court was in the deepest mourning.
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The imprisoned king was not alone in his cell. One daughter, Jahan Ara, shared his lonely life. Together they placed He laid her softly to rest in crystal mirror on one wall so a garden of flowers, As he did that all day-and all night to a thought stabbed his brain, when there was moonlight-he He who had bullt the world's could see his Taj Mahal acroad fairest buildings would raise the the water in the distance. best of all — a buliding upon
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which no mâŋ might gaze with- Shah Jahan died in his.prison, out feeling cleaner, sweeter for an old man, on February 1, the memory of Mumtaz Mahal. 1080, Ho was 74. His faith- ful daughter Jahan Ara carried Shah Jahan summoned his to his grave in the Taj Mahal- team of architects, Among them at the side of Mumtaz Mohal—a Ustad Isa great golden basin full of her were his favourite,
Venetian, Gero- own jewels, tand, and timo Veronco. No one is quilte certain which was the senior It one day you should visit Because of this, one spokes-
architect. Then, at Agra, for the Taj Mahal then test its man complained, Germansong years (from 1031 to peculiar echo. Stand beside abroad are sometirace employ 1652), about 20,000 labourers the grave of those two who ed as "cheap labour".
ond call world gave of its treasures "Arja Brazil, he said, they have ove sapphires from Ceylon, judo And from all round the build- to take Jobs. with Negro families. That is "intolerable."
from China. Masons came from ing will echo the two names Baghdad and silversmiths from mingling fainter, higher, softer
and more tenderly. pro-France to aid the builders.
Until at last-to what sounds like "I Every day the Shah watched love you"-they die away and the Tal
A name which is in the echo is no more. itecli a term of endearment,
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And in strove towards perfection, The 10 amand Barta-Shah Jahan
the Kaiser's onetime ter- founded in 1898 when Ger. other parts of Eastern Europe. yika, Southwest Africa, the man Imperialism was at its
peak. Cameroons, Togoland.
After World War To train them in colonial. One it was run in subdued
Today, Dr Adenauer'e spokes- development work
form.. and
The Fatherland must diffident about the vide a training to prevent this foster the "colonial spirit,"
Hiiter infected new life into school's future tasks. Germany's
it. The Nazi Party formed 11s School
old Colonial own Colonial Department,
They point out that Germans sort of thing happening. and want to keep in line with over- at Witzenhausen,
:(COPYRIGHT) near Kassel, is to be reopen- ed early this summer.
Closed By Allies
This school
was closed
it it happens to be with the previous ownerl In fact, one by the Allica when Germany wealthy family on Yap have never even seen their wealth. The fell. large amanunt of fel" they possessed was lost during a storm and lies at the bottom of the pca. But since everyone knows it la Now, only, a year after there, it is regarded as quite na safe, as it would be at the Bank of England.
The Yops monetary system may som silly to anyone outside the faland, but, after all, it's not very much different from our so- called "civilised" methods. Not many people outside the Treasury wee the gold we store away to give value to our money. It costs
West Germany regained sovereignty, Chancellor Adenauer's Ministry of Food and Agriculture has pro mised an amual grant" of 100,000 marks (£8,850) tó
ua a lot to dig up gold in South Africa, and all we do with it faste hond, Dr Curt Winter to bury it again in vaulte at further expenset
Other goverment depart
The Yope do have the pleasure of seeing their hard cashments are likely to double ying about the island.
that figure.
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
I HATE TO LEAVE -- I KNOW.CH, TODAY OF ALL DAYS NARDA**
BUT I MUST VISIT COCKAIGNE.
HE SUDDENLY HYPNOTIZES HER~~
THERE ARE PACKAGES
AND FLOWERS IN YOUR CABIN, YOU WILL NOT - SEE THEM UNTIL THE BOAT MOVES.
GOODBYE HAVE A GOOD TRIP,
NARDA--
By Lee Falk and Phil Davis,
ct-- GOODBYE--
THANK YOU-
OH DEAR--MANDRAKE DIDN'T
EVEN REMEMBER THAT TODAY IS MY BIRTHDAY? OH,WELL-- HE'S SO BUSYA
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