IF IKE SNEEZES-
THE CHINA. MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1956.
Recent lessons in
the drastic consegyencRO
of American mishaps upan stock markets give the outside world a dreadful interest in the Presidentă health.
Warlik choppinght lay arrangement with the Manchester Guardian
Pago
DR STEPHANUS WRITES 'FINIS' AND CLOSES A HEAVY FILE
H
Bonn
ITLER is really dend
and-if you are in-
terested the death certificate will soon be pinned to a notice board in the corridor outside the tiny magistrates' court at Berchtesgaden, the Bavarian border town where Hitler lorded it not only as Fuehrer of the Reich but also as aquire.
The Troslela socretary of Dr Helaz Stophamu, tho court
By William Hamsher
Only now-with a notice pinned to a board-ends
the life of the man who
rocked the world
official in charge of the domier THE DRAMATIC MOMENT down labelled "Hiller, Adolf, motion LEGENDS SPRANG FROM evidence to be recorded to presume death," will typo out the cerulfcale, enco rondy.
But
Dr Stephanus
it is
to Berchtesgaden for his the royalties from
"Main Kamp?" (even solled second- Says Guensche: "1 could say hand copies fetch up to 23. in all I have to say here in Bam- the Rhineland). burg. But it would be nice to About the shares in the pub-
Hshing see the place again."
which was Of course he hasn't seen the really Adolf
Adult Hitler's
private place since he shadowed the firm. About accumulated in- Incal equire around their last (crests from various funds and
south together in the early accounts here and there. trip spring of 1904,
If Hitler had been found
dred
on
business
The Berlin Bunker, April 30, 1945, tier's body in carried out to be burned, rather thinks that he will plaa it up From the film "Ten Days to Die."
kind of contri- himself.
has kept him pretty busy there bution to history, ho tanks: 18 months and more. "The final closing of a file,”
First there was the argu- voice of Dr Stephanus 6 resident. In the case of every insisted that the
children od have been classed as n "major he told me about it: how happy ordinary German it would bo Guenache and Heinz Lange, his Nazi" under German de-Nazi- ho will be to get the legal where he was Jost
valet, must all be brought to Reation court procedure. But ungles sorted out. All of which with the poller. But Hill of the eagle nest Her had built ned as a major or a minor Nazi
registered Berchtesgaden, to the safety of apparently you can't Classi Next there was plenty evidoneo
but no proof which among the peaks. could satisfy Here Dr Stephanus
A VOICE....
I could acriso the roller in ment over where Hitler was last That was when tho FuehrerŰT found alive ho would
ปรุง
A PERSONALITY IN THE WORLD NEWS SPOTLIGHT
ARISTOTLE SOCRATES SEEKS NEW WORLDS TO CONQUER
London
- F three out of ten
Argentinians had not
been persuaded
.
By Les Armour
Spanish, he had no skills. abandon Virginia Disaster might have been manoeuvring
tobacco fu favour of Turkish the casino at Monte Carlo might now derelict ruín.
The connection
bo
11
expected.
by
out-
whole
He cut his prices
h competitors. He had an information branch which ferreted out information un who wanted what and where. Instead he got a job as when he saw a series of moves an operator with the River that allowed his ships to roam Plate Telephone Co. and from point to point with a series between settled down to size up the of rull loads, he charged in with
cut price offers on the these obscure events could situation. Two things im- sequence of denis. only be
One A. S. Onassis, mediately struck him. Onassis is as improbable was that everyone in Ar-
his names Aristotle
Virginia Ketina smoked Socrates. And the chain of lobucen. The other was that events he has set in motion Turkish tobacco was much in a relatively short career
cheaper. might have inspired even those great philosophers to wonder.
05
bank. the
tinians
By
had decided
his
His offer were usually good to pass up.
too
оп
On second thought, however, he advised his men to lay along peacefully with the Peruvians. The Peru- vian
government slapped on a million pound fine. Onassis advised Lloyds that they could either pay the fine or pay him thee million pounds compensation for the loss of his feet,
Lloyd's paid the fine. Onassis got his whales Foru got a million Pounda. Lloyd's
were
wemdering what had
scope for his Aristoteliera talents.
stinking sca animals and smoke Turkish tobacco and assorted houses and castles and Aramco.
art collection estimated
In the world.
Compone
ARISTOTLE ONASSIS
Qt
He
He has always opernted the assumption that the way become of treaxiom of the sc Onassis was prepared for that. to make mungy is to know what Onassis reasoned that the lenson He knew two things:
One was
nubody else does.
might do something toward on- that the Casino was in Anancial The other wils that suring that freedom of the sesa trouble. The same thirst for curious was
with not interfered A FLEET
50 Prince Rainier whose continued and out-of-the-way knowledge lightly in the fifilme.
solvency like that of his state lifted Aristotle head and about £200
Middle East of offered more depended on the well-being shoulders above
entrels opposition
the
Casino was not Surprisingly Onassis lives H borrowed
and bought some Turk- philosophers, It her mado up to his names. ifis
A little investigation convinced imppy about the directors,
Diacet discusions followed. parents must, indeed, have ish tobacco. A year after his Ons 150 times a millionaire him that Saudi Arabia was not
ar- Omsels emergal as controlling had a premonition. Socrates first handing he had £1,000 he current assets are estimated altogether happy about its
at £ 150,000,000. the visionary, the near poet, in
rangements with Aramco, the shareholder of the Casino. A RISK
giant American oil firm which thereupon got to work to make who dreamed of other twenty-third birthday, he
virtually controlled the country's the business pay. oil resources. ethereal worlda and Aris- was worth £250,000.
The
Monte Carlo was fast gelling country he thought, totle the forthright inves-
it was re- to the point where Three out of ten Argan. THEY include a million and a
quarter tons of shipping, 80 might rather like o chance to tigator who coljeeted
membered only as an entry in seven play
off to registered corporations,
against He sailed into Jeddah Edwardian memoirs. It had lost blo and offered a deal: He would the battle with Cannes for the valuable build spectacular new tankare, Riviera trade.
Soudt register them under the
Onassis imported thousands of. dag, train a certain number of tons of and to rebuild From his Arst shipping feet Suudi officers to man trem, pay Principality's meity beaches and The vision of several
he progressed slowly. World War the government ⚫ slice of the laid a concrete floor under the million Argentinians pulling if trought him his drst calllions, profits-all in exchange
for an hmbour. contentedly on cheap When war came he was one of agreement which would eventy- Turkish cigarettes did not, the few shipowners to business ally give him a noor monopoly Then he modernised
who had a sizable feet in first over the transport of Saud oll, and theatres and drew up plans class condition ready
( overhead Kadney to however, satisfy the poetry w in his soul.
anywhere. The depression year
Monte's, only golf course and for hact left most foote is third-
something mysterious announced About this time he rate chape and rumours a u
THE ides not only appealed to as a "racecourse in the pen.” that family learned
certain had only increased fimility.
Saudi nationalism. It also The Onassis policy has paid ruined and physically Canadian steamship
Onassis was prepared to take give the Saudis a Jover against oft From a loss of £90,000
who Aranco-for ho smashed by
Turkish pany faced bankruptcy. The any sort of risk.
controls year when Omais took it over full-sized
the transport of oil is nearly as the Casino has gone on to make TO massacres of the Greeks company had a
At the end of the war he powerful as he who owns. a modest £100,000 a your. he set sail with £50 in his fleet of 30 freighters for again became tired of his com-
Onassis, that is less than nothing pocket for Buenos Aires. sote. The ships, 9,000 quered worlds. Threo view felda
but the future, ho la suru, The government signed, will be better.. sixteen, he spoke toners, had cost-even in opened up war surplus, whal-
There Wero nagły rumours that those days £400,000 each. ing., and Middle Eastern oil.
Ons trad bribed the financo minister nud Aramco Launched angry battle.
devised the rigorous logic. S. Onassis reaped the the seventeenth most which even now is the
profits. terror of the world's univer- sity freshmon might seem incapable of combination.
A JOB
YET
FET there is more than in of 'ittle
both
Д
Onassis.
In 1928 his
He was
the
POCKET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
| "According to Proud, sep
down talde me there's a
fatherinage with an eso pened discount,”
"
com-
Onassis calmly offered down payment of £30,000 for six of the best.
His offer was accepted.
A RULER
price rates.
to move
oil.
A BATTLE
the
for
the
hotels
A MATCH War surplus deals increased his whipping doot, but it also
11/HAT ho needed to clinch the took him into an assortenant of aidalins and built a now for It has since been conclusively deal was something to bring. tune on the side Whaling was shown that Onassis bribed no Monte Carlo into the headines an operation which appealed to body. Why should he? The deal Grace Kelly supplied that. Now Jales imagination and "te wont was attractive enough in itself. that the pubile knows that things into it in the hope that now It served 1350 government's have changed in the principal- ity, be expecle profits to Boar, orterprise might restore some of puZDOBA, its former glory..
There are rumours that it was Onassis and not the volubla Father Tucker who 3d the
Thereafter, Ontia Bottled
aro cor-
THE Socrates in him saw
Onasala as ruler of a vast It did--or almost. He built a back to enjoy the show. now world on the sea. The fleet and bod it boldly off the Aristotle in him told him count of Peru where there were Els trouble, at that moment, match-making. They
many whales sad no whalers, was that he did not have a tainly false. But Onnande did nomt dotherly to be careful. He laid up here were no wholers becouse on tafactory place from which to five Rainier five of the ships and sailed the government of Fera claim enjoy it His headquarters had advice. the sixth into the world od that a territoria wators always been Momovidoo, the
His world once again water- owpital of Uruguay. Bul charter business at cut coded 200 miles
peratice of operations on noir in tight, Onsas might well hava wuttled down to enjoy his art collection, to indulge Izly, tosta It is interesting to notice
Monte Carlo, he thought, for witty and fatelligent com how he did it. The Socrates Only occur at detinentes salestory Nooort Jos
anorted-and surovi might, for many reasons, be a vereaction, and to be on his
(He has rocht In him saw business or policy with Lord of London nevar, been particularly popular luxurious in the world.
But that is pot his turo. He ganisation as
an ordered indemnifying him for any low with governments be bos br society offering profit and which resulted from challenging ed with und Marco offered in already marching or how Peru's, legally ridiculous claim, government whose concorn with works to conquer, Chae day soon pleasure-in varying do-
international affairs was solat.)", "The Christina isik Aars ( mochor,
206.Her.destination: LordDes groos for all its members. The Forvian navy billed tagan
after him. Had Ompede beon And wirbtice"/ Ars Moraber" "Carlo? No one", ichowa "isot
A FINE
He did not, for instance, Dont on glory he and Why the thought, the Sporting is planning i London, But be cut his prices by cutting his probably have runde short work. Chub might be tas ideas min ton thiite Beltain Wages. He has always, in of the Peruvian, nervy sand but it' thaw omce. Ar is hermened: the invaricativo cederpris all his enterprises, paid to other people to sort out the Bounting Club was controled by SP/Dramed
Senpaišcasiona šindare: vhatjoonSebe direotoor of the Ca
better than the going wage, m
that he
dead. was actually
Where the grave?
unless you are, either (a) un- doubtedly alive; or
dead. doubtedly
And, in any
(b):um-
-ovent, éven He would not even accept the HERE might be quite a Guenscho's sworn testimony is Fuchrer's falso teeth as real together of Hitler old boys good enough finally to kill off enough for proof. That was down in Berchtesgaden. Besides Hitler, may be much too late when a dental mechanic, homo Lingo and Guenscho,
Dr to do anything much with that
£40,000,000. from a Russian prison camp, Stephanas might deelde that he
Because do-Nazi- swore that D
Jawbone his must hear Hans Baur, the pilot lication courts are a thing of the gaolers had put into his hard in of Hitler's personal plane, an- past, in Adenauer Germany.
West Siberia was Hitler's.
ulher.
Berlin claimant to the title of Only In "Show it to me, and I raight being the one who heard the
the
Western Allies havɑ, męt grant the death certificate," said very last words Hitler spoke the reins, are these Stephanus.
before he shot himself in the still in existence. bring bunker deep under the garden Dr Stephanus, cannot be legally So Hitler, certified dead by
But dental mochanies no souvenirs home from Siberia.
of the Reichschancellery,
ON OATH
IN the end, though, it is
Then there are the witnesses declared a Nazi..
tribunus
CLAIMANTAN
CO. Hitler's fortune cannot bo
as to the burning, also back from Soviet prison comps within the the
the year: Johannes Rationhuber seized and added to restitu
tion funds available to help
Russians who have enabled head of the Fuehrer a altas Dr_Stephanus to seal his dossier, bodyguardh and another detec- Jews to make a fresh start or
Hans
burled my
For it was the Russians who live ardared the East Gorman Rede Fuchrer) Mongershausen, to send home to the West Otto They all figure in the final Guensche, the blond giant who pages of the Stephanus dossier. was Hitler's adjutant.
Why does Dr Stephanus have hack The Ruzana
already to be so careful about do but the German ciding that Hitler is really and
"You're a war truly and legally dead? commissars
provide comforts for conconten-
on camp viotims.
Except in so far as part of the Fuehrer's fortune is discovered to be In Berlin. Then the city can cull up the Fuehrer's ghost and make it cough up.
relatives
The rest would probably need and gaoled him again. Well, there are queer reports J special Act of Parliament Once in the West, Guenacho going the rounds in Germany before it could be earmarked was ready to talk on oath, and that the Fuchrer's voice has.
Hitler'a say that Hitler had told him: been heard on records: #ll be for Nazi victims-or
This day I shall die by my own back; my hour will come
One daimant in his sister, hand," and to describe how he There is also the little matter
Poula Wolf, a frail lítils
body doused
the body with petrol of an estimated £40,000,000,
who
docs washing up for a This is just nobody's until Berchtesgaden hotel, and helps and set fire to it.
is officially pronounced!, Guensche, now resting up in Hier
a dead. North Germany, is awaiting
Once that is done there with the potatoes as well in the
tourist-season rush, summons from De Stepharais to will be another year of legal make
mile trip arguments about the leavings
the 100-odd
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