When I called on the
THE CHINA MAIL,
MONDAY, JULY 29, 1957.
Belsen Brutes of Cyprus
I found them more like the Warwickshire Constabulary than the Gestapo
Nicosia.
denly completely change his fight and that no roughness was THEN I was in Athens, I heard nothing but accounts character when he sets fool on needed.
this island.
The general opinion held by W
of the atrocities that were perpetrated in Cyprus.
the police, the Army and even The timeulites which these by Enosis sympathizers. is that The British police, I was assured, had become an instru- ment not very different from the Gestapo. There was re fueling are acute, and the terrorist is a far better!
the credence given to these the front, a sinister special branch which was engage in dirty the work is made no entier by nighter from behind than from work and, last of all, the British had stooped to using stories and spread about them interrogators-men who, without any mercy, shone at home, Bghts into faces for 48 hours at a stretch while they men who, in order to repented the same questions; extract information which they wanted, thought nothing of tearing out fingernails or using those sadistic methods of torture which the Archbishop described in his broad- cast with such relish.
Widely believed
policeman
Taken as a whole, the situa Hon here appears to be well under control. I have found no Farileuler animosity shown by the local inhabitants. Indeed they stand and wave at cars as I interviewed several of the they go by. Undoubtedly there
Facts Himay
As
en tilsely accused by Athens, could be a further outbreak of The evidence against them was violento. Large quantities of 10 msy to disturb them are and ammunition are known ferimusly, yet I think they have to be ludden in the hills, but it If one belleves there rumours carping feeling that they are is extremely doubtful that such
that me must conceive
the being let down.
to the an outburst would receive any- Spreial Branch, they play in thing Ike the support It! As well as this, it was alleged ordinary high-level
his job no ably and Cyprus exactly the same part as formerly did as the present Iuli the Army had lost all its tradi- who does
at home sud the local CID branches do lo and quiet la appreciated by Honal good behaviour and used unobtrusively
England,
everybody. Indeed, there seems every inethod under the sun to
to be a general desire in the get what it wanted.
When I investigated the case island for a total end of unecx-
the interrogators
Archbishop Daniast tolaty which the whom the blackest accusations may be slowly recognising.
These bellels are current in Athens. Since I have been in Cyprus, I have bet kokig into the matter first hand,
of
One night I spent two hours with a known supporter Makarios, (41 conversation was interrupted by a police visit fee that he was at home. asked tilm for precise informa- tite as to the uncleared-up casca of torture and violence,
He could give me no names. The other day 1 went to see Lieutenat Colonel Geoffrey White, who combines the role of Chief Constable of this island and of Warwickshire and looks every ch the part.
Qulet authority
1
He explaid to me the set-up of the juice in this island. Stranded to this force train
CVITY nearly
and borough County in the United Kingdan are 360 ofBeers of varying ranks. The are sealleled throughint the island and give to it some- thing of that nir of peaceful
which exists authorlty England.
اله
Several of these men have been markel out 25 sadistir brutes who take the summe sort of pleasure in their work as illa the warders at Belsen.
FLY
:
by LORD LAMBTON, M.P.
who recently resigned
as
Parliamentary
Private Secretary to Mr Salwyn Lloyd in
protest against the
Government's Suez policy
BY B.O.A.C.
of
were made. I found that there are now only eight of them here, and that they are chosen for their command of Greek, whe age of these eight men range from 22 to 65. Some of them are seconded from other Government departments,
some
from the Anny and Royal Alr Force and one or twe have been called out of retirement. One
of them is known by the genial, name of Pop,
Some Incidents
Their role is for Intelligeneu fond but, by conversation, the plans of the terrorist. It is us less to deny that every now and again there have been slight incidents inherent in the silun- tion, but generally speaking none of the accusations bear invest- gation, and the police force here- is far more like that of War- wickshire than of the Gestapo.
I also paid a visit to the Suffolk Regiment and Gaw several 'offlers and men who have been engaged in rounding up the terrorists in the hills. All of them gave me the sume enswer when 1 asked about their methods of warfare that whenever the Cypriots give in, with one or two excep tions, they gave in without a
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for a visa. At over 80 years of age, she must have been one of the oldest tour-
"We had some black shoop in a good flock," said Mr. Krushchev. "We took
them by the tail and threw them out."
by LISA MOYNIHAN
ists ever to ask for one.
tape- She described herself on Popped in with a the tourist form as "Fellow measure when nobody was of the Institute of Land- looking"),
scape Architects." And Now we were strolling among her solo interest in the the massed roseg of the summ
cursory USSR, it seemed, were the garden. Having made
visit to the willed spring garden attached to gardens
autumn former palace at Peterhof, and the vet-to-blodm
garden. 20 miles from Leningrad. She just wanted to spend apart from painting. I've written
"Gardens have been my life,
a week there, taking photo books about the garders of
graphs.
The woman who took a bath-plug to Russia ...
'I like a good souk, my dear,' said Mrs. Constan co Villiers-Stewart, aged 80-plus. And the Russians bathe in running water,'
roca and luping, I heard her | programme. "What do I do?"; glorieed at the bold "entry. brisk interrogation.
Mrs Villiers-Stewart asked me. "March in to studios. Demand to "Where is this Lime Grove?"
"Lime Grove? What is Lime Grove, young man? Ah, tele- vision. No, I do not have a tele- sion set. Why?"
The "young man" it appeared, would like her to appear in his
News from Britain
by LES ARMOUR
CERTAIN Mr Richard Crossman, MP, has
Spain and Indiawlieto my been, Fis the Americans
husband served.
know, I've
But one
"I didn't get the thumbs. fecured out then in Massa- would have it, eating crow up from Moscow until a day chusetts. I got myself invited in large slices. before the 8.s. Molotov was to vieit stately homes and gor- The story behind this re- dens in Sweden with the due to sail," she told me Forestry Commission.
markable performance is a
little when I called to see her at ambition has always been to follows: For some her 5,000-acre estate near see Peterhof. It's the Versailles time now trade unionists King's Lynn, Norfolk, soon of Russia, you know."
have been complaining that they after she returned from
are being cold- Russia. "I was so excited
jshouldered by the Labour
Party.
I forgot to pack enough woollies. Caught a shocking cold."
ART FIND
number
RESOLUTION
I told her and managed to get in a little bit of advice. Mrs Villiers-Stewart look. a note-
book
from her handbag.
Ete producer. Insist on writing script."
I hope she makes it. If the cues, one thing is certain. The Lime Grove gardening "experts will have lo look to their lauretr.
-(London Express Service);
It's the Nobs
in the
the Labour
Party... who are having
A PARTY!
telephone
national wealth, the government over the government's plán do I could pleture her in her
The number of trade unionist ought, by various means, to increase postal and black straw hat with huge white
the ordinary shores charges, flower I chose it for the M.PS has been falling while invest in
of middle-class of large corporations. The iden at the reads the irip"), comera
Mr Butler, it was alleged, fod But she did NOT forget mong the fountains and flower intellectuals
on the Socialist is not, explicitly not, to control
the asshult force and his been increasing these industries in order to 500 to pack a bath-plug-and & bedand the double-takes of benches has packet of flea powder. "I'd the nativas... "Those
guides The trade unionists regard this that they work for the publle argument was supposed to have good" but to transfer to the been the very good one that; at been warned
a time when the government is that the were very useful, my dear, clear us fundamentally evil.
government the benents of the
gains they make and pleading with privato Industry Russians don't use plugs, ing away Russian visitors when I wanted to take a pleture of
Mr Crossman, unasked, leaped, capital
to hold down Ite prices and They wash and bath in semething.
into this debale and said that, the dividends they earn
with labour to cut down, it's I like a
of the nearly 100 trade unionist running water.
hardly uggested that the capitalst
It amounts to a statement wage demands, it was good soak, my dear.
"Odd people, the Russians. MP3 unly four
system, the good polities to lead the way in powder? Well, you
The only time I saw them smile themselves" as candidates for a
constitution of the Labour Party increasing prices, playing future cabinet. was when they were
notwithstanding, is a jolly good know. Actually I didn't with children. Except for
in existing What is certain, at least, 1s En musse, more than 80 thus thing but that, need it."
party of sailors being shown
the circumstances, it is appropriate that Mr Butler did not reign snubbed protested to round the Hermitage Muscum National Executive. Mr Cross for the government to share and that his troops, if any, did wonderful art
collection, you man said he was sorry. know. They were actually laugh-
HER IMPACT
The never
..
ing. But then sailors are the But the events of the week
suggest that he need not have same the world over."
of
on
directly in its bounty.
not show themselves when the increases were announced in This attade envisages the the House of Commons. attainment of social justice via very delicate manipulations of The aniouncement had a very the economy. I presupposes quias reception,
i govemment, in fact, by political economists.
There were a few perfunctory questions and ona Llboral and
I can imagine that none of the Russians she met from It was in the museum that apologised the captain of the 8.8, she made an Intriguing dls- The two Party policy state
"I knew they hadments-one on public control Molotov to the three guides covery.
Eome pletures by n Swedish of industry and the other who escorted her in Lening artist. Alexander Rosiin, who the existing nationalised__In- It is not surprising that, if two Labour protests... rad have got over the int painted some of my husband's dustries suggest that the Party this is the sort of government
in the the Labour Party envisages, It did not appear that anyone, pact of this dynamic widow ancestors. He went to Russia to is, indeed, very firmly
I got the control
the iniddle-class only a very few trade unionists acriously, Intended to flog tha of a Regular Army officer, paint for the Tear.
deputy curator, charming intellectuals.
are ilkely to "suggest them- government, for its alleged folly. one-time friend of Queen woman, to dig them out for me
relves" for cabinet posts," Mary ("my collection of they aren't on public show. The plan proposed is quite
Perhaps the government was the Rt. The name of Ancurin Bevan wise to grant M.P.s their pay work of fans you know"), and still And one portrait, I could swear, cloarly the
Hugh Todd
Naylor incidentally, appears on the list. intrenses before I raised the indefatigable
who house wos of a Stewart. No kien how Hon.
of of those
drow up this ex-professor it got there-but I may solve Gaitskeli,
economies, pon of an week's policy statement. But passage rates.... the mystery yet. I've invited political We had lunched under the deputy curator to stay with Indian Civil Servant, product it is difficult to understand how
of Winchester, and about as it got there."
to tho clos
horny-handed the portraits of her an- ma and eite's accepted.”
Ila the world as the To was while Mrs Stewart was workers of cestors in the dining-room
One of Her Majesty's Prison Commissioner, it is reported, of Beachamwell Hall which outlining her full programme of Duke of Norfolk.
house-parties and gardening The polley to which the pasty pretend that it is not there,
· suggested; that something oho redesigned after it was lectures up and down
committed It has devotas two of its 12 ught to be done about the the appears to ba burned down In 1006 country that a distant telephone although it must be formally pages this week to
girls who hang about, outalia ("Notice the very shallow trilled. We left the summer approved by a national con- the
Dartmoor Prison. Cribbed that Sardena subile kajeldoscope of ference is one straight out of statements, [... staircase?
Athe bagsroom. pastel colours-to the beed. from the back stairs in London call From behind a
The plan is that, in order to
of Kensington Palace, my dear, beautifully-arranged bowl of effect ■ro-balance
an
party hostess.
own
"Tribune", has
stuffing out
NEWEDADET,
decided to
bas
knocking
the
THE PURE
The story was that there was He complains that they're thean almighty row in the Cabinet "giving the place a bad name”,