THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 23, · 1958.
THE YOUNG LIONS Is Eton the right place
When a
woman calls your bluff-you must fight
Chapter 3 of the Big Brando Film
CHAPTER THREE: The web of war is slowly then you change. I would like.
are
The Young
drawing together the three young men who Lions. This version of the story of the sensational film-prepared by Leonard Mosley-shows how Marlon Brando's Nazi officer and the two American soldiers are shaping up to meet their destinies.
IN
tou
many
TN the end it, is one drink but perhaps even more devastat that geta Rig experiences to go through. Michael Whiteucre into the Before he sets off for his unit, somewhere n war the sharp end of the now lighting!
France, he has a final leave in I mean, where the Berlin.
The city is devastated. sirens never stop only thing ahead is the The rir-rid
men Old
with *brining. enemy.
arm and small boys with one leg pick their way through the rular
war.
So for he has kept well and traly clear of anything that Amells or sounds like front-line comfortable duty. He has D
chairborne job, working for u captain, in London.
He even sees his girlfriend Margaret, who has wangled her way from New York to a billet In the Office of War Informa- tion
has
Except for the odd twinge of eunscience, Michael really nothing to worry about.
Then, one night shortly after D-Day, when most of the young men with whom he was drafted Into the army-Nouh Ackorrast Among them are fighting and dying in Normandy, he makes the mistake of getting drunk.
He and Margaret are sitting ut a table in a London Service Over in the corner a club group of Australian Air Force officers are drinking and singlink and the song on their lips is not nursery lullaby.
"My father'e a black market
Vruce?,
My mother gh,
My sister acila
nells
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On an impulse, he pays a visi to the home of his old superior Hardenburg, Captain affeer.
he has whom
left behind i Africa with a wounded face, the Icalures from which all have been burned away.
This is the home where he betrayed his captain by staying with 11ardenburg's the night stullish wife. Gretchen.
She too has
1er
changed. ntr is untidy and her arrogant beauty has begun to fade. She him with lack-lustre looks eyes. She has been through so many experiences, and known so that she does not many men, ever: remember him at first.
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She makes an attempt to be he brusquely coquettish, asks her about her husband.
"He was my superior cheer, "The you know," says Diest. fast me I saw him, he was in hospital. Have you heard from him since?"
She shrugs spithettey husband? _self"
her shoulders. He killed him-
to give up now, and stay with
you. But it is too late. I am
a German officer, and have come too far,"
Experience
CRUMPLED
BROKEN AND
NEAR THE
END-BRANDO
AT BAY
The
NOAH ACKERMAN, the New York Jew, has come a long All the way acros way too.
All the the ocean to Europe.
up the mined and bullet- way swept beaches into Normandy. All the way across a battered, embittered bastions of Germany 1tsch.
France
La
WHO KILLED BRANDO?
• WHO KILLED Marlon Brando, the
In the German officer,
last grim momenta of the flim of "The Young Lions"?
Viewers have been writing is to say that, as they saw it, the Broadway ગ્રામ playboy acted by Dean Martin
not the king and Clift, the American Jew.
the rim of the gully. suddenly in They both snap shoot... Christian Is on the floor, mortally wounded in the abdomen.”
film, the
Twentieth Cen. A spokesman of tury Fox. producers of the confirm that it was probably
of Director Edward Intention Montgomery
Innytryk that both men shoot and "It looks as if Dean Martin did alone," he said, "because at the vital moment the
draws back, Montgomery towards the arru,"
Clift goes out of the aays the script. "Christian appears frame, and only Martin can be seen."
According to the seript of the film, I was both Americane who fired the fatai ahele. "They hear the crackling of brun, take cover behind irers, and alift their guns
BERIALISED FROM THE FILM BY LEONARD MOSLEY
Now he is fighting his way into the heart of Hitler's Reich, had though he is all afraid goes into combat, it when he makes things better to feel that at long last, with a gun and a bayonet, he is achieving th thing he set out to do when" be was called into the war,
wildly. ak her Dieval stares" it it's impossible."
"He killed himself," raya With bayonet somene smuggled in to hion. I
Suddenly Michael bursts into sardonic ughter. He has besz looking at the expression sa the faces of some shocked Amelynn Gretchen. generals standing at the har,"
"What are you laughing at have the letter somewhere."
exke his girl.
Caricature
"The faces of those generais.
can't What VESTL says: "But 1 stand them.
DE 1 can't
believe it. He told me he crew! They don't look vs R they could lead the troops up was going to use that bayonet, on himself, but to put a not comtale out of his misery. He had so many plans."
the wall of a German fortress, do they?"
Says Margaret, nastily: "Don't
They're not
Belog lo worry, lead you into any place except the bar of a London pub."
bored
"I know all about his plans," rays Gretchen, with a
about "11e wrote me shrug.
He wanted to come back them. He looks at her. "Now, let's here. And he told you I said yes? Well, I told him he would be better oft- 1:1 a veterans
kill.
dicepline left, How close the Americans?"
camera
The two American who have come experienced so much.
SO
soldiers, fur and but have
new bad the worst experience of all, wander down the road are into the peace and soft sunil
shadows of the woods around the camp.
Bays Diesti, "1 don't know,"
"Five hours. Five minutes." He sips the coffee and wearily, chews on stone stale bread.
Bays the clone): "1 am sorry this is all that is left. Every- thing is gone. My men are fun- It is very close to the end-of-ring 100. It is unbelievable. the the S.S the war. The British, American. This s
In and Allied armics are mowing organisation is falling apart
front of my eyes." for the last great thrust,
The three Young Lions with whom this story has been deal ing-re German, the Jew, the playboy-are getting very elate to each other now. Only a few German Helds and the stench of a few thousand rotting bodies sepurate them.
warm,
soft. The sun shume and balmy. The con grew high and gold, and the woods were full of singing birds. Every where was the smell of death. defeat, and decay.
super. The age of the Nazi hirn was coming to an end in festering horror.
They do not know it, but hey are going the way that Christian Diesti has gone.
For this?
DISGUST, self-dingust, is con
ISGUST, self-dingust,, is con-
"1 can see you Desi nods. have had a bad time. But se have 1. I've had tou
my wounds, ledge of what
The colonel crosses to his denk, "You know, captain, rut- ning a concentration camp is not
been
a tree stump. letting the know-
he has Aghting for all through this war lap ke bile in his stomach, his beart, and his mind
Suddenly, as his eye cateneu he 110M a pienir, believe me. With all the gun with which the gas chambers, farget ranges killed so many he goes berserk, the doctors with their exper. He takes up his sun and, hold- ments. I had an extermination Ing it by the barrel, he begins to unl of afteen hundred people batter it to pieces against the a day, and I only had two hun- stump, shuuting: "Is it for this
Berlin fought? Is it for this I killed Ared me to do it. But complained. 'In Auschwitz they and bellved?"
rid of twenty thousand day, they told me,"
a
for Prince Charles?
A$
by PERCY HOWARD
paper
S you sit back and open your
tomorrow a small clenched hand will
be slowly writing in a Berkshire Achoolroom. For, minutes on end the pen-top will be pensive ly sucked. A tousled hend will be tilted in thought. Then the pen will move on.
"We had a super cricket practice yesterday," it will
Or:
Or: "It is jolly warm today." probably write. "There is not very much news really." And then with a solemn flourish the signature will be added: "Charles,"
But, while small Prince Charles, in accordance with
his writes
koller the school's Sunday routine, hume, a day in the future must not be quite forgotten.
The day when that uume Charles, spelled out by the same hand, will frst have the force of the low.
What sort of a King will he be? Will be under- Glad the wishes and aspirations of his people? Or the wishes and aspirations of only one class? A great deal is going to depend on the type of education he receives In the next few years.
one clara
of high academic In the Insi day or two the Its alumni, though undoubtedly must be whole question of the Prince's the fellows, are Torles almost quality; it must be free from future schooling has been raise:l to a man. All that can be suld association with any in delaite terms. It has been for them is that they are not so or party. reported that there are plans for successful as the Tories from
tion.
They do not get so many him to go to Elon
seats In The Cabinet. Everywhere, in saloon bars, rooms, drawing
Elon
discussed
Those are the conditions. And I would say that they are ful- lilled by one school above all. By which, it is said, The same goes for nearly all the school
genteel the merits and drawbacks of an the other famous English publie Prince Philip privately favours education arc being schools, Except of course for for his son; which he attended Winchester, where Prince himself ng a boy. The school Charles would probably and which has touched off, so much eritles
in The
have
recent Inked himself in the same dormitory loud controversy about the Eton jacket,
about us
half the future Socialist months. GORDÓNSTOUN. the Eton Woll Game. They Cabinel fustead,
benn sald that It has whether Eton's have Asked
the school's system in Ger- education is good enough.
mante. that it is geared to the production of a ruling elite. But what does the objection amount to? Conditions at Gordonstoun tend to be spartan-but so they do at the oldest English public Echoals, The boys are trained ter leaderly-so they are et Eton and Charterhouse too.
But I say they have got the question wrong. For those who with the prob- are concerned
There are some 80 Ministera and Whips in the Tary Govern- ment, Almost a third of them had an Eton education,
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Send him to
HERE then should Prince
Charles be educated?
lens which will moet our next Canada? King the question must not be: "Is Eton good enough?" It mu be: "Is Elon too gord? Is it too good at producing recruits for the Establishmen!, too good at leaders for one of
There seems no question ut The thing that really dis- supplying our two major parties?"
any return to the unreal and ungulshes Gordonstoun is that unostentatious There are 86 Old Elonians in airless system of private tutur- its expert and
All Ing which the Prince Consort education is shared by, boys from of Commons. the House
devised in detall for the moro! all classes, And the proof that worke is. Prince Lut five are Tory M.P.s.
Huldance of the future Edward the systems VII and which George VI and the Philip himself.
How quickly we have taken Duke of Windsor Inter found
the qualities of that particulor What about n rehool in one Cordonstoun man for granted. so irksome as boys.
He shows energy, Intelligence. But that is, not all, Take the of the Dominions? Certainly in
The the democratic alr of countries originality a sense of humour, men of power, leeding
Old like Canada and Australla even and the common taucht. 1s
boarding below him,
on the Prime Minister Down
nost exclusive Elonian. So is the Chairman of the
And the common touch is path, the two American soldiers
The Tory Party. So Is the schools are free from class thirt
surely the greatest asset of all. He paused and put his hand hear the shouts and immediate-
Even when Prince Philip's "And now do ly lift their guns. They creep Minister of Defence. So is the of the Eton brand,
of the Exchequer.
is n dfculty here ideas stir up the critics from Yet there wandered around, gaunt, un you know what i have orthers forward. They see above them Chancellor
So are tight other full ranking Buy "They ought to call yeu hospital. For heaven's sake, be proud soldiers of the Wehrmach; to his head.
realistic."
shaven, hungry, and bewildered to kill every man, woman and a glint of field-grey uniform.
Ministers and Ministers of State, 100. At the moment Australians time to time one thing can al- The ideas pro Q monarch ways be said. accept naturally Even though they moved, they child in this camp were dead on their feet,
Americana get here.
Diest, his gun smashed now,
That is a wonderful achieve educated in the Mother Country his own. They are not the ideas But of any class, any sot, any party.
What ordered staggers downhill. And sudden-ment on the part of one public as their monarchs too.
guarantee that they
a splendid thing for Christian Diostl, is still try- "The man who bos
school. Yet what an impossible ene eculd ing to act like a soldler, bu a nie to do this the same man ly. Whitesere sees him.
burden i could be for a King would feel the same loyalty for Britain if the same can be said Canadian one day of the young fellow who a monarch with disintegration Is will walk the streets free
a Kraut he who had been at Elon too. "Look out.
sits painstakingly writing home But what is he hurrying away spreading over him, like scum when they catch him he will say shouls.
For let it not be assumed that Ideally a school for Prince wille the sun shines outside t he never heard of any concen- on a dainmed-up ditch.
tration camps. But I shall bu
Diesti comes
Simul Eton's supply of Tory leaders Craries must be in Britain; it the fields at Cheam School this automatic trying to explain the same thing
toneously.. Ackerman and will necessarily dwindle to a must be a boarding school; it morning. he lumps to the Americans here."
over the next half Whitesere open fire, in a tellex trickle for the
action of disgust and horror, ut century. coming up against the German
50 shortly
The after enemy horror in the camp down road.
not go into that again."
sneering"
she
stop →Thien Michael One-Nule. Always criti-
elsing offers, always turning She comes towards him, a down proautions, Why do you carteature of her old provocative insist on remaining a private self. And it is then that Chris- the army, where you know you an Dlest hits her and hurdles. could...."
from the room.
Sove Michar: "It's gail, I zuices, Doctor Freud would say That I'm punishing myself for staying out of combat,"
to?
In the France which he finds when he reports to his unll, the Nazis are no longer the arrogant conquerors, They are spat upen and despised now.
French
"Then," remarks Margaret quietly, "why don't you get into it? Stop feeling guity It's gelling a little alekening."
Iven Francoise, the "Because I'd rather be guilty girl who has fallen in love with than dead"
him, no longer has anything but a sad kind of pity for him. Whiteocre Then tul.es just one drink too many,
"Why don't you throw away and after he has swallowed 1 your uniform." she says, "and
half to
Michael-
he murmurs,
"Or would I?"
himself
tle staggers to his feel and of the Iurches
to one over generais,
"Will you do something for
me, general?" he asiced.
"I don't know. What is E?" "Can you send me back to my
old outЯt? They're fighting in Europe."
**
The general hesitates. suppose so. But why don't you Just go through 'channels!”
"Because," says Michael, - "I don't want to wait that long."
The general takes out a note- book and hands it to Michael. "All right. Give me your nome and serial number."
Michael Whitenere writes t 'down, and then turns back to- wards his girl. From the look on his face you can tell that he Is already hearing in his mind the sound of whizzing bullets and bursting shells.
Betrayed
FOR Christian
Dleall the
moment of truth-in
coming wear.
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pretend
go underground and that you are no longer a Ger- man? It is your only chance.
MONTGOMERY CLIFT
AS NOAH THE JEW, - FRIGHTENED, BUT, FIGHTING
aware
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fine
film of
He still wears on
The
once-
pistol at his hip as and down the road, moment, if he meets the Br tish or the Americans, he wil
still the enemy, night out, for to him they are
before
the
One's duty
and
IESTL is going to the door. Dawns, the coloni
At the end of the road is a barbed
is saying, "we know what is Im camp, surrounded by
portant-lo stay and obey orders wire, with a sentry on duty.
He is
man an 3.S.
and he and do one's duty to the Father. "We have land." here bars Diest)'a way. order to let no one in
sir."
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the The grip is
his
Diesti clutches his belly, and still there
crosses look of surprise stubbled but still arrogant face, The blood begins to spurt from
his mouth. Then he is an
rolls down hill, and
Blumps into
the
But Diest) has already gone. blond lead He wanders out of the camp, muddy waters of a ditch, almost iphone
commander," avere now that the smell in the at the test of the two Amer!- your
the smell of death-of cans. mays Diesti, "I haven't eaten air is
men and women and children for three days. Go on, muu."
In the
air
A FEW. minutes later he
who have died in gas chambers, The three Young Lions have
or from starvation.
met at last-the
German, the
FIFTY years ago Elon was known for its grip on the Tory party
Through all the shakings of social change the There is grip has not loosened;
wil loosen m no evidence that i the future. Inevitably, if Prince la Elon, the day Charles goes will come about when one half
Now at last he realises what Jew, and the Broadway play-of the nation will suspect, how- he has been fighting for.
At a quarter of an hour
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Inter na they
cainy,
being escarted to the head-
march into the Noah Ackerman and
quarters bulling, and as he Michael Whilegare, with the rest
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walks, he senses something the air, u smell of evil, thu makes him suddenly ask: "What camp?" Is this-a military The guard smirks and does not reply.
In the headquarters hut,' the colonel is filing away
some
papers. He does not even tur
round. "There is no food here,"
of their company of G.1.s, como face to face with the evil they have been fighting against,
Sickening
HEY open the huto littered around the camp, and they
he says. "Other deserters have see before them the terrible,
already cleaned us out."
sickening sight of Hitler's vic-
"I-am not a deserter, el" tims lying there, too weak even replies Christian Dies. company has delected and I'm
to greet their liberators. **Fly
Ackerman's commanding
Diest looks at her in despair, his chat
world crumbling to pieces this shin Ing Nazl, Gormante world-and
without a command. I'vo hed officer, watching the way this be shakes his head.
no food for three days.". in a hole "When
you are
colonel The
turna filled with your own alth for
me, Captain. days," he says, "when you see "Forgive
battle scarred but still
gentle of the Jow'reacts to the sight now. way the people of his race have
Sit suffered, makes a gesture to some Wallencre.
But before o well-directed the faces and the bodies of the down and pour yourself burst of bullets teaches him the men you have killed, when you coffee. It is a rellet to find
of your friends some coffer. It is a relief to Take him out of here-intó Anal lesson of the war-and of see the eyes
his creed there are loan lethal banging out of their sockets find someone who still has soann the fresh air,” he whispers.
boy..
THE END
ARTIE
ANOST, BERLULA
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ever unjustly, that the King's political symjathles are on the side of his Etonian friends.
could
It
mean - a most dangerous threat the Throule for, after all, who could blame non-Tarles for being rescrWful? Whether we like it or not, Eton
Juntoc is virtually a annexe of the Tory leadership.
It would be no more provo callve io educate Prince of Fabian Charles at a series Summer Schools or to put his studies into the charge of a com- miltoe composed solely of Philto Fothergill, Ladovic Kennedy and Lady Violet Bonham Carter, What then should be done? Charterhouse has been· · BUR- gisted as a more desirable school for the young Prince than Eton. It is dimetilt to see why. anything its-educational Idens are less enlightened. Its puplis come from an equally narrow Kocial layer, even if that layer is a little lower down the cake.
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