THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1958.
PEOPLE
in the
He Could Find Clues In
A Bullet
BY ARNOLD LATCHAM
OBERT
RO CHURCHILL, 1111
gunsmith 10 WHIL uny
news
The Professor Who Will Make History
PRESIDENT HEUSS- THE JOVIAL GERMAN
By RICHARD BERRY
Dr. Theodor Heuss, white-haired, scholarly
President of West Germany, international history in October,
makes
bullet was always ache. He will be the first President of the Republic, and
died at his home at Bexley
Kent, aged 71.
And with him ties
Church!
knew
legend,
ure about any
the first head of the German State to visit Britain for more than half a century.
!
fire-arms
He became a national Agure in alan
livin!
Last was the Kaiser, in 1907 Seventy-four-year-old. Heuss Germany only from the time of man. For 40 years be was the
Even his period as Ballistics expert to the Home does not at the popular British his election. Once and Seafland Yard. conception of a German, He is He was never poved wrong rosy-faced, jovial, with a warm Nothing could shake him, Notanse of humour.
even the liqüéner and the
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a minor protagonist in German polities stops as late as 1045.
Before thui, Heuss. had been for many years a respected, but markedly provincial, gure it
a literature and in acade Newspaper editor
advent of the great Mar- Enemy of formality shall Hail Patrick Hastings, He is a declared enemy of formie circles. anti Curtis Bennett, Churchill Byed by the micro-mality and Hissis on having only une policeman at his home, the senple rath
vast, match leks, two indes Villa Hammerschmidt, a of grass, two bullets are sprawling Georgian house uver- identient. His method was to loiting the Rhine et Bonn, Li Tre a shut from the suspect West Berlin, he lives in the gun, put the spent bullet with Castle Bellevue, funnerty owned the murder bulet ander by the Prussian Royal family).
eyepiece.
double microscope" with single Then be would votate them, "groove by groove; secking the of helatch and Poincidence Craze,
For no one
Suth German Heuss als poses any possibility of revivity, Gextman nonalism as only fervent heral enn." hated the Nazis more than he
In January this your he said: "War must appear today as declaration of political bank On his word alone, many marley because of its present
His Casebook
derers weTO convicted and hongedi.
He was
Theodor
GERMAN HEAD Heass (above) GS-year-old professor and Journalist, wan elected President of the West German Republie by the Federal Assembly at Bonn.
ever, Heuss's literary fame has
A Weekly China Mail Feature
"It's True...
Every Goddarn Word," Bellowed The General
By HAROLD GUARD
London.
I
General Morris Abraham Cohen, whose logondary "two-gun" tactics have figured in the Chineso revolutionary scene for 50 years said it was lunacy to keep Communist China out of the United Nations. In an interview in a West End, tell you about the good things hotel room the husky soldier of the United States has done fur
that period fortune who was once personal China during alde o Dr
American Sun Yat-sen "the hope my father of the revolution" won't think I'm now being un- brought all his inimitable verbal friendly or that I am a hireling of the Chinese government. But artillery, to bear on the tople,
"It just don't make senga," ho when you ask me why China bellowed.
has not been permitted to enter her rightful place in the United Nations I rockon it is time in stalo a few facts," he said,
Theh he strode the hotel room shirtsleeved, with his prize-fighter's shoulders hunch- ed and blazed away rhetorically "Personally I think it's the last stage of Insanity. I've travelled the world a lot recent ly and I've never met a person ret who does not agree that it's a foolish attitude to take," he suld.
Then the one-time cow puscher who pucked two pistols In shoulder holsters and became a Gcherul in the Chinese army become lyrical.
" belleve it is me now to | forget, forglyg.conclude and be agreed. Out doctors say this is no month to bleed,” he reclted. "That's Shakespeare," he ex- plained with n great gust of laughter.
Chinese Army
well-known for his blographical and historical, political books, was the ediler of à Liberal weekly (and, from time to time, tured at Weimar Germany's Die daily newspaper), lec- Deutsche Hochschule fuer Polluk, which he had helped to found 1922, and for a short time was In the summer of 1945, und a ck-bencher in the Reichstag, number of others recreated the Ucuss was born in a sleepy Liberal Party. and soon after 10 his first appointed corner of Southern Germany was called Wurtemberg where, it has Ministerial post-that of Educa-turning to Feking for the fourth
waned,
Highly respected
friends
Beneficial War:
vlow,
"This is my personal
of the United the history States war always hos been of economic and politicat bencft. in the first war against their mother country, with only about the one million population, Americans
¡Page
"TWO GUN": Stepney born General of the Chinese Army.
won independence. In the Spanish-American war they gained a lot prestige and some territory. They came out of World War I with a great ! deal more prostige and World War II, after Pearl Har- bour, they were on the vie- torious side,” he said.
10
was born in
"Two-Gun" Morris Cohen, 67-ho London's Stopney district-who became a gonosal in tho Chinese Army, flow into London recently aftor a three-month visit to China. General Cohen, who retired from the Chinese Army several yours ago, i denied he had been on a prace mission batwoon
the Communists and Nationalists,
Sharman Douglas 'Fell In Love'
"Poopla" Special
The only time the Unted States did not attain their ob- jective was in the Korean War and It is my beller that this is one of their strenuous objec tions to China having a place Cohen who boasts more than in the United Nations." bis alloted-span of "three score
world To talk about any years and ten" said he was re- conference without China just
time since 1948 later this year. I've been to the New China.
He
don't make retise. I know Chius been said, no man starts grow- tion.
bunched his great I've scen whatever I liked destructive power,"
he is 40 Certainly ing until (rhymes Repratedly, Heuss
shoulders again, paced the room and I've liked whatever I've and talked of the Chinese re- with toys"), has reminded his until that age few people knew
seen. I would like a body of Highlights of his casebook:~
than a kindly,
volution and the Chinn of today. real blue British Conservatives THE SHOOTING of her "lover countrymen of the full horrors of in as more
Heuss emerged from the years Re talked of the revolutionary to go to China. All I can say
Hollywood, the Nazi regline "The Germans antcurlsh, eminently respect- Stephen by
an aged but army.that was once treated-with is that they of his scculsion
would be Michael
very Miss
Shormon Douglas, Elvira Barney, daughter of Sirdare not ever forget what men able wam of learning.
It is remarkable that he should highly respected politician. Amid derision the West and he pave, pleasantly surprised to see the of their nationality did here in
former from the total the persecution of the remnants his own have surfaced
and
daughter of the reasons for America's development there those shameful years."
submergence of this and of the of Nazism, he remained a re- rigid stand against China's ad- peaceful conduct on the people. Passionate democrat iler regime to become head of concillator but with one fast idea: miltance to UNO.
And now I've shot my head off. It is an important sign of his country.
"I've been associated with the But it's true, every goddamn that only by the complete trans- post-war Gerinary's
In March, 1933, Theodor Heuss formation of Germany could the Chinese revolution for 50 years, word of it," the gusty generul į evolution that, for the Arst me, voted for Adolf Hitler with the country again stand on its feet. I would take me a long time to bellowed.
He played a quietly determined the country is represented by a rest of the Liberal democrats in which passionate democrat, a cultured the Relelistag, a move
part in shaping the Bonn con- Humanist and unashamed history looks on today as a last- stiution, a masterpiece of per- Liberal.
ditch bid by the Reichsteg to fecilonist tiberalism. The German Federal Assembly appeases the bullies and remain in aeleted Dr Heuss President in in existence, front garden (September, 1949
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Constable Cutleridge in Essex by Browne and Kennedy, THE KILLING of Alec de Anti-
the quis.
Innocent motor evelist, shot by a gems-rald Rung in Londen in 1947 TBE KILLING
Police [
Constable Not Edgar Winchmure 1
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internationally- in 1910 tv 29-year-old Donald
was 143) publicised move. For Huss was George Thomas. Churchill, one of the four best a scholar, a quiet, retiring, man shots in the country, was re-of letters to diffferent from the warded for his services to potent symbol, the heavy jowl, ths mildarlem of a Hindenburg, Juries with the 0.8.E.
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A British Crossword Puzzle
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Political eclipse
In 1040, now leader of the Free Democratic Party, he was elected President of the new West Ger- man Federal Republic, and in 1954 was again the popular
here is a publicist for a company specialising in entertainment accounts. "I don't feel my life right United States Ambassador now is different from anyone clse's," she commented. "I to Britain and a close have my own particular friend of Princess Mar- friends. I think I was just garet, is now working lucky in England. I'm openly sentimental about the tight Niillo falo that heart to me.
IF WE WERE ONLY
A ecuple of days later, 20 of Heus's books were among those choice. publicly burhed by Nazi storm-
Heuss has since visited Greece, opers. And with this burning the United States and Canada, tae fotot, polliical velipse før the professor.
Among other countries, and it is largely due to his embassadorship The that the concept of Germans and Germany is undergoing such a remarkable change.
For the next three years, he returned to exiting lds weekly paper. Then in 1938 the journal was banned, and Heuss was for bidden to ublish anything further.
YOUNGER
"People" Special
New York. reincarnation of John Paul Jones sat sipping clam chowder in a Third Avenue fish house and spoke of the soldiers of fortune rallying to his call. Lvie II. Munson, a decretively this was published in 1945, after of his time to his favourite hob-mild man with wartime back- Hitler's death, Since then, how blessketching and painting. ground in the Oss and Cia in
I was during the pre-war and
The President. is a widower with more than 1,000 god- children since he agreed to be a
war years that Heuss wrote his godfather to the seventh child in greatest Work-a blorgraphy of every Gerinas family.
the feat German Liberal, He is due to retire next gerr, Friedrich
Noumana and when he is likely to devote much
Yves Saint Laurent Faces His
MUST LIVE UP TO
Major Test HIMSELF IN
HIS NEW FASHION COLLECTION
Peggy
Massin
Paris.
¿
doubtful
liked it.
whether
ho
really
or
Formosa, said he ins had about
Americans
By
Jack V. Fox
150 calls and, an equal murther of the Cuban hills can grab Ameri- lotters from people volunteering cans in uniform and then blandly to join a privateers expedition say he will use their lives ac pro- 10 free captive
tection against warplanes."
Only word Munson hus iy a received rom Washington letter from House Speaker Sam Rayburn saying the matter
Cuba and elsewhere.
One gentleman from Leesburg, suggested banding together to buy the obsolete nitcraft carrier Enterprise, just sent to a scrap sard and sailing in against Fidel Castro...
would be referred to commitice, But Munson has caught the Munson may have had a teh; public fancy. The Wall Street
gue in a cheek when he wrote Journal was moved editorially Congress seeking letters of to say. Marque and Reprisal authoris
opened its
"I was so pleasantly spoiled there. I'll always reserve it' as a corner of my world. My years there are still reflected in my aceont," Miss Douglos I said she "fell in love with the entertainment world while in England. Wages from her career now don't cover her her
budget, she admits, but
is ranching In wealthy father
Arizona and she has no money worries.
Collector Has 10,000 Beer Labels Beer
and
an
ing him under a clause of the "It has an adventurous air, a
Johannesburg. constitution to "lease, equip and smell of salty spray, a look of Mr VW. Kennedy, aged 57, staff a seaworthy man of war, to Howkins and Frobisher
engineering shop foreman, liberate thesa pirate-held Droke about it that is particu- is an enthusiastic label collector. American citizens," but he is larly appealing in this age of He has 10,000 beer-bottle labels deadly enniest ini believing conformity,, something should be done and done quickdy.
4
The Father Of The Year M. Elicone Gibella, 73-your-
"$
Paris,
from every country in the world except three. It has taken him place the war to collect them.
Mr Kennedy's label collection probably the largest in South Africa. But it is a long way from being the largest in the world. A Brazilian, to whom Mr Kennedy writes, has 20,000 and a Scotsman has 24,000- Reuter.
World Cyclists Abandon Bikes
镪
"Mr Munson won't get his Letter of Marque and it's best "You know those American that he doesn't. But it Congress helicopter men held in East only dared, and we were only Germany?" he asked. "Well, I younger, ... was in Berlin during the airlift and I know ibo city. Those men at one time were held in a For this boy is is introverted, building about a stone's throw bashful and retiring as his late from the east-west border. master. He adores creative des "I wish some of our gryn hadi Yves Saint Laurent, preparing now the second rigning, but would prefer to be gone in there and freed them. Paris couture fashion collection which he has left in peace and quiet to do it. So a couple of guys get shot? But He lives alone in a modest we show the world that the designed without the guiding hand of the late two-room bachelor ant; does United States hom't lost its guid, old
I'll say the Russians family has been
great-grandfather, M. Christian Dior, is facing perhaps the not own a car, and rarely ap- And
stack by pears at parties or large fune- wouldn't do a tiring about it. biggest test of his short life.
Teheran. tions. He seldom drinks Munson admitted that all his tragedy after tragedy, has been named France's "Father of
- Two tourists, who started on separate World tours on bicycles Last January 31 when he as a leading light ofter Jacques smokes, but as "Star of the "volunteers were not talking a
wrote that he was a member of 4Cease all activity and hang, produced the now world famous death in 1954, and anally closed show" he had to ake a couple the project too seriously. One
of glances of champagne on
M. Gibelli, a former at St from Holland and West Germany TTT (Typical Tropical Tramp). Remy de Trapeze Line, he lived up to its doors altogether.
Provence, in south-eloven months ago, arrived Fathion experts in Paris agree Jociuary 31. the late Christian Dior's highest
two different bad retired | Teheran from Saint Laurent lunches Ho suld he was "too old, alow, eastern France, M. that Yves Saint Laurent, alcest
directions almost simultaneously. ignorant and yellow" to be a when, in 1952, one of his sons expectations,
fighting man but would cook and died up to and guided by the "Regency alone almost every day in
Gunter Geese from West Ger- suddenly leaving four the Hotel Plaza course established by the Inte corner of
act as "psychological councellor," children, get three to ntacteen, many and John Robera *Snack He has to create a good col- Christian Dior, Bd a superlative Athensos's, version of
Florida SPOON, offered his M. Gibelin took charge of them. Holland met in Teheran niter bar," season, job iz Jawory,
just across the street services as ship's docter and his
Europeart and North touring lection again for
The following year "his wife Headlines dimed that there from the Dior premises. When Wife's ar ship's gook.
and decided and next season and season and
had never been a better Dior ha is forced to attend oficial
A retired Marino Colonel had both legs amputated and African countries,
to continue their world tour to- Reason thereafter.
then went blind, MA | G|{velin.
gether. Saint
has collection. The painfully shy and functions for the house, he wrote "sign me up... letter of Ууса
Laurent
took care of he, too, "wlih" an designer, was usually accompanied by Vic Marque or not,
In Teberas drey complained proved himself a better designer unassuming
with toire, the part and buxom little
roads. overpowated
stuck telephoned extraordinary devotion," Austiollan
about Persia's than anyone dared dream that literally
In 1985 a son-in-law, died They sold that because of rough he might be. But the airy, un praise after the first showing. Dlor mannequin. It has often Manson from Sydney.
heuvy He was congratulited and cried been said that Victoire "He said he find rounded up á suming boy bears a
M. Gibelin provided bycles and travel by vehicles responsibility, and he is only, 21 ever: Klused and covered with epitomises M. Saint Laurent's crew of 50 and that they wanted suddenly leaving five young roads they had to abandon their ipstick; hurged and embraced den! type of woman She is to come aboard." Munson said, "I his widowed doughter wild, several occasions-guide years old.
Traditionally,
erealive with true dalle hysteria;, and try and feminine, and as full told him I'd let him know what money and cate until, Is it year, Persin. French dressmaking hbuse has finally pushed out on the eaton of curves as a mountain repd. Congress did."
he home was destroyed by fire. They plan to go to Meshjed the 1% Vietbire who one-man balconies
went tho always
Munson who owns a mill Then he took her overloolding been
aba Jer north-east Iran and from thero Montaigne, where collection's most Waring, decol- onfer book company and has a children into his home.
to Kabul in Afghanistan axl TUESDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 1 Entree, 5 Cures, business. The two exceptions in Avenue
Kashmir. After visiting the Allo. Bistre: 11 Hobes, 12 Solved, 14 Lot 10 Torca, 18 existence today are Jeanne Lans crowds waliing in the street de fetes, and this may well be the wife and two daughters, 17 and
M. Gibelin's award rp Father Far East, Australia and vin and Jeari Patou, both Croel, 10 Levy, 20 Bovine, 24 Extra, 28 Adepts, 20 Mone, 27
of claimed him like royally, the girl who in sedrons to come 6, sold things were going to get which minccesfully careled on Mi Saint Laurent deserved will induence M. Saint Laurent words thing will nowball, is (about £80 sterling), and a to their resportive
of the Year is a million fraach United States, they will reluru
tcomes fri Sheda, 28 Tapers. Down; 1 Elba, 2 Tow, Earl, Eleron, 5
THIS Cordile, 6.Robbery, 7 Bersion, 10 Tupee, 18 Actress, 14 Legalee, after their founder's death. The every dram of that slagere and to bring back a moulded and
| sklḍ, “2 if bearded fouž up medal.-"Ped
ermany And Holland-Reuter, 10 Alovane, 17 Övine, 19 Levant, 21 Idisi, 23 Epec, 20 16-is Thouse of Jacques Fath dimmed spotdancour reception, but it is fitted alliqueite.
11 Don't kill the lean (5).
12 He comes
practically last
18 Make reveralozi ayout lunch.
time? (5)..
16 Fighed (0).
10 Summer shoe (0),
20 Relleved the prvenire (5);
32. Ammunition's short (4).
23 Told, off (5).
25 Discoloration (5).
26 Wondered
about vaently,
liko aatellite? '(6).
27 Mountains of maps (5).
26 Balance on a fali (5),
**20 Admiral, half in the hold (C).
0 Expunge (B).
7 Working-class joint? (5),
14 Peculiar chaps make the most
of the remnants (8).
15 Give courage to (9).
it Fairly slowly (7).
17 Sort of wicket-keeper? (7).
Olien like the H-line nowa- days (0),
21 Caper I can't put right (8)
24 Tablespoonful, possibly (4),
Now, he has to live himself.
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