THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1958."
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I THINK it is a fair guess that the security By
police of every country in the free world have
a record card, and probably a large file as well, on Ernst Friedrich Wollweber. Some may have photographs of him, too, though they are hard to come by, for those who combine sabotage, espionage and subversion keep away from the camera. Anyhow, the picture is not a pretty one.
secret agent, One Lost he
a Russian ship at boarded Altona, and St Paul lenew
STATE
Lt.-Colonel John Baker White
vestigating fires and other acts serious criminal charges for of sabotage in ships in the which Wollweber was "Wanted"
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In
He won the day. Wullweber was deported to Russia safety. There he remained, the shadows, until 1045.
MERCILESS
1030s, I need more than ♫ in Moscow, dozen incidents back to them, In his late fifties, hoir reced-
When the Reichstag went up Ing from a low forchend, short-
to flones and
filter seized alghted eyes peering from a
power. Wollweber fled to Swe- pudity, pasty face, tight lips set him no more.
Ben, the Gestapo Very close be- in a permanent scowl Woli- For two years Wollweber was hind him. From there be start- weber, the suboteur and spy put through an intensive course ed to rebuild his shattered or- who became Minister of Stale at the Lenin School In Moscow, ganisation of spies, saboteurs Security, is not in any way a There, he mastered the techni- and secret agents. Into what pleasant man,
ques of Red propaganda, es- became known
as the "WON- Born in the Ruhr soon after pionage, anbotage, the forging weber Club" he not only drew the turn of the century, Ernst of documents and street-ach Germans, but Swedes, Danes, Wollwober, the son of a miner, ing. At the end of the course Frenchmen, Dutchmen, Belgians took to subversion ko a duck he returned to Germany to takes to water.. While still in work in "the underground" of his teens, he was a Syndicalist, the Communist International, graduating through the German Socialist
Parly to Join the Spartacists, who believed in the of govern- violent overthrow ments and the establishment of a "workers dictatorship."
Sailors' REVOLT
RUTHLESS
Though stili prone to occu- siunal drunken bouts, Eingt Wollweber was a changed man with --disciplined, speaking authority, trained in leadership, and more ruthless than ever. After a period working the underground communich-
Towards the end of the first, world war, Wollweber joined tons network of Communism, the German navy. As a stoker, he took a leading part in the Kiel, in 1913. sailors' revolt at
down German Cum As soon as the munist Party was formed, he joined I.
he came out into the open In 1928 to become one of thr Communist depulics
Relista, marked
and even a few Britons.
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With the Soviet occupation of Eastorn Germany and the e- tablishment of the Communist Government, Wallweber reap- peared to take up an important security post, the hunting down the spies of Anglo-U.S. Im- perialism" and the "unmasking of Fascist sabotage groups," Thờ poacher
had turned gamic-
With calculated daring the
Keeper. himself with false equipped Dapers and went back Nazi Germany, visiting Ham-
YIG burg and Lubeck. zaulsed eleven known acts of nabotage In German ships, two in the docks at Altona and one in the hure I. G. inerciless in dealing with the
Farben chemical plant.
SAVED
time in Holland.
He carried out his duties with ruthless efficiency, and in 1033 way rewarded by being made the East German Minister He became of State Security:
In one of the most feared men the Communist State, and was
Berlin riots in that year.
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Then, in October 1057, some- thing went wrong for the man the Again, in 1937. his organisa- who had progressed from the tion
St Paul to the Was smashed by the brothels of
on- It was not Gestapo.
Again, Wollweber Minister's office.
ro- only by the official security slipped through the net. Again, cunced that he had been palice as a dangerous man, but he built up a new "Club", this deved of his post as Minister of
State Security und
"for reasons of Uncouu, ill-mannered,
also by the unometal secret well dranken, Woitweber was
police if the Nazi Party, later
When the Nazis invaded fol- health." Shortly afterwards the known In the brothels and to become the Gestapo.
Ketsiuba, lund, he slipped away to Swe. Soviet military commackatti drinking dens of
The following year Wollweber den. Under an assumed name he East Berlin, Colonel Humbug's notorious St Paull district, le cone directly under the orders was arrested and
unexpectedly left ier home.
the East was also an
In February 1950, active militant
of the Communist International months' imprisonment for hav- Communist, with several e Scomen's Clubs.
ing a false passport. The Swe. Germen Communist Party press
launched his card
attack on violent tries already on
dish authorities did not realise Wollweber, accusing him of hay- established police headquarters.
until These clubs,
in who he was, Over the agent in Stockholm told them, "eriminally neglected the campaign against enemy agents." leading seaports ali
comfortable and Brought fram nrison he wa Many charges might be made world, were well appointed. The liquor was tried on other charges Rood and cheap, the girls at sentererg to three years! Im galust Wellweber, bul that one
has no aubstance. tractive and very, very friend- prisonnial.
The reading rooms
In
But the Russians as well as the German police had spotted Wellweber, and had realised that ki milliancy and com- plete ruthlessness con- slitated something that could
be moulded into
a first-class
AMERICAN NEWS LETTER... by J. W. M. Thompson
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ONE of
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a with dates and full family details. "I do pretty good on battles, too." he said. He went on to prove his claim.
America's children, a lawyer and
tax-accountant on his win current heroes is a
nings. small, chunky, cheerful
3 saw Nadler, who is 18 man who the other night
the equalled
all-time fore his TV appearance last week. I found him be.
I tried to stem the flood record for TV quiz show
hind pile of letters, of fact. How did he ac- winnings 242,000 dol- "People asking for money,"
count for his incredible re- them lars (nearly £86,500). he said, pushing
call of information? aside. They don't realise
Teddy Nudler has brought about two-thirds of what I "I don't" he said, to these big-money quizzes win
an amazing photographic Why
memory
figures.
for
facts and broke."
Jus! went
grinning in goes
taxes. tappily, "I don't Tecl any I'm practically differ from anybody else. It coves natural. I hardly I was school and brought up in an orphanage. I History is one of Nadler's used to read all the time. What When he started two favourite subjects. "You're I read just stays in my mind.”
was employ- English," he said. "Do you years ago he ed as a clerk. Now he has know this?" Ile shot at given up his job and is sup- me a torrent of names
wife, three English kings and queens porting his
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could be brought to Tag because, so to speak, a piece of wire had to be replaced.
onemy
One wondered if an might not profitably dispence with all those atomic armaments and invest in a dare-devil corps of men with wire-cutters.
As a second step in the cam-
might well paign, this enemy consider devising some way of doing to the Americans what they proceeded to do to them- selves after this electrical black- out,
It happened to be a polling duy in the Compressional Primary Elections. This meant that all bara in the city were
1 apartment My
fairly closed. been asked by typical. It is strong on modern several medical institutions o amenities bul shor on old- of
leave them his brain when he
fashioned ones, like daylight. die "I may do," told me. "Einstein did that, didn't he? Of course, doctors and rychla trist are at me all the time to And out about
i had 13 Fie. psychiatrists at me once Columbus, Ohio.
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"I did pretty good with the psychiatrists," he added, beam- ing. They didn't think I was nuts, anyhow, and you know how those boys, you'rn guilty until you're proved
I WILL
Innocent."
Calamity
'Towering the windows. The kitchen has buildings darken do direct daylight. The bath room has no daylight at all, neither have the corridors out- side my door,
Sung and benighted on this fine August morning I telephoned The old world for a candie. request brought me nothing but a startled silence, followed by a slightly unnerved laugh.
It is one of tho lencts of American democracy that when voting is in progress no cao phould buy anyone else a drink, or buy himself one. It is meant to keep the political temperatura moderate.
Cheerless
Nevertheless, the effect on the New York scene was unsettling. A cheerless spirit seemed to brood over the tirelessly sociable, gregarious city.
It was at that point that the The refrigerator had died of
headquarters COUTSU,
along with the cookter United Nations and toaster, My all-American appeared in the role that its breakfast (chilled orange juice founder had envisaged as a hot coffee and toast was there kindly beacon of comfort to a
troubled world.
We had a terrible day in my part of New York recently. In foré rulled out.
the morning all the electricity was cut off. In the afternoon
cut off.
So, unfed sweating uncom
The law which closes the city's
and evening all the drink was fortably, and wondering whether bara does not apply to this trivi-
we had put on odd socks in the leged little international onsls, gloom, we stricken apartment- Punctually at 10 p.m. the Tuke away these two basic dwellers groped our way out of polling stations closed and the ullition and to in this city the building..
Balcons opened. New York Bexed nagumos a very bleak and un-
its muscles again and brushed comfortable look Indeed. The The daylight looked splendid. azido ita moment of moody electricity ceased n. 6 am, "for I fear that we emerging troglo- introspection. repairs."
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dyles did not.
too
This might not mean much in London. Hero, where everything is power driven, the results wore, in a slapstick sort
of way, calamitious,
To begin with, we becamo
overheated and short of air. You
*
The citizens moved up to the And somehow It was vaguely long bars, and we cycd cach disturbing to see how this com- other coldly, hardened survivors fortable American way of life of a strange ordeal.
ENDPIECE
find often that New York THERE are times when the flamboyant gestures of show business
windows do not open dither they are not meant to, or long
have a rather appealing offectivenem,
I am told that Jerry Lewis, the comedian, has just displayed disuse has paralysed them. the cheques over his desk:
We rely instead on electric
One is for eight dollars (nearly £3), and bears the algnature of air-conditioners to pump in the late film magnate, Loule B. Mayer. It was one week's pay when electrically-cooled
Very Lewis was a cinema usher, ccanfortable-unless the machina
breaks down. Then you find
The other is for $80,000 dellare (£125,000) and le signed by yourself inhabiting an oven, Lewie. With it be bought Mayor's Californian estate recently.
COVERS
und
given SIX
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the Nazis At last
thought 13. libraries were well stocked they had got him. They put in for his extra with Communist propaganda, an application and cach club had a highly- ditton. trained Party official on staff,
jts
But a few days before
due to be rent back Was
he
to
The reamen's clubs were also Gemany, and certain execution, covers for the passage of secret the Soviet Ambassador capped
demand
extradition, Red couriers, for sabuinge, and the
for
for espionage, When I was b setting out a number of alleged
Airlines
Shortly afterwards, he fet his home and went to live behind the barbed wire of the Soviet compound in Kerlherst.
Maybe he feels safer there,
for he is one of Europe's best- hated men.
(Copyright Reserved)
Queue For Comets
By Reporter PETER WOON
OVERSEAS airlin
operators, with orders worth millions up their sleeves, are starting to queue for Britain's new Comet IV jet airliner.
and
Production lines at Hatfield Chester are already busy meeting orders for 31 Comet IVs-19 for B.O.A.C., six for B.E.A., and six for the Argentine.
THE LATEST airline to start nego- tiations with de Havillands is East African Airways. It wants two or three Comets to fly between London and Nairobi.
Middle East Airlines are talking in terms of five or six Cometa. The Polish airline, LOT, is considering a similar order and so opening up the possibility, of the first Iron Curtain sales for British aircraft. The chiefs of Canadian Pacific
Dear Mum
Airlines are ready to buy up to 25 if they can secure new internal routes.
And El Al Airlines of Israel, which hus. had great success with Bri-
now tain's Britannia, is
considering Comets for its European network.
There
on the is pressure, too, American market.
Biggest attraction of the Comet IV in its rapid and trouble-free proving programme, plus the vast experience that has gone into it. It is the world's most- tested airliner.
De Havillands are selling this fact hard, offering attractive credit terms and delivery dates.
•
Two more Britannia airliners worth £2,500,000 were sold the other day to the Cuban Airline, which now has four on crder. Total sales so far: 76,
It is easy to get into this place-
hard to get out of it. See you in about 20 years
Love Bill
STUCK AT THE DEAD SEA
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