THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 22, 1959.
Land of pigmies and giants seeks freedom
PROBLEM IN MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON.
Leopoldville. ANOTHER headache faces Belgium, now in the turmoil of ham- mering out an indepen- dence plan for her vast. Impatient Congo empire, torn by riots only last January.
Now tiny Ruanda-Urundi, land of the Mountains of the Moon, wants Its free
dom too..
Mises 100
Edward.
BELGIAN CONGO
Lake Ki RUANDA
BURUNDI
APRICA
warrior dancers and tour their kranls in American
cars.
Foudal style Among the chief ques- tions which will have to be Home of both pigmies settled are whether there and 7ft. Watus warriors, should be two republics or an independent valeano-fringed Ruanda and one; how Urundi were originally Ruanda-Urundi could main- separate African kingdoms. tain itself; and who should
do any future ruling,
At present they form a single United Nations trust territory, administered by Belgium.
At the outbreak of the 1914-18 war Ruanda-Urundi was a German colony.
sections "The two
il In 1918 was given ruled by feudal-style Watusi under mandate to Belgium kings, who maintain their by the League of Nations, own corps de ballei of young and this responsibility was
are
THIS FUNNY WORLD!
converted into a trusteeship be elected. But
the United Nations rdministrators by after 1945.
'Inhuman'
the Belgian
aro wondering whether the Watual would ever allow themselves to be ruled by elected Bahutu depuiles.
-There are few signs so far of
the talk
of future
For decades the country any hostility towards Euro- has been administered as pears in one territory, but the feel- Independence, ing is still strong among the inhabitants that when they attain independence Ruanda and Urundi should be separ- ate entities..
The Congo as a whole is 80 times the size of the mother country, Belgium,
has and
13,000,000 in- habitants..
Ruanda-Urundi is only twice the size of Belgium, but has a population of 4,500,000.
It is cattle country, with some coffee growing and a little mining: but whether it could ever support itself is doubtful.
near
Since the ruling Watusi Arst trekked into the lush pasture: lands
Lake Tunganyika from Egypt or Ethiopia they have controlled the people they found there with an Iran hand.
today the Watusi
л
But number only 33,000 in the pop- tallen of 4,500,000. Also minority in the enuntry are the rigmy Batwa, regarded by their neighbours as un inhuman, primitive sub-species,
Hunting naked in the forests. the Batws are all but untouched by civilisation and are not, at present, a political considera-
tion.
Like most of the cwakening African territories, Ruanda Urundi freely admits that whita
men will be essential for the country's development.
-{Lenton Express Serplor).
DEEP IN THE HEART OF SHAKESPEARE—BY JAK
GLOBE SALG
TROT. ACH AN
'Ere, Frąd, you'll novor guess who's playing plano in the 'Amlet bar room scène tonight."
London Kepreas Sarkice
ANTONY TERRY, reporting from Germany, uncovers a frightening story.
secret behind the
Dark secret
IF you are taken ill in Germany and have to see
a doctor you've a chance you may be treated by a man-or even a woman who took part in disgusting experiments on human "guinea pigs" in Nazi horror camps.
The crippled, mutilated ex- Stocksee, a little holiday resort victims of these medical in North Germany not far from Sentenced monstrosliles are incensed that the Danish border. tuny of the worst of the Naxi to 20 years at Nuremburg for "murder doctors" are today back concentration camp atrocities, practising medicine all over the was released åtter ive years. prosperous, booming, who-cares- anyway West Germany,
These pitif wrecks--iko few who survived the Nazi horror doctor's surgery.
showed me a list they have prepared of the sleek,
pro- silag sperous
ex-Nazl medicos.
Black List
Last year she was the subject of Indignant remonstrations by the British Medical Association
·
Today, nearly a year after the rrw, after British Medical Asso- ciation
expression of "deep distreas that she should still be Practising and after plous pro- mines that she would be removed from the German medical world, she is still treating patients u the trim little house which she Ruanda-Urund.'s The 1st contains over one bought with the compensation
hundred and twenty of
names money allowed her by a grateful -· the worst of the Nazi doctors, a Germany after she came out of quarter of whom are known to on Allled 'prison. be practising again as doctors in Cermony today. The rest are believed to be in medical prac tice, too, but hiding under di ferent uliases,
the
Most of population consists Bahulu, men of normal stature, wite wore for long oppressed by the Watusi,
Why, ask the Bahulu, should we be ruled by these giants, who are only a tiny fraction of the population?
Obviously when independence comes the leaders will have to
On
And what, do you sup- pose, is her speciality today? Children's ailments!
Would you, I wonder, let your the st is a woman- child be treated by this woman?
But apparently 1 Et
in blonde, steely-eyed Dr Herta Oberhauser, who practises at Stocksee, Germany
ona
(nor,
+1
surgery
judge by their innction, anyone Gernian legal In the German Medical Arsócia-
tion) thinks Dr Herta Oberheu-
allowed se: Rhculd not be continue in her profession.
la
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British Or agres with the
that her Medical Ascention
remain $ being allowed doctor is "an affront to the honour, morals and high ideals of medical practice."
Nor do they care that 27 of Dr Oberhouser's pitiful_victims only 72 survived in all-were honoured by the US Senate in Washington two or three weeks ago, on their way to treatment by American doctors to try and restore their ravaged bodies.
Nor does the German Medical
take Assoc'allon
ару drastic lo slop measures employment of the most shock- ing of their members who once held high rank in Hitler's in- famous SS.
ction."
doors
authorities take
have But the 'legal boys'
erimcu "The another alibi: were not committed arainst German citizens—so no pun- ichment is called for."
Or alternatively, "Some of the deelers have already served prison
Experiments
on
human guinea pigs, using mustard xas to kill them by burning holes in their flesh.
Which of his patients today knows? Which of them would caru?
Al Ravensbruck, in the night--
was 'a doctor who took a close and personal Interest in obscene experiments on women prisoner-many of them captured Allied agents.
sentences imposed by mare days, there Alled courts which, mean: that they are free to practise again." In a few instances reluctant action has been taken,
Mustard Gas
Rhineland
In a sunny little town there is a mild-mannered specialist, much prized fur soothing bedside manner.
Today, the same man tsa. doctor in a town sear the North Sea port of Bremen- a respected member of the community.
I repeat.
who cares about the his these men? Certainly not. Be- West German Government.
the re- hind the bland countenance, Certainly not the "ordinary" of Germans who happily trot along hidden in the dark recesses
doctors with
their his mind, there is a memory he to these may try to suppress today. lumbago and their bunions.
And this, in a Germany sup- the memory of his in- posed-with appropriate shud- experiments with ders-to have repudiated Hitler Is a fact gas in a concentration and all his works.
worth bearing in mind.
It
The crasive argument of the teresting German Medical Association is: mustard "We can do nothing unless the camp during the war.
"Madame PTA President, Chairman of the Ladies*Auxiliary,
block mother and scout teader; we have nothing to wear."
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Brussels newsletter from Sam White
The Princess and
the Duchess
BRUSSELS.
IF Mrs Simpson, instead of becoming the Duchess of Windsor, had become the morganatic wife of King Edward VIII, I believe she would have suffered much the same suspicion and dislike that King Leopold's wife, the Princess Do-Relly, has inspired in Belgium over the years
This would have been inevita, die because the dislike springs from à combination of feminine jealousy and shobbery. A king's loves are forgiven; a king's marriage to a commoner never.
That suggests д comparison vated polse, his to set the stamp between the two women. The of dignity on the migratory fact is that these two women, life of the Windsor. each of whom
10
BOTH LOVED A KING
BUT HOW DIFFERENT THEIR LIVES ARE
You know," she said to a family circle. friend recently, and this was audience, of
Icw one of the
ocessions or world, which she was unable to dis- guise her bftlernons, "I haven't set-foot-in-a-Brussels shop for- nine years."
Afraid
The duchess's course, is
Vigorous
pre
the
also bitterly
"As for Princess De Rothy, pilgrimage to Rome for
her occasion the all the accusations against
amount to nothing more than disappointed. the silly gossip of illy wamen."
By contrast, hotellery and restaurant proprietors here wearing their broadest emties since the Brussels, World Fair. -,
“
two
Admiration
are
the At 82. Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother is virtually carry- Jog out the normal dulles for the entire royal family.
“Az-Bruscola la notoriously short on wit, I have to supply Here is a testimony regarding my own quote of the week. the Belgian royal family which, Here it is; if published in Belgium, would "It is inconceivable that cause something of a political
there should be another She does not shop in Brussels sensation. because the is afraid of sly, It was given to me by M. abdication in Belgium. The has toppled, a throne, are entirely different in The princess is married to a sniggering insults.
Victor Larock, the man who in country, already has intellectual, the
herited the mantle of Paul-Henri kings and cannot possibly upbringing, temperament, and in Hamlet-like
duchess to an extrovert.
Whereas the duchess counts Spank, the role which cach, has
and one of the leaders
afford a third.”. her friends and acquaintances of the Belgian Socialist Parly fulfil
While the princess ́leeds the in thousands, the princeza, has, who was Foreign Minister: domestic life of the wife of a probably not established friendly the previous Belgian Govern- rich and somewhat morose relations with more than about menf, country squire and counts her 200 of her fellow-countrymen, I hiked M. Larock, a vigorous linen every week, the duchess
***** spokes for the Bagian The decision to cancel the bustles' from Bower shów- to The PrincesS Do Rethy'e can count the number of her Educated in á convent school Socialist Party if, when he was marriage of Prince Albert to the concert, to openings of kinder- chief role is that of mother of luncheon and dinner guests, in England and a flashing a Minister did he have any Italian Princess Paola in Romy gartens and bridges, ja very large family, of which The princess leads a life school in Switzerland, she had reason to suppose that King and have it in Brussels inslend,
own and three, including the which, on the whole, is one of apent only six months of her Leopold or Princess De Rethy has involved reigning king, are her devoted great contentment, as a glance near-adult life in Belgium be- Interfered in political affairs. stepchildren.
at her unravaged beauty clearly fore she met Leopold, in 1938. shows.
Chief role
........
shred the children are her
Then the curtain went down
abroad.
A)
In
Disappointed
tourist agencies
This elderly ledy, whosa energy seems inexhaustible, and whozo Left-wing sympathies are marked, continues to exclie the admiration of everyono na she
She is a noted eccentric who here in a considerably loss of on one occasion caused an up- coar hace, when, in the courto "I never had the lightest time and money.
They have taken nearly a mil of a visit to Moscow, she made reason for suspecting such lion pounds, worth of bookings a speech in praise of Lenin.. ** Thần in a family which she All the superficial rewards
interference, nor do I believe since they announced special han sustained through war, that a singularly dazzling mat- and it was exile at home and
there" was any rural inter-
Her relations with the rest of occupation. Imprisonment and riage might have brought aro
ference to the event which tours to Rome 10 days ago for
the royal family and, especially the wedding. exile,
and finally the singularly. absent. Nolther
There is one interest sho
produced the present orisis, Now they will have to write Princess Do Rethy, have been the envenomed air of Brumels, homb nor on their raro visits share with the duchess., and And which in turn sustains abroad do. Leopold and, the hut. li clothes'
On the contrary, my impres off not only the money for the subject at speculation for Doth got their princess engage in a fashionable clothes in Paris and from the behaved with the utmost pro- gone into receiving and now
alon was that Leopold has bookings but the time that has number of years. hor.
social life or for that matter same fashion house. No such support is available any kind of social life, die i
priety ever since he abdicated refunding it, an
all the hes, carried out
Aristocratic old ladies for the duchess who, by sheer Even a shopping expedition to The princem's audience personality and carefully cult- Brussels la barred to her, 'her cloibos la largely her own promilaga ho made then.
looked forward to making the
for and,
A
In fact, they are extellent and especially so "With the Princess- who De ethy.
ImgLondon Kayram Servies).
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