‘ANASTASIA' GETS NEW HOPE AFTER 28 YEARS
IN
from ROBERT WALSH
Baden-Baden.
the remote village of Unterlengenhardt, in the Black Forest, lives a mystery that has fascin- ated millions throughout the world. Is the strange, lonely woman who hides there the Grand Duchess Anastasia, youngest daughter of the murdered Czar of Russia? Or is she an obscure woman from Central Europe, inextricably mixed up with ruthless lawyers?
I stood on the road outside the crumbling ex- Luftwaffe hut where Anna Anderson, who claims
to be Anastasia, has lived since the war.
At the roadside there was massive gate of iron bars.
EL
A
few yards up a rough patla there was another high gate, of steel
Hotlee: plate "Beware of dangerous dogs.**
The was a desiressing plare, Thick woorden hills were on all sides. The only send was the wind whling through the tele phone wires.
support Atun
her claims? Those claims are already being trated 11
civil court Hamburg.
The other day I learned same- thing about Antu's day-to-day Mayhoff, a fe from Pradeln midle-aged German who looks after her.
Fraulein Mayhof lives in a house near by. Every day she to the hut lo conk Anna Anderson's meals.
Over the second gate 1, dessen the road Just see a corrugated non roof, with a lopsided tin chimney. The faded green boards of the front of the hut were parting and rotting.
In there lived Anna SUN.
Refused
Ander-
Surrounding the weedy plots
of lami were three fences, 190 of rusted wire,
Larted withi The third, almost against tous. the side of the tut, was of high maiting. One part of it had slight tear providing a perpe le in with Bae gates That was all there was to see
whe от Алиа Anderson,
.
shut herself off from the world. She has sern no report198 more than 10 year. The
ago.
lost
"She sees No one, execpt myself and Baroness 710721 Malltits, her oldest_friend," she said. "She muffers from deep fits of melancholr: ale is with depression.
Only this morning the to me: m finished'
sold
"She only pets up to feed her cananes, rul, and wolfhounds. They ald
he main interests. Bu She mainly English opus, and anaga- Pinas.
PROS news papers,
Fraulein Mayhoff told me that
THE CHINA MAIL,
THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1980.
Don Iddon's Diary
REPORTS ON THE TRAIL OF THE GENERAL....... IN WASHINGTON...GETTYSBURG...... NEW YORK
I have watched
de Gaulle dwarf
the Americans
MENERAL DE GAULLE grew taller during the first five days of GE
his recent visit to the United States. In New York he was not dwarfed by the tallest towers or obscured by the shower of ticker-tape in the Beside canyons of Manhattan. He appeared a giant among small men. him President Eisenhower, despite all his charm and energy, seemed plod- ding and pedestrian.
A
but
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the
cun-
piso with Kapers the dead by choosing Senator Juck Kennedy was or
Daughters
the American the head prefect, Senator favourite.
Revolution holding thei- Hubert Humphrey ተነ wlity
vention and 200 newspaper travelling Rolcomin Senat
editors from al! over the Lyndon Johnson Just another
country. I know how formidable. Texan, and even Adlai Steven Sun, walda his
ong edfier can be. but Imagine eloquence and
300 of them!
wit, merely a gifted office serk
SUPERB
a previous court ease the fuck hour #11 The National Don
The programme the Americans laid down for de Gaulle rented Aana Anderson has spoken lysingularly unimaginative. During in English in recent years,
is superb performance for an that Auna was believed to speak Club
In Washington 110 fir-Sittle
must English wend heavily alust her as the rest of the of some of the questions.
have wondered at the malvete loyal family mmonly Engfilet)
"Would
you swap the Effet Nearly every day the telo Tower for the Washington struggl me here rings with news of Monument the case or questions for Annathis away. And "Who is your from the lawyers," said Fraulein favourite met?" Mayholf. "But she doesn't seem De Gaulle said he would not to care.
like to offend either the lving
time she allowed a picture to be taken at her was eight years
neat, Now u
pre-fabricated bungalow has been built beside the hul Anna Andersen bought the bungalow with the from two Alots about royalties ler life.
11:44
spoke
"When the moves rito the new bungalow she may be hap
her. The hut is in a dreadful newdition."
Colls of barbed wire are lying around it, and when they have been put in place, and a screen erected, she will move in.
something lian But mor
happened that may leart to an anmer to the wijsIPTH OF Anna Anderson, The most powerful of all the strain- ay Romanoffs, the Graad Duchess Xenia, zlied in London a few days ape, Str WGJ the GUNI of Anastasia.
She had always refused to believe in Anno Anderson's story; refused to believe that she had survived the Bolshevik massacre of the Russian royal fauly in 1918, and had made her way It Berlia
But during the legal battles Bhat have Lone on intermit- tently for 28 years, several high runking members of the family professed their belief in Anna
Anderson's claim.
Fortune
Apparently.
Anno
Andersan
did not know that the Grand Duchess, her bitter entry, had died. She receives her papers and magazines only from ilme 10 time, Through Faulein Mayhoff I was able to pass the news on to her,
ม
If her lawpCTS win her case she tell have a claim to the Iussian royal family fortune, which is rumoured
tiny to be
in vaults various European bawies She has told villagers that if she over gets the fortune she will give it all away to charity.
Earlier this year a leading German anthropologist, Pro- Jessor Reche, came forward in court with the Arsi expert optalon In her favour, after
It was one of these, a cousin, examining pictures of the child who provided the plot of land Anastasia.
Forest.
the hut in the Black And now the Grand Duchess Xenin is dead Romanoffs who knew Anastasia as a child may niso conte forwn..
Several of these relatives later changed their minds due to pressure brutight by the Grand Duchess Xenia, who never rart
Anna Anderson.
Now that the Grand Duchess has died, will other Romanofs
Romanoff and heir to a fabu-
tous fortune or peasant? It
Before
a tantalising question. long we may know the answer.
-London Express Service).
AN ATOM AGE OUTCAST PLEADS
FOR HELP
No job and his family is ill
New York.
THE Jackson McVey family, of Houston, Texas -the new outcasts of the atomic age-are asking Congress to help them with their problems. They began three years ago when Jackson McVey was working as a nuclear technician in a laboratory in Houston.
A small Iridium 192 pellet McVey has lost 50 pounds,
cracked and the deadly dust lives on the edge of ivulteria, sprend throughout the room. and both he and his wife have
Unaware that they had been had nervous break-downs. contuminated. MeVer and · an assistant carried their radio- petivity into contac! with their fartulien and friends.
Sacked
Before it was discovered, 60 people had been affected,
Case lost
"My wife has cataracts," he sald, "and my son, Eddie, and
I ate both developing them.
"My 10-year-old daughter, Linda, is emotionally disturbed Since the prefdent the McVeys and pur
Es youngest, Becky. have been virtual outcasts. The getting
awful inferiority сотралу
McVey complex," employing dropped him from a payroll in A few months ngo, McVey lust 1957 all be finan't worked his suit for nearly £178,803 · for damages against the company "Nobody will hire me," he which processed The faulty decinred. "I just can't get a job. Iridium pellel. Now the Govern- People seepy lo be afraid." Doc- most remains the only hope for tors, have assured him he no their future. longer is radioactivo.
since.
iLondon Express Service),
THE SHUP INN
- Can't star
"He wants to know why we're not showing
and starboard · light
port
When he arrived in New York the General found the editors, their rinks swollen by pub-
shers and management, now 1.500 strong and busty trailing. him.
RAGED
The hostess
with French polish...
The most quicneful hostess In Washington during do Gaulle's visit, fittingly enough, vias Mma, Ntesle Alphand; the glamorous. Titlar halted wife of the French Ambassador,
She la alia, nerkapa, one of Tha most successful exports France has made.
The year. at 41. *ito frau been named one of the world's best-dressed wornall...and sho weare only French fashions. She has persuaded her husband to ver only French, card...n Facel Vega, a Citroen, a 'Dau- chine, She serves only French wine, her quests are given only the best of French cooking.
"In Fact," 銀行的 mys "It's hard to rebllie' that am In
America."
ensionally. There was no such moving scene as when he ad- drested Congress and at the end teare streamed down his checks. What has be achieved politically?
Cinly he and Elsenhower know, but he has not retreated from his stand on Berlin, his Insistence upon France or a real Power and equal partner of the United States and
Britain. Amgelea has not swallowed de Gaulle.
*FORCEFUL
He had expected more serious, questions from the prohing International Press Corps,
When he left the Press bulld- ing he saw a banner. "Vive de Gaulle," outside the Willard 11utel end, breaking away from his guards, he invaded the crowd, shaking hands, smiling slightly, and nodding his head.
Washington shonid have put out
for s dis- abre Rags finguished visitor. The spericels and the reception did not com- bore with the gal
scenes in London recently.
In Washington i was 95 do. None of the brand boulevards grecs in the shade. The cherry
But commred with The Mall. the de Gaulle Impact was felt blossom willed and the crowds. dressevi in shorts, jeans, sun- throughout the vily.
brief's and halters. AL this time of the year suite,
"Tell the rats off, Ice. was thronged with swarmed into the air-conditioned two gentlemen who are nearly being crude when it announced:
Watching him in Washington. Washington
hotel foyers. The city looked 70-he nearly fell. tourists and trippers.
Khrushchev's pericmance here in Gettysburg, in New York, 1 beautiful. The people did not.
the force of the man. Actually the General's aides Eisenhower is under no obliga- felt De Gaulle had not only to
had requested that with the cope
mulitude of
pro- tium to be even polile to his Red Nothing ovorawed him ever. It as if he were the gramme kept climbing and de- rat hests. The more closely he was almost scending stairs to a minimun can make hus Rassino tour head of all the power and might...
visil emble Press comment on the
Darry Truman's and wealth of America, not has been uniformly favourable give-'em-hell show the better presiding over the fortunes of a rund occasionally .ccstatic from we thick 21 sorve the taxpayer France weakened by Algeria and split until recently by sơ Right, Left, and centre.
who will bankroll the tein." towards FILI (he has had operations
What all that has to do with many dissensions. de Gaulle is hard to say. So far for cataracts) and he does not Khrushchev and the Soviet de-
has like to wear spectacles in public. mands
pleased most the General has not but a foot the stones Americans. The Arie York Dasty (except Gettysburg), DE Clambering over with Eisenhower at tha Civu Krus, Amerien's largest cir sentence wrong, War battlefield at Gettysburg Lulating newmaper, However, He spoke formally with gleam- for probably struck the General as ing eloquence and unbent ve- - what a strange pursuit
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Dear...!
SHIP
All the long weekend the parties, raged bul de Gaulle ond his lady went only to the White House, Blair House, the resi- dence for distinguished visitors, and the French Embuss.
The General's eyesight is not good
toughness
the
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After
Charles de Gaulle has grown taller and he is a giant among the Americans.
This is my last diary from the United States for a few weeks. us 1 sail to England soon,
MURMANSK
ROSS MARK, first British reporter there since the days of the convoys, reports dramatic change
THE
Murmansk.
HE four willing reindeer were cantering along at a spanking clip, tugging our sleigh north along the frozen course of the Tuloma River.
on
He pays them Polar bonuses. bounders resources in these sark hills about.
They got 10 per cent more than They showed me a silver fox other workers. And in addition and mink farm. They showed to their normal holiday of ene me mines where lekel and month they zet 18 extra days. other minerals are being found
They are wall housed, well In fantabulous quantities,
fed and well clothed.
ultra-modern
Shey are
Out of the Barren waste up morlar to enger workinen abend was rising the concrete the bullding frames.
Murmansk sits 80 miles from They showed housing of the biggest hydro-
There is no doubt electric station inside the Arctic the open sea up the Koin River, trawlers, mostly made in West
the Germany, which can fish to working harder than -Circle.
It nestles in a deep teld, stark fllls rearing 3,0001 from Newfoundland Banks and bring average woriter in Britain. And grim back to Russia the catchre in there is no doubt, as a matter of woodless shores. It la a
cans ready for market.
style that we would turn Um place.
They
showed me
thelt serviceable Huge our noses ol i Ish cunnery at the dockalde, clothes, The manager told me proudly! "This is the biggest in tha world."
Its four great dynamos were churning out power for Mur- mansk, the biggest part, the big gest city, the biggest industrial centre of the Arctic.
This is Mr Khrushchev's most clablished zoom-town
Overhead a helicopter palier- ed its way through the snow clouxls. And our reindeer can- tered on.
This is modern Russia's great north-west frontier.
This is the first time that the Russians have drawn the cur-
toin here,
BUILDING
MEMORIES
But, ficked by the tail of the warm Gulf Stream, Munnars
But Murmansk is a fantasti- cally bustling. Metling olcee: I don't know about that, but
Kirrushchev hos a going certainly was Int- concern in his Arelte town.
I never frozen. So today Rund what I saw has transformed it into one of pressive.
Hundred
of Young girls, the greatest parts of the world. when I walked in, were exercis- And they are still a-building. ing to music. They ignored From December untit May water from the cleaning tub■ when Lamingrad is smothered in that ran ever their thick black the ler grip of the Polar winter, leather boots. Murmansk
RESOURCES
BONUSES
TALKING
POINTS
1 ted several of them Bilet. ing bream and I made it eight to cleven seconds. I was töld Oh the whole I fulta. It they could keep up this pace, that middle age with those exercise breaks and happier period than youth. luncht, for seven full hours.
料
ALEXANDER SMITH,
★
To forgive our enemies
Never before has a Brilish
now become national newspaper correspon- Russin's window on Europe. In deni been invited for such a the hills behind Murmansk elore-focus Inspection of this there is a menortil to the bonanza-rich territory.
Lease Lend runs of British merchantment during those aw- ful days of 1942.
Carefully tunelad CTC the Krave# of 20 British Service I with one of those Brish
who perished in Nozi sallors who remember
Mur- then
bombing, (mansic as a pthe-log nhanly
That mlak and silver tox town at the end of the perilous
form was 10 miles. up into the line in 1942 could have been
hills along the headwaters of long. He would never have 20-
(te tumbling Kola River. their virtues, that is the cognised the old place now.
Mlady, it would have made ym greatest thing. From my window in the Are-
At the Seamen's Club, dane-
drool to see all that far on the Lic Hotel
aug to the latest in rock 'n' roll, w. There were 1,000 breeding I look perosa hundreds of five-ølurey brics little girl asked me, in battle foxes, happy, hopping little fol buildings. There Include 3,000 English, Ir I would dance, And love in my cages doing nothing
Those who do not enjoy now flats heated by natural gas, she asked me to dance "the, but cuting and turning ottl And this gas cories 2,000 miles Engilah Jazz waltz."
eating, soldom have much which youruslern
prosture from Bishikiri in- Central Asia. Wilton I did she said: "And! 10,000 pelts a year.
| capacity for enjoyment There is a great new stadium now I cry." And team streamed And viclons mink, 30,000 usefulness of any sort, lo si 13,000. A trugs ad- down her face.
Eltons. carnlug dollars and ministration building. Modern She bind remembered a visit pounds sterling for Rusin. cinemas and theatres Libraries during the war to an English How does Mr Khushchev Schools, Youth clubs.
ship thy girl and dancing kems his workers this ince The best thing, we get Ak-in Morgow. the ayımbol of with naval men aboard.
where the winters are cured from history la the enthu- Murmate is the puffing bulid- My hom britninett' over with the nights are three months long. ing crane, towering in the sky, pride in their now elty, they and lo sun, sometimes Kings Isiasm it' arouses, The crone holsting bricks and showed the comelling of the war these rseniks en end?
QQETHE
-VOLTAIRE,
Dr
CHARLES W. ELIOT.
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