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Up here in
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1960.
BALMORALITY
the Highlands, how is the young
man in the background making out?
IT
BALMORAL.
has not been an easy time for Antony Arm- strong-Jones
autumn.
up
here at Balmoral this
Buckingham Palace, Windsor him-while Charles and
Anne
From DONALD EDGAR
and Prince Albert who created Balmoral.
and Sandringham were fairly can not only understand, but Queen Victoria rary hurdles to jump for a man sponk broad Scuts, with his charm sag tart,
But tralmoral is something very speela) in the life of the Royal Family mid has presented Arm Grong-Jones with his most dimcult problems yet.
Bluntly
le has not gone down tog well with the Highlanders, And they are u thary of saying so. There is Tradition of blunt Speak thug a traditiem iranded by that ok tenor Jolm Brown
Victoria's ~~Quec friend
Even that fact has helped, to muike him feel that he doesn't belongs.
tic
the artist in No doubt
him appreciates the beutily of the country-the wild hills, the forests. the romantic
but he can't feel about moral as his wife and her tires feel.
There must be longeurs,
Adores it
es
rein
ut course,
When Queen Mary died there was a lot of talk that she had loft much of her considerable estate to Princess Margaret.
But it does not look as if this was the case.
was kept well out of the picture. It is only now when the halcyon honeymoon days are over that some of the implica- tions of Princees Margaret's marriage are becoming clear.
In the past it was always enay with such a marriage. The ecininoner But the 'Queen has misgivings
have would
been abour, this. Ever since the mar-
unnobled and laken into the ringe she has said that not only
The grace and favour house round of formal duties. has she no objection to her at Kensington Park Palace is But in this case that coUTES sister's- husband taking a Job.
Tom did not detract from the dignity of the Royal family.
was the
An estate
·
there
It is has not been followed. not un cary situation for Arm- strong-Jones to carry on with a smalle and dignity,
Phil wouts is sula idhul mad! most of the guests at Butmotal are Scots, boblemen and Laird but that she thinks it is a very well, after all, just a grace and who were The kill Nu matter deu-providing the post- favour by the Queen.
Up here at Balmoral was belief that Princess Mar garel would buy an estate near- And it is all more difficult At Balmoral you feel out of it if you don't wear the kill at Various projects have been by which, though not in market, because he knows that in a few years he has proved his oblity Balbut what can a Jones, a discussed there was theatrical could have been secured.
Nothing has come of this. to run his own Welshion, do about it? Wisely set designing, there
life, make I think, he devided not to wear not very richly endowed Civic
Princess Margaret sili Valls success of it, have fun, and in the kit the Bagmar Gather Trust job. But the Armstrong- certain Boyal duties but they addition make enough money to ing-1 think the Scots would Jones have felt that the jobs date
to honours and be independent of anybody.
I remember up hero fow have laughed at him if he t
nt yet they su didn't think were either dull or unimportant, dignities bestowed on her before
marriage.
years ago hearing the Queen west- As fur money-well, it 19 Recently she was at Glasgow say to he. sister, ing trousers. There is no doubt always dificult to be definite to give colours to the Territorial are you coming with us?"
personal fortune of Battallon of the Highland Light But Margaret had already that it is dieuh for Arrastrong- about the
But the Royal Family, but certain Infantry.
although her gone off in an opposite direc- dons up here,
fucks are coming to Hight,
husband accompanied her he tion.
Margaret has done Princess servant
best to flinte him. For her although she may love sophistl cation and urban gaiety, she is as much a fanatle of Balmorality as any of her family.
It isn't that they have any thing against
Pritse Mer garet's husband just is th they feel he doesn't #1 in.
She adores it here the long walks, the picnic lunches, the It's easy for the Royal Familly four speckled waters of the -throughout tir lives they Dow, the quiet evenings after have spent two or three months dinner playing scrabble, cuntsta #year where surounded by or helping the children with a the Berce perrinal loyalty of the jig-sow puzzle. Highlanders. The Queen Mother
Thut all this is more
wch of this Welshman
And then at the back of his mind as he has pledded over the heather has been the prob dem ut his future.
career
Inevitably, however
tactfully
it may have been done, the
than 0 Queen's decision not to give a
is a Scol. And for the Duke of change, for Armstrong-Jones-tt title-at my rate for the time Edinburgh it was easy to fit in is not the sort of life that he bring-to him and her sister has because of his years in the has chosen for himself before left its mark. 1ighlands us a schoolboy.
marriage. And there has been
this business of the kitin a
I think
back
"Margaret,
PRINCESS
RINCESS Margaret and her husband during the
presentation of colours at Glasgow.
The capture that led
FOR US. infantrymen patrolling the rugged slopes of the Austrian Tyrol just across the Then there is the question of Bavarian frontier on May 2, 1945, the sight of a that is true to say that Frin-Young, husky German wearing civilian clothing
was like the smell of flesh to a hungry crocodile."
Intelligence had warned us that as the German
Bul Armstrong-Jones. has way hurtful. and In a way money and a career. found it all rather distienl... the slightly ridiculous. whole business of amarahty.. But then pite Imust under- cess Margaret expected that as they call it up here has been stand that here at Balmoral the they would receive a title and almosi
her husband overwhelming.
Kradually Some t is more than a form of that
times he can't even under- dress. It is symbolic of race would be included in the Army disintegrated in those hectic, final days of
siamd what they are saying to and pride and the tradition of of Royal ceremonial duties.
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World War II, many S.S. troopers and Nazi war criminals were discarding their uniforms and at- tempting to pass our lines in the guise of peaceful non-combatants.
to space
surrender, A few with long records of atrocities had already es- them." caped capture by this device.
At the morning mess of one
"I am one of the German of the combat units of the 44th rocket scientists and we would US Division. GI said to me, like to surrender to you," he "I'd just like, to spot some of tald Schnelkert in broken those fellows coming toward English.
my post. I'd shoot first and ask He went on to explain that questions afterwards!"
the rest of his group was koled 1 was an Auny Signal Corps up in a ski lodge in the nearby Bavarian Bedoubt and that they photographer
- temporary
would like to be taken to wched to the ath, which was SHAEF headquarters. commanded by Maj. Gen. Widiom Dean. (The same Gent crai Dean who later became prisoner of the Communists in North Korea).
Alerted
go
rocket
by-
LOUIS WEINTRAUB
AS TOLD TO MARTIN ABRAMSON
gchee Corps) could come down und decide what to do with
The them.
C.I.C.
came the next aficernoon, quickly deter mited that our captives were indeed the men of Poenemunde, ong whisked them away.
Since that fateful day in the Tyrol, von Braun and the men who surrendered with him have become famous for spear- heading the West's rocket and missile programme as well as our campaign to conquer space, Through the years, I've read almost everything that has
you can't shoot the base even without offelal been written about von Braun, orders. He wrote out falso but it was only recently that
The V-2
to
that the the not
in smiles.
Tributes
We reminisced for nearly' half an hour, and he showed me snapshots of his pralty wife
"I bet they're some of thero orders and this got him and his I had the opportunity to meet S.S.
past be fellow scientists
all the him again. pretending guys civilians and about to get home mujor German read-blocks, free," bo whispered back at
Vor Braun confided to Bill me. "You can see one of them
O'Halloren, public relations was wounded. If they've taken
44th Division, I was invited to a dinner In of their uniforms, that makes sergeant of the
and myself, that he used rocket Washington sponsored by the them spies and entitled to be
alcohol to fuel his vehicles Association of the Army to shot."
because he had no gasoline. inark the anniversary of the Explorer 1 Be headed south, toward the launching of tho Bayarlan Redoubt which Hitler Missile sought von Braun bad once earmarked as his and he looked at me thought-
to trying
remember.. be fully, "More special -nuisances."
bad "Well for God's sakes, don't last-ditch fortress, because Schneikert said wearily.
met. Then 1 be could contact the where we He do anything. till I go over and knew
presented him with an album passed on the cyclist's report to talk to them," I said. "I can American Army there. He had of pictures I had taken of his G-2 and the young. nan in the speak German."
used the ski lodge as a hideout leather jacket was told to
I stepped out to the middle of while Magnus scouted arounet Surrender and his face it up back and bring his associates in. the road and the man with the
sure make
and Nobody took his story seriously injured arm immediately waved Americans, however, "I he's scientist, then I'm the King of and came toward me. I asked Russians, were in control of the I had been taking combat Sheba." Schncikert wisecracked. sell and he cheerfully told me
him in German we identify him- area.
pictures
the When I was time for As the day wore on and the in both German ever since I inded
and broken with the First Division "scientists" failed to
appear, English that he was Wernher
speeches, I listened with a warm France on D-Day, and now J the subject became a frely van Braun, the scientist who
Eluw ns tribute after tribute was
the man who to complete my topic of discussion among the had invented the fearsome V-2
paid to
once TH COM on his wartime service by photograph-' GÏ's, "That boy was probably rocket.
arm, he fought against us, but now hos Ing the capture of as many Ger- sent down to test
cxplained, was the result of an become one of our outstanding us and seei The short, older man was in auto accident, not a military scientifle leader, mua generals and Nazi uulais how
of 1oduced as Maj Gen Walter as I could find.
infantryman from Florida sug- Dornberger, the military com- entounter. "We were driving
"Do you think," my wife asic- at a stretch, es- had gested. His fiends want us mandant of the V-2 Rocket caping from Peenemunde, and ed me the next morning, "that
for 12 hours Our Army commanders received reports that Germany's to provide them with a free Station at Peenemunde,
moment of that GI really intended to shoot my driver, in The others were described 63 fatigue, lost control o rocket scientists had fled from ride to Paris, and give them
the the German scientists? Or did V. I. P. trement all the way." rocket scientists who had worked
wbeel"
said. he
The car he just want to scare them a with von Braun. One of them
and von little?" was our leather-jacketed friend amused Into a tree, -he was 25-year-old Magnus Braun's arm was broken in two yan Broun, brother of the places, There was more talk of elite faventor.
After much discussion, it was oncurs The Infantrymen of the 44th. S.S.
who had been Von Braun used his good arm decided to keep
the German however, were melined to take stationed at Hitler's cyric in to shake hands warmly
scientists at Routte until the the report about the scientists Berchtesgarden, and who were the Infantrymen who had been C.1.C. (U.S. Counter-Intelli- with a large dose' of salt,
now supposedly travelling walling with me and with other "We've been hearing about 'em around in civilian garb, hoping soldiers and officers who now
was anxious
their launching station al Foenemunde on the Baltic coast, and were somewhere an this area. Combat units had
be alerted to round thon up before the Russians did,
gullible 10 are,"
A lookout
with
Apparently, he hadn't noticed
for weeks, but nobody's sec to escape arrest for war crimes, crowded around. hide nor hair of 'em," they told "Maybe that bike rider is just me. "The odds are they're in a lookout for these S.5, boys," the soldier's threatening gesture with his rifle and I made no Russian custody already,"
Worthless
romcone sald
It was dark when I heard the mention of 11. sound of cars coming down a
We look the Germans to our local headquarters in Reutte,
mountain road and beading Austria, where they repeated toward our positions. If it was their Identifications to other One reason for their sceptic, really the German V-2 rocket division officers, Nobody knew lam was that meny uprooted experts who were coming into whether they were telling the German civilians had approach- «urrender, I didn't want to mis; truth or not, and indeed, there ed our Army units Insisting getting their plctures. I were more sceplies than be- they had expert knowledge or hurried out past cus information that would be valu- outpost and along the road that able to us. In roturn for their the ears would have to tako, to Pervices, they wanted all kinds reach us.
forward ilevers.
side of the road,
Miscast
of special privileges and trans- of the portation to some other part of sheltered by a clump of trees, I Our captives, simply did not the country. After close ques saw a few Gl's who had beca square with the mental picture Honing, however, it invariably on patrol, They had their gure we had of what noted solentists lurned out that what they had ready and looked it toward the should look like. They were
The G's referred
with suspicion.
Ini, Von Braun. In particular
to offer was worthless. to them clow of ppproaching headlights too young and too-un-professor- contemptuously as "special pri- The first car stopped about seemed misceat, fe was very viloge characters." Most of the twenty yards away from us. A jovial, wiscerated a good deol were simply fcelag from the Red Army Since they were husky, dark-haired young man in his heavily-accented English, to be in His and posed with alderity for the part of a tidal wave of surreh whom I judged dering German soldiers, liber early thirties jumped out fest. Pictures I took of him and tho nted slave labourers, and re. He had his left arm in a cart, other captives.
He challed at length about fugees who were clogging our A few other athletic-looking 1 't from Prentmunde. supply liner and creating con- men clambered out, closely fusion, the "special prives followed by a short, older mas, When word resched him that the Red Army was heading cheractors had also become whose ramrod-stiff posture cast
him in the mould of a German toward the Y-3 site which had
rockets mony Shortly after
high Nazi fune London and Antwerp, MCSA that general or thorning, a private from Wiscon- ionary,'
Braun quickly called his stað
special nuisances,
fred sa
inta
won
ain named Fred Schnelkert wes
of the GT of refentiste together. He told manning an anti-tank outpost. Suddenly, one when a slim, young man came raised his rife and took aim. I then he preferred 40 aurrender pedalling, up on a bicycle. He was no sigilled that for to the western courticles, because word leather jacket and moment. 1. Jum; ejared at chien, “there are countries? that read patched pants and looked like Then I pushed his arm down the Bibles des The 1045 equivalent ota and hlased, "What are you try. Tilo order som escape utha, Beatnik"
ing to do? They're coming: la to Rumian, he decided-in Lonro
4
Arm broken
FULLARTO
ART EDITOR
and two daughters.
I don't
r really know," said. "But will say liks — Le that soldier HAD fired that
might night, the Russians have already won World War III.!!!
"There's a packes carionnist, toʻser:
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