THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1901.
DON'T BLAME M.I. 5 FOR SPY LEAKS
These are the real
One of them was a British Prime Minister
WORLD SPOTLIGHT
SPIES and counter-spies, security and its failures, are very much in the news today. The ordinary man and woman not in the know is bewildered and confused by what is going The truth is that we are in one of those periods when the lid is lifted off a secret underground world. And it is a busy world, a world that is always there. For spying is an activity as old as history, con- tinuous in war and peace, and common to all countries.
on.
Esplonage 10 essential for good Inteligence. Nutions want
Intelligence covera all here about the collection of Intelli fields. Su must erpionage.
i anly to ferret out one IAM- other's sceret military weapąna and positions, but they also wont political information. Little
They net to know
at Cabinet
lovel, the
decisions inner
workings of the minds of high; glamour
placed
of
ministers, coples
And signals to ambassadors. they want an well economic in- formation, the secrets of new inventions, the pattern of trade drives and so on.
To get the ploture into proper perspective, there is an illusion that must be shattered. There Is nothing glamorous or exciting
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caught, he can lupe for no help from his employers. the drat rule of espionage.
One example wifi illustrate
what 1 mount.
In 1921, Britain made and tried out on Sallsbury Plain a
Bring cannon mounted on a tank chuvsts. It was shown, at a
self-propelled gu
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culprits
great secrecy, started to build a
heart, and walked out with a emelent head waiter in a res- bundle of documents,
taurant in Aleppo. In the same way Potrov's de- Burges and
Maclean, cision to leave the service of the Indeed they were aples, were MVD uncovered a Soviet spy- middle-class intellectuals who ring in Australia.
drank too much. Of course, every nation muin- Only once have I seen a do- tains D highly organised tected spy that could be den Not long ago, the Russians security service to prevent es erlher as "glamorous." She was prototype. The chassis in the sent to Britain goodwill plonage. In Britain it is.at pro- a Bungarian cabaret artiste, Krupp works xi Essen, the gun "cultural" mission, ostensibly sent under heavy fro from caught in Damascus, who had and viber parts in the Rhein- composed of atpers and parliamentary and other critics bei intrated across the Tur- Metall plant.
icians. Through un ancil but, on analysis; I cannot be kleh frontier. After all, the By pure chance, I came upon inry, of the British Communist blamed for failures in ea task of the spy is to be an un that information, and reported Party, they arranged a series of ordination between one depuri- nutised part of the backgroundi It to the War Office. As they concerts in works canteens, and muent and anotlier. Over the
it was natural that they shoukl paat Ave had scrapped the weapon they were not very interested-until the German gun made its Arst pubile appearance, Some 50 of them were shown at the military parade at the 1937 Reichparteitage at Nuremberg.
Diplomatic
quick gossip
discreet distance, to an audienes of military attaches, photo- graphed by
MIRIEQUIVEes.
German
gence information, and about prototype
- much of it there is nothing
Ilegal.
It is ke the building of n huge fig-saw puzzle, most of it Innle up of Information ob- talmed by legal methods. And, as always, there are the key pieces to complete the picture. it is the task of the spy do find those pleres and to use any method, legal or litegul. He knows that if he fails and gets
press 1973
The attaches sent home their reports, accompanied by plinte- graphs bought from the agencies, One report found its way, vla a country neutral 4 the 1914-13 war, t Berlin.
A little later, Britalo scrapped her weapon an unsatisfactory. At about the same time the Germans, under conditions of
There
no less essential
years, Buch failures be taken round the works they have been proved on visited.
than aix occasions.
A chanen remark, made in front of comeune who under- stood Russian, revealed that one of the "artistes" was a highly- trained engineer. Inquiry re- vealed that a second was an expert on steel-works construc- tion, a third a qualified chemist.
Caught
Then the hunt was on for the by chance
missing pieces of the puzzle, the performanc of the gun and vehicle. Two brave men died to get them.
ol
radio
Warning
ignored
The Foreign Offies was warn- ed that Guy Burgess had developed pro-Communist lean- ings. but
however, diferenco
ода between those who spy for Russia and the Communisi bloc, and tho opies of other nations. All the
great powers und Intelligence work as a pollor instrument, but the Communists have some very near to making espionage part of their political philosophy.
More
continued to employ dangerous
bim. Houghton was sent hams from Warsaw suspected of being In contact with a woman agent of the Polish sccrni sarvion. Tho Aditrally re-employed kim-in a accres establlaliment.
The "typical spy" does not exist. Houghton was a bonst- ful, drunken lecher; Nunn May an almost puritanical scientist. the Kathleen Wilsher looked what
How and why do pies get The basis of Intelligence is caught? The answer is-mainly very ordhary parliamentary by chance.
trade reports,
catalogues, My Huers 1 that George shrewd eyes at trade fairs, the Blake, "working inside Britain's constant monitoring
secret service. was uncovered ironlensts. press photographs either by a discovery made in she was, an efficient private the chances are that he or she and reports, government publl- the Lonsdale-Kroeger ense, of cations, gossip at diplomatle by the defection to the West of official who deall the Soviet partles, al ministerial indis- cretions.
with him in Korea.
be
In 1940, the news of Britain's impending landings in Norway traked out because of an India- creet remark made to a lobby. correspondent by the then Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain.
THE AUTHOR'S DAUGHTER ARRIVES IN LONDON WITH A SECRET
Still to come-the first two
I
HAVE good news for the ad-
mirers of that shy, stammering, tough-minded master of story-telling who was known to the world as Nevil Shute.
It is 16 months sinco Novil Shuto Norway-to give him his real name
in the hot sum collapsed and died
which ho had
Australia, the country
made his own.
That sudden death at 6D bad
a stunning effect not only un
of bauks and book-
of
novels of Nevil Shute
by ROBERT PITMAN
But Shule was not to be ut
his friends but on the whole in- dustry selling.
She talked about her father's Shute's two long-fingered home.
With the war he worked ways with money. hands were a major aset of the t secret inventions for the industry. Itoyularly, every year Navy. The war-me novels,
"He wouldn'
simply
give He
or 18 months, they tapped out Pied Piper and Pastoral, which money away to charity. a novel for which 100,000 hard rst establishes him as a bixade quite certain that it would
be well used." backed copies was the automatle best-seller who from then on- first print,
wards would make a small for I said 1 had heard that Shute It was a record which had
tune with
every book, were would visit a friend or relative never been equalled by any written on service.
and tell them thut, since they novellst in the world. And now
had all at once those hands were
Even after the war Heather's were badly housed, he bought a house for them. remained for
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father
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As for Shute's readers, they somewhat reinule, stern figure
His daughter nodded: "Yes know at the time that his ani- who insisted on punctuality at
but he would always make written novel, Trustee from the
meal-times and who had Arm, arrangements fist to see that Tunlroom, was ready for publi- purlionical ideas on morals and they could maintain the house cation: When I finally up-
the upbringing of children.
properly." penred they naturally supposed ibat, they would never see an other new novel by Shuile.
Heather Norway told me "At 181 was called home from boarding school and told that we were leaving our 'house in I thought we would be moving to somewhere else in Hampshire, but I was In front of me,
1 told No, Australia. however,
"The idea appalled me. now have the proof copy of a
But book which is due in Septem- I couldn't say anything. It was ber. It consists of two novels like that with dad. It was no which have never been publish arguing. He had tunde his.
ed before. Their_joint title: decisi
THE ONLY ONE Hayling Island."
STEPHEN MORRIS.
thor: Nevil Shute,
The au
Norway
Miss
She smiled. said: "What really made him decide to go was when the
again in 1930."
What is behind the appear- Labour Government was elected ance of Stephen Morris?
Recently I met the only per→ son who knows the complete facts an attractive young Australian visitor to London nomed Heather Norway.
As we walked through Kensington park I not only learned about her father's com- ing book, I also heard a story with a certain Shute-like quality
Shule himself.
A
'SAD THING'
And so the Norways moved to Australia. There Shute deliber- ately maked up his surplus cap- ita in farming while he went on writing and engineering.
"Elo was always in his work-
the story of Ieniker and shop making engines," his This story beglus in 1038 when daughter told me. "Wonderful Shute threw up control of his my engines which would at In a cigarette box. He kept say- own alternit company which hen he would build something had built up,
as an aircraft
boals for engineer, and which was coming und them. Toy more and more under Govern instance with remote control."
"Did he plve them I asked: ment direction. A film feo for one of the novels which ho to any nephews or other boys." wrote in his spare time decided "No, the sad thing was that him to tum full-time author. he had no males in his family AL six, little Heather knew at all. It seamed strange really nothing of her father's career, that such A man should just of course. She knew nothing of have two daughters.
Ile could
his earlier work on the private never interest us in technical made airship R100 which was things."
the rival of the State-made But I R.101.
was not left with
wistful story of a man apert.
(On a crazy. frightening Heather Norway went on:-
Atlantic trip Shule had onco
climbed out perilously above
the waves to fund a hole, large SO GENEROUS
enough to drive a buy through,”
ripped in the airship's port (n.)
"In 1955 I was working for a hire-purchase company in Met-
NOT AT HOME toure when dad suddenly took
me off on a trip to Europe. It made the whole difference la my wonderful--and WEB
អង daughter told me: 41 life. It knew nothing of his aircraft already i began to ere what he work then. All my sister and was planning for me. Ho intro- I said when we heard he was duced me to publishers. I learn going to be a writer was ed about his business affaire *Hooray, now he'll de et home Later I became his secretary. We all the time."
became very close."
"Yes, that is just what he would do. He was very gener ous. It was published that he had left only £60,000 at his death. But that ligure did not include ait of his estate. In any case. he never Intended that we should live in riches.
secretary.
It is, also, much more dan- gerous because it is linked to the ideological exploitation of the political faith of hundreds of thousands of men and women, Who was the greatest spy of hint century? Probably question cannot be answered, for
has never been detected. Bespectacled, hålding Colonel The greatest known spy must Abel, an officer of the Soviet surely be Richard Sorge: Work- Secret Service, built himself ing for the Russians in wartimo Colonel Zabotin might into the
part of
small-time Japan, he had the complete con- secure still in his secrei office Brooklyn cuntmercial photo- Adence of the Nazi ambossador in The Soviet Embassy In grapher. One wartime agent in for four years and access to his Ottawa, operating a nation-wide Cairo mixed the best martini in mosi secret documents. He even spy ring, if Igor Gauzenko had town, behind the bar of a fam- helped him to draft the cinuses
undergone a change of ous hotel. Another was the of the Tokyo-Berlin treaty
#101
Time Britain made up
its mind! Are we or are
we not going to get closer to Europe?
BY LORD LAMBTON, MP.
"The first was about airera!!) designing. The second was about
Lord Lambton, Tory MP for Berwick-on-Tweed, today a scheme for alreralt carriers. They were much more like his | takes a close look at the Government's attitude to the later novels than the
first European Common Market. He gives his reasons for novels he managed
believing that the Government is not carrying the published, which were really
Commonwealth countries along with it.
romances.
to
"These two had all his wonderful technical background and straightforward story-tell-
IT would be a very wise
ing. But they were refected, tell what the Govern-has been so far like one of those ment's European policy is.
Perhaps they were shead of their time.'
"When my father died I took charge of everything. You see, de made me instead of my mother his excculor because he saw that with royalties this was a business which would be going on for 50 years. He Thus I learned the secret of thought I ought to be in charge the two novels which appear from the beginning. I took as one volume In September. charge of the farm tou.
FASCINATING
man who could now In fact, the whole performance
Ittle weather houses when the man comes out if it in going to be fine, and the woman when it is going to rain.
One day une Minister will
The only thing is that they both come out so often that their appearance has become perfectly meurngless.
So notice of this was hastily posted off to the Prime Mini- sters, but so litle time had been given to this that certain Prime Ministers only received this in- formation a day or two before the actual Conference was to
begin,
As nearly always happens when there has been blind haste, there was an inevitable misunderstanding, particularly in New Zealand,
Mr Kell Holyoake conceived, on getting this sadden nole, that Britain was acinally just going In, and spent the whole of his Journey to England drawing up a passionate denunelaiton of this sudden decision.
When he arrived he found the Governments that it was Intention noi to
no into tile Common Market, but merely to I myself have always been a discuss it. firm believer that this country's future lay in the closer assocla- However, the harm was dotie tion of this country and Canada. for he delivered his speech and New Zealand, and Australia And the next day it is all with Europe. denied, the Commonwealth is reassured and the farmers are I told they need not worry.
I left Miss Norway at her small stress tha: our future belongs in hotel in Earls Cour!. Sco, Europe and Mr Macmillan goes after her world business trip. around in Washington button- she will be back in Australia, noting the President's American dealing with rights and royal-advisers and saying "we are ties, turning a hobby farm into going in, we are going in," like an a profitable business.
enthusiastic bigli diver who has She seemed small,
slight, found a swimming pool in the unassuming figure standing Saharu. there on the hotel steps. But one with all the resolution and of д typical Shute
-(London Express Service).
I mentioned a report that
"Then Shute had once opened a special
I remembered two bunk
which account to enable on typescripts
Ive kept elderly friend to take comfort among his papers. They were able holidays--with a proviso the first novels he ever wrote- that nothing was to be left in In 1923 and 1924. Ho had never
let me look at them, but when loyalty the account at the end of each
case the man stinted I read them after his death I year, In
was fascinated, himself. Miss Norway said:
heroine.
PARS
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Momentous
was supported by the Canadian Prime Minister, and all poor Mr Heath at his first major con- ference could do, was to try to keep the peace and offer re- assurances which made Unu Prime Minister on leaving an-
And again and again in the nouage, "Well, I think we've last few years I have tried to stopped the thing for a couple of suggest how this problem could years, at any rate."
be solved, and that it was the duty of the Government to con- centrate 03 this momentous issue, instead of engaging all its attentions on sterlic sumunitry, and wind of change tours.
But
A
Wrong
But is that now wrong, and Intending to o
the terrifying thing is pre we now
that it has not done so, and that into Europe without the Com- hardly any of the problems of monwealth? our asspelation have really bocu
gone into.
Recently I asked Mr Muc- millan whether he would not Let me give an example of take, a step, long overdue, of how extraordinarity Jax and Inviting the Commonwealth to Join the European Free Trade Association, or the Seven, tro
nven reckless has been our bo- haviour.
Almost exactly
there Wig
顛
that when this made a closer
a year ago association with Europe the Conunonwealth Commonwealth would to in
Prime Ministera moeting in with us.
London: At this many maltors
were discussed, the problem of
was absolutely definito
South Africa was gono foto, the that this was impracticable, so
problems of Malaya and Ghana
were considered.
Silence
now
it is impossible to tell where we afond,
But one thing
tertain; that this uncertainty is harm- ul, both to this country and to the chances of our close assol ctation with Europe, for une the Conferenco certainty siwaya breeds suspi- broke up nothing at all had been con noid to Inform the Prime Ministers that it was Britain's intention to join the Six.
But
when
Soon we will have to make up our minds one way or the other, and I only họpa' that, my feefs Who knows, so quickly and are ungrounded that the last strangely are decisions made four years have been wasted, nowadays, that it even wie our nod that the opportunity Intention thont
carrying the Commonwealth
Then, Inter in the year the
wesilieronok of mar for clan volley suddenly swung round,
of
with us has baan noglected.
If so, it is another melan-
una li was decided to diaman gholy milestone in this sterile the whisto master of pur entry
toto Kwropa at the coming Dom- period of Conservative rule, monwealth. Ministers' mosefing.
ww{London Beprise dersler).