THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1001.
DAILY EXPRESS)
The former editor of the Express tells his story...
HEADLINES ALL MY LIFE
EDITORS are dogged
in peace and in war by people who want to interfere with the prime reason for the existence of newspapers, which is to publish news.
Before the war and after I used to get many telephone calls which started: *1 pm friend of Lord Beaverbrook's"-I knew Would 1 what was coming.
please suppress a dive zee case, or police court report?
Huppily I was able to reply that
Beaver as had Lind bric's consent to publish all news about his own family i could only suggest that they telephoned Lord Beaverbrooks alreet in care mus szoprietor bad ruddenly become soft-hearted.
If my advice were accepted
Bas d 3rd Beaverbrenk
bunk sarlly
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Insel to me and Maid he did t nierley with the liter.
That nobbling the Press is a Abije hush
I have often
fallen into the trap of receiving condences which then make it Imp-ible to publish and be darnned.
SECRET
I
At the outbreak of wor was "woord" by General Dallas Brooks, now Governor of Vic- toria, Australia, who had been seconded from the Royal Marines to do secret work on psycholo gical
We wartore.
met considerable mystery in an ele gant fat loaned to the amiable general by Noel Coward.
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in
Thereafter I received dally. lder, by uniformed despatch
Britain's wir "guidance" effort. Not to the Daily Express office--that would have buen 100 obvious. The "guidance“ came to my home.
Nobbled-by the Secret Service!
And in the small hours van ofter van Night is a newpaper's working day. accelerates away to start nearly 42 million copies of the Express-printed
in London, Manchester, and Glasgow-on their way to 12 million readers.
By Arthur Christiansen
the newspIDETA ment stopped from printing for many hours anything but the German ver- slon of Rudolph Hess's fight to Scotland--I thought that Crum- ley, was going to have a stroke. Incoherences Only wild Celtis issued from him as he gazed at to me; but the inner envelope the first edition of the Express was marked "MOST SECRET" with te bald streaver headline and for several days I opened base
it came in two envelopes. The outer envelope was Innocent enough, buff-coloured, addressed
The
it with feverish anxiety. 1 fel HESS IS DEAD,
that I was ready "in" on the
war effort.
But what was inside the most secret envelope could have been
broadcast by the
BBC
six
o'clock news without giving any- thing much away, and after
i got bored with week or two the general's game of cops and robbers.
FLATTERY
German
DISOWN
radio:
in the Crimley continued with the most explosive force view that the history of our world which, once perfected. tines might have been different wruht have given efther side
with Russia wall; over superiority," and our relations much better if Stalin had been informed promptly at the whole Hess story as Boon as it was remained complete... "Statin suspicious till he died."
para-
and But
things, and I sat down at a sub-
rewrite editor's desk to reorganise his despatch. these extracted sentences need- ed none of my rewriting skill:
6in Hiroshima,
30 first The after
atomic bamb destroyed the city and shook the world, people.are and St dying mysteriously
who horribly people
wero uninjured in the cateclysm —
SISTERS
ONE OF THE CLOSEST TIES OF ALL-NOTE HOW JACKIE LEANS
ON IT
SISTERS, sisters, never were there such devoted sisters
"That's
what they're saying about Jackie Kennedy and her sister Princess Lee Radziwill. For just look at the power of sisterly devotion in this case.
II
And it might be ex- took Lee, over to Paris, beautifully dressed, and loving proved,
pected that the Kennedys would where ber smiling, unexpected it.
Sisterly devotion has bagged grace their Ambassador's Rasi- presence in the Salon d'Honneur
ian even more remarkable dence on this occasion. at Orly Airport brought a cry triumph in the Kennedy visit
of delight from Jackie on arrival.
Jackie's And no doubt at expronsed whih-Ler was there- after in on all the fun, ciegant,
to London.
For
this is a prolocot occa tion, as the Macmillan personal welcome London Airport
et
THE IDOL FROM HELL'S KITCHEN WHO MADE 10. MILLION BUCKS
By PETER EVANS
New York.
Not for him such an honour, however. The Kennedyn headed traight for Lee's Liny, elegant in Buckingham Georgian house Place.
Later, the inseparable sisters were flying to Greece togther for зn away-from-st-all hoilday.
That's sisterly devotion for you. In a le In which, by taste
Jacklu and temperament,
Is evidently I at ease, she falls back on one of the oldest and closest ties of them all....the bond between vister and sister.
Of all human relationships, this is one of the most remark- able—and of the youngest four sisters I speak from lang and rich experience.
Sisters can quarrel like cut and dog-and it doesn't take one of those exhausting scopes to make it all right afterwards; a curious sisterly shorthand gots [the message through with ta
ninimum of emotionalism.
An elder fister may be a resented tyrant; you stl watch her whizz off all dressed up and pretty to her grown-up parties -with
p feeling of proprietary. pride from which Jealousy is almost entirely absent,
ASTONISHING
And elder sisters in turn can rejoice at the Success and achlevernent of a younger sister
in a way that would be almost,
umbellevable to someone who
This closeness is all the moro astonishing because it exlato izz
spite of differences in taste and
EORGE RAFT was looking out of his hotel
window high over New York. He wore a white never had a sister. clays
silk dressing gown and sandals, and a religious medallion on a thin gold chain around his neck.
"It's changing, hell, it's changed," he said, his temperament, outlook, way of back to me, facing the city in the rain, the slime and character, which would from an unknown something skyscrapers being erased by the mist, then re-right out.
appearing and going again.
"In London old buildings
they keep their and remember
their idols, Hore they tear 1933.
It was a fantasie, tile, even as war stories 14. Of takis that living through failed; of men the winter snows in conditions which I can only describe as the of incredible hardship; of the atomic plague.
British Despite Crumley's vast know shooting of 25
I have seen the most terrible ledge of the D Notices, I nearly troopers all wearing uniform,
to surrender and frightening desolation in the who were forced gave the enemy news of
ultimately four years of war that makes a Allied atom bomb research years Norwegian patrols
thwarting Germany's plan to blitzed Parihe island look ke before the first A-bomb
an Eden. dropped on Hiroshima in 1045. remove 12 tons of heavy water. manufactured at a cost of £2,000 de Maitre Edmond
the (where Raya 15., to Austria As far as I could gather, he
Frenchman who A-bombs were to be made by that
delay monocled saying
the Was
up in Stockholm attaching a magnetle demolition Reffing In
out the British represented
the charge to the ferry which was version of the news was giving s
appeared
across Hitler dme to drown and Express as E. D. Masterman" to transport the cargo
And of the heroism discredit Hess to the German because I liked my correspon Lake Tinn,
Norwegian chemistry people and that the War Cabinet dents at least to appear to be of the
Eritish) cabled an item pub professor. Major Lief Tronstad, were a lot of bloody foods.
Jished in a Stockholm newspaper who, just a month before the had Cerman surrender, was killed Allied parachutists. raided a hydro-electric plant in trying to prevent the Germans
which was
making from sabotaging his vital hydro-
electric plant,
them down wns
name
He did not know at that time that that Lord Beaverbrook was ca his way to interrogate Hess, but Norway in any case a tle thing like heavy water. that would not have delerred Crumley.
in
L
RIVALS
it
I found people who, when the bomb feil, suffered absolutely no injuries but now are dying from the uncanny after effects. ....be counted dead number 55.000....hundreds upon Jun- dreds were so badly burned in the terrifle heat generated by the borab that it was not even pos- Aible to tell whether they were men or women, ald or young.
The doctory gave their patients Vilamin-A Injections. The results were horrible. The flesh started rolling away from 9 the hole caused by the injection of the needle.
Obviously I was being nobbled way or other by this in sume form of nuttery, "Old chap."
As the Germans had equal said Brooks, "we want lo kemp
access ta news published in you in touch with our efforts to
With yards of copy building neutral papers, Crumley did not maintain morale on the Home
The explosion of this news Front and your part in this is up at the Censor's office his need to submit the item for the
understand Censor's approval. Was But Brooks had exasperation
shook not only our rivals in
Lord Beaverbrock telephoned vital to us."
Our Glasgow office had
morning, do with able.
me about this appalling news, alzo something fo
with a footnote Fleet-streek that was interviewed Davii MeLean, the I was used
to reverberated via Downing-street fie postulated a question that Military Intelligence and
ir: whose garden explaing that, acending
Embassy in will
satisfactorily "atom and the American
never be scan usking me to allow my loughboy
theories, the I pre-war In other Hess landed by pachufe.
ar!wered. Should the bomb staff to net for him.
had gel Guy Eden, the then could be spill "by mixing heavy London. as far as the White
ever have been dropped? What words, to spy.
would have been the effect on admitted that one of Political Correspondent, to do a water and uranium." The sign- House in Washington. Brooks
of the news had not
to the pursuit of peace since 1545 my men had been a British olunm of "think-plece" sneeu-
1ation on 10ter's dismay. All registered with me when Ad-
If it had been undertaken with- agent even before the war, and in all, there were six columns mical Thomson, the Chief Con-
out the Great Deterrent ever should he pleaded that
of matter that had not been sor, invited me on the following
having been demonstrated? allowed to continue his double
words day to visit him at his University stamped with the magic role. I dithered
for a while, passed for Publication." But of London headquarters. but then decided to part
com- by midnight Crumley got it all
"I've had a helluva rocket pany with the man.
through
the Page One
Downing-street over this streamer was rewritten for the from
heavy water story," said Thom- 1 am edition:
son in his dry, cracking? voice.
There is to
complete Step on all references to atomale been through the Pacific war for ARTHUR CHRISTIANSEN,
I cannot me from the word go.
be
out the
If he had been captured, her role might have prejudiced the Germans against any of my other men who might also have fallen into their hands.
General Brooks
and friendly, remained supply of double-scaled must- secret enminunications dried up. In their place came daily shoals of D (or defence) Notices sent direct to the office. I reckon there must have been 5,000 Notices before V Day in 1945 don't do this; no mention that,
COPIED
and
DEPUTY-FUENNER GIVES
HIMSELF UP
Crumler was still not happy.
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research from now on, and it is sa Important that
Once again I was invited call on Admiral Thomson,
10 come the worst
The world was not allowed to know anything about the atom bomb-until one was dropped on
The world may Hiroshima. The first war cor- respondent
that it was in realise arrive Hiroshima 30 days after the decision of the war, sald Lord bob had been dropped. was a Dally Express man Peter Burchett, an Australian who had
Peter was so overwhelmed by I dug bad dug, and tried 10 oven uut a D Notice out on the
Gaw that he muddled the subject in exposing me tuto gad
case it should get what he muddle,
into the wrong hands."
"Hers." he said, "landed in
May 10. He Scotland trumpeted his real identity soon and showed documents
of after
OMINOUS
and photoraphs to the military This sounded indeed ominous. authorities at Maryhill Barracks But as it did not pay to give und Buchanan Castle (the Duke in to Downing-street too quickly of Montrose's home that was I argued that it was fatuous to converted Into
military prevent the British Press from hospital during the war), Why publishing firms that the Ger- the Swedish Just the same. I had no more did it take so long for the mans could read
All I agreed to do then Д reasonable working British Government to make a newspapers.
o the Notices, frank knowledge
Thomson per- heloture
his was to consult alxant read them on the day they reasons for coming here?"
Fonolly if any further messages were cabled by de Maitre. arrived, and them copied for
departmental heads, stuffed BLAMED
Cruniley
them into a locked drawer liko pennies into a piggy banit, and forgot all about them. It was not until August 1945 that I unlocked the drawer and the incident. sight was so dustly appalling war I made bonfire of the
that
101.
Bill Crumley. the chief office censor, who knew the > Notices
never forgot Years
after
I received a letter Elm which ran:-
There was soon to be more news about Allied scientist- paratroops being pursued in the this mountaius Bround Rjukan the where they were operating a from radio transmitter. I took the message to Thomson and sup- pressed it at his request. Churchill got the blame for suppressing the less little while later Crumley hinted that the German story. But I found out darkly soon afterwards that it was not research at Rjukan hul taken
the wrong turning.
like good Scotsmen know their Bible, enabled me to sleep un Churchill. I have just had my troubled At nights, Crumles knowledge confirmed by Beclur WAS kindly, but sometlines McNall fou ex-Dally Express bad-tempered man who seemed to snort his way through the
WAT
reporter who rose to be Minister
of Sinte in the Socialist pont- war Administration) that it wen Ernie Beyin.
BEGAN
A
I was not to know then the When he was not snorting at
#laniticance of this news -- his own staff of censors-older
that the Allies would be the Beyin was positive that first with the atom bomb,
But members of the staff who were
of Hess wns posted at the Ministry of Infor- landing
BUT on May 21, 1945, I got de Maltre deep-ind trap. mation to keep liaison-he was tremendous
to Rjukan and published a was there in this Now it can bu told" story snorting at Admiral Thomson's But who
island t that time to be which bekan→→ centors.
of? atraid The Fascist Fitth
all wore
in one Column small internment camp, and the
peace-at-any-price £nc- tlon wore an insignilleant minority of the people,
On the night of May 12, 1941 the night that the Govern
bky
BY
"Egadlibat Arthur Christiansen, je sukilahed by Melemaan at 231,
"It can be revealed today that for five years British and German scientists fought their own-war-within-a-war: A war for the atom bomb with tha
Beaverbrook.
COPYRIGHT:
1961.
-London Express Service).
any ordinary friendship
A gay, chatly, extrovert girl who spends most of her spare fime in sports cars or night clubs could hardly have a more The highest
friend unlikely paid star in
than sly, But that kind of thingserloia-minded, thoroughly plain and forget.": don't last for ever and when girl, who is an expert on 18th He spoke so softly, his lips stops, it gels very lonely. They century Lyrics. They'd be
likely even to meet. barly moving, that his words tell me I'm a tegend, but if 1
sometimest lost in them, I am a lonely legend.
donc mool Huess I've Icaring the things in my
time," said Raft. building "I owned a
Broadway night .club called The Hurricane
WITC roar of bulldozers henri out of an old across the way.
He turned from the window, and lost a packet on that. als Zuce looking too tired to smile yet still curiously hand- come after 65 years of life- Genge Rafi, the greatest of Bim pangsters,
"Then there was a gambling ship I kept outside New York harbour for a while.
"When they fl my if it will start over there," he said, nodding out of the window. "Six blocks to the West, Hell's Kitchen they called it in those days, and you didn't have to visit it twice to know why.
"I lived there so they called ine a hoodlum. Sure, I de- livered bootleg booze.
"I thought I was home and dry with my club in Havana. The Capri, it was called, Castro put a stop to that.
WATCHING
but
But if they were sisters. they might well and each other the single most relaxing, cerned person each knew.
GREAT SECRET
of
For perhaps the greatest secret of the sister-and-sister relation- ship is its detachment. Sisters are rarely each other's confidantes-
sensational they don't demand revelations of your deepest Becrets as the price of their Interest, and any casual AC- quaintance is likely to know your private life "Mistakes, I've got a pocket- more about
than they do. Now I am a ful of them.
Scaringly emotional scenes director of a chain store. That's right, George Raft mixed up in rarely happen between sisters
And I've got and if anything along thone a chain store. "I was a hungry kid chasing a fast buck. Since then I have something going on this newlines needs to be said it's usually made 10,000,000 Inst bucks.
company trying to bring in the done by letter, and neither
refore to it again. "And I
cheap new air flights to London,you ever have lost it
Loo, Who knows what I'll do next? Slaters don't." gambling mostly, plus ten per Who knows?"
All of which makes the cent to ng wife, another cul to
relationship between them about There was my agent, faxes....
0 knock on the the nicest, most casual and re- "I's gone all right."
door and the waiter brought in laxing in the world, as well as a glass of milk.
one of the most solid and touched al-enduring. "I have never cohol," he said. He sipped the
Which is undoubtedly avhy milk and added, “But I'll tell | Jackie preferred the miniature you this, if I had my life to house at number 4. Bucking lead over again--I'd double ham Place to the lavish luxury When I left the lonely legend of the Ambossodor's house ip in his white dressing gown and open sandals, he was back at the window watching them tear fame in down a city full of the past.
-(London Exprez: Service),
A LEGEND
Raft Wax talking very fast now, a muddle of memories without direction as he watched the city being Lom down beneath him.
"I had
glory and those days,
THE TROUBLE ABOUT SUMMITS IS
SUNNY
STORMY
Cummings
SUNNY
STORMY
Regent's Park.
Barbara Griggs
When he comes out furious we're alarmed........ BUT when he comes out agiling wa'rs absolutely terrified out of ́our
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