THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1950.
THE
PRICE OF
FREEDOM
rear base U.S. MARINE CORPS medical personnel lift a wounded Marine from a jeep for treatment at a hospital. Other leathernecks stand by to cheer the victim up. He was hurt in the fighting at the Naktong
River front line and was rushed to the rear.
N my book I maintained
that there was a tain difference between
the Russian and the Ger- man concentration camps.
(Aeme)
SATAN OR
BEELZEBUB?
This has been used by the By |~|~|~||~|~|~|~|~|~|~|~|
Communists in defence
of
MARGARETE BUBER-NEUMANN
the concentration camp system in Russia, which they claim is more lenient
I want. I than the German.
to disprove this misrepre- sentation.
was no longer of use, he was mrilenly left to die.
|
GON GOING?
by EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE
To the Yorkshireman THE
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Before 1939, the week was an occasion for bril linnt house-partien and dances. Today most of the great mansions are used for other things, and the new
Wing Commander Roland fashion is to rent a house in Doncaster for the meeting. Beamont makes the deadly Con-
The East
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£2,000,000 in export orders.
Where
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But there are still some siatriy hornes
the week
traditional eclebrated
in the anner. The Earl of Scarbrough, of the Wet Lerd-Lieutenant Riding, always has a gay party at Sandbeck Park.
OWI.
Highland scene
THIS MONTII the Scots erle- hrate a social season of their And, as lu London, su in His neighbour, Lady Galway, Seatland, they cintour for Jockey Club Princess Margaret to brighten entertainin
de their functions. Humphrey Trafford, Lady de Trafford, and Sir Rhys Llewellyn.
And parties are being taken be the Marquis and Marchioness by Baroness Hartington,
teward
Broken journey
visitor
Later in the mouth the will: lay with the Earl and Countess of Airlie at Cortachy Castic, Angus.
From
there the will go, on
$9. to
the open September Dowerswell Eventide Home for old people, which is the Perth City war inemurtel,
The Stakhanov system was al ured in the concentration camps, Beaumont, and by Sir Richard
ut in onother
form.
Each Sykes. emp had different kitchens. The and the ---1--|-|-|-|-|÷÷÷÷÷÷"punishment block"
Once the house was the hone gricultural workers received" food from the worst of these,
AT A TIME when there is of famous Victorian beauty Eme there that she the second made deliveries to me wrangling_
within Presi- Gray. It was
John Ruskin. the repairs work hop and some eat Tramate Cabinet, it is the married author of the once workers; the third
teresting
the elder Anl there, too, the great domesite to hear
culminating in her is drama, Bernard Baruch statesman
divorce from Ruskin and |~|~|~|~|~|~|~|~|~|~|~|~||~|~||~||~||~|~||~||~|~|~||~|~~[j]). 4pplied prisoners in the build-
ine and transport services, and still a regular
to the
Sir John marriage to painter ilable is the working of the Today we know, more or less the fourth and best served the White House. Russian system. A
total of these technical personnel. mulary eritrately, the
Now 80 years old, Baruch has Millas, was played out.
Official duty done, Princess ability been adviser the Those who hail
to Presidents for nourd was moved elsewhere be who were killed or gassed or ene he had thrashed a woman, who otherwise perished in the
GF thes necessary connections to the past 40 years. Ind he com- Margaret will go racing and Perl, with Lord' I hate the German con- but at the same time the bend German concentration campo comble then to work them-pleted a journey he began two dancing at centration camps just as
victims completely The neanberless
who lives up from kitchen to kil-years ago, history might have Arlie's two sons,
The elder, Led Oilvy, will as I do Stalin's, ponve when criminals murder Feve died in the insan slave then had a chance of survival.been changed.
entertain her with heartily
for a lengthy were killed are not yet known. The that there who
For, in 1948, Russia's Andrei be able to One of the commonest are political pioners,
New-born betde.
Chy will come
When the fate period were provided with the Gromyko invited Baruch to visit stories about the US, where he guntents on behalf of the
in the German camps, while of these in Rordan campa wid inverable food from the worst Moscow.
E
It was the time of the has been interesting Transation- in his father's camps they are aim to direloved. Dut und of the kitchen -- these peruments over atomic control, e sportsmen Russian camps is that they the Rut int
allowed to live. Bùi ja that sẽ than milady can give even in mumprised the greater stumber and Gromyko, impressed with grouse moors, and New York's
restaurateurs in his groure. Werp born 171 th On prisoners who have perihed, slow starvation. of individual prisoners ve kam via comite, where
ven the paning of autVIVORS curred in the Karaganda d worden penons were me in the tuwaan lave infernos n
Tag: then For the literal to estimate. We inirely camp in South Siberia, the
mother There was the frightful ow that only Rusia coneratration thought that the childern would pris
halutt camp with which I became now up as nequainted. That is to say, run and would be taken from
of the camp was
do not use torture. It is cor- los
much thate humane? Many approximate total of the of pomers--were doomed to Haruch, promised him a talk
rect that nu oficial torture
Carcerated!
I never saw anything re than come dag. sembling the torture which
made the German concen- tration camps so infernal.
woman
were
I have pointed this ant is my book, bul at
the came time have mentioned in several places the torture: to which prisoners on 24 mind
subjected. Among other instances, I mentioned the euse of 31 hil student wh the entire lower part of her Latly covered with lash- marks, and of a Lithuanian thrashed women who was blue and blue. I also told of a woman who was placed for 40 days in a dark cell. and returned from the ex- perience in a pitiful condl- Liun.
Shared Cell
1
I HAVE also described the sufferings of Gertrud Tiefenau, with whom shared a cell in the autumn of 1938 in the remand prison at Butirki. She had then been imprisoned for
JIKA
Frau Buber Neumann has been a
was
victim of both Nasi and Sovict slave camps. After twa years in a Russian con- centration
.she camp, was handed over to the Gestapo in 1941, and thereafter in Ravensbruck until 1945. She has achieved celebrity by her book
her describing
which periences, published under the "Under English title,
CX-
is
prisoned there.
tha
at reared ani
word wat
Same Goal
person's political
of
with Stalin.
But London. Baruch heard news which made him believe that the State Department had velocil his trip. In cancelled its plans.
Later.
he
letrned
father's
Shaving spirit
HOME ON leave from his post De Minister to the Dominican that Republic. Mr Slantey Gudgeon Secretary of State George Rave a party to celebrate his 31 Marshall wont have wanted years in the Farelin Service.
Nox! day, over a lunch-tine! to go ahead. Somehow, Mr. archait hul not been-put in Blass of gin, Sir Greffrey Thomp-
1011, picture,
former Anbauisacior Bangkok, told me of how Me Gudgeon are used a larte quantity of that commodity in an unorthodox munner.
Democracy
are m- I makes no diffrence what a attitude The few when
can tell the may be in Rura. Whether ef olag on, hove is faithful supporter vestricted ex- Stalin endy their own
or is critical in jazeres to claw 2000.
for only ins The Masaght
thought of death varier very in eitarian possible, he has the
chiferent me chance of being arrected the Cortevaldy # 1 camp according to climate, n the right. In Germany hoth
well isation ami the
concealed per- pen
breative enheim was possible the Nazi terror apparatu, WAS
AT THE beginning of World ffective , ut Full
One can War I. Doctor William Cramer. safely say that within a short Director of the Imperial Cancer the German advance. He period at would have ROM Buchenwaks to Dalstroi as effective us the Russian ys to continue his work in the US reached Bouligne and dill great
become Research Institute. was invited
work in evacuating atal Rolyman, from Murmansk tu But farte decreed that In America he died.
subjects. to Kamaganda, there is an area Soviet Ruve in should have the
Now his son, fan, a chariered But when the tost British ship the streater than
whole of doubtful hanem of holding the accountant, is to marry Mrs had sailed, there were still 70 Erope, which is crowded with del,
Emily Craue Walton, rich grand refugees in the consul's care. concentration camps, each with
tarted.
Broken Down
The
In 1940, when he was consul at Lille, he had to flee before
British
In Russia, with eynient reckhaughter of a multi-millionaire
Said Mr Gudgeon: "We must to special character, is special te sels and under the disguise manufacturer of bathroom fix-
smarten up and share, before and conditions. task
[1 15 yk Ideologies and institutiots,tures.
our capture." therefore impossible to tell of all countles human lives
arei
In one respect the Waltons are
His charges pointed out that The fatalitle or the total t
sacrilleed in order to promoten remaritable family. They
there was no water. printers, especially as we have the interests of the dietator threatened to sue the publishers
"But there is plenty of pin." campuratively few eyewitness State,
two concentration of the Social Register-entalogue replied Stanley Gudgeon. preng 11: to guide un
blueblood their spytems have their orilor
name And so it won' thant, taking I have mentioned cold, hunger ein in different political start appeared.
their example from one of his and With as effective incans of int points. but in praciple Most Americans would gave Majesty's consuls, a party of
There is no doubt that they atlain exactly the raine their cars to get into the register. British refugees warhed and - din Was greater in real. I cannot
that But not the Wallons. They gave haved in admit
bucketfuls of good Karborea than in Havendareek, there is, or has been, any dif-jus ground in
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Ta Kalagupia we had to wear ference of deçice in favour of jopinion that "There could be the Come ether your in and the Soviet campa. rear out, by day and by night. We were evered with lee from head to foul, and our carth hun crawled with bugs. After n working day of 17 hours We rank down on our beds of juniper twigs dead red, but our night's rest was made miserable by the fight with the crawling pests,
A conseruence, one becamin In Ravensbruck the killing of new-bern infants began in 1941 completely worn out before one's expectant lime, unl the powers of resla- then, the Un'il
All a year and a half. She had ethers were taken to a civilian tanee were broken down, been arrested in summer. clinic outside the enny, and who have been in
sent back to the ion camp know what dreadful peace wearing a thin dress and no were later stockings; and in winter comp, while the Infants were and demoralising effects dirt ba
It gradually which hardly consumes the desire to live. she still had this miserable allowed to remain in freedom. It en the prisoners. thin clothing and could not deserved tils name, yet the take part in a single open mothers were huppler thus.
No s chambers are to be
a freedom WES
NEW YORK. called) has taken over until the them they are now subject to n
war scare is going new election in November.
to bring a little
concentra-
York.
Food Stolen
rallons became constantly
hend tax of eight dollars (£2 But he has nominated himself 175, 1 d.), and collected it from for that election, even though no the £5 they are allowed to to the people of Now party is willing yet to pay his bring out from England.
more
air exercise in the prison found in the Russian camps, the further we went the world's noisiest city,
yard. On one occasion, she put in reality this merely means said she was locked in
unheated cell. What actual
Russlan
campaign expenses,
ADVANCE SALES for
human beings, if not tor- murdered, but through hungerert, has not yet broken away he has decided that the police landed at New York's airport,
ture?
And in the camp itself?
It
from these old habits
air raid
50
PROMOTION is coming soon General Omar Bradley.
GOOD NEWS of sorts for the today.
not be
from' an
To get over that difcully he Motor-cycle police will has begun appearing as "guest"
TV programmes. As soon as for no longer be allowed to use on medina introduces him, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of the screeching Hirens "Impy," makes a short political Statt. He will be made a five- which help to make this speech.
star general. The rank was ca- tablished during World War II. that Eisenhower and the MacArthur would not be sui- ou a difference in melbod. In the from Moscow. The
Arthur Wallander, former Sadler's Wells Ballet company's ranked by Britain's Russian camp there are other serving-man, who in the course of police chief, gave the order.
fold- now New 20-week tour of Amerien are marshals, ly do the Communists call way of extermunting prisoners, venturies of Tsarist nlngover- Me Wollander
It is not gas chambers or ment turned to bribery
dollars (£357,000). and York's civil defence chief, and Yet, when 53 of the company
1,000,000 this shocking treatment of em'oria that prisoners are
housewife Whe man's siren is the only warning they had only one dollar among American With and cold. Those in the for 16 finds himself far enough northeast of Siberia, In the away from the watchful eyes in he can use if there should be a them. And that was a single note Atomic experts announced that Kolem camp, know that the Moscow. On paper, our rations
one of the ballerines had kept tnned foods woulch specially were unchanged, but in the All the fancy skyscraper sirens as a souvenir from last year's spoiled by relation y Polar nights are
course of transportation
ulom bomb blast. put up during World War I. tour. WC efetive means of murder!
In Ravensbruck, those who metually received only half of have long been scrapped.
Just as they were summoning e were seriously I were first ne- what we were entitled to. The next time you hear a police one dollar
Announced Mr Wallander: enough courage to tip with that AN IMPOSTOR has been and-social "mmodated in alek wards: inter ather half had been stolen.
who posing for years's Kid Berg, the were pasar. But is it But even if the food had been siren you will know this is it" handled all their baggage. David former British welter-weight,
Isumane to nend lung good, over-exertion, illness and But New Yorkers feel he is Webster, general administrator The ather day he abandoned the company arrived 11s his pose. Jull after be had told of the guards. The millary from, who have
Just had the severo elimate would slit 100 con@dent that his order will of folerated the their third hemorrhage, to hort have prevented a large proper be obeyed by siren-happy pollees paid their tips £10 and gave of his fights for radio bread- (guteds not only
each member of the company cast, Barney Rois Anes
America's ex- terroriretion, nt the political Inbour in the sunflower feldy ton of the prisoners from ac men. prisoners
20 deilors (27 385 spending welter-weight champion rushed by the criminal and to give them stich, a sconly, complishing
their allotted
“upito- section, bu!
"POLITICIANS: are protosting ready nager parilciprn's the manage: ip complete the work a hard and fast scale, “thieving which continually co-hav aro, salto perform so that who-could not perform-what thirpaign by New York's "acting
curred. This is merely one of they are certain tale of starvo- Stale expected of him lost the mayor, Vincent Impalliter: Mr British visitors arriving in New this punch." The Imposter was many examples of how incal- tion?
Interest of the State. When he Impaliter (or Impy, as he la York. Immigration säicials told knocked out cald.
is true o sty that the guards
never Indulged in sadis ic in-
fiction of pain, but a' the same time completo nnarely the camp, because
and criminal elements had taken they
over a great part of the work
the porter
were themielvos bread railon which they cannot, brzount of work, which MA AND Eri iniferite certion cam- NORTHEASANT surprise · for Ross, "you'll know how to ston
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