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By R. M. McCOLL

Hetty took Sylvia and her -second child," "Edward, 'to "Ilve in a cheap, sordid flat in 'Lire Mrs Sylvia Wilka leaves New York suburb of Hoboken something like £44,000,000, where, to save a few pennies And her last recorded words for her avaricious mother," truer Sylvia did the booking -Bhd. were: "Dogs' are

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While

running her Vait

her mind about that-80 years anuncial enterprises voith a 10 whalell the cliche "Poor firm hand, Hetty Green never Fillo rich girl" seemed made took her belligerently watch-

ful eye off her daughter.

to measure her.

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there were acid disputes #lone. Self-consciousness and

tradespeople on the about hor size was one reason with

of she became

suspicion an unhappy, re- cluse.

The other reason was in her blood. Her mother was recluse

Hetty Green

that

slightest charging.

over-

At long last, when Sylvia fabulous was 38, a husband was found gure in the world of money of who came up to her mother's whom Wall Street sald: She specifications. He was Matthew

is better than the men.”

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This was a nightmare that some good-for-nothing fortune- hunter would contrive to marry her daughter and get her money,

Astor Wilks, great-grandson of multi-millionaire Jacob Astor, and with a fortune of his own.

*

But

He was 04, "good clubman" and lover of good food. the marriage was loveless,

bride- Helty, despite the groom's ample fortune, made hlm sign a document waiving sho

dors. Young men were chased all claims to Sylvia's money. oway,

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MOTHER, BETTY

Misery on 821.000.000

DAUGHTER. SELVIÄ

Misery on £44000,000.

studled · birds and bred

!

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with about money mother's drunken cook,

her a stroke,

privacy with her fanatic determination.

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went out and she never enter

This and woman, who slunk.

life behind a wall of wealth once gave an indication

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became with

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clause when one dled,

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ics, builds up' kis plans for: Atlantic Pact defence, one of

Kimerals_lev Hipped an the man who will comand the now German Forden. Hic name: Haut Spaidel. What kind of man la

be Here to a —close up --- by

Rommel's Ma grapher.

Picture shotos Gen Speidel (arrowed) da Rommets West Wall ante! O sta Romme on left.

Herr General is a philosopher

He'll need to be!

-F you meet Herr General Doktor Hans Speidel in civilian clothes you will think that with his slightly owlish and abstracted air, he looks like any' don. you

by Desmond YOUNG

with

At Dunkirk, he served -the staff of the 8th Corpå and saw the first of filler's InterVon - tions, "Which, by tofbidding ther Tale of the seributed oorge of Guderian and Wow Kisist, maile- the embarkation possible. He was to see plenty more, in turska and later, in Wörthandy.

It was Epekel who, in the

Chimon in Paris, Brow

might run into or run his character. Hero also is tho over in Ox Sdo secret of his, survival after he Hotel him in dhiform that there is fell, in 1944, Into the hands of up with General Dent, after-

the Gestapo.

wards Vichy commander no mistaking hilik för any-

Syria, the terms of the French General, Speidel came to the capitulation in June 1940. Ot one thing but a highly placed and highly efficient atall 17 (he is still only 59), He was did not, like Hitler, dance aille staff the hard way. At the age thing we may be certain, that he officer, with the card-index serving on the Western Front, in epistration of the victory. mind of his class..

part of the time in the are For, as a close friend of Genera brigade as Rommel, for whom

Ludwig This seeming contradiction ila ha conceived a great and endur- former Chief St.

For General ing admiration. In the trenches the easily explained. Speidel is that very rare bird, a and in the bloody battles of Staff and one of

deep the professional soldier who is also a 1917-18 he developed u professional philosopher. It was, sympathy with the front-line Indeed, from Lecturer in Philb soldiers of all nations.

ì

sophy At the University ef

Brok

General

carliest

conspiratorS against Aftler, he had been

and was already of

Tubingen that he was recently No dance for him against the war

transferred to Dr

Adenauer's

"Security Department" the

Ministry.

name of the future Detence LIKE Rommel, he remained a professional soldier after the 1914-18 war, and in 1039 was It was also at Tubingen that appointed Military Attache in he contrived to become Doctor Paris. Since he speaks excellent

an opponent tho regime. Such a claim, made for any German general except Beck

himself, is like-

ly to be decried. THE PHILOSOPHER But Speldel's

Speidel

of Philosophy, summa cum laude, French and combines, with the in the same year, 1925, in which gift of lucid thought and expres ho passed into the German staff sion, a dry wil calculated to college. Off-hand, I can think appeal much more to Frenchmen attitude can be confirmed and’· of no other soldier except the than to his compatriots, he was was later confrmed by his own late Lord Wavell who could a success in the job and, on hu

actions. have brought off that 1 unlikely return to Berlin, was made head of the Western section of the "double."

Yet here is the main clue to General Staff.

U.S. atom-bombers to fly from North African bases

{NORTH ·PACIFIC OCEAN

Land.

CHINA

SEBENTA

SOVIET

SIMKIANG

ば

RUSSIA. A

Having asked to be relieved from his post of Chief of Staff to the Military Governor of France, he was transferred, in the winter of 1941, to Russia,. He was responsible for the planning of the southern offen- sive in the summer of 1942 which brought the Germans saus within sight of victory. But there were still, as he said to me, too many Russians and one German too many-Hitler. In April, 1944,. he was sent back to Franco to become Chief of Staff to Army Group B under Rommel.

翅

of

Speldel's recently published book, "Invasion, 1944," gives a bueld and highly interesting. account of the altuation France before the invasion, the invasion itself and the battles. | that followed it, of the plot -against-Hitler and of his own-and-

Rommel's participation in It.

How he escaped

BUT

UT although it mentions the removal of "the Chief of Staff of Army Group "B" from his post to the Gestapo cellars in the Albrechtstrasse, it does hot contain the remarkable story which at resenstadt,

told me himself

in hig

he contrived,

and

guing calmly

dispassionately with him interrogators, to inspire them {with dough ́sioult to save his He for the moment. (He teled to Isive Rommels, also)). Thus was- || Speidel the philosopher.

S

BIRICAN" "berty Honkbers wwing from one part of the

Later, though this again is not. mentioned in his book, General are to use bases in French circle to another,

dolcer and than of Morocco under an agreement 3. Maintenance of a forem bf action, arranged, with supreme signed between the US. and heavy, bombers, capable of fly-coolness and

presence of

mind, France.

ing over Busian production his own escape and that of : á

number of others, from a prida The main barcs will be centres direct from America.

camp near Lake Constancë, after Casablanca Cazes and Port All American medium and orders had been received by

Meknes, Marrakesh, heavy bombers belong to the removal, so that they should not, Lyautey.

their 33 günras: Tör their and Rabat-Sale will also be Skategle Air Command,

with hendquarters in Omaha, alive.

fall into the hands of the Allies Nebraska.

Such relicence is characteria- The Morocco agreement is

The mobile medium, bomber Ud. It may give to British and part of the American plan for Boros As Down 3.29 and 8.50 American, dacors,y at * fro He reports there may be letter, An example is Virginis a world-wide chain of air Superforts with an atom bomb mesing the inpression ba base. Easis of this plan ang at more than 6,900 miles man cold and remote and rather 12,000,000.00 telephone

numbers 76524

Mr Harman says this would in Tahdon in 1970. In more enable exchanges to have their.

Establishment of a string It Sa, organland to opemin Erge

**Little Brigalah central areas another 100, ex capacity increased from 10,000

They will have no doubt thous changes might be needed uni to 100,000 mis vērībars,

Betting Ant hur brut natural com whence re [der, the present sytem,

Mackowie Dewart, and is not. He odds, "No more unmes continental Europe but separa-, how Morocco. To avoid the dimculty of would be needed, and #pened from it by sea so that

The heavy Bortiter koken as shod thinking. Not if he to be...: having too many exchanges alderable reduction could be naval and local air power Comotioned 18.50 210 8 10ushed around." with unmiitable name the Dade in the number of ex-alone can protect them, PAN |000-mile la fova Ibom, ZAMĀ, GAN PEN American system may have to changes to BA A

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two Charing Cross,

The system would allow for 2 greater use of exchanges with bases by mobile forces of intraocultu and medium bombers, so that come forward bases to mutual,

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Good company

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Kirther acquaintance"

in

en will realise that bg, "DADE European as well as a Gennar, with a deep belief in the hièces- sity lof","defending. estern

will come to recoźnie zim Le man of integrity and

And, as I did, that aihere is in him an tinguspected warmth, or “Alistarter and that “(297 very good company)

As for General Speidel tim self, with his fellow-countrymen

bOINHA xirk) of the Russians dis | distrust of the (American, rench\"and" (ourselves,

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