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A SIMPLE HAIRCUT

WINS JUNGLE GIRL

By Jack Greenslade

Bergen-op-Zoom, Holland, Saturday. NIGHT there is an air of quiet rejoicing It is all be- in this busy market town..

canse a little girl has had her hair cut.

The wavy brown hair-it once fell to her waist-belonged to Maria Bertha Hertogh, the 'Jungle Girl," whose return to Holland six months ago caused religious riots and 17 deaths In Singapore after her marriage at the age of 13.to a Moslem schoolteacher had been nnnulled.

The annulment of the nine- and-a-half month marriage apell- ed the end of her eight years of life with her Malay foster mother, Che Aminah, who took Bertha into the jungle when the Japanese occupied Indonesia.

But for her parents, who for months had fought for the cus- tody of their child, the decision of the court meant that the real battle had just begun-the battle to make of this strange Oriental bride-a-normal-Dutch-schoolgirl.

First Words

For Bertha's first words were "Don't call me Bertha. I am Nadra Binte Maarot. It is my Moslem name."

And it was us Nadra Binte Maarot, Malay housewife and Moslem, that she arrived here to join her six brothers and sisters In the Hertogh six-roomed house facing the Emmaplion square.

MARIA RERTHA HERTOGH

at an end.

I asked if I could see Bertha. Her father shook his head.

"I am sorry," he said, "sho rees no one who might remind her of the past,"

Continuing IS A NEW

HITLER RISING?

I HEARD REMER

ECHO

THAT

NAZI STYLE

N

T

by SEFTON DELMER

the last days of military tunes dyed blue, and January 1945 Hitler bigh-shafted black jackbooks.

When "Kamerad" Max received a visit from Groelens, the deputy president his favourite front-line of the "Socials: Reich Parly" commander, 32 year old for Schleswig

he might

Major-General Otto East to rotowi Holstein, got up Remer, on his way to the have been any one of Hir'a

gauleiters introducing the be east from the disastrous ved Fuehrer. failure of the Ardennes offensive.

Remer reminded Hiler that before ordering the offensive he had told the commanders that

described Remer With high Goebbelslan pathos "our Parsifal."

Convincing

if they did not succeed it would FRANKLY, I found Remer far more Impressive than I had be the end..

ever found itler at the same The implication behind stage in his career. This young Remer's words was that the ex-general is simpler, and to my time had come to spare Ger- mind far more convincing as the

from many

carrying On representative of his generation. hopeless battle on German soll, of from-ne poldiers.

But Hilter would not listen. But Remer's speechmaking

Hillor's.

Ile sent Remer on what he be- technique

loved

fight ght survivors.

until

sܐ

modelled

от

His voice was hoarse and

husky from overstrain in the 20

to be suicide mission. "There will be no surrender," Hitler ordered. "You with my own Fuehrer-brigade will set an previous meetings he had ad- example. You will continue the dressed in the weeks.

there are по "German men and women, German youth, comrades" he "It is a sacrifice you must began, studiedly refraining from make for the Fatherland. For in Hiller's. braditional "German death with honour lies the surest folk, comrades and fole com guarantee that Germany will radcsses". (if I may be allowed

to translate it that way). riso again."

What would Hiller have sold he could have foreseen that yix years after this last Interview between them Remer not only would not be dead-e did in

Hiller used to begin with an account of his struggle, how he built up the party from small beginnings in the face of official

him. against

physical

Lans Despite the fact that Bertha fact go on fighting until after us from the Communists,

slander and ridicule from has become like any other little Hitler's own death and Doenitz's

aldes. Dutch schoolgirl, she is still surrender-but that he would

bc. carefully guarded, not only by

her family and friends but by Campaigning for the rebirth all the inhabitants of this town,

1 ol

Greater Germany including the whole of the police united in a Fourth Nazi Reich.

fores.

2 Appealing to Germans not.

Remer starts off with an ae- count in much the samé vein of all that is being done to harass and boycott him and how, des- the movement is pile that, growing "like an avalancha."

Husky roar

surrounded

to In fact Berths is

allow Chanceller Adenauer's West German by an invisible iron eurtain

Government to rebuild the Ahe denounces which protects her even when German Army or take any part she is playing in the square within the collective defence of the her friends.

When she first went to school on her bicycle, a policeman rade

by her side. Vague threats had

West against the Soviet East.

Nihilism

been made to kidnap her and Now, strange as it may seem lake her back to Malaya. Now

you in the Eght of

calls her.

Iron Curtain

to

the Bonn regime the traitor Governments in East of "collaborators," and West Germany that have connived at Germany being split in two, his voice rats to a husky roar, "I can't help it," he tells me later, I get carried away."

The audience is carried away too. Out burst those brutal old her father accompanies her and Hitler's own career devoted to Nazi mob shouts,

and anti-Com- rearmament

"String them up." shouts a each evening to collect

munism, I belleve he would face near me, constrleled with

"Bast have endorsed the Remer line hate,

their oculis in," 100 percent.

calts someone else. For it is in perfectly with Almost ald the practical that shortsighted super rational- rchemes he puts forward to curs ist nihilism

of which first the Gorman is play on the same I had evidence of this ring of Kasler and then Hitler were the nostalgia for the Third Reich. safety within a few minutes of

exponents, and now Remer. my arrival in the townI Wแร Gertainly nothing

After Schacht the same efficiency of an iron bren more. Nazl in atmosphere curtain security

employment for police forec, than the beer-hall meeting to Treate every move I made to see which Remor

the jobless refugees took me in the

from Industrialists Bitlle Schleswig town of Meldorf, opital levy proposed by Bonu

Except that there

were no to finance a refugee dole, Remer awastikas, no saluting with up- proposes a policeman was already there stretched hand, no calls of "Sitg credit

10 copy the Schacht News that I was in town had Heill' and

plan by which Hitler already been flashed to police line the hall the Government no storm troops to

cured

in the unemployment theadquarters.

'thirties.

Bertha was blocked.

When I arrived at her home

could have

save

and the

has banned them- might have To meet the farmors' com- Most evenings Bertha plays zen the scene of one of Hitler's paint that they are being ruined

tonight early, meetings.

outside her home but

now the battle is

she went to bed early.

"In a few months' time she

The formidable tark of te dressed as other Dutch school- claiming Benin has been going children and finally was per will learn to be a Dutch house. on for six months,

suaded to go to dive Roman wife. By then she will have Catholic Convent of St. Gerada nished kaming how to read Majella.

and write and will begin study ing domestle science," But the battle was not yet Bertha would not part

A first Bertha would. not and dlscord her natte sareng refused to part with the colour- ful pieces of Jowellery she had been used to wearing. She de- manded Eastern dishes to which won she was accustomed, She refus ed to go to Mass with the rest of her family. She wanted to go to a mosque instead. She would not even wear European shoes,

•

with her long hair.

in March, cn her 14in birth- day, her father said that Uncle Jan, an old friend of the family. would give her a haireút like

The whole of the Hertogh her friends at school. family weat subject to her whims She would stamp her 1001 imperiously when anything displeased her. Her sisters. 15-

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by a flood of Dutch agricultural imports he proposes a Hitlerlan market order.

he

'Our Parsifal' Tomorrow, when the faithful DEHIND us on the wall was But at the same, time

inhabitants of the town me the party's symbol, a black sharply denies eny Intention of convinced that there are o Hohenstaufen Eagle on a back- restoring the Third Reich with strangers amongst them, Bertha, ground of red. Underneath it, its fuehrers big and small, "We with her newly babbed hair, will at a Jong beer-table, sa: the are ngakust the one-party State,

party dignitaries, eagle he says. "We want the rule of again play with her friends, and local memories of her earlier jungle badges in the lapels of their law and not the rule.

of the playgrounds will rec:de yet an- conts whore the swastika used Gestapo We want democracy, other step.

I to be. Some of them wore old But it must be A German de- mocracy and not a Soviet or an |American democracy."

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Present damage

* AMERICAN NEWSCOPE VASTLY more important than

NEW YORK.

From Newell Rogers

In Park Avenue, while grinning

HUBERT Potent, of Wake police looked on indulgently.

Forest, North Carolina,

is surprised.

Who is Hubert? He is the Imperial Potentate of the Im- perial Council of the To the Hertogh home Uncie Arable Order of the Nobles of

with his solasara, the Mystic Shrine. a young woman of the East, and the last visible evidenog of

He booked 23,000 rooms in queening it over the quiet little the young. Malay we

disap- New

York's hotela for the world into which she had been

a few minutes Shriners' annual peared within thrown.

convention. is a completely happy Hertogh But more than 20,000 of the boys

have turned family looked on.

up with their

echoes and repudia- lons, however, in my opinion, was his demand that Germany murt brcome Endsperdent once

Their standards of luxury are more of both East and West jumping swiftly, too. In a superb she is to be caved from total now air-conditiorrod matel that atomisation in a third world war, In America a convention is has just opened near Fort Worth, I gotced that, though his

rather unconventional.

FIGHTING MAYOR

appeared to attack

Texas, you pick your own steak agerés and brand it with a hot Iron "R" both the Soviet and the Ameri- OUT 'PAT LASHES

for more, "M" for medium, and cons with impartial vehemence,

their timate "" for well done.

effect serves the BENATOR "Pat" Ancient

McCarran

Soviet caure. For they help to has silvery hair and comes from

undermine what solidarity the the silver currency slate of

with the Germens may feel Nevada. But his approach to THE MAYOR of Haverhill, West Voice of America broadcasts to Massachusetts, got into an argu»

And here the damage does not overseas lands is for from silment with his chief of police over drpend on the distant prospect very.

the assignment of police beats, of his taking power, but ca the One of the Voice's billerest The mayor punched the chief on effect his words have now.

I recalled the reports I had wives and families. It makes has just unleashed another blast. But-the chief got the last. lauh been given of alleged meetings and most persistent erkies, he the chin and knocked him down. The same night the whole et about 100,000 odd-looking He claims the whole organlad

the mayor is in a cell on an lives and colleagues of Remer is between Soviet Zone representa- Bergen-op-Zoom had heard the visitors in New York,

tion has fallen under the sway assault charge, Then she demanded a pair of news.

the Socialist Reich Party." of Communista · and fellow- Gistera shoes exactly like her

So I decided to ask him 'some CURTAIN-RAISER Tonight, while Bertha Was

travellers who "slant" the Voice's

questions about all this. ware. Eagerly her father, Janus sleeping with her sister Wiestle Hertogh, ex-sergeant of the in the room she had once re-

They are everywhere in the sayings to the detriment of the Dutch army who now workcs

fused to share.. her father, glow-city, middle-aged men wearing

One

Round

glasses.

US.

FOR a long time Americans have cast envious eyes on the as a slorekeeper for £0 a week, ing with trappiness, told me: saucy Turkish fezzes with long DRIVE IN AND DINE

Shakespeare Memorial Theatre at Stratford. Now they are going went out into the pouring rain last Bertha is ons of the tassels which contrast with their even though shops had shut, to family. It has taken us a long horn-rimmed

Some

MOTELS across America are to try to emulate It. buy them for her

time to rid ber of old influences, even wear white baggy trousers, now very big business indeed.

Governor John Lodge, of Joyfully he realised that they Now Bertha thinks no more ef

Fake black maring tear Designed for the man in a drive Connecticut, has signed a Bill had won the first round in the her life in Malaya,

through town with motor-cycle ing hurry (you're on your own, incorporating a non-pront or

with no staff, no tips, and leave ganisation which plans to bulld long patient battle between the

escorts of. bolezzed Shriners. Influences of East and Weal

when you like) their number

B 000,000-dollar theatro in has jumped from 13,021 in 1039 Westport, patterned after the old to over 30,000 now. A Globe Treatre, to show Shakes- And they are taking $259 peare rep. It will be finished xiiillion a year.

next year.

At two o'clock, one morning

MAI selmol she is very happy. She plays basketball end i Neighbours, friends, in fact learning the piano. tio longer all the 80,000 inhabitants of the does the speake Malay. Soon she one of their jazz bands sitting on town watched sympathetically, will speak” her native tongue as a truck complete with automatic as Bertha alowkylotnarged, well sa bor friends.

hoist was playing Dixieland stuff

Contigues: tomOITOW

al(London Express Service)