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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1951.

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A doctor's love letters keep tabs on Stalin

BERLIN.

FROM her home in

in

Dresden suburb Heidi Hent Hans, who lives West Berlin, a love letter so tender and gracious it must have made the postal censor feel he need not pry past the first paragraph.

But only at the end, with the censor right off guard. did Heidi suggest Hans might find interesting the enclosed details of "peace" shifts in the State factory where she had a nice new job.

Hans is used to Heidi's love letters. They always come with enclosures.

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Hans, who tomorrow might be addressed as Siegfried or Fritz or Wili. Theo all the time Dr. Friedenau, a barrister from Silesia, and he is running an organisation for gather- ing information about what Stalin is up to on the Rus- sian side of the Iron Cur tain.

Since he fled West 1Wo years ago Dr. Friedenau has filled a Berlin villa with dossiers about the

Soviet zone, its plans, its output, its people Love letters help him, and books, and visitors.

DOCUMENTS

EAST zone callers run to 200

ABIT3

BYWAAM

"You know what I think about newspapers that muke secretaries spend their time filling in entries for

"Ideal Secretary competitions."

Are YOU the

RIGHT

London Express Service

WIFE

for a man who wants

THAT gift Duist a

man or woman p sess to rise from the ranks to the boardrooms f industry?

Every ambitious man and vecking 24 place

a day. Many nod tamultar-woman

ly to the armed police the among the high executives Americans send to guard the will be interested in

the

Friedenau villa day and night. results of research made for All bring odd scrups of informa- tion that make up the jigsaw. the Institute of Directors-- Documents, too.

by

WILLIAM HAMSHER

the

powerful

Confiden¡ trade union,

tial unemos by

director

to get on?

by

BERNARD HARRIS

2

technical training

bigger help education?

than a university

3 Which profession provides

cabinet mem The insulate will begm soon most recruits for the boardroom bers of the five to publish the facts undir the--accountancy, legal, secretarial, States that le "The Story Behind 1000 selling, and so on? make

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the Directors." It is, the Institute up

4 Row many directors Red half of claims. the first time so detailed Germany; or tax office Ales.

the ambitious has started been produced.

guide to

Dr Friedenau is H great A two-page questionnaire authority on these. Many of was sent do The directors of his team of 8,000 Soviet zone every public company having a informants are finance officers "pet worth" of more than So that when ล Communist £1,000,000--which means ali technician arrives as a refugee. Britain's big

Dy Friedenau is able to thumu panica. open his archives and check on the

cash record--and

man's

whether tax evasion Was justi dudging or should entitie him to credit for

East sabotaging Use

Guman economy.

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There is no East German city the Baltic down to the Czech border, claims Dr Friede- u, where his card index is not known.

Dr

xad

that

Friedenau "everybody who is anybody" throughout Eastern Germany is named in his st. "There 15 scarcely local mayor missing ---and certainly not one director of the biggest State factories."

Twenty thousand of those on The list have a Friedenau black maik against their names.

Lawyers have already drawn top indictments which will bring

90 offenders to ecard if Germany

is ever reunited as a democracy.

CALLERS

industrial com-

INFORMATION

at the bottom; how many had money of their own?

Only one question was asked about executives" domestle ellathat was the age at which they married.

Was

This

40 determine whether promotion to the top is Led by sestling down catiy 0: whether મા

beiter ro wait for an assured, well-paid jub sufere taking on domestic

FROM the replies it is possible sensibilities.

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answer

questions lik

is

Later, mere information may be ught about the wives of executives. For here, as in the 1. How many directa gol United States, wives are be- their jobs because of family ming #10 Increasingly im- portant influence in determining

influence?

HERR HAMPE SHOWS THEM A FILM

FIRST

CRIC

FIR Bureaus

By JOHN ASHWIN

interview--and the

the Marriage arrange an and the Lonely Test is up to you. Hearts clubs, and now

from

As for the film itself, it last

about five minutes and is Berlin - comes news of another guaranteed to give a perfect idea bright idea to get the Perfest of the individual personality of

whether the young executive ever reach the directors'

will board.

Just how important has been indicated by 2 continent- wide survey made recently in the United States.

ADAPTABLE

MERICAN companies, it was shown, are in no doubt about the "ideal wife for the young men they want to promote to portions of responsibility.

to

Be attractive. There is a strong relation between a man's executive success and his wife's appearance.

Be a telephone friend of your husband's secretary.

NEVER, NEVER take much drink at a company party. British companies, like Ameri- can ones, are increasingly keep- ing a watch on the home life of their young men. Only so, they say, can they be sure a man will make good when the important job cornes along.

The head of a great group of Companies said to me: "We came to realise the importance of the wife when we appointed one of our salesmen, who was making £950 a year, to a direc- torship in a South African sub- sidiary at £2,000 a year, plus bonus."

"His write wasn't adaptable. She refused to settle down abroad.

She kept gnawing' at Such a wife must be a highly her husband until he was forced

the must to throw up the job." adaptable mixer, be able

keep pace if

The directors of this her husband

faster

group moves up

arfange regular dinners and she than his age group, and must realise that her husband other social functions at which they meet the exccutives with belongs to the business.

their wives. From these gather The good wife, the American ings they seek to team all they investigators report, is good by can. not doing things by not com- plaining

"The man with the Wrong' when her husband works late; by not fussing when sort of wife-from the company

view-often gets point of a trander is coming up: by not inferiority complex and so be- engaging in any controversial activity.

comes impossible to work with " they find.

The type that spoils the chances of her husband being promoted Is a meddler" "climber," a "fixer," or one who pushes her man around,

KEEP WATCH

WHAT are the views of the wives of the men who have

(but lonely) Man in touch with the temporary "stars." Each film made the grade? What do they

CHATTERBOX

an

TUTE head of an important Midlands engineering group said:-

"I make a point of getting to know all my executives person- ally-and ask them at times to bring their wives along.

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Finally, here is the testimony

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"Our experience confirms that the 'wrong' wife definitely does DON'T invite superiors in put a ceiling on a man's promo-

to a social meeting; let tion. them make the first bid,

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The idea is, in fact, quite who are looking for wives and men get to the top? These me has gone wrong because the

wife didn't fit in." husbands as eagerly

the rules they give- simple. An audience of some one in the audience) are shown TUCKING part of the day's 200 people is collected in

DON'T talk gossip with the TUCH

entering a room and being inter- post-a big bundle of "love private cinema, and on to toe viewed by Herr Hamps. The other wives, particularly those letters under his arm, Dr screen comes a film made up of him concludes with one or two who have husbands in the same Friedenau led me through five close-up portraits of eligible etose-upa- just to give the department. crowded waiting rooms.

bachelors and equally eligible audience an idea of what the young girls. All you have to do man (or woman) will be like at The callers included house is to sit back in your seat and close quarters. wives, student types, slim girls, choose, as you watch the Alm. Each im runs for about six fat, bespectacled officials. Many the woman (or the man)

months 11 the small movic your tumed their backs or bent their would like to love "for ever”- theatre in Munich, and now heads as I passed, too nervous if you only had the chance, Herr Hampe is planning to open to meet the eyes of a stranger. After the show is over, the other theatres throughout Ger- owner of the Marriage Movie many and is to take his movie The friendly nod of the Studio, 42-year-old Werner marriage idea to New York and policeman walking in the Hampe, will give you just that Brazil." garden must be scant consota-chance. After you have pointed As for Herr Hampe himaclf, Lob to them all when they are out to Herr Hampe the mun (or he is—in spite of all his ideas on their way back to the East woman) you would like to meet, for making other people happy

Herr Hampe will obligingly very much a bachelor!

zone

Good Break

AW--- THE

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STICK BROKE

THIS

| FENCE

SNAP

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"So we find out all We can NEVER turn up at the office about the wives of our middle and upper-management. In our unless you absolutely must.

experience the biggest danger is NEVER get too friendly with the chatterbox wife who dis- the wives of associates your cusses the company's affairs husband may soon' pass on the with her friends

way up.

"The husband of such a wife DON'T be disagreeable to any is going to be way down the of your husband's colleagues queue when it comes to Billing a you meet. You never know.. higger Job".

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