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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY,

OCTOBER 25, 1952,

Soend I howe

driving the

1952 PACKARD

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"Now the laps'll send us a

bill for Board and Lodgings for the time we spent with them.

Should we

let him

we let

put

name-plate up again?

Munich.

From

to

one country OCTOR HJALMAR another he lles, dispensing HORACE GREELY advice on high financial 'SCHACHT, Banker policy. No. 1 under the Hitler ro- gime, is back in business.

he

Only four years ago was freed from guol with just s. and the manuscript of a book in his pocket.

Gone was his Brandenburg

extensive estate with

its 28-room mansion and its 20 families of retainers..

He has been in Spain, where

he was greeted at the airport by Otto Skerzeny, the Nazi tough who rescued Mussolini. He was recently in Egypt, where General Negulb gave him a banquet.

- Gone was his · position asije

president of the

Reichsbank.

never

German/

From Frau Schacht comos the first report on "How my husband climbed back” ****

by SIDNEY RODIN

HJA MAR SCHACHT &

OUTSLUE AN OFFICE IN HAMBURG

omées dominating the elty's gorian-born blonde, now in her Lombard Street already boasts a carly forties, whom Dr Schacht -brass plate "Hjalmar Schacht wed in 1941 as his second wife.

She is the mother of his two and Co."

banker's licence- Pared

Seba

•

of five To

"London Express Service,

his

And is his record quite so clear as he would like the world to believe?. He has himself admitted that he failed to realise Hitler's criminal early enough nature.

question of the There is no fact that he joined other big industrialists in urging Hitler's appointment. Nor can there be any doubt that without Schocht's a financier the brilliance

whole.

economic basis of Hitler's would

rearmament

programme have been threatened.

Schacht has, already testined that he Ands it useful to be doubio-faced.

Yanaree weeks' agó`ho

Perhaps that is why, when he was on holiday in Kashmir recently, he gave an interview of the expressing appreciation

in by Britons Since Schacht applied for a daughters-Constanze (10) and part. played

and when he was in this spirited woman ago, however, the star Cordun (1) have been idle. For the Ham- Schacht ta, u great man. She told a reporter: "Britain is the burg Senate Implacably opposes is indignant at the difficulties cause of all the economie ills in He only had his brains-- Before that he was in Indo- the licence.

placed in his way.

"He is the world today: She no longer and

to treat others as me Schacht nesla, and later in Persia (he Two of the 12 senators went to fighting for

the knows how เท asset which

under found Dr Mossatier "charming concentration camps because of children," she told me.

human beings." himself has

Many How has Dr Schacht carried

Germans, I find, lack and cultured"). On his return

the Nazis. Others exiled them- valued. "Few people are he offered his services to Britain

confidence in Dr Schacht. Sald to escape the same on this fight? selves clever enough to talk to me as a mediator in the oil dispute punishment. In

Dr Harms; a spokesman for the their eyes, YEARS IN GAOL Senate in Hamburg: "He may Soon he will be off to Syria.

record Schacht's

makes him on my own level," he told a

According to Dr Schacht, two unit to be a banker. doctor at Nuremberg.

His wife related his sufferings have been, acquitted of crimes but to or- South American republics cre

local court, however, de-how from 1944 Today 75-year-old Dr niso eager for his services.

he had been agafilst humanity, cided that Schacht ought to gaoled for more than four years, dinary people his morality as a Schacht is once more in de-

But the magic of Dr Schacht's have his bank. The Senate first by Hitler, then during the fancier is stained, mand, Roiul the world like name is a little less potent in his lodges its appeal against Nuremberg Trials (acquitied) SELF-PROPAGANDA afrock-conted flying bank own

this decision. It necessary the and through the de-Naziileation Hamburg,

to the Supreme trials.'

"We think it unfortunate that messenger he goes, pulling Schacht has been trying to start light will go

His pension-as-former. Reichs-this-man-should go about the nestly--banker-in-foreign trade. Court in Bonn.

From Hamburg I travelled to bank attracted reputation

president,

thio according to world appearing se as big as Mr Churchill's, 1,000,000 marks (£80,000) in Munich. There I met Frau Frau Schacht, meets the necessi- presentative of Germany when,

attractive Hun- ties of life. though not so strong.

capital. And a top floor suite of Schacht,

in fact, he docs not represent He runs a £480 Volkswagen, the Germans of today. which he drives himself at

of on- "He is making use breakneck speed from town to tagonisms to draw attention to airport. And 'Frau Schacht is himself. He is a master of self- resident at the best hotel in propaganda.“ Munich.

The

British authorities in goes to trouble spots to Hamburg are inclined to agree. If he can cleanse

om Dr Schacht is already putting them financially and to help Britain," himself forward as the Indis- she said.

"He was invited to pensable mediator- sort Indonesin, Persio, and Egypt. 20th century Talleyrand..

Only his But there are many who can

black Benzil cigars

Is

country.

In

Bridge Of Three Friends

THE

By RITCHIE MCEWEN

see

did

no fees,"

not

ofter.

his

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E day I went to Yugo- side had been hastily made the police wearing threadbare white night before by wives of the and grey uniforms and caps with slavia without a pass-lagors). In pride of place, in celluloid peaks stood in a semi-exponaes were paid. He accepted do without his help, port the Austrian villagers the centre of the bridge the circle with Findgona villagers Dr Schacht,

wife added, the 60-mile long. Union Jack flew alone, along

looking dazed and bewildered

agile, iri Two British winding country road lead-

soldiers fainted at the immaculate."capitalist" was still remarkably interminable, yet uniforms and the well-dressed inind and body. He smokes four or five cigars a day, but does ing to the frontier turned during the

Inevitable speech- making in Ministers and diplomats.

not drink. He likes to sleep out in free wearing the German and Serbian which

| eight or nine hours, but can go gay, colourful costumes of followed, while their comrades

with little rest for days at the district to cheer us on presented a united pleture of

stretch. That is a useful ac- complishment for an inter- our way.

national financier.

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.

complete boredoni! When H For five years they had been came to his turn, Sir William told that the Western world was In the cars ahead of us sat was commendably brief and very their enemy. Now, it seemed, It must the Austrion

it was the reverse. Chancellor with much to the point.

of Peace. have been so very confusing for

It the villagers.

"This is 27 bridge ini guest of honour, Field Marshal Sir William Slim, the It was not built for wor British High Commissioner Sir will carry any load for peaceful Tarold Caccia, #brace of purposes, but it is not strong Ambasadors, Provincial Gover- enough to take the trafic of war. nors and sundry exalted police It cannot take, a tarik," and government ofletals.

Rad-

Our destination was kersburg, a sleepy little Styrlan

DOUBLE-FACED

But there are others besides In a few minutes we were

were the Hamburg Senate who may the return of D: back again on Austrian soil for question

the

a "Jause"-refreshments on the Schacht-the man whom premises of the local branch of U.S. prosecutors at Nuremberg the Bank Co-operative. An called the facade of starched hour later, as dusk fell we re-respectability" for the Nazis the was denounced 19 of Three man who crossed the "Bridge

իջ it by

who did not openly by someone After this, the Frince Bishop Friends," This time,

the atmosphere was com foin the Nazis until they had village on the Yugoslav border, blessed for bridge, the bustrian pogle different.

very excellent Chancellor cut the ribbon, the famous for its

Bustling, won or openly desert them until

had lost, sweet white wine.

the At four band played

national smiling villagers and Communist they o'clock, the "Bridge

Today his wife says: "He has ree anthems of Three

and wa marched off Party officials led us to a grassy

been agrinat secret Friends" spanning the River across the Mur.

bank on the riverside, where a blways As Sir Willam and the Aus long

of trestle tables

les denis; his.

policy

and thought Mur and linking Radkersburg with the Slovene village

reached the covered of rian Chancellor

straight- with spotless, white have always been. Hadgona, was .to be cere middle of the bridge tablecloths were set out inden forward, honest, and clear."

the Slovenes

But In Germany people still the on

other side with a tremendous moniously opened.

spread of clapped loudly, und then cold meats, country cheezes and recail Schacht's testimony at abruptly-there was complete fine wines,

Nuremberg "Many SuccessCS could be scored in leading people on by not telling the truth."

Men al"

row

silence. Unkempi, wide-eyed The "Bridge of Three Friends" three nations haul Yugoslav frontler Cuort's and became a reality.

helped to bulld the one-linc, temporary bridge, which replaces the stone bridge destroyed during

the win Austria last

On holiday summer Sir William was told

about the damaged bridge and offered the help of British Army engineers. Yugoslay and Aus- trian engineers built concrote piles on ellier side of the river and last week, the Royal Engineers -set up a three-span 350 ft

Muroy Bridge cross, the

The flags of Britain, Austria, || and Yugoslovio flow side by side' on both sides of the river. (The Large Union Jack on the Yugoslav

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