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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1952.

NEW BONN OFFENSIVE

By: Denis Martin

bo-

10

Bonn. Choice for Damascus is JEST Germany, planning eved to be 53-year-old indu

trialist Hans-Jouchin von der new diplomatic and Esch, who represented Garmon .economic offensive, is to engineering in Egypt for

to years before the war. despatch new envoys Spain, Portugal, Egypt, Perain, Iraq, Syria and the Lebanon.

Von der Esch, an "Arable scholar and leader of the Saha- ra expeditions, served in World War II as a major in the Luft-

.JA

08

Prince Adalbert of waffe. Bavaria, 66-year-old leading

This diplomatic activity member of the royal house - of Wittelsbach, tops the the German Foreign Omes is

regarded by Allied officials list. He holds the Spanish paving the way for Intensified

well-organised order of the Golden Fleece, and and is an honorary colonel competition in traditional

tish overseas markets. in the Spanish Army.

Grey-haired,

bushy-eye-

browed Adalbert-he fought in both World Wars-goes shortly to Madrid as first German Ambassador since the Hitler years.

0

'SCARFACE'

German

Bri-

ACANTHUS

*This export drive must be prosecuted with the same ruthless energy as the arms programme - for every" Aame- thrower a scent-spray.”

London Express Berrics.

Slave Labour Engineering

an

Diamonds Change Hands In A Strange Setting

T

let.

By PETER CHAMBERS

blue-white

has

a

HE

A

diamond, world's largest diamond, the

The

error

of

mine

London the kerbside all day, trading and a "table-top." Refraction of

the light THE man in the heavy precious stones.

through the facets They all carry. their diamonds makes the diamond flash. More overcoat delved into hig

inside pocket in folds of paper, and they all expensive is the "emerald cut,

The when the diamond is cut with and produced a wal- carry magnifying glasses.

must be examined stones

in rectangular "table-top."

Splitting daylight, because the test of a

diamond, the diamond's value is its colour, hardest mineral on earth;~is-a-

delicate operation. In for Under ordinary electric light, very "got something you," he said. From the real diamonds are indistinguish 1908, Dutchman named Asscher was given the biggest diamond wallot he took a fold of thin able from, good paste. paper about the same length 100

A poor, yellowish stone fetches cutting job in history.

carat. A top-prleg and width as a packet of white stone is worth £300 IT WAS NO JOKE twenty cigarettes. He push- carat. Most highly prized of ed aside a coffee cup and a all-and practically unobtainable E was asked to split the plate of sardines and laid it which sells for

up to £400 a one-and-a-quarter pound Gul- carefully on the table.

linda, of which four pleces now The Hope diamond is one of form part of the Crown Jewels. He will be the first off-

"Die Steine sind gut," ho these rare "blues." It sold for Asscher was understandably cial link between tens of

and said in weighty German. He US$00,000 From R. M. - MacCOLL

changed nervous. A slight thousands of German exiles

unfolded the paper and honds many times in America judgment and the million-dollar

because of its in Spain and the Bonn

Washington,

reputation for stone might splinter into frag- notice was signed by a number pushed it across the table.

among them

bringing bad luck.

'ments. Government.

THE construction of the of colleagues,

How big is 20 one-carat. THE

At the first attempt, the bindo Serge Krugov, the boss of the Ten little globules of light Many of these cxlles who great canal between MVD. Chernyshov was warmly flashed under the sodium diamond? When it is rounded broke under the impact of the

and cut for mounting, it Es having per strip in the ceiling. disappeared from postwar Ger-

hammer, The second attempt many in what Allied Intelli- Russia's Volga and Don commended for

formed Important economic

I tried to slip by for about the same circumference as was successful, but Asscher did

a cigarette. gence staffs knew as 'Operation rivers a formidable feat

closer look. "How many

not know it for two minutes. Drairgape still lead anony-of planning and engineering assignments" while he was

MVD offcial.

He fell in a dead faint as soon mous lives, in Spain,

which was completed and A different advertisement times do I tell you that you STRICT CONTROL

516 he had struck the blow!... opened for traffic last sum- also appeared in the Russian can't come in?" insisted the

Cullinan diamond wea

up Soviet doorkeeper. "This is the NINETY-SIX percent of the picked mer-was performed by the Press, inserted by the

Ministry for Construction of

world's diamonds come from manager named

Frederick Wills employment of slave labour, Heavy Industrial

Bourse, South Enterprises,

London Diamond

Alrica, where the De

as he was walking around his at Cherny and it's for members only." Beers' THERS there Include. Otto to the number of three expressing regret

company has near mine in South Africa. It was monopoly of production. 'Scarface Skorzeny, dying million, according to high shov's death.

The so fantastically big he thought One week later, on Septem-

distribution, of the stones is the boat texpert Claude Dornier, and Washington government

the someone was playing a practical ber 20, came clue number two,

absolute monopoly of the a number of prominent Nazis officials.

Diamond which top experts in the United

Trading

The diamond was eventually Company, who found Franco's country more

The United States has for States Government service

which exercises a strict control cut into nine

Biz places, congenial than

Russian,

over the marketing of diamonds diamonds are almost always British, American and French long maintained tearns of gard as clinching the question. THE setting seemed so in-

seasoned

big in order to keep prices stable. spli experts who

appropriate for

pic. split up, because nobody has diamond deals. The Bourse There is a current legend to enough money to buy the whole Professor Leonhard Wohleb, patiently seek out informa

effect that "If all the stone. 64.sold right wing provintion of developments within (Herald) of the Supreme Soviet Hatton Garden, and it looks

Vedemosti is in Greville Street, off the

diamonds in South Africa were The most famous diamond in cial politician, off to Lisbon the USSR.

released on the market they the world is the Kohinoor, or published list of names of like a after he los completed a short One of their main sources of those receiving new awartis of

third-rate cafe would not be worth more than "Mountain of Light" which period of training in the Ger-information is on exhaustive the covoted Order of Lenin. opaque windows, brown sixpence each."

adorns the crown of the Queen man Foreign Office.

scrutiny of every Russian news These were in recognition for furniture, dusty fruit. Yet diamonds have been fairly, scarce

is untrue. The fact is, of England. LE

For centuries paper and magazino which they outstanding achievement

Was belleved that whoever can lay hands on.

completing the Volga-Don canal, across these glass-topped ever since the war. They do possessed the stone would rule tables, among the cake- not lie around Kimberley like the earth. But there was a opened last July 27. Reports started to filter into The MVD boss Krugov was crumbs and the teacups, windfall apples, but have to be warning: only a woman might

.one of the United States that the one of the recipients, and a thousands of pounds worth dug out of. the deepest own it without risking sudden

mines

world." In the Volga-Don project was being large number of the remainder of jewels are sold daily.

The death. through to rushed

by forced were also MVD men. Labour working under the

Mr Overcoat, for example, Kimberley "pipe" is 3,600 feet Comparing the names of the

deep. They are still digging. of the has supervision

Cherny was carrying ten half-carat and they still have not got to men who signed the dreaded Nazi secret police, the MVD. These shov obituary with the list of diamonds in his little fold of the bottom of the diamond- DIAMOND with a story of

bearing "blue ground," reports were brought by fugl- those receiving the Order of

Is the fantastic romance, It takes tives who somehow managed to Lenin, it became apparent that paper. Their value in money

twenty-three tons of Orloff, which once gleamed in Iron Curtala to they were high-ups in the-between £500 and £1,500. this traverse the

this "blue ground" to produce the West. Now the

closely patient MVD, and

associated

heard more German one quarter-carat diamond for the forehead of a Hindu utol in Mysore, A French deserter "puzzle solvers" in Washington with Chernyshov.

spoken than English in an engagement ring,

the embracod

Hindu faith, have hit on two items of in-

recalled Experts on Russia

The actual figures are: twenty-

to the Inver formation from inside Russia that back in the 1930s the tradi- Greville Street, because this three essures

yields gained access whereby

is the trading centre for the carats of diamonds.

ich temple, and atole the priceless which are taken as proving the tion was established

of which secret police chiefs were re- foreign diamond brokers, only one-half a carat is unflawed

stone. A Russian prince named slave labour theory.

Orloff acquired the largest completing Clue number one was when warded for

such The British use the London and pure enough to make

1774 fragment of the diamond in Pravda outstanding projects last September

Cutting jewel,

and polishing carried the news of the death Baltic-White Sea canal and the Diamond Club. Little groups reduces the stone

and

it to his presented to half its loves, Catherine the Great. of men in big hats and original weight. The Ministers for Teheran, of Vasily Chernyshov, Deputy Moscow-Volga canal. Baghdad, Damascus and Beirut Chief of the Ministry of Inter-

heavy coats, murmuring will, it Ja understood, hayo nal Affairs (the MVD),

"Jawohl". and

in STONE-CUTTING "Ist with close and

In accordance with personal ties

his Russian practice

Ordnung," are string along German Industry.

zones of Germany.

the

The other envoys, who art goifig to the Middle East to fur- ther Western Germany's export drive, have not yet been named by Premier Adenauer. But he is anxious to get them away as quickly as possible if only offset Arab resentment at compensation Germany agree to pay Isrdel for crimes against the Jews,

the

his the

The new German Ambassador to Egypt will present credentials to the King of Egypt and the Sudan. This fol- lows delicata negotiations which High resulted in the British Commission telling the German Government that they would raise no objection.

The

DS

IC-

the

In 1934 the MVD (then the NKVD) was officially appointeti for all normal the directing agency obituary prison labour.

INAPPROPRIATE

I

The most famous of Anglophobes writes Britain off his map

"

I MEET THE MCCORMICK

Chicago.

W08

across

on him.

I

TEMPLE THEFT

Toyal

saw no diamond bigger than tap-drip in Hatton Garden,

but even the small order

ones exercise a So much poculiar fascination. -UP till the last war most of money in so little space.

the world's diamonds were diamond merchant spilled some: cut in Antwerp and Amsterdam, newly-cut stones on to hla Now New York, London and blotting pad. "About", £3,000 Israel share the trade.

worth would have packed them

there, he Bald. The diamond is first split or You

wheellt, and then cut on

sawn in

against

all coul into

Catching A Cold

match box and walked grinding the stone out of the place--could have, mixture of diamond except that diamond merchants dust and olive oil. It takes understand very well the sort bombs and pilotless projectiles. three days to a week to cut a of fascination these little chunks

Wouldn't try. Abandon Eu-one-carat diamond.

of fused carbon have for people. of O be a legend in his own by WOODROW WYATT, MP

Stones for engagement rings They never seem to leave you on Tlifetime is the achieve-

rope." And the defence

own to poke over the There is a general feeling that Britain seemed to vanish with are usually cut to a conventional your arranging his huge frame to ment of Colonel Robert R. occupy two armchairs at once. the bottom has dropped out of nother wave.

pattern, with fifty-eight' facets rock! McCormick, multi-million- Behind him

Canada the colonel still great Stevenson's campaign. His at- On aire owner of the Chicago chimney piece, decorated with tempt to stay on a high level held his view that annexation aluminium halves has been considered unsuccess by the U.S.A. would be in Daily Tribune and two other two upright

this In ful. But Truman is now gond-

interest. Canada's

At newspapers. Anything is of an aeroplane propeller.

between them was bust of ing Eisenhower into engaging moment the Chicago Tribune is believed possible of the man's hend. On either side in an abusive brawl oss running a series of articles to colonel in Chicago.

were large lumps of battered America. The strategy may be prove that Canadians now de I was told that when I went masonry. The colonel le ad- to put Stevenson in the place spise Britain.

Eisenhower

"What do you think Ameri- dicted to masonry; on the street

had in the to see him I should find him on dicta

lovel the outside wall

can feel about Britain today?" of public mind-above the vulgor the very top floor of his cky-Tribune Tower is studded with personalities of American poli-

I asked. scraper, Tribune Tower, sur Trib

of stune re- tics. And Truman knows the "All through. Finished, Won't rounded by guards, and even by inserted chunks

work overtime. Doesn't matter wolfhounds to protect him from moved from castles, cathedrals American mind.

"How

САП БСО how is your

to world. You third party assassination by an angry Com- and famous buildings all over

going?" I asked. Recently the

Empire is gone. Doesn't count munist or Democrat. The door the world.

any more. Had an influence on The to his office, 1 was assured, was betting by the gamblers," colonel has announced his dis

our foreign policy once," speaking with de- gust with both parties and de- controlled by a mysterious elec-

The colonel is tric ray as an added precautio liberate weight, " now eight clared his intention of forming against sudden, forcible entry

son will be beaten In Illinois" American Party.

No electric ray

But there

he

began,

once

Is Hard Work

SOMEONE

to five on Elsenhower. Steven- a third one, to be called the sentative of his res repre- before you can catch a cold, played passing a matchbox cover

(of which he is Governor and

Warming up

There was only one guard and publicans to vote, even if it's scinated him would have 19

This pleased him

1

Scientists

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

NOMEONE has to sneeze tists believed they had caught Eight healthy volunteers then thon is

the experts are saying after from nose to nose with children... often thought. Most Americans

cards, and who were suffering from colds. believe that Britain has moved the blanket,

This time five of them went into a steady decline and can matchbox tests,

down with "streamers.”2. TA JANMAS were 32 floors to of which Chicago is the largest He Was pleased. "I' not

be disregarded. Neither the fantastic pseudo-Gothle city),

cure if it's needed now, Elsen- in this election would |

អ

gave six healthy

EYEING YOUR LOOKS tower, the interior of which was "Last time the Democrats in hower has

gone over to the dream of including a reference people seats on one side of a darkly panelled and reminiscent charge of the election machinery opposition he beat. Ile's talk- to British reactions in any ad-blanket stretched across a room. of a Victorian London club, and wouldn't put enough ballot Ing our views now, he's talking

dress on foreign polley

and put two people with stream PEOPLE who have their eyes

other side.

set wide apart are specially the colonel's office was on the boxes in the Republican areas. Taft stuff.

The colonel, who a few years ing colds on the 24th.

This time we're urging all Re- "It Elsenhower's beaton, we'll age, was still fighting George Then they blow sneezing powder prone to suffer from acute de- pression, Dr John Lovett Doust The machine people who III, who thought Britain wield-into the air.

claims after a study of nervous inconvenient."

ed a sinister power over the

The people with the colds casc at the Maudley Hospital, give up their nominating or U.S.A. now thinks it not worth there will be a third party. the trouble to attack ur. He sneezed, coughed and spluttered, in Southeast London.

There is also a connection:ba They gave us Wilikle and be merely has Britain shown in Then they were encouraged to

tween long

ong curved eyelashes and soattered their germs, through neurosis, hat in hand. Wey before and we can't have his cartoons as a beggar with shout and ang Electric fane

Dr Lovett Dount cut the room..

out to sot any more of that."

Or Korea he remarked darkly

Door opens

list all the possible features of Governor by that the whole war was en.

The experiment was repeated face and body which raight The most famous Angiophobe half a million. But Truman

it "Nobody wanted gineered.

The colonel pressed the brass until 25 men and women had serve as tell-tale

signs in the valuable in the world rose from behind only won the State's

and Truman persuaded

tie his plate with his foot and his desk, Immensely tall, 27 electoral votes by 30,000 in friends in the United Nations envy door moved silently back both exposed to an atmosphere diagnosis of mental disorders...

He took careful measurements and werfully

made, be looked 1048, and the colonci

was not 16 order him to continue the to lot me out a few moments laden with cold-germs.

Only two of them later do. of 848 men and women. icas. than his 2 years. His face uncertain for the Governor.

thinking Illinois was fighting" alone in

later as I was examining, the

He found that the psychiatrist The colonel was warming up, was long, heavy and fully sustevenson began- well wilk' With a wave of his hand he the street the cplonal 'got Intol Andrewes, chief of the Common can learn nothing about the bair was plentiful, grey, wavy, and parted in the middle. He, his acceptance speech; but he's moved rapidly to Europe. We his car and was driven by. As Cold Research Unit near Salle- state of mind from fool aizce,

jaw, shape, nonɑ length, 50 wore a pepper-coloured sult cut gone down since. He made a might defend Britain" (this he passed my

eye caught a bury, reports in the Lancet. cemented into In a further test, 25 more presence of freckles. in the style that any English Communistic speech the other graciously) "but we can't de plece of stone

But pouting lips, long curved country

knight have night"

the wall ang markcod ot-healthy people handled playing- I polated out the difficulty of minster Abber "

cards and other articles which eyelashes, and a sort, baby-llko worn.

The colonel was referring to fend the Continett

· predominantly ∙SE: the He pointed to a multiade of Stevenson's television ploy for re-ocnquering Europe

That will be there had been used by cold-sufferera akin are found brown leather armchairs and restraint fa branding people as mainland were gone and Britain' thought, when the colonel has Again, only two

atom · hone“ sofas," "Sit down here," he said, Communists without evidence, were-- saturated with:

no electric ray. That story owed its origin to the brass plate ut the bottom of the wall by the left of the door which his secre-

It seemed a slightly insecuro tary pressed with her foot. Then the heavy

wooden door swung basis for prophesying Steven slowly, almost pompously, open son's defeat in an area where to admit me,

He was elected

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ludicrous, soaring tower from veloped colds, Dr Christopher

dévelmond scolds, and the Song - neurotics.