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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1952.

THE THREE DAYS

TOP SECRE

The

story of the film, which sharply raises the question: Should a touchy international ́siteation be exploited for the sake of laughs? .... You're the judge N spite of all the fuss and bother they have been making over the Case of the Missing Diplomats, you can take it from me that the Case of George Potts is far more sen- sational and fantastic than anything that happened to those two.

I know what I'm talking about since

I happen to be George Potts.

It is true that I have never been a member of the Diplomatic Service. I have no hend for strong drink or par- lour games.

in

SERIAL-WITH-A-CHALLENGE” BEGINS

The story is told in the words of George Potts, who went to Moscow

But I, too, one day this Americans or the Russians had, а Cabinet Minister had Rummer, disappeared be- and

arrived that day to take Layton hind the Iron Curtain and and the plans to a special meet- had every Intelligence. ing with the Prime Minister. agent

the country I too had nearly completed a desperately on my trail, great project-- a

beautifully worked-out scheme for A trying to get me back be- brand-new plumbing system fore I spilled the beans. between The difference and those other two,. however, is that I didn't simply, vanish in a puff of red smoke, and then start popping

all up Europe.

for Barworth.

me

over

Condensed By Leonard Mosley

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take

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TODAY

are a greol scientist, Mr Potis, and a great inventor, My coun-* try has need of men like you, How much do they pay you at Barworth, Mr Potts?”

"Ten pounds a week," I said. "I know it isn't much, but...”

"Much?

It is oppalling!" shouted the swarthy man. "Capitalist explollation of genius! Have another drink, Mr Potta,

"Now why don't you come and work my country? I have authority to offer you the equiva lant pt £5,000 year, a staff of nasiants, and a laboratory."

He leaned over and pointed to the briefense. All we want you to do is to build for ur those plans you have in there. In it a deal?"

"Not half," I said, "This calls for a drink. Walter!"

*

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I do not remember much after that, not being used to foreign liquore.

ם

I felt the plane rocking, and shuddered.

"I'm sorry," I told him, "but can't seem to remember your

Zekov."

I

nume.

"Zekov. Oh, yes" It was bo- ginning

to come back to me.

I looked at him. He seemed very foreign in the cold light of morning. leaned over me.

❘

MONEY FOR THE DUCHESS

By JOHN GORDON

I

AM informed-and I am delighted to pass on the information-that the monoy difficulties of the popular Duchess of Kont have been eased.

But as is so often the case when public, money is · Involved-the good deed was done in a way that con- cealed it from the citizens in whose name, and with whose money, it was done. That, in my view, is never wise.

The considerable income which her husband drew from the Civil List ended with his death. There was no provision out of public money for the Duchess, apart from the £880 pension of AR air commodore's widow,

Sho never, in fact, drew that pension. An income was provided by the Royal Family

Difficulties

When those whose responsi bility it was to prepare the Civil List for the new reign met, the desirability of making Duchess a Civil List allowance was ruled.

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was decided, after discussion, that there were / difficulties in doing

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But it was agreed that instead substantial sum of money should be placed at the Queen's disposal for the maintenance of the Duchess and other similarly placed royalties:

Eventually £25,000 decided upon

and acceptod, by Parliament, without any planation that revealed its pur- pose. The Duchess now receives a suitable annual income out of another recipient.

'money. Princess Allee is

The Duchess will shortly tal over the "ce and favour* house which Dowager

All I do remember is getting into a car and driving to Paris. We sto

stopped on the way, and I went into a post office and despatched to Barworth Atomic Centro telegram that caused the biggest sonsation of all.

"Pleso accept my resigna- tion," 1 telegraphed. "Have ac cepted lucrative offer frora foreign Power. George Potts."* Even the Prime Minister went pale when he read that. As for me, I woke

up in the early hours of the morning with mouth like a dust-heap to And myself sitting in plone. Be briefcase under my arm not But now he was in a black uni- side me was the swarthy man. guessing that it contained plans form, buttoned to the neck. for

an explosive that could knock half of England out al

he aald. "Sleep

one go. And it w03 not until the

I tald it down easually while following day, when the Cabinet I talked to a sherman. He Minister opened· Lajtan's brief-

just back from a trip to case and tried to read the plans the French mainland. "You for the new bomb to the Prime should Minister, that he learned that said. "It is only an hour away a trip over," he what he had got was the scheme I packed the plans for Bar- for Barworth's new plumbing.

good food, wine. worth's Government briefcase, resolved roared

new plumbing in my "A PLUMBING scheme!" "Great the P.M.

I told him I had not got either to complete the task on my heavens, man, what have you

you passport or franes. "That's easy," holiday, and walked out of my done with the plans for the he said. "For £3 office into

can slip you the main corridor bomb? Call out the Army! Get over, give you enough francs for leading from the laboratories. M.I.S on the job! You've got to the day, and take you back in And then, like the chain re- get them back-before they fall the evening. How about it?"

that action

sets

off an atom into the wrong hands."

Which was why, when the In- accident happened bomb, the

It took them 24 hours before that

telligence agents arrived in Was to start me on the their investigators we

were able to is road to

Jersey that kifternoon they did work out that it was probably not find me or the briefcase. The cow. than

Minister and Dr George Patts, who had their

I. George boast Layton

marching down precious plans. It were

seemed

And then I looked the corridor at that same simple thing to get my holiday vin rouge and eating omelettes out of the window and saw a *moment. Layton carried address at Folkestone from my and dreaming thet

Government briefcase 100, and landlady in Barworth, and come day

would some great moas of cupoks and spires. day be. Yes, the name is George In Ithough I didn't know it down and collect.

the greatest sanitary MOSCOW" Potts, Remember mo?.

in the world, The then were the plans for the

engin patted my

What had I got myself Into? But the

chain reaction of man all the newspapers called new, bomb.

coincidences had begun. First then looked up and noticed s The Vanished Scientist?

Suddenly Layton stumbled of all, it turned out that my mun-a swarthy man in a black

The plane taxled dow As a matter of fact it is a bit and clutched his heart. and, lodgings al Folkestone

cams to a stop at of an exaggeration' to cóll me a

were homburg hat and dark sult with runway and then

pitched forward, dropping awful, and when I told the a velvet collar

Jist. With my briefcase under watching me. scientist.

sanitary the briefcase at my feet. I let, proprietress so, there, was

at hun self-con- my arm I stepped through the engineer, and my job is to Bar grabbed at him; but it

1 grinned mine drop beside him

and

But the wine made me door of the plane on to

to Russian the plumbing in order el Bar-

wasn't worth Atomie iesearch Centre. much use.

I paid my bill and walked out on this ense” I said soll, - and when she asked It was just before my annual

I was pushed aside by a mob where I was

me proudly, "are the plans that are There was a delegation of fur-Kensington High Street, has the holiday

collared types walling and started

going. I angrily going to make me famous." last August. of scientists and security of- fold her: "I'd sooner go to They were quite excited in the cials, and, when I saw I could Moscow than stay here a night looked quickly around, and held

He gave a start of amazement, they gave me a cheer.

A Malo girl ran forward with atomis

research

laboratories be of no use, I picked up what

longer."

his fingers to his lips. Then hoa bouquet. And then a man round about that time, I re- I thought was my briefcare and

came forward and grasped my You can imagine how M.1.3 slipped into a seat baldo me; member. The famous

went on my holiday. scientist

reacted when they heard that.

us be discreek," he said, hand. Dr Layton had just completed I didn't buy a paper, and so

"You are Mr George

Welcome to Russia, Comrade Potts?" the Anal plans for the new I did not learn that Dr Layton

ho asked. "Mr Potts from Bar- Fotts," he said. British atom bomb, which was never recovered from that heart

worth Atomic Research Cen- I hekl nec his face before in rumoured to be bigger and attack, but died the same even-

tre?"

_the_newspapers, ........but_X_wasn't

The nearest house across the beller than anything the Ing.

"Yes," I replied. "But how did unti! I was in the car on

park is the sumptuous Soviet my Embassy, way to my hotel that I realised

I went straight

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to Moscow my briefcase under my arm, and no secret about it. Not only that. I was

of Ruest bonour at a dinner with Stalin.

Which

i had a private talk with him In the Kremlin. almost certainly more those other two can about.

am

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PARIS ENEWSLETTER from SAM WHITE

So Miss Deterding joins the emigres

Paris.

Here Is around forma NERVING ten at a recent dinner parties, where the food,

monotonous,

του

I was sitting in a cafe between

I was still in a daze. Zekov "Faston your seat belt now,

he said. "We are going down.

Where tre we?" I asked. "Paris?"

"N

Zekov stared at me. Moscow, of course,"

I

a St Malo and Rennes, drinkdng M Laughed at his joke.

а

bold

you know?n

briefcase and

that

"Oh, Haven.

in Kensington Palaco WOR the home of the Marchioness of Milford

is being redecorated. In it

is being Installed the much-

discussed marble Adam, fire Blaco which

for £525. the

the Ministry of

Works Haintbyt recently from Hall, Dear Darlington, The house is not a particularly attractive one, but its solting is as delightful as any in London,

It

stands in a cobbled square

close to which, though

busy

quiet rural charm of a country village.

Neighbour

One side of the square leads through an

into- Archway Kensington Gardens. The other faces troe-studded park lands, on which sheep graze.

What did insterd was to take a train to Southampton and go on from there to the Channel Islands. Just a whim. Meanwhile the newspapers had got wind of the story about about you and your great work," tov,

"Why, because I have read all that the face belonged to Molo-xt-door neighbour to the will be Princess Alice, the missing plans.

he said, "in the papers."

And I remember thinking it Countess of Athlone, and across If I worked at Barworth, I "What in the must be

Sunitary was strange that they hid sent the cobbled square la charming, scientist. If plans Word? Gosh, I didn't know eno of their most powerful tiny Nottingham Cottage, until were

missing, they must be those papers came over here, bigwigs.juato welcome a sani-recently the home of "Crawfe," plans for the new bomb.

Well, they didn't exaggerate tary engineer who was coming Princess Margart through their governess of the Queen and ATOM SCIENTIST when they said this was a great to Russia to improve their VANISHES WITH BOMB scheme.' PLANS, Ser

screamed the headlines. It was an International senso- tloh. My picture was in all the I patted the briefcase again. papers-in America and on the "It'll knock them flat when Continent. They started asking it's finished, especially that new,

Con- twist I've given to the multi- nasty questions again in grass,

range, fast-flowing...' And in Jersey, "Shush." said the

swarthy

plumbing.

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TOMORROW

George Potts encounters the beautiful Tania

London Express Serv

childhood years.

"Crawfle" used to tell me that having a "grace and

favour"

house had its disadvantages as well as its delights.

Even to plant a rose bush at your door needs permission, only to bo secured by almost interminable pleadings with the Ministry of Works.

The Radio War Is Important Too!

British charity fun like the conversation tends to be walk there I was with my man again. "Not so loud. You tion in Paris - one of Dining recently with An Britain's most eligible acquaintance in a sman restau- heiresses who hus now. rant she rejected all the dishes on, the menu, insisting simply on taken up residence here. steak. She explained: "The one She is Olga Deterding 24-year- thing they never serve at dinner year daughter of the late Sir parties is steak. I want to get my Henri Deterding, the all-magnate, teeth into one." and his second wife Lydła. Misa Deterding has beauty, charm, brains (she

Fruducted

in at

Nicosia.

the

VERYBODY knows about the "cold war" now raging between freedom-loving peoples

West

By

J. L. HAYS

SAID IT THEY \UOTES; A playwright, PAUL ROCHA: "Women are lika creme chantille—you have to beat them to be successful,"

'SACHA GUITRY: "When a wo man finds no one belleves her, of the she is apt to lose even the de- Kremlin-the sire to tell the truth." sire in leis the un

has

a

tempting to "drown" them out

So here

on this British with broadcasts over the now colonial Island of Cyprus, and powerful station at Koepen- few hundred miles ick.

south of Rhodes, the Americans have built what they call the West's But now the West tion "Big Ear"--a · million-dollar launched: a

utilanicing monitoring station which latens wvide and the We concentrate on trans movement through the Eastern night and day of the radios of

They concentrate, on Mediterranean in which mitting. War

this strange Russia and tier satellites." for battlefields the Jamming.

but unremitting struggle for Eussia has deployed a

sold men's minds. CUB-chancelleries of the world front "I havean iron siges-

Jamming stationn And the floor of the United along a wide-flung are running. 0000-ton Coast Guard cutter, Lon; I have no intention of letting Nations Assembly.

Multi-lingual monitors sit in south-eastwards down from the water."

Courier, to a little harbour in cubicles in front of powerful heart ot Europe Into the Rhodes, a Greek Island only 500 receivers, their fingers hovering everybody, too, Balkans. Such is their clamour miles from the southern fringe over an Army General: "A man who konws about Korea, Malaya that the Western

the "start"!

buttons of land to De OLGA DETENDING stays in a chateau 10 miles be and, Indo-China-even if striving to penetrate the barrier, 800, too, from

of the Iron Curtain and only dictaphones. All important an divided

hind the lines awaiting newa

nouncements

ore recorded; tranzerthed..

translated: and

history Edinburgh University) - and a repute? third of her father's vast Continental fortune. plus a £300,009 share of the £2 million he left in Eng-

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GENERALE, defining

And

of

engineers

The Americans have sent a

Russia's own

from the front. When it arriveg] they cannot make up their call the countries behind it the gunck Sea wa bold a 150,000 immediately "tasted" by British

Jast

Important news is flashed by radio-teleprinter direct to Lon- don and Washington.

provinces, "new jamocracies." eight children from his three it is generally false."

minds whether to describe

The frequencies of all Western watt

From

Courier's marriages.

LANDMARK GOES those bitter struggles as broadcasts

transmitter-three times as well as American intelligence in Russian or Recently Miss Deterding op-

satellite languages are

more powerful than any owned experts. hunted piled to the Treasury to be ONE of the great British. land- "hot" or "cold"....

marks on the Riviera const

by any broadcasting station in For although the "Big Bar" placed in the category of an is likely to be transformed before of East-West "war" in

But there is yet another kind round the alal.

the US has begun pumping is a US State Department in- the

relayed "Voice of America" emigrant.

next" suramer). A group

stallation, members of a BBC of world today--a war of propu She was given Treasury per- businessmen

programmes into the Iron Duralson mission work alongside -negotiating for arc mission to take out £1,200 a

gandiste. scientists, engineers.

toin lands. For in southeast their American colleagues. the purchase of the Hotel and political specialists,

All BBC foreign language Europe, the Russians Jamming for the next four years, on Negresco in Nice. They want to year condition that she did not spend divide it into fats.

This is the radio wor-the programmer — but especially stations are not so thickdy con-

between Truth and In those addressed in Russian to centrated. more

Negresco is the

of the truth. An invisible war, going Red Army troops garrisoning. You may ask: "But why not "Palace" hotels in Nice. If sold, on all the time, without quarter. Europe and the US. State Do- it will have been driven out of being naked or

Use Courier's transmitter business.

"Voleo of jam the so-and-so's back?" America" broadcasts bytery. Laxes and above the Iron Curtain high partment's official

are high British currency restrictions,

in priority targets dor!

Well, the West does not jam dor, the Russian Our policy is to devole all the CULTURE FOR SALE

money and equipment avail- the truth to the millions emitõed NYA Miss Deterdings arrival has

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in a Paris the wrong side of the Iron Cur Even the BBC news bulletins able to more powerful trans- reconnaissance troops of the naturally created, something of a netospaper: "Brilliant young | taln.

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After this four-year period sho will, be able to draw the full income from her British capital.

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The West's objective: To

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But you may be sure, though, that the Russians the meint" ones

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