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THE CHINATM MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 2,” 1953.

YOUTH SECRET OF Even the most powerful comrade

BALLET MISTRESS

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From JOHN QUIGLEY

London. hours with her pupils. In the afternoon sha' ISS Margaret Morris, middle of the

has a cup of mate tes, but no founder of the Celtic

thing to eat.

Ballet, has just revealed Hor next meal

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of the

that she lives on a diet days between even and raw which most people would eight o'nlock. "Just regard us starvation. She mixed salad, When it's cold I

.take

attle, hot vegetable." has not eaten flesh, fikh or

She is never tired, Rever can do до fowl, milk, cheese or butter hungry, "Anyone for 20 years. She will be 1 do," she says. 62 this month.

Her dolly diet is a few dates, two ar three upples, and H plateful of raw vegetables,"

And that, she says, is thin reason why-

the

She looks forward to doing a week of strenuous dancing at Cilasgow's Theatro April.

Royal [A

Though her hair is grey, she has the figure of a 20-year-ol. She can run up three fights

of stairs to her Dat in the West End of Glasgow.

She is able to work a 12-hour day.

Stys Miss Morris: "I would rather be dead than look like most women of 60. People should grow old the way a beautiful Itee grows old."

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NO KILLJOY "Dat I'm no killjoy," she agya. "If I wanted to go gay might have a debauch on any of these things. Eating the wrong things Bornetimes is harmless. For example, sometimes I have

"drunk."

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Her health diet started when could not cure her of doctors headaches.

Miss Morris plans to play next year in a Scottish musical she is devising. And comedy at some time in the future she hopes to dance with her Celtic Ballet in Amèrica.

Want War Criminals Released

Tokya.

can be trapped in the Kremlin web

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THAT'S THE LESSON DRAWN FROM A CLOSE-UP VIEW OF STALIN'S RUSSIA

8 it any use sending a word of warning to Nikolay Alexandrovich Bulgapin, Marshal of the Red Army, deputy Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, and member of the Supreme Presidium of the Soviet Communist Party?

I do not suppose so. For that is one of the strangest and most baffling features of this baffling Soviet purge,

The high-up victims never seem to make any attempt at resistance or 'escape. They Just alt and watch in fascination until they are arrested.

Dr Dartinger, Look at the two Germani quislings Foreign. Minister and Dr' Hamann, Supply Minister.

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Our liberty'

KNOW for a fact that they were both warned - weeks before their arrest of what was coming to them. Neither made the slightest, move to cross the sector 'boundary into hospitable West Berlin, although there was an ex- cellent chance of success.

'Dertinger was told he was being shadowed by the Japan's remaining war Secret Police. "What of it?" he said, "Our de- criminals-over 1,000 soldiers, mocratic People's Police are the surest guarantee of sailors and Gestapo men-will soon swanger free if the "Forberty and justice." get and Forgive" campaign Two of his

meets with any success.

have set out to gather 30,000,000 boundary,

their

So I warn

Stalin's

No. 2!

by SEFTON DELMER

She rarely cats potatoes. She The campaign is, sponsored by subordinates bakea wholemeal brend for her organisations all over Japanescaped s

year old husband, artist Two great Buddhist temples across the D. Fergusson-but the celdom touches it herself.

signatures by the end of this

have

been Dertinger She looks on cakes, biscuits, month and they and chocolates as poison, and coming in at the rate of 10,000 stayed.

hundred thou- says fish and chips are terrible. an hour. Two

Ha mann's nd Buddhists rand

have bear And she does not smoke,

wife urged mobilized for the drive.

influential lawyers' group. him to get An in

"severe, un-

out. She her- ecndemning the

sentences, com- remorable"

the intelli- self escaped palgning among genisia. It urges the wriminals with

of faith in small '_child;" release as a pledge the new peaceful Japan,

So did ren. TORTURED POW

her grown- Most of the inbjor war cri minals were executed, the argu- | up son.

Her daugh- "I never have headaches now,"ment runs, and men now goled

were involved

only in minor ter in law she says, "Nor colds."

the Japanese followed She risen any time between caso. Most of

still imprisoned for war crimes 6.30 and 8.30. But she does not

The Philippines and have breakfast. She drinks two in Tokyo,

Australia's Mamus sione were I actually convicted for torturing She answers letters. Then war prisoners and siding,

not instigating, she does. deep breathing helpless civilians. Few are due excrelses

for 15 minutes in

for release before 1980.

I dare say Marshal Bul- front of an open window.

The campaigners would like to gania is aware of the plot noon she has her first mani-

soe there men freed on April 28, apples. always fruit, usually

like and. "Apples have everything," she the Arst anniversary of the end against him,

is just standing cat two or three, of the Occupation.

perhaps others. sated and mixed with rose hip would the Japanese Government there, too fascinated to syrup and pineapple juice. And It freed all political "purgees" make a move. about 20 minutes later I eat a the day independence dawned.

But war criminals are a con- half-box of dates, Dales are' so

If he was not aware of it rtant reminder of a not yet for- Rourishing,"

After lunch sho goes to her gotten Japan. Elsewhere in the before, he must have been studio

dances for world memories are not so short. made aware of it by the

or three cups of mot tannin. Brazilian lea devoid of

דיי

and often

utes At

massacres

So

hut

cabling yesterday from Tel Aviv ·

three days later, pushing a revelation of the alleged baby murder conspiracy by the pram with their daughter. But Hamann him- nine Moscow doctors, seven self hung on.

of them Jewish, whose show trial is scheduled to start shortly.

Printing of Distinction

ALEX ROSSE CO, CHINA) LTD

IN KS.

Oriental

P. O. LEUNG & COMPANY

The of

by

Danny Sifting Sho

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST. LTD.

Telephone 20002 and ask for Mr. Labrum FOVERSEAS INQUIRIES" INVITED

That at any rate, was a signal which tipped off the man whom I consider the best informed and most ingenious expert on Soviet Intelligence in my acquaint- unce.

And I agree with his con clusions, especially after com paring what he has to say with the pattern of the purges as I have been able to study it in my tour of the best listening- posta along the Iron Curtain.

Cominform aristocrddy to be cent to the purge.

Only one of Zhdanov's former supporter and allies remains today in E position of real power,

That is Bulganin; · Tough, ruthless. Infinitely ambitious Bulganin, still

comparatively young at 67.

He has risen almost as rapidly, during and pines the war, as Malenkov himself. He stems from the Secret Police, and today, as a supreme super- visor of everything connected with the Soviet armed forces, controls a secret service of his own the Military Secret Ser- vice.

If ever there should be a moment of instability after Stalin's death, or just before it, with his present Bulganin,

present inßuence, powers, and could be dirigerous if he chose.

He must go

DULGANIN, therefore, must

be liquidated if Malenkov is to be really sure of himselt But before that can be done to a man in his position, he must be framed.

He must first be discredited in the eyes of the army and of the public. The doctors' "mur der conspiracy" is the first step in that process. Do you notice that the doctors allegedly were

One of the most important of these listening-posts is here in Tel-Aviv. Every month intelli- gent, well-connected escapeos Drrive here fresh from Iron plotting to poison not Stalin Curtain countries.

and four civilian party con- missars but Marshal Vassilev

and four other military leaders? ....

They

and their nows are sky screened in a country many of whose citizens, have family tlos with Ministers and officials of the Soviet machine. Where Premier Ben-Gurion and nearly half his Cabinet are Russian- born, and where there is prob ably better understanding of the Soviet mind than anywhere clec.

Same motive

ONE

NE common factor is basic to the whole complex of Itquidations

Soviet

world today.

in the

Whether the

purgees are Communists associated with the

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Cammings

IS THERE SUCH

A THING AS MOON MADNESS?

today

The inquiry into the strange ways of "Moon Madness"-reported here by CHAPMAN PINCHER-opens with @ casebook in which many tell their personal experience's

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Life

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and walk in the woods Bome-

times until the early hours of the morning,

In normal times he was a kind

and loving father. -

The forger

THOUGH the "behaviour of

TUNDREDS of serious- and discalented with mo..

are would be hell for at least four these men is often dangerous minded people convinced that their days. Then everything changed the seldom come into contact and he would be kindness itself with the police because their lives have been again, family ruined by some mysterious force exerted by the moon broken in health and spirit.

After 17 years. I left him, on the human mind.

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wives shield them. But some times they are driven to break the lato.

A London delective

sergeant reports;

I dealt several times with a qualined engineer, nor mally a perfect husband and father But

occasionally he would start drinking heavily and wander round the provinces Middlesex, getting 'money by uttering

forged bills of exchangu always at full moon.

This fact emerges from The wanderer the many stories of personal 2: experiences submitted in confidence to inquiry into "moon madness.”

A STAINES, woman writes

The inquiry opened when At full moon my husband has the tendency to go off a wife pleaded to a Bodmin the deep end at anyone-who court that her husband dares to stand out against his.. went off the rails when employer cruelly and lost his wishes. Once he insulted his

the moon was full.

jobi

The five men named are the The Inquiry shows that it most important and influential is almost always the hus- now grown up has reported

IN MANY CASES children figures in the Soviet armed band whose mood is said to terrifying

experienceE which forces. If they were removed, ave new men would have

to be affected by the moon's their mothers endured and kept

themselves.... to succeed them in their powerful phases-often to an extent peritions.

I should not be surprised if It was suggested outright; that Bulganin was behind the plot so that it should enable him to put his own men in the places vacated by the poisoned gen- erals and admirals.*

The \accusation formally doctors brought against the that they murdered Scherbakov Also can be made, to point tó Bulganin, How?

Well It should not be too

Western Intelligence and dimcult to suggest that Scher- Western Resistance groups bakov was a rival to Bulganio. during the war: or Zionists.

The Ukrainians, Armenians, or any

fact that Scherbakov other "dangerous" nationalist when in his cups or Internationalist group: or "Beat up the Jews and save } nierely "reactionary" pelty Russia, and was known as capitalists and farmers there fanatically anti-Jewish would ja always the same general, help to suggest that Bulganin, motive behind their persecu- in plotting against him, was tion. That is Stalin's desire to linked with Moscow's new pel Rot his house in order before bogey,

he dies. He wants to leave no Eource of disorder which might cause his empire to come apart when he is no longer therë to preside over it.

It takes time

No challenger Now please, please, do not

HE

TE has chosen Georgi Malen- kay to be his successor.

myself false prophets If all this does not happen at once.

Maybe Malenkov and his friends will decide to stretch

The drinker

SOME men clearly remember little of strange behaviour dut others confess. Their owen moon

A Plymouth madness.

writer:--

feel

When the moon is full 7 fee an irresistible impulse to drink spirits. My marriage of 13' years'

ors' standing wits smashed owing to this weakness.

A SIMILAR:story' in: told in this letter from East London;

I am sorry to say that u± 52°

which makes life with him My father suffered from unbearable.

moon madness. My mother, cister, five brothers and I THIS LETTER is typical of 'nwalted the arrival of every full acores sent in by women. In moon with dread, a Sussex man I suffer from moon madness. every one of these distressing writes,

my time I have had great difficulty in controlling „écaes' a wolfé claims that her

I get depressed, sulle. home has been broken up by

myself,

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:;

Without warning father would

During

a man's moon madness. This make the roof of our house the st. the idea that everybody is ene comes from a North London target for stones and anything against me and generally Frant

to amesh things EVO address:-

that would make a terrifying .

OFTEN the sudden" nolso He would hide a cut-

cliange About a week before new throat razor in his bed; alt in takes a harmless form, de

confessed moon was due, my husband outhouses without light or heat Liverpool dock labourer:

by an 61-year-old would get restless, fault-finding, ing for hours, often in winter;

SO SO SORRY

FOR SCANDAL

From Russell Spurr

Shortly after the moon has passed the first quarter, say about the tentir day or night of the moon, I simply muse write poetry.

I have fought against this. poetry isn't the stuff for a man THEN there is the boy of four who throws a cat on the fire and the farm worker who warns |nia farmer"that "he">might, bej quarrelsome: "Look out, master, the moon is full.ATATE And there is the woman of 50, who alibaye hai ONE ateepless" night on the night" of "the"full

Tokyo, Jan. 81. The trouble began, pollco moon,

Explanation

call my expert friend and JAPAN'S discrimination bay, as soon as the officials

against foreign firms started to sffocate foreign cur has turned into a first class reney for thly quarter's "luxury"

imports. These Include wines] internal political scandal.

THE rhythmle disturbance Police report that officials and whisky, British suitings. Teems to have nothing to do with Intelligence either, A this process over a considerably of the Trade Ministry, which cara and foodstuffs. the obsequious, assistanco of longer period, (AMT

recently reduced foreign

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Bribes were passed, it is doctor, a naval officer, a teacher are among people · síá" "to" be Police Chic Ball benang But what is certain ts that in businessmen's overseas buy alleged; there were night club deeply influenced by the mocn sure that there shall be no one it course many more heads will to challenge Malenkov. No.

18-obures dioners; Scientists, medical men;; and ·

Now he and Malenkov, with

rivat faction capable of gather roll in all paris; of the Soviet ing, were involved in "grava purtles red ing supportera is to be left at world before the purgers are irregularities." T

through, IN

where gold watches, wore pro-mental hospital mirves Have As a result, even convicted scnted in wine cups

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written · claiming there is, no ovidence of any connection between the moan and the mind.

large.

A farge number of these Japanese black marketeers · · Investigators' - first discovery On their belleta tie-squared- That is why the followers of heads will be the heads of and smugglers received was that a generous, mim of the late Androl Zhdanov have oficers and of pollee and in- full allocation of dollars dollars had been granted to a winner of the pipe w

claim they have 'Ox= been liquidated, not only Intelligence chiefs. Many of them Morcow and Leningrod but will be the heads of Jews, Why and sterling for foreign company which had been perience of moon.

closed six months The traders throughout the Iron Curtain Jews? I shall try to tell you in purchases, which were later were then found to have got world.

my next, despatch.

sold in Japan at a 50 per-three reparate - allocations for cent proft.

thres fictitious, flaptis dejta mban Reputable foreign con Bald a Trife. Minikrý spoker gerns-five of them British man today we are bowling

got little or nothing at all. w

It was their association with P.S.: I have just tried to Zhdanoy that has caused Annu telephone Comrade" Bulganin. Pauker of Rumania — now. "Moscow. the switchboard reported to be dying and to the "rasizes to connect

•many other -- members” of the the call?

I BELIEVE (that)jamme planation which maŝirties bath rides has '^etoerged fromý, Sala Inquiry

B.It will be presented along" with further:ey Mince mon this page fometrows