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Colonel Neave has described his excape, with F.-O. Forbes, R.A.F., from a Ger- man prison camp in Poland -Stalag XXa. Disguised Polish workmen and with forged equipped passes they set off for the Russian frontier, sheltering.

where they dare-in re- mote Polish farms.

Near Wlocawek they are resting by the Vistula when Neave looks up to see a German officer regarding suspicionsly.

B

them

EHIND his black-rim- ated spectacles the German officer's eyes were puzzled. He seemed about to speak, then walked the fields to- away over

wards Wlocawek.

Frightened,

we climbed up the bank and walked Nazi through the town. flags and pennants hung from every house and shop.. It was Hitler's birthday

In front of us a Polish Jew, an old, bent man, with the Star of David painted in yellow on his back, walked slowly on the pavement.

A smalt

Whip

"They Have Their Exits"

Chapter Five: by AIREY NEAVE

D.S.O., O.B.E., M.C.

guard house. No entries, no controls, no sign of life.

We walked through the posts and, undecided, stepped off the roadway on to the grass making party of for a new patch of forest. Two 5.S. marched past singing. The German frontier guards, a bare eld Jew, too bent and trall to twenty yards away, sat together notice, failed to salute them: A upon a bank watching us i Cair young thug

stepped from silence,

and struck him on

"Attention, Polish

swine....

Sochaczew. This is my brother," sald Forbes, indicating me.

I smiled faintly.

I forgot my German and spoke to him haltingly. He began to laugh and brandished the whip in my face, I no longer cared that was caught again or even it this brutal oficial were to fog

me to death.

I struggled with his questions for a few minutes and then, unable to fight on, showed him my metal identify disc with my name and the words "Prisoner of War No. 1103,”

They brought Forbes back to face a chorus of questions and threats. For several minutes he struggled gallantly.

"We don't believe you! You nre not Englishunen, but Pollsh spies! This is a matter for the Gestapo."

The Mar

man at the table lifted the telephone receiver and began to talk rapidly. I did not hear, I swayed half-fainting against the wall of the guard house and every time I did so I was told sharply to stand to attention.

5

T length a sentry came to the A a cum ordered to march back with him to, Itow, As we walked painfully in front of him Forbes tore a piece of paper in small bits. I remembered in bn inelent what it-was.-

side

We had provided ourselves with two coples of a map of the "Where have you come from?" German aerodrome at Graudenz.

A great fear "Gembin."

surged through me, Where was hopeless as 1 was. "We can soon check up on that, the other copy?

From Itow we were taken in my children."

They led us back to the guard the back of a truck

with one house and pushed open the dour

we had travelled the day before. the runks

Their rißes lay beside them. of a small office where a hard sentry to guard us along the road

At Plock the truck drew up be the head. is hat spun in the They picked them up, and walked faced man sat at a table with a

high a

stone modern wind and rolled across the road. towards up as we stood, worn out heavy leather whip hanging from The 9.5. man pushed him from and unable to run away. They the wall beside him. He looked building; and we were ordered The pavement. the pavement so that he stumbled were big and stupid and fresh-up and shouted at us as we stood down to the sentry moved in the gutter and began to moan. faced and spoke to us amiably awkwardly by the door.

with us towards British constables would "Attention, Polish wine!". the entrance and as he did so, my On the morning of the third

We stood painfully to attention heart missed a beat, then pounded Bey of our escape we continued address a pair of tramps,

"Where are your popera?"

and listened to the sentry's report in my throat.

Upon a notice slowly along the south bank of

"We have none."

of our discovery. The official board beside the entrance was the the Vistula meeting here and

told the sentries to take Forbes word: there a lonely woodman, I could travel at only a very slow pace.

outside and walt. I stood before It seemed that I had lost my feet

the table trying to answer his questions, but in my terrible and that my legs were only raw the dragging stumps,

"But we were only going to fatigue my brain refused to func- along

visit our mother, who is alck at tion clearly. ground.

BY evening we reached Gombin

and trod the road to Warsaw

In the cool sunset. We could find no shelter among the sparse plantations, and to lay down in the furrows of a ploughed field.

I thought the night

would

as

They looked at us in surprise, "Everyone must have, papers to cross the frontier. Surely you know that?"

FROZEN FOR

New York.

ro more stale bread, pro-

No the bakers. They

never end. Every hour the great are going to freeze it.

cold thade us rise and shake our-

#

GESTAPO

Tomorrow: They call me a Spy.

FRESHNESS

AMERICA COLUMN

from

NEWELL ROGERS

Arnold, bakers of New York, selves. Our chocolate was gone got the idea from Rear-Admiral and only the condensed milk ond Richard Byrd. On his last ad- The Antarelle expedition the the sardines remained.

A hot dry summer last year utter nauren of this mixture will miral found bread left in d cut down the Insect population; remain with me to the end of hut four years

before under piled up surpluses of D.D.T. and 20ft of know had remained my days.

other killers. wholesome and tasty.

Prices are falling... will buy The housewifo

a time from week's supply at the baker's deep freezer,

Slices will go dirat from fridge to toaster,

On the fourth day we walked to the town of low, thirty miles from Warsaw, and in the area of Polish Territory that formed a buffer state between the Russians and the western lands restored to Germen nationals.

A

HARVARD

ROBERT TAFT, With only rough mons to guide SENATOL

were doubtful ot us we

the who sought the presidency Three In 1940, 1948, and 1952, predicts frontier. position of the miles beyond low we saw that President Elsenhower will woman at a garden gate and got it again in 1056.

asked shamelessly

for. frontier.

Tho

It is here," she cried excitedly HOLLYWOOD, is

Miss

Sold

Russell: "I wouldn't object to Mrs Kava- nogh visiting Tommy. It would be perfectly fine."

HEY say 30-year-old Mrs THEY

Mildred Didrikson Zaharias will never play golf again..

She home in Beaumont, Texas. Lost is seriously ill at her year "the Babe" had an opera- tion, Now she must have another operation.

The Babe, otherwise "Mighty Mildred," has driven a ball 408 UNIVERSITY yards, and at one time excelled

bo in 14 branches of athletics, 1 students, supposed to famous for scholarship, are also

In 1947 she won the British

golf

cham- renowned for their white buck women's amateur

plonship. skin. shoes.

They

well worn look.

must have a casual, OF 345 men tested by the So students Now. York Automobile Club dirty them a bit before putting only 11 percent failed straight them on.

delving tests. ~ Of 112 women tested, 31 per- Now a shop sells buckskin cent could not drive straight.' deeper in the dumps.

dirtled by the manufacturer A second studio, disappeared

Warner before they go on sale

MIE Land THE and, frightened,

of Opportunity seems just that to 525 'men among a flock of chattering Brothers, has asked top ametuls

to take 50 percent salary cute. JANE RUSSELL, is not worried who have received

greetings geese.

is suspended

President Elsenhower. about emotional complica- from Tiredness and pain overcame New production any sense of caution. We walked for conversion to flims in depth. tions for her adopted non, ie They became heads of com- the studio cofeteria, is London-born Tommy Kavanagh, panies doing business of one straight through the village and Even

it, as has

(£337,000). " turned a slight bend in the road closing down.

been suggested, million dollars Before us were white painted

Tommy's real mother moves to year or more before they were Izankera:05 ard: California and becomes a 39, And 135 started their busi- frontier posts and a gate, open

naszon. "from scrafeti." and invlling. Bosida it was a “plagued .by......m bug shortage, neighbour of the Alm star.

INSECTICIDE

By Evelyn Irons

ALL, blue-eyed Mrs Avis nearly 13, will go to boarding her holidays with her parents. school in Switzerland, spending

Bohlen in not the worry ing sort, but she confesses she has had a worrying time

Young Charles, aged' six, will

lately. In the weeks since, attend a Moscow school for President Eisenhower desig- diplomats children. "Celestine's no problem, she's just "D" nated her handsome 6ft. in, Mr Bohlen raid. husband as U.S. Ambassador

Spasso House, to Russia, he has had Ger- Embassy in Moscow, is a bl Mian measles and been fully

tha

furnished home, with assailed as politically un- every comfort, including three trustworthy by tho

where enough food for months

two modern deep-trecza erbincta.... mud-slinging Macs-Sennt- can be stored. Mrs. Bohlen: ors McCarthy and McCarran. will not order anything but

but a

The Senators miceceded

of the

few extras in Moscow; from

delaying the Senate's approval past experience she knows she appointment, thus musy in six mon.hr zupply of butter, eggs, tinned foods making the name of Bohien the and frozen meats, biggest controversial slurm

centre of Ike's presidency 10

far.

her

There has been trouble too brother Charles

about

Her orderZA

She has already planned ho Thayer, who is U.S. Consul at order which she will place with ea Munich, Thayer has just given the

American Cominiarrett Army store-in Berlin

A

ww

نوں ادات

up his job, Intending to devote

Mette Atur. himself

But authorship. to

Berlin is 1,900 miles byinfelutara

I+U McCarthy, recalling that he was from Moscow, but it will be formerly head of the much- Mrs Bohlen's nearest shepping » criticised U.S. Iran-Curtain pro- centre for main paganda network

of Volce of household America, told the Senate Thayer

nece:silles. lind been Ared, implying the whole family was under a cloud, It has all been highly disturb ing for a wife whose husband faces the biggest test of his new Soviet career under the regime at a crucial point of the world's history.

Two visits

Sho has packed a Low pictures, books and household trea- sures

other

which

route

will be sent by surface

Exta

SM

in make the Emivansy more MRS BOHLEN.**** homelike, ***

house

small, pleasant frame In Washington. I

But now it is all settled, being lel furnished while they ineasles and McCarthy are left are away. She and the children blind, and the Bohlens are in stayed with her mother Mrs Moscow. I'm looking forward George Thayer, in Philadelphia,

to it tremendously," Mrs Boh- len rald before she left.

Mrs

awalung departure.

201

Also planned as for a long Bohlen has lived in campaign are clothes for herself......

iren. "I enjoyed shop and and other. children. Paris and London

I love

capitals og a diplomat's wife, ping for the wardrobe in New bui more important, she knows York and Washington... Moscow well. She was there clothes," Ms Bohlen said. She ta

took lots of evening gowns for Y with her husband when he was

U.S. formal entertaining and porty- Lecond secretary in the

going, and the had to include Embassy in 1938-1940.

fur-coat-to-own. everything from a

And it was In Moscow they the thinnest summer frocks to first met. That was 1934, when face the extremes of Moscow Avis, with, her married sister, climate. look a trip for a visit to brother

Charter, who wis vicc-consul Likes vodka

there, The iwo Charles, Thayer and Bohlen, shared Moscow flat; and "Chip" Bolt- 1cn fell in love with hals colleague's young sister.

"Chip" Bohlen, who Roosevelt's interpreter adviser in Teheran and Yalin,

and wh

Złod

She was just the right girl speaks Russian so idiomatically res for brilliant hard-working that he astonishes the Russians.

diplomat

an Mrs Bohlen says modestly; L carcer

whom American friend describes as speak a little, just enough to le "Never a cookie pusher, cocktail get on with,"

drawing-room Lounge-hourd or

At home she is fully occupied zun darling."

looking after the house ande!

She enjoys but shefacramen

Daughter of comfortably-off children herself.. Philadelphia farally, she was domesticity, not a career girl but had studied-cquably the task of..controlling languages for one year at the staff of Embassy servants and college, hostessing at formal Embassy

women's

celebrated Bryn Mawr ("Not for a degree, parties. But just to finish my education" she says) then spent a year in gent, Germany leerning the accent,

Ferlyish, quiet-spoken, inteill-, well read, Mra Bohlen correct does not smoke, but like

tilo vodka with her exularegames and looks forward to

ballet-of-which sho

The next year Bollen was Russian transferred to Washington, and became an enthusiast an prod Immediately called on the vious virits. Thayers in Philadelphia. He and Diplomatically, shop is anotas Avis married tew montas commenting on what she thinks later.

of Malenkov, chances of peace, Now they have three children. and living conditions behind The eldest, a girl named Avis, the Iron Curtad:"

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