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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MAY 9, 1953.

Concluding “They love Their Exits"

HOME

WHAT MAGIC

IN THAT ONE

HE troopship went her.

fino

way in weather. Once a U-

boat_returning to Its

baso caused an alarm. The men stood in three ranks

was over.

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By AIREY NEAVE

DSO, OBE, MC

Home... again

WORD!

-

Fock, hourly expecting desth. Would it all be real?

Nowman and I took the train from Liverpool Street to our We homen at Ingatestone.

spoke little, hardly nollding the extraordinary coincidence of

GRAND SALE

THE HONGKONG

SILK STORE

our arrival home together. Our pos

approach to the end of the

on the boat deck with their the station barrier lifejackets until the danger curloup ageng dccurred peface hotel breakfast of cornflaker, to an English

journey was filled with tension No. 60 Queen's Rd. C. the frail, left the Vough the Hipper and fost like fanbal and sadness, for Newman's corporal had, owing Somo At nine o'clock. in a waiting father had died only a weck

(Near China Emporium) Interminably the troopship claf error, been omitted from room at the Great Central before. ploughed through the Almila the warrant on which we were. Hotel, now a transit camp, we "The train - stopped “at, “euch Until one cloudy morning a to drivel. Newman Woollatt were interrogated and later station, Jerking and puffing as Sunderland elreled, firinga and P argued with the Military Hugh Woollate; and I took) of old. Harold Wood, thes recognition slemal. There was a Políem and

then Shenfield, N. C. O, escapors, tuxi to the Berkeley Hotels We Brentwood, murmur of relief.

Joined in.

were gay and our conversation From the grimy window I noted A day passed and we were in

was absurd. For me the memory the familiar signs of my child- a thin, drooping full of that taxi drive has polgance-the old-fashioned lamps and hood; the level-crossing gates, the fog of

Then a the Clyde walling to colonel in a Brillan warm, the for my companion was killed disembark. Alongside a

huge

picture of bureaucralo loors through our journey from the liner, packed to the brim will intervened in support of

years afterwards. All the chimney-pots of the station:" American troops, moved slowly

.LG Swiss frontler he had thought,

Iwo

up the river. It was hard for minor bureaucrats, at the barrict. only of Jolning the fight again.

me to grasp, who had been

is

moved in we came to a dreary pubs THE white lips of the colonel a dyspeptic without clation, we performed grimuce..

In the Butlery I raised my gloss and dranic to Maurice and his friends of the French escape organisation. Smart women accompanied by smart

and

the

shook

car

Street,

8 MORE DAYS

ONLY

Entire Stock

Nylon Matorials (Plain & Printed)

the

"If this man I left here

MY "father was alone on reading Charlotte Bronte in the I shall see to it that the War The cloakroomi attendant at

platform. I walked up to Office Lown gaol of Colditz on the night

informed of this the Berkeley gingerly

placed him and we said nothing for a of Pearl Harbour,

senadal," said I wildly to the

my curious little bundle of moment. It was not a time for The escaped prisoners were colonel. "Surely you can accept effects on one side as 1 Indulged words. No sentence which i permitted to land in advance the word of officers who have in the exotic luxury of washing could have selected would have my hands among the rich and hands with the station-master,

seemed appropriate. I and received orders to travel escaped from Germany." to Glasgow. We had to wait for

having my coût "brushed, 瓿

then I was in the the train, so Philip Newman led

itavelling along the

High deserted us along

streets until

through the hedgerows until we came to the white gates. was a year and a month since I ers had lain in the cell at Plock, A

year and a month for a vision Cotton & Silk Laces I was thinking now of

to become a my

reality, In Esex and There was impatient laughter, home

Some time later I went to The guard blew his whistle and should find there in the Buckingham Palace and stood Scotswoman

we rushed past the barrier evening: My mother, do- nervously before a Royal figure and her daughter was like the dragging the corporal with us. sperately 11 during the months in naval uniform. Far away a wall of a banshee. We edged The officials stood stock still in of my Imprisonment and now string orchestra played in the

rocovered

little. The Throne Room. The King shook consolate and embarrassed.

not attempt to restrain us. Even even years before, been as-

Hours later we sat, escapers Hitler had not been able to do blossom and the whlic gates at hand and in these simple words sociated with the Commun-of all ranks, at a round table in that.

the beginning of the drive of restored my faith;

"We are very glad to see you a Glasgow hotel, waiting to The express drew into Euston which I had so vividly dreamed catch the night train to London. on the morning of May 12, 1943. in my cell in the prison of back."

HISS TO GAOL

officers

the ceremony of drinking our "I do not know you." he said first plat of beer in Britain. to us. "You may be German on leave eyed us curiously. Someone asked for ham agents." sandwich. There

shocked was silence.

ce. A bread the me of a wallery Scott over

what

sertion made that he had. / our way out of the pub, dis outraged dignity, but they did.tnuts in full leaf, the May me firmly and quietly by the i

MAN goes to gaol in now comes the

celebrated question: Have ist.

America. The сане becomes

wherever

Communism

and throbbing issue.

circum- stanced were to decide that

versus Democracy is a live we the right "If a man Re

But what happens if doubt to criticise? he had no option but to

him 7''

and' outside the courtroom.ments which would destroy

He says, flatly that some

of the evidence would have That typewriter. Shorn been totally inadmissible in of

irrelevancies

AN IRONIC TASK FOR AN EX-POW

Hitler would have givch,

two Years after. `hly catapo from Coldiis and return

Bervloemen kläden in the forests. Later he aided the escape was appointed to the British War Crimés, Executive.

Be spent some time at Essen, collecting evidence against Gustav Krupp, head of the great armametit-frm. (shyyt

Then, as an official of the international Military Tribunal, there

fell to him perhaps the most Iron le task that has ever been: the lot, and other Nazi leaders coples of their indletmente at Nuremberg. comrades who are in the cells old tune with grey breeches, here?"

of an ex-prisoner of tyar; he was Instructed to serve upon Goering

Staff officer

General prived of paper.

་

દેશ-

Grand Admiral Doenitz rous- cd less sympathy in me. Here was the man whom Hitler, in his last ravings, ---appointed as his successor. He was nervous and apprehensive and he looked despairingly at his indictment.

Other characters in this re- tragedy of history markable Wern SW

swiftly revealed to me be talking waxworks. Robert Leyleader

Labour Front, old

arises after the man goes to

bluff it through, would he

FOST of the men and gnol? What happens

il and striking contrasts have instructed his counsel women who took part home Alrey Neave worked to help members of the Resistanov. lawyers outside America

between British and Ameri- to press tind press again for begin to query the way the can procedures both inside the production of the docu-in the struggle against and returned to France in July, 1964, to organise the rescue of case was argued 7

much to be in my place of Ambem Turylvon and, in Auguri 1810, wa Should they remain silent,

Goering, Ribbentrop, recognising the differences

Streicher and the rest→→→ between U.S. laws and, say,

and in- representatives of nations English laws? Or should

British court. He la clearly essentials the case against might journey to Nurem they bring their keen legal disturbed by the fact for Hiss rested on the assump berg to see them in the dock, minds to bear on

as but it fell to me,' their one- the he returne to it repeatedly tion proved apparently conflicting teati-that the judge at the the jury at the second trial time prisoner, to meet them mony that sent the man to second trial did not review was concerned that Hiss face to face within the Enol?

for the jury before they re- himself typed out the docu- narrow walls of their cells. You will all be tried to

complicated ments on his wife's type-. On October 18, 1945, I went

gether, I told him. :**** the Lord Jowitt, former Lord tired

Hess wlaced and looked at me Colonel-General Jodi, Chief pipe. Colonel Chancellor, has no doubt evidence given in the long writer before giving them with

Andrus, U.S. with an expression of disdain of Staff of the High Command what should be done in such-and-wearisome-proceedings...to..Chambers.

Army, the prison governor in bis mad eyes. "I do not like of the German Armed Forces, along a covered pathway to the to be tried with, Goring," he was looking critically at my u cane." He takes it apart "Unless the judge is pre-

main entrance. The iron gates sald primly. to see just how it came

closed behind us. It was like The -American about that Alger Hiss went pared to review the evidener

Hermann Goering stood beside, could

to guol.

old and battered, never pro- duced i n

Life

he cannot give the jury any real help in performing their

By

as far

see the face of

He wore felt slippers.

Alfried Jodi?"

"Yea

with

of the and docayed

by

alcohol, slobbered as he looked

at me hazily. Soon afterwards he tore a towel into strips and hanged himself from a waste-

..

Sant Sam

Browne. He displayed no D Walter Funk, once Presi

dent of the Reichsbank and police emotion, and when I explained preserverering a dungeon of despair. men led me to another cell. I my mission to him he began to Minister of Economics, wore in

me "the question

brisk his cell si long overcoat. His efficiency. What port of lawyer lobby face was the colour of Hls long mouth twitched in A trim little man was looking a curious fashion. Afterwards I me with blue eyes and a international or criminal law? misery. One of the principal ac- and cusations against him was the ronkrod if it was the clize to a large strawberry-coloured nose. Could I supply papers great mystery. Was there a tiny The door opened with d flourish pencils? For a moment I felt storing of gold extracted from

(Continued on Page 10)'. phial of poison wedged between and showed him standing in an half-amused compassion for the his tooth? Had we surprised

him with his secret means of

And he finds, in effect, responsible duty. Under our WHO, asks Lord Jowitt, I his bed. He awayoż a little and occupant. through the window should he have an expert in dough and wore a look of object that it all comes down to a system the judge would really did type them? typewriter. The typewriter, have been not merely Did Chambers have an op- was entitled but required to make portunity of getting access

such a survey to the typewriter? of the evi-

In his best-seller book, suicide? dence."

"Witness," as Lord Jowitt points Then, as to out. Chambers says that he the emotions needed "a fe preserver in the of the mo form of copies of official docu- THE Reichmarschall,

ments stolen by the (Communist) fat man in dove HFOY: GAYO ment.

apparatus which, should The me a comic bow as the prison "There had Party move against my life, I officials gathered round me. With grown up at might have an outside chance of one hand he painted to his bed. cannot offer you "I am afraid the trial a using as a dimmunder."

a chair," he said politely.

court since it had long ago been given away. But it ended the career of Hiss, a gifted

R.M. MacCOLL

and handsome young Amerl- the time of gan public official.

climate of opinion in Says Lord Jowitt: "If Cham- The charge was perjury, America which was inimical bers, in some way unrevealed at denying that he had handed to a calm and dispassionate present, had not access to that certain Government docu- henring of the case," says ments to a self-confessed Jowitt mildly. Communist agent named Whittaker Chambers.

Procedure

writer and had typed out photographed documents, which he was thus able to plant on

a small,

I explained my duties to him and stakenly is mood changed to ono bit depression. .

“So dt. has comTLC."

The fruity, rasping voice wDE still there without the bombust and heartiness of the days of his popularity.

We had some discussion, dur- ing which I naked trim wielber he wished for counsel of his own choice, or for the Tribunal to ap point one for him.

Hies, It would have been a wick The Un-American Activi- ed and dastardly act. But if a ties Committee had per- man believes that he is fighting Hiss is still in a Federal formed a useful service in for his fe, he may be willing to penitentiary, doubtless exposing Communist infil- take desperala steps. brooding on the ruins of a tration into Government de "Chambers describes how he once promising career.

partments, but it was "an contemplated suicide before he

"I have nothing whatever to unfortunate prelude to a decided to produce the docu-

do....with Lawyers," A said. trial on a serious criminal tents, and how he actually tried Lawyers will be no use in this

to encompass that crime, But charge....

trint. What is required is a go of this the fury knew nothing."

interpreter. I want my own A "serious blemish" on the

vato interpreter during the trial,” You had better ask the of unconscious influence if trial itself, saya Lord Jowitt,

Tribunal about that."

ushering us out, the jury hear about the was that "a wholly new case.

Goering again bowed cum- based on the proposition that

brously and seemed to bo could be used to identify`not "Whose

cell do we vidt merely the machine but the next?" I said to Colomet typist, was raised for the first | Andrus,

CHAMBERS? He lives on "his comfortable Maryland

"There is always the risk

farm. Ho is a very rich man fucts of a case before they the peculiarities in the typewriter

from the proceeds of the book he wrote about the Hiss have to try it."

case, after he had been the

proвécution's principal wit-

ness in it.

Tremendous passions were released in America by that

affair.

Libel action

time in the concluding speech "Hes," he said; "now wo for the Government."

" shall see some fun.”

If any such case had been

NOTHER point strikes made by the Government expert Lord Jowitt as remark and he had not made any This was the period 1947- able: It was Hiss himself, such case he could have been 50 when the alarm bell was by bringing a libel action tested by cross-examination. ringing throughout the against Chambers (before

U.S.A. over the threat of the trials), who caused the Misgivings

international Communism. kuddon production of the It coincided with Hiss'é incriminating documenta

UDOLPH Hess, deputy...of

昕 LE

in

cell door opened. A burly military policeman

the Fuehrer, stood with

a' yurd of mo

tho

clap:

me.

ped, handeuffs round his thin wrists. Hess remained still. His nycs in their

dark

Puckels woro level with mine, looking appearance before the House (from such bizarro hiding READING this book one can

fried Ho of 'Reproïentatives Un- places na a hallowed out see on pago after page the straight American Activities Com- pumpkin and a New York best Lord Jowitt about the case. queer gesture of derision, as it doubts and misgivings which up: his hands in a to say: "I'm not m«mad as they mittee and then his two long dumbwalter shaft), triala (the - jury disagreed

He Is punctilious. and.polito think. I shall not hurt you."

On this Ogtober 'afternoon" he after tho 'firat).

"It would require very to his law colleagues bi America

still wore the Luftwaffle flying Lord Jowitt is clearly considerable nerve to bring but the criticism is there.

boots, reller of his strango filght taken aback by the many Buchan action even Lord Jowilt marshals the facts to Scotland in 1941. I handed though it could have been for his reader to deelde, le him the indictment. We briolly damentalistika by no means pleasant for n was right to do so. For only discussed coureel for his defence

"by michi penetrating:{discussions; and, he asked; t polyi Ageng man in the position.

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