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RED HILDE, THE WOMAN WITHOUT PITY
R
From COLIN LAWSON
Berin. Communists at 22, married a
ED Germany is shiver. Jew who was later gamed at u
Germán concentration camp.
Lug in Its ersatz- But her husband's death was leather Ahоey. The reason behind this fear is a 52-year-old woman judge with venom running through
not responsible for her biller- mess. It is said of Hilde: "Sho has never loved." Indeed, the only person she has ever shown affection to is her son Michael. her veinis, mud with a Taxed by a Party member hysterical adoration of for allowing him to study the Communism; a woman with- Humanities at university, she elf; la my out pity, and with a reputa. snapped: "After
*tion for cruelty rarely tom
matched in history.
That is Hildegarde Benjamin, Red ide, the Hanging Judge
of Communist 'Germany.
Grotewohl
has
Now he is in Moscow, learnI- ing the trade of eins haired. And the Purly member WILA purged on de's order.
During the war she worked
in à German factory. As soon While the puppet Government as the Red Anny marched into taf Herr
been Berlin, she was given a job with cooing to the West, Red Hilde the Soviet legal department. has been silent. But overnight Promotion was rapid. Here she jumps from Vice-President was the willing instrument the of the Supreme Soviet Zone Russlans sought. She was friend- Court to Minister of Justice.
ly with Melsheiner, the Presi
dent of the Supreme Court, a
In that post Cabinet une renegade Socialist after the pat- she has unlimited power to tern of Vishinsky-neither chuel
"direct Judges on Government nur senseless,
trial-court polley, and to vary punishments. She can retur" cases to court for harsher sen- terices and instruct them tu apply full
for penalties offences.
all
· DEATH OR LIFE
But under Hilde's thumb his reputation blow to piecca. Not a secret file went to Melsheiner without Red Hilde seeing it. Her bike liaison with him was for purely
Every little apprentice wh "borrow" a can of oil from People's factory for his
Any
DISOWNED
sentence
and tied in a bun
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST › ́3, ° -1953.
497 THATHUOJA
"It's your Mrs. Ramsbotham again-stopping her old man's two bob each way."!
London Express Service
A
LIFE WITH THE GIRLS
That's what showed father the way to fame says JOHN BARBER
T Young
HE advertisement read: WANTED. man capable of writing interestingly on any subject whatever. Good salary and prospects. Bot XYZ.
Two thousand people replied. Among them was a young man just invalided out of the Army. The letter he wrote won him one of the 20 interviews given for the job by a London department store which wanted an assistant advertising manager.
"Can you really write on anything?" they asked him.
"Of course," said the young man, with solid calm.
"Then go into that room and do 500 words on Chinese music."
He knew nothing about Chinese music. But he figured that neither did the boss. He plunged in with joy, and dragged out every technicality he knew. Bamboo pipes...the pantatonic scale .... gongs.
THIS MAN McCARTHY
Washington.
old N the
Supreme Court chamber in Can-
GEOFFREY COX
gross now used as a shrewd observer of the political scene on both sides of the Senate committee room Atlantic, focuses his experienced eye on the world's most
this first cabla
risks seven years' hard labour practical reasons. Not for "economic subotage."
was varied without her oped a painting of slaves. looks controversial figure of the moment. The first demagogue
In court she always desperale housewife the
black costume; some- jepping into West Berlin to sell white blouse, block cravat, jet down in sweltering sum of the TV age, he calls America's Red-baiting Senator in her wedding ring for food can black hair plastered down on mer heat at the crowd reckon on hard labour for "on- either
which files in eagerly to fill incts with the West,"
the public benches. at the back.
No Lipstick or nail varnish for Hilde, Sho leans across to the: witness box, parls her thick, negrold lips, and smarts to the necused: "Yes, yes Contess all."
Confession over, she delivers her judgment. It ends abruptly Her brother is a political re- Death, life imprisonment. fugee in Frankfurt. Her sister, Shé sips a glass of wars, nods, Ruth, seven years younger, in n and waits for the next case. physical training instructress in
In one
week she handed out West Berlin,
three death pentences and punishments totalling 400 years,
the **I am
of the guardian People's she proclaims,
Nothing very feminine about Even this woman? How right. her family disowns her,
"Oh God, oh God," Ruth contestes, "that my parente should ever have had
a child who became so pitiless, so cruel,
como
They are mostly sight- -seers in Washnigton for a For Coe's name has been on, day-neatly coiffured grey. listed by Whittaker Cham
haired women in summer bers, the man who first frocks; young men in tan accused Hiss of being a or fawn-coloured trousers Communist sympathiser. with loose-hanging vivid shirts; older men in seer
uple laws of her court
comments:
without a single feminine trai "Judges are using too much
compared with Taste for blood.
the restraint, in
sucker suits.
On an oak dais the dap per figure of Mr Cohn, of the Cohn-Schine team, sits talking to bald-headed Senator Mundt, of North Dakotu.
ww
,
fle got the job, Salary: £0 0s. Today he is one of the few men In America who both wrile and direct both plays and Buns. Two at the longest-ru:1 plays in American stage history are his. One is "Kiss and Tell." The other, The Moon is Blue." opened in London recently,
All you do
lush adver-TE is F. Hugh Herbert. I asked Q& man jumps him how
Tho into success. He told me. chantes, he said, dangle in front of your nose. All you do in grasp them,
+
proved wrong or counter incongruous, amid attacked he does not waste tisements appearing in news
moves his papers. time replying. Ke ground and launches a new onslaught.
They looked angrily for an explanation. McCarthy was at Another and deeper reason hand to give one. It was Herbert tired of the shop and
to the Rods this was 1920-got teen 10- les, however, 311 our umes. primarily all due
give him an introduction to a McCarthy has been able to get in their midst...
big store in New York. In the wild charges widely be
So McCarthy and McCarthy boat was a man in the new- because other charges fam flourished. leved
The degree of born alm industry. have proved true:
his
The
bis has brought
against
ig
documents typed on up
disturbing. It The U.S. store sucked him in every American a week. His new acquaintance the fundamental got him a job as a very minor discovered nim people were
Sp
Alger Hiss's typewriter did problem of how far the State New York film writer. Soon...
their find
way to Soviet can go without grave injustice agents. Fuchs did
pass over and without doing itself grave the secrets of the atomic. damage in the long run in bomb. The Communists did curbing civil ilberties In the make their way to important name of national safety. places Service during its prewar
In the American Civil
war expansion,
him to discuss his political the children from school. Thou
sands of watchers turn back to past.
their ordinary lives.
Much has been suid; much has been
suggested; much has been denied; but nothing has been finally proved.
These Congressional investi- of the methods gations are one
which Senator McCarthy sucks to maintain before the American people a spectacle of the United States endangered
The Communist Party is still
in America
.It and mani- In their midst festly does take a line from the himself
More headlines
by
by Communists
active
and
Real power
has brought
to a position
McCarthy
of con-
里 wed by the printed word,
took 18 I wrote a novel. It days. Metro bought "
But what made Herbert Was his daughters. He has two, Diana Patricia and Pamela Jenn
As they grew up typical, bouncy teen-age kids their father recognised his big- gest chance yth,
Eavesdropped
and the spectacle of McCarthy has only got 54,000 members, some real power.
Soviet Union. The fact that it siderable influence and Indeed AMERICA was teen-age mad.
as a man to deal with them.
Today
he is the
most con-
Herberts wrote his hit plays and films about his girls' antics.
Ja He eavesdropped on their phone
and put straight-from-Life lines in his girl-plays-
"I think it's high-school stuf to drink and smoke if you don't cctually crave to.
Within five minutes Me Carthy, in a quiet tung which hardens into a whip crack, has asked Coe if he was a Communist in 1949.
mast of whom the F.B.. has
Yet this Very success got tabbed, and that its or- applying the law. East Germans call her
Coo draws deeply on his
are thoroughly arousing against him forces conversations for peri dialogue Red Guillotine. But the French Nothing less than a year is upe-
cigarette. He replies with troversial figure in the United ganisations
States, admired by one
by the F.B.I., has which gradually but only vehentrated Revolution was a mild nftar ful, however minor the offence
At a small table before studied deliberation: "On ment
gradually ore moving and not atilled publie uneasiness.
to the hoted minority, Red Hide's might seem."
counterattack. "Judges who seek office for them the witness of the the advice of counsel and teared
They have by another, watched
Above all, three months after fought and won similar battles Four years ago, tired
other than poliile are day. of reasons
an anxious, tall, under the protection of the with perplexity by the rest.
McCarthy made his first attack in the past They will, I be- listening to
showing conviction in te bespectacled man Rod propaganda not
In his Fifth Amendment I will
on "Communists in the Govern- lieve, win this one. For let us ultimate victory of appealing for popular support,
Com-
middle forties, waits rest respectfully decline
ment" came the Korean, war. not forget that this modern she announced: "From now on muntan."
to Astute, ruthless
America which has produced He is answer that question." do not try to
"West Germany has abolished ively in his chair. convinco
On top of the strain of the Joseph McCarthy Is Diso the people, you just liquidate them." the death sentence. What idiocy Frank Coe, who was recent-
cold war the American people America which has produced She had
middle is this?"
ly forced out of a £7,000-a-
How The Fifth Amendment of
this 43-year-old once again found themselves Adlai Stevenson, year job as secretary of the United States Constitu- bachelor, one of seven children sending" off young men to П the-International-Monetary-tion-provides that no one.
Trish-American foreign battlefield, once again
casualty BOW required to give shall be
Ilsts, tragically evidence which may tend to
you
an upper
class upbringing. She joined the, "Juries? They are a burden."
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HER SENTENCES
Some of her recent sentences: Six years on a woman-for buy- ing shoes in West Berlin, seven years on a man for buying six tons of nails in West Beriln, nine years on a man for selling antiques in the West.
Once a month she puts on a dark red blouse, leaves her cravat at home and is driven to Karlshorst, Russian H. Q. in
Berlin,
There she relaxes, sips vodka and listens to the flattery of and senior Russian officers Foreign Office officials. For the is in the full confidence of the Kremlin.
Of herself, Hilde says: "Thank God I am not beautiful. I wear clothes which
up. I don't want to be attractive,
I just want to appear as I um."
Fund,
They know him incriminate himself.
has
of 1 poor "farmice Ini
"Wisconsin," "come"to"
this position?
McCarthy is a very astute and ruthless politielan, who Then comes a further gure by playing upon
has bullt himself into a world the swift question. Was Coe frustrations, insecurity and engaged in espionage in danger of the American people 1949: once again he invokes in the cold war. He has done the Fifth Amendment.
this by a campaign of wild ac cusation and Innuendo that must be almöst without
It is not Coe, however, or the men on the dais whom the crowd was waiting for. The man they want to see is McCarthy. Senator Joseph
McCarthy's expression McCarthy, from Wisconsin, leaves no doubt of the in- parallel in a democracy, whose special investigating ference he, for one, draws Ever since he first leapt into sub-committee is about to from these replies. He calls with the charge that there were
the headlines three years begin its day's work.
"an extremely dan- 205 Communists. still working the State Department a And suddenly McCarthy gerous man."
which charge
when even Under the dais reporters whittled down to "three top Once Commanists" he has never are writing hard.
is at the door, nodding greeting to grey - shirted
Coe
in
Betric,
pgo
sult my moke-policemen. The crowd needs again McCarthy's name will substantiated he has swept to no one to point him out. be in the afternoon head- the forefront of the American Television has carried his lines and in all the radio face into half the homes of and TV bulleting. the country. They recognise at a glance the swarthy
Refreshing
Heineken's
BEER
UNTRIBUTORE THE FRIESLAND TRADING CO., LTD. HOLLAND
Tomorrow: How powerful is he?"
"Fm not afraid to bring children into this mess of a world. The mess will never be cleaned up by unborn kids....
One more tip: "I always employ a young and very pretty if she doesn't giggle at my stuff, secretary, 1 dictate to her. And 'I know it's wrong."
SLIMMING?
• More than 300 doctore and surgeons met recent- ly under the leadership of Lord Hurder at Cardiff to talk about the trim figure as a top priority need for good health. Their. And- Ings are presented here by-
PLUMP PATIENTS HAD A 'CONTEST' TO GET DOWN THEIR WEIGHT -AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED
body so that the amount weight you put
dully just
loso
On
balances
what
}
you
by
by
wear and tear,
It. Deta nontrolling adjusting
by
an
CHAPMAN PINCHER VOUR chances of get appetite
of cases who get some recompenso out of being fat perhaps because their size draws atten tion to them.
Emotional upsets can cause "women Increased appelite.
reasons
seek solace in scones and cream for the same cookies which send their husbands to said Dr the public house," Arnold Meiklejohn, of Edin
burgh.
common
the rute at are immediately doubled if which you burn His methods have been not you take slimming pills- up your food.
A temporary defect in the The accuray
appostat mecha:ism is believed much to allege "guilt by under medical supervision- 10
as "guilt by ac-
to explain why so many women association" On the previous day this cusation."
a doctor claimed at a Bri- of this oppestat
is No
astonishing Communists
Association Professor R. A.
get fat after having a baby, chin, the deep-set eyes, the hearing had been televised have been found guilty on any
itish Medical
Misguided mother love is a on The Over McCance over two hours. Into
conference dark eyebrows, the thin- alive for
cause of school evidence charge resulting from lens of thousands of homes
Cambridge told the doctors "fatties." ning black hair.
where housewives were clean- McCarthy has produced, No weight Patient.
the body weight of They stuff their children with Communists have been found A slimming "competition" that ing the sitting-room or prepar- as a result of his charges in any
between fat people who had the most people varies by only about far too much food, in the mis- McCarthy's appearance is lunch Uckered the spec significant Government post.
benent of reducing pills, and the weight of a sixpence from, taken bellef that puppy fat is sign of health. Experiments one of compact aggressive. tacle of McCarthy, always cool,
others who did not, has been day to day,
Unfortunately this finely nd-" on animals carried out by ness. He has the wide deliberate and unhurried, press-
staged at Cardiff hospitals.
sometimes Professor McCanco have sitown shoulders and quick light question after question.
Announcing the results, Dr Justed mechanism Leonard Howells revealed that goes wrong, producing excessive that too much food during the trend of a boxer—which he
which doctors call growing stages leads to premam six out of every ten who took appetite once was,
⚫ture aging. the pllis slimmed successfully, builmin.
Once the appestat is out of Only three in ten of the others managed to get their weight balance some people continue to got on what they consider to down
His eyes never seemed to rest on the witness bul at a Just above his head. point
New onslaughts
got fat
bird"
LIFE EXPECTATION
man
Yet he has beaten off every His manner, both in his Then the cameras would swing attempt by the Senate to dit
1WD him, and when to the witness who sat, clpling physical movements and O
took issue with him
The pills,
of the be a frugal diet. But most fat The expectation of life of a. later in his questioning, is dripping with sweat under are Senators
drops by lights, his eyes
Invaded their States and wide with he indeed that of a fighter who strain,
drug called déxtroamphetamine – people who cat “only enough to middle-aged and passing his hand helped to secure their defeat.
sulphate, caused no ill effects, feed a really eat for more, about 10 percent if he puts on an extra stone of weight" · Is learnt his craft in country over his face as if seeking to How has this been possible? Di Howells sald. But he con- than they admit.
At one hospital a number of is halved if he boxing rings where you had awake
some fantastic. How
puts an is it that McCarthy has demned their regular use `nɔ, to think fast.
not only survived all counter- "happiness pillto pep up overweight people were put on a alone.
Most attacks,
Insurance companies perfectly healthy people who are diet of what they said they ate. but is today - in-a
They Immediately began to lose, siep up their premiums sharply stronger position. than ever overtired.
weight.
when a man measures
more before? Ono reason lies in
The only way to get back to round the stomach, than round McCarthy himself.
normal weight is to reset the the chest.
On the dais McCarthy
settles into a chair alongside Cohn, who smiles him a
from
dream.
Back to work
to
Cohn refusing to
LOWERS APPETITE
In most cases · this
commetter
two
the
Ho isa
Sole purpose of the pills is of
appestat
"Reduction of
of body weight grooting. The witness is At Taất "the-hearing comes
propagandist
to damp down the appelle and will happen naturally if you can definitely lower mortality, in sworn. The questions be an end, with
demoniac skill. He has 'ex-
so make dicting ouder. No plit-stick to a doctor's diet. But the
and gin Coe haa
exists which will enable you to you must really want to allme it overweight people been called provide Coe's counsel with the Piolted to the full all
disorders which ́ ́are to various on which the nort strengtha and all the wook-
allm without dieting
succeed. for questioning whether document
In the obese can be nesses of modern publicity.
Even the extra help of the reduced by slimming aid Dr in 1949 he used his in- day's questioning will be based.
Fat people who think they can In particular he has mado lose weight by massage and pills was not enough for three K. M. Sinclair, of Oxford, fluence with the Fund to think we have the right to use of television's desire for exercise while still inchising at out of every ten of the would- The doctors own figures pro- prevent the devaluation of get information
alimmers in the Cardiff videt the from Mr Coe dramatic spectacle, such as the table are fooling themselves, be
most convincing 'the Austrian currency, a without his knowing in advance Congressional hoaring. * DIO;
You would need to walk 30 miles hospitals trials, They gave up evidence that obesity is now what to lie about," he retorts. step the Soviet opposed, p
vides, Ho Indeed the first
dieting after only a few days of rated as a serious BOTONY to lose one pound of fat,
work hunger. demagogue on the
Bimming pille keer. to. TV ago.
Thero was not one" obviously. At last the imago fades: from But the hearing rapidly the screen
by noting on your appestat" The doctors argued that many ove and the housewife - His methods have been attack,
the conference.3 turna into an attempt to get, remembers it is time to fetch attack;! attack. When he is
a control centre in the brain of these people who failed tg overweight man or wuzsan at which normally regulates your redkice are really, narchologini
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