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THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1953.

Central Africa's First Governor General

honour

By Yorke Hendersen

benches, London, Dunkirk

Colonel he still brings the cool-minded, upproach of the one of unflurried, 10a, sixty year old Llewelllu, regarded as

the Government's most effective lawyer. But it is an approach Dorset bachelor has

younger members, was switched tinged with almost schoolboyish the into been accorded

the Ministry of Aircraft bumour. first Production. of being Governor-General of the

Throughout the fateful African liew. Central

summer of the Battle of Britain Federation,

Into the dark winter of blitzes followed und beyond, he The job will be no' sine- that cure. The eyes of the entire stayed the pace with his exacting

boss, Lord Beaverbrook. will Commonwealth watching Central and the man at its head.

Lord to ald-Elonian, But Llewellin, the job is a challenge will enjoy -a challenge he meeting

Le Africa

For John Jestyn Llewellin, 1st baron, is no fair weather pilot.

Sineo ha

emerged from

political obscurity before the Inst war, he has been handed one stugh

assignment after

another.

Tig

first,

DG

Civil

the

Lord

of

W.L

Admiralty. overshadowed in the late thirties by lowering was clouds. He was a key member of

bed

to

the team which

Ket undor. navy

pitifully

Strong

н

inte shape

the

come.

for

By the time they both left the Ministry in the summer of 1941 British air power was beginning to hit back and made itself felt. Lord Beaverbronk went on to

of State

and become Minister Colonel Llewellin into another top-pressure post, Parliamentary Secretary to the vital Ministry of War Transport,

Frony By Bench standards

he was still a

Junior. But, as

Parliamentary Secretary of B key member of the Cabinet, much depended

on hils executivo ability. His work had not passed ununticed by his m-war critic, The Right Hon- curable Member for Epping, and in June of 1942 a £3,500

LORD LLEWELLIN

given WOR

war everyone knew must he

When the break, Colonel

war

war

really believed that

of the

a year salary increase and the

Board

Trade.

But

and arrange

of

П

Ho might have been D 'is one of his new. surgeon—is colleagues Sir Godfrey Huggins, of Southern Prime Minister Rhodesla-but, na he admits s

fastidious for hose too secting rooms put paid to that. is Ills stalus is a bachelor

a talking point for providing

Who, poctally-conscious,

will be his they want to know, his hostess in Africa? In Dorset home he lives with

Mayoresa of Poole, sister, the but she will not be travelling to Africa with him.

the

Another poser is where Lord Llewellia will stay during his first few months of office, For, until the Arst Federal Parlia- the site of the men decides

no permanent capital,

official residence can be bullt for him.

THIS

MUST

T

rc-

HERE is n file at the Foreign Office about whose existence the British public mains only dimly aware and the British Government obstinately silent,

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WHICH IS DOING BRITAIN NO GOOD BRUSHED ASIDE

By A.K. CHESTERTON

Dourlein's attitude is similar: The main purpose was perhaps to take no chances with his until

after D Day."

There Gre two views In Holland about Englandspiel.

The first holds that there was treason in London, No proot has been produced in support of

fore be dismissed.

The second-and by far the most widespread-view is that S.O.E. was guilty of sustained and fantastic negilgence.

Not the least wearing aspect Presidency of the of an already hard job was the

what He held that post for incessant berrage from the Right

record. Honourable Member for Epping must be a short-term

after taking up who had his own sturdily inde- Three weeks penden! views about the Navy's his appointment he was trans state of preparedness and could ferred back to one of his old speak from personal experience. Ministries, Aircraft Production, this time he was the His name: Winston Churclull.

head man.

The file stays closed.

Colonel Giskes, with whom I out of the country in a British this charge, which must there clouds chil

That something was gravely Nine months Inter the Prime

and Down from J.J. Llewell Mialster

sent for him to tell despite questions in Parlin wrong with the Special Opera's talked recently in Hamburg, in- freighter,

ment about it. But now tions

was formed me--and I believe him Gibraltar to England. Executive service was Parliamentary Secretary to him he had been chosen for

a job new and vital post, Minister in the Ministry of Supply..

the book, "Calling. North apparent, but he did not learn that he had an aversion to decoy-

Dourlein, anxious to make he worked at enthusiastically Washington for Supply, His Pole," that first told the unth later that for 18 months ing ardent young patriots into

to suffer death at contact with his superiors in thought it Holland only be to

the British S.O.E co-ordinato Job would throughout the months

Ho S.O.E., wished to set off at once was in contact the Dutch the hands of the Gestapo.

with "phoney

when people British and American war pro-story of how the Germans Britain has. "the boys duction

for the hoodwinked

Resistance Movement when secured from the head of the for London, but was taken in-

"Yes," said Dourlein to me, in armed camp at special ateak to an the counter - espionage to the been published in America. really it was dealing with

To his horror, he Amsterdam: "Groes negligionco. will be home by Christmas." allocation of supplies

his branch п writton statement Guildford.

was under seems the only explanation." It is receiving very pro- astute Colonel Giskes and

not realised that he able Beutenant, Herr Hunter that the captives would

barely concealed arrest. minent attention.

"Yes," said Lauwers.

"Our Tireless Efficiency

mann, both of the German be killed.

Agents in Haaren prison were

When he did reach London, instructors in Britain werd first- the counter-espionage service, the North Sea tireless, quiet

but the executives were No fewer than 50 agents were duly assured that they need have

It was not to report to his own rate, by this time Dutch sull talk of Englandspiel

One man chicts but the no fear of execution.

be interrogated by not up to their jobs. However, "the English Fame." The dropped into the orma of

however, was not convinced hallmark he

call it Nordpolspiel, Nazls organisation Germans

Pieter Douricin. He made the an Intelligence officer who was when a general makes a mistake decision of his fedo less interested in Englandspiel which costs thousands of lives, little is mid of it, and that is its teething troubles after a wartime codeword

These names are shameful to

Incredible how we must regard England- smoothly before,

It is time the British a year later, the final wartime Britain. call on his versatility was people know how they came to

spiel." be bestowed. The file should be In November of 1943 he re-reopened. turned from America to take the Lord Woolton over from unenviable job of wartima Minister of Food. He held the

British

way back

And. various theatres of war. battalion to the

Then came the crash.

broken fought their

as

DAYER

Parasitic skin disease, itching tigema, stc"

Mitigal

OIL & OINTMENT

»Bayer « LEVERKUSEN GERMANY.

With the ellielency, which had become his the saw

through

and working

mnde,

new

Across

Code name

The enemy also collected half wisest a million rounds of ammunition, escape. thousands of pounds of explo- The 40 Dutch agents at Haaren sives, Sten guns, Bren guns, remonths later were transferred to volvery, radar equipment, radio the notorious Mauthausen camp: sete, clothing, and more or less where they were massacred in everything the Germans cared the most brutal fashion.

to roquest.

post until the end of the, war Amsterdam and elsewhere 1 radio communication with Loo~

have seems

The answer

than

in Dourlein. Having suffered hardship, including the crossing on foot of the Alps and the Pyrenees, and having run ap paling dangers for the Allied cause, he was now committed by the British nuthorities to Brixton Prisou.

After he had been kept-in captivity for over four months, Dourlein was released on the urgent representations of the Netherlands authorities in Eng- land.

The Dutch people, who feçi strongly about the tragic busi- ess, are not anti-British. They are passionately pro-British.

Rewarded

Lauwers, and

Morcover, through control of TN

have talked with men who dop at one time they operated and his elevation to the peerage. know much of its contents from ho fewer than 10 "lines" — the

hoblitated to burst One of Germany Bul, lesting as all his jobs personal experience.

were able the Llewellin them is Pieter Dourlein, who into Lord

Dutch Resistance been,

on escaped from occupied Holland Movement and arrest its mem- thrived to have

berg by the thousand. by motor-beat in 1941.

Dourlein made his way to be Prince Bernhard's

in offter Englandspie! began when the Germans captured an S.O.E. bo and applied to of London, bulk

now a heavy trained as a Fleet Air Arm pilo.. agent named Lauwers,

superiors had other dental surgoon in Utrecht But his time for

Lauwers, obedient

difficulty.

10

The quiet-voiced, andy- hatred man refused overawed by sheer work and even under

could and pressure outside setivities, While he was ideas for hun. And no wonder.

10 the

ONG before then, Dourlein Land Johannes Ubbink had

UEEN JULIANA hos rc. made their escape from Haaren one night by forcing the rot

redeemed from dishonour by the barred windows of a washroom

posthumous award of the and climbing down a rope made

He entered the Fleet Air Arm Bronze War Cross the memories of their from strips

maturcaca.

death in Germany. squadron. They were helped over the an sir-runner in a Dutch of the 40 brave men tone to Dourlein and his companion, barbed wire by a providential

Why was he thus treated on

Ubbinke, have been thunderstorm, which drove the

his arfival in England?

the of with

highest order sentries into their boxes.

I put this question, out and exhausted Often hungry and

knighthood in the power curiosity, to Colonel Giskes. privation, marviving lanun-

course," he

of the escape British decorations, especially contrived to travel by way of from Haaren Wo radioed to for Dourlein, would also be Antwerp, Switzerland, and oc- London that

the men were fitting.

But best of all would be German agents, who would cupied France to Madrid.

probably try to make their way thorough inquiry into the whole to England.

ghastly anals,

crable

Hollywood's

gravy train comes to a sudden halt

By DAVID LEWIN

London. was a wonderful honey- away from the

mon

worrica of income tax. It

was fun while it lasted for the Hollywood stars who found that travel not only broadened the mind but im- proved the bank. balance, They could just stay away from America, work over- seas, and keep every cent they earned. No tax to pay at all. That was the law.

Now

It is over. The long trail is winding back home to Holly" wood. It all started In Decem→ ber 1991. Then the U.3. Con- gress passell a new law which Said that any American, who spent 17 months out of 18 away from the US, would be excused paying American Income Tax during that Ume.

The law was intended to encourage American oll workers and key defence men to leave home and toil in not very ap- pealing places like Alaska or the Middle and For East.

BU

Capital gain

»UT in Hollywood the smart,nc- countants and lawyers soon realised how the tax-free `offer could benefit their ellents loo

"Go to Europe," they said, "and make pictures there. Your salaries will be paid in dollars

and

you will bere in Americut aby have It

de- ductions when you get back bome. What a capital gam!"

Studios. with frozen

funds here--money which they cannot

send back to Hollywood - happily agreed to put stars in pictures in British studios,

Now Congress has changed its mind. The tax-free gravy train bas come to a halt.

In future any American who stays away from home for 17 months at a time will be per- initted to keep up to £7,000 tax free. But the tax collector will deal with the the usual way.

Among most of the Hollywood colony in London, fotlay there are long and axious faces. work- Gregory Peck Has been ing his passage through tho studios of London - and Ger- to many. Errol Flynn come

to ther

went on England and

; Italy to alm sunt

Kirk Douglna went to Israci Arat and

Italy. Land Turner and Ava Gardner are both in London. Gene Tierney went from Britain to Franco. Claudette Colbert, breaking new ground, even tried a picture in Spain

G

ENE

He's lucky

KELLY, * 39-year-old dancing star, has been. lucky. He was the first Holly- wood actor under the tax-free tapa. At the end of his third he recently European Alm rewarded

of

went smartly back home richer by around. £140,000. No tax to pay at all. Kelly came here just after the law passed in December already

Civil Land of the Admirally he | Intelligent, quick-witted, stend- orders ho had received in Loo- by in narrow escapes, the pair soon as we hear uplied, "as their sovereign to bestow, also commanded, a Territorial fast, strong without being burly, do consented to work his radio on German Instructions Artlilers unit and he still is tough without being aggressive, but withheld his identity checks, President of the Royal Society Dourlein, of the Royal Nether which consisted of a mistake at for

the type of of the Prevention

Ac lands Navy, was

of every 16th letter of his message. nian who forms the backbone of This would inform London that cidents.

service. He started his career as

and any fighting

he was not a free agent, Will you

return to Holland would enable the British Secret barrister and to all problems

by parachute as an agent of the Service, through him, to mis-

he lead German Intelligence. British Secret Service?" was asked. Dourlein agreed.

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As the plane droned over the sea, he nerved himselt to deni with whatever might lie ahead..

Warnings

be

Fortunately for his peace of B warned. Arrangements were mind, there were things he did not know.

As he touched ground, two men, flashing torchlights, came

>UT London refused to

made with him — that is, with the Germans - for further agents to be dropped. These were captured and their

In response to London's ur geal orders, they were smuggled

Fastest way

to slim

is plenty of fat!

CHAPMAN PINCHER's Lawsnews-in-science column

towards him. He hid in the agents, ndio sets "played bushes until he heard them call back" by the Germans. cut "POL." This was the code name given to the drop.

Reassured, he left ils

cover managed

fats, and carbohydrates

of

may ly. The symptoms return when than treatment stopped.

M.

1.

be even more important the total bulk.

Veterinary Surgoons Some of the patients who Lawson and L. E. Rowson, cut their Hally calorie-intake who treated the animal, did from the average of 2,200 to not have enough of the expen. about 1,500 did not lose weight sive drug to go on giving it a

at all.

In desperation,

three times message to embody the word and went to meet them, as did "caught. To no purpose. TheTHE quickest way for a be tried only under his two companions. Others then appeared. affable meeting.

It

Woo

No joke

an

THE dropped men, relieved to THE

▸

to

Hollywood

comp1851

made

was

hove

plans:

their moet the new situation. Twentieth Century Fox - "be- cause we have no suitable sub- Alm-

Scots will suspend ranking in this country for at least year, M.-G.-M., - with studios at Elstree, will continuo making alms with big stor namics.

Fewer films will be made but stara under contract can' still be sent to work in England, like it or not.

Only the "free-lanice globo trotting store will stay under Californian skies.

set back to

Soon their accountants will more routine of methods

keeping down budgets. The big bonus days will be just a mink-lined

NOTE-Fat-rich diets should regular dose,

Bo the first, bult to get coril-

memory. medical sone treatment for its rheuma- Englandspici flasco went on.

get supervision as they can causa tism is now beef. Fortunatoly for Lauwers, when slim is to go on a diet with unpleasant symptoms in some Ivo eventually staggered out

people..

THE fot

to person

of Oranienbung concentration plenty of fat in it.

4

camp, he was interviewed by That la the surprising Major Klaas do Graaf, O.BE claim of London doctors

bread

MARKING THE SPOT

FLUORESCENT paints,

HERE'S HISTORY.

AN OPERATION which mado medical history was

an alert Intelligence officer who who are trying to find out which make posters more carried out at Guy's Hospital, flew the same day to London be among friends, chatted and examined the actual exactly how reducing diets conspicuous, are Eeing tested London, a few days ago. gally. Then suddenly, Dourlein's

as a possible means of saving new friends seized his arms and ages which Lauwers had trans- work. mitted.

who They confirmed hip

have The blood-flow through handcuffs over his anapped

Professor Alan Kckwick and the lives of filers stowy,

patient's heart was completely Dr G. L8. PAWER gave comb down in the rea wrists. Thinking that his com-

Confronted with this evidence different kinda

for RAF Belentists have devised stopped

many minutes of alimming posure was being tested, he the British officers made

covered -- while surgeon Russel Brook replied calmly: "I don't think attempt to deny that Lauwers the Middlesex Hospital.

no dlots to overweight patients at a large floating mai

**with- red fluorescent paint, operated on the valves Inside much of these jokes."

had withheld his identity check, "It is no joke," he was told. but said they had overriding in fata (ko butter and cream) being spoiled by a passing air- cause

They found that a lot rich Tralied from a dinghy it might it.

increase a survivor's chances of This could be safely done be- the patient's body. "We are Dutch Nazis, and you reasons for their belief that the but

hardly containing are a prisoner of the Gestapo." mesenges ho

craft, especially in. moonlight. and other agents

bren de temperature has liberately lowered from Dourlein was sent were genuine. All other starchy food (such

ita Soon afterwards, In a prison call at Haaren, one "agents were German opern- and potatoes) brought about the PATIENT A BULL normal level of 80 degrees Fali-

most rapid weight-loss. hand bound to his chair, under "toral

renheit to only 73 degrees. There were other warnings. going prolonged interrogation

This "refrigeration” to enable. with arthritis has been surgeons, to perform bloodless day

Ho tried to feed his captors imprisonment, mruggled out a staroby food weight was lost successfully treated with

cor-operations - wie : ploneured ; by with falso information. It was message giving the alarm. It w

slowly

tisone, the anti-rheumallam French doctors. David Boas, upoless. They knew far more reached London. No notice was All fat people must cut down drug.

young

Guy's_surgeon, hús†, dm-, The bull, a Shorthorn at the proved in their methods about the London set-up than akcent

on their food the total num-

The Frenchmen »

** lower the he did.

Colonel Somer

of ber of chloride" per day-be Cambridge. Arificial Insemina- head Ho recognised as fellow-cap- 3.1, the Dutch Intelligence fose they can lose weight. But tion Centre, had boon

given body temperature, by wrapping kind of patients in, rubber tubes, filled tives in the prison Dulch ogents. Bervice, told me when I maw him those experiments prove that almost every other he had seen in London, in a' at Hilversum that be too had calorie-cutting alone not treatment, but was getting pro- with fen-water, In the Brium

meihod bloot is withdrawn training camp at Reading, and given 6.0.E. the most emphatic always do the trick who gresslyely worse, while.

of coursed near Mag warnings that the Geneng had The proportions of foods in a After ten dally Infections of from the palleng, cooled, and chester and in Ecotlatki.

penetrated its orgazada Conta slimming diet the proteins, cortisone it could walk normaly pumped back

.

On the reverse type of diet-

and night, with little sleep. Dourlein, in the curly days of his | Containing little fat but much A PRIZE· BULL" "gricoled

POCKET CARTOON.

by OSDERT LANCASTER

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