1954-08-07 — Page 13

"PEACE HATH HER

VICTORIES, EN.COMRADE ?"

Geneva News STAFF TERMS FUTURE OF KRANCE? NATO?

THE PEACE-LOVING PEOPLE

[ THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1954.

The 39th hearer 1)uardia

SCAPEGOAT?

★Today a war-time secret agent opens a campaign to

Did Captain Start

cleor his name of suspicion. collaborate with the Gestape in Occupied Poris? Or has his case been used to cover up the blunders of his chiets in London? Start now makes public his version

of his dealings with the Germans...

N the night

August fulf

of

the

1942 British agri,

ende-mine Emile, was para

chuted inte

field 11

THAN Valence,

111

France. His job was

to net as food expert

to the ideal resistance

x11s.

The

had asked for one.

-or

CAPTAIN STARR

Now aged 45, he has come to London trom his Paris home, with his wife and three children. In clear his name

FAILURE?

But Einile, according to

his own story, was

food expert.

tok!

B

2

Agents walked,

dropped, into rather

CFT

the

He had been hands of a Gestapo recep-

bis mission only before the three days "drup." shown round the

in committee.

The Germans, he said, had shown him exact copies of

London ment market and all the written communien-

ordered 10 patriots.

"bluff"

the

Having landed he looked for the serond paraghute that had brought down his temporary rations. He found tccording to his story) that they had been packed in one huge crate, which he was unable to lift,

t

ions which hul passed bes tween London and the Paris agents.

No one

A

WHY

comment.

With Les Armour In Britain Today

T

The "Billy Graham”

1

Of Siam

London. Whereby, uur friend decided tent himself with contemplating E arrival in London that he would henceforth adopt the English way of life.

the "Buddhist mithade" to the With an air of gracious detach of a gentleman billed Treasury. In less exotic tergas, ment he Kits In an eighteenth Siam's Billy he determined to contemplate entury house in posh Berkeley Graham" on the same day the Treasury from time to time Square, once Inhabited by Clive but to take no action in regard of India, and watches the world that iLTi Englishman ex-

to it,

go by. plained to B bankruptcy court that he had adopted "the Buddhist attitude" to the Treasury is not pro- pitious.

A late while ago he extended "The Buddhist attitude" is the Exater Bankruptcy Court and. for taking no astion upon being urdered to appear there

He was

slapped into Exeter

troubles utta Fathers,

AJL

HIT

He eats only two meain a day, smoken and drinks not at all. and he is honour bound to have nothing to do with woren,

For money he has "no use"-- mooning noi that he hates It but

The neon signs and the hoof ing horns of London's gay West

The Englishman presents following a little friendly adview there is nothing he would want to do with it. His simple needa a sad spectacle. A gentle

from the peace-loving man, this nearly L

ched are met by charity. bird watcher with the not inconsiderable distinction of having been the first man in the world to photograph the Jeelandic Falcon.

always that he does not apply the attitude of The Buddha te the afairs of Hor Majesty's Government any longer.

All this is bound to stimulate Interest in the arrival of Mr Phra Pannonanda, the aforg But, somehow. untrusting mentioned

an

"Billy Grahain of soul. Before the war, his froth Slam,” who comes 20 us from in the future of sterling fell so the Buddhist monastery of Wal wow that he salted away most of Mahath in Bangkok. fib capital in gold bullion and sovereigns. That brought him

The nature of his mission is tinged sightly with mystery.

He the Defence tells us But he will stay in (Finance) Regulations under

thal,

into conflict

with

London RX mouths but

which his gold wus condisented and traded off for unspectacular though he is a frequent speaker on the radio and in the temples poumi notes.

וול

Some of these Her Majesty's and meeting halls of Stam, he will not Speak here for the Government tak url self Tey

e enough

reason that Ane and Some 11 way of refined to the fathless harder anglich 't quite up to it yet. For the moment, he will con- of gold.

End are of no importaneo,"

What matters is the improve- ment of the soul and the con- templation of Higher Things.

Charming, delightful - fier. haps admirables.

But certainly disastrous There is a dark moral to be drawn from the bir wutcher who "detached himself from the Treasury

TKJ

The moral is not Drat the Treasury has

king for Higher Things. but the rather cahier une that it all of บริ detach ourselves and devote our- selves to simplicity and con- templation, we wil all slave to stesth

eburgatestty nad de-

Bgh fully to all the zom14

George And The Gargoyle

10

Wonderfund and He tried to this remark sound acid,

didn't find t

C ott very well. He had been part of the British way of life too long to sound really nasty.

(ELL. sud e Feursono Alice

It Cinderella next?" Gargoyle righteously. took six hundred years. But at make Lisd

tational The decency has made self tel

Lion, George, the cast-iron bunked sleepily. Muppose VARI refer

18

to the sudden discovery by the Swindon magistrates that Boconcelo's Decamera un abscene book."

"Exactly." The Gargoyle prred

the White root from which

and down on

hall ministry

זיי

bow

abomination

he had surveyed the steadily decaying world since the cariv dayy ot Queen Victori simply can't understand we tolerated that for so long.”

George the Lian looked down It was the streat at Big Ben, Just 3 am. He had still an hour before ho was due back Trafalgar Square to take hig place umong the national There WAH no

He ta scurry away. would have to make the beat of it.

monumenta

ut

The

even didn't Gargoyle bat an eyelash "Just su. There's a horrid bit in 'Alice' about the Walrus and the Carpenter. Tricking all those Oysters,

"What sort of morn 19 fur little children?

"AB

that

for Cinderella! The whale stary's a glorification of 100. party crashing.

Freud, Masquerading as a princess tu

into get

What ball!

will become of our young women if they are exposed to that kind of thing?"

George grained gently. "You into might throw Peter Rabbit the flames while you're at it,

animal nr

which Glorifying upsets the national agricultural

effort

"But that's hardly your meat. to ban There are Lot Thone current

+1

he suppose, that you

will want

reflected,

R

COLONEL BUCKMASTER

did almost For a yeti, Story everything the Gestapo wanted.”

EPORTS clavision

In

Colour Off

art

in

ta

The

the courage to

sure, but dead

of

Han b

your

bopka deserving censure. How about banning

*1984'7 Sug- George Orwell's Kesting thun over-government may ruin us and all that khud of thing. Inviting anarchy,

other "And that

anarchist, You really ought to Priestley.

toser ail ħls magazine artletes into the fire, you know."

The Gargoyle grinned a warm- ly he ever allowed himself to grin. "Now you've got the right iden. We're getting obscenity What under control, all right. we need to do now is to launch into subversion,

"History shows thal when Law you lose your respect for and Order and Regulation,

went

Perhaps the Gargoyle on with that speech all night. Ho George never found out. went back to Trafalgar Square stood and two no-good sallors on him and sang songs would have sent the Gargoyle shouting for the police.

which

From the top of his column, Lord Nelson smiled.

Rails

that it seems too much to hope stay that Scottish trains will in Scotland or that the CITY- barrassment involved in, having phinly English trains crossing the border can be avoided.

to Once it is possible tinguish between the two, the af an English train sight

the border... screaming across

dit-

that the Scottish Equally, no one has done any British Rail- serious research into the prob- Starr got a cool reception

ways will shortly be granted lem of "appropriate colours."*** from his chiefs in London.

accused him of

permission to repaint its trains especially in Scotland.

Probably, even the Scots will "appropriate colours"

try not have anything: bis report

causing marked disquiet

mother Royal Stuart, nor will accepted without

humourists One learned journal has dis- they, as unhappy But he learned by devious martialling him; we believe England.

chance in letting bygones be by.

covered that the old Deeside would have it, dress the fre- ways, through the

men in the kilt and substitute Days later, he rrept back words of strangers, that he gones."

Miss Overton Fuller, after Railway once painted a locomo-

Stuart tartan bagpipes for the steam whistle. a hlasing symbol of the foreign tive in Royal

prove tyrant—may

too much from British, and used

any it daily 10 carry la there not over to the spot with his ill was officially regarded in

for the natives. collaborator inquiries

It might and dispatches

foundations in the rumour that French and German wit-government

itself running out of per- nourished resistance friends. London us

with the Gestapo. They opened the crate.

Starr says that Colonel ases, has reached the grim Queen Victor when she was the Scots will replace the Bri-

tish ilon, now painted boldly inanent way. chocolate find packets of

coach, the side of every have on Writers to The Times Section found

of with a heraldle drawing been

Tevive trying to

the with English wrappers, and Buckmaster said nothing to conclusion that the French living at Balmoral.

dynamited pillar box? to ancient tinned foods, all with labels him, but that be said to an

controversy 0.8 printed in English.

whether trains ought to blend inquirer: "For a year, Starr unt of their blunders em-

with the countryside was did everything, or almost barrassing, and used him as

a scapegoat. If everything, the

employed, instead, She tells how, in her Lon-

the landscape, thus were don inquiries, efforts was wanted."

cheer” to lonely, villagers. made to dissuade her from

No one, howOVER, publication.

Jament tho passing of, the dirty scarlet and sour cream which now distinguishes all the stenin trains in the country.

Emile's real name Captain John Starr. commander in London

Colonel Maurice Buckmaster, head of the French Section

of the Special Operations Executive, the organisation

Gestapo

Explanation

T the Paris 1.Q. of the

in which Odette Peter Chur Security Police. Starr had, chili and Madeleine operated, in fact, enjoyed u favoured Starr has told his story position. His explanation is to Jean

Fuller, that he Overton

WELS horrifled friend and biographer of the extent to which his Lou Madeleine. Published re- don chiefs were being fooled

At

Starr's ac-

or

Start Who is right, Buckmaster? On the evidence available I am not prepared to Buy.

But I recall Buckmaster's book, Specially Employed, it is a success story, with of captured

cently, It will make him a by the Germans, and he mention

radlo Beta, of "double" controversial figure. its au- sought any means, however, thor, and Starr himself, slender, of sending a warn agents, of entire assistance areas rounded up, or of hope it will provoke a public ing.

He had everything to gain agents who lacked courage. inquiry.

And nothing to

Arrested

STARR made

2

lose, by

keeping in the Germans'

"good books." He claims he

Airing

#

As for Scottish trains thunder- ing through the quiet English countryside, farmers will blench as oki racial memories come surging

back of raiding, horse thieves and cattle rustlers.

But it is not improbable be that, being Scots, the railway to brighten men will decide on a money

"bringing saving decor of splashed mud,

All

in all, it would even that they will paint a bold "There Are Heavy Penal- safer to stick to dirty

Valid and sour cream. Mr Eden is tles for Riding Without Ticket" sign across each coach, having enough trouble without The dificulty from the Eng- having to exchange stern notes lish point of view, however, is with Edinburgh.

to

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Of Miss Fuller's book up and the prides they volon copy and a table in the

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Buckmaster 18

a against the national Interest

The buyer, of course, might and bold a not containing artide which he links be cars No Hiding Place (Behind Scotland Yard)

at the Gemon Marise Food-Fishes of Hongkong: headquarters.

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Published his 1936, an unbound who talks-artis naglo ay figure Weights & Measuremento operating the radio sets of "Starr was not a tralbor occasional airing,tay captured agents. They were He lacked the courage of Secret agents are not foot with a plata tapering Body

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donalders Important, B Beht out from London. The with imprisonment, he food

and history are off SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST od" #ilver spoon greater valgo to him, then maco, HONGKONG miso with ivory,hackle, A. Queen with the Virgizi, wind heart finial/appearance

now

the line of least resistance in and helped the Gestapo. Start Affair Overton, Fuller. (Collanen, 150. da). There was no point in court

I cannot believe that it is

The main feature was

was

£2,900 foris Des

"

Walter Schwarz and cover movered juridik similden

on one skia

4th Impression.