1954-08-24 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY," AUGUST 24, 1954.

Sefton Delmer's Report No. 3 From Inside Germany

OTTO WRITES TO

AND

Bonn.

A A

SMEAR

HIS WIFE

GROWS

in

neo-Nazi n medical report which John Today he serves as unofficial to the Right-wing

and Eastern partics and organizations in a badly wanted in order to obtain adviser on Soviet Dr

pension for a widowed friend affairs to Dr Gerstenmayer, head bid to wrap up the workers in of his family.

of Adenauer's foreign affairs a now brown-paper parcel-just conversation

As Hitler did so efficiently The

clearly committee.

Publisher shows Jehu's rinelance to visit

of the newspapers 1983.

But please don't forget one the doctor, and the pressure of Das Bild and Die Welt is Axel

Hls to Springer. argument used by the doctor

wife ia the thing in all these signs of Nazi make John walk into his par- daughter of 5.8. General Lorenz, revival, If Germany does to leur.

"For just a couple who was one of the foremost Nazl again we shall have only hours. old bay," says paladins of Himmler and Her ourselves to blame.

pamum Wohlgemuth--a couple of hours and was condemned to 15 years' in which John could well have imprisonment at Nuremberg. been drugged into doclilly, report The polley aim of these old

LETTER from Otto John to his wife has been published In So the Western Germany. has a tape-recording of a telephone conversation he had with the Communist Dr Wohlgemuth, who en- ticed John into seeing him, and then vanished with him into the Russian Zone.

The Jelier and the tape record'ng

in linve berti

the possession of the authorities here ever since John, who was West Germany's security chiel, dis- appeared. But only now they released for when the atmosphere has been thoroughly

somed

publication-

double traltor John.

the

agency

But published by most of the news

does here

not EU pupers it that way. It talks of a code conversation between the two

the and refuses to take

con- versation at Its face value,

aquinst No,

So slick

is substantially friends of mine is

was when

I knew the same as it was

the them in 1932. Then, full of

of Hitler's pet geo- jargon political expert Professor Georg Haushofer, they wanted Ger

the leader of many to become

Europe German-controlled

the Atlantic to renching from

mc JO, don't tell

that the the Urals. techniques of Goebbels'

his

Two faults WE have gone out of our way

to make stiro that it should happen:--

indiscriminate ONE, by our lumping together of vast cate- gories of Germans and uniting them in prison camps in a way been united they had never and Nazifed before.

the

TWO, by changing our polley

and suddenly,

apparently Justifying the whole of Hitler-policy militarism by our-

proceeding militarise, rearm, and re-Nazify Germany.

the

Dreamers

family

His boys are backRIE idea was that if they cap- selves

a

to

re-

A "double traitor" because propaganda all died when

o te doctor shot John (1) fled to Britain

tured this heartland they work there against Hitler in the and himself.

This anti-traitor last year of the war after failing on the job.

would be masters of the world. to avanssinate Birtler

and (2) campaign shows that they are Today, with much the same idea

Our only salvation is to stop in their best form because he is alleged to have in

once more in view, they are talking of this mad rearmament of Ger pretty

thorough

under third-force Europo deserted to the Russians.

lay, with

Ger-

For rearmament inevit- The

and the letter

Tupe control of

leadership as the Arst step ably newspapers 1071

means the return of the so much time to the attainment of this plan. recording suggest that Dr. John which we spent

Nazis. And the return of the was probably tricked into cross-

end money In democratising" Their idea is to play off the Nazis means war. Ing the tector border and in

against the Russians now being held in East Berlin

and thus grow strong out of the World copyright: Reproduction

in whole or part forbidden.] ngainst his will. Thus the delay

rivalry of these two powerful

-(London Express Service), victor Powers. in publishing them.

The bait

FOR 1 interpret met des

for them.

those

Please don't imagine that they are the old guard of Jack-booted

brown shirted storm

and

1.

Americans

Thin dream seems to bet guiding more and more influen- tel Germans.

These new Nazis are silek. Consider the little Hamburg ng connected with the news-

Once the German Army has Lapers Die Welt, Das Bild and Die Zeit, which were the first been formed and Germany han some military Jaunch the biller

"anti-recovered

these dangerous fraitre" campaign against Otto strength,

dreamers say Germany will be

dirappiarree decor al mare new Nazis In Western Germany. who are anxious to exploit his

1 to hound li "double treason" onti-Nazi 12301 "traitory Hitler out of positions They

here today.

Just

1+

John and company.

ihe known the e men and strong enough to drop her pre-

Hent Llind ubedience

years, west.

still a cent at the letter to Frau ter pelivities for many John. It is written on a rough go right back in fact to the scrap of paper. "Dear Liesehen, Ser of 1932, before Hitler tok

11 says, "Hessona which I cannot power. explala to you have forced re

10 Lake a step which I shall ex- plain later."

A circle

T that time they were group-

Hans Zehrer, to

D Welt and for Das Bik, in what was called then the "at

The word "forced" is heavily ed round underlined obylonals intended day critter as a clue to his wife of what leader weiter really happened,

This note," he goes on. " oncle. only to tell you not to and to inform father. I

de

among

many.

00

It is reported that after Churchill's Cabinet refused to let him go

To see Malenkov, a mystérious słowaway was discovered among the Labour delegation Taking off to China via Russia.

STOWAWAY

1

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

DESTINY IS CALLING YOU,

PRESIDENT

London.

the to She could follow a more

And this dependent line of her own.

view has strong backing among the diplomats of the ne German Foreign Office. Symptomatic of a new association ldcological-political

these

former Nazis

IKE a criminal who the ever ΠΟΤΕ frequent

returns to the scene former internces,

of his crime or, if meetings of like that held in Espen's Kaiserhof Hotel

pil- you prefer, a couple of months ago, under the patron- grim who returns to Ü

HO age of coal magnate Otto shrine, I went down the Springrorum.

other day to the empty Nor should you forget the old Houses of Parliament. reurma- soldiers' leagues, which arc

worry This was a group of ardent am Pan-German expansionist intel-

very anxious about you but not lectuals about myself.

thine Olto."

The

macke

All my

tape-recording

intimately

associated Offles

love, with the German Wor

Germany's secret and ment

43

by the polier telephone conversation in which Dr Wohlgemuth entleed John to come and seo hi

evening of July 20

are

0

They served 03 unofficial getting more and more active.

And the new wave of labour The Debating Chambers polley dyers to their patron

unrest which, for the first time of the Commons and Lords the nutoriaus and paymaster,

since the defeat is hitting Ger- were as silent as a museum Schleicher, IL WAS

muy Cause German Schleicher who was behind Ger-

dealists to

Sunday. K

The

the General 011

would then and there make out

more give

0 11

Ilis bait to John was that in many's secret alliance for illegal than hitherto Honorable and Rt Honorable

puses with the Red Army,

reariament

training pur-

He was the chief ully of Hitler in ther's Entrigue for power. But he tried to double-croSS Hitler, and wes finally double- essed by fitter imeelt.

During the ter period all there were prominent with the exception of Zehrer, who Book on a publishing job for the army.

S.S. rank.

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So far has the breed of Adam travelled from the innocence of the Garden that coherent life can be virtually brought to an and with only a few numbed, crazed survivors 10 wander IJ. instead of denouncing among the ruins. members of the Lower 1 was in keeping with that

cline of at the spiritual Chamberlain House are scattered to the rarited feeling

which

it Munich, the Americans had sent mede superiority winds and the Peers are

for the possible

professorial a singlé naval squadron into that ancient

its and hibernating like bears in the Woodrow Wilson to utter those the Mediterranean to take

Iceble words: "Too proud to place beside the French and known story of the human race. winter.

would I there is to be another world fight" and be acclaimed as if Britiais Navics Hitler they were the highest wisdom have been destroyed overnight war on a cosmic scale then wo

by his own generals,

*may as well hand back the earth to which mankind" could rise.

to the monkeys.

In another sense it was that

There is no reason to doubt elvilisations lived passed away before the

The only sounds were the voice of a guide showing

If It is thought that I tried, where Charles I was

merely being wise after the

Against that grün"pleture and and the rain slopping on the same detachment from reality

ovent let me tell you that against much pessimism

there Terrace. If there is no such which caused America to de Harold Stassen, the present is the inspiration and splendour

Whe repayment

of the Director of

the United States of Winston Churchil's mind. is time it was invented. Be made to France and Britain as and t

Bald those

to the world his words at the he proclaims cause that

was what the they poured out their blood and time of the Munich crisis. But policy of co-existence. Thero rain was doing.

treasure to save elvillsation in the 1914-18 war.

word as "alopping" then it mand

bans which the U.S.A. had Forolam Aldi Administration, As he neare his 80th birthday

Then I looked into the holy

said

very

buch

was the unrealism of is no hatred in his soul nor fear American policy in that period in his heart, Instead there is that Stomen was denounced as pride in man's achievement and of halles, the smoke-room where Let us gladly acknowledge a light-weight, and caricatured sorrow for man's blindness. no visitor dare set foot. There the truth that it was America's a 2 boy scout with ideas beyond was Churchill's cortier chair intervention in 1917, belated os his intelligence. (not by right but by custom)

VER a hundred years of ed, and rumours arose that the and I remembered the last time

circulation King was seriously indisposed, that I saw him sitting in it.

It was thereupon decided that to prevent Il-founded rumours The arising,

future reports

bulletin

should

and the names of Royalty present be omitted.

Official Link

affnirs

NO LAW

of

was, that turned the tide against Germany at the cost of thousands of gallant American soldiers. Yet even that com- of blood and tears did munity

the not open American

bankers American

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FULL CIRCLE

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war.

Eisenhower

should

As he looks back from the pinnacle of the years and sees the long road that he has The adviser

travelled there is infinite pity TUSELHER Wirsing, next to

for the human race but also an Zehrer the most important

Indomitable conviction that ang them and today my op- without a mistake is the

no such thing as

mankind will get of the THERE 3

achieve an of Taraber as chief foreign enviable record

Isolationism. Geographically, understanding that will rule out the Friter on Die Welt, held high Court Circular, one of the state: "Divine Service was

Britain psychologically, spiritually and politicians, had had a particularly hard had been drained of her wealth materially it does not and can- He was clearly nerociated with most exclusive news-sheets held at-"

But Winston Churchill must day with Cabinet meetings, ad

and her young manhood, yet not exist. In the deepest mean- existence, regularly of S.S.in espionage

questions in the House and all

Premier Stanley Baldwin had ing of the words we know that soon lay down the sceptro of General Walter Schellenberg, issued from Buckingham

to one The Court Circular was start-sorts and sizes of problems that

what happens

he will have go to Washington and agree

country power, and once many of whose former operators Palace with the express ed in early Victorian times as arise from Government of the

the people for the people by a Con- repay the loan which America happens in some degree to all. done so he will leave it to his are today holding jobs in the

of the It is an

had given official link between

to Britain at war. R the rebellion the successors to speak for civilisa- Colonists against tion, That will creato a organisation of West Germany's Sanction of the Queen.

issued from Court and the Press. No y chaf, General Rein-sometimes

It does servative Government,

It was the beginning of Britain's America

made inevitable dangerous vacuum and, again financial

Britain that not necessarily list a complete

We were collapse. hours both other Royal homes, such as

In a matter hu, Gehlen.

Standard, the French Revolution. It was with respect, I Gold

suggest that and Eden would be driven off the Claus

one of the No. 145 Piccadilly, London, account of all the Sovereign's Churchill

activities Top men

throughout the day, in the sky over the Atlantic, unemployment spread across the a pistol shot in Scrajevo that President circle

private aff which always had its own purely

in reckless des sent the world to war in 1914. realise that he has a far greater and today top political com-

msfying to America for a man-to- country, and

General came the

part to play than merely keep- omitted. when the being ted. It does, how man talk with President Elsen- pair there

wheel Today the of Die Welt, used to daily

has one the component mculator

sections of be editor

ver. record the most important of the main Nazl Queen resided there RA

And I wondered then, Strike. The marks of that in- events attended by the Queen

as I wonder "now, why it had ternecine struggle are still upon full circle, as far as America is the Republican Party together. hower.

concerned. When Mr Truman, prop:-ganda paper 10 the Far Princess Elizabeth. Even to- and gives of the Royal ways to be Churchill with his us.

brief details of the

who wlll yet be acclaimed by He has the warmth, the volca East.

day the Circular is issued dolly activities

weight of years who makes the

as one of the great and the sincerity to give a now from Harewood House, the Family, Their engagements, Atlantic flight and never the

Presidents, declared leadership to the troubled world.. Yorkshire home of Rowances, investitures and other

President,

war against North Korea the He need not pretend to com- wandership into the hands of assume

of Western civilisa

the lisa mend Princess Royal.

classic phrase all briefly described, so as to be There is no law which prevents

the mantle of a con Extracts from the Circular quoted in newspapers at home the President

AM writing these words in tion of the U.S.A. the Library of the House of the U.S.A. No matter how no temporary historian. In London daily appear in times of publica and abroad.

from travelling abroad during Commons and in such a setting individual American might long at the end of the war he spoke tion in newspapers alt over the

The Master of the Queen's his term of office. Toddy

is a danger of to return to the days of Isola- to the people on the radio and world. Only two of the leading Household is responsible for the

the Roosevelt came to London from know there

A won their hoaria. We ask no London Journals are privileged compilation of The Circular, the

the the White House for a State becoming detached from day-to- tion it just could not bo. to collect their copies of The work in practice being done by visit. Woodrow Wilson sat with day reality. But history is a nation can no more turn back more than that Court Circular

the pages than a man can return himself. at the Palace, his Chief Clerk and Secretary, the victors at Versailles top of the human

the struggles record by which extracts are promptly elr who prepares a draft

towards sentence upon but

tho guilty and

raco can be to his youth.. culated to other editorial offices the end of each afternoon. This

studied In tranquility. Long. to unvell his plan for an all

Then why should the Ameri- throughout the world by the is submitted to the Queen for wise League of Nations.

aftor the event it is easy to can Presklent of today remain famous Fleet Street news her formal approval before the

point to the errors of those who incarcerated in the White House Then final copies are made, agencies.

held office when the world was as if it were with the Therefore,

the Vatican and TAVEN as the Commander-in- word and phrase

But

novertheless it we

We he the. Pope? Why Free From Error

must. 1 chief of the Allied Forces and double-checked greatest possible respect, I give mad.

It as my opinion that it would are ever to learn, It is from the always be Churchill who under that invaded Europe and smash- the Circular is IC- have been a

good

thing if book of history.

goes the strain and excitement ́ed the might of Germany he rê... · There is tremendous Interest lensed for public issue. President Elsenhower had cabled

of crossing to America to dis- mained a · human being whoen shown by newspaper readers of In Its carly stages three

that

affairs would

cuss world

with a tolerance and sympathy for almost all nationalities in the blank line are left between come to London, and thus spare the President of the United President who in still. In the mankind made of him a lovable published Court Circular ex cach lines of typescript to take the old Warrior the strain that States is more hidebound by prime of life? tracis, remarkable for their In any last-minute amendments consistent accuracy. No other newspaper in the world can

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to Churchill

HIDE-BOUND

This fact is self-evident that

histo ca

is inseparable from the burden

of the yeara.

tradition than any British Premier could ever be. And

the

THE LEADER

worst tradition of the A VACUUM American way of politics is that which virtunity makes the

then

he should be

SILENCE

by, the gettineer" of,

political rivedries,

figure. No wonder America wontod him as President. The whole civilised world wanted 1. Extra Precaution show such freedom from error.

But from the day of his Nomes and tities with unusual Procedure when the Court Is

boon atrangely · election he fas spelling and hyphens in un-out of London is for the draft

President a prisoner, in his Ivory THINK what stetigth and con silent. Even allowing for the expected places

some of Circular to be telegraphed to

Tower,

Adetice the President would fact that he lacks politieşi ex- the complicated publication the Queen for her approval, no

draw from the acclaim of the perleence his sincerity would problems the compilers of this matter where she la staying, and is true that today, the Pre-

news-sheet have daily to extra cure is taken to avoid

sident of the United States I felt the truth of that when British people if he came here. have, atoned. Yet he seemed solve, apart from intricate posers errors

errors. The normal systematie of America holds a position more I flew out to America on a And think how the bewildered, crushed by the weight of his would responsibilities and perhaps didn Veet by the requirements always set by

chocking to intensified powerful

to

any emperor, special missions, in 1941. It was divided French nation of precedent In the official eliminate mistakes

during Pier or other president. Two strange to visit Washington at gain confidence and unity if the illusioned

world wars porting of special Royal events, transmission by telegraph." To

ended for ever that time and feel that it was President went to Paris.

We would dream of splendid

a million miles from Europe:

bo yet no mistakes have ever been maintain The Circular's unique America's

Undoubtedly. hay Today she is the And, although President Roose nown to appear in over a record of strict accuracy,

is

uniquationed Publication.

Time but,the Bolabona are ever Visit · Berlin and speak in century of

To be

an telegraphing back adopted of Western word art of the vell was with us ist symootty, stalled by the weekly magazine. Comme to Europe, Mr Presidentt she and did what he could do to help with us. They live in the hope memory of those young soldier's asooda powerful allion America he had to bow was noticed in the a final and revised copy

for a

to the Great the 20th century will be who gave their lives in the fast possesses the industrial, financial American Allusion of Belendid followed by the 19th, and that phase when they liberated that одно

scrutiny second

and milliary strength which Isolation "Family, themïalves The Royal suffered

todays will be foroved by your city from the wvil thraldom of midor finess. In order to avold the filed daily bulletins not only justifies her leadership

but makes. I Inevitable,

I studied Coples are bound in causing unnecessary pubile con- helpful: C

him at the White berday. In Zant, any, day; now, Hillary House than with something like, siemens Time, for the Royal welfare, the book form and stored in

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commanded that his indie Roral archive study of I can eally position, be not referred to in those enables Court emel is to the normal

Cour Circular. This stated advise the Royal Family on looks that rhe Queen

doors attended matters of

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decent American war with Germany,, "though... Lết là hice the truth and ta

mention of the Kin ́ ́'s presan.on... Mesent Royal Chlidren and wait until

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