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GERMANS CHANGE ARMY LAW

From Colin Lawson

Berlin.

Fable to commit

AUT RE German soldiers

war crimes on orders from superior oflicers

without

fear of punishment if the

latest rearmainent bill goes}

through parliament.

DID IT HAPPEN?

FORMULIERI SELE

T was Sir Ernest Wild, the Recorder of Lon- don, who called it murder of the soul;

"THE CHINA - MATIZ

SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1955.

A DARK

STRANGER.

Radio's Armchair Detective splus, this latest story

in our could-be-trun series. But is this tals FACT er

10

Heste

mas pro-

Dolubly at the accusat107. bur Bennett insisted that the thiej should he taken to the wearest poste.

She

UTH SOTS REVEILLON-

Step

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aboard

There was no official actieri

that could" be taken, dragging the girl into

The new bill, called the but the two or three black- Soldatengesetz, is the Ger mailers I've known, they

FICTION? The answer will be published on Monday man equivalent of the Bri-didn't take it so seriously.

Once one even tried to do about it The first. tish Army Act.

The only thing, moiselle had left at about me that he therefore, I suggested, was for that morning she had appeared reading is expected this gue, with

wasn't really, the guilty him to hire a private inquiry distrait, but had said nothing month.

party. "It's the

she was returning. except that man or agent One section details with

I took Forbes along to 2

to England immediately. Then

and demanding obedience.

some which the Defence Woman who's done

pal of mine

the night porter

remembered gave me his skull-like grin and sional estert private detective Ministry says is the supreme thing they don't want any named Bennett. That is not his that on her last four nights slipped out of the cafe. He was payment for his services.

back in a few moments follow became upset, and he suggested law of the army. Responsibility (one else to know about, real name, either, He is pale. Mademoiselle Forbes had come ed by a gendarme and went that in order to save her em- and trust are the foundations of who's guilty." he said. "I shifty-eyed, with a toothy grin, in at between 1 am and 2.30 straight over to the gigolo and barrassment they went backs to obedience and orders.

2.171. Each time she had been

selllo apartment to

the obvious pointing at me soused him accompanied by an First the bil lays down "The

and having stolen my cigarette case. matter." order need not be carried out if

gigolo, though his manner

His behaviour had always been most correct and after at by to doing a crime would be

had future, or else. been exemplary and she "Bon soir, modemoiselle," he committed." But then comes

had gone.

gone back with him. He had this qualification. "Should the soldier, however, carry out the order he is not guilty of a crime or silence if he does not know ot realise he is committing it."

In Born, a government man said

"From the military point of view It is intolerable

Just help them by keeping their secret."

Anyway, I obtained further insight into the way a black- miler xces to work witer a little while back, ir friend of a mutual friend telephoned

ms. He sounded as it he was in trouble, and because he was a friend, etc., I said i'd try to 17 help him, though I couldn't promise.

that

an order should be dis- We'll call him Forbes. obeyed just because a sub-was ordinate misjudges it."

Set Aside

He

a widower. quite a big business tycoon, and he and his |twenty-year-old daughter lived

Berkshire. Right

11

now

The Germans have set aside | Cynthia, his daughter, was in a

Allied law passed after the nursing-home,

watched

war

being

which laid down that a day and night to see, that she soldier could not plead innocenco | didn't try to commit suicide for a crime just breause he was again. carrying

ing out a superior's orders, At Nuremberg and other war crimes trials, madly officers and men pleaded in defence that they were only obeying orders when they committed crimes and were therefore not to blume.

The new bill is being studied In the Upper House of the Bon Parliament before it goes to the Lower House.

Political

the

Inquiry agent

by

Ernest

Dudley

ERNEST DUDLEY, Armchair

Detective and create of Dr. Morellms a low-abiding citizen who has devoted his carmu bo crime. And not only from the scurity of biz armchair, a reporter, student, Historian and broórcaster of crime, ho knows the underworld well and numbers several crooks emang dit acquaintances,

* One or two of my pals are in Dartmoor now," he mentiona Mot most recent book is Tae bling Brak -the story of the famodar of the Baw Street Runners,

Born 45 years ago in the ran mar Birmingham (which-bears his own nome, Dudley in married with one do Street Sharieck Alvos in Harylsbana

HAIMAA's home ground the

Broadcasting House.

between About ten days before, Forbes told me, she had gone to Paris for a fortnight. It was her first time on her own like this, and her father would rather

have dingy office in the West End. Bone wha her. But she wanted speaks seral languages tuent

upset.

The negatives

of his

chat

vinout

court, but the inspecteur had a little.

with the gigolo As Bennett told me afterwards, it was made clear to him that he'd better watch his step for the

reassuring

nome.

morning, however, he called at from his office,

had a drink in the

Sug

negatives,

I

no

Bernett and I returned to I was pretty faken aback, given her coffee, to quiet her London and Bennett collected But on her last night at the

The hice. At the father's as he explained. porter said. And the gigolo was protesting nerves, hotel, the night when Mad

Mademoiselle Forbes and volubly against the accusation, coffee had, in fact, been doped Eestion, I went along to see the

her ned over

at the regained in had come

But as I patted my pocket and, and when she her compantor

later it was there was a discussion... The found it empty, Bennett dipped senses 40 minutes

her she trad res his hand into the other's pocket to find herself in the bedroom.

more to fear from that quarter Bikolo became somewhat aggres- and whipped out my cigarette made no att npt to prevent her and added some advice

She became hysterical, and he

about sive and the girl appeared very and

making friends with tall, dirk They went off together case, identified as mine to

Water Bennett and I in a taxi which had been wait the gendarme and Bennett in fleeing back to her hotel.

At about 10 o'clock that strangers. Yes, the night porter could sisted that the thief should be Ing

At

pub across describe the gigolo:

slim taken to the nearest poste, tali,

hotel and sent up Bennett gol

the the the

"I must huild, dark,

One of the early the poste.

to

say that was pretty t:le prints of the photographs he

bright of you," morning door waiters remem police officer in charge

I said, had taken

as T friend of his,

After giving her

him a cigarette, "spot- bered seeing the girl come in at phone a

inspecteur of che Brigade time in which to absorb their ered about quarter-to-seven.

that ting

he'd pinched my arrived significance, he telephoned Mondaine.

When he

I mean,

how rise you, too.. for 300,000 francs. words between him and Bennett, in return

would you have fixed it so as to their acquaintanceship get the chance to search the gigolo was charged with Though

the had been brief, he had locked up for theft and

place?" - aged to obtain names and put night,

While he was being searched whereabouts of her father and the accused had been relieved her friends, and unless she paid of

Bennet the up he proposed to circulate the His keys. inspecteur and I went along to photographs among them.. the gigolo's apartment.

A drink were two rooms and a search

On the trail

Bennett took the night porter along to the Qual des Orfevres and he picked out the gigolo's picture from the rogues gallery, He had a record

pick- pocket several years before.

Bennett and 1 searchin

the Montmartre dis-

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7

began

Bal

an

JAPAN AIR

LINES

and discover what true hospitality

there were some muttered say she could have the negatives cigarette-case. Bit of luck for in the air means.

were

something

There

4.

man-

r

to show her independance, the ly, knows Europe's underworld trift Surting off at the

of the bedroom give us what The looking for.

The girl wdy young people do. She had like

was panic-stricken: the back of his hand. Tabarin then the usual boites we tical parties" refused com telephoned from Parts of

included her Divorce, missing persons, there de nuit and likely cafes. No one gigolo

photography All she could do was to explain and ivas she hadn't that much money on until they safe arrival, and sent postcards, was ment on the clause

no job he would not seemed 10

Cynthia mong his activitie recognise have

of

and beg him to let her an her, studied

saying she was having it more carefully

a good

Nor did obviously undertake providing it was just Forbes's photograph.

return to England and raise it. But Dr Richard Jaeger, in time.

legal and it was cash on the our description of the gigolo enthusiast.

She promised to come back to Adenauer spokesman in Parlia- She'd been away only eight rail.

ring any bell.

Paris to hand over the amount Panic-stricken ment, justined it by soying "Adays when Forbes arrived home After the price had been

Well, I suppose оде gigolo

he wanted in exchange for the 20-year-old soldier ennast have in the evening from London settled Beanett told Ferbes to sunds much like another We те same knowledge about and found Cynthia had leave the rest to him and he trailed round Montmartre for Further searching

produced negatives. To this he agreed.

giving her a week to do what is or what 'is not an returned. She had her head in would report back as soon as three nights running. without the negatives of the prints of The rest we knew.

Unable -Gffener as, say, one of

of 40. If the gas-oven and he saved her he

it, to On the fourth night, it himself and Cynthia Forbes, and when it came to think coldier does not know the law, just in time. She tried again at anything to report, I can result.

always use copy, so I thought I was 3 a.m. we called it a day back we went to the poste. A how to obtain the money and how can re be guilty

with her bedroom gas-fire next would trai along to learn

how and went into a small bar in certain amount of persuasion by so horribly ashamed she could The Germans are also ex-day. Once again he got to her a private investigator works in the Rue Pigalle for a

a coffee.

the inspecteur, who had not confide in her father the cusing the war crimeS clause just in time. She offered no real life. All the Information Suddenly Bennetz:

nadget

me daughter of his own, and the desperate, » girl- had felt - she by saying that it corresponds to

tanation for all this and Bennett had was the hotel near and I took a surreptiticus look gigolo told Us what had couldn't face up to it. the military law of most West any attempt to hod out simply the Gare St Lazare at which at a man who had just come in happened. Europeon states.

sent her off into hysterics, Cynthiu Forbes had stayed, a Tall, sleek and dark, it was our Britain's Army Act lays down Forbes realised it was some photograph of thes, and that was gigolo. He came and sat on the that a soldier who commits a thing that had happened in about all

štool next to us. Bennet stuck wor crime on orders is gullty Paris which was responsible, The first lead he got was from a cigarette in his mouth, and of an offence. Ignorance is no For his daughter's make he had the hotel femme de chambre, leaned over and asked him for excuse, although it may be not reported her two suicide who remembered a Sal Tabarín a light. He got up politely and taken into account, in the sen- faltempts to the police. So there programme left behind in the smiling came খোশের and it Lence,

was nothing Scotland Yard could girl's room. Yes when Made-. Bennett's cigarette.

be guilty

They

He had met the girl alone at the Bal Tabarin. He had given her the impression that he was himselt alone in Paris, had met each night

following until the last night, when the gigolo had shattered the girl by Bennett revealing that he was a profes

'RONALD COLMAN' OF THE HIMALAYAS

P

OOR Tenzing! Climb-

ing the highest mou... tain in

the

world

·

By ROBIN HUTCHEON

an easy-going of the moun

A succession of European ex- Buddha of the may be a tremendously ex- had bred in him"

positions in the postwar years; Tard Siva" sit.

spirit of ting #

on top citing achievement, but egalitarianism, when you read his book, camaraderie which he shared tain: and "Man of Everest"** you feel with all men. It nourished his philosophic mind and turned an that if he'd had the power unlettered man" (as he calls

was

who

TENZING

and washing water to the pretty memsahib's room.

"As I appeared she sat up! enough and sensible and I thought 'Oh, I am in the not She was to wrong room'. enough

and pretty, but an old override the young finicky critic lady with yellow skin and no isms of

the teeth. I put down the pot, and sers pitcher and was about to run. troublemakers to rele-

rele Then I saw beside her some jars the dis of cream and powders and in' a Ford to a level glass of water a fine white set

of where

teeth ft

came ...when she o out later she was as young and would not overshadow pretty as the day before."

Is be brilliance Tenzing's book full of sur- of the moun- prises. He tells how, In 1948. he and a young British climber taineers feat. made:

and ZALE

10

as

ม secret attempt on Mount

They

They

but he does believe

trouble with overzealous newspaper re of clairvoyance he would himself) into a mature and

porters, Luch have stayed at home in the rationalistic. thinker.

angling før a At the outset of Hunt's ex-

provocative summer of 1953 instead of

he was discomforted pedition

by scoop: joining Colonel Hunt's ex- the reserved manner of the pedition.

Tenzing does British. He saw it as a borrier

his best to de- For he had an unenviable between sahib and Sherpa. The

atmosphere

that of on fate the fool task. Not only was he an offleers mess, and the military

ish assertions important member of the regulation and drill-book plan- of his fanati-

Tenzing Everest after Tibet had been cal admirers,

foresaw some climbing party; he was also ning that went into the expedi-

closed to foreigners... of the prob- 'assistant tion was different from anything He tells in his

armed patrols for weeks chief Sherpa,

book he had known.

lems of climb- and were forced to make a wide transport officer and

did reach The friendship he found there

with ing

the

detour to the mountain's base. mediator in the frequent sometimes smacked of polite the summit first. It was Hillary. British. But he had been born. But the Gods frowned on their disputes between his trucu- condescension, and

said.

wasn't in the shadow of that mountain. puny efforts and they furtively contrast to the warm slighted by the Queen of met that scaled its crept out of Tibet again. lent assistants and Colonel striking

and genial companionship be land who awarded him only a bitter heights.

Real Or False? Seven times he Hunt.

found among the Swiss in their George Cross and knighthoods had been rebuffed. It tantalised And he soon discovered Everest expedition the

He also has something to say year to Hillary and Hunt As a him, hypnotised him, wove M that the problems he en- before.

The doubts whether he magic spell in his mind, and he about the Abominable Snowman.

ign realised as he wrestled with the have accepted" a foreign

He has never seen one and he countered at the beginning. British Character Wile. Besides he got high problem

2

of whether join does not believe they are super- of the expedition were in- Yet he tried to make allow- Nepalese order from King Colonel Hunt in 1953 that "for naturai significant compared with ance for the peculiarities of the Tribhuvana, while Hunt and a chance to climb Everest "I they exist. His father has seen the acrimonious wrangling as chief Sherpa he was as loyal

British character.

him, In his work Hillary got lesser ones.

would have been willing to take two. One almost chased which marked its closing and dutiful as any climber could above the Nepalese and Indian

Yes, he did fy the British flag any job from a dishwasher to but it thought better of it and

reti-keeper.

dashed off. stages.

expect. And in his book he has flags on his ice axe on the sum

**g's father described "it And however much he dis- to be as accommodating and mit of Everest. But the United liked the regimentation and lack Tenzing, now in his early 40s, tried t

like a big monkey or is an incorrigible fellow. He has understanding as possible.

Nations flag flew above them of informality in the expedition, deeply sunken and its head was ape except that its eyes were The problems encountered all. charm, good looks he's like a

he frankly acknowledged thai sunburnt version

Ronald before the ascent were

Hunt's men were sourly dis- Hunt's careful planning was an polated on top. Its colour was Colman gleaming white teeth fully few. There was an early pleased with Tenzing's press important factor in the ultimate grey, and the hair in two

grew and a perpetual in Further upset at the British Embassy Statements. But he says and success. The team spirit was directions from above the waist

is an incurable when the Sherpus were put up knowing how some people in my in ther.

and below the waist upwards more, he optimist and incapable of bear in a garage while the sahibs had profession work am quite

downwards. It was about four feet high and female and carried Inside; later there was ready to believe him-many of because there was one his -trouble

statements

Bright Bubble- twisted

its sagging breasts as it ran." food for the climbers, and

others weru

like best entirely

But the story Tenzing's book is worth read- another for the Sherpas; and fabricated. It should also be ing, however, not only for the Tenzing's own attempt to deter- later over the issue of personal remembered that Tenzing speaks "inside story of Everest. He mine his age. He says. To equipment and kit which was not only a smattering of English is a great

most of my given, as in previous expedi- and understands it imperfectly sharp wit and a fund of good known. my own age but only of tens but lent.

in quickfire question-and- stories. Tenzing did not always take answer conversation.

Ullman, Tenzing's.. men. His was

ghost (according to the *Tibetan ing readingscally he tells it the self-appointed role of peace- Shook Hands writer; has certainly put a calcadar with its 12-year quietly and very sincerely with maker and impartial mediator, Possibly he was flushed with bright bubble into. many parts a

cycles); butth of the back. There is a nice familar with both the Tibetan but recently, being .out the slightest breath of and his calm, quiet reasoning success at the time and

between the gripping and the Western calendars, 1 smooth the sensationalism. He is frank yet helped

their ruffled said a few things he shouldn't balance. fair. He has no prejudices, only digalty on many occasions. But have. Bas put yourself to Ten- drama which marks many of have been able to end

Tenzing's climbs, and the light that this must also back

ferences.

it was not until two

trouble zing's position for a moment ༣ "48 nationalistic

to have been, the hysteria

year 1914 With swept Nepal and many parts of expedition

Some consolations are. that permeate his life.

the 12-year cycles it epuld also, ended. India as Tenzing and his British really ente

the trouble was no worse

of One of the best stories is of Forse than

cource, by plain arithmetic companions marched down to

On the "Way down from this, that the British and Tea & Vay pretty English mensahib be either 1902 or 1926. But 1 the plains to receive the world's Everest as the triumphant party zing patched up their tits, he met while acting as a here I am not se old as the

acclaim is completely alien

The Himalayes. to marched towards Kathmandu, it shook hands and giled for guide 0

first and am afraid I bim

started again; this time, trouble carderamen, and at Britain noticed especially her good young as the secondary

complexion and her fine white nise sounds to me just right for with political and religious gave him and his family a fanatics; who wanted their hero warm and fincere welcome for teeth. The party stopped at the age at which I climbed to say he had been first to reach

consolation dak bungalow for the night Everest. And I am sure that But the greatest the mammit that he had seen of all is that Tenzing sram is and in the morning he took tea it

p

of

ing malice against any man.

Inside Story

In "Man of Everest" he tells the inside story of Hunt's ex pedition

the substance behind the shadow of the of cial account, "The Ascent

It is

Everest" and it makes erlighten-

Tooms

lot

of

merd-

were

character with

And the stup makers were expelled from the and what would you have done? hearted gaiety which seems

* (Autobiography of Tenzing Norgay Sherpa, ghosted by Jamer Hamsey Witman, grabilahed by: Har- Tap, London, 1/5,

that the

grumbling

1:

He

**Tor

that I had bem: born in the Year of the Fox, or Hare

and

his

He didn't say anything, only his shitty eyes crinkled at the corners and he showed me his toothy grin. The penny drop- pof, and he didn't have to tell me how my, cigarette-case had got into the gigolo's pocket.

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