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DECEMBER 28, ́ ́ ́ 1955.

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By

David Divine

London

[INETEEN years ago on Christmas afternoon, somebody broke with pre- redent. Someone in author- Ity threw protocol over his shoulder. Some official was infected with the Christmas spirit.

Instead of writing at the end of the Gazette Extra- ordinary which announced the birth of Princess Alexandra the stuffly con- ventional "condition is satisfactory," somebody wrote: "Her Royal High- ness and the infant Princess are doing excellently."

I like to feel that, about that Gazette, there was a touch of conscious prophwcy. It was the first note approaching "galety" that has been allowed to enter into so mugust a communtention.

Princess Alexandra cried through her christening, und that, 16), was recorded in 1622 Melat QanununicaUon frum Buckingham Palace and don't think that has a parallel either.

CHAMPAGNE

And now

Pinecas Alexandru

bas grown into the princess who dars to be gay. The princess who tinka orange juice and sparkles like champagne.

Very early in her young te she protested against the penalty of the Christmas-born—- and secured a royal ruling that there should be two sets of preslits, ce marked "not to be opened until Boxing Day,"

She was only six when the tragedy vi her father's death shook a Commonwealth at war.

She was the youngest brides- at the wedding of her Julure Queen.

the

She wore coronet at Coronation and looked Uke д princess out of a fairy tale in the great golden box of Royal ladles.

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"YOURS EVERT

“Ah, I can always retum to my farm-and my loyal and devoted pigs"

Otto John followed his own advice

-{London Express Service),

IF THE REDS GET YOU

WAIT...PICK YOUR MOMENT

D

R OTTO JOHN, the West German In- telligence chief who went

over to the East last year, has come mck to the West-hy follow- ing a rule he used to make for his own agents.

He told me about that rule in one of our many talks while he was still working for the Bonn Government:-

"I've always told our fellows that if they fell into the hands of the Reds the best thing is to play along with the secret police chaps, try to lull them into con- fidence, then take the first opportunity to escape."

I have never told of this conversation before because

I have always hoped some day John would take his own advice.

The big quiz

ND now the AN

She went, as so many girls of proud lineage have gone, but as no British Princess had gone be- fore, to Paris for her "finish- ing." And her mother chuse kur her the home of the Pretender to the Throne of France, the Count of Parla

COMMONSENSE

I like to think that one of the reasons was that it was called the Chateau de Coeur Volant-- the Castle of the Flying Heart.

It is a lovely conceit. It has about it that same charm, that sume galety, As the young Princess. It has about it a touch of Ruritania,

the an echo of musle of Strauss,

flrm

practical,

It had also commonsense basis, for the Count of Paris has a household of eleven children, who used to go out to school by tram and bus in the morninga.

They went through university and worked at least as hard a дпу other students there, and were taken in hand by father when they came home in the evenings,

to

art

Princess Alexandra's life in Parks was that of any young giri. She ate at

cheap little restaurants and went galleries, and museums, travelled on the Metro railway and Ex- plored the unexpected with her brother.

she

`INHERITANCE

"carne out"

at lust fú 1954 with a Court Circular which stated formally - and coldly this mo-that she had visited the headquarters of the British Red Cross Society. She did not allow even that to blunt her sense of humour, th

She couldn't do that, for her. | sense of humour is her Grat in- heritance from her lovely mother. Her second

is that beauty which derives from balt the Royal lines of Europe. And

he is back in West Germany. Can he be punished under German law?

The West German Attorney- General has conducted a long inquiry into the case. In the absence of John he reached the conclusion that the evidenco all suggested the former security chier had gone to the East, not

part of

long-prepared treason plan but rather on the spur of the moment.

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Furthermore, that as far could be judged he had had no Intention of remaining there until he was "persuaded" to do so by the Soviet authorities,

By Sefton Delmer

HE PLOTTED AGAINST HITLER

evening of July 20, 1954, 10th anniversary of the Hitler plot.

Lawrence of Arabia and Mata

Two things gave rise to this.

1. John, head of the German

notebook which he had left be bind: An East German contact had been sent in March 1954 to see John and propose that he should go over to the East.

That contact was Baron Wolf- gang von Putlitz,

former German diplomat John had met while they were both working in Britain against Hitler.

John rejected this overture with a derisive jeer.

In August 1964 and delivered a tirade against renazification.

But then giving me a meaning look, he said: "I did not decide to stay here until after I'd harl talks with the gentlemen on this aide."

That was about as far as be could possibly go in the pre- a:nce of Soviet Intelligence high-up Tchirnov, Dr Wilhelm Girnus, his East German spon- sor, and those buil-necked body- guards who were listening b. But John also told me:-

THAT the reason he

could

That report of mine, sub- sequently confirmed by Dr Gerhard Schroeder, West Gur- man Minister of the Interior, was seized on with delight by not deliver his attack on the German nationalists es nationalist and militarist cord- evidence of collusion between back in West Germany was "Red agent Delmer" and "Red that "I should Havo been agent John."

arrested and necused of betrayal

the

They used it in an attempt to position

of secrets, misuse of my official and all that sort of discredit the revelations con- thing." tained in my despatches warp-

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ing against them, and at the THAT he could not return to Bazne time to discredit Jatin West Germany now. If he did hiraself, who had used his office he would be gabled. not only to smell out the Com- munists in West Germany, but to oppose a Nazi comeback.

The hint

RECOGNISED all this for

THAT neither the Russian authorities дог the East Germans had put any pressure on him to reveal secréta and his activities on the other side were confined to propaganda for reunification of Germany

tion.

what it was a flood of llos and the fight against renazifica- let loose by former practicians

of the Goebbels propaganda

machine now once more Installed

in German newspapers,

I formed a theory that Joha

The plot

ND now John, once maro hod been invelgted by Dr Ausing I have no doubt the

Wohlgemuth Into crossing the

sector border either under the same combination of luck, reck- influence of drugs or perhaps of skill which enabled him to escape less courage and psychological (And reports from West Germany now back this to make his getaway from

Hitler's vengeance, has managed

alcohol.

Idea.)

Reds,

the

Then in conformity with his It will not be long, I bot own recipe he pretended to before the Nazis in West Ger security service, had been seen

me on throw in his lot with the men many will start telling us bis publicly 1

dining with

during the he had always denounced to me flight was a put up job. several occasions weeks in which I was gathering as enemies even more dangerous Do not believe them.

For. I material for a series of articles to Germany than the Nazis. know this man John. He is no traitor. He is a German patriot exposing the comeback of the

I must confess I was badly anxious to sco. his Nazis in Germany.

country shaken when he got up at a reunited and free both Press conference in East Berlin. Communista and Nazis.

Hari were pake figures compared And Western Intelligence with the monster Delmér high-ups have assured me that found goggling at me from the John had not "blown"

hoardings any newspaperS"

and secret channels.

magazino covers, Look at

the background..... I was accused of being all I first met John back in 1944. kinds of conspirator and agent, And in German eyes I have from British secret-service man 2. I had arrived in Bonn from been almost as much involved down to Red stool-pigeon.

German

officials were

a special Cabinet office order to have no truck This was the Berle physician with me. Lengthy inquisitions were held into my past. My

in his mysterious disappmacabre structed in as John himself or

Dr Wolfgang Wohlgemuth,

with

in-

London on the very morning that the disappearance of John was made public,

And then 1, revealed what apparently even the German

whom and in whose · car John drove into the Soviet triends British and German officials did not imow-though sector of Berlin on that fateful were questioned about me,

It was mizuted In-John's official

JOSEPHINE BAKER

BUILDS

HER OWN MONUMENT

By SYDNEY SMITH

There is also a huge case

Paris. Mexican and an Israeli. They

of her tan barn Joephine and Josephine' Resistence record her danco band leader husband, her models, a letter from Gen Jo Bouillon, have adopted,

a regimental eral De Gaulle, The children are the real red- fing, a picture of Josephine as a Women's vast Laina Park-· lieutenant ... in the on for the style memorial that Josephine branch of the French Air Force, la creating. If will be their

"The memorial estate, a centre livelihood and heritage,

THE star nude dancer of Montmartre's music halls for 28 years, Josephine Baker, now on the plumper side of 50, is turning her self into a legend.

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"Cornflakes

of

taste so much better with brown sugar on, Mummy'

It makes water, light and food

Sho hasi transformed a The waxworks museum re for her admirers, is absolutely thousand-year-old chatenu,

o counts the story of Josephine's self-contained. It has its own a 600-acre estate in southwest life in ten episodes. The first Power France, into a huge tourist can tells of when, as a little child from two farms. It has three tre. Everything in it, from the in Missouri, an ancient fairy's tennis courts, a swimming pool, waxwork museum recounting appeared to her and told her: winter and summer theatres, the great moments of her life, Mihe word you seek are m bowling alleys, à bar, car park, to the 23-roomed hotel where understanding, tolerance

petrol station, post guests can rent a replica of her lovpes".

and miniature golf course and curtained four-poster bed, in

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