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''THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1956.

TRIALS FOR TREASON: NO. 5

SHE CAN SING EVERY NOTE

Klaus Fuchs, The Jennifer sours right through the hyboard

Deadliest Traitor

T

By NIGEL GEE

were

E corruption of persecutors. Many of them "

Markedly Kings Fuchs is one

Communists, het in most cases their energy of the Nazis' fow

was directed auty to anti-Nazi Jasting successes, Betivities, and few turned to bite They drove him to Com- the land that few them.

Arrangements усте made munism. and so set off the

for Fuchs

continue to

โปรต cha'n action which WAS

studies, first at Bristol and then to make him the deadliest E.Mnburgh University, In of the atomic traitors.

wore!

No am man could give Rain The whole of the but. she acquired, Puch came neurest to achining such The selen!ific

1940, when the Nazia overran France, he was interred In Camad with his fellow German refugees on the principle of safety first for both themselves and the state.

distinction. SPLIT LOYALTIES consequenEER not be thu

常胄 BEEN A BUMMAREE, MAN & BOY,

кон

20

YEARS

of his litt

for-reaching.

political and

my

bol. **rategie

sults are incalculable.

3

AVOID

MISTAKES LIKE

THIS

VE MUST ALL PULL TOGETHER, PLAY ZE GAME -HOWEVER ITICKY ZE VICKET- VITH STRAIGHT BATS SHOOTING INTO OUR OWN

COAL AND MAT ZE WORST MAN WIN

NOT

4. LAY TRIBUTES ON OUR

NATIONAL MONUMENTS

| EARL KRUSHCHEV OF OMSX

5. LEARN DUR LANGUAGE

BRITISH ATOM

SECRETS

*. AND THE VISIT CANT FAIL

London Express Service

ODDS FISH!

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when

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Iput II 1947 he set out to re detablish contact with Russians. It was at this stage that ke verepted his first payment over and above his werking expenses as a spy. It was only £100, but at was in be a token to convince him there could be no turning He needed such convle- back. Lon for he W49 already wrestling with his conscience.

All his mult life he had been en latry vert, His work and his Moxiri faith had been enough 1 sustain him. In his state- rent ufter his confession. open his mind to laboratory

Aulasie. He had divided his i

two N 1041 he was relensel, and mind into

comprtinents. enjoy The eng alle we: bln,to later that year wns invited to in the stemie research trojet

pamal friendghins in complete. In 1942 be Wis admitted to endety, because the other

was constantly on British rillzenship. So now be partment Invallies were split

the Red and told him when down indude.

he for

had already stop. He was schizophrenic, but established contact with Russinn under routeslled conditions.

and was dispensing the agents frukter of his labours.

HINT FROM US ife was making rapid progrPRA

་་་་་་

up the selentille hierarchy. for NOW, ather he had

Borsell,

on

com-

10

fo

was born in tier- Fuchs tony in 1911, the son of a

of paster

particularly strong religious faith, Apart Cro

come himself 4431 his

thr control 1943 he was chosen to join. there wer? 2L parents.

to work

nhuis was breaking down. brother and two sisters, all the British Team

America,

informed The Th was be coming humaa.

Even of whom were Jo suffer Russians of his move, and a con- for Security began to suspecti intensely at the hands of tact and rendezvous were fixed hun, he was looking for a way The Nazis. Their

He was out on terms which would in the offence for hilm In New York.

to identify himself by currying future live and let live. simple (ne--they

a tennis ball in hk hand. were on the wrong side.

Is father was imprisoned, his mother numitted suicide,

herself ander Sistey threw train. the other sister Brother fed into exile. have been less coveri for espousing Communism GESTAPO REPORT

WIM

KLAUS himself was

Germany.

he

л

and There TOASONS

left

Lu

While be AVIAN working in New Yorts, Facts hod re- Kular meetings with his contact, the America Harry Gold. He no longer scrupled to differen- tiate between his own work and the discoveries of others. He reported minutely on everything. he knew

The course of events, however, would not permit anything so *Y A report from America That Nunn May had suggested not been the only traitor in the British camp The fucks seemed best to At Fuchs, but there was

that to act upon.

W.IS

Jennifer Johnson-singing the lowest note of the piano.

If

WENTY-THREE-

T YEAR-OLD Jennifer

Johrison must find-a com- poser to write for her before she can begin her singing career if she is to use the full range of her voice.

In a demonstration al Golders Green studio, Jennifer spanned seven octaves the range of a plano. She can pilch her volee as high as a violin, as low as a cello,

She Kid: "I believe mine is the first of a new kind of volce, I want to sing nuusle written to exploit it.

The first of a nete lend of voice?

There are about 20

others who are studying under 59-year-old music eacher with

£ TLCW methai, German-bara Alfred Wolfsohn

Jennifer said: "Some of them

reach eight setnyes, I hap

can

pen to be the most developed in the practical sense. We are taught on the theory that there is no baste difference between men's voices and women's,'

Jennifer, who comes from Bournemouth, can use four and

octaves → half

for practical singing. Most singers have a range of two and a half.

But Peruvian singer Yma Sumac is belleved to have the Wittest

on the range

roncert platform-five oglaves,

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Marilyn Can Have One-Why Can't I...?

EVE PERRICK AND THE PSYCHO-ANALYST |

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ELL. one thing I You have to break down their without a single thought in my Quieldy I thought I could hostility and try to re-establish simple, sleepy head.

said improvised liko mnd, The contact between you get 111

"And you being a Juurnalist something non-committal about over the Marilyn Monroe will make it even more difficult, one of the pictures

on Lo your mantel, relaxed again. manner was a session with You will hang

"What's in your mind now?” detachment-keep one part of a psycho-analyst.

you concentrating on what you the voice came back again.

write

And be "Gosh," I mused to myself, about, might

to

yourself can see what he means by frightened

put

hard work. Quick. think of I did my best to convince him something-back in your child- enthely in any hands." that benenth the know-it-all hood it

"I'm think, cald, superb cynical columnist there was just am at

If y

it was questioned obilquely and patiently Eventually he Suddenly the source dried up, was asked if he had met a # Com-

New mud Gold was left to scour New Husslan repræsentative in York for his other half. Fuchs York and had passed an in- bed in fart been sent to

A plain He would Los formation. Alamos, New Mexico, to work have maintained at lenst a state

Sald I to myself: "All right- on the actual construction of the of indefinite imousse, but Fuchs

you're not a blondie, a breaker homb. Fucks could be very

uncertain

what he of

of hearts, or of shoulder straps pubefilious about observing the wanted to do. Не gave the stvunity regulations.

swer which only delayed the--but if the fair lady says she's a different person since she got inevitables "I don't think so."

wise to herself by way of a In the end be found the solu-

Cosy chat tion to his dilemma. He

TC-butt jeeted any half measures which might be passed off as in

ite told all, and his story was infinitely worse than enyice had suspectel

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pre normal communications hal been remmed, this period of Fuchs' career proved the most fruitful of all for the Russians. His reports were detallei

and precise, they were all only trallers for [ertheothing attrae DooN. They were still anticipa ting the application of theory to practice--the explosion of the bomb.

ACCEPTS £100

munist before

His own misfortunes were relatively slight. He was

thrown into beaten up and

sensing Worst river, But con when the Reichstag was burned down in 1933, he went to ground and eseupsd to Frame a few months later. a few m

Through the benevolence of English family who ared his father's Quaker falth. he came to England In Septem- ber of the same year. He had no more to sustain Btm than their kindness, his st

resources developed intellectual and his dedication 10 Com- mula.

Not unnaturally, he kept his polient convictions to himself, Though I was not fong

before the British authorities. beenme aware of them. The news erme, however, from a source hardly unprejudiced-the Gestapo. For that reason it is no surprise that little significance was attached but

the to 14. though

information dimensions. contents was recorded dutifully

methods of detonating it.

The British team returned In the light

subsequent home

afterwards, but soofi events, the reurity services before he left fresh arrange- have had to endurè erittelsin for

menis were made for him want of vigilance after so early pass information in London, a warning. At the time, how- Fuchs bud bren appointed to Lever, of Fuchs' fight there wero

il post al Harwell, the new thousands fleeing, from Nazisma, atomic energy establishment in most of whom were labeled as Berkshire For a time he seem- Communists by their vindielive ed to lose interest in espionnge,

eliscretions.

On 4

arous

in

or two fr

consulting phoni, psychiatrist's why not give the thing a try?

"Pay your live guintus, own in your up to putting red ink

strawberry mistress's forni blanetange and relaxez-vous!"

Relax slid 1 say? Monroe

The Lake should while she's in Englund

Bround

with the

it had bren a heavy secre

man Oven D

of Fuchs' mentality to bear, and confes- sion probably brought absolution to his tortured mind. Yet still time,

playing illusion persisted.

not He had WHEN I finally came, he was been caught out, he had been Oliviers WY able

his final co-operative to

сору make-

He and helpful. analysis the indefatigable had been wrong, even bad, but life

to traveller, Harry Gold.

what is done cannot be undone,

It was not a complete con- and such a thing would yet

glruction kit of the stonie bond, happen again. So let's all

It contained details of back to work,

and

THEY'RE ANIMALS

"Nightmare" Creatures Really Exist

asks the impossible.

to

they know

was

NO ESCORT THOUGH he was beginning to lon about the ways in which scriety conducts 114 affairs, he

still far from the truth. He was invited to comme from

several Harwell days after his confession. The purpose was to arrest him, 1 fact which almost anyone but Fuchs would have divined. He travelled alone; there was

no need for an escort.

He

MIK

to sample the English of the American way of

half hours

the

Two hours in the confessional chamber (one and convincing the learned doctor,

recognised authority on subject and so needfully name- less, that I was a fi subject for psycho-analysis, and a mere 30 minutes on the couch taking the treatment).

DEVITALISED

a crazy nixed-up kid,

THE LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP

JILY sister were here she'd probably say, Oh, I suppose ou're going to tell him about that time I hit you over the head with the salmon tin?""

"Ah," said my analyst, "I think you're trying to get me to like you."

"Well, let's say approve ot'

amended.

NOW look," I said. "I have a

job, a husband, a child, house-just how many problems

"I have an anxiety complex me" a

do you need to get into this act?

30 extrenie that one stleky night

in 1948 with bombs falling, guns now?" banging,

everyone else

ing

and

Here

are you thinking

we

до

Dgain," around me praying that they'd thought (but didn't tell him). just get to live through it all,

He got thero first that time, alone sat in the cellar worry though. "You're thinking that about post-war problems. I'm hostile to you," he said. How about tha17"

"Not quite," I corrected again. "Only that you're still rather "Nothing extraordinary,"

"Similar happened to me in Paris in 1918. us of me." Everyone else was going gay celebrating the Armistice while

commented.

I tried Liso

he thing

I

YES, I MAY

NEED HELP

Now there's a thing! Caught "You know," he said, "I note that you have a tendency to i pondered about what was substitute words for other words going to happen to me next." that mean exactly the sume THAT'S ME NOW

again. "At times 1 thing." have

an overwhelming destro to kill my husband," THE new straightened-out Eve announced with some pride. He el creature, just a

Perrick is a poor, devitalis: koked not a bit Impressed. I

wee bit continued, embarrassed about the whole thing, and toting a couple more

"Last night, for instance, I GOT the idea that something was lying awake, my habitual significant was happening at Inhibitions than those she went insomnia made worse by a spilt last "You should ace me at the in with.

headache, and he was office" I cried eagerly. "I can't ting

a snoring away like a buzz-saw, I pass single sub-cditor wanted to choke him."

struggling with a headline with- "Ah, a typical example of the out telling him he's using the

relationship," love-hate

word, and suggesting pro wrong rounced the

1 waited hope- psychoanalyst, another one. "Atler all, you didn't give way

fully to be told the cause of this quirk In my mental make-up. your impulse to kill him."

The doctor made no comment. "Only because I didn't know

do not got enough about the technicalities Apparently you of smothering to

character-reading for the arrange to arst five guineas. make it look like an accident," I admitted.

It

It

to

Justice was dispensed quickly

atl Innocuous seemed to Klaus Fuchs.

pleaded

One of those quilly, but he did not begin his enough setting. 14-year confinement before he attractive, terraced houses buck- had heard some pisin speaking ing on to Regent's Park, with from Lord Goddard His sins four bottles of milk on the door- were catalogued.

step denoting that the mind- expert I had come to see wa IGS can't fly." eating species with wings cd, the mother platypus can pop And what's more,

He had Imperiled the sight of niso either a family man or a we're apt to any five feet across. They call the youngsters into a neat canetly where the trees willnsylum given to all political re- | letter-off of flats.

someone it the "Flying Fox" because pouch and feed them with milk. fall and how to build the sight forces like himself. lie had He looked neither paternal

of dam for fast shape

and betrayed not only the inventions nor priestly nor particularly Another egg-laying animal 9 slow-running streams: But of its reddish hair and fox-

of his own mind, but also of psychic.

And, though the two

By a lot of leading questions to judge from the experi. like head.

others upon whom the gravest couches were the room's most better-known suspicion might have fallen. He predominant furnishings, ho

I put to him, I gathered that ments of a Swedish Profes-

CAUGHT OUT

1 was a fence-sliter and The but may be the only quills like a porcupine, and has "nimals, the beaver is not the rad Jeepardised the good reln- || berkoned me into a choir, gave

fond sor, Gosta Haggqvist,

only one having odd characteri-tions

mother, both of which I already between Britain

ON THE HOP and me a cup of tea and a ginger- there's telling what animal which really does ly, five toes on each foot like a mon stles. Just think of the enurmhous

know. And that my insomnia Bo

America. He had done irrepar- snap, and procceded to try To

was caused pig will but there are several which or a monkey. But Its most bulk of the hippo. miracles oven

by a subconscious nble harm to the peoples of both talk me out of what he termed

nt that stage, he tear that I might die in my gift would would qualify for a glider the British rabbit. With the und trace in water, but it doesn't, these countries.

NYWAY, ΑΝ perform.

"taking analysis."

considered me worthy sleep-which was newa to me. pilot's badge. Top of this of strong claws, the echidna can swims and dives like a fish:

"People have entirely the material for the full analysis

But at least the psychiatrist klen nbout paycho- treatment · and wrong

Indicated the

admitted They think smaller of the two couches.

at the end of the analysis," he said,

scesion that It was a nice comfortable one. Arst impression, he thought I matter of coming

contrary to lifs is merely in, lying on the couch, talking The room was warm. After my might be in need of his help about themselves, and going out sleepless night I was feeling after all, and I could call again

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The Professor is bringing; home the bacon in a

hist

way by rearing a bor WELL, WHAT

nine feet long and weighing

half a ton! He claims he

the ant-cating echidna, a distant relation of the platypus. Just to be différent, it's covered with

spectacular

Among

Amuze agine

D'YOU KNOW!

could double the size of class is the so-called bury itself in the ground, while

farm animals and "Flying" Lemur of Indla, you watch. other

cause a hen to Iny double- which can glide as far as crossword

It may be one in the rye zur

alzed eggs.

puzzle addicts

to

200 feet from a tree-top learn that there's another queer takeoff.

animal with Just two vowels But all this would be

for a name the at. He's one of Australia and

fellows achieved by artificial means

New Guinea the sloth family, idle and Naturo has already have Flying (or should it be who end a lifetime aky- Phalangers, and it watching. They've been hanging.

back-downwards provided us with plenty of Flying?) parts

Various

пн

from the of the world boughs of trees for so long that

they've taken oh the of

colouring. No wonder they're

very queer animals. Our there are flying squirrels old friend the bat, for flying mice, the young

got plenty example, has auch wonder which

control" practice, 10T tho

same

of "ual hard to spot from down below! One of the most reminrkable

ful wings that it was taken motlier corries them around in

for a bird for hundred of a pouch, like a kangaroo, of all animals. is the beaver, years. Yet it is as much an

Apart from the types, there. kre "h, lot

of

which has two webbed feet and animal na sheep, and

airborne a ton-inch tail, which It uses a feeds its young with milk in animale which have got mixed port to sit on when it works or `n rudder in water and as `N_SUD- the same way.

up with the birds and the fishes, pain, But, the thing that, makes Take the Aussie duck-billed · it even nidra umumial is its skill In some warth dountries, platypus, for. Instande, It has the es an dhgineer. Ter duifel they Jiko Japan, India and Aus- hood of an ofter, the book and havo suficient water around

foot of tralia, the bat comes in a But it goes free Datter than -a dan af trees, Which they foll -bird umhvit1 Tayo wanai »ttínir homes, the beavers-build much larger size, a fruit- bird. When the, eggs are hatch by bling through the trunks.

The

You'd um-

I would sink without

About the only oddily that in supposed not to exist is a while elephant. But the villagers of Cheam Pech. Cambodia, 50 Indo-China, are not so sure. In 1050, they were reported to be hunting a wild white elephant with pink tuskɛ” „which had been ravaging their rice fields,

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JOHNNY HAZARD

ARE YOU SURE YOU'VE GOT THE PAPERS, STEFF17

CHECK THE POUCH!

That was the meaning of his trenson in human terms, That was not news to Klaus Fuchs Not now.

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NEXT SATURDAY: The Mystory Of The Vanished Scientist

NO TIME NOW....THE MOTORCYCLE GUARDS

| HAVE PICKED UP OUR

TRAIL/ HURRY, WE MUST GET TO THE ZUIDERGAM BRIDGE AT PRECISELY

1:10/

feeling pleased with themselves, pleasantly drowsy. A voice,

(After all, Miss Monroe had

That it's a relaxing experience, quiet but gently insistent, spoke any time I would admit it too.

"I can tell you It's hard work" "What are you thinking about

to go along to her man for now?" for me and the pattent Sooner

four months before she found Now there's the thing caught out what she was all about,) or later they come to hate their

analyst won't give anything,, on the hop at the first question

A FEW MOMENTS LATER...

3:10 / WILLEM IS A GOOD MANZ HIS BARGE

WAITS EVEN NOW!

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By Frank Robbins.

...this situation calls for a

San Miguel