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"THE CHINA · MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 22,′′. 1966.

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DON IDDON'S

New York, Tuesday HATEVER Britain's political prestige, we ure on top of several nt least in America's opinion. We hold the world's speed record on water and in the air. there In nothing to touch CALAT turbo-prop Viscounts

our latest jet Comel, and our cultural Al artistic

standing has never been higher.

KALANGSTADENEN DIARY: ka

BRITAIN

IS TOP

IN MANY

FIELDS

he re-

Even in politics there is more informed and sophisti cated grasp of our problems. Slowly very slowly--officials in the White House and the State Department are coming to the conclusion that what is needed is a complete reorganisation and re-definition of the Anglo- American partnership. ›

They want London to walk in step with Washington and vice-vera. They want the two partners to map out a detailed, long-range synchrohised 'strategy 10 match and best the world- wide politient offensive of the Communists.

Witness So Laurener havin's proyed by his recent television Richard 10." as milions of performances here that

Wilh. Iught these views should man The most Amerients have witnes

the outslanding, permeate the courses of showmans of our time-w-Ber. President and the Secretary of actor, composer, producer, and State, all-round entertainer, entertatanesıl

are

ml and rejoice witnessing it. Al nu tune have the British po dozrenatre 17:0

Regan, and Olivier's **etused (If yours far beyond entertains

Tie

fluidiunge and saliviy- ing to ser layar and Richard- Bun and Hardware and Gielgut

un the Americuti Tout poTM, and

the <Kar Tumbling w wildered padstænk CONVE 1- legated to muito pettron

10

Such a plement change from Just week's gloomy American assessment at our extule Several Americas women have sai me de serimisty "Wouldn't a man like Su Laurence Olivare upake wonderful statesman"

The answer, probably, is yes.

In the sun

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ceylan That ot

and

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galler mallions are demonstratanat That $an's place is still very Intel in the virt The Grahnın

1k. Greenn

Quiet The American," has provoked stern discussion in print and on the

This itly rallar novel devrait year, at lading Heming- ways

Alee Waugh's "Island is the Sun" is close to the top of the best-sellers' bet

The chilies bere have been s lavash in their prace of Greene's and Waugh's skill as graftsmen, As they are at Okviris KOHTUN s actor, produces, and dreefse. Britli aetern mid winters have never had a better prYSS

Ohvac is being hailed as the English-speaking world's gient-

Alec Guinness

Csi

ackn

utanumously considered

The

mu! 10fted contemporary come- diasy, and Noel Coward

has

Successes

NITY

TUX - PRESIDENT Herbert E

Hoover fily's "Let's something good about ourselves Well, let's.

such

The Americans are saying it for 13. They have halled our Sadler's Wells Ballet companies E41 vint after visit, have mode our young actresses,

as Jean Simmons, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, and Deborah Kerr. the brightest and most highly poid stars in Hollywood, and they have been even generous enough to say that Dona Dors challenges and per- bape outstrips (pordon) Marilyn Monroe.

British

President Eisenhower

might touch upon

next this at his press conference and put new sleel into the spine of the Anglo-American alliance.

Longer hours

URING the past few days

tiss President hos been pulling in much longer hours and finding time to make brief appearances at political rallies, even though earlier he had said he would cut them out to cun- serve energy.

Mr Eisenhower before Mias

on

N

p- of

When peured

group Republican women in Washing- There have never bern

Lan there

scenc "was mad similar to those that used to SUCCESSCA Broadway, Showmen van hardly engulf Frank Sinatra, and now

The Johnny Ray.

President another musical want to build arcrund Cyril Ritchard.

Statler Hotel and appeared in the the there is

Republican Women's its much

excitement D

Conference um- oven "My Fair Lady."

starring National Rex Harrison ni Julie An- announced, drews, as over any Lamt and Fontaine Bist might.

Muss Bart directed "My Fair

which is Lady.

# musical son of "Pygnahon" und con- saders it one of the hardest jobs of his life. The company is Bitish Stanley Holloway. Cathleen Nesbitt, Robert Coote, Vieda Roache. Phillipa Devas, Reeves-Smiti-us

and

Chive

well as the two sturs

vers

الد

Russia nowhere

DROADWAY bows to us, and Dall the Russians can do Competalami 25 to SHOW uld celluloid "ples" about forming In back-alley art cinemas here.

it)

When the women saw him. rukdy-faced. smurt in

grey- flannel suit and pale blue shirt and the. they stared, and then they cheered. Several shouted. "God bless you" and hundreds breathed "We like Ike."

And even Vice President Ilichard Nixon, the most con- troversial figure in American politics, is being served a very rich

mixture. Helen Hayes. the actress, and a leading Republi- can supporter, told the women's delegates after Mr Nixon had appeared an tite platform: Dick

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London Express Bervien

WHO REALLY GOT HIMMLER

TO STOP THE BLOODSHED?

D

R Felix Kersten, a

skilled practitioner Was it Count Bernadotte, who claimed the

of manual therapy, was Himmler's per-

sonal doctor during the war, Unlike other doctors who struggled for power in the corrupt

courts which, re- volved around the leaders of the Third Reich, Kersten used his position not to in- jure humunity but to save

it.

glory for himself?

nor

Grunther

neither Kersten are even mentioned,

Rumours

bo soon began to circulated that Kersten WAS really Nazi sympathiser.

who knew what he

Or was it Kersten, Himmler's doctor with Grunther,

the magic fingers?

By Robert Blake

After the war Kersien, who

had

done,

feli from power In 1945, and therealier the Swedish nutkortiles, perhaps overawed by Bernadotte's name and wealth, ubstrucled alli Kersten's attempts at obtaining either citizenship or recognition.

Fortunately, no such barrier existed in Holland. There, also, Kersten had one work of im-

"*smcar" campaign had begun against him.

Briefly, Kersten had come up transpori which moved the Tis influence over Himmler, was of Finnish nationality, de- against the competing claims of prisoners, and he was empower- whose agonising stomach cramp cided to srek Swedish citizen- Count Bernadotte (subsequently cd to discuss details, but polley incre value, There, too, he alone could alleviate by ship, for he feared the possi- murdered in Palestina In 1948) had already been settled.

massage, was extraordinary. He bility of extradition to a then for the honour and glory of could 3 rutude combination of

that

strange Communist Finland, and inquisitor, family lived in Sweden, to release lives there THE BATTLE

pedant, and dreamer prisoners for whose seemed no hope at all.

The World Jewish Congress credits him with the rescue 60,000 Jews, and the great work that he did for Holland his real home for many years--was recognised by the bestowal of a high honour from Prince Bern- hard!.

Бале

his having persuaded Himmler in the last few days of the war to

to RUMOURS

But the Dutch Government release to Sweden some thou-

appointed a commission of in- sands of French, Polish, Scandi- navian and Jewish prisoners,

Unfortunately, Bernadotte does quiry whose report, published in 1940 after much careful research, extermination. In reality, how- otherwise due for Immediato not seem to have been

content

completely and triumphantly to take the credit for this vindicated Kersten's claims. The ever, Berhadofte's role

honourable but subsidiary func- Sw was

Swedes still rem

remained obdurate, tion, and claimed the full glory

but In January 1953 an article self.

He did not obtain his object I until 1953, after a battle which raged in the Swedish press and Parliament for several months.

The reasons for this battle, set essentially that of an ambassador of having bearded the ogre hin-

out a Mr Trevor-Roper's intro- duction, Bre not the least interesting part of a book."

fascinating

under orders.

by Mr Trevor-Roper, published in on American_magazine and The real negotiations were Even more unfortunately, he based on research largely in- conducted by Kersten, who alone put himself in a position which dependent of the Dutch commis had the ear of Himmler, and by could only be defended by sion, forced the whole matter to Grunther, the Swedish Foreign minimising or ignoring Kersten's the front in the Swedish press. "Kersten massages a life out

•The Kersten Memoirs, by Fettz Minister. As vice-president of work, and in his account of theso Kersten of

with an introduction by the Swedish Red Cross, Berna- events, published only six weeks Himmler me."

once sald

1. H. Trevor-Roper (Hutchins, "with every rub."

21.).

dotte accompanied the Red Cross later ("The Fall of the Curtain"). MODEST

He Toasted The Queen In An Eire Army Officers' Mess

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FANTASTIC EXPLOITS

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WO assets of Michael Woodfall, whose real name is Patrick

who invited him to their announcing that George Michael Johnson,

garrison ball.

he had just left stood him in good stend

Here "Sir Patrick" proposed tho army. In during a fantastic career of the toast of the President of the truth

had fraud almost unequalled in Irish Republle. A senior officer, just left Dart- moor, that pri- the archives of Scotland carried away by the "colonel's"

where BD' Yard, renowned hend eloquence, responded by calling son

on the company to drink to Tho many malefac- quarters of London's Metro- Queen and the Royal Horse tors had bron politan Police Force,

togel. Artillery,

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A stormy debate followed the Swedish Parliament, and in October of the same year Kersten at last won his cake."-

Kersten's inemoirs are not primarily concerned with this story, for he is a modest man. They are mainly concerned with Himmler's character, and On this ever-absorbing tople ho scarcely writes a dull word.

Again and again the reader finds himself rubbing his eyes. fabulous dinner at the Ritz Was Himmler really as mad as Hotel, for which he wore the this? Did he really believe in dress uniform

of the Royar creating Women's Academies for Horse Artillery.

Wisdom and Culture to turn out. The Jeweller had received a "Chosen Women trained in cheque from the "Maior," and tollcctually by playing chees

to let Mia Heckman every day? wear some of the jewellery at the dliner. Later the "Major" Could Himmler really combina disappeared with diamond love

of animals and perfect

FANTASTIC

Then

ellp, which he pawned in readiness to eliminate. 0,000,000 Dublin, Elre.

Jews? Did he really thine in Allles Woodfall's cartier sojourn at 1945 that the Western Dartmoori was after he had would be delighted to negotiato Those assets were a first-

was consternation

posed as an agent of the British with him as preserver of law and the mess, The toast of Britain's director of the class education and an im- Queen in

Secret Service, and obtained order in Germany? an Irish officers'

hotel ho gave a champagne £30 from twenty-year-old peccable sent on a horse, mess? The local Home Guard party, the gucats Including a debutante.

commander and a professor of retired Colonial Governor, Woodfall, allas Colonel Sir history macked down their Roman Catholte prior, and two Patrick Murphy, allos Captain glasses and walked out. Patrick Johnson,

muyors

there is his fantastio aling: and

Ho also obtained 10,000 adulation of the Fuehrer, which Coplain "X" of the Secret

He also invited-unknown to French franes from a Norwegian was shareit by so many Germana Service, had the grand manner.

the other guests-three or four nurse and defrauded a taxi and which is so Incomprehen- He talked himself into the best.

The local branch of the Old ex-golbirds he had known at driver of £22. Ho was given sible to other nations society.

Comrader Association of the Dartmoor, i

four-year sentence at the Old In Etre last Christmas ho, Irish Tepublican Army and the

"I asked," writes Kersten, caused a real Irish row. •Ho Gaelic Lenguo protested. Efforts The “Major?' 2007. became Bailey, the Central Criminst

In London

when he "whether he would hang him- had arrived in Galway with a were made to ect the affair known as "Champagne Charile." appealed, the Lord Cafet Justles solf, if Hitler onderaf #t. Hinim good-looking girl secretary and releed in the Irish Republles le bought a good horse and (Lord Goddard) increased the fer looked at me for a

wardrobe

subscribed to the North Corn sentence to seven z. colossal

in seven- Parliament, the Dall. -

years.

shocked, then anid: wall Hunt. teen pieces of luggage

At the Old Bailey again the tainly! At oncel The installed himself in

A the hubbub was at It!20

frun famous other day Michael

chael Woodfall, at Tuchrer orders best

hotel as Colonel Sir Patrick height Segtland Yard detectives A jeweller Murphy representing himmelt arrived with a warrant and Hatton Garden In London was the age of thirty-dive was sent that, he has his, rossor as a British Army officer, in the, arrested "Sir Patrick" for the invlied to bring down some or to preventive detention for mine told him that I would not do

stolen, a such a thing it the President of, Royal Horse Artillery. He gave purpose of bringing him back his best jewellery for Miss years for having

Helen Keckanan, secrotors at the amend and ruby clip worth Finland odred me #champhido party and soon to Great Britain,

alegal hole); whom. Woodfall and the £585 from a London Jewdiler. was on the bout of terms with The warrant concerned he was going to marry,

Haploaded "Gulity, and it This is quiló one

one of the batt local

netivition of ""Minjor. Michnút.

Shah, was sold he had ten previous written, moat, authoritative, and « He was invited to ride with Woodfalls at the Coralen town, The "Major" chose 0.800 convictions mostly for fraud, Interesting book which have An exclusivo, hunt where he of Lostwithief, where he grind worth of lewillery – and, tien **Me,cústico, Cussols told him, thrown in light from the Iraide metomours of the crack No. 1 appointed managing dirbator for drove uweller and MikeVou nie zokily, a danger to that upon the extraordinary, (hlatory) Battalion, of the - Irish Army "the Royal Tips Hotel War Fo

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