THE CHINA - MAIL, MONDAY,
HITLER CONSIDERED
ALIVE..
LEGALLY
By Norman Lindhurst
murmurs
There have long been, angry. Berchtesgaden
Meanwhile, Hitler's 55 body- from HAVE just learned Germany about the delay in de head of
anti-Nazie In guird, Mengorhaeuser, and the the Fuehrer's garage, that in West Germany, claring Hitler legally dead. Schneider, have also returned to Adolf Hitler is re- When Hitter's valet, Heinz West Germany. garded as still being alive Linge, or legally alive anyway.
Него nt Hitler's old Alpino hideaway where Der Fuehrer planned the Nazis' last-diich stand-for- vent Nazis are making an incredible legal stand,
Pin
and
vinced.
Hitler's
hoving
the
Berchtes court is still not con-
His property
and Hitler's Personal Both witnessed Hans Baur, returned from
Schneider cremallon, last autumn with their turid accounts of the Fuchter's carried the petrol used ins last hours in his Berlin bunker. Cremation-but tho it appeared
that
the grisly Raden muist Berchtesgaden legal force Indeed be
ended. quickly Finished But not at all. Tho Berchtesgaden court has found new protences for delay,
Not surprisingly, the West although Lingo and Baur have
nearly been back now
four Berlin and Berchtesgaden courts mus certify Hitler's death to months Der Fuchrer is still a
from being legally wind up disposition of his per- way
ronal property, consisting of his Herchtesgaden villa and per- sonal effects and confiscated by the Bavartan State Government in 1948 Efter A Bavarian denazification court had ruled thai Hitler was a "major Nazí."
For three years the Berchter, Raden court jus dawdled over Ure
simple
of declaring long act Hitler legally dead-und thus dend. Inquistating the last vestiges of the Hitler myth.
The West Berlin courts last mimmer sct out to establish Hitler's death, but ran Into A Tons of documents have been jurisdictional battle with the put at the disposal of a shahby Berchtesgaden court, magistrate's" court herE. Eye-
The court at Berchtesgaden, witness to various phases of
where Hitler had his Alpine Hitler's demise have River hideaway, han roused to sur. solemn testimony. For
my render documents in the Hiller possession of overwhelming case to West Berlin.
evidence that conclusive
months now the ceart has been
In
Hel
Hitler is dead, but xil the court has procrastinated. And, in the Held of law, the daillance, has been on Anzuronssed exhibition of Teutonte thoroughness carried to the thrive. Isate-aplitting degren,
POCHET CARTOON
by OSBERT LANCASTER
ROYAL ACABENY
Teeth and bones
The "difficulty" in certifying Hitler's death is due to the lock of
All #corpus delict!.
the evidence available to Berchics- gaden and West Berlin authori- ites is based entirely on festi mony or o says the Berchtes- goden court.
The Soviets apparently have the only physical evidence that iter, as is generally accepted, hot himself through the head : ric Qut his chauffeur then
12 the body cremated
the Heichschancellery garden with a tin of petrol.
Filtz Echunanu, one of Hitler's dentists, told the
Berchtesgaden court:
A death certificate is neces- sary, however, to seal the con- fiscation of Hitler's properly in Germany and also in Austrio. An
Government Austrian
trusieu has been placed in charge of a valuable painting Dutch master, Jan Ver- by the meer, which Hitler purchased during the war, and miscellane- ous other personal itents.
Meanwhite. for more than Πνε years, Hitler's youngest aister, 51-year-old Mrs Paula Hitler-Wolf has been waging a legal battle with the Bavarian Government for 0 shire t Hitler's estate.
No certificate
Penniless and lying on publie relier At Berchtesgaden, Mrs Hitler-Wolf cians that Hitler left her part of his property
privite will. The Bavarian
了
"When the Russians com- Government contend, however, quered Berlin, they confiscated that everything in our office. urrested me and took me to the Soviet Union. Later, several MVD oficer, showed me several sels of teeth and some bones in a cigar box.
Hitler's wDI WAN not
iu the They couchod
proper legal terms.
to
" had worked on Hitler's teeth in the autumn of 1944 and consequently was able Identliy a lower jawbone being Hitler's The Russians
did not appear entirely satisfied, however, aticl from memory E Hitler's mouth."
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has tried to
COLE PORTER
Mrs Hiller-Wolf fight the case further in the been thwarted courts but has beenuse she can't produce Hitler's death certifcate.
Hitler has one other surviving relative, a half-brother, Alois, whom Hitler set up in the res- taurant business in Berlin efter he became the German Fuehrer. Ilves by a recluse in
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N Monte Carlo's smartest restaurant, which goes by the unsmart name of Le Snack (although it is not quite the place in which to ask for a ham sandwich) there Was a very smart party the other night,
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PERRICK
SMARTEST WOMAN
IN THE WORLD
GRACES A PARTY
To complete the picture, Mrs Fellowes was sitting elegantly And daintily embroidering a tapestry chair cover.
It was difficult to believe that her name was Daisy. She offered me bread and honey, and tea from a Georġlan silver pot.
IN THE KNOW
Mra Fellowes spoke knowingis" about the reigning house of Monaco, to which she is related. In exchange I was able to all her in on some details about
It was given in honour of totle Onassis who, I am de has been a feature of the place ing aroundthat Prince Pierre. Miss Kelly, from which she was Mr Cole Porter, who is a lighted to learn, ls known to his these last few rainy days. father of Rainier, is going to able to estimate that the bride
friends as "Ari," pronounced very smart man indeed and exactly like the "I'm-just-wild who, having just finished about" man without the altch. the words and music for Miss Kelly's last film "High Society," is now, as they Bay. travelling abroad.
DAISY
movio
"Oh, still
Mr Porter is over the gallant, clope to Italy to marry the lady of the year would seem to be my lady of the who was once the wife of the taller than her groom. camellias," he exclaimed as the Grand Duke Dmitri, and at the sweet-faced but definitely moment just plain Mrs Emery.
Lady Michelham round him to show
The arrival here of Mr Portet, elderly spare but spruce figuro sport- pirouetted Ing the biggest, pinitest carna- off her new and very pretty
SHHI
tion seen this aide of Asia Minor scarlet coat and hat. in the buttonhole of his peerless, pearl-grey suit, cousext quite u Butter among the marmalade- mink coated dowagers who live the winters of their lives in the Hotel de Paris.
ery
Together we discussed ways
With which Cole Porter went and mears in the matter of shoes and clothes which would route for make this difference less notice out of my life Rome, Sicily, and the Middle able on the wedding day. East (on Asia Minor, dependent upon what school you went to, and when).
She mentioned also that her provious day's lunch guest, Sir Winston Churchill, was thinking of buying the empresse villa, which was situated at the bottom of the magnificent gardens of Les Zoraides.
So to cheer myself up I went With me, he talked of show to call on Mrs Fellowes at her business and local gossip. For Cap Moriin villa, Les Zoraides "High Society" ho Яas com- posed Somo music for Louis
Now, there is elegant" BĢing Armstrong to play in a jazz for you! A flock of footmen I did not betray the fact that session sequence.
in attendance, a handsome stair- I was a stranger, round those case-covered in what looked like parts by asking which empresa. leopard sic'n leading to the draw. ing room, where the lady of the house waited.
To help things along Miss Marty Stevens, who is the cafe- singing daughter of
(I dig up that almost forgot- magnate -Nicholas Schenk gavo ten clicho about Asia Minor a privale recital of the score.
because Porter, surprisingly used it when he was telling me Among those present was the about his itineráry to define "That sort of thing in very smartest woman in the world, that part of the world we know now for me. I can't say whether Mrs Dalsy (Reginald) Fellowes, on the Middle East; and the it is good music or not. I just who is the daughter of a French term "marmalade misk" to
duke, the one-time wife of a describe fur coats of that old wouldn't know, but it was such prince, the widow of a wealthy fashioned cut and colour which fun to do." Englishman, and permanently pre-date the silver-blue and at the top of the Best-Dressed breath-of-spring models by
couple of decadics.)
Women's list.
The Best Dressed Woman in the World was wearing. Domic-
HOT DOG
My Ittle chato with ther
Brid -talented 1 said I preferred my Cole thing in the way of a navy suit gracious. lady Porter straight-cool, calm, and and white silk shirt, which I gentleman were notable high- slightly wicked lyric-wine, and would describe as "of deceptive lights in a rainy week in the that he really didn't look like simplicity," If that were not Rainier realm. And also the Grand Duchess Anyway, the sophisticated.
my idea of jazz man at all. such a hackneyed phrase. Marle of Russia, who in, of composer, sitting in the lushly to Mr Earl carpeted (at a cost
"Anything for a change," said: Course, & Romanoff,
well-groomed head was and Countess of Cromer she is Onassis of many thousands of my second favourite composer, framed · through a branch of the daughter of a Press Lord pounds, I am told) foyer of the and went on to whisper the white orchids expertly arranged (but not mine) and Mr Aris- hotel greeting his many friends, wonderful rumour that is float in a vase behind her,
tho
RELIGION ALIVE
NOT ON
BUT
Paris.
THE story of 60 million
Russian churchgoers, of overcrowded Soviet theolo
IN
Her
RUSSIA RIGHT LINES
From SYDNEY SMITH
"The object of our visit," said
priests were free to, go to
Jt
But these things too my ro- porter's mind had also noticed
THE UNEXPECTED SCENE in the Casino's Salon Priva (well, as private as you can get for 3s. extra, the price of norussion) of the hat does which are the favourite food of the bejewelled matrons who frequent the place.
In fact, at this slack time of the year there seem to be more sausages thath big-time gamblers · around.
1
*THE MAN with the softeet of soft jobs the Cuban consul
in Lisbor who, having discover-
Dr Anason complained: The ed there was only one Cuban
living in Portugal for him law there is that there shall be freedom for religious worship take care of speryds most, of his "In Moscow and is outskirts" and, for anti-religious propatitos in Monuca cecaping the
ganda. We were distressed that careswar office. Dr Anderson, "was to discuss Dr Anderson went on, "I met there was no gical colleges, of Soviet with Soviet religious leaders how pricats with their own care. Our outside the ordinary local church recentment on the part of the religious teaching, JUBY THE TINIEST BIT of priests with their own cars, the churches could work for Russian church hosts paid hil service. But we found that lodal
Monegasques who have been was told in Parla last week ponce. That we did, quite freely, our expenses." by an
American Baptist, The Archblahops of the Lutheran.
churches in Lithuania, Estonia Dr Anderson and four othors homes to talk to the child in tactfully told that the prince, Dr Paul B. Anderson, on and Armenia were there,
of the American delegation they were Invited. One restor who already has three American his return from Russia.
preached of the Moscow Baptist outside Moscow told me that he can, and a Mercedes-Benz, sug- gests they buy a prosent for was called almost every day to his bride in place of the Bolls "We visited theological colleges Church,
jalk to children in private nayco iliey, were going to give After ten days of religious, in Moscow and Leningrad. The
Baid the Doctor "The Baptist homes.” conferehoo in Moscow" and average 'agés, of, the students In
seminaries was 20 to 25 Church in Moscow holds about: Leningrad, Dr Anderson fold the
1,200 people, but there were at AN INVITATION: me, "With eight other Ameri- yours. In thờ higher college, yeast 2,500 on this day, packing '.:
studenta were in their late
In spite of all the favourable the lakes and overflowing into twenties,
the stroot. I spoke in Russian, things he said, De Anderson is Among the congregation I coumi- still not convinced that religion. ed about ten women for øvery in Hussik, is on the right lines. man
can churchmen, rprésenting the "National Council of Churches, I
mot the heads of all Bovict LONG. WAITING LIST churches. They gave us a slight intimation that there is an voŝing
him. So Graco, will get on £8,000 diamond necklace from her future citizens Instead.
NOSTALGIA
To end on a strictly personal
of the situation since the 20thThere are eight theological
sary, which fell one day this, He concluded: "When the note: On my wedding annivers It worried the Američan delos Rumian church leaders told a week, I went along to visit the Confareaed," sominarios and, two collegen in Communist Party,
looked very Hiasis. They are crowded, and gation that the Russian bishope that they felt quite content with anally, andised, not near, hero:: They said things much baster but they would there is a long list of students and phbishop brought up the the law, which allows church where Ironk my honeymoon. not criiicias the part."
walling to enter.
subject of perm and storie war- services but not church, educa- The hotel where we stayed hath Cand, Ön germ wartaro, De Gony, wa mtod them why. We hoon converted into’Elata," und E- Dr Aldison has boon to "Who are the studenter Wall, Anderson and solidlys We told set they had no right to bo con did not recognise, li
el they should try and fans they haveug Rumia before--with a war pri I met one man whe "had surved; them that
during the six yekre "in"the revolution.” He speaks Oiled
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