MARLON BRANDO, that highly. Individuallatic actor, has created his **hoftest * role ever in his interpretation of the part of a young Naxi officer, Christian Dieat), in the film "The Young Lions." Here, in this Expressed Yenion of the film LEONARD MOSLEY shows bow Brando moulde Irwin Shaw's character Into that of a man gradually growing aware of the hopelessness of a came. And how the destinies of two American soldiers are shaping towarda x meeting of them all the war onds. This is Chapter THREE.
THE
HARDENDUNG PULLED DIESTL CLODE,
THE CHINA MAIL,
YOUNG
LIONS
HE WHISPERED, “YOU MUST BRING ME A BAYONET.”
WHAT gives the fascination to a character like Christian Diest is the way in which his thought-processes work. If you call him a Nazi, retorts Gretchen Hardenburg.
he gets offended.
When the people of Occupied France look at him with barely emicrnled contempt, or go out of their way to insult him, he in deeply hurt.
J
"Neither of us is very happy in France," says Diest!.
"You'll have to be patient." to have him "I'm arranging moved to an active theatre. I van help the explain to a bri Bont army career, She pauses, and then "Perhaps I could do it tur
small you...with effort, The general an
considers
a has nothing to do with war.... Rommel's staff." himself reasonably intependent, eivlised it's unclean." and intelligent member of the Army. He stands for German decency and the tales of war-
or so he thinks.
Captain
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Hardenburg
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There is a knock on the door Is a It is the general's chauffeur,
True, a brulal top-regeant walking most of his spends moments weering at him and pushing alm around, Con't act the big Brandway pro- ducer here, Mr Whitenere,"
For Noth Ackerman the way ahead Inoks grimmer. Every... thing is going wrong.
He suffers in silence when his bunk-mates Jibe us his racial background.
ambassador to New York?”
Say says an Irishman in nastier but a much more honest and she tells him she will to the corner in & ou voles He believes in National right down. And as Diesil rises "Akerman comes from New So when he finds himself, Socialism and, so long as Hitler she looks him fall in the face. York, doesn't he? Who's the duty in Paris, picking up small orders it, anything goes. buys a suspected members J the Elesistance, or when hears arrested Frenchmen being tatured in
Ju
"Are you in a hurry to
Nu? Then stay.
"The German Army does not fomewhere? 11
have sentimentalists, nor ind-
nor muralists," he sys. "You will have no future
the next room of vidualists, the Gestapo, als cleanly view of He is appalled....
won't be too long." She pulls on her wrap and walks, superbly conscious of her carriage, towards the door, and there she turns.
"They don't have one," says One of his buddies. They don't recognize it,"
THURSDAY, MAY 22, 1958.
and then reaches for paper and the bloody battle of Alamein, he penell. Whiteacre urges him to seas the arrogance and self- forget what has happened, but confidence of the Nazis ali It Ackerman is to keep hili last around. him trickling out of vestige of pride-his pride in them like julco from à aqueezed himself-ho knows that this is lemon, the point of no return,
His own superior officer,
He plus a notice on the Captain Hardenburg, the avid barrock-room beard. "To the Nazi who gets a kick out of personnel of Company C," he killing, is now showing signs of weller. "Twenty dollars has a new emotion-fear. been stolen from Private Noah
Ackerman, 2nd Platoon, I am They are on a molor-cycle, not interested in the return of speeding westwards towards the money and will press no Tunis, In a desperate cffort to charges.
evade the all-encircling British,
and the bullets or the prizon
"1 wish to take my satisfac- cage that will be their fate if lon, in person, with my own they are caught. hands. W the soldier involved please communicate with me Immediately."
Back alley
"Keep going," he shouts from the pillion, as Diesi nods with exhaustion. "Damn you, keep awake. Talk to me. Say cay- thing."
"All
Next morning there is a note "How lying on his bed. "We look the now?" money," says. "We're walt- ing for you. Pvi, Donnelly, Pvt. Burnecker Pvt. Cowley, Pvt, Brailsford,"
right," taya Dlestl, far do we have to go
"Four hundred
Seven hours,"
:ilometres.
For the moment it is the end
They are the four biggest, of the road for both of them. men in the camp....
Diest has been lucky. He has sustained a superficial wound in the shoulder."
And white Ackerman meots his painful moments of mar- tyrdom in a back-alley behlori the barracks, the war is begin- bing to straighten out a little for Whitesere and Diest.
With Hardenburg it is some- thing much, much worse, part- sularly in the region of the face.
They will each have a spell in Whiteacre has got his posting hospital, to think about the to a Service unit and will soon things that are beginning now prey on their anda .... be on his way to Europe, and a to soft job, helping to keep the suffering. pain. wheels of the army turning-but Socialism, and strictly behind the front lines them, and over Germany.
while the
A Nazi
retreats from his beliefs
DIES
National themselves....
war rolls on, over
For Noah Ackerman, it is still rolling with painful slowness, and the aching need to be at grips with the enemy is still come way off yet.
Ackerman is, in fact, In the calaboose, The Jew-baiting tortures
of his comrades, and BRANDO AS DIESTL WITH MAY BRITT particularly his sadistic com- manding officer, have worn him down at last,
Michnet Whiteacre meanwhile Is not suffering anything at all --except for RM becantonal twinge on his conscience.
-A DATE IN BERLIN
"There are two of us 'n here," free." A pause, and then: "You he says. He points to a will uring the bayonet, won't bandaged shape in the bed you, Plesti?" beside him. "Think of itma Foor for iwa,
I bring the bayonet" says
on Impossible Christian Diest!. odour, but fortunately I am now MJESTI, is finding fulfilment in
And as he brings it that night His girl has come to London. a man without a nose to smell does he guess how Hardenburg the desert. With a com- Except when the buzz-bombs it. There you have the symbolic will really use ? And is this mando crew they surprise E come down uncomfortably pattern of the success
e elcac, be Ins everything he New Germany,"
needs-whisky, plentiful food,
British Army camped in the desert.
With skl} and
formation
1
Just
around them the British Allied among their burning cars and lorries. Some of them are dead, but many of them are wounded.
of the the turning point in his wor-
rehearsal
the moment which charges him
do a man who begins to under-
war but that Hitlerism can
the protective comfort of an And then te pulis Diesli stand the horizor not only that fervelova army
uniform without the towards him and begins to efficiency, they move in with dangers that usually go with it, whisper, "Tonight," he murmurs. bring down upon human-kind? mortars and machine-guns. It
"Tonight you must bring me a a brilliant ambush. All
before the conquering bayonet." Armies sweep · across North Africa Christian Diest, convalescing now, goes lo sce Captain Hardenburg" in hospital: They wander around, dazed,
One of Hardenburg is in the bleeding, bewildered,
up to Trserved for cases who have them comes staggering
been burned, and the warns Diest before the goes in prisoners," to keep his handkerchief to his
then, nope.
words Dies!l.
Hardenburg. understand
in it it you don't that. You may have no futuro on earth if you" oppose, It."
"You'll wait? That's wonder-
"Why?" asks Donnelly, "Isn't New York part of the United States yet?"
"Not until they learn the Take some caviar. At the moment they just talk the home f:pot
with their hands."
te doesn't fight back against the evil obscenities golny artand him. He goes to hi
So what dors Christian Diesti, ful. Now have another drink. Janguage." relorts his buddy. superior officer, Captain Harden- the decent German soldier, do? tutenant. burg, and applies for a transfer. 11e swallows his qualins and bis See
"I want to go back to light conscience and goes off to Berlin suffers!"
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And, in order to salve the feeling of gulit inside him, he mukes a typical gesture.
how
the door suitly She closes behind her. Christian Diest puts a cushion on the floor, puis a bottle of vodka beside it, and sits down.
"We cannot take Sys
And turning to Diest and polating al the dazed and wounded British soldier:-
"Lieutenant Diest, shoot that
man."
room
nurse
won't
all right, you "It's embarrass the captain," says the
nurse.
Bitterness
As Diest Jorks back, he goes on ergently:" "No, not for me. For him.
I am all right. With ears, articulating glasa plastic structed jaws, I am oft right. eyes, tooth riveted into recon-
"With a face like mine, people far in polities in will feel for me and I shell go the New Germany. Beside,
wife my Grelchen-she says will make no difference,"
He
goes
it la
B
CAPTAIN HARDENDURG
A NAZI DOESN'T THINK,
Now, for the first time, as he
CB: "No, 13, Hei rome Ackerman end hesitates on his pistol, And he doesn't, because the not for me." He gestures to speaks English?"
Christian Diest is beginning to captain can't see him. Is the other bed: "It is for him. "He's us.".
realise just what the philosophy face, is awathed from the neck. He has no arms, no legs, nothing of National Socialism can really up in all-enveloping bandages, at all-excopt a heart that still icad to.
And when he turns in profile, at somehow goes on beating, He the sound of Dlestl'a approach, wants to kill himself, but he He has not ye! corne to Christian stops short.
has no hands to do it with So hate National Socialism; but he
tonight, if you will bring me a rapidly beginning to be Because, in the normal sense bayonet. See. I have been sickened by the execases com- of The word, there isn't any rehearsing." mitted in its name.
Hardenburg's face }# Ho crawls out of bed and shapeless. And Hardenburg. crawls to the shapeless hump. Chapter Three: Throw As the Eighth Army rolls the beneath a prelence of cynicism. He puts out a hand. Ackerman goes into himself Afrika Korpa inexorably back is bitter to the depths of his "Es that the heart? Good,
away your uniform' That is where I shall set him misery, anger and despair, scross the Western Desert, after Nazi soul,
But even he can be pushed around too much. The limit is When Gretchen Hardenburg reached on the day of his wife's comes back, several hours later, birthday, when he goes to his he is half asleep. She walks locker and fumbles for the 20 Hardenburg has asked him to across, slips off her shoe, and dollars he has been saving for deliver a present of old French nudges him with her toe. Ho
her present. Instead, he finds a ce to his wife in Berlin, At ouens his eyes and pours her note: ""TOUGH," is all it says. Arst, It is just an errand. then he knocks on the door of the ful, and Gretchen Harden- burg, opens it.
And drink.
She has ash-blonde hair tut maker his own seem in need ul
"Can you really do this arrange a transter for me to the
front?" he asks,
"With a small effort."
another shampoo. Her eyes ku She removes her coal, puts on blue with the slightly cloudy a soft dance record, and then There shn film of a girl who doesn't necit goes to the mirror.
10 worry that she is short drapes the delicats black lace sighted, because she knows that over her ash-coloured hair and the men she wants to see are white shoulders. going to come up close, anyway.
"How are the girls in Paris?" she asks.
Greletten Hardenburg is very beautiful: very tail and slotu- Diest frowns. esque: very confidently proad very putriotic," of her attractions; and not an reitated by the intrusion
She
"French-and
comes towards him,
o! such a handsome young fondling the
that **[21 Germany,"
officer.
"Sil down," she says, "What would you like to drink?"
She is in evening dress und has a wrap thrown loosely aver her smooth shoulder,
Diest hesitates, "Well-youa were going out."
lace seductively case... welcome to
Next morning he feels much belter, in every possible way.
In America
Across the ocean, in an urmy barracks In the Deep South of Gretchen shrugs alrily. "Only America, Noah Ackerman and with a general....I'll tell him Michael Whitenere are having I kept him waiting for a their troubles with the army feutenant." She goes to the too, but not solving them with bar. "Vodka? I have some quite such a soft and silky sent direct from. Russla."
solution.
She feeds him drinks and
For
Whitehere, of course, caviar, and naks him casunity things will work out in the end. about her husband.
For his type, they always do.
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