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THIS IS Why We Couldn't

Catch Grivas...

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by

Keith Morfett

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Nicosia.

HEY are carving out their new Cabinet here in Cyprus four years to the day since bombs blasted the local broadcasting station to begin one of the worst terrorist wars in history. The Grecks are getting along with the Turks. The And the Turks are being nice to the Greeks. British are being buddies with everyone.

Eoka's eTKES have part ded gunmen have left their larg

They Intelligence here still hon not down their Aplan Way. have marched to the crowd's the foggiest nolion where their

the "hicks are vested. frontzient clamour along Atreet we entled Murder Mile.

the bills winze Atl were hunted down are left to the eagles and the wind, The bitterness is beginning to heal.

For Shame!

BUT I Rest

We,

Two bodred and eighty Eoka they men could vanish back into the tomorrow If they likisouls wished.

Intelligence phic John Prendergast, down into Cyprus

November lu catch Grivas, ordered photographs u be taken a few days ago uf all Euka men parading in Nicosia,

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THE CHINA MAIL,

THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1959.

Alice comes back

NO LOVE FOR JOHNNIE, the novel by the late Wilfred Fienburgh, MP. continues to arouse great controversy. Now it hends the list of London's best- sellera (For the books it is leading, see Pogo TWELVE.) * THE STORY 50 FAR: Jobnuis Byrne was still MP for Marshfield, but his constituents had inei con- fidence in him. So had his Party. His wife, Alice, had left him. So had Pauline, the girl he loved When he followed her to her parents' home In Yorkshire, Blo refroled him a second time.

Back in London, with a few deloku Inaldo him, it accurred to him that Mary, his neighbour in the flat upstairs, would be glad to see him. Ho stambled up to her sitting room.

ITE was standing inside the door grinning inanely when Mary came into the room wearing a long flowing housecoat, She frowned angrily.

"What do you want?" sho napped.

"Now, Mary, don't be angry, I want to talk—a little conversu- tion before bed.". "You're drunk,"

"Not drunk, Mary," He stepped towards her, hold. ing carefully to the arm of n chair.

She backed away to the Sreplace.

"Co away, Go back down. stairs." She drew her housecoat tightly against her throat.

He managed to reach the mantelpiece with both hands, 412142 1421 each side of Mary's shoulders. "Wanna kiss you,

Wanna kiss you," He pushed his face toward

Mury.

Jer

to make

a new start

NO LOVE FOR JOHNNIE

by WILFRED FIENBURGH

It's

*Then, as he gained control: "Sorry, Mary, I'm all right now, but don't move yet. Just that the whole blasted world has collapsed around me In the last few days. I'll be all right."

She stroked his head. "Thero She was soothing him now." like a child, "You'll feel better in the morning, I'll bring you soine breakfast in the morning

and we'll have a talk."

She brought him a couple of sleeping tablels and a glass of He took them and went water. slowly, downstairs.

ANNOYED

I awoke about 10.30. Mary came into his room after knock

"Johnnie," she said, "are you el gight?"

There is one

matchlux-VICIOUS BLOW things.

the Britian.

se enmeras and the negatives "You stink of whicky," she ing quietly. should forget it: a burty.

said charply. "Go and kiw That in the failure of our I were small as sugar cubes,

Paulise.”

"Mary's Jealous,"" he song. Mary's Jealous," "poor slipped him hard on the side of his face, a full, swinging, vicious blow that brought tears to his

yes.

ligre people to get to grip. But while Prendergast's men with Chivas and the 300 guminen were at work they were in tur wh inve nuw trumped homo being photographed themselves from the s

n behalf of Foka.

Only now Is it being realised how at we fell short of Us.

And bee the emergency" ezetet I have been plvelugt together a tale that would make Graham Creeene's Mr Woonold, Chur Man in Havana, hang his head in shamer

For instance; it is now known that for much of the time Grivas

mito; med WAR GAANK Cypriot police ulcers as

Fouriers!

Pożeg muntar-nyc1

ears werk at Euka's call

Police

11 ako turns out that a sverel Fooklet sustaining photographs

arsef rull details of every known an on the wanted list, and stamped 41 the front

Shu

"You bitch," he sail. "Yotl bitel." She hit bim again coverard, turned and escaped to the other side of the room, put- ting a settee between them.

How dare you,” she punted. "TU-T call the polleo if you don't go."

"Mat be returned to office of Director of Operations," was on inue lo Edke's group leaders.

So very wanted man cuki see snelly what he looked like the men who were hunting

Greek

an

his

and

raditi-renholled squatt

terror war TWO

HUNDRED

Complaints

all at me vital stage in the MANYly endemn

eerst have talked the members of the island's police almost tfal lack of liaison be

and police force were workban actively for tween the Army

during the greater part of the Bokn in one way or another.

Wense than that. When a serily aperations,

Top Rimmed wus trappel de The Army complained they they were not getting enough jatelti- gente information. Police com-

1

cordon by top who had ftut- slogger after him across

Intell gense nunta.us.

19. W bottled ly the maposted in give then the slip. The same thing happened a number of time. And now we kw the reason:---

л

The Eoka man rode out through the cordon in police squad enr, his lauded

sten gun beneath his knees, escorted by uniformed ser- geants on either side.

Unkind?

-་

CECRET SERVICE meat own into the island under or dera direct from London were once tailed. For weeks by de- tectives to see what they were up to before it was discover ed who they were.

Think I am being unkind to

plated the Army did not use it properly when they got it.

The Army then used its own int agence staff which operated quite separately from the police

whoe job it was.

At one vital stage, Army and pabre in towns were actually in ech other for the limous flence uf off-duty eurfe w-breaking while gunmen slept safely in the hills.

A Report

300

AND to it avent out! Today, In

the immer VVCERNUS of the brant - new, bite windowed paltee of the police head- quarters here, a report is being prepared,

in

WH be fucked away by tight-lipped men in that "under-

concrete bastion und

was the Maida Vale" which world of Mr Wormold.

Or will we all, one day, know

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rie stood facing her, homing by his sites, bend down. "Nbody wants me," he said. Then suddenly he was sobbing uncontrollably, great, racking tulping sabs that tore at hus chest and burst from his lungs, This was what he had wanted to do for days. He enjoyed the absolutte abandon of giving way. completely and unashamedly

Mary came round the couch, knelt beside him and rested v his hand ber

timorously shoulder.

"Leave me alone," he said. She pulled his head on her thoulder and he muzzled into the softness of her neck, sobbing siill, but anore quietly,

I nodded. "There's someone to see you," He had was annoyed He visualised Mary sitting on the end of his bed while he ate his breakfast,

"Who Is it?" "It's Alice."

startled and

He sat upright, unguished,

She's upstairs. I'll send her down."

He jumpet out of bed and

dressing struggled into his gown. He decided to be looking out of the window on to the patch of garden when she came

and closed again. Silll he looked The door opened behind him

Lot her speak at the garden. first.

But she did not speak.

turn. Eventually he had to Alice was standing. frail and almost pathetic, motionless at the end of the bed.

"Well come on then, he What is it?" snapped.

"Let's not start on that basis, please." Alice sighed, "I want to try to talk to you seriously." SHE SIGHS

"Make some coffee then, I haven't had breakfast yet." He Just followed her into the kitchen. the They did not speak until

"I've been so lonely. There was no one anywhere, want to be with someone,"

coffee was ready. Then they sat at the table.

"Now tell me," he said, more kindly this time, "teit me what happened,"

Alke sighed; "I suppose I must talk. Somehow I had hoped I could just slip back and the explanations could that come later,"

diz-

She righed

got illusioned with the Party, that's all. Got fed up with the les and the cheata, Then there

was Hungary,”

"So you've broken with the Party?"

Wolked

"Yes, I walked out. out of everything. I went to stay with some people In Moll- chester who had left the Party earlier. And there I took myself apart and had a good look at myself.".

LEONARD

'Sorry Mary, It's just that the whole blasted world

The sload up and walked to the has collapsed around me in the last few days."

"That's asking rather a lot, You walk out, you come back. There must be reasons for both.” "There's one reason for both going and coming back," Allee frowned, "I wanted to make a fresh start, wanted both of us to be able to make a new start, "You've Just taken yourself that's all. We never have been apart," he said bitterly, "but it married, we started in the wrong seems that you have been taking way, and things kept on going me apart for years. Of course I

wunted suCCESS, wrong."

She took a cigarette froni a small white handbag, it it and breathed the smoke deeply.

"While you were away during the war I developed. I grow up. I found that I could deal with people, talk to people, organise people. And then I was lonely, 100."

"That's when you became an active comrade."

window, then turned to look al her again,

Who doesn't?

Of course I wanted ofee, What MP doesn't? Why should it be wrong in me but acceptable in everybody else"

As soon as she had gone he know what the answer would be. She was right. there was nothing left for either of them And part, but they might something together. Above all, he would not be alone say longer,

He decided to telephone from the House during the aftermoun, He would ring her at about five

pursuit of "Decause your advance was so damnably cold- blooded and unprincipled."

"There was no one to talk to me, put me right. You could o'clock. have done that,"

He collected his letters and, could, I could. I'm trying arm in his resolve to look after to do it now. I want to start Marchfield, took them into the aquin. We're not too old. We've Library and answered them I fitted in quite well. I found a missed such a lot.

I tried to immediately. sort of home with them. And find it in the Party, you tried

He began to visualise a cosy then, during the war, there was to find it in a career. We never middle age with Alice at home,

Can a purpose and an aim to it that tried to find it together, helped.me."

we now

"That's when រ joined the Communist Party, that's right,

"And afterwards?” DISGUSTED

"You

came back and there was nothing I could share with, you. I tried. But we weren't after the same things, you just wanted a career in politics and 1.... well, I wanted to do some→ thing, to make changes, and 1 sill thought the Party was the way to do I.

"You disgusted me, the way you concentrated everything on rushing forward inlo Parila ment, then rushing towards ofce with no idea what you wanted to do when you got there."

"And now?"

'RING ME'

Suddenly he wanted to say yes, wanted to end the long-

he could not do it hess, but abruptly. He needed time and quiet.

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In

and a home that was comfort able, with Marshfield happy in support of him. He would take up some minor compalgri and niake it his own-smoke abate- ment or old-age pensions.

There was no shume in failure. 1 was so comfortable to be out of the race.

Now he could relax

on the aidelines and watch the others sweat it out.

half an hour he would phone Allee.

In

"Can you see the PM in his Toorn in 15 minutes?" he asked distantly,

Hyrne rested the newspaper on his knees, surprised. "What does he want?"

"He'll no doubt tell you. Con I say you'll be there?"

Byrne nodded, Johnson slood up and left,

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Although he raised his news- paper again he could no longer coitcentrate on the columns. He tried to think what the PM wanted.

Perhaps the PM was already 1lanning u reshufe. But Byrne had made up his mind. He had landed on a placki Island of conteriment and he was not now going to wade out into the surf among the seefs and currents.

Not, that is, unless there was something big in prospect. That, of course, might persuade him to change his mind. After all he would not be in a position to It would be his duly to accept.

He prowled down the Library

between

the gloss corridor book-basus.

When I walk this way in half on hour, he thought, I might be

(London Erprasa Service). TOMORROW:

refuse.

She took a serap of paper from her bag and scribbled, "I'll give you my address London. There's a telephone number, just ring me there if you want me. wait :null tomorrow morning. I can't leave things in the air for long. I must know," She left the address on the

the Pelme Minister's a minister, table, picked up her bag and PPS, found him sitting quietly walked to the door, She turned In the Smoke Room reading the and sald quietly: "Apart from evening papers. each other we haven't much in SURPRISED this world, have we?" And then she left.

He was still happily congratu.... Tating himself when Sydney Johnson,

Johnson perched on the edge of the seat beside him.-

HIS BIG CHANCE -AT LAST

Just Take A Look At The Life Of A

Foreign Correspondent

:: by ÷CHRISTOPHER DOBSON; Moscow-

IT may seem a strange work and swoop round her

making clucking Russian noises place for an English and calling her "afinka"- family to be reunited, Little One.

but here we are in Mos- Shy at first, her natural baby cunning has now told her that these are Allies and when mother or father are stern she

cow.

Me, I arrived first, shoots off into the corridor followed by my wife looking for her new friends, Shirley, and our some- It is a pity that one of the what bewildered 18- few words she knows is one that month-old daughter, Lesley Anne.

1

DOBSON POINts out the MOSCOW SKYLINE TO HIS' DAUGHTER LESLEY ANNE AND HIS WIFE SHIRLEY.

stores are always extremely The Russians are good about rooms, a kitchen, and a bath- Westerners import their own

They realise that we

room,

wallpaper and do-it-themselves, crowded and a simple shopping this. expedition becomes a harrowing Westerners have different tastes.

But there is a grave housing business if you do not know the to themselves and allow us to

It is nice to have a place of order a considerable amount of shortage in Moscow. And the your own. But I must admit tricks of the trade.

tins and jars and packets.

Idea here is to put up as many I can seo myself sighing come- Ants as quickly as possible. And times for my house-and my `incvilebly

any pretence of garden. luxury goca by the board.

I use when under stress.

I am afraid she is convincing her new friends that it means

something of a problem. Greon vegetablos She has every cause for her hello or goodbye or

In the winter all the parcels arrive! are scarce here born harmless like that.

small green cucumbers are just

bewilderment. She

WOR

Vitamins are also something And what exellement, when

in New York, spent the first I would hate them to use it to making their appearance in the eight months of her life in any of the other British guests shops and what a delicacy they America, the second eight in the hotel, month in Kent, and fyre she is in Moscow, just begiming to tolk, with strange humans oll round making peculiar nolsca that even her father does not scem to understand,

Complicated

For Shirley life is not

D.S simple. Shopping

children

and the whole hotel went into a fizzy

heard when they Lesley Anno was arriving.

that

The Russians love

Chips?

I

Holes in wall

watched

the flat,

Spree

Next week we all, the English. are-and

someone used to

Family Dobson, fly out on our going into the garden in Kont

Howevor, it is strange, living

Shirley's face big adventure. We are going to and picking fresh sprouts or s caulidower or a cabbage a in a place like this, how much tighten when she walked into Stockholm to buy furniture for one miss the tie ordinary the empty flat for the first time.

It is called "going vegetable diet

of carrot and

out" here. There is quito tinned peas is a little wearying, things of home.

a hideous Jungle

And already Shirley, who like wallpaper in the living most women has no sence of At this moment, for instance, green Iz a

But we cope. The doctor of I am drooling at the thought room. problem. In most Fussian stores the British Embassy seems to of a stful of fish and chips, springing up. The doors won't to buy up the town. Me, I am The floorboards are the value of money, is planning the procedure for buying any-

unlimited supply of and a pint of bitter.

shut The panels of the cup planning to thing is extremely complicated have an

both vitamin pills and

boards are spilt by our standards,

The kitchen American and British Embassies I think I shall have to order sink will just about hold two yeelf with great lavishness. A baby from the other side

First you go to the counter run a commissariat where wo a couple of cases of kippers to plates and a cup. And there Ws shall both enjoy ourselves. of the Iron Curtain is a rarity and price the goods you want pro able buy tins of orange be sent out and hold a kipper are peculiar, inexplicable holes Leslay Anne will be happy here especially a girl baby to buy, then you go to a cashier julco and marmalade-and party. What a sensation that drilled through the walls. dressed in tartan blacks. blue

and buy a ticket for the cor- soma Scotch for father. balaclava and a duffel coat.

rect amount, and then you go back to the counter, hand over

'Malinka'

the

would be.

wine and dine

enough too.

But I feel rather sad ́about I have asked the Russian her. Here she is, at 18 months, It is all a question of getting But that will have to walt authorities to put these things a much-travelled young lady.......

Brussels, your ticket and pick up your organised this living in Moscow until we move Inta our fat right. They may carlainly. But New York, London,

You have to know what food to The Russian authorities have produce an estimate of conts Moscow, Stockholm and by the buy in the local shops, what allocated us ons in a new block amounting to £300, 1 am not" `time she is old enough to go to And although the Rusdans you can buy in the commis overlooking the river; it is a grousing. That is just the way school - she won't remember I have to run the gauntlet of aro kind and · push a woman, sarlat, and what you should flat which by Russian standards life is here. We all face similar anything of it. iendly chambermaids who slop with a baby to the front, the order from outside the country, would be'a hixury "flát--three: problems.. Мапу

London Express Service

Every time wo go out now

goods.

the