1959-05-30 — Page 14

THE CHINA MAIE, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1959.

Mile. Schultz asks

too many questions

MY suspicions have often been aroused by people

in the course of two wars, but the only time

I ever became involved with a 'genuine enemy spy was in 1937,

It was summer. I was flying back from leave in Germany usual in those

In a small twin-engined alrerift which, as was

The

this

worth' more, then: a

racené lesk.

days, was an equipped with wiseless, Soine part of the leave husryes, and a charming expression. Been spem acquiring a little Information about the Nazis.

The weather had been fine during most of my trip and, as far west us Strasbourg, there had been no trouble. At the nirtick Dwenther

report was waiting

that covered my next fight to Khelma, where I was looking forward once again to drinking the leent red champagne called Bonzy. This is a most delectable liquer but it will not travel hence my plans for a stop at Rheims.

Pressing on

The report was not fuo good- fox at fist and then low cloud and rain. However, my leave wis nearly up so It was a case of "pressing on regardless," Soon 7 was flying over a dense cloud sheet. Siupidly, I held on, doing want always had been nin' in my pilot's book of Instrue- Without wireless there บรร.. was no chance of Onding oul want the weather was Jike farther on and soon I thought it advisable to go down 10

500

what the ground looked like. Ahead was a hole in the cloud and i dived for it The hole did let to clear alr n: Bout

I was

Buy Father rudimentary blind flying technique Wa belig réverely tested. Holding on and

expecting to see the ground at any monent,

most uneasily aware that the cloud awund me might he stuffed with ul. To add to my troubles the freraft began drop its left wing

even full flap would not bring the turn and book Alicain back in10 entral politom, Hadly frighten- ed, walted for the seemingly Inevitable crash.

Trapped

Suddenly through the mist

trees showed up a few hundred feet away. They appeared to be growing "horizontally! Glancing at the rudder bar I saw it to be hard over to the left, A Rick to the right and the trees resumed thelal eppearance.

My lack of skill had saved my life. A straight glide would have eded in disaster on the hillside. As the nireraft was descending in n slow spiral it had kept within the confines of the cloud- locked valley in which was now trapped.

The cly way out of the trap was a climb biex into the cloud

End

BID

HAPPEN?

by Sir Philip

Joubert

AIR CHIEF MARSHAL SIR PHILIP JOUBERT DE LA FERTE is 70 years of age te joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1913 and flew in France, Egypt and leaty during the 1914-16 war He won the DSO and was men- tioned in despatches sie times

Sir Philip's curves culminated with his appointment as C-in-C of Coastal Command in 1981. He has already told of some of his adventures in The Fated Sky. He has also written a controversial history of the Air Force. The This Service.

top. This would have been

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crowning art of folly. A landing 1948 clearly indicated even though the fields were small and stone walled. I could imaging what the owner of the alterat would say if his firm had send out a crash party to remote comer of Alscce to re- trieve the alreruft-If it was damaged.

The noise of the engines soon excited the Jocal population, From a charming little chatcou small party came out to stand on a teriner that faced the only field, in which if was remotely possible to innd. I bumped to a stop only a few yards from them. My reception was warm and friendly. The first to greet ine

WID

I saw a woman whose appear- once was familiar. I was sure she was Mile. Schultz. My smile of

and greeting

tentative salute were met with n frozen stare which left me ...extremely

I wondered why the possessor of so much beauty should be con- tent to bury herself in such a remote spot and devote herself to young children.

Monsaur le Comte suggested embarrassed.

the that while waiting for weather to clear I should join his family for lunch. He added that the two senior officers from the Nancy garrison would be arriving shortly and would en- Joy meeting a general de l'air Aglais, Meanwhile, his game keeper would guard the machine be that my until the local gendarme arrived of her Bavarian to inspect it. and if salilled, justined? stump my logbook-a formality religiously carried out when a

aircraft landed Loreign

away from a recognised customs air

Senlor ofcers in uniform are not supposed to plek up young women in parks!

port.

When I had recovered from the shock my suspicions became aroused. Why should she, osten- sibly a Frenchwoman, pretend she did not know me? Could

carller

Impression origin

Wax

I reported the matter to Air Intelligence and a day later a party from M15 came to my office in King Charles Street.

They knew a great deal about my hullday in Germany, and questioned me so closely that It Under suspicion seemed a matter of doubt as to who was the spy. Finally, a was an excellent picture of Mile. photograph was produced. It (or rather Fraulein) Schultz.

Lunch was all that could be desired: hors d'oeuvres, Quiche Lorraine, steak, and a pula au maraschin. A delicious Sylvaher and 1 small Bordefux accom- panied this well-chosen meal.

Bolted

Apparently she had come to

papers

but the

The French officers were amlable but full of curiosity as to my presence in Alsace. Some London in 1038 and had taken a of their questions

post is governess. Her culte were pointed--and it seerned almost seemed to be in order, as though I was under suspicion. Special Branch had been tipped Mademoiselle Schultz the gover by the French secret police in ness, was a good conversation- Noncy that they were seriously considering arresting her just alist and it was clear that much taken with her. colonel a staff officer-was very The amorous colonel had at last before she escaped to England.

come to his senses. He realised the evidence was not decisive. what was happening. though

The

away from his rather pressing attentions she too catechised me. particularly about my trip in Germany. Indeed, after a while the croes-questioning became a

tile irritating.

Whenever she could break

Frozen stare

Mlle. Schultz seemed Bavariou than Alsation. presence near

M.1.5 had not been able to discover much about the Schultz activities in England, but after my report they were most anxious to interview her. Prob- ably warned by her meeting with mo shu bölted before she could be arrested and got away to Germany through one of the more many routes that were atili

Her open.

Is Macmillan

a millionaire?

Is Mr Harold Macmillan a millionaire? The

question may surprise you. It may seem utterly unlikely that this energetic Prime Minister bustling about the world earning his official salary of £10,000 a year could also be the possessor of a huge private fortune of his

own..

Yet there have already been Prime Ministers this century who possessed great wealth. One was Stanley Baldwin. An- other was Arthur James Balfour, Another was Sir Winston Churchill,

So let us examine the Macmillan assets,

Today the holiday-makers in the family cars on the Eastbourne road may catch a glimpse of one of those assets for themselves. Just past Haywards Heath, on the edge of Ashdown Forest, they may see a big country mansion tucked away beyond a high fence and a belt of trees,

That is Mr Macmillan's home, Birch Grove,

To most of the gazers the mansion among the trees-with its 40 rooma and its 000 acres of woods and grounde-may seem a fortune in itscif.

And you can be certain that Harold Macmillon agrees with them. No, pince is closer to his heart than this house which his parents bullt.

But in the eyes of a financier the estate of Birch

Grove occupies only a minor place in the Macmillan ledger.

For the real facts about tlust from ledger you must return Birch Grove's woodlands to the Strand, to that big concretu wedge called Bush House.

There In the blue-covered company records, serit up to you by lift from the vaults, you wil find the key to the Prime Minister's private wealth, In those records you will find the only figures available to any- une outside the family about the Macmillan family trust.

What are the assets of the Macmillan Trust?

I will list then.

The value?

FIRST. The trust owns Mac- milians, the publishers, holding Ordinary shares. all but 505 of the 370,000 £

The value of that holding today? Well, let us send for the lle on Macmillans.

The figures Inside the blus cover may astonish you. Yon will find that Macmillans not only has isoned capital of £740,000, It has accumulated _reserves of £1,289,000.

Behind a belt of trees

les a house that provides a clue to the

Premier's real wealth

by

ROBERT PITMAN

the Prime Minister's own home. So you can assume that the company's nominal capital of £90,500 in £1 shares is a very underplayed figure.

There are other Macmillans, of course. There are the descen- dants of Frederick and George. There is also Arthur Macmil- Ian, now a retired barrister of , a brother of Daniel Lind Harold.

They could all have a claim on the Macmillan millons. But. let us remember that those mil- lions are built largely round the km of Macmills. And since 1930 the firm has been run by two men, Daniel and Harold.

Who can doubt, then that

Let us then add up the worth these two have the dominant of the Macmillan Trust. It interest in the trust? Who can owns

is effectively a mil- · Honaire?

Millionaire Mac- milian!

What 2 contrast that pre-

B publishing company doubt that how- with a value OL perhaps ever we may ap- £3,000,000. It +24 received portion his share --- Macmillan unspecified. proceeds from the Harold £1,250,000 sale of the Macmillan Company of New York. 11 owns Birch Grove Estates Ltd. a blg garrison Sometimes I wonder if M.I.5

Inevitably you must come to town, and her familiarity with thought I was responsible for her

But that is not all. For the conclusion that the trust the colonel were suspicious. But get-away. Her beauty would

several years the Ordinary divi- itself-ly worth £4,000,000 at the when, after the parly had broken certainly have been an excuse;

dend of the firm was pegged to least. up, I caught the colonic kissing and I am a

2 per cent, very sentimental

Last year I was But what share does Harold Mademoiselle in a shadowed man.

zafsed to 5 per cent. But the Moemlitan have in the trust? comer, my fears vaniched, DID IT REALLY HAPPEN?

proats would have allowed a Perhaps the clearest pointer dividend of more than 30 per to the answer is provided by a cent.

large whole-page advertisement A study of the balance sheet which the firm of Macinians which has resulted from this issued in 1937,

H distinguished-looking elderly mum, accompanied by his The weather cleared, goodbyes sweet-faced wife and two grand- were said, and I was able to children. These were in charge take off away from the chateau of a governess and only after and downhill. I reached Rheims somit persuasion would they and London on time, and hand- ctirnus Into the aircraft where ed the aircraft back to they Angered the controls in friend in one piece. wkę-cyed wonder,

YES

NO

my

In the cutumn of 1939 an Air

In London. One day,

The governess was worth more Ministry posting brought me than a second look, with an work

pe to avoid the mountain excelent Agure, dark hair and walking across St James's Park,

VICIOUSNESS

⚫ Put * tick apainat Your choice in the space above.

The answer is on Page 18

(London Express Service).

IN

NOTTING HILL

HE other in this column I

I was building up in London's wrote that tension PETER BURGOYNE'S.

where about 10,000 poloured immigrants share the shabby streets with a white population compounded largely o Irish and Poles. Within twenty-four hours a West Indian had been stabbed to death after being accosted by a gang

News From Britain

readily identiflable.

country.

the

their

of

| plough-back policy reveals a At the top of the page appear flourishing, strongly bused the whiskered faces of Daniel business which any enterprising and Alexander Macmillan, City take-over man would be two brothers who left delighted to buy for £1,000,000. Scoltish croft for the world

SECONDLY, the Macmillan publishing early in the nine- Trust has benefited from a big icenth century. transaction which took place in 1951 when the controlling interest in the Macmillan Corn- pany of New York was sold to an American Byndicate for £1,250,000.

There are no records at Bush House to tell you what happened to all that money. But you can be sure that the bulk of it must be counted as an asset of the Macmillan Trust.

The advertisement begins:- MACMILLAN & CO.

Founders: DANIEL MACMILLAN (1843) ALEXANDER MACMILLAN

(1843)

Bucoceded by: FREDERICK MACMILLAN (son of Daniel) (1874) GEORGE A, MÄCMILLAN (son of Alexander) (1870) MAURICE MACMILLAN (son of Daniel) (1883) The three remained directors antil 1936, in which year they died within a few months each other, all over 80 years of

age..

Present Managing Directors: DANIELLAROLI—

of

MACMILLAN MACMILLAN;

MLP.

Cummings

scuts with the usual image of a makes slighting

to references remote, Trollope-reading figure. Selwyn Lloyd.

And the contrast becomes even

For preferable, and far more sharper when we pay attention rellable. I suggest, is the view business-minded to one further fact to the actunt of a shrewd,

state left by his father.

Macmillan offered by the blus- rocords at What was the inherited for covered company tune on which the present Mac. Bush House. milan millions are based?

The answer is striding.. When he died in 1938 Maurice Crawford Macmillan estate of £142,000,

left

In

But is it a popular Imago too? I believe it is. The "public may tolerate the men" of para- dox-the Socialist leaders who

to send do not delga

their children to socialised schools, It is pocalble of course that he the Tory Ministers who mouth had made carlier against death duties. And it is but who seem

provisions Empire slogans at party allfes to prefer Ger- cerlain that the two other elder many to any Empire country. Macmillans who died in the

same year lett a emtribution to ปาด

riches.

substantial family

Soft spot

Yet the men for whom tho But, whatever allowances are public really has a soft spot are made for items like that,

it those whoso lives and polities

becomes obvious that the inter- go hand in bond.

prize and business sense of

Among the Goclasts there la Daniel and Harold Macmillan Mr Frank Cousins who, despite have enormously increased the hle massive unlon funds, prefera Macmillan Inheritance.

cheap family hotelo at How very different from the ference time. picture of the Prime Minister provided by come commentators. statistics

con-

And among the Tories?

The

point Take Mr Randolph Churchill, Macmillan himself.

. to'

Mr

Flo

haa

for instance, He has never run preached thrift. and enterprises- a business In his life, apart from and go-getting. that odd affair Country Bumpe evidence of the Bash king Ltd Consequently we hear litle from him about Macmillan the business man,

fouse fles shows that be known what he is talklar about. He is not just, another Elonian. He has practiced what preaches.

Directors

THIRDLY. the Macmillan Trust holds all but two of the shares in a compartý called 'Birch' Grove Estates Lld. One of the alrectors of use company → Lady Dorothy Macmillan, the Prime Minister's wife. Another of white youths while walking home in Notting Hill just who, by creed or colour, is have in mind for golog to the

is the Prime Minister's son, Mr (SODE of Maurice Macmillan).

All he tells us is about the guy after midnight.

An Maurice Macmillan

other words, Harold Elonfan with the print of his Birch Grove Estates not only Macmillan ond His

ол eldest grandfather's croft" framed

In not a single sense of the in London's tough districts that Kelso Cochrane did not rool of Notting Hill's trouble is election date? Why, autumn, of 1 belleve that what lies at the What then is the likely

owns: £94,000

in Preference brother Daniel were, even in the wall; about the duke's son- word has he let his talent a many of the young men carry die because of his colour, they plain

shares in Mactalans the pub 1837, regarded as the inheritors in-law who dines of the Turf, buried in the earth. knives. In their clang, this is

and so Mr Churchill alleges- were obviously taking

course. Most

London Express. Sorelce), ikely, October. lishen it also owns Birch Grove, of the Macmillan tradition. ksongs as being "tooled up." chances on his death sparking zuelal harmony will kill.

no amount of platitudes about Then the holidaymakers arc Stabbings and slashings are not racial troubles like those last

home again and the weather Infrequent.

The cure, aus I see it, can be still not bad enough summer which turned the mean

to keep BUL

only a long, slow business win the voters glued to the knigug of Kelso streets of Notting Hill into a the police, backed by the courts, and television sets.

firesides Cochrane, the young coloured battlefield. carpenter from the Caribbean

rigorously stamping out hooli ganism, while with the passage island of Antigua, was some

of time coloured migrants. thing different.

absorbed into the community.

Also needed is concerted ne-

victousness which

10

arc

Pulice moved into potential trouble spots in force. Squad

Incidentally, whether or not cars prowled watchfully.. Police

one agrees with the Conserva- Not only was a man death dogs and their handlers stalked

Ives, the authors of their There was the sinister surges the rubbish-strewn streets, and tlon by all the respectable poll wonderful job of research and Campaign Gulde have done a tion that Cochrane had been wary constables patrolled in tical and social bodies in the editing. klife because of his colour. A pairs.

Crammed Into 19 witasa was reported to have

area against the noisy minority pagea Aro the answers 10 heard the

This might shout "iley, Jim. But all the police in the world Inslatently that Britain must be at a politicul meeting is likely prevent riols, of extreme racialists who scream virtually any question a heckler Crow," a few moments before could Ketso Cochrane fell to the judice

do nothing about pro kept white,

and pavement clutching his chest.

hatred festering How this old American epithet below the surface.

".

Personally, I do not belleve Autumn Election

for a Negro found its way into that colour is the root of the Notting Hill is anyone's guess. trouble in Nolung

In

Hill. It is WHEN it became clear that

Premier Maèmfilan : had no

other tough districts I intention of holding a spring

to ask.

£5,000-A-Year Secretary

But it is used widely even the excuse, not the cause, by some of the coloured men, Jeonically,

Hurriedly the police tried to hatred and violence. In Scot- vowed that we could now now land

have Been the same kind of general election the pundits POLICE in the South of Eng discount racial "hatred २७ a motive for the killing, Cochrane, and years ago the defence of expect to go to the polls until perfcet wecretary,” they suggested, had been robbed. Protestantism against activities early 1960. But reaction, to this suggestion of Irish Catholics was the ex-

are hunting for tho

The woman they sook is well-

was cynical. One dally news for gang fighing. In Lon- on my; 'desi a publication an educated paper reported that a

senior don's

Scotland Yard offeer had told War

But recently there arrived groomed, efficient and speaks in

voice, Sho 200 Whitechapel before the which seemed anti-Semitism

to give them wers secretarial help-wanted was the the lie, It was the Conservative advertisements one of its crime reporters: "You Wory. Now in Notting Hill Party's 710-pogo

and usually "Campaign lands the job. She wins the will be doing the community colour is blamed

Guldo, 1959." service by refraining from any But in each instance the same

condence at her employer- then disappears with as much of suggestion that this is a racial factors are seen: The squalid Note the date. Hardly kely his money ax.she can lay bands murder."

surroundings; the- zeynd- that the Comervatives are on.

But no matter how strongly literate thug mouthing his dating their Campaign Guide Her income over two years the police may have bellaved meaningless parrot-cry; tho vie a year ahead of the date they £10,000 (tax-free, of course).

JAK

GOES CAMPING

"NO, I WON'T KISS HIM AND MAKE-UP; I STILL SAY HE SHOULD ́SLEEP IN THE CAR, NOT MEI”