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THE CHINA MAIL,・・ MONDAY, JANUANT 25, 1060.

but

So stark the memories they say 'Let's Forget'

Forget

IN

Munich.

a Munich cafe I asked a German girl in her early twenties the best way of getting to Dachau. She gave me directions and then åsked me why I was going there.

I told her that I intended visiting the site of Hitler's first concentra- tion camp. She sighed and said: "Why? It is all over now.

nothing to see. It is not important,"

She grow quita angry with me. and went оп: "You English are all tho same. You are always trying

There is

from LLEW GARDNER

the name of our

that men and women were foully murdered by his fellow-countrymen for te o no reason at all.

to rake up things that are cidence that it was built here than to admit bost forgotten. Surely you and so bure know that many of the alty." stories of Dachau were just 10 much wartime propagan- da."

I foundl the

same attitude in Dachau itself 10 miles when I drove the ther from Munich.

Today it is a pleasam old Bavarina market town of 20,000 people..

But Its sme is im- printed for ever round the world as the place where 238,000 died in a Nazi con- centration camp from for- ture. batings, mass mar- der, and plain starvation,

The burgemaster spread his

Aay double 1' may have Bums wide in appeal and said: "Why should the people of had about the strength of the Dachau be blamed? It was reactionary pressure groups that thing to do with us. Nothing, exist in Western Germany van- We did not know what was shed when I called at Hut 20 In happening there.

Dacha camp to scc Father Roth.

"There has been a meeting of The inuyors of the Bavarian town, and it was agreed that There should be a memoria! ut Dachau.

A toast

"But I wonder whether 1

to allow would not he belter Dachau to be quietly forgotten,

If Father Roth has his way the camp will just beenme weekend attraction for scrisa- flon reckers. That would not do any good. It would not bring honour to the dead.

At Brst, his housekeeper told me that the priest was out. "I have no idea where he has gone. I do not advise you to wait. do not advise you to come back without first telephonlig."

I

An hour later I telephoned and Was toid: "The Futher

does not wish to see you." Nevertheless, I went back to the priest's hul-distinguished from the others by the fresh paint on the door and the clean, neat curtains on the windows.

A different housekeeper invited me in and called the

I walked to the home, opposite the medieval town

"There is something else to priest. He came from his study hall. of Jana Zaun, he considereil. The memory of and shook hands. Then 74-year-old Burgomaster of Dachau concentration camp is asked me: "You are A Jour- Dachau. Hle was deputy, bad for business.

mayor when the Nazis ruled Germany.

He showed his grandchildren from their place in front of the television and made me comfort- able in an armchair.

Gasped

Then, pouring me a glass of schnapps, he said in the mildest of tunes--

of

take herors died in Dachau,

"When we show our goods.

at international faire people say

ralis!?

Sincerity

he

'Al. Dachau. Isn't the The priest is a tough, WITH pluce where they had the cont man with deeply hollowed centration camp?" And they checks and eyes that blaze with ghan our goods because of this force sincerity. A man лог

"As burgomaster I feel very easily sliced. But now

It is not said: "As you are a journalist strongly about this. fair on us. I tell you the con- cannot speak to you. fault centration comp was not our

he

"I can say nothing about the camp I have been tok that

As I rose to leave, the burgo- I have already anid too much

master insisted on a toast: "To and that I must not give any "Pirase don't make the mis- friendship between Dachau and more Interviews."

thinking that only Londer," he said. Then he

pressed a 1060 calendar into my "Who has silenced you?" hands.

asked. He shrugged and said: "Look,"

en- "The order has come from the he said with

there church. But the pressure comes because they legally opposed thusiasm. "on each page

is a painting of Dachau. A from the Government, lovely elty."

"Many Innates were politieal prisoners who

there were

the Government of the day."

1 gasped at this excuse for the Nazi crimes from Thin kidly-looking, jovial okl man.

Conscience

'Come away from that window and stop shouting "Here cóme some more.

'What replaces ambition in

your life?' I SAID

TO DEBORAH KERR

F

OR Deborah Kerr, 1960 marks the start of a new era in her life. SHE will live for six months or more in London, but her real home will be in Switzerland. SOMETIME in the summer she will marry Peter Viertel, a writer. SHE has decided to adopt a new way of living and attitude to her work:

а

new

making

Miss Kerr has just returned to London from Australia where she was

a film called "The Sundowners."

I met her in her first-floor flat in Lowndes Square In Knightsbridge where "Here it is not like your in a high-ceilinged room we sat and talked about the past, the present, and the country. Church and Govern-future.

ment arc closely connected.

I think it was when I illusions about burgomaster is a positions who would like to see sail to her: "What replaces her profession. He is not. But, like 30

Do not make the mistake of There are many in powerful

Then the burgomaster went thinking the on to talk about a new contro- Nazl.

n

versy that has blown up over many other Germans, he hus Dactuu camp-today

sad, simply closed his mind to the inadequate home for 1,200 past,

And by doing so they refugees from Eastern Europe.

have made it easier for the real Nazis to crawl back out of their holes.

At the centre of the new row Leonhard Roth, the

is Father

It is easier for Herr Zauner's

me silenced. Now you must go."

I went. On my way from the camp I passed a brick building the crematorium, where Thousands of bodies were burned.

ambition in your life?" that we really started to discuss the essentials.

For Mias Kerr at 38 is It is the building which one of the most intelligent German Roman Catholic priest conscience to refer to those who Burgomaster Zsuser and of film actresses and has at the refugee camp. He was

Germans want so never had

falsc arrested before the war by the died in the concentration camps 55,000,000

us illegal opponents of

much to forget,

-(London Express Service).

Nazis, and himself spent many official Government years as a prisoner In Dachau.

Sensation

He has led a fight in Western Germany to have Dachau pre- memorial to those served as a who died there. It is chiefly thanks to his efforts that plans are now going ahead for the erection of 0 monument ut Dachau,

11 might be expected that the. money for this memorial would De immediately forthcoming from #1 repentant German Government anxious to honour the dead, Nothing of the port. The money is being collected by public subscription through- out the world by members of the International Dachau Com- milice an organisation repre- senting the former prisoners is the comp.

#

And Father Roth has caused sensation In Bavarla by necusing the authorities of wanting to obrate Dachau from the memory of the Ger- maan people.

I came here to find out what truth there was in this accusą- tion. I have found it to be only

too true.

Coincidence

Said Burgornoster Zarnice, as we sat together: "That Father Itoh is a troublemaker. He is concerning himself with things that have nothing to do with "a pricet.

*You have got to remember there were many criminals and horwexuals in Dachau. Do we want a memorial to such people? "Of course it is right that there should be some memorial to those innocents who died in Dachau. But I do not under- stand why Father Roth should always be attacking the Dachau town coudell;'

"After all, it is not as if the concentration cemo had any- thing to do with the city of

was just col

Viki

tho

of the day

any

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New cycle

London xpress Servics.

by DAVID LEWIN

said:

I

"I have got to grow old, and had been in Hollywood, for six years and I was getting into a we all have to dle, and there is rut, people

'Go in and nothing you can do about it." bang the top men's tables."

We talked then about ber didn't and I went into 'From

who is 12, Here to Eternity and that gave children, Melanie,

andi Francesca, who is soven, my career a new start.

and the shows she would take them to see in London,

דיי

A pendulum

And we talked of Hollywood and the West a and Australia

where we lust spent

Worthwhile

herself or and the pieces now are falling

Into place.

believe life is like "There is my marriage.

pendulum. You swing up and Indies and a new home in Switzerland and then you swing down again some sunny days together. which will be a hogne and not and when you are right at the merely a pince which one comes bottom the bell rings and you She said to me: "I see myself back to after a day's work.

go again. starting a new cycle in my life. "And above I haven't planned

everything else That is why I don't have any It and I there is a new attitude to what reat fears about my career. fought for it.. I have I want to do in my work." haven't

kave never been scared of being It was then that we talked of out of work. never been any good at bang-

That sounds con- ing on tables and forcing things ambition....for after a while 'celted, maybe, but I believe In along. I just lot them happen in anyone's life there comes a thai pendulum.

** SOMETIMES I FEEL WE WERE A BIT PREMATURE TO COMMIT SUICIDE,

MEIN FUHRER

It seemed to me that De- borah Kerr was content and happy at

before the prospect her.

"Moving to Switzerland and places I am the place of ambition and the starring with Robert Mitchum working will give me a greater mere desire "to get on,

now driving force which takes "Maybe I won't always be co- away from the

in The Sundbyners or with sense of detachment," she said, Deborah Kerr said: "After a Cary Grant In The Gress is "and that will help me too to time ambition fades....ambi- Greener. Maybe sometime the decide what is really true and tion in the sense of fighting to name D. Kerr will appear in worthwhile working at." get the job, my job, and saying. Tiny Aype at the bottom of a And know-and I think she

does too that she "Well, no matter what the film bill and somebody elsa's name was like at least I starred with will be on the top. But I'M not been happier about the years So-and-so, and I made so much scored.

that lie ahead.

money, and it took this at the box office.

"What I feel now is that I want to paule and work only when I see a part which is going to give mỏ that uneven feelling Inside and that worry` about whether I can do it.

"I have never thought that acting was the greatest or the most, Important thing in the world it is just the thing that I am best qualified to do. All tho razmotax and the rest hasn't meant very much.

"No, I can't retire nancially, and I don't really want to. don't think I just went to be

housewife, but I want

more! Uma for other things now.”

To cook....

She paused and her Amerl- can companion and sociólary brought um tea; "ve been working since I was 10 or 17

Has never.

“SUMS' BOX CAN CURE

A

CAR SICKNESS

CURE for car sickness was announced recently. The remedy: mathematics and a six-foot-long electronic "motor box."

elce-

Arrowsmith, head of the

With his box, Mr Jinny sinhtly cinging alterns of roll and pitch which, in some tronle department of A. V. Rot, people, the constitution canhot the aircraft firm, en produce a deal wits

for suspension rystem formula any car that will produce the smoothest-possible ride.

That is whưn

car elekribee is induced--largely by the Ir- regular changing of speed,

"The two factors-roll and Sold Mr. Arrowsmith: "All pitch be represented in we need to know are such terms which wo can handle

as the weight of the mathematically in the computer. tháng

centre of gravity box." and I suddenly realise how vehicla, Ita

whee! bind

demper

-(London Expran Service). litle I have read except scripts, and

other There is ed much to, rend, IN.

characteristice, low odds an entle, sit the speed,

"I want to learn, togook.. I can scramble an oga, or try breen, but I would like to cook

FED IN

something really good and then "Wo reduce those things to have people sit down and est i.mathematical, mymbols and food Something I have made.!! them, Inlo “our Box,

"What, I'm really tinot of are

these

Then it tells by talovation dinners and

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this Instant dis everything of 'n yen writing on a movie alary magistrate, Mr. Kenneth

I mild to her :iben;" "would graply" paper-bow the cor will wood, speaking at Wolverhamp-

all this have happested even behave on certain roddur ton of reckless drivers

you were not galling immériod?" {{{faces. Thane-Wan Kandia.

I think that hee

and then:

SPARKE cán be no real solution

Frden, that we con calculate helped. obviously....but I would atti what ellenges of tipeded in the

car's system, and what is have reached the octator,"

"You to you, I best speed to adopt.

Car lekness? Šolch Me "don't believe in. fgtiing because

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dun. PRIMEX, stopischi is mubjected to

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