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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1960.

MAN WHO WON

THE WAR

One of

THIS STORY, I am sorry to labour in his factories. GEORGE

tell you, is unfortunately no se conquerors sentenced him to

12 years imprisonment and the

fairy tale. It is a depressing confiscation of all he ownedi summary of the activity of

But only four years later this conqueror drejded ha

the statesmen of the world in sume the 15 years since Churchill, needed the criminal's help, for

he feared the growing strength

Truman, and Stalin gathered at his former ally. So the con-

GALE

less dreaming.

at Potidom in the summer queror released the prince and languishing in of 1945, with particular gave him back his properties. reference to Alfried Krupp Yon Bohlen-Halbach. :

ONCE upon

Promise

prison doubi-

By 1948 he had been tried, found guilty, sentenced. By 1951 he was conducting board meel- The prince promised that lags of his companies in his He Was again never

would he use comfortable make engines released.

prison.

a time, s factorles to

wir, and that also he In 1953 he signed an under- after the greatest of

would sell his coal mines and talking "not. To acquire in the war the world had ever seel plants and never buy them future securities or controlling positions directly or indirectly seen, the victors deter- back again.

Only a few more years passed in steel, iron, or coal."

ban

the

schroot after

Crowther

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Report.

"My dear Mrs. Peabody-if I had anything to do with it your boy would have left school when he was five

London Express Bervice.

The Sagan marriage-&

mined that never again before the prince was mightier Attlee had said: "There is would the loser be able than he had ever been before, no question of Krupp being with all his coal and steel allowed to resume either

PARIS. to wage aggressive war. properties intact and with his ownership or control of the

divorco between Krupp industrial No more would I be able to factories again moking bigger formet

Francoise Sagan and empire": and Eden: "We are and better engines of war.

Openly the prince said his secting to ensure that Herr her husband, Guy Schoeller, promise did not hold. And in Krupp shall not be allowed to

end to a marriage his country openly they exulted buy h way back into the puts an at how their clever prince hud German coal and steel industry which had a lot against it

from the start.

its troops

oui to Send

Alld enslave heigh- conquer bouring countries In parli cular, ils Kreat Industries of war which had given it the strength to

plun tyrannise, de, and murder would be dismunted,

Poisdom, Britain, America, and Occupation

Excuse

excuse:

foaled their conqueror.

THAT IS the story of Ger-

Just 15 the

yours,

Krupp war to have sold off Russia agreed what to do about by February 1950.

all his coal and steel properties An allied three For the

vietors had derelict, defeated Germany. They commission gave him a year's ex- a weak, buve never agreed since. Among tension. He has asked for an- agreed that only us

mur? else they agreed other. very

He will get it. agricultural country could the

"The German economy shall be

Krupp giant be allowed to destrayed

pleads the classic the decentralised for the purpose of German

life "My its regain

place zumong

So that elaninating the present exces-

ឆេង ៩ been shaped by: notions of the world.

the of economic this should come about, the live concentration

course of history rather than by victors each occupied a pat of power"; and also e order to

Krupp say, and how myself. Germany's WIT the

imprisoned eliminate Country and

of tight he is! "The Germans potential the production many of the evil princes

But quickly the victors fell arms, ammunition, and imple. urned recovery from defeat eut among themselves and soon ments of war as well at all type after the First World War.

This lesson inspired us all until we recovered were divided into twn opposing of aircraft camps.

camp shall

from the Second World War. We started to grow again when sought to strengthen its own prevented"....

wartime

grand alliance

Swiftly each

part of the conquered country

so that it might be able to help them the next, yet rester

and scagetny ships be prohibited and

the

Bickering

Within

year the blekering: France

Powers res

and more terrible war to decide were who was to rule the world.

the

time

M. Schoeller is a middle- aged man, nearly twice her age, and in inveterate

hachelor.

A succession of beautiful women have passed through his life.

of

Mile

why it had to

crack up..

Не was completely out with the sympathy rather scraggy Boheminu work from which Sagan drew her intellectual told a friend recently. nourishment and her most abiding friendships.

broke up and the common effor! It was her friends, most- to hold down Germany Was

hurd ly impecunious, abandoned. “

Paris Mewsletter

"It was a mistake," she the other, which remained promising painter, of the the official Comedie Arst half, of course, was Francaise, was placed in Picasso),

Painful

the hands of a new ad. ministrator.

Delighted

Oddly enough, the admints-

I had the pleasure recently of chosen was a

career seeing a commissioned portrait former Ambas by Lorjou returned to his

Claude dealer as unsatisfactory.

Learning, one fears, will fused to consent ta central He says of his 1953 under-drinking Bohemians, who continue to be a painful trator Now among the evil princes of German administrative depart taking:

don't hold it to be finally anapped the last process for this brilliantly diplomat and the defented regime was a ments; Russia, plundering is tanding. I was just a scrap frail

strands binding the successful young woman. It ader to Progue, M. young man who was greatest zone, refused allow food to of paper extorted from me.“

mong the princes of industry the Western zemes; Britain and

marriage. He could not ac- will be diflicult for her be. Breart de Boisanger, An ordinary soller of the America were already toying

cept their ubiquitous pre- cause of her abiding con- conquering alles arrested him with unifying their zones and

sence and she could not re- viction that she is unattrac- when the war ended. Three thus splitting Germany: and

concile herself to the life of tive to men. later he was tried and Krupp, Ixxss

Germany's

a fashionable hostess. using of

slave greatest war

years

fourid

guilty

lunder

vt

machine,

was

A serap of paper.

Like Potsdam.

Like Munich.

Like Versailles,

Ever

Mbaya

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YOUNG MAN IN A HURRY

LOVE

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It is a portrait of the Duchess of Masseria, and Lorjou's dealer, understandably enough, was delighted to have it returned" as he can sell it for two or three times the commissioned price. It is probably Lorjou's greatest "When I find

British Ambassador, Jebb: Sir Gladwyn

myself a member of a club which

M. de Bolshoy show

abour the theatre than I A total lack of interest know about the private thoughts in her own appearance of General de Gaulle, so the painting. seems to come from a need result was that in a very

A tall emaciated man who hars Jews 1 make it a rulo to feed this basic cause of lime mutiny broke out among

invite only Jewish the Comedie-Francaise company. cats little and does not drink, to her own unhappiness,

Lorjou can paint for 70 hours guests." The Company has always been at a stretch. He is married to

Former Finance Married only two years troubled by its younger members a beautiful

Yvonne woman.

Minister 11. Pinay: ago, she and M. Schoeller anxious to break out from its Mollet, who is generally' con-

tradiționalism and sidered ag France's greatest when one is not very have not lived together for hide-bound

they are, now resigning in such ifving woman painter. over Д year, In this

Duke and clever one has to have a numbers DS

practically Incidentally. the situation the standard paralyse the theatre's work. Duchess of Windsor own two good memory.”

~~(London" Express Service), bearer of teen-age uncon-

Lorjous. ventionality has done £ very conventional thing.

She has gone back to mother.

M. Malraux has beat a hasty retreat and now demands the resignation of M. de Boisanger which M. de Bolanger refuses to give.

Among those who Meanwhile, she is hard at

have resigned is one ot work on her first play already

France's most brilliant younger. which advance publicity actors, Jean Meyer, and the claims reveals her as "a Company's mast ⚫decorative considerable humorist." An actress, sensational beauty,

Malé Marle Sabouret. uncertain smile, 'perhapo?

Nagging

Д

Baths of fury

AMONG the many head- THERE has been a re- markable rise in the General da value of paintings by

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Gaullo hat brought upon man who was little known himself i а minor but only a year ago. He is nagging one which, on 54-year-old Dernard Lorjou, Cabinet meeting agendas, who now, rates.No. 5 or 6 comes under the heading of in the unofficial stock ox- "The problem of tha change of the Paris art

Comedio-Francoiso."

This theatre, founded by |Mollere, is one of the glories of French culture and the actor chosen to be members of the company make daggering financial Eneriicica for the honour of belonging to it.

They are first hired as ap-

world.

Lorjou, a strident exhibitionist and controversialist, wastes, a cat deal of his talent and Trios energy, on propaganda pictures against his favourite hate, such as homosexuals and the Church.

prantlees. Then, when - finally Between these baths of, tury, chosen for the company, aro however he produces still-lifes bound by a 20-year contract end portraits of a quite magical which makes then virtually beauty reminiscent in style and slaves, of the Institution,

texture of Van Gogh.

Their pay, by current.com-

Lorjou, son of a farm labourer, mercial theatre standards, is was brought up in an orphanage about a fifth of what they could and held his first exhibition in earn outside, and when not play 1031. He is the champion of the ing Paris they spend so much figurative painters as, against who form a third time or tour in the provinces the abstract

and abroad that it, is impossible. torget for his polemical wrath. for them to accept im work. One of his principal patrons is Last year, in keeping with p Mme, Dominen Walter who polley of grandeur, the Minister was such a prominent figure In of Culture, the novelist M. the so-called Louze scandal, Andra Malraux, decided that the and who Owns one of the Comedie-Francoiso Woo not greatest private collections in the devoting suficient time to the workh playw of the great French fragedians,

She considers him to be He therefore split it in the most promising painter two, giving on theatre to of the second half of tho mout Jean-Louis Barrault, while contury (tha)

"Hello, I live next door and I'm available as a baby sitter,"

901 DG. BOOTH A WUNDER B.L IRVAN

L. LORENZ

A. MANTER

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