THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1860.
STILL THOSE BEAUTIFUL
SPIES LINGER ON
shoffering yet typical care was that of Fraulein Brigitte Mursu, who allowed hærell to be recruited si'ah East German spy and was sent 'irito action against her own German
In the day of the Sputnik and U2
Sputnik and U2 father, a former Bast
THE great U2 espionage controversy is too serious a business to be settled by a simple "you do it too" retort. But it is not surprising that the West. Germans are tempted into a comparison of the intelligence techniques of East and West. They make a fascinating study.
From it emerges the sur-
that prising conclusion
while
the Americans seem to put the faith in ultra modern s5- trobruts,
From
supersonic aircraft WILLI FRISCHAUER
and cloud-piercing photography. the sponsors of the Spainik still prefer to rely on "Olga Palovska, the beautiful spy" and
sisters,
her
less glamourist
3
official who had escaped to the West-with the secret code of the East German Ministry of State Security.
With unequalled callouTLESS she lured her father back across the Iron Curtain and played him into the hands of the East Ger- man Secret Police, which is just branch of the Soviet Intelli- gence Service.
German superior, Herr Franta Stern, resisted the blandish ments of the temptress and find her put under observation,
When her home was searched some extra-thin Japanese . rice- paper and invisible ink was →→ Berlin. -- found. Angard confessed to be
ing in Boviet employ, was arrested and tried.
Some of these girls disappear Indeed. in West Germany, behind the Irgh Curtain as soon where espionage ሲና major as they realise they have come industry an official German under suspicion. estimate put the number of But there are others with people engaged in these ac-
more ambitious espionage tasks tivities at 16,000 women seem who have been caught by the to form the spearhead of Soviet agents of the redoubtable ex- and East German intelligence. General Reinhard Gehlen, West 63s0ults on Dr Adenauer's Germany's
Hitler - trained, Federal Republic.
Americo-sponsored "man with uut a face who is Bonn's over- lord of espionage and counter- espionage.
Ambitious
West German milltary dut- ter-espionage experte have their work cut our, to krep an eye on the girl friends of young
Bundeswehr suballerns.
His most spectacular ratch perhaps, was pretty, 22-year-old Irmgard Schmidt, who wonned her way into the headquarters -KCOS and of secret organisation which briefed Western Intelligence agents operating against East Germany,
So many of the girls have relatives in East Germany that certain that one can never be they do not take their instruc-
"You are a most dangerous spy," the judge told her. "You have used your beauty and your brain, both considerable, for evil purposes!" She was jailed for five years.
Then there was middle-aged Else Kinderon, of Munich, madly in love with a Com- munist agent who persuaded her to spy on East, European refugees and American service- men's wives.
Her friend whose name she refused to reveal, set her up in a clothing shop, to which she
But Brigitte is one of the Soviet girl spys who got away
she was never caught. The list could be continued almost indefinitely. It includes- the proprietress of a famous West German Rhineland hostelry where German politi- diplomats clans and foreign used to stay,
On Soviet instructions she. had the rooms wired and re- corded the conversations of her clients.
'Love affairs'
The "Olga Palovska" approach is also used in Soviet-inspired East German propaganda to undermine the moral of West German troops. Their wives and barded with anonymous letters sweethearts are regularly bom-
"illicit
exposing the alleged attracted American wives,
Betrayal
love affairs of their men.
If it were not so tragic in its political repercussion this battle of Olga versus the astronauts could make amusing reading. Soon the innocent-looking · But A harassed Berliner, scamsiress gained
access to Ending himself once more at became the girl their homes, where she picked the receiving end of these Cold tions from Past Berlin →→ it friend of an Amerlean Secret up any official document she Won manifestations, expressed only, as so often happens, be- Service officer; she made rings could lay her hands on. She, a feeling shared by the rest of cause they may have reason to around the male staff of the too, was indicted for "treason- the world when he exclaimed: tear for the safety of their organisation, and unly able assocketions" and sent to "A plague on both houses!" families.
caught when her Immediate prison
-(London Express Service).
Irmgard
was
Prince of Portuguese poets
LUIZ Vaz de Camoes, the "Prince of Portuguese Poets" is the Portuguese to all Portuguese. He was a soldier, statesman, warrior, poet, lover and a Man's man. He was such a patriotic Portu- guese that his love of Portugal permeated his writ- ings for he always stated that Christopher Columbus, Vasco da Gama, Ferdinand Magellan, Fernando Alburqueque, Carbral and other great Portuguese navigators and discoverers all owed their greatness to the Portugal who gave them birth and to Portugal went the credit for making these men what they turned out to be.
His life
Camoes died shortly be of Portuguese Poets" was and fore Spain "took over" Por- what made him what he was. tugal after he had written against the threatening do- mination of the Portuguese Crown by Spain.
Let us see what kind of man Luiz Vaz de Camoes, the "Prince
RALLY
Camoes lived in the 16th cen- tury, in the days when the Portuguese flag of the Algarve Castles and the Thirty Pence flew over the Moluccas, Brazil, along the coast of Africa, Cey
"Howard's « staunch Repabilean."
“Well, that does 137
By
RENNIE REMEDIOS
lon, the West Coast of India, ed to return to the Portugal he Sumatra, Malaya and China and loved.
had reached Japan in 1542. The
On his return voyage to Portu-
Portuguese then dominated gal from Macao, he was ship- Africa, Asia and South America, wrecked off the mouth of the During his lifetime, his con- Mekong river, the river of Cam- temporaries, King Henry VIII of botia, and was left stranded for
England and his daughters a
time ob what is now
Queen Mery of Scotland and Indonesian territory. All that he Queen Elizabeth I. Emperor was able to save during his Chartes VI of the Holy Roman service in Macao was lost with Empire. Don Juan of Austria the chip. As a result he was hard and the Battle of Lepanto, St, Ignatius of Loyal and his put to find the means to con- return journey to tinue his founding of the Society of Jesus, Portugal. St. Francis Xavier S.J. Calvin, Eventually, Fortune smiled on Martin Lulher. John Knox. him, Titian, Michaelangelo, and the Council of Trent were trans- forming Europe into a new world of Arts, in the methods of war- fare, in religious thoughts and beliefs and in idéas on Life.
Éventful
the
After spending seventeen years in the East, travelling in the footsteps of his hero-cousin and beyond, Vasco da Gama Cames returned to Portugal.
In spite of his many mis. fortuntis, Camoes had managed to rave part of the manuscript of his Lusíads (or in Portuguese
"Os Lusíadas," so called bc- Born in 1524,
year in cause the word Lusiades means which his distant relative and the sons of Lusus, the com- heru Vasco da Gama died, panton of Bacchus, the mythical Camoes led rather an eventful first setter in Portugal; hence life before entering Coimbra the Portuguese "Luskania"), University, Portugal's leading which he had started. on his University. On his graduation. voyage out to India and on he went to Lisbon and was cap- which he worked during his tivated by the magnificent service in the Orlent, splendour of the Portuguese
It is generally believed that metropolis, for Portugal was most of the stamrás of the then enjoying her Golden Age Lusiads were written in what is and was the Centre of Trade in Europe. This love of Lisbon was always with him during his ser- vice in Africa and in the Orient, and caused him to long for and to anxiously return to Portugal and Beauty.
After spending some time in Lisbon, where he was made we? come at Court, for his fine ap- pearance, wit, manliness, grace, skilful ewordmanship, Intelli- gence and verses opened al doors for him, he was banished to the provinces:
"Camoes
JAK AT THE OLD VIC
"Hover mind If he can act, Nigel—just think of our chances for Sunday Night at the Palladium now.”
A bust of the poet statesman in Macao.
CAN TOMMY STEELE STRETCH
HIS TALENT TO THE OLD VIC ?
THEY have invited Tommy Steele to appear at the Old Vic. I am not surprised, because the gulf between music hall and Macbeth, between slapstick and Sheridan, is not as wide as you may think.
From the gloom of the Waterloo Road, the august invitations have already gone out to Frankie Howerd and Stanley Holloway. Now the lad from Bermondsey may move on to the haunted boards, taking with him the cocky, cockney smile, the twang of the docks.
1.
to
by JAMES THOMAS
I thought people would get tired of me as a clown. I had to widen my scope,
"Experience is the only tea cher. It is the only thing which tells you what you CAN'T do." Tommy Steele is 15 year behind the hard wisdom of
And leaving his gultar, the instrument which turned LO gold, in the dusty limbo of his mum's attic in Lewisham.
It is for no one yet to judge whether this jaunty 23-year-old is wise or not to leap from his comfortable success. in VRU- deville to the windy rigours of Goldsmith's "She Stoops Conquer" as Tony Lumpkin.
Bu: behind him the ghosts loom large. And not even the thud of the big beat on which Gardens" in Macao. He wanted thinking of an eple poem shortly before the Spanish Tommy Steele was swept to so desperately to speak of tite which from hour to hour would comination of Portugal, His stardom can drown the warn- Howerd. It has taken not much achievements of the Portuese Increase the glory of Fortugal day "Camoes Day", the 10th ing Fings ain't, always what who had preceded him to the and make Smyrna envious in Jur, is now the New National they seems to be. East, of the deeds of his spite of her being the birthplace Day of all the Portuguese, countrymen in the for places of of Homer". As the Rev. Antomio
of Viera wrote later in the 17th His memory will never be Vic in 1 B.B.C. radio studio the world, of the glody
across the big heat shows. And Sadder. wiser... now the old, old ham Portugal, end of the Portuguese century: "God has given the forgotton by the Portuguese for yesterday.
wanted to sing a Portuguese a small country for his love of Portugal was so great Frankie Howerd, the man who Hamlet instinet has called him. people. He
the rave notices as "song
the Portuguese." their cradle but the world for that it permeated all his works. collected
their grave." He describes very Schools; gardens, streets, and Bottom is back again swolting vividly the adventures and roads have been named after up he old gags for "Frankle's achievements of Vasco da Gama him. In Macao, there is the Bandbox."
now
know
of
Opening
The opening lines of bis great Shortly after his return to Lisbon, he brought
on himself epic poem express the patriotic the displeasure and wrath of the spirit of Camoes;
King and this made him enijst as an ordinary soldier for service in Couch, Portugal's outpost in. Morocco. It was during one of the many raids made on Ebe Fortress of Ceuta by the Moslems that he received an ΘΙΣΟΥΝ wound which resulted in the Jess of his right eye,
Service
Believing that "after Vasco de Gama the world had grown small" he enlisted for service in India and served under szveral Portuguese Viceroys of India,
"Arms and Heroes, who from
Lisbon's share,
Thro' seas where sal was
never spread before, --Beyond where Ceylon lifts.
her spicy breast And waves her woods above
the watry waste,
than more With prowess
human fore'd' their way, To the fair kingdom of the
rising day:
What wars they wage, what
seas what dangers passed, What glorious empire-crown'd
their tolls at last, Venturous I sing on soaring
pinions borne, And all my country's wars
the song adorn.”
He took part in a number of punitive military mlesions in the (Version by Sir George Young).
Orient and Middle East, dis-
more than three rosy, rowdy yers to the top. He has written a play (rejected by TTV). I met the last, vaudeville man
He has written short stories. who tried his hand at the Old His anile has beamed wide
Content
Frankle Howerd · doodled 'ca
and the other Portuguese in the "Jardins de Comoés" with the The face which felt it could Orient, but he closes his Laustads "Grotte de Camoes". In Hong- be another "Femandel slipped his scripta sketch shout a kong the Portuguese community into an uneasy grin and pointed mix-up in an old clothes shop and observed: "If you diffuse No more, my Muse, for lo school is called the on a note of despair:
"Escola sagely to the moral: "I have your talent, there is nothing my lyre
Camoes",
been trying for four years to left. I have got over my ex- become a straight comedy actor. perimental phase, got it out of And now I am back being a my system and I feel more
Is out of time, my voice is
out of tomie
Though not with making
music: but I tire
Of singing to deaf cars and
to Hearts of stone.
That public favour which
dost" poets fire
Immortal
clown.
"I believe people graduate
content now to be a clown.
"I have discovered that we do
Luiz Vaz de Camoes, the eventually to what they funda- best what comes easiest to us. "Prince of Portuguese Poets" is mentally are. People and them- I have learned. All of us in this indeed an "Immortal Poet" to selves where they are meant to business yearn to do something all Portuguese and to men and he and it takes all sorts of ex- which in our hearts we know
life pushes we are not capable of doing. women who make it their life periences before work to study and translate his them into the slot where they
belong." To those who preach cupidity. ated by Portuguese of all walks writings. His memory is vener- de profess
My country cannot give me
tis all gone >
A grim and grievous sancti
(version by Sir George Young)
.
His death
Comoes died in the summe
of life, and of all political be- liefs, for his verses and gems of
Scope
And we must remember the British public. It doesn't know what it likes, it foes what knows."
Have a go/
So the
What is it that makes a iman literature, his great love of Portugal and the belief of this want to desert his cosy routine great Portuguese soldier/poet in and his regular cheque for the
new door opens for the Tommy Steele. True, he was the greatness of Portugal and of chancy, choosy world of the Portuguese are models for legitimate theatre?
the first of the British rock 'n' all Lusitanians to follow.
There are the men who euc- rall idols and his personality, his The honour bestowed on him ceeded Sinatra moved from ability to hold an audience, is a Although tingthing himself when he
"The Lazieds” year as that th which King by the Portuguese Government the microphone to melodrama cut above the average of the
Big Beat oet, served under Viderby de stands among the greatest epic Sebastian of Portugal and his and people in naming "Camoes and built, a new reputation.
There are the men who failed Day" as the New Portuguese
Who cán blame him for poems written by Mat, the most followers were unfadiated by National Day is one that no Bernard Bresslaw threw wanting to turn from Tomuny Menezes.
remarkable theme about this the combited forces of the
away his gawk gormless Steele, personality, towards the After seeing service in Gon magni opis is that toughout Momtime at Abenots Keble in other man has ever received. etid se Orient, he received an the whole work Candes e Afice, and before the unilien- Camoes will always live in the the Army Game two years ago Advice? "If I were advising The name of Lulz Vaz de "Private Popeye" character in dignity of Thomas Steele, actor? BENCHO
a phases that Portugal the ton of the Spanish and Piratinals of the glorious history of to try to crash the drama Tommy Steele," said Howerd. Trent Portugaise - Overseas chuet of all the events of use Crowns under King Portugal and of the Portuguese and this autumn will be back "I should tell him to have Province near Honadding at the the Portugum.
for no other. man has on TV as a gavity, gormless go. But never to fall into the Government's Prostan for the Accordion to Professor Prest Philo of Spain, "I love thy nation misalka sia tre god. He served ego, it herins that probably the country so intily that I shall ever expressed his love for his boxer. there at sabis time. Afbough Sách, of the Emmisés, began to die with her," Clandes is re country in a greater epic poem Use breket team wer-bats do you his ing bedre at pored to bave said. So he did than cumes bak bh his "Os me on tweet
May be With Bień hawna die Hu died on June 10, 1580, Lusíadas."
trap of confusing natural talent Baid Howerd: "With me, It with wishful thinking. It can
art my happen to all of plex. I could variety dying.
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