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THE CHINA MAIL, ~ SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1960,

NEW SUMMIT

IN 6 MONTHS TIME

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The NEW Gaut President of USA

"WHAT MAKES HIM THINK HE'LL BE THERE ?"

World Copyright by arrangement with the Manchester Guardian

A NEW LOOK AT THE MAN WITH THE MENACING NAME

N August 13, 1907,

ON

the directors of the

great Krupps empire re- ceived the following tele. gram.

"I hasten to inform the direc- tors....that á vigorous boy has been born to us to whom in memory of his great ancestor we shall give the name of Alfried. May he grow up in the midst of the Krupp establish- ment and prepare himself by his practical work for the im- portant task of taking over those responsible duties, the high significance of which I realise more

day."

Slaves

and more every

RICHER THAN EVER-

KRUPP THE

INDESTRUCTIBLE

By PAUL JOHNSON

Official assurances were given

At no time did he breathe a word of criticism of Hitler or 1 Anger against the warst excesses of the Nazi regime.

On the contrary.

At one time, his factories employed 75,000 slave labourers, many of whom died of starva- tion, or were beaten to death by the SS guards who dragged them

Those responsible duties" into the tail, cadaverous, cupied territory and the mass were the arming of the German taciturn and immensely ables employment of slave labour. war machine in two world con- figure of Alfried Krupp Niels duties which nelled was sentenced 12 years im- in Lendon and Washington that to the Krupps benches. the Krupp family a sheer £40 prisonment and total confisca the Krupps machine had been Extracts from secret Krupps million profit in 1914-18, and fion of his property, estimated perhaps 10 times much be at over £100 million. tween 1939 and 1945.

It had not proved possible to In July 1948, the child pin the crime of war guilt upon whose birth was signalled him, but he had been convicted this telegram NOW grown of plundering factories in oc-

A British Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

12

15

19

21

22

1 His ng becomes showy (6).

4 Start to dig with some push?..

(5)

7 Dark spelis-Arabian? (6),

8 Cornish city in which may be found a much older one (5)

10 It may have branch associa-

tions (4)...

13 The river which turned red and proceeded on its way! ().

15 Preased (5).

18 Winged part of he Federal

Army (4).

1 Drink like a fish? (4),

19 Iridescent form of erung

(5). 20 Did an Ells, might one say?

(7).

21 The heroft story of the Picts

((41,00 FR

23 Where it happened (5).

24 Sell singly? (0),

25 Poisonous beast (5),

za Manchester_maybe..

agree? (6).

DOWN

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extinguished for ever.

Yet only four years later, Alfried Krupp was released from the Lansberg Fortrees, and hastened off to a near-by hotel for a champagne breakfast,

files reveal the extent to which the Bom was involved. Here 15 one Krupps official writing to a colleague:

Today he controls an indus- No emotion

trial empire of greater size, and much wider diversity, than any of his proud ancestors.

£400

Its asseis arc over million Krupp himself is pro- bably, after Paul Getty, the richest man in the world.

"We still need urgently 10 leather truncheons or similar weapons for clubbing for our shock squads."

Here is another:

One by one, the Allled em-. "Do we still

of the bargoes against the re-creation weapons

of his coal-steel empire have been pushed into the back- ground and forgotten,

A photograph shows him en- tertaining the British and US. Ambassadors at a partridge shoot..

The steps

Bis emissarios are now play- ing a major port in the indits- trialisation of Brazil, India, Tunisia, Ghana, Eyypt.

He is cousted even by Mr Khrushchev.

real

Measured in terms of power, he is one of the five or sla men who count most In the West.

How did he do it? This is the theme of a cold, dead-pun

type?"

And the reply:

have

black-jack

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"I can supply the 10 leather truncheons, or steel birches."

Alfried Krupp claimed that he knew nothing of these dis- Aressing events. His valet teslifted that, throughout the war, "Mr Alfred always slept es peacefully as a child."

Neither the Nazi horrors, nor the defeat, imprisonment and

release seem to have evoked from him the slightest flicke of emotion.

He has married and divorced two wives; their very existence is suppressed in the Krupp archives.

His only motive in life ap- pears to be the maintenance and extension at whatever cost-

book, compiled by an able of the Krupps empire.

The desire for. personal

ideology: there are

political wealth, patriotism" The steps

secondary.

journalist, Gorden Young, whe has been content to relate, without comment, whereby this shattered war criminal raised himself from

of defeat to the ashes

a new

1 To produce a form of green pinnacle of wealth and power.

bea (B),

.2 Makes Ercel arrangements

(8)..

3 Solidiños (4).

5 It sounds as if it might

describe armour (B),

6 No place for a single genie

man (0).

What the Irishman said when invoked to have off-spring? (5).

11 R.LS. island (8),

12 Needs to make valleys (5),

Discreet

The Explanation seems to le in his upbringing. From the earliest age, he was ruthlessly trained to devole himself, body and soul, to the firm of Krupps. At the Villa Hugel the vast 2nd hideous family mansion There can be no doubt about near Essen, which housed 100 his guilt. His father, Gulay servants life was a combina Krupp von: Bohlen, not unly tion of Babylonian luxury and armed the Kaiser's hordes in terror:

the 1914-18 war, but played a A schoolfriend of Alfried's major part in bringing Hitler wrote: "The meals are the to power.

worst part of it. As soon as you

In March 1933, he presided get anything on your plate, a over a meeting of 25 top Ger- lackey comes up and snatches

13 Ita torso is larger than its man industrialists who agreed it away. If you don't want to go

trunk (8)...

14 Came out slowly (8)..

18 Port of Belgium (6).

22 Cleri;, rural or red (4),

→ YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD, ACTORS: 2 Serpenta, Tenrec, 9 Chapl--in, 11 Gum-boots, 12 Dear, 18 A-DD-le, 18 Billy, 10 Eve-N, 22 Satchels, 24 Martinet 26 Reral- 28 Walle end. Down: 1 Otago, 2 Enemy 3 Seconds, Echo, 15. Pips, 0 Neater, 7 Sun-dry, 10 A-toll, 14 Divan, 13 Elected, 10 Seames, 17 Petrel, 20 Helly, 21 As-pen, 22 Bins, 28. Tern

to finance Hitler's crucial elec- hungry, you have to eat so fast tion campaign to the tune of that it hurts your, teeth."Wynd three million marks.

From this atmosphere, Alfried without emerged

Fram 1919 onwards, he pre- Krupp pared discreetly for German humour, without humanity, a rearmament, concealing from slave to duty, according to his the watchful allies the secrets lights. His experiences seem to

| of war-plant" and new arms have left hkag unchanged. He

technology.

is exactly the same man today:

His son Alfried began to play only his power and riches have e_major part in the direction of increased. Krupps from 1936 onwards In Essen, he is regarded as during the war he was the a kind and considerate eme dominant figure in the firm. ployer.

They say. He's given halt a The Fall and Rue of. Alfried million pounds to Jewish re

I't that noble and Krupp, By: Gordon Young generous of him?n retro kg h Cassell, 217.

(London Express Servier),

BY

THE WAY.

by Beachcomber

A

THE non - subterranean Hyde, potato-peeling machine to

a spoil-

be built will probably revive sport by her neighbour. Prob- interest in my scheme for hably what startled the lady was tunnel under the Round Pond the sound of a happy human to take some of the traffic from, voice uncontaminated by radio the Knightsbridge Piccadilly or gramophone. Would she have underpass.

objected if the peeler-fixing had

A spokesman said: "The been done to a broadcast of a viaduct will not be as expensive moaning_lament? as some things and will blend --(London Express Service), with the landscape in a most gratifying, manner."

One thing and another

THE purchase, with on

cumulation of luncheon vouchers, of 15 acres of build- ing land and a washing mac- bine, by a syndicate of em- ployees, raises the question of what is called "the abuse of the system." What connection this can have with the decision of shipping firms to cut down

TALKING

POINTS

Life has only one charm the charm

on whaling expeditions is gambling.

matter for research. The ex- cuse given is that there is Д shortage of whales. The same might be said of rotary, dung- forks.

The stolen kelp-gauge

MAN charged with the attempted theft of a tape- recorder was acquitted because he had, by his own admission, "stolen" not "attempted to

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Those who hope for no other life are dead even for this.

--GOETHE.

Nations which split atoms

-JOHN A. LINCOLN.

steal it." Equally odd was a case should not split hairs, tried by Mr Justice Cockle- carrot. A man denied having stolen a kelp-gauge. After three weeks of legal oratory, ex-

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A man's foibles are what makes him lovable,

GOETHE,

We humans.

are the greatest of the earth's parasites.

-MARTIN FISCHER.

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