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THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1960.

A COLD BLAST FORéale Bregu

THE 1960 NAZIS

Suddenly, they

they are out of favour

UNTIL quite recently the surviving Nazis in Germany (East and West) had cause to congratulate themselves because-since Hitler's heyday, anyway-they truly never had it so good.

The Elchmann oftair has from.

changed all that. Besides they

- have just realised

ar

that there

instances, perhaps less spectacular than Eichmann's capture but still rather painful to the individual Nazi concern- ed in which fate can catch up with them.

In way, it is a hopeful and significant story.

WILLIE

FRISCHAUER

machinery-where they were made welcome only a few weeks earlier..

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Many ex-Nazis who thought that time had healed the wounds which they bad inflicted on humanity have now reasoD fear the worst-belated justice, MUNICH perhaps indictment and prison.

Presently he asked his wife It concerns Dr Ludwig-Zind. and daughter, Skaun, to follow one-time Nazi storm-trooper him while his son Armin con- who, after the obligatory de- tinued his studies in West Ger- Nazifcation spell in the profes- many, Blonel wilderness, was readmit- ted as a teacher in 1947, and quickly, found a teaching job at Offenburg (Wurthenberg).

What he taught his pupils can only be gauged from his personal political outlook of which he made no secret when, as he did every evening, he took one or two pints of beer at the local inn.

the

His main topic of conversa. tion was nostalgia for glorious Hitler past.

Hue and cry

Zind created a aleasant niche for himself.

Substanial

His salary was substantial, his new house luxurious. The only shadow on his new life were re- ports from Germany according to which young Armin Zind was vocal in his condemnation of his Lather's Nazi views. He was an active democrat.

But it was daughter Sigrun who cast an even darker and more devastating shadow over A pretty One evening, in his best re- her father's existence. miniscent mood, he got into girl, she became a popular mem- conversation with A Jew. ber of Tripoli's cosmopolitan Promptly he told him that, in young set,

his view, Hitler had not sent Young men vied with each nearly enough Jews to the

stas other to escort her to svelal func- chambers.

It was not long before outrageous statement was ported

the authorities.

tions. Her parents were con- his vinced that if would not be long re- before one of them would be- come her choice for a permanent partner-in marriage.

But, while the teachers' union, to their credit, took immediate action and stapended Zind, the

They were right. A few weeks Public Prosecutor was slow to ago Sigrun told them that she

act.

was in love and wished to Only when the affair deve- marry, Eagerly Professor Zind loped into a public scandal was asked her to bring the young Zind arrested on a charge of man home with her what was slander, condoning crime and his name? Enrico Raccah! defaming the memory of dead Zind never did meet Enrice because Sigrun had reason to believe that the young man she

persons.

He was indicted. tried and sentenced to one year's imori- sonment, but giver bail pending the hearing of his appeal.

Inevitably (as one would feel clined to say) Zind did not wait for the hearing. Like Dr Eisele, the Buchenwald conven- tration camp doctor, and others

loved would not find favour with her father.

For Enrico, she confessed, was a Jew.

Broken man When a German newspaper before him in similar circum- man recently visited Zind the stances, Zind "ett the country." ex-stormtrooper was a broken As his appeal against convic- man. His whole life had been tion and sentence was dismissed, devoted to the cause of Hitler

raised his "disappearance"

and anti-Semitism. Now his son public hue and cry. To unbiased was a domorrai and his daughter observers it looked as if his case about to marry a Jew. It was a proved the truth of the rumours fate worse than the West Ger about a secret Nazi organisation man prison sentence from which which provides ex-Nazis In he escaped. Jeopardy with Galse passports and Anda.

In West Gormany, in the meantime, "Nazi society" which was about to become respectable is also feeling the icy wind of public opprobrium.

to

Yet, as I talked to one of them he confessed that he woul rather pay such a price than share Zind's fate. But with West German youth veering away Nazism from "old-fashioned" many of them know that, what happened to Zind in Tripoli, can easily happen here.

And this is ano of the most hopeful portents from Germany in many a day.

A

-London Express Service).

FACE THE PAST WITH LABOURA

The Brontosaurus Convertible

Cummingor

"D'you realise, Mr. Cousins, everybody's travelling in the wrong direction except us!"

MAKE YOUR

HUSBAND SIGN

CHANGE in human habits of momentous significance in Britain was underlined by the Whitsuntide holiday showing photographs

the millions basking on the beaches, driving on the roads, and watching sports events...

Man, whose body is attuned by nature for an active, agile life, is becoming more and more a sedentary creature, spending it least 20 hours out of every 24 in physical inactivity,

Even when he "gets out into the country," he sits during the journey, lounges when he gets there, sits all the way home, and sits some more to watch TV.

HERE if you

think he needs

pepping up

by CHAPMAN PINCHER

London Express Service

promise that from today I will never

take a bus wo

take a bus when I can walk and

will take exercise every day.........

CUT THIS OUT AND PIN IT UP OVER HIS COAT PEG WHERE HE CAN SEE IT!

ta exercise at least one hour B more golf, and more participa- day, mainly by P.T. and swim- tion in sport, instead of watch ming.

ing it should yield worthwhile health Soviet

authorities results. believe they have no time to lose in halting the trend towards physical idleness because their automation plans are expected to produce the five-hour work- ing day,

Menaced

Swimming is perhaps the best middle-age exercise because,

But it is mainly by influencing their menfolk that women can

to help halt the mounting national-toll of heart disease.

A chance

while highly pleasurable, it uses A husband is as old as his up as much energy per minute as coronary arteries. If his wife coal-mining.

Wants to preserve them she Though women are far less should see that he signs the susceptible to heart attacks than exercise pledge forthwith and British doctors who have their husbands, they would do keeps it. One change is already evident the blood system with droplets

Women are often accused of -the steady increase in middle of oil, which can clog the brought back this news from a well to realise that they loo are

by nature's nagging their husbands to death. Exercise. heart conference in Prague sus under-exercised arteries. age obesity. But doctors are coronary

the pect that British needs to stem standards now that gadgets have Here is an opportunity to nag On back-to-work day, he and sounding a sterner waming, which may operate via

trend are much taken the drudgery out of house them to life. his wife, with few exceptions,

They suspect that the myster- thyroid gland seems to produce the coronary will be sitting or standing

"clearing factor" which more pressing because the nation work. lous upward surge in heart ail-

is 30 much more highly work while machines do the ments is largely due to man's eliminates the oil. hard effort. Even in "heavy" abandonment of hard physica! Medical research council in mechanised. industry, many men now lift endeavour.

vestigations directed by Profes- nothing heavier than a spanner.

sor Jeremy Morris have shown that men who continue to exer- cise their muscles suffer fewer heart attacks and those they get tend to be less severe.

at

Leaving his wife, teenage son and daughter behind. Zind, It turned out, had made his way to Cairo where the former Frou Goering who has been Goebbels official Dr Johann von holding court in Munich as Leers, now in Nasser's employ. Nazism's undisputed "first lady" was gathering a large colony of is confronted by the cold blast It would therefore be surpris-

ex-Nazis around him.

From Caire Zind moved

to

of social ostracism.

Doors close in the

faces of

Tripoli where he soon found a former S.S. generals in highly

Major cause

This change, which has largely come about in the last 30 years, with the advent of motor cars Without regular exercise, and labour-saving devices, is muscles, which make up half the circulation, am as revolutionary as man's body and help the

become flabby.

The coronary arteries, which some serve the heart itself, become furred up and eventually choked. Excessive fat in the diet loads

descent from the frees.

ing if it failed to exert radical influence on the body's new job Professor of Geology gainful employment-mostly as finely-adjusted mechanism. of the American University, super-salesmen of motorcars and

"Plane

"May I have the shirt off your back?”

.

·

a

Lire the Russians, they would concentrate on middle-aged men, who are the most menaced by chairborne inactivity, but they belleve that the ill effects of lethargy begin earlier in life un- Russian doctors are so con-

less checked.

regular The evidence that vinced that the chairborne life Is the major cause of coronary exercise protects the heart is so thrombosis that they have in- strong that simple acts of disci- duced their Government to begin pline like walking part of the a tampaign to get 50,000,000 men way to work, more gardening,

THE SHOWDOWN

Sadly, I see Labour going headlong into its greatest crisis for 30 years

THERE is little doubt

by TREVOR EVANS

within both the unions and the political wing

that the Labour

Mr Gaitskell-it he remained In office would carry many Party is moving to its

ct the MPs with him partly out greatest crisis for nearly

of a sense of loyalty to the And all this time Mr Frank elected leader and partly because 30 years since Ramsay

block votes tilted decisively the Cousins was exploiting his own they would share Mr Gaitskell's MacDonald wound up ly would have to find new passionate beller in Britain's views both on Clause Four and

10 disown the party leaders need

nuclent cn support of Nato, his Lábour Government leders, or

would have to accept far weapons and ignoring the plen

"If the balance of the

big

Mr Cousins would retain most

in 1931 and teamed up greater degree of union dictation of Mr Geltsiell and most of the of the voting strength of the with Tory leader Bald of polley than has been known party politicians that there must unions, but some would support

win.

in recent years. The block be a "realistic" dedence policy Mr Gaitskell partly for ressons vote may some day harass the and Britain must have some of policy and partly because they do not like the impression But if this crise develops it leadership as much as it once op- share in nuclear deterrents, will be se much more bitter pressed the militants."

And, for good censure Mr Mr Cousing manages to give of sffair than in 1931-for this time it will be war within the came, Serious, unruffled and dared to

That day of harasement bus Cousins gave a slap to all who being arrogant and indifferent

to them. tinker with Clause

Only the Tories and their sup- party.

experienced MPs are now specu- Four.

porters would get comfort from Ironically, it will be a war

this situation on the best way of preserving lating on their next leader.

Surprising how often their

peace. For the two great an-

Brank

Lagonista, Hugh Gaitskel and 8350 dwells on Mr George Cousins, are convinced Brown. There is irony too. Thr Mr Brown is a member of Mr that their own defence policy is

Courting's union, but his views on the best way of avoiding war defence are shared to a great

How odd that on important book on the relations of the extent by Mr Gaitskell,

unions and the Labour polit claps should be published

Its author, Mr Martin Harrison,

The start

Mr. Harrisori could not have

Prudent

Slipshod

With union conferences him-

So although events threaten bering up to the sum of the

Mr Harrison's new to make TUC conterence in September book out of date, it would be and the Labour Party con- sad if the weaknesses he reveals ference in October, Mr Cousins in both the unions and the keeps collecting more and more Labour Party were ignored. allies.

For Mr Harrison finds many

One of these two must give

of the unions slipshod in their accounting, cynical about their accountability to their rank and

trading of seat on the party'a

a research fellow of Nuffield Cal- foreseen when he finished way. Neither durus signs of tege, whose painstaking job fur- writing his book how speedily doing so. It is prudlezas there- geaks that his investigations have and disastrously the present fore bo prepared for a split. file, and blatant in the horse- goon on for years, should sud- crisis has developed, Nor, come Mr. Harrison's book was in dealy find himenti a prophet,

Yet, the tusic home to that could most of the shrewd tended to be a study in the national executive way to examine what has hane foliticians who went to Black evolution of the alliance between. And he finds the Labour Party pened during the past 15 year pool in the early days of last Dp the unions and the

cember,

Labour with tile idea of how best to Party. It will remain valuable as exploit the riches poured into within the two wings of the Mr Gallukell's hurry then to a record of the comparatives its lap by the unions.

"modernise" his party by toning by tranquil, years from 1945 to There are so many, reforms he down Clause Pour of its con 1950.

which the unions and the party shift station demanding full-scale. It could give a clue to the could tackle

Labour movemmbak.

Mr Harrison writer

consequence of a radical

in the polttionship

or more lange unlops could .coomiderable.

Mr. Galfkell has continued

be givings about leaderfalp.

to blondew, bor dediting bon zene. much attention: to 18%

greater

000 nationalisatip, wacted the mos line-up of the next split for ficiency and effecüvenen, recent Edebory suggester that Alas, most of them will be swept there will not be a claen cut aside by the glowering animosity between the TUC, and the of Mr Galfacall and Mr. Cousins. Labour Party.

Both these men are Like fouryway Bameco Either could bring

people,

Lendée Arprase Berrics).

---(London, Express Service),

Mid Week Selection by Friell

CAREERS IN Nationalised INDUSTRY

*Rotter!*

LABOUR HQ.

'Of course, they can enter any enclosure as they've not been divorced ... but she's very strict, she

wouldn't go without her new fiancé“.

Adr" Snodgras, I'v

things all along!