1961-02-14 — Page 6

The spy on his way to a 'funeral'

From Willi Frischauer

Berlin,

THE West German officials on duty at the zonal

border were most sympathetic. The man in dark suit and black tie who came from the Eastern! Communist half of Germany and carried a wreath was visibly stricken with grief and obviously on his way to the funeral of a close relative in Western Germany.

Although control of East-West traffe usunily rigore the quarth waved the man en. They did not want tedious centrods to nggravate the mourner's sad journey.

Walch exactly WER! Jk" expectat for he was, of enurre, of the no pucrare but on numerous East Gra Com-

unlit agents -ing a method of iniftration which, it has t been revealed, was the Com- munists favourite trick.

The revelation is only one item no the long 1-3 67 Com- rmenist subterfuges In Their relentles unikyrroundk war gain Wed Germany which were brought tu light by the defretion if a leading Corimon- "Infiltrator." Herr Hariy

Ruth.

Clear breast

THE CHINA · MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1981.

Cummings

SPANISH CIVIL WAR

CASTROS VICTIMS

SANTA MARIA

OFFICER

HUNGARY

TIBET

EOKA VICTIMS

"Ah, Captain Galvao, kill only one and you're just a common murderer-kill a lot and succeed, then ilko us, you're 'The Benefactor of Your People.""'

RELIGIOUS ORGANISATION CLASHES WITH UNIVERSITY....... AND WITH ITS OWN CHURCH

OXFORD REBUFFS

ROMAN CATHOLICS' UNDERCOVER MEN

AN

N undercover Roman Catholic organisation which tries to exert international influence by infiltrating its mem- bers into responsible positions in the Government, the pro- the Hamburg Conference of fessions, and education has lost round one of its fight to

Toth, this month, appeared at

West German Socialist shop steward, made a clezu brezi

of hir uwn underground work and named a dozch or mere other names of his fellow-agents Into the bargada,

Harry Roll confession W.

received with mixed feelings, On

the one hand it seemed alify ing that yet another East German Communist had reen the light.

Itoth's personal history, herw- ever, over the years was bound,

get a foothold in Oxford University.

It was with relief, not regret, that leading Roman Catholics at the university heard this. For they feared the organisation's Fifth Column activities would injure their Church by stirring up ill-feeling at Oxford. "Disastrous," was the word used by one chaplain about such a develop-

ment.

The organisation, which operates in 16 countries and is directed from Rome, is called "Opus Dei'-God's Business.

I claims to be a "secular

at the same time, to create deep institute for Christian pertes. megivings about the extent and Lion. Its key purpose to efficacy of Communist iubitra-build upp elle of Reman tion into West German public Catholics whe will make their lile,

influence felt in their Own

A high-ranking official of the spheres. East German Communist-com- trolled Unity Party, Roth, Setting

With this in view it has been up cells in university towns where promising under according to his confession, acted un instructions of a special graduates can be recruited.

In such countries "Office for the National integra-

as Spain, thon

Unions,"

Opus Dei is able to where Tradle Commuwust

and work in the open. the organ- propaganda

has is w espionage organisation. As such isation

univer- schools. he joined

West German sities,

anet #ews Metal Worker's Union in mers. Several of its members Hamburg. He had been working hold positions in Franco's Cab for the Communists since 1054.binet.

the

By GERALD KEMMET

This

was a

"It is

will

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Londen Express Service

calman

London Express Service.

In defence of the glory hole-

one man's very personal view..

of the gadget-bound society we live in

King of your own Costla; but however you like your decor nover lose sight of serious selback.

militant prosely-

the fact that a home for at Oxford undergraduates using force, although you

I where you LIVE! admit this. gel it to may only live in lodgings or never

the It licensed by

have done untold would hostels

10 the damage

orthodox university.

the Catholics. here, who have won Today the mansion Isis lics empty. But Opus Dei toleration over many centuries. does not intend to sell it. There

"I am glad the undertaking are now plans to make it a has it should have gone hostel You Africans and to Cambridge us the first place Asians studying

In London Father Cormac Burke, one of Opus Dei's tooders

Oxford venture,

ол

Britain.

It was from Spain last year who are not attached The delegoles at the Hamburg, thất an Opus Dei leader, the universities.

conference were shocked as they Rev. Dr Masia, arrived in I spoke to Fr. D. Greunne, a in Britain, was reficent about the

Ilstened to his tale according to Oxford to lay the foundations member which the Cominunists hel for a new cell. Justructed him to seek contnet

with dissidont groups in the 200-room hostel

West Germun Labour movement.

when the

Oxford's Roman

Catholic chaplaincy,

#

WHAT a pleasure it is

today to enter

a

house which ignores the passion for novelty, re- fuses to submit to some or ephemeral fashion fad, and so recalls the homes of yesterday.

"It would have been disa5- "The leas eald about it the trous if Opus Dei had managed better," he said. to start up in Oxford," he said.

"Opus Dei In one instance.

is not a secret is completely nt He bought Grandpont House. "Its atlitude

It does not hide itself, question of tance for a Pence a Georgian mansion 07 the variance with the whole liberat society.

Such houses have character. of and secured conception

also does not seek to Group, secrelly sponsored by the banks of the Isis,

university, but it

itself. Our alms are They express the personalities of East Germans, chute up for planning permission to build a where opinions

are formed by pubilelse discussion, another Communist | 200-room hostel for men under- the free play of intellectual not pulitical, and our members those who live in them, rather agent boasted;

visit to graduales.

have complete Intellectual free-than a standardisert lack of taste. "OL

Inquiry, Ulbright (Communist bess of But he failed to take account East Germany) and £100,000 of university feeling about the

About the

the will be minde available."

project. And when he applied

mansion in Oxford he said the university

"It simply would not have we shall use it to house Afro icdgings While Roth's revelations have to

and would Asian students," roused grave disquiet among the authority for official approval it fitted in here

akra hove done much harm.

(London Exprez: Service). Socials who appear to be the was refused.

principal targets of East German Communist Infiltration, they are grist to the mills of Du Adenauer's government which is secking Parliamentary sanction for drastic measures to stem the Rod underground offensive.

Ironically it is the West Ger mon Sociallats whe are most vigorous in their opposition against the primeipai HOVEN- ment proposal which 1s 10 restrict the free entry of East Germans into West Germany severely.

The Socialists have

ported many, rongresses,

sup.- meet-

Militant force

dom."

future of

house

Why not open

Palace?

at the

Washington.

PRESIDENT John

· Kennedy was in `a

ings and rounions, which have few inches of very hot

mans together. According 10

by RENE

MacCOLL

For, as former President Harry Truman once remark

brought East and West Ger- water for about half an Roth, these are just the occ-hour the other day. sions which the Communists This was because one of his ed, "It is the tax-payers

use for their neterious sides fold New York Con-

gressman that special tours of who foot the bile, and they the White House for Congress have a perfect right to see men and their constituents were just how lu be discontinued,

like to purposes.

On trial

The West German courts Just now are trying ♫ number of Communlal agents who have romnet West Germany Ulbricht's Instructions.

The Congressmen seethed— and when Kennedy read the newspaper reports next day he immediately got on the tele- ticked off his foolish on phone,

assistant, and assured all hands that the White House tours Although there is consterna- would go on. Ilon among West German Socialists the Ruth affair has greatly All the East Germans much harder.

confessed

attraction,

yent,

keeps house."

the

President

-

POSSIBILITIES

This is to save the carpets from taking too much of a pounding.

rooms

sight of

und

The rooms have that higgledy. Pixgledy look which spanks of case and and ecrbort, and is consonant with human nature in its hours of leisure.

Obsessed

Beachcomber

goes visiting

by J. B. MORTON (who is Beachcomber)

see

a dashboard

for

the

The impression received is that

slaves, chained to thein expected to The as-fire with imilation were the house was designed for the low glow and even flickering, homes and thele families.

with knobs and buttons accommodation of men

and

the electric fire with sham coal Having had first-hand experl- nettveting and regulating women, not of gadgets. It has realistically arranged what are

alr of being lived in, not these but an unconfessed regretence of a number of them, what various devices.

1 recall is their good humour An interior decorater had for res of coal and wood, O and their happiness, qualities so been let loose, and his fantasies Some, restlessly obsessed with memory of familles eeuled often lacking in those who today added tho "contemporary a love of exaggerated neatness, round an open hearth? When regard themselves at 53 much touch to rooms which loolted deplore the lack of order, the labour 13 saved, something more fortunate. go-as-you-please atmosphere vajucble is often lost.

merely occupied.

Others, of whom I am one,

Recently I visited a

house It is possible that the saving are di once at home in such

which entire which was equipped with every of labour, for surroundings,

houses are being built, can be conceivable modern adjunct to what is called "gracious living.” There will probably be use- overdone. the historical

holer and

for corners. of ful stairwaya

Obviously, in itself, the saving

The rooms and their contents in is no space Buckingham Polace, hitherto which there

of labour is a desirable thing had been planned down to the 10 room but i en reach the point whey most trivial detall. 1 almout seen by only a handful of non- the newer houses,

will soon be royals, would provide a fascinit- which

only anything that you do not want ing glimpse of spots rich in names out of the pest.

to de la called drudgery. historical association.

You may find n_box-room, a

By an amusing irony, labour- play-room, a scullery, or best For years now it has been a

so effective that there I a You may discover that solemn debate on what we commonplace for many of the of all, a "glory-hole" under the ving is now so widespread and most

ore beautiful atalis country houses, such as Dien- the refrigerator, the twentieth- to do with our leisure.

cuntury Idol, has not banished heim Palace, to be thrown open the larder, and that the kitchen tefsire," has already popped up. The ludicrous phrase "planned to the grublic.

i got a kitchenette or a small There is an uneasy auspictory elinical alcove.

famous

and

4

friendly

B

that boredom is in ambush, and Thore might even be

ready to pounce on those who still-room which a youngster save too much labour. of my acquaintance thought was pessibly a room in which to rest with television, coming at

The growing dissatisfcction

Lime when so many people have forgotten how to make their own emüsements, is bound to incremso the tedium of having nothing to do.

from television, ·

Discomfort

WARMER Now then--what about trying the same thing at Buckingham Palace? Why should not the Many of them continue to be British tax-payer similarly en- lived in, and the familles con joy the privilege of taking a cemed apparently take it all They are a long-standing and gander Inside the famous grey in their stride.

end of The Mall pilo at the cherished Washington which is run with the ald of Why not, then, expose the topmost house of them all for his dough?

If it were thought desirable, our

and respectful

It is natural to compare such For Roth to have

THEY PAY

The other day a woman who the tours could take place only scrutiny? and made publlo the Gordid

Four mornings every week of when the Queen, was not in

beuses with those where every- complaining that even refrigera– facts of their ronchinations the

In an age of transition,thing is too nectly and carefully on required someone to pat one passes the residence. And what fascinating

things into the fee-box hod onough. But the stint of White House, one song a long tours they could be loo.

and fast breaking changes arranged. Rolls'a defection is in the tail queue of Americans from all

.In Them you are afrakti to take them out again, Buckingham Palace contains in people's attitudes and move a chair or a table, becaus cil of his story-his conversion the 30 States of the Union, a superb collection of pictures thinking, where there has, you would be breaking a pattern

the Western cause,

eager to have a look inside the and furniture—and possibly a appears, took place two years famous and historical home of portion of the Queen's collection of late, been a.noticeable of orderliness, and if you want to put something down, you their President.

of jewels might be placed on trend towards warmer refrain lest you should disturb She probably awalls eagerly For the past two years he has

In the spring as many as view from Ume to time. continued his association with 10,000 people in one day trudgo

lations between Palace and the methodical discomfort which a steel hand attached tlere in Washington, the

which will the Communists under insinue for half an hour or so through publie actually enters only a

the refrigerator, public, would it not be en- is the note of the room,

Secret Service which tre

como no doubt that she will ultimately Boure able to counteract may the state banqueting room, the at the others the visitors stand priate to let the public right across indication that certain get it.

red green, blue, and other at coppeguarded thresholds and into the Palace?

| okk¬tatìdiqnod · things though I am old enough to remember Commnunit maven.

London prese Service). official chambers.

look in from there,--..

kendon Repræen Berotoys, / Fabsent, ure not forgotten.

the woman, who i am now.told

to

VAZO

Happiness

and

to

tigns from the West German the aliplomatic reception room, few of the White House rooms: tirely secily and appre date house, you may

Yet even in the most up-to- save her this labour, and I have

thus

like theatrical sets.

The owner's pride in oil this was tinged with a kind of sulity. disappointment.

Surveying the scene he said: "11 is quite right. something locking.

Indeed there was.

Thero m

London Express Service),

ARTEZ

All right.

A joke's u joke."