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Nazi killer hunt by 5 countries

THE CHINA MAIL,

SECRET AGENTS WAIT TO GRAB

HIM IN ARGENTINE CITY

Buenos Aires.

SECRET police and secret agents from five countries are almost stumbl. of Mar del ing over one another in the big Argentine seaside city Plata as they manoeuvre to be the first to locate one of the most "wanted" inen in the world.

Mar del Plata, with all roads leading inland sealed and its harbour and airfield watched, is a hive of espionage and counter-espionage which would delight any thriller-writer seeking a plot.

THE MAN: Dr Joset Men- Hole, wanted by West Germany and Israel on élarges of mur- dering

during the war Jews while medical ofßeer of the no- farious Auschwitz concentratten

camp.

HIS PURSUERS: the Buenos Aires provincial police, the Ar- gentine federal Intelligence ser- vler, five dewish "commandos," iwu Cermans, and "observers" from the U.S. and Russian em- basslus.

Warrant out

The free-for-ali was triggVF-

el-off by the arrival 10 days ngo

uf

the live Jews, posing.as

Opinion Is divided whether all's new President. Quadros has to the Loft — and they are official West German a tendency agents or sympathisers who un sympathies with Nazism. want to save Mengele from the

-(London Expters Service), Jown.

The Russian Embassy observer is said to be in the city to grab a little limelight for the Com- munisis Mengele is geized. is also suspected of For he murdering Russian Jewish wor prisoners,

No one seems to know quite what the American observer is doing in the elty.

cumpers and led by man The

named "David," who is spect».

ed of engineering the kidnap- filent

Back again

Argentine police are con-

that they will get Men-

ping of Adult Elchinson from gele rat-if he is in Mor de!

the Argentine last May.

The provincial police haye

ordered bern

to get Mengah, against when there is an Ar- geuting arrest warrant, before the Jews can do another Eich- mmm-style kidnapping back to Israel and make the police, lose still more toec.

Squads of federal agents have beer sent to the city to help them.

Plata, tine,

or indeed in the Argen-

Mengele was lust Seen In Jung near Buenos Aires, where he lived in a luxury chalet in a suburb of Vicente Lopez.

The Argentine Government granted a two-year-ok! request from Germany for his arrest and extradition-but only after Mengele, who lived under his own name, was known to have left the country for Brazil via Paraguay.

The two Germans arrived in Mar del Plata three weeks ago after a local paper reported, that Now 11 is thought that Men- 50-year-old Mengole was hiding gele has back-tracked into the the elec- near a stone quarry in the city's Argentina following Fuburbs.

tion of Janio Quadros as Bra-

MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1961.

Cummings

SOCIALIST PARTY

WARNING: ANYONE PRACTISING

SOCIALISM IS NOT WANTED!

LIMELIGHT by THOMAS WISEMAN

I've got to be

agin something

says Spike Milligan

SPIKE MILLIGAN is

a professional dis- senter, a permanent one- man

U.S. NAVY TAKES OVER Opposition, a lam-

poonist, an iconoclast, an eccentric, a man who

MORE POLARIS TRAININGas made "idiot humour"

the

HE United States Navy is taking over more of

long training necessary for the picked crows of the Polaris submarino fleet. The chief "school" for many of the hundreds of officers and ratings alroody trained was the factory.

Each Polaris submarine must have two fully trained crews so that it may be kept continually on station.

The U.S. Navy tumed to the Speciuilst factories for help in His training. programmie than three years ago.

more

At the factory At that time it was not possible to say exactly what the final operational miste would look like.

Naval specialists joined the factory "boffins," and learned themselves as the factory courses were worked out.

Some courses lasted for 1,000 hours. A six-volume technical training manual was prepared.

Now the U.S. Navy's own Polaris schools are producing more and more trained men.

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intellectual; his talk is derisive, lyrical, passion. angry, religious, ate, profound, zany fact, think of an adjec tive and it is almost sure to be applicable to Terence Spike Milligan,

He is an odd combination of Mori Sahl and Jacques Tali; It was his mind which conceived Goonery, a form of humour that carries normal behaviour to its illogical extreme.

SPIKE MILLIGAN

With a mixture of pride and despair, he says: "My ideas get rejected all the time. Nobody cough confidence in me to let me do things my way I must

them, and frighten

nobody frightens so easily as the BBC.

Not justified

"But I shall stick it out until But whereas his fellow Goons, I starve to death, if not longer, Van Gogh had the and

Harry After all Sellers Peter Secombe, have come to torms same trouble and I've got one

world, ear more than him." with the tommercial

This gloomy picture is not entirely Justlied by the facts:

Spike Milligan remains a doter- mined outsider.

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Phone ugain

bit

later. I'm in the middle

of an extraction." e

FATON

**Come and gel à "

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“Bus, corviable, E khwaja uzeti her

under the clock."

He has completed his first Im- portant lm for MGM, invasion come out Quartet, which will soon, and he has a contract to in) other (and appear

writh Alms.

But his natural pessimism does not allow him to entertain much hope of a film career. He this explains his contract In woyi

CONSERVATIVE PARTY

WARNING: ANYONE PRACTISING CONSERVATISM 19 NOT WANTED!

lual, and they call me Spike and we're all workers together. "And then there's the other sort..the right-wing crowd- and they call me Terence and they think I'm an awfully nice chap, such fun, and the delight- fully eccentric things he says and I think they're all a bloody lot of idiots.

"Youl never heard so much talk without anybody actually saying anything. I send them all up, I have to.

No ambition

Salisbury

London Express Servica

THE LION-TAMER

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VICTOR MATURE is the kind of screen actor who fraquently finds himself co-starring with a lion. This can ba o tricky business. So. for his nowast film (The Tartars), now being made in italy, he chose as his leading lady a girl capable of being helpful in this possibly hazardous situation. She is Liona Orfai (above) and the used to ba a lion-tomer before going into the picturo business.

have had tho "The only man I can't deride making tho is Michael Foot. He has sence powerful. of humour. Even when he's

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effect of Sald director Donen: "1'4 stor off- rather Cory had the power than some of the producers that I know..

mous power, attacked the trend towards lm stars being their own producers and boss.

A struggle

"I was desperate for the

going hammer and tongs with Recently Darry! Zanuck, who money. And they were dies-

Dick Crossman about the Congo in his Hollywood heyday used perate for someone who would

and I send them both up, he to be known as the Taar of all work for that sort of money, stops and laughs before going the Rushes because of his enor

on with it." It was the perfect combination.”

a kind of terrible Talking to him, it becomes

There is clear that if there is anything impartiality about Spike Milli- more gen's ridiende which he inftets that frightens him even

on friend and foe ailke, and on than rejection, it is acceptance.

to be agin "I've gol

some himself, too. thing," he says, "and I don't

I feel terribly tense all the think that's ever going to be a time," he says, "and I suppose problem. There's always plenty clowning gets some of the acid to be against.

out of my system. look I "Everywhere I

"I have no ambition any mare stupklity and bureaucracy and except to survive. That's a big human beings being ground into ambition."

great inceless amorphic mass of controlled actions and

We live in the age THE MEN reactions. of the cliche. Wherever I go 1 find myself up to my neck in OF POWER

one

cliches,

$co

"I get invited to different

Even more recently Sir Carol Reed had to leave the produc- tion of Mutiny on the Bounty,

ences between himself and apparently becauso of differ

Marlon Brando.

the Today director is no longer in charge.

Sald Grant: "The movie busi ness has always been a struggle for power. In the past, heads of studios enjoyed a lot of that

Now there power

are some stors who have it.

"It is too much to expect of human nature to give somebody power and expect theth not to exercise it. On the whole I bad thing don't think its a that actors have power.

"Some stars exercise it badly and some exercise it well; but at least those who exercise it badly suffer the consequences Cary Grant and Stanley

and don't remain around long. Donen, the man who directed enough to continue to exerciso him in The Grass Is Greener. I it.badly. Whith never applied took the opportunity of asking to heads of studies!

Having lunch the other day with

kinds of parties. There's THE changing economics them bath how they felt about Tribune and the New Statesman

The film

erqwd, very erudite und intellec-

business this situation.

London Exprets Service).

HERR STRAUSS FIXES

From WILLI FRISCHAUER

HERR Franz-Josef Strauss,

Bont.

West German

THE FIXER

Minister of Defence, is so busy buying arma Drive against corruption

ments that, at first sight, it might seem surprising that he has recently devoted much time to two comparatively minor items on the vast shopping

ist of his Ministry.

The Rems are 114,700 trou- sers, oilve colour, linen material; scribed an a "clase contact" md 5,800 white suff collars, with an official of the Defence "officers for the use of."

Ministry's Supply Department With them the Minister has courageously attacked one of the social evils of West Ger- many-corruption.

in Government offices

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stamp it out.

600 a year. Although her vic "xer" with access to "some- tims were punished, she was one in the Ministry." Contracts, only temporarily detained and it turned out, were too valuable is now happily back in business to be left to chance--or far (non-governmental).

bidding. Tens of millions of . In return for substantial tav- The case in by no mean marks have been turned over in ours, the oficial not only kept unique. The Hat of Defence this way. her Informed about rival bids, Ministry employees who have The practice is so firmly · és-' but also officially described the been sentenced for corruption Although it is some time since bid of the trousers, and collar contains 22 names. They were tablished that it is still regarded пл doubtful whether Herr the case of the trousers and Arms she represented as the sentenced to a total of. 14 years' Strauss's new measures will collars occupied the German most favourable, slough her imprisonment. courts, Horr Strauss has only prices were higher than those of But the Defence Ministry da just succeeded in introducing a 50 other firma. She received the not the only pen in Bonn which The measures against "lobby-. legislative device which will contract.

harbours black sheep. Strauss Ing" provide for fines of 10 per onable the courts to fine any

has ruthlessly drawn the vell cent of the total value of tho body paying commission--or em-

from the activities of thousanda contract Involved, ploying & middleman who re-

of people the Germans describe Ana Tonn cynic wald, the

only colves commission-for obtain

as lobbyists,"

result to be expected 19)

Govern that the prices which Ing a business contract from a self, was indioted, imprisoned government department, ..and dismissed, the woman up- 10 PER CENT FINE

ment departments have to pay. will go up by 10 per cent → từ proached his successor, who was

appears that ambillova reinsure tha, comıntısion hyenas soon, dulyg 'burlness with her.

Woman Is sold to have bualnestmen have for years against the danger of a Úng,

stjendan Ksprava. Senvion}, made a steady income of £19,- been in the bakli of ampløying **

CLOSE CONTACT

In the trousers!-trial nan at- tractive businesswomen in har fortios established what is, do-

$10,000 A YEAR

When the dishonest official, who had accepted several valu abic gifta for hia wite and him

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