1961-06-17 — Page 12

A BUNCH

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1961.

OF FLOWERS

SEALED EICHMANN'S FATE

IT

was just 6,29 p.m. when he stepped off the bus. Dusk was settling over this lonely stretch of unlit road in the shabby Buenos Aires suburb of San Fernando.

By.

PETER BLOXHAM

May 11, 1960 had been another tiring day for Richard Klement. It was a long way home from the Mercedes Benz factory in Suarez, across on mourning and anounced in the Aires, typed in Germon. It was the other side of the city.

But all three bats journeys were behind him now. When he alighted at the stop by the little clump of trees home lay only 200 yards across tho rubby ground.

he

Squaring his shoulders, stepped carefully around an un- completed sewer-working and paced bristly out towards the drab brick cottage that meant rest und food.

The bus roared off, and he was alone.

car

He thought so for a moment, anyway. Then he saw the parked by the roadside, and the young man busy under its bon- net.

Well, there was nothing sinis- fer about a young man mending a car. Or about a second young man seated inside; or a third standing on the verge, enjoying the cool evening air until the cor was ready.

SCREAMING

Λη be nproached them, the weary factury worker groped In his pocket for the torch he used to plek his way over the

rough ground.

"Who are you?" they naked him in German.

"Ich bin Adolf Eichmann," cald Richard Klement.

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I seemed to smooth, so easy. But it had taken fifteen years of fantastically detailed, dificult detective work to accomplish.

The deceptively casual-seen- ing web bad been tightening obout Adolf Eichmann, na- murderer of the Jews, for al- most as long as he had spent in fearful fight from bla päst,

The effect was astonishing.

The man fuside the car sild swiftly out to join bis friend at the bonnet. And as Ilichard Klement, factury worker, drew level with the

third. Young man a strong arm from behind was locked tight about his neck.

Fifteen years...and longer, In Europe, the Nazi terror had barely ted before there American reward of 10,000 dollars out for informa- Adelf

was an

tion leading to

Elehmann's arrest.

But the trail was thin. The thin-lipped man who had been at the heart of the Naz! master- plan for the Anal solution of the Jewish problem" had been careful always about what do- and what he signed, cuments photographers he allowed near.

Even before the war ended he had visited his father's home in Austria and torn up every ple ture of himself.

Where was ine? Was he even alive?

But from the stori there were avengers whose stubborn persistence was at least a match for Adolf Elchman's.

CLUES

There was Tuvish Feedman, the Jew whose unrelenting if

Then they were all on him and he was kicking. rolling and teen-yeur structing in the diteli

And screaming. They threw him on to the flour in the back of the car. They held him low as it slid off down the rout.

They bound his eyes, then pulled up and led him into a house. They stripped off all bls clothes, and found under his left pripit a blurred scar where an SS tattoo had been removed.

Buonos

were chosen. All, had worked! together before, farming in the couth.

.They kept watch on, the house, shadowed him on foot, prowled his neighbourhood in a hired car, and noted the times and re- gularity of his movements:

First, Che of the three was cont to South Amerken for a

They found, a room nearby monti, to organise a group of where, through two tiny holes Bix *Jowish volunteer helpers. in drawn blind, they could. They dug and dug for facts; and keep a round-the-clock watch the more they found, the more through powerful glasses on likely seaned that lernens his house. mann's widow, who had felgoed of all: a letter from obituary columns her husband's from a Jew in a South American was their man.

The now pattern formed and death un active service. They state, who visited

Argentina The young man 'returned to settled. Each morning 'ai ́046 tried Elchmann's former right- often.

Terael to make his report. What the man who called himself hand man, and a wealthy blonde

treaty Klement walked down divorces with whom the Jey- Ho had lost some of his next? The extradition exterminator since had an affair. closest relatives in a Nezi: gas between Argentina and irani garden path and across to the The bus alop. Three bus rides later, But they found no pleture, chamber. He had pow contrived had not yet bien ratified

stop near his

effectively was their own

Then,

in 1947, Eichmann's, to cultivate the acquaintance of unly country in which they folt he got off at

was several of the German commu- that Eichnern could be tried factory at 720... chauffeur Joseph Weil caught. by the Austrian po hity in Buenos Aires... lice, Friedman questioned him, a and was given the name of an- ather of Eichmann's mistresses, living near Linz.

A young Jewish worker in- gratiated himself into her com-.. pany in her local cafe. She in- vited him home; then, one evo- ning, brought out her photograph album.

From one page smiled out a dapper young man in elvillan clothes.

and at

It had taken two years endless plotting. But here. Inst,

a picture of Adolf Eichmann,

Was

In Vienna, then in Israel, the little group toiled on untiringly to bring the guilty Nazi war criminals to trial.

ed

THE DOSSIER

Many pressing cases demand- Investigation. But always

•

THE HUNT

NARROWS:

From one of them he

bad :named fearned' that a man Richard Klement was NOTY married to Elchmann's former wife. He checked and found that Klement worked at the Mercedes Benz factory; that ho Uved ia the Partido that Vicente Lopes suburb: bis three stepsons, were, usined Eichmann..

Was this really Mrs Klement's was it second husband? Or Adolf Eichmana?

At its lowest, it was a hunch worth following. In Israel the machinery that had stood oiled and ready for so long eased into motion,

Three young men, all tough

Open they could be certain, thay must kidnap himins

So, one by one, by different routes, and under different pré- texts, the three young men "set off for Buenos Aires. And soon the dogged, patient days of ppying, stulking and plotting had

egun.

·

SHADOWED

They were just beginning to know Hichard Klement's daily movements and habita' well when ke, sabotaged ail, their efforts by moving with his family to San Fernando.

Frustratedly, they waited for the Klements to settle in and for a new pattern of daily life to On one point anyway form. late was with them: the new

homestead was more isolated.

They kept to the shadows now, for fear. that their quarry might have seen them near his old home, and should wonder

open before them, lengthening a and cheerful and under thirty, what they were doing hers..

little with each new shred of fact, was the damning dossier on Adolf Eichmann.

Then, in 1852, Eichmann's wife and family vanished from their Austrian home. Now there search for this one was no trail at ull. man grew into a kind of mania

but Many leads followed: that even threatened hly mar ridge; and whose first slim Elch-n proved positive. Dr Erwin monn dossier grew into a for- Schulle, chief of the Nazi War Criminals Investigation Centre midable 400-page Indictment.

say Working at first with a small, in Ludwigsburg, wrote to

in penniless organisation in Vien- Eichmann had been seen

the Persian Quif. na, Friedman realised that it- Kuwait, in the could be accomplished with- There were Ulg headlines for o out a photograph of Elchunann. day or two. But nothing more.

But in August, 1050 there ar- rived in Israel the strongest tip

They combed old newsreel films; they sought out Eich-

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now. They They were. Dure celebrated

When over drinks, sent df a coded cable to forgel that meant a Afteen-year-old bunt was almost over.

During the weeks that follow

about smoothing od, they not The three Israelis took

out the incredible complications room near the factory too. The of capturing Adolf Eichmann they began photographing

and often: and whisking him safely and Klement regularly through the fly-holes in the silently to Iurach. blind, and also at the foelory buo-stop, using a

camera con- cealed in a brief case.

They passed him along, one to another; along the route," by coded telephone messages.

On March 21 they did all this as usual. The difference. on this day, was that Richard Klement arrived home carry Ing a bouquet.

They pondered on this, in yet another room they had rented, in a quite different part of the city for their meetings.

Then it hit them. March 21. The day of Adolf Eichmann's wedding.

Why should Richard Klement take home flowers on the 25th anniversary, of his wife's mar- rlago to her, first husband?

JEAN CAMPBELLIS

TIMING

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On that day, at 2 pin., there Wad a last conference in Buenos Aires cate to check the split-second timing of the oper ation and the emergency plan in case things went wrong.

But nothing did.

And Adolf Eichmann, in, the bare room that was his first pri- cell, even made and signed

a

statement.

Days later, drugged with dop- ed coffee and fast asleep, with a dressing-gown over his clɔthes, ha, was driven to the airport in a big black car.

In the pláne, sprawled over A villa in an obscuro-district several seats, he slept through to was rented. A.hire-car with false West Africs: then through to number-plates was arranged. Israel. Whenever his drowsiness charter plane was booked for

wore off his guards were ready May 14 — the carliest available date for a wealthy invalid, sup- with more drugged coffee. posed to be travelling abroad never known anything like the

And the Israeil Parliament had for medical treatment.

triumphant roar that followed a Thero were hitches. They startling announcement to its could not, after all, have the crammed benches by Premier plane until the 17. But there Ben-Gurion. was unlikely to be a major hue- and-cry. Mr Klement, if sho went to the police at all, was not Ilkely to tell them who her hus band was.

They would go ahead on the 11, and keep their prisoner hidden for a week.

Adolf Eichmann had been found, was already under arrest in Israel, and would be put on trial

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The long, arm, of the law really meant something. that

day in. Tel«Avië).

NEW YORK NEWSLETTER

Growing: the deep fear of

working with your hands THE GOYA

New York.

HE fear of grubby hands is a dark and deep THE

-psychological fear in the minds of Americans. Unless this can be obliterated A factory in industrial Pean

We

no

Keeper than 269 as a tool and die maker. This noodle notion is

destroying the economy of the The real United States.

be used to redress these biter Ben Smith

and re-

TOUCH...

TD ENE BOUCHE, the por-

- trait painter,

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I predict that TV is going to

coming to London for tho Naw month of July. In can expert a bumbling, sylvania is closing down and ills. The Government will set

revitalise

York ho Is comidorod the tumbling disaster before long. moving westward like a cireus out to

Today the

Why?

glamourise the factory and the DEN SMITH, known here most exciting and interest- unemployment tent.

Because

BEN figure here stands at over machinials will come to its door work-bench.

"Soll 'em Bon of ing artist to bo painted by, 5,000,000, but many people could The nugget of the trouble is

Government sponsored shows Wall Street," is dood, ond He is certainly the most find work tomorrow they that the modern American has will start appearing on would take off their white been lullabied by commercial coast-to-coast networks showing a powerful force has gone Rene is half French and half collars and roll up their shirt TV into believing that the only, mighty men of muscle in from our lives. He mado Hungarian. He is now 63 but he sleeves.

good life is the gracious life.

workers' overalls holding movie his millions by selling short did his first painting when For him there can be no lure goddesses in their arms,

Look at the facts.

No bids

for

No

the

fashionable.

ho

in the slimy touch of industrial Between the cowboy serials we in 1930, having started his was nve years old. He has ail or the anell of beef broth shall be hearing the steady Wall Street life as a three very special style of his own steaming in a canteen slock-pot. drone of power tools and a dollar a wook errand boy.

For him there is but one fure gentle woman's voice murmur- -the rounded office life in an ing "He l'a real man. He is There War nothing

about Ben. The motor industry is baying air-conditioned building, express my man. He is a mechanic."

elevators, paper cup coffee break hours and electric typewriters.

140,000 new mechanics. bids, The kitchens of

A fine full-blooded baseball, restaurants, emtrons, and hotels

hockey playing throughout the land are clam- basketball,

boy would rather ouring for cooks, assistant cooke American and bollie washers. No bids. eatu £25 week

as a book-

BY • THE WAY

by Beachcomber'

An official has said that care will be taken to prevent the pylons from conflicting with the landscape.

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Dole for

the rich

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and he belleves that It in essential for a great artist to go beyond his time and to sco small things in a new way.

When he accepts a commission He was a big man with big-ho will paint only 15 people ideas making big money.

He talked softly and rarely, He loved action.

A year he likes to spend several days with the subject before starting to paint. Ho As a young man he had been tries to understand, Everything

a racing driver and he never about them rather in the way lost his racing touch. When he an analyst talks to 3 now was 70 years old I drove with pallens

heart.

.

Pampered

him ncross New York in a When this process is over he ECENTLY I was lunching

and ceases to with a married American scarlet Mercedes. He considered starts to paint

for os be traffice lights unnecessary. There think

saya, the Firl friend. She was discussler were no stop lights In Ben's creative act must be like bull- coming to England for Ascot

mind.

fighting you cannot actually Week.

Ben was a master atiarrang- think while you fight -- you golden girl with ing sudden journeys.

just act on reflex. But before She a

He boosted about owning a you start the night you must THE great Pylon highway, loudly to the waiters. For this golden hair and solden bangles

planned to go from purpose he was to call himself on her wrists. Her husband is series of the most stamped pass now all the techniques by

the only son of a Wall Street ports in the world. Dungeness across the Kent and Sir Charlen Hawke-Ratung-

millionaire. They have two He loved surprising his friends Sux countryside, has been stone. Now and then he was to large estates in New York State with a sudden call from Tokyo, described as facing the facts of entertain friends with mythical and two spartmenta in New or Beirut, twentieth-century Ufe.

titles, to impress the clientele. York Clly.

Ben was a devoted Calholle. For a time all went well.

One afternoon we were bath-

Rene looks like a Goya demon. My friend does mat werk, ing in the South of France at He is very short and very dark The patrong notleed the do-

neither has she children, Übe my grandfather's house. empisy ference of the waiters to Sir

a dally malá and Coppercing, and Ben suddenly with arched bushy eyebrows. Chattes, and heard, his praise part-time cook.

said; "Let's go to Rome and is paintings have more than a and the compliments conveyed

dash of Goya Ins them ood like Suddenly she leaped up from zee the Pope this afternoon." Rambler roses will probably by the head waiter to the chef the luncheon table and said: He dashed into the house and Goya he is pampered by great,

ladies. be trained round them, and they The restaurant became popular. “Come with me, darling, I have telephoned Cardinal Spellman will harmonise with the new. Then, as we shall see, the to go and collect my

His English portraits to date soodal baking him to arrange a private include Lady Astor Elizabeth towering telévision aerials, trouble started.

security money."

Bowen, Lady Pamela Berry, the. painted in bright colours, on all

Now sonial security is what Before we know what was

Duchess of ArgAL 'Nancy We would call the dole. My happening to us the entire Mitford and Aldous Huxler, friend hsili a taxi 'and we household of La Cupponcina Bouche's best pointing is of FTER laborious research, de- drove to Second Avenue and was in the Vatican,

He painted it tailed analysis of figures, i 99th Streek. The government Ben had a vegetable ahon In Jean Cocteau. and nation-wide probes and In-building was painted brightly in Son

the Italian in one hour at Cap d'Ail in the quiries, the Ministry of Labourassy green,

Rivlera which he loved to visit, South of France in 1958, it has He would oume away with the quality of an elegant coll There were four queues of has discovered what every mán,

cailfowers

of charged oleotide wito which Most armfuls of woman and child knows from people moving rapidly.

tu the VITY substance of personal exprstence, The cost

were young and they all held radishes. Ile bought

the shop Cocteau's spirit, of living has gone up higher their unemployment books in "to use up BOITIE chango,"

Rene has the kind of eyes than ever..

but like everything he touched that see loo much too quickly their hands... This sume there is not even My frim đánhed up to the it turned to profit. ND day, looking for now the Grual daring attempt at counter;="I'm late" she said, Ben's pockets were always full and utterly honest, But unlike ONE

worlds to conquer, Captain consolation! "in spite of rising sixfting the book under the wire, of endgotsi-new inventions he so many gainters of today he Foulenouen persuaded a friend prices the cost of flving remolos The amistant smiled happily, was trying out on his friends to cherlahes human beings rather of hi who ran a West End, stable. Fares have scain Hines, stamped, the book and landed see if they were worth financing this mooks at themptat reglauerit, to employ him. His but there is a halfpenny off her the weakly forty dollars. One of his gadgets--but not

lie paints, with a loving heart 100 was, to lunch scadias fre- avery grom ot imported sintacks -ila Amerion. this manis there docketable-rocketed to financial that understande. Fileman Frality

KED OVER KYN, wakilan kudepiplos-} #lory). It was quently at the ruslaurent, and sol4,"

• the wasting but refuses to forgive London Express Service., edi lo praise the food and wine

the houses and collages, and An amazing revelation. with the thatched petrol

station, each with its lych-gate A

and lattice windows.

Come, losses and lads, lat us do a momba or a sambo round ye olde maypylon, even though we are not flying in the Middle Ages. Enter Sir Charles

audience,

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Indchine,

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and his paintinya : ero, increlions

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