THE CHINA MAIL,
SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1901.
IN THESE DAYS OF RETRIBUTION.
Wanted: Martin Bormann
HE
E.was always a burrower, working his intri- gue unseen: a paunchy mole of a man who shrank from limelight and hugged the shadows.
No man could have versed himself more thoroughly in the wily skills of self-preservation. No man could hope more realistically to survive for fifteen years in a hostile world bristling with ruthless, dedicated avengers.
Is Martin Bormann, become the world's most Hitler's "brown emi- Intriguing mystery, nance", dead or alive?
Bormann was reported good and dead. But stubbornly, over the years, claims have persister!
The fantastic legend that he lives will not be suppress
that he is alive and has been ed. It finds chinks overy-
teen. Now even the West Get- where in the solid wall of man Attorney-General, Dr Fritz sheer improbability. It has Bauer, believes there is enough
A British Crossword Puzzle
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1 Stuft that's checked!
5 Remiss.
0 Cover.
10 Different.
11 Joined on.
12 Long time,
13 Member.
14 One goes and leaves 11!
18 Insect,
18 Staggered.
21 It's only tair.
23 Uncork.
20 Coin.
29 Expanse.
31 River.
32 One good turn?
34 Assoclate.
30 Racing venue,
37 Dear.
30 Not now.
39 Nut & guide dog.
40. Wasn't neutral.
DOWN
They're all washed up, Bathing pool.
3 Reptiles.
4 Trick city?
5 Form.
7 Space.
Cricket side.
@ Bunch.
15 She was a dreamer.
17 Formerly.
19 An eternity.
20 Bunny's mumi
22 Poem.
24 Wasn't an also-ran.
25 Caught.
27 No -busybody!
RB Putt
20 Clots.
30 Recess.
33 Heart.
35 Wonder.
YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD.-Across: 3 Stumped. 7 Deep- er, 8 Reasons, 9 Pave, 11 Babe, 12 Nerve, 15 Vold, 18 Rues, 17 April, 18 Lest, 19 Buds, 21 Debalės, 22 Attain, 23 Liberty. Down. 1 Adam, 2 Despair, 3 Serve, 4 Tree, Mastered, 0 Dashes, 10 Abdiente, 11 Bop, 13 Russian, 14 Vet, 16 Vandal, 18 Lusty, 10 Seat, 20 Mint.
dead or alive
by-
David Mason
clrcumstantial he lives.
evidence" that
And Adolf Eichmann's son Nicholas 123s in Washington; "Bormann is alive—and not as Doar as my father was."
There is one bedrock cor- tuinly. Martin Bormann, once the Fuhrer's evil genius, is not the man to die while plodding guile and brilliant cunning can prevent it,
Wanted only
power
*
It was
those very qualities, and nothing much else, that got him fo the black heart of the Nazi web. He lacked complete ly Goring's showy exuberance, Goebbels smoothness, Himmler's tight-lipped sadism.
But, ittle by little, he nuzzled through the tangle of graft and red tape until he was at the master's side: Hitler's deputy, responsible to no one else.
It was raw power he wanted then; nothing much ele in- terested him. But there could Berdly have been a better trälti- Ing for staying alive against improbable odds,
In a way, Bormann was play ing the preservation game even then. There were rivals ona enemies at every turn, after he succeeded Rudolf Herd as chief of the Nazi Party Organisation. There was Himmler to be subdued, Goring to be sabotag- ed, his own organisation to be quietly strengthened.
Tried to escape
He did it all so well that in the
he end
alone had the Fuhrer's car at will. He alone decided who should and who should not see Hitler.
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History's ometal version in that it all ended for Bonnaun on the final night of April, 1945, near the beleaguered concrete bunker in the Berlin Chan- cellery garden.
The faithful shadow had Iried vainly to persuade hin But Hitler master to escape. was determined to die, to save the legend. So, in final tribute, Bormann bore Eva Braun's body to the blazing petrol banfire and stood in salutation.
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Germany's Attorney Generol now, ere "highly questionable". That appears also to discredit the testimony of men like Heinz Linge, Hitler's valet, who suf when he was released by the Russians in 1995; “I can tell you Bormann is dead,† ▼
And, presumably, of other witnesses who swore that Bormann had survived the ex-, plosion, and was seen fleeing cust through
with Berlin Hitler's surgeon.
One of these, a former Hider Youth leader named "Arthur Axmann, said he followed them and saw them both lylog dead on their backs apparently shot.
Then he left with a party of Body never
men, to try to break clear of The circling Russian gunfire under cover of a German Tiger tank. He had gone only a few hundred yards when Soviet anti-tank explosives blew up the tank and killed him.
This, anyway, was the basis on which his death was pre- sumed at the Nuremberg Trial in 1940. it was officially con- firred in 1954,
Reports
questioned
The key witness was Erich Kempko. Hitler's chauffeur, who provided the petrol for the bunker bonfire. He ghastly described the Nuremberg judges how he was walking
alongside with Bormann
a bazooka charge lank when blow it up.
to
found
On his evidence, at Berchtes- gaden, Bavaria, death certi
issued on Martin deate was Bormann to 1954.
Martin Bormann
a death certificate has been issued.
er; in Italy, as a monk; la mann, Coiro, as a playboy.
But no body had ever been found. And the only hard fact to bite on in the mystery was that Bormann was wanted badly dead or alive. The But no Nuremberg Court had sentenced him in his absence to death by hanging, for a list of appalling crimes against humanity.
He was in Argentina, villa, to trap him as they later the story goes; but when Peron trapped Elchmann, fell, ha fed to Pasos de Los trail led
But anywhere. Libiris
Bormann had been near the Brazilian
warned by Nazi friends. Ha And soon a new pattern began border. to form. Mariin Bermann, - St
was whisked
out just in time began to be claimed
to with.
the
of Senta province Caterina. He remained there Flubborn and increasing per- slatence,
for me in a spy-proof in Was
fact in
then travelled stronghold; Argentina. hod
had
With prace, reports flooded in that Bormann been sighted in Rome, Austria, Sweden, even Australia,
There was less mystery about Frau Bormoon. She died of in a prisoner-of-war cancer
on March the hospital at Bolzano
22, 1946.
He lost consciousness and was temporarily blinded;
but not before he had sven Bormann collapse in the flarnes that lick- ed the tank.
But the fact of Kempka's blackout and blindness has since been held to cart serious doubts on the rellability of his story. The reports of all the alleged eyewitnesses r Bormann's death, days West
The
Not so simple
was
The earliest suggestion that he had got there by Nazi U-bolt, with other top oficials, And certainly some did find the war, under Peron's sympathetic wing,
He died some natural causez,
1.
years ago of
under many names.
But, of course, in the Great Bormann Mystery nothing is nearly that simple. Other re- But he never shook of his port, now gaining favour, say hunters for long, the story the Commandos are hot on the goes. They are sure they are scent; that they are sure Bor- on his troll still, awaiting only mann is alive, that they know the right moment to strike. where, and that their wet is closing on him fast.
Argentine hint refuge there after Waiting to
There had been a report from Bolzano the previous May from an Italian partisan who swere he had seen Bormann seeking food near the village,
After that, he was supposed to have turned up in unich (seeking a visa at the Spanish Embassy); in Russia, as a work-
no
If this story sounded fantastic
it could until last year, longer be dismissed so lightly after the capture of Adolt Eichmann:
strike
If he is alive, It is presumed that Marlin Bormann would be handed over on capture to the Alles, who sentenced him to death. "I think the Allies should help us to And him" says Dr Bauer the West German Altorney-General).
If he is alive, he is 01: m sinister beacon for desperate men all over the world who The scent was first picked up, long to see Nazism rise again. Some reports claim that says this version, in Brazil, the tough where Bormann WES Hving
I he is olive, his hunters under an assumed name in a will get him in the end. And town called Bahia. One day in only then wil the legend of 1962 two pursuers called at his Martin Bormann die.
Jewish commandos, and determined men who kid- nanned, Eichmann, have now written off the hunt · for, Bor-
MEXICAN
NEWSLETTER
bullfighter's wife from Kent
OREEN BARRY
DO
was a fair and ful- some maid of Kent. She
was brought up in the sleepy town of Ash, near Canterbury.
When she was married sho chose a British Embassy official posted in Spain as her husband. Hers was a merry house- hold, filled with guests from European Diplomatic Corpa.
One day Ava Gardner came
to stay with her, and, as we
all know, Ava Gardner apella
obeys the unwritten law
from JEAN CAMPBELL
Mexico City
action. Ava asked if she might love, He asked her to run away
invile the great Mexican bull- Oghter Carlos Arruza to drinks.
with him to Mexico at once.
FELL IN LOVE able Englishwoman
Doreen and her husband were delighted, and Arruza arrived his black-eyed Mexican with
torero friend, Juan Silveti,
Juan looked at Doreen in the soft Spanish twilight and fell in
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"Quiven what) Te's all aboisk the Common Market!”
Latidon Express Berrien,
Doreen said that was 11.2 Impossible thing for an honour-
to do especially a diplomat's wife with two children. Juan lett, spurned and furious, in the Latin fashion. For six long months, Dorcen heard nothing from Mexico except a rumour that Juan had been gored by a bull In the meantime her marriago collapsed and was · desolved in England.
Suddenly, unheralded, Juan arrived and whisked Dorem to London where they were quietly married in one of those solemn little rooms in Caxton Hall.
I visited the Bilvetia in their Mexica City apartment. They have two children, David, five, and Alexander; ibir. "They weto both dressed in short tartan traws, and were wearing red nocks, David was pulling. A elguctio his brown Øyes sparkling with mischief,
Doreen wania tha boyi lo gà to a Catholic school fa ́England, › preferably Ample- forth. She hopes they will
· not choose to be bilinghiera, when they grow up,
Guanajuato," and ho had trained to be an architect, until blood wen out.
Today, young Jitati--he is 32 is regarded as one of the three "greats" in the vast country, and he is said to fight with a cold, serene majesty, marked by ☐ lack of unnecessary thestries.
Doreen anverroes to watch. .her husband fight, as is the unwritten law in the ball- fighting world" "Giri friends and faneces MAY 20, but wives never."
Dressed in an elegant double- breasted sult, with a blue spotted bow tie, he told me how maich he mourned the passing of British influence in things like the insurenco companies and the railroads,
TOO SOON
He remembers when the Bri-, tish man not only banks and power companies here, but also vast stretches of land. Ho think they sert this country too soon and should have worked A bullfighter's wife broke this out some form of compromize custom *here recently at with the Mexican Government the request of an American about employing Mexican magazine, and her husband was labour. gored before her eyes on the magazine photographer took. pictures.
Doreen feels that, had sho broken the law, the same might have happened to Juan-but the had retused. belloving in the ancient rites of the ring,
Don Patricio
Flo tells me that the num❤ ployment here in terrible, and thai should he port s' bailoa on his plant door for · 200 workers some thousand men would be at bir door within 1wo hours,
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The Molean is a good wor kur, he fella,me, but underfed and underclothed, He employs only Mexicans in his firm-EX- cept for his son, Patrick, who i The English, "bypoon" of road politics, philosophy and Mexico City is a gentlo-voiced economics at Balliol, "scholar · with bushy, eyebrows · Mr Qllon has had a dartsing Doron finds housekeeping in named Patrick O'Hes. He owns and romanille. Site. He comes, Mexico, a joy. Bervanta, arm and runs an 'aluminium con- from a largo Caliolle family, friendly, cheap and plentiful.” • #iruotion, business.
from Worotetemétro doveral of The Blivelis, unifim moes bull, Me Dʻi is known here- his brothers' aro. Jemilt priests. Aghting famílias, are wruithy abouta as.Don Pairtelo, and as to studied clamies at Cam thefreiver. Juan was the' ser he has been here for well over bridge, and broke under th of one of Mexico/a mowl famous (30 yesen «İsa' tian »Won the love siroli bulinghter, THE · Tiger, rot and confidence of these people.
"Fu'school, Blonyhurst, found
him a je tutoring In Mexico. And so the classical scholar journeyed to a strange land, which he never left.
Ho lival right through the Revolution sharing his bed with revolutionaries; He worked on a mule ranch and a banana farm. "I had clasticity in those days," he cald, sadly, shaking his 78-year-old head, "We lose it as time_goes."
Patrick O'fica probably) knows more about Mexico than any Englishman alive today. He has fam condence in the country's future, and he well understands "Mexican nationally which tends to shun too much foreign Investment.
London Express Service).
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