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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

March 12, 1940.

This Is What

Happened

To Unity Mitford

HER MEMORY GONE: BRAIN INJURY WITH two bullot wounds in her hoad, and a brain injury caused by one of the bullets, Miss Unity Mitford lay seriously ill last night in a private ward at the Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, says the Paris Sour in an exclusive article last month.

Detectives are watching over her night and day. Only |*** nurses and doctors see her. It is said that her memory has gone.

Her condition is so low that an operation which is urgently necessary cannot be attempted until some strength has been restored to her.

Foremost among the doctors watch-Nuremberg Congress she was rather ing over her is one of the world's bitter. The Fuchrer had not been most brilliant young brain specialists, grateful enough for the fuss she had forty-three-year-old Professor Hugh created in Czecho-Slovakia,

eminine logic W. B. Calrns..

she blumed the

With

It was he who in 1932 led a team Czechs, who; she said, ought to be of Ave doctors in an all-day opera- exterminated: tion to remove a tumour from

""Traitor Of Stuttgart"

THE French Jam Stuttgart radio station. Why? Because they hate to hear the voice of Paul Ferdonnet, Frenchman turned trailor. They want to kill his Nazi propaganda broad- easts in French.

Every night Ferdonnet, a former French Government cm- ployee, says that England is the of France and

common enemy "In time Unity began to see less de- Operation patient's brolo, an

But she was ob- Germuny. sribed as one of the most astonish-and less of Hitler,

¡stinate, ing in medical history.

It was he, too, who raced 100 miles by car to try to save Lawrence of Arabia after his fatal motor-cycle smash,

Doctors Amazed

save

"She hat the Iden to become a German citizen. Luckily for her it came to nothing owing to the in fluence of her family.

As

"Probably Hiller himself did not with for her naturailsation. German Unity was of no use to him. "On the eve of war she lost her

He stands by now to make the Miss only effort possible to Mitford from permanent brain in-jnerve. Jury and perhaps from death.

She is in such a condition that the doctors are amazed that se could Jave made her Journey from Germany. When she was

transferred

the High Wycombe home

recent

from

of her

The treaty with Russia stupified her. The eight days prior to the outbreak of hostillifes she spent in In dazed state, to which the consul at [Munich em testify.

Visited Her

"The details of what happened on Lord Redesdale, to the in- father,

was September 3 will only be really Armary, the greatest secrecy abserved. No one except nurses fnown if ever she enn recount them speelally allotted to her knew who herself.

she was

"That morning she wandered Into

les Sauerwein, the famous the Jardin Anglais predestined Foreign Editor of Paris Soir, now luname and sat down on a sent.

"By that seat she was found with London, wrote for the Sunday Ex- press the following authentle account bullet lodged in a bone of her fore- of what happened to Miss Milford in head. Germany. It is the first full story toll since she returned to England, 'Tormented'

"She was transported to a nursing home and recognised.

"Nazi chiefs told the Fuehrer. For three months Unity lay between life and death. Hitler visited her several times. At last she was well enough

to leave.

has almost "Miss Unity Mitford entirely lost her memory. Sitting up in her bed, she rambles in her speech when her friends visit her. One gets

"To-day she is a and

public figure tormented glimpses of her ardent lite from her incoherent re-equally suspect by the Gestapo and the Intelligence Service. But she marks.

"Occasionally passages of one of does not merit this renown.

"She possesses three characteristles Hitler's speeches, which

in she

belief in a -the

great love, heard so often and pondered over fanaticism and the adoration of a so much that they surge from the religious maniac, and the snobbish- unconscious darkness of her mind,

ness that moltes women fall for ore quoted by her mechanically famous men, whether boxers, cinema

other times she

becomes

Irritated

and declares: 'You know, i am not stars or dictators."

on your

side. "She does not put any defiance in these words. It is more of a warn ing as if she were trying to tell her parents and the friends surrounding! her with loving care? Take care. You do not know what I really nm.'

"During the fatal days before the war Unity would leave her small Munich' fat and roam And almlessly in the streets.

Just

ance ar twice day she would go to the British Consulate to ask for advice. Always H was the same, as she well knew!

Leave immediately."

"The day the consul. left himself! she Was

abandoned. completely Hiller was not there, and had other worries.

She knew through his friends that he was preparing the convinced that Eng- Poland rape of land would not intervene.

"And for the credulous, blindly be not trusting girl Hitler could wrong. If he said there would be no war there would be no war.

Gestapo Warn

"War came. The consul left, Unity Ger- was lost between two worlds. many, unce more menacing the civilised world, where she could not remain without almost certainly being treated as spy and enemy. On the other hand, in England she might be accused of complicity with the Nazis.

"It was impossible for her to de- cide which course to tuke. The Ges- tapo warned her tactfully but clearly mind that she must make up her either to go immediately or to stay for the whole war and England for ever,

renounce

"How she must have thought. If only HE had been there to advise her or make one of those speeches usually lasting an hour of which Unity used to say, 'He

a public to me as if I were

"I remember one evening in the tube in London we were going to a Fascist meeting in the East End Unity showed me on her leather belt an engraved date and the name of Adolf Hitler. She had the look on her face of a nun exhibiting a relle. Arrested

Hitler "Another me at: Vienna had just made a solemn entrance in the Ring greeted by the vociferous shoutings of his partisans,

Unily was in the hall of the. Grand Hotel opposite the Imperial Hotel where Hiler had just made a speech. She' 'Poor thought of only one thing: dear, she said, tenderly, I must go und comfort him, he must be worn out.'

"Forcing her way through the crowd slie crossed to his hotel, to return only two hours later, having walked all that time. 10 exchange two words with her hero.

"A few months later, in Prague, I saw her exhibiting her swastika, and told her she was asking for trouble,

"That's what I want, she said. If It worries you, don't come with me. I didn't.

Three days later the inevitable happeriod. She was arrested and

CODE OF THE SECRET SERVICE" pourched. But she had suffered for

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hor god and glorled in martyrdom. Dittor

"When I met her later at the

the

The suggestion is laugliable to French people. But they do not Inugh at Paul Ferdonnet. He ly always referred to 24 The Traitor of Stuttgart."

That is because the French know that before the war he was in touch with the Nazis.

Sacked from his Government post for misconduct, he develop- ed an enthusiasm for the Nazi regime. He was always tulking

Then he about Hitler. France.

Jett

His former wife, who lives near Paris, says that he used to practise speeches for hours in front of mirror. Ferdonnet is plausible speaker, and used to enjoy addressing public meet- ings. Once he stood as a candi- date at a local election. But he hated questions. Once, whien threatened after a meeting, he

ran oft.

Iis wife, who divorced him, also says, "He was always an extremist,"

Paul Ferdonnet has relatives in Paris, but they have never listened to his broadcasts, When his old mother learned that he was broadcasting for the enemy she became ill and had to be eared for by nuns.

Soon after the war began the military authorities In Paris de- cided to indict Ferdonnel for high treason. He was condemned to death.

So he knows what' awalts him if ever he tries to go home.

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