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SURE BORMANN IS ALIVE

By JO THOMPSON

HANS Fritzsche, the man who claims he

Berlin to

thu is

personally surrendered Russians, is sure that 'Martin Bormann alive and just as certain that Hitler himself is dend.

Fritzsche, once a radio propagandist for Goebbels, was one of three Nazi chloftains acquitted in the first Nuremberg trial. Now serving a nine-year sentenco at Langwasser" Internment camp after his conviction by a German denazification court, he said in an inter. view that Bormann probably is in Russian handa.

Bormann, deputy leader of the Nazi Party directly under Hitler, was in contact with the Soviets the day before Berlin fell, according to Fritzache.

In tolling how he formally handed over Hitler's capital to the Russians, Fritzsche related his last dealings with Bormann:

It may seem odd to you that 1, a elvillan, surrendered Berlin to the Russians. But during those hectic days in Berlin just before. the surrender, nearly everyone either had committed suicide or fled.

Insults, adjectives, pretty girls and pandemonium-the lawsuit Paris is talking about

THE MAN WHO BROKE WITH STALIN FACES THE MUSIC

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PARIS.

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R JUSTICE LYNSKEY would be puzzled 'by the goings-on in small, stuffy Paris court-room, where a learned French judge is listen- ing to a case listed as Kravchen- ko v. "Len Lettres Francaises."

This case, which provides the most curious manifestation of the Cold War to date, has been provoked by a review in Les Lettres Francaises, a well-known French Communist weekly, of Victor Kravchenko's best-selling book I Chose Freedom.

Is

There was inuigh. ter at this, led by rome elegantly coiffured women lawyers' gowns,

young wearing

Nobody knows what they are doing in court, but the common view is that they are law studying students

of

the technique cross-examination. Their

academic

gowns Bre folded back to reveal the elegant

Iines of New Look frocks,

KRAVCHENKO

"I was refused admittance into ller's bunker, where he and the |remaining German leaders were holed up. I learned, however, that Hiller and Goebbels had commit- ted suicide. Bormann came to mo 1 and said he was going to try to escape from the city. I delayed the start of negotiations for three hours to give him a head start.

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"Then I went with a flag of truce Hu Ruostuu headgansters at Tem

pelhof and gave up the city."

Although he believes

Bormann

argued at length to ardent propagand- academie bore ists who have hired the tedium of the entire court that

is alive, Fritzsche and proof of the him insist that he Kravchenko's book is "impossible

lies in Russian provenko

not whether from the historian's point of view."Fuehrer's death

hands in the form of a Jawbone. wrote le substantiated this allegation by The bone was recovered from ashes

pornographic way

and was near the Chanceliery bunker

coincides with X-rays made of Hiller's mouth by his dentist,

fis book himself, saying that "to refer to women in a bul that life in the slightly Soviet Union Is a typically American." heaven instead of a.. hell on earth.

After

surrendering

Berlin,

Then he added that "whenever Fritzsche claimed. women are mentioned in Kmv- chenko's book they are always To enable him to beautiful. That is typically American. do this, they have I am certain that no Russian author Fritzsche was taken to foscow for provided him with would refer to women in that way." a long series of "stupid" Interroga- ho Intelligence, tions by Russian a list of witnesses

But Lavrenti Beria, chief of composed of Com-

Questioning the Professor on his said.

MVD, who also

ques- knowledge of Russian literature, the dread munists, Soviet citi-

"disciplined and zens, and as in- Kravchenko's lawyer said: "Do you tloned him, is a

"No, I read the extraordinarily Intelligent man," A picture taken of him, in court. nocent a bunch of speak Hussion?"

fellow-travellers as French translations," was the reply. Fritzsche added. could be found anywhere. No- body except a Communist is likely days.

It is kely to last yet another 80

The ex-radio commentator claimed As Judge Durkeim observed

an In- to attach much value to such when listening to one witness, "If we Beria told him through evidence.

shall never be terpreter that Russia, would have go on this way we

it the A prize Communist witness, for finished. The judge no doubt, was attacked Germany in 1942 example, was a Professor of His thinking anxiously of the possibility Nazis hadn't beaten the Soviets to tory. named Jean Baby.

and they inject a refreshing air of Who is Kravchenko? He former Soviet Government official. Chanet No. 6 into what would other- The Russians sent him to Washing-wise be a slightly soporific atmos-

phere, ton during the war as a member of their trade delegation. In America he broke with Moscow and wrote I flercely anti- Choso Freedom-a Soviet autobiography to explain

why.

The review described Krav- Fchenko as being too illiterate to have written the book himself, and then added, for good Communist measure,

From

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These ardent young women, how- ever, seem less irrelevant than many argued before the of the points

judge.

Thus the defendants have taken up hours of the court's time by praising the French Resistance and their individual parts in it; and to asserting that Kravchenko is a trait- tor to "the spirit of the Resistance."

SAM

that he was a drunkard, 'a congenital llar and an agent of the US. Secret Service.

Mr Justice Lynskey would have watched with sympathy, no doubt, the French judge trying the case. On the opening day the judge was nsked to clear up a point under dis- pute; he threw his arms out despairingly and said: "How can I expinin something which I don't un- derstand myself?"

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One witness, after a lengthy dis-

which sertation

seemed totally Irrelevant, but to which the judge

stened benignly, finally shot triumphant question at Kravchenko. "I would like to ask you," he de- clared, "what you know about The Doll's House?"

Kravchenko instantly leapt to his feet and looked as though he wan about to assault the questioner. The mystery of why the question had this effect was cleared

up when the

At the time be made this con- tumult subsided. It appeared that fession seven people were shouting in Kravchenko's

numerous references to Ibsen's play

at once.

book there were

The Doll's House. excit- Kravchenko dark-haired,

to refused When Kravchenko able, powerful-was thumping the table and shouting at the defendants answer the question, the Communist lawyer.

Next One of the defendants was witnesses were triumphant. shouting at Kravchenko's lawyer. day's Communist newspapers head-

lined The lawyer' was shouting back

"Kravchenko Proved Not To Be The Author Of His Book."

This of getting home for Christmas.

the punch a year,carlier.

Lazy husbands, toiling wives

• EMILY HAHN is a beautiful and witty American who has written several best-sellers-among them China To Me, an unconventional autobiography Sno i married to Major Charles Boner-of-the-British Army. They were taken prisoner by the Japanese In Hongkong together with their daughter Carola and they spent several years in captivity. Now they have settled at Major Bexer's family home in Dorset ; and Mies Hahn has written a book called England To Me. about her new life as a British housewifa The book has just been published in New York by Doubleday. This is an extract.

TIKE the British miner, the honsowife is the darling of all political candidates.

THE British housewife grouses and grumbles about her sad lot, and with reason;

over- she is terribly worked and sometimes it looks as if she always will be. But she won't ever-slop-werking,

The sweet words of the candidate MPs are # compensation, and I brought down n storm of protest from housewives when I wrote an article about the selfish laziness of English husbands, so I suppose some husbands do help out a tile with Her shoes are especially char- the washing up or minding the baby. Just the same, the unequal division acteristic, because unless she is very much dressed up the British house of labour in England shocks me. The wife goes in for flat-hecicd footwear, men don't work any harder than and well she might, considering how they arer did, it seems to me, though They Woo her from the So much walking

and standing about they grumble such a lot: the woman boxes and the loud-speaker Von, she must do.

working. As they tell her what a hard, yet noble

Her face ought to be fresh-coloured American woman I wouldn't stand lot is hers; they say, "yes, all this and smooth, but these days it is more

for it. is heaviest on you, but patience for likely to look drawn and aged.. Just a little while longer."

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passion.

♪ spoiled

his

it is redundant in. There are more cosmetics around PERHAPS A gendarme was shouting at a

Naturally the British housewife nowadays than there were 15 years California or Hongkong to say,

on What the Communist newspapers photographer who disappeared under a table to get

out shot of Kravchenko falled to point is that "Doll's loves this. She pats her kerchiefed ago, which lessens the contrast be- "Nice day," but a Briton

her native heath has an acute interest in into head, straightens her thoulders and tween the Englishwoman and .striking F menacing

literally attitude. A Ilouse" translated

hours American opposite number, but her the weather, and when he discusses the man in

public gallery was Russian means "a house of l-is good for several mord

11 he does with

SU senrch for food.

hair never changes very much. waving a Ast at Kravchenko, nc- repute." Hence Kravchenko's wrath.

I am hardened now; at least, 1 In fact, the Russian version of cusing him of betraying Trolaky.

She still wears a short bob, even think I am. It doesn't send me into A court usher was chouting at Ibsen's Doll's House is known as

mare that the everybody to stop shouting,

Nora and it is being performed in To American eyes she is no beauty, an Eton crop, and still seeris to think fits of rage any

housemaid always leaves my bed- but she in wall dressed in her that fuzzy, uncombed locks the Moscow Arts Theatre at the preway, until we scan the details. youthful and pretty, more so than

room windows open, and I can rub Immediately the noise subsided.

smooth, groomed hair-don. She is as has

hands with the best of them as the judge M. Durkelm, became his sent time under this tille.

A notable feature of the case is the

she short-skirted tweed firm about that na She wears o

come into our ice chest of a dining genial, slightly cynical self again, small part played in it by opposing suit and a knitted sweater, except in printed summer frocks.

For it is in fact a Hyde the middle of an exceptionally warm

room, where the long windows look and said placidly: "Now, as some- counsoutation on the merits of

Because hats cost three times what out on frostsparkling gras on an ong was saying before we were Park

States, though they April morning: "Nice day!" I Say. interrupted." Thereupon an inter-

summer, when she uses wach blouses they do in the

KOOS are unrationed, she usually

There's no way to get out of the preter translated Kravchenko's In-

In fact, almost as though to ensure or printed cotton or rayon 'dresses. sults to the defendants. The defen- minimum of legal interference, the

She loves prints and seldom uses barcheaded or wears a scori or large cold here. For years and years the

British kerchief on her head.

have explained their in- dants interpreters translated their lawyers on both sides have been block colour in her summer dress.

There Is a wide gulf between the adequnto houses and heating systems. insuils. And the rict promptly handed seemingly impossible briefs in winter she wears all the under-

don't Thus. M. Izard, the eminent counsel wear the's got, and always a topcoat Englishwoman in everyday clothes raying: blithely, "Well, we

or mackintosh.

and the Englishwoman when she is really have severe winters, you know. for Kravchenko, has to prove Д ភ At last the defendants' lawyer

She goes without stockings if she smart. Also, where the American The Gulf Stream, you know."

Yet quite often they do have them made himself heard. "Mr President, series of negative points. One of

dress, the English and their water pipes freeze because would you

please ask Kravchenito them is that Kravchenko is not a possibly can; If not, she wears much woman is addicted to the black

rayon, occasionally "foundation"

they are laid on top of the ground: to answer my question?"

or very occasionally nylon woman is not:

An outside The judge

socks (fewer Englishmen like colour. They like Instead of underneath.

it pastel, too.

their houses instead of inside. aware that there was a question be. Similar problems beset the counsel stockings, or bobby

for "Les tres Francalzes." fore the court."

broke out again.

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