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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, JULY 3, 1950.

'HITLER LIVES'-Does Stalin really believe that?

7HY did the Russians change their minds about Hitler's death? In May and carly Juno 1945 the Russians in Berlin publicly admitted that Hitler was dead. On June G Marshal Gregory Zhukov even stated there was no doubt about it.

Three days later Zhukov recanted, saying he could give "no deluile statement" and that it was oli very mysterious,

Why did ho make this sudden volle-Ince?

HIDING?

Bul why should Stalin wish to believe, or with it to be be lieved, that Idler ves?

to

the

But at least, then as strong presumption, as Trevor-Roper points out, that Stalin had some thing to do with Zhukov's

One view is that he hopes to change of mind. As curly na

told the allint preserve the bogey-man who May 23 Stalin

him long nesisted Harry Hopkins that he thought to

ler was

11 strip on hiding somewhere, inaintain le reiterated his opinion to Russian people. Another sug

a revival of State James #estion in that Stercury

Itter at

liable moment Byrnes at Potsdam in July.

might help the Itustuns to con- solithte their bold on Germany Surely the first explanation which Stalin gave to Hopkins contained the truth, "he whole malter struck him as being very rubinuam."

of

It was no doubt parily the Russ altempts to cast doubt on Hitler's death that led to War Office to commission Mr Trevor-Roper, then an intel- ligence officer, to find out the true fuets.

After painstaking research and cross-examination of all avail- able survivors from the Bunker

on a state description of the list days it

Berlin with full detalls of the Kreba pouce misston.

of Banlig is view tind execution the arrest

Last Testament, ment by An aldo to General Goering, the the silent leave-inking, and final Krebs, the German Army Chler of the ad- ly the joint suicide followed by of Staff, that none the burning of the

diaries. Trever- bodies jutants kept would be incredible it the facts Roper guesses that the diaries

existed and that the were not no well substantiated never by A

number of independent Russia Invented them to con witnesses, who could only be cell, for some unknown reason, located and questioned some the Cact that after Hitler's death General Krebs went to months after Hitler's death.

Zhukov with a

trucg offer.

ON RECORD

So the truth may be that once Stalin had stated his views o une in Soviet Russia dored tell tim what every reader of this. But, In the first place, how hook knows that beyond my could one man know for cer- possible doubt liter in dead. tal that no

diary was being kept of the Inomeniona events While Mr Trevor - Itoper's in the Bunker? And, secondly, main conclusions hold, he has it is not true that the Russians crred grievously in one respect.

suppressed the evidence of the the on how amid Hia speculations dłu

Krebs peace offer. Russians learnt of Eva Braun's marriage are quite wrong.

LAST DAYS Stalin simply could not believe

he was able to establish beyond that Iffler could any possibility of doubt that scenes which read as if they That is one of the few ques- iller committed suicide, that were writion for a cheap nove lons which Mr Trevor-Roper his body was then burni, and lette. does not try to answer in the that the Anal disposal of the fon and amusing introduction ashes and other remains cannot

written for the be ascertained. which he has second edition of his book "The Last Dayn of Iller,"

(Mac- millan, 15s.)

Yet the Russians still remain silent, presumably in agreement with Stalin's known opinions.

The last scenes in the Bunker describes which Trevor-Roper so vividly-the marriage with the excommunica- Eva Braun. tion of Himmler, the orders for

If Trevor-Roper had consult ed newspaper Ales he would

On June

Marshal Zhukov

have learned that at the same announced at his Press confer

Press conference when Zhukov ence that on the evidence of told the world of Hitler's mar- ย Russian Lieutenant diaries kept by Hitler's adju- riage,

iller had married Eva Colonel, correspondent tants.

of the Red Army newspaper, gave #

Braun before he died,

Me Trevor-Roper · concludes by regretlint his introduction his inability to see eye to eye with the numerous corro- pondents who had assured him Bourne- from Brighton and inouth and the Madras Prest- dency, that my conclusions would have been more certain but I consulted the orucica of You and the Great Pyramid, or correctly interpreted the in- spired books of Ezekiel, Daniel and Revelation."

While we may agree with the auther on this polni, let na alzo regret that he failed to pay suficient attention to the evid ence contained in the Press and thus omitted a strange and important episode from his remarkable history of the Nazi Goetterdscinierung.

k

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A

A be safe

at redundant.

declared

Nor is it only the tower ranks of the mostly temporary civil servants who are looking around for positions in the scene is an office of the anxiously British Control Commission commission where they hope to

from being somewhere in Germany.

is sitting acnior official his spacious desk telephoning as the door opens and a news- enters. The paper reporter official waves the reporter to a scat and goes on telephon

Official:

now ing. don't worry, old bou. I have another job for you. A bet- ter one if anything.....Yes, truly. Now be a good chop and don't worry. I'll call you back a bit later."

Fear of acking has this time spread to the upper levels.

which

They're nervous

of

rul

Of

(MILITARY DIVISION)

the ten administrative An anti-military coup at the therefore probably divisions forming Sir Brion's top would headquarters staff nt Wahner

mean on unti-milliary revolu Helde, I found Ave head-

tion throughout the cominir draw- ed by retired officers

slon.. ing Services pensions as well as their salaries. -

What Sir Ivone actually plan Sir Ivone, however, is a elvil

10 one as yet knows. But th fan and a diplomat. He may

scene is so intriguing that eve. advantage tof appreciate the

Blic German newspapers hav N "Old Boy Network" of having a retired major-gen-

guessly. They eral as his adviser on religious started A retired

brigadiers

in affaire,

briga- guessing

accordance with or a pensioned

the informa- their own wishful thinking. major-erals who, since 1913, dier as head have mated to hold ou to

job 15 services, whose best Jobs in the many of the

Germany's commission is nervous about what may happen to theni.

thal of the

Thus

IN THE LONDON THEATRE :

Postscript to Hiroshima

By Beverley Baxter, M.P.

itu

LONDON. So the professor is extremely VERY now and then in ude to the backer, but just as he is about to be dismissed from the theatre the critic his professorship, his photographs sils through a play, reveal that what had been a longing for

It seems Buccess, planet is now'n star.

That on atom bomb has been willing to concede the au- exploded on the planet by the thor any fantastication of local inhabitants and that it has

lifeless his theme, forgiving him broken into

burning, his shortcomings, and keep professor's Mind and Conscience Whereupon the ing the emotions primed both depart and we are left like a pump in casa ho can with the impression that his find the handle.

future us a professor is now 3- sured.

gleaming story.

It struggles

QUCH, confused

I had such an experience at the Fortune, when Mr Ogden Stewart's play "How I Wonder"

scheme eun- had its West End premiere,

Two favourites of mine, not fit into the technique of Elizabeth Allan and Walter the theatre unless the author Crisham, were in the cast, a carries us away on the wings fact which predisposed me to- of ecstasy. wards benevolence. They de- Mr Orden Stewart is not a serve success, but, too often, it

poct and suspect that neither cludes them.

is he a scientist. Yet one feels The central idea of this play that he is reaching for some- also while--but Is spacious In every sense. Pro-

thing worth spacious fessor Lem Stevenson is a fanky something beyond his grasp. Yet those defects The

"How I Wonder" is not a good play.

but it struggles upwards towards the light and we hear the old, old cry "Excelsior!" Therefore there

American professor of astrond even with

my who is in photographic theme Hagers in the memory. contact with the stars which Gallico once described as pale populace of the heavens

She pets him

the

TUIE professor has an attrac-

the striving

is dignity

in

I liked Mr David Dawsony inderd.

tive wife and 4 prelly professor very much daughter, but he also has a mind and Miss Allan and Me Crisham.. and a conscience. Whereupon did nothing, to lessen my ad- the author materialises ho miration: in Lact they enhanced mind and the conscience in the it. But some day American learn that must persons of Mr Crisham and a playwrights

of Young actress named Miss Fred. drama is not in the clash do Brilliant.

the right with the partly right.

become n

Navy mixture

is THERE

other worldly

selence

The Mind tells the professor o be sensible and play up to the vanity and stupidity of the

but по Iniversity's rich financial back-

so that he thail

pasense in University president. Miss Con- "scagulls Over Sorrento," which elence pets him, kisses him on exploded with a bng at the

urges him to be Ups and

b Apollo.

or section of the A squad rue to his highest instincts. nust confers that this is a new

Navy have gone to a grim fe- agreeable conception of land for extremely dangerous

зе

ar

"onselence, but we shall let that

Ja53.

films, and radio. An 'ambassador'rother is in prison and is sus

DER

Brian

isitor into a butler so as to mpress the rich bucker who is soming to dinner.

Mr

Hadar experiments. It is an all Just to add to the gathering male affair but sex is not ner- leted in the dialogue. Ομι onfusion, a negro turns up and

his Navy men obviously agree with that Is the professor

In cillors Hummerstein's South Parlße that there's no veted of being a Red. The pre-

like a dame, sor's wife turn the black have a quiet public school hero, a dour Scot, a problem disagreeable petty it very olcer-but, above all we have Ronald Shiner the immortal cockney whose triumphant five years in Worm's Eye View has Elven him the sure touch and from the never recovered

attack of a Beecham or a Savold. xploding of the atom bomb is a long time since I have over Hiroshima, To him it was

seen an audience to obviously be prostitution of the scientific

Raelf. enjoying mind and the degradation of the

The play is very British and tumen soul. Why should science all the better for that, with the

"Prostitution' TIE professor, however, has

to watch over 1 new papers. don't know that he will even IIS fragment of a tele.

rear as essential to have a phone conversation on

the big boen in initary man. Up to now

as his economic ER SPIEGEL, for instance a reporter Germany has always been

andviser in chief.

reports that Sir ZAZMAT 2.30, 5.30, friend of mine hap man from the Services.

Lorl Mont- Now if Sir Ivone Kirkpatrick himself warned his statt pri-

these retired offers vately that only those woul pened recently is typical Field-Marshal

1.A.F. Sir Sholto -with his own bright young be retained who (1) coul. of conversations being held comery was followed by Mar- replaces

Lord Douglas), men from the Foreign Office, among control commission Douglas (now

in tur, by General is though likely, then it peak German, and (2) officials everywhere in the and be,

Sir Brian Robertson, who had also on the cards that some of British zone of Germany.

been Chief of Staff to both of there young men in thele turn

The main change, I under- his predecessors.

may not agree with their Ser-

Sir Ivont vices predecessors that elderly stand, will be that

himself as ex-soldiers and Ex-sailors are will not regard necessarily the best men for controller but rather as an amolay strumpet to the barbaric inverted patriotism which pre-

HAILED FAR AND WIDE AS THE PEAK OF SCREEN EXCITEMENT !! HUMPHREY BOGART IDA LUPINO in

•

MARK

“HIGH SIERRA” HELLINGER'S

with CORNEL WILDE • ALAN CURTIS

All these Services men had the natural predilection of Ser-

for Services vicemen

subor

For the officials are worried about their jobs us never bc- fore in the five years since the control

started. dinates. commission

They are Durgo in

the alarmed about their ranks which, they belleve, will begin when

that

the top Jobs in their divisions,

has

riendly to the Germans,

wer

bassador with special powers.

power of wealth determined to

our sailors have lestroy the world in order to lends that

hearts of gold and heads of onk Many of the offices held un- At present, for instance, the

safeguard itself? the had

consequence brigadier (retired) in charge of

Most rich men are dull, but but that somehow the Navy cels der Sir Brian will be suppress in American plays they are al-ton

done.

The sincerest although the Foreign the information

services

ed. Numbers of the staff will

fools

compliment I can pay the show ways

as well Da borea Once has long since assumed another brigadier (retired) un-

And the cast is to admit that Hence the serumble for Therefore there is no rent clash the control der him running the informa- be cut.

had to leave before the end and responsibility for commission, I still found "The ton centres in the French and stay-safe jobs. And hence those between the millionaire and the

was sorry to go. Germany. conversations. Commissioner Old Boy

com- Americani zones of

professor. You cannot singa an Ilgla

Network" in

right on down

argument

between a from General Sir Brian Robert- mand on my last visit to Ger- And so it goes

caturus and a visionary.

NEXT CHANGE: MYRNA LOY RICHARD GREENE in new broom Sir Ivone Kirkpat- rick of the Foreign Office takos

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