1950-07-08 — Page 6

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1850.

FROM YALTA POLITICS TO THE FUEHRER AS A CRAZY BRIDEGROOM

HISTORY IS EDITED FOR A ‘MONUMENTAL". IVENT

CHURCHILL and HITLER-as Russia sees them now

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Plotured left to right:...

THE 'CO-SLOW MAN'

CHURCHILL puffa a cigar' át Yalla. "We must not hurry." he mys—in the film.

THE MANIAC

HITLER--"a die- tator degenerated Into a madmat" --with his bride, Eva Braun.

THE HERO

STALIN

domin- nies the group- Churchill (on, hla Jeft). Molotov,

Vyshinsky.

Eva Braun whispers 'yes'

amid the arum lilies

By

Berlin.

WILLIAM HAMSHER

Nazare ofver

sterman. She

But there is no dallianes. Her hair

off

villages, advance and retreat

over scorched earth........."

getting troops across rivers, we would be over the Rhino by now.

Grim desolation gives way to close-up of the steelworker, "But I don't like hurrying. I now Alexe}, Ited Army mau Alexej has captured lurking among the rulna.

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go further: I say one should Nazi not hurry."

No guidance from the synopsis on this conversation. "When I gel to Berlin," he Back to Berlin tells him, "I'm going to pull down pour house, brick by

brick."

Stelich to Yalis. The B Three assembler.

conference

The Allied circle closes round the city. In the bunker not Hitler, but his madness, rules. The Fuchrer has become aged and decrepit.

more Eva looks more and worried. But like a good house- kteper she keeps Adolf's shet-

#gure ter dy. Her

is still neat and trim. She

necepts in Roosevelt.

of marrlage, led; Hitler's proposal Stalin. cordiailty breaking and looks pretty by ever, be- through his

bouquet of reserve. Molotov hind on enormous and Vyshinsky in deferential arum lies. attembre, Churchill glum and dour.

Ther

Top item on the agenda for the day: "The chaotic situation on the Western Front."

Churchill speaks: "Our situa- tion is extremely grave."

nilution your time for favourable. On

State business still presses. High-up Nazis come and go.

The Fuchrer loren his grip altogether. He shouts In anc orders. But they are obeyed.

The days drag on.

I saw the

skeleton of

a wonder

secret

world is a legend, stared up at

15.

And here, in the desolate panorama, there risen a great new building, long and white, with cloisters and colonnades.

of the world

IGH up above the cen-

It is monastery, they fel! to house 50 priests and. when all is ready, 200 guests from every continent. river is A mountain being dammed-there will be trutte su bleu on Fridays-to build a vast ornamental lake in which, Taj Mahal style, the Portent will be reflected.

H tral massif of Spain, COST: £7,000,000

. Tids stranga story of a forbidden city was brought back from Spala GUARLES FOLEY

Franco's secret elly sprend

Was out-

At the head of n wild glen

Ite walls were of fretted stone,

in Spain, know Few, even That among the Guadarrama peaks is rising a portent that there sprong a mountain crest, will dwarf the antique wonders scarred by fissures, like flying

the world. Franco's "Seguridad" hovers over it as Guthie buitresses, unbroken by a jealously as if it were an atom bush or free. plant: the heart of it is proof against any weapon that exists

of

guarded by a mountain Triter's speeches might have with the

rampart, remote and mys- HE Russians staged a ben taken from news frels, vivacious and attractive, with

mentioned, dark hair and Elizabeth Taylor in for Stalin. "I

"O" says Malotov, answer-

as Lhasa, General storm Red Army men

the terious gala first-night in the

Alway when there are criti- eyebrows.

think that Reichstar Their order is, "Fly Franco is building a forbid- Eastern sector the com, it is "the German **

extremely is

the Red Flag from the dome." | den

cast of city at a other night of their roletır The mining shots

the Eastern ****The

the £7,000,000.. Fall film, "The Fall of Berlin.”

Berlin" of

how a happy

is swept Front we have hit the Germans The flag is entrusted to

strong hand that smashed the to the so hard that they have had to steel works quota, the strong Comes Ru sa

the day-nine beel. Teacher is They describe it as monu-

stop the Ardennes offensive," ven age when

The Na, in- front, too.

hand of Alexe). He is now mental. the biggest cinema værs arrive.

Switch to Berlin.

Churchill: "I can't deny it. sergeant, with a medal. event for many years. De-

They swarm though uniting

In his Chancellery,

need

Reichstag battle is won Adolt...We

time..We

The are where cause, they say,

children aru It shows Holds,

Siegfried Suddenly, HITIONA Hitler has about him the diplo- not yet through the

the crowd, Hitler as he really was.

pattering Bowers.

male representatives of Japan, Line....If only your experts Alexej) sees Natasha the teacher, would let us into the secret of A Red Army tank has just The bouquets are for the Spain, Italy, and the Vatican.

liberated her from a Nazi con- local steel factory. A shock

They

centration camp. Fascists, the

is l She worker has just smashed 115

pretty. new output target. to

ife rushes Synopsis tell ur: Criminals all

Stain is awaited at the air-day. no uniformi.

Hitler, in a passion of self-

port. The lovers go there to. that Next, the mad general whose

is to announge But first comes an interview praise,

gether. Natasha kisses Stalin. intuition is no match for the with Statin, who puts his arm

Moscow, in obedience to his

Alexej doesn't mind, renlus of Stalin,

has fallen

-Lenson txpress Service) to his steelworks

command, hero's

uriny. "Good boy," he

tuned in to radio is The Moscow. Loud came the victory

But Hitler's shouts.

rage mounts, Those

not Ger- man heils.

First the Fuchrer whose moods shift rapidly from bold acif-glorification

helpless rage.

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the Dn

turned inio

it

says.

And Bally the bridegroom shoulder.

dictator

cringing degenerate.

Hitler and Stalin are realistic 12 face, figure. starch voice.

Crime Quiz

THE BROKEN WATCH

By Leonard Gribble Sketches by A. E. Morley

Raportad

In Prose: A rald was carted out by bandils at bank

In the Home Crunties Wither hall an hour than ten cat had been found abandoned and the police trad anesteś a suspect. He was put les ne Wentity parade,

The film synopsis, which gives guidance on many scenes, com Bente:"This shows Stalla os he really

are

arc

They are Rusinn. And they are for Stalin, who is addressing

enster parade.

fitf is: simple, hearty, attentive, closely in sympathy with all his people."

Eva

fumer. Enter taun, pringly pretty, and as neat on the Russian teacher. She cams hria.

Fade out in the Chancellery. Shuts of Stalingrad, wisps

The Stalla interview 01- vinees the leacher of the flower. gatherers that she is in love of smoki

12 fram ruined

Hitler loses grin.

PRINCESS MARGARET'S

BUSIEST SUMMER

By

G. GRAFTON GREEN

RINCESS Margaret Third engagement in three three distinguished Admirals the Fleet, There ran - days wan a visit to the 133-year- of will not be twenty

old frigate Fundroyant, Which Httle doubt about the cutcome. until August, but al- les just inside the entrance

even in difficult finies, to Britain, ready she bas taken A Portsmouth Harbour and a used has always been quick to re larger part in public life in as a holiday training ship. spond to any enthe watch links Britain than

the welfare of youth with Before World War I thou- any princess

nation's greal boys and girls from of her age in history. And sands of

dittens. all parts of the United Kingdom this will be her busiest sum pent

mor.

many

inest

AMERICAN COLUMN

Alert on the gold frontier

From NEWELL ROGERS

New York. MERICA'S last frontier

In Madrid a friend secured special pass to the forbidden city. We hurried out by cor to see it.

Tommy guns IVE stopped for lunch at the

Escorial, alrendy

thus creat

Franco climbed dozen years ago. He had won the war. He had mastered Spain. And now?

In the face of the mountain a rent was torn

And now into

the

mountain. We ap- proached the arched entrance, crossed by plank a concrete moal that will support the threshold for n great double doorway which is being cast in bronze.

And the lift ROM the

FRO

blinding sunshine we stepped into the cold. black depths of a sepulchre. Slowly, in the endless gloom, to see, We were we bezon standing in the entrance of a

cathedral.

mighty

The main axis is a Thousands of

men, with pick and dynamite, tunnel driven Into the crest. An tunnelled and quarried for ten you pace years. They fought their way 800ft.. through from one end of the must be the crest to the other.

The moun-

Its length,

Dearly you realise that this longest nove in Christendom. Transepta 'lead 3,000 tain was hollowed out.

off into the darkness, At each Below, the split-out rock was angle there is a riche to hold crushed and built up again to the statue of a civil war hero form a great imperial stairway in herole scale. down the valley.

feet up among the peaks. Then we branched off along a new concrete road to seek the monum ment by which Franco means to be remembered when the great Escorial polace, tomb of the

On both sides of the way into cupola ilke the dome of St. Spanish Kings, is dust and the crest a wide curve of white Paul's soars upwards, with B

rubble.

maconry HOW beckons, Scutp- tors, tiny gures on scaffolding. Past mountain farms where were working on panels three

hting Bulls of times a the black

man's height. They As gone on an aerial highinnd perse and piac.

Castille sniff the nir, through were chipping out the urms of

A Franco Spain,

alert tonight because Korea.

of

The last frontier is the Arctic colony of Alaska, bc- tween Soviet Siberia and Canada.

waruing notice: "Stop! En- trance to anyone not connected We raised our eyes. Away with the work in progress is for over

lacking mountains,

bidden."

the

of the cruciform

In the centre design

"

gallery around it,

the Along

pisies Dre 16 chapels cut into the rock. And from every province of Spain, to the number of 2,000, bodles

of Franco dend will be brought

from peak to peak, a pilgrim's to the chapels and reinterred. way all in wide shelving staira Behind the High Altar there Two green-uniformed men being built. On every peak is a circular staircase with 250- with tommy guns slepped from is poised a chapel. We counted steps cut into the rock. A lif And the frontier is having the behind the rocks. Our pass was 12-the Stations of the Cross.

will ko up to the pinnacle of biggest boom since the gold-rush angered. There were more

crest, 450ft. above the days. Minerr' cabins, empty armed guards further on.

All about the crest are villages the

floor. And now ince 1880, ure renting for £53 We crossed a fine new bridge. bullt for and by the workmen. cathedral

the outer my story becomes plain fantasy. month. Building mechanics Suddenly,

eyes, Children, to whom

From the summit of the moun aoke £70 a week.

tuin another lift will go right on, into the sky.

It is a

a defence boom. T!xe Government decided to try to make Alaska impregnable

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aretle frontier.

maritime tru-

They are spending £99,000,000 on installations, An airliti is time, Princessgoing to bring in vast amounts

of the Royal of machinery.

enthusiastic

፡፡ fortnight's holiday In her spare She is taking over learning seamanship aboard the Margaret is one

frigate aut the historic Family's

Benind such expenditure ta of the engagements old

which, which would normally have Implacable

because of theatre-ders. She is president this reasoning by strategista: Its unseaworthiness, Was JI- of the Sadler's Wells Founda-America cannot menace Russia's been fulfilled by her elder cotis

sunk in the English tion. so it was a combination vital industrial centres from sister, Princess Elizabeth, Channel.

They Were trained ef official duty and persona! Alaska. But a1 Russian-held

could menace who

rowing, fe-saving pleasure that took her to Sad- Aluska will attend

no more in sailing.

Theatre, the hunte Americas centres, tler' Welis official functions antil after and swimming, with visits

HMS Victory (Nelson's flag- of Britain's famous Latlet Alaska's Commander-in- her second baby is born in ship) and a modern man-of-

to help celebrats the Chler,

Nathan Lieut-General company, a few months' time.

ballet's 21st annive, sary. On Twining, put ghter groups and the stage shortly before mid- ] A.A. units on the alert.

presented a silver

war.

war

vital

435

FEET

With her vivacious personality The Commodore night, she a lively sense of humour, Now, after being brought up- tray la Miss Ninette de Vainis. Princess Margaret combines to-date after the damaging war director of the company, with that serious sense of public

confers two One of the bank's tigny plaimed ti service

years, the Foudroyant has just the gratitude of us all for whatOREA'S which is charceteristle teen reopened. tdently the man arrested at the band

The Sen Ran you have done in the past of the Royal Family.

Recently ges

21 minor blessings on President who had reached oves the counter ansi

were aboard and it Wan Yenra.**

Truman. I punctures i cam- grabbed the money

Is been ste The man

averaging one that at the time of the said he wat

As their Commodore that important canagement a day. Pencers

entan just started by his opposi Margaret, four miles away, sitting in a paik

in smart Many, not waiting for a woman friend who did not

Burprisingly, have dark Blue uniform and beret turn up He remembered tocking t | been

with youth nike

Congressional connected his watch at 10.35.

organisations in which she playing

ever-increasing an part.

a

Die Kürrendered his watch to five 'police, and said it was perhaps a

minute or two fast Happened surprised the cracked

LAs, and cauta nof "explain how .

had happened, since he had last looked

at the watch when in the Dark

· police · decided they had

The

support for the clark's glaim, and

ditened the suspect.

Why?

(Solution on Page 15)

the

Their Princess

the

autumn

That night the company haden, the Republican Party, for hint. made her visit. taken more than a dozen cur- elections. is Twenty-one guns were fired in tains amid scenes of enthusiasm

The campaign was to picture

វាទ គ blundering

How overcome

if royal salute as her train remarkable even for Sadler's the Republicans as a pouce party steamed into Portsmouth at Wells, which attracts the most and Truman The Commandant 100. After lunch aboard the enthusiastic audiences in Lon-warmonger.

She attended

Princesa Empire Victory,

Margaret Janet Congress has by with the audience

singing the minster Abbey with 2,000 other five Sca Rangers, with another in

traditional power to call up conscripts when Young people. In her capacity piped aboard the Foudryant.

neting as coxswain, and was Scotush song. "Auld Lang Congress Is not in session. DA Commandant-In-Chief of

Sync, and rated the evening the St John Ambulance Cadet She inspected the 100 Ran. Ba one of the memorable ex Movement she went to the gers who are combining holl. Periences of her life,

Youth Sunday service in West- embarked in a gigaret don. Princess and dancers its reluctance to give Treman !

cadets annust drama finals in days with training (including The Princess, of course, tas | E MILLIONAIRE bookle London and told them about turning out early in the mor a special Hnk with Scotland,

Frank Erickson was sen- the quailties she thought ex- ning for barefoot deck-scrub for she was born at Glamistenced to two years in prison sential for leadership--tolerance, bing), then took part in a 40 Castle, her mother's childhood and ned £10,700, He could Food humour,

devotion, dis minutes' sing-song on the main home, the centuries old seat of have received 60 years in prison cipline, and trust in God.

deck and, to the delight of the the Earls of Str the days of gambling charges.

athmore. It WON after pleading guilty to keeping allve to the Rangers, showed that she was the first time since

unfamiliar changing world,” not

sca James J who united the two It became known that police she said, "yet holding fast to shanties,

"By

nerda

of a

with

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kingdoms when he succeeded to shadowed Florida gamblers →→

our British tradition, a youth Each boy or girl pays a small the English throne 350 years suddenly anxious for a holiday organization must always weekly charge for the holiday ago, that a child in direct suc- In Europe aboard the Queen afford its boys and gitla a course, but it is not sufficient cession to the throne had been Elizabeth on

her last Diling. training which will enable them to cover the cost. So a public born in Scotlar).

No wonder They wanted to be sure the to develop their own special appeal for funds has been that Scots regard. her as their Floridians left and that Erick-

launched over the signatures of own Princesas.

von did not.

talenta,"

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.1

450

FEET

'

before

Our

Hollowed Arms

platform is being built on the summit, 4,500ft above se3 level, to support a cross threv times the height of Nelson's monument. The lift will rise Inside it, so that when you reach the top you will stand like an angel on the theologian's needle- point, in spect.

Within the hollowed arms of this crucifix-an architectural miracle-eternal lights wil! burn. It will be seen in the sky from Madrid. It will shine out across the whole centre of Spain.

And when the task is ended General Franco, like the Phe- raohs, will have a monument that will endure

not for centuries but

nlums.

for Inillen-

Morn

the

than th because cathedral la im-

pregnable, even

to

the atom

bomb, It may

Inst until the end of ume. P.B. Slade Pro- tessor

Digby of Cam-

Wysli,

bridge.

1872; wrote in

I

were asked what

were the dominant

tion that architecture had produced Από την mind I shoul tay the mani Jestation entire

penns.", BillLondon · Express, Barotco)

CUMMINGS draws this impression ul Franco's £7,000,000 cathedral on the rock. Right, for comparison, St. Paul's Cathedral, 365 feet high.

ence

of an indifer-