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JOHN HODIAK. LIONEL BARRYMORE I

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1950.

THAT HITLER

-By DR

OTTO

By Jon Hope

London fori

over here

Dr Schmidt Is In THE name is Schmidt.

Dr Paul Otto Schmlit, a fortnight. He 1.

concerning the publication-by Middle-aged, well. Reinemann-of his diary. built, in flannel sult, striped tle, black homburg' And always n wide, gold-toothed smile.

I have just had a talk in London with him. Mostly about his old bosz, Adolf Hitler.

Ho was Hitler's personal interpreter...arid is the only living witness of some of the most rnomentous sernes in contemporary history.

According to Dr Schmidt, the Fuchrer 18-quile de- Anitely lead. How does he know?

I knowkige of our native

tongue Is mastērty.

When barmen bear his click,!

colloquial call for "A pines off the right muff," their response: is no less Inmediate for the m

Berlin than for a man from from Balham.

Those he mot

Skling in Dr Schmlet's hotel,

of his reactions tui learned

of the personalities he some encountered tu what he

pleased to call hin "chequered | career. Here they are:

Molotoy: "He reminded of my

mails master, Good chess player. Very precise."

France: "He always refused

risks." He sought out litler's to take sides-or

Mussolini: "A belter man chauffeur, who confirmed than Itter. He understood that the body had been the Western

burned.

world."

I asked Dr Schmidt who, ot Was Dr Schmidt a NaziT all the people at conferences "Calt me," lio says, " civil and discussions, stood up best

ald join the to the wehenient servant." But he

torrent of from the spontaneous

MA

In 1943. If he had not wordn that poured party. done so, things would have Fuehrer,

reply become "very owkward,"

y-Eden, What is the doctor's sum-

Ribbentrop's jaunts ming-up of Hitler?

Our vialfor Jolned the German Foreign Ofice in 1923, He was an interpreter with the Lenfftie of Nations and when Germany quitted the League he was recalled to Berlin.

Pre-war,

he litted in and out of li

the crises reports,

"An amateur with consider- able ifts. He could grasp o

But t situation carily. treable was that he thought he knew everything."

I pointed out that this was eather different quality of that given by testimonial from Dr S. in August 1942,

He had an interview with a

for he accompanied Ribbentrop Canarian Captain Mason- on his jaunts.

After the French armistice who ceremony he become Minister Divppe. Pirnipotentiary First Class.

Which for

Mon-Nazi, appears to have been very nice work indeed.

Jeweller

Pater

**Make your mind up. you're getting us noticed."

London Erpress Service.

linc been captured at

A gonius? Or.

.?

managers Later, this officer to escape and he described his Interview in the Evening Standard. This was Dr Schmidt's story then: "Hitler is n genius.. Hitler

HOLIDAY PASHION VARADE

WIN A PRIZE

This summer atom dress was run up from a piece of asbestos she got at the sales."

Sefton Delmer

London Express Service

'About the time that British steamor was boing shot up, Mr Si had beon giving mo a wink. No wink has over alarmed me quite so much.

reaches FORMOSA

The chief officer Taipeh (Formosa), July 16.

wounded. So did E were just going and who was standing beside in for lunch this noon him. The barkige when a young man badly wrecked. arrived with a telegram for

fell badly Government, admitted as much

Chinese to me last evening. n

I had called on him in the was Foreign Office-a suite of rooms itself

above a pastrycook's shop-to Rel a press pass Axed up, with out which I would be unable to send this despatch,

wonderful. He is my host. Trouble, sir," he ich steamer was a routine mare than a man Your said apologetically, as they

eneration, and the following

this tribute?

island.

this

'BLIND EYE.......

musi

have been almost exactly the hour when the

Glenearn was being shot up that

I questioned Mr S about the continued attacks DB British

rips and others. TRIGGER-HAPPY

blockade of the China coast with

..

And that would be that. Foolhardiness and Indiscipline by Chlang's forces in ignoring President Truman's careful for restraint might orders

create a mesi don- equally gerous situation.

And it is no use Ignoring the fact that there are men round Chiang Kai-shek today who advise him that only a war in which he would and himself in bis old position as ally of the United States and Britain will preserve his regime in the face of its growing unpopularity both in China and in Washing-

That

la why Washington's careful decision

-turning down Chlang's offer of 30,000 troops for the Korean war caused such disappointment among the Na- tionalist leaders here.

For my host this attack on a matter. To the morning he will take it up with the British oner, will come to acknowledge disappeared into the oflice. the Food work our Hler is The trouble, as I learned consul, who in his turn will take doing In introducing ព

41 new a little later over jeed con- it up with the Chinese Nation- alist authorities in Formosa, The purpose in life for everyone."

Does the doctor now deny he somme, had been caused by consul will protest, as he has

Not a bit. Mustang fighter of Chiang protested before. paid

he shrugged,

"It was Kai-shek's anti-Communist "why"

10 mak just

the ofeer-a fair

on force baser

"How do you reconeile the ion. charming man-talk."

BUT for me this attack Even in Germany the doctor

danner President Truman's request that most arming last with

falling is sometimes cunfused

As dusk was

is a symptoin of all actions against the egast of another Dr Paul Schmidt.

night the Mustang had attacked signal. It

9880-ton steamer irresponsible trigger happiness, China should cease forthwith? Chlef Foreign the British This one was

mean the Haven't the Americans com- Office Press Department Minis-Glenearn. The Glenearn was And I don't jus

plained?" in the open sen at the time, 90 pilat.

dangerous More

Mr S admitted that He was often referred to-by miles northeast of Formosa, azid

who of Americans had complained and neutral newsmen in Berlin-bound for Kobe in Japan from Chang's authorities,

such actions that instructions had been issued "Hibbentrop's Chiet Jackal."

Hongkong.

cially reprimanth A real Knzt, you right any. But that did not deter the but secretly encourage and ap- to the Nationalist navy and air Quite unlike our Dr Schmidt, Chinese pilot. He dived down prove them. who was just a civil servant... the

the raking

Mr Si, one of the two deputy force to desist from attacks.

But you know how it is," he steamer,

said in his perfect English, and bridge with fire from the guns. Foreign Ministers -Landon Express Service)

added with n beautifully accented wink, "the commanders SMALL PENSIONS... Kometimes put a blind eye to the telescope when receiving "

MIND you, Chiang is still orders which they feel should A willing to send his men to be ignored-and

Korea if he is invited. And Mr those issuing the orders may Sl advances many reasons for secretly

encourage them to sending them, including this;-- ignore

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TEAM WORK

but

the

the

which even

the

of irresponsibility

naid's Truman's

Chlang's

have without

US

nction,

Chiang had already called up shipping to transport his men. The troops were ready to cm- bark when Washington tactfully suggested that they had better

be kept in Formosa.

"They are much cheaper than. United States troops in the long run, you know," he said. "Their relatives are satisfied with much smaller pensions than you would have to pay the widow of a CI,"

From what I have seen of the reconstituted Chiang army here. I am inclined to agree with the experts.

men

They tell me that not more than 40,000 of the £8,000 now ealing Formosa's food and drawing Formosa pay have pro- fited from the battle

Courses

and training they are being put through.

He winked agalu as though to demonstrate that he himself how to turn a impostor, would know on the sen. Our molto in the timonious, lecherous

is Ar Miles blind eye when necessary. the other theatre is to give and

Now belleve me that my con- freely But we would not like them London THE

our gratitude to think that

is Americans the best that Amer- Malleson, who has so

dapted Moliere that at times item is not with the safety of 且 upon us and we have confined in one theatre, no tea can provide.

Have my cars deceived me? i difcult to believe that the Britain's Hongkong trade with natter how steeped in Brillo's

alarmed about Is lest There is an- Did I hear a tourist say that he play could ever have been wril-Communist China. What I am immemorial past.

in len in French, see Shakespeare theatre called hoped to other beautiful the Coliseum, which is dedicated Londen: Well, you need not be When, for example, Tartuffe authorities in ignoring President

are playing

1: attracted by disappointed. We

orders plunges to the same food cause as Drury

him in the open air t Regent's

hazardous cleavage (to use that exquisite lato a new conflict. Lane.

Park, a somewhat

term of the Hays' offee) and she! We must apologise that for n gamble with the weather,

THE PROMISE few days there They know that the dratna is

effect is get you going" the fortunate hiatus at the Collseum the that preserves the ordinary says: "It doesn't take much to

for other and more Theatres the continuing story of a na-

more galling than Gallic, Pedan-TOR, as I see it, nny noble purposes. tion's speech and manners, and while they clear out the expen-

try in a boring thing, but surely whether it comes from the cartridges from

The rest are still the same Aanle's

Mr Malleson could they

anti-Communists, unreliables who Reds or the quite rightly imbue the det

desert to the Mortar with in and prepare for the incor-

achieved naturalism very bricks and

"Mister Roberts,"

which Involves this peaceful Inst

enemy as soon as they see him. significance and tradition

my bosom descending to the colloquial.

He island in war is today a Britain's real national theatre Tyrone Power in person.

much greatcr potential danger to un- HAVING cleansed

MY HUNCH These Interruptions are

of that perilous stuff. now HYPOCRITE of course, Drury Lane, url

world peace than all the Dght- avoidable lust you must not let us journey to the suburbs. sume of these days

In in Korea itself. our en blarne the management. Travel The Bristol Old Vic Company,

untike and the great educator.

Com- only great fun, but intellec-munist China, hos no military away from Landon theatre is anxious that beyond that ancient city, re- Covent Garden and make the

with the Visiting

American should ceived a boisterous welcome at tilly stimulating, and the act-clause in its treaty

Union. The great centre of the Arts with the have as wide a choice of Amerl- the Lyric, Hammersmith, for its ing is of a high average even Soviet

Russians Opern House and Drury Lane

production of Moliere's sardonic If no one soars into the realm of are not compelled by treaty to can successes as possible,

great artistry, Mr Coulouris is ald North Korea if that And on no accoun!

should

our comedy Tartuffe." I musi warn American

to visitors

visit that It is always a delight to see an excellent Tartuffe og for as public is attacked. visitors, however, that Drury

a team is conception of the part per- is a play performed by gracious theatre known Lane is no longer available for lajesty's. Here is the stage which has worked together for mits, but Mellere intended the military aid clause in their just come from Shanghal British productions. So sensi- which Beerbohm Tree bestrode a long time. There is a balance fellow to be such a hypocrite treaty with Communist Chinn.

Truman, in a that he convinced even himself President tive are we of our debt to the ke a colossus, but you will be that is nimost impossible in U.S.A that we feel the least we glact to know that "Brigadoon" London production which opens that lust was an expression of turn, in his declaration following not let the Chinese Communists can do is to give over our na is waiting for you. Why go to after a short period of rehearsal saintly virtue.

wish I could give praise to gunvasion of Korea, publicly invade Formosa while lonal theatre to American mus! Scotland when

against bring i

11 to you in the heart of people of Bristol demand that mony of the cast by name, but attack with the promise that the THE GREATEST ACADEMY AWARD PICTURE,

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If therefore the China Reds too much guide- Is a long time since I heard such single out .Mias Jessie Evans's

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Fin-ishing Touch ·

NOBODY NOTICES

I'M SO ANNOYED.

MY NEW HAT

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an

ond

Rowe's

113

the

By Ernie Bushmiller

THANK GOODNESS SOMEBODY NOTICES

IT

But the Russiang do have such

Forinosa

his

WILL the Reds try to invade this island of Formosa? Certainly the Reds have been bullding up, enlarging, and re- pairing airfields all along const opposite Formosa. I have heard that not only here but in Hongkong from a man who had

the

I believe that they had every intention of invading. But my hunch is that the Politburo will

It still has Truman's guarantee.

They are not anxious to risk world war while they can still

do themselves good without one. So they will restrain their Reds. But can Truman restrain the Chinese Nationalists? I sincerely hope so,

(London Express Barvica)

bif

INSECT SPRAY

WITH DOT

When there's bif Ineedn't use my fist! :

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5019 AGENTS NAN KANG COLUMNathan,