1950-09-16 — Page 5

War comes to the American President.....He is groyer, .ho. is working

thinner.

an 18-hour day... and he insists on getting up at 5.30 a.m.

THE NEW

A

TRUMAN

(BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT)

WASHINGTON, NEW Harry Tru- man has been facing the American people during the anxious and con- fused weeks of the Korean

war.

The jovial, confident fighter whose favourite

slogan

was "everything's

going to be all right" la

Artillery

men

The President--an ceptain in the 1914-18 war-is

ported by top military here to have no difculty un- derstanding their professionat tik. But he is sparing in ha use of the title Commander-in- Chlef. He prefers to leave strategy and tactics to Bradley and MacArthur.

No more cronias

gone at least for the dura- TN the "old days" the preal-

tion.

new

dential calling list used to be led with the names of "old The

Truman la cronies"

Mis- (mostly from greyer, grimmer, nine souri) who wanted to drop In

on the Presiden for n chat. pounds thinner.

IN 1945

Yet there is something fami

liar about this

new

This type of visit has been war casually, Now officiat callers hre men who have something to do with the war- effort and the arms expansion programme.

Truunau's offelal day at the White House ends at about 5

Blair

or 5.30 p.m. But when the President goes back to House (where he lives while White the main part of the

Toure is being repaired) A bulging briefento ROOS with hirm. Thi represents more work for the evening before be finally retires near midnight.

The nightwork disturb: the President's physlelan, Brist.- General Walisce Graham,

arms he has tried to talk Tru- nun into getting up late-but the farm-bre: President will not hear of it.

Meanwhile, Truman.

many Republi- cans we hinting that it is more

For his mood has gone full than hard work that is keeping circle since the days when a de- termined but aumble man first

the President awake at nights. They claim that the President

stepped on to the world stage and the whole Democratle party are worried over the Novem- her elections,

and asked the people of bla country to pray for him.

There are

sigas that

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1950.

See if you normal

,, a questionnaire to carry a little further the statement of the bishop who thinks thore aro-too many pooplo about. The whole thing is by-

6 that you, Vera ? There is a man at the door with another form for you. It kaya that, following the suggestion by Dr. Barnes that we should cut down the size of the population by turing out the abnormals, the Govern ment has set up a new Ministry to deelde who is abnormal and who in'L

"You'd like this bit, Vera.

The Ministry is sending out one ul these foins to every household, wṛtem. punied by a man with a little botile. I you Enn answer Yes to all the questions You will be considered normal.

" you answer 'No to any questions you will be considered very abnormal indeed and will therefore, take a tablespoonful from the title bottle with your tea, where upon you will become very extinct.

*

*

En is case the remaining contents

or the little bastle must be retumed within seven days to the Ministry together with Your unused ten ration Put the kettle on. Vers while I read the form to you :—

Answer YES or NO. Cuestion L. Do you say "Good Morning “ sam you know n't. 7°

by

ROBERT

come

Later came the two years of buoyant assurance that follow supporters are turning against ed his victory at the polls in the Administration. 1048.

Now the circle is complete. Truman is once again a deter- mined but rather humble man.

The Korean aggression a few weeks after he had said he thought the world was nearer

to peace than at any time since 1945, and military weakners of

the United States revealed by the Korean conflet, are said to have been a shock to Truman.

A

The big decision

N intensely religious man, Truman's sense of respon- sibility for sending American roops to Korea is keen, He is also reported to be determined to make up for any Glas of

omission or commission on

his

IN 1950

JESSEL Expresa

Military Commentator

TEARLY 11 years ago

GILES

are

YES

OR

NO

2. Do you smile and say "That's quite all right" when someone trends on Your foot?

3. Do you my "in't this a dreadful Aummer 7" knowing perfectly well il our summers are dreadful f

4. Do you say "How Bloc in C you' when you know there's nothing nice about seeing whoever it is?

when

b. Do you say "Cheers mising your glass knowing that the fast thing to be connected with the you've got in the glass in "cheer

*

6. Do you spend night aljet jught 15 a dingy little room full of smoke throwing three bila of wood with feathers on nt another plece of wood with ringa ori. drinking warm beer 7

7. Knowing that you see more than you can sland of your family all the year round, do you still insist on taking snaps of them at all angles during your annual holiday?

8. if you are white, do you con- acicusly or sub-consciously uphold a colour bar, yet spend your holiday trying to get brow?

9. Do you wear a little black thing with a kind of gutter running round known as a "bowler" on your head?

to And with this carry a neatly folded umbrella which you never open however hard 1 rains?

11. Do you think all our policemen are simply wonderful 7 (Answer YES cleurly

12. Do you understand that our "Eples' are "Special Agents and the enemies

Special Agents "are" Epler ""

13. Do you realise that you must not Kill unless it's "omething vou like to eat or You don't agree with ?

14. In a car do you realise that every other inver is in the wrong except you 7

15. Do you know that when your neighbours Chlidren throw has things inside your car or set fight to the 1201 shed. etc.. you are expected to tank upon these seta na “high spirits"?

10. Do you like cinema TRANS 7. 17. Do you (a man appreciate that that ridiculous piece at tuur on your face must be grown underneath the time und not An inch or so to one side of the face?

✩ *

IB. Do you a woman know that you can paint your lips red the other colour by the way), mat il you were to paint your nase people would think you were allly 7 And that nobody can give a satisfactory nswer as to why?

10. Do you go into your favourite café and order "nice" cup of tea knowing that they all come out of the same uns?

20 Are you aware that you belong to » species which spends half its time invent- ing things to make you well and the other

inventing things to blow you! 15 ?

na

21 And tallure to complete this form correctly makes voy table to a fine not exceeding five pounds or one month inside or both such penalties ?

*ta that ten ready Vera 7 "

I was greatly worried on account of my guards (at Sachsonhauson), four of the bost and kindost men I have ovor known

Captain Best

approuching the two British Intelli- Government, gence officers, Captain

British

Twire the plans went astray. The thirdl time the personal

S. Payne Best and Major appearance of this obliging

R. II. Stephens, were kid- eneral was positively guaran- napped by the Germans at teel, and Captain Best and

friend

Major R. H. Stephens, the frontier post at Venlo, with

londed Browning

all set to hear

nu-

in Holland. They were tomatics in their pockets, drove front-page war news for in a small cafe a few yards in- days. Then, as quickly, they ide the Dutch frontier at Venio, details which disappeared from view.

they Tight communicate to The senior of them, Captain London. Best, hus now told in The Venlo Incident." published to- day, the full story

Whereupo

- British Intelligence officer whose kidnapping by the Nazis in 1939 was front page news-

tells how Nazis

made him

'a prize poodle'

இ car-load EL

of

of what med Germans entered the cafe

yard, kidnapped

the British

happened on November 9, 1939, agents, and drove them to Berlin, and of its consequences.

It is not a well-written book. So simply and cheaply did the German Secret Service secure pürt which may have been The statistician Louis Bean, in some ways it is the most un-

iwe knowledgeable prisoners. responsible for the sapping of who was the only forecaster, to pleasant war book yet published.

For a America's military might.

month the predict

Gestapo InBut it kept me out of bed until Truman's victory Truman rank, his decision in 1948, has compiled a record of 3 am, and it throws light on the interrogated Captain Best, then muners of the a man of 5. I could serve no Aght North Korea with three pot elections in a forthcoming methods and

book

une by making an herole stand," called "The Midterm Germans at war. other historic decisions which

sign of un- he writes. "Any The Germans had invaded and have marked his presidential Battle." This dentes that the

willingness on my part 10 Korean crirts will help the Re-beaten Poland, when across the

questions would almost publicans and hurt the Demo- Dutch-German

frontier cane wer whispers of a great conspiracy

certainly encourage my captors craf next November.

resort to methods of con- afoot in Berlin to murder Hitler 1 and make pence with France pulsion which I should find very best policy unpleasant....My was to attempt to satisfy my

without interrogators

glving them information which could this kepardise others."

carcer!

(1) The decision to use the titem bombs against Hiroshima and Nagasaki; .

(2). The decision to proceed development of the with The hydrogen bomb;

(3) The Potsdam made on the subject many.

I the Republicans were to recapture Congress again. this and Britoin. year Amerien would find itself facing one of the greatest in- ternational errues in its history with a stalemate in its govern- declions ment between

of Ger- President and

Congters.

11

CAPTURE

Intermediary with

N Democratic Aplausible

When The Gestapo hati tale met Captain Anished their clumsy interrogn-

FL Republlean Best at The Hague and arranged tons Captain Best was sent to

not (World Copyright Reserved-London mence!

Usually Truman does worry about a decision once it is made. But in this case he confides that his rule cannot be. kept because of what he feels are Its inevitable consequences -heavy American casualties and possibly even more heart- searing decisions which may follow the rst like a reaction.

chain

The daily visitor

SINC

has rend several

5,30

Express Strelce).

Sea Heat

for him to see near the border the Bunker of the Sachsen- German general housen concentration camp, of where he remained for the next

Ove years

who was seeking

a means

May Soon

Warm Our

Homes

By JOHN POMFRET

from

His last 200 pages will be read with speclul "Interest by many of the 135,000 people in this country who were also war prisoners of the Germans, and

edi.

Captain S. Payne Bast

Why?

Perhaps

-Photo by Charles. Doran

by the propaganda chiefs in Moscow, who have a specia! in-

Already because he

Sachsenhausen was terest in war-time Sachenhausen, was no ordinary prisoner. He grossly overcrowded, with 400 where 100,000 Russians perish- had broken no law. He had Russlan prisoners packed into no! been taken in ballle. He huis meant for 80, Captain Best, was, ឆទ prisoners went, to the last, had a room of his freak.

own, When he left Sachsen- hausen, he was "greally worried on account of my guards, four of the best and kindest men I have ever known."

PROMOTION

few

COMFORTS

He had seen as much of the

EVE PERRICK in HOLLYWOOD

HOLLYWOOD.

Backcloth and soundtrack

PALM glass, a predominance of TREES and waitresses and shop assis mist, shops tants who look like Jane that look Wyman and lota ot like beach blondes....

bunga - Hired searchlights raking lowa offices that look like the sky every time ( holiday-camp chalets, nightly event) a new ham churches that look like burger stand is opened; cinemas, and a new pleture- drive-in cinemas, restau- house which has a steeple. rants and even boot ro

Geraniums, known as pairers; Spanish stucco California weeds, growing houses with flat roofs wild, morticians' (vernacu- (which leak and which the lar for undertakers) adver- earlier settlers sell to the tisements on the backs of newcomers). all the street benches; * Sirens screaming (Holly. group of cafes specialising wood is the place where in ice-cream' and pastries, everything goes on wheels which look like Egyptian but where the pedestrian mosques but which are officially has the right of nevertheless named The Pig way-perhaps that is why 'n Whistle......

an ambulance making a Cowboys, booted and noise like our old friend the spurred, Ritting around air raid siren passes by my super-shinyy cock tail hotel every four minutes); lounges amid the chromium, Dixieland bands; and talk, satin drapes and peach talk, talk and more talk.

Wisecrackers without wisecracks

Bob Hope: "You'd better the place where the ask my gag-writer. Hey, highest-paid comedians live Barney, say something

so I started a search for funny to the lady." a wisecrack. And they said:--

HOLLYWOOD is also

And from Barney: "The things I write aren't really

Jimmy Durante: "I got funny. Bob just makes a miiliun of 'em but right them sound that way." now I can't think of one." Postscript: Example of Danny Thomas: "I'm no the Hope humour heard at quick-off-the-mark gagster

remember?"

Jack Benny: "You know me I'm the guy who is funny without saying any thing, so they tell me."

charity show he com- pered: "Bing Crosby was" sorry he couldn't get along. tonight, but he had a nasty accident; he fell off his wal- let."

It's people, people, people

H U M traditional Crawford story: you PHREY don't see me washing dishes in the first reel, I'm. a full-fledged BOGART, Congresswoman right from the currently on beginning” the side of law and or- einl venture the

Bing Crosby's latest commer- manufacture

of deodorant, a

der, saying: "The old-style of a new kind film gangster ig out. pill which is taken internally.

Betty Grable la os blondie, Nowadays gangsters are bubbly bright, and beautiful in big-business men who pay the flesh an she is in ploricus income tax. Not many of Technleotour. them even get shot at...." The Jock Warner party for. Elia Kazan, a small man, the Oliviers where the guest now the dictatorial director the Gary Coopers, the Jereph Cottens were there 100--were on the "Streetcar" film at entertained by an after-dinner Wagners, living down the discussion on dianetles, the new days when he used to be a form of self-psychoanalysis, small-part actor specialising which is the current craze in

California.. in gangster roles.

The Oliviers, escaping from Marcia Lewis, the girl who all the formality, eating hot holds a thousand secrets-bald- dogs with Claudette Colbert and of the outdoor ing actors go to her for scalp husband at one treatment; Al Jolson explaining

stands.

And amid all these people,. why he will not play the London Palladium: "Everyone's a sensa- people, people, here's how you' tion there. I like to set records." can tell the actors who are not

working-by their tan (bronzed Jean Crawford, pleased about beauty does not photograph well, her current film, "Goodbye, My to the stars must de-tan for Fancy:" "It's a break from the picture-moking). ...

Fashion Department

ADRIAN, the local Dior (but being copied by M.-G.-M.ɛ head' his clothes are even more ex- designer for her to wear in thơ - pensive), Inspired by a recent film..

inspection of the Duke of Alba's Susan Hayward's silent-film hat collection, putting on a hair-do-very long and fluffed fabulous rose-and-champagne out over one eye. . . affair to show off his new Spanish-influenced styles (tas-

Gorgeous Gusste Moren, re- sels, fringed sashes, velvet tur volling from all the femininity, bans from which a single jewet dining out in a severely tollored drops over the centre of the bracer-skirt of quilted satir

ond mannish shirt. forehead)...

Sarah Churchill's English Latest colour for cooking celling price grey flannel suit stoves: bright scarlet,

Sports Supplement

I WENT to as the coach spoke to her hus

a football game band, shouted. "Leave with Jane Rus- alone."

sell, whose hus-

Kamo

hina

mora

band, Bob Water- Only once slid the field, is the star farmiller film-stor Russell emerge of the local team. from the frenzied footballer's. The

I wife. That was when some men found boll slow and boring. But behind, the way sports spectators not so Miss Russen,

the world over always do, started The young lady who is known, making rude remarks about sinong other things, for her Waterfield's playing, his charac poker-faced acting technique, ter, and probable future,

Mrs Waterfield silenced the Jumped up

Murder him, you.

and down yelling,

bum and critics with a look which won other similar expressions. Then, mean, moody, and magnificent.

CICIENTISTS at the British negative boiling point-that 15. CINCE June 25 the President Association conference at they boll beneath the freezing

CAPTAIN BEST, had a cell of has been driving himselt 18 Birminghurn have made it clear point of water.

his own, with Is not the

an armed hours a day-a hard pace for thint atomic power

A liquid called Freon, for in- answer to the world problem of stance, bolls at -27der. F. and Dutside the window he could A from his house

guard always in attendance.

LL his clothes were brought some men over 60.

dirinishing; fuel resources.

at The At Buchenwald the guards is used as the freezing agent in

hear the thricks of prisoners Hague. In his The one-time Missouri farm

new cell the were more brusque, cella bad Atomie plies are expensive, many refilgerators.

under torture.

walls were a soft pinkish shade, to be shared, and fie could no boy still wakes with the chic-bulky and wasteful. The power If a condult full of Freen is kens" at 5 or

everycy could supply as a

Sometimes a warder would go There were tables and his own longer put on a dark suit in the by led through a well, a river or

a evening by way of dressing for morning. He usually takes

product would be as dear as, if even the sca-anything with into a cell, order its occupant to pictures and an armchair, pre-breakfast, walk. By 8.45 he not dearer than, coal.

Intent "low temperature heat strip and turn to the wall and wardrobe, and a bookcase with dinner. newspapers, High hopes, however, have it promptly bolls.

then shoot him in the neck. But an atlas. had his breakfast, and is at his been placed on the heat pump. Then, by the

an the S.S. guards did not molest use of

He had a rodio set, a reading Gestapo as most living English- White House desk dictating to This is machine capable of ordinary pressure pump. en- Captain Dest, Miss Rose Conway, his per extracting the latent heat in the gineers can raise its boiling point him,

and seemed to lamp, an electric cooker, They men, and to him most of them with a

"just ordinary exceptions,

working sonal secretary.

carth, rivers, or the sea.

Wilh

negative value to a high "decent fellows who certainly ave him double S. S. rations were

men" in uniform, who had been excellently cooked, and £10 a heat pump under positive one, so At 9.30 each morning Tru- Waterloo Bridge, the Embank that they ran

high, in fact, thowed not the slightest inclina- month ofleer's pay to spend on taught to obey. use its heat to tion towards cruelty," nan receives a visit from Geniment could be lit by the Thames boll water, generate steam and

A bowl of He had known as a fellow- anything he chose.

prisoner Dr Rascher, cral Omar Bradley, chairman

the flowers stood on his table. to was promoted and near-by offices heated by thus supply heat and power.

inventor of Himmler's 603 of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,

the same water.

Once the Freon has done Its Very Important Prisoners, mostly admirable Kaindl

category of "Prominenten" or "Really," he protested to the chambers and found him a good "you treat comrade and the life and soul of Lord Kelvin thought about job it can be cooled down and

THE CAFE next door *Bradley

to Sturges for a Broadway opens D mep of

commandant, almost

Grauman's Chinese as the party. Korea on which he has traced this machine a hundred years used over and over again. The Germans, along with Pastor me

Theatre, musical. Niemoller, and a couple of can- though I It was left to a pressure

Like of

good were your deputy course, tive bishops

the footprints of Intelligence where

Jane Froman, a cabaret singer. any overnight changes in the go, though battle line. Red tabs mark the brilliant Scottish engineer to put absorbs same of the power

here." He had become a most officer, ho kept his eyes and his famous are set into the concrete who was crippled in a plane Inta practice.

evolved, but by no means all.

In August 1942 one Kaindl Important person.

open through his long outside advising the rubber crash in 1943 and who has hact Communist divisións, blue the

His name: T. G. N. Haldane. Or so Haldane belleved.

neck: "You will not be allowed' 30 operations, walking on to the capilvity. Allied.

(later to be sentenced to ilfo Im- Five years a3 pampered He made one in his back garden He was right. It worked. prisonment by the Russians) poodle

At least "The Venlo Incident" to leave your prints at Grau- floor of a night club for the Brya (those are his own

man's but you can write your time since the accident. A brace is one of those war books In

name on our walls."

on her leg is hidden by a long Judy Garland, back home but skirt. All, Hollywood was ther taking things quietly, being to applaud and cry its sentimen sought by Bob Hope for a endio tal heart out. programme, and by Preston

--{London · Express `Bérvice)

The tall four-starred soldier explains actions that have

reports taken place, and strikes made by Allied war planes.

pump,

Ho

cars

the The Sentimental Moment

in 1928 and drew off the heat of The chief engineer of Norwich took over as commandant-"such words) in this gilded coge ended which the principal character a well,

Corporation asked Mr J. A. nice little man" and threw when the VIP.a were axe make no pretence of boasting of on Haldane felt the secret lay in. Summer to construct one for himself heart and soul into out of the path of the Allied his heroics,

those liquids or liquid gases them in 1945. He was satisfied making Captain Best as cory which have what is known as a with its performance.

ponible.

armies, first to Buchenwald and then to Dachau,

-(London Express Service)

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