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\x, to foreign invasion

It's almost as if the
United States had been in-
vaded.

Small armies of Japan-
ese march up New York's
Avenue, of the Americas,
their cameras swinging from
shoulder ‘straps. Nearby, a
group of Germans crane their
necks to view the skyscrap-

ers. >

From thé Grand Canyon
to the Statue of Liberty, from
Fisherman's Wharf in San
Francisco; to the Hearst
Castle at San Simeon, Calif.,
foreign languages are heard
almost as much‘as English,

Indeed, it ‘is an invasion
of sorts; It’ fa''the foreign

tourist invasion of 2 and:

for a“ troubled’. Am n
economy, it couldn't ‘have
come at, a, better’ time. ‘The

itors : y grit

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million foreigners will have -

crossed the U.S. borders
‘from Europe, Canada, ‘Asia,
South America and Mexico,
up 38 per cent from the num-
ber of ‘foreign visitors in
1976.

The aumber of tourists

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Vital Statistics

BIRTHS
HAMELIN — To Mr. and Mra, ~
. dack Hamelin of Castlegar, a
daughter, born Sept. 4.

LING — To Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Ling of Rossland, a son, born
Aug. 25. .

LUNDGAARD — To Mr. and
Mrs. Robert Lundgaard (nee Els.
Wagemakers) of Nelson, a
daughter, born Aug, 31.

MEGEDE — To Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Mengede of Robson, a
daughter, born Sept. 1.

MONDIN — To Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Mondin of Trail, a son,
born Aug. 28. me:

Iie
and Mra.

‘AY — To Mi
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\. BONITO -— Aleasandro Benito,
§8,"of Trail, died Aug. 27 In
Vancouver General ; Hospital.
Rosary was recited the evening of
Sept. 1 and mass'was held“the
following day, both from Our

jy of Perpetual Help Church,
with Father Mutvihill officiating.
Burlal was st Mountain View
Cemetery.

CAMPEAU — Marlo Jeanne
Campeau, 63, dled suddenly on
Aug. 30 [In Montreal. Mra.
Campeau resided In Trall from
1942-78. Service was held Sept. 3
in Montreal. Cremation. Mass
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78, of Trait, dled Aug. 30 at Trail held Sept. 3 in the chapel of
Regional Hospital. Rosary was
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nekoff, 67, of Winlaw, died Sept.
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MUIR — Former Trall resident at the Castlegar Funeral Chapel

Nora Anne Mulr, $6, dled Aug. 29 and funeral was conducted the
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Fourty years later —
only memories remain

From THE PALADIN by érlan Gar-
fleld and “Christopher Creighton."

illustrations by Bob Williams. Copyright -
© 1980 by Brian Garfield and "Chris-°

topher Creighton.” Published by Simon
and Schuster, Inc. Distributed by the Los
Angeles Times Syndicate.

7 * * *

By DON COOLICAN
Copyright © 1980, London Express

The book is called “The
Paladin” — the name for a
knight errant in medieval
times. It tells how Churchill
asked a 15-year-old boy to
be his paladin and sent him
off on an incredible series of
adventures. : ‘.

Best-selling American
author Brian Garfield
describes his book as “an

a; historical novel” — but it is
“based on the real life of a

man’ who calls himself
“Christopher Creighton,” an
Englishman now in his 50s.

Creighton collaborated with
Garfield. in the writing of the
book.

‘He maintains he DID work
under the direction of Churchill
and Sir Desmond Morton, the
prime minister's leading wartime
intelligence adviser.

He also maintains that
several astonishing escapades in
the book ‘are based on FACT —
though he was 16, not 15, when
he was recruited.

But could it all be true?

When | put this question to “Chris-
topher Creighton” himself his reply was
firm: “Yes, it is.”

Creighton says his first assignment
as a spy took him to Belgium and an ad-
venture which ended up with him
dodging through enemy lines to hand
over vital information to the head of the
British Expeditionary Force, Lord Gort.

He says by the time he.was 17 he
had killed a man — the first of several
“executions.”

Acting under orders from Churchill
he says he became a double agent and

was sent to Dieppe, where 4,000 mainly

out of an attacking force of more than

: And later, by the time he was 20,
Creighton says he once again became a
double agent in a plot to confuse the
Germans, |

These’ and’ other adventures he
talks ‘about haye been used as source

. material for "The Paladin.”

1 met. Sralghton at the spot where
he said ‘it'all began — at Chartwell,
Churchill's old home in Kent. :

. It was there in the ‘30s, when Chur-
chill was in the felitical wilderness, that
frelabton says he met the famous man
for the first time, NaS

As we walked around Chartwell,
Creighton — remember, it is not his real
name — talked about how he met Chur-
chill when he was caught climbing a
tree,

Creighton was 12. He was living
with his divorced mother and two sisters
in a cottage near the Churchill home,
and after that first meeting in 1936 he
used to see a lot of the statesman.

He nicknamed him “Tigger't after

the ‘character in “Winnje. the. Pogh,”  _

“Churchill
gave me permis-
sion as long ago
as 1954 to write
about what hap-
pened to me, but
he also said that
| must ‘protect
the reputations
of people who
did their duty
honesitly’.”

while Churchill called him “Christopher
‘obin.”

These eventually became -code
names in the spring of 1940 when he was
asked by Churchill to be his paladin.

Creighton, now 56, but still looking
ete and fit, talked about how he came

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London, 1965
muscular. His eyes were alert and ‘his-head, unlike most
others, was not bowed. His swift glance swept along the route
of the procession — Whitehall, the Constagh: a glimpse from

‘In the crowd stood a tall folr holed, man, fortyish, lean, .

‘ here of Downing Street — and it was as if he were memorizing

everything in sight so as never to forget this hour. :
‘There was a dry bitter-cold east wind. The throng was im-

mense and Londoners were still-drriving to swell it. No one

spoke. The only sounds came from drubbing feet and the

_ mournful pound of the slow drums.:The raised flags of many

nations fluttered above: the heads ‘of standard-bearers in the
crowd. 2 {

The man recognized two of the people who held French .

flags aloft — he recalled their faces from the Resistance a.
quarter century ago and:he was pleased to see they were still
alive. The Frenchman'was very old now and the woman, mid-
dle-aged, had.an Orleni it 50 of face..She had saved his life
once. RE ieee rarest
But he made no effort. jake himself known to her.

in, adorned by the chivalric In-
rder of the Garter, progressed
vare and the man watched its

his wife, the English actress and
Shan Willson, Garfield lives in-an old
former general store In Jew Jersey.

“My father used to be a surgeon in
Harley Street, and a friend of the family
was Sir Desmond Morton.

“We were getting hardly any In-
telligence at all out of Belgium at the
start of. the war, and King Leopold
wouldn't allow any British or French staff

officer into the country ‘inthe period -

before the Germans attacked.

“Sir Desmond — | always called him Un-
cle Desmond — knew that | had this
school friend who had links pretty high’
up in Belgium, so he.was._the one wh

_ first of all thought of using me. ° 7.7)

tf often used to go there o

holidays, so it wouldn't have been con: *

sidered unusual for me to turn up again.
In any case, it was argued that noone
would suspect a 16-year-old boy of
spying.

“At the time | thought it was a great
adventure. | didn't think of the dangers
involved.

“To some people it may seem quite
unbelievable, but 1 did know Churchill
quite well and there was that family
connection with Morton. ;

“As for my age, well military
records now show that an awful lot of
youngsters lied about their-ages to join
up. There were plenty of 16-year-olds in
the RAF, for example. Some of them
were pilots. g

“After that initial spying mission |

just got deeper involved in the whole .

usiness of espionage. They sent me to
be properly trained. | was given courses
in radio work, coding and unarm
combat, the lot.

“looking back on what I got up to 40
years later, it shatters me. When | think
about it and some of the things that
were done — terrible things — by me, it
does indeed shock me.”

Why did he decide on fiction instead
of fact to tell his story?

“Churchill gave me permission as
long ago as 1954 to write about what

. happened to me, but he also said that t

must ‘protect the reputations of people
who did their duty honestly.’ :

“Because of this, and because |
want to keep my own name a secret |
decided a novel was the best way of
telling my tale.

“Some people may find it just too
fantastic for words, and say they can
find no evidence‘of what | got up to, but

it

tion and raise his

= he-'tidd a catlike ability to
ng them ut drawing .anyone's attention
more than momentarily:—-and: ciice in Trafalgar Square he
moved away from the procession's route and increased his

: pace, walking swiftly on his long legs through Chandos Place

and Henriette Street and on along behind the Aldwych,
everything deserted back here, shops closed up; he crossed

Lingewey and skirted Lincoln's Inn Fields — across Chancery .

Lane and finally through the back streets coming to post him-

i. self on a raised step from which, over the heads of the teeming

Ta) of : 4 . rea

silent. crowds, he could see the face of St. Paul's Cathedral”:

For an i her bered quite clearly the occasion
on which that venerated structure had stood out alone amid
the devastating fires of the Blitz. :

His breath came in long easy streams of white vapor. He
waited with the patience of a hunter in a blind.-

He did not need to be nearer than this. He watched the
royal car draw away and knew well enough what he'd see if he
were inside: kings, q id , dictators, public ser-

vants, figures of substance, men and women of the armed ser- ‘

vices. By now Queen Elizabeth Il and the royal party would be
settled into their seats to await the cortege — the first oc-
casion in recorded history when a reigning British monarch had
attended the funeral services of a commoner.

The stray thought struck him that by exercising influence

. and persuasion he himself might have been marching in the

place of one of the 108 Royal Navy officers and ratings who
drew the lead ceffin on its ‘gun carriage up to St. Paul's
Cathedral. But it was better to remain anonymous as he

_ always had done.

“Mine eyes have seen the glory . . ." The crowd was so still
he could hear the ring of the hymn from within the cathedral
but he was thinking not of this solemn ceremony and not of the
great deeds of the statesman who after 90 years of strife and
triumph was on his way to his final place-of peace accom-
panied by such stately pageantry.

No; he was thinking of the person, not the Prime Minister;
the friend, not the hero. "Tigger..."

The man turned — put his back to the crowd and walked
into the silent cold streets of winter. Now for the first time he
ceased to withhold his tears; his eyes went opaque and moist
— not so much in grief as in memory.

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chill's closest advisers did not know
about everything that was going on,
“It was a dirty game and a lot of real
people, alive and dead, could have been
urt if | had chosen to use real names.
But the novel is based on truth.”
And yet questions remain. One man
who could give the answers to those
questions is Sir William Steph MC,

Trevor-Roper, was deeply involved in
wartime intelligence.

He says: “The book seems to be a
prima facie case of pure fabrication. |
will hold this view unless proof can be
brought to the contrary.”

But distinguished code-breaker

DFC, the spymostar known as “Intrepid”
who was Churchill's link with President
Roosevelt during the war.

Sir William, now 84 and living in
Bermuda, said:

“| don't believe it. | would have
known if the events in the submarine in-
cident had happened.

“What is true is that British In-
telligente did receive advance infor-
mation via Japanese sources about
Pearl Harbor, and | was instructed to
warn R It about the i Jing at-
tack. This | did, on Churchill's instruc-
tions.

“Exactly what Roosevelt did with
this information is another matter and
not something which is easy to explain. |
can say that our sources for the infor-
mation were not the same as those men-
tioned in the book.”

. The military historian's view is
given by Lord Dacre who, os Hugh

F R.V. Jones describes the story
as “not entirely improbable.”

Professor Jones, a wartime M16
apent and the man who brought off one
of the greatest intelligence coups of the
time — the breoking of the Nazi Enigma

codes — adds:

“Churchill did have his own ways of
poing about things and occasionally ran

jis own operations.

“) have never heard of a youngster
being used in the way the book
describes. But who knows what Chur-
chill got up to?”

One obvi

the truth is the fact that most of the main
characters are dead.

But two of tha most pertinent aspec-
ts of the novel can be analyzed,

© First, the youthfulness of the boy
Christopher when he was recruited.

It is on record that thousands of
young men and women lied about their
age and joined the fighting services

when they were well under the recruit-
ment age of 18,

* Secondly, the sabotage of the
Dutch submarine in the Pacific.

In the novel, it had to be destroyed
it had d the Jap
fleet heading for Pearl Harbor.
Christopher was sent on a deadly

mission to perform the dirty deed.

Despite Sir William Stephenson's
reservations, the Dutch Navy Ministry at
The Hague has confirmed that one of
their submarines did disappear in
mysterious circumstances at the time
stated in the novel.

So are we any nearer the truth?

Winston Churchill, writing about
espionage in his book “Thoughts and
Adventures,” said this:

“Tangle within tangle, plot and
counter-plot, ruse and treachery, cross
and double cross, true agent, false
agent, double agent, gold and steel, the
bomb, the dagger, the firing party, were
interwoven _in many a texture so: in-
tricate as to be incredible and yet true.
The chief and high officers of the Secret
Service revelled in these subterranean
labyrinths, and pursued the tasks with
cold and silent passion.”

Well, he ought to know.

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