THIS YEAR'S PANTO.
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1950.'
FAIRY GODMOTHER: "Well, dear, you can't expect to go to much of a palace on somebody else's pumpkin."
CINDERELLA"
World Copyright. My ariengement with Dally Heralā,
Roman empire:
from a
new
standpoint
By E.B. TIMOTHY
F in two thousand years the world today,
particularly
DI
hence a colonial student the modern anxiety caused by disunity anong nations. It is of antiquity looks back new because, though ha given ús
admirable to the era of British rule in an
summary the colonies, what will he Rome's political and military ho concerned chiefly histo ideas and aims of the Britishers say of those
with the whose influence will still be Romans, and their limitations. Intel- evident? Will he follow He gives the layman an
which the picture Lawrence Waddy who, in ligible
apecialist Gometimes misses. "Pax Romana," deplores the failure of the former Roman "Empire" ог
some
student of
To the present-sm" (ac- masters of England to adapt cording to the point of view) his acenunt of the nature of the the Roman Empire so that nee
Roman imperial relationship in it could survive indefinite- fascinating. Rome was able to ly? The enduring Roman introduce everywhere the Idea did not Empire would have pro of "city loyalty" (if it
exist already) and, in spite of tected its provinces and its
"nationalist outbreaks, colonies from both the Dark particularly among the Jows, Ages and the "chaos of she was successful in preventing the growth of national loyalties. modern nationalism."
The good citizen of the Roman genuine Empire could feel a
his city and to his loyalty to
whatever his Emperor, "nationality" or "race."
Took Roots
"Pax Romana" (Chapman and Hall, 15s) is a history of Rome and its empire from a new stand- point. It is, new because Mr Waddy looks to Rome to answer some of the questions that face
A baby submarine was sent
by diplomatic
post-AND AN ATOM BOMB ISN'T ANY LARGER
NOUGH atom bombs pons, each as heavy as an to cripple Britain's atomic bomb, into a foreign defences could be
country under their diploma brought into Britain
tic seal during the war. without the knowledge of the police. Customs, or
These weapons, which Secret Service. I confirmed this when I questioned the were midget submarines of
the type known
Foreign Office about the control over "diplomatic term which freight"
covers packages sent be. tween Governments and
To me all this adds up to a terrifying situation. By current international agree- ment there is no fixed limit to the size and weight of a foreign freight which country can bring into Bri- tain under its diplomatic seal.
It follows that crates big as two- enough to carry the parts of an atom bomb would
by CHAPMAN PINCHER automatically
short-circuit man torpedoes, were smug- the Customs, if brought in
A foreign diplomatic. their diplomatic representa- gled across Europe to the by tives abroad.
Spanish port of Algeciras, courier. near Gibraltar.
The Foreign Office says that Britain's
defence
They were used against treachery in the use against Gibraltar of this diplomatic privilege and sank at least is "our trust in the honour ships.
of the foreign countries with which we have diploma- tic relations."
Could any weapon the size of
atom an
bomb- which weighs four tons
really be smuggled in among us if that trust were be trayed?
So if all the legal mea devised by
for authorities
our
in raids sures harbour security six big examining foreign freight are carried through with 100 percent, success, Bri- authorities arc tain's defensive screen will satisfied that the Spaniards still be wide open to an did not know the torpedoes atomic "Pearl Harbour" were being smuggled into attack. their country. The Italians
British
Two pictures prove the need for action around the embassy back doors
ABOVE: ITALIAN TWO-HAM • TORPEDO*... SENT BY DIPLOMATIC 'POST'
-22 feet- BELOW: ATOLIC BORG
ALMOST THE SAME SIZE AND WEIGHT
The
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Even in tribal Britain, city life took roots. The cynical Tacitus wrote of Agrippa's policy in Britain: "He had the song of chieftains educated in the so-called liberal studies. He expressed admiration for the natural ability of Britons, in contrast to the earnest efforts of Gauls. And so men who at one moment turned from the Roman tongue in disgust, with the next breath sped our eloquence the toga appeared everywhere, and the allurements of vice. knowing
11. Kittle they called this 'civi- lisation when really it was part and parcel of their clavery!"
But to Mr Waddy two thou- sand years Inter
it is clear that Britain was better off under the Romans than she would have been if "free.
The weakness of the Romans ho finds in their lack of vision, or ultimate purpose and faith; their lack of mental originality. The fundamental weakness of their empire was the Institution of slavery which destroyed the empire, also
• universal degeneration which could afford no opposition to the barbarian Invaders.
Disappointment
over
One is disappointed that Mr Waddy puasca so lightly the problem of "colour con- sciousness" which plays such an Important role in modern em- pires
and in the British Com- monwealth, at least, is the chief disintegrating factor.
Was there any colour dis- crimination in Rome? Would the Emperor Septimius Severus, or Apuleius, author of the "Golden Asa," have found fame If they had been "Afrienn" or "West Indian" in the modern defence
sense
instead of inhabitants of sabotage North Africa and Egypt? Is
the honour of totalitarian disclosed at the Dr Alan states is worth. Japanese Nunn May trial of 1946. diplomats, remember, were
only secure negotiating in Washington against diplomatic at the moment bombs start- would be for the Foreign Office French Colonial policy really ed falling on helpless U.S. warships.
More precisely, we can gauge the
value of Com- munism'a diplomatic honour from the Russians' flagrant
restrict
privileged imports that of Claudius, who consider- by embassies to the proper ed it "in the best interests of the diplomatie bage. These are Empire that merit, wherever it is found, should be transplanted kitbar-sized containers
to Rome and made our
own?" which confidential documents
One wonders too, why, if slavery are carried.
was so fatal to Roman vitality, it did so little harm to Athens.
in
All other packages addressed
This is a stimulating book for
to embassies should be able anyone. For those concerned
declared that the crates con- Pearl Harbour should use of their embassy in to security and Customs with the "colonies" it is invalu- taining the torpedoes were surely have taught us what Ottawa as a spy agency, as scrutiny. filled with spare parts for]
repairing a scuttled Italian
A feat almost identical ship.
has already been achieved.
Their word was accepted crates
An official report recently simply because the released discloses that the bore the Italian Foreign Italians smuggled six wea- Office seal.
FIVE QUESTIONS
made urgent by
the war news
THE
able.
THE DANGER TO THOSE CENTURIONS
HE secret of Britain's hush-hush Centurion tank the most closely guarded post-war weapon- may be one of the enemy's most valuable spoils of war in Korea.
• WHAT types of atom bomb the ground. This is the most "brow up" in
are avaliable in Amerien for wasteful
operational 115c7 There are bombs.
For the first Centurion to the retreat
way of using atomic will be rushed to Moscow.
large abocka of the Mark I.
A bomb detonated at 2,000ft. There the Red Army's type used at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
A General Staff will be able Surveya of the does the greatest damage. damage they did in Japan and bomb exploded on the ground to analyse at leisure the would waste most of its energy at Bikini rate each bomb as effective as 2000 tons of T.N.T. in blasting out a huge crater. merits of our finest tank.
"blockbusters." There are also This
crater and the
arca
The retreat has been the Centurion baptism of fro.
They're in action in Korea and the loss of just one would be a grave matter
British tank
"Confeder that the Centurion is the best) built tank in the world. In- formed critics have had plenty to say about this tank.
They argue that the whole Idea of a general purpose tank is obsolete. The RAF. docs not confuo itself to a single type of plane.
WHAT
Two needs
we need, Bay the critics, is a heavy tank for close Infantry THE CENTURION: The crew can brow tea winous dismounting
support and heavy work against the suc ITS ARMOUR is "nodrly as cessor to the Joseph Stalin. This much may now be told
thick" as the wartime German later-type Tigers.
stocks of a Mark II. bomb of immediately, around it would the 8th Hussars from our 20th of the Centurion
greatly improved design and about five times as powerful.
Lower-powered atom bombs for localised use on the battle field cannot be mundo.'
remain dangerously radio-
active to unprotected infantry the United Nations withdrawal Brigade Group are covering
for a few days. But tank# would soon be able to cross it in safety.
:
:
IT WEIGHS 30 tons, operum
This is with it Lahappily, a tank tionally loaded.
ten. knocked out in a withdrawal tons more than the Churchill
always falls into nearly
the 17 tons more than the Comet them
• COULD an atomic bomb bo enemy's
hands intact, if the but seven tong leas thon accurately on to a crew dies with it.
wartime Joseph Stalin III. relatively smali battlefield
• WHAT would be the atomto dropped
against
troope
in Korcat
ad-
In addition, they say, we need a second tank, faster and with TTS. COSTS 230,400. It has a far greater range than the 30,000 bits and pieces, 7,000 of Centurion--which needs a bla
There diffordnt.
of aro "all"
and dransporters Vickers the Assembled in
Arm- soft-skinned vehicles to cosset strongà or Royal Ordnance to flett a doshing cavalry factorien...
battle right into the depths of the enemy's rear.
bomb's value as a field weapon tarkoi? Yes, in theory. But an Last week the Centurion was
IT MOUNTS a 20-pounder 30 secret that a lecturer yay little in my view. An atom bomber has to fly at 30,- dressing the reponsible Royal gun of particularly good pene the best tank of Ith type any
0001t, to cscape the blast of atomic bomb is essentially a
with a secret.. where And own bomb.
to trative power, United Service Institution glant incendiary. It is, there dropped from this height Lontion could not reveal do stabiliser which enables to only NEW tank In quantity
Tic
TH Centurion is said to
bomba ore
taila.
Nine in Egypt.
in the world-and the ire while on the move. Also it production since the end of han one 7.02mm, machine-gun the war. and a smoke discharger,
of
the
fore, ulted mainly to attacks often wide of the mark.. on large cities
and industrial centres.
• COULD feid troops take any protective action against storio bombartiment? Shallow. "alit-
• COULD stom prints be used
to- orcato a barrier sentet a
fantry by making a strip, of
ablo
Anyone who has plumbeg
depilis ITS ENGINE le a 12-cylinder. the
of British and trenches" would give consider UNTIL
julaido now,
Rolls-Royce Armoured Corpe, Horro-power; 635,
V-type Royal
Motcor. American miltary Intelligence about the Rods will not readily mod, dangerously, radioactive? flash-burti, "God atomle radirat hand then delalis
protection against blast,
only the Egyptiany knogr. at
accept this.. could ^.^be ́accomplished
Thor kenrolinkyn exploding prohibitively.
have mire Conlurkma of thale"]
11. This
ton
the Rumlang
do got a
Centurion-and they haven't at one yet they will at least marvel at our despatch to them
a laboratory, specimen at this phase of
small-scale war,
EDITOR'S „MORE! Since this artirla Wam wrathan.: one · Cen» (kazioa-tank has besti 19st to the
Pada 14.231. Bateten, General Martel, Kores windra, a kis the ge
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