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By MERCURY
YNGMAN Rhee, Premier of South Koren, will transfer his Government to Formosa if the United Nations forces. ovacúnto the peninsula.
One of General Eisenhower's first aims will be a two-year period of military service for all West European conscripts.
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Subversive work begun during the Warsaw peace congress is being continued by a permanent committee of Reds.
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Rebel forces in Indo-Chino will launch a big spring offensive with arms from China.
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Premier Nehru will propose to Mr Attlee annexation by India of Kashmir · and Nopal as the price of co-operation.
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In return he will offer to make India. the base of a new Southeast Asia Com-
mand.
IN THE SHADOW OF
THE BOMB
A little nation teaches the
atom-piling wealthier,
West
a thing or two about defence
Tho 10ater-
Omeial explanatio.
Detailed plans for the whole money, manpower, and
project are complete, Locations LANS of air-raid shel- lals cannot be spared.
After a first-hand view of the of the shelters have been decid- ters calculated to give
resolute civil defence precautions ed. The people have been told almost complete pro being taken by a much smaller in a 154-page illustrated book- tection against atomic bomb and poorer Power Sweden this let exactly what is being done. attacks are being drawn up explanation looks more like an by Home Office civil defence excuse than a reason.
There is little experts.
Judge it for yourself from chance that they will do these three facts I found on my much more than gather dust trip:- during the next three years. Against the advice of civil defence chiefs the Govern-
by
CHAPMAN PINCHER
and
the
The 1,200 patients and When new hospitals, Govern staff can be transferred to its mont offices, fclephone ex- wards, operating theatres, X-ray kitchens within changes, and other publie bulld- rooms, ings are put up they will be minutes. provided with atom-proof and gas- proof shelters, equipped so that all essential work can be switched below.
The Swedish Defence Minis- try has started building shel-
At the huge South Hospital in ment has allocated astonish- ters deep in the granite to ac-
the 200,000 people Stockholm a fantastic bomb- ingly low priority to the commodate
Stockholm proof cavern has been blasted building of atom-proof shel- who will remain in
if war comes. Similar shelters out of the granite 2011 below are to be built in other towns.
ters.
ground.
GOLDFISH as CURRENCY
furs.
He cost two These deals were by no means get rid of him. DECAUSE British house- D wives like to have gold- simple, usually taking the form Siberian tigers and ten lions!
of a three-cornered affair tran-
This was brought down to the fish in their homes the sacted at the Rotterdam Ex-
common denominator of goldfish. Rome Zoo-completely des- change of wild animals, a centre troyed during the war-has as famous in this field as Liver- Several hundred thousand of thence to Britain, which pro- been restocked, and its pool is in cotton, or London in them went to Rotterdam and vided the lions and some an- elephant couple, Romeo and
The antelopes and took Lombardi
enormous telopes. Juliet, boast two elephant calves, the first born in numbers of goldfish to Rotter- some surplus Hons were cx- dam and sold them to British changed for the Siberian tigers, Europe for many years, dealers, who in turn paid with payment was made in France, the hippo-appropriately How has Italy, 50 poor in
wild animals from the Empire.
named "Trouble" was hauled and without foreign currency
to the mountain passes of the colonies of her own, managed
Italian frontler, where Customs to buy all these animals?
During the immediate postwar years this problem worried a
By
resourceful Italian, Angelo FRED MANOR
Lombard, one-time big game hunter and Italy's main supplier of wild animals. While ever the Rome Zoo presented a de-
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British dealers took all the less and unhappy. Apart from the Zoo, there were other urgent goldfish they could get, realising calls for la animals from that British housewives belleve bowl of goldish in good the ball brings cinema producers, from hospitals that which needed poisonous snakes
With the for the preparation of sero, from luck to the house.
animals which he had received schools and museums.
Lombard! itched to go out and in exchange for goldfish, Lom- animals as he used hard! could buy what he nooded to before the war, but the Italian for Italy.
No Exchequer was adamant. currency, hard or soft, could be on the imports of such spent
no wild animals from luxuries abroad, they said. gold, Lombardi took the second best thing-goldfish.
hunt his
was an
and
officials asked to see the import
licence.
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IN BRITAIN: Plans to build deep shelters have been shelved. There are no adequate shelters In the huge new Government offices being put up in London.
REBUILDING of London hos- pitals, like St. George's, in safer places on the outskirts has been suspended by Government order.
PEOPLE HAVE been told nothing officially of the try's anti-atom thelter plans.
coun-
The need for this command has been stated by the Imperial' Defence Committee.
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On the advice of Britain the Prime Minister of Nepal will soon introduce a programme of democratic reform.
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Gilgit aerodrome, in North Kashmir-important to Allied air strategy will be threatened Communist advances in
fitted out as hotels. The first of these rock hotels has already been blasted, Stockholm has a serious traffic problem. So other by shelters will be designed to serve Tibet. as car parks and garages. Some will be fitted up as sports arenas, and youth clubs.
The Government plans to let tho Hotels and sports-dromes. to be run by free enterprise. The rents, plus the takings from the parks and garages, will help to pay for the shelters.
this could be
Projects like started in London. It would be the best way to solve the car parking problem.
New extensions could be built to the Underground system with special entrances so that they could serve as shelters as is being done with the new metro now being built in Stockholm.
These dual-purpose "tubes" could also be built in big indus- trial cities like Birmingham, Glasgow, and Liverpool.
FRONT LINE
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Russian flying fortresses have arrived in the Far Eastern Com- mand to strengthen Malinovsky's bomber forces.
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The US. Sabre Aghter 1s proving superior to Russian-built joto in Korea, but the RAF is concerned that its Meteors take third place.
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Rumours are strong in Moscow that Stalin's doctors report from the Crimea that his health is causing anxiety.
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Stalin has heart trouble and high blood pressure.
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Unrest In Italy has led to Com- mando training for the Pope's and guard with tonumy gus hand grenades.
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The Politburo has ordered a disruptive plan for South Ameri- ca, the continent most. immune from Communism.
The Vatican la shipping its The cost would be great. But bullion from Italy to safe depo- the money and roaterials could sit in Canada. be found."
The Egyptian Foreign Minis- Britain's civil defence plans ter, in face of the British refu seem to be mainly directed at
2 Bomb-proof underground alr- training heavy rescue squads to salto evacuate the Canal Zone, craft factories have already dig thousands of people out of will retum from London to
Cairo for fresh instructions. been built, and are in use, in shattered buildings. Sweden. The new atomic power
project for driving warships will The Swedes are working on be located below ground. Private the more cheerful principle that firms are putting new extensions if their buildings are to be that
able to move to safer places first. to their factories deep in the tered the inhabitants should be rock.
IN BRITAIN, all the defenco As my Swedish guide slam- stations built since the war-the med the massive steel door of atomic explosive plant at Sella- the cavern below the Stockholm deld, Cumberland, the guided South Hospital I said: "You are
the germ-warfare attack than we are in Britain." Hants, and missile station at Farnborough, far hotter prepared for atomic station at Salisbury Plain-are
above ground,
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He has been given no power to negotiate except on the basis of British withdrawal
A prominent British Comunu- nist will leave the party soon and take a well-pakt Job on a national board.
Sir Benegal Rau, Indian de- bus orders from Premier Nehru cease-fire con- legate to the United Nations,
to work for o "Well, we are in the front line forence in Delhi, to be followed
flying time only 30 minutes'
Czech weapons from 3 The Swedish Government has here," he replied. "Stockholm is by a Far Eastern conference.
introduced compulsory civil from the Russian airfields defence training for all fit people Latvia." between 15 and 65 who are not
in
needed for other duties. More. London, of course, is only 20 than 900,000 about 13 percent minutes dying tone from pos- of the population have been
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the Skoda works have been captured
with rebel units lu Indo-China.
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A boom in industrial diamonds
reached Tanganyika,
It took Lombard some time to explain that he did not buy onrolled. Each must put in 25 Bible Russian siireids in France. for rearmament, production has
two-hour training periods every
his hippo by smuggling precious but of the country, gold out merely exchanged it for gold- fish
year.
THE COST
When the matter was settled, and "Trouble" again on his way
Britain, with 50,000,000 people. to Verona, he began to find the
Corps-about He worked gently and patient- Defence extended stay in his cage boring. has about 70,000 in the Civil
ont-
ly on the special steel bars, and seventh of one percent of the when the train stopped short of population.
A typical deal of this kind the destination he pushed the
According to 37-year-old oversizo, bars away and walked out. An
Ivar defence chief order for an
cinema far as he was concerned ho had Swedish an Italian hippo from
Muller, with whom I spoke in producer who was making a travelled far enoughl
Stockholm, the ant-atom pro- Christians in Having no lm about early
Lombard! arrived just
ject will coast at least £43,000,- the ancient
arena of Verona. Trouble," obviously rehearsing 000. It cost more than 270,000 the spectacio Tired of
his future act, was charging to binst out the shelters under Christians devoured by lons, through the streets towards Stockholm's South Hospital. he sought something more or platoon of Italian carabinleri,
How can the Swedes afford who, not quite sure about their role of early Christians, hadt?. Because they have planned their tommy guns at the ready. the project in a bold
of
During an enforced rest at his glaal, and conceived the idea of an Christians being crushed to death home at Salsomaggiore, Italian health resort with waters by a stampeding hippo, particularly rich in fodine, Lom2 - bardi noticed that goldish bred
and far- Since then, Lombardi has.con-sighted way. Each now abeiter A hippo of the required sira In these waters at an unprece- was located in France, and the fined his deals to smaller animals will be built so that it can serve French, not liking the quantities and he makes sure he has an amo profitable peace purpose. Sweden has an hotel shortage. He began barterlig goldfish of food this particular animal import licence for every one bo
consumed, were quite willing to brings, into Italy, for wild animals.
dented rate.
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