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Mind you yesterday's weather was enough to take the edge off any Festival Spirit.
London Express Service
TRUMAN SAYS: 'IF RUSSIA STARTS—'
President Truman said the United States is to push ahead with a plane mobilise quickly in case the Kremlin is reckless enough-in spite of everything-to plunge the world into a general conflict
CHAPMAN PINCHER ADDS A QUESTION:
WOULD RUSSIA START?
I
men to
- takes three
start a war. First, an army general to say "My men will fight." Second, a politician to say "We are ready to shoot." Third-and with a casting vote-a man in greasy over. alls to say "Our factories can make all the stuff you neel, and we have transport to get it where you need it."
Russia has plenty of generals and politicians. What about Stalin's third man? There is good reason, happily, to think that he would still have to say "I need more time. A big war, u long war... we are not ready for that."
OOK
EXAMPLES
"This is why I believe Russia will
try hard to avoid a reckless clash'
:
globul war any time in the gence reports show that Sovjet next ten years.
Industrial expansion since the war has been due more to fuller use of existing plant than to the building of new factories.
There #re nlo powerful reonomic fuels to convince them they could not win short war in the near future:-
a
...!
It these reporis are true how was Russia able to defeat Ger- 1 INTELLIGENCE reports many with far less industrlul conthem that the Russians strength than she has now? have not yet found any sub- stantial deposits of rich uranium The answer, is that. Hitler ore comparable to the mines innde the same fatal mistake
the Belgian Congo
and Stalin would make if he gave Canado.
the Red Army marching orders Dependence on low-grade trying to do too much with tou supplits is believed to be little. limiting
production of Germany's economy" could stomic bombs to two per nut cope with the demands of month, which is probably about Hitler's forces fighting for years one-tenth of current American on many fronts more than 1,000 output,
.
at
under-developed the figures and 2 RUSSIA'S
transport _they_are_not_so_dull_when
system could. you realise that the chances of hardly cope with the demands winning
uf an offensive u big War enn be
which would calculated
adding have to cater for counter-attacks machine long before the first ce two fronts-from East and shot is fred. There are some West, shortages that no amount of courage or fuck can out-balance,
on
For example:-
Un
There
miles from home,
L ·
MOBILITY
10 long as German $9
supplies could be maintained the Red Army was no match for the Wehrmacht.
are. The Russion acid-plants ure built to use pyrites instead of sulphur, which is temporarily scarce.
Russia is also self-sufflelent for aluminium, copper, and manganese. But Soviet stock- ples of tungsten, cobalt,
in are believed to be low.
Sitting On The Fence
By
•
Nathaniel Gubbins
"In America, men as old as 87 go to classes to learn the tango and rhumba,”— Gossip liem.
"The AVCIRKO age of bridegrooms in California rets higher every year. Three men over 80 were married last week" ---- News item,
OME on, grandpop.
Snap into it.
The scope of Miss Culling- ham's task and the self-sacri- fce to be cheerfully undertaken can be appreelated only when it is realised that the average traveller is obliged to drink no more than half a dozen cups of railway tea in a year.
If Miss Collingham makes It
a life's work and goes on to the bitter end without achleving noticeable
Improvement, she What's your first may have to drink a million
cups
of railway tea, hardly dis- tinguishable
from railway
name, honey? Never mind about my first name. Keep your mind on the dance,
་
Is that what they call a plunging neck line? Swing those hips if your
rheumatics ain't too bad,
Like the way you're swing- ing yours?
You can keep your eyes off my hips, grandpop. This is a lesson, not a firiation.
Rather have a flirtation,
You haven't paid for a flirto- tion. Come on, Stamp thos feel
I
Ger. But that hurt.
Then go and see a chiropodist,
You married?
Yeah. And widowed. Say, this is a South American rhumba, not a funeral morch. Get hot, grandpop.
I'm Hot daug. That's me. widowed, too. Three times.
Knew there was something Intal about you.
Think so?
It's the way you look at a
How are you and girl,
fixed for dough, grandpop?
I gotta million.
Why didn't you any 50
Tungsten
needed for handening the steel used in tore? tanks, and for making the armour-piercing shells. Cobalt is essential for gun barre's.
What
be-
Don't like to put all my cards On the table, once.
Russia's over- about whelming superiority in 'num-you got, bers? Does that compensate for her industrial weakness?
cards
Not at
Dollars ain't oll the
They ain't?
Russia's total population - about 200 million — just equals the combined. American und British populations. Red China's
and millions
the European satellites bang the scale down heavily in Communism's favour. But, apart from Czechoslovakia, these nations ure backed small available resources.
You got class, sugar.
And
sex appeal.
You don't say?
Certainly do.
ceremony?
When?
by
Tomorrow?
THAT GAP
are still fewer than 05,000 miles of railway in the When the Red Army finally whole of the U.S.S.R.-com- did surge forward a supply Russia's 1950 output of stee), pared with 52,000 miles in problems were small compared which limits the production of Britain and 230,000 in the U.S. with those it would eventually THE Politburo is not likely to lanks, guns, lorries, aircraft and most of it is single track. face in sustained attack
and warships, engines, about 24,000,000 tons.
on
was
the Western Powers,
The Politburo's plan to build four self-contained industrial "complexes" -the
Much of its wartime mobility
That is less than one-quarter of the combined steel produc tion of the Western Powers. It is less than America was pro- ducing in 1913.
Last year Soviet miners dug out 230 million tons of coal on which the production of ex- plosives, synthelle rubber, und rocket fuels depends.
This is only seven percent more than the British miners produced. It is less than half U.S. production, Even Stalin's 1981 target of 500 million tons barely exceeds America's pre. sent output,
fool itself on mere numbers.
These facts add up to one conclusion:-
Russia has made an astonish-
the Urals, the Moscow, and the was due to combat vehicles sup- ing recovery from the war, but
Siberian, Don
complexes is far from plied by the US, finished,
For
example, the big Urais steel towns of Magnitogorsk und Sverdlovsk get their coal from mines 1,000 miles away.
Russia has no extensive sys- tem of pipelines for distributing petrol and of us in Britain and the US:
she is still essentially a back. ward agricultural nation, fac Lease-Lend supplies to Russia ing in America and the British valued at more than £3,000 Commonwealth potential arsenals milion - also included
of overwhelming power. materials *ike
tungsten, plosives, and complete for making industrial alcohol and synthetic rubber.
raw
CX-
plants
3
RUSSIA la seriously short
of trained
*echnician-or
Russin is now self-sufficient
There for rubber, synthetic rubber plants
are
big
hear
This is no guarantee that the Communists will not manoeuvre into a politica) pusition, which will trigger off a war,
coffee, cocon, or washing-up water, each standing in a sou- cer full of hot, grey liquid and half-melted lumps of sugar.
Moreover, as she is "to cat all her meals at railway re- freshment rooms," she may, at the end of a long career, have devoured a million sandwiches of stole bread and bright pink juncheon
roll, and a million shiny buns made of processed indiarubber.
As few of us are appreciated In our own time, it is doubtful i Miss Collingham's name will uppear in the next honours ist..
But posterity will
her.
acclaim
Our grateful descendants, drinking real tea in future railway buffets, will bless her name and speak of lt in the same breath with the names of Florence Nightingale, Mrs Pankhurst, and other women who have sacrifled themselves for the benefit of humanity.
Panel life story
CCORDING to the news, ten panels have just been In- stalled in the home of Sir Duff and Lady Cooper, rear Chan- tilly, France, illustrating their
..
own life story.
When Sir Nat and Lady Gubbins read this, they agreed
that similar panels illustrating their fe story would improve the Sea Nest,
Their curly struggles together In Fleet Street might be illus trated by a spike, which, In case you didn't know, is the instrument upon which rejected news stories und columns are
impaled.
Passing over their Irreverent courtship white reporting a Cenotaph ceremony, their wed- ding in a blizzard, and birth of two daughters, panels would go straight
the
the
Into
What about_a_littic_weddin_the story of their lives between
Sults me.
And another little dance? No. You're tired, I guess. I can't have you passin out on me before the weddin.
От
will?
before I make a noo
You said it.
but you're
1040 and now,
show
Sir
The first would Nat's Home Guard boots: the next the shrapnel helmet made of cardboard Issued, with a whistle, to Lady Gubbins when she became a road Warden..
A third night illustrate the roof of the Surrey Nest blazing during an air raid while Sir Nat was discussing military strategy with the landlord of the local tavern.
The panels would be rich in detail.
Following the simple design of a ration book would be the face of an
butcher angry answering a telephone request by Lady Gubbins for offai,
Gee, honey,
swell.
"
JOWEN
Nice
W
•
cuppa
are not
often
praised here,
It was on this occasion that but, today, Lady G first asked the ques-
"Are
Sitting on the Fence salutes tion, later adopted by the Miss Betty Collingham, who has BBC's comedians,
been appointed oflelal Inspec- animals now born without in- tor of Refreshment Rooms and sides?" tea toster by British Railways.
Miss
But it does suggest that Slatin
will do everything to avoid a showdown
Collingham's the work until
noble on behalf of our long- tremendous gap between Soviet suffering people involves drink-
skilled mechanles, machine-tool Voronezh. Ample supplies of and Western industrial strengthsing cups of tea at every rail- showing Lady Gubbins,
operators, and engineers. The natural rubber to mix with it has been greatly reduced. educational backwardness of the are being obtained from Soviet elcetric schemes people makes rapid training tivated dandelions, generated about 80,000 million Impossible. kilowatt-hours of usable power
Those technicians
who
are
way
cul.
The U.S. has more arable land than Russia, and because of higher mechanisation produces tiles da much grain.
-London Express Service.
-on which practically every well trained are handicapped by ing from a shortage
Soviet industry is not suker- of zul- major munitions Industry, and overworked equipment. Intelli- phuric acid as British factories particularly atomle weapon manufacture, depends.
This is only 20 percent more than power-starved Britain produced. It is less than one- quarter of the power available in America.
Russia's overall oil supplies- chiefly obtained from highly vulnerable wells
round Casplan Sea - total
37,000,000 tons a year.
1012
the
about
the
station buffe! in country;
Her object is to persuade the haughty queens of the tea urn to make proper tea in proper pota and to produce a universal "ulce cuppa."
MOTHER HAS DOLLARS PLAN
Clubs to take the parents
BE
to see GI brides
to sce
not afford to come home to see them.
There would also be a panel with
bowed head, being reproved by an indignant grocer because she had asked twice in a month for bacon bones to make soup.
Sally the Cat's war effort, with 120 kittens in miniature, would decorate the next panel, followed by Sir Nat's first attack of gout after celebrating V.E. Day.
Beyond that would come Sir Nal's departure from the Sur- "The clubs will be run on a villagers saying good-bye as rey Nest with the not-so-simple non-profit basis. We ask no they worked their way steadily charity. We are reunite these families.
working to through the modest cellar...
"Emergencies such as Hiness
·
Since she arrived in America she has been contacting war brides by letter, radio appeal,
His arrival at the Sea Nest- U.S. home produced oll
and perconal approach,
And will be covered by an Atlantic in a thunderstorm,
hls exceeds 265 million tons. A
From FREDERICK COOK further 100 million tons is pro
struggles with the into, clubs, which will remit gifts, competitions and various during fuel cuts with an cast
Her intention is to form them. pool,' a money reserve raised by subsequent
elements, trying to be, funny duced by American-controlled
New York,
parents.over
the dollars to Britain to help to pay
Tumotions," companies
operating abroad.
wind blowing, for parents' visits, the Nat This doer
Include the ▶ECAUSE the majority brides..
Mrs Crocker is determined to 30,000,000 tons obtained from of the 100,000, British She and her husband are settled here with familles, have home in eight weeks' time. But The majority of the girls, start the scheme before she goe the disputed Persian :oll-fields.
visiting their dasaghter, ・ Mrs war brides in USA and Michael Yeturn, wife of a US. Liven up hope of ever seeing she is handicapped by lace of Canada "will never be able Ammy doctor, in Connecticut Crocker told me. SHORTAGES
parents again," Mra' funds. She has no dollar alloca
tion from Britain, to seo England again," Mr Mrs Crocker founded the They cannot spare the time Bertha Crocker, of Clarence Portsmouth American-Canadian or the money, When the Ame-
Radio stations have broadcast figures must make Parade, Southsea, ia waging War Brides and Relatives As-rican clubs are formed, the her story. Now she is looking of the Palliburo doubt their one-woman campaign in lation, the object of which is members will hold saice of work or someone who will lend her a
to raise funds to finance parents and organise dances and other ball for meetinger, Fa chances' pit witining along America
to bring the on visits to daughters who can events to raise money.
-—(Landon Express Revalce.):
TUOSE
the hard-headed ·, members
+
stuffing out of the furniture... Lottle, the Devil Cat, tearing
And a
final panel of Mr Bloodsucker, the income -tax collector, picking Sir Nat's pockets to pay for groundnuts, no eggs in Gambla, and free spirit for 100,000 women with Imaginary headaches,
(London:Exyreti Harutao)