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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1952.
If I Were Sitting in Stalin's Seat
VISHINSKY'S RECENT STATEMENT that Russia may now
give way on atom-bomb control gives added meaning to an assessment from the most up-to-date evidence. It is an estimate of how the world must look today at the mon in the Kremlin in terms of arms and of politics. Part One below presents the military picture pieced together from the latest available information in Washington and London
The Junior Atom Bomb
Little publicised so far, but I regard it as the biggest new factor in today's strategy
FI were Joseph Stalin I should be an anxious and disappointed dicta- tor. For should realise that my main mili- tary advantage--the over-
"Remember the good time, Vishinsky, when we had only the BIG atom bomb
to worry about..
THE KNIGHTS
London Express Service
OF
FACE A SERIOUS
ROME.
THE Council of the
T
Knights of Malta, clad
in black silk cere-
monial robes, have just met
By A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT
the Great Britain.
by CHAPMAN PINCHER
whelming strength of the Red Army-has been sud. denly and seriously weaken- ed by one unexpected Allied achievement.
This achievement is the production of miniature atom bombs which can be used for concentrated at- tacks on massed troops in battle.
For the first time these weapons give the Allies a fighting chance of holding the Red Army east of the Rhine and of finally defeat- ing it in the field.
flatten a few Sovjet towns. But it could not be used tactically to stop the ad. vance of the Red Army. So it could not be decisive in World War III, he argued.
A huge, uncontrollable explosion like the blast that, razed Hiroshima is useless
on
Russia has not yet developed the industrial capacity to spare enough vehicles for this th- mense job. The Red Army is still essentially a foot-slogging handicapped in mobile warfare. force, and, therefore, terribly
This is the main reason why it suffered such serious casual- ties when attacked by the Ger- man Panzers, In one pincer movement south of Kiev tha Germans cut off and
captured 600,000 Red Army soldiers.
Not-so-wise?
the battlefield. And Stalin believed that the Americans would not dare CO long as the Germans could
S to use such an indiscri- keep the fighting mobile the in spite of great pon in Western Europe. superiority in numbers.
Russia's entire post - war Stalin has tried hard to political strategy has been remedy this weakness. But I Until now Stalin
on the conviction that the lorry factories and technical has based
had the Allies
no effective skill were available, he has not rated the atomic
deterrent to the Red Army.
enough steel to mechanise bomb as & war-winning
army stretching from Poland to the Pacific weapon.
He admitted that it was a powerful strategic weapon which could be delivered by long-range bombers to
minately destructive wea- feats,
Red Army suffered repeated de
never
MALTA CRISIS
น re-
In a shell.
OR FOR technical
seemed
reasons
it
that the power of
TEN
the bomb could never be
duced. But American scientists have now found out how to do
an
The Allies are suffering from serious steel shortage. Yet their combiped output is more than four times greater then Russia's,
Steel is Stain's fourth De- fence Difficulty.
"Baby" atom bombs, packing punches ranging from the He knows that Russia cannot power of 500 tons of TN.T. to produce enough steel to fight o 5,000 tons--one-quarter the long war with the West. And the appearance of the power of the Hiroshima bomb with --have been fired successfully tactical atom bomb His hopes in Nevada, and US defence of winning World War Itt chiefs believe they have at quickly have faded, last evolved a weapon which can counter "ateam-roller" - tacks.
The
"baby"
Should the Cardinals de- cide that the Knights must obey the Congregation, bomb works on their sovereignty will be such ended.
simple
principle that it
can be delivered in В shell of in a gloomy Roman palace are not, however, recogalsed poses, members of
than rocket fired from sovereign
But there is more state by ligious order, having taken to face one of their most us &
issue. so
short range to crises since serious
the vows of chastity, purity that involved in the
limited and obedience. It is the 31 The Knights of Malta, in produce an ex-
plosion order was founded in 1090. When Princess Elizabeth Knights of Justice who order to raise money for to
military visited Italy last year the constitute the
and abjective. Council of their hospitala of Grand Master of the the Order.
charitable enterprises, have Of course, the will Knights, Prince Ludovici
recently embarked on bust- Ruslans Chigi, refused to attend a
eventually be The existence of this mess and financial transac- able reception because his
tactical atoo which were elite chosen
among the tions quality as Head of
Knights might prove sovereign State had
the possible only by their status bombs and may not downfall of the whole Or- of a sovereign State. been recognised by
the der. Protocol.
Their most cherished pos-
status session their sovereign power, which al- lows them to appoint am- bassadors, issue passporta and run a fleet of aeroplanes is being threatened by
the Vatican.
The Order started as an organisation to house pil- Holy gríms visiting the Land only ten years inter
became а
24
made
to make
Stalin must now be wondering whether the enormous amount of steel he has used since tha
TOMORROW
Politically, too,
Stalin surveys
new kind of landscape.
by Sefton Delmer
already have designed them.
war to make 60-
ton tanka has been wisely in- vested.
The U.S. tests showed that heavy tanka ahould be easily countered by atomic attack, They
-100
#re
slow to
tako
avoiding action
and their thick armour does not protect the crew
from penetrating atom rays
By mass-producing
13 now
conven-
80
But it is doubtful whether they tional weapons too quickly after could pile up enough for battle the last war, Stalin may have. field use within the next seven made the strateglo blunder of years.
doing too much too soon. This Last year, during the .
14 his Afth Defence Difically. World Congress of Catholic
According to Intelligence re- ports Russles. output of atomic Big mumbers seem to fascinate Religious Orders held in
of planes, The Pope does not ap-explosive is severely limited by Stalin-thousands they found themselves mix- The scope of the Order is Rome, it was decided, in
Order so lack of rich uranium ore. tanks, and guns. But defence
moving ed up in the Crusades, and now only charitable. The tightening up
second Defence research discipline, prove that an
Difficulty för Stalin.
quickly that numbers can give fighting order members are either aristo- that all Orders would fall closely linked to the Vatican This a
a dangerously false sense of which conquered part
Only the of crats of very old Catholic under the jurisdiction of should be even vaguely sus
Americans. who security. have ELLEST to the Tich Palestine.
families or rich people who the Vatican Congregation pected of black marketeer-
supplies of Canada, The Allies have waited until In 1390 they were chased contribute a lot of money for Religious Orders. The ing or irregular currency run
Africa, and Colorado, should be they could see how the weapons up by the last war to the Order. They run Knights of Justice are also transfers.
able to mass-produce tactical thrown out of Palestine, but soon
The present crisis
finds atom bombs in the foreseeable would turn out before rearning, made up the loss by con- hospitals, hostels and dis members of a religious or-
future. tribute relief over the der, so they too should
Their present weakness in dé- quering the islands of
The realisation of this: harsh fence is not remotely comparable Rhodes and Cyprus and whole world, using a fleet of come under the rule of the the Knights_without
their position in 1989. Congregation and therefore leader, Their Grand Master,
last fact by Stalin is the likellest with
has tremendous au building a large fleet of their 200 transport planes.
would lose their sovereign Prince Chigi, died
explanation for Mr Vyshinsky's Stalin November aged 82, and the sudden willingness to com periority. In numbers of men. own. They lost Rhodes and
Members of the Order are status, it was stated.
new Grand Master should operate with the Allies in con- and existing weapons, as Hitler Cyprus to the Moslems in of three types: Knights of 1522, came to Italy and Grace, Knights of Honour The Knights refused to have been elected at the trolling atomic weapons, allied themselves Venetians.
with the
They obtained the island of Malta at a premium, and from the island they derive their present name.
Had
Out of date
arsenals the Alles should retain
enormous lead in Are BUT be Alles have Dever let
Even when the Russians get and Knights of Justice. The bow to the Congregation, beginning of February. The
ordered some "baby" bombs in their Knights of Justice are the and a few days ago, to settle Pope, however, highest ranking. There are the dispute, the Pope ap- them to wait until the five only 81 of them and they pointed a Commitee of five Cardinale have decided the are, for all practical pur- Cardinals.
fate of the Order.
YOUNG MEN AND LEAP YEAR
1
en
power for many years. For the up in defence research since
Americans have already but the war's end.. There is no up a huge stock-pile of atomic doubt that they have a clear explosive and are rapidly ex- lead over the Russians in the panding it.
development of new weapons which could soon be put into production.
As long as the atom bomb remained a strategic weapon
the
for use against clues, Stalin It was perhaps a risky policy proposals prevailed. A book could take comfort in the belief to concentrate on experimenta Napoleon chased them out
AREFUL fellows! It's BY J. W. TAYLOR.
called "Courtship; Love and that 500 bombs would be al while Stalin rearmed, but it of Malta and the Knights
Leap Year.
Matrimony, lagued
in 1600, most as good as 5,000 because seems to be paying off. settled in Rome under the
Since it is said to confer wards, she
it had become they could achieve all may convey her recorded that
The · Rusdang, have morë shadow of the Vatican, and upon each unmarried mem- meaning to the man merely by part of the common law for destruction required. But that
than 3600 submarines, .... Now formed a peculiar State ber of the fair sex the pri lifting her skirt a litle to re women to make Leap Year argument does not apply to lin is word with the fact that within five years they with a government, their vilege of proposing marriage veal a glimpse of the scarlet proposals of marriage, and de- battlefield weapons,
may be out of date, own lawa, a certain number to the man of her choice, pettiosat of citizens-but no terri perhaps one or two hints Another worth while tip is on how to cope would not be that quite a different rule for out of place. Remember, proposals has financial oc
the In con sequences for the man Today the Knights have that the privilege is cerned. It stipulates that it when, Queen
the event of his declining the Scotlarid Πάνο
tory.
clared that "no man will be
entitled to the benent of clergy Change
who doth treat her proposal with slight or contumely."
The Allies have recently developed TIMERGENCE of the "baby":
some highly effectivel bomb century
means that the devices for detecting submari Urteen
Margarut of tactics and training of the Red at long range, And the "baby!! atom bomb can be fitted into a statutory Army must be radically revived.
will surely have to super depth charge which could.
14,156 subjects scattered all governed by a very specroposal, he must present the authority to Scottish women to Stalin.
over the world. They have etiquette of its own on 208 with a solatium in the "bespeak the men they. Ilked!! abandon the principle that the open up the seama OLBANY BUDS
the in a ran Holy Sea, Spain, Argentine, for what may seem to be a
lieve that this originate The decreed that in the event of that it can afford to accept all The US, stom-powered anbe San Marino, Panama, Haiti, golden opportunity.
rend which relates how mind awiting, he should, indea the canalties the "Alles could marine which is Patrick, when he
Foda prove that he was al inhiet and keep on advancing team the under Germany and Austria, and
only one ansible fuelling There engaged to marry another
ane of one military step he can take to Scot
counter the new "atom threat (equiva
maintain normal diplomatic that the girl who witho
** First "and sa foremost, curtam dan relations with France Italy to propose Helglum, Holland Portuga
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