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THE CHINĂ MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY · 16, 1953. ⠀
FOREIGN OFFICE ACCUSED
by COLLIN BROOKS
THAT was the real cause
W of the grotesque, tragle
failure in British foreign policy and diplomacy be. tween the wars? Who is the prime culprit on the charge-sheet?
130
One experienced diplomat, Sir Walford Selby, who ·had been private secretary to fewer than six Foreign Secretaries, and was later Br- lish Minister at both Vicona and Liébon, has no hesitation in supplying the answer,*
The cause of Britain's plight in 1639, and the ascendancy of the Axli, was the British Foreign Omce. In the years of the rise of Hiller, he says dat- ly:
the
British Ship of State had been nt Вед stormy walers with all its in- valuable cargo on board, but with its navigating controla thrown out of gear by sabotage, and its charts out of date. while Incompetent and palsied hands alternated upon tho
wheel...
'Unheeded' DURING the
most vital of those years the permanent head of the Foreign Office was Robert Vansittart,
Sir
whom, in 1938, a new post was ereated, that of Chlef Diploma- tle Adviser.
In fairness to Lord Vansittari, it must be said that after he had resigned from the serviço, and taken his peorage, ho frankly confessed that he DC- cupied that special office, and drew the public money, with- out his advice being sought. Ho has also, in speeches, books, and articles, been shrill in his protestations that what was wrong with the Foreign Office between 1930 and 1030 that the Cabinet would по heed the
warnings .o! Bir Robert Vansiltart.
Was
Sir Walford Selby's accusa- tion is startlingly different. It is that the warnings and ad- were unheeted.
essors Our Ministers abroad
On one occasion, when the British Minister to Vienna was in London, important decisions affecting Germany and Austria were made without his being consulted.
Sir Walford gives example after example of confusion and lock of confidence.
Cummings
C
MALENKOV
"I'm sorry-he's in conference just now.”
London Express Service
A HOT
CONTROVERSY
RAF VIEW · IN
BERIA PUTS FRIENDS IN OFFICE
by Patrick Maitland M.P.
London.
Isom er & vesten da
IS becoming possible to distinguish
Russian regime, now that the excitement over Stalin's death is dying down. Evident- ly a struggle is starting between Berin and] Molotov.
At all events Beria's star is now rising. Whether he has made peace with the Army or conquered It cannot yet be'discerned“- He was widely suspected of1L8pme responsibility, at least through negligence, in the Doctor's Plot. But all pretenco- about that fake conspiracy has now been abandoned and Beria has contrived to havo the matter so dismissed that others áre blamed,
In the middle of April Berio "undid" the purge of a year previously in Stalin's home province of Georgin. Ho has now,ink] First Deputy Chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers and All-Union Minister of Internal Affairs, dismissed those who were placed in office at that time. Chief
SABRE v MIG
By Wing
Commander J.H.R. Merifield, DSO, DFC
among them is the Georgian Communist Party's First Secretary, A. I. Mgoladzb V. M. Bakradze has been ap pointed in his placeTho new Minister of State Security is an old friend of Beria, V. G. Dokanozov
The new Georgian, Pre- mier quickly Issued ́An' eulogy of his patron, The Georgian. Communist Party! he said, has "over many years been led by Georgia's best son, that talented pupil
of Lenin, comrade-at-arms of Stalin, the outstanding miles from our bases enemy pilots on the whole are OUR of us-Flight Lieu- atteen missions we were all pro-hundred. tenants Alan Jenkins, moted to leading elements of two and of this range can get very benefiting from their encounter leader of the Communist John Nicholls, Denis nights of four.
per-Party and great Soviet aircraft and shortly afterwards little help from our own radar. with us and unless the
We have to keep always enough formance of the Sabre is con- State, Comrade Lavrenti Dunlop and myself-were
fuel in reserve to engage in com- siderably improved or a new type Pavlovich Beria."
What is surprising about this Is the lack of any mention of
Malenkov.
selected from R.A.F. Fighter Korea is the maintenance of air full power with very heavy fuel the enemy's favour,
The role of the Sabre Wings in bat, which means operating at introduced, the tide could turn in
it
referred
to
тех
The MIG 15, too, is in many
In spite of all this we are still
our favour. The main reasons
seem
13
to
by
.
Air Rescues
blg feature of air operations in Korea, and a source at
percentages of the speed of sound. on in conjunction with fighter." lack of team work and opposition.
aircraft are at
the sea
Another purge, favourable to Berla, is disclosed in Baku."The onpointment is announced there of a now Primo Minister....of Acerbellan named Bagirov, Ho again is noted as a confederate
and friend of Berla.
Critical Place
At the same time, the rear ganisation of the central government in Moscow "which, followed Stalin's death-has-been- matched in many of the other Provincial State Governments.
It has occurred in Latvia, the. Ukraine, Byclo-Russia, Armenia, Moldavia, the Karelo-Finnla Republic and the Jakut. Reri public.
Command to fly a combat superiority over North Korea. In consumption, and then to take tour with the American other words their job is to keep us back home with enough in abre Wings in Korea. enemy aircraft out of the sky in hand to cope with any unforeseen
order to enable our own fighter- delays in landing. We left England on April bombers and reconnaissance air- 17 and spent six weeks at craft to operate without inter- The trouble was that the the Operational Training ference and to prevent our own ways a better fighter than the much comfort to pilots of single Foreign Secretary was no longer Unit at Nellis Air Force front line and rear areas being Sabre. It is faster, has better engine aircraft operating deep attacked by enemy air power, acceleration, climbs faster and inside enemy trritory, is a most master in his own house. There Base, Las Vegas, Nevada, This air superiority is achieved has a higher celling. They can efficient air rescue service. When was "a complete breakdown of the Foreign Office organisation, U.S.A., where we converted by four main types of opera- climb to their best height in operations are going on helicopter and this had involved the dison to the F.86.
tions:- (1) Interceptor, (2) perfect safely north of the Yalt and amphiblan Fighter appearance of its authority as a
Sweeps, (3) Fighter and attack us at any time they readiness to go to the help of department in Whitehall."
We found
delightful
Screens, (4) Close escorts of choose from the quarter most anyone in trouble, and in addition aeroplane to fly. It has no vices fighter-bomber and reconnais- favourable to them.
Aighta of fighters are normally
These two provinces holda and practically no flying limita sance aircraft.
nirborne in order to deal with ritieni place in the Soviet tions. It will go through what is It was
was to tirat faulty
or popularly
Pad called
Azerbaijan are Russia's the
Dawn To Dusk knocking them down at a ratio any enemy interference with economy, for together Georgia "sound ganisation, with
rescue operations. I have seen a its ramifica
of better than eleven to one in helicopter walling underneath a chic sources of old and man no trouble and the with tions in so many directions, controls, which are that to the end of my days operated, are beautifully balanced DACH wing maintains a num- for this are, first, a higher member of my flight descending ore, Berla's held on both
ber of flights at various states standard of pilot ability and air ailles north of our base. In this
parachute more than 100 Rives him the mastery of a rich shall continue to attribute the at all speeds. One of the main of readiness from dawn to dusk, discipline on
territorial empire. our part and on case he came down in the greatest share of the respons reasons for this is that the Sabre These Bights are scrambled in the their part poor control of their and bility for the disaster of
has swept-back wings which
their and spent approximately formation in the air and
30 The indictment, as Sir Wal-minimise
event of enemy activity being
from the effects of com- detected by the carly warning the
Their
flights seconds in the water. The hell- ford draws-it, is a heavy ong, - pressibility troubles of high
be able copter pilots are held in the Good men set aside and Imita- ANARH
aircraft system, and voctored on to the Nowadays
the highest esteem and have to their In speeds. tlona imposed upon them.
bandits by the ground controller. 10
together once they
credit an impressive list of formation from abroad shelved speeds are
Fighter sweeps are usually laid
lald engage
engage them recuss made in face of enemy or we In pigeonholes, not
reaching Mach number of 8 represents bomber attacks on
on the whole they show the Cabinet or the
de a speed of 8/10 of the speed of behind the chemy lines, in which targets well fence departments. Ambassa-an
to do the right thing on As I said earlier, the role of dors excluded from conferences sound. Few straight-winged alr-
at Mich case there will invariably be a the spur of the moment, which the Sabre Wings in Korea is the In the very countries to which craft are controllable
screening force and close escort, are
art are both fundamentals of fighter maintenance of air superiority. In each case the chief change they were accredited. Tactical numbers in excess of .82 or .84. scree
Sweeps are also
also carried out even
dying. They almost always They are outnumbered more than has been to telescope several blunder after blander bewilder- The Sabre, as I have sald, can do
if no other operations are planned outnumber us, yet it is very ten to one by the enemy and yet ministries into one. In Moscow ing statesmen, and destroying + Mach, which is a consider with the object of destroying seldom they will press Home for more than a year they have itself the Ministry of Stain
able improvement.
MIGs and keeping up a constant their attacks with any real de achieved air superiority over Security has been telescoped
ssure on
the enemy.
North Korea, and one of the into that of Internal Affairs. MIGS
all operate from
practical results of this is that The same
true inn tho - THE accusation that daws in
north of the Yalu River, which tho Foreign machinery had such dire effects Were attached to two Fighter have found it impossible to use De flew to Korea in June and is the Manchurian border. They supported by numerous
NOTHER factor, which. wa examples. An they mount, one Interceptor Wings there-two of airfields in North Korea for the
that after another, the result is that us to cach Wing. We flew everal simple reason
they have
were all glad to see, is that missions with
our the book ceases to be the retraining
prevent our the MIG pilots gunnery is not cord of the breakdown of
au all it might be. Their armament is and finally became Bgher-bombers putting them squadrons a
of action. We are not, of good, consisting normally of one department. It becomes an Im combat ready at the beginning of out
allowed to
the 37, mm. cannon and two 23 mm.. passioned attack on the reputa-July. As we had expected, we course, 80
border.
to Dgainst do what
calibro dead found very Uttle difference be of
six -.50 patrol south of the Yalu River. machine
We have also and one living Sir Warren tween American operational pro- Fisher, then head of the Trea-cedures and our own. Some of at heights ranging from 45,000 noticed that MIG 15 appeara ittle feet downwards and wall for to be unstable fore and aft. When sury, and Lord Vansitiart. It is the terminology A little
them to come Beros).
the MIG pllot tightens not their good faith which is different for example, we had
up his The MIGS have questioned; it is their actions.
considerable turn a bit to remember to say "left" and
too enthusiastically his It is up to Lord Vansittart to "right Instead of "port" and advantages over us at this point, aircraft is able to snap, roll and have been look after himself. No doubt "starboard" but it did not take They are operating over their spin, and there he. will do so.
as long to fall into line.
own territory and close to their several cases observed of MIG We all started off like every- own bases. They have on spinning into the ground with- "Diplomatic Twilight Sir Wal body ciso es wingmen By the efficient radar warning system, out having been hit at all. There ford Selby, KCMG, CE, CVU, (Murray, 181.)
time we had flown twelve or We on the other hand are two is no doubt though that the
reputations.
great
Two reputations
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Not So Good
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5.
Just how remote can you make
AN atomic experiment
which will rival the emote control?
wildest schemes of Beach- comber's Dr. Strabismus is
to be staged by scientists
of the Harwell atom station later this month.
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
to be sent to a receiving stà- Throughout this complicated lion in Oxforti.
Ernest
cowering down as they zoomed towards them. Some pursued and fought with invisible mice on the floor.
The delusions subsided after four days.*
ger.
FOR THE GARDEN ceremony, which is to be broad- It has been devised to cele-
GARDEN SEEDS brate the opening of the first 3 This signal will be relayed entt by the BBC, Sir
standing minale, more quickly 誌 full-sculo uranium (mine In the by telephone cable to Har: Oppenheimer will be
well, where it will set in mo- only a few feet from a lever they are exposed to a beam of South African goldðelds..
This is what the scentiats (lon a new robot machine in which could start the machinery radio waves for a few seconds have scheduled to happen;-
vented by the scientists there, directly,
The robot will' automatically
CAT-DELUSIONS:
before sowing, scientists claim today:
1 At Harwell Sir John Cock-pull out the control. rods which
The waves heat up the needs croft, the atom chief, will start up Harwell's high-power-
internally and speed sprouting, make a short speech saying how ed atom furnace.
TEN London cats develop valuable this new source of 4 The furnace will beat up ed the "D.T.a” after being
AH, THAT'S BABY. uranium will be for defence.
rapidly as the atoms inside rescued from the Convey The speech will be radioed it spilt, and on reaching a cer- Hiland floods, veterinary surgeon LATEST Harley Street to South Africa
tain power close a switch John M. Alltobell reports.
story: "Why do you keep 2 At the Daggatontein mine, causing a radio plaust to Do Three of them behaved a
the baby in such a high cot?" though they were wading in B went back to Johannesburg;-
doctor' - askod
young near Johannesburg, * 0,500. miles away, Sir Krnet Oppen- 5 This signal will be picked water, picking their feet up and mother. She explained: "Most of the time we're in the living helmer, the gold and diamond up by a mechanism which thaking them.
Palmas room watching the television millionaire, will spanic in reply, will start up the uranium ex- Others began to chuse, and we want to be able to hear Ho, will then prosa; a - button,; `traction machinery at the Dag- imaginary 'fying insects, trying him it he fails out "fin vousing a powerful radio signal "gafonieki ›mdays.
10. grab them in" mid-air-gund
--[London" Express Kervice) -
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not one bomb has been dropped Provinces and, in all the cases on our front-line troops or anywhere identification is possible," where else in South Kores during Berla's friends are: moving into that time.
high places.
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