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NATHANIEL GUBBINS
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N The Sparrow's Nest The Sparrow and his wife were aitting on elther side of their tiny fireplace reading little bits of newspaper they had picked out of a local "duat- bin..
"Oli
what a smashing type he, nst be sold The Spar- row's wife, her bearly cy's bright with excitement, could kiss him, I could really,“ "What has icme poor devit dose to deserve that?" asked The Sparrow.
"Haven't 7/01 redd about the American robin who has flown the Atlantic?" naked his wite "I wonder whe made him, do it?
The
"Perhaps Senator Joe Mc- Carlhy was after him for un- American activities," said Sparrow.
don't have to be silly about serious things," said his wife. The paper says he had high wind blowing up his fall that Wasn't The
way.
knaw." don't
paid The Sparrow "Perhaps he couldn't slon_hlimself."*
all
tucky?
*}
"I wife must be encr So proud of him. i wonder what he's thinking a! thla បដT {{ minute?"
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"I wouldn't know." said The Sparrow. "BALL she could be nother reason for his light." "Oh, what an awful thing
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after year," said The Sparrow.
had been "But suppose drowned?
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please," said his wife, the tear rolling down her beak,
"I might," said The Spar- row, If the prevailing At- antic winds were from East
to West,"
There was a loud bang as ho left home and landed in less than Д minuto in The Other Sparrow's Nest. The Other Sparrow, in a spider's web negligee, was putting the finish- her ing touches of lipstick to bepk.
That you breaking the soun barrier?" she asked,
The
Who else?" Rsked Sparrow. "I'd break the light barrier for you. Do you know what's on my mind?”
"With A mind like yours it's a einch," said The Other Spar- row. "Have a drink instead."
Shall we fly the Atlantic to- gether?" asked The Sparrow.
"What's wrong with a trans- Atlantic plane?
"We would fly into the sct- ting run, with the wild sers -
ing beneath Us and only the wings of love to bear us through storm and tempest to D safe harbour."
"For me," said the The Other Sparrow, "I would prefer the wings of an aircraft. How's the wife?"
"Q.K said The Sparrow. "Yoù win. I'll have `n drink.”
Good Luck, Gilbert
S Gilbert Harding is off ou ♫ à son voyage next month, from and an I have gathered occasional encounters with him that he also Anda bores unbear able, I wonder if he would like In know how 1 went into action
theen these against
pests the last time 1 crossed the Atlantic?
Since you can't leave a ship at tea. unlesa the bores drive you to suicide, the only certain way of avoiding them is to slay in bed. But as staying in bed won't do Gilbert's health any un good he will have to get and face them before the trip is over.
For a few days he will he able 10 avoid them because hores are recognisable at a dis- tance. They are the people who are up early in the morning tramping the deck, filling their lungs with ozone,
crew silly questions,
A
the trying They bright eager
gond mornings, offensive friendliness, and passion for useless formation.
to organise deck games.
by are knownL
their hearty giances,
nationality and possibile 'desti- nation, he can use my standard reply, which is as follows:
Cummings
1954,
"We're not letting Mr. Molotov be overwhelmed by cheering crowds of enthusianic East Germans -like Queen Elizabeth and the enthusiastic Australians....
REPORT ON
THE ATOM.
"
London Express Service
FIFTH DAY
BOMB STOCKPILE
STAVED OFF WAR
A
T the end of the long, bustling atomic production energy
line, with its far- flung exploration parties, re- mines, futuristic
for.
There has probably been more talk about atomic "Not only do I know the
than about any zriga tonnage, displacement weapons and dead weight of that ship other
atomic phase of but I can also see its name at energy. Yet there is
a distance of five miles with
By Gordon Dean
H-bomb
I
want
The Explosions
to
ដ
cred.
over
as a
to the United Nations a plan whereby we should give up the atomic bomb and place ufomiu energy under International con- trol.
By these means, with “the FUTIO
for
Chairman, U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, 1950-53 time-like throwing sand on to make war. They were used best intentions in the world, we When Gilbert Ja Anally mote
volcuno.
by the United States, and they proceeded to augment the im-
by cornered it will be to use try plants, and booming con- "What I never could under- were delivered
aircraft pression. aiready created by with struction activity, lie the stand is why we didn't use a ing to drive them away
operating in skles
which Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that a weapon that was glares or sharp answers. Bores secret locations where our few A-bombs in Korca. We we had won control and against here was never lake offence and
Reds
wespons an adversary who was not cap- worse than all other never national stockpile of atomic could have blasted those
and able
in understand sarcosm
and
war of retaliating either
somehow worse than weapons is stored. These right out of those hills
effective itself. kind or in any other Therefore, when they try to
back to China.” are the end
"A-bombs
homeland. interest him in passing ships. weapons
like polson way against our are
Meanwhile, in the absence of sking what kind of ships they product. They are what all gas; both sides have them and As a result of the use of these international control, and with are, their gross tonnage,
cities of the realisation that the distaste- dis the activity is about and both sides are afraid to use bombs, two Japanese
moderate size were destroyed, ful atomic bomb still constituted placement or dead weight, their what the production line is them." The
with 100,000 fatalities, and six with
a bulwark against the aggressive keep my sanity: let's talk about days after the second attack the designs of Soviet Communism, baseball"
Japanese nation, which had pre- we proceeded to develop bigger - viously given every indication and better bombs, and build up that it would continue to IC a stockpile of them ready sist ever an invasion, surrend- use by our strategie air forces f With the the occasion arose.
military of our It is generally accepted Some of the misunderstanding
demobilisation about atomic weapons is prob- fact that there was a direct re- forces in Europe, the Far East, lationship between these two and at koine, this stockpile, ably due to the small amount latic of experience the pubtle has had events, and I am one of those paradoxically, became the most with them. Fortunately, none who bellove this to be true. I important single factor in our has ever been exploded in the believe this, not because the strategie defence planning,
by wrought
the United States except under con- destruction trolled test conditions. Of the atomic explosions at Hiroshima at least forty-nine that have and Nagasaki was so great as to
tho been delonated in various carls cripple
Japanese
All of this had both good and. to the point where It of the world, only six have been machine seen and studied by people not could no longer continue to bad effects. On the bad side, I The captain's
connected with
it obviously would say, was the fact that we the atomie ght because Harold Briskett, bluff old
or armod wasn't but rather because the succeeded admirably-sided by ses dog who has a kind heart, It is not unusual to hear such energy programmes
services of the United States, United States had demonstrated cage Russian propagandists-In beneath an extremoly rough contradictory comments
Great Britain, or the Soviet that it possessed an awesomely working ourselves into exterior, lle is in love with a following:
Union. Here is a chronology of destructive new weapon and tan where the most important beautiful Chinese stowaway
The atom bomb is the most the atomic explosions that have was capable of using it. called Mee O MI, who la horrible and flendish weapon taken place throughout Communist agent for the ever devised by man. 'It'a sin- world up to the time of this *North Korean navy. Litus
ful for
on making writing: us to go does he know that there is them."
1045: Total of 3, all by the a time borab in the hold and "The A-bomb doesn't amount that the ill-fated crew to much; why, those soldiers out US at Alamogordo, Hiroshima,
will
Nagasaki. and ---haver reach Porto Blotto.” In Nevada were right up beside explosion and weren't hurt on
the naked eye. Tullt at Bark-probably less real under- what atomic ing Creek In 1821 it is called standing of The Jolly Fanny Adams and weapons are, what they can i bound for Porto Blatta do, and how they affect us, with a cargo of
salted bo'sung which the natives of than there is about any that district eat with rellal, other part of the atomic believing them to the kind energy programme. of smoked salmon they serve
in the tourist class,
ald
name Jis
#
Contradictions
as the
ha
the
Misgivings
war
at nil. They were laughing when: 40: Total of 2, both by the size of our stockpile.. in August
If this sort of thing doesn't chase them off a backs-to-the-It wall method is to pretend you are a cardsharper,
was over,"
at Bikini Peclic.
1947: None.
"Did you see where the atomle 1848: Total of 3, all by the energy people blew up a whole at Eniwetok Atoll in the ising in the Pacific? Why, they Pacific." wiped it right off the map!"
"Atom bombs
are bad all
Bad Side
in
the
a posi-
of
single ingredient in our defence arsenal was tucked away where It couldn't be taken out, except under the most extreme condi- tions, without a good deal of and Perhaps if the Japanese gov- coul-searching at home ernment had known the exact lossin
A
our repulation for abroad. morality 1945 (after tho attacks, It was "Atoll in the virtually
No one appreciated this situa non-existent), they tion moro than the Russians. would not have surrendered. By means of it, they were given short of an invasion. But they a much greater freedom
postwar world did surrender. This fact, I feel, action han ever since had a direct, than they would otherwise have bearing on the way in which enjoyed. They were, because atomic bombs have been viewed, of the wraps in which our A- not only by the peoples of the bombs were kept and our world, but also by a good many general weakness in other areas, of the world's military strateg-free to create a seemingly end 1951: Total of 18, including ists and diplomats, including less series of what, from our "If the Russians ever decide to let go on us with A-bombs, 12 by the US. In Nevada, 4 by scans of our ow
-point of view, wore serious, but the U.S. at Eniwetok, 2 by the
sltur- there won't be a thing we can U.S.S.R
The Japanese surrender, then, nonetheless sub-critical, do except clobber them back.
found the United States in the lions which did not involve for 1932: kenderi Civil defence is just a waste of cluding 3 by the US. in Nevada, being the sole possessor of a obliteration, but yet had.
Total of at least 11, in uniquely favourable 'position of the Russians the risk of atomic
at least 2 by the U.S. at weapon that (was almost excellent chance of redounding. Eniwetok, I by the British at universally credited with ព to their benefit. Monte Bello Island, Australia,“ capucity to destroy cities on
1958, up to July 1: Total of ratio of one bomb per elty, and 11, all by the U.S. in Nevada.
Take out a pack of cards and way to the bore, "Ever scart marked cards? If diamonds are a girl's best friend these are the best friends of a crook like me." The fool will spread the story round the ship. The next time you want to be alone ask in a loud voler, "Would any body nare for
bridge?"
Kamo of
1949: Total of 1, by right, but if you live a couple. U.S.S.R., "somewhere in
Soviet Union,"
of miles from the nearest tar- get, you'll be okay.”
Hollywood Juniors Follow Father
From EVELYN IRONS
New York. Joel McCrea's son is a movie FOLLYWOOD calls them acer too. "Jody McCren, aged
1950: None.
Two For War
the
the
IT
to end wars, on a ratio of two bombs per war,
1
It is an interesting and, think, complimentary comment
Good Side
an
On the good side was the fact and I am among those who on the character of the Ameri- Armly believe it is a fact that our Of all those, only the ones at can people that our principal our atomie monopoly and Hiroshima and Nagasaki In reaction to this turn of events stockpile of bombs for strategie 1948, the two at Bikini in 1940, was one of acute embarrass Russions in that it made it im
deterrent to the and meat. and one each in the 1982 1983, scries in Novada have been
possible, or at least foolhardy, Many pokesmen for the for them to commit the
and a college 2001 200m
be seen with his father and official.observers. This is
community
"use was
the sons of film actors who Yvonne de.Ccalo⋅ in ́à ̧new, flim. I unfortunately, a very broad stated quita candidly that they Arrevocable act that would bring."
entertained grave misgivings on all-out war. They tried to are following In their Not everybody remembers fathers footsteps. And that Tyrone Power is a "Holly cura out which to build an ac about the role they had played do. just about everything they curate public understanding of in unleashing this terrible newcould get away with short of tour of the studios shows wood Junior His father, tomic weapons and their cap force upon the world bringing on all-out war Ourf
Tyrone Power, Wanlor, was an abilities there will be more The atomic bomb was often atomic stockpile, thereforg that thereware plenty of actor in allent pictures, open? shot, and there, should called "the absolute weapon, probably more than anything thêm v
bertengkaranyes
Now being; era With figur Beory, Junio inend of
By
fe a carbon copy of the Great inv:}, "Profis@Aist his off-scree
ventures make; tiso 'headūnna?
At 21, John Barrymore, juntos,
W the forerunner of Armaged oise; brought the To date two atomic bombs.don" and "a alimpse of Hades safely through and only two, have been used Simetrioz Many of our most Years when we wer
The Wampinent derament and civia weak in conyello "tactical, Fedders openly questioned bisu vaCopyright-of
free: