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Put 'em on us!
pleeeze Big Brother!
THE · CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1954.
BIG BROTHER
IS LISTENING TO.
BB C
1954 - OR "1984"?
MANKIND
DIED BY
HIS OWN
HAND
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AMINAL CRACKERS
SMALL, local war hns. Just beon declared. It is a sort of private war with me on one side and 'on the other the AMINALS.
Animals are what my older unmarried daughter (second birthday the other day) calls all creatures the aize of Brighton crabs and smaller.
in my hair
The into-the-jungle explorer turns over his insect-bitten notebook
● EVER SINCE'I got back to England, London friends (who haven't omtured fether than the North Circular Rona since 1953, bar a rough week in the rain at Ramsgate last jaly) krep saying t "How lucky you were to get away from it all, old boy," Each time I thought, "If you're, so envious, why don't you go >"
Just tohy Pi turned the pages of my Africda notebook, and soan began to find the probable reasons, Take this entry from last September. I was somewhere in the French Camerooni....
for example. That is the fancy name for a needle-nosed blood- sucker with a blood-red GITOW down a back.
There is another little party called brunetila gloriosa,
her
and
black,
it
Sho brunottia
habli of
chum, on me, brunettes have long. tickly loss-threo pairs sach. They are also blood- suckers, or they probably to themselves, being 50 fah-di-dah-psychedidao. (There.
another mozzy.)
retor
Jiggers are the most famous little flees of these parts, have already had a fow pre- liminary slemishes with them.
your
This is the group which includes all such items as "safari ants," jungle being bitten so much that safari ants already mobilled spiders, flying beetles, mos- you do not know whether and doing manoeuvres outside The female burrows into quitoes, jiggers, sandflies,
you are scratching your foot just belove tsetse nics, ecratch-me-till with your hand or your my cosy Makia hut. (Makin ed" (madain and epts Bro dug
-hurtse-fles.
I went to sleep in skin, and lays her eggs there.
I have had myself "deligger= 4
are the tough-built tribe in the out with
tho
tion. African French of part of
women are most sitilled at this operation. Mony an African
hand with your foot.
I daglern That is the exact stato We combatants in this
reached before I issued my Cameroons.) war aro Alled with
Im-imatum tonight. I have been placable hatred. No wen- itching steadily towards that
ultimatum during the past oight in pons are, barred.
weeks in the jungle.
"
Edward Lear (who wrote the Limericks) had a very descriptive Latin-style namo for animals: Nasticreechin
Ants!
this
every wook
Safari anto always march courtship has begun with a sym-
armies, in straight lines, pathetic defiggering. and they cat everything anis
can eat which they come across on the way. I mean every- thing. Not just crumbs, but
reached Crorluppia. But that does FRONTIER tension not make the point about when I observed an
snapping point earlier tonight
army of can
IS THERE ANY HOPE FOR MAN?
com-
S the world ap- so glittering that Commu- proaches the second niat countries and Western half of the fateful nations alike have a 1950's it is faced pelling reason to conserve with two altuutions which their main armament and have never existed before. never use it destructively,
1 With the overwhelming
After analysing these
believe they add
п
up
CHAPMAN PINCHER
gives his first
report
دان
a remarkable mission to find out from Britain's
top experts what lies ahead in the Age of the Atom
BEST
SAHARA
that
Russians put to work for man's benef
within the next few years,
power of the H-bomb unique circumstances with tactic atom weapon-the because they could not with- ·inberatories have ensured proved in American and Rome of the beat-informed Russian tests it is now cer- military and political minds baby bomb or shell which stand H-bomb blast. There is the power of the atom az ut tain that a war between I East and West would end in to mutual disaster. A worth while military victory is no longer possible for either side and both sides know it.
This situation will con- tinue because neither side is likely to devise any de- tence against H-bomb attack effective enough to give it an advantage which might make, war seem profitable.
Is it peace?
most hopeful out- look for a lasting peace of unprecedented prosperity.
to
Until I examined all the evidence made available me in this inquiry I was in- clined to counter timistic outlook with stock the op-
arguments:—
can be used locally on the no evidence that the
have any shelter policy. battlefield.
The cost of dispersing in- dustry is prohibitive.. The sprawling industrial chies which made it possible for have Britain, America, and Russia to becomo atomically armed make them the most vulnerable to atom attack.
Premier Malenkov has told the Supreme Soviet that both sides stand to lose by an atomic war.
There is always danger when decision rests with dictators; but with passing of Stalin's one-man Armament races have al- rule the risk of rash action ways ended in wars;
by Russin seems less likely,
80
The Russians have many divisions we could not stop them if they decided to occupy Europe:
Power - mad politicians make war inevitable;
Defence will always catch up with offence.
THE Allies' plans to coun- ter the massed manpower of the Communists depend on the fullest use of atomic
I am now convinced that. weapons and H-bomb. So ho
the unprecedented situation agreement which would out-
created by the super law atomic weapons and al- low full-scale war to be weapons outmodes histori. fought by other means is cal argument. possible.
BOTH lose
7 For the first time in history the main arma- ment of the opposing forces SINCE atomic explosive can --the dtomie explosive and, bo used as a fuel three
IN
ITS power
There is now no doubt that cheaper electricity for factories, mines, steel plants, railways, and homes can be dragged from the alom,
But the greatest promise of
ROSES
Id each
Plague!
complete loaves. Bakeries it Escorpions we have come across in Africa have been necessary. The only way you such whoppers that my daughter, would not put them in the "eminal" group. Sho
would classify them "gee-gecs,"
head them off from your larder is by moking a moat
of
by
i petrol
round it.
or hot
طمه
My particular safark aste attacked at-23.00 hours this very night.- But they made a too-. teal error in sending mặt a bunch of hungry scouts a few minutes ahead of tho rest,
The scouts bit me
almost simultaneously
ርዝ
A
wide
trout.
Safari ants cannot
really eat people, but they like to try
i have
*been
す
Africa long enough to exactly what happening: I
Jknow wis
shot out of my sleep- Ing bag like a deton- ated space-rockset, and lold myself down
TOM
which signifies any living creatures bigger than Brighton crabs,
the
Scorpions are 'size of a coffeo réucer, and look as if they are made of liquorice. Their sting can kill a chlid.
We have not come across many, except at a valley villogo whire we stopped a hundred miles back, It had. plague.
I was just going to aloep on a pleasant straw bed prepared for me by the vilinge chief when I noticed a scorpion in my stoep-
STACEY bag, which I had
On the earth In another corner of the hut. But by about two hours after mid- night they caught up with me.
Direct Hit!
thrown down bestdo ao. I shot it. Normally 1 do not shoot aminals. My chief mode of attack la a powerful mirprise swat!
For aminais of the smaller sizes I soften up with large, quantities of DDT, followed by vicious swatting.
Co I am spending the rest of the night outside, by a fire, Ever since I have been by this dre I have been bitten non-stop The one weapon of the enemy by mosquitoes, There is one I shall not be able to eliminate at this. moment whispering is their noise. When you settle sweet nothings in my right ear..
down for the night in the
All kinds of aminals like to fungie, the tropical air is filled bite me, but mozzies especially with the racket of crickets and locusts. On restless mighs in I have just swatted that the open, a loud-legged cricket And mozzy I mentioned a few lines can keep you awake. above. Ear-lobe right.
Direct crickets do not sleep at all at
night.
hiti
Tho aminals in this jungle (Just got mezzi No. 3, with region of Central Africa go out my pencil. It settled on mự of their way to be unpleasant, writing pad. Good shot, Stacey.) Take cadleera rubramarginata,
William Hickey
ability power lies in its part. This Man Of Destiny Has Devoted His Life To A Dream
On the
oll counts large-scale shooting-war seems to have reached stalemate
Atomic fuel weighs so little and I con and so rarely needs renewing find no
defence scientist or that "pocket" plants to generate military expert who belloves power could be bullt in almost thia situation will be altered every crea of the world which by the discovery of any has remained undeveloped for counter-measure,
Jack of it.
By the time the guided 'mis- Through this unique adyan- rile is effective. enough to take the atom ban held oil Lar the recent past 100 bombers bring down even 50 percent of greater hope of improving the could drop 1,000 tons of invading planes, long-range lot, of "have-not" nations than high explosive on an enemy city rockets with atomic war-heads. any political creed, If 80 got through the delences will have been developed". by Now, if only one bomber gets through it
drop the equivalent of 45,000,000 tons,
сал
I
- tho
ukans
turies the
ago Haw
of
London. say that. Let's just say he is the Middle East but to Perda in the efst and westwards to
· HAVE been haunted, more confident.
And the reason for this con- Northern Africa. by this scene for two ndence is the Anglo-Egyptian A. new world Power.
And, though Bustani would or three days. It was agreement, Our decision to
never admit I think he would a dinner party for four or leave. Suez. five.
to ace this new world Much credit has gone in the like The candles burned
Arab world to. Emlie for that. Power Dominion of the with a soft glow on, the or he has spent much money British Commonwealth. table. Minister, another M.P., a opinion here in that direction.
There was an ex- trying to influence public No Arab has had dreams Uko
thi
M hammedan sinco member of the House of His word runs
swept westwarde con- under the sign of Lords, the host, and my I think much of that credit · crescent. self.
And what a paradox Is not Bustani's. I think it is But the man who dominated due to the ordinary man in the the table was Emile Bustani, street in Britain, “
I have written about him Who has deno much thinking I do not know what will be-
Christian in the last few years. Who go, come of those dreams. tham WITH the main nations now. Uefore. He
Arab of the Lebance who has longar
But as I walked homo Who wants to could soo new countries, new countries, "rackos for peace, plon should made a great fortune. And who of be tried, reason may at lasts now spending most of his crablish a new relation with worlds coming into being. rador stations, and robot-guided have one food, in the door which time trying to stod Auddle we a-licht have. EVER. I am glad such men are living.
make P dream the countrie
countries the led to rule, Emile started in a humble
both sides.
Those weapons would arrive at such speed and with so utile That Was U10 estimated warning that interception of an power of "Jughead" the effective proportion
of super-sized H-bomb which the will not be possible, Americans were scared to test After a smaller weapon had.. showered "death" ash" Japanese Ashermen 90 miles away.
on
such
MORE time
is tho
It.is
like Emile, He is ♬ dresmer. that 'Bustanil is a Christianl
dominato wants to ogred that the Eisenhower
come
trườ
A country-wide network
wants to create the only way. But he has a lion-heart,) missile launchers might shoot opens to atele plenty.
the *ompiro down some of the incoming
trade 7 - Wasted-an empl
I am glad I have met thermie. rockets; but building it would. The challenge of putting the
[A: man "og malim hight, „
Not of atom to constructive. purpose rather podgy, speaking excellent and mult bankrupt any nation. both
racial pride and aromains. should offer ample outlet for English, smoking a large cigar. human, onergies, which have so But a man who, like Disraeli often spent themselves in con- and Rhodes of Africa, has not Bustam's stock stands high now. dict. All that is needed is more only dreamed dreams but in- time without war.
dp tende to see them realised. Middle East.
Dangerous men.
The producilon monstrous "wenpons by sides has increased the mutual penalty for failure to keep peace, but has reduced the risk
the plant for making it million times more power that failure will occur, will not be wasted if it is ful than coal, the race to vi nover used in war.
Every ounce of atomic ex plosive in the U.S., Russian, and British stockpiles "cat be used as fuel to set free colossal quantities of elec trict power for homes and
#tockpiles
The danger that either side
GREAT promise
dangerous ilves
Tlike Emile.
I admire him.
He is a man of destiny,
Leading
Credit for Susz
But sull the fact
An- English schooling.
Emile has gone back now to through the his Middle East for Christmas,
His word runs DATA The main purposé až, this, visit”
And Halemingt
to his quick,was to collect bis daughter xalted volcs running on 1, too. Myrna who is at school in began to understand his dreams. Kalland, sekeja
Arab world to me—and insose to you -
glomeration of countries,
ruled by-feudal; democratia:
pile up atom armament might try to stage a surprises conviction is so frm that After my bike with the men "a growing group of Govern best fited to judge I belleve can become the 'race for knock-out attack seems to re atomic plenty by only a cede as the bomb Blocks rise.
ment experta is pressing for the fint we, hall "get that time, el slight change of course, i
--eventpa) ebandonment; of "costly" ballero we – may”, already be rand ineffective, air defences through the most 2 d dancerous asia is now so ringed by the abellion of Anti-Aircraft your of atomic threat. President Elsenhower's Allled bare equipped with Conknand la the hip results atoms of peace' project, by such a Pearl Harbour is in the alternative lavrellanos un
atomic weapons that reprisal to Cong
ZITile your - 1954 -- was the
his trurs We Know! which the atomic Powers evitable.The Soviet
ree deadline for Russian dream, are good: dreams. I do enriched And delerson, pulses ofy
led defence not know whelber plan to co-operate to develop are so widely disperson atomic energy for constructia that retaliation/to
outh B add heart Allied agjáči, "la @gunile tive use, may be the firet can, Blight kworve in this change.
a
ime
Bustani wanted her to educated here. One day she
will be a great häiress,
thinkka