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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1955.
Nathaniel Gubbins
OUT, the curse of Sidney Smith, Eng land's only deliberate ly funny clergyman, of Christopher Columbus, of ancient Greeks, of a thou sand English squires and of Little' Lord Fauntleroy's grandfather, has hit me again.
fact that many goutees can hardly bear the sight of either, and that some are teetotallers and vegetarians.
But his most violent hatred is reserved for cartoonists who draw funny pictures of furious elderly men with a toot in bandages,
'and' for all people
who think gout is a joke,
These are the Sartic bone- headed morons who gather round street accidents, who read barror comics, who ring up the B.B.C. if they don't like a pro- grarame, who are obviously the "proles" portrayed In 1984. a bitter and brilliant satire their were unable to empty minds appreciate.
slope arma, please order arms, and please left and right turn?" "Yes, sir. The R.S.M. sald piense."
"Then, what's this man object- ing to please in a sarky way, sle":
"Ho
says the RS.MAN
"Sarky?
"Sarcastic, sir."
"Oh, well. How many soldiers have we left?"
"We never had any, sir" "This is no time to be funny, How many privates left?"
"That's the last, sir." "We have no battalion?" "No, sir. either, sir."
A doctor once told me that the pain of gout at its worst was comparable only to the sharp agonies of childbirth. As he had never experienced gout and presumably had never become mother 1
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re it is these beef-headed dolts, these fat-witted dunderpates, garded his statement ns unreliable, though I was these asinine, puerile, drivelling,sions?"
vacant, sottish louts; these willing
to admit that if blockheaded rumpe, these un- 1 the comparison was true teachable. Ungifted spish
bovines and buzzards, these... any woman who had a
all right, alright. second child, except by sheer accident,
mad.
must be
I have no iden
how
Let me look at the horrible news,
mothers-to-be feel towards Army 1980 ?
their fellow creatures al the critical period. But I know how a goutee feels. He hates everybody in the entire world..
He not only pours his scorn and
"I would ake to ste provi-
And no brigade
"Are you saying the whole brigade's resigned?”
"The whole signed,
"division's" re-«
What about the other girl-
"All gone, sir."
"We have Army at all?"
no chaps in the
"Only the officers and a few N.C.O3, sir."
"Oh, well
There's only mat
thing for us to do."
"Yes, sir."
“It's been nice knowing you.”
"Nice knowing you, sir.” "Goodbye."
"Goodbye, sir."
sions in this Bill whereby the Via Dolorosa
soldier who is fed up with the Army can retire from it by **** handing in his resignation." Mr Emrys Hughes in Parlia
ment. venom on the
unhappy people around him, who are bumbling im DEAR; simple Mr Hughes is
1980, when,
year of national
either living in a dream beciles if they try to help, world or is thinking of. the sadistic monsters if they Army in the glorious tread too heavily in the income doubled, all soldiers will
with the sick-room, and babbling get double pay and double idiots if they say anything rations and still woe't like it. at all, but he is capable of Another resignation, sir," muttering unprintable in said the adjutant to the colonel. sults about his friends,
"What's about public men and women They have who have never done him bed." any harm, about politicians who probably have, and can even work himself up into
a rage about
completely
CCORDING
to my luck with the stary today Travel seems traught with
unforeseen complications."
I will tell you about the com- plications.
From my bed to the bathroom. six chairs have been placed at convenient intervals,
from
When I risc
my bed yelling Kurses at shocked females I keep the swellen foot the trouble
lever now? away from the ground. their breakfast in myself or to the other foot with a stick, and grab the back of the Arst chair with the other
"This man said the coffee was hand. cold, sir."
"How many times have I told unknown and often im. you that their coffee must
hot if the country is to have an
be
aginary people in distant Army at all? Any other rea- parts like China
and son?" Japan..
In fact, every goutee becomes a Gilbert Harding
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"His boots hurt, sir. He got wet on parade yesterday, he has chicken too
often for dinner, and the regimental sergeant major was rude to him."
He has a special loathing for people who think gout is a self- inflicted tortüre, a "rich man's
by- complaint brought about
"Didn't I give orders that the drinking port and eating quan. R.S.M. must always say please Ulies of red meat, despite the shun; please stand at east, please
T
-- This is all right if I am skil- ful enough to balance half my weight on the first chair. if I am not it topples over and I fall
June bug on the garden path.
back into bed as helpless us "a
One journey to the bathroom and back along my Via Dolorosa took 15 minutes. After that it was wonderful to see a picture of Dr Bannister finishing a mile in 3 mins, 58 secs, and to read an excruciating column cf "How to Use Your Toes, “În Ballet Dancing."
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AFTER SEEING THE H-BOMB FORCE
"
IN CLOSE-UP
I Have Every Faith In
The Great Deterrent
Strategic Air Command H.Q., near Omaha,
Nebraska.
W
ILL the Great De-
most
Says DON IDDON
likes
handle. It takes over three years' to train a crew properly for flying a B-47.
30min.
Pinpoint bornbing is stressed, and I've been told that by S.A.C.'s exacting standards bern'b falling 3,000st. from its target is considered a miss.
There's
There are reasons fäz assu?5« ing a difference of opinion in the Kremlin over policy towards China, There is no cause' to believe that this policy will be any more con sistent now that Khrushchev. has assumed greater power,
Russia's Two-Faced Policy
By
HUGH LUNGHI,.
a student of affairs with an extensive personal knowledge of the U.S.&R and the satellite States.
Lunghi was present så the Teheran. Yalts and Fotedam talks between Great Beltain, the United States and the U.S.§.B.
T
HE full reasons for Malenkov's resigna- tion are still obscure. . They appear to hang mainly on personal rivalries and Soviet internal prob lems. Another significant factor is the Soviet Union's. relations with China.
The fact that internal affairs alone are mentioned in the official Soviet an- nouncements about the Government changes does not mean that foreign policy is not involved. The reverse may be the case for it is the way of official Soviet announcements to divert attention from some of the major points at issue.
China's
There are practical reasons for belleving that Malenkov may have been involved in a difference pf opinion Over Soviet
policy towards China, extreme backwardness in industry makes her almost en- tirely dependent on the Soviet Union for her development. For the
time
being, aggressive Chinese foreign policy has ent of other sources,
The
DIFFICULTY
Chinese have bargained with the Soviet Union for heavy industrial equipment since Mao Tse-tung's mission to Moscow in the winter of 1949-50. The negotiations went on for a long time, for Mao had difficulty in obtaining what he wanted from Stalin.
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terrent deter? The Squadroni is superbly organised.
I've heard none of the old Free World's I hope the RAF. has got as
goed a departament.
nonsense about dropping bombs important
in a barrel trean high altitudes question is a simple and Despite all the secrecy, the
not much. On one B-47 wing movement
boasting bald as that.
Extravagant precautions
the "at Offutt Field. against sabotage, to England from Mainc the guards and guns, the elec slowest time for any of the 45 claims and assertions are rare, Leaving Offutt Field; the trically wired fences and alarm planes making the trip was Shr. General Nathan Twining, world headquarters of the signals, S.A.C. frankly
Chief of Staff of the United Strategic Air Command, I getting its name in the papers,
1 haven't seen a B-52 here, States Air Force, whom one day believe the answer is "Yes,
General LeMay may succeed, Almost every week the generals but the eight-jet mammoth
From the official com- that the terrifying might go out and make speeches to bomber that can go to Moscow says "I think that the aero- and power of S.A.C. will maintain public interest; to woo
and back" from its bases here plane, particularly since the in- muniques issued after the visit, in- it was clear that the Chinese keep the peace at least for the taxpayer; and "sweet-talk" in the United States is the vention of new weapons of had gained very little from the
has power, great heavyweight of the near credible out warfare, I don't USSR. Stalins was not eager to future. Enough B-52s have
of It's a question of General Griswold was off in been ordered to equip more think this fact is recognised his C-47 for a swing
bomber erywhere. heavy
time and education,” and re- wings.
that member
Sir Winston the country to make a series of
leaders Churchill and other speeches,
have said that this force of ours has kept us out of war so thr.."
some years.
The top General,
Curtis LeMay, 'doesn't tell me that, but he expresses the hope that he will never have to use his big bombers and their load of hydrogen and atom bombs,
Congress,
around
SAC, has naturally been the subject of several news stories Second-in-command General and articles here, but its tame Francis Griswold tells me he hasn't been as world-wide as it is convinged that the great should be. That is one reason S.A.C. annada will keep the why I have written this series. peace. He even talks of a "Pax Americana," similar to the "Pax Britannica."
Many officers and men here believe they carry, such a big- stick, that their "Sunday punch is so great, that they probably will never have to There are a few who
fight.
thilt it could come to war, but in that event they believe they could pulverise the Soviet Union to submission in fort night.
Good publicity
other enemy is ever talked
than
seven
Vast array
give China concrete material help, but preferred to confins himself to promises of support for China's
policy, zing China's ex- always encouraging
foreign
pansion In a direction away
from the Soviet Union to Korea, Indo-China,
or Formos, Ai that
Malenkoy was al- period, most certainly
the
hand man
Stalin's
General Twining also says! T this moment the
"Our primary task in the next United States is believed to have war would be to reduce
10,000
·After atom enemy's capability to strike us approximately bombs, a large and fast-grow- with his weapons. This would Today the U.S. and gamber of hydrogen bombs, involve knocking out his
more than a thousands E-475, its giant air force could bomb and thousands of other bomb-
S.A.C. stronger,
has never
been
Nof-it's always Russia here. THIS IS AN AIR
ers. The entire Air Force 22,500 plants.
bases."
bas
No delusions
I have frequently asked the.
people here: How about bomb- ing accuracy?".
war,
*
at
sir
the
Stalin's right-
the
death, Soviet attitude .ta China
hardened. Malenkov's new deal for the consumer
meant that
whatever resources the Soviet
Union
could
spare were' to go first to satisfy the de mands of the Soviet people.
Last autum
to
new era Course, no one Is
under emped to have opened in delusion that Russia's Sin Soviet relatione. A
Soyle: primary task would not also be delegation, led by Khrushchev, For security reasons S.A.C. to reduce the United States wet 10 Peking "and concluded will not release its detalled capability to strike Russia with
& series of agreements which radar-bombing accuracy figures, its weapons and Volts were but I'm told they are "sense- plans would not involve knock-
China Soviet Union under- are ing out the American bases. ter to grant China concrete tional." I can say they three
afé and to send experts. to times better "than they The two giants naturally have help the fretustrialisation were in 1949, and many times sinkar strategles, but
programme. Khrushchev ad as good as at the end of the Americans belleve that their evidently gained the ascendancy strength in planes, in hydrogen over Malenky as far as Soviet and atom bombs, in airmen Far Eastert policy was con- machines and money is far earned.
Soviet 3... other S.A.C. bases are superbly greater than the Sovi efficient Bombing today is a SAC like all good fighting far different science from what outfits, thinks if war comes t it was in the world war. can do the job alone. It rés- pects other branches of the One bombardier, cramped in Armed Services, but doesn't a cubbyhole amidships of the stem 10
them very about the headquarters here. Flying times would be. From plane, has the responsibility of "necessary, This is where the heart and the United States itself (8hr. hitting a target he sees only as brains of the antire striking 20min); from Britain (2hr. 40 & line upon his radarscope. I talked about, force, are centred. From the instructions go
min); from Greenland (3hr. Bombing is by electronics from carriers, out; but
(2hr.); great heights. actually there aren't many air- 20min); from France craft here cry, enosinous facilities, Mom French Morocco (4hr. 20 we men are chosen "with
I don't third Red China
bas
been mentioned ntore than three or four times during my talks, although one of S.A.C.'S slogens 19 "The World is S.A.C.'s Backyard.”
I have writber a good.deak
bere
The bombers are at fields all
FORCE FOR PEACE
selected targets in Russia from a steel ring of bases all over the world.
from min.);
over the United States and in mi ripoll: (Zar, · 10.
General LeMay commands five major subordinate units
Bombing crews here and
DETERMINED
Khrushchev it seems, is des
seemed to the USSR. Durin attached to the bie Peking visit he went further Soviet support for aircraft the and one officer said: | try other } Soviet
"What a waste.” -
Proper pride
Imation of tok? han
had ever gone before. It may partly his realisation that the Chinese cammot be content merely with the moral support of the Soviet Union, which has induced Soviet policy makers to step up the rate of develop SPOKE about the Army and ment of Soviet heavy industry. The bombardiers must possess
it ag' znore atomic guns, and another He may regard
"The Army has important to meet Chinese do- and high officer said:
them to comiinus the
I
tuwide
Greece (1hr.); the care of a jeweller making many parts of the Free World. from Turkey (3hr.); from Saul up a string of matched pearls"
Arabla (3hr, 20min); from according to Harold. Martin,
20 American aviatlon writer, Mediterranean carriers (1hr, 20 the Philippines min.); from three combat af forces.
(8hr. 10min.): from Okinawa Daryd two oversens air divisions. The (3hr, 40min); from Guam (Bhr. calmness, courage,
verseas units are the Seventh $0 mil) from Japan (4hr 30 intelligence. The swaggerer is got a great big gun that flies mands
over-quiet and off an atomic shell with a bell consumer goods policy from Pacific carriors rejected, the Air Divisions in England and min.);
from Alaska (1hr, introspective is turned down of a bang, but the trouble is Russia.
Swaggerers lose their nerve and you can't lng the cannon any
But this does not mean that the introspective sometimes will where except a few miles. Entushchev is a more sincere The dying time quoted is be handicapped, by conscience doesn't some practical to me, friend of China, than Malenkov, based on the assumed use of the or humanitarian reasons..
Now, the modern bomber/On the oxtary he is clearly
is the pardonable pride of Then there are the Second six-turbo-jet B-47, carrying
ambiguous policy Purwing an Airmen, Air Force, the Eighth Air average bombloader
wards China. It was on his Inidative that Force, and 15 air forces with c
young
the Fifth Air Division in French (1hr.);
Marocco.
These air divisions 10mb). operate several
“advance" bases in their areas.
dotted over the length: The B-47, which has swept- and breadth of this country. back wings, is one of the
warplanes, Al
This
Gentle warriors
the
I have been absorbed in this
by it. It has been, a: rare:óp-' man of the Boyles Dulated asigarment and even fascinated sethe
Com
"were
out to
parsely
Far Each
the
Fach-of-trese air forces has sayYOON Donly. Brewen tou mustn't thick too much portunity to meet the men who donna revelay: KayƏ”
ers,
10 World wide Kolar
array of aircraft and is tackle though ally celf-suncient","
Each has men pilot co-pilot, and third about the destruction and heavy bombers, medium bomb man who is known as the three the death you can wreak If you
reconnaissance bombers, headed monster because he are in the Air Force. fighters, tanker aircraft,***
*** and navigator i radar: operator," and trainers
bombardier all in one-the plane is cramped. Public Relations, under › the leftydligen control of Colonel Reade Tilley,
the RAF's
Jate
plans i moves – like
intricate
There imen. headquarters are: gentle- riors, but they all are, of coure a potential killers—that fy their tobusiness,
theso-plopeers to increase hold the Great Deterrent in their hands
Soviet population in the For I leave the headquarters of East as a counterweight to the the Strategic Air Command rapidly experil population with the belief that it is on Air in Northern China. Moreover Force for peace. The Great by keeping, Chins dependent on Deterrent will deter::
Ruseda economically be en sures that Russia comminues to have tho mnie say "ky-Asta, j
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