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THREE YEARS THAT MAY DECIDE THE FATE OF MANKIND
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By Sir Beverley Baxter, MP
their
commissioned
orders. In the
London. They were Americans and, werit of counseliers, just as it strong-but let us be just, Let
US WETA E do not need to therefore, they did not have the is the despeiler of judgment..
the aggressor, but let immediate resentment which Therefore, it is the duty of us try to end the fears that summon the lan- British airmen would have had the statoma of the world to haunt him., Let us speak words guage of horror because of the bombing of work patiently and firmly to that will pass the most impene nor paint the pir- British cities.
abolish fbar. Secondly. is trable frontiers and find their At any rate, like the officers their duty to come together and place in the souls of men, ture of hell to describe what
of the Light Brigade al guarentee mall" nuticos unable Only then shall we be able to happened when an atomic Balaclava, theirs wis not to to pretest their own integrity, look back upon Hiroshima and benib was dropped on Hiro reason why. Theirs was to do Thirdly and this is the hardest Nagasaki and say that the "shima
on August, 6, 1945. and kill. As
of all-they mts: werk out a tragedy and the shame of it
controls were part of armament
the tragedy and It was perhaps the most im- officers they had to carry out
"mad" system of portant moment in the his- Insanity of war there must be and than a gradual process of the share of the kiman race. Only then shall we be able to tory of scientific destruc- discipline and certainly no one arms reduction.
Just for a moment let us look intu the future 2nd say: could accuse the Americans of tion:
done everything to One
hundred thousand having caused or provoked the imagine what could be done for "We have
the ordinary people of the world save umarily from the people were killed but, of
if we could divert science and blasphemy of war and we have
course,
wealth to the bettering of man. striven to the uttermost to bring there were not HORROR"
kind. Ind 7 modern society peace du curth and goodwill to enough survivors to take
poverty is not only a crime men." away the bodies, and no VET I do not doubt that in
against the "conscience but a Y
Three years of grace! As we place to put them if they the long flight through the form of blasphemy. We have it use that brief period of time,
cloudless hud.
Oriental skies those in our power to create a world so we may decide the story of untold centuries That was, as I have said, on men must have felt some pulse in wlrich poverty and igegrance mankind for
even though their need not exist.
ahead. August 6. Three days later, of horror,
minds were concentrated on the But atomic bomb was
But they task set for them. shipbuilding as dropped on the
beyond reproach. They discouragement of the and arms centre of Nagasaki. are
were obeying orders, and 端 "Perhaps you will reall that M
Puccini's tender opera, "Madame was their duty to do so.
a recend
AI
war.
one has only to uter such words to invite the cold realist
He has no time for the dreamer, forgetting that it is the dreamer
Sir Winston Churchill talks
The same must be said of Butterfly" is set in Nagasaki, the scientists whose genius and who sets the chart for humanity. In fact, the last act opens with endless research had split the the sounds of seamen in the har atom I is not the fault of openly of co-existence with the bour preparing their ships for science that it has been made Communist world. Sir Anthony the day work
the instrument of destruction, Eden meets the Communists att The important thing about it
would
be chaotic and the conference table and helps the
Nagasaki bomb was that it
if they did not place to lessen Cowardly
tensic and increase happened to bu definitely their genius at the disposal of understanding. It does not mean superior to the one dropped on the nations which had given that co-existence will be easy to
Hiroshima. In fact, so swiftly them birth,
altain or that misunderstandings was science working that we That, however, was just over will disappear like mists before could almost use the word ten years ago.
What of today? the sun. But nothing worth! "obsolescent" in relation to the And what of tomorrow?
while is casy of accomplishment recent speech of great power Sir Winston Church CHALLENGE
bomb that way Hiroshima,
DESTRUCTIONWA
It's Still ADAM VERSUS EVE
He was born 150 years ago today HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN
By GERARD
BOURKE
HERE Ilved at Odense, persuade him to return home, He, himself, was by then very
in central Denmark, a since he was
almost tall, with a quizzical head, and long, thin, pointed feet.
literate.
poor cobbler and his Next Hans Christian tried. washerwoman wife whose using some of the letters he Then appeared the stories which helped to make him So only son, Hans, was born on bare, visiting each home April 2, 1805. So began prised owner in a clear treble read, too, as satires on conven- turn, and singing to the sur- famous. Tales that may be the true fairy-tale of one of To Professor Guldberg went the tions of the day, such as "The the greatest writers of fun honour of first protecting the Tinder Box" and "Little Ida's Flowers." For though his am- tasy. Hans Christian Ander boy und arranging for him
have regular
bition was to write dramas for servants. He also planned soine the Royal Theatre, he was told: His father hoped that private tuition, and later found
The
children's tnicz Hans would not have to him a place with the historic make you immortal. They are
Ballet. "spend his life at a
the most perfect things you have dreary Royal Purely his lanky build done. Luke Sir Arthur Sull- trade like his own, and de- made success impossible as lighted to see sessed with
OOKS like being a pretty grim future for us, chaps. As likely as not we shall all in our old age become anti-drones destined to die in harness for the sake of all those women who will by then be sitting in quietly enjoying
retirement "D knowledge the splendour CT their knitting and afternoon
tea.
the
in' an
gave us a feeling of limited comfort by propheying that there will be no world war for
not let us fail to ac- ND how fared Nagasag" the next three years. He did not A There was such a pall of
mean that at the end of three President Eisenhower's efforts dust and smoke that it was fully years we would necessarily to make America as mighty in
At before 48 hours
Allied spring at
least that's the
each others' threats, the struggle for peace as she
how observers could
Freas see it but merely informed us that the would be in the cenfilet of war, Medical that sec Nagasaki was burning fiercely aggressive powers, which Con- The spirit is the man--and the analysis.on the increasing dif like an erupting volcano. It stitute the threat to world peace, spirit of Presideet Eisenhower ference between the death-rate
catch up adds dignity to mankind.
for men and. women. was impossible to count the need that period to
In an dead.
with the non-aggressive powers,
editorial, "Adam versus Eve," world Look at the By which you will realise that Simultaneously Allied planes
today they say that at present com- dropped more
ance Peace than three icr
has been not and say, if you dare, that you putation a man on retirement a man may reckon to enjoy this pen- million leakets over Japanese only forewarned but forearmed, sce no hope. Certainly
centres, telling the people that
wo were now using the atomic UNWORTHY
bomb "and
to urging them
appeal
to their Emperor
to
sue for peace.
der
even
would have to be without hission for three years, whereas & wits if he saw po dangers ahead, woman can look forward to 12.
I claim that we are right in allowing cur hopes to exoced
but
The editrial goes on: "If, in
sen.
meals with
his
;
a van, composer of the Savoy the boy ob- dancer, yet the kindly director operas, he often felt that his
a talents a burning allowed him to appear
were fundamentally theatrical spirit. From oblin in some unimportant serious.
ballets. So appeared the now rags and small pieces of
famous poster announcing leather, he would quickly "Andersen--Trail.” fashion tiny figures for his puppet theatre, animating them with childish chat
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His first attempts at writing plays were based on folis tales told by his grandmother. And substantial increase in his state A neighbour, widow Bunke. although "Altsol" and Te pension. tod, saw the fair-haired loaded with grammatical errors. Duckling" is, in fact, largely Robber of Vissenberg were His famous tale, "The Ugy ill-proportioned ይ። £ young stork, playing with his minia each hid unmistakable jewels, autobiographical, "Uncle Hans," ture theatre and invited him
I was, in fact, through "Alisol" home,
that be
Councillor exclaimed a little girl to whor During the long winter evenings, she read him famous Collin, a director of the theatre, must have been someone
tre, he was reading it, "surely there stories
"and sagas from Danish who
who became his first real at literature.
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He found him a stair knew the ugly duckling.
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"Jonna," he replied sadly, "if Fear Elsinore. And so, after three years of her new husband, was idle, "and bv: perseverance; Hans Chris while washing clothes in the tian had his first proper tuition,
and icy rivers, she wished her son though Latin
German "would join a profitable trade.
grammar seemed dull indeed after theatrical dreams. He had to live with the headmaster and Hans Christian saw his first his wife, an ill-tempered pair, real play when a company ar- and was forbidden to Scribble rived from Copenhagen.
He at
at plays during term. haunted the theatre so long that With his ability recognised by at last he was given a ene the state through the scholar- word part dressed as a page in ship, Hans Christian found him fine silks. Shortly afterwards, self invited to wealthy house- only 13 years old, he holds to recite verses. And, once rsuaded his mother to let him
let him his belated schooling WA over, travel alone to Copenhagen the returned
to he had work in his chosen world. ve
with
TI/HAT," then," are we to do
cur fears.
the course of the next decade, On August 10, four days with these short years of It is a healthy sign when the existing female advantage after Hiroshima, the Japanese grace? Certainly we must go Russia declares that there must is to extend still further, then Government asked for suren- on storing up bigger and better be a great increase of foodstuffs the malm of the species may
come develop bombs. The laboratories have in the Soviet. No government, It is 2 SKTY to chill the become our firs line of defence. however armed or policed, can sort of and-drone destined, as soul, yet which of us has the The sailor, the soldier and the deny for ever the simple esso he will be, to die in harness for right to condemn elther the airman wait at their door. “ tials that its people demand. No the benefit of an ever-growing in retirement. men who made the bombs or the airmen, who flew them to I suppose our fighting forces revolution can continue for ever, army of ladies
the National Insurance funds their destination? The logical will still be equipped with what because in the process of time For it is pretty sure that if mird might
gical are fondly described as the revolution becomes the should find themselves in dife
ventional weapons" but it is gims. The Kremlin taxy not
retiring age". for the dead, of Hiresh Fue
and
have wished or willed it, but cullies, the Nagasaki save hundreds of the unconventional weapon thousands who would
have which will determine the issue, today it has to consider Russian men, at any rate, will be raised to 70 with that unscrupulous- lost their lives if the war had Yet when the scientist has done public opinion.
his best, and the two halves of who have done their solenever failed to display when, in a Let us honour the scientists which no Government has bees,prolonged.
But when we have admitted the world are as prepared as that argument, when we have their resources permit, are we duty lo making, the Western tight corner for money,"
world so strong that only a This particular point occurs unnamed then to resign Owielves paid tribute to the
the suicidal maniac country in discussion of the fact that, scientists who gave this fatalistic acceptance of
States would attack us. The story of whereas in the United. supreme weapon of destruction, inevitability of war? Hiroshima and Nagasaki is the death-rate for white men and when we acknowledge pur The human conscience shoula terrible cae, but let me repeat between 45 and 54 years of age debt to the ainmen delivered the attacks, we then tien. War is not inevitable, or a hideous death upon.
be cutraged at the very suggts the argument that by inficity in 1920 was 10 percent higher afay than that for women in the must stand in muté grief and Le peace impossible. If, we be thousand of innocent people itse age group, in 1950 it was: shame that mankind his had
eved otherwise, we would D may have saved the lives of the Medical Press, It seems unworthy of our place in history. counless others and the In the human and animas of generations yet unborn kingdoms, fear is perhaps there them is how we should the task of flying the bomb and sirmgest and the most daire ment the challenge of Churchill's releasing it hover Hiroshima, gerous emotion, Yet fear is, the farne years of grace. Let us lau
to turn to such thindered what
I have often
went through the minds, of the three, alimen..who were given
100
18 percent higher. And, says probable that a similar trend in Britain and elsewhere would
be dadosed by prideffen
J. W. Taylar
altho
Towards the end of his life, "the he met Jenny Lind, Swedish Nightingale,” a spirit strangely like his own. During his visit to London they spent much time together, and he at- tended many of her Covent Gar den opera performances. He also met Charles Dickens.
Although honoured in many
openhagen He carried letters
of introduction family. A further scholarship home town, Odense, conferred from a few wealthy burghers, came his way, crabling him to friends of the widow, who had travel to Paris and Italy, where already shown interest in the ne profited from friendship with Lad's enthusiasm.
the Danish sculptor, Thorwald sen. Adverse criticism of some of his first works did not dim his enjoyment of Italy.
to lands, Hans Christian appreci Councillor's ated most the freedom of his
on him amid stenés of great rejoicing in December 1887.
For a time before his death, shortly after his 70th birthday, his mind became partly de ranged. In particular, he had a constant dread of being trapped by fire, and slept with a rope beside him for quick escape. It
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"When I die," he wrote to can still be seen, along with his was astonished
appear Henrietta Collin, "I will haunt Battered travelling bag at his
and But he recognised the the lovely Neapolitan night pointed shoes, lying near boy's passionate love of the But marriage always eluded number of his manuscripts in theatre. He made gentie ex- him. More than once he lost his the low timbered house at TEL: 27081 cuses, however, and tried to girl to a better looking friend. Odense where he was born.
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