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Danger Of New Alliance Seen HUGE URANIUM
In Neutrality Proposals
By TOM WHITNEY
Associated Press Staff Writer
It's frequently suggested ship of the Soviet Communist that the chief aim of the party. Kremlin in Europe is to create a "neutral bolt" along the Soviet Bloc's western borders from the Arctic to the Adriatic.
an interesting sug-con This is stion and there are three developments which give this on. hypothesis its basis
1. The Austrian treaty has just been completed and provides
"neutralisation," Austria.
for the
of
2. Suggestions are being made by the Russians to the West Germans that if they will con- neutralisation" the Soviet Government will permit peaceful reunification many.
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Now Stalin is dead, He per- sonally was the author of the break with Tito. Stalin's heirs have decided to try to mend, the The visit breach.
of Nikita Khrushchev and Premier Nikolai Bulganin to Belgrade is a public confession of
of Stalin's error. The Soviet leaders probably hope they can induce Tito to ally him- » sek once more with the Soviet Union. Tito himself may well of both reel he can get more out sides by being independent than by allying himself with either camp. At the same time given the ancient regard of the Yugo- slays for the Russians there is certainly the long run possibility and perhaps even a shorter run chance
that Yugoslavia may return to the Soviet camp.
Hoping For
or cise in one big power top-level mestition..
FRANCE
JUSTRIA
NATO NATIONS
SOVIET BLOC
ASSOCIATED WITH WESTERN DEFENSE PLANS
NEUTRAL NATIONS
Boundary of "Neutrality Belt" which apparently is the current goal of Soviet diplomacy
and West Germany there is the
of the atturn of the question German territories now held by Poland and the Soviet Union There is the question of markets And there for German goods. are other questions of German aspirations.
AP Newsfectures
OUTPUT IN SOUTH AFRICA
Johannesburg, May 30.
New production plants now getting underway in South Africa may well make this country one of the biggest sources of uranium in the world within the next few years.
Uranium worth anything up to £100,000,000 sterling is likely to be recovered from 26 or more mines every year when South Africa's full produc- tion programme gets under way.
Al of it for the next ten Gold recovered from the sime years or sa goes under contract ore in South Aflen in early to Britain or the United States, accessible ATCGS with which provided loan capital for mining
equipment most of. the new uranium reperienced labour fald on, maku. 17 covery plants.
up the difference.
ready and
ex-
Early estimates of South South African mining interests Africa's probable uranium out-have also had another stroke of put under the present programme huck; the association with gold ranged between gross values of and. uranium of quantities of £30,000,000 to £50,000,000 apyrite in the same reefs. These your.
Recent recoveries, how are the raw material for the pro- ever disclosed by rising profits, duction of sulphuric acid r have been so promising that quired in the uranium extraction
authorities think that process. leading aut
REFLECTION the country's uranium deposits may bring a gross return of up to £100,000,000 sterling in the next ten years. -
REVISED FIGURES
duction.
Joint
new
-Increasing uranium production is reflected in in South Africa recent authoritative Agures which showed that export values
Revised figures have now led averaged well over £1,000,000 to the belief that South Africs a month last year, or three times more than in 1953, the first year probably owns the largest ne-
Uranium proats wert cessible uranium oxide deposits that 3. The Kremlin sent its top
in the world, many of which it published here.
More convincing proof of the men ta Balgrade to talk to
Wig quickly Yugoslav President Tito.
realised could be
age in South Africa There
already arc
mined jointly with the nation's uranium This something which the
uranium extrac- already fabulously lucrative
growth of "neutralised" nations in be
certainly hoping
£150,000,000-a-year gold giro tions plants as many excessories tween the hostile sides in the Russians are
that it will be able to
to the great gold mining develop- for. To interpret their visit to Soviet Union to be the genuine
knows cold war: Floland
offer that Reich a big price in Sweden,
of Soviet alm in Germany.
the Yugoslavia solely in terms
famous half- Switzerland and Austria,
mining for gold and ment It is when
for one looks beyond
return alliance with the "neutralisation" is clearly and These four countries make up
reunification and neutralisation distortion. obviously
area around Johannesburg and Soviet Union-the former Germaniam in the same ore has century-old Witwatersrand reef neutral Europe"
liteto South area in Poland and brought De exists
war Eldorado of the Similarly
new post-war it is necessary to that one gets more of a glimpse
man territories Every
Africa's mining operations, be- right
the Soviet Union. now."
other im-
the Orange Free examine critically Soviet policy of what the Soviet Government
cause the extraction of both the country, Еигоре Country in
State minės Centred on the The treaty is really aiming at, however. And status and better salary. Interesting except only Eire is either firmly towards Germany.
And that is most likely to be precious materials from the same
lown" of Welkom. with Austria and the develop- this is something which has 1tle by this
the real aim of the Soviet Union underground reef often provides "boom up
in comunion
More than with "neutralisa-
half of the 23 South Union Soviet
in seeking neutralisation of enough incentive to extend the question
Germany.
life of mines or make one econo- African mines se far planned in degree or another a member of has put the German the anti-Soviet camp.
once more in the limelight. The
All this casts the most serious mic which would not be payable the uranium programme were yielding uranium by the first- However in this picture the line the Russians are taking is
on the idea that the on one product alone. the open suggestion to the West
doubts of Yugoslavia and West Germans that if they only will
Few concentrations of uranium quarter of this year, using huge positions
Russians are really seeking in a reunified and neutralised Ger-neutralisation of a big, vigorous, long term any "neutral belin South Africa have so far new pressing plants costing Germany have distinct peculiari- beck out of NATO and consent many. US troops have mostly powerful country like Germany ties,
across Europe. Perhaps they bean found in proportion high anything from £1,500,000 As the
to an arrangement whereby all accompanying map
want such a thing temporarily enough to justify mining for nearly £4,000,000 each to erect.
exclusively.
Scientists Production shows.
if Germany and Yugo-fertign troops must leave Ger- since there is no other place for over a long period is nonsense." them. many then the Soviet Union will
British troops have re- The Soviet Government also but certainly they view it only them
Government's Atomic t but African slavia became neutral a cushion facilitate the peaceful remifica- turned to Britain. Communist has always aimed at achieving as a stepping stone for sub- quantities are a state secret but
Board, controlling alliance with
authority for the uranium pro- tion of Germany by permitting troops staid on the German en
Germany squent expansion of communism. It can be roughly calculated that Energy
extractions the illusion uranium-oxide And meanwhile free genuine
elections in East borders. Germany has no tles because it knows that such an
and none with alliance
all that this overwhelm with the West
is what they really South Africa are measured only gramme, originally assayed more Gormany.
half a than
million samples of radio- want actually seems to suit their in ounces per ton of mined ore than Superficially It would seem the Soviet bloc. Yet Germany's Europe, "neutralisation" of
activity. Uranium was found in Come a Germany problems are not solved. After
"neutralised" Reich purposes. So they are likely to compared with pounds per ton gold-bearing
in Canada. Soviet the offers sufficient attraction to the reunification of the present Basti and
government enourage it further.
small but significant quantities in nearly all gold-bearing reefs and was quickly recognised as a valuablé by-product.
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FIRST OPENED 'South Africa's former Prime Minister, Doctor Daniel Malari
the opened
country's Arat uranium plant in October, 1852, nearly 30 years after the earliest Identification of radioactive minerals i22 the Witwatersrand gold-bearing rects.
South Africa's uranium re- sources have become known pro- perly only since World War I, which excited intensive research in nuclear physics. Before that, the chief known deposits of uranium were in Czechoslovakia, Canada and the Belgian Congo. British and American atomic authorities first approached the South African Government ouR-EN cerning the possibility of extract- ing uranium from gobi ores in 1945, following secret information offered by an American gooios gist, Professor G., W. Bain of Amherst College, Massachusetts, who had visited South Africa in 1941 studying ore samples. Later, he and Dr C. F. David- LOD, chief geologist of the Atomic
Energy
Division
Britain's Geological Survey
completed 筵 joint
British
American survey which confirm- ed payable uranium in the gold
ores.
The techniques for uranium- recovery in South Africa were perfected through co-operative research between South Africa," Britain and the United States, In November 1950, tho Finally, In British and American Govern- ments signed agreements with the South African Atomic Energy Board for Large-scale Uranium production
ore
In the joint gold-uranium mines, the gold is first extracted from
the finely crushed brought up from reets running thousands of feet below ground in the Transvaal and Orange Free State.
Residues
rem
the gold- extraction process then pass to a tanium plant, where they are mixed with dilute sulphuric ació and altered. Solutions obtained from this filtration are
to further proches de
Various
ghosteater
razum
and
solution.
# pure Uranium is precipitated from the solution as a bright yellow, muid And is packed for export in the dorm of a dry, mustard-colored powder uranium oxide,
Official RECRECY Surrounds nearly every detail about South Africa's
including
potential reserves, output, peices and even destination, though it is assumed that the bulk of it under contract goes either to the United States or Britain,
Beltai or the United Spowdered muradakan States, oxide from South Africa is re- fined again before being used. 1 atomic
me energy projects, It to its metallic can be reduced Patets feet an atomic per turned into gas, Uranium Hoidide, for Use fit the separation of laptops or employed in in vanced physical, biological and scientire studies. China Mail Breciat