THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1955.
WORLD'S NO. 1 PLANT GETS READY
Towards The Eldorado Of Atomic Plenty
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By CHAPMAN PINCHER
to
Calder Hall Mooro devised a brilliant com- It was a plant which EW power for promise.
would produce both atomic ex- Britain is about
plosive for defenco and generate be generated from electricity for the grid. the raging heart of
a colossal urunium plant at Calder Hall, Cumberland-
A
There would bo no moun- of coal and no railway taina sidings at this power plant. few lorry loads of uranium rods the world's first full-scale would do the work of thou atom-power station.
Within a year this nearly completed £15,000,000 plant will be pumping electricity
sands of wagonloads of cool,
Millions
the
They are Imbued with conviction that the giant tre- torles they are bulliding will keep the peace through the de- terrent power of the atomic weapons they produce, and make through plentiful bountiful atomic electricity.
In short, they believe that tho atom is much more likely to speli BOOM than DOOM.
AND I SAY:
Surely,
when button
Arst
into the grid - electricity MOORE, helped by 31-year- aurge of electricity into the grid
which will drive machinery, cook the breakfast, and heat the baby's bath water.
д
old
South African BRIAN GOODLET, and guided by the principle that in alot work it is better to be safe than clover, designed his plant in detail.
1. dream will soon be co- at least 80.000 kilo- tributing watts of power for homes and industry. And it will make dreadful explosive, plutonium, which the men up here on this
bit
coust ol desolate
call "plute," handedly
On the success of this project the Government has staked further £300 million in a bid to lead the world.
I have Just inspected thin 100rt-high ple of tortuus tubes like and concrete, which looks
fantastic setting for the selvace heaton experiment,
AND I SAY: The people who wa.led that lamperag with the bul bring nothing atorn could dater should be made to eat the mud caked un the gum- boote ať the 2,000 workers sloshing over the puddle-pocked site at Calder Hall,
Nor the known
ET me
repeal, with pride: This is THE FIRST PLANT IN THE WORLD that will use fully tap the alem's power
Russian
Comparing It with the tiny and over-publicized plant is like comparing a super
а
uff-
a
The man who has done most 1 put Moore's dreaun into ita impressive reality is ANDREW ruddy-faced YOUNG, a lough. engineer who at 42 can leave most of his younger staff breath- less as he strides over the bull- dozed acres or climbs the maze of Iron stairs,
Explorers
PACKING him now is LEWIS cinema with " magic lantern SIRETCH, a barrister turned show in a village holl
of
Britain bulit itor, rather a handful of brilliant Britons did, proving that the scientists have more than the H-bomb to
their offer for
10 years Labour.
Let us name them now----not the well-known atom figure- heads but
1he
unknown men
technician, who at 38 is the first man to hold the job of of an alum
power- manager station.
Exerting general control la un unsung HENRY DAVEY, administrative genius.
Seen from one viewpoint this weird new building looks like Rome land-Ineked ship. It is a tting resemblance, For it will bear close relation in history to the exploring ships of the first have Elizabethans.
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who have bent over raw boards far into the night, have slogged about on the sle fool-deep
and snow. skinned their knuckles on con- creto slabs.
The Men
4
And it is
the day comes for the Ao be pressed to send the
the Queen herself should
form the ceremony.
per-
The men up here have earn- ed that distinction by their bold planning, unremitting effort, and quite astonishing enthusiasm.
TIP-OFF: Chalked on the in- nermost walls of the uranium be will soon furnace-which permanently sealed off-are...
tips for
recent some punter's races. I hope they are allowed to remain.
The
ISRAEL
*Have we surrounded ourselves with enemies and spurned our friends?"
YES. SIR. "And has Moscow seized its chance?"
YKS,SIR.
*Then order the treacherous British
and Americans to Take their positions in our first line of defence,
HEADQUARTERS,MIDDLE EAST
LET ARMAGEDDON COMMENCE!"
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Frightened Girl
Who Used To Be Queen
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SHE FEARS KIDNAPPING, GROWING OLD, POVERTY
frame bearing the
X-QUEEN NARRI- A coloured picture of her-
in a self MAN, once the envy of tens of thousands of young women all over the world, today 22, is drifting aimlessly
an uncertain future.
Royal Egyptian crown and vases Alled with Lall red roses pro- vide touches of regality in n strange contrast to the zebra- towards skin covered armchairs and low,
-
off-white furniture,
Thus lives Narriman with her In her modernistically furnish- entourage of three-a secretary ed third floor dat at Geneva starting point of her whirlwind romance with King Farouk ve years
ago she is seeking to live the pest, whille apprehen- sive of what lies ahead.
I went to see her there and found the young former Queen of Egypt all but a bundle
Unhappy, lonely, and
nerves
desperate.
of
By
FREDERICK
SANDS
BQ
"After all," she said to me. "I must face the fact that I am sul married to Dr Nakib (her second husband) and he refused to give me a divorce,"
Narriman tret Why does
tear the future," much? "I she says. And by that she means the return to her humble surroundings in Egypt either to the man from whom she is seeking divorce, the man she said she only married for con-
or, alternatively, venience, live with her own middle-clas family in Cairo.
to
For the one thing to which Narriman cannot blind herself are the limitations of her funds, which she has gambled against a life of comparative luxury in the hope that "something will
explorers of the second These Elizabethan age remain in Bri- tuin, but their destination is still Eldorado - The Eldorado atomic plenty
without ita of the list is 30-year dangers. When the first uranium T RICHARD VALENTINE furate here is slammed
Into
· MOORE,
naval action in a few months time il war-time officer who
the George will be as radioactive won
મન 300 Cross for his daring in disarm- tons of midium. These crusading
realbe that in ing German magnetic mines.
the atom met While working as a
cold cubes of concrete and 200- new boy Harwell a torn station, on steel boilers now being at the
a lady com- happen" to straighten out
affairs. Moore thought out the design for swung into place by giant craNES
panion, and a mald. which
Britain's has les
best hope for the historic plant
POR a make-belleve setting of
But after one year since her They occupy two communicai-
roturn bygone days, Narriman has ing flats with eight rooms,
to Europe in October now been but on the chocolate future prosperity.
1054 her hopes have greatly Atomic
benefit surrounded herself сап Dewer clay soil of what was formerly
larg which one is furnished a A
spending. Britain more than any other silver-framed photographs Calder Hall Farm.
of nursery for a child that is never diminished and her
estimated by her own lawyer as nation and these men are doing Farouk and of her 3-y.ar-old there. light for
"in the region of £3,000 a because It all they can to grasp the oppor- [san, Fuad, too, whom she is not
Fearful of the future und to month" has brought her close allowed to see. mom bombs, tunity.
reduce the hours of brooding to to the end of the line,
When
money
was
for
power experiments, was needed
NEW
Chain Of Problems cum-bodyguard,
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TO SINGAPORE
tel
of
a minimum, Narriman seldom Permanent Fear
faces daylight before the after-
3000.
her
EX-QUEEN NARRIMAN
own
Te
STACEY
*(The Paleface),
MEETS STACEY
(The Walking Sky)}
TOM STACEY, the Ex- plorer, now living in Canada, reports a strange encounter for anyone who has over seon
film about Rod Indians..
MAGINE yourself swinging into an In- dian village, cram full of swarthy braves who per form daily war dances, waving tomahawks,...and would you expect to come out attached to your scalp?
Bellove me. my friends, Paleface Stacey had the sweet- est-ever expression on when ho crept into Caughna"aga (pro- nounce
Gargana – warge), second biggest Red Indian sol- St tlement in Canada, on the Lawrence River,
But jelly my knees, from the
Bet foot in this ple moment turesque wooden village over- looking its swirling rapids I found myself among the gent- lest lot of gentlefolk i ever met on my travels
Not only was I the first tourist
of the season; but right beside the tall linoleum torpeo (kind of elongated wigwam) which
marked the start of the 12,000- acre reservation was a bar with the sign "Stacey's Restaurant."
HOW IT STARTED Whom do you expect to sen behind the counter in Stacey's Restaurant? Why, nearly full-blooded Mohawk
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very
Iroquois Indian by the name of Sky Stacey, dealer in naleptalle beverages, bead- work and figurines, light meals to 11 P
telephone Melrose 7-2212 ring three.
Walking Sky was 4 equat chap in feans and sandals. His colour was a rich reddish brown, his nose Ancely curved, his hair black as a crow.
You could have knocked him down with one of the turkey feathers out of the headdress of the dummy brave who stood in the corner (full kit in cloth or lenther $7, rubberold tomahawk extra) when he discovered he had one of his own clan in the ahop.
It turned out that back 1740, following a raid of this very tribe of Mohawk Iroquois, an American colonist named Stacey and his wife stopped an arrow each.
A small, squawking Stacey was strapped
to a papoo90
and bore
become
board
back to camp to
an Indian in all but
name and colour.
As Walking Sky Stacey, whose mother's line was less
pure-
blooded than his father's, ex- "I'm Indian on my plained: Stacey side."
NOT IN TOWN Before you could say Hiawatha just about all the Staceys in this lazy, do-nothing village had assembled in Walking Sky's lo greet me. They included Mrs Walking Sky. and two other jeans and equaws, dressed in tartan shirtsjust ilko their husbands bar the perms.
A number of other Staceys were not in town. They were out working on bridge-bullding the favourite occupation of the We tonated the Mehawks. absent Staceys
Someone sald I ought to man in the meet the biggest village, Chief Foking Fire. He had been elected for the two- year term, and amounted to something
quite
A friend of the ex-Queen at BUT those are not all of Nar- rimay's fears. She is no less Geneva said to me: "Narriman afraid of growing old and af wants what she cannot have, losing the good looks which once and what she has she doesn't made her the Number One
So she tries to sleep and
beauty of the Arab world. To- forget."
day Narriman spends many More than anything olac hours engrossed in film maga- Narriman wants Ferouk to take zines and the glosstes of the her back. And she says so quite world-just compering. frankly, admitting that to have
She still sees herself as em- loft him was "my first big mis- bodying the best of Lollo
Lollobrigida, take."
after Norriman's arrival in the Marilyn Monroe, and Grace her protection from her Sometimes, in moments of her Kelly, her favourite stars. pocket in engaging a permanent Lebanese capital, where she went on a month's visit to her greatest despair, she sits for And for reasons only known bodyguard of aer own.
hours
Afraid that she might be uncle, Moustafa Sadek. facing her to Narriman, she lives in a state several
"Panic-stricken, she left for to favourite photograph-it shows par
ot
among Canada's fear of kidnap. kidnapped and taken back permanent Farouk standing behind her Perhaps only a reflection of her Egypt, Narriman hurriedly broke Switzerland immediately,
Narriman, under a large palm tree as if vanity,
who as up a recent holiday. at Beirut, osuse she feared that, being so Chier Poking Fire, seated in a
close to Egypt. she might be rocking chair and fled back Queen to convey her innermost yearn-
of Egypt
upstairs in his was under Lebanon,
only four kidnapped and taken back," Mr living-room, was listening to ings to him by way of mental constant guard, today sees her- Switzerland after
Gonveros told me.
hill-billy as just an ordinary person, anys. ielopathy.
music on the radio. This happened,
For a time after she had lost He did not look much ilke an according to She sees this her only only because there are no burly
in salvation and the solution to plain clothes men to follow her her Swiss lawyer, M. Jacques "everything her husband, her Indian, I thought, with his white
her Gonveras, when Narriman heard child, country-Narriman skin, freckles, and turned-up an endless chain of problems very step. she cannot otherwise solve, Yet Fier appeal dor "protection" that her husband had obtained a maintained that the one thing nose-more like Sir Winston
Churchill. she knows that there is little to Swiss police when she came court order in Calro which con- she still retained and valued the
most was har hope, was pelled her to return to him.
In best to Switzerland last year real chance and that her
TODAY SHE SPEAKS OF rejected,
The news was published in whereupon hopes amount to no more than politely
Narriman was quick to finance local Beirut paper four days HOPE NO LONGER. wishful thinking.
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By Lance Keyworth
CO
рорц-
spite of his looks the chlor WDB strong protagonist of Indian culture, ... In the corner of the village hơ had set up an Indian museum," marked by a plywood totem pole. It was there he led (as the notice said) "War dances every afternoon iai Kimyou will never forget 117 country. The letters-to-the
SECOND-CLASS Over our homing soup,
madd editor columna had seldom boen
wita: nahos, so lively. But it took one at mazle boiled
bf
up MP (out turnips, and cabbage. Poking. Finisod's 80 Wooxen of 20) to remind her sisters Fire apologised for not offering board a No. 8 tram in Hel gape at him: "Must be a dinner ready, Foreigners are
to always amazed
"We're only second the that the priesthood was not the the beer.
ce he said. Binki. Suddenly I was wind- foreigner!",
class citizons, you see," heavy work undertaken by only profession banned to them. It is not that the Finnish Finnish women--brick-carrying, This lady who is Minister of
An Ottawa, decree, grading ed by an elbow in my
and hard fac- Education in the present Gov-
them thus, has forbidirenthe. stomach, The women cer- male is lacking in courtesy. street-cleaning
ernment, remarked. on Miss
sale of alcohol to Indians, who tainly got on and I waited It is just that his women tory work.
must say
also have no vote. In place of for the next. tram after be folk have dinned it into him
It is not surprising that in Riippa's case: "One.
these curbs, Indians on reserva- in our country when have ing almost trampled under that they want a land where nish women have, believed that it is an odd situation we
tions are carefully protected equality of the sexes really themselves to be eligible for women cannot be ordained but from medical
care
employment ald, and exemption prevails, and he has decided any job but that of an ordained nevertheless can be Minister of The above incident took to accept this literally.
Licular
exception has aroused, the Archbishop, ever, is in the
restriction place in the rush hour in
the public interest lately,
They mada short time
Mid Liim cao now." me
panions. The only going Stacer, the "bad old days” of 1946- - Finland was the first country kilppa, a Helsinki Univerally The Minister of Education, But I had, begun to wonder. 47 when everyone was war in Europe to give women the graduate of theology, applied Mrs Tyyne Leivo-Larmon, eld the virile in whilet bad
that there are some arobale produced some of Cana vote in 1906- and that was for ordination, weary and there was Toda
year when, Finnish men were.
nothing In Finnish laws which are still valid and lawyers, doctors, and
the employment of would not soon be hur public transport than today. permitted lo vole for the first
but ómen." For example, Finnish these non-alcoholigi And now? Now the story is sime by thele then Ruston church law that specifically govern
forbide female parsons,
omen'"' cannot be provincial citizens. Say Caère - was the first case actually still the same, and the mang Almost all schools in Finland to arive in the eight centuries overnors, they cannot Join the
foot.
overlords, B
who gives up his seat in a are op-educatofa tram or bus to a woman la By
an object of curiosity
that yo
a
Clerk in baby orders. This pire Education and have under hor taxes, tolls, Americonken
There
ha (major" the Finhlah Church has existed, 20 GUL, 13 WHETHrred to the episcopal
police force, and v. they: osonaz work as railway brakernen, jade
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