THE CHINA - MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1956.
THE ATOM WIVES DON'T
LIVE IN 1984
At Harwell, Britain's first atom town, the atmosphere is more like Mrs Dale's Diary
-N the prefab with an
absolutely uninter-
rupted view of *
coupl..
atomic of
By Kenneth Allsop
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sounding
netice.
for
11 emergency
are
whose
Welfare and social activities elaborately organlated a1 Harwell. There are 35 different clubs, rugby
old-time and dancing. aughing
9.
roups The
and
Around it snakes three sort of risk Harwell seems com- piles, the Harwoll scientist's miles of eight-foot chain- pletely safe,"
Altun, was telling me wire fence. On the site it- Mis Douglas young wife
In the about the life that circulates seli are 209 prefabs but husband Is a physicist
of nuclear physica division, took a around Britain's first att most of the thousands town. It sounded much more Harwell families iva well similarly practical view. like Mrs Dale's Diary than outside the fence, in neigh- Nineteen Eighty-Four. bouring villages and in the little towns of Abingdon, People spent to think we Dident and Wantage, live behind Lace wire and
The only thing that bothyes he is that he travels every day has a trible along the Newbury road, which accident record," she said. "As for Harwell, thinks we're probably living in
I
musical societies.
Rocial club has a bar, a. chapel and o cincina. There are natal and child welfare clinics. nurny and primary schools, shops and delivery services from the end All has been done to towns. provide the resources for complete life,
the safest spd in Britain. It An inspector
there was may fall-out of this 11-bb dust that's just beats it would be immedi- reported, ately detected here."
gener-class £1,500-Your- standard close of
The Allans live in a pleasant
houses In We were
have to get pages to go The policy out shopping." she said, "I wish it could he understand
And deliberately so for that we're al
ordinary the policy of the Atomic wives with children, living Energy Authority is to de. the same sort of life we segregate its staff so that would anywhere else. And they do not feel like a rare
**When Abingdon I'd much rather my hus breed
of Red Indian pre- div.ng up on the site in 14 we band VZOR working here aerved within a reservation. were a very enclosed commun- than, say, down a coal-mine.
Suld Miss M. A. Jordan, ty and had hitte caract with the local preple, And husband- You cap
every- welfare officer at Harw talked shop all the time Now thing's safe here, you see." since it was opened in 1945: we feel to be very much part of
"We are not a race The Establishment itself hemmed around by censor-
Abingdon,"
Everyone ship.
is couraged to mix in with the Inculs,""
sure
eubest
in a compact grouping of stark Ministerial architec- ture-brick
#1 d angular butments looking liku 喜善 Slough factory estate--encircles by cherry orchards and the ridges of the Berkshire Downs,
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
"All I said was if only you had reasonably sited cars you wouldn't need to go around buying up ather people's oil-fields !"
apari
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So small housing estates have been scattered about the ba Didcot 1 called on
Mrs Norman Jark
Wife
3: 1990-0-year chemat. husband cume to Hamenil
1 Hay
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Three children
Ta her spare time from look- ing alter her three children. Mrs Allan designs and paints servery Ju productions at Abingdon's Unicera Theatre,
Does security impinge upun The alcan wives' lives? Said Mrs If we decided take a holiday in Russia wo might run into difficulties. but personally I've never been asked a question by a security man. Mrs William Hardwick, "We enjoy Ife here tremen- Canadian who met hm Oxford drasly. said Mr Jackson, a praduate husband when They blonde energetic mother f were both working at the Cable three children. "I'm secretary River Plait, once had Visil
yeurs og Tran Chalk River Allo, "I supprise Plant, the Canadian atonit te station On the wait hung deer's head, trophy of Mr Jack - son's huntirak furuys Ontario forests.
the
A
Line Dident Townwomen's from a security man was briefly Guild, akt we go swimming and "niffed around" her Chilton
penicking through the gummine).
there's never i shortage o tang to du.
Resentment
Wit
f the early days there was a bit of resentment locully about the Harwell people. thought we were making too burbs and I anything webl wrong with the weather or the It was all blamed wireitas sel, in the atoms.' But now every- one seems to have seltied down 1gether.
Did The. I asked, warry about Cher husbanĒ?
"Never." she replied. "During when he was working
th
11 Kas a container burst in hi. Iace. Compared with that
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the
"Apart from that and The Dulce cars that patrol the aren
night. there's
Hatle offical-rels atm.sphere notice," she said.
The Hardwicks Bre 15. W building their own contempir ary-style housing thitch of nearby Upton--which implies a settled long-term al- Nude towards
at Career Hn well. When I asked Mrs artwick how she felt sbur her hinband's duties, she said: "If you mean do i think he is
radio-petavi beng its agernails. I don't. You see. vised down to
I've worked in arietnie research myself. and I have complete faith in the areaulins talon. "But," she added, "I do have a twinge when I hear the wirens
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So there are all-round
liar- well families like the Evendeus, Edward an inspector of police, his wife Miriam recepttanist at the hostel, and 18-ytur-uld daugther Borbern a clerk in the extra-mural researchi depart- ment.
And, last of all, I talked with 21-your-old Richulz who married 27-year-old Frederick Chake a month ago. They met when she came to Harwell to Work 43
a selentile neglstant, Now they are walling for སྙ house to be allocated to elem end to make for ther
themselves 0 new life together under the sky- Fine of the etemic plics.
"You see," puid Mrs Clarke. "apart from the Inet that there are probably more facilities here for an active social life than in must towns, Ahere is also the feeling that everyone shares--cf taking part in bulding seme- thing new. exciting and very important, of being in right at the beglmeng
age."
of the alomle
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"GOING --- GONE! TO THE GENTLEMAN
IN THE STETSON HAT AND THE CADILLAC!"
The Spy And The
• LIFE WITH ALLEN
PLENTY IN THE NEWS
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By GERALD ALLEN
【AVE you lit the Molly bitterly. "The whole boiler?" Molly place has to be turned upsicho
down." asked sharply.
I was too busy to retart to this "Yes, dear." I answered mild unfair attack, and was accused
ly. It was quite obvious from of being sulky, after which my the tone of her voice that Molly loved one left me to my mental was in one of her moods.
"What with?" came the next question.
"Paper, wood,
a little
and when well olight,
Inste
"
Now it's a strange fact that when
open my daily paper it coal, never seems to contain anything after worth reading but almost any
ignition by means of a match, old newspaper, whether a week
1 sprinkled liberally rome Welsh or fifty years old, stems packed nuts
You've burnt my now frock." dear-just paper, wood, a
to burned the magazine
with
items. The first hend- line I noticed read, TIND-ME-A- BRIDE MAN ATTACKED BY BUZZARD.
Unfertunately, the story was with my pattern on all too grease-stained to be legible,
for purpose trock
two-and- but it whetted my appetite for ninépence. I slave my fingers to the lawercopa columu, which the bono making my own told me to beware of specula- clothes, and what do you dɔ? tion, to hesten slowly, not to put You deliberately destroy thing you can lay hands on all my eggs into cue basket, to grasp the nettle maly, to re- When Molly gets as fretful as member that opportunity only that, I usually try to jolly her knocks once, and that I was a up.
Sometimes it works.
good week for a mild flutter. didn't take long for me to realisa that this wasn't one of my lucky days. The more jolly I was, the more unreasonable she became.
"If you haven't burnt it, you must have thrown it away."
Nu, dear." "Don't
just say no, dear- lock in the shed."
LIGHTLY confused, I then d's- covered that my lucky stone was a bloodstone, a pizes of Information which seemed oddly appropriate. if irrelevant
ESCAPED CONVICT CONSTABLE'S AUNT roused my Interest to lever pitch, some- what cooled when I read that the convict had orcaped been
and blunt end of the garden rake reaplured ten years 300, Ho had recently been engaged on look cut of 11: 11 seemed repair work in the governor's 10 have been waiting Just quarters when a large oil paint-
thind the door for me. ing.
sometimes wrongly The little incident would have tributed to Constable, had fallen teen funny If it had happened on his head
It was a pity to someone else,
The picture, believed to be Molly wasn't watching; it would of the artist's aunit lookeá have brightened her up.
ilke somebody's uncle, judging
LOOKED in the shed.
The
the
chore
G
simo moment
to
میشه
All cur old papers are kept in by the press photo-might have sack, which I dragged into the been severely damaged if the kitchen
convlet hadn't had the good It's ulways the sure when fortune to be underneath
said when it fell Although still in
you've
Kast
something,"
At Cliveden....
Distinguished Guests
Who Talked Too Much
By ROBERT J. EDWARDS
a critical condition, the man had told "our special reporter" that he was deeply moved by letter of thanks he had had from the "Friends of Arts and Crafts Association,"
There
had been so mang crises in the last fortnight, and the end of the world having beon prophesied for last Tues- day by a rather long-haired sort of scientifle society, it seemed amazing we'd weathered ... thố Etorm.
such positive found in the immediate en-hadi tourage of the Prime Minister."
had prepa-touches
The
My attention was then at tracted by a criticism of a film views are to be hadn't thought much
Molly and I saw regently. I THE Astor family is
of the under fire. It is ac-
pleture, but apparently there cused of having enter-
been
sumc delightful Vic Troit recorded
that I'd overlooked. tained a German spy for the
on top of his
rongly hinted that gands, succEREOS
article strongly week-end in June 1939. And
ether achievements. For three only the critic himself and the of introducing him to the and his refusal to emigrate, and Importance," von Trott zu Solz hours he expounded his case for film's director could be expected Prime Minister, Mr Neville inuener
opinion particularly warned the Fuehrer Germany so effectively, he to notice the finer points, so I
Breinst lusing this
vuluable claimed, that he "caused con- didn't lake the matter too much Chamberlain, and
the against him.
well of information. Foreign Secretary,
sternation" among the Astors' lo heart. Lord Mrs Christabel Bielenberg.
urgently
that guests. request
Alto, It occurred to me, that Halifax, in such a way that who with her husband knew von Lothia
Ine should not be
the critic probably saw the Trott in Berim, says: "The whole allowed to reach the public in
He complained bitterly about Allm straight they gave their secrets
through, instead pleture would be distorted should
feverish rearmament of having fr freely to him.
wrote, "the connection,"
pick up the It be thought that von Trott was because, in that event, he would psychosis In Britain" end threads of the plot owing to a Nazi at the time, or that his make no more confidential state. advised the politicians present arriving in the middle or B, mission was also ments to me.
that the way for peace was for after twenty minutes queueing No one, Site
she added,
Britain to have fewer aring. in the rain.
official
This
Strong influence
What
WBs.
to
*
picture
These charges are being hurled about following the Foreign Office's publication of Adam von Trott zu Solz's need necessarily be an accurate believe that the von Trott report
He had so he said, a private confidential report to the account of what he heard. Ho
Lord Lothian's talk with Lord Dunglass, now
PASSING over Fuchrer on
That the Earl of Home, who was MP fled CHORUS his visit to come to England at the sugges confidential statement?
GIRL COUNTESS TO WEE OC- Cliveden at the invitation tou of the German resistance.
British public opinion would be for South Lanark Lady Cripps, wite of the late appeased if Hitler
"Ho promised to influenceTOGENARIAN withdrew of David Astor, now editor sir Stafford, and yet another of from Bohemia and
with brief Moravia. Oliver Stanley, the President of surmise as to who was Бет of the family's paper. the ven Tict's friends, 139 also Then the Fuchser could draw the Board of Trade....with the dng the best bargain, I conecn- trated on a rather puzzling by Halifax and Chame article by a footballer I'd never speechen his
result that, on the day after the lyriain. Stanley also spoke in heard of, recently transferred Parliament in favour of a more for a king's ransom, in which practically accommodating atthe complained that his
was being ruined by his rivals" tude towards Germany,
Jealousy,
Observer.
defended him. And so has Mr
paralyse ad Europe" The top brass of British politics Richard Lowenthat. Mr Loven under his spell the feeling of all were also at Cliveden. Believing that is diplomatie correspondent enemies. that as a friend of the Astors he of the Observer.
could be trusted, they revealed to von Trolt their innermost feelings on the crisis in Europe. wore despatched m-
Theso
meditately
to
Not enough
Valuable well
But von Troti zu Solz was a
of our Fuchrer.
Secret report.
Career
Apparently masking a broken heart, he was shown laughing apply with his team-mates. Anyway, I was pleased to rend that his wife liked the new house supplict by bis club!
A rather snappy picture with the caption
REDDITCH GIRL
Why was it important? Be- cause, Trott told Hitler: "In the circle of Astor, Heilfax, Cham-
Lothian Exercises berlain, etc., vory strong influence since he 10 var Ribbentrop, spy nevertheless,
I have read Stanley's speech, German Foreign Minister, and Why clse did he came to Eng- is undoubtedly the cleverest and stompca "Submitted
the land? His report to the Fuehrer most supple politician trong It was certainly along the lines Fuehrer,"
was hended "Fat-Finding. Visit them...and has an instinctively claimed,
Von Troit's secret report to to Britain (June 18, 1930)." But correct appreciation of thu
was 6,000 words long. his fellow guests thought he was gre
IINICT greatness at Cliveden slimply as a friend of The news that, the privacy Every one of those words con- All this is not enough to con- David Astor.
of Cliveden, there were state- arms the present Foreign Office FOR MISS BRITAIN: Intrigued
beller that he was a spy. vince the friends of von Trott They were, of course, deceived, ments sympathetic to Germany
me, and I was soon drop in tha The Astors would not have tale of the joys, and heartaches, that he was a secret agent for Here, as told to fitler, was how must have been encouraging to the Nazis. A considerable de von Troll wen Chamberlain's Hiller It may have convinced entertained him if they had of the best-looking girl in a
Janown
when the other pucking factory, when the spoll with fence is being put up for the confidence after his introduction him that he could go ahead
that, the invasion of Foland without work in his Cliveden bedroom what I was doing.
guerly wore asleep, he was at was broken by Molly's asking theory that he was not spying in from the Astors. England for the Germans, He "I emphasised that I was in fear of British Intervention. was spying in England for the England in nn absolutely private And no doubt the Fuehrer was tending off their confidences to
your pattern, "Looking for dear," English
capacity."
happy to hear from Chamber- Berchtesgaden.
I salt, hosilly shuffing a And David Astor, of course. few papers." Complains Mr Astor: "111 Lord Lothian, who became lain via von Troit, that the
"It was in my work-basket report, addressed to the German British Ambassador to Washing small group of Conservatives would not have invited him...
Shaud he be blamed for this all the time," she said. "Can't Foreign Offee, has been treated ton, chattered with appalling who were rebelling against him
scoit as if it correctly represented von sbanden after pledging
The responsibility must rest there." Trott's
opinions and the purpose Troit not to reveal his thoughts in Churchill, Duff Cooper unhappy ineldoni? I think not link why you did.
ghts oculd be completely ignored." upon the distinguished Cilveden of his visit.”
Regretfully to anyone...
pushed ho Why was the British Foreign
of mediato concessions
should be omes hostile towards Trott? Lothian's request for secrecy, trade, to
Germany,
in-elementary caution that a nation put the sack back in the shed, Passtbly, says Astor, because his the idea he communicated to ma dusirious von Trott zu Solz said, has the right to expect of itsBut It I'm ever short of a good book, I know just where to find fellow Oxford undergraduates must naturally be included in with masterly understatement fenders..
something Interesting to read," disilked his loyally to Germany this report as being of political "It is at any rate interesting that
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JOHNNY HAZARD
!!!
-I DON'T LIKE FIGURING EITHER
| GUSTY OR JESS AS SPIES, JOHNNYZ
(BUT HOW ELSE DOES THIS STUFF EKO),
[UP IN THE MILITARY FILES OF AN FOREIGN POWERT/MO
Im-
After saying "In solleroporting statements that guests for failing to show the papers back into the sack; šind”.
"ESPECIALLY WHEN NO ONE
| EXCEPT THE PERSONNEL ON THIS RESTRICTED AIR BASE EVEN KNOWS THE EXISTENCE!
OF THE METTORE L
: OKAY, GLEN, Z'LL
TRY AND, DIG UP ·
THE LEAK EVEN IF IT ENDS UP MAKING
ME HATH MYSELF!"
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