A
Friell
"MEBBE IT IS ONLY A TINY CUT- BUT YOU KNOW
HOW THE SIGHT OF DANGEROUS WEAPONS AFFECTS' ME!"
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1957.
WARHEADS
MISSILES
ROMBS
PUSH BUTTONS
NUCLEAR SECRET
DEFENCE CUTS SHOCK U.S. SENATORS: Latest from Washington
Reds Buy Up U.S.
Defence Shares
secret defence
con- By SPECIAL Senate firms with
tructs, inquiry committed in
Another fear is that some of Washington is probing huge these huge
holdings foreign
short share deals on Wall Street could be withdrawn i which are making the ice, setting off large-scale
disruption of defence firms Soviet Union "shadow
The Hussing share deals start partner" in American in- in Swiss Leaks in Berne, Zurich,
adejunapo Bu
naɔɔ pur dustry.
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The Russians are believed in have invested millions of potoda in Amerkan securities by deals through Swiss banke.
Some of the securities, now held in secret baik accounts I Switzerland,
of the strict secrecy laws of Swiss Tuerkitty by which bankers refuse ter revent 1142 nationalities of their clients.
It is estimated in Geteva that the "Big Three Swiss banks hold enore that £530 million I worth
of shares in American American defence progrannie key industrie, for sceret clients. Through this "llence curtain"
Arms.
shures
展望
The Senate's Internal Security it possible for Russian agents Committee will report ROUN to control American companies, right down to the appointment US. f directors.
thal:-
Foreign
investiments
huldings of
total £9,571
million
So strict are the Swiss beak- Ing security arrangements that The Identity and nationality linking accounts can be num- of most of the holders are un-bered. known.
The men behind the number
oul vest-
2 The American Defence De- are ever known-not even to
partmen
worried 15
lay the bank carrying
Ruaria's secret partnership in ment instructions,
RENE MacCOLL in Washington ERNEST ASHWICK
in Geneva
The Washington commillee has failed to flod out the identity of these mystery investors, de- spile close questioning of wit-
nesses from Wall Street and banking institutions.
fore-
Washington politielan, cast that a full Congressional in-
will
the com- follow quiry
lee's report,
But the Swiss bankers are not worried. They curtly
disinins could fears that the Russians exercise any control over Ameri- can companies,
a
For the Swiss It is good busi ness. The banks in Switzerland "Clapham Junction" form
for many
under-the-counter financial deals.
During the Suez invasion, Red China sold all her sterling
holdings through Hongkong-
Michael Foot
accuses...
R MICHAEL FOOT is
Hle
names
M evidently an expert on
guilt. He was part-author
of a once-famous wartime but who will come to their defence ?
book-Guilty Men which
denounced the Tory Minis-
Lers
appersed *
who
Copyright in alf countrie
London Express Service
DON'T BE TALKED
OUT OF THE TEST
A H-bomb Costa del to Christmas Island
HIGHLY organised campaign to stop the British
Boon is being waged by certain politicians, scientists, and churchmon.
If it succeeds, Britain will be reduced to the status of a country which will wield no influence in world affairs because it will wield no military power.
Without a stockpile of H- to produce the least possible bombs Britain will suffer the amount of radioactive dust, disgrace of being reduced to a though this restriction seriously satellite of America instead of reduces the amount of military bring a fully-fledged ally with information the tests will yield. independent strength to deter aggression. And Bo H-bombs Dan be #tockpiled until the Christmas Inland tenta been completed,
the
crowa
THEY aro all to be exploded high in the air-at com.. to the bomber Tisk haylo siderable
which will drop them The campaign to stop the. This will ensure that the radio- carth- tests is gaining public support
active dust will foll wards because
ho slowly that it can Goverment has
produce no hazard to health.
AGAINST the adýlco of
ment banned any preliminary explosion on the ground for safety reasons, though again this must rob the tests of much of their value. Only with ex- plesions on or near the ground can the full power of the bomb be measured with instruments.
done nothing to allay concem about them. So-called "security precautions" have prevented atomic scientists the Govern the Government from giving a irue plcture of the fests.
Here are the facts, which the Government should have re- vealed months ago:-
THE WEAPONS to be ex- ploded at Christinas Island I have all been specially designed
The 'bubble
car
goes British
The new Isetta.... There are delivery van and pick-up truck models.
93 MILES TO THE GALLON
-AND FOUR WHEELS
By ROBERT WALLING
an
Italian model and THE "bubble car" that began as his Guilty Men of 1957–
became German, has now gone British, It is the Isetta, and the new model to be built at a former railway engine works at Brighton is claimed to do 93 miles to the gallon at 30 m.p.h. and 70 m.p.g. at 50 m.p.h.
Biggest surprise is the price £359, purchase tax paid. As a delivery van the price is to be £307 and £299 Although 185. will buy the pick-up truck version.
fanatically nationalist anti- by ROBERT
Semitic dictator
Adolf Hitler.
Time puisto-and here
called
he is
again, once more denouncing a
Tory Ministry*
for its at at udlu
towards another fanatically
tor.
tor. But not for
BLAKE
is unlikely that the soldiers were guilty.
was
another
13 Moreover there ACTIONS criticism. much of Mr Foot'a book is par-
and tendent lous, 1lsan
many Torles will agree with him deploring the prevarication and Cvasiveness of Government spokesmen in explaining the ob-
of the Suez intervention. ject of the
clear It is high time some nationalist anti-Semitie dicta- power nations of enormous dif-
made.
The the same ferences in wealth and popula- statement reasons. The Guilty Men of 1957 fion. It will be better described Cabinet would be more respiciul respected ot if intend drooling on are guilty
appeasing as a collection not tur
of neody exe-
plots Colonel Nasser but for being too grinders, this extraordinary body forest fires and Russian
what tough with him. How difficult to to which Mr Elsenhower, who had frankly admitted
was obviously the real purpose please Mr Foot!
like ali soldiers is only happy to overthrow Nasser, establish of guilty men when he is a link in a chain of internatiomi control
-10 The two sets have only one thing in common
over the command, wishes to subordinate
oil ----membership Of 4 Tory American
and British foreign Canal, and safeguard our
This was Cabinet, but perhaps that is in
policy.
supply
perfectly itself a crime--to ardent Social-
At all events
legitimate objective and is in It has so far fact the only plausible explana ists of Mr Foot's persuasion. been an utterly useless body for ton of what we actually did. It
settling the disputes of
had moved more quickly and might have come off, if only we
Safe as ever
the
Middle East. In a revealing
It is, of course, Idle to pretend Passage Mr Foot comments upon ispod some extra casualties.
that the Suez expedition was a success. Nasser is as mate 03 ever, his control over the Canal unshaken.
The Izraelis have little cause to thank its for depriving ther of a victory which might have driven that tin-pot dictator, from power.
Relations with America and the Commonwealth have been gravely impaired. But, although no one except the most loyal
the British landing at Port Said:
"It may be said that the paratroops would have been left dangerously unsupported it the other troops had not gone in. But with the cease- firo in operation, Egypt could not have harmed them without defying the United Nations,"
The difference
Basically, when all is said and done, this was a war about oli, Just as the Boer War had been about gold and diamonds. But cil, unile gold-and here is the great difference between the two commodity without
to Mr Foot, that Egypt might not survive.
Is it not just concelv ble, even which Britain and Europe can
have defled the United Nations? Skr Anthony. Exten made She has been doing so ever since grievous errors of judgment,
and-dane, one say?-unthinking 1851 over the blockade on Israeli He was a sick man goaded
Tory would claim a success, shipping..
there are two very different views as to the nature of the
failure.
beyond endurance by another Bick man who even when well
Wrong time must be maddening to deal with
isla, the crime of Sir Anthony plaint is not our belated resolve ANY the implications of
To Mr Foot, as to all Social- No, the real cause for com-
Mr Dulics. But at least Sir.
threat
Canal
Dulles and
to the
MO
Elsenhower
Eden lies above everything in to protect our own vital in Mr using force without the permis- terests without regard to UNO, did not then, and it is far from sion-indeed, contrary to the It is rather that we chose the clear that they do now, After will of the United Nations, and wrong time and the wrong oc- all America has plenty of oil he quotes with approval Mr casion. It is clear now that we The trinh about the Sucz Bill is and long will be
Clement Davies (for Liberals can ought to have intervened when
be just as foolish in this matter) the Canal was first nationalised a matter of conjec
Inaction ture
who described the Assembly of If it is trio that our UNO "the world's highest was due to military unprepared- trkrunal."
The recent sensational dis- that is in itself a very closune of the Bromberger "Highest tribunal my Foot!" grave criticism of the Goven brothers in Paris show how dini- is the reaction which many of meat.
cult t'it is for anyone to write an
this
In any case, Mr Foot and Mr
us, even the most patient, whil The Israeli attack was a authoritative account at feel at this observation, The dubious occaskm for interven- ataga United Nations is no more of a tion, at alt events we ought to Judicial tribunal than the House have allowed the Israells to Jones are not historiam: they of Commons—and a great deal smash Nassor and reach the' are brillant and highly tenden- less
of representative
affect
electorate.
its Canal before taking action. tlocker pamphleteers, Pri
Finally, having decided to But pamphlets can
It is an assembly of lobbyists present an ultimatum, we can politics, and this one peods an reprismling with equal voting ducted a millary campaign araawer urgently
almost unbelievable slowness Toriem.dgoing to led their
unicas
* Gully Men, 1957, by Michael' an ineptitude. Whoever, was whole camo go by default,
Foot and Mervyn Jones, Gol- responsible for this desteves the: Where are our pamphleteem Lanez, 125, 00,
paverest condtomation and it on the Right-
It was following a ground explosion that Japanese fisher- men were showered with radio- active coral after a V.S, test,
These self-imposed preciu- tions
are so restrictive that U.S. defence chiefs believe the British tests will fail. No other country, least of all Russia, has taken such precautions,
'MISGUIDED'
PUOSE who oppose the tests
THOSE
on the political or moral plea that "world opinion" is de- manding an end to them are badly misguided,
Which countries are most vocal in pressing for an end to the tests? Russia, which has already staged several H-bomb explosions at least one on the ground and countries like Japan, which have no hope of staging
which fear any, but damage from the dust.
Those who oppose the tests on medical grounds are refusing to face the findings of the Medical Research Council, which has made it clear that there la 110 immediate health danger from nuclear explosives,
Japan is 4.000 miles from the explosion sie. With luck i shall be within' 40 miles of it. I have no fears about my future health or fertility.
Neither do I fear that my two children will suffer from the effects of any microscopical mole of Christmas Island bomb dust which may fall on them from the stratosphere in the years ahead.
"UNTHINKING' AVERYONE realises that bomb testing, and the emission of radioactive dust from atom will eventually have factories, to be limited. But those Britons who are clamouring for inter- very national action at the
First models--1,000 are paid for are to go to Canada moment when their country is after production starts next month. At the end of June on the threshold of becoming an H-bomb Power are either they are to come on the home market.
unthinking or unpatriotic.
How does the new laetta differ from the presont imported modal? It has a bigger (500 e.c.) angine, batter springing, and- especially with extrae like bumpers and a luggage rack on its stern-
■ new look. It has four gears and reversa.
These little cars may seem to have only three wheels. But stoked underneath are two back wheels close together. And in a recent test of the present car I found it could corner quicker than most big cars and could be parked nose-to-the kerb.
Though it la but a three-seater prophesy a big future for it De a runabout capable of long holiday trips when wanted.
Consult your Travel Agent.
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