THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1957.
THE MAN WHO
-by:
ANGUS MAUDE
TORY M.P. FOR EALING South
COULD
DESTROY BRITAIN
BRIGHTON..
IN the next year Mr
Macmillan's Govern ment has it in its power to destroy Britain. It can do it in either of two .ways.
By being half-hearted and ineffectual it can lose the next election, and with it rivel on this unhappy country the Socialist shackles of bureauernes", trade union ascendancy, and Inflation.
meanly
the
Jusion that Britain can become spaniel,
stomach-tickling recend Sweden, even though platitudes of platform oratory, we kick Sweden's natural re- ources and have to secure our
The country, eager for truth imports from the far corners and Fendership, is not simply of the globe,
sailsfied.
What it wants is a policy, and a man to present it.
Responbilities are not shed as easily ap that, Bella, with the Commonwealth. still has n Joh to tio in the world, and one Bat nobody else can do. And van to this means that the Government at his has a job to do at home.
IS IT GOING TO DO IT? The Brighten conference bas Jets st in, doubt.
Mr Thorneyeruft slapped him- self on the chest and saki how brate
Mr Macleod be wast qunted Bisrael; Land. Hallshum
quotation used the solar
uk we must have faith.
I am not With all charity
filled with hope.
By be placatory, and out- bidding The Socialists with election inbes, it can make us -perhig Cop eversa raeg af thi pensioners, materialist and jelouslý grasp- What of the Prime Minister? A nation, as Lord Nuffield 11 can perhaps be suid Ing. put it, living in semi-retirement und doomed to a slow and un- dignified death.
THE PROSPECTS
Do not know which prospeed is worse, la either ease, the best of our young people will emigrate.
Given a reasonable allerna live
Britain will not choore Socialism deliberately.
The menusty
of ineffectual controls, of austerity and in fallon niraculously synchron- ined, is still alive.
The prospect of more ution- alisution is not appealing. - Bul We may
Into Sodulisan
he succeeded In Impressing on his party the personality
No one but the Prime Minister this thing, and the time disposal is desperately
short,
A THEORY
MHE knowing contact men at THE
Brighton, who push around the sort of runours they believe will please the delegates, love a thenry about all this.
The polley, they saki to pucify the conference out offering the Left.
was
with-
Mr
INTO THE SPACE AGE. 2nd week
Political Consequences
Macmilion 1 brilliant.
dincere, a fine speaker, and potentially A great
Minister,
Prime
A But does the country know this? Does he not realise that
It is crying out for such
་
of the Red Moon
man? Moreover, that it will FTER one atupendous
not wait much longer?
If the necessary measures aro
the operation personally, be team to do so,
A
weck
of complete indeed to be taken-und Brigh-monopoly of space and with lon gives us Bttle certainty that: this is so then the Prime Mini- the 13-stone bleeping satel ster must direct and expound lite still rounding the carth and very 95 minutes, what solid advantages have the Te cannot afford to leave Russians gained? It to a medley of Ministers,
In their They have rubbed each concerned with a frag- ment of the whole. some defeat of the West in the des
Fistle for the waving baners and others❘perate race
caution or mouthing Missile the intercontinental rocket with the H-bomb war-
urcing liramides.
It is time we heard a single head. voles, stendily and clearly ex-
pounding an honest and sensible The power
polley.
11 is time for the authentic ring of leadership,
HIS JOB
and the accuracy
their Ars!
week's
A PERSONAL APPRAISAL
AFTER THE FIRST 3,000,000 MILES by Chapman Pincher
What it means to the anti-Communist Westerners
The quick W.5. offer to din euss control of space
missiles and the blame-shifting now going on la Washington are symptoms of national nervous-
wonder for a glimpse of the have been leading the world in satellite about which they know the production of atomle power nothing more than it is another for homes and industry.
there put
by
the
Alom power emerged from milllary work on the atom 40 years sooner than some selen-
lsts predicted.
moon Russians.
Nasser Egypt's
and the Syrian leaders can point to it as proot of their foresight in acquiring military and technical ald from Russia.
Who knows what may emerge from the exploration of Space and how soon?
there
庭 new
THERS can fiddle with pen-ROM
TAVERY bleep of the satellite
To those sill seeking such Western ig A wound to
It only prestige were at slake ston plans and argue about|F"
watch on Bleep Allied prestige. The Socialists must be given 11-bomb tests. The Prime Mini-scientifte
Whatever they may all the Bleep is signalling the
strong would all be no single sentence they could ster has a great
Intelligence experis
say in public. British and U.S. mesange: "You want the best
argument against man's job to are satisiled that the power and pollicians and
allowing that use as
defence chiels technics, we have them." ammunition; the trade do. He has to fell the country accuracy needed to put such a
Russia to buy up all the adver- have been badly shaken by the unions must be lulled into a
and make heavy some simple truths,
does Into
Britain ubject
How
stand tising space in space. But bigger such Russian achievement, that eller that the Government, ir
them true in action.
this In
fime" historic
My issues are involved, spectacular orbit could dump an he has so far failed to get across not friendly, is at least inclTee-
THAT HIS AIM Is to stop-bomb on New York.
show inquiries
that the equntry. But this is not tuit; the Tory Left Wing is to inflation, rather than just to winį
Britain atonds still
remain and wil enough.
be courted and Battered by the the next election.
The secrets of space which
atatic in the foreseeable future in the The Tory conference was in party leaders,
THAT HE WILL DO THIS Bleep is now probing will help
if present policy prevalis. many ways terrifying failure.
of the the Russians to predict the Of course the platform
Under cover of this blanket by freeing the energy delighted, for E the uld of eutton-wool the toughest people and not by curbing the trajectories of long-range rocket
efforts of the able and hard-] frings. anaesthetics worked.
actions, speaking: louder than
working. Meaningless resolutions were mere words, would be taken
with argcock
lukewarm fre; without anyone noticing what moderate opposition was shoth- was going on. erent in cotton wool Ministers, rapturously received. poured off
were still on waters that troubled.
THE SPARK
was
IF THIS IS REALLY THE POLICY OF HER MAJESTY'S GOVERNMENT. IT_IS_FATU DUS.
DISHONEST, AND DOOMED TO FAILURE.
ཆ
to
ness.
So Is the etgerness with
British be which
oficials dis-
The Government has insisted that Britain cannot afford 'opace experiments. The same, argu- ment was put up against the being manufacture of the atom bomb. paraged the satellite as
of tle_significance."
Americans," "Leave it to the The Russians are pounding the propaganda
theme that was the cry. their rockets are so effective
If that argument had pre- that nations who. make herd-valled Britain - would not now selves into targets by bases to the west stand 11 grave danger.
offering
The Bleep is the Golden Hind
conquest of environment. Ita success is of far greater significance Chan Drake's first circumnavigallon, in my view.
So the choice for the British, rs I see it after this last week, is between Anding the money for space research or facing a future of looking skywards with our mouths open and our feet in the mud,
They will help them TRAT HE WILL BREAK the power of any vested interest first with more elaborate robot
satellites which, Field whether Government depart- Marshat Lord Montgomery has
nationalized industry, ment
be warned, will
used for reconnaissance. trade union, or private mono- exploit the helpless poly to citizen without recess.
These military advantages are THAT HE WILL RESTORE menacing, but as a confirmed hope to the young and peace opitmist. the main Immediate It is inconerivable to me that of mind to the ok
effects of Bleep, as I see them. This argument false, because SOVIET SATELLITE CHIEF THAT ine Prime Minister does not
HE WILL STATE are political. To get them in such bases are που these place in the world perspective, let us examine countries* through the alde door, by way UT not a speech-Indced know this. But If he allows his Britain's
advisers to play on a fondness with authority and show
political manoeuvre
four types and he can defend it.
of may weaken the points of the
resolve of convince him that this is the THAT HE WILL BIND our people into which the nations some of Nato's trailer members. clever thing to do, ihm be--and true friends firmly to us, and bo of the world are now divided:--- we are lost.
uncompromising with the rest.
anti- .....The Russians, the THAT IS THE WAY TO WIN Communist Westerners. the THE NEXT ELECTION. THE peoples under Communist sub- ONLY WAY.
alink
TV
stars
single phrase went out of Tory abstentions and futRe
country and killed voler for
Hattering into the their eggs as Libera candidates. the Imagination of the people, What a traple rate of op- Perhaps the greater danger porinuity.
It is not enough for the Tury In
may opt for the We
to roll over al its cult of cosiness-for confort, conference disengagement, and anything for leader's feet ait absorb, n quiet le. For the fatal de- the panting
that
for
The Tories, and the country, with have no alternative lender of adoration of a comparable stature.
Parker 61
that them from the different view against Communist domination EXPLAINS HIS NEW TOY
What it means to
inction, and the millions who the subjected
are not completely committed to either side.
First, what
it means
to the Russians
TE Bleep is a terrifle shot Tin the dam for the Russian nation, which for 40 years has been suffering from a crushing inferiority complex,
After pitiful self-deceptions about Inventing almost every thing from TV to penicillin, the Russions have now indisputably beaten the West In a major technical project,
They are
puffed up with prestige making the most of it..
and
"The satellite proves the superiority of Soviet selence,"
nations
EAR of Russlam military might must now be even more intense in those countries which have felt its brutal impact.
To the all-rebellious Hun- grians and Poles the Bleep_is a further warning that Big Brother is watching.
To those who have given up fight for freedom, it the
Is evidence that the Communist medicine, however bitter, brings results of some kind.
What it means to
The Soviet satellite was observed by passengers aboard one of Scandinavian Airlines' commercial services flying the Atlantic.
One of the passengers on this flight was Soviet General A. A. Blagonravov, one of the designers of "Sputnik.'
the uncommitted This sketch by Blagonravov shows Sputnik's course around
argues Pravda. It shows that nations
Communism pays off, and that Capitalism is played out."
Whether taken in or not by IT is
the theme that the rising of the
the Earth in concentric eclipses..
General Blagonravov, reported to head the Soviet satellite programme, said that Sputnik was the result of tearnwork with no formal chief....
illiterate among the masses of Asia, Africa, and Red Moon means the salting of South America that the Bleep A the Western Sun, the Russian la exerting its greatest impact. people witi undoubtedly bo In India, for instance, millens
arc watching the spurred to even greater efforts.
sky with
member of the Russian party stated on arrival at Copenhagen that a dog would accompany one of the next satellites to be launched from Russia.
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