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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1957.
I ask you to consider this carefully before letting
?
the Sputnik stampede you
I
an
by SEFTON DELMER
to
In other words, there in every evidence that Krushcher send a missile up. There is only political warfare to sug- gest that he can bring it down again to hit a selected target,
For the friction generated by Deception
deception, or no HAVE been carefully
the available the successful projection of the the missie, plunging back into studying
satellites into space has been the ntmosphere on its way to of . the history
Soviet generally accepted as confirma the target, will cause it
The Soviet calm, put disintegrate and explode before Earth satol- tion et Union's two lites. As a result, a suspleton forward before the launching of hitting the earth.
the satelites, that they have has forced itself upon me.
successfully tested
inter In Big Bans Krushchev using continental missile. the spectacular achievement of his scientists in producing these Gatellites lu put over on the world the biggest paychological warfare deception of all time"
the Are Little Lemon and amazing apparatus in which she is cireling the globe all part of the
pitical
What makes me doubt this? First: the successful launching of the satellites inló space is in itself no proof that the Russians have an intercontinental misslle
Planned
Wan" of the coast of Spain persuade Hitler that we wer attack him in Coralea, when fuel, we were going for him in Africa.
This is how I see it:-
multi- Was
force intercontinental
balistic rocket stage launched a few days ago. The tents of the rocket were suc- cestful.
ALDO TOW
4 the Art Statos Statoglo Air Force and • THE FIRST, internal, is to 4 ON OCTOBER
satellite is launched. Krush its ring of basca around the nutten. out Internal opposition chev himself goes into action. Soviet Union
out of that might - crystallise, ground such A rival ·00 Marshal He appears at a cocktail party date and valueless,
Zhukov; of the Soviet German Embassy and says his piece:-
"When we fred off the inter- continental ballistic missile mary people said this was just a psychological trick, and that we were only trying to create an impression,
"They didn't believe us. But we don't go in for bluffing. We are a serious people.
"You might as well scrap
SECOND to prote those aircraft," says Krushi-
a: state chev again and again. "They Western Icadora into
of helpless passivity, CRUSO are usalmas."
them to look on inactive while And just to ram home to Krushchev, under cover of his this picture of missilo bluff, carries en moro the world Russia confident in its Bow and more overtly his "war" to unchallengeable r superiority, cut off the West from a vital Krusheher works up his war sources of overseas supply. Already today a tinkle scare over Turkey and Syria,
and orders the Soviet repre- fco in Krushchev's vodka ginas "And now, when we have rentatives to withdraw from at a Moscger party is enough
not only succeeded in Bring an UNO'
rocket but a ference, intercontinental
the
satellite inlo spaco, Even merest fool is pointing to 1 and saying, "There you are.""
arc
Barrage
THE RUSSIANS announce that they will take part la the Geophysical Year and send up a satellite or two by way of helping with the intet in a brief time. The rocket achievement than the "mere" national researchts.
Janded in the target area,
greater
in
+
making
Ghana'e
Dividends
the
Dloarmament Con- to cause a crash on Wall Street.
THIRDLY. to Impress "nti tralists" and near-friends like
and "Ah," say my clics, "you India's Nekrui
allowance. Nkrumah
Western that the for the fact that the Russians cause. Is lost, and that it is hava never been eaught out high time for them to scramble
bluff. Everything they on to Krushchev's waget, have claimed to have achieved how
beautifully in the last five years has turn- NOTICE
Correct-sub- Krushchev puta the cart ed out to bo
transports, "They fully confrmed caleu-
the horse, suggesting marines, turbo-jet
I 200 is here that lations, and the rockel new at before
the satellites." the projection of
I' a very high and unprecedented that 19
fur 2
blagest and most valuable To which 1 reply: the whole dividends coming to Krushchev. altitude covering a vast distance satellite
that you firing of the intercontinental art of deception is
For, bellevo nie, among these tell your victim the truth 00 missile, (Soviet scientists and bern
"The results obtained how- From here on we have been times out of 100. It is the 100th Atrlean, Aslan, and South-East working on missiles aince "3018,
the halls of UNO, the majority which sinks him,
are only too anxious that the It shows they have solved My second point la that the They knew that they could put ed that it is possible to direct treated to a barcage of Krush time that you give him the lle Aston neutralists that throng
Great whole pattern of the way the up satellites.
any part of the chov propaganda, all based on progress rockets into
Bssumption that those What objectives has Krush- missile hoax should not be a problem of launching 1821
satellites, and the Soviet claims had been made with fuels and world. The solution of the probe the
Of designing Intercon- satellites have proved beyond chov in pulling out the missile hoax, but prove 100 per cent super-deception 1ockets of the weight
intercontinental launching devices since they m to possess the
I believe, it true. be needed to carry 4
their first
satellite in tinental ballistic rockets will all doubt that Russia has the deception-If, as
is a deception? meant to panie us into believing would
misalle, have been presented to put up
make it possible to reach te intercontinental missile. 1993-by accident.)
Chief contention of this pro- that the Russians have deve- nuclear warhead.
They have solved the equally the world conforms to that of a
SOMEONE perhaps Krush- mote areas without resorting to
the that
United There major ones, loped "the ultimate weapon,"
carefully and most ingeniously
paganda is matier
planned piece of strategie chev himself as the Idea and that we are therefore, now foll
a strategie air force." honal control, and they appear deception: the kind of thing of using the Geophysical Year, postagens hopelessly at their mercy?
to have developed a rocket fuel
our own strategie deception and the salelllter which are for superfor 10 anything We
men put over on the Germans going to be launched, as cover have in the West.
during the war when they for a big missile hoox to Panie launched the "Man Who Never
West and impress neutrals,
• Even the dor should
It is put execution, Nuclear kind of rocket
bangs are let off to set the parachute
world agog.
*
'Ultimate'
THE "ultimate weapon-that
od
direc-
BUT there is not the slightest evidence as yet that they have
whai solved
called "the
Tis what american call the protem of re-entry. That is brought dowa agal by sube DURING August
is the intercontinental ballistic missile, the rocke! with the nuclear warhead which be shot through space to hit target 4,000 to 5,000 miles distan!.
д
to say, there is no evidence yet that the Russians, having red a mbele Can
into space where it has picked up a speed of 18.000 milles an hour, can then bring it down again.
elector and will device, this prove nothing to the contrary. The problems and the procedure for landing the missile are en- tirely different,
the
Then, on August 26, the official Tass News Agency an- nounces: "A super long-dis-
A Gift with the right is always appreciated
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AT
CALDBECK:
MACGREGOR
spirit
To John
Happy
Xmas
Give a beautifully decorated basket containing the finest wines and spirits.
Please order early for Xmas
Mary
It is high time that we and the Americans joined in Ad effort to diallusion them.
If the Sputnik hits
HAVE a simple, typically British, sense of humour. I have only to see an elderly man slip on a banana skin and I giggle, titter, and bowl with laughter until the tears run from my eyes. Especially if he breaks a leg.
But the world, I find, is strangely lacking in perception and kindliness when something happens to me.
I write from my bed, immobile from the waist downwards, after wrenching every muscle in the base of my spine through an over-sudden contact
with the saddle of a horse last week.
The friends who visit me show no con- OGITE about my in- teresting pallor. In aced, they mako stupid Jokes, such as: "I suppose, when you do get up, you'll have to cat your meals from
the mantel-
piece?"
A
And when I let stifled moan ексаре they etoric. TTY lying on
your
Biomach," they suggest helpfully. "You won't suffocate much if you
keep your nose
of the pillows.'
Grim
out
AM now beginning
I to feel that this
kind
of humour
overrated, especially as
I am so often on the rough end of it. I have just listed the accidents in my 38 years. It is
a grim and distressing list.
I have been run over by a taxt and knocked down by a pram. I have ridden a bicycle Into the back of tram and driven a Bren-gun carrier into the side of a staff car, occupied brigadier commanding by the Salisbury Plain District.
anyone-it will be me
LET'S FACE IT... PM Accident prONE,
WILFRED FIENBURGH
M.P.
I have survived two airplane I have never been in. a sub- motor-blke marine or a and threa
steamroller-but given me time, that's all, give me time.
crashes neeldents.
In cars and Jeeps I have hit a tree, a railway bridge, my own garden fence, three other ears,
lorry, four-ton RA.F.
the side of 1 policeman, and battle cruiser.
been bitten by an I have Airedale, a golden hamster, and the neighbours' parrot.
a
Appalling
4
HAVE fallen off the deck of a destroyer and my garage roof. I have been blown up in landing craft and now....I have been ignominiously Injured by a horse.
I must be, I think, accident prone. If the Sputnik Jands on
a road. I'll be the person it hits.
Looking back I am
appalled
bollards and other navalitor
"Commander." I said, as we
the jetty,
have no on this car.
Why can I never emerge from my accidents looking tierole? Why does a strong. fatal streak of-the Judicrous haunt me?
Like when I broke my anklo in three places after rescuing a daughter from the garage tool. Her only comnicht to thy wtfe was: I've never seen daddy's faco go green before."
Like the time I drove t..now motor-bike into the front of an G.P.O. van. I swear it was the driver's fault, but he cald: "If you want to post a letter, why not try a pillar-box?"
No hero....· LIKE the time an Auster air-
craft, in which I Wins a passenger,
crash-landed on food
¿
near Hamburg when the war was ending. A wing tip hit a telegraph pole and we slowed round in a scutter of dust and rubble. When wo could see again we saw that wa surrounded by armed
were
Germans.
This is it, I thought. At last
to
I could
at a spanking pace, intending to 1 can be a hero. But no. The draw up of the gangplank in Germans wanted to surrender. good military style and order, They pleaded with us to take
One
We tried thing wunt wrong, them prisoners. though. The brakes, when I chase them away. And when came to apply them, did not they would not go we ran away work. I addressed the com- from them and they ran after
us. demanding their mander with, ealm Army · eong-
rights froid.
under the Geneva Convention.
There I was again. No hero's tore along
"I am welcome. Just an angry colonel. afraid we
arresting who raid: "Never mind about miraculous escape froni In other your device words the brakes are kaput, no death. Just go away and lose good. They won't work." your friends.
"In опе moment," he
Indignity.... towards murmured as we shot at the lack of sympathy people the grey water, "we won't need AND now the horse..
A have wrenched my back have shown me. I was alx brokesye'll need an anchor." years old when I raced out of
There was only ono way to jumping gallantly over a dive-
barred gate. I
I could have the school playground, fest a stay cut of the water and sudden wallop in my side, and took it. I heaved over on the injured myself trying bravely found myself tangled in the wheel and crashed into the side to stop a runaway pony. wheels
I cripple myself of a pram. I picked of the ship.
to be I happened myself up, looked for a pair of The noise of the crash echoed because
down like a Back of loving arms to soothe me--and around the tin sheds
on the coming
WAS was lilt across my loft ear by a jelty, out over the water to the potatoes when the horse
Biko an uncelled stil lines of large handbag.
destroyers and coming up
spring, and the two of us met, "Brute," said the mother who landing craft.
the saddle and I, in a posture aimed the handbag, Stunned by the impact and
the clamour I clambered out of not recognised by any riding "you've wakened the baby."
It has Deen like that ever the driving seat and looked up. school....a posture marked by
One of those thin, clean Dayal extreme indigulty, since.
But I am reconelled now. I looking down in May faces was
know. now that I am
the preparing the rail.
tho perennial, the "It is a pity," he said gently, original,
had
One
I gave a
over
But no.
ine morning I have come to grief in almost 1944, when we were every form of human transport to invade Europe, commander except a submarine and a steam raval
3 BAL to "that you did not sound your inevitable man who silps on the Dockyard
This is my role We would, roller, And for those signi@cant Portsmouth
my horn
of course, banaca akin. omissions there 13 but one staff car. Bilthely I nipped have moved had we known you in life-and with resignation I
the through explanation.
and were in such a hurry." capstans
ZANIES
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accept it.
Savin Myers
SILENCE
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