SEVEN
YEAR
PLAN
IN THE KREML
"THE DREAMER -H.G. WELLS ON LENIN
IN 1920.
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1959.
MORE SWEETS LESS BITTERS
Vicky
!
London Expics Sarules.
"Him? Oh, a backward sort of chap. Still believes in planning
How I wish Dulles could
visit Berlin's front-line!
THE Russian threat has
by LORD BIRDWOOD
those Allied Powers
in no way ruffled the Western garrisons in Ber- in. Still less are there any signs of panic. But it wouki be foolish to ignore a sense of anxiety
among with grave responsibilties.
During the last few weeks I have talked in Berlin with Burgomuster Willy Brandt, and with Herr Lemmer, the Minister for All-German Affairs,
she ale he pre- pared to face up to the inter- national Ponsequences ut An "lacident.””
The point was put to me by invoking the Suez analogy. The question as to whether Sucz vas right or wron? as an ente5~ I have also spoken with the price i not affected. What aut Commanders of the British and red at Suez was that once we American ders, with their had started we should have seen officers. many of whom had it througth:
15 ve Val
lived with the problem since the one approach is very much 1945 and last but not without an 0:- minds of the Berth Com- Bigmineance, with an elderly sabers. Communia! propagandist in the Eastern Sector,
I regret the difference of
approach which has become
evident between. the British
Big risk
With this in mind the Britis
Goverment and the U.S. State pret.nes for a return to
Department.
Opposed
(!)
1..ce
ibit
Wid clear afantastes.
have certius
that the bridge was unsafe and due for regis, or a road block; erected could be deliberately with the object of enforcing negotiation with East German officials.
One thing could lead to al- other, events crtarding up
en
X-15
The 123-million
dollar step on
the way to man's
conquest of space
AIR FORCE
4,500 mph...with a man in it!
New York.
THE sign outside the green hangar at Edwards Air Force Base, in California's Mojave Desert, reads: "Top Secret-No Visitors."
But recently there have been many visitors -Air Force generals from the Pentagon in Washington, scientists from the rocket site at Cape Canaveral, a visiting group of politicians, and, most important of all, test pilot Scott Cross- field.
It is Scott Crossfield who cars mid that the pilot would soon will climb into the rockete probably double the existin shi known 09 X-16 and. 2.178 niph, gored record and tethered Na the 13-52 mo- the p:esent 22-mile world alti- the tude record both aebitved by ther ship, will penetrate skies and inter the space beyond, the X-2 which later met
carry
as
Their object
cis
That's the hope for America's 100-mile-high flyer..
.. soon
to take the air with mother
DON IDDON
The strain to the mea is bruist. For instance, the X-15's
when
leased light or drop testa begin
the meth's end, when the allical cords are severed and the X-15 is on its way.
Crunafteld is used to the tiny. cccxpit. He has been sitting in it on the ground and in the hangar day after day, week in and werk cut. He says krow ke my old annchair, it's not as although
comfort- ble."
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pilet encounters king gravity As well as training on the loads and, in fact, weighs nino ground, Crossfeld and ethers times his normal weight
have flown four or five times a he is hurtling through spate. week in jets, mainly F-100's, lo practisc dead-stick landings. Engineers have made these lest lights as
Meult possible, with engines deliberately made to stall, brakes not to mperate, and drag parachutes trailing to simulate tho most hazardous ecnditions.
Despite the five-layered, alu- aniniumired pressure sait which Cres led himself invested,
Crossfeld is a family mad eged 37, with a pretty wife and five children. He made his first
an ngenising effort for the flight at the age of 12, was a
pilot even to liat an ann. So hter pilot during the last all the controls re by the flick
degrees won and helds
of of a finger or wrist. Bachelor of Selence and Moster of Science:
For the next few weeks the aster. X-15 which. Edwards' spaccinen claim, is well ohrad of anything the Husskins or anyene cloc has developed, will Le ted to the mother ship by um- bilical cords which manders have to make plans forekettie power and oxygen. local resistance, for the pro- Then, if everything goes tection of familles, for liaison planned (and the planning bas with the German authorities been going on for years) towards and for a hundred and one minor the end et February the X-15 contingencies.
will be released from the bember mother...and Crossfleld will be on his cwn in an alreraft or pro-
When he climbs Into the cock- justily capable of speeds of 4,500 it of the X-15 he fa not just a im.p.h.
ple. He knows what is going mites.
<m in this complang with any such
Scott Crossileld does not plan elped wings which locks like
maximas on his sile, weighs seven night.
will hand over to hit tona is soft, long, Be cther pilets the job of achieving : 2,000,000 Iran-hourE the ultimate. He is casentially effo:t, and costs $123,000,000. ja test pilot and, by rare changp
nisu, gifted engineer.
If operations on the ground were to spread, their chances of prolonged resistance against the surrounding forces of the Erat Getman Army, with some Soviet Divisions in the back- ground, would be slender. But with the nur of grave derisions transferred to the air, they could
to make
at least hope for initial immunity 10p of echt other with te and breathing space
me for Governments to con- their plans. tuk. The situation could Le out of han i while statesinch were desperately trying to collet their thoughts around a Conference table.
Suppose that the East Germina
thritia, having auntl complete control, suddenly stage It givou pway no secrets to say an incident, a subs quent die- that the State Department's ju- cision to push Through a two- clination to
30 able
vog anda tank protection could! showdow
the Helsted! very quickly merge into a local autobahn is in conflict with the battle with the prospect first of British view that why in dif- a all war, to he followed up
lealty w should fake to the by the big war,
Ti nature of East Germ in In Berlin itself the affilule is interference might be diBeult that whatever the method of to recanise. Pr example, a supporting the city might be bridge could be blown and they, the overriding factor is Uut the could get away with it by saying
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But suppose, in co; trust, that
at the first signs of unpleasant. nes from the East Germans we were to take to the air, the Problem wonde De of different character,
Time to think
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ຕ
New lease
altitude of At 200
Confidence
} talked to
him
100
and repre-
Not for war
that
You must understand the X-15 is not a weapon of war.
11 cannot be used as a bomber er an interpopher
plane, cr a single-passenger trans-
The X-15 has a radileally new super engine with a hard acteler port.
remething without prece-
It has been made to And out just what happens in space to dent in a rocket plane.
During the captive tests in the men and metal. nidd or Febrürry the mother Out in the Mojave Desert to- Alr B-52 will cruise at 500 m.p.h. day the man of Edwards
are sure that
the
The X-15 has two sister ghing over the desert at 27,050, up, Foros Base
at North day after day, until the final re- admited gambie will come off. now being completed American Aviation's factory in
Los Angeles, but they will not be delivered, until the end of
briefly June.
Ambiguity is equally unwel- come to the Berlin economy. Great industtion such as Siemens and he sounded chippy and con- mut know up to what point they
can depend upon reveal thou-
Thi
thinking
adventurous.
Har.isca
will take over."
ROUND-UP
"ELECTRIC BLANKET" FOOTBALL
What in Crossfeld Gnd b X-15 out to prove? In a sm- fident.
"This business in my cb and tence. Just how much man
rachine can endur sand: if workers continuing to I do act lose any sleep at night and make the daily trip ness from
about it. I can tell space.
Storms,
North the Eastern sector to their you, any compelent test pilot
chief engineer, benches in the vast Siemenstadt who had the recessary mining American's concentration industry.
and experience and, of course, says: "We are simply out to the Thelination can By the s: eenditions In часе.
FOOTBALL clubs all over Britain have asked the Merseyside and not in say that Berlin.
difference
North Weles Electricity Loard for details of the "electric First there would be time in fatalism, has made up its X-15. We have been working deon's make much
whether you are 100 miles out blenket" which was installed beneath the turt of Everton's ground hard in the past 18 months and reconsider. mind thout the future. everyone to
Scolly's a Goodison Park at a cost of £7,000 at the end of last season, Certainly Here Willy Brandi our cho27 know what they are 100,000 miles out. Then, if the East Germans did decide to follow up the initial looks to Four-Power talks Im- about. 1 don't consider this trip job, under his contract with us, The system produced a fine playing surface for the third round I is to demonstrate X-15's paten PA. Cup-tie zgainst Sunderland when most other grounds were Incident, they could only do so posing caution and a new lere particularly
Birmingham City, Manchester United, Manchester City, Arsenal by shooting down an acroplane of life weeks before May 27, the consider it something I have to dial. After that come other guys frostbound. Among League clubs who have made enquiries are er sending up
Khrushchev deadline for turning do and want to do. a Aglater cro-
Wet Berlin into a Free City.
"As a matter of fact, I have The other guys are Air Force and Huddersfield Town. plane for the same purpose,
a private theory that we
Robert don't Captain I say this that so long
White, CENTENARIAN DOLL In tha eventuality there
enough. Of cours), we veteran 8ghter pilot, aged 34; what- Coubts and divided pelticz are risk could be no ambiguity
in the Western have to take a motal atlituée Captain Joseph Walker, aged 37, he disccane scover as to the intention
flying X-series approach it becomes increasingly about risking human life, but I who has been tund the petion.
dificult for bath Berliners and sen convinced we eculd do a lot shcraft ever since they caine of naked angression would have the local grisen to make those of things a lot fesier it we were the birch; and the Navy's been perpetrated and the offen hurried (djustments to
Forrest Regency days. plus te blygar calculated risks Eleut. Cmmander ders would have to answer for which become constantly neces- And, most of all, we should not Petersen, aged 30. it to the United Nations.
sary in the absence of decision be afraid of risking tuilure,"
White, Walker, end Petersin TO HELP W.V.S. IN FAR EAST is only right that the from Che top.
Crossfeld said later tint have much the sume altitude tej TISS Muriet Hallam, of Shefeld, Berlin garrison should know as I wish that M: Dulles could although
CrossdelaThey MSS astern Administrator for the W.V.S. has he didn't plan to their jobs roon as possible where they lude the frent-line in his go all out in X-15 "I hope to hate being called "dedicated."
spent the last three years in Germany helping to run clubs fon stand in these hypothetleaf but characteristic tour of the bases break a record or two—I'll be and they don't like the name Canadian and British Servicemen. She worked for the Central not impossible, situations. Com- behind.
disappointed it I don't." Engin- "npactinen".
Control Commission in Germany betere taking up W.V.S. work.
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A DOLL mere then 150 years old is among 00 from 17 countries A owned by 11-year-old Astrid de Pauw, of Hastings, Sussex.
frum She has been collecting dolls
the age of seven. The centerarian doll once belonged to the wife of a Landon builder of Other dolls In Astrid's collection Include two Montolian warrior dolls mounted on horses in full battledress.
HANDS
OFF
OUR TERRY
RELEASE
Rock
OUR
TERRY
ROLL
BULLITIN
BEFORE NATIONAL
SERVICE
FOR
UNFIT SERVICE
TERRY DENE
nicz
and
compy!"
ROYAL RIFLE CONT
THE KINCI
TERRY
DEAN
"Sarge-half the company's reported sick with amotional distrossos and the other half because they'ro allergic to rock 'n' roll." London Expgels Service.
who has been appointed
GENERAL JOINS RIFLE ASSOCIATION
ENERAL Sir Franels Festing, Chief ol the Imterial General Staff, had been elected tha a vice-president of Northumberland County Rune Association. The General scalá, In August last year that "the standard of shooting in the Army is nothing like what it should be." When asked if he. would "join" the fife Assoca- lion fn Northumberland he replied that he would do any thing to improve rife shooting f the country. "It's just my cup of tea," was his summing up. Says the chairman, Lieutenant-Colonel I.E. W Johnson. "We're rather pleasect with ourselves."
"APPLES FOR HEALTH"
OUR thousand Yorkshire
fruiterers are taking part in a nationwide campalin to boost apple sales, The Retall > Fruit Trades Federation (York- chiro Arca) bea Passed resolution urging the National Executive to promote a campaign to boost apple sales, particularly ad doctors end deniiats had recently stressed the trulis health value.