Rockets:
IS BRITAIN'S EFFORT REALLY
NECESSARY?
now there is a British as well as an American
So finger on the trigger. Thor rockets, it has
been officially announced, are now ready by their launching pads along the East Coast.
THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1960.
ON
THE
BEACH
FINAL DAY
The date is February 28, 1963. Just 10 months after IT hap- This in the end of lite
which
apened.
on our planel Faial radialen destroyed the Northern Hemi
phere
trom the nuclear war
A switch could be pressed in Norfolk and, few minutes later, Moscow would cease to exist This means that Britain has a Great, Deterrent of virtually the same composition as the American "sword force."
course, far
smalter
I is, of but it in cline in Whitehall that the British nuclear stuking force alone canikit inflket "tens of
cnsultica niliions of Soviet Union in a few minutes.
What is more, the NAF which delivery
is responsible for the
011
the
of the deterrent, matulains that no surprise attack on this coun-
Try could prevent the departure
of British retaliation.
Expensive
By- TOM POCOCK
Lars is a joint
responsiblity.
Anglo-American
Australia,
har
שיסת
resched
the Inst bastan uf mankind. This is the end the road for us all-for Dwight Tower. American submarine consumander; for Moira David- he found a with whom leeting happiness in these final, stom for me, dark days; and scientist Julian Oxhorn. Finis,
FOT
1. JULIAN OSBORN (FRED ASTAIRE), HAD
MY FINAL FLING WINNING A MOTOR RACE
1. 74769
PREPARATION FOR THE INEVITABLE-THE HANDING OUT OF MERCY PILLS FOR ALL
PATHERE IS STILL
AND AS WE WAITED THE BALVATION ARMY PLAYED A REQUIEM FOR NANKIND...
One last, carefree whirl
before... OBLIVION!
WELL, what do you do when the world is
crammed into one corner of the Australian continent and you know that, at most, you have only a few weeks to live?
People suddenly realised that, with the short, it was necessary to be honest.
Commander Dwight
Davidson Moira
by Leonard Mosley
весть
had
preparing. The killed. world was closing in on us. For win."
neu like me, bachelors, cynics, scientiate, devil-may-cores. here was the opportunity to cock a shook at fate.
Towers
been had We
AJ petrol were precious
hoard puts for the winter. had cars, and we had been get- ting them ready.
$117- and And yet you would be
cheerful everyone honest with each other at last. prired how
In many ways it remind- WIA. ed me of life during the b back in the old days in London In 1941.
Last chance
at life
TWO WHO POUND HAPPINESS **MOIRA TAVA GARONER) AND TOWERS
PECKI 1GREGORY
1
way it goes, even at the end of the world, when you decide to fall in love with a naval officer. Oblivion is just ahead, and what happens? The
Silent Service nirst.
Towers went down to report to his crew aboard the Sawfish and told them the facts of the situa- tion. There was no hope. 14 would soon be all over för all of them.
So what did the crew deeldo to do? Well, maybe a British crew would have decided to do the same thing. They asked to go back to America.
To music
And that is really the end of the whole story, for Dwight Towers for Moira, and for me, Julian Osbom, sometime boffin, Well, I hydrogen bomb expert and rue-
I'm going out there to
It's a curious thing, how the With the return of the sub-
you have no to Australia,
knowledge that The crux of the matter is: marine Sawfish
future, that you needn't worry could the British V-bombers everyone knew that there was I was just
It any longer, loosens you up. Now the cost of mainiblairag private clear deterrent is and misiles be knocked out on jno hope any more.
o question of time. the round? The RAF has work
collecting isn't that you take stupid risks £130 lion a year and it can
ve out a plan for rapid dispersal United
squirrels The difficulties don't seem in- be argued that as the
We superable any longer. Command and warning of altack, Under States Strategic Air
the most urgent of these the has xene 1,700 lorge jel bombers
We all went faster round the to deliver the bombacked "amber" warning- V-bomber airborne
curves.
We all pressed harder up by a wide range of missiles striking force must be within three minutes,
There was a
I racing circuit on the straight.
said. dryly. Eundreds of hip-based
Oure airborne-and presum- is Brush effo
When Towers took off in the bombers the
And oh yes, there were acci- thought at least I'd like to go lag car ace. on-coming ably The money
pasting the
The bombers then were roar Sarwish to imee the mysterious outside Melbourne, and we took Brid UNIVCESSITY
Years ago, back in denis.
another the down in history as having done and no man o radio in California, he had hope it
One after pet enemy over the North Sea-ing overhead
The time is seven o'clock in might perhaps h better
which of them.
of the course and
make
the the evening. in his heart that his wife and Europe, I used to watch the cars went on conventional fores or space would the bombers get through? woman know
theh Yes, say the experts.
which house, which street, which
themselves and rhildren might still be alive.
was pitched racing family, would be
wiped out but now he had maallowed the also a spectator at the Mille drivers into death and destruc- It was frightening but it hard facts of the
situation and Miglia. next.
But spectator is the tion. But it wam'i because they nlao. was
in Borne
ways digested them.
word. I had never taken part were trying to kill themselves. It won just that, released from invigorating. You suddenly dis-
tried too Moira Davidson's reaction, in in a race in my te
fear of death, they covered who were your friends,
love with Towers as she was.
But now I wanted
to be in much with too little skill. She and how nice people could be.
worked in a different way.
there, and winniag. that Towers was a discovered desperately keen trout sher-
research.
the Before examining
worth adding motive it is
forces we get for up the
our money,
rane
Command, which is Bomber
long Jor responsible nuclear retaliation, is divided into four parts, each under separate control,
the First cosmes force the Vulcan
The future
They reckon between 75 and 85 per cent would reach their targets by night, about half by
day.
Is all thin worth the Could it not best
being money?
be left to the Americans?
V-bumber Vietors from
and Vallonts-which can
dispersal airtelds their Britain
All losers
нал.
it was that way in Melbourne. She went harder to bear ment House One answer is that the Ameri-True, this was cans may not always be as than the blitz. The blitz in Lon- into breaking heavily committed in Europe as don was a gamble in which you land--and
of coming season was had a 10-1 chance
down to Govern- and talked them
over.
5t
Le Mans, I
think about the And it you facts of the ualion-IT on ite way, the sickness to come--you will realise what sort of race 1 was likely to be. the low of the the trout fishing
Dwight Towers moved forward two
sind
could enjoy
it was too
The winner
something except hydrogen bomb,"
Or of Melbourne harbour the For it was almost time now." nuclear submarine Sawfish, with its captain, Commander Dwight The first cases had been re-
Bltering down Towers, aboard is saling for a ported, IT was
rendezvous somewhere In the of Melbourne now. U.S., the the streets
only place In the The pills that would bring an world where his crew can die easy way out were on the way happy
to the rationing stations.
uf the week,
in they are today. During the 1960s lout unscathed. In this situation, months....so that both fisher- come up to the pils os I took maybe it was because I pushed and found case and comfort.
range as far as Omsk and cover 75 per cent of Soviet industrial entrer.
From other bases they can the entire Soviet Union, COVET and, such is their mobility, they could be rekly 10 operate from bases the other side of the world within 24 hours.
The rockets
The V-bomber force is under the direct control of the British Government.
is
The fight bomber force entirely at the disposal of wir General Narstad's NATO command. It is now composed of Canberras, which could reach
Kiev as far as Leningrad and
but not Moscow, and these are
to be replaced by the
Vallants,
heavier
A deadly technique evolved
by the light bomber squadrons
Is the low level attack
"under of
the radar," and in spite heavy fuel consumption at this height the bombers could' range over most of Eastern Europe at u height of 25011.
These are the factles that have made ship-borne bombers, designed for low flying a major strategic weapon,
Thirdly is the reconnaissance force, which is responsible to a special inter-Service organisa- tion.
11
Finally come the missiles. The four Thor bases each with complement of 15 rockets with a range of 1,000 miles, will be fully operational by the spring. The Aring of these nuclear mis-
TALKING
POINTS
China is expected to emerge as a major nuclear power.
There is a possibility that Europe might have to stand up to en aggressor ky self.
him-
If the aggressor found self faced with the prospect of mutual destruction then, as he is today, the uneasy peace may be preserved,
--London Express Service).
not hope in each other.
Moira Davidson watches them
streets
of Mel-
At the end The professionals kept to the Dwight Towers and Moira came so. She is crying. but in a way track; and so did 1. For 40 tops back from the mountains. Here she is happy.
And in the we kept it up, and with every at least were two people who Moira lap we pushed harder. And had solved the human situation bourne, as the crowds queue for
their oblivion pills, a Salvation Above Army band is playing. my last look over my beloved hardest of all that, at the end. what, I suppose, at the end of racing car.
them a banner flies. dear was the most fantastic race of all kill "Don't
yourself
arm time, I came in first. But before they took off for Julian," Motra said, her
And as Moira clasped me in the mountain streams, they had linked In Dwight's.
not? her arms and gave me a victor's To engagement. an important
I almost said: "Why
"You won. watch me.
It will only make a few weeks' embrace, she said:
You won because you Instead, 1 sald: Jutan! This version of "On the teach" in
For it was for just this situa- difference. adapted from the United Artists Alm
that I und a few others "I'm not going out there to be bad to, didn't you?" based on the novel by Nevil Shute. Lion
everyono started--and everyone men and troul
Yet such is the ability of little sport before lost. the human spirit to adjust itself fate. that there were few hysteries. few breakdowns, and lots of camaraderie.
Prince
Philip's Shaving
AN ANNOUNCEMENT
OF FASCINATING SIGNIFICANCE
For the THERE it was on Page Three of a British national newspaper shortly before Christmas last month discreetly placed in an advertisement of an clectric shaver .... a royal warrant.
Which means that in Buckingham first time Prince Philip has been revealed as a "lazy shaver.” Palace every morning there is the buzz-that penetrates more urgently than the alarm clock through so many wives' waking dreams.
For so
This is a small but very significant fact in the ever-growing battle of the bristles. long our monarchs were bearded (think of Henry VIII, Charles I, Edward VII, and George V-any hair fashion they set was of no advantage at all to the barbers),
But
to the pogonotomists (thal's, an expert on shaving) it
pleasant, I think, is that it of all to the way the wet-dry
by Jill Butterfield
war will go in the next decade. slumped by "At what angie do "Give him a better shave this
What makes a fire so
is the most fashionable puinter
is a live thing in a dead
*
room.
-SYDNEY SMITH.
Lift not the painted vell which those who live call Hre.
Presents
car acts
To Math The Cum Cummarys
10
Shutter Piphacts LIR.
THE ROYAL WARRANT
either returning to the wet shave when repairs are neccs- sary or having two razots).
So many
The dry-shave magnates have the lesa obvious but their greater inducements on side.
Already, overnight trains in most parts of the world equipped with plugs to take an electric razor. Already there's self- London shop with a
O
Already
afe
service. electric shoving service. (A shilling in the slot buys dive minutes' shaving time, and your get a davor and an automatic cleansing pad thrown in.) the voltage of the Mediterranean coast zone has been changed over to the 220- rate of mast volt, ·60-cycle
60 the England, place in Englishman abroad can now LLBE hio razor, with the addition of a small adaptor.
In the hectic weeks before his whiskers leave his skin?" Christmas morning (he'll bloss the morning of every a Hght or heavy you
year)." Even the man who likes Last Christmar, It reached fanta- or "Is his stic proportions in Britain.
beard?)
a wet shave ("The only way to The battle last year was 15- Fet a real man's shave-not cently fought on the hoardings, my quotes) could have found on the television screen, in the his wife presenting him with an Mr Edgar Herrman, director advertisements which pepper the injector-matie razor with
These Britain's largest dry-shaver papers, and, although they have precision sharp blades. -SHELLEY, of
shop, told me that 35 per cent not yet reached the peale of were ready packed for added
There are over 40 different of all shavers sold are bought togetherness" of the
Either way, the respective malces of electric shavers in Which of us is not by women for men's Christmas ("Together you'll choose a new are in gey Christmas wrap-
manufacturers are determined Britain to choose. Érons, If the shaver is to Blank Blank Blank") they were forever
stranger
and present.
to got him young,
There is a shaving population be a surprise present, the pur sailing pretty close to the brink
On one sicky, the razor blade of 18,000,000 (beards, by de- alone?
chaser is naked to answer ques- In one campaign, a be-dressing- end pony-talled
proprietors have the advantage fration excluded). THOMAS WOLFE.ins about the recipient to gowned wite
Agarod prominently.. sults. child
But this battle, did not end of tradition (and the Engilsh-
They each shave two aguaTE the machino KTHOUSE, BUTO
doubtless discuming ("How to the mo.
(Maral from me-never buy get rim a Blank Blanc for Boxing Day. This year an- man is the most conservative miles in a lifetime and, befars other 150,000 boya will rur animal on earth), of cheapness, they are 60, they have spent a reptitiously giva themselves of relinksity (it takes upwards an electric razor for a man un- Christmas"}; ¦ less you know him well, vory In another Christmas, star- 'their first slave,' Which methoch "BF, 24 hours for millatenatios of quarter of a your doing so.
an ecicio unaor which means wyn. You might find yourself spattered, you were urged to will your son chicos?
Children are the sweetest things of all to own.
-MEN ANDER. (London Express Servic#).
ping.
Youngsters
"I'll be glad to know that you will be happy two at least, together when the time comes.
does that sound I said. "Or too corry for words?"
It was not only corny. I was that is the For also untrue.
St says: THERE IS STILL TIME, BROTHER.
★ THE END ★
-(London Exprove Services.
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