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-By Peter Fairley-
SMALL aeroplane roared over the desert. Two pairs of trained eyes looked down on the scrub. After an hour, the aeroplane radioed one-word message "Copper."
A helicopter, hovering over harren hillside a thousand mile away, flashed the word "uranitam."
A new selence was born, The Eelence of air prospecting.
Geologists can now tell what dopts of metals lie under- Krund from n
the look #1 vegetation
top. growing on
certain They have found that types of plant to flourish on ecials minerals,
Californian poppies, for in- COPPER Flying Elance, love puologists took an aerial photo
raph of
feld of them, Around the field they drew a Line. Boring inside revealed a rich copper voin. Outside the
Has there was no copper.
Golden boughs
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U.S. Scout rockets over
period, costing four-year between £100,000 and £200,000 a year.
What experiments will go into the British sputniks? Has any instrument been designed ог bulli yet? Who is taking parti
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The future
how six
months since this plan was announced. So I unked the Lord Privy Seals office about progress,
Back come this reply: "Wo live nothing to My at the But we hope to be moment. able to make statument in the near future,"
I hope the future is very near, Both those who think that Britain should "keep up with Douglas fir, dwart Juniper the Juneses" in space, and those who think it costs too much, and yellow plne soak up GOLD
to know into their trunks, cones and are getting anxious
thousands are necile. Today everywhere that how even these Lembination of trees is potted, being spent. ground parties dig for gold. And find It.
In
New Mexico, scientist have found that some types of Austard, pepper grass and wild onion thrive on SULPHUR, And that milk vetch and rice grass Lugby lent.
QUOTE from Professor Lyman Parratt, of Cornell University:
is an interesting fact that the time-delay between and the scientific research commercial gadget has been rapidly reduced. It took 112 URANIUM is often found in years after basic principles roll contain: sulphur AND were known for commercial selenium. So when they spotted photography to
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emerge, all there plants growing in one years for the telephone, 35 area they dug for uranium. And years for radio, 15 years for radar, six years for the atomic found it.
Lomb and five years for the The days of the old pro transistor. pvetor with pick, shovel, sieve and pan are well and truly over.
SPACE PAY-OUT
So
it would be the "grossest folly for
?? IS IT TRUE ? ?
IT TRUE that caviaro in ex- sior- pensive because the geon is a tiny fish?
No. Caviare is made from its
Britain to go into space in rce. But the sturgeon itself can a big way. But Britain grow up to 25ft. long and weigh
HAS n
space plan- mere over a ton. three satellites in "rented"
-{London Express Service).
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Bound (6).
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N. Africa (4).
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10 A dotty sort of stop (5).
11 One may get It in one's head
(4).
13 Privato undertaking? (10).
15 Don't let the cargo space go
(4).
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hear (4).
19 Homicide
of Д athlete? (4, 6).
22 Fades away (4).
24 American workers'
(B).
25 Household cavalry
(8).
26 Lake resort (4)
27 Bird allowed round
(8).
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(5).
4 Miks fast (6).
5 Is he also a spitter? (8).
I Lose strength anew, possibly
(4).
8 Mounted on a duck in the
cowboy show (5).
12 This
snake
presumably
doem't madtiply! (B).
13 Went out (8).
14 Paint description (8).
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increase
(5).
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THE CHINA MÀIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1960.
Are ambassadors
really necessary?
IN informed
circles the
whisper goes round that an attractive situation will soon fall vacant. ·
Here are the details:- Salary: £6,000 a year.
Ex-
pense allowance: £651 a week, tax free. House provided. The successful applicant will be re- quired to live in Washington.
For early in 1900, it is said, Sir Ambassador Harold Caccia, Brain
in America, will return home become head of the Foreign Omee, leaving behind him the most desirable Byerseas vacancy in Britain's public service.
Who will all the vacancy? Already in a dozen embassies abroad the exci Ing question is being discreetly pondered.
Yet I pose a different question. Il is: Why it the vacancy at all?
Why have J ambassador in Washington? A century 10 the answer WHA obvious.
Britain's ambassadora were then both the mouth and the ears of Britain's Government,
Without their despatches the Foreign Secretary would have had only the vaguest nation of what was going OA pbroad-particularly within the InUmate ruling circles,
Banquets at an embassy were well justified so long as the ambassador could pick up exclusive hints of high policy
the turbot while une embassy's string band scraped nut minucis.
uver
Everyone knows
IT'S TIME TO START - DISBANDING THE ARMIES OF RIVAL DIPLOMATS
such
KOS KIEMELINCY.
BRITISH AMBASSADOR
THE
But can anyone believe that Information is exclusive any longer?
Today, especially in America, every twist and turn of policy must lake place under the public gaze. Even the Latest retoor Lite President's gastric system is reported promptly to the world.
by PERCY HOWARD
While the men in the em- after + wigging from the Consider, for example, the bassies are busy putting the English lord, ordered building question of diplomatie Immila-
into code, their operations to cease at once. ity. information masters at home are reading it in clear in the morning news- papers.
times,
Ideed, modern ambassador only to prevent his ment's believing what one else knows already.
Is there a chance today that any amount we allow them in expenses could enable ouṛ am- the bassadors to exert such in- serves fluence In Govern- degree?
every-
even the slightest
Odd thing
Thus in Cuba in 1958 evin the Errol Flynn knew that Castro revolt was succeeding.
Take Bagdad. This year we But the British Governmes!
are spending £250,000 on the preferred
British Embassy there. Yet the 10 listen to Its embassador In Havana
bigger our embassy grows, the more our influence in Bagdad (salary: £2,700 дусо with £6,985 expenses). And the shrinks. Our ambassador influ- Course. that enced King Faisal, of reported
But that was not much use once pour Faisal was shot in Bagdad's last revolution.
ambassador Castro was
at of no account
all.
All he does
What of an ambassador's role as mouthpiece? In the past, ambassadors forged alliances
system
Cummings
Can Kris process of cxanpell- tive fully ever be put into ro- verse?
Wild dream
I have a wild dream that it in which Sie a could; a dream In Washington last montia
leaves Washing- car driven by the son of the Harold Caccia Irish Ambassador knocked on and the British Government utrounces that no one will take down and killed a NogrESS.
Els place.
But charge of homick against him had to be dropped on account of diplomatie Im- munity,
her
That alone sorms to be the ind of gesture that could set the nations demobilising their vast and unnecessary ormies of
-(London Erprats Service).
In Italy in May ex-Quean Tival diplomata, Soraya protested against 53 trunks and suitcases being searched at, the Customs. Her reason? Diplomalle immunity,
In 1850
a Dutch Embassy car knocked down a bit Londoner, who died from injuries. But the driver was not even cautioned. He had diplo matic immunity.
3 Lencon
So here is the odd thing In Laden in 1959 a doctor about our whole
Indian of who was sued by the ambassadors. While its useful. High Commissioner was noi ness dwindles, its cast shoots allowed to sue the High Com- constantly upwards.
missioner in return because of his diplomati immunity.
and negoiluted great treaties, EEFORE 1914wILTI VI What happens today? I there could really use them-Britain is any negotiating to be done, had nine ambassadors, the Prime Minister can do it himself.
their
So harmful
TODAY we have over 70--
In Britain such immunity ex- Seme in tin-pat States
which tends to
5,000 diplomats and TH 1378
was would not be everyone
missed if they
including employees, stunned when Diariell actual-
were swallowed up tomorrow butlers, cooks, and gardeners. 17 made the land-and-sca
in on earthquake-all with Journey to the Congress At
higher status than our High Berlin,
Coranissioners in the great Em- Today Mr Macmillan its pire countries, such as Canada across the Atlantic in one-third and Australla, on whose friend. of the time. Even if the subject under negotiation abroad 13 utterly trivial, he does not en- trust it to a mere ambassador. He hands it over to Mr Selwyn Lloyd.
All that the local ambassador
is expected to do is:-
1. Fix the timetable for the
talks;
+
ship we really depend
The answer
In Washington alone 5,000 people have diplomasito Im- mmunity. They are supposed to be fostering friendly re- Isilona. but, whenever any one of this vast colous claims immunity, nothing but harm Is dono Lo internations.] friendship.
What then accounts for all
Nevertheless, the liability Ji this extraordinary
imrcasca inflation in oiplomatic glamour diplomacy? Why are we spend everywhere. When other
ing so much on our embassies? embassies increase their staff, we increase ours. When oher The answer is that everyone countries build their embassies else is doing it; even though to cathedral height, we have to higher, ti is a
2. Lay on a few interpreters; no one, except the diplomats, build still
zeems to benefit at all. But my edo of keeping up with the 8. See that there are fresh word, how they benefit!
Jonahs. flowers in the embassy's front hall
"Ah, ver, but there te sonte- thing else," the devotees of pro- fessional diplomacy exclaim. There is the question of influ ence; there is the mystic power for good which only an bassador in a really stately em bassy can ezert,"
Well, certainly the ambassadors had much once in the past.
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