THE CHINA MAIL,'
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1960.
Do we really want to
PRESI
RESIDENT EISEN- HOWER'S request to Congress to allow him to give or sell nuclear weapons to America's allies is a momentous de- cision. If Congress grants it-and the indi- cations are that it will- the pattern of world nuclear power will be radically changed.
What are his motives? They are two-fuld. First, he wants to Increuse the spread and in- vulnerability of the Ailled Great Deterrent.
Vulnerable
Al present, the 100-add bases of the Strategle Air Command, and the dozen ICBM bases now in process of construction, are highly vulnerabic to Soviet ICBMs already In posliton,
The latent Soviet Pacific leals, which have reduced the marghi af error over maximum range to a mere tolle and a half, have put the wind up the Americans,
If, 1 is calculated, the Russinnu can reduce this margin to half a mile they will then be in a position to destroy the U.S. deterrent on the ground within 30 minutes of a surprise attack,
This month America is carry ing out the first full-senic tests of the new Nite-Zeus ant missile system which, it is hoped, will provide a reasonably effec tive defence against the Soviet ICHM
But, even if the tests succeed. la cannot be fully operational for
at lunst two years.
In the meanthine, what is America to do? The only niterna- live is to increase the dispersal of the Allied retaliatory forces and their state of alertnesss.
But this costs money, To build extra 'dispersal bays for SAC's glant bombers wondd mem 3 capital investment which the US. Administration refuser even to consider
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And to enhet
tul-1me alert for even 25 per cent of SAC means on adelltional cost of 100 million dollars a year.
A much cheaper way to obtain the same result, however, is to hand over megaton weapons to America's allies.
Take the case of Britain. We have 200-plus heavy lambers capable of transporting bombs of the 20-megaton" type of Huss. We also
have a stock-ple of Inany hundreds of A-bombs.
But we have, at present, only ematch megalon
weapons
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In
give this
man the bomb?
By PAUL JOHNSON
'equip 10 per cent of our bombers, can also give them to West
Moreover, a:1 efective dia- Germany. pernal system means that dumps of bombs must kept at alternative airfields, so that humbers, which are obliged to "scatter unloaded when
be
an
ert in signalled, can pick up their bombs from one of a muni- ber of bases before speeding to their targets.
Only way
In short, you need up to four times as many H-bombs as the number you can actually deliver Britain has not gut these, nor is she likely to possess them for many years.
The only
way in which Comuniad can be Homber
the brought us
"delivery" eppacity of SAC is through the outright transfer by America of inmy Inudreds of hours.
Reason number two is more subtle. Presklent Eisenhower de How accepts that General .Gaane will never agree to the stationing rif. U.S nuclear-
frmed forces on. French siil unless France lins effective con- trol over their use.
In practice, however, he knows that de Gaulle will see reason provided the U.S.A. rescues him from the foreical comedy of his
Arrangements have already been made for the equipping of the new Wehrmacht with Mata- dor and Mace nisslies—which and over can strike 600 miles into the Soviet bloc.
Under present arrangements, their nuclear warheads will be kept under U.S. luck nnut key. But if Congress grants the Presi dent's new request there will be nothing to prevent him from giving the Germans outright control-and thus the physical capacity to start a third world war in the pursuit of their lost territories.
Of course it will be claimed on all sides that America has no kitention of giving the weapons, nor Germany of asking for them. But the history of the last few years should warm us to place no reliance on such professions.
Almost the first act of the West German Government, when it recovered its sovereignty, was to repeal the Allied decree which forbade the employment of ex- Nazis in the public service.
Allied orders for the break-up of the Krupps industrict empire have proved worthless scrape of
paper.
own nuclear – Weapons. pre Blackmail?
grainme.
As things are going, France is unlikely ever to possess the capacity to deliver nuclear bombs on Soviet territory.
would
Now the Germans are pressing for the removal of niliations to
the size and nature of their arm-
be
ed forces--including the ban on large submarines. the systematic breach of these solemn undertakings has
And all
But the altuation
and radically altered it, here now. the US, were to hand over to France a nuclear siockpile. This is the bait that Elsenhower, wants to be able to offer, draw Frauer into effective mem- bership of the Alliance.
to
Unfortunately, there is an in- enleulable risk in: the new Eisen- hower policy. If the President is empowered to give nuclear wea- pons to Britain and France, he
THE COLUM
OF DISCLOSURE
by Chapman Pincher
THOROUGH investigation to find out medicines made of coloured water and made of milk-sugar so often make patients better is being carried out by London doctors.
But
<1%
why
pills
feel
The
BULLETIN ROTAL DASY
"With the greatest respect for your tattered nerves-PUT IT OUT!"
FACES
London Express Service
THE '2000 mph' FLIER Are there
Test pilot Auty
goes into training
By JAMES STUART
CODFREY AUTY, 38-year-old. Bristol test pilot,
is going into "training" with the aim of
been watched with complacency, becoming Britain's fastest test flier later this year.
I not downright approval America.
deny
by
the President's
If therefore, request goes through, who can that the politicians in Bonn may soon be in possession of an lustrument of blackmail such as Hitler would never have dreamed of?
-(London Express Service).
Cure by milk-sugar
pills puzzle doctors
this debt by supplying the alter- native explosive plutonium, but be available in this will not quanlity for at least three years. Roubles, please
Auty, a former RAF pilot, has been chosen to fly the all-steel Bristol 188 research aircraft which is to be used for solving heat problems before a supersonic airliner is built.
The Bristol 188, now nearing completion, has been designed for speeds of between 1,500 m.p.h. and 2,000 m.ph. In this speed range the usual alloys cannot be aser because of the heat created by the friction. Hence
the 188 is made of steel.
Mr Auty, married, with a
14-month-old daughter,
is Bristol's deputy chief test pilot.
Shallow dive
the
The fastest aircraft he has yet flown are Folland Gnat, the American. Sabre fighter, and the means that he has gone Italian Fiat G.91. Which through the sound barrier only in a shallow dive, and hns not reached anything like the speed the steel re- A piquant letter to the Russian Ambassador. Mr Solda-search aircraft will do.
new
Lov, has been sent by Lerd Nu- To get the most practical experience possible, Auty
sell of Liverpool, author of the anti-Nazi book "Scourge of the pirated Swastika," which was and sold In vast numbers by Soviet State publishers.
a speech by Mr 'It follows
which Khrushchov
Lord in Russell was praised for drawing Britain's attention to the fact that Nazi war-crimes are now being deliberately hushed up in Germany.
The results will be of special parts imported from the US. interest to the Health Ministry under new lease-lend arrange bocause the Cost of these ments. They are largely based
Lord Russell's letter suggests American "placebos, as the phoney
designs. often effective prescriptions are build-up even to 25 would have that since Mr K finds his efforts called, now runs into inllions of been impossible if the Americans so laudable he should stump up had not allowed the Government the rouble royalties of which pounds a year.
to incur a substantial debt of the author has so far been de atomic explosive.
Placebos have proved highly effective in suppressing coughs, preventing asthma attacks, re- lieving mental tension, treat ing colds and even reducing the pain of operations.
In several trials of promising new drugs, an inert pill given tä some patients to provide a stan dard of comparison has produced consistently better results than the drugs Injections of dis- tilled water have likewise given more positive results than in- Jections of powerful gland ex- tracts.
Some patients who did not know they were getting an intert placebo reported unpleasant aftereffecls. Others even cum- plained of withdrawal symptoms when it was stopped, craving the doctor to begin the treat- mont again.
That stockpile
prived.
Going down
The US, is supplying most of
The latest and wifi conf- the uroglum 235 needed to make
for the bombs dential-officiat figures show a the "triggers" And the tritium (super-heavy promising FALL in the crime hydrogen) for the main charges. wave.
Britain will eventually repay
-London Express Service),
Grocer's no-profit shop is winner
Paris.
GROCER in the Normandy town of Caen has struck a new blow. In the price-cutting war sweeping across France. He is selling his goods at cost price and adding a small service charge.
'The grocer,, Robert Canu, sparsely furnished, In the coming debates to
nirendy had a big grocery shop only £125 to fit up. Justify the Government's £1.630in the town centre when he do million Defence Estimates, great elled to open his new
But now, a few months after "Hive- political play will be made of away" shup on the outskirts. opening, customers are flocking the statement that Britain's Independent stock of H-bombs k lie wanted to beat the cut- mounting steadily.
But just how big and at how Independent 1s this stockpile round which strategy revolves?
facturers,
in.
and cost
price kinga, led by Edouard M. Conu addu a is. (d. service Leclert, at "Vieir own game. charze for up to 10 tona Leclere and his imitators have bought by a, housewife, and Bs. France for more than 13 items. He hallon's red shops all over
and stocked them with goods runs the shop with his wife and, bought directly from the manu- by providing no special services, From igures available to
they keep their expenses dowri Private Line i estimate that the
to about Jos, a day. R.A.F. has only about 26 - They have been able to under- Bombs under its control, though cut by 25 per cent tho Many customers. come from a the requirement to full is tank thousands of street corner distance by car,
grocers who buy from markets "My Ja at kennt 100.
customers Further, though these are free or from wholesalers.
happy about it all," he says. from US political strings, they
"They are asking me now to are far from being British In contrast to his first aliop,
of the town." made. Most of them have been which cost £12,000, Monaleur open shaftar shops in other paris
fa constructed from materiala andi Canu's new
small,
shob
2.
$30
visty
-Landon Espiese Birokej.
is going to fly an English Electric Lightning fighter (which has been flown at around 1,300 mph) and the Fairey FD.2 Delta research aircraft the type with which Britain last held the air speed record at 1,132 mph.
Afterwards he is expected to go to the United States to fly some of the latest American jet fighters.
Meanwhile Mr Auty has been "getting the feel" of the 188 from the full-scale mock-up of the airplane at the Filton, Bristol, factory.
Mr Godfrey Auty, the man who will pilot the air. craft on its first flight, climbs into the cockpit of the full-scale mock-up at Filton.
THE LAST CHA-CHARGE
BY JAK
inst ́one, gen'iemyn. Eef it does not come up thees timo WE shall ‘avo to surrender!
Dead Sea scrolls still hidden?
From ROBIN STAFFORD
DR
Tel Aviv. JOHANAN AHARONI, the 40- year-old Israeli archae- Lologist... who recently found more fragments of the priceless Dead Sea scrolls, said that he be- lieves there are "hund- reds" of other fragments to be found.
Не returned to Jerusalem from the Umestane hills near Massada, overlooking the Dead Sea, with rusty 4,000- year-old arrowheads aud 2,000-year-old scroll fragments which looked like bundles, of garbage,
They were the first scrolls found on the Israel side of the Dead Sen.
Dr Aharoni also brought from the cavo-60011. up the cliff- face o folded papyrus letter or document almost completely preserved.
7 ALREADY
"It may take our experts a fort- It without night to unfold damage," he said. The scrolls were preserved be- cause of the fantastic dry desert heat around the Dead Sea.
Israel has seven scrolls at Jerusalem's Hebrew Univer- sity. Dr Aharonl's latest And
the Book of Exodus, Chapter 13, verses one to 18-are part of the eighths.
Dr Aharoni's greatest fear is that roaming Bedouin tribes- men in the southern desert zones of Israel may be badly damaging scrolls in amateurish hunts in other caves.
He believes that the almost in- accessible caver: sheltered, the Jewish rebels af the Bor Kochba revolt against the Remans in AD. 135.
He sakk "That noone · mang
of the othor cavea mat have been inhabited too. There must be hundreds more frog- menta in this aren."
-(London Exprása Sorutės).
one
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TALKING
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permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear..
-H. L. MENCIEN.
No woman's, Heart be longs to her. If it belongi to her, it isn't a heart.
E. F. DENSON.
con-
A reporter is alwayn cerned with tomorrow.
-EDWARD MURROW.
People listen to a extent beenuse of vacuity
of mind...
-FELIX FRANKFURTER.
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