THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1960.
'Bomb-Khrushchev' men gobble chicken
AND
EVERYTHING IS FREE
ON ISLAND 'HOLIDAY'
CORSICA, the "Island of beauty" whose principal exporta are bandits,
barkeepers, barristers, and Bonaparte, has some very special imports just now--800 “guests" speaking anything from Chinese to Serbo-Croat.
They all have one thing in common, or so reckons the French Second Bureau (M.L5). They would all like to throw a bomb at Khrushchev during his stay in Paris.
To back their suspicions, the Deuxiene Bureau mien are in- vesting an amount which I cal- culate nust be more tha
£180,000,
This is the minimum cost of air transport, hotels, and pollen guards for 25 days for the 2,000 men whom de Gaulle considers dangerous to have in France while Khrushchev is there.
Luxury hotel
The cream of the 2,000- Bonte U anti-Communist are stay ing at the tutel Splendid in one of Cursica's
resorts, ed Island.
*
The rust are dulted around other Corsican resorts and off shore French Islands.
As I approached it along the winding Hurth coast road Carsien, Red Island looked rather Hike America's no-hope security island of Alcatraz.
.From
ROBIN STAFFORD
Ile Rousse, Corsica
was jutting out of the wind+weget WILVER.
But the Hotel Splendid itself advertises "Every comfort, Wle- phones in rooms, TV. view of the mountains, and cursions."
***
French police are here in atop my sea excursions, but the rest of the advertisement stands.
The sight of men and Women of all natonalities cutting into a lunch of hors d'oeuvre, chicken, dessert, cheese, coffee, and wine unlimited all with the compliments of General de
The red rock with A grim lighthouse and coastguard station Guulle is a sight worth seeing.
FLOGGING:
I
IT'S THE POLICE WHO FAVOUR IT MOST!
by Percy Hoskins
London.
HAVE noticed one thing particularly about the
people who resist a return to flogging.
They brand supporters of Robbery the birch WRH dat ancient could once cliche "backwoodsmen,"
But it in these self-styled re- Jormists who are really the minority and out of touch with reality. Most British people are so concerned with the increase
with violence, tou, be excused on the Krounds of desperation born of acute neodd; but not in these days of full employment.
However hard and ingeniousty the abolitionists use figuros to support their argumente that logging is no deterrez:t the
in violence that they certainly police are DD! lo rely on an
are anxious to restore physical example provided by a famous punishment.
So are many M.P.s.
Mayfulr case of the thirties in
"Krepling us here is disgust- ing," bawled anc Yugoslav, between monthfuls of creamed chicken and free wine. as 1 walked into the restaurant.
"An insult to human dignity And
110 the rights of man," udded as he stabbed viciously at a hall-pound slab of butter.
Every meal
In the tine they have been
one, except De Hun- bere, no
arial down with Bu in Root No. 10 bus missed a single meal.
At one table the other day unt Valentin "El Campesino" Gon- zalez, well-known to Britons in the International Brigade which fought Franco in the Spanish Civil War.
El Compesina was once lieutenant-general in the Red Army. He fell from favour when he told Stalin: The Revolution
is a farce and liberty in Russia
is a fiction."
1 asked him if he had planned
to throw a bomb at Khrushchev.
"Are you kidding?" growled
the Soviet General (he has never been officially "busted"),
"With 400 French delectives, 200 Russion detectives, and several French Communists standing round Khrushcher would need an atom bomb."
But he admits he is planning a come-buck in Spain by just these methods "this year or next."
Premier's son
At the next lable sat 37-year- old Arcady Stolypin, kingpin at the French News Agency's Rus- sian radio monitoring service.
His father was Russian Pre-
Cummings
"TELL ME. CHER GENERAL, AM I A GUEST OR SIMPLY UNDER ARREST?"
Londun Express Bervice.
Britain's first atomic captain tells
of the strange underwater life now being planned for 85 men...
A
But, even more significant and which a diamond merchant was inler from 1900 to 1911 before months on end he may have to remain, as it were, indoors.
important, so are the poller....
the men who come into daily contact with the sad results of undeterred savagery.
beaten up and left for dead.
SUBSTITUTE
even
YOUNG man has been choosing the colour scheme for his new home.
He is choosing it with particular care because for weeks or
This young man is certainly a member of the New Elite, but, unlike those who figured Stolypin told me: "This is the in this newspaper last week, his interest in such things as interior decora- most misnamed thing I ever guttion is purely incidental.
the revolutionurles shot him af Klev.
Three culprits who were sen-mixed up in. The Splendid Howl have never is not all that splendid and we They can visualise no other teneed to the cet deterrent. And they do not put a foot wrong since. share the optimism of the Home fourth, who escaped this penalty
Sald Michel Pavlov, grey-
leader of Secretary. Mr Butler, when he because of his youth. has been claims that the crime wave has in and out of prison. now reached its peak.
NO EXCUSE
my prou-
important one.
Recently he completed picking
By TOM POCOCK
crew's familles and whenever doctor. "Almost all our alemle possible they will be told where waste will be extracted at the very the ship is and the exact delalla base by experts and the
small amount we ditch in the sco will be released under the Physical health will be care most meticulous regulations." fully watched. With Samborne 1
The average age of the crew met the ship's doctor, Surgeon will be 28, higher than in other
and all bul Lieutenant Roger Lambert. He submarines, must purify the artificial air storeman will be experiènced about life as it will be lived in which can be contaminated over submariners. At present four the Dreadnought next year.
senloe ratings training in American
At 35, Barnaby Samborne, Commander RN, is captain-designate of are not guests. We are prisoners." Britain's first nuclear submarine, the Dreadnought. The interior decora- of her timelabic. haired
the White tion of his ship-atomic propulsion raises a submarine's status from that of Russian "combatants in Paris: boat-is only one of many problems now facing Samborne. But it is an "This forced exile is that if The police believe flogging were awarded as a sub.dest medal." stute for
A blonde student, 27-year-old imprisonment and
"My holiday started ni 6 am. in What evidence is there, they not as additional punishment Ukranian Tamara Hryciuk, said: ask, to support the idea that the could be a deterrent in its own
firing submarines Lord Parker. the Lord Paris when five detectives almost tide has begun to ebb7
It is Chief Justice, came close to this broke the door down, EL was certainly get to be found in the idea when he said recently that worse than Russia."
Crimes of violence in figures.
Said Madame Roustan, tüs are
now known to have he favoured corporal puntal-
ment and ล
short sentence proprietress: "My price to the reached the record figure of instead of a long sentence.
French Government is £2 a day will depend. 13,875 in Britain, an Increase of And to the abolitionist cry of full pension. My only worry is 1,738 on the previous year and
for "Revenge or reform" one feels, whether pleking Corsica almost treble the 1949 total.
these in the light of presert con-
will rentlemen
give
right.
the key members of his crew of 10 ufficers and 75 ratings with particular care, because it is on the endurance of these men and and the hotelut of the machinery
fuel supply that the Dreadnought
Birching or some furn of ditions, obliged to inquire: in tourists be impression that this physical punishment is the only which lies the greater safety for is a Devil's faland." deterrent, my the police, for the the defenceless citizen?
the When I think how young thug of 17 to 20 who gues In the police mind there is no
gentlemen eat I doubt if Devil's doubt.
Island were ever like tista.
-London Express Service),
Bround beating people up just
for fun.
-London Express Scrutca).
TRAINERS AND
JOCKEYS ONLY
Depths
The Dreadnought will be a cannibal submarine, and she is designed to cruise at very great depths for many weeks on end It could be months stalking
rocket-launching
or
torpedo-
of her own
breed.
The nuclear fuel supply is vit- fresh air tually Inexhaustible, can be continually manufactured on board and vast stocks of con- centrated food can be carried. So it is the health, happiness and efficiency of the men that must be so carefully maintained.
Commander Samborne, who himself spent eight months in the American nuclear submarine Skipjack, has
been telling
"Anybody hare ride the igat hores in the last rhca'?”
London Storene "BETRICS.
be no visible nuachinery or pipes in the mess deck or wardroom. Instead there will be armchairs and settees with bright-coloured plealle covers, but not too much like an Espresso bar.
she
"We will make the living long periods by the smell of officers and four quarters as much like home a paint, floor and chrome polish, ore possible," he said. "There will glue, duplicating machine fluid, nuclear submarines but, as from next year. crews will train In cigarette smoke and so on.
When the ship is at speed life the Dreadnought herself.
be violent. Her in her may, controls, Samborne told me, will be something like an aircraft's and some men will have to be strapped to their aclion stations as the submarine swoops in the depths. But ordinary exercise: there can be none.
"80," said
Music
"Each rating will have his Lambert, "we will Inslali come own foam rubber bunk with in- of these electronic slimming me dividual ventilation, Pin-ups will machines women use."
only be allowed on the bulk- Would there be any danger heads
nuclear it they ure properly of radiation from the framed. Even in harbour we will engines? I asked. live on board."
"There will be somewhat less Samborne will reverse the radiation in the submarine than
Ordinary
Already three more submarine commanders have begun their nuclear training,
In the United States nuclear submariners are being publicised as a corps d'eiste.
NOVY,
Will the Royal Navy provide British nuclear submarines with a special badge, ex.za pay or a publicity campaign?
"Good heavens, no," said the Dreadnought's captain. "We will
usual wor patrol rule of sleep- you would get on the surface just be ordinary sailors,"
Ing during the day whlis sua- from merged. This is partly for opera- tional reasons, partly because it, should reduce the feeling of Instation while dived, perhaps hundreds of feet beneath the Arctic Joe.
The daily routine will be as on the surface with the rum ration at noon. A ship's newspaper may be produced every morning and there will be a different film show every night until the stocks run out in two sittings.
In touch
During the day tape-recorded
music will be broadcom through out the submarine. What male
will be reverberating in the Allantk deepa? "Sallors enjoy the pop tunes for about a week in a submarine," said Samborne, "Duter Chic Usey probe light classical music,”
When it watch. The crow. will beeroositava to work for promotions éxams, take corres- pondence courses and read we will folti a couple of book elute
Handicraft equipment will also bo provided "but we must ba careful not to have 20 people |making1rugs-nt the same time.”
the sun," explained the
-London Expreur Services.
NOW MISS AMERICA
FIGHTS THE
‘SNOB’. INVASION
From HENRY LOWRIE
New York.
THE
THE battle of the secretaries was joined recently. American girls, furious at the news that 500 girls are being imported from Britain in the next few months, are trying to brush off the invasion as a joke..
Said Catherine Pilling, farmer bypass thein in favour ut kiris president of Setophie Secretaries from overseas,
of America, Inc., an elite corpa "There are many qualified, of girls employed by celebrities; well-trained American girls "Same bosses have to have employers would only look in sensationalism in their job, They the right places such as bolter need a different' accrefery. business schools and collegén."
What makes a good secretary? David Wexler, "ɗf the Austin Executive Personnel, „Agenez, New York, who promised to find jobs for theso is Britain. 92, Bay's
Salaries
"An English secent is a bit attraction to some people but i
mirictly anob appeal.'
More important will be family More anxious was Lydia NoЛi, "Air øxetative abcratorý takoz welfare. The Dreadnought In Brooklyn chapter president of 100 to 120 words a'miliute int likely to dive off her home port the National Becretaries Associa- shorthand and typen 60 words a And then literally disappear on which claims 20,000 mem- minute. She gels from 905 to from the face of the earth unill |bers.
$131 a wook.
"Our girls just refuse to go Sim protested: "Many of our back to school to improve thei
she surface at the end of her crulao.
An Information service will girls are looking for executiva aborthand and typing." therefore be provided for the jobs and it would be untair to
-(London prem autvlov),
f