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In the frozen expanses around the
THE CHINA MAIL. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1960.
North Pole...ringed by Russian and INTELLIGENCE REPORT U.S. bases...a new flash point:
SPITSBERGEN
Its strategic importance: The permafrost
on which an airfield can be built in only three days at a cost of only £50,000
WHO GETS
IN FIRST?
By ERIC LUNDE
Oslo.
THE strategie Norwegian-owned Archipelago of Spitsbergen, near the North Pole, is the scene of a new diplomatic struggle for
between East supremacy
West.
and
FALASKA (USA) 010
AMERICA
Ot leans to return
Siberia
Arctic Ocean
North Pole SPITSBERGEN
HUSSIA Muscow Bear
Novaya Zemiya
GREENLAND
Little
Scende surveys Falamed next year i
RUSSIA
for burther studies Plaes for six artells
SWEDEN
NORWAY
ICELAND
POLAND
CANADA
North Atlantic Ocean
DEKMARK
BRITAIN
Russia and satellites →→
Hato Countries
Russian Bases →→
U.S. Bases
HOLLAND
WEST GERMANY
FRANCE
ITALY
01
NEWS ANALYSIS MAP BY JOHN BODLE
to to build a commercial airfield just
plea £50,000-in ever since Malolev's 10
centre tourist establish und Norway in 1940
Russian - Norwegian Spitsbergen a few year's ago The Pular Institute here tells Joint me thert German,
Russia stepped brisky in with a French, military bases on Spitsbergen.
10 protest rough enough stop British, American, Polish and Norwegian
will expeditions
the plans. swarm all over the islands next mountain climbing. measuring glaciers,
And, teams of scientists Framsting their from Apart
East and West are extracting, three days.
the JINATI
science. strategic position; the bar- in
the islunds one information about have run islands tremendoususset for any which is of high military value. Professur 0. D. Laruni, of the Power planning to set Up Technical University of Norway bases there--permafrost, in Trondheim, was in charge of a team misisuring and probing win the permafrost, deep, 1z1
IN
Permafrosi
frozen the earth of the islands. In fer 11 s
fert $80 sumber three feet deep. And it
makes the building
of airport
runways much easier.
:
Suspicious
Year
A race
Government The Norwegiant electricity
then answered with
un in the upper atmosphere and
"No," Adhering strictly to the wther scientifle work.
trealy signed in "There has been an unhealthy Spitsbergen
Norway 1920 amount of suspicious activity Paris in
Spitsbergen 1)
recently. We fought a hard diplomatic battle barren islands free are not happy about it at all," le keep
of the frem military activity. Bu apokosean wild a Norwegian, Defence Department. Moscow krepa walching, The
have Russians
Folar been When the Norwegian closely Navigation Company proposed
he has be For two years Secret plans for six airtelds have been worked out for the disenraged trom talking about U.S.
fhanced his work. But he revealed to Cavernment Aretin Institute
North me details of one plan to build
l airstrip
Spitsbergen Kvadehusken watching America.
AFRICAN MEMBERSHIP OF UNO
25,625,000 19,000,000 4,118,450 2,492,000 #
PRESENT MEMBERS United Arab Republic
POPULATION
Ethiopla
Ghana
Guinen
Liberia
Libya
1,091,830
Morocco Sudan Tunisin
9,000,000
Union of South Afrien
NEW MEMBEAS Cameroun Central African Republic
Chind Congo (French) Congo (Belgiant Dahorney Gabon
Ivory Coast
Malaxany Republic
Niger Federation of Mall Somalla Toyo
Upper Volt
NEAR FUTURE MEMBERS
Nigeria
Mauretanja
FUTURE MEMBERS
Gambla
Kenya
Ruanda Urundi
Sierra Leone
Tanganyika
Uganda Zanzibar
2,500,000
10,262,536
3,793,169 N
14.673.000
3,233.000 » 1,177,160
2 501,040
794,577
13,250.000 —
1,713,000
420,709 3,214,100
5.070.206 2,415,040 | 5.377,000 1,265,195 1 1,091,154 1 3.226.000 M
31,171,000 ENG
€24.000 1
268.574 :
6 450,000 DAN
4,698,847
2 500,000
120,732
4,958.520 m
299311 1
THE BIG THREE BY COMPARISON
Hussa 264 ACH) (8016) JA
United Kingdom
50 22% DUO
INTERNATIONAL democracy works in an odd way. One nation, one vote is the rule at UNO; which means that the views of Togo land carry as much weight as the views of the United States. Which means that a Togolese citizen commands 178 times more voting power than an American citizen,
Fourteen new African States have been accepted for. membership since the last session. Each of them has a
How absurd! Each
one has
the
same
vote
vote equivalent to that of Great Britain. Only one of them has a population equiva lent to that of London, (The exception?
The Belgian Congo). The smallest, Gabon. has fewer inhabitants than Bristol or Sheffield.
Both parts of Mali will now claim a vote-the extra one for Senegal. :
Next month Nigeria will be added, and there is a whole impatient queue of other l ́embryo nations pressing
- DESIGNED BY MICHAEL -RANDA
in. It seems strange that UNO, intended as an idealistic experiment in inter- nationalism, should turn into a club for nationalists.
The time has clearly come for granting independence to the freedom-loving counties of Great Britain, ce
That would give us another 91 votes and Dorset and · Leicestershire could outvote Russia3,74 sy nà Anthony Lejeune
The extensive
a two-mile runway for £50,000- solid of on the most sturdy and rescurch
permafrost of ground of all-the Ice-free land and the study six
possible airtelds on expansion is bound to come.' Spitsbergen, a project completed Jast summer, has cost 20,000 dollars (£7,200) so far.
America
Although the professor
says
he
1
vast
ม
has heard of no present plans to develop any of these
the thinks projects he interest in the islands today is
+ moro
commercial than military one. "Several countries are now racing to get their handful of Spitsbergen સ Д future Arctic commercial contre. This will surely Jurca the construction of one or more of these airhelds," he told me.
But, fearing political prissure from the East, Norway has. advised the Technical University nol to take on further scientifle
เ
speeds
super bombers
Washington.
America
WATCH OUT FOR
MR. MIK'S NEXT ROMANCE
By
MICHAEL CONNOCK
WHAT is happening entice some new country into
to Anastas Miko-
Soviet group.
Consider how he brought
yan, Khrushchev's No. Cuba on to Bussia's side. Last 1 diplomat and trade ex- February he signed trade
in Havana. Russia agreed
to
to
provitte generous technical help
pert, and specialist in agreement with dictator Castro making friends for Rus- buy five million tons of Cuben sia? It was Mikoyan who sugar over five years, and wooed Cuba's Castro to to the Caribbean island. the Russian side this This made Castro rich enough February. Mikoyan Eisenhower. He nationalised who, on a visit to American oul refineries and America in 1959, was without compensation. called "enchanting" by Sophia Loren,
In May this year there were rumours that he was out of f: your.
But these were specially denied by Khrushchtv himself.
Vote-winner
and conadent enough
to defy
in other properties
Howana,
When América saw to it that, as a reprisal. Venezuelan prude of supplies to Cuba were cuţ off, Russian oil started to flow to Cuba. Doubtless this, 100 was arranged by Mikoyan.
Not surprisingly, Cuba is now a firm friend of Russia and her. valuable vote is certain to bý cast for Khrushchev over every baportant question at the UNO General Assembly.
bo
He is not with X for the
Next friend for Rumia to United Nations
General wooed by Mikoyant Cyprus, Assembly in New York. But maybe. Back in April, Mikoyan this probably means, simply, promised aid "without strings" that Mikoyan, as First Deputy to the new republic. Russian Soviel Prime
Ambassador to. Greece Serpaymy fm holding the fort
Moscow has already been accredited," as while his chief is away.
well, to Archbishop-Fresident Soon,
will Makurtos. The time is clearly he probably. reappear on the world scene to ripe for a visit by Mikoyan.
Minister,
This bomber, with Its eight jet engines alung in a power pack beneath tall, will be the ultimate in bombers for use In the earth's atmosphere.
It wi operate at incredible speeds over vast distancës on the dringe of space and SuccEMBOT can only be a space ship.
Needle-nose
Its
truc
The bomber is being built by
the North American Company
and will have 4 two-
:
A spanner
from the
Lion
Addis Ababa.
HARD BARGAINING
three-man crew perched in the Emperor Haile Se- cockpit on the needle share lassie
nose, above
المصرى
control
has tossed a surfaces like a 'normal aircrail's spanner into Soviet tall. The wing will spread out plans to dominate Ethio- pla's economy the way that Moscow has been doing
above the rank of Jel engines at the back.
ALTHOUGouring men, The Americans estimate thes
contracts with the Arctic money
Institute.
and materials that of sound and a ceiling of in Guinea.
The reason for this is that into building a 2,000 80,000ft the B-70 will be the Soviet Union will conduz mile an hour super
The bomber, the B-70, the
д
moru
than a match for anything.
The ution of Judah" in Air experts envisage a typical refusing to spend any of the 100 to use any excuse to exeri
B-70 in this millon dular credit Moscow operation for the .Norway. on
offered him pressure
trip Curing a objvel:
ways- to split Norwegian U.S. Air Force is press-
Take-off from
North to the Soviet Union last year pul epinion into neutrality
towards --unless the Soviets gree to American base. Fly the North Pole, Rendezvous the Emperor's own development with tanker for aerial refuelling. plans, Patrol for two to three hours These aolude projects which awaiting signs)
attack. call for Western participation1 Return to base-T SECAM-Romething Moscow has always towards Russia at 2,000 miles refused flatly in the past.
and a break with Nio. ing for the work to be
As far ** population of speeded. Spitsbergen goes the Russians
រា little more than a tee-hald. Oul of 3,700 people 2,500 ru Russians working the chai mines of the State company Arktikagal.
And, us
Professor Larum says: Any place you can build
01 they
Since the shooting down the U-2 and the RB-47 tour their bombers will be easy meal for Russian defences.
in
The Air Force hopes to have a full wing of the B-70's cperation in 1900.
10
an hour, a beautiful but deadly instrument of wrath.
Its name: the Valkyrie.
Result: the 100 milion dollars so far is unspent.
-(London Express Servic).
CHAPMAN PINCHER, NOW IN AMERICA
ANALYSES NEW
PERIL TO
EUROPE
CRISIS IN NATO
PINCHER
Washington.
controi These would be under Nato piones
that in
mounted which menas
misslies
force would not know
Bombers
where
aut for
setting
be shot down
Polaris pressure on him to take Polaris any mobile or some other American-made misalle THE North Atlantic emergency the Nato bombing trailers, all to be supplied by missile. The American THE
industry inces big-scale The United States. Treaty Organisa-
Norsted's plan to move these employment. and how the French als do tion is tottering because fences were operating.
around Europe to keep the
Orders for aircraft have. Russians guessing pennot work. of an almost complete
the use of French slumped, and few missiles are without
needed for home defence. breakdown of defence Russian Largets could mis- territory.
European orders are needed. relations between Gen- takenly
Whether the Americans ten- their eral.de Gaulle and the French fighters or guided mis-
siles.
porarily back down on
the rocket plan to paper over United States Govern-
This is specially dangeroua ment in the last few for the RAF which will have weeks.
to put up about 80 per cent of the bombers in the Arst retaliatory strike.
1
by
seems in A showdown evitable unless de Gaulle
3 France will go all-out to modifies his attitude.
make her own H-bombs That could not only mean and rockets to carry them. This the withdrawal of France kills Nato chief General Louris of making from Nato but the with- Norstad's dream drawal of the United States Nate a fourth nuclear Power with all the weapons under his from Europe.
control
arlsen chosen
The situation has because de Gaulle has Uda critical moment to slap the United States in the face with four blunt decisions:-
It also repudiates the United States plea that the emergence of another nuclear Power will make it impossible to stop Red China tram developingH-
After more than a year of bombs,
stalling Ho han Anally He has refused to agree to
To relinquish réfused.
any 4 the United States plan to control of the French forces by puiting them under Nato com- put long-range rockets armed
with H-bomb warheads mand.
Instead he wants' the lies of French soll. the Nato alliance lessened so In a 30-minute talk with
will over President Eisenhower
JA
in
A smack?
I will be ironle if the first crack in Nato or aling de destructive direct hit with Gaulle into leaving the alliance Polaris which is designed to by calling what they think may intimidate Rusela; proves to be be his bluft, a major politicul
upheaval in Europe smack on Nato itself.
De Gaulle knows there is, a imminent.
London Express Service. further reason for United States
M'S
Betmis
TISS AGNES LINDSAY, aged 64, who lives alone in one room in Dundee, warns her living wäkking dishes at un hotel. She has Jüst, won a prize in a teniria club competition—a dishwashing machine.
\UT-OF-WORK men in Toronto are demanding free parking for their cars butside the employment offer
that each nation was dev Nato's Washington, General Norstad purpose, is to provide a unified reiterated his conviction that he shloid against stumian altsek must have at least 600 H-bomb while they collect their relief money. Alderman Willli
rockets replace his tactical Davidson told Toronto city council: They won't walk
In particular de Gaulle bombers, which! "are" becoming, half a block from the nearest car
will not put French' figliter obsolete,