·
WINA MAIL,
Giant Atlas H-rockets aimed at Russia and China stand ready to fire on America's Pacific shore and officer says: 'If I went crazy, I could send them off now, without
waiting for an order'
THE THREAT
CUTARTLING
how details of United States H-bomb roe- kets would be fred at Russü: or the other China were revealed day.
They were told to me by a 24-year-old officer in charge of three glant Allas missiles that 1 inspected of Vandenberg, California.
over
CITY BLASTERS
Each site is so complete that the five-man crew can obliter- ate Moscow or Peking without "any outside control once they have received the "fire" signal from the the telephone underground headquarters in Omohu, Nebrasku.
The omeer constemer that the slcyrward-pointing missiles had their H-bomb warheads attach- ed, and ready for firing at a few moments notice.
From Chapman Pincher
Los Angelos
atomie explosive to destroy a ly to do something crazy than
major capital and kill 2,000,000 one. And look at Burgosa and
people
Air Co-
• Under Strategie mand's "omergency war order" Russia the missile's target in has already been fed into the weapon's brain.
Maclean and the two, American code experts.**
FANTASTIC
missing
Atlases
The three missiles stood near "No keys are required to arm
me on the skyline on the edge of the Paciãe, surrounded by o the warhead as with the Thor
the If launched in anger,
fantastic complex of gas tanks, rockets in Britain," he said..
northwards "We have a
and missile would are KO-FUCK
panels, computers, the when the execution order is
Canada and
Pole. Control over
Its reaching
target in 30 tubes, and wires, rutdyed-wo can fire the wo
minutes,
The young officer, who was
a loaded
pistol, armed with admitted that it he and the other site officer went crazy. they could launch the missilo waiting for a com-
pon.
"The crew's, who work on a 12-hour shift, are standing by in the blockhouse now,"
TARGET FIXED
As we talked, the 78ft, stain- less steel missile carrying the without Kaudy arms of the Strategic mand Air Command hissed from the air conditioning extrust that correct tem- keeps at the perature for action,
Beneath the burnished pro- fettive nose-CODE WHE enough
less accurate
I would be without the radio guidance that sets it on course. but should go the full distance.
He said, "Some psychologists cowrider two officers more like-
As I watched
Other at-the-rendy
seen on this £250 could be
site, which million carved out of semi-desert
lested with rattlesnakes.
It-
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1960
THE FACTS ABOUT BRITAİ THE WRONG PEOPLE ARE
Is Cousins the man
to wield
such power?
has WHAT is the secret behind the power of this man? What lies behind that swift rise from lorry-driving to shaping his party's policies policies which, if Labour were ever returned to power, could be Bri- tain's policies?
A buzzard bunted startled jack-rabbit among the scrib within a few feet of the Allus
bushes The first pink habiscus planted to mutify the sile were in bloom,
Somewhere in Russla missiles are undoubtedly standing simet at this very point..
-(London Express Service).
Nixon jittering on television
Is
New York.
Vice-President Richard Nixon a sick man? During his hour-long TV debate recently with his rival, Senafor Jack Kennedy, before the eyes of 60,000,000 people, he was drench- ed with sweat.
He kept eyeing the clock nervously, even furtively. He had obviously lost weight after his ten days in hospital with
a knee infection.
At times I thought Nixon
was on the point of collapse
and so did the other people in living-room where
my
watched the TV duel,
we
Nixon was on the ropes and
my considered opinion
Jack Kennedy outshonp
outpunched him, and
is that
him,
won on
points after coming close to knockout.
the
Poor Nixon, so self-confident,
unlike
quick-
witted man I saw al
the
Chicago convention,
be-
haved as if he were novice not a veteran before
the ielevision cameras. wit and not There was no a trace of the old venom.
There was one
bad bloomer
whent landing about his plan le dispose of farm strpluses, he said "During that period we got rid of the farmers."
Mr watd
I decided that but for one fact Kennedy would be
a cinch for House The White
by DON IDDON
The panel of newspapermen vibrant performed adequately. but their
Candidate Nixon
It was scathing to have that Macmillan civilised man Mr among the hoods and hoodlums, patricians, unperturbed among the din and bedlam as if he were walking his own Scottish
personalities mors.
questions lacked sting and pene- against the spectacular an-
tration.
tleg almost daily of Nikita Kennedy came out strongly for giant Federal Government Khrushcher.
every- control of practically thing and preached what op
peared to be diluted Socialism. Khrushchev's set speeches are He hacked away at his hack bore but his gift for repartee nayed theme that America has and his glib use of the peasant slipped perilously in prestige, phrase and image is unrivalled, power, and influence under the He is as quick as a whip and Republicats. Nixon lcked his as poisonous as a viper, lips and took it.
Ho has kept the candidates As of today I put Kennedy for the Presidency of the United substantially ahead of Nixon, Slates oft the front pages until and if he were not a Roman now. Catholic I believe he would
be a
his are
The chance
and
the
In all of this trenzy turmoil the two Vice-Presiden- tial candidates emerge very well. After we had watched the
business Kennedy-Nixon
old pro
from Texas, who is Ken- smooth
nedy's running-mate, came Lyndon Johnson, before the cameras in an inter- view. He was terrific.
It is not that he said anything
but particularly original,
ho
was as rugged as John Wayne, as earthy nd Will Rogers, and struck a nice note of simplicity and love of home and country that went over very big.
He come confident of
for the man. Photo- I felt genically he often looked the Jals part of Tricky Dicky."*
einch for the Pre- They have been flying rather from side to eyes twitching
aldency. His religion and his 'simiessly dent the country side. By contrast young
ap- mumbling platitudes and bro extraordinary youthful: Kennedy
debonair WELS
pearance
Lure biggest mides with hardly an supremely confident, with just a
handicaps,
between them, while Khrushchev touch of the killer instinct to
has done his Harlem invasion, ahow that behind the Harvard His wife, Jacqueline, is a little his brilliant balcony, act on
and the Palm Beach too glamorous for the straight- Recent
Park-avedėc; Hik sudden intra- polish here WAS relentless Lacod Middle West and Bible on into the Plaza lobby, quieting the restive South.
Belt and her remarks about startling
- the tea-drinking "sable underwear" were unfor dowagers, nhdi foasting in The much-haraided battle tunate. Let's keep panties out orange juice tho
Togoland de- of the century war something of politica,
legation. of a flop and meny viewars
Both men suffered and oven switched off their
appeared anaemic by appearing shortly after Fidel Castro hod put on his fantastic 4-hour performance before the United Nations General Assembly and television audience. A' huge
27.
or
turned to other stations as they heard the amb hashed- up arguments from both man.
The setting
The setting was incongruous, with Nixon and Kennedy ke each bohind wwwxwork figures,
dals, as if they were about to read the first or second lesson,
ZOO
Castre talked nonsense but lib talked it with miticas vigoİT and splendid histrionica,
And Kennedy and Nixon also suffered as actors and
And his opposite number, the aristocratic Henry Cabot Lodge,
is making hearts throb through.
Is it right, as some have said, that he has the keenest intellect in the T.U.C., that he is the best orator in the movement, with an articulateness not usually found in the most able trade union leaders?
The
answer to that can be found in a private gathering which Frank Cousins addressed at the House of Commons.
The guests invited to this little party were cautioned in advance that,' as Cousins would be speaking "off the record." they were not to report outside what he said.
It was an unnecessary Warn- ing. At the end of the speech tione
of the distinguished audience was any the wiser about Cousins's altitude to the points he had raised. His speech was д triumph confused thinking.
Consider ...
for
con-
If you think it unfair to judge a man just by a single off-the-cuff performance, slder Cousins's laboriously pro-
and pared
rohearsed per- formance at the T.U.C. Confer- ence.
Cummings
ERNEST BEVIN'S
BOOTS
by BERNARD HARRIS
obstructing his progress to the
Ile did not reveal Jimself top.
even as a good djone sh urator. was thin and high,
great oothmand of
speaker, Jet
His voice He had no language.
rules
paying its lop union men ANY- thing up to £20,000 a year,
Need you wonder that our union leaders lack status and prestige?
That the jobs at- tract only the second-raters
pursue outmoded policies and make up for the absence of drikina Chinught by fight- Ior each other?"
the Only recently There would have been revlad conference of the men like Ernest Brvin and Ammalate Engineering Arthur Deakin. But the trade Union rejected a recommend union movement no longer tion to raise the pay of its breeds men of their stature. president, William Carrot, and its generall Secretary, Ceell In the old days when the Hallett, from £1:180 to £1,500 trades unions were the repre-, a year. Then, after a fortnight, werkings of democracy that the sentatives of a down-trodden for second thoughts, it gave unions should produce the right But the Impression which working class they attracted these leaders of a million men type of leader and they will came over most clearly of all some of the finest brains in was his muddle-headedness. As Britain.
He showed no reaf under. standing of world affairs.
one
sali, commentator
...he "showed en appreciation of the words and difference between
mediaeval
meaning that theologian might envy,"
I was the only method of advancement for these men, Only by working their way union ladder the trade
How can one attribute any consisten!
up purpose to a man who wouls Britain to be un- protected
any nuclear weapong evon the Americans' while shuming away from admliting that he favours unilateral disarmament?
I. Or go back a year lo a dalo just before the General Election.
What can
You say of this atatement by Frank Cousins, excessively except that it is stupid?: "Far from splitting
the Labour movement ny Line
.
could
reach
they Evor hope 10
power of positions
and Influence.
men
But today? In an increasingly affluent society the. present-day equivalent of those bright young of half a century ago do nol start as tea boys or Hickers dingy union of stamps in a office. They, go to university - and carve out
cercer for themselves in industry or the professiona.
a
So the unions get. their staff from among those who are not
will ald lie return as the next brilliant when they start and will not have a single original thought in their heads even
Government."
And surely emotion has run you away with reason when have him declaring, as he did in June, that we should, support his ban-the-bomb policy because "we defended ourselves well in the last war without; nuclear weapons."
No doubts
one
very
when they reach 40:
The solution
+
traku
It is essential for the
an increase of £120 a year- never do that, so long as ther jcsy than £2 10. a week}
offer
what are financially, the meanest and least attrážtive this tight-listedness careers in the whole country.
Contrast
with
the
American policy of
London Express Service.
Matadors are not so afraid now-so
A
hospital is full
Madrid.
RECORD' number of matadors gored in Span- ish bullrings this season has created a bed most famous hospital-the crisis in the land's Bullfighters' Sanatorium. The previous record of 19 in-patients, set up last year, was beaten by this week's total of 22, leaving only two vacant beds in the hospital.
-London Express - Sarvleg).
"The situation is expected to he carries on him his paid-up Bull- Improve next week," a hospital membership card of the
"But, in fighters Hospital - talent spokesah told me. How can this lack of
corrected? How can be
the an emergency, we ne prepared
beds in the cor to put extre unions attract the young who will restore their fastridors. It that happens, it will
time in the first declining influence and prestige be in the community?
hospital's history."!
Bullfight critles blame three main factory for the high 9/1975- ber of bullring Injurick;"
Lack of experience of many whom, dedicated more to present-day matadors, many of
on one
doubts
The answer turns Frank No Cousins's sincerity. No one word-money. doubts his organisational skill
Sir Vincent Towton, who has and the force of his personality,
No one doubts that considered just retired from the key job
** R
he is tough and able.
hie grooming, his fema
of the Com. polished fighter munists in the United Nations, televised before milijona for the pabt sover and a half yours, have made him a pétent' asset to the Nixon tiekat.
Bo
year) of general secretary
Of
the
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
the
prae-
We are all getting a litle out the country. His good looks, simply de a trade union leader (though it rates only £2.700 possibility of fame and fortune tired of Mr Khrushchev now. A few days ago this country was tense and Americans wore confused; jittery.
contemp tuous, hostilobut most of all confused. Khrushchay Whi ́einteter figura and so
Tito, Namar, Castro, and tho Fast Bur tiks rand and fals- vision hams, thola formidabla figuren bro
Wend
It seems today, after Nixon's poor showing, the other night,
candidate
the T.U.C., admitted the other than to the "art" of bull- "The unions are having fighting, enter the ring without Equaily, there can
no day:
dimculty in finding the enough experience and
Lice, doubt that he lacks the qualities more -e copacity for deep think type of men they need." ing, the shrewd, sûre grasp of affairs at home and abroad that should mark a man who the wields steal power in community.
* If Lodge word the Praulden- suffering' from éver-exposure. We' Have odan too much of themí. /
timi
poor. Rishard.
Knowing that penicillin and
Smalf risk
Ho added: "One reason i
the relatively low salaries pald In many casES."
other anti-biotics
reduce chance of infection to
Qe
nently
T
How masterly in its under-zoro, bullfighter shrug off a
For statement.
Prelatively gdring ilke a crabobot hand.
inade.
quate,"
knows Anil every matador that if he la foret, and can be in time taken to this hospital
proppled got here he is in charge of low read "miserably
Britain's biggest trade union, using its mammoth 1,230,000 block vote to away the decisions Only four of all the tinton for treatment, lus riic of dying of the T.U.C., and with them leaders y Britain are paid more of eve
permanent disability
the policles of the Labour Party, than £1,700 a year mong is practically nil, 'kipell.
Howho it come about that. a' man of #uch indiferent calibre has zadmed to this kgaliion of powert
1 The terrifying anarse by that There has been no real opposi- tlon "for""hlaw to mowe,SH
them are Frank Cousins and the railwaymen's Sidney Greene--- both on 21,700,000
For the
Guinea, Is DE LES Gon-In-charge tho regarded as agentus in The uselago, for the top men treatment of horn wounds,
Bullfighters say: "If I w throughout the movenant Im £21 a Week. This about unlucky enough to bo gorest, what a competent, bank chick then let it happen i Madrid cun raske at 90 ́or dood artar. It where De Lula can 6x me up." One riul not each maledur is lex Titans the pay packet of
At one title there would have many men og hendetider ogreles.out befoon bege Ipto
bran
kje guria, line of a car factory.
the ring is to make certain that
"'Well,"e's changed its algnificance able. When
te firm sprouted it was a damionarusion" of, artiskie