THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1961.
No democrat-but
it's hard not to admire him
SEVERAL weeks ago I walked up the steps of
HTT aa alu on e dall to the famo
lion and, flanked by the Court Chamberlain and our Charge d'Affaires, bowed my way up the long
hy LORD HINCHINGBROOKE
.
Who has recently returned from a visit to Ethiopla.
drawing room to where the Emperor was stand- and bedragged-looking inner the active co-operation of half ing dressed in full military uniform..
streets, and the corrugated iron the world in modernising his shacks and wattle huts in which State, making its Institutions progressive and keeping it free and independent.
First in Amharic through an interpreter and then in French we discussed Russia and the cold the people Ilve. war, and the personalities of the U.S. Presidential candidates.
He is proud of his educational reforms and public building pro- | grammes. He aims to keep the and time-wasting
The people are proud, stupid but piso State free of foreign entangle-
charming
generous. menta while welcoming loung and Investiments from the United Democracy is embryonic Nations, the United States and most European countries,
He is a courageous and en- lightened man with
strong sense of humour.
Power
+
nad
There is a nominated Senate and a House of Representatives whose elections are controlled. I attended a session of the latter.
his The Speaker was true lo designation. He
never ceased booming at his. Bock through microphone.
n
My diary records: "The Em-
The course of the debates in peror is head
of all branches both. Houses is reported to the and services In the State, Emperor. He can compel the including the Church. He wields Houses to meet in joint session to absolute power. but keeps it well settle their differences and, in distributed so that centres of the jast Tesort, veto all intrigue do not remain such for legislation. long.
more
"Only the Army_and certainly the Palace Guard itself could stage a coup d'etat and this is only likely If and when the Emperor's powers begin to fall.
Mean
Addis Ababa, for all its blazing auoshine, sparkling atinosphere and perfect setting in the mountains, has a wor-brgone appearance.
"Nevertheless, the country is already somewhat of a pollee slate and there is great The palaces, embassies, new uncertainty about Individuals publle buildings and processional and events."
ways scarcely hide the mean
j
The marks of disease are apparent everywhere, and cripples And beggars abound.
Wealth
,
There is more of the Middle
If the revolutionaries thought East than Africa in this that by distributing the wealth Isolated and barbaric State. But of the court and taking profes- one wonders, as elsewhere, alonal salaries they could have whether the wind of change" remedied the injustices suffered by 20 million people in a few will blow any good.
days, let alone 3,000 years, they were wrong.
The young zealots had set the sights Wish "Three thousand years of injustice" was a good
one Palace
Meanwhile,
Britain might
chunk of experience and practico congratulate herself on haring,. to set aside in revolution,
Inspired
in Mir Dents Wright, a key man in a key post and, for the first
time since the war, as good
great relations with Einiopla
other
back-
monarch end on inspired man
Halle Selassie is according to his lights. Given those of any the rugged country, the almost total absence of resources, the Great Powers, ravages of war and the wariness of his people, he has done more than any Emperor within living memory to keep the peace externally and internally and to add momentum to the economy.
Whatever the democratically minded mombers of the younger generation may think, this remarkable old man has welded on to the trappings of monarchy
about death
El Boag asks: Do you know the "invisible" on the Colony roads?
BEGINNER'S LUCK BY JAK
of the
‚“I don't care If the fathers do think it's a dead cert with this mob, nurse
their own coupons in'
-{London Express Service).
let them fill
London Expraus Service,
I PREDICT
WITH THE
I PREDICT that secret meetings de- signed to speed the con- troversial entry of Spain into Nato will be held in Paris soon.
Sponsored by the Ameri- cans, delighted with their Spanish air-fields the only foreign bases free from political trouble--the move will be pushed throughout 1961 to overcome the opposi- tion of those Nato countries which object to General Franco.
Britain will support it to sub- due Spanish claims to Gibraltar
Do you realise the danger you are in every time you which, like Aden and Singapore,
follow a smoke-pumping diesel vehicle along one of the Colony's roads?
Do you know that in the From their cily black waves is a pressing problém. In this visible smake there i an in- come the dendßest of polsons. No tight little overcrowded com/ - visible threat of death-at can- debt you've felt. the simpler munity of ours, eer, of damage to the throat and effects that burning ritation Jungs?
in the throat; that hacking cough
and, when you've had a real wapful, that thumping chest and
Almost every day there are additions to the already con- splitting headache. siderable fleet of diesel-powered vehletes in Hongkong and with "every new arrival
Next time you sec one of these
heavily-loaded lorries struggling as a hill, belching black smoke as it goes, think seriously of the threat to YOUR health that lurks unseen in these curling clouds and then ask yourself the big question: "What should Hongkong do about this danger in the diesel fumes?**
Is to be developed as a dis- persal base for the RAF': K- bombs and bombers.
I ALSO prophesy that denied having been political control of long range nuclear weapons, the Nato chiefs will seeks to increase their, power by extending their sphere of influence into Africa.
I FORECAST that Bri-
DAWN OF 1961 A POPULAR CHINA MAIL
FEATURE RETURNS
already claim ownership of the Laland for tracking satellites and monitoring Russlan rocket trials in the Pacifq.
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I PREDICT that the U.S. will shock the ban-the- bomb enthusiasts by resum- ing atomic weapons tests--- and that Russia will follow suit--for two reasons:
Its author:
Chapman Pincher
....praised in the House of Commons ns "one of the most brilliant journalists of the day and a much more reliable prophet....than the Govern- ment or Chiefs of Staff" (by Mr Anthony Green- wood).
the flywheel will be used to restart the vehicle,
I PREDICT that spy-in- the sky satellites will NOT this year or next provide the detailed in- formation on ground in stallations violded by U-2 flights..
Because of this, U.S. eir chicts. will try lo induce President Kennedy to restart flights over Russia!
Kremlin renetion to such move would be specially violent because I would give the Chinese the chance to return 10 the ideological battle they have just lost to Mr Khrushchev in.
TWO: Thats will save on chromosomes--the mic. Moscow) enormous sums by leading to roscopic units in living. They would claim that he was H-bomb warheads so light in weight that much smaller
through which wrong to reject the old Com- Bad cells
with cheaper misslles could be de characters are passed from munist bellet that war signed to deliver them,
Capitalism is inevitabic. They generation to generation would say that the spy-Bights IT I
PROPHESY that Mr will provide the first pro- are proof that the U.S. La pre- Khrushchev will make ductivo lead to the caute paring for such a war.
blood disorder repeated overtures to Chan of the
leukemia and possibly to forms of cancer.
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çellor Adenauer, offering him union with East Ger- ONE: International agreement many and a settlement of to suspend tests will prove un the Berlin problem if he attainable because the US, wlll- continue to insist that any will quit Nato. may vi anless. The Russian purpose? To Rod China honours it. The induce the Americans to with- draw from Europe on the Chine will repudiate this be- Cause it would prevent them Krounds that they are being de-
serted by their allies. nuclear from ever becoming a power unless Mr Khrushchev, BRILLIANT Medical Re- gave them independent nuclear
search Council work weapons, which he will not do.
Next time you are en the roads
Esc's West ogreement will cute- there is a keep an eye open for the diesel vehicles. You will be surprised Unless how many there are. they are well looked after and properly handied they can be
potential new risk,
Mosce no mistake about it, the diesel engine has come to stay. It is an efficient unit in its con- ception and provided it is main- tained in its designed form and is used as it was intended to be certainly used it constitutes no more of a others are willing to admit,
hazard than its conventional. petrol camierpart:
come health hazard greater Should it legislate, tolerate or than many people think and eliminate this latest edition of
greater than many death on the Road?
The threat Samo of the most brilliant to health and life is usually man- scientifle breins in the United made, either by deliberate tam- Kingdom have been actively pering with the mechanism, engaged in seeking a practical driving the machine beyond its solution to the problem.
planned limits of load or speed
or by sheer mechanical neglect,
Ono of Lio most serious aspects of the invisible dénth', The hidden danger is in the as it has been called, is that UNDGOLBERTy smoke released solenide has not yet identified when unscrupulous drivers all the chemicals in the now.. interfere with the built in days famlifar black olly diesel governor in order to coax a few smoke, but they have found to extra miles per hour from their their alarim that I definitely machine,
contains 3:4 benz-pyrene A known cause of cancer.
Too many
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August and progressive organi salons like the Automobile
The danger fa present tos Association and the Royal Au- when the loading capacity of temobile Club have been actively the vehicle La exceeded and and willingly assisting the ment the engine is asked to perform a who are probing the diesel mechanical laak greater than droma, The search for the full that for which 11-was designed truth about the diesel, hesith : and, of course. It develops whra hazard ́in also going on
ад overworked vehicle is Europo, in Afrika and in the neglected, denied proper: mala- Unitöd States of Amerlen. tenance, and when worn parts are stat repinoed sa soon as they should be.
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Many animals have died in the tesis and triaba O vlug o uninterrupted in many parts of This is no crankish fairy tale. the world: Ono famous Harley- If you travel very far along the street specialist was recently re- Colony's roads us motorist, ported to have said that a single cyclist and pedestrian, or even if burst of diesel anoke was as you just stand at the' rondeldo, dangerous.. OS ben 4hourcest and, watch-particularly if you cigarelton, and fie also save it un take up your stance near ono of his opinion, that it if a Kignificant the more testing gradients the lector in the curront rise in king belching block' moke will soon aaroor. bave you roughing), "for your handkerchier, g
If diesel smoke a
PROSE, DIÁRIOLs cloude" pollute gerous hazard in the wide open
itmosphere all around. #PROVE of the world murglar u
What would you do?
Itain will NOT stage any atom weapons texte in 1961.
The British testing ground of Christmas Island will be, almost evacuated and largely taken over by the Americans who
know you're off duty, der
MARYO
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MAN
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IN 1961, Britain will see the first road trials of
a fuel-saving device called the "Gyreacta," which will have wide application to trucks and buses.
braking will be used to make a Energy normally wasted in heavy lywheel spin faster. Then
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· BRITISH ́doctors will smother the commer cial move to market anti- fertility pills for women who wish to limit the sizo
of thoir families,
The Government has 'already put the issue into their hands by making the phils, avaliable on medical prescription only. Few. family doctors believe that the pinta cali be taken regularly for years without risk of ill effects.
Ț I PREDICT that: "Nassor will provide, the, Russ sians with staging posts for aircraft in Egypt so that Mr K. can intensify, his intrusions into Africa.
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1: FORECAST that doc. tors and scientists will intensify their campaign to secure the prosecution of the: motorist who drinks and drives whether he drives dangerously or not --and will have, some sucí
Coss.
I PREDICT that in a 1st piece" demon- stration the Americans, will succeed in shooting down An incoming ballistic rocket using an atomic. handed guided missile.
But this will not much" "fine" press the Russians, who, know. that in surpriso-mass-attack olmost all the missiles: would get through,
TI PREDICT that neither || "the US. nor Russla will succeed in putting, a man into vorbit and rev aring him Aliv” in 1901.
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