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MR.
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1981.
As France plans a
new atom blast
Chapman Pincher explodes myth that
can make the bomb
everyone
TR NEHRU claims threaten the peace of the world,
as so many Jeremiahs claim? could that India
of the From what I know produce atomic weapons British atom weapons
project with within the next few and a 13-year struggle
technical and financial difeul- but will refrain tes, I um
convinced that the years, from doing so for high- U.S., Belain, flown moral reasons.
and Russia will
producing a total
which even Power In the foresceable increased conf of labour and
materials. France may eventually and pro-" future: hibitive.
Confirmation
taken
is
THE BUILD-UP of the poot General de Coulle's atomic
of
deBlancs specialised gesture of extremely skill in an ago when there is a estimated to cost £400 million world thartage of scientists and by 1982. This does not include
many
producing - years. developing and engineers Without baste research and bombs,, without which nation itself a full- torfen and machines to produce fledged nuclear Power, the weapons cannot even be designed.
retain the monopoly of being lots I went to Sir Frederick development, the complex far. can hardly call
ntonle Powers in the resistic sense for the next Ave years at least, and, with the passiblo
for plant exception of France,
the next ten,
With Freneli help. Israel is
putting up secretly Capabli of producing atom homb explosive.
In spite of the widespread France herself has exploded dispersion of atomic knowledge three nuclear devices and now
which was formerly secret, the technical problems of lars a fourth.
making atomic weapons in meaningful quantity are still enormous and the cost is colossal.
Red Ching is reported to be planning the explosion of a nuclear bomb this year or next.
But to any of these develop ments really portend a sudden flush of new alumic Powers to
On top of this cornus the even bigger cost of building and the bombers or maintaining rockets to carry the weapons→→
For confimation of these be-
Brundrett, who knows most about the problems Britain had to solve in becoming an atomic Power.
As chief or deputy chief de- fence scientist for nine yours before he retired a year ago, Sit Frederick was intimately con- cerned with the production of the bombs and the means of delivering them.
After talking with him in his club recently I can London list these outstanding difficulties which faced
face
CVETY
2 THE COST of the necessary
plout once it has been de signed by tramense. Britain's military atom plent cost at least build and
£500 million to
perate estimate that more than £100 million was spent in producing nuclear bombs font year.
have Improved cut some operating costs, but reductions have been outweighed by the
Britain and will these would-be atomic more than
techniques
THEY DANCED, THEY TWISTED, THEY GROVELLED
AND THEY MOANED
The weird exiles
TENSELY the dancers waited in
their neat, clean dormitories for the evening's great event to begin. Then the bell sounded and they trooped on tip-toe to the great hall.
Soon their leader gave the word. The pulsing music began. The ranks of men and women weaved in and out. They skipped; they glided.
1 might have been a contest of formation dancing teams under Victor Silvester. But the conductor did not behave In Silvester style. Suddenly he shound: "God 13 of purer Gure thom to behold iniquity. There is sta committed au covered rulong pou.”
In horror the dancers distened white he explained that one of the young women dancing had actually been looking at a male He quoted: "Who- spectator. soever looketh on a woman to Ius after her hath committed her already in adultery with his heart.
Promptly, among the hushed dancers, a young woman fell to her knees, confessed that she wes the sinner, and begged for- giveness
The hall was not a Palais de
who shook
a capital
by ROBERT PITMAN
Such is the power of this bool that
we are immensely relieved when Brown, at the cest or spiritual agony, finally Ands a piouo excuse to icar himself away from the Shakers for ever. The excuse-his dis- covery that Mother Ann and her Block had once been in the habit of doli thele labouring in the
But there were compen- that Christ would return for sations Aung Lacy's fol- is-Second Coming as a woman lowers was a pretly young decided that Ann was the nude. candle-snuffer from Covent woman. Garden Theatre named Eliza- beth Grey.
HIS ANSWER Elizabeth 100 became a pro- phict. Once, at a prayer meet- *14 at Bukeley's louse, the spirit moved her to her clothes
strip off and to spend an hour beating her fists into the terrified, twisted face Httle Bulkeley.
The answer is that,
Yet, you may ask, what has · In modern eyes, however, the Shakers all this to do with the tile of real objection to the
the The
of Ttverse Symonds beak-Thontas might be Brown and the Angels?
Brown's. Despite Mother Ann's from rip dancing. Shaker puritan- Manchester, Symonds leaps sm wp3 extreme. Symonds ahead nearly 30 years to the tett: how three young Shaker forced to trua story of how a young women American Methodist came into whip each other as a punish- contact with tho which Ann Lee, emigrating with watched the courtship of two community ment. Their sin: they had
her friends from Manchester, flies on a window pane, later founded in the State of New York,
-London Express Service).
Lacy nier left his wife to Dame but a place ol worship live with this fellow-prophet. ad by a remarkable religious When his religious-minded fock Methodist, Thomas Boown, has Using the writings which the community.the Shakers.
protested he issued pamphlet left, Symonds lets
new book
eyes,
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I have been reading about entitled: A Letter from Jou the Shakers through Brown's the Shakers in a fascinating Lacy to Thomas Dutton, belag THOMAS BROWN Reasons why the former left AND THE ANGELS by John his Wife, and took E. Grey a Symonds (Hutchinson, 21s.).
With quiet irony Symonds traces their history back to a heuse near the Tower of Lon-
dun in the time of Queen
Anne.
Prophetess to his Bed
I went lato four edition. Even stranger was the affair Dr Thumes Enes. Ents, & member of the movement, died in December 1707. But, while
was dying, the spirit
The year is 1788. Ann Les is dead. But her work lives on. In a number of prosperous
village settlements, the Shakers are living according to the word of Mother Ann.
Young Brown decides to visit
Shakers
were once
The place
♫
esumate that testa alone have cost Britain £15,000,000.
go to Christmas Island in the British taxpayers have forked sure that no milliary serrets Pactic at enormous icon out more than £1,913 million. or Rue Streak would be given venience and cost.
to the French scientists who
Britain Could India possibly afford visited
recently for Laks. such a sum? Could China?
evidence Similarly thero is At tremendous sacrifice that the Russians are not shar Russia became atomie Fower in 10 years. But ing thir military atomic scereta Russia at least had an establish-
and ed Inducirial
scientiile background to build on.
+
The cost
THE BRITISHI Bomber force, providing just over 100 alr craft, has cost at least £600 million. And rockets would be even costlier,
ה!
gone
FINDING
test place to
Britain tried to develop the experimental muclear do Blue Streak rocket at vices is astonishingly difficult. estimated cost of £000 million. Even with a vast Empire, Bri- After £100 million had toin was still hard pressed to the Government decided the and h place for testing atom- cost was crippling and cancelled bombs, After much local oppos!- the project. tion the Australians agreed to the use of their central desert bombs, for testing small-yield For the H-bomb Britalo had to
:
All this means that to provide the existing plomie alockptie, and the means of delivering it,
an
effective
with China.
A long way
In the light of all these facts
China must start those first. These arguments would not hold if the Americans and Ros- Sir Frederick Brundrett #green sians were willing to help their with me that the emergence of with actual ollies by
atomic other rowers providing
alomnic know-how and rockets, Bul
weapons is a long way sea slight possibility that they off. wil do so.
The US, resolutely refuses to give even de Gaulle atomic or military rocket secrets.
Sir Harold Caccia, the British Ambassador in Washington, had to give the
Americans an 03-
If Ching is an H-bomb Power in 18 years she will be doing well.
And India milliary atomic Power of any kind in less than 20.
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could not become
-(London Express Service)
'You're sure this thing does forty miles an hour in roverse ?
London Aspleja Service
NEW YORK
There a small group et Pro- Enca festant refugees from persecu- moved John Lacy to prophesy: hard. They share all things in
ands that the stickers wor TELL-TALE-TITS and poison pen fans can go to town. The Democratic mayor has asked tion in France was taken by a "If I command thy Life away, common. The men and women strange now fit of religious yet I will restore it again."
everyone in this city who knows about graft and fembur. From time to time
Ilve apart and no sexual con- When Emes died, the breth act is allowed for the Shakers unethical practices to write to him personally at a special address-Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Post Office Box 100, New York City (8), New York,
He promises to read all the letters himself.
lups
robr
fell to
MOVED
Crowds soon came to watch these alarming French pro- phots. As a spectacle it made
25.
STARTLING
and moan
of de-
y began to spin round like ren were Arst so confident believe that the Millennium has
until they
the of his revival that they did not already arrivod; no more child- ground heaving and twitching bother to bury him. Squatting Between twitches they would around him they eventually
ren are needed.
Above all, the Shakers shake. and gabble prophecies, realised that burlat was neces. They dance, hop, often in unknown tongues. rary, but they announced that regularly as o matter
This strange move, reminia- Emes would rise again on May volion.
cent of a police state, is un-
New York City Hall is tradi- Their way of fe appeals to precedented in the history of ationally known in this country
The town that has long lived cosily as "the politicians graveyard." ΣΤΟΥΣ enormously, Shakers are wonderfully kind with corruption. On May 25, 20,000 Londoners to him. They spend hours Emes in Bunhill Fields. crowded round the grave of answering his quorles. He be
But leves that he
found hay Tyburn.
Emes failed to surface. Even epiritual freedom at Jast, But among the gapers there a Bad been raised but "the though Bulkeley explained that were many who found them- mob saw him not," the prophets selven oditly moved and in London were sadly discoun
Somehow pressed,
the thing
tenanced. caught on, Soon London was full of home-born prophets
a nice change from on after
watching bongings
noon
at
Brown
Now cynical commentators say that the tubby mayor is simply jostling for a third term in office.
TXTHEN
'Pause*
recession
Jaunty b1-year-old Bob Was W THE WORD
into their faith
Περ
售
not exactly a true re- has pleaded. "Please help Slowly the Shakers draw keep our city morally clean" cession Wall Street hungers One words that sound a trifle like the to find another nama for day he is shyly watching a sanitation department's message sced planted near Shaken dance when an der to litter-bugs: "Did You Help busily twitching and forclelling Tower Hill was still to bear its murmurs in his car: "Thomas, Keep New York Clena Today? Now my financial friends tell
wen
Yet tho
most starting fruit. For some labour."
Leo.
it.
me they have stumbled on the
Shock
NEWSLETTER
from the mayor
-an invitation to informer...
be
an
By JEAN CAMPBELL
NEW YORK.
where he was staying recently. Lume 20 blocks from the crowd- ed business centre of the elty.
The Carlyle is a gay hotel de- coruted in bright colours and boasts two bars, one named at- ter Bemehnans the comic writer.
hars However, the
are not likely to Interest the President, who rarely sips ค daiquiri. although he delights in a glass of what he calls, in his Boston- Harvard-Cupc Cod accent, "ban"—beer 10. us.
Protocol boss
But Wagner is no original very name. And very pretty it that the market will still fall in fiself as "the one placet protocol by the President. thinker or catchy phrase-maker. is.
Warm way
Handsome and wiry, with a
NGIER BIDDLE DUKE, A heir to mony of the Duke tobacco millions, has the Millennium and the down-
MEDF Wall Streeter think Wall Street likes to think of been appointed chief, of fall of all established religion. of the prophets noved to Man- This is the Shaker word for Symonds selects some splen- chester, and there a little group their ecstatic dancing. He Im-
where man can pursue honour arese who called themselves mediately proceeds to labour. He is, however, an interesting affairs a "pause at the peak.”
They call the present state of the meantime. did figures from the movement.
Angler spent much of the_war Economically hard things Ute through risk. the Manchester Shakers, One was a rich Irish baronet,
Thus Brown gradually be character.
Some lucky members of the in the American army in Eng There Shaker liked to shout comes a Shaker. Ho starts to
This "pause" as we all know, cars, refrigorators and washing
land, where he made numérous Sir Richard Bulkeley, A tiny,
has been a deeply serious one. machines have sold very badly vast investment banking con- sickly, misshapen man, who and dance for cheer, God-given share the Shaker baller that
There are more than a million aluce lost May when the pause cerna have taken to collecting friends among the mighty of our rest DI the world
Impressionist and modern paint land. told that the Holy Spirit. Joy. Eventually, in their dune- tho
joined by a
new American cars in dealers' began. damned And at this point working through the London they were
hands at this moment, which blacksmith's wife named Ann there is a dramatic change in
But I am told that soft things us. "But" old collector prophets, would heal bin and
He is about Art Bin tall and does not say much for the state like clothes, food and travel ile friend, the frame I consider investments and the paintings straighten out his body,
Ann had given birth to four the Shaker attitude, Brown la has bright eyes and a most warm of a country's economy. Well hets have done splendidly.
told: "Thomas, the gift from way with people.
Street is horoscope HQ here- Wall Streeters alltough tradi- but speculations." The Elder Ebenezer us for you, to he decided therefore to take no children, who all died.
He does not speak, well and abouls., -
tionally staunch Republicana, are. painful confess your aina." more filings from his fattor
he ́vannas be said to Inspire im- Every Investment banker and delighted with everything that untit the change had taken that the resolved that all
Broviemas Ebenezer knows-mediate respect. He drinks. Ho stockbroker has theories on the President Kennedy has done to. has already centered the ains likes corny jokes.
coming economy of the country date and they do not think that place. But poor Butteley was creation was wrong. st na twisted at his death.
of his entire Ufo several times But this very ordinary little and they are usually six months ha is going to do anything rosli CONTACT Thero
also
rich 105
over. But the elders insist and Iman when he stood for re-cloc- ahead of the USA in their think in the future.
reales that he hasilan in 1940 commanded
to They think the choice of his blow the ing--and not always right, Englishman, John Imey, Lacy Other women have come to Brown was convulsed with involuntary the same conclusion momen been sucked subtly into • turgest majority dor mayor in
For the moment, they predict Cabinet showed both "audfelty Towers, which has always groans and alucins,
that things will be going (very and imgination."** In a rlly, but Ann but it into her miniature totalitarian State. | New York's history.
If ho refuses to obey the He longs, liko most US poll well by 1933 and they advian And they are of course es been the presidential HQ in this new appointment will allow prophetic fit the found himmelf religious cread. She was spiritų-
And the elders he will be expolled-and ticians, to be a senator, but no people to buy stocks which will pecially Uckled to have Republi- New York. interrupting a service at 6t ally transformed.
their own et that can Dillon holding the Treasury Ha has shown preference for about his daily protocol business. Paul's. He auferod persecution Shakers who had always inter be now fours that expulsion mayor of New York has ever come into
the up-town Carlyle passed on to higher aflew.
Hotel and Imprisonment.
paying Revelations as messing will mean damnation too.
On the grounds of economy,
fourth birth was so
pro-
time.
till.
Up-town now
gentle, charm, he is now married to a Spanlord named Lulu.
Angler in a dedicated”: Denio- eral and has darned a grunt civle - reputation here as the president of the International Rescue Com inittee, which did much effective TRESIDENT KENNEDY work alter the Hungarlari re-
Q has givari
#overo volution
Many people, assumed that he the Waldorf wonki be given an important ambassadorship by Kennedy, but
him to watch the machinations
of homa politics while he gods
**(kandan "Exprang-Servic),