THE CHINA MAIL.
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1961.
"One time, the farthest they could send you was Siberia.”
The World of Science
Pelco FairleyV
Home use
for
rocket metal
THOUSANDS of housewives will reap the benefit from scientific research on guid-
ed missiles during the next few weeks.
For the super-tough material
of rocket nose
concs is now and is kicked up when meteors
being made into pots and pans smack into the already pitted for the homes,
The new material, called "pyrosil," begins e as glass,
becomes
crystalline ceramic after passing through a secret process,
which
0%
It was discovered during the hunt for a substance would
warheads, protect instruments, from the blistering heat of re-entry through earth's almosphere.
A Scientist accidentally left an oven switched on all night. Next morning.
he found
ihe
glass inside had turned into
something with
of metal.
the properties
Same things
The
housewife will meet "pyrusil" in the guise of pale cream-and-blue casseroles, per- colntors or pans.
She and the rockel designer want the same two things-heat resistance and proof against the shock of thudding to the ground. They have it,
For the new material will stand rapid heating to more than 500 degrees centigrade, a sudden dip in a bucket of ice- water, plus a six-foot drop on 10 the floor, I retnins its warmth much longer than other gloss.
Not all missile moncy 15 wasted.
Dust from the moon?
EY
LAVERY pound weight sent into space from Americo costs, at prosent, about HK$6,400. The sido- benefits org often con- sidarabic. In caso they should not soom enough, the U.S. taxpayer has just boon fed this fit-bit:
Dust clouds ring the earth. They stretch out for thousanda of miles into space. The par- cleare very fine. How do We know? Satellites have proved 11.
How did the dust get there? So far, sputniks have been un- | able to say. But Dr Fred Wilp- ple, Director of the Smith- Konfan Astrophysical Observa- lory, has a theory.
The dust, ho auggests, comes from the surface of the moon,
planet.
He adds a warming: "Much observational, "analytical more and theoretical research is re- quired to elarity this surprising phenomenon."
Hand me another handful of satellites, man.
-London Express Service).
London Express Service.
HOW BRITISH WORKERS STAND
IN THE CLOCK-ON QUEUE
Average number of hours worked each week
FRANCE 37
BRITAIN 41.8
BELGIUM 42.6
W. GERMANY 42.7
DENMARK 43.9
ITALY 44
AUSTRIA 44.1
HOLLAND 44.9
SWITZERLAND 46
GREECE 46.3
This takes into account
paid holidays and Bank Holidays
CHINA MAIL GRAPH BY MICHAEL RAND.
HAMMARSKJOLD-after the chaos of the Congo
!
and the Russian bid to sack him, what should we do?
I SAY-LET HIM
QUIT!
THE
HE free world has been offered a new hero this month. He is Mr Dag Hammarskjold, the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
How has he come to merit our applause?
Very simple. The Soviet Government announced that he has failed at his job and should be got rid of. Our principle is that, whenever the Soviet Government says "black," we say "white."
It therefore follows, as lett- by us night follows day, that Me Hammarskjold is most splen- did and gallant fellow who has conducted everything in the United Nations with the greatest correctness and success,
But Just one moment. Before we accept this simple view, we should surely take a tiny Took at what the United Nations have recently been doing. No doubt the flossians express themselves
and In a violent offensive way. But is there no element of substance in their criticism?
ย
The United Nations undertook to store peace and arter the- Congo. This has been United Nations operation, dir- ected by Mr Hammarskjold personally, lie hus
bren hampered by ciders from the Great Powers or from anyone else.
noi
With what result? With the result that there have been committed in the Con- ro some of the most atrocious aels of our time.
Mr Lumumba may have been a wild and provocative politi- clan, as politicians in these new
countries often are.
This does not Justify his murder, a murder which has taken place with the Naltons standing by.
Their duty
United
Consider the record. Lamum ba wad seized by his political enemies. He was beaten and
maltreated. The forces of the United Nations did nothing to protect him.
JUNO
Cummings
by A. J. P. TAYLOR
dragged us down 10 the future of the United United, when they flagrantly-
Russian level.
other. is responsible. It
Mr Hammarskjold, and none the United Nations had succeeded
in the Congo, if peace had been restored. Mr Hammar skjold would now be basking in world-wide applause. He must be ready to accept equal condemnation for failuro.
We are told that he has been given an Impossible task, and that it was noble of him even lo attempt to perform it.
That is all right for the story-books. It is not behaviour
wo
welcome in real life. Im agine a bus driver who said: This bus has faulty sicering and no brakes. I will now undertake the impossible task driving 12 through the
He was removed to Katanga. Solemn warnings were given that he would be murdered.
Again the
of the of igents United Nations did nothing.
Finally Lumumba WON murdered. And some of his blood lies at the door of Mc Hammarskjold.
streets."
The future?
Nations?
It
The Korean war was fought
were hot. With the result in- evitable to any pretence. There is throughout the
Far from helping
the pence Western world a misunderstand-
of the world, the United No- ing about the United Nations
tions Organisation has increased which is almost universal.
the dangers
of war whenever is regarded as a world author it has been drawn in. ity, a tribunal for international justice, and the only hope for a in the name of the United Na- lasting peace.
tions. It was only possible to The United Nations Organisa- und that war when the comm tion is none of these things. batants turned their backs To grasp its real 'natute
the United Nations and settled have only to look at the story
things at a private penec con- of how it was brought
ference. being in 1945.
we
Into
Great Powers who won the war It was created by the three
--Great Britain, The United States, and Soviet Russin. Created with the sole purpose of continuing in peacetime the co- operation between them which had enabled them to win the war.
On
The same thing happened over Austria. over Indo-China. I happened
Elaborate precautions were taken to ensure that the United under such Nations should remain
their control. Especially, pre- were taken that the be cautions
United Nations could never be used against one of the Great Powers.
we appinud No, we should insist
driver's licence
Should I hear the argument that the Russians murdered Nagy. Prime conduct? Minister of Hungary, and there that the fore have no right to protest taken away. against the murder of Limum-
That is exaelly what the ba.
Russians have demanded in re- gard to Mr Hammarskjold,
This is true,
the
But by that token, those in When one forgets the doctrin- the West who protested against. aire squabbics over Commun- the murder of Nagy had more is, and thinks only of than the right, they
the murdered Lumumba, it is diff duty to see that Lumumba was cult to blame them. not murdered.
Those who murder to tike
harl
What now about allowed the
place have wider question
Giles depicts the likely repercussions to a Mr Danny Blanchflower's
Life® programme, the first refusal the BBC have had in six years
refusal to appear on the This Is Your
TITO
"Would you mind telling the old fool that everyone who calla isn't someone from the 8.B.C. trying to shanghai hor for *This is Your Life.***
London Express Bervice.
a
the
Only way
Relations between the Great Powers improved when they forgot about the United Na- tions and thought in terms of practical agreement.
Improving
The United Nations does not provide a quiet meeting-place where the representatives of the Great Powers could gradually come to their senses.
It provides
ก brawling- 'ground where they score de- bating polats off each other to the applause of their support- ers. Whoever had the idea that It was expressly laid down, peace could be secured by the by means of the veto, that the methods of the boxing-ring? United Nations could not net The terrible events in the unless the Great Powers were Congo
the latest are only in agreement.
evidence of what the United This system of a United No- Nations amounts to in practice. tions Organisation run and con- The United Nations has touch- trolled by the Great Powers ed no question without making may be right, or it may be it worse.
The truth about the United wrong. It was good enough to win the war. And there is no Nations can be put in two sim- United pie propositions. If the Great way of running the
Powers Nations on any other system.
are not united, the United Nations will not work. If they are united, it is hardly
The friendship and co- operation between the Great necessary,
Powers did not go on after It would be # good day's the war. From that montent work to get rid of Mr Ham- we ought to have recotulsed marskjold and the United that the United Nations was a Nations at a single stroke. We dead duck.
should see the relations of the Great Powers improving almost Instead we went on pretend- at once.
that the Nations WETO
~~(London Express Sentca).
ing
|_ Just Faney That!
THE
HE police agreed with the bank; it was a freak but no forgery. Now Mr William Westwood, of Graze. brook-rond, Dudley, Worcestershire, is selling it to the highest bidder-a 1 note blank on one side.
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"RABS" eggs which have lain in the deep-freeze of the eternal frosts of Russia's north for 1,000 to 2,000 years have been katched in a laboratory.
Researchers have also found, frozan spores from ancient mushrooms and seaweed. Like the crabs, these spores have been resurrected in the laboratory.
"We now have decided to start work en deeper layers of permafrost soil looking for other forms of life that may be several tèns of thousands of years old,” say the Russians."
POLICE thement
DOLICE SERGEANT JÁCK ADAMS fought through
nt Newport, Monmouthshire. He found two men playing draughts. No they would not move on: We have got to finish the game." One of them, Harold Shaw, aged 21, was fined £2 reaantly for obstruction, team parlan
beckondon Express karysd).