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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1961.
WHICH WEAPONS
POLARIS and Skybolt. A
IN
1971?
formidable combination. PETER FAIRLEY TALKS TO THE MAN
One lurking under black
oceans, ready to leap out
and destroy. The other able WHO MUST MAKE UP HIS MIND NOW
to deliver, ot hypersonic. speed, a terrible load from the sky.
These are for 1070. But any Could there be more ultimate weapons than these? Most of thing after that is pure specula- us would say "No." But one tion. As a scientist, he does not 2013.
urcat speculate. "I might just as well in a position of power, is not supposed to agree, say that 14 years from now. That man is Sir Solly Zucker- hormone will be found to
put hair back on bald pates,"
man.
A man of 1981 who is alrently
in 1971.
While the rest of us are still mentally trying to lift Polaris and Skybolt out of fantasy into fact. Sir Solly has moved on 10 years. lle must As Scientific Adviser to the Minister of De- fence, that his job. And it akes that long to bring a major weapon from concept to renity.
Two floors up, in an office clase to the Cabinet Room, Sir Holly daily projects himself into future. To what? His dilemma is excruciating.
History on one hand, warns that every weapon has it cut- ter. But the imagination bog Kles nf anything more deadly
the
than the devices we know today Surely, we usk, the limit of potency in warforn has been reached?
Speculation
1 can only say that Sir Solly tultk
ilat me
news strategle weapons are un boards now.
the drawin
Better weapons for 1070. For obvious reasons, nobody allowed to say what they are. But do we need them?
We may well not. "The weapons we have today could rove to be ultimate," Sir Solly explained. "An yet, nobody has the means to Intercep! Polaris submarines or the ballistie missile itself. It is just pos
that sible tracked. Fabulous."
Polaris could be But at what cost?-
He added: "The Skybolt con- cent is equally invulnerable, although at this moment the One can only adreraft is not. intercept a missile at incredible cost,"
Look, for evidence, at Nike- Zeuя
anti- (Amerien's Brst. missile system). Currently, the U.S. spending about 100 million a your on research and development of it-neurly halt what Britain spends, on the whole. of her defence research.
"in the days of the tank," ho said, "I was simple. Against a
Earthquake Imminent!
yout
big cum, you thickened armour. Today It is cheaper to put effort into offensive rather than defensive techniques."
It is also easier to evade than to guarantee against evasion. To be effective, Nike-Zeus must pick up the target by radur, dis- criminute from: decoys, plot it, Bre a rocket to meet it. pin it down and "killall at 20 times the speed of sound. Who can say it will never fail?
Death ray
The cost of counter-weapons may Dow upset the law of his. tory. For they can make even Russia bankrupt.
So the big weapons for 1970 wil be attackers. Heftler punches, In case Polaris and
should meet Skybolt
their match. Some have spoken of a death ray. "Engineering Re- Uon," sold Sir Solly.
But rays WILL play a defen- sive role. "A wonder sy to tell us everything in our skies is going ahead and will become automatle," be added, "Infra- red techniques will improve. So will ordinary radar, on the per- ceptor side. And there may be
new science."
+
LASER - A new way of amplifying light to tremendous power, An American discovery, on which British scientists are now working hard.
"One can just about see Laser Atling into the picture," he said. "If it does come along. It could be an important supplement to But 1070 is as radar.
far as anyone can took."
To Sir Solly two factors are moro real than scientific -
knowns. The possibility of misjor
puiiifoul convulsions in the world. And arms control.
His task
For the Zuckerman dilemmn is twofold. Not only a he re- quired, on paper evidence, to advise: "Plump for this, dis- eard that task where one small misjudgment today con develop into a big gap in our armoury later, But he knows that any choice is likely to cost as much ng Britain spends, my, to keep all her Universities going.
Small wonder, he saya: "Let spray we get disarmament. I associate myself most power- fully
Government's with the desire to achieve it."
~~(London Express Service).
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Chi JAWB
1
"HABIT. LESS
All ready for you to sign! Hire purchuse agreements on the hour, car, fridge, telly, Furniture and washing machine!"
PISHING
TACKLE
LINKERT, MALLS
JAKERS
THUS TRAKLE
BABCIALISTS
"I'm playing 'Botto' with Wille Janca-iç'« Kui miegston!"
Astonishing,__the_impact
Astonishing, the impact of pictures like this
HE is as fastidious as
James Bond in his selection of weapons. He is as tough as Philip Marlowe, as self-con- fident
as Wyatt Earp
THE WARNING and as British as Robin
LOS ANGELES
IGNORES
Los Angeles. THIS city of Los Angeles has a date with death --and the millions of men and women who live here don't know it.
It will be devastated by
voy sever? earthquake any! Down the length of the frav day now, says Professor Bugeture itself the land masses. Benioff, who E probably
jommed tightly together, AIY'
work's greates outhority earthquakes.
t moving t all-i the But every now and again the The other train becomes
too great wul night I sat in Denial's labor-
land masses tory overlocking its lights to the two enormous
have suddenly slip. Then you talked to him about its peril.
is 61: he has studied an earthquake. He earthquakes for 37 years.
Lay Angries is America's ment. third biggest eily.
The professor went on: "As There is no ucubt, the grey- we know precisely how fast the Jand masses are pulling away haired professer folet solemnly, thai Luz Angeles is we can calculate when an earth-
102
Hood.
This is the British Army recruit as he sees himself. At least this is the recruit the War Office has in mind as 11 pri- pares to lunch its biggest-ever recruiting campaign next month.
_of_pictures_like_this
NO OVERTAKING
IN THE TOUGH NEW
ARMY-EVERY MAN IS A JAMES
by TOM POCOCK
1 is upon thla campaign that the Government will depend to reach its target of a Regular Army 165,000-strong by the be-
to advertise with dignity. But vertising of the first year ginning of 1063. Upon the ad-
we did, and now Sandhurst is of the
full and we can pick and choose campaign £726.800 is to be the candidates." spent.
A preview
I have been given a preview of this recruiting drive and it is heartening to be able to co. port that, if the trials carried out by the new recruiting ser eant-the slick: young adver tising executive-have provided an accurate forecast, the fears of an Army. short of 10,000 or 15,000 men will be unfounded.
Bather to its surprise the War Offee has found that It has a posiers of Trooping the
to
crumpled, stained battle order, calmly awaiting an enemy with their automatic weapons.
"You see," Axplained the Equally surprising old colonel, "we stress that the soldiers who had themselves Army is not aggressive. One been attracted to the recruiting slogan we used inst Car was office by slogans like "Your 'Guardians of the Peace." Country Needs You" und "It's a Grond Life in the Arrey," wis the success ol particular
Press advertisement.
In Libya
siertly going to be struck by a quake is due at any point ons al to offer that is not conveyed ly in Libyo, showing the camou→
very severe earthquake.
"It will almost certainly kill hundreds of prople and do ter is absp rible damage. There lutely nothing we can do about 11.
"It could happen today. It is :lready overdue."
I asked the professor how he could be so sure.
THE BIG SLIP
is a Frac
He explained that running the length of Callforula ture in the earth's surface 15 miles deep and 2.000 miles long. ¿On one side of this
line
the
And is moving north al two inches a year: on the other it is moving south.
the 2.000-mile fracture.
"The 1st time there was
ቲ ኬኒ
In
earthquake of any real size in Colour. the Los Angeles aren W35 1857 when the earth
suddenly jumped 21 feet. There was n city here than.
Fifty years later there was a sudden sitp along the
at San Francisco,"
fracture
The young colonel in charge of recruiting publicity pointed to framed drawings of Sandhurat by John Ward, now familiar la newspaper advertisements,
· “Surprising”
Potential recrufts will, it is hoped, identify themselves with the men in the advertisements. "The soldier in the picturo," 1 was told, "must look confident and highly professional. He mist look tough and ns-if he's enjoying what he's doing."
BOND
.
The Army is sometimes quite frank in admitting that its main appeal is the fact that almost half of the 4,000 WRACS leave each year to marry,
Therefore in each advertise- ment there to somewhere a square-jawed soldier-you can tell he's a bachelor by the frankly admiring way he ik staring at the girl, they say.
The most popular women's advertisement showed a young WRAC meer making a tele- phone call from her office some- where in the Tropies (there are palm trees outside the window).
An admirer?
j
for we go-geograph-
MILA
{Melle, wr)
We don't care how
Ically speaking of retirer."
**What's wrong with the one you've got: on? "
"It's all right--I'm an undertaker?
SOLDIER OF THE 60-KEEN, TOUGH, MAN OF ACTION
すま
Parachute Regiment, which at- tracted 98 recruits, five times as many as most units.
The adjutant of a Territorial
By the way she is gripping baltallon tells me "When I the telephone flex it could be joined a year ago we were trying assumed that an admirer-pos- to get recruits by stressing our Fibly
social side parties for wives, that dashing American major in a companion adver- sporting events and companion-
ship. tisement is on the line and
Recruiting was terrible, that the British officer whe eltores her office his moustache
stamps him as a bachelor-is looking at her more in jealousy
This was not the one of the Life
Guards trooper or the piper in full tribal dress. I was a photograph, laken recent...
In the new recruiting car- laged bush hats, eye brows and paign there will be little stress on pay, conditions of service, gun muzzles of two soldiers
the crest of a quarters and uniform. "What appearing over
nopeals to young men," said the sand dune.
colonel, "is
of a combination This picture has had astonish- adventure, travel and service. ing impact, I was told, to judge Yes, It's 'surprising what from the enquiry coupons cut
response there is to an appeal out of the advertisement which
to patriotism." been sent
War to the
Recruiting advertising for the successful advertise- Women's Royal Army Corps, show soldiers, Joa more direct approach.
"When we launched this onto It caused paign in newspapers 18 months have heavy loss of life and severe ago," he said, "Sandhurst was Office.
cmpty. Somo peoplo Other "Any day now it is going to thought that it was Impossible ments happen in Los Angeles. The loss
damuge.
er life and damage are likely to be far greater, as Los Angeles today is a for bigger city than Son Francisco was then,"
ON THE CHIN
I asked why nobody in Los Angeles appears to know about
POCKET CARTOON the impending disaster. fie
BY FRIELL
"This is Spike, my dear. He has an idea for putting แทง Ancient and Modern bitto the 1081 idiom and making it "a"
best-seller'
Condon Express Burción.
raid: "Great pressures are being brought to bear to play it down, ever to hush it up. It could and probably would halt the presunt mass migration into the arca. This silence is disgrace People have the right to know if their lives and the lives of their children are in danger." Could people do anything 10 protect their lives and their homes? Would they have any wwrnlag?
we'll Jual on the
"No, I'm afrai
ve to take this one
chin when it comes.
I told the Los Angeles Dircelor of Civil Defence, Mr Joseph Micciche, about Benioff's [prediction.
He was horrified, But he did not question it. Professor Benioff's laboratory la part
of California's world-famous Int- stitute of Technology, which has produced cight Nobel Prize winters. Nobody would tion warning from such
fource,
ques. 題
PETER HOPKIRK
(Londen Käytona Bafilea),
Half
NON-RECOGNITION OF CHINA
than in irritation.
The War Office now belleves that it was wrong to stress, as it once did, the social security of Army life, the sport and bed alde reading lumps in barrocki.
Recruiting figures for January show that by far the most popu- lur infantry regiment was the
"ALL AMERICANS STILL LOOK THE
AME TO
COMRADE NIKITAV
kendon Exprise seirice.
од
Sandhurst cadets flew off to an uncomfortable and realistie guerilla exercise. In Portugal. Frum barracks in Singaporești, fantry have been sent to live among the Dyaks in Borneo..
DANA MARA
Routine trips
*
This summer a battalion files to Canada for training in New "So we now concentrate
Brunswick, and, before long, the toughness of our training short trips to Africa, Arabia and night marshes, river crossings
most routine." evon Australia will become al-,
and airborne assaults and re- cruiting has more than goubled."
"Every private soldier in the British Army," pronounced a re- Army exercises are becoming imaginative and exciting. Recruiting officer, the other day,
"carries in his knapsacks cently, boll
airline ticket to romantic places. and on
recruits. I don't know what on the will."
on
an.
The raids Bruneval, in France, Rommel's headquarters in Libya And it that doesn't bring in the
-(London Express -Šerolce).
have been re-enacted
actual scene of action.
THUMP BRINGS
A DEAD MAN
BACK TO
TO LIFE
THE
THE man was dead. No pulse. No breathing. Nö sign of life. The surgeon turned to the nursing sistar and said with the calms volca of a man who has looked on death boforo: "Leave him for the pathologist,”.
With that he gave the dead.
man a thump on the chest.
The dead man gaspeti,
He had
Lakon, an unknown mumber of tablets and was in
His heart started beating. In la coma.
Jess
drug
on Ave minutes, ufige n°
injection, his htcathing Tha mirgeon went out for sin -
and blood pressure were fatmaf, instrinnent; When he returna
the sister sald He was déźd.-
story
In coma
To relates another dago of.n Now the pathologist's problem thumped mon being brought lias recovered completely. The back to life and adds:
Is told in last week's both cases my betion was dulle Lancet by Mr Terence fartulious.But it rooms that McGovern, aurgeon at. the solid gunch on the chest' can Norfolk and Nontich Hospital, occasionally' do
more thán merely elve vent to the ex- Mr Medoveriaid that the nuperation of the doctor who sluppet-to-life man wis koritat, feely, he has fudbalkambinus dilda Into hospital föcently,
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