LET'S BARTER
OUR BRAINS FOR A PLACE IN
THE MOON RACE
BY CHAPMAN PINCHER
AFTER three years of pretending that it
did not really matter who got to the moon first, the U.S. hak formally taken up the Russians' challenge to race them there.
The technical resources of the world's two most powerful nations are to be harnessed to this trenten- dous adventure which will fill the next nine years with wonder. What a time to be alive! What an adventure lo be in! What an adventure for Britain to be in!
The cont of a tarh pru- gunume to put an American mi the mom and bring him back alive is estimated at £14,600 millions. The Russians, who will undoubtedly speed up their endeavours. must be Excinit simllar costs.
Can this colossal outlay be justified tur such a Jest Hawky concept? Look at it this way: Spread over nine years it will cost the 182 milion people of the American nation about fid. a day per head.
EMPIRES
Breathes there a Brilon with spirit s dead that he woult not chip in the price of two cigarettes day 19 L'L Union Jack planled first in the zoon's crust?
2010 tons
MOON PROBE FLIGHT CAPSULE
with-crew.af 35}
VERTICAL LANDING AND
TAKE OFF ROCKETS:
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7, 1961.
This is the rocket system the Americans plan to use to put their first men on the moon. The space-ship on top is an "Apollo" three-man moon-probe capsule lo be launched Dn its 240,000-mfie trip by the Nova rocket a 2,010-ton
monster.
What can Britain do white the two great contestants gallo Government is firmly set against
toul In qace? Whatever may he derideil about comunica
TALKING
POINTS
Do your duty and leave the rest to the gods.
-CORNEILLE.
It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
JEROME K. JEROME.
--(Londuu Express Service).
Drawing by Michael Rand.
other rocket development. Even with Gor by satellites and year-10-carth
the enormous new dollar grant, projects 1 which Britain
must have her the U.S. experts privately admit volture the that their chances of overhaul- own competitive
ing the Russians before 1976 are slin. Because it is the supply brains which eventually limits the speed of suels a project.
y non-thots, Clearly So far
the
frst scientifle
moon Derby is Foncerned, Bri- tain could not seriously register As a competitor either alene or with Europe.
and engineering-
COUNCIL OF INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
"And that. I prosumo, is the cot and the play pen."
London Express Service
The battle of Alabama
THE KENNEDYS WERE CRACKING AMERICAN
HEADS BUT THE ECHO WAS HEARD IN VIENNA
Washington.
A TOUSLE-HAIRED young man in a crumpled sweater and crooked tie slumped back in the rear seat of a big Government limousine in the first light of the Washington dawn the other day and reflected on the most momentous night of his career.
Robert Kennedy, the 34-year- old brother of the President of the United States, was heading for bed after his second con-
Britain has talent, Ideas, and equipment acknowledged to be But does this mean that this the world's finest in radar. These
nation with pluncuring
the could make a vital contributionsecutive rechnical talent to the success world's fiest should sit idly in the stands firits.
while Roasla and the U.S. carye out unar empires?
THE BRAINS
to
of
the moon
un
Part of the new US. effort is
be concentrated
the development of atomle propul- shen for manned spaceships, Britain has unsurpassed atomic scientists anxious to apply them- If we cannot selves to this problem now that Certainly not. Hek
the clear bomb work is suspended; Americans or the
What would Britain get out of Hussians in the 240,000-mile race
it? The Apollo spacecraft, to the angon, then let us join which is to be used by the US.
A jolat pruject with the
to land on the moon, will carry Russians is impossible not only THREE men. politically but because they wil hever share their missile secrets.
them.
One of these could be a Briton
A joint moon project with the if Mr Macmillan nets now and Americans is not only feasible offers all possible help to the but the only sensible step for Americans in their courageous altempt to show that a free pociety can beat a dictatorship.
Buth nailons.
"The American Jehind
are
the Ruslans in
yunrs
big
-Lordon Exy..as Serules).
SALAZAR,
night manning the command telephone in what has become the general headquarters in a critical battle for America's good name.
A
proved
two vital points for the new U.S. Administration.
Ready.
By IAN AITKEN
the ideals of Individual liberty out their duty against follow within the borders of the United white Southerners in protection
gomery as the Negro movement for civil rights and human dignity gathers momentum.
They know too that their deliberate decision to fight over over aguin will alyfost
and
certainly lose them vital votes
in Congress.
States as they are to act outside, of black men.
In the uncertain atmosphere The situation has
But they are determined to been com¥= with following the Cuban fasco, it is pared
President Eisen- go through with It. And the also a contribution to Américan hower's decision to send in rousing success of Bobby's self-respect that can hardly be the troops against the anti- masterly generalship in Mont- servod only to exaggerated.
Agregationists of Little Rock. Lomory has Robert Kennedy dealt with Arkansas, in the school integra strengthen that conviction.
Already the Communist pro- tlon crisis of 1937. the situation in his panelled
paganda machine all over the ofBee. Lounging in his big But there is one vital differ- world is grinding into action to mwivel chalr he bariced out
cnce.
I took gentle, indecisive make the most of the grim some of the toughest, harshest Ike a full four weeks to make story of Montgomery. orders that America has yet up his mind to strike,
heard in the growing battly for to the rable!
It has proved For while crazed mob
racialists of the Southern was trying to bailer Its way American States that the new into a Negro church hall in Government is ready to use the Montgomery, Alabama, Presi harshest measures to protect Kennedy was coloured Americans astruggling preparing leave for a to assur! their rights under momentous meeting with Mr existing Federal law. Khrushchev.
dent
Joha
to
The importance of this WBS not lost оп young Bob Kennedy, the Attorney-General, who did more than any other to ensure the election of his brother to the presidency.
He
naw knows his ruth- lessness in Montgomery
PORTUGAL SPAIN
4.
'Ah, Lord Homo, welcome to the bulwarks of, freedom, and Western civilisation —and the best ally, we have 1”.
has
And it has proved to on nn- xlous world that the Kennedy brothers are as ready to defend
Negro rights.
Heads high
In constant direct contact with his deputy, Oxford-trained Byron ("Whizzer"} White, he directed armed men who were themselves Southerners to curry
It took Bobby Kennedy and his presidenttal brother just ns long us it takes to book a tele- phone call to Alabama.
The two young Kennedys agreed on the course they have adopted a long time ago.
They determined to enforce the existing Federal law to the Imil of their powers.
And they know full well that there will be many more Mont-
But millions of ordinary Americans are holding their heads high. Higher, by far, than at any time since the Cuban disaster.
And they have every right to do so. For Bob Kennedy and his
have brother
proved that the United States is pre- pared to live up to its own democratie protestations even if it means cracking Americans' heads to do it.
-London Express Servies).
As the echoes of the Wedgwood Benn case still
rumble at Westminster...
Discovered: the reluctant peer who might have won the day
the bery would certainly be unseat- new county councils, the ed on petition, and that the only
the
THE endeavours of Mr Anthony Wedgwood House should be composed of early in September that Rose-
Bean to remain a Member of the House of persons elected either by Commons have sent constitutional experts scurry- municipalities, House of result would be that the Con- ing to their reference libraries for precedents.
One which they did not dis- cover, because it is not gener-
ally known up to this moment, concerns Archibald Philly, fifth Earl of Rosebery.
In Japo Rosebery's reputation was at its height. He was but 43 years of age. He had leapt Into public prominence in
1879. by sponsoring Gladstone's Mid- lothian campaigns, which
had doult the coup de grace Dis-
raell's second Government.
In 1885 he had entered the
As, Sir Winston Churchili has
Commons or, possibly, by all three, and that there should also be representatives from the self- governing colonies,
servallves would win a seat at a time when the party battle was very delicately balanced.
At this critical moment Rose- bery's wife fell seriously Ill. and after a pitifully prolonged finess died In November.
Much of his ambition and spirit dled with her, and he an- nounced his intention of quit- ting pubile life, The project of challenging the Constitution was forgotten.
The central point was that written: Rosabery "guided, im hereditary peers who did not petfed and adorned its activities, wish to sit in the Lords could He raised the status of the star for the Commons. Their municipal lifa of London to the lordships shuddered, and the level of Ministerial office." proposal was heavily defeated.
Rosebery had been offered a By D curious coincidence, safe Conservative sost in the Rosebery's most enthusiastic and House of Commons when be loyal supporter in London WAS Ap undergraduate politics was John Benn, grand- in the event, he was per- Oxford, but he had declined,
father of Mr Wedgwood Benn. suaded to return to the Foreign The experience of represent- OMee in 1902, and because ing a constituency in the Coun- Prime Minister on the resigna- cil had revived Busobory's dis- tion of Gladstone in 1894. satisfaction with his position es Els brief, bliter, Premiership a peer, and in the summer of of 15 months demonstrated the 1800-the exact date is not impossible position, in which a clear he resolved to challenge Liberal Peer found himself.
Cabinet: In 1886 he became For Drastic plans
cign Secretary for the six
monthal which
Gladstone's
third Ministry tried and failed
to pass a Home Rule for inherited the paerage from his the rule that peers may not, sit Shortly afterwards he had Ireland Bili through the House grandfather, and at the age of in the Commons by stars Tower
21 entered the House of Lor for a constituency and present-
of Commons.
Popular
on fostitution which he regarded ing himself at the Bar of the
with
something
than House. enthusiasm. Experience did not
alter tiris emotion. When once
asked in America, "What powers Wife died
Oladstone had publicly re- do the Lords posscus?” ferred to him as "the man of the replied: "Only one-that future" A magnificent speaker, adjourning themselves,"
he
of
have been no
ho was immensely popular i He produced drastic plans for There would Lowland Scotland, and when he Raform of the Lords in 1086 difculty about finding a rato became the first chairmen of and 1808. His 1088 proposal was scat, but the Liberal Hierarchy the new Londort County Council that the hereditary principle were unenthusiastic, In 1889 his political position in should be retained by delegating The matter was roformed England was onormously, Im- certain peers to serve in the Lord Herschell Lord Chancellor Lords, and that the rest of the in 1800-who gave his opinion
proved,
to
"For all practical purpose," he wrote to the Queen, "Lord Rosebery might as well be in the Tower of London."
Ho continued ta
urge Reform of the Lords, but to no efforts his House of Commons oolfengues - particularly Har«. court, the Chancellor of the Exchequer gavo hum 20 Support.
Lendoh Beprise Ferske), ';