THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1961.
LOCAL SUMMIT
H-bomb warning is delayed
CLEAR (ALASKA)
TEULE
GREENLAND)
WESTERN EUROPE
KENNEDY
1.
NORTH
PACIFIC
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A
ATLANTIC
"What do you moan 'nothing positive, we've got another half hour's booxing time on Sundays, ain't we?"
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NORAD
COLORADO SPRINGS
Strikes hold up.
British
radar base-the shield
that will
protect U.S.
Three radar bases will give America vitol warning of any missile attack. One is already working. A second is ready to operate. But the third-Britain's con- tribution--is delayed by strikes. Express Science Reporter CHAPMAN PINCHER takes an on-the-spot look at what is going on.
Fylingdales Moor, East Yorkshire.
I AM standing in the "Frying zone" on Fylingdales Moor
the wide area of grouse land in front of the three 175-ton radar dishes being set up to detect any intercontinental mis- siles which the Russians might fire at the U.S.
When these dishes, each looking like a bowl shaped electric fire on a squat stand, are spray- ing out their searching beams into the sky from North Russia to Poland it will be so dangerous to stand where I am now that the whole area is to be fenced to keep out roaming people and moor- land sheep.
The intero-wave energy in the 3,000-mille-range beams will be strong craigh to coagulate living tissues.
Special suits
The passageways user by the 400 men who will operate the radars and their electronic cunt- puters will be shielded myofast the rays. Some will wear sprævial sults to reflect energy.
the micro-wave
Right now he only energy being generated here is among the workmen. soon to be swelled to
tions in !lar green-butird encanipment.
The Joiners walked uut last week. Before that it was the welders who struck, and before that the spider-men,
At Clear
OCCAN
fred from Russia are on the way.
When Fyllingdales is ready- possibly by the end of next year
if the strikes stop there will
still be no foreseeable possibility
of stopping these rockets unce they are launched.
Prime purpose of the system, to which Britain is contrižaiting 30,000,000, is to give the Allied 11-bombers time to get off the ground before a hall of Russlan rockets destroys them.
But to the R.A.F., which is responsible for mast of the Arul retaliatory strike, Pylingdales
could give only four and a half type the Russians might are at the U.S.
mhutes" warning that ying missile of the
is on the way,
Sub. danger
-
It would give less warning of a low-angle, short-range missile which would be Bred at Britain from East German launching sites 600 miles away.
It would give no warning at against H-bomb missiles wide are of the polar skies with all for king-size radar antennae, launched eller al Britain or each bigger than a football held. the U.S. from Russian sub-
marines
The Russians building up LINK No. 2: Any s art arises be with three similar antennue, will marines. Four of their prime start probing a further fan- ingets, which could easily be shaped area next week.
obliterated by small war-hends, the ballistic missile early warning stations at Clear, Thule, and Fylingdales Moor, and Vieir nerve centre at Colorado Springs.
The stations will detect a must be missile, capite its speed, and predlet its point of Impact.
To White House
Such news will be aulo- matically transmitted to an elec- tronic display serren at North American Air Defence Command Headquarters al Colorado Springs, which bus A direct in "Lei-um-hove-1" line with the
White House.
With Mr Khrushchev getting tough about Berlin, the U.S. overseers are extremely worried about the delays in setting up this third and Buat lak thele 1940 million chain of baillatte missile early warning stions
LINK No. 1:
Built by permis- rion of the Danes at Thule, in highly dissatisfied with condi. Greenland, is already scanning a
2,000, whe Neem
But unt! Fyllngdales-the key stallon with its more modern gear—is completed the Americans
cannot br COD
Adent of getting even 15 minutes' warning that rockets
ATOM SHELTER UNDER DESERT
FIRST UNDERGROUND SCHOOL
COULD HOUSE A "TOWN"
New York.
will begin a long-range study of the effect on children of life in a sunless, windowless world—a remote, air-conditioned world that is removed from the nor- nial mainstream of living.
Tosts on pupils
IN the dust-choked, searing heart of New Mexico's
Frequent tests will be made desert country, the United States is building of the reactions of students and its first underground school. Designed to accom- teaching staff to their abnormal environment, Results of these modate 500 students, the pioneer project is being studies will help the govern carried out in a small town near the vital Ameri- ment to deelde whether or not to plafi shullar schools for other can air base at Roswell-a No. 1 target in any strategic spots throughout the nuclear war.
The school will provide safety from deadly radioactive fall-
country.
to carry on for at least two dollars (£170,500), will be a
out for a township of 2,000 peo-weeks without any outside help. one-storey ple. When it in finished of the
It will provide food, medical mately 10t. high. The
to serve as a completely self- Buflictent civil defence shelter.
Inhabitants.
Для I stand here in heather and
the
This extraordinary
who wants
Jew
to save Eichmann
IN the dusty attics of
tuals,
on the unused
middle-aged intellec- AM book-shelves of mellow- IMMENSELY ed Left wingers, you will often find volume or two in a faded yellow jacket.
a slim SORRY FOR THE WICKED
They are the products of the Left Book Club, the fashionable Marxist polemics of the 1930's; and they seem deader than the dodo now, far more out of date than Julius Caesar's memoirs,
But the man responsible for. them is s very active indeed. Their publisher,
G8-year-old Victor Gollancz, is as distinctive as those garisli yellow tackets of his.
CAMPAIGN
Now he lauuches
by
Anthony Lejeune
bellover,
Ever since those first doubla when he was nine years old, Gullonez has been moved by
promptings.
higher wholly
Neither nor wholly a a Jew Christian, ho is unquestionably a religious man.
I asked him if he kept any religious observances nowadays, "Yes," he said, "though you may think them odd. I cross myself when I feel myscit in the presence of great evil. I sometimes wake up in the night remembering the concentration camps I saw; then I cross my- self and 1 And I can go back to sleep.
"And I like to say the Jewish blessings, which
very
l-:
beautiful. At down, for stance. And I'm particularly fond of one you say when you deformed
in some measure He has never divided his life meet responsible for them. "What into compartments: business, person," made me n pacifist," he ex- polilies, religion. plains, "was hearing Hitler. I
As a business man, in spite of thought such violence could only that shabby office, he has been be met by its opposite."
a roaring success. But Gollancz yot an-
He has supported these views the publisher is also Gollancz oller of the conscience-driven with innumerable letters and the political animal"A Chris campaigns which have filled his rallies and speeches; campaigns tian socinilst, he insists. "T remarkable lite.
the
an
ugly or
MIXTURE
Gollancz is a strange mixture
of tough and soft, of generous and Intolerant. If he sent me a contract would read the small against
death pensity, was never a Marxist."
print with a large magnifying. This leading British Jow has appeals for the South African After the Left Book Club glass. written pamphlet pleading treason trial prisoners, aid for there are the "Common Sense" But It I needed real help prat now being | passionately for the life of Adell Arah refugees, support for books, about mental health, and there is no unr I would go to scarred by (he bulldozers, Elchmann.
nuclear disarmament — a pro- materiity hospitals, and philo- more confidently. Russian missile submarines
"If the Argentinians would fusion of benevolence which sophy. may well be repaying our Holy
have him," says Gollancz, "ome people find almost intoler- Loch hospitality to the U.9. would
really like to see the able, Polaris vessels by patrolling Israelis put him on board
the Whitby coast. less
ship and pack him off back than 30 seconds away as the
there." missile fire,
Surely Mr Macmillan should no longer try to hide the fact that President Eisenhower in- duced him
to accept this hige Instalation solely to protect the U.S. just as be "sort" the Thor
misstle bares to the RA.F.
It almost seems a fitting coincidence that when the three radar dishes are covered with their weatherproofed globes at white plastic, they will look like teed-up golf balls.
-(London Express Service).
POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER
CONE WITH
HE WIND
SOSTEN
| crich
GERMANY WARNS BRITAIN
The underground school, which will cost nearly 500,000
structura approxi-
roof
"Willy dear, schus year là phải ch
LODOON EXTER FAYES
end of the year, it will be ready care, and protection for his 2,000 will be six feet below ground level, and approaches to it will resemble thon leading to the In the event of a national When the school opens to its London Underground system. emergency, the unit will be able first pupils next January, it also
London Express Heroics),
2
To find Gollancz 1 climbed uncarpeted wooden stairs
SUCCESS
The
Marxist
Whenever I think of hiru change from polemics ("Well, yes, I do bn- now, whenever I see those end- lieve in a lot of Marx's econo- lessly diverse campaigning let- to the ACWS- mic Ideau") to sober social critics ters he writes ism is significant. "The Labour Jewish blessing he likes so papers, I shall remember that Party has lost its idealism," used his Colláncz says. "Nowadays, in- a bare, shabby office on the firm, his friends, and every stend of standing for Inters walls of which
"Blessed ure glued other instrument which came to nationalism and peace
Thou, O telegrams, and
who hand as weapons for whatever genuine freedom, they're simply Lord,
varied the Sundry letters, cuttings, including ono very un- happened to be his favourite appealing, like the Tories, forms of Thy creation." complimentary article from the cause of the moment.
-(London Express Service).
Sunday Express.
to
His head is like an ostrich- nuff. He wears sen which has sprouted white red shirt beneath a well-cut grey suit and tops it with an even redder the Tho conselence of Victor Gollancz has led him, militant- ly, ofien intolerantly, along u maze of strange pathe
When he was nine, he began arguing religion with his father and reared to he a practising Jew. During the First World War, he was a military in- structor at Replon; he was cack- ed at the insistence of the War Offee, because of his dangerous Bolshevist views,
cx-
He chuckled. "I remember the head moster, poor little
the Fisher-you know, Archbishop
Canterbury coming to me, so embarrassed, and telling me I'd have to go.""
INCONSISTENT?
During the Second World War, be combined work for the Jewish victims at the Nazis with opposition to the polleles' of unconditional surrendór ogainar the Germana.
After the wor he sent food parcels to Germany,
"People think I'm incon- sistent,” he says. "But I'm not. My lens haven't changed. The chlet of them to that I'm im- mensely sorry for the wicked."
The wicked he has been publicly sorry for include Naxis and murderere; we are all, he
He has ruthlessly
people's avarice."
деб
much.
Britain's trade with New Zealand 1960
art
Exports to UK.
Total production
Wool
£33m.
£105.
£50m £78m.
Butter
£40m £45m.
Cheese
£17m.19m
£16m. £55mn.
CHART. DESIGNED BY MICHAEL-RABO,
WHY NEW ZEALAND FEARS COMMON MARKET.
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