Nuclear tests
Colonialist
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1961.
THE NEUTRALIST LOOKING-GLASS
Please take
ong
INDEPEND
ENCE
Cummings
Landon Express Berrics.
I SAY: GROW UP!
I WANT a bit of peace
in this world.
My
earliest memory is of a flamboyant newspaper keeping us up to date on the Boer War in my Scottish home.
Since when we have had some other wars to down the Germans, which we did. And now we are told that we mital up the Ger- mans and down the Russians, don't believe it.
1.
I think that the basis of all examination of this foreign continent Europe from our point of view is simply that thu Ger- ruans in their history have al way heen aggressive, and that the Ruslans have rarely been aggressive.
If yout en nd a silk thread through this labyrinth it is that the Germans have always, and
have seldom
Hussions
the Jumped their boundaries,
Only_guide
We are then driven to ass whether the past is a good guide to the future. And the answer as that it may be a bad guide. but it is the only one.
I think I time we stopped. offering to the Russians 1erma which we brow in advance they will reject.
In every diplomalle approaen to the Russians we postulate a united Germany, established by free elections. We know that the Russlans will never accept a united armed Germany.
The West that is Amerten and ourselves is becoming
more Oriental thion the Far Easterners,
Face-saving has become absolute.
物理
NELSON HAD QUITE OTHER IDEAS
by
WILLIAM BARKLEY
States that the German is the only good European. This point nf view is disastrous.
who
At not me of thos think here will be achieved by Intaing 122
bobby's Lontent weekend or by sitting down even with the most solte fundn- ments on the streets al pave ments of Trafalgar Square.
That was not what the square WAN named for. Nelson had quite other idens.
I don't want again to beat the tum-toms of war. But I would any lo foreigners that they will underestimate Britain at the perit of their Bves.
Where?
The pages of the history books are strewn with the curpses of those who wrote off England and Britat. Philip of Spam, Louts Borparte, Kaiser Quatorze, Wilhelm, fier where are they now?
Crumbling dust and ashes under the direction of this old times island which in moderu
has always had a better idea of how Europe should
than 10 Europe has had itself.
We must This to the negation
hold on to $1115 eccentric position and scorn any
tu klen of being tied up Continent, which we perpetually save by being outside It.
of diplomacy. Clearly we must accommodate. The faal humbug
is that if Germany was unlied free elections Adenauer would be defented overnight.
UIL
That vote
Advice
the
Кесо out of European en- tanglements. Give a bit of guidance lo infortunate Eur peans when the opportunity oe- curs. Maintain our istand home and sovereignty with our vust associations overseas.
The best hope is for a de- militarised zone between Russia and Germany. We could have done this more easily years agu before,.by a narrow vote under American pressure, we agreed to remiiliarise Western Germany,
We did this because of the best advice today. And work terrible belief in the United for
State elisarmed buffer
That seems to me, is The
BRITAIN WILL BUILD
WORLD'S FIRST
'BREATHING" PLANE
fresh air for perhaps the Arst medieval Uraes. How in blood time in a hundred days when and murder they hammered the
he beholds the Cowal shore. Scats into nationhood.
Suck an American sailor is a great man, He is doing The pioneering job which we, by all
our ancestry, should be teaching
him.
Unmatched
How in loter times this unlan
We should be thinking what has brought enlightenment to
a mighty fellow he is and how Europe and its dependent Afro- far he is ahead of us on
our Asiall world. What elery to And all he hears is be proud of. own path. that we liter his salt sea path
Unexampled, unparalleled, ex- beween the ever-belligerent with a handful of long-haired pansive to an unmatched de- Germans and the Russians. men and short-haired women.
gree in which the language of But
For myself on holkay I have these Islanda we Dry not going in
iv the naturai arhieve these ends by scorning been de-Anglicising myself and tongue of the tropics of Africa the Americans whom, n real re-Scotifying myself at the and of India, which Latin never tense, we created out of there "Sun et little islands,
Call shame to yourselves, you
hty British, when a Polarts submarine surfaces in the Holy Loch and the keen blue eyes of
Laniere" of String remehed, and the Romans hardly Catle and on the field of knew existed. Bannockburn, But this process From the great wealth of the past we can say simply to those does not go deep.
who underrate us: Grow vo! of Britain. How miraculously Get out of your napkins! You
What a glorious unity this is
an American. speaking the English created themselves are big boys now! English, sees cortá and feels as the first nation in Europe in
London Express Service).
THE DAY I WAS TAKEN TO THE CLEANERS
ONE
by PETER CHAMBERS
will
NE THOUSAND dollars (£357) is not as much Glued-on Persian lamb
disappear. Buttons and belts as you can win on the football pools, but it will come adrift if they ate is the sort of money that some people leave in made of fabric stuck on lo their pockets when they hand their suits in to the dry-cleaner's.
saidi
"You'd be #mazed," Frank Sternson, Glasgow born proprietor of a Mayfair clenner's "We found this 1,000 dollars at the weekend, a roll of notes jusi stuffed into the trousers pocitet of a sult we received from a West End hotel."
BY HIS SIDE THE BINOCULARS ADENAUER SENT HIM
Kruschev tells me: I want peace
NUCLEAR TESTS
THE ONLY WAY TO BRING
THE WORLD
TO ITS SENSES
A BLACK telephone sat on the beach- table in front of Nikita Kruschev, and a pair of binoculars hung from the pole of the big white beach umbrella.
"Aha!" he said, with a wide grin. "I use those to look for American submarines. And who do you think gave them to me? Adenauer!" We were sitting on Kruschev's private beach on the Black Sea at Yalta - my wife and 1, Konni Zilliacus, MP, and his wife, and Mr K.
I had had no hint that Mr Kruschey wanted to talk to us.
The manager of our holi- day hotel in Yalta had greet- ed us as we returned front the beach just before three o'clock, and then added casually: "By the way, before you cal, Nikita Sergeyevich wants to Hew you at four o'clock this afternoon."
Nikita Kruschev.
We showered and changed quickly and took the hotel car there.
Pottering
Our driver lost his way In- side the grounds; after a long Search we found a guard. In plain clothes, who just pointed "Down that way," and off we went, without any supervision.
We bumped into Mr Krusthey puttering about among his rozes. He came up to the car unat- tended, greeted us very warmly, shouted for his interpreter, then led us down to his béuch.
We started off with the usual mali talle about the weather.
"I've When suddenly he sald:
got some news for you you
Won't like."
He paused for quite a while, then went on: "We are going to resume the nuclear tests."
The news had not then been released anywhere. We were zunned. Mr K went on!
by
Sir
Leslie
Plummer
MP
"You're aiming the Gennans
and you're giving the Germans access to nuclear weapons.
this way -
astonished
me with his cyclopedic knowledge of facts and Bgures about polley and pro- duction. Then, after three and a half hours, our talk was over.
He rose, pul on his pakkuma hat, grinned at us, and Batch: "Now I'm off to see the execu-
Honer-my doctor."
--(Landon Express Service},
The new life of John Cranko
TX7HATEVER became of that clever, fushton-
man young
John
uble
Cranko?
This time last year he was still very much part of the London scene,
He was one of the best young choreographers working here. He had the patronage of Princess Margaret, the friendstrip of Mr Antony Armstrong- Jones. He had been dubbed a member of, the New Elite.
Then; quite suddenly, Cranko wasn't around any more. He let his house in Pimítro; packed up This books and pictures and took a Job deep in provincial Ger- máy: seoined a deliberate step backwards into obscurity. Cranko wns' resigning from the New Elite.
Why?
I look this question with mo to bustling. much-bembed Stuttgart, and there, in a pre- war villa on one of the his surrounding the city, I found Cranko looking back on his London career with detach- ment.
'A NOTHING'
"In London," he said fatty, " WAS
becoming a half-baked
"And what do you think we have been doing all the time you were behaving in silting playing dominoes?
"Well, we weren't. We were nothing.
JYA
the Royal Ballet producing, as you the Nato Pawers were producing, and is, extremely geneTOUS nuclear weapons. With this 10 me but at the most I cant difference. Ours are bigger, every 18 months, So I began to
only give me one production more powerful, and we have get the feeling that every new better means of delivery than ballet I did MUST be a mastor- İfiece because } would have to the United States."
walt 18 months for another He became very animated, chance, It was 4 petrifying "t want peace," he cried, "I | feeling.
The om fighting for peace. Soviet Union will never be tho te do
"And 10 use the time I began TEVUCE. Then I found I nuclear weapons. won't really good enough ne revues and they were taking up that I ballets
first to usc
It is true that this will cause Never, never, ever. dismay arid sorrow dulong many
to
herself cannot allow
DEVILS1'1 threatened by a united Ger-ether... many, rearmed with
leather.
friends of the Soviet Union, "But the Soviet Valonso much of my tline And
the yowls that go up
It doesn't particularly among the Intel- from women when turn out right.....
lectuals,"
I said: Why did you do 127"
weapons for only one purpose: He replied: "This Is
the not for defence but to attack only way to bring the people Russia." of the world to their senses.
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"Not bo," anid Sternson,
"You've ruined my dreas," a quiet Scottish wept an American girl in yielding up
roan at this familiar attack on South Kensington cleaner's
trade, "Step Into this the other day. dressing-gown and you shall
"You've
his
watch your suit being cleaned
shrunk
it.
it, and and pressed in 10 minutes." crinkled it, and destroyed Sternson telephoned the hotel,
He did it-or, strictly speak-- It's pure silk and you owe and a messenger called for the money. "It's
automated poly- ne 30 dollars." the best haul ing, his fully
Con she get her money back? we've had." he said, "since we chlorethylene machine did it. found £320 in fivery in the The "perk," as they call this Yes.
derivative
the A reputable cleaner wili glyc Jacket pocket
I " car- petroleum trade, 13 salesman.'
a non-inflammable you fill compensation. In other spirit used In all modern dry cases, you may have to sue. cleaning.
JODHPURS
Priime
HE world's first aircraft with "breathing" wings is has his shooting tweeds sent to
T be built in Britain,
but Government support for the venture is expected to
be announced soon." Blueprints are now being completed
at Handley Puge.
Government technical com- mitteca are now convinced that "air-inhaling wings work and that an age of cutprice air travel Is less than 10 years away.
The technique involves cutting thin sluts In the wing surfaces through which air is nucked and
PI- the jet
important advances since other British "ref" engine.
12 Years
thechine at home.
In
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Pour beer or whisky down your front, and don't worry. Alcobol stains are casily re- moved.
"I have tried conciliation. Over Berlin I have shown great patience. For three years now I have been working for a peace treaty with the German Demo cratic Republle (East Germany), and where have I got? Nowhere!
Dangers
Hostage
nuclear
good doing
Hig personal crisis was bought to a head with fils second revue, New Cranks. The critics stoned it to death. I saw Cranko after the second performance. He wan ncar despair.
"What a situation," he says. "There I was, in the best ballet company in the world, with the management doing all it could When Fantant, the Italian for me, friltering away my time Prime Minister visited Russia, doing bad revue while my bal- anid Kruschev: “I told him that lets got worse and worse," Italy, lite Britain, West Ger mally, and Frutied, was a hostage of the United States. I told him that if wor came the Soviet Union would suffer terribly but that nothing would be left of these poor countries but piles of atomie dust,
"Bul Fanfani doesn't see this. "Adenauer won't see this. "De Gaulle, who went to steep
Look through the window and you can see the clothes
"I want to shock the people Minister MacMillann being churned round, just
Fruit-juice, CRR, and nail of the world into an apprecia- in your washing pollan stains
are the toughest | tion of the dangers created by lo budge.
[the worlike tendencies of Nato, What happens to the dirty
"Our ecdealists have been urg“ cleaning fuld "It's datilied and
Ing me to do it for the past 20 years ago dreaming of the three years.
greatness of France and who re: "We have made tremendous. (used to wake up to really sirides
nuclear can't see this.
nothing in the pockets except grouse feathers.
Rex Harrison drops off bis fed back in," said Sterngott. HIT AND MISS
American aporte shirts, and the the same priciple as distilling Duchess of Kent sends her gin-which we could do at the jodhpure to be fixed up for the weekends if we cared to." hunting acasun.
But you do not flad anything in her pockets.
The worst thing in le stick and Sternson, reminiscing about
hir 20 years' experience in the
with
our
the Personally, I have not slightest use for these house-
weapons. Our developments "Bat Macmillan sees this, Everythig a man wears in wife's hints, and I only wrote luve been immense and the cleanable.
scientists have been hammering because Macmillan is a man it's with
women's them down while Gerry Vickers, at me on the necessity to resume of intelligence, and does not clothes that
dry-cleaners London-born foreman of tho run into trouble.
tests to prove the value of thelf, : want wdf" plant, was fixing my suit,
work." "Which
started in this WOR
fled is * NOT SO EASY business 25 years ago it
a pretty hit-and-mika Affair." zaki Cerry.
"Now I think ard every the Americaria,"
A special team has been work-cleaning business,
colour we do not care for any- later thrust rearwards at light lug on the Idea for 12 years,
of way, because it runs more easily speech,
But Bome- Van any other.
The company's
director
"Funnily
enough."
and
we
bit a good sa
I said: "The World wi not think that a good enough reason
Mr Kruscher went on: “That's not the only reason. Look how patient we have been. We have
Banged
REALITY
"I felt I had to get away from
the superficiality of it all. I had to face reality."
He found reality in Germany. He was offered the job of ballet- master to the Stuttgart Biale Theatre-the chance of forming a ballet company of his own. He took it.
He found there a classical white and gold opera, house untouched by bombs, a subsidy enormous by cheese bring British standards, a ready-made audience and a ballet company. which was-wall, shall we say, below International standards.
He not out to make it reach those standards, to make, it the best company in Germany, and beyond. This was just the Qing where local Stuttgart, Genticulating, shaking his fist for a skilled operativer blasting
A forcely living stain out of a dress with a steam Among 1:0 things 1 did struggled to get an agreement he said emphatically: "I've tried patriotism is gun, "wonten have the idea that not leave in my sult were an disarmament to cover,,all to makeą The Assembly of the thing.
Clearly he has no regrets.. Hls ú £100 dress must be
mote auch favoutiles as traveller's forms of disarmament, nuclear Whited Nations understand us. contract with the Royal Ballot cleanablo than Known ne Laminar Flow Con- venture. Handley, Page will, not
something cheques, ball-point pens, strips weapons as well as conver. When Mr Macmillan made a
so how sill they've picked up, for 28. Not of aspirin tablets, and cuff- tional ones.
speech I didn't agree with, is unchanged trol, it means the range
occasionally, of disclose any details, but the coat
Irie, altcraft can
linke, be will amount to several inlition
Also I did not leave any transport
"You and your alikes have not banged the table with my fat, work in London "Clothes out at the CORIA alment pounds. It should be ready for
chain love-laiters, foreigu
alamps, met me on this at all. Further With what result? broke my Meanwhile he and in Stuttgart doubled,
challenge a professional and
What Is
car-keys, or the cleaning pro- stores are easy to haddin. We combin its first fight in three years.
more, the Nato Powers have Watch," helved.
made no obiti objection to de: ife laughed aloud. "Es I tool cement which are absolutely
"fuiqullug. Later this
I always imagined my when we are the haute couture matches. year a miniature cust? "breathing" wing will be teal-
Gaulle's tests and to his state- my show off and I banged the clothes aloshing round in a label we get cautious,”
"You're my favourile type vil- Roughly
any of speaking,
customer." Kald down from
Frankment that he propones to go on feble with that, to make them the College of bath of petrul with some
from the thing overalin
Rick together will: Sternkor.
with thein, "You actually emply
Why? Because you listen." Bed-sonkad Aeronauties at Cravifleld,
We talked about fluralnes have been Journing from "de round Igarage mechanic
the adhesives will fall bars in your pockets,“ fordalite.
#gricultura, Bi XFUSENCE. Ovulla tesint dry-clèkklfig.
-{Lakdon Expreko Blīvlenj,
About 80 per cent of the "drag experienced by civil arid military aircraft in light 14 eliminated.
And that military patrol, air- erhti con slay alots for a day ad a half and fly 12,000 miles without refuelling.
Exporta at Handley Page be- evo that it is one of the most
"We
ot
research, 65-year-old Dr G.
times a woman lonen a lipstick Gus" Lachmann, ani;
In the Huling of her sult, and feel we now know most
that turn into really manly red Strict security surrounds the sludge in the cleaning process."
the answeta."
~~(London Exprass Service).
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