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•August 16, 1941
Secrets Of CURRENT COMMENT....By Scrutineer
Britain's Wartime Science
By Walton Cole
Radiolocation, Britain's secret system of air, land and sca detection, is but one of the wartime successes of the army of men and women scientists that for lightning achievement in research has out-blitzed any Hitler blitzkreig.
A dilapidated truck stationed in a country road was the la- boratory where the early radio- location experiments were con- ducted, and throughout Britain to-day scientists, some using even stranger laboratories than a truck for their researches, are solving Britain's wartime problems,
have the authority of Pro- fessor W. L. Bragg, Cavendish Professor of Experimental Physics at Cambridge Univer- sity, one of Britain's foremost scientists, for saying that more progress has been made in Bri- tish scientific rescarchin twenty-two months of war than ten years of pence.
The
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tura of the French Navy, and as Important announcement the buribing raids over Getmany and
such shares the traditional rivalry or which was broadcast on Thursday northern France. Times have cer-
even jealousy of that service for the by Mr. Attice turned out to be a tainly changed since last year, when slocument of historie importance. we read of three hundred R.AF. British Navy, whose achievements In the first place, it was the result planes visiting Germany, in daylight are naturally far more outstanding in French of a dramatic meeting an the high and placing their bomby just exactly history than those seas between the heads of the two where they want them. It is in this Navy. Fossibly this centiment goes to Trafalgar. It may be also slater: the. United States and Great way that the pressure is being taken bnek
Germana that the French sailors are annoyed Britain. In the second place, it was off Russin, and that the
of the French a joint statement of allied war alns, are being made to realise that-war because the claims and, thirdly, it was a declaration of lightly entered into, must be painful, Arny were always met before theirs, the rights of man.
and so the
90
It
cm-
a high Navy never renched auch
ly endured.
us the British. wris a concise, clear and
JAPAN HESITANT phatle account of what we stood for.
Then again the air raids on Brest, Most people in the democracies have Japan is still in a state of L'Orient and such places anger Dar- taken these principles for granted, hesitancy. One wonders if she is not lan. The attack an Oron and on
turmoll Dakar completed what as they have enjoyed them now for inwardly laughing at the
the collapse The she has created in the United States, in France began, without challenge. long D fact that such a declaration has to Britain and Australia. It is strange The British Army fought its way be made at all, shows how near we when one comes to think of it that so out of France rather than surrender, are to losing these elementary rights, amali people should cause wille Darlan preferred to give up the,
The issue of this joint statement great an upset.
struggle as hopeless, and his whole policy now is to Justify his action then. He wants his view confirmed that the Germaps
would be torious, and is trying in every pos-
is timely, seeing that it brings out The acquisition of such vast by contrast the degrading position in territory without any cost to herself which human beings would sink H the Nazl system were permitted to prevail. This, then, is the message from the clean, healthy, open ocean, signed. where the document
*WAS
It is a message of hope - to those nations bearing at the moment the Buffering heaviest of burdens, and
in their minds, because the ideals, the elementary rights they have so long enjoyed, have been ruthlessly snatched away from them by people Inferior to themselves.
the
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SATURDAY
FEATURE
as Indo-Chinu, in which she now has
hos
that
way 10 help Germany in bor great work of enslaving Europe, even though that means France too. There Is in France a curious mood, ex- pressed by Petaln fust
It is now. It n demand for the hair shirt, self- flagellation, and surrender
of alt worldly possessions. Darlan is now In cont
control of what is left of France, and in keeping with his past record he will probably place it at the dis- posal of the Germans.
RUSSIAN WAR exclusive trading rights and
which Vichy France has no rights at
What the next generation will It has been said that he who rules all, is no mean achievement. That is have to say of Darian will not be Russia rules the world. This
reading. Ho Can suficiently astonishing in these days pleasant only be, on the assumption that the siten the whole world is parcelled compared with Napoleon, but the has beca rest of the world is willing to be out
territory and every inch of
difference is
is considerable Napoleon ruled fram that region. What
it to be won by force of arms. It is fought and conquered. Germany. He that still more astonishing, however, really means, however, is Germany with her vast armed forces Japan should have the nerve to seek did not lick her boots, still less did had control of the renourees le control of Thailand and the Nether he take orders from her. It is hard to believe that Darian belongs to the Russia, and if the Russian people land East Indies as well. It suggests nation which presented the Statue could be enslaved and made to give Intoxication on the grand scale.
there of Liberty to the United States and Lipa the products of the soil and of
Jupan probably thought the mine to Germany,, then clearly would be no harm in trying, but it which gave us the Marseillaise. the power of
LIFE IN NORWAY country may be that this freezing of her would be immense if not irresistible, credits and paralysis of her trade as
The Norwegians still give the She would dominate Iran, threaten
counter blast menn quite a lot
flower of German monlood-the India and control the Fur Enst sen to her. has suffered. If, however, Gestapo-frequent cause to complain.
first serloun board.
Eight weeks of blitzkrieg, however, her credit is frozen in the United The Germans have tried kindness, and the modern equivalent of the have not brought Germany to the States and in the British Empire, and
thumbscrew, the stake and but gates of Moscow nor of Leningrad,
of Indo-China, it and the diversion from Smolensk to her soldiers are sizzling in the
heat of Odessa suggests that the undertaking scorching he will be able to
means that
get is proving
dificult
was rice if she cannot get rifles, and coat If the war in Hussin from Hongay to cook it with. The
weeks, lasts
then strangulation
will un- of trade Germany and Japan will certainly
effect, but crippling
fortunately understand each other. Both would doubtedly have in the long run a be bogged on land and immobilised
more
antic gather right
than
check she
the
a country that sees very
ого
Britain has over 10,000 scien. tific researchers but their strength is supplemented by technicians and specialists who make a grand total of 75,000 men and women whose names appear on the Ministry of La- bour's Central Register. This is a catalogue of the nation's, scientific strength and immedi-
order must remain in the realm of far ahead. Her dealings with Hiller
the ately a request comes from nyat sea; both would feel that the new Japan is not
and. unhappy position in which of In
clear rather thun of the Services for expert assis-
region hope
Matsuoka found himself taneo at-a-glance reference cards
nchlevement
The official palley of the
proef of that., United On the other hand, the real danger disclose the best person for the
States with regard to Russin is in
is that she may see no further ahend task, and the difficulties of the
line with that of Britain, and simply than Thailand in spite of the triple last war when the specialists were only traced with difficulty have been overcome.
Britain has harnessed scienti- fic research to her war effort. At the Admiralty, Ministry of Supply-which carries out the bulk of research work for the War Office-the Air Ministry of Aircraft Production, there are important organisations dealing exclusively with scienti- fic developments.
the
is
means that anyone who is helping to destroy Hitlerian is helping for Warning from the United States,
Australia. So Britain
Et and the
work of civilsation. ward The
so necessary in these days when war were Communists, who
minute that keen to denounce the war, before may break out at any
remuin at the Russlo's entry, as the ustalangkong should
alert. On behalf of plutocracy and ism, are now urging their fellows, BOMBING practicE who are striking, to get back into the
The Japanese are bombing Chung- factories while proclaiming strikers to be traltors to the great Ring apparently because they wish to some new piloto, eause of the workers of the world, give practice to
have been demanding, as and an open elty with some hundred They "Time" put R. a Lenin Lease Bill, of thousands of women and children
nothing
it is for the Japanese flying men and all aid short of
an excellent target. There is very Stalin.
little risk in the business for the aim HOOVER'S PARTY aviators, who can take careful
where to exactly There is another party, headed by and choose just the British Em- Herbert Hoover, who is the leader drop their bumbs
the American gunboat, the
for
of the Republicans of the pre-1923 say, world slump period, which feels it
of reservaty
Mission hospitals are or have been
Soon after he assumed the! Premiership, Mr Churchill ap pointed a Scientific Advisory Committee of six of Britain's
enn really enjoy this war between favourite targets. Most people are greatest-scientists. In the in--Stalin and Ilder without any kind now hoping that this practice will not seeing that it dis have been in vain but that it will be. tervening months this Commit-
Bikes
both
It really wanted. They hope that these sides.
same pilots will have an opportunity tec has brought to the notice of
wants struggle to last quite the Government promising now scientific and technical develop long time. These two small groups of displaying their prowess or their then cancel each other out. For the skill in conditions that are not quite of importance in Bri majority of American people, how- so unequal as in Chungking. ments tain's armoury, offensive and
ADMIRAL DARLAN ever, the menace of Nazisen is a very military threat, defensive, and advised the real thing, for it is
Admiral Darlan as an unpleasant whereas Communism is more of an
stands out head and Government departments on the
economic danger or a challenge to character
shoulders above everybody else in sclection of personnel for existing practice.
The warning was issued last week France, 11 is evident that he dis- special research work. They'
both in Britain and in the United kes the British and that his dislike forces are Britain's "brains trust" of
was no is so intense that he even States that this new wor wartime scientific progress, and excuse for relaxing efforts but rather himself to love the Germuth, whom are in the closest touch with the
was it an opportunity for increasing he seeks to conclliate in every pos- then. That is how the occasion has slble way. great streams of research and
He also likes please Japan. been used in Britain. In addition to development that is being cense.
there There must be some reason for this Intensification of war effort, lessly conducted.
has also been a great increase in strange attitude. Darian is an ad-
These six wise men know the inner stories of how their col- leagues who in peace time lec- tured in their labs, or class- rooms of British Universities and schools, have improved elec trical devices in every field and particularly in radio.
They have too, the answer to many of the problems born out of the intensification of the air war and high nititude flying, the cure for the pests which at- tacked the nation's vast food stores.
Members of the Committee have heard from staff officers of the fighting services--spokes- men for the users of the scien- tific discoveries, that war has: produced-the findings gleaned from the exacting test of battle on the new discoveries. Suggęs- tions for improvements are adopted and ideas from the sal- lor, soldier or airman who has handled the product of the scientist are welcome.
Hitler has so far produced no secret weapon that has remained a. secret for long thanks to Britain's scientific investiga- tors. Mr Churchill himself is No. 1 champion of scientific re search and his principal secre- tary is Professor F. A. Linde mann, one of the nation's most brilliant scientists.
While the contribution of science to war and victory-are to-day the main objective of those directing re- searches it is their aim after peace to use science to solve many of the problems that will arise with world reconstruction.
10
to no avail, for the
strangely enough, want
don't mind death. This is something the Gestapo cannot understand and naturally so, seeing that there is only word in the German vocabulary.
"obedience." It is
Germany is pre- one eminently the land of obedience, that is why it has so easily fallen under dictators,
In Tromsoe recently a bookseller -put out a nolice: "Learn English in 50 hours before the Tommies come."
The Gestapo was naturally upsel about this, and either asked or order- ed the bookseller to take the notice
down.
He,did so and put up another one. It was this. "Learn German in 30 hours before our German friends go away."
There was only one punishment for this and that was the concentration camp,
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