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"Here
tonight's weather forecast."
The draught of fear
is in these homes
.It must have been a good glen once, before man came to Walos for coal, did his dirt up and down the valleys, lifted his profits and went.
country,
the
James Cameron reports
the Welshman's dilemma
LITTLE way up the Though a fool should know valley grows barren and by now that if this land had angular, green becomes beauty it was the belching grey, grass becomes stone, tips smoke and gust of fire; if it had and slag among the fields and at music it was the clatter and last tips and slags only, and the thud of pithead gear and the flavour of dust.
dull thunder of the mills; if it
It was had any reason
work The beat of it is hard to detect I waited in a tobacco shop for South Wales, where they sing. at all among the dreary. South Wales, the how-green- Talbot. Ten years
allent no-cigaretten and heard the woman docks of Cardiff, Swansea, Port say: "Those miners. Why don't *was-my-valley
ago they sent they make them....' Beventeen and a half million tons Captain Henry Morgan county, of coal abroad in twelve months. the Aneurin Bovan country, This year it might—just might
JCAR be five millions, a turbulent, remote place.
they South Wales, where the tent, in 1937, to France alone. miners left their desolation to If the working man is the salt the pits, shift ten tons tramp in choirs for pennies in of the earth, the Welsh working
seven pounds u werk, rise the mournful gutters
outside man is that aalt ground to a sharp and lungs in the darkness? the Ritz.
Or was that long, long ago?
Yes, it was long ago. Be tween the wars. And now?
Herr Doktor
(with his teeth drawn)
is busy again
T
CHAPMAN PINCHER MEETS THE GERMAN SCIENTISTS
THE German scientists in the British zone of Germany
among them men who provided the technical means for Hitler's war-are back in their laboratories. And they are working for Germany, not for Britain.
The British Control Commission officials have more research. than authorised this resumption of German They are encouraging and helping it in every possible way. To find out why, I went to stay with the main group of these Germans-among them five Nobel Prize winners- at the one-time Luftwaffe aerodynamics research station in Gottingen.
As a guest of Dr Ronald Fraser, the British scientist in charge of the station, I was allowed to talk freely with them, to see them at work, and to discuss their future with them and with Control Commission authorities.
I found that both the Germen scientists and the British officials are convinced that the rehabilitation of science is an essential step in the rebuilding of Germany as a peaceful, self-supporting State, able to pay us repara- tions instead of needing loans.
a
techni-
This belief is being translated into constructive policy by the British Research Control officers under the leadership of Brigadier Frank Spedding, an intelligent and experienced soldier. The flow of scientists and cians out of the zone is being nalia casential to modern discouraged. A special agency research have has been set up to find posts for all Germans with technical qualifications.
military been shipped to Britain or destroyed.
Unfortunately, most of the stan- dard laboratory equipmént neecy- sary for peaceful research has been
The four Powers have assured taken too. the Germans that none of
their
Heisenberg's laboratory in the
are
In a land crying for labour, with a great backlog of work to be done and needs to be filed, there
ixty thousand people without Д Job-eight percent of the insured population.
What a strange thing that is.
Lost-a job
astringent powder.
than
Even at his lowest economie ebb he has that thing which takes him through the muck to his chair debating club, that practice and
gives him the impetus to read.
But the shadow is there. Futile to deny that already the damp draught of fear has touched homes that know too well Idleness can mean.
Now for anyone who knows the nature of a miner's work to have the brazen impertinenco to tell him to do anything is nearly un- believable. Would you
down
limbs
a duy for
Tire rolling mills need men. It is probably the second toughest job in the world; hot, exhausting, debill- taling.
And it is completely true that there are men, many of them, who hell right now are saying: ""The with that. The money isn't worth soJNU it. There is nothing to buy, what and I've only one life. Inhall wait til they build a root shop to make dolls' eyes in."
First of all look at that
00.000 figure. Walra is u place where statisties, ke valley paths, can be misicading. Of that 00.000. 4,000 are disabled-injured, driven front the pits by silicoals, pneumoconiosis.
THERE are several quick answers to the paradox, all of them trip- ped up somewhere by a fallacy. Binme the Government. Blame the bosses. Even (I have beard it Sixteen thousand are women, and done) blame the men. Blame the Wales, unlike Scotland or Northern Board of Trade for being slow with England, has no tradition of women the new
factories.
Blame the big at work. Few of them plant to take. interests for lack of interest, blame a job again. the workers for not working. Blame
bit and you may them all a nearly right.
When France fell in 1940 the Birst in Britain ofrol the blow were
be
For the first time the Government has assumed responsibility for tull employment.
Why then
are Trevor und
Lost-the coal
The plan for Wales is to develop new enterprises, developing trading estates like Treforest and Hirwaun and Fforestfach to produce knives teeth, and nylon, toys and false
Hoods, pinstiva, saucepans, rubber biscuits.
Lost-machinery
CR STAFFORD CRIPPS plans 200 Mev faroriga for Wales, two- thirds of them State-inanced.
About 30 are ready. "It is not." well sald Sir Stafford, "going us as we should have liked."
Factories cannot be built over- night. There are houses to be put up. Which are you going to have, homes or jobs?
20,000 Welsh miners, who lost their "Llewellyn collecting their 24 bob at Jatis Instantly, together, overnight. the exchange? For a quarter of a century, there were only three years-1942 to 1045-when unemployment left to South Wales, and it took a war do that.
STOOD in the surd of a big tin- But the war ended, the Royal Ord- plate works and the manager The Welsh M.P.s have flayed the nance Factorles and arms works said: "No coul; that's your answer,"
scheme. They claimed it was in- were no longer needed. The men I sat before the mahogany desk of nocent of any plan for Wales be- came back from the Army. The the chairman of a alcel mill ond yond Tactories for trivial purposes. little groups appeared at the Bureau, the chairman said, as I have not You cannot, it was said, stabilise a
Lost-a pulse
THE arteries of South Wales in- dustry stretch through the coal mountains, but at the ports you feel its pulse. It is a feeble thing to day.
THE
heard any man say for years: "They don't want work. Today...."
I sat in the superintendent's office at a labour exchange and he said: "Six of one and half a dozen of the
There's
work other. won't' do." The other kinds of jobs haven't arrived yet."
some
BY THE WAY by Beachcomber
discovery in Mongolia of some
men
country economy with paper Baga for toy soldiers and glass eyes for wooden dolls. Wales needs mining machinery-why not make it among the mines?
Meanwhile in the towns and vol-. leys, in the austere puba of. Neath and Bridgend, there is plenty of that pointed, personalised political talk you hear in places where poll- tics is more than an academic exer- cise.
Lost-a response
and THERE is an impatience at Sir...
Stafford Cripps, whose remote
the river to
research results will be used by the huge research building in Bunsen- dinosaur eggs shows that bir Blackfriars Bridge, where they were crystal qualities are not the kind
Allies without payment of royalties. There are, of course, security restrictions on the activies of the scientists. They all work under licence which forbids war research -which none of them wants to do,
anyway.
Penalties
man atom, his
Professor Otto Hahn, the who first split the uranium explained to me how he and colleagues have to submit a full ac- count of their work every three months. How their laboratories are Hable to Inspection without warning. How grave penalties, in- cluding hard labour or even death, are provided by Law 25 of the Allled Control Council for illicit re- search.
the The blunt truth is that all
scientists who Important German
research and specialised in war
on with it are want to carry America, Britain and Russia.
111
strasse would now not satisfy alxth form selence student.
search for weeks.
anesting still has its rewards and
surprises.
Outer others came back to Chelscu, more were diverted across
immediate response ordered to Epping. But at Aldgate that strike they met traffle diverted from Lewis- from the volatile Welsh. ham, and originally bound for Bays- .There is a falth by the good-In- water. There was a long hold-up tentions of the Government. There
a belle In and when darkness fell the rehearsal is no reactions t
Few people were Socialism as the only way of 'nvold- was abandoned. anywhere near where they wanted to Ing the tragedies of the past. be, or were supposed to be.
There is a complaint that the Curiosities of literature
Government
not going far enough, nor fast enough. Many
If this-great-scientist broaksa There is a popular idea that the ask or a valve burns out it is a mother bird (if I may use that tender major disaster holding up his re-word of such a monster) dropped her exas in the sand and left them to be hatched by the heat of the sun. This All the scientists, Including the
so, us we know from the cave is not medical researchers like Professor
drawings at Magerau. The bird sat Kornmiller, who is working on on the eggs and hatched them brain surgery, are held up for the comic enough sight, like finding an bare essentials of their trade.
Ing-room cup, or coughing, with its hoof before its mouth,
Prudnose: Why?
HAVE been
asked why women
a
novelists squeak when they get worker is coming to feel that par- haps the Communists can offer But in spite of all these difcuf- elephant sipping tea from a draw- excited about a book. My scientiae them more.
Mr Manfred Holo- correspondent, ties constructive science is being
thurst, says that they produce this There is a foeling that the solu- reborn in Germany.
Found by rubbing their hind legs to- tion will indeed come, because it gether like
a cricket-if indeed it just has to come, a cricket he is thinking of, and may 40 wagonloads of devils run nway with me It I care a farthing rushlight for any such
nonsense. Drink deep, and leave the rest to the prigs.
bearing-a
One group at Gattingen is deve loping frictionless means of supporting magnetically rotating shaft without any metal-to- metal contact to reduce wear and
increase the efficiency of machinery.
Cosmic Energy
are
his team Heisenberg and working on new problems concern ing cosmic rays a mysterious form
Myself. Why what? Frodnose: It doesn't matter.
you Myself: How right Nothing you say matters. The telephone trick
arcl
be
WRITER was recently impressed by the fact that a certain Cabinet Minister "has four telephones on his } desi."
"despatch of It suggested business." But is there anything else on his desk? I know a business man
of energy reaching the earth from who has twelve telephones on his
of
I believe that their absence is the unau- against safest
guarantee thorised research in Germany. No an unknown source, probably be-desk
desk. Five are dummies, and it is great fun to see him shouting into control could be 100 per- yond the Milky Way. system of
them to impress callers, "£60,000 is cent efficient.
that
scientists Agricultural
near my price," he will say, and then, example, To ensure for до
the atomic Hamburg are producing strains
"Get ne Heisenberg, Werner
picking up
another phone, Colorado Rio
de Janeiro," Ordinary, simple physicist, does not work out mathe potatoes resistant to the matical calculations for bigger beotle. Experiments to increase and
think that an enormous always Germany's cattle populo-1
number of telephones means energy. calibre. tion by artificial insemination have ticlan
Heisenberg's of
men in There are few such
the started. world.
The fact that Helsenberg has no interest in war research is the best safeguard.
Dano CLARK Jania PAIGE in
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these
THERE was a rehearsal of the Stra- bismus Tramic Plan. A section of The relationship between Germans and the British officials in traffe proceeding from the Hay- charge of them is far closer than market to Hampstead was diverted, "fratting."
und sent round by Hammersmith. As none of the diverted traffic had want- T left Gottingen feeling that Ined to go to Hampstead, but had been such an atomsphere of friendliness, chosen by ballot for that honour, enthusiasm and concentrated talent there was a hitch at Hammermith. Some vehicles went on into Sussex, anything would be possible.
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