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NO SALUTE, GENERAL
By C. V. R. THOMPSON
NEW YORK.
IT does not look as if General Douglas Mac-
Arthur will be America's next President, The campaign to boost him has run into serious trouble. The ex-G.I.s have made it plain they do not want to be bossed by a general in elvilian life.
All over American ex-Servicemen announced the formation of clubs to work against the "MacArthur for President" clubs, which are also starting operations in most parts of the country.
The slogan adopted by one group of ox- soldiers' clubs was: "Give, MacArthur a medal, not the White House.". Others were not so kind. A Chicago group opposed him for these reasons:→→→ "His Aloofness; his censorship of the Press In Japan, indicating undemocratic leanings; the inadvisability of having any military man, and especially MacArthur, in the White House."
FOOTNOTE.This criticism of MacArthur reached Japan, where he is still occupation boss. It was censored out of the Press. Reason: It might cause MacArthur to lose face with the Japanese people.
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James Folson All Bid Governor- of Alabama, had come to accept a scroll, dubbing him the nation's No. Leap Year bachelor. A crowd of 500 women mobbed him. As he began to kiss his way through them, amore moved up?
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Chinese View Postwar World With Concern
were never nised. Also for n long time, the German war leaders did not belleve in radar. In 1938, a German company ofered the Luftwaffe system closely resembling our GEE was being conducted at a special tabora- Ardle detecting device and the effec. in which aircraft are guided among
tory at Orfordness, a quiet spot on tiveness of depth charges, and then hyperbolic baths. It was re
the Suffolk coast, and a year later, passed on to anticipatory
rejected. In 1940, the General Staff believed the "Islanders," as This tribule to our Boffins came were called, were already able
physicists What kind of new mines, they asked they had won the war and issued an from a Nazi. It was made by Ad- measure successfully the height of an troduce in the future? They studied development
to themselves, might the Germans in- rder that no scientifle research or miral Doenitz in a speech at Weimar aircraft flying at 7,000 feet and
should be pursued during the final decline of litler's miles away. Tic
15 the principle of water pressures, within four months. It was not un- which would not be of military use "Islanders" then worked out sweeping' methods to all-out submarine attacks,
moved to larger premises at Bawdsey counter possible developments-and the end of 1942 that a director He might have sold the same of alanor,
EGISLATION making it legal for near Felixstowe, where many other outstanding nspects of watchers noted movements of
then had to wait three years for the general of research in short-wave men to patronise beauty shops
and by then air- Germans to design and use them!
British World War Two,
craft over neighbouring areas of
scientists
was passed in Albany, New York the T clr opportunity enr
were came soon after
too far ahead to be State. For all the heroism of the "Few." North Sen. They got to know more the Normandy D-Day. This the Battle of Britain would have about the movements of the Dutch presented the enemy with ideal con- freely among themselves: cack felt Then, German pliyal-
nat been lost but for the advantage we and German civil airliners that the ditions for
even collaborate JOSEPH MARTIN, Speaker of the had from radar.... In August 1940, Controller at Croydon airport--and they laid the "oyster" mine
a mining offensive, and he had to be individually brilliant. have the strongest air force in the House, autys. that the U.S. must AA Command had to fire, on the did not fall to,
to uptics_n_tendency-of-they-felt-confident would have pendent and Isolated effort all over president of Beaver College, Pennsyl hich and there was a great deal of Juden world. Dr KAMON KISTLER. average, 20,000 rounds to bring down the Deutsch Lufthansa liners to lose shattering effect on our one unseen aircraft: In 1949, the round as they passed over Bawd- On June 19, 1944, operations.
ons the Reich. + the proximity fuze-In a shell
Luftwaffe carrying sey's lowers!
vania, proposes dropped two of these on French soil And, of course, they were hand-by "friendship bombers" with food. flight to Europe its own radar transmitter and re- The first RAF exercise with radar by mistake. They ceiver-alone made it
capped by Hiller's intuitions. In the to was held in 1936. Plots were train back to England within 24
shipped were 11 possible bring down nearly 100 percent of all ed at Biggin Hill in new taelles, and taken to pieces, and by the afternoon General Martini to question him an cause Britain charges them so much summer of 1942. Hitler while at his MANUFACTURERS of sweets are Russian, HQ tent for Luftwaffe angry with the British. Aying bombs approaching Lan two years before Hitler sent his of June don.... When the Italian warships bombers
22, our scientists had short-wave radic. were searchlight-liluminated off Cape Bawilsey station could already be operated by water pressure, and their telling Marlini that he did not be. Africa, they have had to increase
analysed them D3 acoustic
He started off by for cocon, most of which comes from Matapan in 1941 a few seconds be used for fighting operations. Nearly counter-measures were being signal- lieve in it, because he had once set their fore. Warspite fired her first radar- all civil airliners approaching Eng- led by the Admiralty to all chips and had ended up in North Germany. more. But they will pay
out on a light in South Germany pay 8s. per lb. for chocolates moy
prices. Americans
will not directed broadside, their Kuns were land after January 1938 were subject in still trained fore and aft.
the infested areas. Our to concealed mock attacks by fighters
A similar and
Os, for 7-metre radar sets had warned our directed from Biggin Hill.
mistakes in short-wave owing to gained. against the navigation. He added that he doubt" English-made chocolates, which can success ships and brought them into instant
acoustic homing torpedo, which U fighting readiness long before the
boat crews had been promised would cd that the RAF could bomb Krupps undercut American
of lower cocoa prices. through complete cloud enemy knew of their presence. And
its regain them command of the Atlan- nid.
with When Marlini started to five of the six 15-inch shells in that
lic. It took only three months
expоOKS: "Peace of Mind," a book firat broadside secured hits....
more D telling Americans how not to take all the sting out of them, and plain, the Fuehrer demanded THE first chain of five radar ata- the Germans gave up using them. Radar made possible
and more details, insisting on go-worry, has become a best seller. tions covering the Thames estuary British physicians also made bomber rates, enabled single factories plotted the passage of Mr Chamber- major contribution in the sphere of more confused, and Goering increasington began paying a
ing through each of the calculations the
himself. Martini became more andADIO: Music-lovers in in the chr
Wash- hit by blind lain's plane on its way to bomb, helped to guide craft in By the time -Mussolini invaded and In 1941, they had the world In
Munich. fundamental knowledge of the atom, ingly troubled.
local all winthers. Fast merchant ver- Albania on Good Friday, 1930,
radio station to play for two hours sels, such as the two Queens, were stations from Ventnor
20 preliminary research and develop-
musle they want to hear. Enough able to run long distances without were conducting a continuous watch. stage, the War Cabinet had to de- Tay ment of the atomle bomb. At this
subscriptions have been received to protection by men of war... The The Duce's bombers themselves were clde whether to take many of
keep this first audience-sponsored rapid advances of Field Marshal being watched from Malta, where leading physicists from radar,
the WE were also way ahead of the programine going for six months,
tinent owed much Lo centimetre while there were others at Aden and and
search. Our scientists did not con-
Shanghai, Apr. 2-Although engrossed in the ups and wave radio signal systems... 11 other
depended, offensive power
downs of their own civil strife, China's war-weary millions about, in the words of the time the at the Empire. By the and put them on a project, certain Ane themselves to their laboratory the amount of strain men can stand, Home Fleet, "the greatest the whole of the eastern approaches perfectly understood and requiring under their critical analysis. tional commands, with direct access
rted, ly potentially decisive, but still im- experiments: the whole of warfare and wounds. They worked at opera
who have yet to enjoy a real year of peace since the revolution in naval tactics since the and, the principal ports in the west inuch study and development. They behunculis of operations, and the tactics and strategy. Finally, some of
They studied how and why weapons to military commanders, and
Chinese Revolution in 1912-are showing increasing con steam
So and north were, covered, and
they do, technical methods complete knowledge of all even plumped for radar-and the Ameri
cern over the deteriorating world political situation. vasion of Speerplay in the in- low-flying alrerait could be
picked cans went Europe that some an before they started to cross the bomb.
in use, ahend with the atom rest in resources in achieving them, the committees
the reporting to
This is reflected in the grow- "The Charter is not oven have said that D-DAY should real Straits of Dover. Thanks to
rador,
This led to more effective
and Chiefs of Staff, concerned with the ing number of articles, warnings parable to the former League 1y have been called Gee-Day Britain
had become an island again.
efficient strategy, improved weapons, general planning of the war, were
Nations Covenant," he said. thousands of scientists and engineers, When the Luftwaffe, beaten by
eliminated and
the 250,000 productive workers were. In- day, switched to night attacks, the
speculative attended by scientists in increasing and letters to the editor re-
Other weaknesses of the United element.
numbers. Their collaboration volved....
was garding the possibility of an- Nations mentioned by the £50,000,000 worth of portable radar set (which had been
writer radar equipment were produced an- designed in the summer of 1930) and Ation, a striking aspect of radar lay the possible effects of German hombs won't even use a soldering Iron until ing Chinese dailies.
PART. from the size of its applica- For example, some boffins analysed such that one eminent ofcer is re- other global conflict in the lead were the Great Power veto, "which nually by British industry....
boys
covers too extensive o field;" the though it led to terrible destruction ing our pilots to within 300
And, PPI (Plan Position Indicator), guid in the method and spirit of its re- on human beings and the material
ver-emphasis laid by the United policy
Nations on "the preservation of peace in war, it has already been giving their quarry, assisted yards of searches, which produced an extra- damage they were likely to cause. In they know the whole of the invaluable service in peace.
The majority of these attempt to at the expense of justice, without countering them. These in
materially in ordinary intimacy between deviser, June 1940, they forecast the results of the Pacific Wari" gave place to the magnetron
turn producer and user,
of a raid by 500 enemy bombers on
analyse the world's present troubles which peace is Impossible, and the They contributed materially to the and short wave valve seis which provid- and air marshals come to Bawdsey pened to choose
From the outset, admirals, generals a typical English town. They hap- evolution of a systematic, fational from the viewpoint of an impartial lack of power of the International
Coventry. ed much
Court to enforce its decisions. greater degrees of
observer and to take no sides, but scientific kind of warfare. ac- to see what was being done. They
ilme afterwards came notorious curacy.
"Hitler had a did not tell the boffins that they UCH of the work on this new
raid, and
romantic view of many openly denounce Communism their forecast of
The former diplomat said the ro- MUCH
damage war." write Mr Crowther and Pro-as being responsible for today's cord of the United Nations since its The failure of our hombing cam- wanted this or that, but stated their and casualties was exactly confirmed, tesser Whiddington. "He branch of physics and other paign in the first two years nf war do about it. and staf ofcers Huide in the offensive and assisted wars are to he won by great
ne aspects of the scientific contribution it is estimated that 40 percent
believed strained relations among nations. problem asked what selence In this way, the defensive become a
founding has not been impressive. The General Assembly only has the to the war effort was naturally car the bombs probably exploded harm- got into the habit of bringing rather stages of the war, they were consult romantic. Systematic sclentine work this category is Dr Chang Chung-fu, to carry out decisions, is continually ried out under the vell of seduction of the Gee and Obor systems,
of inspiration. He future bombing policy. In the
Most of the authors hitherto ap- power to recommend action and the lessly in elds-led to the
always out for the new and the pear to be pessimistic. Included in Security Councă, which has the right and, us
a result, though science
Intro-diffuse played a much larger part than in special aids which had been devised informed discussions of all manner many aircraft and what kind of by Speer, no doubt a very competent Assembly, whose warning that bre
Every Sunday morning there were ed on any special bombing opera on known weapons paid larger and former advisor to the Chinese dele-checked by the voto.
Hon. Anked any other war, many achievements by the bolins early in 1938, and of scientifle
to recommend How
quicker dividends. Hitler was advised gation to the Unlied Nations General are either unknown as yet to the these in turn led to the most brilliant tions of a whole command, on a basis Tirpitz. they forecast that 30 planes have the initiative. Hitler and
problems, even opero bomba should be sent to attack the, technical man, but Speer
Power Politics general public, or known only of radar's infants; the "magic-eye" of complete equality and outspoken- would be the most suitable number, gent
did not sent international trends presage war partial and inaccurate target Anding device.
his has attracted widespread attention
"The postwar pattern is still based scriptions.
ness. Anyone, Including the most
generals failed to
any opera-and comment.
on power politics." Dr Chang de- Junior civilian, who had
clared. This deficiency has now
anything three direct hits. Three direct hits British development. If they had,
"Spheres of Influence not useful to suggest, was invited been made good by the publication
to
Dr Chang, who is now Professar only have been revived, but tho of "Science At War" (By J. G. US deadly nccurato,'blind naviga. scientists' proposals were submitted
come in and speak his mind. The were actually obtainedi
they would probably have won
political science the of
at the well major Powers have openly met to Growther and Professor H. Whid- tion atd was named 1125fter to searching criticism by plots, who Scientific warfare But it was
submarine campaign and the war. known National Peking University establish these zones, Alliances and dlogton-H.M. Stationery Office), an the chemical formula for hydrogen would say what
Impossible for them to often- described as the centre of the struggle to control the balanch collaborate on a basis of equality Chinese could or could authoritative
Intellectual uld not account based
movements of power are again cyldent." official
OR the Army, they studied AA with the rational, equalltarian scien-patti there were changes in the inter- archives but written in much engs.
on sulphide, which has a smell of rotten be done in an aircraft, and by fac
It owes its odorous name to tery engineers who
explain would
defence methods, signals, feld and tists."
Soviet Russia, Dr Chang pointed national situation following the first a manner as to appeal to readers
an eminent selentist who,
be anti-tank gunnery, ormy air and in- feeling whether certain features could without special scientific
world war, but the pattern of relaput, has ont abandoned her interest Indeed, "one reason why Hitler onship between countries remained in the Dardanells: France, her tradi- earlier, bluntly remarked that " one occasion, the Coustal Command, weapons, mine-laying, obstacles, and thors of "Science At War," "was that years later came the second world the United States, the co-operation ground.
to have been used altered on the production lines. On fantry operallons. the lethality
of failed," crushingly conclude the au predominantly the same,
Hional cumity with Germany; Britain, Twenty
her tulence of power in Europe and
unity gf. the
Westeru Outward Appearanto
Territorially, the writer "The sonic situation_exists today." the United States is unwilling to re- continued, he wrote. "Japart, Germany and linquish control of the Japanese Italy are no longer Powers to be mandated islands; Russia has designs reckoned with, but Soviet Russia has on Italian colonies in North Africa; usurped Germany's place in Europe." France and the Netherlands have no Outwardly, Dr Chang said, the oasions in Indo-China and Indonesia, Intention of giving up their pos- International pattern appears en-"and even Premier Gen. Smuts of couraging, what with all the meetings South and conferences among the Allled entertains hopes of annexing South- Africa, the socalled liberal, Powers and the United Nations. But west Africa."
change from sail to notable
5,000
Veil of secrecy
Odorous name partly
Striking aspect
use operational problems.
l
n the
Some
puled to have said: "These
strokes
Inter
plans.
was
and that they would probably score tlonal research conduce to the
back that it ought
on whole thing was stinking through not cllef, Air Marshal Slessor, took off the effect of live-bombing on troops, he was out of date" radiolocation, submarine detection having been done years before." his cont and had, a free-for-all on a sub-
Apart from technical details
1110
what could bo
winter of 1043-44 -
done about
devices, the atomic bomb, and opera- While 83 percent of our strategic urine. It was, in fact, the perfect tlonal research, it presents, many bombing behind-the-scenes anecdotes of the pended on navigation and bombing example of teamwork-operational development of these great Innova- with the old, of H2S, even more stage chiefs, scientists, and production en- tions, and stresses the magnificent gering results were obtained at sea. gineers understood cach other's teamwork between the Services and U-boats were slaughtered wholesale problems, and all had something to civilian specialists which brought by Coastal Command aircraft carry- contribute to the solution, about achievements of which we Ing this equipment, and the change in have such good reason to be proud. the U-boat struggle brought about
And it disposes at least da far as primarily by the use of not radar la concerned-of the
popular than 50 sets of 1129 equipment has misconception that the Services are been rated the most important single always preparing for the
Wat.
previous event in the whole of the war,
more
Enemy's camp
OMPARE this, with the situation In the enemy camp. Collaboration be tween Service leaders 'and - scientists
Still in the sphere of naval war- in the Bawdsey manner did not exist. The purely scientifle backs of fare, apart from radar devices, the The Wehrmacht and the Luftwaffe radiolocation had already beon scientists overcame the magnetle and gave contracts to the big established when the Nazis.came to Acoustle minen (both of which had firms to make equipment according electrical power in 1933. By the autumn of been invented by Admiralty scientists to their specifications, and these firms 1934, large-scale experiments wore in the 1014-10 War), improyed the competed for orders and wasted
DAB and FLOUNDER
WELCOME
by Walter
war,
the Tulted Nations or its Charter has
yet to demonstrate its influence.
and
com.
of
"Narrow nationalism is still the vogue," Dr, Chang concluded. Tho. In Dr Chang's opinion, the United Instances elted above Nations and its Chortor lean
are no dif- too ferent from the pattern of the 19th heavily on practical politics.and lack century and the usual pattern of
Ideal
war."-Router.