THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1950.
POWER
VIETMINH
OF ATOM BOMB Prince "A MYTH??
A
Has Look
66
AKE NEW Institute's Warning
DRIVE
Saigon, Nov. 9. Front-line reports said to- ht that a strong force of tminh Communist regu- had invaded the Thai
eration in north-west o-China and was ad-
cing toward the capital
London, Nov. 9.
A study group of the Royal Institute of International Affairs has sounded a stern warning to the Western powers against the "myth" of an all-powerful atom bomb in cold and hot war.
The group, headed by Major-General Sir Ian Jacob, Military Assistant Secretary to the British War Cabinet throughout the war years,
dis- couraged excessive reliance on the atom bomb as swept out of the the principal means of defending the free world.
Lai Chau.
rebel force of at least 3,000
rans
ch frontier. bastion of kay on November 1 follow- the retreating French garri-
these reports said.
In a publication issued by attack, believed to be a restrain- the Institute, the group. saiding though not decisive factor. the value of the atom bomb in Soviet policy. lies in its uncertainties, and SOME MISGIVINGS he Thais are an ethnic group cautioned the Western Powers g in the mountainous region against any advance commit- in the indo-Chinese Statement en the circumstances in Fongkin. The capital of Lai which the bomb would be used.
t is about 60 airline miles
The experts appealed for h west of Laokay.
immediate measures for exten- sive precautions against atom altack
from the enemy
Thai Federation is not of Thailand.
The
report expressed mis- givings about any reliance on the bomb itself for the tactical support of forces in the field. In Central Europe, even Eastern Europe, large numbers of people are friendly to the free world who would regard
in
mmunist control of the throughout the Atlantic Pact a European war as their chance area would jeopardise the area, on a 24-hour emergency of liberation. Unless the atom hbouring south-west area, basis.
bomb wore used in such areas
reports placed the rebels he mountain wilderness be- in Lai Chau and Chapa, h is 30 miles south-west of
The study group, which also | with most careful political
Sir includes
Orme Sargent, direction it would cause great Permanent former
Under- damage to friends among the Secretary of State for Foreign enemy. Affairs, and Brigadier A. H. French spokesman said, Head, former Assistant Secre- hwhile, that French war-tary to the Committee of Im-
tay.
Unless defensive weapons will become available before the Soviet can accumulate a
es riddled a rebel mountain perial Defence, listed its views stock of atom bombs, the West: oy near the Chinese Com-
on
the atom bomb as fol-
ist border, destroying one lows:- ele resembling an armoured
car' and eight trucks. It the first official indication the Vietminh rebels might mobile armoured equip
e spokesman said planes destroyed 18 junks along Songma River, 100 miles Hanoi, and blasted rebel tions plants north and of Hanoi-United Press.
NOT A DETERRENT.
not an effective deterrent to
further Soviet aggression by
bilisation
that
should start on elaborate measures of civil defence, with a warning system and fighter 1. The atomic bomb is of protection throughout the At- no use in the cold war; it is lantic Pact area on a 24-hour emergency basis-with more aircraft and far greater mo-
of manpower proxy where in-the-Soviet forces are not directly involved; hitherto planned.
The report 2. Use and effect of the atom
concluded: "All bomb in military operations are that atomic bombing could play assumptions about the 'part unknown quantities. 3. Its strategic
if the cold war became 1 first stages of a war against the general war should be ruthless- heart of a power's political and ly re-examined before a myth the industrial system
is built up that frightens might have decisive effects; it could cause
world as much as it frightens potential and
aggressors."--United disor-
Press. ganisation but not necessarily break the will of enemy
ding Of War great destruction fith
Germany
Paris, Nov. 9.
leaders.
use in the
to
"It was used in Japan break the morale of a wavering Western Allied powers] probably end the state of 5overnment in the final stages with Germany early next of a war that the Japanese were
lazing" diplomatic circles here
today.
Elizabeth's
VALUE OF THE BOMB Greek Trip
by recalled that the For- 4. Prospects for getting a Ministers of France, Bri- bomb on its target are at
of
at
London, Nov.
9.
Prince Charles, son of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, watching the Royal Pro- cession pass from the Palace to Westminster for the State Opening of Parliament. Central Press.
FRENCH DEFEAT IN INDO-CHINA "CATASTROPHIC”
Paris, Nov. 9.
General George Revers, former French Army Chief of Staff, today warned that loss of Indo- China to the Communists following the recent set- back for United Nations forces in Korea would be catastrophic for the West.
General Revers was Army Chief of Staff from August 1946 until he was dismissed last December in the so-called "scandal of the Generals."
and the United States present good because of the Princess Elizabeth, heir to d on September 19 in New existence heavily armed the Throne, will sail from Mal- He said in an interview that | Indo-China, it would be catas-
on action and sent out long-range bombers flying in ta in the 1,600-ton naval France must sacrifice every trophic for the West. tions to the smaller Wes- tormation
great height frigate, Surprise, when she thing else if necessary in Indo- "A big new development in powers to join them in a prospects diminish with the visits Greece next month.
China to hold the northern the Far East, an advance of defensive weapons-
extremely 1 declaration.
The 9.100-ton cruiser Liver centre of Hanoi, its supply port grave one, is the emergence Belgian Foreign Minis-it may be that the days of the pool will be standing by to
of China from waiting to make M. Paul van, Zeeland, an-heavy bomber are numbered:" take her most of the way of Haiphong and the surround-
of libera- Government's 5. The
ing Red River delta, or the en- itself the champion value of the atom the seas are rough. Her hus-
tion. of Asia. ment today. United bomb lies in these uncertainties band, the Duke of Edinburgh, tire country would be lost. and in the doubt they can cause will escort the Princess in his in the aggressor's mind about ship, the trigate Magple. The whether and how they will be couple will be going on a pri- used. This uncertainty must vate visit to King Paul
ed
his
if
and
"Outside ald, whether from France or the
United States, takes two months to put into
"Mao Tse-tung rejects even. Pandit Nehru as too Western and, in my opinion, does not
trouble himself about Moscow.
Crash Victims be maintained, and any state- Queen Frederika of Greece.
action," he said.
"This is to such point that I ment defining the circumstances An announcement today said "Thus we must keep control wonder if Russia's new de- London, Nov. 9. in which it will be used would that the naval flotilla would of the situation until then, by marche (the proposal for a nty-seven people aboard
remove much of its deterrent leave Malta on December ir
3, regrouping of our forces on the Big Four meeting on Germany) India Constellation value;
passing through the Corinth spot. crashed just below the
6. The atom bomb is no Canal on December 4 and it of Mont Blanc last
substitute for conventional reaching Phalchon Bay, east_of "Later, it will be necessary y were Pakistani nationals, kesman of the
weapons. The study group ad- Athens port, on December 6. to build up cadres necessary for Pakistan
Princess Elizabeth and the the formation of mitted the possibility that the Commission
Vietnamesea London
highly centralised system of Duke of Edinburgh will leave units, which will be very valu- added that they were political and
economic control Greece on December 11 to re-able. n who had signed on in directed by the Politburo is turn to Malta, the announce- "If, along with the setback in
specially vulnerable to atomic ment said.-Reuter.
nced today.
ay. Reuter,
in
Korea, another were suffered in
is not simply a sign of fear inspired by Chinese initiative.
"It could be simply asking to temporise in the West, to have
freer hand in Asia.
"Yes, the big new develop- ment is Mao Tse-tung's rejec- tion of the 'Nehru philosophy'."
United Press.
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