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ATOMIC RESEARCH

the

WHY APPEAR

LO KU.

SO CHAUVINISTIC?

Why does Russia continue to who marked the passage was that ples they dwell anong in tho West and their inability, there- top the bill in nearly all debates It was a cynical utterance and on international issues and in so that in view of the authority | fore, to assess public opinion or Russia has sought to exercise over to exchange views freely and much of the world nowa?

There are several reasons; alimaller nations, the man who openly. fairly obvious,

though Taraly

For Russia's heavy wrote it must have done so with!

new bur- deng abroad there is an acuto mentioned together or analysed in his tong in his cheek. detall. In the first place, of The answer is that all spokes, shortage of rained diplomats who

Russia has men in the United Nations are are familiar with any but the So victorious course, emerged as a mighty World

paying the same kind of tribute viet economy; and that is doubt- Power, with the right and the to U.N.O. in the same degree of less partly why Moscow keeps so intention of having a big say in sincerity but probably with some tight.a grip on them that few aro international affairs and to guard mental reservations about the more than conduit pipes from "claims" or "rights" of their, own the Russian Foreign Office to the States."

Embassy or the Legation.

ing

her interests everywhere. With this universal recogni- tion of Soviet Russin's new status Roes a widespread uncertainty about her political, economic and territorial aims--an uncertainty increased by some early phases of Soviet post-war diplomacy.

in turn

She

Need For Peace

The over-riding fact which is that foreign critics should never for- get is that so country is in grea- ter need than Russia of a pro- longed peace and of conditions of security in which the avocationa of peace can be pursued without interruption.

I вес that a Swiss weekly journal, "Die Waitwochs," ans problems of internal reconstruc- published an article stressing the tion in Russia, as a direct war consequence

is not This

nows. Most of a je. these problems, including tailed survey of the appalling de Russia, have tight

discussed

re

To the common man, who has in this instance much scientific

"Security The Clue authority to back his views, the

My own conviction, based on immediate threat offered by the

many contacts with persons moze Informed, intimately atomic bomb is at present the

Russia's "expansionist polley is most striking aspect of nuclear

concerned plmost exclusively-ast research. Judged from this angle Things That Puxxio

Iranian oil, in which the omitting the Government's Bill for con- Friendly observera in other Big Three are all hectically con- centrating under national control lands have been puzzled or pe cerned with her own security.

turbed by Soviet military pres- If the Western democracies are all' development in this country sure in Iran, and the disregant suspicious of Russian aims, Rus- of atomic coergy appears inevit of a Treaty obligation: by spy sin is unquestionably suspicious able. To prohibit all indepen- ing activities In Canada; by the about theks they are fearful or dent experiments or plants is an resolute domination of Soviet in- unprecedented check upon scienti- fluence in Eastern and South-festous of her new status and that Eastern Europe; by now demands their anti-Communism is another fic discovery. But

She con in the Mediterranean; by reports name for anti-Saviotism. ditions are themselves unpreceof "Intransigence" in Europe and thinks (nightly) that in the ab- dented. In no other field has the in Manchuria: by persistent and sence of agreement among the swift advance from theory to unfair attacks on British policy in practice depended so much auf farious parts of the world; by a Throo UN.O. cannot effctively i struction wrought in Western of the Big Thron are already peatedly in the Soviet Press and

quoted here. vast Government expenditure. In general lack of frankness in furetion and (wrongly) that two

external

using it for anti-Soviet purposes. que operations

The Swiss journal field

wonders no other

does "purc

She looks upon the rigid secrecy Such anxieties have science"

sa intimately touch the raised doubts about the reality or of atomic production as a sure whether they can be solved and particular whether problem of defence. The com- depth of Moscow's attachment to sign of Western distrust and hos- doubts

will be freed from the central doctrines of U.N.O.

tility and as a ready means of foodstuffs plexity and expense of the and have strengthened the view diplomatic blackmail; and so she rationing by 1947, as Stalin pro- apparatus required and the com- of those critics who say that we matches secrecy with secrecy to mised. I am told that Stalin's calculated promise will undoubted- parative rarity of the raw are to be confronted with an Imus nth degree.

ly be fulfilled. materials make it inadvisable, in perialist Russia bent on an "ex- pansionist policy" in growing in- any case to disperse our efforts.

difference to world opinion. The question whether atomicį research should be a Government monopoly or a "free for all" is, for British decision alone. The policy to which we were pledged by Mr. Attlee last November in his joint statement with

Mr. Truman and Mr. Mackenzie King, im- plies an effective Government control of experiment by the three countries. This was no less im- plicit in the setting up of the atomic energy commission by the United Nations. If and when, as reasonable beings. must control desire, it is possible to atomic development by an inter- national body, which can truly safeguard us against the possibility of its warlike use, Government supervision is the pre-requisite of international supervision.

Progress towards this end is tat and mistrustful. present slow There are obvious reasons why inspection of factories and pro-

in any

الم

case, not a matter

1 bable caches (even if every country was willing to permit

after de-

A 'Critic's Comment One of these exities called my attention a few days ago to an article in the Soviet magazine "New Times" which, nouncing "British and American roactionaries" who "seek to pre- vent the further development of co-operation among the democra- eica," said this about U.N.O.:

In Russian Eyes

The Soviet leaders know well Marshal Zhukov is one of many

who resent enough that not all their prob prominent Russians bitterly what they regard as theems, especially housing, will be British intention to "steal"

the disposed of by the present Five- Year-Plan. They are thinking'in Ruhr and use that priceless in- dustrial region as the linch-pin of decades, not in vara. That la declalve anti-Soviet factor. British power in Europe and as a why they want an assured peaca.

In Russian eyes American polley! Suspicions In fish and brutally anti-Soviet. Moscow

in the Far East is arrogant, sci-

Anglo-American "tenderness" te Franco Spain. is quoted almost daily as another sign of Western tolerance of Fascist ideas; and any ill-tempered statement made in Britain or the U.S.A. by nay tom-noddy is solemnly reproduced in the Soviet Press.

Moscow, May 19. The Soviet periodical "Now Times" published an article head; ed "Passion for Tourism, com. menting on the opening of English clubs in Norway and on the growing flow of English tourists to Norteresting to note

It has the support of the millions of common people who stand sentinel over peace. They expect this organi ation to guide itself in all its activities by the principle of the equality of Slates and not by the prin ciple of the domination of some

Untrained Diplomats Power States over others....

That is the situation today. It of Imposing policy--the one's will upon other freedom is not improved by Russia's own diplomatic loving nations will not be ap- reticent and clumsy proved by the mass of the pon-methods or by the extrabrene and number of quialings encaged in her younger diplomats abroad these hearths of English eul The cyrical view of the critic their total Ignorance of the peo- ture," it said.

Writing To The Editor

The following letters appear- It was

By NATHANIEL GUBBINS.

London Sunday Express humorist

many

and many a

the

eat,

the

The article aaya: "The vice- president of one such organisation is a certain Fuglesand, a relative of the Quisling Minister Fugios-

and

"While in England there ́ar" about 16,000 Norwegians who are unable to return to Norway owing to the lack of transport, ships filled with Englishmen are ni- ing for Norway.

"Norwegian newspapers · wün- der what really attracts tho English tourists to their war de vastated country which

with

what centenarians could Belleve It Or Not

this would be no guarantee ed in a London newspaper year ago (to quote. from Sir I have a hot cross bun "Annabel Lee) that I was the against the secreting of anything!

an which is about 45 years old. editor of a letter column in a so comparatively small as atomic bomb. The most hopeful When I was a boy I put it newspaper. Apart from solution yet proposed comes from in a tea caddy, and when my day when I wrote all the letters dificulty can feed its own people. "B:fore the war, as is well- the board of five consultants father died I came into posses- myself because I had lost all whose views were recently pub- sion of the caddy with the bun the real correspondence in a known, Scandinavia was besieged low tavern, 1 found that most by German, tourists and now a lished by the American State

of the readers who wrote to me flow of lovers of Norwegian Department. It lies in the fea-

were interested in oddly shaped beauty rush in from the other potatoes and other vegetables, side."Reuter. sability, first, of controlling the output of the limited areas which

robins nesting in letter boxes, reproduce the rare heavy cle-

and how far they could walk, ments uranium and thorium, and)

the weather, diet, health, the then of denaturing", the ex-

it. It is as hard sex war, surplus women, apici-

Richmond, May 19. trits available for experiment still in

Richmond, in such a way that they cannot 49 a rock, but still in a good tualism, and how to oure warts. Herbert and Charica Nunn of

The fact that some earnest Cleveland Gardens, atato of prescrvation, be used for explosive purposes. is this the oldest bun in the men at. Geneva were trying to were born on the same day, join

that has re-ed the R.A.F. on the same day prevent the war

been demobilised cently ended meant nothing to and have now Even the most ingenious techni- world?

of them. Any mention the on the same day,♥

Throughout five years cal controls will, however, be circumvented, if we cannot find|

Sir-1 bayo a hot cross bun League of Nations only caused means of cosuring not merely

bean boots of derision, though if I vice the twins have been together. that research remains in the 146 years old. It has

passed down from one genera-published a letter stating that They passed out at Helton

flight mechanics with only half hands of the various Governtion to another. Is this the tall, dark women were more in-

amark difference between them. meats, but that these Govern- oldest bun in the world? telligent than short, fair meil,

They went to Egypt together an avalanche of solemn corres-and worked in the same squadron ments co-operate in good faith..

pondenco would follow.

QUEEN MARY AT STAGE DOOR

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of sor

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Before Charles - joined the

in the same hanger on the same Sir, I have an orange that But they were interested aircraft my bon played with when araw-chiefly in funny yegetables. I ling on the floor. He is now once published a picture of a BAF he was burned by what: 40. The orango is quite sound, potato that bore faint re- he claims to be the first incendiary. though. It has gone brown with semblance to Charlie Chaplin. dropped in England. age. Is this the oldest orange The next day sacks of potatoes, few months Idter in Itais. in the world?

turnips, parsnips, and carrots, he reported elck, the medical offi- all bearing a faint resemblance cer who was also treating Charles ..

to a famous comedian or states for his burns, thought it wan man of the day (they were Charles back on Mick parado much the same then) poured in-again-Reuter to the office.

Herbert was also burned. When

RAIL STRIKE CALLED OFF.

London, May 19, Queen Mary, accompanied by Princess Alice and the Earl of Athlone, last night went to the Stage-Door Canteon Plecadilly. Soon there will be more room and watched hundreds of service for this sort of thing. With men and women dancing,

the coming, increase in the size Soated at the side of the dance of newspapers you will be able When I published a picture floor she saw dancora do the "Hokey-Cokay" and other modern to ascertain, for a few pennies of a funny tomato and filled the a week, the hopes, fears, desires, office with funny tomatoes (or how and real interests of the masses, might have, been funny if they Later, she saw a stage show, which included turns by Beatrice rendered almost inarticulate had arrived whole) I was re. Bulle, Goorge Atley and Bar- for the past six years or morelieved of my editorship and sent bara Mullen. and she joined in the by the shortage of newsprint out reporting before I turned in the United States, scheduled: *If you were the only You will find, that the masses the place into a vast green for 9.00 pm (GMT) today girl in the world.”.

are netther dreaming of Agrocer's shop. Has been postponed until golden ago nor fearing = final

May 28,

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Berlin May 19,

world catastropho"""Nor" - áre

Washington, May 19.;;

The nationwide railway strike

Yes, those were the days. Shortly before the deadline they oaring a brass farthing And when there is enough for the walk out, a spol for UNO, UNRRA, Itopia, or paper and enough tomatoes they of the Association of Anything their happ

ortant to will come back

And so will "Mles/ her not hates and

tall

1 Railroads said: "Fam 946 with hopeful that the, stril

6kwith called of?

and