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To the public, at least, be damaged, but only those close is not no serious after all and "Operation Crossroads"-the to the point of detonation would reduce the "sense of urgency atom bomb on Bikini Atoll-ba sunk. Perhaps ten oat of a about setting up an Atomic De- was a dangerous flasco. It may hundred will be appreciably velopment Administration. It prove more dangerous than if affected and probably only one will be dienstrous if the public the Americans had achieved the or two will be Bunk.", Four ships misreads "ussila" as “fizzlo." Arat of their objectives In this were, in fact, aunk, two destroy- operation, Le., to prove, with ers and two transports-none of every artico of showmanship, the capital ships!" And some of that America possessed the de- the animal sacrifices were stil finitive weapon of war. The munching away on board the second objective--which was to vessels in the lagoon. That is prove the U.S. Navy's case that no comfort; they will probably warships would survive and that die of leucaemia-the blood

By

BY THE WAY

EUROPE

By RANDOLPH CHURCHILL

It's very enny to penetrate the corrugated iron curtain which today divides France and Spain that is, if you are not a Frenchman or a Spaniard. For nationals of other

cancer from the gamma rays. By BEACHCOMBER trion, it's rather ensier

Known Answer

coun-

aro

than before to cross tho frontior. Inspired by the succes of

Traffic la o limited that, all Punishment” and So in the frat experiment, the "Crime

at the New formalities on both sides overhead bomb test, the Navy (population 452)

or completed iri Д Department have embarrassing Theatre a tour do force

Vory few ly exceeded their objective, my name's not Gielgud-1 pro- minutes. They have shown that it does puse producing "The Wars of

Of all the many silly things not need a new Navy to with the Rones" in early September. stand such a bomb; even the

United Nations, Tentative arrangements call done by the obsolete can survive. They for a cast of 11,844, including either singly or in concert dur

300 ing the last few months, with will now go ahend to the next the Brigade of Guarda,

steam the object of dislodging Gen- experiment; the teat of explod- Suffolk Punches, two ing a bomb on the surface of roundabouts, Mr. Mossop (of cral France, none has been so the decision of tho the water. This must not be Glossop), a Liverpool-Birken silly as

Rome correspon head ferry-boat, live tons of French Government to close the confused (as

The people dents on the spot have done) gunpowder, the Albert Momo Spanish frontier. with an underwater explosion. rial, and Cheerful Charlie most acutely affected by this Again competent scientista Chester, who will play Boadi- uet of folly are the large Bas

que population living on either side of the border who used to with a pencil and paper could cca.

The whole foolish business pasa across They can say what ships in

dally in great give the Navy all the answers.

auditorium, wherever that is, ed; what will happen to those in the framediate radius of the boing shown only to handpick ed groups of earnest playgoers solar furnace which is released; and what the binst effects will who will sit here and there on

lemonade boxes; foreign ob- be on armoured ships and in servers, including Russian re- the form of limited tidal waves. presentation. Some estimates As far as the scientists aro have put the cost of these tests concerned, the bomb need not (of which another is due soon) go off at all; it is all there in

the atomle ready-reckoner. at $125,000,000.

Ballyhoo

Bikini was an occasion for Congress "junketing" and for a resources (in) display of the

man has ever been techniques und imagination) of what positions will be founder. will be enacted down in the numbers, on business or to see

American radio and camera men. The press of the world mustered in the attendant ships and there

were

box.

two to each

friends

The

RITCHIE CALDER

America must have bigger and better fleets-was palpably in consistent with the first ob- jective. The result of the build-up was to identify "éuc- Icess" with the greatest imagin- There is no doubt that the mansable devastation. When in fact who is emerging from the Paris the experiment was so arranged talks with the greatest addition that palm trees, goats, and ships to his prestige is United States survived the bomb, the public be that the Secretary of State James F. reaction tends to Byrnes. He is the dominant per atom bomb is not so hot after sonality and has shown patience, all. determination and forthright com mon sense. The real test of pub. ) lie figures is whether they grow into their jobs. With the possible exception of the late Lord Curzon, 110 born into the world endowed auto- matically with the qualities which make a great Foreign Minister Mr. Byrnes is no exception to this rule. When he was first appoint ed to the State Department, even his best friends could not pretend that he had any special qualifica-

The "build-up" on the radio tions for the job except his un

was typical of the whole affair. surpassed knowledge of American There were commentators at politics and his sharp legal brim the take-off, microphones in These qualities, however, lave observer planes, and in Blandy's stood him in good stead. The flagship and the press ship at first qualification for a successful 18 miles distance. It was ter- colossal; it was Foreign Minister is that he should rific; it was understand the true interests of the greatest shown on earth. As far as the British public was his own country and be able to concerned, the broadcast was explain to his own countrymen terrific, colossal flop; it sound what commitments and responed as though all the legions of sibilities it is wise for them to as heaven and hell were. like sume. Mr. Byrnes legal and startled seagulls, trying to warn political training in the United men of their folly. States have combined to enable him to discharge this role. But a Foreign Minister must be than this. He must also be able to understand in a sympathetic spirit the interests and even prejudices of foreign countries. This, Mr, Byrnes has learned to do. In addition, he is conscious, as few expert mission which had sur- monstrous bubble below the sea. kindly explain whether "Not so quietly in Madrid and marvel

stature

more

when,

relations. and numerous population on both aides of the frontier who used to make their living out of the considerable tourist traffic be tween the two countries have also been dealt a cruel blow.

Even more important, French- Spanish trade, which was just beginning to revive, has of Genna- course been paralysed. tion of all trade between France and -Spain has ironically done

Watch The Bride

in History was made the The deep-water explosion pro- Open Championship at St. An- Jected for next year is a very drews

playing with different affair. There are so nothing more than his rolled many unpredictables that most umbrella. Bendigo Lightly did

in 1. far more harm to French econo- scientists would counsel against the 1st and 2nd holes the risks. If the bomb was Driven high into the air, his mic life than to that of Spain. such France used to buy from lowered in a bathysphere to a ball thudded down with

the 1st Spain most of the copper sul- good depth (not a lagoon) the alckening Impact into result on a fleat would be pretty that it bounced out again and, phate needed for her vineyards. decisive, but other strange after making two full circuita The wine merchants of Bor- things might happen. The of the course, travelled uner- deaux used to import considor- authorities diamiss the pos- ringly to its second objective. able quantities of Spanish wins sibility of chain-reaction be- Ten minutes later, history to mix with their own to give ing started in atoms of the seas,repeated itself. Lightly doing it greater body. The oranges thus destroying the earth. But the selfsame thing at the Brd and lerrions so necessary to the children apart from vaporisation of the und 4th. Asked why he used diet of the French water through the heat, there an umbrella, he replied laugh- nearly all came from Spain. Price In Lives

will be a localised disintegra-] ingly: "Well, one never quite Now the children have to do. But as a prelude, the B.B.C. tion of atoms in the sea-water. knows when it is going to rain, without. did one thing which was salu- but at the same time is elastic,

Since water is 'non-compressible does ono?" tary and more important than

the sbock-wayes dissipated the nonsense at Bikini, They gave the microphone to Dr. J. when the bomb is exploded in Bronowaki, one of the British the air, may be confined in a veyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki and had prepared the White Paper, which very sensibly the Government issued twenty-four hours before Bikini. It was a powerful broadcast, movingly put over in terms not of war- ships, but of shattered beings.

women who es-

What would follow? And is it worth any risk to find it out? Sane men would answer "No."

A Dangerous Fiasco

Information, Please

Will some advanced student much. Small results, I fear," means in Russian anything ap- proximately near what these same words stand for in Eng- lish? Really, I must learn the language. It must be quite fascinating.

nther Americans are, of the im mense strength of the United States in the modern world and realizes the obligation of bold leadership which this places upon

And sane men must go on him. Mr. Byrnes has grown in in the last few weeks.

saying "No" to all such experi- ments based on the assumption

All: Steamed Up That is a good thing for the Unit of men and

must be ed States, and a good thing for caped death from blast and fire, that human sense must fail and

but died slowly of gamma radia-military precautions

inevitable

"Every time. I try to buy a the world. There is a vast reser- tion which destroyed the mar- taken against an

much steamer they always say I can voir of international good will in row of their bone and cut off atomic war. There is the United States. The trouble their supply of blood cells, of more vital experiment which have a pan but not a steamer. must. be tried the rational therefore keep inquiring why is that it is not always effectively babies killed in the womb, so tapped. It looks as if Mr. that there were no births in the application of international con- no steamer? Whereupon will romove the always inform me there Byrnes can translate the latent graveyard towns, and of babies trol which

bomb is "Dear sir, do you know what American good will and idealism who would never oven be con- threat, not to battleships (since large bottleneck in steamers,

ceived because the rays had definitely the atomic into an effective policy which the sterilised the potential parents. not a military weapon for tac- they keep having the cheek to whole world can welcome and en-And this was translated into tical purposes), but to the civil tell me? They keep having the vulnerable, check to tell me this bottleneck dorse. The surest sign of this is terms of Western cities and into populations of our

cities against in steamers is due to a shortage that he has successfully escaped terms of 130,000 tons of junk indefensible

use of a steamer without holes? from the baneful influence of de- metal in a Pacific lagoon, and which it can be used as a terror of holes. They say what to the featism with which Walter Lipp- of the 50,000 who would be weapon.

That is why "Crossroads" So in retaliation I always ask. mann, the columnist, enycloped killed outright and of another

60,000 who would die a. linger- even as a fiasco is dangerous. them what uso are holes with Dear sir, can It may full people into the false out a steamer? the State Department at the out- set of Mr. Byrnes' tenure of of-ing death within six weeks.

assumption that the atom-bomb you advise?"

fice.

new

France's

Premier-Pre- sident Georges Bidault has also added to his reputation. This has

.All Boloney

The world radio hook-up fail- ed. The world press descrip- tions, in spite of the natural iled some French commentators to efforts of the journalists to fwrite in somewhat extravagant write their way into history, terms of his role as "arbitrator" gave the show away and proved between Russia and the British-what responsible scientists have Americans. Making all allowances been saying for months-that for the natural exaggeration into it is all "boloney" and that any which French reporters might be competent physicist, given a few drawn from instincts of national- cents worth of notepaper and a pencil and a little time, could ism, any impartial observer is have worked out exactly, what bound to conclude that M. would happen to a fleet under Bidault's contribution, if not as these conditions. Six weeks compelling as some have claimed, ago the Federation of American has nevertheless been extremely Scientists said that of the 100 serviceable to the cause of world target ships spread

Over the At the same time, it has radius of miles the majority pease, cahanded the reputation and a closer than half a mile would would be undamaged. "Ships thority of France. That has na turally given pleasure to every country in the world except the

effective stand against internation- Soviet Union and its satellites.

al Communist imperialism. Now What of Ernest Bevin? It

Mr. Bevin is happy to play sec would be an affectation to pretend and fiddle" to Mr. Byrnes. He that he added to his stature during has no false pride, and when he the Paris. Conference. In the

Finds an American like Mr. same way that Britain earned her Bymes championing the cause of credentials when she stood alone European civilization, he is quite during the Battle of Britain, Mr. Bevin won his spurs at cerliers for M... Molotov, he con

content to take a back seat. it conferences, when it was his dis firmed his reputation of being a agreeable duty to stand up to the faithful servant of the Kremlin's menacing encroachments of Rus-Politburo. Every one realizes that sia at a time when the United he is not a free agent and has to States had not yet apprehended

the scope of the dangers head consult his masters in Moscow on and when France was all and each smallest detail. He is not

policy maker bue sithply? [frightened" of the

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CARNIVAL

The only person who has been entirely, unaffected by the action of the French Govern- mont is, of course, General Franco. He continues to ait'

at the folly of his enemics, who have given him a new lease on life.

It seems almost incredible that the French Government, which is faced with auch ̧ap- palling economic -problems, should have wantonly added to its own difficulties in this way. know- It's of course common ledge that Georges Bidault, an Foreign Minister, greatly dis liked taking this step. He was they forced into it against his will, is a partly by the pressure of the French Communists acting under orders from Moscow, and the propagandlet partly by activities of Prof. Harold Laski. At that time, when Laski was of the British still chairman and. made a violent inflma- Labour Party, he went to Paris matory speech reproaching the French Government for not doing moro to get rid of Franco. Bidault strongly resented this intrusion of Laski's into the foreign relations of France, aspecially as Britain's Socialist Government showed no indica tion of injuring their own trade by any parallel action. But Bidault was already uniter strong pressure from his own Communista, and Laski's inter- vention proved just sufficient to force him into this piece of reckless folly.

By Dick Turner

OLDE

WALLOP WHISKY

veloped a vastly superios produci, due ained during the war making alcohol for

Since the gloctions, Bidault is in a stronger position. The large gains inade by the Popular Republicans have made him much more the master of his own house. The failure of the Communista to increase their

in representation tho French Provisional Assembly has made France Atronger country. The new. Fronch Government will probably not have to take ardors from Mos cow or be influenced in their conduct of foreign affairs by Irresponsible cranks like Laski. Many of them alrently focl It's intolerable that, while Britain Foreign Minister Ernest Boyin is strong enough to disregard the mischievous Advice of Laski, thele own Foreign Minister should be han.pered in his policy by this.. utsider, Many of Bidault's colleaguca are urging him to reverse his Spanish policy and reppen the Trench-Spanish frontier. But it's not going to be oday for Bidadit, even though he's now Friipe Minister, to do