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BURMA'S CHOICE

WHAT WILL

YOU DO

WITH ATOMIC ENERGY?

All In Pieces

on

that

plified us in which man put the power of the universe immediately it was placed in his hands,

the evli use to barrels of oil or about six timea the proved oll reserves of the entire United States,

World Citizen

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The Mystery

Russian Policy

The British and American American leaders are on re-

Aian policy.

If the Soviet leaders actually

x'i

The atomle bomb that fell on Hiroshima was not only an up- paralleled instrument of phys Ica destruction; it shattered whatever remained of blind-de- Now at last I hope men For some time to come the votion to scientific materialism: everywhere understand what impact of atomic power on the For our era, it marked a new philosophers have told them for American economy will not be crisis in the age-old warfare centuries; The earth is rich great. But consider, LLA an between science and theology. beyond description; in science eminent physicist has pointed In the purely intellectual you have an instruntent of an out, what several plants with Not without certain mis sense, the great seientific ad exampled power for turning capacity of a million kilo- givings, the House of Commons vances of this century have these riches to your advantage; watts each could mean to Bri. contributed to undermining the you can build, you cati heal. tain now caught between the has unanimously endorsed the pro- royal authority of selence. By you сап vanquish drudgery, hammer of rising needs for posal to extend the period of the their works, scientists have you can rent our superstition.

power and the anvil of lower All of Bri- present form of rule in Burm. augmented their own scepticism All this you can do, if you use coal production.

of Acience. From the 19th acieace for good, but if you use tuin's electric-power needs could Until the Constituent Assembly, century, we inherited a superb if for evil it will destroy you be met by the burning of about

with implacable certainty. which has just been elected, has engine of science, resting

twenty pounds of nuclear fuel massive foundations, ordered For Britain the instrument a day. While the labour cost met and decided the future basis eternally by a system of na- of geience, and in particular,of coal in the United States in of government of the Burmese tural laws expounded by Galilee, the relcase of atomic energy, less than 10,- per ton, here it nearly $15. It i alto- peoples is is necessary that the Kepler, Newton and Laplace offers a new challenge and new

So pictured, the universe work- horizons.

gether clear that if the tech- present regime should continue. ed like a beautiful machine and it in peculiarly appropriate nical problem of utilizing that this new advance shoukatomic power is attacked with while men did not doubt The resolution in itself was a

greater beauties and greater in offer high reward to your the relentine brillance that "Now here we have an Ideal house for the man who likas formality, but provided an occa tricacies remained to be refeal country. For not only in the Britain has so often and sion for a review of the presented, they were certain that no winning of atomic energy

umply new feature would disturb their in the march of science and economic problem in met with| situation in Burma and of the tide, comfortable and well or technology since the Renais- the vigor, the courage and the

Dance Britain has been in the imagination your future outlook. In regard to dered concept.

government Today that concept is gone.' vanguard. Among the men

has shown in so ranny dones- neither can there be any easiness The picture of the orderly uni-of selence whom Britain gave tic issues, the possibilities of) of mind. Actually Burma is al verse has been smushed beyond to the world are such giants as

almost unlimited power at low ready self-governing. The party repair. The theories of Wins Harvey, Newton, Faraday, Dur.

cost, are neither uncertalo nor of win. Huxley, Davey Maxwell, remote. of U Aung San, leader of the tein and Bohr. the works

Thomson, Rutherford, Curia, Lister and Kelvin. The work

I have mentioned power an of each enlarged our knowledge the most striking illustration Auti-Fascist People's Freedom Becquerel, to mention only

one of the universe and changed of what science in general, and League, has triumphed in the few, have achieved what

might call a great constructive the world. Of

them we may atomic

energy in particular Governments present a solid cord with statements that, the elections, and its members are in work of destruction-destruc. | Ray they moulded the shape of offers for Dur choice. But front to the Soviet Union on Soviet Union is following an the majority in the Executive tion of an outmoded model of all we call civilization.

there in, as you know, in the the major world issues, but, aggressive and an expansionist Council. But dacoity by armed the physical world.

harnessed energy of the atomic. their leaders are sharply divid- policy. a veritable kingdom of other ed over what motivate the Rus- rubber bands is rife, and over large

More today then ever before! Britain truly plonecred mod-

resources, of weapons agains!

British areas of the land the writ of the we know. All is statisties, pro- ern

officials, disease and old age, of master

privately, imdustry more than any Government does not

Like uncertaintica. run. babilities,

Government is still deeply con- Economically Burma is in sad the ghost of Hamlet's father, other land with the inventions keys to unlock the basis of life take the line that the Soviet

of Hargrave, Crompton, and on our own planet. plight, with its major industries the ultimate particles of matter Cartwright in textiles, and Hes- we shall learn of beings

are here, there, everywhere und semer and

By Siemens in steel, other planets-beings, I hope, destroyed by the war, its com- nowhere. The world, in John For a century Britain dominat- who have learned better than JOHN HIGHTOWER want is a clause, designed to

we. how to use the resources the world's markets and munications and transport in dis. Donne's words is, "all in picces, et

all coherence gone, all just sup this created the wealth and they have and how to live to- order, and a deficit in the Budget ply and all Relation. When knowledge which atimulated gether. of the past year larger than the scientists start tinkering, as

objective, however, and Amerli... scientific discoveries in

But whatever science has yet

can ellicista are more inclined to many am told they have, even with directions.

to offer of marvels to outmar. total revenues raised in the years the foundation of logic and

look at the Anglo-Soviet nego- Wheatstone'n electro-mugne- vet the present, of comforts, of mathematics, pity the poor lay tie telegraph was a path-break-new insights, we of today must policy is not so much aggres-

They say Russian foreign tiations as an effort by the Kremlin simply to tighten ita man.

What la he to think Ifing invention; and from Fara-Į recognize that there may be no kive and expansionist, as it is present-links with Britain.and. independence has been settled, his arithmetic becomes a matter day's experiments in induction tomorrow unless the freedom defensive. The Russian leaders to lure British sympathy away

arose the vast electrical indus. of man and the peace of the are believed, by these officials, with the United States. of taste instead of fact?

from their close co-operation discussion has turned in large men-

are try of our time. Between pure world are preserved. Freedom to be worried, about the future | Mostly, I grant, these, future financial and high matters for the seminar, science and technology there IA essential to sure upon

science. No trend of the American policy

The Russians, constantly, are 1 and, the learned trade relations. Already Great the study

was achieved early here in Bri- more cun man exist without it.

telling themselves that Western journals.

and Regardless of the tain a most fruitful and last. For science to come to full toward the Soviet Union. Britain

monopoly is committed to make ferment in the more strueing union.

Some top 3ritis informants] Imperialiam, flower the world needs penco. als suggest that economic con- capitalists are out to make good, in interest-free loans, the parts of science the average Science is a citizen of the No more can man reap Ita bene-ditions in Russia may be strong trouble for them and that their deficit of £14,500,000 on the Bad- man can still drive his

enr, world, a citizen who recognises fits unless he learns to live in 1ý influencing the Soviet activi- great problem is how to main- turn on his wireless or snap

Ours is the choice and les beyond her bordern. get and an additional £8,000,000 the light switch without un contempt for narrow national- ours is the future.

no borders and has nothing but peace.

tain themselves effectively in The Russians boast about full the world filled with capitalist spent in plans for rehabilitation. easiness unit without doubt.in That is not to belittle

employment for their people, aggression. These amounts may become out- But the layman has his own British or French or American

but, the British any they believe One further possibility which disillusionment, a deep and

contributions. right grants. There is also

the chief reason why so many is kept in the forefront of the painful mistrust and disap- Among scientists there is n

Soviet troops are still spread Soviet press as a surefire thing necessity of making good, the capi- pointment in the beneficence of world community far ahead of

over Eastern Europe is that that sooner or later there... tal assets, largely British and In-science. Everywhere, too there our desperate striving for its

there would be no jobs for them will be a breakdown in the capf- dian, destroyed in the "scorched appears to be bitter and incon-political, social and economic

Alexandria, May 11. if they were returned home and tallat system, travertible evidence of what counterpart.

American nuval guns. ex- demobilised, As jobs become

News of economic trouble In earth" policy when the country aclence cannot accomplish was abandoned to the Japanese. If There has been forced upon Burma is to have the financial him the realization that for all the progress in invention and. autonomy she has been promised discovery, for all the advances there is ample room for the an- In the mechanical arts, science xiety expressed as to the extent of has solved none of the funda mental problema of man- the British liability and who is neither peace, nor wealth, nor to control the expenditure. A happiness; least of all has it

brought security. fantastic situation would be creat- ed if Burma, rebuilt by British capital, were to declaré for com- plete severance of the British tic. Yet without such financial aid

before the war.

Since the issue of the right to

the

Or

Danish

Perhaps

on

U.S. WARSHIPS IN

ALEX

cerned about its future security and that many of its activities in Eastern Europe arise from

that concern.

are afraid of the possibility of fear may be the cause of their... war at some future time, this. efforts Ket their military: aillance with Britain expanded.:: Presumably, what they must!

keep Britain at least neutral,

That would be a long range

In the problems of atomic changed 15-volley salutes with available. the British predict it the United States always finds energy one may recognise a shore batteries here as

will be casier to make arrange- space in Moscow papers and rieculiarly apt illustration, an squadron of United States war- ments with the Soviet Union periodically lengthy articles are published to the effect that the tome of the problems, the ships, including the aircraft for the withdrawal of troops difficulties, the crucial alter-carrier Leyte, the cruiser Day- This line of reasoning is at capitalists are making more anti natives which confront man-ton and the destroyers Comp- variance with that of American more profits through increns- kind.

ton and Galnard, dropped an- officials, as it has been developing exploitation of labour, chor off Alexandrin, Associat- ed particularly with respect to

One who reads › the Soviet el Press.

Greece and Turkey.

press regularly and exclusively cannot escape the Impression that workers' wages and living conditions in América ara go- ing from bad to worse and that eventually

there.

will AR economic crack-up.,

I

Heart Of Man

All that atomic energy means to. mo lies on the constructive "New Challenge side. To be sure, I know there The final proof Was Hiro- are such things As atomic shima; The bitter paradox of bomba. As Vice-President Belenco was never so well exem- served as a member of the US. Top Policy group, to which President Roosevelt had dele. gated the responsibility for 'all high policy decisions on the development of the atomic bomb project. From the begin- ning I felt certain that the acientists would discover the secret of atomic energy and

there would be no prospect of any 100 Years

urdered government becoming established. The situation com- pels a certain measure of risk.

On the ground of material in- alone it would be to

terest

Ago Today

On being told that Chief Justice Hulme had been reinstated, Sir John Davis rubbed his hand ex- claiming: "Glorious news, I'm delighted to hear it

The arch hypocrite!

/

BARCLAY ON BRIDGE

By Shepard Barclay

"The Authority on Authorities"

MUST PAY

ATTENTION

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American officials responsible. for helping to form the policy toward Russia contend that thuch of the Soviet thinking

Horo are the

oficials:

West's lead of the diamond & about the outside world is based was won by the Q. and South on."myths" hammered home to If you are too lazy to notice led the club to the K and A. the people of the Soviet Union (Excerpts from The China Mail, that we in the United States, the little things, you will never onshed the heart A before leads "mytha" according to these

He scored the club Q, then over many years,

principal. Burma's advantage to remain May 12, 1847).

in co-operation with the Bri- be a great player. That applica ing the club 7 to the 1. West tish, should spare no effort to to either the offense or defense. laid down his diamond A, then within the British Commonwealth.

make the discovery before Hit Unspectacular details, such as The bulk of her trade is done with India and Great Britain, and she must for long remain de pendent on outside aid for the development of her resources and for her defence. She has also many internal political problems, such as the autonomy of the tribal areas, the desire of the Karens no rellance whatever in their own mic burdens which benet the In carrying the heavy econo- for independence' and the rise of war vesseini, per 1

It was reported that the "Dart, British people today, the fruit Communism. The sedulous cul-

ful, praceful development "Corsair'

"Masdau" were and tivation of a violent nationalismo tendered; the Authorities, how the difference between

atomic power may determine by the parties now in power may ever, were apprehensive of an abundant economy on nevertheless lead to a declaration, enquiry from. Fekin, is the hiring

a foreign convoy would be on hand, and a pinched economy as in the case of India, that she acknowledgment, that their own on the other, elega shall henceforth be a "sovereign | Navy, was, nei it to capo," with

piraten AVE MA independent republic." The Bri tish Government is abandoning LAUNCH There was launched {such power as it still, retained. on Thursday from the building yardsticks of economies, under::C364

Nothing but success, in the form yard of Messrs Ted and M'Gregor, go a transformation compari Micadowalde, Patrick, a beautiful able to what happened to Allee

1. The Soviet system and its ler. But I do not believe the the spot cards played on high led the 2 to the K. Three clubs protagonista nbroad enjoy some future depends on bomba. Whe- card tricks, can unfold the key and a spade trick followed to sort of monopoly on social and

progressive thought. ther you have them, or don't to successful play the rest of give South his game. have them, how many or how the way. Discarda by one East blow up like a bomb na 2. Reactionary Imperialists few has nothing whatever to do member of the defense, to send soon as the completion of play dominate the Western powers The goverment grain junks with your salvation, or ourn. messages to file partner,: are

whose massCH are being Ex are still- detained in the vicinity The future, as Henry Stimson especially important: What the lens his tension.

ploited and downtroddun. of Shanghai, afraid to put to sea so well said, lies in the heart other defender does fa influen "Didn't you sco mo signal 3, The West is trying to form lest they be captured By pirates of man, not in the heart of the red by them or abould be with spadça' on the second and a militarist, blod which would The junkmen want the protection atom,

and from the, declarer's stand third club tricks?" he naked control the atomic bomb and, of European vessels as they pleso

regarding how he should try to on the first of those tricks auii Soviet Union. point they constitute warnings West. He had put the spade 8 might homeday seek to conquer protect himself. That is, it he the 2 on the second.

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