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THE CHINA-MAIL, FRIDAY, SEP UBER 30, 1949.
MAKING THE ATOMS WORK
FOR THE GOOD OF
POLICIES
IN THE FAR EAST
By WINDRUSH
scientists
S
MAN
Good Morning
י .
Forty, British
are For once, such comings and go- Thus men explored in the "ac=" tive area are obliged to shift to toying with atoms in dense bushings have no sinister meaning.
Teamed with brilliant young other parts of the plant when de- country 200, miles North of Of
the same Canadian scientists, 40 of the i tectors, show, they
are suffering It's in the air. - tawa, with precisely
Too much
All this talk about a rocket technique that produces essentials British Atomic Energy Project from over-exposure.
this leads to stomach-s, ring sounds as if we may one day... the Atom-bomb.
scientific staT at Harwell are a
the medical sterility and, finally, death. Jump from vetoes to V-S But their laboratories are. ng here to investigate ghastly chambers of death. From uses to which atomic energy may them flow minule quantities of medical, industrial and biological ammunition
for
They work in a 300-acre clear- ing that huss the banks of the Ottawa river. They live in neat Canadian Government houses
a week costing them 507- a strangely idyllic settlement eight miles up river.
By Floatplane
Ir
The Economist has an important article on the differences between the British and American policies. in the Far East. These were dis-
To reach the Chalk River cussed in Washington during the week between Mr. Acheson and atomic-sergy, plant, I had to Mr. Bevin. The Economist an-hire a Boatplane in Ottawa and alyses the differences first in Ay along the tortuous Ottawa China, then in Japan.
some of the river's
By WILL STEVENSON
Though Chalk River is no longer an, ominous centre secret research, a security Lisbet still shrounds activities.
With both sides now atomic- ly heeled, Ah must confess that Ahmageddon 2 bit nervous.
Sign in a
· foundation-gammuni
"Come
Canada, as one of two major uranium suppliers to the United States, is not happy about lack of information or Atom-barb de-; velopments frous the US. Should chop window? she wish, the Dominion could re-bra's around
neighbour's duce considerably her
throttling investigations supply. But this would necessitate open- ing research into secrets of the Where speech la Silvor.
*The
effective bomb at Chalk River. This Cana da and the world would deeply | Kwangtung was mapped out at
the Whampoa villa of Generalis- sinne Chiang Kai-shek
An, what Whampao misht haszn
be put. Their work has wrung from the United States public tribute to Chalk River's pre- eminence in the global search for new methods of utilising radio activity-
They have done this by going regret. through all the motions of mak- But instead of bombs, they ETC
For Chalk River to Industry
The article say that it is an Müge ADLI STANDARDISTANZE essentials of the Atom bomb-means a source of substitutes for
open secret that British merchant
defence
of
are anxious to defend their in-{ companion. as we made a sudden, radio-isotopes-tagged atoms for (or tagged) · Isotopes supplementi king, Shanghai and those other
terests in China bỷ coming to
whatever terms are possible with
SPRINGALL-To Clare, wife of
the Communists. America, on the P. E. Springall, at Queen Mary Hospital on the 23ther hand, wishes to enforce the
same kind of
controls on trade September 1949, a son, Oliver with Communist China as on trade Michael
with Russia.
sweep Westward. He pointed to use in universities and hospitals
throughout Western
MASS
Verdant "DUN BEST ed country in the world.
There's Chalk River," said my producing minute quantities of expensive radium. Radio-active done for Mukden, Pelping Nan-
X-rays and radium for radio bastions of yesterday! graphic inspections of metzis
In biochemistry and pharma- cology,
they over the tracer
following
I hear, from the land targed method atoms through an organismothe extending East of San Francisco, most sensitive form of detection of a church baseball team which
Includes Fred Angel, Fred Gm- yet devised.
Medicine gains through en- tie, Fred. Bishop and the minis- hanced research facilities and i ter They are at the bottom of
for the league.
At the top is a lque-store. team who get free bezt.
his forestry-ranger's air map.
Blood-red threads spun a web phere. ever the area this paper protec tion was all the air cover wife- ed the world's most advanced re search station into radio-iso- topes.
Tagged 'Tecs
Tagged atoms, are the private Because In Japan, America wishes to re- build the economic structure as
For when a nation fights dis- detectives of science.
they are radio-active, their pre- quickly as possible.
ease and poverty, there is no in- sence can be accurately detected cheaper clinical treatments Graternational rivalry except of these their travels through human diseases like cancer and diabetes. Britain, and still more Australia, most generous
become become a
sort And here,
in plants or in metal, pre- By injecting a tagged atom of
is afraid that a revived Japan will upon a dark brown scar amid the cisely mapped.
formidable export com- aggressive. Australia has refused
let-petitor and may also be militarily green bush, Canada wages that
war.
~
Bombs If Wanted
Yet Chalk
*
The College of Cardioals is to be brought tap to full strength, and imprisoned archbishops will be elevated.
WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOUR We publish today two
River can always) Cardinals 14. ters from readers who have
It looks idle, this muddle of the fertiliser group into a bag of
Atom-bombs. Canada's to receive the Japanese trade mis-squat buildings
to which Bri-fertiliser, scientists can follow its make written about a local court
D. sion which MacArthur wished to tain's top scientists have been progress after the bag has been Defence Minister, Mr.
Howe, pointed this out recently emptied over a plot of wheat. case reported yesterday. The
despatch, and may seek Common-making pilgrimmages during the
Using the famous Geiger count- when the US. Congress began a American master of a small wealth aid in resisting Mac-
months. past eighteen
the sharing of Arthur's was
general policy of promot-
Stone walls do not a prison private motor launch
Yet its products are showing, they can see at what stage commotion over
secrets. the world how to grow food more the fertiliser begins to affect Atom-bomb acquitted on a charge of posing Japan's "come-back."
The Economist sees a certain cheaply, they are killing cancer when it becomes part of the plant work here will talk freely about
growth of the plant and exactly This explains why Britons who make, with red hats all the rage.. session of arms and ammuni- contradiction in the policy of Great and strengthening steel; and they itself, Such data, made available their lives in the Deep River set- tion without a licence, the Britain towards Japan. On the are revealing to science strange to farmers ensures more econo- tlement, but remain firmly silent magistrate remarking that one hand it wishes to expand the wonders.
A correspondent wys he can't mical use of fertilisers.
on the question of atomic help wondering why that st there was no proof of the sterling trade with Japan, on the
Diseased bodies are investigated To strangers, this placid other hand it is unwilling to of the hand ownership
in the same way. In the fields tence within
of experimental bomb of the USSR countenance the political and
of cancer and diabetes research, atomic-energy research seems nearly blew the world's seismo grenades and bullets found economic measures which would
Why, they ask, do graphs off their mountings, when by the marine police.
make this possible. The Econo-
paradoxical Did you know your body is
a peaceful revolution of these scientists relax when they Bikini and Einewetok passed Great Britain every few days? That half your technique.
should be discussing problems of them by. promise between
To produce
and a tagged atom, international control
the China in their overall Far liver protein disappears every six
Must have mixed a dasia of veto with the fissionables East policies.
days? That half the blood plas- scientists insert almost any ob- Atom-both?
ject inside, the concrete and lead ma has disintegrated in 12?
The answer was offered by a the surrounding Atomic-research
is revealing! shields
pile young research chemist from such wonders at Chalk River. where nuclear energy is generat-Britain.
"We came here to usher in the The Last "Fbx" More than half the research ed. staff
ir British. Rays "emitted during this gulden era of atomic energy,” he based here
Planely speaking, sircraft navi- Throughout the summer scientists work not only make the inserted said. "We may end by offering gators abhor the love triangle. net only from Britain, but from materials radio-active, but pene- humanity a passport to oblivion United States, pay deeting visits, workers, all over the Commonwealth and trate the thickest walls to strike Esther decision rests with human-angels.
ity itself
Wonders Revealed
in-mist suggests the lines for a com- completely wrecked and rebuilt tagged atoms are
Illogical Position
*America
The comments of an spector who suggested that, because the craft was so srnall, defendant must have known what was happening on board, did not influence the court's decision:
can reasonably be One correspondent regards asked to modify its policy of trade this as typical of rulings with China so that both Britain
and given in Hong Kong's courts, ever trade is available. But in
Japan can and there what claiming that there is a return the U.S. would be justified sharp. distinction between in asking Britain to bring its economic and its political reactions verdicts given for the same
to Japan into harmony.
At pre- offence, depending on whe-
sterling area proposes ther defendant is European sent the
Increase in trade, but
or Chinese. The one is usu-political change in Japan's ex- ally acquitted or is success-enemy status. It is an illogical
position and should be brought
to an end."
LM
the shadow
A Murderer Wants To Be A Martyr
Its acute angles lead to cute
Then there lady whose flance bad been concealing something about himself. "The fact is," he said, "I'm a somnambulist *
"Oh," said that the girl, "dou worry about that I was brought Baptist, but I wouldn't
was the yond told her he
·
ful in appeal; the other, it is claimed is convicted on the The conclusion of the Economist Bimsiest of evidence or even is that America and the Common- Nearly 20 months ago, on Janu- things. Few people consider it If he loses they will forever be mind changing just to accom-
Beodate you.” wealth should agree on retaining ary 30, 1943, Mahatma Gandhi particularly wrong to kill a man considered partly guilty.
Twenty-seven-if you have a good reason for it, cause of this the result is of vital military bases in Japan. With was murdered
thus assumed, Great year-old Naturam Godse, who and Godse claimed he had a very importance. security
fired the shots, is still alive- be good reason. Britain could afford
He is a Brahmin, the-highest America's
cause he claims the "honour" af policy of helping having conceived and committed Caste, and Gandhi was a Burya, Japan's economic recovery.
The other main article OA ад
to
agree to
the crime all by himself.
By ALWYN TOBBITT
Him.
"1.10. The Naturalist: Slugs and
lenient is that the moment Godse duces Alex Comfort and Bernard "Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald intro- dies he will become a matry, Vercourt."
Cynic's View But another reason why the Smails, Government of India has been so
and, in the strange religious be
Liefs of millions of Indians # would be no punishment for him
on word of mouth testimony without confirmation.
This, according to many local Chinese residents, is particularly true when the person accused is without means and unable to hire a Asian subject in the press this months and 13 days and cost the At his trial, which lasted eight clever counsel Such a man week-end is in the Spectator, Indian Government £76,000, 12- or woman stands no. chance where Dorothy Crisp, writes on turam Godse denied that he had
complains that, in She
The woman called to the stand But the judge (there is no jury the last but one; and Gandhi, he to be hanged as he would be in-
longer prosecutor, with a magistrate the troubles Malaya
mediately reborn again. Only by was attractive, but no have
system in
in India) disagreed.
He said, was aiming at breaking the being kept alive can he be forced young. So the gallant and wise who may not understand created, one subject is dangerous found Godse guilty of murder caste system and also advocated
judge instructed: "Let the wit- Chinese dialects.
neglected. Thit is the effect and sentenced him to be hanged, friendship with the hated Must repent his crime. Is this, by chinese opinion in Malaya of But he use found that there was lims, either being a good reason that another reason why she may be sworn
But,
according to some cynics, ness state her age, after which asks many a voice, the vaunt the new drive in Australia by Mr. a "conspiracy to murder Gandhi. for murder. ed British justice lauded as Calwen, the Immigration. Minister, the seven men involved two Godse's picture of the India he the prototype of all that is for deporting Asiatics. Through were acquitted, three were seeminated state with the Muslims strengthen their popularity if the
a Hindu-religion de wanted fair and unbiassed in the this ruthless policy, Australia,
Australia, a tenced to "transportation for courts of the free world? bulwark of the Commonwealth in (which means life imprisonment as servants or near slaves, and a
sentiment as in action, is end
as there is now cowhere to be reversal to the rigid Caste system
against an ordinarily skilled Malaya
the widespread discussion which any accomplices.
LA
lands?
the
the Indian Government put no
obstacle in the path of Godse's continuous appeals it will
If a man has his nose brokem places, according to old in several
of
the blame for hanging him.
those places..
British Government the
WHAT'S HAPPENED
TO MR. BROWN?
How does one explain; for daring much of the resurgent pri transported to), and the sixth, N. of, 1,000 years ago, reflects the enemy, will share at least part of Myrtle he should stay ouÈ__ unlicensed hawker who is influence in Asia. For in. Apte, was, with Godse, senten- ideas of millions. example, the plight of the
Malaya chiefly, but also through eed to be hanged 23 a prime But more intimately connected with the ease are the two Hindu. stringently penalised, while out Asia, the question smacks one mo
mover of the "conspiracy" If the coloured citi- a dozen of similar, condition in the face.
Godse lodged an appeal net societies, one semi-secret and one advocating the rain- are left unmolested because zens of the Commonwealth are to against the murder charge, with openly
be forcibly excluded from the which he wholeheartedly agreed, tenance of the Caste system has been white parts of it, why should the but to the conspiracy charge. the B.S.S. which was held an "arrangement” made with the lower repre- white citizens be welcomed, or 12- Apte's appeal followed as a mat-to be directly responsible
deed tolerated in the Asian (orter of course.
murder, and sentatives of the law?
for the Australia
The appeal was heard at Simla Hindu Mahasabha Godse was In a different context this African)
aired in these should realise that she is jeopar-early this year and dismissed. supposed to be a member of both; matter was
dising that British power which
Godse then asked for permis- it was the Hindu Mahasabha columns some months ago, she holds so dear, while and we had hoped for agonising aasia ich ante- sion to appeal to the Privy Coun- which put up the £30,000 for his
London again against the defence, conspiracy charge only. statement from the even nearer neighbour."
The ban imposed on the RS.3.) public
The Government of India gave (the letters stand for Self Help authorities, together with a
permission, but refused to finance Society in the Hindi Language) whole tightening up of the
appeal. The moment this be- over a year ago has been lifted; procedure. This has not hap-
came known the money came that on the more powerful Hindu
Mahasabha lasted only The New Statesman has a ter-pouring In from "well-wishers."
Xew pened, and the average per-
Both Godse and Apte have ask- | months. son is still in the dark as to ritying article about biological
warfare." It quotes the state-ed to be allowed to apper" per- In Godse wins his appeal before the official viewpoint. Itments made by Dr. Brock Chi-sonally in London, and it is ex- the Privy Councill, both societies may be true, as stated in sholm, the Director-General of the pected here that the Privy Coun- will be automatically exonerated.
Health Organisation. the Hong Kong annual re- World
100|ing on. whether this course is port, that the government Speaking before the World Union will give this week their rul-
Peace Organisations at a con- necessary.
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2
a
UN Issue Sidetracked
on free-
This argument may con- se potent that seven ounces of it these horrifying possibilities, and Lake Success, September 28, vince the Colonial Office in could wipe out the whole human
Theoretically, a substance explains it, as follows
The United Nations Social London, but it does not im-race
"The strategy of a biological Committee has side-tracked press the local population of this kind can be used by They believe that the justice country which in other ways. was) war cannot exist. For instance it debate on the proposed inter-
guess that a virulent strain of talaraemia was in the national convention meted out, for instance, in mu the Old Bailey, and the might in 90 per cent of the secret reserve armoury of the last dom of information.
Talaraemia is the American
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United States. It is fatal to hu- Rights Commission for possible are right or wrong, the fact sence of public discussion about unknown to docters outside the by voting to send it to the Human remains that our residents (Continued At Foot Of Next Col) mansan ideal weapon against an inclusion of its principles in the ignorant enemy. But not quite international covenant, of human are convinced that pffences
ideal, for once it revealed itself, rights. here are examined on a very
could culture it and retaliate The Committee yesterday, upe personal basis, with the dice we now believe that a clari-...Festilence knows no frontiers, invariably loaded against the fication of the position is does not recognise uniforms ac proyed a joint British, American Dutch proposal that the cording
rules of the
war and underprivileged Chinese more than overdue. We are
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