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Fighting

fire at sea

This picture shows the reene_from_the_upper deck at the destroyer HMB Childery as she moved in to fight the fire on the emeke shrouded British merchantman as Benital. The des troyer way ordered from Malta to astiat the Benledi which was reported on fire Eakt of Malta. The destroyer put cut fire party The Benledi was on a voyage from U.K. to the Far Earl.

Members of the who fought the blaze th nightfall when they were relieved by other vertets:

after crew of the Denledi were picked by the British merchantman za British Liberty had taken to the boats. They were sube:quently transferred to the Childers and returned to Maltz. (Acrociated Press Photo).

they

FUCHS-WHY, WHY, WHY?

Klaus, Emil Julius Fuchs, By ROBERT DOW

the German Communist who became one of Britain's top atomic scientists, will almost certainly prove to be one of the very small group of péo- ple who, as individuals, have changed the course of history,

How did it happen?

The farle as we know their to- day are probably all that we shuß have for years. From them some causing conclusions emerge which, however humiliating to our national pride, must be faced. Fuchs was granted British - tionality in 1942. 1

It was known then that he was a Communist. In the words of the Attomey- General at Wedinentay's trial:

was realised that Fuchs, "It

the attens when examined by tribunal, was a refugee from Nazi persecution beenuse in Germany hyns a Communist.”

Beyond any code of loyalty

Sir Hartley Shawcross added that there was no indication that Fuchs had any association with British members of the Commun- ist Party.

At that time Communist Rus ia was our ally in the deadly struggle against Germany.

Then

possibly on the hydrogen bomb--- and may even be ahead of us en

both.

No longer an ace of trumps

The long-term consequences we cannot yet assess, hit the short- term effect is that our ace of trumps is reduced to somewhere about the value of a knave.

leckon that the last four years have rubbed patiently Into our unreceptive minds.

are

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 14, 1950,

A NEW THEORY OF CREATION

LONDON AT THE

WEEK-END

ballot. These

The week-end reviews of About two per cent of voters March 3 are mainly full of used the postal

would have been excluded i thoughts on the election. That former elections, "“happened a week ago. By the time this summary appears in print, another week will have

So passed.

those

The Far East

on

New York, March 13. A new theory of. creation has been given here. It is

41 The Economist" article that the present solar system

the Far East in its last wedle's --the family of earth and thoughts will be rather stale. issue is still being discussed. It The first words printed in was the most forthright argument planets-carte into their pre-The Tribune arc "Labour yet published for n "strong

policy by the Western powers.

"It is only too clear on which and side time is working in around China. There may deve- lop, in a matter of years and in ways not now predictable; k

Windrush

sent positions only a few won the election. That simple thousand years ago.

plece of nawa has largely escaped This new theory was advanced the notice of the Tory Press, and

it is necessary therefore to be by Dr. Immanuel Velikuviky. one of the founders of the Uni-gin with it... Given true leader- versity of Jerusalem, as a pre-ship and a readiness to face the view of his new book "Worlds In Collision," which will Issuet! In a few weeks (Mnemi)-

lar).

By

The book upsets nil cosmologi- cal assumptions that the planets have revolved in their present realities now, we believe that a portant Assurca in the Slho- urbits for, billions of years. With full Labour victory later this Soviet front. But there certainly in historical times, that is, the year should be well within our will develop in a matter of records of early men, the ble

grusp."

months and in ways already pre- and Homer, Dr. Velikovsky saya. What would "true lendership "dictable, landslide in the bor- there are thousands of bits of do? "The Tribune" has very der states of Southern Asla to- evidence for the catastrophies} decided views. They

are ex-wards co-operation with Com- that came from planets chiangluspressed by the young Labour munist Chino, unless they are their orbits,

M.P., Woodrow Wyatt, who won told clearly and quickly where o sensational majority at Birm- the stopline of the Western governments is to be drawn,, e ugham,

Wintever form the warning my take, fie fact has to be faced that readiness to

resist

The use of force is the only thing that will make it effective."

The biggest catastrophes chit from Earth and Venis getting into the world ways, when the nearly collidell, not ove “but. twice. Dr. Vellkovsky <taim

thes there is good evidence for

the two meetings, that

whole world knew, saw, sullered left plenty of records,

Ventis, he says, arrived late in family. She the solar systemi probably entered in the form of # comel, She may have origin ated from an explosion en the giant planet Jupiter, or have ar rived as a comet tiom some diss tant part of space,

The first Earth-Venus encoun- ter, occurred about -3,500 yours It is that Communism is a

tigo. That was the period when ments! diecast against which the Israelites. fed from Egypt and even the strongest m|sitio

the Red Sea parted to let them not proof.

through. Dr. Velikovsky explains The

must unlikely breeding hose gravitational Bed electro- ground for Communism thirty magnetle disturbances from the years ago, as Latin was quick to

two planets getting close might Herk Britain; which Is have

far the yccounted Shreve, was why he and his successors have Sea and

other events muny never given more than sacering that period, and spasmotte half-support to its Fifty years later, a similar ap-

proach of Venus and Earth, adherents in this country.

IS reported standing still Joshuh. He says there is world- wide evidence that the sun did stand still, because the Earth's rototion virtually stopped for while.

Ire

Sun

Even British Communists found says, may account for the co-operation with

their instinctive preference for bourgeois" honesty a stumbling

Our future the United Statera atom and hydrogen bomb research must be imperillext; as Indeed must our partnership in any project with- in the Top Secret classification.

Here

ere again the long-term ef- fects cannot be fully foreseen but the immediate results em ouly be very bad-and

that t

Lime

when the closest co-operation and consdence between the two great democratics are of vital import ance to the future of the world,,

The Fuchs Bosco

can only strengthen the resolution ylet Ruskin to press her sellemes for world expansion, backdd necessary by force, since she now knots that if she is resisted by atomic weaptris she can match them.

it

REPERCUSSIONS,

DISASTROUS AS ARE THE WORLD THEY HARDLY OVER- SHADOW THE DOMESTIC ISSUES. Suspicion of any person with Communist affiliations, no matter now-remote-and-overluid they seem, is now more than Justitied. Cam-Lis obligatory.

and for years afterwards the wns regarded here and in the United States with generous feelings that

were never know

We

In those days we had much is learn about the peculiar

attitude of mind which Tardy discovery munist possessors to belleve

of way of life

profoundly that anything they do

is legitimate in nid Command beyond indeed judgment

ent by any rule of ethics or any code of loyalty.

Consequently there was no rea- man,bbealise ke

a

Fuchs has also donc à vast dis- served to the many thousands of foreign refugees, Getman and otherwise. In Britain.

Alter 16 years of hospitality in this country even Iraltor Fuchs

son, had held, or held, the politicdi apparently allowed himself the fàlth of di ally who was fighting

luxury of deciding that there great and gallant battle.

sald might be something to be But by 1840 International the

British

of life com- for the

way of climate find changed.

pared with Stalinist Russia.

His tardy discovery of a fact that far less brilliant brains have

block.

The great "Engedy or the campaten" from the Labour point of view was that those who had the managing of too blatantly set out to get the middle class vote. Nothing could be more naive than the supposition that the best way to get the vole of a particular scellon ds to make a direct appeal for 11. The loud and vulgar appent for the middle class vote which were made by certain leaders of the Labour Party had precisely the opposite effect to the one desired. The positive creed outlining and ex- plaining the need for further lacking. Sosialist planning was For those in charge of Labour's campaign, Soclullsin was a skele- ton to be kept in the cupboard... The developincht. of each fidivl dual's personality to its full sutures niso na impossibility without Bocialist planning."

It would be interesting to know just, what Mr. Wyatt incant by the last sentence quoted.

"Fear" election

The "New Statesman" lls cusses the way in which, the Cabinet has been reconstructed in the to suit the new situation "House

31

tae-

One of the few genuine laughs ever heard in the Kremlin was caused by the refusal of a British

In those days when, Venus was delegate at a Comintern meeting

a newcomer in the solar systems between the wark lo accept

to double-he estimates that she ani Russian suggestion

unlon Earth came too close once every Crosa the

trade union British

30 years. movement on the ground that "that would he a tle.

sufter Klaus Fuchs did not from any such frivolous affection for truth and honesty-not can we proceed on the assumption

sqticamisit,

Earth's orbit changed

If Labour lind won a majority of 80..the balance no doubt would have been very differently weighted, Mr. Bevan end Mr. Strachey, as well as Mr. Shin- well, would have. received pro- inction, and the number of posts allotted to sale wien correspond. ingly reduced."

Some readers, on seeing this, will feel relief for the way

The New Statesman" thinks that the election Wis one of "fear,"

About 1,000 years afler the that cur own Conimunists are si exodus from, Egypt, there was February 23 went.

sccund period when history indi- cates another major upheaval, again due to Venus. That period, says. Dr. Vellikovsky, is referred to in Homer's Iliad and in the See Sandah. prophecies of prophecies mountains are bled, and human carcasses thickly as dunn.

The Communist menace today comes not from the avowed party member in Dockland or Factory Street but from mea and women in high walks of life who, like miniature versions of Fuchs, glve | no hint that their Orst allegiance Is to the Kremlin.

the

with ac-

Gigantic shadow of

one man That argument would lead straight to a fully-fledged police state, with its secret police, "spe-

treatment," cial

extrajudicial inathods, concentration camps and

suspicion.

lines

TAIPIECE! In the "Specta- tor," James Bridle writes a tri- hute to Sir Harry Lauder

"Better tunes and words have hud their vogue, and died, 'I leve a Lassie "Heaming in the Gleaming,' and 'The Wedding of Sandy MacNab' stick. They look very ke belog Immortal, It may be because they carry with them even to those who have never seen Lauder the rolling light-footed swogger, the the thunderous elfish chuckle, 's and the friendly hypnotisin of their arst singer. Many of hứ serious-ininded countrymen de tested Lander's creation of 1 comic Scot. But it was not in- tended to have any relationship with reality. It was a surrealist invention, His goulin figure was a pure plece of fantasy, ke George Runcy's trake."

clerical-looking

JAPAN STRIKE

Tokyo, March 13. The strike of 900,000 Japanese metal mine workers continued

the

today after failure of further ne- gotiations between

mine operators and workers' represen- tatives yesterday afternoon...

According to Press reports; Mr. Saliro Kaku, chief of the Labour Ministry's Labour Affairs Bureau, has decided to suspend his con- ciliation · efforts following the mine managements refusal to accept the settlement formula that he presented at yesterday's inceling..

The country split on class

to an unprecedented degree, The workers accepted the for- In these Both sides were clearly prompted mula conditionally-Reuter.

trou

by fear the middle classes by lifear of more drastic levelling- down, the workers by fear lest a Labour defent would

схрове them once agath to the mulseries they remembered."

of

Cing to the slow wobble, of

The "New Statesman "puts its- telescope to its blind eye We evidence that the can see no country has voted against nation- alisation."

**The Economist' mokes

analysis of the very elaborate election results, and actually zucceeds in discovering some facts not already noticed by the other papers. For example, it

Mars and Venus, gat close also If one adds the Fuchs case to during that period and Dr. Vell-

earlier British and Canadia atom spy cases and the ambiguouskovsky says the Iliad tells of the

Ancounter Alger Hiss affais in the US.A

He says that the Earth's or- one may be led to the melancholy

blt changed more than once in conclusion that everyone

those early historial times, the cess to our secrets in the depart-

Likewise, the length of meats of defence, foreign affairs

year changed. There may have and economics must not only be

beon as much an dve day's dit arigerous security

ferénca In the year. The subject to

Fength of the day altered. streening, but must be constantl watched while he holds such a The geographical position

axis also changed the Earth's job.

That is the North and the Southpoints out that under the elec- always a These Fole.

Pole positions tarul system there la

slight blus in favour of the Con- repeatedly. He

servatives, due to the fact that there are nearly 50 constitsieneles the Poles, which astronomy linds Pole star once in 5,000 years.

changes the which habitually return Labour today and which

mensbers, with very large majdri- A very chill wind hat set in from the East. The shape of a

With the Polo tilting, Polar icces Indeed, "This more inten- moved down Into Intitudes of

sive grouping of the Labour Russia

with

an unbridled, LLN- found out in much less time may

moderate temperatures.

Party's strength, piling Pelion At the Sous lust for expansion was

upon Ossa in the strongholds, lear Those in high pour young man, given another

bound to count against it in the ista lite Polár čiréies,

electoral struggle. Te ket a clear places, with access to Information 30 years or even less, might have tain but the fact that such an

The magnetic Poles reversed majority in seats in a general not publicly available, knew bet- developed into quite

only a few thousand years ago, election, Labour will have to get ter than anyone else that Com-British citizen-always supposing tang to the terrible

changéd an 1

ut least one per cent more of the bad that his

dalliance with Soviet by the Fuchs disclosures,

the length of its passage around

popular vote than the Conserva- security risks.

It is a staggering performance the Earthy colled tho Juhar

tives would ficed for the samme In due course, the position to inhabit.

maro results." Κασντι and suspected Communists But a more widespread result cast single-kantied suck a gigan- than once.

The Economist" is less im- in public life in Britain was re-

be to turn suspicion agains! tie shadow over Britain and the

Although this book has not pressed than other papers by the Servants

may Civit

- often

been issued, it is niready the overwhelming majority of whole Western World without fr viewed

the high percentage of those who comparatively minor people in harmless allens, who ask nothing ing a

a shot or even making a subject of scientific canitoversy, went to the poll. It thinks that Comparatively minor posts--who better than to settle here, and to

Two national magazinės have this was partly due to the Im- were tainted with Communisti involve them in unpleasant and FÜCHS. HAD NO WEAPON | published. stories about the proved register. "It is in part a were moved lest they should harm embarrassing inquiries into their BUT A BRILLIANT AND DIS- human-happenings, which seem book-keeping change, The the national interest.

antecedents.

TORTED MIND. WE MUST to support the new theory, and SEE TO IT THAT THERE another is going to do so within ARE NO MORE LIKE HIM. b. week,—-Associated Press.

munists

were becoming

YET THE BIGGEST DAN GER OF ALL ESCAPED NOTICE AND, APPARENTLY. *ANY BREATH OF SUSPICION *UNTIL 1949.

...

It even required some sort of

archange of mind on Fuchs' pait to

secure his conviction.

How did it happen? Was the fact, known In 1942, that Fuchs had been W CoMMURIXE KINE XX

his color in 19407.

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