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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19, 1900.

ATOM: YOU NEEDN'T BE

The day America learned that the Russians had explod- ed their atom bomb, I was standing at the comer of Times Square and 43rd Street in New York.

SO AFRAID

By Geoffrey Barker

her hordes of slave labourers, problems for the dictator at (the, have to take into serious account, other end, too.

weak positions, combined with an all-out schnerkel submarino at- tack with long-range, torpedoen, against British shipping, and terrific bombing attack against Western Germany, France and The law of diminishing - returns No country in the world is Britain,, and,, possibly, against can lose a war before it has begun today--or likely to be in the Ainerica.

No purpose is served it the future-rich enough wartą As Dr. Bush aays, there can

exhaustion economic

many, atom bombs in order be only one produc- so

answer to that. ing some shattering weapons to get through with so few. WE MUST NOT LET IT HAP.

damuge

PEN.

Near by American newspaper men were making a quick check on public opinion. “Gec," said a little coloured secretary, "I guess we'll soon be hiding in the sub-greater ways."

More confidence

A fat man in a T-shirt exclaim- ed: "I knew it would happen. always said we ought to have dropped it on them at the begin- ning."

of

the

than Inflicts, says Dr. Bush.

50

to

Reassuring

1

'We must win'

Good Morning

Midget triplets warned for causing obstruction,

Well, if they would keep getting under people's feet...

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+

•

a

Another report explained: "The midgets

to were stated

bo triplet."

There's no rhyme or reason in this.

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According to Tokyo reports, the are saying phooey to Puppet Emperor Puyi,

A beefy business man with al Production of atom bombs is cigar added: "I'm glad I got me

a permanent strain on a nation's

The, cost of war would be so

match It is not necessary to would no country that little place out at Momaro-economy. And the bombs them- great that

could be certain Russia man for man, but we Russians neck lust year. They aren't likely selves are no use whatever with- start unless it to drop a bomb on Mamaroneck,

out fleets of gigantle, long-range,] that with one quick crushing have to make sure that our alom high-flying boinbers to carry blow it could knock out I and hydrogen bombs are always them.

opponents before they had time better than the "Made la Russia"

Depending on the degree ther All these things, he belloves, to gather their strength.

brand.

are affected, people in Britain the arma- tend to discourage another scien-

"We have to win And that is not likely to happen! une slugging match.

#13 the two opposing ments race at all costs, says Dr. are now saying goodbye, er good long And by the time Russia har powers are more or less evenly Bush. But we can take heart that buy, Mr. Cripps. amassed enough atom bombs to

¡Dr. Bush fuma up as selence goes forward # dla- consider having a stab at another rea

Y

tributes its uses both to the at- Gussle Moran wins another war, the chances are that the Не cannot, and does not, rulo tacker and the defender. technique of defence may have out the possibility that Ruscio

Democracy enhances St Nice, outstripped attack.

might one day think herself latent strength, and tree No defence system's perfect, strong enough to fry another join in a common purpose, resist- attack on the ing und the diversions of petty however, and there is no doubt Pearl Harbour

prevent grept one or two aircraft democracles.

causes, they can

concludes Dr. Bush. through and drop their We have to assume that such wars," purst

If men remain true to demo- bombs on London,

an attack, if it came, would be It is not a pleasant thing to in the form of a sudden irresisti- cratic Ideala "no power on earth think about. But it involves ble thrust of huge armies against can destroy what they create."

The excitement died down, but the Fuchs case has started it all over-again, even though tu a silglaily lesser degree.

As war scares went it was not greater or less than the others KWOK—Mrs: P. K. Kwok, beloved that had riffied through the coun-

wife of Mr. P. K. Kwok,try's hair ever since 1945.

Misses of elster-in-law Kwak Fung-ting and

Leslice F. Kwok, mother of Messrz. Frank H. Peter H. Kwok, Frank Kwok, John H. C. Kwok,

There is more confidence today David

H. F. Kwok, Henry

in the way Americans fuce the II. P. Kwok and Edward H. future. They do not talk so much Y. Kwok and Mistes Rose Yof dropping bom

bombs without delay Kwok and Y. C. Kwok, pass- | on the Kremlia. ed away at her, residence. 7. Arbuthnot Road, on 18th April, 1950, aged 09. The funeral will take place at the Roman Catholic Ceme- Valley, on tery, Happy 20th April. The cortege will leave the residence at 3.00 p.m. and will pass the Monument at about 4.15 p.m.

IN THE BREACH

After reading the latest and most authoritative book on the subject of World War II, they probably feel they have no need

10.

In it, America's' top ‚war-lime atome back-room boy, Dr. Van nevar Bush, asks and answers all the questions about a possible

future war.

China and

The fourteenth and fteenth centuries, when the Ming dynasty was fourishing, were the great of China's naval history.

the giraffe

to

men

tennis event and says, this 19

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Most engaging.

Incidentally, # news agency devoted some litulo space to explaining that yesterday Gussie's much-publiclsed unmen- tionables had nothing to do with

her latest fiance's desire to marry her,

Stalin again health."

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reported in it

Mind you, these iron curtains must be decidedly chilly. This is en Iden logical.

Australia has no wish to have back its Communist son, Harry

Bridges,

Some outspoken types claim, in fact, that the United States should burn its Bridges.

Thinking of the housewives they would have to face, finh retailers in Britain refused to pay prices forced sky-high by the new free market.

When it was produced, it did Professor Duyvendak, the ping for the ladies of the Imperial`]

not At exactly and at all points idea of the celebrated Professor of Chi- harem."

One of these voyages brought with the Chinese nese at Leyden University in the Chinese to the coast of Soma-unicorn, but it was also not en- A unicorn, o Holland, has made an in-illand. There they heard the tirely different, His chief point is that World teresting discovery, and has local people talking of the strange Chi-lin, was supposed to have the body of a deer, the tail of an ox, He War III probably will not happen. published the results.

to eat only herbs, and to harm no His second is that if it does it has unearthed the story of the

By "WINDRUSH"

living thing. The Chinese sea will not wipe out civilisation; it first appearance of the giraffe Special correspondent captains decided that the girtion will not even wipe out London.

came near enough this description be worth while exporting back War, says Dr. Bush, is getting at the Imperial Court of

China, too big to handle because:

animal, the giraffe. It happens to Peking that the Somali word for giraffe It arrived at the Imperial Court Aeroplanes are bursting through

this Bounds the sonic barrier, but only by

is Girin: obviously

in 1415. The Emperor received sacrificing range or becoming

very much like the Chinese word

it in state at the Feng-tien gate, prohibitively expensive;

for unicorn Chi-lin.

and plously observed "This event Everybody knows what impor-is due to the abundant virtue of a few Jet engines are fine but fan-age

tastically uneconomical to run: Under a famous ennuch admiral tance the Chinese attached to the the late Emperor, my father, and

will, almost cer- Cheng Ho, Chinese fleets roamed idea of the unicorn. If a unicorn also to the assistance rendered to boys) and solving the situation Atom bomas

tainly, never become a cheap the Indian Ocean, and repeatedly could be found, it would be theme by my Ministers." weapon to produce;

sailed as far as

The portrait of the giraffe-or Now sign of Heaven's supreme favour Africa,

once painted. Rockets with atomic war-heads those voyages by very large for China, and it would be proof | unicorn-was at

are possible, but wildly im- fleets, shipping on one occasion that the Emperor in whose reign One of the pictures is now in New appear was York, another in the Chinese 37,000 soldiers, were undertaken it condescended to ⚫ practicable,

Economic strain partly for prestige purposes to the most virtuous of all the long Library at Cambridge, Professor 15058C1805 himself show the Chinese flag. But there line of Emperors of China. Thus,

Duyvendak when the Chinese was also another reason.

navigators another, and reproduces it in the "Cheng Ho was ordered," says heard of the Girin, they pricked little pamphlet which

with excitement,

published. Professor Duyvendak e parvey up their cars articles of luxury for the Court, and could not rest until they had If I may say so, he went a-shop-iseen the animal.

These are

factors that even

the United States, with her vast resources, and Soviet Russla, with

arise, such as the issue and exchange of Malayan Victory Bonds, bought with remit tanecs, for People's Victory Bonds.

Ankara nights

Nearly two months passed before the British Charge d'Affaires was able to follow up formal recognition of the Peking Government with a visit to the Chinese Foreign Office. His reception was at least as remarkable as those suffered by the pioneer emissaries, Lord Macartney and Lord Amherst, a century and a half ago. He was told, more angrily than tearfully, no doubt, that in recognising New China, Britain was not The making love to her. naked truth, said the fune- tionary, was that British re- cognition was based mainly on strategic grounds!

Presumably Mr. Hutchison The other question of ur- mildly pointed out that Mr.gency is the paralysis of the de- Nations. The Chou En-lal, in his very curt United letter of invitation of October velopment of Chinese recog- I, had neither offered nor nition seems more profitable "asked for any sign of an af- in that direction than in truth is stranger than fiction advanced his price to £30,000 a

fectionate heart. These direct relations with Peking. special favours were limited A correspondent points out, to the Kremlin. All the others in "The Times" what he calls were told was that Peking a Machiavellian paradox," believed-the-establishment of While the Soviet Government "normal relations" necessary. presses Peking's claims in the Recognition was accorded in United Nations by repeated the same spirit. Ideas about walk-outs, its, actions else high strategy had little to do where seem precisely cal- with it except in the minds culated to impede further re of the Chinese themselves. cognition, and in the upshot They had been sounding off to reduce Peking's prospects all along about the triumph of admission. Whether it

A procedure such as inter- national recognition, with a minimum of national recog nition behind it, would be un

It is often the

-ed-

By Dogberry-

case that English sportsman during a shoot, had its sound commercial side-

п

time, and got it.

Altogether Ribbentrop paid out who thus valet, nest-egg for about £300,000, quite a nice little became a dollar millionaire in his own right. The plot did not proceed--without

One was

certain.miport

when Herr recalled.

by L. C. Moyzisch, who was Naval Moyzisch was suddenly

al the to Berlin by Admiral Canaris,

were

sound value.

has

been

he has

Not only the painters but the poets hastened to commemorate the event. Professor. Duyvendak translates one of the poema na follows:

"In a corner of the Western scas, in the stagnant waters of a great morast,

Truly was produced a K-Uni whose shape was high 15 feet,;

With the body of a deer and the tall of an oz, and a fleshy, boneless horn,

With luminous spots like red cloud or purple mist,

©

Its hoofs do not tread on living beings, and in tis wan. derings it carefully selects the ground,

It walks in stately fashion and in its every motion it ob- serves a rythm.

---Gentle-is-this-animal that in

all once,

What, about the currently sitting Hong Kang committee importing British housewives (I mean real ones, without cook

overnight? •

"Man has unwholesome beef, gels gaol term."

I knew & man who had unwholesome beet one night, but all he got was ptomaine poisoning.

International aviation vocabulary of 1,000 words proposed.

Just ab ut twice the number used by most people who never leave the ground.

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"Can I take you out tonight, baby?"

"No."

"For goodness' sake, why not?" "For goodness' sake.”

**Noticed how much waight Cunningham has put on since he started going abroad for a quick lunch, old man? “

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only because one does not ex- pect it to be. One anticipates diamonds in Amsterdam but not coconuts. There Is special kick in the unexpect

But "Der Fall Cicero", written jolts.

antiquity has been seen but Ministers and people gather Attache during the war

ing to behold it vie in being German Embassy in Ankara, cer-head of the German Secret Set-

the first to see the joyful spec- tainly vindicates the old adage vice, who desired to have these without any reservations.

tacles vital enemy secrets consigned to In this book, which is being himself instead of to Ribbentrop. Professor Duyvendek concludes translated into other languages. There was more than profession- "Thus it happened that the giraffe amour propre in this. Ribben- from the African wilderness, as it we have what is presumably a plain

unvarnished tale, meticu- trop refused to trust the docu- strode into the Emperor's Court, of "the world democratic would be easier for the lously circumstantial in its de- ments, but Canaris knew they became the emblem of Perfect

to tailed narration, which makes peace front, headed by Soviet Peking representatives

Virtuo, Perfect Government, and Russia," which had "acquired strike out on an independent Robert Louis Stevenson's "New There was another slight hitch, Perfect Harmony in the Empire Sun- due to an indiscreet remark in and in the Universe: Rarely have been unprecedented strength, sur-line at Lake Success than in Arabian Nights" read like

day school tract. passing the power of the Im- Peking itself is a question

Briefly what it comes to is that conversation by von Papen. The such extravagant claims

Turks suspected leakage, Bri-made in such refined language for answer. during the last World War Herr r only events could

tish

any living animal." Service officers came Secret perialist bloc."

N.B. Professor Duyvendak's from London to investigate, and Of course, sooner or later, Certainly the Chinese would Ribbentrop received regularly at

not only the lock of the Embassy pamphlet is called "China's Dis- we hope to help China to hardly relish a public reduc- the Berlin Foreign Office secret from

consignments of vital Allied war stand bolt upright on her own tion to the role of satellite documents carefully capied on a safe, but the code, were changed. covery of Africa" and is published

These films However, even this did not up-by Probsthain, London. feet. But that is a long way.yes-men in the full gaze of Leica camera film, ahead. At the moment the the American people and were made by the ferociously set the commercialised animoalty Anglophobe Albanian valet to the of Cicero. He easily obtained both chief design is to afford some the world at large.

English Ambassador in Ankara, the new key and the new code. But finally a new woman secre- sort of official protection for

Sir Hugh Knatchbull-Hugessen,

to the Attache contacted British interests and British

who took the key of the Embassy tary

deserted to the British subjects. There is nothing

safe out of his sleeping master's Cicero, and, when that lady pre trouser pocket, an arrangement sently

the authorities, new about that-it has been

facilitated by the fact that Sir

game was UP of necessity a first principle usual; to say the least. But Hugh, who suffered from In- Cleero disappeared, and nothing

well any wartime more

heard of the throughout the past century. it would break the deadlock) somnia, as

Middle East diplomat might, took gentleman. So far the venture has been and get the United Nations sleeping tablets to ensure Bound

that here we You may agre

real-life, ready-made, unsuccessful. There is noth-going again. Sooner or later, slumber.

These Lacta oro romantic off-the-peg thriller, It has all the ing new about, that either.however, the United States

components-high Very often we have hid to and other Western Powers enough, but their setting is pure necessary

Adelphi melodrama of a bouquet diplomatic setting, DLI Ambas- impose ourselves on China, must face up to the issue of calculated to drive even Mr. Peter sador's valet with a filmi ven- and only at very rare and direct recognition. The ques Choyncy wild with all regret. detta, a quiet villa in plcturesque brief intervals have the Britions put before the British The Ambassador's valet called Ankara, sleeping tablets, rendez- tish been favoured with a Charge d'Affaires were quite one dark night on the German vous under cover of night, bank-

Naval Attache at his Ankara villa, notes galore, and even

the in kind and sweet disposition extraordinary. They have al- introduced himself by the pre-dispensable feminine interest. toward themselves or their ready put us in the position of porterous pseudonym of Cicero, But just pay attention to the Ribbentrop Interests in China. But we mediators in regard to China's and offered to sell him faithful

copies of the top-drawer plodded along, and evidently international status. In turn secrets in the British Embassy's as authentic these extremely top- persisted in his refurg! to recept we intend to continue plod- we are entitled to enquire safe.

secret Allied war documents. And Attache the Attache's chief, the £300,000, in English bank- ding along. A spokesman of whether Peking intends to

notes received by the enterprisfog the British. Foreign Office is observe the normal interna none other than the notorious von not quoted as saying that there is tional code, and to abstain Papen, this engaging offer was Cleere were all forgeries!

transmitted to Ribbentrop in

That seems to ma obsolutely to no intention of withdrawing from aggression. There is no Berlin, and elately accepted. 50 put the top hat on ong

of the Intriguing recognition of the new Gov-particular point in asking the first deal was clinched at ernment, in spite of the dif- whether Peking, wants to £20,000, paid in English bank most amazing and

notes, but only after Cicero' examples of truth being stranger

than action ficulties that have arisen. trade. But whatever the Leica film copies had been ex-

Lhat The urgent question is the answers good, bad or indifpertly scrutinised while Cicero, way. If there is anything to beat plight of British firms, who ferent, full mobilisation of with the banknotes, was locked in it, I fanty It must be concerned

with

those alleged leakages of },a room/

selentide information about have made such heavy calle Western diplomacy in Peking

bomb

secrets Fall Cicero" on, their sterling reserves to would be better than a long Clandestine meetings

atom-roading" meet the demands of the wall for some great internal where followed a methodical I him prepared to be authorities and to pay em- revolt, for intervention, or series of clandestine appoint thing in the notable: words of ployees they have to retain, for war. Russ wiftly ments at the attaches deqderler Anthony's Serpent of Did Nile, though business is at a lengthen

reached villa, always under cover of "there is nothing fett remarkable night, and further documentary beneath the visiting moan". But standstill Sooner or later, in China- & Thai

films changed hands. Incidentally with what profesional exisperu- perhaps, if the drain on ster, the more necessary

Clero whose antinosity, to Briation must our purveyors br best- ling continues

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