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was gone. This was about 11 p.m.

No damage of any sort could be found on the plane. This is certainly evi HE time has come to dence of a form of power conclude, to resume that we do not command. what has been said What was the intelligence and ruminate on it. behind it, or where, where First and foremost, above? someone is here. Secondly, that

T

someone is very in-

If only we had a clear, telligent and their in- sensible explanation. But telligence seems to be com-

whichever explanation, you' bined as ours does not take, you will have to take always seem to be--with

a painful amount of disten- consideration and patience, sion of your stomach of Perhaps we may even hope,

credulity. as they are so considerate, that they won't be too patient.

They can be very power- ful and yet considerate. The following, one of the very last of the reports, seems to bear out 'that that they have high, un- known powers, and yet can prevent them damaging us.

If you Bay, "It's all well then, halucination!" hundreds of witnesses ab

alone a

MARTIANS

AN OFFER?

whole bunch of hackneyed, less romanti- them, would dream of doing clsed place to rest than any such thing or taking Mars! any such risk. I know it; you know it; we all know it.

And yet

and yet... and yet

"Foreign Powers" we may cling, to as a man being pushed off a raft into the sea may cling to the smallest spar. We

know it isn't true.

Again they just couldn't afford, if they had such a grandslam weapon, to go and throw it away and risk losing the whole bag of secret tricks.

sober, as cautious, and may Total be many of them more in- formed than you, are just dolta and make fools of themselves for no purpose.

It is so ridiculous. It is that, more than dread, that I believe keeps us from con- sidering seriously the Mar- tian hypothesis.

Thore really does not seem much reason to fear that we shall be panicked

by a Martian appearing. For what will he be like as far as we can tell?

In all probability a super- bee of perhaps two inches As they have in length. existed for so long on Mars,

golf, when all the data in Inid out and arranged, still divided

Not "of two minda”,

The mind has at last been driven to these conclusions step by step for three years it has boen made to retreat to this Indeed, uncomfortable and,

The force of scandalous spot. the evidence would not let it balt short of this

It is one feelings that re-

remain

earth-bound

And then at the two ends on

our argument we were attacked

and both flanies have given ways Hundreds of thousands of gung- are now said to have planets. That gives away our uniqueness.

Further, right up against us in- the solar system, our companion Mars has life and there is no reason to suppose that it la not in advance of us."

Their are

2

While right beside our actual.

Intelligencer-Inseats that

fuse to follow. Stubbornly they homes-in every bee hive-thers reaction (which seems immune can think, plan, make mapa, give to evidence) is the old, per bearings, exchango Information.

They are apparently conscious. petually disproved cliche: never happened before. It just and they are not even mammals,

warm-blooded, big-brained can't have happened now.

they are insects.

Uniqueness

Dewar, who vacuum

And the life that is on Mars has probably taken to Insect. form to raise inclf to à pinnacle

above of understanding highest reach today.

our

What Rontgen discovered X- as it is presumed they now rays he said to his wife, not.

Our pride is in ruins. But need have Freedom aver

no enemies-if they "How wonderful for the world:

how amazed and happy my we feed that life is emptied of had-then (as we colleagues will be!" No. Know significance? Surely, unless wo know, Natural Selection is ing his world and his colleagues are Insane egotists, the opposite a "negative force" and clips as actual persons, he remarked is the truth. The great, enigmatic,

there'll be the We have lost our paranola things back and reduces grimly: "Now iron curtained or iron-

loneliness and our dream of utter mado

the first superiority. But we have found masked country that has them to the plainest shapes) devil to pay!"

these creatures of a world

Basics-the Thermos, companions, yes,

and possible Say, then, it's a "secret plenty of space in which to where intelligence has won when his young men began to guides, minds that have gong weapon" but do face up try out secret weapons if total freedom from brutal talk the now physics used to get ahead of ours

Is not this "good news" of the to what that involves. it has them and wants to repressive force-where life sugy, tell them to stop their On July 29 at Springfield,

To send them idly cruising

Shall we reject Haeckel, the intense chamaptness? Illinois, the chief pilot of

It means that responsible over the United States is is free to be as beautiful as fantasy and got back to facts. highest quality and of the utmost

it cares why then crea- plon of Evolution by Natural possibility out of hand?· the Capital Aviation Com-

in icon- Are we doing so..well on our tures as sensitive to colour Selection, shouted pany, of that city, was fly persons have misled the not toughness; it's not even

To him up public (remember they brag-it's just insanity.

as gifted with sight as bees ference with the new "Mendo own? Having conquered all the

"You ing his plane.

simply other species (or at least made- would be as beautiful as the throwing back everything, back them shun us) have we. Homo aloft came &

blue streak never said, No one any-

So we must let the "spar" most beautiful of, any

self-styled Sapiens, settled down with a reddish flame for where in this world or out-

to peace, prosperity and pro- tall (four other people be- side is making flying discs, of "Foreign Powers" go. flower they have ever visit- they only said. We are.not).. It won't hold the weight of ed, as beautiful as any low had sighted it).

argument, the weight of beetle, moth or butterfly.

No Sound

The object coming toward him happened to strike his propeller. There was no sound, the plane did not heave. But a terrific light broke out and the "thing"

missed.

It means also that by evidence that can't be dis- letting these. vast new in- ventions stray about on the civilian flying airlanes, they have endangered the lives of those travelling in planes.

No: no responsible

Where then can we find rest for our load?

Would to Heaven there considerate, were some easier, nearer, let and at the same time less person,

GLAMOROUS NIGHT

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FOR

THE

QUINS

PATRICK NICHOLSON

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to Moreal!!

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after generation, the wise, the

Wings Like Opal ambiguous

the

Offer Perhaps

Yes, we can see generation gress?

authorities, the informed, the specialists, the men who are cailed and honoured by the but honourable

Look at the map, look at thei name, the scientists, wo 500

One of our shrewdest them telling each believing nge news. (very willing to believe that observers did indeed remark they won't have to belleve more oven before our present extrava- than now is revealed), that all gances of uncontrolled violence is now settled, the carion, is for agnin one another t

doubtful tri Till this generation we have they given to such reflections, all intents and purposes closed.

animals, the lower creation, the ant hung on to two concepts of our would conceive of the Supreme uniqueness, the uniqueness of It is we who would feel shab- our station in space and of ouT by and ashamed and maybe with place in the whole hierarchy of

A creature with eyes like brilliantly cut diamonds, with a head of sepphire, thorax of emerald, an abdomen of ruby, wings like opal, legs like topaz such a body would be worthy of this super mind..

our

clammy, putty-coloured Hte.. bodies repulsivel

זי

We must add, in splic of the Pride In

beauty of insects, in spite of the

fact that our somewhat bulging bodies (patchily covered with

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"There can, alas, be no doubt the form in which they would imagine the Principle of Evil as a white man?”:

And

now a scientific white man means the same principle of exterminating, pitilem destruc- The earth, we have said, is the tion not only for other species,

the

bair and, for the rest, mainly only planet with life and the but for our own, for ourselves, the tint of a toadstool) may not solar system the only system and for our children.

There seems then, here and be that acme of aesthetic charm with planets. So we are By

we have presumed them to be, only life in the Universe-minute now, no right feeling (any more CORBEIL (Ontario). York hair-do's replacing their of mischief. When one of the we must allow that we should but unique, and making up for than right and adequate reason) ind it hard to make friends lack of quantity, for our lack of why we should refuse, with beribboned plats, they looked Quins disguised herself in her with anything that had more size, by the intensity of our either heart or mind, the present THE bedlam of a recep- like young women for the first father's hat and coat, and

posibility that hangs over ́ us. and didn't stilt quality, our rarity. than two legs donned tion which shook even time.

sun-glasses and RT about as we do.

Evolution might show that we It may be an offer. If so, why American accent to imitate blaas New Yorkers has

wo refuse, at least to were sprung from some animal should In sweet clear voices they sightseer, friends could guess it. The place-Mars-is bad stock, but we alone had reached consider lif focused the spotlight once sang "The Sidewalks of New was Cecile.

enough. The product-insects the top, come out on the plat more on Canada's famous York" and other songs in their

worse. They all have the famous makes bad

Our intel- form of Intelligence and self- World Copurient Resrved-Lonsor Dionne Quintuplets, who native French tongue and less

might approve, our conscious understanding, able to Dionne personality. The shy-ligence once drew 200,000 tourists a surely in their broken English.

Two thousand five hundred ness, downcast eyes and guard-esthetic senses concede, but our see things steadily and see them month to watch them ride guests pald

£36 cach to pack ed conversation were brought brute feelings" would shy-as wholel their tricycles in their the dinner in the Waldorf's on by years of being a public a horse shies at a peacock.

three-tier ballroom, and they

spectacle. glase-walled playground.

tossed an average of £40 each into the collection. So the Quins broke all box office records by netting £175,000 for the hos pital in their one performance.

I found the memory of those long-ago lush days still linger- ing on around their Lake Dis- trict home here.

"I saw signposts pointing Quintuplets." Their "Dionne baby pictures are peeling off the stall where Papa Dionne once held the ice-cream contract and sold his autograph for a bob a time.

Four full days

as

FTER four days of the full honoured treatment guests in New York, cluding special

Of course, it is all a matter of This went on from the time what our reaction is to what till when reporters climbed trees to now has been treated as incon- peer into their birthroom, until ceivable. None of us can be today when a speculator rents sure of that, feld-glasses for tourists to

exka

We know what has been the watch the slacks - and - sweater garbed teenagers playing inside reception given to the statistic-

ally

established evidence for their austere private world.

by sensory perception In 1952 the Quins will cele-men who considered themselves brate their 18th birthday by not only.

highly educated but Cathedral coming into the £500,000 jack-scientific, who maintained that service held for them by pot earned by their commer-they sat down es a little child Cardinal, the sisters de cialised babyhood. That year before Fact (the phrase is, of murely wiped the lipstick off they will Anish their private course, that of T, H, Huxley).

WHEN

Sister of Hearts"). famous babies sophisticated new wardrobes for

(Botoved by the reached school age, the poor their school uniforms of blazers Lucille

family had and black skirts.

Angels") and French Canadian

the three other Dionne

Grown-up look

W

the

the

their faces and changed for water. -Sister

already reaped a fortune from "I think New York treated us nuns who live in the tourists and advertising. So the more like queens than Quins," home. glass of their "goldfish bowl" quipped Yvonne, the eldest. was suddenly made as impene- trable as a prison wall.

Mary

Own Judge

The truth wes (as shown by Huxley himself when he was Now they are back at their Too young to decide asked to examine some evidence

that psychical research

daily routine bere of study,

An ever-locked gate kept the helping mother wash the dishes HEN, on the dreaded day of being vectuse, of course, of

rounding their now convert-Ulko chapel, their private school and their adored skating rink.

coparation, the musical

to light, and replied

side the barbed-wire fence mur- some of their nine brothers and Yvonne and Annette will go to sub-conscious: Quins inside and tourists. out- and attending daily Mass with T

fear that he sisters.

a convent to continue their

the would not even inquire) All the Quins have black hair plano and singing lessons. truth was and is that the elasti- £40,000 home and their private and lovely hazel eyes shaded by artistic Cecile will go to acity of our minds is not to be Jashes, Yvonne, Cecile and university to specialise in draw stretched indefinitely simply by loog Annette look 3D exactly alike ing, and Emilie and Marie will the weight of evidence, the force This "imprisonment" ended that they can change places to go to another convent to learn of facts. lart month when

Cardinal bewilder strangers. These three cooking and home economics.

We have an emotional tolar- Spellman Invited the 18-year are artistic but otherwise aver

re-ance as to what we can stand, old Quins to make their first age pupils at school, and rather They are all intensely

Ilgious. Although they enjoy and when that limit is reached Maric,

the youngest, is an dancing and entertaining "boy we repress. a dinner in aid of a children's

inch shorter than her sisters friends at their home, it has hospital.

isho weighed only 1 lb, 3oz. at been rumoured that two of them There, dressed Identically in birth. She alone sometimes will become nuns.

a weak

But at 18 they are too young blue taffeta full-length evening wears glass to help

to make up their own minda-- gowns with white velvet capos, right eye.

not Cecile is the clown of the and Papa. Dionne, does wearing their first high-heeled shoes, and with special. New family-ray, cheerful and full intend to do it for them.

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On this page tomorrow will appear the first of a series of articles: on life in Russia today by RICHARD JONES, editor of the official British Embassy magazine, British Ally, who has just returned to the United 'Kingdom after the Russians put his magazine out of business.

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