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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1951.

How strong is IKE'S

United States Defence Secretary Robert Lovett has been in France to inspect military installations. What state of preparedness did he find? A British expert on armoured warfare gives the answer,

by Lieut.-General SIR GIFFARD MARTEL

will be

ARMY

?

HAVE just paid a visit There is general hope that

Western nations to France in order

to the see for myself how the able to build up 40 or perhaps 6D divisions during the next European Army plans Bre two

years and that half, of them will be armoured Panzer forces did this consistent- getting on.

ly in early sages of the ivisions. It is no good talking about

wer, and gained decisive success the defence of the West: With a European Army of

Our armoured division must to turn the talk this kind we shall be able not be given heavy weapons we have into armed men. I am not to talk to Russia from strength such as heavy tanks, which in

administrative tall of crease their (the most certain method. forgetting the atom bomb

and therefore reduce their mobi-¦ obtaining peace). To judge

The armoured division and the jet aeroplane. Both from my, own discussions with lity. hare their function. But the Russians towards the end must use its mobility to attack believe the enemy when he is weak, and neither alters the need for a of the war I do not

they will ever date to advance avoid fighting strength Western Army.

the In- inst us

the other hand, On in Europe once We

division

21 slower- i can

that report

General

force of the kind now fantry have

moving

harder-hitting Eisenhower is getting on with being created. the job of creating the Western

It needs heavy tanks We have not got it yet: jet formation Army He has

succeeded in that be clear. Britain has four both for defence and attack in cbtaining the complete con divisions in Germany with the position warfare, fidence of every

of the hope of another division being one nadons concerned -- no

United later. The sma!! available frat, this: and he is forging States is due to have six divi. must have heavy and ahead with the task.

sions in

in Germany by the end Ther

คร been E great nf 1951. France aims to have

The 10 change

policy

divisions ready by the end general plan after the war was of 1951. The Benelux countries to build up a manpower my should provide another five or

for divisions. which would hold home

in broad

have had n Success.

little

chance

of 40

and

SI

It is now accepted that we cruiser tanks for the two roles and that

dual-purpose tank is nonsense It was never mything else.

The Germans worked hard to revelop the technique for this ferrn of mobile warfare over a period of two years before the Inear defence in the eveni This brings the total to about war, and with fully equipped of attack by the much large: 26 divisions by the end of 1951. armoured divisions. It is a deep Russian forces. This would

The

gap between this and the study and takus considerable ti ne. 50 divisions which we need

Thus, they were ready cannot possibly be filled without when the war broke out. a queda from

Germany. The ways in which the German are of the European Army is to be built up have not yet been recently counter pro- settled in detail. Mposals were made that the fur it trus been accepted.

But the neces-

What must we now do so as to

GENERAL HOPE

Western nations should buildi

share

TACKLE IT!

THE European Army, however,

has not yet begun to study and prepare the technique which

A DAY IN THE

WORLD OF TOMORROW

H

next

few

OW will life change

in the years? What "miracles" of science await to transform our everyday existence?

I have just had a taste of them. And I am left be record wildered, excited, and tonished.

you

By GERALD SCHEFF

Dr Dippel, a Dutch scient

on

paper, glass, leather, wood, and textiles.

"

Then we saw X-ray pic- tures 1,000 times clearer that we have known them. projected on a second screen which doctors can watch in normal lighting instead of in the dark,

This makes possible much

and junger

much closer Cxamination of a patient's eart or other organs than can be done today.

television on Cello- as- phane tape and thus enable to keep libraries of elevision programmes to Eind be stored. It happened at hoven, in Holland. that little town in which life revolves round

one of the greatest 1st, has made it possible by

While

nibbled a rabbit to compress all the reading radio factories in the world. new photographic method

Iway 1 went into a factory matter in a book of 1,800 placidly a few feet

I was able to cloakroom. My wet over pages on to a single square rom me

watch its heart action and coat was taken and hung inch of paper!

what happened to the food up to be automatically dried

11 it swallowed. by invisible rays from 3 battery of infra-red lamps.

He is able to reduce printed word to one-ninety- Thousandth of its size,

From Milky Way

his STILL another surprise to me was to see in action

That was surprise No. 1

A man could carry 21 in the factories of the vast whole library in his pocket. industrial empire of Philips, Or a book printed on now in its diamond jubilee finger-nail and still clearly year, which houses Europe's legible through micro directional receivers which largest electro technical research laboratories,

50-yard tick

scope.

pick up high frequency radiations from the Milky Scientists believe that this

Way. These will aid the discovery will solve the

weather-men. problem of storage

for braries, museums, banks, By listening to noises

where the bulk the sky the weather-men hope at books and documents to be able to forecast much

more accurately. constant

First we must realise the great for several years that we should ||NDER one gigantic roof and offices

between

warfare. I have been pressing

armoured do so, but without success.

The

up forces consisting of infancy have the European Army ready we need today for this form of and armoured divisions in about T two years' time? equal strength. If the Russians

dvanced against us the forme: difference

firmi would hold

bases from and Infantry divisions.

I is argued that we would which the latter would launch former must be highly mobile.

not have the troops available able to their attacks in co - operation They must be

move to carry cut this role for some with a strong tactical air force rapidly round the enemy fores

Line we noed not et present are now ne- and remain there for a con- These proposals

ourselves concern

with the siderable time. The Gennan cepted.

technique which Would b14 needed. This is quite Wron Jung period passed before we accepted the necessity

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Since the war there has been dearth of officers with real experience in armoured warfare

2

the

in the higher posts OLL General Staff and as eumnah- ders This should be rectified. for it has been the cause of these delays.

900 scientists are ex- perimenting with everything from valves to vitamins.

brance.

encum-

No size limit

from

I saw a new form of auto- matir telephone exchange which

does completely

tway with "hello" girls and has "memory" for storing numbers ided by valves. Figures dialled hy the caller sei red lights

I listened to human voices amplified more than 100,000 times. My hair was made to stand on end by voltage TECHNICIANS have dancing along the switchboard

from # mammoth high- I tension generator.

1027-

evolved a special read and by mechanical means rang

fitted with ing desk

A the required connection

I

heard

a pocket-watch screen on which the minute crs. The same scientists have

yards ticking 50

away. copies can be read at the automatic lighthouses.

1 watched a rabbit's heart correct size. beating through a new X-ray machine which may revolt. tionise diagnosis.

By a

Glans

for

"flash-tube"

all-

An ingenious coupling device Unk reverse application developed by Professor

and Dr Vervest may replace the af the same method photo-cimal mechanical clutch. graphs can be blown-up to

Fitled to a dentist's drill i

1 peeped into a future almost limitless size. They would be a pain-saver, because when it will be possible to can be reproduced in colour the drill will stop automatically

THE MARRIED

NEW YORK. the week that a new

I book appears the

qualities of Harold Ross, editor of the smoothly witty New Yorker magazine, his wife, Ariane, is suing him for divorce. She complains of 11 years of "repeated, consistent, continuous abuse and insults."

But go back a little further than 11 years back to the A end of the first world war. little-known American private was demobbed-name of Harold Ross

He had ideas for crushing the publishing field: a ship news gazette, a "tabloid" dally newspaper, a detective magazine, and something funny.

His backer

LIFE

of the

MAN

WHO RUNS-

Editor Harold Ross.

THE

NEW YORKTER

cditurs reluctantly agree with to let her associate

12

with her

before reaching a tooth nerve.

The device has applications in the air and at sea. A ship's propellers can be guarded against underwater damage by being stopped at danger point. In aircraft a "click-nob" con- nected to it would enable radio operators to switch instantly to any of 20 radio transmitting wavelengths.

In one laboratory I watched them turning invisible light into visible light. A dull grey pic- fure when excited by ultra violet rays turned into abril- Hiant red.

Scientists say that 'such con- trast lighting will revolutionise room decoration in the future. out Special lamps will bring

in hidden beauty and colour Triezes and paintings."

Teeth glow

MINOR puzzle about light- A MINOR the teet

Many competing magazine And, charging that he refused look black under ultra-violet lighting while natural teeth glow? In 1825 he got going, backed Ross's biographer Dale Kramer friends, she said: "He told me my stupidity, boring by money from his friend Raoul whose book, "Rose of the New that

character and lack of polse em- amusement technicians, can now For your further surprise and Fleischmann, a relative of that Yorker," was published recently

"the greatest barrassed him and injured his make a falling feather sound multi-millionate yeast-maker that Ross

editor of his time."

reputation." who died the other day.

like a thunder-cap. They can And on to the scene burst

melt red-hot stcel 1 paper Dale's book tries to do for "New Yorker,! which has since

What is more, Ross, she said, bag--without burning the bag. invariably gone from strength to strength Ross what Ross's men have so

managed to forget most often and devastatingly done ber birthday. And to crown all, Experiments carried out with Bs one of the wittiest, urbane, and most sophisticated for others: it is intended to be he refused to let her have any glass, coated with a microscapi

which children, saying: "The world is cally thin metafilsed layer, bave magazines in the Anglo-Saxon a "profile" like those

the New horribly overpopulated as it is."opened new possibilities appear regularly in world. wordt.

She asks for suitable alimony, heating, which will de-frost Peter Arno, Robert Benchley, Yorker itself, Alexander

as the book hit the and says Woolcott, James But,

Ross makes 100,000 windscreens. Thurber, John O'Hara, and shops, there came that

dollars a year (about £35,000).

When they were occupied by many other stars, of fiction and pected development: Mrs Ross

the Germans, Eindhoven radio cartoon have made their names suing her husband for divores. or added to

Here is life with Ross, existing lustre in

mechanics out-witted the enemy described by Ariane-

FOOTNOTE: The first car by building tiny radio receivers ita pages,"

Over them

harsh,

NewYorker' ' "He told me and others that toon

renders hidden in babies, bonnets, books at in the frightening, intensely intuitive I was stupid, a bore, medlocre, chuckle

new issue and even dressing-gown tassels. man ruled Harold Ross, in banal, and that my sole role as shows a wife standing glaring cluttered office in New his wife svas that of house over her husband who is trying York's West 43rd Street.

his

*

He has been described "editing people rather atlicies,"

unex..

G3

of

They still chuckle at the keeper, to maintain. our elty to read a newspaper. She is memory of the German officer as and country homes for the saying: "It my nagging upsets who wrote his reports in Latin than benefit of his infant daughter you so much, why don't you to keep them, secret from the

Dutch. just do as I say?" by a previous marriage."

JOHNNY HAZARD

BUT, WOKPROUK TABRIZ . LYMERING THE BAIT THEAT, WILL

SARICE SHOHE VWO LINDERVATER

!

FOOL HAVE YOU EVER GEEN MORE EXOTIC

BAIT. THAN TABRYET?

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By Frank Robbins

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