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Sitting in Stalin's Seat'

SEFTON DELMER today writes Report No. Two in the role of a Soviet Intelligence Officer Each week during the war a British Intelligence Officer wrote for his chiefs an appreciation of the war situation as it was likely to appear to Hitler's staff, Today I put myself in the position of a Russian-a Soviet Intelligence Officer writing for Stalin and his Politburo on the situation created by news of a junior atom bomb.

MEMORANDUM ΤΟ THE

DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNCIL OF

SOVIET

MINISTERS:-

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E here in the Kremlin have been COB- fident hither

to that fear of reprisals would deter the Western Imperialists from using the atom bomb against us un less we used it against them first.

The

suggestion mere November 1950 that the Ameri eans contemplated the possibility of using the atomic bomb in almost Korea

China was

split enough

the Atlantic bloc.

Wide popular antipathy to the bomb on humanitarian grounds has joined up in the West with the conviction--carefully fostered agencies that by our political Western Europe rather than

of

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POLITICALLY,

This crisis may even, they say, lead to the liquidation of the Sterling Area us an economic unil.

An event of this kind would have the s.rongest repercussion on the economie, military, and political position of the whole of the Western capitalist world.

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THE

INDUSTRIAL

REARMAMENT OF THE U.8.8.R.: The past year has seen the greatest ex- pansion yet in our heavy indus- trios. We have got hallway to the Sarge's set in 1948 by J. V. Stalin --targd s whose achievement,

TOO, THAT BOMB PACKS TROUBLE

he

Baid, would make our Soviet Union

safe from "ac- sidents."

The surprise which the per+ last two years in They have extended their formance

and quality of our Lhe activity of terms of military service by an Sovlet fighters have caused to

average of 35 percent. They.

American and other Western ex- have increased munitions pro- duction by 70 percent. And they perts in Korea shows that we are have doubled the combat effec- keeping pace with design, tiveness of their forces,

during the suppressing reactionary and nationalist op- position elements in the People's Democracies of Europe.

Lying low

In the West of Europe under

Revise!

CUIMILAR progress has beer General Elsenhower stands a

20 North made in China. There is force of

combat-ready divi-

for ONCLUSION: But

the reason, however, to believe that slons (six American, four British

illegal

roughly in len French), matching organisations the

development of the miniature nall divisions we have atom bomb we could remain con- Czechoslovakia,

small Hun the 26 Poland,

in East Germany and Poland. gary, and Rumania still exist.

This

fume is match what- fident that in the arms race we They are only lying low.

ever for the 200 divisions we should always remain strong to deter the Western could mobilise immediately for a enough blow against the West of Europe

enemy (1) were this to be decided.

If the Americane dare to use

the atomic bomb in a clandestine

will

is no

our

From

launching

Sitting on the Fence

By

Nothaniel Gubbins

HINESE generals, at in champagne, would some- the truce negotiations times tip it away from him at Panmunjom, Korea, and spill it over the table- were observed "anickering cloth, and sometimes and giggling over maga- towards him and spill it zines.

over his trousers.

Later General Turner, American delegute, is

re-

Lady

Bursting usually

ported to have told General tipped the soup straight Hsieh Fang that he had cast into her mouth. A butler himself in the role of EL

kitchen cloth afterwards. bandit.

General Hsieh replied, "You have the

ugly, ferocious features of a ban dit."

After which we may ex- pect the talks to come down to urchin level.

Hullo, Face.

Face yourself.

Your face is like the back

of a cab.

So's yours.

I wouldn't be

seen dead with a face like yours.

I couldn't be seen dead with a face like yours.

i could fight you with one

hand tied behind my back.

So could I. Go on, then.

Go on yourself.

I know a dirty joke.

So do I. Bet mine's yours.

dirtier than

Bet it isn't. Tell, then.

Shan't.

Bet you think storks bring babies.

scrubbed her face with

of

With hoarse cries "Fingers were made before forks." Lord and Lady Bursting would then pick up lumps of fish, poultry, and meat, snapping at their food like seals, and wiping their mouths on the table- cloth.

They regarded napkins as rather bourgeoise.

By the time we reached

the pudding (or sweet, if you must be refined) they were both exhausted, but still game.

*

As they lifted their plates off the table to wolf their pudding, it is difficult to say which way the plates were tipped, but I think Lady Bursting's must have been tipped towards her, because I remember that her bosOTI

with was yellow

custard when the ugly scene was

over.

Afterwards. Lord Bursting. drenched in gravy, led me inte his study for brandy and cigars. Lady Bursting had a bath, I

Bet I don't. What does, then?

The doctor brings them hope. in a black bag. How old are you? Fifty-seven. Does your mother you're out?

know

You leave my mother alone.

Defence in depth

specially

Model clother designed for the smarter woman who is not so slender..." Advertisement.

Look, fellers, he's crying. THOUGH the earth may shake

Cry, baby, cry.

I'm not crying.

You're a soppy-sop, that's what you are.

Soppy-sop yourself.

With the haut monde

"My husband maintains that when eating soup the movement of the spoon should be away from you and towards you in the case of puddings; and that the soup plate should be fipped away from you and the pudding plate towards you. Is this right?"-Letter to a columnist,

their

at

and tremble as she

across the floor,

Madam's figure should

walks

not

generate surprise Madam's figure is not slender,

not so slender as before Madam's measurements

mand a larger size.

de-

Yes, of course, one has to face it, inches here and inches there,

But then madam is so gay, so

young of heart

What's a roller round the waist- line, what's a single greying

slender,

hair

To a woman not so

but so smart?

Here's a model fit for madam, just come in, our own de- sign

Cut to with the bitter battle of

the bulge

should cut

starches,

it one hold the line,

down on wants to

But how nice, how satisfying.

to Indulge.

Shall we dare to face the foe?

Shall we give those inches

hell until we drop?

had to find some place to

internal war against us-similar, the United States would be the

all depends on the com- Yes, one pany at dinner. victims of the first reprisal raids they will say, to our war against

the Western

ern colonial Powers in While far from effective in against us a preventive war: (2)

Middle-class and lower- from the Red Air Force.

From interfering with our sup- But the

present development of a Asia-then these underground challenging

families are miniature

superiority, the economic hard- port of Asiatic and African middle-class alom bomb

by the forces

emerge once more. We must expect to find them ship which this rearmament is rebellion against him.

usually strict about these Americans makes it urgently

matters, but when I stayed Shall we pull the corsets tighter? necessary to revise our political with a strength exceeding that imposing on Western Europe is

At the same time the Western

a week-end with Lord and thinking, not only about

the which

they displayed against helping to undermine capitalist

solidarity and capitalist morale. world itself would continue to bomb itself but to review once Faselst Germany in the last war.

Lady Bursting at It THE ANGLO-AMERI-

opening new avenues for be submitted to the moral and mure the whole world political

CAN ALLIANCE: The subversive agitation which will economical exhaustion of unpro- lovely country home situation affected by this.

British defeat in Persia help to speed the collapse of the ductive rearmament a strain to Bishop's Wallop, it was free on, I'm sorry, but, of course, it

most capitalist system. displayed during 1961 a encouraging conflict in policy be-

the United States tween Great Britain.

and the Sterling demonstrated the skill of D Area, for which she acts as

BRITAIN, It

As it is, we must revise our and diplomatic banker,

find themselves in a policy. At once.” agencies in splitting the Western particularly precarious position. world into two camps that of

Our Soviet economists predict the colonial Powers (Britain, that the continued drain on France, Holland) and that of the Sterling Area resources-due

deficit trading with the dollar XES, pool and the rest of the non- Sterling world—will bring about new devaluation crisis between spring and summer.

INTERNAL SECURITY: It is by no means safe lo assume now that the West can be deterred from using the miniature bomb.

Instead of using it openly themselves they might hand it our political secretly to terrorist groups in- side our borders to use against "This would revolutionise the security position overnight, not only in China and the European People's Democracles, but within the Soviet Union itself.

United States.

New factors

and

IN the last months, however,

I would put the imperialist new factors have arisen simul-

and capitalist conspirators in the taneously with the advent of the West in a position to inflict on miniature atom bomb. They damage vostly look like creating an Anglo- exceeding that caused to them American solidarity

Us

Russians

by our Communist partisans in Malaya, Indo-China, Burma, and elsewhere.

As is known there has been

a great increase during the last

Kix months in the number of infiltrating agents and traitors across our borders both in Europe and in Asia.»

as we have ·

precedented firmness.

These are:-

of

un-

to

a

'Precarious'

which the disciplined Soviet for all.

world is less vulnerable than the West.

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•

DELMER

SEFTON SUMS UP, IF I WERE IN THE KREMLIN WOULD ORDER ASTERN."

"FULL

80--

That

naughty

waistline's popped out at the top.

Dinner, in full evening dress, was a nightmare of munching and sucking, and even growling when Lady But we're not downhearted, are Bursting was gnawing a we? We shall tell our tale bone.

As for tipping the soup SPEED plate, Lord Bursting, whose 'tonsils were usually awash

of

to di

aur struggle and the miracle we wrought

Pouring ladies, not so slender, into models much too small Though a pint pot never, yet

has held a quart

{London Express Barylea).

Scot Recalls Hits Own Carlsen Story Of 1901

THE establishment of Winston

Churchill

Britain's Pre- mler;

AS ship's rigger George Bryce, from Greenock to Philadelphia, about on a watery waste, braced agony, And so they boarded CHURCHILL'S recent visit

with a life-time at his trade She was in ballast for her against the nearest fixture as the Minneapolis. Washington;

behind him, trudged homewards maiden voyage, with a crew of the ship twisted and turned.

The steamship Minneapolis A rest and White and Strachati THE probability that General out of John Brown's shipyard thirty of all colours and sizes.

Eisenhower will succeed Mr in Clydebank just as news sel-

found them drifing but dare not went back aboard the Comet Truman this year.

A sudden

Atlantic squall approach lest the steamer be with a volunteer from the stea lers were bawling the headlines

the speared by the jigger mast of mer and achieved the miracle of

}

the

Hory fxing * towline......... They were

Michael, and a few days later, Davis and his volumisers-Bryco was a cripple aboard the stepner-started-qut in tow, for Greenock,

The Americans already officially and openly The public confidence which on the end of the Flying Enter snapped her mast off at complained, are spending vast Eisenhower enjoys in the United prise sea epic, his mind went base, the mizzen and mammast the Comet, or be stove i sums in recruiting, instructing. States and in Europe-reinforced back afty years for his own crashed down, and the Comet the huge steel gerdarmi from the towed into Ponta Delgada, St and equipping those elements, by the possession of the now Carlsen story. And he knew roared her keel up to the skies mainmast swinging crazily over

Captain Kurt Carlsen was end theri heeled over on her the decks. that with all iz possiblities asither crazy, as some said, nor side. them to penetrate will enable him to They also help

bomb our frontiers.

pursue a 99 large much stronger policy,

pigheaded as others. Had it, The mixed crew yelled and An

tinsatisfactorily number of men and

women in this he will find himself in when he decided to stick by

trampled in panto Captain closest alignment

ill-fated ship, with agents is still at large within

Davis, with his wife locked in

Thirteen 'nerve-wracking days Soviet borders. Evidence from Britain of Churchill, a

her cabin for safely, tried to

and nights anised before Lise WEBT EUROPEAN

Most of the crew awam to the calber a few sane men around steamer. Somehow Deres and Comet, threatening to turn bar të him.. Only the male, Jim White, his companions managed to lush way, minute, WEEDOARA) indo. Strachan, from the captain and his wife into the her native Clyde, crowds, Ining George was 24 on that night Greenock, and salimaker George whip only remaining book, and the weld sight at the

the banks at Greenock to watch with the criminal organisations Allantie "realy · Organilantion in April 1903 when he sailed na zailled to him.

got her Fright way up in the ind the departallen areas, of have increased their war budgets reļimaker aboard the four-maar

water. Then Erree and two Central Asia, and Fiberlalu

They quietened the panics companiony wwam. " actor?) Khan. app saschais grew with balaying pinsi meron balled "In, thye kusem

those captured so contact REARMAMENTI In the

mission establish

with dimident.

tionslist

months

groups among the elements, as well as European nations of the North

we have undoubtedly succeed." Thi

the abomin

treder wis edged in for the le

ayler