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By PROFESSOR F. E. SIMON

Professor Simon, Fellow of the Royal Society and Professor of Thermodynamics at cho University of Oxford, was a leading member of the British atomic team during the war. In this Interview ho emphasises that ho in giving his Individual viewpoint.

No. Before atomic energy can be introduced on

& plications, as both depend, to a want to take again an active part large scale, a great number large extent

on the production in the world.

energy may not be so urgent as

Sitting On The Fence

By.... NATHANIEL GUBBINS

Jennifer, the hen that lald ten eggs in 45 mlautes at Bodymore Heath Farm. Warwickshire, on May 20, died 23 hours afterwards.

HEREVER hens are gathered, whenever heno

man speak, ..

The talo of. little Jen. nifer shall pass from beak to beak; And hens who never gave their best shall look the other way To hear of one who gave

her all soon after Em- pire' Day.

In darkened nest the rat azane while hens looked in 12 mock;

Much gaper hens with beady euce for any passing cock. "Poor Jennifer." they laughed

cloud "Poor they said,

"All work, no play, no boys, no dates; she might as well be dead."

No answer came from Jennifer,

no word escaped her benk.. Although a single, glistening tear ran down her feather- cd cheek.

When spring han

passed

For weeks she's been going about with a faco ko a bal- Joon. She could have had it for. nothing. Now she'll have to pay

for it.

1.

Am I to understand one la face now fined for having a like a balloon?

Don't tell me that with all your Oxford.education you've never heard of the National Health. And she's going to have twing on top of it..

On top of what, dear?

On top of all her teeth token out. It's not pleasant to have twins without teeth.

I didn't know it made any diference."

After all that I expect they' be born tunay, too.

Funny In what way, dear?

I wonder if they'll be ko her or their father?

,

If a maternal resemblance means that they will be bor comedians with faces like balloons and no insides, I think it would be better for all concerned if they were

ke their father.

she Unable Seaman

knew that eggs must be in short supply.

To bridge the gan zhe gave you name of the peer her all soon after Empire who said, in the House bf Lorda, "We don't want another

VOUR Uncle Nat has forgot-

Dye.

No flags shall be unfurled for Nat Gubbins Home Guard;" her, no muted drums shall also the name of the general

who said "The Home- roll,

Guard No parson speak a word for must not be laughed at,"

her, no villape bell shall But he has not forgotten the toll,

remarks. Therefore, the Home For one who gave her title life Guard will

not be deprived (she had no more to glue) only of the Battest-footed pri- Except her humble offering vate ever to wear ammunition that we on eggs might live. boots, but a lot of much-need- When carelessly-nou eat your

ed publicly..

coy, if scrambled, bolled or fried,

Allow α moment for a thought

for one who gladly died

with beating heart, but

afraid, tolth calm steady cue...

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In

People who live

Uttio and worlds of their own have, no Idea of the value of even 'the Because the loved her coun-, less coleman forms of publicity.

try mare....soon after Em- pire Dye.

What the Army - (it you can

of technical problems, of an of plutonium, which is made in unusual nature have to be atomle piles and can be used While the necessity of running solved, and prototypes must either for the bomb or for pro- our own power plants, on stomle be run for a number of ducing energy. This is un- years under actual operat- fortunate from the point of view in other countries who have no ductive and small compared with Scholar at home Navy will gain now that ing conditions.

of the international control of atomie energy.

On the other Sufficient power stations hand, funds made available for to look after a considerable the weapon help to develop the part of our electricity peaceful applications. supplies, Involving the in-

vestment of very large

sums, cannot be expected in

less than, say, 30 years.

Should Harwell be taken away

slace or left where it is?

coal deposits, a lead in this field those WC would be invaluable for our rearmament. political and economic position in the world,

spend now for

I want to warn, however, that It would be quite wrong to con- centrate on atomic developments We must pay for our Imports alone. Fundamental research is

customers for our

"I often regret my university education because I suspect it prevents me from entering with zest into family amali talk and my wife's Imited material the terests."~~Loiter to a newspaper.

Vi, dear?

You know VI who had Inside taken out?

No, dear.

call it the Army) has 'fost, the Navy ( you can call it the

their Uncle has joined the Royal Naval Minewatching Service.

.F

Sea- From now on Unable man Gubbins will tell you from time to time of his adventures in a service which is regarded, by those who ought to mow, her as more important than the

Home Guard. So there.

Already he has been favour ably impressed by the hearty Isn't it like her to go to the welcome given to the first dentist now they're charging minowathers of The Nore at £1.

Chathom.

by exporting high-class equip- indivisible, and funds are needed ISN'T that just like Vi? ment; the under-developed areas also for science and technology and those countries which do not as a whole, for technological posseES our scientific and education and for the modernisa- It is quite possible, how- from the Civil Service at this technological potentialities would tion of industry.

be cager ever, that power-units for

"atomle="know-how."

-If all these conditions are ful- special purposes, where Most experts now agree that t

filed, then I believe that atomic economy is not of over- would have been better for the

The funds for the necessary energy can became an essential riding importance-as; for British Atomic Energy Project to developments in this country are factor in regaining this country's instance, for submarines have stayed outside the Civil appreciable, but they are pro- position in the world. may be running in the next Service from the beginning, few years.

now

is

Novel developments such an 1 For the next 30-50 years this need more flexibility than is conventional fuels will possible within the Civil Service. certainly hold the field with Whether

jg the right energy from nuclear fission moment to take it away as a secondary source. I do doubted by many who are afraid not think that solar energy of the disruptive effect at this will be able to compete with stage. 11 seems to me, however, either of those sources, until that in the long run it has to considerably later.

be done, panicularly if we can- sider thet, sooner or later, pri- In the more distant vate industry must play a more future, another form of active part in nuclear develop- atomic energy

may be ment. developed, the synthesis of helium from hydrogen, a process which provides the

energy of the stars,

Are we short of the right sort

While, at present, no of atomic solentists or atomis practical way can be seen technologists?

As I don't know Vi, dear, Even if it is the fret time I wouldn't know if it is like he ever joined a corpa

with her or not.

women in it, it is also the, first corps he has ever joined which offered him free beor.

As the Communists pillory ANNA PAUKER, Rumania's Foreign Minister, SEFTON DELMER, who first told of the indiscreet state- ments which started her fade-out in the

from!

Berlin :

writes party,

Alas, poor Anna

-she talked

OOR Anna Pauker! So caught up with her

at last: all that diplomatic;

to run this reaction in a We are certainly short of the controlled manner, it seems right type of technologists, in possible that it may become particular chemical technologists gossip about the tete-a-tete the major source of power and metallurgists, who are, in she had with our own dash- in the distant future. many ways, more important than

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physicists,

ing Sir Charles Peake, one summer's day in Belgrade: almost four years ago,

ANNA

SIR CHARLES She deviated He listened

This shortage is due to the Do you believe we know unsatisfactory state of higher She has been sacked from the more or less about atomic technological education in Bri Rumanian Communist Parly theory and atomic tech- tain, as well as to an anti-Politburo and other top nology than the Russians? qunted attitude of mind in many mittees, and this is what the

The Rusians have a number parts of Industry. The position/Party paper says about her that her enemies have taken so

.of

excellent scientists and in respect of scientists is nea mathematicians. They

have whole antisfactory. very probably, putn much bigger percentage of their whole national effort into this matter. than we, and, of course, they have produced bomba,

com-

Moreover, as one who has heard hundreds of, pep talks by Army officers, he can" give Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt, C.-in-C. The Nore, ten marks out of ten for saying all that fewest was necessary in the

i possible words.

Although experience tolls him that the free-beer/ isua won't last, even if the "women do, this anything-but-jolly tar, with only one, wife near ond coach

this and much more of his in-port, felt Jollier in the ་་་ terview with impetuous Anna in coming home.

a despatch to the Foreign Ofce.

The only snag is the uniform. The despatch was so fascinating Unable Scaman Gubblus might that it began to be talked about lock respectable enougli in at diplomatic dinner-tables.

blue battledress but he feels

myself beard the story and that a blue beret, worn at his age, might remind people for reported it.

one of those elderly French guides selling those awful post- cords.

London Express Service)

had

How scornfully, too, Anda talked to Sir Charles-today 'ambassador In Athens of the poor; peasants' provincialism. Such snobbery was hardly in keeping with the simplicity ex- pected from a faithful daughter of the Communist proletariat. Stalin's court, it is remarkable."

And the fact that she Tight-wing deviationist... long to exploit her indiscrect received the British diplomat ilved on a slope of aristocracy talk to Sir Charles about her alone in her apartment at Bel- grado's Rumanian Embassy, and ....tore herself away from the fellow-Rumanians,

entertained him with vodka and masses":

"They are lazy good-for- caviare, showed a deviationist That le the woman who not nothing beasts and brutes, fit contempt for the reserve expected. lénders in so long ago was Stalin's most only for the pigsty" she told from Communist Where do you think we stand trusted confidente in South-East Sir Charles,

Intercourse with Westerners. While it is improbable that today?, Can we afford to spend | Europe.:

During the war, in Moscow, she they know more about the even more money on our atomle

have everything fundamentals or the technology projects? ...

people could wish for fertile Was closely led to the French Maurico than, we do, they may well keep

lands, rich allfields, splendid Communist leader

Thorez, himself a deviationist, phond of us in the amount of One point seems clear: we will She confessed her "errors" rivers and waterways, plutonium produced...

and leaders. They have only to work Thorez himself for some time not get a full exchange of in says her party paper," formation with America until we promised to toe the line from and use what nature has given now has been under house arrest now on. Bo for the moment the them to become the richest and in Soviet Itussia. He was called can show some results of our is still Foreign "Minister-but: mont: progressive le people In there from France on the Can Britain, afford to make own."

that does not make her fall any Europe, but they refuse, they pretext that he could be given atomic bomby when she is con

Tesa" humiliating.

prefer to remain the miserable better medical attention.

are." backward hogs that thor I am only astonished that 11 BE

I predict that It will not be The military aspect connot be proper detelopment of atomic has not come sooner. For in the Sir Charles, outstanding among long before Anna, too, separated from the peaceful ape unergy, seems essential, 12 we cut-throat intrigue of King Too our youngest diplomata, put all receiving "medical attention."

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