1953-01-17 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1953.

41 had a circumferenzor and a diagram: of the planetary aspects, a tide table and's nocturnal. Made by an Eng. Hahn. Humphrey Cole, in saled with one of the greatem of all Eng Jichnen, Sir Francis Drake. And It also told the time-urichin full an hour or so. Reproduced by county of the Trusses of the Nacional Maritime Musium, Granich, England)

"Thoy did something lotting little princos blow whistles to start trains."

This Security Slanging Match-

M

I CALL FOR A TRUCE

Y only qualifica security fiascos as the es- tion for writing cape of Gerhari Eisler or this article is that the disappearance into thin a air of the seven top Com

munists in 1951 ?

WAR

once

secret agent and therefore know only too well the im- measurable importance of. watertight security,

I can think of so many spits who ought to be dead,

They are:-

London Express Bervion

AMERICA COLUMN

from

NEWELL ROGERS

The Minks Come Out For Ike

New York, FOLLYWOOD is dusting EL off mink coats and white

H

By contrast, British security ties to give Eisenhower n during the Monte Bello ex-

supercolossal inauguration.

37, plosion was, so far as we know, And some. Americans are Sidney Steinberg.

worried about it. assistant labour secretary absolutely foolproof, of the U.S. Communist Party,

ús.

During November, too,

Stars will put on a varicly Army authorities in Washington show, led by George Murphy. said they were "disturbed" to The cast Includes Ethel Mer- Dorothy Fred Morris Fine, 38, a learn that detalls of their secretman, Edgar Borgen, He had prolific writer and lecturer atomproof communications centre Lamour,

James publication.

Frod been freed on bail pending on the Communist platform. bad been issued in his appeal from both convic- visitat England in 1950.

Eister was actually under two guol sentences at the time of his escape.

anurmy

Hoagy Carmichael, Mellon,

Alan Jones, Orchestra, and Dorothy Sif be the

Orflike for because of tionia, which in itself was James Edward Jackson underground Pentagon,

to be a surphy:TAL"

their practically unbreak not a very sensible action, able cover-stories-and 1 and all he then had to do

walk aboard can remember many more was to who should be alive, but are Polish ship Batory and sait dead only because they over to liberty. Even more extra

William Norman Marron, tiny detail ordinary, however, was the looked some (such as placing a knife and faet, stated in a New York 50, organisational secretary fork together on the plate newspaper, that the ship was of New York State Coin- after eating a Continental actually being watched by munist breakfast) or were not cor-

rectly briefed

-quarters,

So

by head-

by

the event ton alr

Ritchie, Maryland.

BACK-BITING

show ever in Washing- Eisenhower deserves it."- Oh, does he? reply

such

This revealed plans for an e

jun.,

Negro like used in 37. a Winston, Southern Regional attack, 600ft. beneath the summit

Phillips... "Everybody likes fun Director of the U.S. Com- Rave Rock Mountain, Fort citizens as commentator H. munist Party.

and frolic But somebody #11 should warn that this is historie

of n inaugura! Prest- dent, not a carnival show or u mid-way striptease," he says,

"If ever

we needed ignity and the true meaning of de mocracy. this is it. We are in talent a global crisis,

crisis, not a scaut cold war."

Now we learn that on Ains

New sheriff's posse, and the

Club in Hampshire Shoe snowshoes will be in the in- augural parate on January 20.

it seemned natural STANLEY MOSS

enough - to Amerleans, fuced with the imminent execution of the Rosenbergs, should now look askance at Britain for hav- ing released Nunn May.

me that the

Indeed, American reat-

1

Author of "Il Met by Moonlight," about his capture of Kreipe, the German general in Creta.... He 2008 educated at Charterhouse, Jobed the Coldstream Guards in 1939.... Became a major at 22,

Was a secret agent in Africa, the Balkans, and the Far East..

Party; born in THE truth

Is that in both Britain and America the standard of security since the war has been appalling, But nothing is gained by foolish at- tempts to pretend that onekan. dog team, a Nevada country or the other should take major shore of the discredit.

J call for a truce to this security slanging match. Instead of indulging in reciprocul back- biting we might look with envy at the security record

of the Russians.

And by this I don't mean that: we should have to adopt police-

UP AND ` ur Roes New York's population--from 7,084,- 000 lo 0,053,000. But still America's first city is behind London's 8,340,137,

·GOOD NEWS for Britain. tion was swift and pointed. the F.II., who were on the Russia, went to the US, as state or OCPU methods. Washington estimates U.S. ex- The Washington Star wrote:

ports will go down this year look-out for Valentin a child. "The British

Above all, let us hope that and-imports up. If they Gubitchev, n Russian crets Act looks much to engiucer accused on a charge

American accusations of British right, this should help to close All these men have negligence, do not queer Mr the dollar gap. toothless for the grim age of spying. Yet Eisler, it vanished from the heart Churchill's chances of obtaining DANA ANDREWS will be

seems, was able to go of America. Yet the F.B.I. Mr Eisenhower's aboard under their very do not know whether they an exchange of atomle secrets. are hiding in America or have escaped to Russia.

Official Se-

of A-weapons,"

'BEING DUPED'

DAVID LAWRENCE,

noses.

agreement to

Orp

Vivien Leigh's co-star in that Ceylon plcture. **Elephant Walk."

Mr Churchill will find his task

Sir Laurence Olivier cannot dificult enough, A few more- In much the same fashion

Irades like David Lawrence's make it. He has a Coronation It should also be recorded would make it even tougher. Season part to prepare. The Alm is one of 30 to be made a three other leading Com-

that Fuchs carried on the widely read columnist, munists who made their most important part of his

But we can trust Mr Churchill abroad in 1953 by Hollywoot! and General Elsenhower to rise And this makes Hollywood's writing of Britain's "non- escape 18 months ago did so spy-work while he was doing above such petty talk and get on own studio workers furious. It chalant and soft attitude" actually while on bail after research in the States.. with the job of bringing about means some of them will be out towards Communist infiltra- conviction.

closer Anglo-American co of work, · tion, has said:--

And Americans like kit operation in this all-important: So complete was their Lawrence might also ponder field. "The concern of many disappearance that

their there over

Own recent Americans is growing that Britain is either has been no trace of them parallel to our "Cicero" case. the in which bellicose extracts from an American general's exhaustive

diary, sald to have bean Frank- photographed in n fort hotel, were put to splendid propaganda `use by the Russians.

being duped or misled at since,

high levels and that most P.B.I.

even though

holds

of her newspapers ure dossiers on each of them,

not alert to the damage

being done to the alliance

of the Western Powers by

They are:-

Gilbert Green, 45, chair-

Britain's negligence." man of District Eight Com. By husinuating a chisel of munist Party in Chicago.

dissension, this sort of Robert George Thompson, comment can do nothing but 37,

1

Daily

LETTERS TOLD

Worker awarded the BUT perhaps the most startling example of a collapse in

aggravate,the damage to columnist, Anglo-American relations. D.SC. for bravery during

It is true that the British the war. He walks with security occurred last November, security record since the pronounced limp.

when a flood of letters · from American Servicemen gave the

mid-Pacific. The contents of

war has been shameful. I Henry Winston, Negro. world its fret news of the Would be the last to attempt Communist leader, is easily "thermo-nuclear" explosion in to excuse us for such ap- recognisable by his pock these letters, none of which was palling Inpses as the Fuchs, marked face. Pontecorvo, Nunn May,

censored, provided. detailed

explosion.

Burgess and Maclean canes. And there are four more descriptions and diagrams of the But sermons on security Communists tho F.B.I. are These распред from ncross the Atlantic hunting.

The recipients, in all innocence,. acem-timed and ill- arrest also in June 1951, freely circulated many such re

of after being neetised judgedy

ports to the Press, thus providing plotting the violent over- nussia with a fine pleca of new ***Was "David". "Lawrence throw of the American a week in advance of the officiat

forgotten

announcement.

auch blaring Government; '

POCKET CARTOON By OSBERT LANCASTER

wland 20.io every member of this great organisations I give chia personal message. let us go forward ínio. 1953 with sober confidence waited in the firms resolve to but duty before pleasurej service before-self, stentera) itcetera, etcitéra.”

EMPLOYMENT and uncan- ployment will go up in 1953. Govern- Yes, you read that ment forecast correctly,

They work it out this way!

70,000 will be added to the

force; 500,000 will get Jobs, boosting the total cm- ployed to the new record 02,800,000.

of

The rest will join the job- less, whose numbers are at a post-war low.

BING CROSBY is tired, He has pulled out of the Irving Berlin musical alm Christmas."

has too.

So Fred

Bing will rest till ber, when he teams

"White

Astaire

Septem-

un ngain with Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour.

Who can blame Bing? wife, Dixie, died recently. He has made 40 pictures and İs many times a millionaire.

IN 33 CITIES this year | gigantic birthday parties will be held to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the gigantic car company Henry Ford. I started In 1003 with £10,000 of cupl

tat

Two hours of TV and on hour of radio", "breadcasting will bring the fun to ali America. There will be a half- hillion" "printing of a picture I'book ""Ford at Fifty,"

W

Round

the world

with Francis Drake?

7BEN Elizabeth I was on the throne of England, and. English sea-power was at its height, this dial was buccaneering the seat with Sie Francis Drake. It was probably with him when, in 1577, he laid course by Morocco and the Cape Verde islands and set out to sall around the world.

Neatly four hundred years were to pass before the Rolex Datejus made its appearance; but the analogy between Drake's dial and the Datejust is not so far-fetched as it may scem. For Rolex watches, too, have quite a naval tradition, They've been used, for instance, for destroyer navigation. when the ship's chronometer was destroyed-and once, even, for timing a flotilla attack in the Far East.

But they've also served with distinction in quieter roles; seryed with ruch unvaried accuracy as to make their name a byword. And top of all Rolex watches we can put the Datejust-perfectly waterproofed by the Oyases CAC, powered by the silent, efficient Rolex Perpetual scif-winding "Rotor," it shows the date automatically in a neat, cleat window on the dial. Of all grest Rolex watches, the Datejust is the latest and the greatest—so far, at least.

Latest and greatest of the Rolex triumphr, the Datejus) is waterproof, thanks to the Oyster rate, ad allwinding, thanks to the patenter! Rolex Perpetualis," Moreover, the date appeara automatically Aust clearly in a neat window on the ultimato face. Accurate? Of course! The accuracy: Rolex accuracy.

And the Tales Red Sexf? It a sign that the watch in which it is stacled havbeen tested by an Hicial Texting Sution of the Swis Government, has been awarded his own Official Timing Certifieme, and she title utrhresanneter. AllDeejunacarry the Rolex Red Seal

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