1953-02-03 — Page 4

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY

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NEW CITY TO BE A-BOMBED

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New York.

N American city is to be destroyed by atomic weapons.. }

It is a dummy city, new being act up in the Novada Desert, with a million dollars (£357, 000) worth of steel, concrete and other kinds of structures-all designed to test the fury of the. slom,

NOW the Nevada Desert also holds America'» gambling capital, Las Vegas, and in some casinos there bets are offered that a hydrogen bomb is to be tried out on the shadow elty.

Layers should ask big oddi. The chances are much better that the city will be bombarded by atemic artillery, which is the next logical step in the use of atomic weapons.

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They will probably shell some deep-in-the-carth bunkers simi- lar to those built by the Red Chhere in Korea (presumably under the supervision of Russian engineers).

No matter how much the boom of cannon shakes the dice tables ot Las Vegas, 80 miles away,

gaabling will not stop. It goes on round the clock.

TBE Redskinds have met the

al: age, and they like it,

The Navajo Indians, whore ancestors built the pueblos, от prehistoric "kyscrapers," in the sides of cliffs, are joining the Government's Civil Air Patrol, and already many Navajos are pilots.

Notable hunters and trackers, In a war it would be the job of the Navajos to hunt down roles and saboteurs both afoot and in the sky. For it is thought that enemy agents would swarm azrors the border from Mexico Into sparsely aettled Arizona, where the Navajo reservation lies.

the New York Times to Americans -London hotels are practically

WARNING from

sold cut for the Coronation But rooms can still be booked

In homes within 90 minutes' iravelling time of London,

MARRIAGES were fewer by A eight percent in 1952 and leap year is not to blame.

So many Americans wed in the immediate postwar years

London Express Bervice

"No, not a Purge-not an S.S. General-not a cosh boy just Daddy without his keys. Now be good boys and open the door."

WHAT HITLER'S HEIRS

T has been a fortnight

of surprises in Europe, not least in East and West Germany where there have been allegations of plots, spectacular ar- rests, threatened purges.

What do these aud- den, mysterious, unfinished dramas portend? Is there between connection

any

them?

ARE

UP

UP

TO

by

H. R. TREVOR-ROPER

famed author of "The Last Days of Hitler"

remarks dropped by the British High Commissioner, remarka linking the conspirators with "dark horses in the East."

What are these dark horses? It The Russian Government? is not inconceivable: Nazism and Communism are so akin. that

then to capture the Bonn many have found them easily

Government from within,

the recent

Interchangeable.

But there is also another That such penetration is

possibility which should never quite feasible is shown by be overlooked.. We speak gibiy case of a high of East and West Germans as if Nazi. who officially,dicit and they were opposite nations; but ther in propaganda or in him, the Federal Govern then, under another name, are artificial at heart they are they are not. Their differences On the face of it there youth movements.

ment is firm, and the neo-

gave evidence

of his own and, and if any German parly Nazis ore Nazis with a death, married his own could unite thom its prestige seems to be East German

had been difference they might ac- "widow," and sat as a de- within Germany might rako

former loyalties obsolete.* ! new Nazism, but mocrat in the Bonn Parlia- allegedly a crisis in food with Hitler in his last days, cept a

East Germany. would, shed production, not politics; the and two had been nominated would hardly follow men so ment.

their Communism, West Ger" Nazi conspiracy in West as Ministers of Propaganda, closely connected with the

That such capture of mans the: Liberaliem. Germany seems a desperate and Culture in his will.

power is possible is shown Who then would control the lender, Their alleged

It is possible that these by the case of the highest now fringe,

Werner Naumann, belonge men are crack-pots staging Nazi of all, Hitler himself, west. The West? That a what

adventure of

none.

The crisis is

idlot

And yet, since it has re- quired the direct and drama. that there is now a comparative Only shortage of eligibles,

tic intervention of the oc- 1,540,000 got married. The re-cupying Power, cord was 2,300,000 in 1946.

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Who are they?

Further, two

left

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Goebbels' successor, charged to mobilise for Nazism the next generation. When we consider these facts we can hardly fail to recognise in these men the intended executors of Hitler's poli- tical testament.

old.

power.

Crucial date

That

power? Russia? would be formidable to the

to all these categories: He a demonstration for January who 20 years ago taught the the Russians apprehend.

Hitler's

a 30-the 20th anniversary world how to carry through But could any party 20 Tên

Hitler's accession to a revolution after power. unite Germany? There is of

possibility. Suppose a new Nazl It would not be surprising party the heir of that party if Hitler's German heirs which previously reunited the were to imitate this policy. Reichshould, by these tactles acquire power Already his Russian heirs both in the West, under Liberal

of penetration, have carried it out in colours, and in the East, under. But it is much more Czechoslovakia, in Hungary, Communist colours, and then First, who

likely that they had learned in Bulgaria, and now in East simply declare an Anschluss, arrested Germans? The But how could they have the lesson of that crucial Germany. It has proved nucleus of them appears..to hoped to execute it in date and (as Sir Ivone very successful--provided it have been in the old Pro- January, 19637 The ground Kirkpatrick has declared) is backed by power. paganda Ministry. All of is not prepared. Hitler is were planning. not to But whence could such power the seven conspirators had at present at a discount in chalenge but to penetrate come? It is here, I suspect, that been active under Hitler, Germany; the pubile disown the existing parties and we must speculate upon certain

are the

DON'T BLAME

+

THE

It just happens there may be a phase of the moon for each moment of madness

CHAPMAN PINCHER WI up the INQUIRY

THIS inquiry proves be- yond doubt that many people who are otherwise normal become peculiar almost to the point of mad- ness at the time of the full moon.

It also proves to my satisfac tion that, in spite of this. op-

This rhythm is well known to docious,

regularly every 28 days.

MOON

Planning war?

A new State would then sude

in advance by both East and

not at all impossible or. At least, no more Impossible than Hitler's ambition seened in 1933.

denly have been formed, arm:0; West. Such an achievement La

Its dangers are obvious. Even were it crushed by armed inter=" vention, that armed intervention #==|=|=|=|=|=|=|=|======might be the beginning of a

he had the urge to kill. When new war ho felt the "turn coming he

I do not suggest that Naumann warmed us to go out, or he went and Co. were planning this; as out and wandered about a yet there is insuficient evidenco through the night until he was for this or any other suggestion. exhausted.

But it is the sort of. thing "He knew the moon affected Hitler's heirs, may have him, and tried hard to fight it visaged. off. He was a kind-hearted boy. and met his death through an accident."

i

If so, it could also explain why, in the Eastern zone too, the A careful reading of the letters becupying Power is apprehensive --why its German population is again supplies G satisfactory being more strictly regimented, may get violent and come into neuer y recur explanation for such cases. ts German Government further conflict with the law,

These people are suffering purged, and the non-Communist A Manchester woman reports from an obsession, in some members of it gradually

"My husband is perfect for instances mild; in others chiminated. They call it, cyclo- thymia and the people who show.

perhaps six weeks or a They either feel that they are it markedly, cyclothymes, couple of months, në: a time, "hypnotised" by the moon or Most "moon_mad" people in Then he sulke for a few duse persecuted by it. Almost! tri- my view are simply cyclothymes and never speaks, and when we variably it is the light of the whose period of excitement or asked him why he gets out the moon which fascinates them, depression frequently coincides poker and breaks all the locks in with some phase of the moon. the house". Evidence:

parent link between noon and mind, the moon rarely has aḥty- thing to do with these swings,

of temperament..

Such discrepancy is fully in accord.-with the medical care-

Persecution

I believe the crisis and con- spiracies in East and West Ger- many may, in fact, be much mere closely connected than alther the Communists or the British High- Commissioner have-so-far-dis- closed.

PRIVATE VIEW

I

by CUMMINGS

records of cyclothymes. In rome THIS type of obscesion is com

T Three angles of the depression-ciation cycle i mon. Any report which evidence support that explana, frequent, in others fare..

write involving | comnic, rays,| 2. Scientista point out

that radar, or atomie rays beings in

J

are

The evidence submitted this tion: up to a simple explanation of 1. White mann people the centuries-old belief in such

nald to be affected by the full any gravitational pu exerted its quota of letters from people by the moon on the fluids and who are convinced they are others become equally tissuer of the human nervous, being persecuted by them. .a link.

peculiar pt the time of the new

system cannot be influenced moon, half moon,

third

the different phases.

Explanation:

Many people

moon

• à teacher writes:—

Thus a

"At a rural school in Cam

moon.

caric

are subject to a rhythmic cycle. of depression and clation, Indridgeshire", 1: have most of theso people the Bcro twa chikken who are difference between tho

akected by the speaks of clation set the trough of de "CASE ONE:A cheerful, pression is to tight na do be piensant boy who supid hardly noticeable, But the full moon phase does sigythm affects the behaviour of things, rushing about at other postrongly that their speed and talking loudly

"CARE TWO: A. sullen type parwormlitica sundergo striking temporary chang tiyanggah

who during the new moon phase goon berwork in a rutad way. In extreme cotton thoir une The letters reveal that controtable excitement or de, though the writers may be om spate magt: push their boyaviour, vinced of a firm connection be beyond the limit of wint schny twosa očki behaviour and one will acceptą na nami shinee of the moon,

By

The pull varies only with the distance of the moon from the earth--not with its luminosity.

Obsession

i

The mystery of stich says travelling through space, seps to fascinate them..

In the same way, the moon's rays are blamed by some people, No acientist had yet "ranklysed | recordings of brain-waves--the minute eleclete charges generated by the brain's surfaceuato and out whether any of them shows:

na prinses of the annou

WHAT about those people who fillsce to conscious of a con

nection between them and the Tide - should be - done - the P moon that they often take

meanwhile, from the evidence who were others in the Logo teale inquiry, I deci when their dangerous dime is confident That "all" apparent

• links between “Emoon radzens" upproaching?

Glasgow, woman writes of and the moon can be explained cliber by obsession,os fooln- "He was quite normin), unth cidence.

her son

á full choon, appeared." Then kuin michondas-Express Karvier)

of TV for she

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