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cess of the conference - will depend on whether there is the requisite degree of flexibility"

in the Russian allitude"

WORRIED EXPERT:

"CAREFUL, NOW....... DID HE BEND?'

"

SPACE IN 50

OME fifty years ago, numere*s Amateur experimenters were tinkering with

World Copertoni by arrangement with the Manchester Ouardian

CHINA -MAIL, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

All that's left-

*

the name's the same

And at the door-a bayonet

BERLIN.

HE Adlon of Berlin! Once it was in the first rank of the world's famous hotels, It was a favourite of Kaiser Wilhelm II; and its register: of guests resembled pages from the "Almanach de Gotha.

It cost £1,000,000 to bulid, and from the day it opened, in 1007, it became symbolic of luxury and the brillance of an *International

aristocratic

society now fading into history.

I drove into Berlin's batter ed Russian sector fo ace the Adlon, or what's left of it, for although the name's the same, practically nothing else remainis to ovoke an echo of its nobla days.

The East

Berlin municipal authorities now run the place.

From there I

came back to the

Wester doctor

for a talk with

THE ADLON~~~1966

by René MacColl

Frau Hedda Adlon, She is the

THE ADLON-between the wars

And the main dining-room of the old days?. Frau Adlon pro- duced photographs of the stately, ornala “room. with its moles,

its calonnudes, ita plashing fountains, and pictures "painted on the celling.

(The present dining-room is ility and about the size of a

THE milway station buffet in a small lown.

The cheap curtains are merely tacked on to the window frames. Two sad-faced waiters serve a dismal meal.)

Says Frau Adion: "Our winest There were 400,000 bottles in the collar when are swept the Frau Adlon is a vivacious, hotel in May 1045, All those

still showing bottles, all those

widow of Louls Adion, son of engaging woman,

the war's end.

Her

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splendid the man who founded the botel's traces of earlier beauty.

(At the hotel the other day I tradition, and who himself ran Bat is crammed with oil paint vintages-looted, burned. the hotel for many years before ings of the old days, including

her husband and was handed the meagre, modern he died in Russian bands at platures of

wing list It is a paltry little

about herself riding to hounds.

"Oh, what an hotel was the affair, containing

entrips. There aro Bulgarian Adient" she cried. "Lorenz

Hungarian Adion, my father-in-law, scoured dessert wines, hock, Europe for the finest of every- Tokay, some horrible brandy (1 thing. No expense was spared. tried a glass) and Soviet cham- Hundreds of pounds were spent pagne at £2 a bottle)

FLIGHT YEARS

By A. V. CLEAVER, F.R.Ae.S. motors have accelerated it to its

their

employment to many thousands of workers of all kinds over the next half-century.

who make and others diacoveries

in the delds of pure smelly

and erratic petrol knowledge. engines, while others worked

Also, just as was the case for There exist Loday, in many

the machines AcTenoutics,

countries, societies devoted to progress on simple flying

astronautics

of space-Right; will be an orderly the ideal of wood, wire and fabric. astrona

British evolution, rather then

Interplanetary From all

over 2,000, was

process.

or

sudden.

in the sense that one

amateur of in-

now of

(For

comparison,

Royal Aeronautical Society was found. ed in 1806-37 years before the Wright Bros. first flight).

the

more

or

to keep it aloft. Once its rocket required speed, outward centri- fugal force will balance the in- ward pull of gravity, just as it does for the Earth's natural satellite the Moon in its circular path around us.

Recking handles.

a certain

vestibula

get of door

V

you

says

result! "And the

If

"Hitler."

Frau Adlon, cquid havo eeen the entrance "came to the hotel only once, vestibule, with its marble walls for 15 minutes. He did not like and Its gilitering

he thought chandellers!" us much, because (Today one walks into tiny, wo were too international. He seedy little

few was wearing a talicoat to wel- austerity chairs and a large bust come the visiting King of Siam." of East German President Pieck

A ittlo of the One are the main decorations, is met at the desk by a one-eyed man in a greasy blue su)

✩ ✩ ✩

the Kaiserin were

100%

10

me

green'

and

Adlon's old glory lingered until a year ago, for the colonnaded main hall somehow survived the fire. Then the Russians pulled that down to get at four stel girders which they needed for the Frau Adlon went on, her eyes

Berlin their East nostalgie excite building of

Stalin Avenue. dashing with ment: "When we opened; the showpiece

ber enthusiasm. Perhaps 10 years after this, Kaizer and the

was, Frat

can recreate Adion larger pilote satellite rockets our first guests. Next day came evident love of the place as i So will be built, fitted with wings the Crown

Prince and many othe

of anind

visitor the their laboura, starling, new achievement. The with a membshur ed in 1933. enubling them to land back on members of the Prussian court. epitomised by the triumph extremely

vanished world of horse-drawn rupid progress of

The Earin

Kaiser presented gülders.

elegance, of the Wright Brothers in aviatku sometimes blinds people

un high-speed

portrait of carriages, leisured

splandick uniforme, and plumed 1908, have come great in to the fact that it has never-

They will have important mill-with a full-length

helmets, the world where the theless beeti relatively gradual

tory and civil ures, as short himself in dragoon's uniform. dustries and a world-wide teles

wave radio relay stations, as hung it in the emerald

word "idealogy"""" had no sigai- revolution in transport, advance has led to another, and The members of all thesa astronomical, meteorological, and ballroom. warfare, and our whole way so

These days the occasional star ficance.. Dra. The path from the steieties are

less reconnaissance observation posts,

emergen Today, when orpe like Joliot- the probable lines and probably as bomb-nimers. guest is someone of life. The conquest of the Wright biplane to the "Comet" agreed on

Curle, the French Communist from the small shabby front nir

one "Bécs -

•Molotov himself door of the Adion, in particular, has has required many steps, even of future astronautical develop

On The Moon atam expert. probably been the greatest though they were taken quickly. ment. Initially, the first gradual

has stayed there. But, when I neither carriages nor resplendent steps will be taken for reasons single story of our times. More Complex quite unconnected with inter- Towards the end of the last was there all I saw were some doorinen Only a Russian sentry wearing grey with fixed bayonet, pacing up planetary flight; they

are in quarter of this century, women guests, Today, a similar revolu- The significant difference fact, already being taken. specially-designed rocket vehicles flannel trousers and rabbit-skin and down in the snow. And a tion is in the making, for arises from the fact that the

hideous ruins of Hitler's bunker, During the war, the Germans could be assembled in orbits just overcoats, who curried silently few yards away the smashed and

from

In and out. the second half of this days are st when big new made the first important appli- beyond te tered by the century is likely to bring the technical developments could be cations of neketry, such as the components ferried out

produced by

Me. 183 rocket-propelled fighter mielite rockets. These would be of space. Man, dividual experimenters, working plane and the 3 mistile. Since the first ships capable of flight conquest. having mastered the art of alone or in small groups, ferely the war, the governments of the far out into space, and ultimately The USA Britain, and no doubt of Landing on the Moon and flight within the

resources. private mospher, is

almost arst sucessful aeroplane emerged sin), have continued this work with their human chews, Prob

other countries (including Bus other planets, to return safely of twa young American rocket planes have beyond it.

mechanic, but no such

effort carried their pilots at twice the shly, they would be fuelled by will suffice to produce the first speed of sound 15 miles high, Earthboeed tanker rockets before

unmanned

search missiles have embarking on their interplanet spaceships

climbed nearly 250 miles into ry voyages. Modern technology has become space, and monkeys and mice

There will, ot course, be and ex- It will, of course, be flight vastly more complex

have safely returned from flights many to question the need or and requires huge to over 50 miles in other rockets. with difference,

of any since Pensive,

desirability

such pro facilities in the way of labora Brinin has announced progres wings, propellers, and even tories,

#t, however, not at

•ject. Is experimental factories in defensive anti-aircraft rockels, Jeust worthwhile an en- gas turbine jet engines. are and testing grounds, manned by useless in the

The Rocket

crops up in the news... away she pleaded: Flease don't vacuum of large teams of specialists.

A big modern acroplane of the interplanetary spaces.

I am now, I want people to re- navancer design

continued squandered today? And would a name not heard of for publish a photograph of me as The rocket, however, func millions, or even tens of millions, progress along all these

it not be wholly out of charac-nearly 40 years...the name member me just as I tines tións even

ter for man to forgo such an of Pauline Chase. And, be- Peter Pan." more efficiently pounds

of

possible perfect. The war should make in the complete absence

Peter Pan Pauline Hves now en unmuned adventuro (of both body and hind the headlines, she is organisation to produce the establishment of

mind), as soon as he hás ut air than it does at sea level. nrst atomic bombs absorbed over "artificial satellite" rocket, in aquired the technical ability to revealed today as the Peter with her son in a flat in. Tun- Pan who really never grew bridge Wells. She gave up the Its thrust is derived purely £5,000,000,000, and the U.S.A. circular

make it practicable?

Alec stage when she married $1,000,000,000 atmosphere. It will be used to from the reaction of spends,

atomle energy, radio back to Earth the research This writer, at least, believes

Drummond, a banter, in 1914, throwing a mass of gas developments alone.

data rend by its automatic in- that the world of 2003 A.D.

It was in the staid atmo= (He died in 1937.). backwards, and the rocket Space-Sight will be another struments, #nd will seed no will answer both questions with sphere of the House of Cam-

She is iny, gold-haired, (by definition)

mone that. her, name was heard carries great technical enterprise, giving continuous expenditure of power a conadenit affirmative.

again Paulíné, whose fame always full of energy. "My within itself all the sub-

was amid the bright lights and favourite pastime is travelling stances required to generato

around music of the stage.

the country to its

friends," she says.

now

at- with

ready for the attempt to fly from the work

Americans with unc hired

A Difference

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own exhaust

ndvanced

of time

gases.

Space-flight, therefore, will be flight high initial speed by rocket propulsion.

The potentialities of the rocket for interplanetary fight

werd.

first realised by various ploneer scientists and engineers at about the same time as the Wrights'

Idea the

thought

much older than

to

per yedr

nearly

оп

will cost

about By

1005,

the

orbit above the

SHE is

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Cold

Even the slightest cold

is to be feared

Do not let it spread]· Defeat ittrom.the.start. by taking 1 or 2 CAFASPINS

Peter Pan ( 88 now CAFASPIN

still refuses

to grow up

ACCIDENTALLY a name deavour as many on which the

resources of mankind are

THAT OLD MAN RIVER

of

THE

IS RUNNING AWAY

New York, Sunday.

MISSISSIPPI

Low. travelling

ing to other worlds la of changing its course, course

that for the fifth time in 3,000 Concurrently with the early ex-

parimental years of aviation, the years.

subject of space-flight received It seeks a shorter way for its considerable theoretical study.

Similarity

AMERICA COLUMN

from

NEWELL ROGERS

announces

to

night shifts and high-tipping Jobs as night waitresses and bartenders.

TUNY RIVETS

and screws

dropped to the floor and |_ swept away at Its bomber

assembly plant cast the Lock

of

searching the sweepings with

up.

A very

special famo

Was

)

CHINESE

CREEDS

and

wag

in

CUSTOMS

hers; the fame of being a great And with her king for slim Peter Pan ... the best Peter black suits and snappy little of nil, said hats she looks for younger tann

SIF James she is and is Immensely

Sir

Barrie,

Haylag

ventod

who, pleased when people think so.

in-

the

bay - who

// "never – grow

up, was per haps the best judge of all,

In the Commons.

"1. haven't the faintest 'Idea how old I am," she anys impishly. "But I've got aix grandchildren."

Tory MP. Mr Tho sacret of over-youthful- Fletcher ness? Well, Pauline Chase -bo- Cooke brought loves that a-gonse of humour, up the name no smoking, always keeping on of Pauline the move, and "the odd 1⁄2 odaks Chuso tall when you feel like it," koep, by agreeing you young wwwith

Barrie Judg." have breakfast-every- ment of her. The great

PAULINE

as she tolches to

be remembered,, nik

est Pet

day

dy: 2,350 miles (3,803 miles If you The planet or space platform, beed Aircraft Corporation During 1920's and 30's, a fair count the Missouri) to the sea: sald Pryor, would circle the $3,000 a month. amount of small-scale practical

Cit is awinging aside above Bato earth about 600 miles outside. Now that loss has been cut to work on rocketry Was ala Rouge, pouring more and more Atom missiles fired from it $1,200 a month because blind carried out-mostly in Germany water into its Indian-amed would "reduce, any country to people have got the job One might say that during the tributary Atchafalaya. (A. adolescence of aeronautics, the chaffle). Infant science of "astronautica" (fight beyond the atmosphere) prosperity of the romantic old

This threatens to dry up the CENATOR JOE MCCARTHYitive fingers.

he means L'ATHERS should use their

at R. quarter past seven sha was being born,

port of Now Oricans, and to test the Fifth Amendment, belts and policemen their

says brightly, "In the mornings upset

Che whole economy of the that clause in the US. Con batons. In dealing with unruly

Pan I walk down to the end of town Mississippi Valley with

blat in partly

and back, partly ice excercise, great colton trade, new indus alitution which anys aman need teenagers, says Sherift-Willam

to see friends. In the, Island. There

points of fries, and 6,000,000 people, not give evidence which might McCollum of Riverliend, Loug mid Ms letter cook, are many

bim onik, incriminate

attemoons and evenings Interlude cor: labour', pake So in Washington this moniky,

And East Hartford (POP) || "ank, she gran uti/Austiced, similarity between the two

do ventures, and also at least one the men who live by Old Man Up to now it has been the 20,933), Connecticut, has

Certainly Miss Chame was an extain at home or go out, pe Yes, bright, gay--and always, very significant difference, quita River are lobbying hard-for

difference in money to build dams, dykes, biggest obstacle to his investiga clareda curfew children under Americanate was bom in apart from the

tions. How he's going to lest it 10 mitst be in by 9 pm unless Washington (asil) 68 years ago always young that's Feter Fan and spillways,

accompanied by Senator Jos will not say..

Facult

But was the the greatest Peter at dB) night technique alrendy noted."

Pant

//M.P.# shouted

look at her it's hard to be- American Airways chief, NARD, New York; social

Amooth, was ✨ forind ets-

there have Been rany, leve that in enth

1906: Pan Washington that the world welfare chier, Ion't do sareal gaged in a link batus with Price Per since Pauline tute boy

youd Models:

tered acrom the Landen fist could be attacked from a "inan) the laws that ban women froin has a while rim, round its

during the made planet "imple

201 and is one of the most deadly The Germans were worki **They are meant to shield them in. Amation.

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that the same spirit of curiosity told a women's meeting

odventure *** uruch

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