1954-03-17 — Page 43

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17, 1954,

Time is working for the Kremlin

Sefton Delmer's Newsmap takes a lesson from a startling report

H

LO

offices

I cannot

those boot forget ERE is something to at a rate...substantially greater

shops in Moscow where the shake the complacency than the United States rate."

I am all the more imprested workers--long queues of them out of you.

with this American assessment could and only one size of Remember how we have because I know it crinettes with goloshes and all of them left Or the been told again and again the views of some of our own foot goloshes at that. about the backwardness of best-informed analysts of Soviet hotchpotch of machinery in the

industrial development.

faclorica visited. The printing the Soviet economy, how

I see it the picture here presses As

in the Pravda they have not got the in- revealed incans for you and me which were being torn out of dustrial potential or even

THERE WILL BE NO WAR the floor by their own vibration. the next ten The cement in those new build- the skilled workers to match

for at least

But Ings in Stalingrad which was the West in it shooting years and probably longor.

and cracking be- war? Well, here is the THERE WILL BE NO END crumbling

war cause it had been mixed at the the present cold abock.

within that term.

For the Kremlin rulers, with Soviel Union and the pro- the same general assessment of ductivity of the Soviet econoink comparative rates of expansion machine are expanding year by to work on, must have decided year of rate

side, "Incomparably that time is on their faster than any Western country Indeed, Stalin shortly before his can show.

And that includes death said so. the United States and Canada.

Every year brings then closer Soviet output By 1970 the

to the war potential of the West, wild be four times what it Every year the West becomes today.

redoubtable. Therefore Malenkov's ess loudspeakers

the men in the Kremlin must propagaruin apparatus?

Put of u say to themselvest

aring and put showdown with top-notch

en off a settlement fo

of

The national income of the

4

The

Who

says

54"

No alt.

This is the careful assessment ef 31 a group

American researcher economists Better living

employed

American

by

Number

rivate and

oficial

f

Intelligence agencies to keep a DOES it mean

watch on the Soviet world.

that war after ten years or so is inevitable?

These men have been pooling No. For already Binlenko

it

his m

Anding are the results of their study over and the last few years to make a advisable to make concessiona collective stocktaking of the to the increasing appetite of the sae|4 tet1)&511}' Their report, Soviet millions for better living. edited by Mr Abram Bergson, Such concessions have a way has just been published in book of stimulating appetites stall

There Torm."

Significant

further

demands for

be incre

the comforts of peaceful wealth producing peace

S the Economist point out rather than for the negative As of the book

the authors of this report can- not !!

of suspected sympathy for the Soviet regime vr undue credulity

und austerities of

war and preparation for wer.

The Kremlin privilegentsia too may begin to feel less heroic as new generations come along and want to consolidate their families in their new power.

A shock

wrong Selieve the picture all

But

the same.

Because there are so many unexpected achievementa

Those by the Soviet world,

athletes! Who ex- Olymple peeled their records? Their musicians!

They sent them to festivals like that n

and they come up Leipzig, against Western musiclans.

Everyone is amazed at the of immense evidence given hard work dlæcipüne,

and STALIN ceriainly made the greatest demands on the Russian people. What is coming hirw seem to suggest that they have come near to living up to them.

الان

-London Express Service)

The Thing That Never Forgets

By Chapman Pincher

On the contrary they approach

Soviet every

figure with ute Caution They have deflated many of the blown-up elein.s of Soviet propaganda statisties.

matter of the So it is n greatest significance and political importance that this American like myself who have made two like a living creature than report comes to the conclusion visits within The last 15 years any machine ever built

that:

LL that is as maybe. But A what is certain is that this

A

ROBOT "animal"

report is a great shock to people which

behaves more

be-

to Russia; who have talked tu fore has been invented by "Soviet industrial output in German prisoners once working the next decades will increase in Soviet industry, and who an Oxford University scien-

have gained from this personal tist.

ECONOMIC GROWTH,

Conditions and Perspectives, edited bu Abrgin Bergson; Row, Peter- son, and Company. USA

and vicarious experience a pic- This Junior Frankenstein ture which is the very reverse of monster can And It way industrial efficiency.

maze and through a difficult remembers all its mistakes, so that, put in the maze again,

In all things...

there is only

BOOTAS

FINEST

DRY GI

LONDON!

MOS DOCELA MARŞ DUR

ONE

BEST

Choose

BOOTH'S

Sola Distributora: .

It gets through without taking

n

a wrong turning. its ""brain" heavy

is so big and That its body, which is about the size of a half-grown rabbit's, cannot ourry it. A long, flexible cable keeps The Thing in touch with is "brain" as it moves purposefully on the three wheels which serve as legs.

Short Cut

a short cut is Introduced into the maze by removing part of the wall, The Thing is smart enough to take advantage of it.

It will remember what it has tearned for ever unless its master, 20-year-old Anthony Deutsch, decides to obliterate menory-which he can do

its

at the press of a switch.

I saw the robot in nelion at Oxford's Institute

mental Psychology.

of Expert-

of three parts:—

three-wheeled

1 A

It consists

chassis driven by two electric motors and atted with sensitive "feelers" which cause it to steer away from obstacles or reverse out of corners,

2

A 201b. "electronic brain" of valves,

relays, and selectors linked with the chassis by a long cable.

3

searchlight Cyclops" "eye"

the

surveys

scene

A which around it.

Mr Deutsch, who built The Thing, pat it at the entrance of

plywood possible exits,

a

maze with

two

I asked him to "tell" it to find its way out by the right hand exit. He did this by mak- ing certain adjustments to the "brain"; then pressed a master- switch.

----DENIZENS of the POLITICAL DEEP

TM as viewed far, far down from the Cummings bathyscapho.......

THE PORCUPINE FISH

Spines nomally lie flat, but

cartain. Sounds such, as 'Duller!"

make spines stand up

THE IKE: FISH

-

Once called the 'Smile' fith

| but now swims in deep waters

which kill'smile

effect

THE CHANCELLOR

OCTOPUS Sucks its victims

dry. Very, very

deadly

THE TWIN-TOOTHED

DEPUTY

An impatient fish that wants to swim. în

different waters

THE SEA ANEMONE Looks like a flower. - is actually a carnivorous animal capable of catching an unwary prey,

THE CIGAR FISH |Lives on cigar.

·weed. Reputed | to be ageless

Cummings

BASKING SHARK Spends youth in ferocious search of prey

- in later years basks quietly on

sea bed.

London Express Service

NATHANIEL GUBBINS

T

00 cold in the frozen cause of frozen pipes. The best Before the revolution serfs If you are healthy Dr Gubbins care of friends were the proprietors were not allowed to have tickets advises you to cat everything Son Nest to

who offerid the in lotteries.

you can lay your hands on as about what is going of the hotel on in Berlin, or how hospitality, of a bath,

If they had won they would often as you feel like I, Calories are units of heat, vitamins are of Your Uncle went Into the have become Impossible. many millions of yards

in all wholesome food, and both the hot turned on

But in the new world they are just what are bathroom,

the savage had cotton the Japanese

I wonder if ordered for himself when he Anna Scrubovich Is was gnawing going to sell to the British water, which was near bolling can do anything.

a lump of roast un the cold tnp. Nothing staying in Cannes or Nice?

bison. Empire (founded by Lord Point, and stripped. He turned ex-sert

She

bored with is probably Beaverbrook), or even if the happened. The pipe was frozen.

If you are one of those un- West Indies win the second He tried the hot water with the gaming tables of Monte

who can't eat and wondered Carlo and is now reating in the happy people Test Match with or without his toe, velped

sunshine at Menton, while you much because of a poor diges- their relatives as umpires,

do the washing up.

tion, and are Uving in n cold Dr Gubbins can only dressing gown to your Uncle Nat, huddled in

Perhaps an elderly French house, two sweaters and a sheep cover his nakedness it was not

warmer making eyes at the advise you

clothing and take plenty ask chambermaid to count is skin jacket, has been com-

Perhaps he will carry her off exercise. paring his birthday luck as bring cold water into the bath rich Englishwoman in a cafe.

but there would be no

some romantic castle, predicted from day to day scandal if she left it in the ad-

1 is more likely that the by the newspapers' astro joining bedroom. The problem wolves have got her. I think logers,

bell in the to reach the ex- was

can hear them howling now. dis.. bedroom without being

No. That is the wind. periences.

covered in the nude. What did Don't be For instance here was one one prediction say? PREDICTION

with

actual

what to do next.

Without a

fair to

too cautious.

So your reckless, naked Uncle

to

It is very cold.

Yes, it is very cold.

Don't be too cautious to unbolted the bathroom door, tip- Doctor Tells day. Alluring and unusual toed into the bedroom and was

prospects may open

out if looking widly

round for the

you are flexible enough to bell push when a woman's voice take part in them.

When

to wear

of

you are going home from the office

rn from the station or the bus stop, run in and out of low taverns taking quick nips before you get home, double mark time as you laten in your cold house to the radio, and then run round the houses houses) (but into the public before you run home and run upstairs to bed.

But it you are too fat to run, enough to keep There outside the door said "I wonder AS you might have expected, and can't cat

here comes Dr Gubbins the warm, it would be better if you Street quack, went to bed in your under- notorious Fleet is a fresh and vital wind if this is our room?" blowing through your personal

Even Gerdon Pirie couldn't with some

obvious advice on clothes and stayed there unlif relationships.

have rum faster back into the how to keep warm during the the spring. bathroom where your Uncle cold weather. was obliged to have no more than a wash down with wet towels.

WHAT HAPPENED

Outside The Nest there was

can't If you

tako a drink If the weather is warmer by either you might as well stay the time the doctor's message is there for good. an east wind fresh enough to

published you can cut it cut freeze your vitals. The alluring But in the bar afterwards he and keep it for the next freez

prospect was a glass of hot rum had the hot rum he didn't get ing spell, which will probably Knee Squatters

In the warm and comfortable

DIC when he slipped on the ice be in June..

hotel only 60 yards away. Not following

འ

feeling very flexible, but not prediction.

wishing to be too cautious,

your

Uncle stepped out of the front

his Arst lucky up

door, was caught amidships by The Samovar

the wind, slipped on a sheet of

ice on the porch and in a moment was floundering on his

The robot's "eye" it! PREDICTION up, there was a whirr of wheels, and it began to move.

Blind Alleys

to be around

WHAT HAPPENED

⚫

Long

doctors to

there before

were dive advice about

there

One

ionow

BOGEY ΜΑΝ ΤΟ BRITONS

By LES ARMOUR

A

London..

SK 100 Englishmen

to

name the five best-known Ameri- CONS and the odds are about 99 to 1 that Senator

Joseph R. McCarthy

head all the lists.

will

The junior Sonator from Wisconsin ja for better publicised in these islands than President

Eisen-

hower. This week, the two

biggest

national news-

papera printed cartoons proclaiming

boldly that

Senator McCarthy Is the

Volco behind

House,

Recently,

foud with the

crowded

the White

McCarthy's

US. Army

everything

also

into a small place in the headlines.

Britons

are

fascinated,

alarmed, anci made sick

R

at the stomach by Mc- Carthy. To them, he ap pears as giant bogey stalking the length and breadth of America. spreading terror in his wake.

man

The situation has reach- ed such proportions that Americans are beginning to protest.

Lengthy Blast

The liberal-socialist bible of the left-wing Intellec- tuals, the New Statesman .and Nation, carried lengthy blast from Paul member Jacobs, executive

of the Civil Liberties Union of California, suggesting that its editorial policy was presenting a distorted view of the climate of American opinion by print- Ing McCarthy as a virtually unopposed tyrant.

But to

The Statesman's editor, Kingsley Martin, replied at even greater length. the reply boiled down an argument which sums the British view in a few words: "We don't sec much evidence of opposition to McCarthyism."

If

Brilons

sure that, are McCarthy were operating here, he would be put in his place promptly, whatever the govern- ment of the day.

They know It would take only one McCarthy incident to rouse the British public. The thing could never get to a whole list of outrages.

From that, they reason that

Ingratism must be deeply

In the United States. They see in President Eisen- hower's failure to hit back either a shocking weakness an Implicit acceptance of McCarthy's tactics,

0**

That is what is enraging American liberals,

Long Process

It is difficult to make it clear United that the in Britain States has none of the homo- geneity which characterises Bri- that the American system of govern- ment is so much more complex that the direct action possible here usually has to be replaced there by a long and cumber-. some process.

Sectional interests - 30 they are known in the United States -are practically non-existent- in Br

Brital, and the Englishmen. get a clear picture of them only in cases like the Truman- Stevenson antagonism of the south, which probably did more

ou anything cise

to ensure Eisenhower's election!

Το To the Bri The argument trend isenhower must softly in order to avold endan- gering national unity sounds almost vicious.

that

anything people realised that AN American wife, asking for à divorce on the grounds of were several ways of cruelty, said that when shetish political opinion, and keeping warm In winter.

went over to kiss her husband he knocked her off his knee. Was to wear warm

In a case of this kind it is to take

dincult to decide who has been back, logs and arms waving in QINCE fast week the Russian clothes, another

place, an- at home has shelter in a warm the air like a June bug on the atmosphero garden path.

persisted like the frost.

plenty of warm cruel to who or should I any Uncle other to eat

"whom?" another to take Natya end his 1e partner, The food, and yet

Even quite intelligent women Plucky Little Tovarich, are still plenty of vigorous exercise.

believe that men's knees are over the samovar Our savage ancestors, who made of iron. They will elt on In most respects, grand. It's crouching a wonderful day for negotia (teapot), talking like characters

as much about these an aching bone for quite a long tions, interviews or anything out of a Russian play.

matters as Dr Gubbins, or any time without realising the pain that

doctor,

all the personal

adopted requires

ey are infileting. Slowly but deliberately it

Did you

have your bath at qualifled

these methods, They took When I was touch. Cupid? Expect him the hotel, Ungle, Natya?

young, inched its way

big through the

vigorous ⚫oxcrcise Hunting bouncing women, who talked maze, half-attracted by the

No, Plucky Little Tovarich, animals,

wore the

animels baby talk soith a lisp, caused so numerous blind alleys, but never

I did not have my bath at the skins, warmed their caves with much agony by knee squatting making the mistake of going

cooking fires, hotel.

and filled their at what were known as petting down one. Like a sensible

The intention was to inter-

stomachs with meat,

partice that small, thin men animal it did not butt blindly at

view the rating

of the officer about I had a friend who was always

would stand up obstacles in its path, but found

reassessment of rates. It was going to do something

The chief difference between night rather than be torjured way round them, The Thing could not soc, but not for interviewing the rating anything.

grand day for Polar bears but and wonderful, but never did these sensible people and a silly by deep-bosomed, frolicsome

creature like you is that they matrons. photo-electrio celis mounted on officer, who was out, Leaving To the idealist life is a series took these precautions without As for small, thin men who

of the maze gave its his walls

office

advice, yotar Uncle trod

anybody's

married pre trod of unfufilled desires and dreams making

to.rogue "brain" the information which heavily on the foot of a woman that never come true..

whereas you want to bo told

elephants (and they often are) eyes would have provided. coming in. She screamed with It Is still very, cold.

everything.

nobody knows the agonios the pain and, hopped madly about

"Very well, then. Yes, it is very cold.

little chaps enduro in' tho Toad somewhere that wolves have reached Trieste.

If like the majority of people privacy of their homes, smiling in this country, you live in a bravely through their tears as

pains of pins and nold house They will soon be here.

you must, olther the rod-hot

and down turk Uncle make it warmer or wear warmer noodles shoot You must be careful,

In the end, the difference is." one of fundamental attitudes. If you live their tiny spindle banks. Natya.

It is mid that wolves clothing indoors.

scent of in a warm house you can wear

There is no hope of But I dare say knno-squatting

recon prefer the stronger

unwashed. What has happened to lighter, clothing · Indoors and li a bit out of date now except elling, them · and little point in

thair rival pur Warmer clothing when you go in the offices of old-fashioned arguing

merite. coptalhs of Industry. This History and national paychology fortunate gośí, have:been you" old retainer, Anna Scrubovich? out Got 17, EVETO only probably explain why; com- i have loft, their imprint on both

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Triumphantly it emerged at the required exit. ·

Mr Deutsch, believes that his robot chaplays reasoning power, and to some extent has a mind of its own.

Thus,

on her other foot, refusing to

sten to apologies. Cupid? On a day like this only a fool would be around in his costume.

after solving one type | PREDICTION

It of: maze, can And its way [through - another of different

shape without going

through

any, proces of trial and error. “- Deutsch: bullt

Be Why has Because 15

machine?

Shrug of karly disappoint- ́ments.); No matter how time

he

cen

expect help from the best of friends.

belloves that by exporimondlegg

with its "brain" he may learn WHAT HAPPENED

Brave

She has not come to scour or Jeep since the frost.

She is old and fears the cruel wind and icy roads

Although the

most

And it is no casier here to of Communists. Communists in she Britain except when they got tangled in industrial disputes-- OTO # a kind of national joke. They are out tho

In

open for and everyone to see, asses,

not very ridicule, and they

the American fear

know that a full stomach made mercial secretaries (female) him feel warmer you will want, are usually lightweights able to to know why You Will also wour anything created by Dion, Te la more likely that she has want to know what to eat, when and bought by the explain - of work 1007 a football pool and has, lo sat it, and out about caloriasis industr 23 "(Lordén "mumpresi “watetea) - - Tour, QAYT WIRDATE" a brija bem cone to the RieserŠE

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