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THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, MARCH 28, 1955.

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AN URGENT JOB FOR TEMPLER

By SEFTON DELMER

Singapore. jungle terror which followed

During the last 18 months

HERE is an old tradi- looks to me to be in there has been an ever-increas

tion in the British danger of seeping Colonial Service that again. no man should ever revisit in an official capacity terri- tory which he has ruled as Governor-General.

ing tendency for these Chinese away guards to be careless with their

arms,

number A substantial has been lost to the terrorists.

I have seen quite a few examples of this.

to

General LeMay

near

AM Nebraska,

DON IDDON, on special assignment, visits the Headquarters of the U. S. Strategic Air Command to find out about the "massive retal- iation” that the enemies of Freedom will suffer should there be new world war. This is his first despatch in an important series.

THE FREE WORLD'S H-BOMB PLANES

ARE ALWAYS READY

He and his headquarters are ready to do that now--this minute, tonight, tomorrow, any time they are called upon to do the job.

Home Guard chief Major- 'General E. B. de Fonblanque

Omaha, up two angers pressed together. The Chinese millionaire is himself says there is evidence

at World "It's a fine partnership. terrorists *clse's a good example of the that in some

Then General LeMay asked the me to repeat what I sale" and 1 Well. I trust that no kind of thing I mean. have been allowed into villages themselves to Home

Strategic Air Command, did. Inhibition of this kind is This man has vast and to help

Guard arms and munitions and which will deliver the I will not quote "his answer

I must not give the impres-... going to stop Sir Gerald valuable holdings in Malaya. have, then been allowed

directly. The man who has been from

his

reply, the "massive retalia- head of SA. C. for more than son that the men who have the Templer

revisiting One of

directors depart

tion's

to Russia; if Malaya.

Australian was urging.

war five years, who has directed an great deterrent and the super Between Septembre 1. 1953.

incessam H-bomb-war game day bombers to deliver it are, in the him recently to instal new and November 14, 1964, the should come.

American colloquialism "rarin What Sir Winston Chur- after day and night after night to go Lemay's attitude to his It is of top urgency

he didn't know what I that he should fy out bere machinery in their Malayan Home Guards lost a total of 103

guns. Of these, 5 were sub-chill calls "the Great Deter said plant.

can quote - is 99 at the earliest opportunity

sequently recaptured,

rent" is in the strong and meant, but anyway the British task and this is a statement

were stronger than the French, which I and. give both Malaya

confident hands of General but he hoped that Munich had follows: and Singapore the once-

Curtis LeMay, a burly, hand been a lesson to us once and fur some man famed for his all and that there would be no over in his"

toughness, a relentless per-

The general added he didn't fectionist, and the Western like the recognition of Red world's great expert on China or the giving away of bombing.

new

capacity

Getting Out

as Empire anti-Communist The Chinese looked at his trouble-shooter No. 1 to Australian adviser.

Defence Minister Macmillan. "My friend." he said,

£t

general

- I wonder whether

the com-

I am spending some time bore at what is probably the Irce world's most important base, talking to the rificers and mai

appeasement.

islands in the Far East,

A Question

the

The continuing job of all of us is to let no potential aggres sive nation pass us by in air superiority. SAC's strength always must be great enough to maintain peace by discouraging

global war or, in the event of a injar war. strong enough to -discharge its mission effectively.

*S

GREAT BRITARE

FERANT

RUSSIA

Aleurichu

PACIFIC

Since November last year there have been several furths: cases for which I have not yet been able to obtain figures."

General Templer will share placent view of these losses put What

"we don't invest another to me from the public relations is more, when

in Malaya. The office in Kuala Lumpur: --- he does, come let us make cent sure there is no silly inter- British are getting out of

"When it is considered that

"The long-range bomber and We don't know every night 30,000 guns were on

the atomic weapon enable departmental jealousy which Malaya.

to what's coming after. But duty with the Home Guards I forces

to carry to an enemy's doorstep don't think that is bad" (ie who are ready and able to By TT was at this point that to the British

bydrogen bombs and the way be pois me of a the seatest destructive power staying Are

lass of 103 guns in 1 atom bombs to any part of the debate in which I pointed out the world has ever known. The

Blocks, dispatch has not been both United States and United vand the masota

that under a democratic system aereplane can reach over and be- of manpower censored and is exclusive, but as

Kingdom

to the .Communist public opinion had

world behind a courtesy I am not quoting be considered at every step, mobilised

the Iron General LeMay directly ca some

Congress and Parliament had to, Curtain.

"It is the only means by I also

whether of the more controversial stake make the vital decisions, and I wonder

did not think either the United which we can bring our full General Templer approves the ments be made to me,

States or Great Britai was power to bear directly against old son-of-a-gun, with glasses. If debt to the British was incalcni- attitude of the RAF over the their

doing so badly.

he can dy the dama thing, we able. He said: "You fought airfield at

his muscle and heartland.

our war for us for the Arst two theft from

Ave-hundred-lb.

It is the hope of General certainly can." Tengah of 87 bombs.

dis- The theft was covered last July.......

confine his attention purely military matters."

He must have the widest and fullest authority to look into everything, even *if it means intruding on strictly civilian and political fields.

Dropped Back

the in Borneo. They will con- months).

tinue to rule there. That's where we are going to put our cash."

Not only he, but many other Chinese business men are bet- ting that the primitiveness and backwardness of the people of Borneo, plus the wealth of the mineral resources, country's will preserve it for many years to come from the

subversive blessings of self-rule.

The

other day I drove down long winding read

from Kuala Lumpur to Singapore, which runs through some of Malaya's worst terrorist areas.

On the way I passed through many of the so-called new if villages. These are settlements

surrounded with high barbed wire

stockades

and equipped with schools, shopping centres, clinics, welfare halls, and ex require cellent houses.

Here Templer had settled the Chinese squatters whom he had rounded up in the jungle so that they should not be able to go on helping the terrorists.

For all the dynamism the and drive of Templer's per- sonality would not have

him gained

his great victory

Com- over the

Malaya munists in Churchill had not given him authority over the civilian as well as the military machine. He will that kind of power again.

Frankly, I fear Templer bit is going to be disappointed when he looks at what has been happening in Malaya since his de- parture last June. I cer tainly am. For we have dropped back into the old departmentalism here now that Templer and his emergency powers have de- parted.

î

Much of that zest which Templer had managed to

Broken "Down

Is to

1.

Bombs Stolen

:

.

the

+1

Two Weeks

General LeMay frowned, look- ed hard at me. and suddenly rapped out: "What are we win ning? Where are we winning? Tell me."

ap. a

No Hatred

has

The map shows how U.S. bombers could circle the world from widespread bases,

were sitting

LeMay. General Griswold, and I asked if the knowledge that years, but we cannot expect to on such have that sort of time again, Fifty-two bombs had been talked to General LeMay in

the rest that by their possession they

to your man Whittle, and radar, sawn in half by thieves on a the office of General Francis

this mighty and terrifying weapons of colossal destruction and, of course, we owe the jel power they wil be able to keep was a great strain.

inven the peace for decades.

General Griswold said: "No, as you know, is a British piece of ground almost next door Griswold who is the vice-

I couldn't tell him.

tkom.!! this is like the flagship of the to the airfield. Twelve thousand commander of Strategic Air

The

The general, who is obviously

The feeling also here is that Royal Navy again in the old man impatient with the

Is inclined to have pounds of TNT explody had Command, hereinafter kanwn as

the S.A.C. LeMay suddenly

days. I don't think the admirals the R.A.F.

attitude of "Let's have a been removed. Of this,

it I could

falt any more strain than we do. an police have been able to recover peared in the doorway, a cigar Vagaries of politics and politi

We are trained for the job. As bash, boys," and not be as only 350lb. so far,

clamped in his mouth, as Gris clans. asked me Now the BAF, despite the wald and I were chatting, and imagine all the wrangling that

goes

on in on arid would go

MENEHAL Griswold, a good for the young fellows in the scrupulously prepared as the gravity of this affair, has not in-said: "What would you like to Congress and

Parliament, and

looking, sophisticated and out, they seem to take natur- Americans, with the result that the R.A.F. accident rate is formed the public of the result know?" He looked as tough as then he added that the United witty man of around 50, told me: ply to it's

I said: "It's the devastation three times as high as that of his pictures, but his voice was States, has no guarantee and no “S.A.C. today is like the British of its inquiry.

Even the appearance of the modulated, almost light, and his definite agreement that Great Navy of the 19th century. The which is so chilling and blood the U.S. forces. complacency and indifference of manner was occasionally hesit Britain will be at the tide of the Royal Navy kept the peace for, curdling.

States when the whistle almost 100 the authorities is most dangerous ant.

General "Griswold offered, the jun apart from years

harters of in、 the presence of a subtle I said, after a few prelimi-

blows.

minor wars, because it was so opinion that the I said: "I think you'll find that strong, so formidable, that

no radioactivity have probably been enemy like the Communists.naries "It has been stated that Particularly at present, wh

спе the you can win a war in three days. it will be, but you must remem

dared challenge it. It exaggerated. It was the human Communists are concentrating isn't that a bit of an exaggera ber that we are a small group guarded the Monroe Doctrine, boing's natural fear of the un- on political infiltration.

of islands in the North Sea, very Lion?"

It was

the great shield and known. He himself looked com- So don't let's fiddle

General LeMay said: "It is a vulnerable to attack; a number

barrier. whether it's tactful or not to slight exaggeration, but the next of Russian hydrogen bombs could scad General Templer out to war. If there is one, can certainly possibly wipe us out completely." kook over what his successors |be decided—that is, wor lost, have been doing. Get him out two weeks. I don't mean here good and quick and set finished, mind you, but I mean

decided. resolved. Yes, two- him asiting his questions.

weeks should do it."

when

about

That will do more to reassure the public in Malaya than any pledges of self-government from

The purpose of these barbed

prevent wire stockades unyone from entering or leaving the settlement at night without. authority an essential preca- tion if you are trying to cut off terrorists from all sources of Whitehall. arms, food, and information.

When I last did a trip of this kind Templer was in charge of the country. The stockades

infuse into the public ser- were in tip-top order. The vices seems to have given guards were alert and watchful

to tired old com- This time? Well, some of the stockades I saw I wouldn't care

way placency.

*

to have as fencing on my Suffolk farm

The confidence in future

Now, Iroking at that broken. stability and security, which down fencing, I was not sur- Templer had managed to prised to hear of the deteriora- awaken once more in this tion that appears to have set in of the multi-racial

among some sections population

'Chinese Home Guards called up shocked by Japanese occu- from the new settlements pation and the Communist guard and police them.

Colds

Even the slightest cold

is to be feared

Do not let it spread! Defeat it from the start

by taking 1 or 2 "CAFASPINS"

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"Why, if it len's Great uncle Ethelred come up all the way from the Dukeries fust to give Mr. Asquith a piece of his mind i "

Greatest Power

bomber - over

The Legend

CHANGED the subject and told 'General LeMay that I had seen him 'described as "ths of the Western other things, and said that asked him how did he reart to

pletely unperturbils what toughest cop

I asked the "Today, S.A.C, with its fleet

of bombers and its hydrogen their biggest problems were, word" and and atom bombs, is filling the and General LeMay last century.

role the British Navy did in the was maintaining a balance them. General LeMay said: "You

with the craft at his command. don't believe everything the We believe that because we when new models are supplied newspapermen write to youou

he juggles them with are ready for war we can pre- to him vent war.

war. No one here hates the the old, keeping the B-475, the

do they,

General B-38s, the B-50s, and all the training planes in the air at General LeMay, who was the same time. brooding, said "No.""

He

TE

Civil Lure

Some of the stories about LeMay have become legend. He is implacable in insisting on security and constant readiness. His men have to keep their guns with them at all times.

The other day he saw 2 master-sergeant who had put his gun aside while eating his lunch outside a bangar. He

I asked: "Are you absolutely EMAY said that the Rusians ready? Are the men and

were not fools and that he did machines at peak condition?"

not think they would tip their LeMay hit into his cigar, hand by attacking Britain, know- paused, and said ceing his ing that S.A.C, would hammer favourite phrase: "Somebody them within a few hours of any

is sometimes a man of few words. Once he flew the Atlantic might blow the whistle on us attack on the British...

and spoke-only one - sentence. tomorrow morning, and once it

"Do you know He said:

"Take that

that off the floor," when goes you'll see whether we are where the safest place would ready. Absolutely in peals be in the event of war with he saw a sparking-plug lying in

HE is also plagued by some of called the mea together and said: condition

the coolepit are strong words. Russia? In a

his best young men being "This afternoon I found one man. Running an air force is rather

I have the strong impression lured away by fancy salaries guarding a hangar with a ham That would be the fa Moscow.

man absolutely straight, like running a football team. safest place."

sincere, and direct to the point from private industry. Men sign sandwich. There'll be no more Then be said that it might of bluntness, and

on for a four-year hitch and of that. sometimes not be particularly safe here at brutally candid.

caz get twice the money from He is constantly testing the

Westing General Motors Airfield, headquarters of

house or United States Steel efficiency of the man he coin- S.A.C., or at the other bases.

mande Recently he had an thought strongly that the

We talked about the

Royal Air Force for few minutes Air Force plane repainted, to

look like 6X7E aren't in peale erudition United States, its military in-

a commercial air- and I asked if there were any liner. With a picked squad of every Saturday; ke any stallations and industrial plants, team, but we are close to it, and would be the No. 1 target for

EMAY told me that he was great differences between the men he got aboard, few to an R.A.F. and the United States S.A.C base, sent a distress we get stronger and more e- the Communists.

a believer in generals and Air Force, apart from the fact radio message and requested. citat all the time as new air- General LeMay would like to

Libe craft and

Americans had 50 permission to make an ener new developments be in the first bomber, over all officers being able to fr the that come along.

Russia if it comes to war, but bombers, and to fly them the much bigger resources at their guney landing. Fermission was I S.A.C. is strong enough he would

quently. He himself regularly. probably not be

command.

granted, and LeMay and his Blies the B-38, a giant cigar One officer in the room said men landed,.. andi enough, the danger allowed that job.,

ready

which shaped firing warship that America will ever come

that the only difference between

Then armed with tommy- He would direct the "Sunday SAC. bes in quantity matter the RAF and the US.A.F twitter. · actual· attack 1s

punch," the annihilating blows, He files the B-47, the

"WE

in

A Lesson

I

said:

"It

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All Flyers

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nirfield. But security police. quickly rounded up the LeMay party. LeMay revealed his

and

congratulated them.

minished. The penalty would from here at headquarters and. 700mph. all-jet-bomber, and was that the U.S.A.F. had is they set out to capture the be, too great.

I necessary, he and his officers he has also piloted the all-jet pises

joke, but I a god. It wasn't a must be comfort- would make to the air in a

3 super-bomber, the B-52, which ing, anyway, to know that you specially equipped stratceruise is coming off the production- smiled anyway, and then it was identity have a strong and stable ally called a VC-87, which can carry line and which will provide the explained to me that the British

Eritain powerful bares 100 men and has sleeping ac- backbone of the general's new had striven o hard for per there. And then there is the commodation for 40. For 30 armada. R.AT.

hours the stratocruiser would General Griswold spoke up remain airborne while LeMay then "Yes, the Americans and directed the devastating on British are like that," holding slaught.

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Day And Night

fection in their aircraft that we' General Griswold, who can had not got the aeroplanes we and does pilot anything, said: wanted and ceeded "Well, we want our young pilots General Griswold pointed out, saying: Lock at that boltheaded however, that the United States FRANKLY, I found him minh

DIDN'T ALWAYS GO DOWN WELL

sand

warmer, and cordial than; I had expected, Behind that hard jaw "end" the blunt nose is ing very naman man,

· Carl

LeMay dotes on his 16-year old daughter, and rarely falls to write every day when he is He solemnly as away to his charming wife, who "Tea! How I tremble **Tea, whether of the Green or pernicious than those of which perdition. RITAIN'S national be at thy fatal streaza!""

Bohea kind, when taken to ex- the men who are not professed serted that women's beauty is a brilliant hostess,

would fade if the drank tea. It He la famable about sports Then there was the husband cess, cocions a dejection of Takes are generally accused."

and

motor, fading to his holds the headlines and lecturing his wife on household spirits fatulency, which At one time tea was not at was thought to be very much a

case of of

a voice crying in the

the hobbyf other lone public interest with its in- economy, who is made to de- lays the drinkers of it under a all popular in high quarters wilderness. A few

Scotland, Lord... President triguing price fluctuations, claim in a manual of matri- king of necessity of having ro Forbes, declared

voices were heard howling, but of the Court of

day and night his hig to little effect to more animating COLITSE

and A-bombers are “out on be but it has not always claim- monial etiquette published in cou

liquors. The

Session, most-temperate

experi

missions, flying 30 hrs or ed public favour. The noted 1158: "I look upon afternoon and suber of the sex find them

One and

irate Scot informed Lord

more at a time, "bombing" tho Henry Saville denounced tea fuities that custom has in

tes as one of the greatest super selves obliged to drink wine calculated to reader the popula- Tweedale that this abominable major cities and factories of the as a filthy habit, and Cob- troduced among I have pretty freely after it. None of thon gekly and to corrupt their drug was at the root of "all Tobbed States with camera guns

them. nowadays pretends to

in simulated war conditioris, called for it to be taxed at bett wrote an article saying calculated the expense, and dare entertain with the one without morals The ladies of Glasgow our financial misfortunes. He

affirm that a very moderate be the other, and the bottle and Audi

Directing the that he would not give tea table with all its equippage, glass are as sure an appendix

in the pound. This LeMay himself &

operations fr 匙 to pige, which today's ad camot be supported

measure, he submitted, would more than 9,000 hours in the dicts would consider to be a than £40 or £50 a year, which to the tea table as the slop

punkt consider a wicked waste.

tragic waste!

Judging from his tea-meeting of the Brick Lane Branch of the United Grand Timction Ebenezer Temperance Association nove 11st Charles Dickens could hard.

on less

bastr

There was the further mg in Letters from

Com Careful on Tea: Its Use Prejudicial" that the

One of the early objectors to moderate use of tea,

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. be said to be a great fen- tea gave volce in the now, ex-

Wyndham Street.

lover. And Young, the poet, in tinet magazine The Female a sombre, lament on the in Spectator to this solemn wwe fluence of the noxious beverage, ing.

however, innocent it may, seero

to thoes who practise is kind of debauchery no less pensive, and perhaps even more

alve,

of

and the num

nongst the noble ar

tor "who

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air, eldest of mix chicken of a

cause the abus 10

to cease for it 1-the meanness of the price working, man, who fought his

that encourages them pogNGKA

to purchase, and the duty added way to the top,

20. the low value at which it is

now (sold would prove.an effectual ber to the use of 11 among those who have deserted

Coby ale

J. W. TAYLOR.

in his hands is me great

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