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BBC

It emerges that the reality behind the

14-day Rule argument is that Parliament“ is afraid radio and TV gangsters will steal its stars and run the Government for themselves as entertainment.

THE CHINA MAIL" SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1956.

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PROTECTION OF DEMOCRACY

Britain is out to win a big share of the world's air traffic. To do this she needs something revolutionary in the way of civil aircraft. In the Bristol Britannia, it seems that Britain has found it. Yet the man whose brainchild it in, is virtually unknown to all but his colleagues in the aircraft industry. And this is all the more paradoxical, for the only the first step in envisaged by designer A. E. Russell.

Britannia in

an air revolution

World Copyright by urtangentent with the Manchester Quardian

Only Roses Take Him

Away From Planes

H

—

By ANTHONY WHITE

prefers to supply the he ideas.

E lives in a world of blueprints and drawing boards and the fierce roar of

When engines. talks it Is of "wing "economical pay- loading," load." speed and power--- and roses.

nero

But he is not the Hollywood version--the tousled hatred. absent-minded individual with a

honorary Doctor

of Science,

And in 1981, he was awarded the Royal Aeronautical Society's

medal speed gold

"practical race, civil aircraft, Russell be achievement in alcraft design."

Left Whind in the

on in-

lleves, will concentrate creased eronomy and gruator saloty.

intricate

for

Russeil got his flair for solving technical problems "It is the parting of the ways, from his father, a brilliant says Russell. "Just as buses and mathematician. His uncle, Sir crumpled collar. Russell dresses tradus and freighters don't John Russell, the biochemist,

a well-atting pin- derive any of their specialised

was elected President of the Outside, the long silver smartly in

from stripe suit; his hair in severely development

or British Association in 1950. destroyers. 69 aeroplane trundled past on brushed the tarmac, speeded, and his shirts gently took the air. Partly, the Britannia

was

1

and are

neat.

Yet, he is un- his mistakably

"bollin."

aeroplane. It was very HIE special aeroplane.

as man said.

Archibald Edward Russell

21

Lanks

an

ARE WOMEN HONEST? OR ARE THEY BORN LIARS AND SHOPLIFTERS ?

WOMEN IN CRIME

S

women

are

OME males of a-

cynical disposition By

might women

thief; one in the "Tanca." DUNCAN LAMONT "One is a dupe; one 14. a

So you see, there's a lot of truth in the saying "It's as easy as taking candy from a child." Some creatures are low enough to do just that.

*The

girl with the roving hand allps to number the stolen property threg. Then

sho

TRAPPED

that say

n lttle boy determined WHAT to steal A woman spbia born Are

Maybe he has WHERE to steal ... HOW to arrested there is nothing in her, going messREUS. Itara. Or some might say a full shopping-bag. Maybe he steal.

shopping-bag to prove her guilt." trick

Est themselves is carrying a purso, going to

us follow a shoplifter Each shoplifter has her own around a store: With her is an into thinking they are buy swoots.

technique. But here are three 11-year-old daughter. honest souls really telling She stops the youngster and principal methods.

They start at cosmetics. The the truth. But assuredly sits him to go an errand for

The Grab: the most common heavily made-up young sales- when it comes to "telling her "in that shop there." Being

customer, the tale" a certain type of of a kind and motherly nature, dodge. While the shopgirls woman behind the counter has aher, back to them. The shop. the counter lifter's hand-almost as if it female can make the most she'll offer to hold the bag or serving another

purse while the youngster hend sidies along

had a life of its own-crawls glib-voiced of men sound obliges. Of course when the and flicks away a cardigan, tongue-tled.

little boy returns, the woman tin of fruit, a bottle of perfume along the counter to an ornate

the shop manicure act. and the bag and the purse have whatever catches

Itter's eye. Aged from 17 to 70, there disappeared for over.

"The Grab" is the technique who a lot of women

of most amateurs. Some of them live by their wits and the

are so greedy and stupid that they even watch their hand in- plausibility of their stories,

stead of the people or shopgirls around themi That way

they very quickly end up by watch

magistrate's face. ing a

Popular spot with the "grab- bera is the hat counter at sale time. They walk in hatless, try on four or five herts, and calmly walk out with a new, one on, Easy. They hope!

Then there

two determined thieves CroSE: work together on this one.

The first talks to the salesgirl He watches while the thieves A gentle hand touched her while the other gets to work, wander from counter to counter, onc pretends to unaware that they are being A young, shabbily-dress- shoulder, and a voice said: "Ex- Or maybe

But I think examine the lining of a coat shadowed. Tho woman steals ed girl in her early twenties cuse me, madam,

The child's grubby and carrying a baby calls you have something you did not so blocking the view-while her foodstufts.

mate does a vanishing trick act Angers calmly snatch a chiffon pay for.

scarf, at the house of a minister.

with a frock. She gives an address in the district.

Their victims? Ministers of the Church, priests, and other charitable folk and organisations. Their stock in trade? Falsehoods tears,

and

FOUR SECONDS

The woman with the shop- ping bag stepped into the busy Here is a typical tale. An street. So easy, sho thought. obvious invention, an ob. Then, in four

came the disgrace she vious lie? Not if told by a

forgot. natural and skilful actress.

She's desperate, she says. No one will help her.

more seconds, never

Such women have gone back home to shocked husbands and familles-branded for ever SHOPLIFTERS.

as

But many people have wrong shoplifting. They ideas about

three children. This after. kleptomaniac

nourotic.

woman

And this is where she makes her first mistake: As she loads her shrieking daughter away-- these shoplifting children brilliant actors the assistant ir gazing Idly at her own blood- red

Anger-nails.

ero

But that salesgirl (under strict orders not to intercept 'o 18 amarter shoplifter herself) the Double than the woman thinks. Already

lights are Bashing évery de partment for the store datealive.

DOUBLE CROSS

of

Shoplifters

are hardly over arrested Inside the store. But as sho stops outside the swing door the exulting, wornan hears

the dreaded words: "EXCUSO madam, I think you have some- I thing you did not pay for.

me

The most sickoning trick Her seaman husband last imagine a shoplifter as a silly the "Double Cross" is that of a

a woman using her own child as a must ask you to return to the year deserted her and their middle-aged

helpless decoy. Here is just one example. manager's office."

and Once outside the store ice A little girl drops her cream cornet or her candy Boss. with a laden shopping-bag, the пооп he sent n telegram

As she has been carefully train shoplifter cannot blame "a ro

weakness," She from a distant

This is rubbish. Only one in city Bug-

screaming ment of

and trapped. gesting they should try a hundred is a genuine klepio. ed to do, she starts

maniac. The others are greedy for another. She screams

So Easy. They hoped. again.

and determined thieves. And screams, becoming the cynosure

Every day they appear

in cunning very

and ruthless of all eyes-and mother pockets

court. Yet a number are not That the lipstick she always wanted. thieves they can be, too.

criminal class-and woman The Three-Way Stretch: This from the respectacle - looking

by that is a vital point. weeping in the dock today left is the technique favoured

shoplifting

(COPYRIGHT) home yesterday afternoon fully the

NEW START

She is anxious to make a new start with him, partly because of the children, and also (seb, sob) because ahe still loves him.

But she has no money for the train fare. And she would at least have to buy herself a cheap cost to make herself look attractive. The minister is sym- pathetic. They talk it over. Maybe the minister suspects her for a fraud. But, he

if what

18 he thinks, wrong? Often the girl gets the benefit of the doubt- and the money she wants.

Roman A grey-haired Catholic priest laughingly admitted that he had been fooled in his time. He re-

elvil aircraft But Runsel

also will

have to economist.

When he designs an make their own aeroplane it has to be able to future."

fly as far and as fast as possiblefused to discuss it with me, however. Instead, like the Russell on as little fuel as possible.

masterly Irish tale-teller he thinks that civil aviation's Turbo-prop aircraft achieve la, he told me this story in

of it, w.ll this best, and because "pause"

allting Limerick brogue. probably Russell says, the turbo-prop

One day a poor old years. In airliner will in future rule the

charity woman implored time the great alr distances.

of long

e

last

20

that

stance turbo-

mind As good never Birays

from could make it, he fur

world of olf- wor craft, even in off-duty He moments. finds his pica- had come into the room pre- sure in driving expensivo short an time a cisely on

Bristol saloon, slight man, under average developed from height, grey eyes, faintly aircraft experi-

amused.

The aeropiane overhead

ments, and the reading

of Ne-

works

Shule, droned ville

who

on a test flight wh

was onko the In

samt

and disappeared towards the line of business west.

Russell, chief designer of the Bristol Aeroplane Com- pany and the brain behind

and still wrlies

of it in books

A. E. RUSSELL

Russell's Britannia, which cost

from the Bishop of Bor- deaux in France, who hand-

prop aircraft of £10 million to design and bullded 50 francs to his secre

will scil

for

thro Britannia and which breed will in- £900,000 aplece to airline crease to 450 operators, is the first aircraft to to 500 miles an go through the rigorous "water from tests" in the natural process of hour,

Its proving. present eeds a

their

around the 350

mph

Jet

"The Britannia," says Russell, as man can marka, "is as trouble-free Shorter - range make it. If you like the safest

transports

plane flying." will achieve there will probably be no attempt to have faster-than-sound airliners.

like "No Highway" and "Round greater speeds, but the Bend."

Only when Rusach is tending the Britannia, was obvious- his beloved rose garden

hia.

is the At the end of the generation-

ly proud of his aeroplane. graft industry forgotten. For long gap, Russell prophesies, a this the focal point of the method wil probably have been

home on Though he would not call it quiet suburban

the found to drive civil aircraft with Bristol where outskirts of

bre his atomic power. wife, with his Liveg 17-year-old son ond his daughter, a 22-year-old Bristol University una graduate.

Fork-point

These

are predictions based on Russell's practical experience and inmate knowledge. He has He often drives to work in seen ideas change many times gleaming £3,000-plus sines he joined Bristols in 1920. HE admitted probably it the

Bristol. And closeted with his And he has helped breed new was the most significant Agures and his blueprints in his us. He has not always been

to modes! plane he had helped

the office over cok.ng make. For, to Russell, the tarmac, Russell's thoughts are of right-and admits it. Britannia is a symbol of an acroplane design in the future.

He supervised the design

Brabazon airliner Feronautical revolution: the

He thinks it will be a pretty the glant

have been in the past, upon entirely on the parallel develop-triped no lliures. Pro

of

Forerunner

tary.

"How old is she?" asked the Bishop.

"And is she very badly off" "Seventy,"

"So she says."

"We must take her word for

hesitated The secretary moment, and then said softly:

is perhaps "Monseigneur aware that the woman is atheist and Q well-known fraud."

11-

on

"An atheist!" exclaimed Bishop. "Goodness save tha's a different thing.

the

us,

Give

for

T is the forerunner of other Bri-her a hundred troncs and thank

her confidence Christian charity...."

tannias and on the drawing her boards now is a bigger, faster, more powerful Britannia which

bo by 1957 will flying the Atlantie non-stop, and making to the long-haul from Britain Australia with only a single in- termediate touchdown.

Years of hard work and con- centration by Russell and his designers went into making the Britannia what it is: Britain's historic bid in a world where American Aircraft

rule un challenged the trans-world mutcs.

alr

ON GUARD

in

Charitable organisations are always on their guard against these tricksters.

They have a mental kink, these women, for this is one 'racket' where crime definitely does NOT pay. Apart from the endless search for new tales and new victime, all the time the Law may be stolidly tracking their steps.

But, now, na military alternet gined plane that revolutionis- mows it would be a personal, rest, mit jant

fork-point in the evolution good future. And he believes which was to have flown.com

my But Russell, with his back- Baid a police chief of

eighty "About of civil aircraft; the point the Britannia may be the starting paratively few peoplo non-step

across the Atlantic in great room modesty, refuses to tako acquaintance:

failed whero civil aircraft will point of it.

luxury. The Brabazon

all the credit. "One man can percent of female fraudsters are because, it was found, a plane achlova notaing,” he says, found out. If they get away bogin to go their own way,

Since acroplanes fret dew; of this kind was not wanted.

with it once, it's almost cer- not completely dependent Russell says, the evolution of

the caught And he is confident of what thin they'll be for development, they civil aircraft has rested almost

second time.” the successes have well his team has made,

Yet as soon as they come out "The Britannia must be a of prison most of them are back aircraft men have built for ment of warplanes. Now ideas.

• "If it isn't but, the old dodge again in no Inventions rodar typical ably Russell's best was some- war. The Britannia was have first been proved in war- thing far loss romantic than the

planes. born of peace, for peace.

Civil aircraft have Britannia, much less grand then Britain will suffer on irrepartime.

The whole British They must really enjoy act- the taken them up later,

Brabozon. A small twin able blow.

aircraft Industry will And he | ing, for the profits · ́are never, Fifty-one-year-old Rus

ed air freight carrying. blow to himself."

But of all petty and despic- sell, slight, thin-faced, a

permanent was the Freighter strive toward

in its pipe-smoker with thinning faster-than-sound planp, Ruail beautiful, with hugs

dirtiest

rob fa syisen women He looked out of the window.able crime, the deepest, and sandy hair, la the real-life balloves that divi

But today there are as the bright stropians: few china, Inhuman? Yes An- aircraft nose,

back again, low and quite slowly

ozgerated newspaper "boffin" the man beyond development will reach a point Freighters everywhere,

above the field:

story? No the limelight, the "back where it will pause and search

for its own kind of progress,"no" ¿This kind of achievement. Jawa

ushell be all right.” Es said. room bovine And he seems fanger following the relentless", bem redognised.".

okkener, than people presliás,, and "(COFFREUM017) | to prefer it that way forward of warplane & investion. University v made, Ru

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