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of the heinous offence of

"eriminally" having

fle the country, transport ut government

expense,

L

PROMISES

By DAVID LAIDLAW

for not fulfilling his quota. was sentenced

He

10 seven years' hard labour. und his farm wes cordiscuted.

A particularly mean trick was that played on

Hungarian

I walter who was forced

the

2

his wife in September 1955.

ALREADY MEN

ARE FLYING INTO SPACE

M

By Chapman Pincher

speeds up

inter-

EN are already flying range rockets with

rocket-ships on the to 10,000 miles an bour had gone ahead to rapidly in the fringe of space last few months that there is Flying machines which can already talk of take off and land vertically continenta ballistic vehicle like the space-ships of fiction which would carry a man.

The three-decker rocket now are already in operation.

being built to Lako up next will Glant rockets 10 fly at year's artificial satelllio speeds approaching the 25,000 reach a speed of 18,000 miles an miles an hour needed to escape hour.

from the earth ато ulready A giant rocket now being de- under active development in signed in Britain will guide it- Britain, the U.S., and flussia. self to its target by the stars. Telescopes peering from its noso Selentists are already at work like expressionless cy''s will on atmnle engines which could remain focussed on selected power a space-ship to the moon

stars while the missile files for and back.

hundreds of miles through

A miniature "space-station" space. -201 artificlul satellite which will circle the earth 250 inlles up for weeks without falling-

is already being built to be sent

Pressing Ahead

Up next year

IGHTWEIGHT stumle engines These ive fantastic projects for aircraft and rocket pro- are the best answer lo whether pulsion were regarded as "un- space-trave! will soon be realistic" by most scientista possible.

three years ago. It would never

It is obvious that they need be possible to reduce the weight only to be dove-lalled to pro- of the safety shield enough for vide a space-vehicle which will an atom-driven engine to be tako off verdeally from the ifted off the ground economic- ground, reach the speed needed ally, they thought,

from

earth with Now the project is realistic

10 escape umple fuel to land on the moon and return safely",

Next year's artificial satellite is to be followed by larger ones already being designed in the U.S. and Russio. It seems likely The a "manned"

enough for Rolls-Royce and several U.S. Arma to Invest money and top-rank talent in 11.

These projects are being ahead with the utmost space-station pressed

urgency for military purposes.

will be circling the earth per- If they are never used in war, manently in 20 years,

us now seems ilkely, will they A rocket which could take off be used for exploring the moon from such 33 refuelling base and planets?

of a speed

would need

7,000 miles an hour to

sell

The moon and return. capable of this speed exist.

To the Communists, writes Laidlaw, returning refugees are not wanted for their own sakes but for their propaganda his car for practically nothing. with Communist He returned from France value. The

out by the promises held generous subsidy, u house authorities about the happy life refugees will lead if they

made of them, great fuss was and two waggons were put and a job when they reach return home are not borne out by the accounts of men their home town-these are

and women who have actually been taken in by these their disposal to carry promises.

Even Communist newspaper have reported in- luggage, including the ill-fated stances of the dishonesty behind the repatriation campaign. caf;

He soon found that as a pri-

the promises held out by Communist governments to induce exiles to return from the free world.

Once across the border, however, the repatriates find that few of these promises are honoured.

ת!

cuse

ц

ot

their

A

the

only My guess is that even if dis-

rench

armament comes Governments Rockets will

continue with conquest already

of

space for reasons of national

There is prestige.

every sign that Russia will force a crack- Britain and ing pace and that America have no intention

To The Moon

LL this convinces me that if doctors can enable men to

withstand the conditions of spice. Might and they brieve they

and engin can--the scientists cers will do the rest,

vate person he could not get a He looked around car licence.

and buyer

eventually upplied for one. At last he gave worker, far from earning 4,000 for up all hope of being a jockey zlotys, he could not make even found one-a doctor who agreed

"To the moon by 1980" is a 1,000. Not surprisingly, his wife, to pay 40,000 forints. Before the again and took a job at a State

bitter and disillusioned. wants deal could be concluded, how- realistic project, the experts canteen.

with the ever,

belleve. in view of what they The

he received a letter from Mieczyslaw to of

to go back to France

It have alreay achieved And centre of "Aulo- the Budapest it children. Blaszczyk was so bad that

Sometimes in the

difficult to disagree with them. (the was actually published

accounts are re- ker"

State car dealers) ceived of people being forced to saying he could only sell

Let us examine their achieve- undertake work extremely dis- car to them and that they would ments more closely, toateful to them, A Czech, for puy no more than 3,000 forints, to if he refused the offer it would example, who was induced

his be confiscated. by the news that return

to mother was ill, was asked net act as a spy. He objected, say- ing he wanted to visit his mother. He was told that she was well but that he could not visit her for the time being. If THE treatment

To the Communists, the exiles Polish paper. Tygodnik Powsze- are merely pawns in B game.

chy in May this year, He was They

not Interested

a Pose who married a French- Having them back for their own

B wn woman and later worked as sakes but simply for their pro-

miner in Belgium, Every Russian paganda value. or East European in exile-and large numbers of refugees make their escapą daily as a living reposel to the Communist way of life. Each one who can be induced to return helps to even the score.

USELESS

that

tniners

oy

test his

FALSEHOOD

it

The rocket-ships now flying the winged with

rockets powered like those liquid fuels

the which propelled

German V2, After being launched from the belly of a bomber six miles up they have climbed to more than 17 miles and probably higher still.

At this height tho pilot is above 88 percent of the earth's atmosphere. The remaining alr above him is

that so thin

1s space or not

scientifs a matter of

whether it is

almost

The

to

Brgument. rises

given sister begged

to the IS father and

he would just undertake one returned exiles is causing a him to return to Poland, so he approached the Polish Con- mission in Western Germany be mumber of them to attempt to be allowed to

resume flee once more to the West, thus If they can be persuaded to mulate in Brussels. Would he be woulian life.

completely spoiling the Pro- the able to find a house and a job in fety thi conditions

Yes, he Faced with this blackmail he paganda value of their retur home country have improved, in Warsaw? he asked,

of their com- would get an apartment and any agreed. On his return he was the Polish newspaper, Tygodnik that the plight

seems 10 have patriots in the free world is job he wished. And the authori- told that the first Journey had Powszechny.

has suggest- ze realised this for were merely been dismal, and that they originally ties added

vertical-take-off plane led the country under the in- earning as much as 4,000 zlotys liability; his real task was yet od that in addition to issuing a

from its tail ike

a Jeft (£1=11.20 zlotys).

warm 'Invitation" to come. Realising that he had "cordial, Buence of "hostile propaganda", e month

to exiles, the Poles should tell the Hawke space-ship, and there so much the better.

This convinced him, and he and been tricked, he pretended

"bur ill difficult the Communists' truth about

are means of boosting it up to wife and six children went fall in with

It 10,000ft, in a few seconds. back.

plan, but once across the West life."

landa on Journal,

its tall gently with Another Polish German frontier, he gave him-

little danger to the pilota feat Tygodnik Demokratyczny, de- self up to the authorities.

extremely plores the fact that the

once thought to be pro- grammes put

by the difficult, rut

abroad

Work Polish radio for Poles gives a picture of life in Poland that given very different from In the national programmes. As

umnestles available.

ht

The Communists are untiring in their efforts to seek out re-

In Poland he found an acute Embassy fugees.

officials ond tell them

the housing about

shortage, Coldly the others

and the subsidies Repatriation Bureau told him he and paint a glowing could not hope for an apartment Warsaw. Instead, he should in picture of the life they will lend,

"It Sometimes they are sent news- go to the Western Territories.

for him to point paper clippings of propaganda was useless articles written by returned out that exties; suretimes relatives

winer

ha hud come back

ARRESTED

CCASIONALLY people

are

treated well at first, only to the journal poate out, listeners are expressly to be near his father

note who lived in Wer be arrested later on trumped-up to both programmes will forced to write touching letters and sister,

his charges. At present he and

A refugee quoted the the discrepancies and be convin. 10 appealing to them

return, saw.

case recently of a farmer who ced not of the "munificened" of and sometimes threats are used. family are huddled together in a

and given People's

that small room in his sister's house. had been welcomed

Poland, but То crown his troubles he back his farm, but within a shortages and defcircies are found that as an "unqualified" fow weeks he had been arrested being covered up by falsehood."

WARNINGS

FTEN these measures misfire. The crew of a Rumanian ship visiting 4 Greak port. for example, let out that they were allowed to mix with refugees only on condition that they tried to persuade them to return. They warned refugees in con- derico that the promises were all hot air.

Relations, too, sometimes warn intending repatriates. One Rumanian refugee in Paris, who had told his parents he WTS coming back, got a letter ad-

vising him to remain in the West, "as the climate in Israel

ASWAN MOVES MAKE

INDIA WONDER

From STEPHEN HARPER

New Delhi. Then surely, you are saying

THE withdrawal of British it is a contradiction to call the

Aswan a triumph for

West in Asia. Not at all.

is not at all healthy." They had in financing Egypt's Aswan Aswan

I say the Aswan decision is the first glint of hope in the

subsubtdtaite is Israel is not at Dam project has shaken it he is a triumph because the West must follow through.

made India's

stituted Israel for Rumania.

without Western ald

ruler

in this part of the world. Now

Let us have no more hang- all healthy They find sub-the ruling circles of India. realise that they cannot do dog apologies as the cash is handed out. There is nothing to What happens to those who The timing of the withdrawal. Until now they have taken ald be ashamed, of in saying that do return?

Just when Premier Nehru wae

old in given to forestali Even the young and strong chumming with Freekent Nassero much for granted

Aswan has changed all that. Communium, who can work freqeundly get in Cairo, is believed to be no It has made India wonder about are coincidence. It is taken as an the £600 million in foreign ald very

doni. traw

warning that the numerous costes

workers intended of

massive to traving abandon the kind of West's employment

for which they could stop, too, have been trained and to ac- Whether the withdrawal by cept something Inferior.

the West from Nasser's favourite

There

of

And let us make clear that aid to India she budgeted for in her now the full-bellied leaders

theap uncommitted Asian coun *** five-year plan.

tries cnimot go on expecting the best of, both worlds,

The acutrality that puts. Jis

ALARMING THOUGHT

Jeane opportuniam.m

A Hungarian Jockey. for project was intended that way

The alarming thought that tongue out at the West and example, who returned to Hun- or not, it represents the West's Cary from Austria with his ret political triumph in Ads America might not be certain to holds a hand out to the Com

which

Nehria may it is,' wie, was given 100 forints (£1 since, the B. and K. tour at underwrite that plan is likely to munists' le not the high morality

ast summer gave Rusels the initia- sisake back to reality, some-of #berling:32,30 forints): to

It is him until he found a job. The live in the struggle for the the exponents of India's neutra-

blackmail for ever Lat morality

which dormailties involved in getting sympathies of undiligned India.

larger slabs of help Labour Book (without which Tillb, struggle is vital because crazily toward pence-loving 10 makos, countries

the way that India goes may be Russian, and Chiricno, v it is impossible to find employ followed by most of uncorrimit The Indians know that Western Pakistan, who have courage to ment) took brenda teed Asl sunal Afro haidy michian petty politicians accept the responsibilities and montim. Eventually he found Job, at the Amg race track, but with the Soviete, the economic like to suspects:motives in dangers of alignment with the boywem zvonated a riding and cultural penetration of India, more concrete then, Rumdan; Wert, any wonder

although he repeatedly is top priority.

they

ori intercontinental

ballistic missiles-glont

long-

being left behitut.

of

That is why I sido with the space-enthusiasts who believe that the man who will first step the arid surface of the on to moon has already been born.

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