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FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, -1956..

Taking you into the lives of men

who are your neighbours-and yet

|

almost a race apart... into

apart...into the homes of women who face The Invisible every day

THE SK

PEOPLE

The real-life serial

serial by

Second Day

by Tom Pocock

Another one

These wives must try to tolerate the violence of modem fight, if not to be excited by It. They must listen to endless talk of the air: American rockel- planes; tho Vulcan cron; hydraulle and manual controls: the Gnat light fighter.

Even at the fireside they must often face a husband intently building a toy Hunter from a make-il-yourself kit. They always remember that in their husbands work a mistake that will cause another man to be down £10 in his eccounts could cost her man his life,

happen?" Personal sorrow is hejmetically sealed into the sub- conscious and the tollc is all of cockpit checks, 'oxygen supply, and escape procedures.

Plots will say that they all think: "It cant happen to me."

Baders? No

the tuce of risk, what makes these Mea fly7 Patriotism? Love of speed? They find it difficult to put into words.

One told me: "No, I don't love flying-but after a week on the mound I'd give anything for a trip in a Hunter."

So there they are. Not Rupert Brookes, not Lawrences, not Baders.

Just plain, ordinary people doing 门 extraordinary job. And that. I think. is what

TOMORROW

That is the inviable, immove abie barrier that separates the Air People from us The fact that death may come without warning. with obliterating in stantaneous violence. Fatal accidents may not be frequent, but they are there-always to be reckoned with.

News of death in the air is maloes them so wonderiAN. received

by plota without aign of emotion. It's just; "I'm afraid we lost Alee last night." S coffee bars go it He is not a fashionable Angry by

Or if the dead men is not known to them: is not smart. There Young Man. Rather, he seems profers vodka Instend

"One of the akin 10 A down-to-earth with tonic water,

remember 10 particularly Hunters went in." Occasionally no tartan-

Kingsity Amis hero. Ho ia A craze for gardening outside in orva squadrco which, the remark is deliberately and trousered girls, no

representativo

ot his the squadron offices may be although one of the last still brutally flippant: "The pilot? countrymen than the idealistic replaced by one for cruquet. equipped with obsolete Meteors, Oh, he's just a holo zebra-striped sofas, and no

ini knew The squadron's life in the air "leng-haired boys" who died

that it was the best ground.” soft plucking of a guitar.

with Richard Hillary, who and on the

After the question, "Who was ground revolves squadran in Fighter Command scribed them so movingly in about the personally of its com- and tirelessly produced statistics it?" comes, "How chid it The La Enemy."

mander. His age will be about of air-to-ak fring competitions 35-although he may appear 10 to prove it, years older and he may welt be the only one of them wear campaign ribbons.

A

are

Instead, there are tired young men in slute-grey flying suits, shabby arm- chairs and, outside, the howl and boom of Sapphire jet engines.

G

The coffee

Dar caters

OVCT-

more

The fads

intellectual

suddenly sibility to an unsure and possibly

of gin nervous youngster.

to

His flight commanders too will scem experienced and mature already men of authority at 27.

CONÊ with the ex-aghter pilot is the gay spark clusively for pilots of Fighter who flew for fun. Both have The pilots themselves usually Command, R‚Á‚F.

followed the Black Prince's Join the squadron from the fly- archers

and Cromwell's Iron- ing schools at the age of 20 or sides into the history books. 21 and remain with it for two

Drinking half-pinta of bilter and a half years. in the mess bar, the fighter of 1950 could be cager pllots

students. The sarac medica

goloty spontaneous

on the surface, the deep Bense of responsibility beneath.

Most

is customers lounge anong

tter of flying boots, dowing ashtrays, helmets

and oxygen masks, litered maga- On zines and parachite packs, the walls

silhouettes of Ruslan bombers and Brigitte Bardot. And the talk is on one subject: flying flying flying.

re

are

The arrival

of

an

ដល

The wives

pUGHTER pilots marry young. Two-thirds of some squadrona have wives living on the station These in nearby villages. whts have to come to terms with the demands of flight.

(

are

to

The

The New

Orient Express

BY-ELECTION POST-MORTEM

MELTON WAS A COMPLICATION

THElection

HE result

By LES ARMOUR

London. difficult had Mr Nutting been of the by employed to eat his own words. Certainly, is case would have at Melton sounded less convincing.

He, therefore, resigned from The Government, as The Times the Government but not from

his seat. dinner Was always spoiling political correspondent put 龌 "disagreeable when Brian was late down. So it, now we have stey when he's

shock." flying so it's always ready."

After his resignation, he asked.

As other wives hear their husbands starting the car catch the 8.15, these wives must Iloten to the rush and roar of starling

gas turbines, which, bafore

they can boil an egg. VASUALLY, ¤ squadron com- can thrust their husbands into

mander described the pro- the stratosphere.

"Chap How do these women face up These are the heirs to "he

school cese grammar

nasimilation:

It? Few" of 1940. These are the boys. One or two pilots in the arrives here full of the joys of to

Thinks he's

Some are non-committal: "It's young men who fly the Hunter squadro

have passed spring may

Just another job," and "Ok, must have come to the a few will fighter boy. fet lighters,

widely through Cranwell, nec

I'll get used to have come

"We knock the nonsense out suppose thought to be too fast and too

elementary from

proctical: the of him and he should be battle- Some powerth for squadro plots to schools and the ranks of the control.

R.A.F., and, here and there, a worthy in six months."

There is, of course, so much bo men famous pubile school muy

more to it then that. The over- represented.

worked and hackneyed words But in gliter squadrons, leadership, loyally, and team- One was almost poetic. She The Conservative major. in the Foreign Legion,

social spirit.

The gradual build-up of said: "It has made very ity dropped 8,418 votes to a background counts for little.

mutual confidence.

conscious of the sky."

marginal 2,362. If Con- A mon is judged on his

You can see it in the eager- Conscious of the sky

Under these circumstances, qualities as on avlator and o

acse with which a newcomer the sailor ashore remains conservative votes across the companion.

offers 10 make the coffee. You scious of the sea beyond the country dropped by that Mr Netting decided that he

As mouth. Just The squadron leads a corpor-

the thoroughness harbour can see In

the proportion in a general elec should resign his sent as well.

Many people in Melton appear ate life. On the surface

this with which a dozen pilots will soldier automatically

tion, there could only be 4 to think that he was treated potential battlefeld 自 represented by fashions and count and re-count hits on

handful of Conservatives very badly. In some ways Jie is very, fods.

One squadron festoons its drogue largel spread out on the landscape. very different.

So these people In others he is coffee bar with the severed ends grass, long after they could have

left in the House of Com- wandered off for a glass of beer and lunch,

These are the

young upon whom, u the last resort, the foreign policy--and possl- bly even the existence-ot the British nation depoids.

The new men H®

TOW does the modem fighter

pilot compare with those men of 1940?

much the same.

The fighter pilot looks behaves like an intelligent, imaginative, friendly, and dinary young Belton of 22.

and

was

or-

M

ir

of malo visitor fies and female visitors petticoats.

Another favours desert boots. Captain Queeg's catch-phrase, "I kid you not..." Is adopted

You can see it in the way a sqoudron commander will pur- posoly give a position of respon-

mo

"

Just as

aces

in

live

every

with

the sky. They watch the shirt- ing patterns of the clouds, the sirength and temperature of the wind, and the colour of sunset.

SHARKS? What

cowards they are

London "Oo-16-13," she laughed, "I

M E. Simone look at them in an anti-shark

they are cowards at

Cousteau, 85-year-old, but Most

heart.

fish are

more

-says

wife of underwater frightened of me than I am of Madame

explorer Jacques Cousteau, them."

gazed out at the Thames Mme. Cousteau has just

from her suite in the Savoy returned after ten months on Cousteau Hotel and said: "I am much the high ces alone with four-

more nervous about flying teen others, all

back to Paris

than

men. Sho travelled 80,000 miles through the Mediterranean, the Red Sea,

I have ever been of any the Persian Gulf and the Indian

.....

the

thing under water." Mme. Ocean, on board the research and had to cat turtle eggs and Then Cousteau begins to catch Cousteau. had flown over ship Calypso,

the then even the turtle itself. The up on sleep. from Paris

during

to see the making of her husband's fim. taste? "Rather like bad beef," tiring. I usually need 12 hours

premiere of her husband's Cannes Grand Prix winning film, "The Stent World."

Her underwater started

when

cárecr sie plunged Into marriage at the age of 17.

by SABAH. ROTHSCHIEND.

On their honeymoon the and Sho does not appear in the

her husband were swimming

with goggles in the Mediter in herself though she dived ranean. Looking around at the every day 100t, with the 14 strange world of fish and wear, aqua-lunged frogmen,

Jacques Cousteau wondered "They did not want anything what more there was to discover to distract attention on the In the implumbed depthand,

h?" Madame, explained. "One

said Mme. Cousteau. 11

"Diving is very

sleep after a busy day under the sea." Finally, they had to eat o

Thla glant grouper,

Wils #a

The Cousteaus have two cousin..of. Ulysses"--the name children, aged 18 and 18, who they gave to a fish which be- "are studying at the Lyceo In came so tame that it would not Paris. They learned to dive leave the divers. Ulysses plays almost before they could walk.

important o porte in EMA Couricati's film, ind

an

"dolistrund, vý

When his son was five years old Couteati bucked him under Aboard the ship were several his arm, descended 20 feet in household, pets; a Portuguest, the act, and let him go "Ever salda Madame ing dog which hime Cour since leau bought in Madeira, a Courteau, Philippe, has been

cat with blus

blue eyes,

Mme Courteau's conversa a monkosy

tion stopped bruptly lice dr out of a ge We orizo had a wild pig as a and an anxious logic came into frightened, away and stop the mascot but I was, wastindi over- bersyos -“Fish, have very definita divere obecavation. All food

mo characters, she told me, "ook for, the trip was stored in a deep, poles are like dogs, Hay/hive freeze, and cooked by one you

reactions Octopuses the crew??

He has spent most of his lifa strict rule aboard the ship was condo wa called - "Hubblou a very good, swimmd Nad

since then finding out, hime, that no fish were to be apeared Cousteau has been finding out or enter, in case they would be. with himOMAN

are the but.

Aby hung

mons.

But the unpleasant feelings of the Government probably do not stem from fears that that will happen

Melton is a special case.

The

question it must be asking itself is: Just how far are the condi- tions existing in Melton likely to be duplicated in other consti- tuencies?

Some of them are not repeat able.

Resignation

The by-election was caused by the resignation of Mr Antheey Nutting

his local Conservative Associa ilon not to take any action, until

he had time to put his case to them. They ignored his request and passed a motion of no con- ndence in him.

Opposition

The situation was also com- plicated by the fact that there was some local opposition to the

now

Pike.

candidate, Miss Mervyn

In all, as many as 10,000 Conservatives stayed away from the polls. The Socialist propor tion of the vote went up, but the Socialist vote did not. They ta important.

it is impossible to say whe-

many Conservatives starea away because they opposed the Government's polley. No doubt some did.. But which polichick they oppose? Did they oppose the Intial Intervention in Suez or did they oppose the decision to withdraw from Suezt

Mr Nutting was a clever cod conscientous Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, and the sor of man whom even his politicol enemies found it difficult to dis- and

And, it some oppose one the other, did the some Government lose the votes of

fee, thermore, he was la a par-' both groups or only of one, I

ticularly difficult situation. His

the

which? Catter

major job was to represent Bri No doubt the Conservative Lain in the United Nations. In Centrul Ofice will do its best to this capacity, he had constantly find the answers, urged other people to obey UN. · But one thing does seem rea-

zonably

Conservative decisions.

When the Government acted voters in Melton did not like ever Suez he felt his situation seeing their MP deposed by the had become intolerable. It is, local Conservative Association. indeed, arguable that the Gov- No doubt, there

are many ernment's position would have Conservative leaders who been made considerably more privately glad to discover that.

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