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IN THE WASHINGTON WASH:

THE CHINA MAIL,

MONDAY, DECEMBER 81, ··· 1956. ·

THE POLITICAL VACUUM LEADS TO CONFUSION

By ALEXANDER BROAD

of its both

Americans tend lo

Washington body, elec's, and signs that apgéped by suggestions that a MERICANS have sud- Canada is determined to have now, if much maller, Marshall opinions of its own and volce Pian may be on the way. He denly become Bell them, even when it upsets one has never been a foreign sitive. The Washing or

Brittan and enthusiast, and the thought ton and the Now York American alles, are alarming. that a new aid programme may

been

think of have papers

appear just as he is getting to budget surplus, alarms Canada as almost an appendage show a

him even more. own country. Canadians don't like this,

Furthermore, he is not happy

departure and Americans don't say it too about the

of Mr loudly. But they are used Herbert Hoover Jr, and the

arrival to thinking

of Mr Herter in bis

over.

flowing with column after column of amall print re carding what the British think about the Americana, what the French think

of their

about the Americans, what are not entirely happy to Bud race as chief lleutenant to Mr

the Indians think about the Americans, and even what the Canadians think about the Americans.

In part, this is due to a political vacuum.

The State Department Is busily drafting a new policy- admission in itself that the old policy Just wasn't doing the irick

But like of it has shown in pring so far.

Dull Stuff

AGAIN, although the

atmo-

As to the Indians, Americans

Indiana, suddenly, do that the approve of them.

This is a curious psycholo- gical state of affairs.

The State Department has

been long

saying that Americans must be friends with And Americans on the

India street have not disputed this

proposition.

Duiles.

D

Hoover

has always been Humphrey's ally and the State Department's only top lovel doubter on

foreign ald. Herter

foreign enthusiast All this

merely makes Humphrey than ever,

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Mr

ald

Mr

determined And President Ebenhower, who often seems But this does not mean that to distrust his Own RTDSD of They

whole, govemment approve, un the

Anance,

may, of Nehru's policy, nor that they the long run, be influenced by are likely to be easy ini

the hlm. mind when India approves of theni

A stale of amicable dit- approval

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gloomy. Preliminary statistics show that, almost everywhere, Chrisimas takings were below lam year's

sphere of crisis is atin pre- they would like to sec. acnt, there is enough <TİSİ

India's kiss, they fear, may activity going on.

be the kies of death. They Americans find the con- troversy Over will will clear suspect that Mr Nehru's other

friends the Communists-must The reasons are something of the Suez Canal and for whom have gained something if much a mystery. There has, for pretty

Nor dull stuff.

are, warmth is forthcoming.

instance, recently been a minor much

excited about other

of Inay,

sules-30 the be boom in course,

auto peoples economic cripes. So

utter nonsense. But there you explanation

people Isn't that far, apart from the

fact

have not any money.

Personal savings, indeed, are going up.

they

that

there 15 a shortage of glace eberries for the Christmas-New Your season, there hasn't been econute crists here. The result is that the papers have tollen back

other peoples' though is about

America,

This

uro.

Backroom Battle

THE

One reason may be the up- surge

religious feeling, coupled with the fact that high powered Christmas advertising seems to have outdone itself.

There may

confusion and the

of vacuum, of course, are just what the isolationisis like best, and it is hard, after reading the popers, to blame any American who wants to abandon the rest No one is surprised that the of the world to its madness, British

And French aro noi

Nor is the situation helped at enthusiastic Amerien- lovers all by the fact that there is a again yet. But rumblings from behind-the-seenes ballie going Canada that the Suez crisis on in the Cabinet.

дз mich

result Was

oi Mr Humphrey, the America's bungling as of any of

Treasury,

the

TIME

wanting

something of

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a reaction against the increasing commercialisation of Christmas, Perhaps the un- settled world situation prompted a few people to look beneath Secretary the tinsel for a deeper meaning has been in Christmus,

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It is Britain's most expensive school. The fees are £16,000 a year. That's what it costs to teach a man to fly planes like this...

T

the

exclusive HE most

school in Britain stands among the pines on

out- skirts of Farnborough. Liko other Hampshire prepara- tory schools it is on the small side: only 34 pupils this term. It is also expen- sive. Very, very expensive,

The Principal (S. Wroath) is speaking to a potential pupil on the tele. phone. "Got to remember the fees are inclusive, old boy. know £16,000 a year sounds a lot, but that includes everything,"

It includes, according to the curriculum, the develop- ment of common sense and judgment, tact and deport- ment, self-reilance and adaptability. It also in- cludes the use of a Delta jet fighter and many thou- sand gallons of aviation fuel.

THE

SKY PEOPLE

Tom Pocock

This is the Empire Test Pilota School. The pre- paratory school for the next era in the history of flight.

the Perhaps also school privilege of piloting the Delta Then there was no specialised they must become utterly self- Now reliant they must also get to which, will, some day, send and knowing that although this training for test pilots.

curriculum stresses the know.

and know intimately, one of its graduates out in is now the newest of them all, the the first flying machine to marks only the point where need for "the ability to grasp thelt fellow pilots and the de- essentials and a sense of per- signers and technicians with break away from gravity

spective."

whom they work.

and into space.

THE pupils

here wear

街

and

art

ready to fly his airplane

Over ono particular way

dis- ever again until he has

has been covered just what he their work will begin.

told to discover. There is no room for guesswork." Look around the walls of the

"Twenty years ago," says Working at Farnborough

These library and the flying school, Wroath, "a

Patented men, test pilot's report with Wrooth is his chlet thero many now At Farn INDEPENDENCE and there in group photographs might be coloured by the party

(ost flying Instructor, Wing borough? No outsider can tell, and signed portraits aro the he had had the night before,”

Commander Nelll MacDonald, Perhaps it is too early even for and-producta.

Out of In 1943 the Arst test pilots AFC., RAF.

his their instructors to know just training course began at Bus tailored worsted battledress he who has this spark and who is, Names like Duke and Lith- combe Down and, since then, might be a young science don, as they put it, "screwing him- uniform, but this could gow, Twiss and Bedford, Pega

self up to do the job." Theno Martin. These aro the

Jatter may turn into adequate never be ал ordinary and

stars, Their achievements are

test pilots but very limited." within reach of all, but for most their carcers will be It is not just that they are older than averago squadron exacting, sometimes dull, some

dangerous, but never pilots and crews. It is not just tinies that while most wear RAF, or resulting in fame. RN. blud there are men from Canada, Australia, the

To understand these future who States, France, Italy, Belgium, pioneers talk to the men

First, the Com Sweden, and Indis. It is rather teach them.

Group Captain that here there

unique mandant

Samuel Wreath, C.B.E., A.F.C., spirit and atmosphere.

RAF.

officers' mess.

is

A

United

Et

What does a man need

to tackle the riskiest

job of all? I'll tell you

the strong. In the place of Invisible ties that bind together "Everybody" knows crews and squadrons there is, Wroath. A good mana

good man at the among these future test plow, party, a marked individually. There is hydraulic controls, A dark, already graduated a feeling of independence. buccaneering type with a gleam in his eye and a pugnacious set to his jaw.

Pilots'

men

trom

DEDICATION

TEN

EN years from now, some of these 34 pupils will be fly-

airplanes ing

now only doodles оп tho Imaginative drawing board of a Potter or a Carrum

►

Later, one or two may come the A man of learning and a man Sammy Wroath has been teaching

acts, -of action. at Headline pilots. Not all

Close-cropped hair, to Farnborough to teach a new have keen eyes, of course, for 430

and the infectious generation of puplis-and who

what this enthusiasm of the bom teacher, knows

airplanes they, will be called upon to fly7- I asked him: "What makes a test pilot?"

OLD-TIMER

school.

to

picte ho

ro-

the

These, then, are the mon in very vanguard of human They will be the

People,

not have the galety. and

and bomber-erows, They can

**Wroath, lays down the Look at them as they sit at their schoolroom desks, or over

quirements for; the modern test

He replied: "He must be pliot; "First, take a very good dedleated man, their coffee in the meas ante-

I always try endeavour. room, leafing through

pilot because you cannot afford to and out tchy my pupila want leaders of the Sky Peo

break your experimental to test-ays he an ambitious Notes or aviation magazines.

ha Teach him enough RAF career man? Does airplanes.

may They They ATU in their late E is at his desk in work of the theory of aerodynamics just enjoy dying for fun? Has unselfconscious twenties, most of them,

Each like

battledress and so that he can understand what he got his eye on the pay gallantry of the fighter pilote man already a skilled plot. collar-attached shirt, but you is happening to him in the air packet? Or, has ho a burning

Thea Each looks-tough and

above all, teach him to. self-crow he would be happier in a observe and report with com ambition to further, the ads' never Zend the secure yet varied reliant. Each knows that he is

up with com- -vance of aviation? I want that lives of civil aircrews Thers,

Jass type." to face and Pressure art, sitting in the Delta

they know, will be a life in pared

at 50,000 feet,

which danger will be a con masiya and senetimes

MacDonald paused as, out- stant factors unknown, physical forces-and

Wrooth" is an old-timer, as "Test pilots usually fly sione

checle, on side, two Hunters taxled post, tackle them alone.

test-pilots

this business at their own mistakes. If a man hot gas from their jet pipes. But, then, among these pilota atoriod Win

He says, and only they can

ore the dedicated minii. One of Martlesham Heath way back in cover up for himself it could blasting across the tarmac, #35.). It was just an ex-aghter put back production dx months Quietly, he continued, he those days it will probably... boy and the selections of test or it could kill another, pilot." pliots, was pretty!

otty lackadaisical.FERTE est plot job only 10 rather than posibly dech a percent glamour. A lot of it is ban who will ♬ be called upon TUE, best" pliot'a course liktu a j

Above all, the Farnborough @yên: "There are Isotures In "One way

Bupils are encouraged to dow tedious the routine, testing of 10 date the greatest naventure.

production airplanes, for Earthy Into Outer

of all and, fly away from the quiet, sunny, člassroomá on planes was called stirring the velop an individuais,

– instance, «A

- magtermodid, airplane design. age them you moved shiny control

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