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THE CHINA · MAIL, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1957.

DAG, DULLES, LODGE, MEIR, una

PEARSON

THE YAWN THEY CANNOT STIFLE

AT UNO

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New York. THE U.N. Secretariat building is a 540ft. slab of green glass. sandwiched between wafers of marble, America's most distinguished architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, calls it a deadpan box with no expression,

.

By night it is more like n huge glory tombstone, The office lights across its 31⁄2-acre face might be spelling out message In their changing hieroglyphics, Many obser-VOTN think the message is an epitaph.

By day the 4,000 windows darily reflect New York's jagged skylo.

But aside the UN building you enter a centrally heated, air -conditioned aluminium bright world.

*

SORRY, FOLKS, THE BOSS HASN'T GOT HIM WIRED FOR SOUND YET"

Smooth lifts whisk up tuto an international palace where the carpets are always

you

Intelligence Report Russia's rocket

secrets uncovered

WESTERN INTELLIGENCE AGENTS HAVE BEEN MAKING AN ALL-OUT EFFORT TO LOCATE RUSSIA'S LAUNCHING SITES FOR GUIDED MIS- SILES SO THAT THEY, AND THE AREAS ROUND THEM, CAN BE QUICKLY KNOCKED OUT IN THE EVENT OF WAR.

First results show that Russia already has a chain of missile bases stretching from the borders of Finial to the Black Sea, from Archangel to North-East Siberia, Some of the most important are near Riga, on the Baltic. and in East Germany.

It was on this information, I sign an anti-violence declaration, understand. that Defence He İN ther to bring the Minister Dungan Sandys based declaration back to London wild, his recent waring! tu the on the strength of the signature House of Commons of the Soviet obtained, Makarlos will be uskoi missile peril.

to ppend his

Then, nume. 11 is also believed to be the with { flourish, it wlil be backing for Marshal Zhukov's univelled--with fervent demands boust that Russia

now from

Socialists that deliver missiles "to the furthest Makarios, pledged to end corners of the earth."

violence, should be released.

Can

So for no Cyldeneo has been found that the Russians have missiles with a range of 5,000 inlies, they have claimed, Bui, as my

the

RADIO WAR

shows, from NOVIET mup their base 1,000-mile missiles could reach almost every corner of Europe. Other bancs Siberia cover Alaska,

WHOSE TRUCKS?

15 Franco acting as middleman

for Nasser? Is he helping his fellow dictator to make good his Sinal losses by buying trans, port for him in Britain which deaters here would refuse sell to Nasser himself?

to

It spreads from delegate to delegate as

translator's voice in the earphones drones on

ALAN BRIEN reports from New York

The the Segreteriet bofiling a deadpan

the

clean, where the walls are never end under the blazon of the UN

marked, where the wages naver fail and whero no one pays income tax.

Last meeting

Here, the 11th session of the Generat Assembly as holding what is probably its jast meet- ing.

Now the delegates are rising from their contemporary chairs of bent wood and angular metal their amart contemporary jounge.

by Sefton

in Delmo:

North Sea U.K.

NORWAY

FINLAND

SWEDEN

BERMANY

with rocket instalations

MO COW

LONDON

PARIS

FRANCE *-SWITZ.

AUSTRIA

SPAIN

ITALY

YUGOSLAVIA

Mediterranean

ALBANIA

Black Sea

GREE

A F

GUIDE TO SOVIET MISSILE BASES:- ONE: Archangel area on Kola peninsula. TWO: Saarema Island, off Estonia (with sites at Koberg Deep and Kenken Hagen). THREE: Cipka and the islands in the bay of Riga.

FOUR:

RUSSIA

TURKEY

FIVE: Points op the Buitie OOKSİ of Soviet Germany.

SIX: South-east COTTIC of Soviet Germany, bordering Czechoslovakia,

SEVEN: The Carpathian mountaine EIGIFT: The Hungarian - Rumalan

The peninsula off Kaliningrad. I border,

plastic to replace steel in durniuminium-a metal alloy the laboratories of the Dynamit and special plasties known A. G. at Troisdorf, Rhineland, chemists as the "polyester" type.

The Germans fear that this purchase by the Glenn Martin radio jauniers, works--who are also trying to stationed along the border

And

plastic substitute for with Persia, are systematically

steel-means that the Americana drown trying to

British uns!

are on to the very process with Amerlenn broadcasts to Middle which they are experimenting. East Arab countries.

process which the have

developed Their most Intensive effort is Cormans directed at an American "pr. valves the use of a cobalt 60 paganda cruiser,"

The "gu bombards March the United ". States coastguard ship Courier, the plastic with continuous which has been converted into shower of gamma rays. Sume-

structure of the plastle and make it much harder and more

For the

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a floating transmitter and is at the gamma rays change the present anchonát off Rhodes.

A contract for the delivery PLASTICS RACE

of more than 750 second-hand

resistant than steel.

The process being developed

A NEW POZNAN?

THREE SOVIET divisions in East Germany are being moved to the Leipzig area for the Leipzig interna-. tional trade fair from 3 to 14. Fast German rulers fear a repetition of the Polish "bread and freedom" riots at the Poznan trade fair last July.

at Troisdorf is not the only SAUD ON IKE

on

more dangerous.

My source? King Saud him- sell.

Baud- now in Egypt gave Franco the lowdown on hig talks with the President on his visit to Madrid.

According to

Saud Eisen- hower proposed that all future

·American nid, not only to the Middle East but to Morocco too, should be channelled through him.

To me that sounds like a bit of wishful reporting on King

must Saud's part Ike

know that the last thing the Atlantic- conscious Moroccans want is to be treated as part of the Middle East . let alone as depend- anta of the primitive Saudi Arabians,

military lorries, half-tracks, and

FOOTNOTE; Syria's ро emphibious orries with plat- NEWS has been received : process for replacing steel with

cing

Communist President in

Kuwatly Germany that

worked! the ble Plastic forms for anti-aircraft machine

took the wind out of King Glenn Martin

at the moment. The works in Baiti. Germany guns has just been awarded to

Bayer Leverkusen

wants Nasser to remain Saud's sails at the òpening of works and TKE Britain's

king more have ordere a cobait three other companies formerly boss surplus

of Egypt...

confer because the Cairo "Big Four" Frank Craddock by agents of atomic ray "gun." It has sent

associated with The old G. Nasser and King Saud have sold ence by insisting that Moscow. Franco's war ministry.

consternation Dyes trust are at work on him the Hne that if Nasser goes plan for the Middle East should team formula which involves the his successor will be someone head the agendo, not Baud's

even worse more hostile and report on Ike's proposala.

Why

a shive of

the through

German

The lorries are to be delivered working in the greatest secrecy sandwiching to the fres

of Bilbao. port What happens to them after that does not concern The British shippers.

But It is difficult to see whal uo Franco's army which is being equipped with new American transport---can have for discarded British vehicles.

Special Guest

POLAND'S PREMIER Cyranklewicz is shortly to be invited to visit Paris—a | highly significant invita- tfon and part of a Western plan to nssist Gomulka Poland in its independent stand against Rusala.

CYPRUS PLOT

THE

TUIE Socialists are plotting to steal a march on Colonial Secretary Alan Lennose-Boyd. They

Arc verrding out Cyprus a young Socialist lawyer who knows the Cypriot lenders well. (No-not Mr

of

layers of

-JAP SHIPYARDS

GRAB LEAD-

BRITAINE

1955

1956 SHIPS STARTED

1,378

1,343

2,038

"BRITAIN

'SHIPS FINISHED

1,322

1,457

to

JAPAN

Francis

Noel-Baker this time.) He will try to get Cypilot leaders to

1.538

FIGURES 'IN THOUSANDS :DE TIME

By IAN AITKEN

1

JAPANESE shipbuilders, after

year of frenzied activity, are bounding ahead in the race for

·world leadership, Last year they trebled the output of their yards-and pushed Britain out of the lead for the Arsi ilme. Although more shipping is under con- truation In Westlab · yards at the moment, Japan compisted nearly 100.000 tons more than Britain last year,

their natpat, at 1,538,000 tons, WIJ THREE TIMIES higher than in 1955.

Although Japan has fewer pardo, she le building Laster than her British competitors.

Figures published in Lloyd's Register of Shipbuiliding Keturns show iaunchings In Japan well ahead of British Agares. for 1.750,959 tone rode down JapaI BAD slipways in 1956, DOMDAISE With 1.300,000 tons here.

A warning, pointer for Beltlib''shis- "building" la the figure of new work staried in Japaneso 'yarða : 2,050 000 fons in 1956, compared with Bettin's 1,348,000,

They are putting their empty Martini glasses on the long, low contemporary table. They are strolling into the domed as- sembly hall for a lesson contemporary power politics.

The interior decoration of the pocretariat building is in that definitely aseptic 21st century style which will already ba picturesquely period by 1960.

The design of the assembly hall in the adjoining building is more difficult to pin down.

The apex of the dome has World War look.

ה

It la battleship grey. criss- crossed with metal catwalks, studded with hundreds of power ful lamps which light up the great circular arena like a Very shell.

cont of aTITNÉ.

It seems oppropriate that the President for this sion should bo Siam's Foreign Minister, Prince Wan Waitheyakon,

Prince Won is z Buddhist, Despite his bluo serge suit and white cotton shirt, it is easy to see why UN reporters should refer to him affectionately "The old Buddha.”

Pockets stuffed

us

On the floor of the hall, facing him, the desis of the delegates appear part of a huge school classroom.

the base of the dome there is a row of windows. Through these the newercel, 'televisión and radio commentators of the world act as the eyes and care of the world.

But in the whole amphitheatre there is not one real window on the sky,

the delegates read their speeches Perhaps it is because many of

as if they had been written in Latin with pens tipped on cotton woal.

is

Even when the language Russian or Spanish or Chinese, the phrases come through your carphones in a dead fint English translation.

Sometimes

the suppressed yawn in the translator's volca proves infections and can

be seon spreading from one listen- er to mother.

Perhaps it is because some of the délégates are almost as bad listeners as they are speakers.

Even for the speeches which will make tomorrow's headlines, the delegates oftem All only half their seats.

And during the straight pro- 'paganda harangues the Opposi- Each dok has two rows of lion groups talk or read or table chairs. The sen with green hop from alley to alley with the backs are for members of the uninvolved air of stone-deat delegation and the ten with blue men at a symphony concert. backs for obsctvers,

It is hard to forget that many Some of the observers аго

of the great statesmen before obviously obscrvers, with bulg- you represent nations with Ing bridt-cases and pockets smaller populations than London others, expealaity, those who ob stuffed with memoranda, But or Now York.

servo for sali South American repubiles, have a more dilettante appearance, with their couture dresses and high-heeled shoes.

During your first day in this blacked-out goldfish bowl, it is possible to believe that this is the Parliament of Federation of the World. Then

Their pretence

There is something hypocritic- at about the way the 79 boys pretend to be equal while under

the eye of the headmaster. Man, the You cannot help nolloing the

the

gradually the whole inter way they will bully, sach other national pageant begins to seem in the dormitory or twist of unreal It becomes very Lar now boy's arm behind the

away from the rubble of chapel. Budapest, from the deserts of The UN General Assembly Gaza, even from the Pentagon may ba the world's most and the Kremlin.

grandiose barometer. It

can Parhaps the physical atmo- register the weather. But it can- sphere is too oppressive. Round noi change sh

The rest of the dome is lined with vertical golden strips sound-proofing material which Live the

effect of an oriental canxile.

This impression is strengthen ed by the green malachite presidium which stands at one

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