1957-10-30 — Page 4

Ike's doctrine and the Turkish · tumble Daughters of the. Republic and their Queen Mr Gbedemah and his Secretary

• Ike's birthday and a Happy New Year.

trained Turks.

Arleans are

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1957.

REPORT FROM WASHINGTON by

ALEXANDER BROAD

American eyes, that those of his friends Amerleans are still a little dk- hold that he is at last able to trustful of Briti democracy, enjoy some treetom of politics The danger is the stray shot.

but they have at least recover and to full the functions of If the Turkish forces move backed from the notion that Cunnda President as he best likes are

much is a Def of feudal lords, a litle that will become

reputable well-armed and ought to have been able to tell Mr Dulles exactly what would happen in the Middle Fast if any single Arab state ever became en- tangled with Turkey — and, no doubt, many employed by the State Department did.

less ely.

But how much harm has been done by putting the Saudi- Arabians and Jordan In the adme campi. even for a mo- ment, with Nasser and the

All, apparently, to no Syrians? avail..

in

Reports being sifted Washington as I write this indicate that the Arab world from Saudi Arabia and the Yemen through Egypt and the Lebanon Is on the point of being unified CLA scarcely ever before. And all are united against the Turkish villain.

It is odd, incloed, that the Western allies, by whose Kome- times ranselous and sometimes unconscious deeds the Olleman Fampire met its doom during and after the First World Wat should suddenly find themselves on the Turkid side while their erstwhile alles do what appears. to be the Kremlin's bidding

THE psychology of American

Deancerzey is a constantly pmuzing phenomenon - and печет more Ho than on the Fare Occasions when British royalty comes to call,

To put il at is blankest, the Crown

what is

separates Cunada from the US.

But on

it

these neusions always appears as though it is the Crown which unites the two countries.

probably right.

The emergence of Caunda as They believe that the Presi- that odd thing, the democralle dent is genuinely relieved by kingdom, enables Americans to the fact that the constitution rejoice in monarchs as a colour- now prohibits him from running ful part of the contemporary for a third term and that tho scene and to look over the fence politlent machine is, consequent- with all the sense of possession ly, no longer dependent on him of a man relishing is elg us an individual for lis con- bour's garden.

tinted existence,

TUIE affair of Mr Gbedemah, the France Minister of Ghana, and the restaurant near Dove Delaware, is one of those curious blow-ups that, somehow, con- trive to end for the best.

He is now able to play the role of the benfgn umpire, stepping in and taking direct action only when the wheels of governinent become clogged, overseeing the precision machinery of check and balances which is supposed to ensure freedom from oppres- sion in the U.S.

Perhaps this is not Icader- Mr Gbedemal and his scure- thip--bút It is to be remem~ Preet- tary were refused a seat in the bered, as well, that the

because of their dent's attitude' is n gront safe- aurant colour at they suffered the. Ruard against hasty action and additional dignity of identi administrative dictatorship. fying themselves as important. visitors and still being refused.

The most ardent Daughter of the Revolution suddenly tunis royails, Virginin rejoices in the

But they gut special red ea:- fille "Old Dominion". news-1 treatment it the White away Hous-a reaction which forced papers invish praise in which would make the authors President Eisenhower to

take et the Declaration turn in their another stron personal stonl Kr. Ves

e the principle of segregatio:L If ever British Trimarch

They also got sem:thing done dares to vki Canada without in Dover, Delaware,

'The the coming south, the uproar will

be impossible to t

Most likely this is tempest + 1 fcapul. Aber the much pubileised Soviet manotuvre in Syrin, It was not surprising That Turkey, Eastern outpost of NATO, should have deemed it prudent to move troops Into the sparsely pop- lated areas along the Turkish border.

What was surprising was that the United States, above all, did not suggest quietly to the Turks that such movements would likely do more harm than Koot

It is not news in Washington that memories are longer in the Middle East than they are in the West and that the Arabs loathe and detest their former

Rente! kungling mastera cruel What the Kremlin must have longed for most of all was any excuse whatever to get the West on the Turkish side in an Arab-Turkish dispute. No1 all the gold of ARAMCO weighs for anything to the balance against emotional feel- ing about Turkey.

aven

Of course, you might arge that the Crown somehow re presents the conumon heritage of the English speaking peoples, But Anglo-Saxons are hardly in the majority in the US, any more fand, for that matter, they are scarely a majority in Canada ther).

owners uf 1 chain which runs the restaurants an- nounced that the manager would hinceforth sirve "anyone who comes to our doors".

In Dover, Delaware, that will cause a sensation,

Perhaps Mr Gbedernah should go on a four of South,

areas

the

are

What has been demonstrated, even if only in a very small Tine must you expect a long way, is at Americans even in

bigated cially If you suggest sensitive to the opinions of the and happy lite that the British Crown repre- outside world.

Even in the sents the tradition of British deepent South, the tradition of justice and fale play on which hopitaly outweights the American democracy is found emotions of bigotry, ed. (storleally, the suggestion would be absurd, anyway, since the tradition grew up largely in opposition to the crown).

sixty-

What, then, accounts for the DWIGHT David Eisenhower welcome. and the feeling of proprietorship?

celebrated his seventh birthday—and appeared | cheerful and 1 the best of the health even after dealing with race crisis and the murky turn in world affairs,

Partly, of course, it is nothing more than charm and the fund But the signs are in Washing- of goodwill which the British ton this week that the State monarchs of this century have Ind ed. to many observers he Department is at last advising built for themselves. Party, seemed more relaxed than ever the Turks to be calm. It is not ton, the inevllable attraction of and completely unruffled by the

the here reckoned likely that

pomp and ceremony,

ents he had to vape with. Syrlan wobbly

army would But purtly the explanation is If appearances reveal rather really dare to sit in offed- that Canada has made monarchy than

mask the

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ALL COMATICa

London Express Service

ATOMIC ENERGY

at work for industry

by HUGH

McLEAVE

THE

4

The

A

Windscale

"FIRE"

By PETER BURGOYNE

LEAN-FACED man was not as strious as hnd nt

slid onto a bar stool in the Senfell Hotel at Sea- scale in Cumberland and ordered a pint of beer.

Arst been suggested was no danger.

ond there

"Operation Seram" the pro- cedure for just such an emer- And gency had proved itself, the story surrendered its head-

He fumbled for a cigar- ette and lit it clumsily. Mine prominence. For his hands were en- cased in yellow rubber quieted, the same could not be gloves.

Forty-two-year-old Stan- ley Ritson was one of the first "casualties" of the new His Industrial revolution.

hands had been contaminat-

But if the rest of Britain was

fuld for the immediate vicinity of Windsena

There was the affair of the

around Windscale is

ogiicu!-

ed by radioactivity In a milk. The part of Cumberland fight to subdue uranium rods which had overheated tural land carrying fine dairy

cattle.

Might mlik have been in an atomie pile at Bri

contaminated by escoping radia- tain's Windacate atomic tion? At first the authorities factory.

sald there was no danger. Then at 18 and 06 hours Intervals, another touring monitor vans detected

But there was NHE twinkling blue eyes another and the Atomic Energy casualty which would take rudiation and prohibited areas

ig building and the fresh boyish Authority

three a lot more repairing than were proclaimed in which milk looks of Sir Christopher Hall.

more "hybrids" Uko Calder Stanley Ritson's hands ....

would have to be thrown away. milk being poured down dreins The saving in coal wil

Nearly two hundred square that led directly to the sea.. Ilinton give no hint of the amount to about 20,000,000 tons the smugness too many miles wore covered in all. tough, unrelenting spirit of by 1965.

Britons felt towards the this man who has made

Then there are the medical, atomic giant their scient- Britain the No. 1 Power in industrial and agricultural usesists have harnessed. peaceful atomic energy.

wis

this

Calder Hall, the drst full scate A-power stallon, is Hinton's. It

long I striding. duffle-coated atom

knight" who bullied his chiefs into producing a hybrid station one that would produce their plutonium, but with it

power for the grid.

And by a ruthless dedication lo detall and deadlines, the 58- year-old ex-railway engineer proved that atom power could compete in Britaini on level terms with coal and oil to make electricity.

of radio-isotopes, the versatile elements which src bang created in larger numbers cach atomic "pile" comes into commission.

s

Atomic power to

thom

This is the larger sweep of has been something for the atomic energy, And the mon

the

This, raid the Atomic Energy Authority, was a necessary pre- caution.

WOR

WAA or course, everyor.e happy to know that every pos- sible precaution

being taken, And there is no doubt that the alum men did the most

thorough job possible in hunt- ing down the remotest chances

who overlords It, who is now headlines, something responsible for spending nearly scientists should be left to of fugitive radiation.

£2,000,000 a week on the get on wili Atomic Energy Authority alone own.

la Sir Edwin Plowden, its chairman,

to

Plowden is the

of

Just

an

their on

But what was particularly worrying the farmers was the

assurance.

antithesis of The Arst scream of headlines fact that the imposition of the Hinten. His base is his small telling of the Windscale "Are" milk ban had been progressiva office temporarily parted

on (it was not a fire in the con- and had followed a 'no danger" Ministry the

Supply. vential sense) jolted their com- Dark-haired and dapper, posure. Nothing panicky, mark. Plowden looks as though he

Clearly, some of the farmers Hinion focused world at-

had been brought up

you. between

uncomfortable fell that the scientists were tention on Britain at the Geneva "in" and "Out" treys.

prickling doubt about how well holding something back from Lloms-for-peace conference In

He looks at the business of the scientists had the

alom them. And one of them roundly 1955. Delegates from 60-add running the AEA with the

accused the scientists of having under control. nations listened impressed as eye of former chief planner

Kulled the farmers as long as six he expounded a completely new to the Government, but he

Fears ago by stating there wes engineering science,

has hacked away crough rexi Thoy

ot grasped

the absolutely no danger in the dis- tape to give the Hintons the renasurance which followed

trict from the atom plants. Now His Curly vision, has now freedom big. industry

would immediately,

outbreak crystallised into a vast industry grant them.

the farmers had to watch their

which is quickly infiltrating Plowden is justly proud of into almost every human Britain's first 11 years project.

atomic endeavour. He says: "We have become the irst Calder Kall-it hay heon

ito the world to be likened to Henry Ford's Model country T-is new the centre of a

able to erbark on a nuclear- £1,000,000,000 building pro- power programme, gramme in Britain. Severai "The man-in-the-street can other countries will probably expect from our clomle buy later versions of it

In Britain alone more than 40,000 people are now working In some branch of atomic re- search and development.

of

effort

an addition to the resources of this county which will make his position more secure and his future more encouraging."

Sir Edwin denied that ..

the large part of the cost of nucleir-power programme *WOR

for

Six large combines each is being written off by the De- called 1 consortium - have fenen Ministry In return created research and con- plutonium, the A-bomb explo- struction teams and are pre- sive produced in atom stations, pared to contract for atomic This plutonium, he said, was power stations anywhere In also a valuable by-product of

the world.

atom power which could be

three

50

The big shipping Interests used in the civil programme. have now realised that the The `AEA ́ ́ chakanan mem- atom tanker, freighter and tioned how we had caught up even passenger ships are no in the development of atom longer mere scientiae exercises and H-bombs, that we had a on paper,

large research programme with Even aircraft Borms have set nine recetom built and up research groups and are more nearly built.and were ex- feverishly putting their ideas parting isotopes to over on to the drawing board for countries. the day when an atomic reactor The impression Plowden foll {ls buile small enough to take off me with was that withinű under its own power generation the atom; might sure -Nuclear power is now an prize all of us by creating the accepted part of UK. economy. subtle and the radical revolution

The Central Electricity in our lives. De Authority, la building 13 power - In!},

lations, Scotland is, building NEWS CHRONICLE

The

The answer would seem to bạ that the publle should be taken further into the congdence of the scientists, But etomic energy Is inextricably tied up national security and there is a very strict limit to what can safely be broadcast,

The findings of a full dress inquiry into the Windscale "Are" ordered by Premier Macmillan, it is plainly hoped, will allay any But these can public anxiety, only be made known "so for as consistent with rational security,"

is

The problem is'one' which will persist just so long as nations have to be suspicious of each other and just so long as retulions between scientist and layman And are obscured as a result, the way will be made easier for the propaganda of those who would like to see Britain zbane don lis atem-age ascendancy,