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What's Best in Kowloon?

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1957.

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The

Maginot

Mentality, 1958

IR DUNCAN SANDYS,

M the Defence Minister,

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His objective--the com- plete abolition of Fighter Command with all its machines, pilots, radar, and |supporting equipment.

This is a struggle between a politician whose thinking is of tho moment and dedicated RA.F, chiefs who can fairly be described having "Magino!" mentality,

Remember the Maginol Line - that expensive system of gun emplacements in which the French poured such money and faith but which failed to keep out the Germons?

THIS

Wastage

HIS mentality, which plans future wars in terms of the past, is stil entrenched in Whitehall and has resulted in enormous wastage of the tax- payers' money.

It WAS Maginot thinking

which has led to the post-war

spending of more than £1,000 million on jet-fighters, many of

which were cancelled in the

were already obsolete.

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I blame it for wasting millions of our money on futile escapism

by Chapman Pincher

could not hope to catch up with Maginot mind was hard at work them.

here, too, as I turve described. It quickly became accepted both by West and

Progressive East that

thinkers in the

each other's "the deterrent" mutual fear of Defence Ministry were unable offensive weapons to shake tradition until Mr was the only protection likely Duncan Sandys took office there to be effective.

carly this year and realised i Defence chiefs and politicians was a time for frankness. realised from the start that Mr Sandys shattered the guided anti-aircraft missiles Service chiefs by insisting that

to knock

would never be able down every H-bomber and so could not overcome the "mega- corpse" problem,

They knew that any hope of effective defence against the long-range rocket

WUKS

even

more forlorn. Nevertheless they decided to set up an enormous defensive shield for three

reasons:-

TO KEEP up the morale of the

they poople who, believed, would be terrified it told no effective delence against alom bombing was possible.

BECAUSE they had веста charge of defence put in they and

had to do something and be seen to be doing it.

It has led to more than £200 million being spent on

Kulded anti-aircraft missiles which have been cancelled or will be obsolete before the Forces get them.

O BECAUSE of the argument "you never know what the scientists may produce if we let them try,"

200 miles up

Huge cost

:

THE result?

PUT it is in the U.S. that the D

really super-scale blunders of Maginot mind planning are now evident,

To keep out enemy bombers the U.S. Government has set

a radar Lip

"stockade" 10,000 miles long and 12 miles high at D cost of imore than £6,000 million,

Now, with the surprise emer- gence of Russian long-range rockets. this fantastic complex of electronic eyes, computers, Jel- gher, and guided missiles has suddenly become futile.

How was it possible that the Americans, with their reputation for progressive thinking and technical ability, could display such lack of foresight?

The US. anti-aircraft shield, now stretching from the Pacife to Norway, stems basically from a grisly concept known defence departments at "cater- ing for mega-corpses."

in

Billons were spent on the radar chain, en Jei-aghters which are 100 ned on anti-aircraft low, nslies of such restricted range that they could not engage an attacking bomber until after it had dropped its H-bomb.

Billions more are being spent In an effort to make the radar high and stockade 200 miles

knock improve its weapons to down incoming rockets.

Realistic

THE only part of the net-

work which is now realistic

Is the advance section which gives long-distance warning that enemy bombers are approaching. The rich U.S. nation could also afford to build the H- bombs and strategic bombers deterrents, which are effective and have undoubtedly helped to prevent Russlan aggression.

But through puiting so much

and talen! Luto tho money

A "mega-corpoo" is a million dead people, and when "shield" they had to stint the Hiroshima showed that a nation

subjected to sustained atomic long-range rocket work. attack would suffer beveral

with

"mega-corpses," defence dopart- the remit

that they это док

ments decided that something

them.

happening in meanwhile? The

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must be done about preventing two years behind the Russians

in this critical field.

The emergence of the H-bomb made it clear that offensive

What was such weapons had made terriße power-leap that defence Britain

for

in his first Wille Faper he would tell the nation bluntly there was no possibility of pro- tecting Britain against atomic attack. For that reason fighters were to be used only to protect

Cummings

Into combat,

The Russians know this.

FAST

The money could be used to step up the long-range deterrent

Aller belog warned

of an TF were Mr Sandys I would I would the deterrent bomber bases, Impending attack, the fully go still further.

the expensivo now get cancel The Service chiefs predicted loaded bombers, can

the ground and on their aircraft gulded weapons being a public outery of alarm, In off fact the public quietly accepted way to Russin almost as quickly manufactured for home defence. the decision-and the savings as the fighters can scramble Only the Maginot mentality lo as sound sense.

keeping them going, in my opinion. Now because of new technical

So saved or advances there is no longer any reason to keep fighters even at there is no sense in ordering work on the bomber buses,

jet-pilots to risk their lives rockets. Poisly drilling holes in the air The basic motive for Maginot In daily practice flights which have no relation to the facts of thinking is the theory that the

public cannot bo told atomic life.

unpalatable truth about their without risking 012 All Britain needs for home security defence is the H-bomb, the angry and possibly politically bomber to carry it, and the dangerous-reaction. distant warning system,

I forecast that if Mr Sandys Some fighters will all be has the courage to brainwash needed for overseas use in the

wor. But the Maginot mind right out of event of limited savings of about £80,000,000 a

only Whitehall in 1058, the year would accrue from abolish- ing Fighter Command

and reaction

he will get will be clashing the orders for the now P. lighter with which it is due applause. to be equipped.

THE 5 NIGHT BILL

British actress SIMONE SILVA went on working after doctors told her to stop, died as a result still grasping for the stardom that eluded her.

Flame-haired Simone, 29, was found carly Sunday

in her flat in London's expensive Mayfair district. She is thought to have suffered a stroke. She had failed to turn up for a London cabaret engagement that was her desperate effort at a "comeback”.

She had also failed in the ambition for which she worked, starved and sacrificed her dignity, her marriage and her wealth. In her wardrobe there was a gold tame gowni. She spent the last of her savings to buy it. Two weeks ago she left hospital after being treated for severe kidney trouble. Doctors told her the only way to save her health was to get away from London

and rest.

Six days after she went to London's La Ronde restaurant, asked about the cabaret engagement she When asked if had been promised pefore she fell she was now better she replied that she was perfectly fit.

That was the last lie in a career founded on make- 'believe. She arrived on the show-business scene six years ago. She said she was the daughter of a French millionaire, with stage and screen experience on the Continent. In reality she was a former shorthand- typist whose Creek-French parents lived modestly in London. She had never been on the stage or screen.

She posed for photographers at theatrical pre- mieres, told stories about film offers that never materialised. She saw her marriage to businessman Cecil Silver end in divorce and said she was too busy being a star to be a wife.

Three years ago she posed. for pictures with film actor Robert Mitchum at the Cannes Film Festival wear- ing only a grass skirt.

Her Hollywood trip after the Cannes incident ro- sulted only in a starvation diet and an extradition order on the ground that she did not add to the cultural well-being of the country.

She returned to Britain but found it hard to return to show-business. She obtained only one small part in a television.series in a year, She sold her mink coat for singing lesson's.

Then last week she made her cabaret debut. "At last," she said, "I feel that I will be a star. It has all been worth it." But her star billing lasted only five nights.

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