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From Mr. Kis big mouth.
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PROPHECIES Ar 1958
Maria Copyright by oʻtangeness with the Manchester Guardian
UP COUNTRY by THURLOW 'CRAIG'
Rex is so choosy
over his TV
TUSHLESS but content I was walking home along the
F
river bunk one recent autumn evening. The สบท The was warm, there was a gentle southerly breeze. occasional lowing of cattle as milking-hour approached, the plaintive mew of a pair of buzzards circling high over the river, added rustic music to that sylvan sceno,
Suddenly the peace was shattered by a noise which might almost have been made by the narrow-gauge railway higher up the valley-only I knew It couldn't bo because, alas, the toy train runs no more. It has fallen victim to the march of progress that has reached even our secluded part of the world.
I looked back, for the naiso
was getting louder.
Round a bend of the thickly- wooded river bank appeared
growling
an enormous mastiff, blowing, and puting as ba burled up, dragging a breath- lean girl along behind him,
Breaking into a lumbering canter 1 asked if she needed help, but she gasped that sho could make (the hoped-to the village. Rex did not want to mias the television, that was all
Flying leap
He's easy-going but ...
Yea, was the reply, and I could watch, too, provided i Cofa didn't try to share the
HE TOOK the stile in a fly- ing leap, drugging his mistress over anyhow, and then they
Slowly were gone.
the noise died away and peate returned with him. He's a long-ruffering tound, and permits all sorts of to the valley.
Walking through the stopy liberties, but only his mistress the can sit beside him when he is hamlet i dropped in al local for a tankard of ale and watching Children's Hour, to see it perhaps other Ashers had had better luck. I asked whether Rex had arrived time for his programme.
my first Christmas in Britain for 21 years, but it is
a duty.
Why are we hushing-up ZETA ?
I SAY TELL
THE WORLD NOW!
WHY the cover-up, Mr Macmillan? I have been
Beside this new British scientific achievement the Sputnik fades...
achievement,
in
in London less than a week and perhaps
Canadian, are the men responsj- Mr Anthony Nutting, former haven't the right to ask the question, but some- or the British triumph, Minister of State who has many When I left New So it is another Commonwealth friends in the US. Government, thing very strange is going on.
says differently. York a friend in the State Department told me:
This is one of history's best triumphs." and "Britain has made scientific strides which make the
Dr Fry's experiments have concealed
on deuterium, a "Controlled hydrogen reaction is Russian Sputniks look like nothing. Your chaps are been mainly
of heavy hydrogen, not an achievement beside which bringing about a new industrial revolution-controlling form hydrogen explosions for commercial use, harnessing the the vastly expensive uranium, the Sputolk pales into insignin-
It costs only £250,000 to make cance
deuterium to produce
Britain has done 1 Let's tell sca as a source of fuel, heat, and power."
enough
the world. Playing it down
SAID: "Why hasn't it been announced apart
from vague hinte
millan has agreed.
"The real is that
and
British
DON IDDON'S DIARY
Cheap way
power equivalent to a million tons of coal.
These are bargain prices in an
A duty WHILE the Russians and the Americans fight this duel tu perfect weapons of war the British are perfecting the engines of peace,
new
And there he was, seriously
intent, bolt upright in the best scat. As I entered he looked round with an impatient growi as though warning me not 10 make atvy noise. I sidn't Neither did anyone else. When the programme
came and
to an end he got down went out into the yard to play. with his indiatubber bone. A minute Inter he was back again. He'd lost it. And with- out the slightest regard for of other people's enjoyment the new programme, vociter- ously demanded that it should be found for him immediately. It was.
Later he came into the tap- room with the incongruous, toy and we took his photograph standing behind the bar with his paws on it.
Deadpan
AT NEARLY a year old ho 13 and practically full-grown weighs one ton. At least, that is what it feels like when bo hurls himself at any of 13-03 be loves to do-planting both huge pawa on our shoulders and slobbering in our faces.
Everything be doeg is per~ air of dead- formed with that pan unhappiness common mastiffs, bloodhounds, Buster Keaton.
to
and
200
But when the landlord shouts TIME shortly before 10, Rex Bows up and discards his rub- ber bone. It is time for him to Lalea over as night watch- man, Omelously he gives us to
we are ls there no
In onc
the understand that Cabinet who thought it might longer welone and had better go home, even though it may minutes to the proclaimed want ave have been good International business, to
on the eve of the hour, these facts NATO Conference? I have to tell you that our propaganda machine here
never at home,
hardly smooth-running, is now working at all
have
of
At night he has the run that old inn because, although of no local would ever dream burgling itexcept perhaps it our dreams occasional sinister strangers pass through. We all
would do in wonder what he an emergeNEY,
casual remarks by Macmil- standards we have spent only a Jun and company" My small sum of money.
The machinery our men are State Department friend using is known as ZETA......Or infation era. said: "Because our boys Zero Energy Thermonuclear No one is pretending that it have asked you to play the Apparatus. Just as the Initials will not take years of work and In the brains of further experiment before the
Hit the process whole business down. Don't ICBM burn
men so ZETA should
of harnessing the H want to make us look fools hearts and inspire the hopes of bomb for industrial use has
been perfected. in the eyes of the world men.
But here is the nows which after
the Cocon Beach
has been concealed, glossed finsco. And incredibly Muc-
over, and,
instances, in some
I am COME scientists claim that what suppressed-Britain has success-
sorry to have to write concluded the first step, Buch words un this my first Britain has done at Har- fully
the most Christmas in Britain for 21 discoveries which have im well is equivalent to the experi- end the first step is
scientist important. plications for beyond the Sput munts of the Italian
by night American scientists at Prince years, but it is a duty.
distressed by am Fermi in Chicago in
would nik, the intercontinental guided
Enrico
he fumbling and mumbling in
knock me down, Jaissile, the earth satellite with 1042. And it was Fermi's work ton University concede this. It
No one telling a dog abourd are bolag hushed which led to the production of is the American politicians, Whitehall.
the scientists, who have put the
the British story. No one is and proceed to lek my tace.
hadn't avold American em the first atom bomla
if the noise to
Then, barrassment."
Since I have been back I have gag in our mouth.
even whispering it. Of course there have been the
aroused the entire household, like Just before I sales, the talked to several British Govor.
denials. The Atomic Instead there is the cover-up, Christian Science Monitor, an ment offclais. The word from usual
Wash the bowing to American sug-ho might even try to act
the St Bernard, dog whose pic- expect Energy Commission in is: "You can excellent newspaper, said
British Ington says: "It's not true we gestions, the subservience in
ture he was. studying the other ΟΙ announcement
have refused to approve a Jolat the past to John Foster Dulles
day, and bring me round with achievements soon."
announcement with Britain and the alling President Elsen-
a drop of brandy. ond Canada that British selen- hower. tists have broken through the feld of hydrogen energy."
up
on them
Hs front page that the belief was growing in Britain that our Laming of the 11-bomb for industrial use was being played
an
Why soon? Why not now?
Dr Donald Fry, an Austra
down if not obscured altogether lian, Dr Peter Thanemonn, and
Willicen Dr
Thompson, ✡ at American request.
The Monitor said it had in-1 verpated the charges but could not substantiate them. Washing- ton's attitude was: " the British have really pulled samething spectacular then good luck to them and we will help to blow the trumpet for them." This has not happened. Here on our doorstep is the biggest scientille achievement for de cades and we refuse to pro- claim it. From the propaganda view alone the advances made by our scientists uro priceless.
Ata me when Russia kına scored ene propaganda victory after another and boasts that she is at least live years ahead of America and Britain in selence we remain almost allent Prime (I don't regard the
Minister's references in his TV speech as a forthright do- falled statement).
Could foolish?
anything bo more
Cancelled
is
NE astonishing feature
that the Government or ranged for a Press party to go to Harwell, soo what we were achloving, talk to the scientists and tell the country and the world of the British success,
Suddenly the Press tour wis
TO cancelled (at American
many quest) ntal there are people in Vient Stroot and the Bot provinces today who are aware that the big story had in effort been consored.
1 cannot atres too strongly the magnitude of the Belh achievement. And by American
(VIOLIN).
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